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Finally, I can stop talking about it! The Daily Show episode aired. If you want to see it, go to http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/v4l2pe/a-shot-in-the-dark.

It’s a mixed bag. I personally think my part was truncated because the two hosts, Samantha Bee and Jason Jones took longer with their banter than Jon Stewart would have.

I only think that because I know the part of the interview from which that section was taken. I was reading some numbers I’d prepared before the show that compared officer-involved homicides to total homicides in the states for which Fatal Encounters has collected comprehensive data.

In fact, the only thing I didn’t like about the segment was where she said we just have counted up to Nevada.

Here’s what I said broken down for print. These are 2000-2012 numbers: In Nevada (2.8 million population), there were 2,226 total homicides with 193 caused by law enforcement. That’s 8.8 percent. In New Hampshire (1.3 million), it’s 198 total homicides with 16 caused by law enforcement for 8.1 percent.

Connecticut (3.6 million) had 1,500 total homicides with 48 caused by law enforcement for 3.2 percent. Massachusetts (6.7 million) had 2,163 with 69 caused by law enforcement for 3.2 percent.

Vermont (600,000) had 146 total homicides with 13 caused by law enforcement for 8.9 percent.

Maine (1.3 million) had 276 total homicides with 34 caused by law enforcement for 12.3 percent.

These are the most shocking numbers of all the stuff I’ve learned since we started this project. They freak me out so bad that I wish somebody would check my math and where the statistics come from (FBI Uniform Crime Report) and prove me wrong.

I’m going to write a story about the whole experience of being flown out to New York City, drinking a lot of Negronis in a very nice hotel bar, etc., etc., because I truly believe more people are interested in my little adventure than they are in the reporting that brought me there in the first place. With a little bit of luck, I’ll be able to make it as surreal as the experience was for one as provincial as myself.

Re “Tesla triumphs” (News, Sept. 18): Thank you for writing about the possible difficulties the Tesla deal may bring. I am reminded of the Hoku plant in Pocatello, Idaho. It was supposed to be a major addition to the economy of Pocatello, Idaho, by producing polysilicon needed for solar panels. The decision by the city to buy the land and lease it back almost free seemed like a bargain given the payoff in jobs that the plant would bring to Pocatello.

Unfortunately, the plant went bankrupt. When Hoku went bankrupt they left the city and a long list of creditors with little money in return and many people in a small town with more difficulty in trying to make ends meet.

Further, the biggest American creditor has sued in federal lawsuit accusing the company of fraud and racketeering.

I truly hope that Tesla is successful in their enterprise. It will raise the property values in Fernley as well as Reno and Sparks. With the expansion of the USA Parkway, it should help the property values in Silver Springs as well. I hope Nevada will be able to provide workers for jobs besides secretary, janitor and truck driver and that the more technical jobs aren’t provided to workers from out of state.

Otherwise, the deal leaves the working poor with higher rents and more difficulty managing their lives.

I also hope that Tesla has not dreamed too big. Automobile manufacturing is an incredibly capital intensive operation. I truly hope the Gov. Brian Sandoval and the legislature do not end up with a huge black mark for providing Tesla such a lucrative deal and find out that the company has over planned and ends up bankrupt, like Hoku.

Stephen Jackson Silver Springs

Re “Recall the Gazette-Journal” (Editorial, Oct. 2): Thanks for the eye-opener on the school board issue. I bought into the RG-J’s recall opinion piece simply because I am so tired of the local dumbass politicians who do stupid things and cost taxpayers the monies used to pay fines. From cops to judges to prosecutors to firemen to the flood control authority to the City Council and beyond, the apparently uneducated but easily brainwashed voters of Washoe County keep electing idiots who keep costing all of us more and more money. What galls me is that people seem to think the dipshits in charge pay these fines. Not so. The taxpayers, you and I, pay. We pay for the stupid mistakes these elected officials make and the school board issue, as presented by the RG-J, had me up in arms. But, enlightened by your editorial that Martinez was a conservative stalwart destined to subcontract our educational system out to the likes of Wackenhut, the prison operator, I realize once again that the RG-J does not represent the best interests of the Reno community but, rather, the RG-J represents the corporate undermining of our freedom and democracy, ala the Koch brothers’ attempt to undermine our social fabric to enslave us all with corporate solutions. Privatization of schools will only produce even more educated idiots to be brainwashed by the Koch brothers’ ultra conservative propaganda and the RG-J’s subliminal persuasion that it will be good for us to allow our corporate overlords to control our thought patterns. The RG-J has nothing to do with journalism and everything to do with brainwashing.

Thanks for the wake up call.

Fred Jones Reno

Re “A painting worth a thousand words” (Left Foot Forward, Oct. 9): I just find it immeasurably sad that the state’s top preservation officer, sworn to protect cultural resources, allows the utter destruction of the historic viewshed of a National Historic Landmark under his watch and then goes to work for the company.

And for what? Chump change. When these small, unsophisticated county governments failed to preserve their cultural resources, the state’s Office of Historic Preservation would step forward and help mitigate, for they understood the national importance of a National Historic Landmark and were not afraid of protecting it.

Andria Daley Virginia City

Or falls down it Re “A painting worth a thousand words” (Left Foot Forward, Oct. 9): History of mining in Nevada: “They get the gold; Nevada gets the shaft.”

Karl Larson Moab, Utah

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Earth power Re “Pagan it forward” (Arts & Culture, Oct. 9): There are also representatives from the pagan community that participate in the Inter-Faith Clergy Association here in the Reno-Sparks community. In this way, we can not only help the larger community, but also work to dispel misconceptions about what pagans are like and what we do. Children of Temple Earth has been doing this for the past four years. We are also licensed and ordained ministers and provide pagan handfasting ceremonies (marriages) and other rituals for the pagan community.

Ellyn Darrah Reno

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unfortunately typical. He once told me that historic preservation was impossible without extra-governmental funding. I guess that explains why he never went to the legislature with a proposal to strengthen the preservation laws and regulations. But it doesn’t explain why as State Historic Preservation Officer he failed to develop a fund-raising program and a wider constituency for preservation. During his tenure as SHPO he could have encouraged the formation of an NGO and foundation for preservation instead of waiting until CMI offered him a sinecure in their PR machine.

Robert Elston Silver City

No, I am your father Re “Recall the Gazette-Journal” (Editorial, Oct. 2): Please do us all a favor and don’t write anymore about the Washoe County School District. Your lamebrained editorial from a few weeks back calling for the firing of Martinez because he legally let go of the police chief was totally ignorant. Disclose your connections to the school district instead of spreading lies about what happened. I am sure you must have family members who work there. What happened to Pedro Martinez happens to literally thousands of teachers all across the country and for equally stupid reasons. Why? Because school district lawyers tell them they can in order to force a lawsuit, a settlement and a gag order. It’s a total abuse of taxpayer money and of the legal system, and here you and your rag justify it. The RG-J was absolutely correct going after your lousy, corrupt board. I hope they are all thrown out. If you have no concept of how school districts operate above the law, then don’t write about them anymore.

Susan Nunes Medford, Oregon

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How did your garden grow?

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Good, very good, I grow mainly flowers and shrubs for people, and we had a great year this year with no problems.

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Really great. We had lots of vegetables and flowers, and a bunch of apples. It was such as nice summer. Everything grew really well. We had a little problem with aphids but that was it.

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How to avoid Ebola and beheadings Looking to prevent Ebola or being beheaded by an Isis terrorist? Keep reading, because after the spoonful of medicine comes the little bit of sugar.

It’s election time again. Has there ever been a midterm election that was actually more boring than the primary? The Washoe County registrar of voters reported that 50,960 Washoe County residents cast a ballot in the primary, and voter turnout in Washoe County was 23.43 percent.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that in 2013 there were 433,731 people in Washoe County, so please allow us to disabuse you of that 23.43 percent number. In real numbers, 382,771 people in Washoe County did not vote. That means 88.3 percent of Washoe County residents did not help to decide who the rest of us get to vote for in upcoming weeks.

In these days in which the internet is the only media that matters—except for weekly newsprint, of course— companies measure a website or campaign’s value using something called “engagement.” It’s a marketing term that grew out of social media. Its metrics are measured in different ways, from time spent on a site, to how often something is shared, to how someone got there, to how often they return, to criteria we Luddites can’t even figure out. But what it boils down to is, “Does anyone give a damn about what you’re doing?”

Of all the essential government services that should be on the forefront of social engagement but are failing to come into the 21st century, the registrar of voters takes the cake. That office and the Nevada secretary of state’s office are ostensibly the only disinterested public agencies that provide voting information to the public.

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I can kill anything. I have poor luck with plants. When I was living in Hawaii, this girl gave me three cacti and told me, “Don’t water them, don’t do anything. Just let them be.” I killed two out of the three. The ants got to the other one.

vote, to get informed about when and where to vote, or to see candidate bios using social media.

That leaves it up to the news media—all of which is biased in one way or another—to get out election information. We can see what happens when only biased media voices are shared: We end up with 11.7 percent of the most partisan members of our community casting votes—and they don’t care who the better candidate is, all they care about is the party. We also end up with a huge percentage of the population believing that the Reno mayor’s race is the only one that matters in Northern Nevada. We also end up with two candidates whose biggest difference is how they look.

Unfortunately, we suffer a bit from the pot calling the kettle black. Our own coverage was, particularly around the primary, spotty because we’re primarily non-partisan voters who are mostly excluded from the primary system.

At any rate, while we continue our pre-election coverage, just in time for early voting, we’re launching an election page. It will have links to our endorsements, our previous election coverage and the survey results from the candidates who chose to respond: www.newsreview.com/reno/ northern-nevada-elections.

Now, while we don’t expect this election to supplant the coverage of people thousands of miles away being beheaded or dying of Ebola—except for on Election Day, when it will be reported like it’s the Kentucky Derby—we suggest Reno people avoid those places where Ebola has been spotted or people have been beheaded by terrorists. We have yet to hear of someone contracting the disease or getting beheaded at a Washoe County voting booth, so plainly, the voting booth will be the safest place in the world. Ω |

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Not too well because of the squirrels. I grew flowers and vegetables. The flowers didn’t do as well this year.

Lisa Braginton Plant doctor

Fairly well. There were better seasons.

My flowers grew better than my vegetables. I think the early heat was a bit of a problem this year.

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They’re the mayor After the overwhelming number of choices for mayor of Reno in the primary election, it almost seems anti-climatic to have just two candidates on the ballot in November.

And they’re an odd couple.

Democrat Ray Pezonella was quick to proclaim his bewilderment by at his party affiliation last spring, Sheila Leslie telling a Democratic Women’s Club he really didn’t know why he was a Democrat since he didn’t agree with much of the party’s agenda. He didn’t stay for lunch that day, claiming another engagement, and few of the Democratic ladies were sorry to see him go.

Non-partisan Hillary Schieve routinely attends Democratic events where she is warmly greeted by the party faithful. She graciously engages in conversation with whoever approaches, posing for photos and listening more than she talks, always a winning combination.

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bubbling with enthusiasm. Current Mayor Bob Cashell endorsed him but then grumbled a few months later that Pezonella wasn’t campaigning hard enough.

By the beginning of October, the establishment folks changed course, apparently deciding Schieve was the better bet. They began cultivating their relationship with her through numerous fundraisers hosted by casino owners, mining executives and top-ofthe-line business lobbyists.

Progressives, who were content to back Schieve when the alternative was a good-old-boy with a mantra of “all growth is good,” are now wondering if she’s sold her soul by cozying up to the big boy advertising and political machinery. The moneyed interests will no doubt be expecting a return on their investment at some point in the near future.

In a recent televised debate, the candidates offered mostly platitudes and non-answers to key questions.

Pezonella insisted Tesla will not cost taxpayers “anything,” a gross mischaracterization considering the

hundreds of millions in tax credits they’ll get, along with free electricity, and a brand new multi-million dollar road, all subsidized by us. “We need to try to be proactive and reactive because that’s what it’s all about,” he said, whatever that means.

Schieve’s answer wasn’t much better. She simply promised: “We will be ready for Tesla!” ignoring the serious problems of how to get our schools, roads and infrastructure prepared to handle the influx of people, all with dwindling resources as we continue to subsidize the private sector.

It was the question on growth that really set the two candidates apart.

Schieve enthusiastically promoted infill development, citing the Midtown district as the wave of Reno’s future, building in modern amenities such as bike lanes to attract residents and tourists alike. Pezonella stuck to his progrowth roots by advocating sprawl, saying he wants to make sure the free enterprise system works. “Each and every developer” needs to decide what they want to do.

Pezonella personifies the historical image of Reno where one could easily imagine the all male city leaders in a smoky cigar bar, toasting their elite status, confident in their ability to enrich their personal fortunes while leading the city toward its destiny.

Schieve presents a more modern and inclusive vision of a progressive city, while also demonstrating sincere concern for the people who already live here.

My favorite moment of the televised debate was the “opportunity of a lifetime,” presented by Pezonella as his closing argument which exploited the fact that Schieve will retain her City Council seat if she loses the mayor’s race. He told voters they would never have this opportunity again: “Two people who care tremendously … you have an opportunity to vote for me, and you’re gonna get both of us working for you every day at the City Council. Take that opportunity.”

In essence, he argued, by doubling down on your vote for him, you get a two-for-one deal.

Only in Reno, to be sure. Ω

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The market goes up in vapor Last July, State Senator Debbie Smith, D-Sparks, announced that she submitted a bill draft request proposing legislation for unknown regulations and possibly new taxes on e-cigarettes in Nevada. Smith said she was responding to the public’s concerns about people vaping in by Brendan Trainor public.

Electronic cigarettes came to Nevada around 2008, and vaping has generated a growing subculture of enthusiasts. E-cigs use a battery to heat an element that is immersed in laboratory grade liquid nicotine with FDA-approved food flavorings. The user inhales vapor, not smoke, and exhales water vapor.

It can look like smoke, but water vapor dissipates harmlessly, while smoke can linger, irritate and soil.

By eliminating cancer-causing tars found in cigarette smoke, the technology may improve public health.

Those who advocate bans against tobacco use usually acknowledge that e-cigs are not the same as combustible cigarettes.

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banning or restricting e-cigs that depend on the “precautionary principle.” The USC Institute for Global Health, for example, wants them banned until 40 or 50 years of study on long-term health can be assessed. This is an extreme example, but local city councils that have severely restricted e-cigs usually say, “We should probably err on the side of caution.”

Why? Why not err on the side of liberty? I believe that the usual presumption should be for liberty, not caution. Politicians and bureaucrats often blend a nanny state mindset with a “protect our butts prime directive” to justify mandates and prohibitions rather than freedom. The FDA earned its reputation for protecting us when it banned Thalidomide, a drug that had been approved in Europe but was found to cause serious birth defects later.

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powers to regulate combustible cigarettes.

Sen. Smith wants Nevada to “debate” new taxes and controls on e-cigs and FDA proposals could be a model. Despite its Thalidomide error, Europe still has an easier drug approval process than the U.S. does. Thalidomide, cleansed of its awful side effects, is still available there for medical uses. What the precautionary principle overlooks is any calculation to measure the lost opportunities for beneficial production that over-regulation causes. It takes away the freedom for individuals to decide what risks are worth taking for themselves and loved ones.

The rationale for banning second-hand tobacco smoke is largely based on politicized junk science, but even if we allow for these bans, why should those bans affect a new, much more benign technology?

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politicians who talk about curtailing freedoms in order to “send a message.” Like Samuel Goldwyn once said, “If you want to send a message, call Western Union.” The only message e-cigarette bans send is the state wants to control you for no good reason.

Nicotine, contrary to tobacco prohibitionists’ claims, has positive health benefits. Research shows it can be beneficial for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurological disorders. And nicotine is not very addictive by itself. It is the cocktail of chemicals found in combustible cigarettes that combine with nicotine to stimulate addictive habits in users.

E-cigs are a harm-reduction technology. Let private property owners and consumers regulate e-cig usage themselves. And let the sale of these products be subject to the normal Nevada sales taxes, without any extra “sin taxes” meant to discourage their use. Ω

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Repeal still to come The fate of marriage equality in Nevada may be settled, but there is a lingering legal matter that still must be dealt with—the now-obsolete language in the Nevada Constitution.

Article 1, section 21 of the constitution reads, “Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in this state.” That language was added by a vote of the public after an initiative petition put the issue on the ballot in 2000. In first round voting that year, Nevadans voted 69.6 to 30.3 percent for the change. In second round voting in 2002, it was 67.2 to 32.7 percent in favor.

But in Nevada as elsewhere, change came relatively rapidly.

Opinion surveys showed a steady decline in support for the ban—by August 2011, according to a Public Policy Polling survey, the state was in a virtual tie, 45 percent supporting marriage equality, 44 percent opposing it. By February 2013, according to a Public Opinion Strategies survey commissioned by the Retail Association of Nevada, 54 percent of Nevadans supported repealing the ban, 43 percent opposed it.

As that survey was released, the Nevada Legislature was already processing a measure—Senate Joint Resolution 13 of the 2013 legislature—to let the public vote on the issue. While initiative petitions must be voted on by the public twice, constitutional changes initiated by the lawmakers must pass the Legislature twice and be voted on by the public once. So SJR 13 must still be approved by the 2015 legislative session and then voted on by the public in 2016.

There is precedent. In 1992, the Legislature placed a measure on the ballot providing for removal of constitutional language that barred black men and former slaves from voting, a change that had already been accomplished by federal action.

Somewhat presumptuously, the legislative legal staff has already inserted the proposed but unapproved marriage language into the semi-official and supposed authoritative online copy of the Nevada Constitution, so both the original ban and the conflicting proposed repeal language now appear side by side.

Book discredited by scrutiny The Columbia Journalism Review, a journal that covers ethical issues, has called on the CBS-owned publishing firm Simon and Schuster to destroy all stocks of a book on Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio that deals in part with their activities in Nevada.

The book, Joe and Marilyn, was written by C. David Heymann, a now-deceased author. One of his previous books, a biography of Barbara Hutton, was exposed as a fraud in the Los Angeles Times, and 58,000 copies were destroyed by Random House. His books had a suspicious habit of relying for information on deceased sources.

In its Aug. 27 edition, Newsweek carried a David Cay Johnston article raising serious questions about the reliability of Joe and Marilyn. Johnston wrote that Heymann “cites Joe DiMaggio Jr. … as a source on more than 50 of the book’s 393 pages. Joe Jr. died in 1999, long before Heymann started work on the book, and he routinely turned reporters away. Public records contradict many of the quotes attributed to him in the book.” “[A]ll the celebrity bios Heymann wrote [for CBS] are riddled with errors and fabrications,” Johnston wrote, questioning why CBS keeps publishing them and urging teachers to use them.

Joe and Marilyn touches on Nevada aspects of both of the celebrities’ lives, and of other figures associated with them—Monroe during the filming of the Nevada movie The Misfits, playwright Arthur Miller’s stay at the Pyramid Lake Guest Ranch to establish divorce residency so he could marry Monroe, Dorothy DiMaggio’s 1942 visit to Reno to start divorce proceedings, Monroe’s 1946 Las Vegas divorce from Jim Dougherty, and other Nevada items.

At one point, Heymann writes, “Miller and Monroe shared a two-bedroom suite at the Mapes Hotel and Casino in Reno; their marriage in tatters, they occupied separate rooms and were rarely seen together. When they were seen together, the spectacle wasn’t always pretty. Monroe delighted in humiliating and embarrassing her husband before cast and crew alike.” While Monroe had a Mapes suite for greeting visitors and other ceremonial purposes, she had a hideaway elsewhere in the city where she stayed.

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Naomi Duerr and Elisa Cafferata hustled for votes last month at a luncheon meeting of the Nevada Women’s Lobby.

Water fight Council candidates bring different approaches Elisa Cafferata and Naomi Duerr may clash in their race for Reno City Council, but they still have very similar interby ests—particularly water.

Dennis Myers Duerr ran the Flood Project Coordinating Committee (now the Flood Management Authority) for six years, after serving as state water planner.

Cafferata was a management analyst for seven years at the Regional Planning Agency and director of Truckee Meadows Tomorrow, a private organization that focuses on quality of life.

“My entire career I’ve been an innovative thinker, and I’ve been able to bring partners together.”

Naomi Duerr reno City Council candidate “Water planning work, and really the local governments and the way they plan our communities, has a lot of impact on our quality of life,” Cafferata said.

Cafferata also has a considerable history in community organizing. In 1994 Oregon activist Lon Mabon, who succeeded in passing an anti-gay initiative petition in his state, then tried the same thing in adjoining states, including Nevada. The climate of opinion was very different in that year than it is now—hostile to gays.

Cafferata put together a campaign to

block the Mabon effort, recruiting both Democrats and Republicans—including her grandmother, U.S. Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, and her mother, former GOP nominee for governor Patty Cafferata. Casinos concerned about a gay boycott of Nevada joined the effort. Mabon failed to get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

“I also grew up around a family that lived public service, and I saw the good work that my mother and my grandmother were able to do,” she said. “The thing about local government is that it is where people live.

It’s the place where you can make the most difference.”

As for water, “There are a couple of things I’m really interested in,” she said. “Making sure that we plan for the best sustainable approach to water.

And I work downtown at the Reno Collective”—a technology workspace business—“and tech jobs are what drive economic growth in cities. And it’s not just technology jobs but all of the support industries and people that come with that.”’

She does, in fact, mention terms like technology and innovation at every opportunity. She also said one part of city government needs change.

“Redevelopment is going to have to be redesigned because the redevelopment agency doesn’t have any funds to do new work,” she said. “They just need to pay off the debts they’ve incurred. So we need a new approach to redevelopment.”

She said quality of life is key to the city’s success.

“I think my campaign theme is really about smart government, looking at the long term to make communities that people want to live in and raise their families in.”

Consensus The Reno News & Review reported in 2006, “Naomi Duerr is one of two local officials who carry the area’s institutional knowledge of Truckee River flood control around in their heads” (“Flood money,” Feb. 23, 2006). So Cafferata, in emphasizing water, is facing a heavyweight.

Cafferata’s family heritage gave her a comfort level with politics.

Duerr, though involved in public service, is less at home with the hailfellow-well-met aspect of campaigning. For her, issues are everything. But she says her experience with the water agency gave her the kind of experience she will need to work with six other councilmembers. Here’s why: On the flood agency board, a single “no” vote could stop any initiative. The board was made up of two Reno members, two Sparks members, and two Washoe County members, whose governments could not normally agree on lunch.

All actions required unanimous votes, and “I was able to accomplish 500 unanimous votes,” Duerr said.

In addition, because the flood agency had to set up all its actions and contracts through a local government—the county—she had to know how to work well with a competing entity, she said.

The next mayor

“ The way they plan our communities has a lot of impact on our quality of life.”

As far as the law is concerned, Reno’s next mayor will be nothing more than a glorified City Council member, give by Riley Snyder or take a few ceremonial duties—the result of a Nevada Supreme Court ruling that the mayor is just a member of the City Council with a better title.

But ask mayoral candidates Ray Pezonella and Hillary Schieve what they think of the position, and you’ll get a much different answer.

Elisa Cafferata City council candidate she said. “And $2.2 million came from Walmart,” which was building a store in one of the affected areas.

The two candidates both argue in favor of the town/gown initiative currently being advocated by local powerbrokers to promote Reno as a “university town.”

“The communities that are invested in education are doing better in the economic recovery,” Cafferata said. “We need to invest in education and innovation—and not just in the university but in tech startups and local companies.”

“I think we all could benefit from that,” Duerr said. “The community could benefit. The students could benefit.”

Ward 2 runs from West Plumb Lane on its north end to the area around the Mt. Rose/Virginia City intersestion in the south, including a lot of industrial and shopping areas and relatively affluent residential neighborhoods that are fairly compact and thus easy to campaign in door-to-door. Ω

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“I build consensus, and then I go get things done,” she said.

While the race has been relatively polite, one clash that irritated Duerr was an attack over the flood agency.

“If you have such a sharp pencil, how is it that the flood project budget grew to $1.6 billion [when Duerr was director]?” Cafferata asked during a debate with Duerr.

While Cafferata’s question attracted attention and won her points for debating skills, Duerr said no one provided background on where the figures came from.

The Army Corps of Engineers regularly updates cost estimates on flood plans it participates in to keep figures current with inflation. In this case, Duerr said, the Corps re-costed essentially the same project three times in six years. Estimates went from $350 million to $800 million to $1.6 billion. Duerr’s role was informing the Coordinating Committee and the public of the changes.

“My opponent actually participated in developing that plan,” she said.

“She knows what happened. They [the Corps] re-costed everybody’s plan in America, and everyone doubled.”

When she handled a project on her own—restoring several areas of the river—she said she was able to bring it in at about $20 million locally even though the Corps had estimated the project at $90 million. “I was able to get the Reno Sparks Indian Colony and the state of Nevada to give land,”

Mayoral candidates Ray Pezonella, left, and Hillary Schieve couldn’t look more different, but their policies and contributors look very similar.

Neighbors Photo/Dennis Myers

On Merchants Street in Sparks, Tamborazo Taxqueno played for an old fashioned neighborhood party. Dozens of people, mostly families, attended the festive gathering.

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“The mayor truly sets the tone and the culture of the city,” said Schieve, a sitting city councilmember and small-business owner.

But in a rapidly changing economic environment, the shift away from a gambling-centered economy and the looming impact of Tesla means the next mayor will not only play a leadership role in local affairs, but will also symbolize what direction the city takes over the next four years.

“I think [the election is] more a referendum on how the city is changing, economically and demographically,” UNR political science professor Eric Herzik said.

“I’m not seeing a historical parallel,” he added. “It’s uncharted territory.”

Given their age and gender differences, Pezonella and Schieve come from surprisingly similar backgrounds. Both are business owners sporting high-profile endorsements, and relative newcomers to the political scene. (Schieve was elected to the Reno City Council two years ago.)

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The real decision for voters, then, comes in the form of what sort of mayoral style they prefer. Is it the more status-quo Pezonella, backed by traditional power brokers, or the “fresh face” of Schieve?

Despite her status as a sitting city councilmember, Schieve is in several ways running as an outsider candidate. With local city power brokers—development and construction leaders—first throwing their weight behind Pezonella, Schieve’s campaign has sought out younger and more diverse voters than would usually be expected in a mayoral race.

“I always run like I’m in last place,” she said.

A first-time political candidate, Pezonella nevertheless counts endorsements from numerous Reno businesses and outgoing Reno mayor Bob Cashell. Though it is somewhat odd that a political newbie is running as an establishment candidate, Pezonella’s primary focus as mayor would be to reduce the city’s multimillion dollar debt.

“I’m not looking for new ways to spend money,” he said. “I’m looking for ways to get our debt paid.”

Though Schieve won the primary election with 26 percent of the vote, that election was somewhat skewed by the number of candidates—18, one of them dead—running for mayor.

Pezonella, who won 18 percent of the vote, said he’s confident that he’ll be able to make up the difference by election day.

But Herzik doesn’t hedge his bets when it comes to predicting who will win the race. “I’ll be surprised if Schieve doesn’t win,” he said.

Though Herzik credits Pezonella as a quality candidate, his prediction for a Schieve victory is based on her victory in the primaries, appeal to a more diverse electorate, and an energetic campaign.

Though both campaigns declined to share internal polling numbers, Herzik said Pezonella’s chances improve with lower turnout. In a nonpresidential year lacking dramatic statewide races, it could be easier for more conservative and older populations that support Pezonella to dominate at the polls.

Schieve has raised four dollars for every six raised by Pezonella— $80,530.10 to $131,700.

“With low voter turnout, anything can happen,” Schieve said. Ω OCTOBER 16, 2014

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Meghan Collins gives a tour of the edible garden outside the Great Basin Community Food Co-op.

Fun food facts How to eat nutritional, local, in season and on a budget Everyone knows that vegetables are good for you and that we’re supposed to be healthy. But actually eating healthy vegetables can be a challenge.

The Great Basin Community Food Co-op and Urban Roots Garden by Sage Leehey Classrooms recently teamed up to put on a workshop for several local families to learn how to plan nutritional meals on a budget. The families s age l@ involved in the workshop had to have children who had already participated news review.c om in either Farm Camp or Farm School at Urban Roots, and they received yearlong memberships and $50 grocery food stipends for use at GBCFC after the workshop.

Cheryl Skibicki of Urban Roots said that the workshop served as the link between what the kids were learning in the class and the parents. It brought the families together to learn how to plan and prepare their meals. The workshop included a tour of the co-op and activities to help plan meals.

“I created two different exercises,” GBCFC marketing outreach coordinator Meghan Collins said. “The first one is aimed more at being creative and discovering something new. What’s new to discover is different kinds of vegetables that grow in the Great Basin and then putting them together into a recipe that might suit the different seasons. The other will involve also looking at the herbs and spices that we have. They can be fresh or in bulk. This is about doing a bit of multiplication and working out the quantities and costs of different ingredients.”

Collins recommends that families buy in bulk when feasible because it tends to be cheaper in the long run. She also said an important factor in planning nutritional meals is to use foods that are in season not only because buying what’s in season is cheaper, but also because they taste better and are For more information about these groups, better for you. visit www.urgc.org or “If you’re looking at it from a freshness point of view, everything that’s in www.greatbasin season is going to be fresher because if you’re buying apples or strawberries food.coop. out of season, they had to select for those traits in those strawberries,” Collins said. “They’re selected for a second harvest, or they’ve vacuum-packed those apples or bananas so that they last longer, but some of the nutrients start to break down over time, and it doesn’t taste as good.

“Seasonal things don’t have to be brought from far away, so sometimes if we want apples in January, we import them from the Southern Hemisphere.

So the food miles start to add up and that’s a burden on non-renewable resources and things like that.”

In the fall, apples, basil, squash, tomatoes, lettuce and potatoes—among many other foods—are in season in the Great Basin. A quick search online will give you more information about when certain crops are in season.

That’s also part of the reason that Collins said using locally grown products in meals is important, too. Buying and eating local is a great way to help your own community and the environment. There are farmers’ markets throughout the year all over town, and GBCFC offers products from many local farmers. Everything local is labeled with a green tag in the store.

“One dollar spent locally is likely to circulate so many more times here versus if we spend a dollar at a store owned elsewhere, the chances of that money leaving the community is a lot greater,” Collins said. “And we’re supporting our local farmers who are generally smaller scale, and smaller scale agriculture tends to be more sustainable.” Ω OPINION

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articularly since Michael Brown’s death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, a national dialogue has been taking place regarding the creation of citizen oversight boards to monitor law enforcement. In this, the fifth installment of Fatal Encounters, the Reno News & Review’s series on issues of deadly police violence, we’ve assembled a panel of people who, for various reasons, have reached the national stage with regard to police violence.

Our panel includes Brian Buchner, president of NACOLE, National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, which has engaged with the city of Ferguson to develop a new citizen oversight committee in that community. Pete Eyre is co-founder of Cop Block, a national decentralized project that focuses on police accountability.

Pamela J. Meanes is president of the National Bar Association and active in the recent actions in Ferguson, Missouri. Jonathan S. Taylor is a professor at California State University, Fullerton, who’s been active in issues of police violence, particularly following the brutal crackdown on the Occupy Movement and the killing of the mentally ill man Kelly Thomas in 2011.

What should

This conversation, which due to technical problems took place in two instances, has been severely abridged for space. All the participants were asked five questions, of which they were informed in advance.

citizen oversight of

An unabridged version of the interviews will run online at www. newsreview.com/reno.

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RN&R: What are the benefits to civilian oversight of law enforcement?

BuchNeR: It helps support

effective policing. Civilian oversight helps build bridges between the police department and the community that it serves.

It ensures greater accountability and transparency in policing.

It helps manage risk inside an agency and within the jurisdiction, and, related to building trust and building bridges, it helps increase confidence in the police department. eyRe: My initial thought is

that I would think that we would all have a shared end goal, which is to live free. We could use civilian oversight to maybe have less corruption or double standards applied to people who violate the rights of others. The thought I had was, why do we want to build a bridge to this institution?

Essentially, we’re just changing the deck chairs on a boat that’s sinking. It’s the institution that needs to change. I’d just advocate that we move past the institution and build something different all together that would bring about the desirable conclusion.

MeaNes: I don’t know what the benefits are of police review boards, because of the ones that we’ve taken a look at, the citizens have complained that those have become an extension of the police department. Sometimes, there is an appearance that the police still are unable—even through the review boards—to police themselves. I think it’s better to have some type of independent federal oversight and almost like an independent evaluation, or if there is a police review board or some type of citizen oversight board, that that board is really represented by the citizens and not necessarily by individuals who may be somehow connected to the department.

TayloR: Accountability, of course, that’s the goal, but I think we have to look beyond that. We have to look at the big picture, the long-term goal. I think the goal should be to end or reduce police violence as much as possible. So, I think civilian oversight is one tool that can be used to help reduce police violence, but I also think it’s insufficient in and of itself. Where I live in California, civilian oversight is only as useful as the law permits it to be, and in California, because of laws that protect police officer confidentiality, it’s just not that useful. So, it’s much better to have a police oversight committee

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than to not have one, but there are a bunch of structural obstacles to having it really work.

RN&R: What should civilian

oversight look like? For example, should oversight primarily focus on after-the-fact things like misconduct or officer-involved violence, should it be more concerned with more proactive ideals like transparency and policy setting, should it be entirely independent to investigate anything it chooses, or are there better strategies?

BuchNeR: The definition that we use is one that’s being adopted from Dr. Sam Walker, who’s one of the noted scholars on civilian oversight. We define it as “an agency or procedure that involves participation by persons who are not sworn officers.

They investigate, audit or review internal police investigations or processes including citizen complaints and use of force in incidents. And they conduct ongoing monitoring of law enforcement agencies, policies, procedures, training and management supervision practices.” So it’s a pretty broad definition that really means non-law enforcement officers have some role in overseeing the conduct operations or activities of a law enforcement agency. Our position is that civilian oversight needs to reflect the needs of the community. And we know that there are over 200 different models of oversight currently in existence around the United States, and they each look different. They have different names, different scopes of authority, different placement in their governing structure, and that’s because the needs of each community are different.

MeaNes: I think it would have to be a combination of a few of those things in order to return some credibility and some trust back to the community. I think the oversight board or the individuals doing the oversight need to have the freedom to independently issue opinions—similar to how you have attorney review boards. That opinion issued by the board should be able to have some weight within the department to review and evaluate an officer. I think that the review of police misconduct, which takes many forms, should have the independent opportunity to evaluate and monitor those types of investigations, and it should not be looking at just when it happens, but it should be looking at the causes that really

may contribute to what happened.

If the police review board is limited to just responding to issues that are raised about an officer or the department, then really we’re not going to get to a place where there is trust built between the citizens and the police force, and we won’t get to a point where the police review board becomes almost like a police entity within itself, and you don’t want to create that. You do want the board’s job really to be so that it creates trust back between the community and the officers.

TayloR: I think it needs to have teeth. I think it needs to have power, and I think it needs to be able to make the sort of decisions or make recommendations that are binding. So in other words, if you have a police department, you have a civilian oversight board, you have an officer who’s had numerous complaints in terms of excessive force, and the department is not taking action, I think the civilian oversight board has to be able to recommend that officer be terminated, and that recommendation has to be taken seriously. If they don’t have teeth, then what ends up happening is they’re just used by the police departments as a way of saying, “Oh, look, we have a civilian oversight board, so there’s no problem,” or “Don’t worry, it can be handled by the civilian oversight board.”

And that’s potentially worse than not even having one. So, however they work, the most important thing to me is that they have to be composed of people who have no vested interest in law enforcement, are not connected with law enforcement, and who have some kind of power to make decisions. eyRe: I would say that ultimately, because it’s individuals who act, I feel that these individuals, instead of looking to communities to oversee them, they choose who to employ to keep them safe, if anybody. The fact today that police employees subsist off stolen money means that they have no incentive to actually be accountable, and their own courts have ruled that they have no duty to protect their customers, so you’re never going to get accountability out of that system. And so the best oversight would just be that the service or protection is treated like any other good or service, and it could be provided through consensual interactions and then this conversation of having an oversight board becomes moot.

RN&R: What are the obstacles to having citizen oversight?

TayloR: First of all, I see cultural obstacles. I think the police view themselves as a special protected class, different than the rest of the us, and with that kind of mentality, it’s very difficult to establish oversight over them because they view it as an us-against-them sort of framework. I think there are various political obstacles. I do think that cities and municipalities, all sorts of government use police as revenue generators, and so for civilians to come in and say, “No, we don’t want them to do this anymore,” we’re talking about cutting off their funding stream. Things like asset forfeiture, that’s their bread and butter so there are economic motivations. There is a lot of organized power. Police unions are major lobbyists. Politicians are afraid to cross police unions, and therefore legislators write policies that benefit police unions.

So you have these very major bureaucratic legal obstacles to civilian oversight. Some of these institutions are not amenable to just tinkering with at the edges to correct them. We need some major changes here, and the obstacles are really structural. My point is there are cultural, political, legal and economic obstacles. These are formidable obstacles. They’re structural, and it’s not going to be easy to overcome them. eyRe: Ultimately, the biggest obstacle is ideas, and the existing paradigm says that a certain group of people has a legal right to steal from others in their area and to then protect them. I think better ideas are assured, and those bad ideas will get shed in favor of better ideas. So currently the biggest obstacle is the bad idea that says that some people are authorities based on where they work instead of being authorities based on having earned that authority. To me someone who claims to protect you, if they first steal from you, that doesn’t grant them any authority in my book. I would also say that the folks who seek to control others have for decades used the public school systems to essentially help shape the mindsets of the people that they seek to control. So they seek to keep their positions of perceived authority and likewise the corporate media—you know that 95 percent of it is owned by six corporations now—it’s much easier for these self-proclaimed leaders to have their messages peddled through those outlets.

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You almost never see a mainstream media source question police employees. They just quote them verbatim as if they speak the truth.

So again, it’s the ideas that have to change.

Buchner: I would just add that I think obstacles to establishing oversight and obstacles to building and maintaining effective oversight include a failure to engage the community in a meaningful way. To get true public participation in the oversight of police I think is a real obstacle.

And to say “community,” I think in some ways is disingenuous because it implies that there’s a unified community. We know that that’s not the case. There are different groups within every community, and not every one of those groups is going to support police reform or to support oversight. I think to the extent that any community or city or county or jurisdiction is able to really get public participation and public input so that the model of oversight or the approach to oversight reflects and tries to maximize public interest while also realizing that there are other interests at play is probably a big obstacle. rn&r: Brian, what’s going on with trying to build civilian oversight in Ferguson?

Buchner: Some of you may have seen that my organization, NACOLE, has been engaged by leaders in Ferguson to work with them on building their model of civilian oversight at the Ferguson Police Department. We weren’t brought in at the very beginning, but just last week we met with the mayor, the police chief and the city manager and encouraged them to listen to us and to engage with us so that we could provide them some support and guidance on working to improve upon the model of oversight that they initially proposed about two weeks ago. So we’re really not any farther along than that. One of the things that we kept telling their mayor and chief and city manager that had to happen was that you can’t just put up proposed ordinances out there to create a citizen review board.

And so we encourage them to reach out to the general public, which is going to include parts of the community who are not supportive of the Ferguson Police Department or necessarily engaged in civic affairs in the city and would also include some of the groups who we

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identified as groups that they have positive working relationships with.

You can’t just go to your friends and expect that you’re going to get the true and honest input into what oversight needs to look like in that city.

Allen: That situation reminded me of one that happened in our own state not too long ago. As sheriff, community partnerships are huge, and one of the things I’ve got listed on my card, I want to assign a deputy to the respective neighborhood advisory boards or citizen advisory boards. I believe in having the dialogue with These questions were asked of the the community by a regular deputy attending candidates for sheriff by the RN&R before those meetings or a supervisor. But I think, for the primary: In light of the problems with you, the citizens of Washoe County, you need to officer-involved shootings happening in places have trust and respect in the agency. And that like Albuquerque, New Mexico, would you comes through community-oriented be amenable to modifying Washoe policing. And I suspect that County’s officer-involved had Chief Jackson engaged shooting protocol memberthe community more in ship to include a non-law Ferguson, Missouri, this enforcement member? may not have blown to Why or why not? the proportion that it has.

Allen: I personally I would agree with Tim, would not be opposed to yes, you can not tolerate having a qualified civilian that type of behavior, but I or citizen be a part of think before it escalates to the process that reviews that level, having the dialog, officer-involved shooting tim KuzaneK having the trust, having the cases in Washoe County. As respect of the community does go a a leader, I believe whenever you long way in curtailing some of these actions. have a diverse group of people assigned to review any processes or protocols for any From the KNPB/RGJ debate on Sept. 25 organization, you will often get more feedback (watch.knpb.org/video/2365335712). or input which is directly attributed to the Brent Boynton: What is your opinion in diversity of thought. Ultimately though, the local how officer-involved shootings are handled in District Attorney would have the final word on Washoe County. Is it a best practice to have an whether this incident was justified or not, or the outside agency from the same county handle US Attorney’s Office representative for those these investigations? cases which are federal.

Kuzanek: Yes, we’ve had an Kuzanek: Yes, I am amenable officer-involved shooting to modifying the OIS Protocol. protocol in Washoe County for many years. As a At the Republican matter of fact, within the Women of Reno forum last year to 18 months, at the Atlantis on Aug. there were several 14, regarding how meetings that occurred they’d handle public with policing executives unrest like that that arose and the DA’s office in after the shooting of our region to update that Michael Brown in Ferguson, chucK allen particular protocol, to make Missouri. (www.rgj.com/ sure that we were handling things story/news/2014/08/15/washoein an appropriate way for our region. At sheriff-hopefuls-weigh-fergusonthis time, right now, everything that we’re doing riots/14095723) is more than standard; it’s a model that other Kuzanek: One of the basic responsibilities regions should use. We’ve tried very hard to of a sheriff is to put down riots. It is absolutely make sure that everything within that protocol is not OK to have public unrest like you are seeing followed, that all the personnel all the procein some of these other places. We cannot allow dures are worked out in an appropriate way, and for that to happen. As the sheriff, not only I just think that it works very well in our region. from members of our agency and based on the Allen: Public perception is everything, and relationships that I have with Reno and Sparks I think having an outside agency come in and personnel and our federal partners as well, I’m handle the shooting investigation is critical drawing in every single law enforcement officer because the public expects a transparent, open, that I can, if I need to, I’ll call the governor, thorough and complete investigation, and when and I’ll get the Guard out here to help us, and you bring in an allied agency to investigate such we’ll quell that. We will not allow people to loot, a tragedy, it does tell the public that that will be pillage and rape here in Washoe County under handled in the appropriate manner. any circumstances no matter what the triggering event was.

—D. Brian Burghart b r ia nb @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m During this election season, Washoe County Sheriff candidates Tim Kuzanek and Chuck Allen have offered some responses that have bearing on how they feel about citizen oversight of police. Here is what we’ve gathered:

rn&r: It’s easy to feel a sense of urgency when the whole country’s looking at you. Pete, what methods have been successful in establishing civilian oversight in areas around the country? And I think of you as kind of a civilian oversight board in a way. I mean the whole point of your organization is civilian oversight and recording, right? eyre: Successful oversight is quite simply transparency and reputation, and so we’re fortunate to live in a time when technology has proliferated, where a lot of folks now have access to smart phones and recording devices to document their interactions, so it’s no longer their word against the so-called authorities. They’re able to put that content online, and it could be seen by anyone with an internet connection. The court of public opinion is powerful, and that’s what we’re seeing at Ferguson. Just to touch back on the responses just given, the Ferguson Police Department now has a bad perception. People might question whether they deserve authority.

They’re just circling the wagons, and they’re trying to maintain that perceived legitimacy, but shouldn’t a group that failed to provide good service, in this case security or protection, shouldn’t they be allowed to go under if they fail to provide it? Why should we try to work with them to shore up their perceived legitimacy?

Buchner: There really is no perfect script for how oversight is established, it really just comes about in a number of ways. But in a lot of places it really does require continuous pressure on the decision makers in any jurisdiction. It’s pretty common for oversight to be created in the wake of a policeuse-of-force incident or allegations of misconduct, and then the community will call for increases in accountability and transparency, and one of the ways to accomplish that is by establishing civilian oversight. And by no means do we say that civilian oversight is the be-all, end-all, but it is an important part of the process to help ensure a greater accountability and

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fficer-involved homicides tend to be black-and-white affairs.

Police offer one view of a death, usually a snapshot of a few minutes. Friends and family offer a movie view of a life.

People remember mostly the good of dead friends and family, but it’s the police version that usually gets told by the media.

David Krambs was 33 years old.

He was about 5-feet-10 inches, about 195 pounds. Light complexion, short, brown hair, brown eyes, no glasses.

He lived down the street from Reno High in a little gray corner house at 1401 Elizabeth St. He used to program for IGT, but he was unemployed in February of last year.

His friend, Konrad Reichenberger, the soft-spoken, catty-corner neighbor across Hunter Lake Drive, called 9-1-1 because he was afraid for Krambs’ girlfriend, Laibing Rhodes. He still feels

knew him—but he was a “demon” when he was drinking: boastful, mean, gun-toting, angry, violent. He had lots of guns, at least an AR15 and a couple of handguns, but was sloppy with them when he drank.

One time when he was drunk, Krambs broke Reichenberger’s door down, and later, threatened to kill him, his dog, and anyone else who was in the home. The reason: He wanted Reichenberger to play Call of Duty.

About that time, Krambs’ mom, Pam Cardoza, told police he was suicidal, bipolar and off his meds. Krambs offered to pay Reichenberger for the damage a few weeks later when he sobered up.

Krambs’ college roommate, Marko Rodriguez, from University of California, San Diego remembers the good David Krambs. He now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico: “If you ever met

guilty about the call, but he doesn’t know what else he could have done.

Rhodes had come over complaining about Krambs. Her belongings were in the car for a final departure, but she went back in the house. Reichenberger said she’d been living at a women’s shelter, and she told him Krambs was drunk and punching her, strangling her.

Reichenberger still can’t understand why she went back in the house.

Rhodes lives in San Jose now and uses a different last name on her Facebook page. In her thick accent, she said she’s not over what happened— she sees a therapist still—but she’s reticent to talk because Krambs’ parents might read it, and they’ve suffered enough.

The way Reichenberger tells it, his video-game buddy was the nicest guy when he was sober—which was most of the time that Reichenberger

Dave, you would immediately realize that he was ridiculously intelligent—a very logical, almost Asperger-type mind. One of his greatest talents was his guitar skills. He played guitar exactly like David Gilmour of Pink Floyd: a crisp, controlled sound—never a note out of place. He was very school oriented and got excellent grades. I credit Dave as the one who taught me how to program in Java, and it is to this day the language I use every day in my career.”

He said Krambs rarely drank but that he would get all aggressive and buffoonish when he did. Once, another roommate walked into his room at like 9 a.m., and Krambs was pounding beers. The other roommate said, “Breakfast of champions, eh?” and Krambs punched the wall, breaking his hand.

“He wore that cast for a long, long time,” said Rodriguez.

When the police arrived around 6 p.m. on the evening Feb. 23, 2013, they showed up in force. They’d been to the house before, and they knew Krambs had guns. One sniper took to a nearby roof, while a phalanx approached the house using a Citifare bus for cover.

They announced their presence loudly.

Krambs knew they were there, and when they broke the door down, he was there to meet them with the AR15.

While witness statements vary, at least four shots rang out, all from the Reno Police officers’ guns, but one was all it took, and Krambs lay dead on the floor with a bullet in his spine until the Mountain View Mortuary arrived and picked him up 11 hours later.

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And so community organizing certainly is an important part of it.

Taylor: In the last three years, I’ve just seen incredible public awareness growing of police violence and police brutality, and I attribute it to a bunch of different things but mainly to these efforts on the internet that publicize these cases, to take pictures, to take video, to get the video up online, to embarrass and humiliate and shame the officers that are responsible and the institutions that protect them. I think this is truly great stuff that’s happening and so to have these things working in both directions, both through official channels and through public awareness. I think this is the way forward. This is a big enough problem that we need to throw everything we can at it so whether through creating actual review boards or having people to help create new use-of-force regulations. I think this is all really tremendously important work.

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to be honest with you, is the point the federal government has come in and actually taken over and implemented some of its programs in that area. I don’t know that I could point you to a successful oversight board that has some real teeth to it that has been utilized. For me, success would mean that there’s been a reduction in misconduct cases.

There are two contributing factors. One is, there is no real definition of limitation on what constitutes excessive force, it’s all subjective. And the law basically says that an officer has the right and authority to utilize that measure of force that he believes is sufficient to save his life in the circumstance. That’s real broad and open. And so we have two pieces of legislation that we’re going to be offering on a federal level: You need to put a definition to what constitutes excessive force, and there needs to be required training in these departments to deal with that issue. Number two, there needs to be a definition and some limitations put on when you can elevate force, and what kind of force that can be elevated to. rn&r: What kinds of authority should oversight boards have?

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eyre: I think that each individual has a right to govern themselves, and everybody should have an inherent right of pursuing their happiness so long as they respect each other’s ability to do the same, and if there’s a damage to a person or property caused, then I think that the aggressor should be held accountable. We’re talking about an institution that has a monopoly on violence—it’s institutionalized violence—and the thing each of us have tried to focus on is to try to minimize that from happening. If that’s, in fact, the case, then it seems to me that we should try to deconstruct, de-legitimize the bad ideas that allow for that institutionalized violence.

Meanes: I think there has to be some either ordinance passed by the city or there has to be some state ordinance that gives it some power because if all it’s doing is rendering opinion that has no impact on either termination or hiring of officers or helping to set standards, then it’s just going to be a board that issues a feel-good opinion. There has to be some legislative action either done by the municipality, by the county or by the state.

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municipality because that’s really what’s it’s going to bind it, or there has to be some piece of federal legislation. In places that do have oversight, a lot of individuals, prosecutors too, were saying that the state oversight boards are good but some of the real issue is whether or not you can get access to information, whether or not they have teeth, whether or not whatever recommendations they’re making really have any bearing on anything, or is it just some committee that’s created to issue opinion, but there’s nothing done with anything that they do.

Buchner: I would just restate what I’ve said earlier.

One, we wouldn’t say that it should look one way or should have a certain authority but that it should reflect the needs of the community. Then also I would say that it’s important to consider this evolution of oversight beyond just a complaint-driven or disciplinary-driven model.

Oversight really should include a more proactive focus and look at organizational change, systematic change and really looking at training, look at management supervision practices and really look at all aspects of the operations of the law enforcement

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agency. And so I think I would just say that oversight should be flexible enough to be able to look beyond just a narrow slice of the police department but should have broad authority over the agency itself.

Taylor: Major systemic change is needed. It is hard to answer that question because authority is tricky. You give a bunch of people authority, and then they might misuse it. What I was saying about teeth, though, is it’s really not any good to give recommendations that are just ignored. So certain things that oversight boards would come up with, like, let’s say they wanted to modify use-of-force policies within a department, then their recommendations would have to be adopted. It wouldn’t be like, “OK, thank you for your report. We’ll keep that into consideration.” That doesn’t do anything for anybody. That’s just the way for the police to deflect responsibilities. I think that if we’re going to create these things, they have to be able to have some meaningful effect. Ω

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Joanna Dunlap cos plays as Toothless The Dragon from “How To Train Your Dragon”

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aptain America, Daenerys Targaryen and Sailor Moon are all hanging around the drink table. Either you’re waiting for a punchline, or you’ve just found a room full of cosplayers.

Cosplay participants dress as their favorite characters, in either homemade or purchased costumes, with the option of adopting their mannerisms and life story to enhance the role.

It’s more than a year-round bout of Halloween tomfoolery. Cosplay is a performance art form, with the best portrayals fashioned with a delicate balance of dramatic interpretation, an exhaustive knowledge of the character’s idiosyncrasies, and frequently, a strong acquaintance with the “DIY & Crafts” section on Pinterest.

Some cosplayers spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars to create their dream costume (or commission someone to do it for them). Yet others spend more time than money, armed with sewing machines, glue guns or papier-mâché.

While anime, comic book, and video game icons like Naruto and Zelda are always popular choices, there’s also a broad array of movie, television and book idols like Tyrion

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Lannister of Game of Thrones, and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games trilogy to select from.

For many cosplayers, the immersion aspect is equally as important as the fashion.

“I remember I went to a [convention] in Sacramento, and I found a girl dressed as one of my favorite characters,” said Shaolin Gates, a Reno cosplayer. “I asked her about herself, but she wouldn’t break character. It was startling to not make a human connection, but it was also incredibly engaging.”

The term cosplay is a hybrid of the words costume and play, coined in 1984 in a Japanese anime magazine. Cosplay is most prevalent in Asia, where it has sparked trends, like themed cafés and street fashion in Japan. It’s also become a global phenomenon. Cosplay has spread to the far corners of the Earth, providing ample opportunities to connect with other participants and display one’s work in competitions, reality television and game shows.

But the biggest confluence of cosplayers most often appears in conventions. Some conventions, or cons for short, are geared toward

cosplayers specifically, like Cosplay Mania held in the Phillipines or Italy’s Ravenna Cosplay festival. Other cons, like Australia’s Supanova Pop Culture Expo and Animecon in Finland, advertise for broader audiences, but still pull in a strong group of costume fanatics.

While the culture of cosplay may not be as pervasive on the Western Hemisphere, that’s not to say it doesn’t exist in the U.S.. There are over 200 recognized comic, pop culture, anime and other conventions of various sizes taking place throughout the year, that draw in hundreds of thousands of people.

The largest convention in the U.S. is Comic-Con International, held annually in San Diego, which combines over 100,000 actors, authors, artists, and fans alike. With such an influx of attendees, many of whom donned in the outfits of beloved heroes and villains, San Diego hosts cosplayers beyond the bounds of the event. Gabrielle Batista, a San Diego native, attributes the lack of this phenomena in Reno as the reason for the modest cosplay community in the Northern Nevada area.

“I definitely think cosplay is not as popular here because there’s a lot less exposure to it,” said Batista.

“In San Diego during Comic-Con, cosplay is really prevalent, especially in the downtown area. There, you’ll see people taking a break from the convention, or grabbing a bite to eat.”

cosplay With fire Nonetheless, cosplay in Reno is growing. Even though the size of the community is still relatively small in comparison to cities like San Diego, the Reno cosplay culture is a rich microcosm of the progressive social campaigns that the broad community of cosplayers is perceptively championing.

Although there will always be naysayers, cosplay locally has fostered some relatively forward-thinking attitudes. With the necessity of conforming to racial, physical or gender standards of a character gradually diminishing, cosplayers in Reno can find an environment more open to racial equality, diverse body images and fluidity of gender roles.

Along with these triumphs comes Reno’s cosplayers with a fierce attitude against the objectification of its participants.

As to be expected, there is a subset of cosplay that focuses on the sex appeal of characters and the representation of that. But many cosplayers, especially female ones, have recognized a hyper-sexualized rendering of themselves by others, even while depicting protagonists who aren’t known for being inherently erotic, like a Na’vi from James Cameron’s film Avatar, or Zelda from The Legend of Zelda video games or Hermione from the Harry Potter series “There’s always a risk of someone groping you,” said Batista. “I was wearing a pretty conservative cosplay costume and an older guy just grabbed my butt. I was like, ‘Whoa!’ It was definitely not OK.” In Reno however, the broad consensus is that no matter how scantily you are or aren’t clad, unwarranted advances are just that—unwarranted.

“Cosplay does not ever equal consent,” says Joanna Dunlap, a Reno local who’s been cosplaying for upwards of 10 years.

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and meet the people behind the heroes that inspired him.

“I’m going as Ash, the leading role from Sam Raimi’s cult-classic The Evil Dead franchise,” said Wu. “The actor who played him, Bruce Campbell will be there. I am on the edge of losing my mind over that, but not before I perfect my chainsaw.”

Outside of conventions, Reno offers a multitude of opportunities for cosplayers to meet, perform and share DIY war stories.

Clubs like Otaku UNR at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Reno Video Game Orchestra aren’t tailored to cosplay. But with several members of each being cosplayers themselves, both groups offer experiences to glimpse into the art form from different ends of the spectrum, from anime to video games.

There are also local Facebook groups, like Reno Cosplay, Cosplay Family, and Reno Cosplay Crafts and Sewing that let you converge with others on a broader scale.

Needless to say, cosplay in Reno offers the chance to explore a theatrical artistry in a tolerant, enthusiastic enclave. Ω

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It’s this kind of positive approach that allows cosplayers to feel safe and secure as the community develops and expends.

Many of the conventions in Reno that bring cosplayers out of the woodworks in Reno are homegrown initiatives organized by local groups, like the Games, Arts, and Music Entertainment Expo that’s held in the summer and hosted by the Reno Video Game Symphony, and the Reno Comic-Con put on by the Sands Regency Casino earlier this fall. Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite, or S.N.A.F.U. will be held at the Grand Sierra Resort on the last weekend of October.

Along with the events created locally, Reno will host one of its biggest national conventions yet. For the weekend of Nov. 21-23, Wizard World’s Reno Comic-Con will hit the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

It marks the first time that Wizard World, a company whose productions unite pop culture icons and enthusiasts, has reached Nevada.

For some like Elliot Wu, who has been cosplaying for two years now, the Wizard World convention gives an opportunity to flaunt his hard work

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Eric Brooks Eric Brooks is probably better known locally as an arts advocate than as an artist. He by curates a few different alternative Brad Bynum gallery spaces in town, including the monthly art shows in both locations bradb@ news review.c om of The Hub coffee shop, and in the bars Singer Social Club and Monolith.

He organizes the monthly Art Walk Reno event of related art openings on the first Thursday of every month and is involved with the Art Spot Reno website. He also won the RN&R’s Eric Brooks’ until poetry contest last spring.

We Say Farewell, I “This next year I’m going to make a Will Lie to you Every push to be known more as an artist and day, Because I Love less for promoting and stuff,” he said you is on display recently. at the Generator, 1240 Icehouse drive, A retrospective of some his artwork Sparks, with a closing is currently on display at The Generator reception on thursday, gallery in Sparks. The show is titled oct. 30, beginning at 6 Until We Say Farewell, I Will Lie to p.m. For more information, visit You Every Day, Because I Love You. therenogenerator.com.

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beginning with works that date back to 2001 and 2002 and ending with a stillin-progress painting. There are a couple of assemblage sculptures—wood and animal skulls—but most of the works are mixed-media paintings. He uses oil and acrylic paints, with solvents between layers.

Fortunately, for an exhibition that traces an artist’s development, the more recent work seems like the strongest.

The earlier paintings, more than a decade old, seem a bit muddy compared to Brooks’ recent pieces.

“In my mind, it’s interesting to see the progression of an artist,” he said.

In fact, this exhibition, for him, is partly a way to say “farewell” to old approaches to art-making while embarking in some new directions. His more recent work is focused on what he calls “architectural landscapes,” paintings that are vaguely, loosely bird’s eye views of the tops of buildings, but primarily abstract explorations of color palettes and geometric forms.

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“Big picture, I want people to look at it and think, ‘That makes me feel good,’” he said.

The in-progress painting that anchors the show is a self portrait—as yet untitled, though it will eventually have a long, wordy title. Brooks will be in the gallery working on the painting throughout the run of the exhibition.

He said he’ll be in and out, but will keep regular hours on Monday evenings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday afternoons from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. At the closing reception for the exhibition,

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Brooks will sell off the 16-by-4-foot self-portrait by the inch, with a 6-inch minimum, and all proceeds benefiting The Generator art space.

“Interactive shows are always better,” he said.

“People can interact with me. They can paint on it if they want to.”

Brooks grew up in a religious household in rural Idaho, before his church “kicked him out” at age 28. He then worked as an artist and arts organizer in the Bay Area and Scotland before moving to Reno in 2012.

“Living in Reno has made me realize that I do have a passion for being an artist, and I’ve been floating by,” he said.

“I’d been really content with living with my mediocrity in San Francisco. And moving here and being around all these amazing artists and the environment that they’re all working in, and working together I thought, ‘Holy shit, I need to step my game up a lot.’” Ω

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Good, bad and ugly El Paisano Taquería y Pupusería 1290 E. Plumb Lane, 823-9914 I’ve enjoyed Mexican food since childhood, but didn’t discover the related-yetdifferent flavors of Central America by Todd South until the dawn of the new millennium.

There are now several restaurants serving a mix of Mexican and Salvadoran cuisine, and El Paisano, near the Reno Costco, serves some of the best pupusas and curtido I’ve ever had. Sadly, the rest of our experience was fraught with pitfalls, so let’s start with the good before we get to the bad and the ugly.

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Pupusas, a thick, stuffed corn tortilla, are made fresh to order, so you’ll have plenty of time to play with your phone or—gasp—have a conversation. We ordered two popular varieties, queso y loroco and revuelta ($1.89 each). The former is a mix of cheese and the buds of a flowering plant whose flavor has been described as “nutty artichoke,” which is close enough. Revuelta is a mix of cheese, beans and ground chicharrón (deep-fried pork belly). The pupusas were 50 percent larger than average, crispier than most, and super-stuffed with filling. Traditionally paired with curtido—a slightly fermented relish of shredded cabbage and veggies—the end result is a great combination if done right. Man, oh man, these were right as rain.

We then enjoyed another Salvadoran favorite, yuca frita ($5.49), a plate of deep-fried cassava root and chicharrón chunks that can’t possibly be good for you. Nothing says “bring on the heart attack” like enormous, fried starch strips and extra-fatty pork.

Worth it.

Chicken tamal ($2) is similar in construction to a Mexican tamale, but the texture is much more gelatinous.

Perhaps steaming in a banana leaf rather than corn husk is responsible.

The masa dough was filled with shredded chicken, red potato and— likely canned—green beans, with an overall flavor reminiscent of a supermarket pot pie. Not my cup of tea.

With only five Salvadoran items on the menu, the place is more taquería than anything else, complete with standard Mexican restaurant decor. It’s family-style to the max, with a playpen full of toys for the niños and no cerveza en la casa.

A decent salsa bar is stocked with housemade relishes and sauces, with housemade chips available at the counter. Sadly, their crispy goodness is ruined by having been smashed into little shards that can barely hold dip.

An intact crispy tortilla was the best part of my tostada de ceviche ($3.50), as there was really no flavor to speak of in the fish topping.

The shredded beef chimichanga ($6.99) with refried beans and rice was pretty good, although the filling was overloaded with cinnamon. The tortilla was lightly crisped, topped with thin sour cream and a sprinkle of queso cotija. The rice and beans were average, but adding chunky salsa livened things up.

The veggies in my wife’s chicken fajitas ($9.99) were fresh and tasty, with appropriate seasoning, chunky guacamole and thick, handmade corn tortillas. How then to explain spongy, oddly uniform, chicken-esque strips of “meat”? We agreed it tasted like processed frozen chicken, akin to that of a fast-food grilled chicken sandwich. Awful texture and flavor; my wife couldn’t finish her meal.

Possibly from the same freezer came a chicken enchilada I ordered a la carte ($1.59), resembling something from a TV dinner. The thin tortilla, thin sauce, and scrap of shredded cheese bore no resemblance to a homemade enchilada. So that’s the good and the bad, but I promised ugly.

The chile relleno combo ($8.99) was bizarrely difficult to look at.

Two large, mild peppers were stuffed with queso fresco—so far so good.

But instead of egg-battered, crispy goodness with a side of spicy sauce, the entire plate was slathered in a murder scene of bland tomato puree.

Once I got to the cheese and added some hot sauce, it was edible-yetdisappointing. I’ll definitely be back for the great pupusas and yuca frita, but the rest of the menu is a minefield I won’t tread again. Ω

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The Judge The prospect of Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall sharing a movie together is, in a word, awesome. So what does director David Dobkin—with Downey as producer—do with such an opportunity?

He gives us a movie so cliché-ridden that the occasional inspired moments scream out at us like a lost puppy yelping while being by swarmed by rabid bats.

Bob Grimm Downey plays Hank Palmer, one of those typical movie lawyers who gets bad guys bgrimm@ newsre view.c om sprung free in Chicago and pisses, literally and figuratively, on lawyers trying to put bad men in jail. Just before he gets another baddie off the hook, a call comes in from home. It turns out his mom died while tending to her flowers, so Hank is off to his hometown for the funeral. In that hometown is his lousy dad, Joseph (Duvall), the town judge and major league prick.

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Wouldn’t you know it? It turns out Hank’s hometown is the absolute opposite of Chicago. It’s one of those rural, country paradises that the protagonist despises but we, the viewer, can see is a pretty darned nice place, especially if you like fishing trips, bike rides and hot bartenders who are willing to sleep with you. You just feel terrible for a guy who has to go to a place like that, right?

Hank hates his dad. Oh boy, oh boy, does he hate him. Joseph hates his son. Gee willikers, does he hate that little son of a bitch. The reasons for their mutual hatred are slowly revealed, and not a one of those reasons comes as a surprise.

Hank does the funeral, and is all ready to bolt and go deal with his newly developing divorce when he gets called back to town.

Turns out dad’s Cadillac and, consequently, dad are being investigated in a possibly intentional vehicular homicide.

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You know what this means? Court drama! And because it involves a son defending his dad, it’s a family court drama!

And it is long. By god, at 141 freaking minutes, is it ever so horribly long.

Billy Bob Thornton plays the evil lawyer that Hank must face in court in defense of his dad. We know he is evil because he has a steel, collapsible cup that he drinks water out of, one that he snaps open and closed with a vengeance. Other cliché characters include the autistic brother who likes to film things, and the “Coulda Been Somebody!” brother (Vincent D’Onofrio) who lost a chance to be a baseball star when Hank got them into a car accident as a teen.

I would have to say the highlight of this movie is the scene where a sick Joseph shits himself in a futile attempt to make it to the toilet in time. Hank comes to his rescue, and we are treated to a scene where we not only see Robert Duvall covered in shit, but the gruesome aftermath when Hank cleans him off in the shower.

Dobkin adds a little humor to the crap shower scene, with Hank’s daughter outside the door doing a knock-knock joke.

You see, it’s funny because the kid doesn’t know that behind the door is her dad and granddad standing in a shower covered with shit. That’s some major hijinks right there.

So, this is a courtroom drama involving Billy Bob Thornton and his stupid cup, a disease-of-the-week movie involving rampant shitting, a romance because Hank gets it on with an ex (Vera Farmiga) and her daughter (I won’t go into that), a fish-out-of-water dramedy, a mystery about who done run somebody over and a little bit Rain Man due to the autistic brother angle.

It’s really unbelievable that so much talent threw down for The Judge. Downey was on Howard Stern recently, where he claimed that Duvall was a bit of a holdout, and didn’t really want to make the movie.

I’m guessing the opportunity to crap himself on screen and then get a nice shower from Iron Man must’ve sold him on the gig. Ω

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from Amy’s perspective, chronicled in her diary.

Then, at about the halfway point, the movie goes completely, wonderfully insane. For those unaware of the plot twist, my best advice to you is that you should accept it—even though it’s totally bug nuts—sit back, and enjoy the rest of this messed-up ride. Anybody who goes to this movie thinking they’re going to see something grounded in reality will be setting themselves up for disappointment. Gone Girl is nightmarish fantasy, a hyper-sensationalized “what-if” that thrives on its implausibility. Had this movie tried to stick closer to reality, it would’ve killed too much of the fun. Pike, a British actress perhaps known best for Jack Reacher, gets the role of a lifetime with Amy, and she devours it. Affleck shows what’s been true all along in his career: He’s a fine actor capable of great nuance and a movie star of the highest order.

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. 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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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.

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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 One I Love

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.)

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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 Skeleton Twins

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader take their respective careers to the next level in this film, with both spreading their dramatic wings and proving their talents go well 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 Lady and Stefon.

The movie should do a lot for both Hader and Wiig’s careers, and stands as one of the year’s best family dramas. The two play brotherand-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. His twin sister, Maggie (Wiig), had been 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 is heading to New York with his twin sis to lay low for a while. As Milo adjusts to life back on the east coast, Maggie conducts an affair with her scuba instructor.

Luke Wilson is sweet and funny as Maggie’s affable husband, and Ty Burrell is memorable as a man from Milo’s past. Wiig and Hader make for a very convincing onscreen brother and sister, something that’s surely the result of all those years they spent together on SNL.

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Gone Girl

David Fincher set out to make the nastiest, most poisonous movie about marriages gone bad ever made, and I think he succeeded. Fincher and Gillian Flynn, the author of the novel and screenplay, came up with a toxic cocktail, laced with dark humor, scabrous satire and blistering performances. On the day of his fifth anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) returns to his home after sulking at the bar he owns with his sister (a funny Carrie Coon) to discover his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), is missing. Nick calls the police and the in-laws, and quickly finds himself sucked up in a media circus that leaves him dazed and confused. His demeanor in public is a strange combination of a malaise and ill-timed smiles. Yeah … he’s a suspect. Through a series of narrated flashbacks, we hear the story of the Flynne marriage

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Cold weather Snowshoe Thompson The Norwegian lived and died in the snow. Soon, snow will fall over his grave in Genoa. He had made his name in by Kent Irwin winter weather, to the point where his legend parted from the reality of his life. They called him Snowshoe Thompson, even though he never wore a snowshoe. Instead, the early settler of Sierra Nevada named John Albert Thompson rode on skis like his ancestors had for generations.

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Storytellers: Brandon Robbins, Shawn Neff and Harrison Proulx are Snowshoe Thompson.

None of the members of the band Snowshoe Thompson like to ski, nor are they substantially Norwegian in descent. Instead, singer and guitarist Brandon Robbins has idolized the man’s life story since he was a kid living in the Virginia City foothills.

Robbins’ life shaped his love and respect for the Great Basin’s natural beauty.

“We weren’t exactly roughing it,” Robbins recalled. “But it was the kind of place where we had to cut wood every winter to stay warm.”

Snowshoe Thompson’s bassist Harrison Proulx—who shares a distant relationship to author Annie Proulx—has experience in both urban and rural settings. A particular moment of saturation came when he was working a job making deliveries around Lake Tahoe. On one particular morning, he came across Emerald Bay just as the sun was rising.

“It was the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen,” said Proulx.

“Growing up here, you don’t really know that it’s famous around the world,” offered guitarist Shawn Neff. “I told a guy from Italy that I was from Reno, and he said, ‘That’s close to Lake Tahoe, right?’”

“Everyone knows Tahoe,” agreed Proulx.

For more information, visit snowshoe thompson. bandcamp.com.

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Snowshoe Thompson is inspired by, but not fixated upon the beauty of the Sierra Nevada. Many of their lyrics deal with a different sort of cold—the kind that settles into relationships over time. In “Casual,” Harrison laments the lack of sincerity in modern relationships. He says the song was inspired by a girl who called him looking for momentary release, when he wanted to get to know her.

“Sometimes people are just looking for a warm bed,” said Proulx.

Another song, titled “How Do I Love?” was inspired by an experience with the band Future Islands. Fans of that band might know that, during their live set, they deliberately look audience members in the eyes and ask, “Do you believe in love?” This happened to Proulx, who says that the lead singer even bothered to track him down after the show to ask again. He wrote the song as a response to this question, which, at the time, he felt too on the spot to answer.

Snowshoe Thompson has already worked up an impressive catalog, considering the band formed in May. The two demo songs on their Bandcamp page, “Casual” and “See Green,” were posted mainly to help the band booked shows. Now that they’ve played live, the members agree that they’d like to hone their craft before taking it out again.

“Hopefully, people won’t get tired of us,” said Robbins.

Snowshoe Thompson, the man, created a legacy that people haven’t yet tired of retelling. Robbins excitedly tells how the man fought in the Pyramid Lake Indian War, rescued people in the mountains, and may have crossed paths with Samuel Clemens. What does Snowshoe Thompson, the band, hope their legacy will be?

“Hopefully we’ll show up on VH1, and people will say, ‘Snowshoe Thompson, they were pretty cool,’” said Neff.

“Yeah, then they’ll say, ‘What else is on?’” laughed Proulx.

With any luck, Snowshoe Thompson will inspire people to tell their story, the way others have inspired them. Maybe they won’t even have to die painfully to get there. Ω

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3RD STREET STREET 3RD

THURSDAY THURSDAY 10/16 10/16

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

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

55 STAR STAR SALOON SALOON

Karaoke, Karaoke, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover

132 132 West West St., St., (775) (775) 329-2878 329-2878

AA TO TO ZEN ZEN GIFTS GIFTS & & THRIFT THRIFT

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

Mastodon Mastodon

Oct. Oct. 16, 16, 7:30 7:30 p.m. p.m.

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

Man Man Downstream, Downstream, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, $TBA $TBA

SUNDAY SUNDAY 10/19 10/19

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/20-10/22 10/20-10/22 DG DG Kicks, Kicks, 9pm, 9pm, Tu, Tu, no no cover cover

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

Open Open Mic Mic w/Steve w/Steve Elegant, Elegant, 7pm, 7pm, Tu, Tu, no no cover cover Karaoke, Karaoke, 10pm, 10pm, Tu, Tu, W, W, no no cover cover

The The Shell Shell Corporation, Corporation, 8pm, 8pm, $TBA $TBA

Ol’ Ol’ Goat, Goat, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, $5 $5

BAR-M-BAR BAR-M-BAR

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

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

CBQ CBQ

1330 1330 Scheels Scheels Dr., Dr., Sparks; Sparks; (775) (775) 359-1109 359-1109

Karaoke Karaoke with with Ernesto, Ernesto, 9pm, no no cover 9pm, cover

Jason Jason King King Duo, Duo, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

CEOL CEOL IRISH IRISH PUB PUB

Keith Keith Shannon Shannon & & Joe Joe Bly, Bly, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Neil Neil O’Kane, O’Kane, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Good Good Friday Friday with with rotating rotating DJs, DJs, 10pm, 10pm, no no cover cover

Oktoberfest Oktoberfest celebration, celebration, 5pm, 5pm, $60-$70 $60-$70

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

CHAPEL CHAPEL TAVERN TAVERN

Comedy

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

3rd 3rd Street, Street, 125 125 W. W. Third Third St., St., 323-5005: 323-5005: Comedy Comedy Night Night & & Improv Improv w/Patrick w/Patrick Shillito, Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover W, 9pm, no cover Catch aa Rising Rising Star, Star, Silver Silver Legacy, Legacy, 407 407 N. N. Catch Virginia St., St., 329-4777: 329-4777: Jimmy Jimmy Della Della Valle, Valle, Virginia Th, Su, Su, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, $15.95; $15.95; F,F, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, 10pm, 10pm, Th, $15.95; Sa, Sa, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, 10pm, 10pm, $17.95; $17.95; $15.95; TBA, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95 TBA, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95

DAVIDSON’S DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY DISTILLERY

The The Improv Improv at at Harveys Harveys Cabaret, Cabaret, Harveys Harveys Lake Lake Tahoe, Tahoe, Stateline, Stateline, (800) (800) 553-1022: 553-1022: Jack Gallagher, Marc Price, Th, Th-F, Jack Gallagher, Marc Price, Th, Th-F, Su, Su, 9pm, 9pm, $25; $25; Sa, Sa, 8pm, 8pm, 10pm, 10pm, $30, $30, John John Henton, Henton, Aida Rodriguez, W, 9pm, $25 Aida Rodriguez, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy Comedy at at Pioneer Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Underground, Underground, 100 100 S. S. Virginia Virginia St., St., 686-6600: Darin Talbot: Who’s Song Song Is Is ItIt 686-6600: Darin Talbot: Who’s , F, 6pm; Steve Trevino, F, 8:30pm, Anyway?

Anyway?, F, 6pm; Steve Trevino, F, 8:30pm, Sa, Sa, 6:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, $13-$16 $13-$16

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

SATURDAY SATURDAY 10/18 10/18 Save Save The The Music Music Benefit Benefit for for Dean Dean Brownell, Brownell, 8pm, 8pm, $5 $5 donation donation

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

1801 1801 N. N. Carson Carson St., St., Carson Carson City; City; (775) (775) 461-3311 461-3311

THE THE ALLEY ALLEY

FRIDAY FRIDAY 10/17 10/17

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

COMMA COMMA COFFEE COFFEE

World World Dance Dance Open Open Floor, Floor, 8pm, no no cover 8pm, cover

312 312 S. S. Carson Carson St., St., Carson Carson City; City; (775) (775) 883-2662 883-2662 275 275 E. E. Fourth Fourth St., St., (775) (775) 324-1917 324-1917

EL EL CORTEZ CORTEZ LOUNGE LOUNGE

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

Karaoke Karaoke with with Lisa Lisa Lisa, Lisa, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Dirk Dirk Spaldo Spaldo and and the the SuperNatural SuperNatural Heroes, Heroes, 11*11, 11*11, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, no no cover cover

Dead Dead Keno Keno Chamber Chamber Trio, Trio, 9:30pm, 9:30pm, no no cover cover

Karaoke Karaoke with with Lisa Lisa Lisa, Lisa, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Karaoke Karaoke with with Miss Miss Amanda, Amanda, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Rock Rock River, River, 3pm, 3pm, no no cover cover

P Po ost st sh sho ow ws so on nlin line eb re by y reg gis iste g teri a tt rin n g a ww ww .n w e w sre w.newsr ev vie iew w.c .co /r om m /re en a no d o.. D line De e a is d th lin e e is Fr th id e ay be Friday b efo re fore p pu ub on blic n.. lica ati tio Karaoke Karaoke with with Lisa Lisa Lisa, Lisa, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

ELEVENTH ELEVENTH FRAME FRAME WINNER’S WINNER’S LOUNGE LOUNGE FOODIES FOODIES BYSTRO BYSTRO

Tom Tom and and Mary Mary Kay Kay Aufrance, Aufrance, 6:30pm, 6:30pm, no no cover cover

FUEGO FUEGO

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

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

THE THE GRID GRID BAR BAR & & GRILL GRILL

Karaoke Karaoke w/Andrew, w/Andrew, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

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

HARRY’S HARRY’S SPORTS SPORTS BAR BAR & & GRILL GRILL

DJ DJ and and karaoke, karaoke, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

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

HELLFIRE HELLFIRE SALOON SALOON

9825 9825 S. S. Virginia Virginia St., St., (775) (775) 622-8878 622-8878

CW CW and and Mr. Mr. Spoons, Spoons, noon, noon, M, M, no no cover cover Karaoke Karaoke w/Nitesong w/Nitesong Productions, Productions, 9pm, 9pm, Tu, Tu, Open Open Mic/Ladies Mic/Ladies Night, Night, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, W, W, no no cover cover Karaoke Karaoke w/Lisa w/Lisa Lisa, Lisa, 9pm, 9pm, M, M, w/Miss w/Miss Sophie, Sophie, 9pm, 9pm, Tu, Tu, w/Miss w/Miss Amanda, Amanda, 9pm, 9pm, W, W, no no cover cover Whiskey Whiskey Tango, Tango, The The Refiners, Refiners, 8pm, 8pm, M, M, $5 $5

4600 4600 Snyder Snyder Ave., Ave., Carson Carson City; City; (775) (775) 883-2606 883-2606 449 449 W. W. King King St., St., Carson Carson City; City; (775) (775) 720-8011 720-8011

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

Million Million Dollar Dollar Giveaway, Giveaway, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, no no cover cover

John John Dawson Dawson Band, Band, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover

Bass Bass Heavy, Heavy, 9pm, 9pm, W, W, $TBA $TBA

Open Open mic, mic, 7pm, 7pm, no no cover cover Goin Goin Country, Country, 8pm, 8pm, W, W, no no cover cover

american & latin music for all occasions 775.412.8873 info@josethedj.com www.josethedj.com

THESE DON’T MIX THES Think you know your limits? Think again.

If you drink, don’t drive. Period.

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

THURSDAY THURSDAY 10/16 10/16

FRIDAY FRIDAY 10/17 10/17

SATURDAY SATURDAY 10/18 10/18

SUNDAY SUNDAY 10/19 10/19

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/20-10/22 10/20-10/22

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

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

THE THE HOLLAND HOLLAND PROJECT PROJECT 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Roger Sellers, Life Alert, Cad Bane, Roger$5Sellers, Life Alert, Cad Bane, 8pm, 8pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Into It Over It, Clemency, Up Is the Down It Over Up Is the Down IsInto The, 8pm,It,Tu,Clemency, $5 Is The, 8pm, Tu, $5

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

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

JUB JUB JUB’S JUB’S THIRST THIRST PARLOR PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

1) The Chop Tops, Mary Jane Rocket, 1) The Chop Tops, Mary Jane Rocket, Los Pistoleros, Whitebulbs, 7pm, Tu, $8-$12 LosBlazin Pistoleros, Whitebulbs, 2) Mics!, 10pm, M, no 7pm, coverTu, $8-$12 2) Blazin Mics!, 10pm, M, no cover

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

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

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

Comedy Night: Kaseem Bentley, Comedy $6 Night: Kaseem Bentley, 8:30pm, 8:30pm, $6

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

PADDY PADDY & & IRENE’S IRENE’S IRISH IRISH PUB PUB 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484

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

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

Rigorous Proof, 8pm, $5 Rigorous Proof, 8pm, $5

Demon Hunter, 8pm, Tu, $15-$30 Demon Hunter, 8pm, Tu, $15-$30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RUBEN’S RUBEN’S CANTINA CANTINA 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

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

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

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

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

SE7EN SE7EN TEAHOUSE/BAR TEAHOUSE/BAR 148 West St., (775) 284-3363

The The Chop Chop Tops Tops

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

148 West St., (775) 284-3363

Oct. 21, 8 p.m.

Oct. 21, 8 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Demon Demon Hunter Hunter

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

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

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO STUDIO ON ON 4TH 4TH 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

Pre-Halloween Party, Pre-Halloween 8pm, no cover Party, 8pm, no cover

Martin Howls Corbitt, 8pm, $5 Martin Howls Corbitt, 8pm, $5

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

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

VASSAR VASSAR LOUNGE LOUNGE 1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197

Whiskey Tango, The Refiners, Whiskey Tango, The Refiners, 8pm, Tu, $5 8pm, Tu, $5

Karaoke w/Rock N’J Entertainment, Karaoke w/Rock N’J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197

Oct. 21, 7 p.m.

Oct. 21, 7 p.m.

Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor 71 S. Wells Ave. 71 S. Wells Ave. 384-1652 384-1652

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

Koolwater Karaoke, 7pm, W, no cover Koolwater Karaoke, 7pm, W, no cover Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover

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

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

1) The Writer’s Block Open Mic, 1) The Writer’s Block OpenDawn, Mic, 6:30pm, no cover 3) Red

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

6:30pm, no cover Dawn, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769 Di Carlo, 6pm,3)noRed cover 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret Jack 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret Jack Di Carlo, 6pm, no cover

1) Tex & Mary Carlson, 6pm Tu, 1) Tex & Mary Carlson, 6pmHour Tu, Open Wildflower Comedy Power Wildflower Power Hour Open Mic, 8:30pm,Comedy Tu, no cover Mic, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

2) Jam with Jack Di Carlo and Red 2) Jam5pm, with no Jack Di Carlo and Red Dawn, cover Dawn, 5pm, no cover

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Celebrate the sesquicentennial in high fashion in Virginia City.

Enjoy activities throughout the day, culminating with the Nevada 150 Masquerade Ball at the historic Piper’s Opera House.

Schedule of Events

12-5:30pm: Artist Showcase and Music 3-5pm: Portrait Unveiling Ceremony & Reception 5:15-8:15pm: Halloween Express on the V&T Railroad 5:30pm: Virginia City Statehood Parade After the Parade: Safe Trick or Treat 7pm: Nevada 150 Masquerade Ball

For More Information Visit NV150Ball.com

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

THURSDAY 10/16

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SATURDAY 10/18

SUNDAY 10/19

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/20-10/22

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 4pm, Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 4pm, Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Blues Monsters, 8pm, no cover

2) Blues Monsters, 8pm, no cover

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Dirty Heads with Rome Oct. 17, 8:30 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

Karaoke Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: Th, 7pm, no cover Hangar Bar, 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead, 677-7088: Karaoke Kat, Sa, 9pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Steve Starr Karaoke, F, 9pm, no cover Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Virginia City, 847-7210: Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, F, 7:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

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

1) Spectra, 7pm, $25.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

1) Mastodon, 7:30pm, $27.50 2) Locals Night w/DJ 2Wice, 10pm, no cover w/local ID; $15 after midnight

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 4) Cantina 15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Two Kings, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

JA NUGGET

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 Midnight Riders, 7pm, no cover 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Rose Ballroom 3) Gilley’s

MONTBLEU RESORT

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

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

2) Josh Pfeiffer Orchestra, 6pm, no cover 2) Bonzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia,

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

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1) Dirty Heads with Rome, Forrest Day, 8:30pm, $25-$30

2) Grant Farm, 10pm, no cover

1) Spectra, 7pm, $25.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Spectra, 7pm, 9:30pm, $25.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Spectra, 7pm, $25.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

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

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n e va Da 15 0 t h B i R t h D ay & F e s t i va l o F D i W a l i Traditional Association for Cultural Harmony (TACH) celebrates Nevada’s sesquicentennial and the Hindu festival Diwali with a concert featuring classical Indian music and dance.

Chakrapani Singh will play the kachappi veena accompanied by Ravi Pandita on violin, Danny Birch on sarod, and Peter Fairley and Jim Meiklejohn on tabla. Dancer Anindita Nanda will also perform the Odissi form of classical Indian dance. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Laxalt Auditorium in the Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St. Tickets are $10 for adults, $25 for families (parents with two children) and $5 for seniors and students. Call 336-9733 or visit www.tach.info.

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Get into the Halloween spirit with two walking tours this week. Truckee’s Historical Haunted Tour features seven haunts and more than two dozen performers. The stops on the adults-only Historical Haunted Tour include Bluestone Jewelry, LaGalleria and Tahoe Oil & Spice, BeSpoke, the Railroad Depot, Masonic Lodge 200 and the Truckee Hotel. The walking tour takes place on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 16-17, starting at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person. Visit www.truckeehistorytour.org. The 22nd Carson City Ghost Walk offers guided walking tours of the downtown district’s west side historic homes and businesses. This year’s event includes two tour paths: the 90-minute Widow’s Walk and the 50-minute Mini Waif Walk. The Widow’s Walk features five home tours and costumed actors portraying widows Margaret Ormsby, Mary Curry, Elizabeth Bliss and others from Carson City’s past. The Mini Waif Walk is a shorter walk through downtown created for kids and families, which includes trick or treating and two home tours. Costumes are welcome. There will be photo opportunities, tables, psychics and Ghost Walk merchandise for sale. The tours depart from the Firkin & Fox Pub on Third and Curry streets, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. Tickets $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the event. Visit http://carsoncityghostwalk.com.

G R e at m ay c e n t e R pum pkin Walk The third annual event features hundreds of hand-carved pumpkins glowing throughout the Wilbur D. May Museum & Arboretum and outdoors along an extended path. Kids are invited to wear costumes and trick or treat during the walk. Hot chocolate, cider and other refreshments will be available for purchase at the end of the route. The fun begins at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the May Center at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. Tickets are $5 per person.

Call 785-5961 or visit www.maycenter.com.

Reno DecompRession Burning Man was less than two months ago, but locals Burners seeking to recapture the energy and spirit of the event will come together this weekend for Reno Decompression. The eighth annual post-Burning Man gathering features some of the best things Burning Man has to offer: art installations, mutant vehicles, theme camps, fire arts, performers, bands and DJs. All net proceeds will be redistributed back into the community as charitable donations and/or art grants. The party gets started at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Bodega, 555 E. Fourth St., and outside the venue at Scrapyard Alley and Elko Street. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Visit www.renoburners.org.

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Itʼs happen ing in ACTIVITIES SCHEELS LADIES MONTH: FASHION FEVER

Please join us for the 2nd annual Scheels Ladies Month: Fashion Fever, which will feature Scarf Tying, Denim Fitting, Accessorizing Tips, and a Denim Drive to benefit STEP2 in Reno. Th, 10/16, 4-6PM, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr.(775) 331-2700

HARVEST FESTIVAL & CRAFT FAIR

Fun for the whole family! The craft fair will feature 45 booths with local artisans and crafters and will include holiday gifts, jewelry, soaps and and lotions, woodworking, handmade baskets, gourds, quilts, hand sewn items and much more. In addition to the craft fair, there will be the annual Pumpkin Patch with over 1000 premium pumpkins for sale, an indoor food court and children’s activities.

F, 10/17, 9:30AM-6PM and Sa, 10/18, 9:30AM-6PM, free. Sparks United Methodist Church, 1231 Pyramid Way, Sparks, NV 89431 / (775) 358-0925

ULTRA4 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2014

King of the Hammers cars return to Reno! ULTRA4 Racing returns for the 2014 Nitto Tire National Championship the weekend of Oct. 1718. More than 90 vehicles in five classes are committed to racing in the championship at Wild West Motorsports Park. The 2014 ULTRA4 annual awards banquet will be held at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa immediately following the race. F, 10/17, 8AM and Sa, 10/18, 8AM6PM, $25-$85. Wild West Motorsports Park, 12005 East Interstate 80 (775) 323-2977

NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY DOGTOBERFEST

Are you ready to adopt a homeless cat or dog and give them a second chance? Nevada Humane Society is hosting DOGtoberfest on October 17 through 19 as part of the ASPCA’s Mega Match-a-thon weekend presented by Subaru, and they would love to match YOU up with the perfect four-legged friend. Who will you take home? To learn more, please visit NevadaHumaneSociety.org F, 10/17, 11AM-4PM, Sa, 10/18, 11AM4PM and Su, 10/19, 11AM-4PM No fee to attend. Outlets at Sparks, 1310 Scheels Dr. (775) 358-3800

SCHEELS: GET OUT MORE WINTER TOUR

The Get Out More Winter Tour collaborates with specialty outdoor retailers who share the same education and outreach ethic with their customers.

At each retail stop, the Get Out More Tour brings the pages of Backpacker Magazine to life with a 75-minute seminar on trip planning, choosing the right outdoor gear and apparel, safety in the outdoors and more. F, 10/17, 6PM, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr.(775) 331-2700

PUMPKIN PAINTING

Come make your own silly or scary pumpkin to decorate your house. Fun for the whole family. Please RSVP. Sa, 10/18, 10AM-2PM and Su, 10/19,

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10AM-2PM, $7 per pumpkin; all other supplies included. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way (775) 355-1551

Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800

Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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W, 8PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

Presented by Pawl Hollis. Learn the ins and outs of making and using hoop houses. This is a hands-on demonstration. Sa, 10/18, 11AM, Class is free, but a donation of a can of food for the local food bank is appreciated. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way (775) 355-1551

SCHEELS LADIES MONTH: SAFELY HOUR

Don’t be the victim of a home invasion or sexual assault! Arm yourself with knowledge and power, and then pass it on to every woman you know!

Th, 10/23, 6-7PM, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700

RENO SKI & RECREATION CLUB

The Reno Ski and Recreation Club holds its general meeting. Hear the most current information about the Reno Ski & Recreation Club, upcoming trips and activities. The group meets the second Tuesday of each month. For socializing and dinner, members start arriving around 6PM. Meeting begins at 7PM. Second Tu of every month, 6PM, free.

Cantina Los Tres Hombres, 926 Victorian Ave. (775) 356-6262

CARMAN LIVE IN CONCERT

The NO PLAN B Tour featuring CARMAN is coming to the Reno Area! Join us for a great night of worship and praise at The Rock Church of Sparks.

Doors open at 6pm, worship starts at 7pm.

Th, 10/16, 7PM, $18-$25. The Rock Church, 4950 Vista Blvd. (775) 355-7888

Sa, 10/18, 9PM, no cover. CBQ, 1330 Scheels Dr. (775) 359-1109

Live music with late-night DJ. F, 5PM-2AM & 7-11PM through 12/26, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

ROCK RIVER DUO

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Su, 10/19, 3PM, no cover. CBQ, 1330 Scheels Dr. (775) 359-1109

ACOUSTIC WONDERLAND

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CONVERSATION CAFE

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

FOOD TRUCK DRIVE-IN

Food Truck Drive-In comes to Victorian Square on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month through October. 5PM to 9PM. Enjoy the finest in mobile cuisine including Hawaiian fusion, desserts, hot dogs, pulled pork nachos and much more! After dinner, head to Saint Mary’s Ampitheater for a free movie at 8PM. Next week’s movie (October 25) is Ghostbusters.

Victorian Square, Victorian Ave, free.

CLICKETS KNITTING GROUP

This class is for knitters of all ages and levels. Yarn and needles are available. First and Third Su of every month, 1:30-3PM, free. Spanish

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The book club meets the first Saturday of each month. Call to find out each month’s book title. First Sa of every month, 1-2PM, free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. (775) 352-3200

Ladies Night w/live music and Toughest Cowboy Competition. DJ breaks until midnight. W, 7 & 9PM through 12/31, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 Bring yourself, your instrument and your song. We look forward to hearing and seeing you there! Th, 8PM through 12/18, no cover. Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, 906-A Victorian Ave. (775) 358-5484

W-Sa, 7PM through 10/18. Opens 10/15, no cover. JA Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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

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SCHEELS RUNNING CLUB

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

OPEN JAM WITH TAZER & FRIENDS

W-Sa, 7PM through 10/25. Opens 10/22, no cover. JA Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 This is a singer/song writer Showcase. Come down to Paddy’s and bring your acoustic instruments. Sign ups are at 7:30PM and music begins at 8PM. M-Su, 8PM. Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, 906-A Victorian Ave. (775) 358-5484

DJ RAZZ

Come dance the night away to DJ RAZZ! You can even karaoke if you like.

Ladies Night every Friday night. Drink Specials all night. F, 9PM. Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, 906-A Victorian Ave. (775) 358-5484

BIKINI BULL RIDING

DJ and Bikini Bull Riding Competition. Su, 5 & 9PM through 12/28, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

LOCALS NIGHT

Locals Night, DJ. M, 5PM through 12/29, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

LIVE MONDAYS WITH TANY JANE

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

CLASSIC ROCK NIGHT

Classic rock night with DJ. Tu, 5PM through 12/30, no cover. John

LIVE MUSIC & LATE NIGHT DJ

Live music with late-night DJ. Sa, 5PM-2AM & 7PM-midnight through 12/27, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 3563300

KARAOKE KARAOKE WITH ERNESTO

Great new karaoke venue in the Legends shopping center. You’re welcome to bring your own CD+G disc to play your songs (KJ discretion). Karaoke service by Ernesto representing Serano Entertainment. Show ends promptly at midnight, so come early to sing. Drop by and say hi, for those who know me from my karaoke events. I look forward to meeting new singers. F, 9PM through 10/24, no cover. CBQ, 1330 Scheels Dr. (775) 359-1109

KARAOKE COMES TO SIDELINES

Every Monday Night!!! M, 8PM. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

KARAOKE WITH BOBBY DEE

Tu, 8PM, no cover. Morelli’s G Street Saloon, 2285 G St. (775) 355-8281

KARAOKE

Th-Sa, 9PM, no cover. Bottom’s Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way (775) 359-3677

Think Free

Will onesies never cease?

My married friend just had a baby and posts what’s essentially the same “Look how cuuute!” shot on Facebook several times daily. Beyond finding this annoyingly boring, I’m 32 and unhappily single, and seeing all of her blissful pics is making me envious and resentful. Is it wrong to secretly block her photos? I feel it would be better for our friendship.

Like many new parents, your friend’s excitement may have led her to misplace her “Don’t be boring!” filter.

But as you’re feeling bliss-bombed, you might keep in mind that she’s sharing only the cute moments—her mini-vacations from the screaming and the sleeplessness, going online at 3 a.m. to play “Match That Rash,” and the endless analysis of the cut, color and clarity of baby diamonds—otherwise known as poo.

Sympathizing with your friend—and even working up to feeling happy for her—is actually in your self-interest.

In The How of Happiness, social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky wisely notes: “You can’t be envious and happy at the same time.” Though we rather automatically compare ourselves with others, Lyubomirsky’s research finds that the happiest people aren’t weighed down by others’ achievements. They take pleasure in others’ successes and appear to judge themselves by their own internal standards. Unhappy people, on the other hand, feel deflated by their peers’ accomplishments and relieved by their failures. They tend to be very focused on how much better others are doing, which causes them to feel “chronically vulnerable, threatened and insecure.”

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To become a happier person, start acting like one— expressing generosity of spirit. Lyubomirsky’s research finds that one of the most effective ways to be meaningfully happier is to do kind acts for others. So, instead of blocking your friend, try a counterintuitive approach: Block out time to spend with her. Go over there, maybe fold a towel and put away a couple of dishes, and treat her to an interaction that doesn’t end with somebody chewing on her nipple.

As long as you’re in the generosity-of-spirit aisle, pick some up for yourself. Remind yourself that finding a partner is hard for most people. Get in the habit of taking stock of what’s good in your life, and think of constructive ways to get closer to what you want.

Replacing your sneery mindset with a more upbeat outlook should have you radiating the sort of positive energy that draws people—including single male people—to you. Keep that up and you should eventually find yourself married, pregnant, and the envy of every woman whose dream it is to throw up violently every morning but still look like that girl who turned into a giant blueberry in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Ω

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica,CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): New York

City’s Diamond District is home to more than 2,000 businesses that buy and sell jewelry.

Throughout the years, many people have lost bits of treasure here. Valuable bits of gold and gems have fallen off broken necklaces, earrings, watches, and other accessories. Now an enterprising man named Raffi Stepnanian is cashing in. Using tweezers and a butter knife, he mines for the rich pickings that are packed in the mud of sidewalk cracks and gutters. “The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine,” he says. I’d love to see you get inspired by his efforts, Aries. Dig for treasure in unlikely places where no one else would deign to look.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1987, a

college freshman named Mike Hayes was having trouble paying for his education at the University of Illinois. He appealed for help to the famous newspaper columnist Bob Greene, who asked each of his many readers to send Hayes a penny. The response was tidal. Although most of the ensuing donations were small, they added up to over $28,000—enough for Hayes to finance his degree. I encourage you to take a comparable approach in the coming weeks, Taurus: Ask for a little from a lot of different sources.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The word “abracadabra” is a spell that stage magicians utter at the climax of their tricks: the catalyst that supposedly makes a rabbit materialize from a hat or an assistant disappear in a puff of smoke. There’s no real sorcery.

It’s an illusion perpetrated by the magician’s hocus-pocus. But “abracadabra” has a less well-known history as an incantation used by real magicians to generate authentic wizardry. It can be traced back to Gnostic magi of the second century. They and their successors believed that merely speaking the word aloud evokes a potency not otherwise available. I invite you to experiment with this possibility, Gemini. Say “abracadabra” to boost your confidence and enhance your derring-do. You already have more power than usual to change things that have been resistant to change, and intoning some playfully ferocious “abracadabras” may put your efforts over the top.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The 17th-

century writer Rene Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the founder of rationalism. His famous catchphrase is a centerpiece of the Western intellectual tradition: “I think, therefore I am.” Here’s what I find amusing and alarming about the man: He read almost nothing besides the Bible and the work of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. He said that classic literature was a waste of time. Is that who we want at the heart of our approach to understanding reality? I say no.

In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to instead adopt one or both of the following formulas: “I feel, therefore I am” or “I dream, therefore I am.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You can’t give what

you don’t have. Here’s a corollary: You can sort of half-give what you half-have, but that may lead to messy complications and turn out to be worse than giving nothing at all. So here’s what I recommend: Devote yourself to acquiring a full supply of what you want to give. Be motivated by the frustration you feel at not being able to give it yet. Call on your stymied generosity to be the driving force that inspires you to get the missing magic. When you’ve finally got it, give it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I suspect that

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one of your allies or loved ones will get caught in his or her own trap. The way you respond will be crucial for how the rest of the story plays out. On the one hand, you shouldn’t climb into the trap with them and get tangled up in the snarl. On the other hand, it won’t serve your long-term interests to be cold and unhelpful. So what’s the best strategy? First, empathize with their pain, but don’t make it your own. Second, tell the blunt truth in the kindest tone possible.

Third, offer a circumscribed type of support that won’t compromise your freedom or integrity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1936, Libran

author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the “crack-up” he had experienced years earlier. It included this tough realization: “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even of my talent.” Let’s use this as a seed for your oracle.

Have you been a good caretaker of your talent? Have you been a good caretaker for other things you are responsible for? Look within yourself and take inventory. If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to raise your game. If you’re doing pretty well, reward yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): On a late

summer day in 1666, scientist Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, England.

An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer that this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of gravity. Fast forward to the year 2010. Astronaut Piers Sellers got on the space shuttle Atlantis carrying a piece of Newton’s apple tree. He took it with him as he escaped Earth’s gravity on his trip to the International Space Station.

By my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you undertake a comparable gesture or ritual, Scorpio. With a flourish, update your relationship with an important point of origin.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Most birds don’t sing unless they are up high: either flying or perched somewhere off the ground. One species that isn’t subject to this limitation is the turnstone, a brightly mottled shorebird. As it strolls around beaches in search of food, it croons a tune that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls “a short, rattling chuckle.” In the coming weeks, this creature deserves to be your mascot—or your power animal, as they say in New Age circles. Why? I doubt that you will be soaring. You won’t be gazing down at the human comedy from a detached location high above the fray. But I expect you will be well-grounded and good-humored—holding your own with poise amidst the rough-andtumble. As you ramble, sing freely!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s

discuss that thing you are eyeing and coveting and fantasizing about. My operative theory is that you can enjoy it without actually having it for your own. In fact, I think it will be best if you do enjoy it without possessing it. There’s an odd magic at play here. If this desired thing becomes a fixed part of your life, it may interfere with you attracting two future experiences that I regard as more essential to your development. My advice is to avoid getting attached to the pretty good X-factor so as to encourage the arrival and full bloom of two stellar X-factors.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,” said philosopher Alan Watts. You have either recently made a personal discovery proving that this is true, or else you will soon do so. The brainscrambling, heart-whirling events of recent weeks have blessed you with a host of shiny new questions. They are vibrant replacements for the tired old questions that have kept at least one of your oldest dilemmas locked in place.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is for

everyone some one scene, some one adventure, some one picture that is the image of his secret life,” said Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I invite you to identify that numinous presence, Pisces. And then I urge you to celebrate and cultivate it. Give special attention to it and pay tribute to it and shower love on it. Why? Because now is an excellent time to recognize how important your secret life is to you—and to make it come more fully alive than it has ever been.

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

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Back in town Jenny Lee Lindberg, Reno local and bassist for Warpaint will be playing a show in her hometown on October 28 at Cargo in the Whitney Peak Hotel.

Are you excited to be playing a show in your hometown?

And what are you most excited about?

I am excited, and really nervous because we have never played in Reno. I guess I am most excited to see all the people I haven’t seen since high school, so it will be a little high school reunion. And my mom and dad are coming. I’m just excited to be home.

What was it like being in band with your sister?

I liked being in a band with her, I love playing music with her. When we started the band, it was all of our first time in a band, and we didn’t really know what we were doing or how to really communicate with each other, verbally or musically. I think there was a sense of comfort having my sister in the band. We both grew up together and had similar taste in music.

We never really disagreed on much, so it was nice.

Where does your music inspiration stem from?

I guess just life, life experiences. I’ll speak for myself. When I am writing lyrics, usually I write based off personal experiences, or a mood, or a feeling. Music, I usually get my inspiration from other music, I hear a song that I really like, and it inspires me to write music that makes me feel as good as I did when listening to that song.

How did adding Stella Mozgawa affect the band?

Do you guys write your songs together? Or does just one of you write the songs?

It’s all of us. We all write the songs and we have different ways of going about that.

We’ll either all be in a room jamming round, and all four of us will write the song, or we will pair off, and two of us will structure a song and get it to a place where its not all four of us chiming in trying to write it because that definitely slows the process down and can be counter productive.

I think we just got more serious when she joined the band. We got more serious about what we wanted and the way we wrote music together. She changed the game, big time. One, she’s an incredible drummer, and I think she brought a sense of professionalism to the band that none of us had.

How do you describe the sound of your band? What is your favorite style to play?

It’s so weird. I’ve never been able to answer that question. There’s moments when it sounds like everything, sometimes it’s groovy, or dark, or psychedelic or sad.

As a bassist, I like the base line to be sexy, I like music to be sexy. Even if it’s not a sexy song, there are elements about the music that can be. Ω

What was it like the first time you guys all played together?

It was really easy, and I remember we played for like four or five hours, and we just jammed out on the same riff. And none of us were getting sick of it. So I think at that point we realized that this could be a really truly nice experience.

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They’re in bad shape. Mostly, they lay there in bed, feeling bad. Unbelievably bad. This is not a good way to go. So they’re not just dealing with diarrhea and nausea. They’re racked with explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting. Catching my drift?”

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the room. Which is not good. This shit has to be cleaned up and cleaned up well.

The people doing the cleaning, people like me, have to be wearing a full bio-protection suit.

It’s a must. If we don’t have bioprotection suits, we’re in trouble.

Now, you’re in a room that’s literally crawling with live Ebola. That mess has to be cleaned up and neutralized.

If there are proper BPSs in the hospital, great. Now, you can at least clean the patient and the room. It’s a horrible job, but it can be done. You just gotta have those suits. Without ’em, the virus moves along. It’s been doing so in Africa now for months. We can slow this thing down, and then we can stop it. But it’s going to take thoughtful, meticulous work to do it.

We have to be really careful. Ebola thrives on slip-ups, errors, and mistakes. We’ll stop it, but it’s not going to be easy.” Ω

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She works as a nurse’s assistant, the people on hospital staffs who do the real stuff for patients— changing bedpans, changing sheets, bringing food, cleaning up, etc. The angelic, essential work that’s at the heart of any decent hospital. She told me I wasn’t “seeing” the reality of late stage Ebola victims, the reality of those people who are about to die. “You claim in your column OPINION

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E vEryonE lovEs a WInnEr! In our 19th Annual “Best of Northern Nevada” reader poll, we asked people to vote for businesses and individuals they felt were “the best” in over 350 categories. This year, over 5,000 verified voters participated in our survey.

Voting for the RN&R’s Best of Northern Nevada is conducted exclusively online, and we take great measures to virtually eliminate “ballot stuffing”. In the end, this is a popularity contest. Businesses and people actively campaign for votes, soliciting employees, customers, friends and family members to vote for them. Just like any other poll or contest, the ones receiving the most votes are the ultimate winners.

In our annual “Winners” publication, we feature winners from each category, along with 2nd and 3rd place readers’ choices. You’ll also get some insight into some of the winners and what they feel makes them “The Best”.

We encourage you to call or visit this year’s Best of Northern Nevada winners to congratulate them and learn more about what they do. After all, everyone loves a winner, and winners love to hear it from you!

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When & How Did You Get Started In This Business?

I started serving food and bartending in college when I lost my job at an equipment company after September 11, 2001. There was a chain restaurant opening up near UNR, and I always envied my roommates tips and 5 hour work day as a food server. Soon after, I realized how fun and rewarding this industry could be.

What Inspires You To Go To Work Every Day?

The creativity this job allows me makes it easy to go to work. Tasting different food and wine from all over the world has really opened my eyes. I like to joke that I just show up to see what 3 lunch specials we have for the day. The people I work with are great and the atmosphere is amazing. I have never had the same day in over 9 years.

Why Do You Think RN&R Readers Voted You The Best?

Maybe RNR readers voted us the best because, after 37 years, we are still evolving. We would not be here if it were not for the guests; their business is the best compliment we can get. I think they recognize what a unique place this is. I have yet to find a comparable ambiance or menu anywhere in this town.

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What Makes Your Business Different Than Your Competitors?

We are different from our competitors because we have created an atmosphere that keeps the staff and customers around for years. The people who work here truly love what they do, and, if they didn’t, I wouldn’t be here telling you about them.

Menu aside, the same faces day in and day out are not common in this industry. We have a handful of servers who have been here 10 to 20 years.

People feel at home here, and it is not by accident.

Any Advice For People Who Want To Make Their Business “The Best”?

Try to do something better today than you did yesterday. We have been here 37 years, but we are always finding new and better ways to bring our creations to the public. Resting on your reputation

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PFPCo’s noble Pie Parlor 239 W. 2nd St (under el Cortez Hotel) (775) 232–7877 IntervIew wIth ryan Goldhammer and trevor leppek When and How did you get started in this business?

We have always entertained an extremely high interest in food. I remember when the Food Network came out when I was about 12 or so. My dad was a big fan, so the tv was pretty much glued to that channel from that point forward. Trevor has some fine dining experience from Sezmu and I really got into pizza making while working at Blue Moon and Black Rock Pizza here in Reno. We have been extremely lucky to have been given proprietary dough and sauce recipes from Sicily, Italy and Brooklyn, NYC respectively.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

I think a passion and true pride to put out the best pizza (and everything else) that we can make. Having people go out of their way to let you know that it is the BEST pizza, wings, salad, etc that they have ever had or ever had outside of New York is a truly amazing feeling.

It also hurts deeply when people are unhappy with the product. We can’t be everything to everyone, but we take it very personally and we try our best to make improvements on a daily basis.

Why do you think the RNR readers voted you the BEST?

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What makes your business different than your competitors?

Well for one we are in the shop a lot actually working or just there making sure the food and the service is of the highest quality and consistency. We take a lot of time to hand-make items that other shops get delivered to them. A meatball or sausage that is made from scratch in house tastes a lot different than a meatball that has been made in a huge batch and shipped frozen. Not only is our food a cut above, but we also take time to make sure we have some great artisan beers and hand selected wines mostly from small family owned vineyards.

Any advice for people who want to make their business “the best”?

Train your body to run on a lot less sleep then it’s used to! Just teasing but really it takes a lot of hard work, dedication, passion and a willingness to never stop learning to be successful.

I believe that the readers and this community have had a huge void in their options for fast, quality food in the downtown area (especially late at night). We take an incredible level of pride to tweaking and re-tweaking all of the recipes, processes, and scrutiny of which suppliers we use and product we accept. The tomatoes for the sauce are San Marzano. The meats are Boar’s Head and are sliced daily. Our flour in a blend and quality that only our shop purchases (to my knowledge).

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Goods & services Best thrift store 1. Second Time Around

836 E. Second St., 329-0200

2. Penny’S midTown mercAnTile 675 S. Virginia St., 737-9557

Best local place to work 1. BizArre GuiTAr 2677 Oddie Blvd., 685-4867

2. moonliTe Bunny rAnch

69 Moonlight Road, Carson City, 246-9901

3. univerSiTy of nevAdA, reno 1664 N. Virginia St., 784-1110 Best landscaping company

1. SiGnATure lAndScAPeS

1280 E. Plumb Lane, 829-1950

3. GAmeSToP

6775 Sierra Center Parkway, 8527744

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127 E. Pueblo St., 329-2233

Best house cleaning service 1. molly mAid 1380 Greg St., 359-1503

2. BuckeT of BuBBleS

2679 Lawry Drive, 412-2580

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3. BeST Buy

2. once uPon A child

Best wine shop 1. ToTAl wine & more

3. oShkoSh B’GoSh

1085 S. Virginia St., 323-3232 5575 S. Virginia St., 448-9797

6671 S. Virginia St., 853-3669

2. whiSPerinG vine wine co.

85 Foothill Road, 622-8080

3. whiSPerinG vine wine co.

3886 Mayberry Drive, 787-9672

Best cheap liquor store 1. ToTAl wine & more 6671 S. Virginia St., 853-3669

2. Ben’S fine wine & SPiriTS 901 W. Fourth St., 323-6277

3. Ben’S fine wine & SPiriTS 3480 Lakeside Drive, 825-0244

Best women’s clothing Boutique 1. The niche 1300 E. Plumb Lane, 348-8661

2. PlATo’S cloSeT

1535 S. Virginia St., 322-0110

3. Junkee cloThinG exchAnGe & AnTique mAll 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

401 Ryland St., 453-6322

Best video game store 1. GAmeSToP 650 N. McCarran Blvd., Sparks, 355-0100

2. GAme force

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13933 S. Virginia St., 852-3080

2. ScoTlAnd yArd SPy ShoP

3. moAnA nurSery

1190 W. Moana Lane, 825-0602

3. dillArd’S

Best children’s clothing Boutique 1. SiPPeeS

13925 S. Virginia St., 333-5460

3705 Barron Way, 857-4333

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5000 Smithridge Center, 826-6744 5487 Meadowood Mall Circle, 829-0889

Best men’s clothing store 1. mAcy’S

5100 Meadowood Mall Circle, 8268333

2. men’S wArehouSe

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955 S. Virginia St., 329-2110

6015-G S. Virginia St., 825-4448 1350 Scheels Drive, 358-5851

Best place to Buy a firearm 1. BizArre GuiTAr 2677 Oddie Blvd., 685-4867

2. cABellA’S

8650 Boomtown Garson Road, Verdi, 829-4100

3. ScheelS All SPorTS

1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

Best place to shoot firearms 1. The deSerT 2. BizArre GuiTAr 2677 Oddie Blvd., 331-1001

3. SAfe ShoT indoor ShooTinG rAnGe (cloSed) 9425 Double R Blvd., 284-8984

Best jewelry store 1. Bvw JewelerS 35 Foothill Road, 622-9015

2. ince JewelerS

550 W. Plumb Lane, 323-5100

3. JAred The GAlleriA of Jewelry

13957 S. Virginia St., 850-2020

Best mall 1. Meadowood Mall

5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, 827-8450

2. The SuMMiT

13925 S. Virginia St., 853-7800

3. legendS aT SparkS Marina 1310 Scheels Drive, Sparks, 358-3800

Best tanning salon 1. eleMenT Tanning 3600 Warren Way, 829-8267

2. SunSaTion

1450 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 359-9955

Best independent cd/ music store 1. recycled recordS

3. BuMBleBee BlooMS flower BouTiQue 205 S. Sierra St., 348-2799

2. Sundance BookS & MuSic

Best Beauty salon 1. a Salon 7

3. diScology

2. ruMorS Salon reno

Best specialty foods store 1. whole foodS MarkeT

3. an epic Salon

822 S. Virginia St., 826-4119

121 California Ave., 786-1188 11 N. Sierra St., 323-2121

495 Morrill Ave., 786-7770

1420 Holcomb Ave., 826-6300

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

2. Trader Joe’S

5035 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-1621

316 Vassar St., 323-3742

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Best frame shop 1. faSTfraMe

Best adult-themed store 1. Suzie’S

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3. Michael’S arTS & crafTS

3. chocolaTe walruS

Best spa 1. dolce ViTa wellneSS Spa

Best computer store 1. apple STore

3. loreTTa eizguirre Best nail technician 1. Shyra Mckie

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3. Tangerine Salon and Spa

2. Moondog coMpuTerS

3. Jen edge

Best dry cleaners 1. BoBBy page’S cleanerS

Best BarBer 1. paTrick SuTTon

2. peerleSS

Best place to Buy vintage clothes 1. Junkee cloThing exchange & anTiQue Mall

3. faBric care SpecialiST

2. The neST

3. Brian JenSen

3. plaTo’S cloSeT

Best BarBer shop 1. Maxwell’S BarBerShop

940 W. Moana Lane, 825-4499 4809 Kietzke Lane, 827-2004 4871 Kietzke Lane, 829-8000

16640 Wedge Parkway, 772-0032 895 S. Center St., 825-5463 13979 S. Virginia St., 851-7271

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900 W Moana Lane, 827-1411 18134 Wedge Parkway, 853-1252

Best Bookstore 1. Sundance BookS & MuSic 121 California Ave., 786-1188

2. graSSrooTS BookS

660 E. Grove St., 828-2665

3. BarneS & noBle

5555 S. Virginia St., 826-8882

Best place to get an auto smogged 1. landa Muffler

240 Court St., 324-6133

Rumors Full Service Salon

3. STephanie arredondo An Epic Salon

195 Kietzke Lane, 786-8557

3. Jenny oxier A Salon 7

Best aesthetician 1. elVia gaMBoa Rumors

7520 Longley Lane, 852-1162

2. chriSTa Berney

13925 S. Virginia St., 333-5460 5575 S. Virginia St., 448-9797 4896 S. Virginia St., 332-6666

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865 201 Keystone Ave., 284-8841 1535 S. Virginia St., 322-0110

Best used clothing store 1. Junkee cloThing exchange 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

2. plaTo’S cloSeT

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Sugar Salon and Medical Spa

500 Apple St., 827-5333

745 S. Virginia St., 322-3733

1535 S. Virginia St., 322-0110

3. SaVerS

3800 Kietzke Lane, 284-4350

Best garden nursery 1. Moana lane garden cenTer 1100 W. Moana Lane, 825-0600

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3. frankTown hand car waSh

Best gym 1. SporTS weST aThleTic cluB 1575 S. Virginia St., 348-6666

2. SainT Mary’S cenTer for healTh and fiTneSS 645 N. Arlington Ave., 770-3800

3. Mri fiTneSS Training coMplex

895 E. Patriot Blvd., 560-9995

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3. a downTown BarBer Shop

2. Buggy BaTh car waSh

9300 Prototype Drive, 800-1772

Our Customer Service and jewelry selection really set us apart from our competition. With over 30 years of experience, we know what we are doing.

555 S. Virginia St., 322-2466

3. SoMewhere in TiMe

3. JaMpro MuSic facTory

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best? Knowledge are a must to continue being

2. The Town BarBerS

Best place to Buy a musical instrument 1. Bizarre guiTar 6663 S. Virginia St., 853-3961

Got any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

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1960 E. Second St., 323-4524

2. guiTar cenTer

My amazing staff. Not only do they keep the shop running smoothly, they are tons of fun.

Town Barbers

Best car wash 1. huTch’S car waSh

2677 Oddie Blvd., 331-1001

What inspires you to go to work every day?

We put our customers needs at the top of the priority list.

Maxwell’s Barbershop

2. The Virginia STreeT anTiQue Mall

multiple locations

3. gk SMog inSpecTion

What makes your business different than your competition?

2. andy JenSen

2. garden Shop nurSery

816 E. Fourth St., 322-0112

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Atelier Beauty Bar

Best antique store 1. Junkee cloThing exchange & anTiQue Mall

2. Q’S Quik SMog

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Back in 1992 I went to get my septum pierced in Sacramento, the piercer asked me if I would like to learn to pierce and that began my lifelong career as a body piercer.

Continued Education and Product

The SkinCare Girl

1278 S. Virginia St., 825-2267

912 S. Virginia St., reno (775) 329–6010 IntervIew wIth AngelA wAtson–KIcK Ass PIercer & owner

When and how did you get started in this business?

Best hair stylist 1. Brian JenSen

3. pacific Sun Tanning coMpany

195 Damonte Ranch Parkway, 826-4537

Black Hole Body Piercing

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

1251 S. Virginia St., 324-4141 1313 S. Virginia St., 323-1515 201 Keystone Ave., 284-8841

Best Bicycle shop 1. reno Bike proJecT

541 E. Fourth St., 323-4488

2. college cyclery

622 S. Virginia St., 323-1809

3. greaT BaSin BicycleS

8048 S. Virginia St., 825-8258

3636 Mayberry Drive, 825-3527

3. rail ciTy garden cenTer 1720 Brierley Way, 355-1551

6355 S. McCarran Blvd., 827-4222 2525 S. Virginia St., 826-6679 2331 Kietzke Lane, 827-2601

Best home furnishings store 1. rc willey hoMe furniShingS 1201 Steamboat Pkwy., 337-4600

2. aShley furniTure

750 E. Moana Lane, 824-4800

Best flower shop 1. SparkS floriST

3. The find

2. ST. iVeS floriST

Best apartment complex 1. arlingTon TowerS

1001 Pyramid Way, Sparks, 3588500 700 S. Wells Ave., 333-9190

4865 Longley Lane, 322-3463

100 N. Arlington Ave., 221-3222

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3. BrisTol Bay aparTmenTs

5300 Los Altos Parkway, Sparks, 626-4200

Best place to get a car repaired 1. landa muffler & Brake 816 E. Fourth St., 322-0112

2. reno Vulcanizing works 225 E. Prater Way, 356-7500

3. sierra auTo car care multiple locations

Best tattoo parlor 1. aces TaTToo 681 S. Virginia St., 333-0915

2. marked sTudios

945 W. Moana Lane, 209-1612

3. nighTmare sTudios TaTToo 888 S. Virginia St., 324-0666

Best tattoo artist 1. archie wood Battle Born Tattoo

3. grand sierra resorT Best Bank 1. wells fargo

2. Bank of america multiple locations

3. firsT independenT Bank of neVada multple locations

Best credit union 1. greaTer neVada crediT union multiple locations

2. greaT Basin federal crediT union multiple locations

3. uniTed federal crediT union multiple locations

Best mortgage company 1. lendclear

5595 Kietzke Lane, 747-8199

3. Jon mccann

3. primelending

3. mark mckinnon Marked Studios

Best place to get pierced 1. Black hole Body piercing 912 S. Virginia St., 329-6010

2. sinnisTer ink

207 W. Moana Lane, 835-7551

3. fondue Body BouTique 416 Greenbrae Drive, Sparks, 359-1750

Best shoe selection 1. dsw shoe warehouse 6659 S. Virginia St., 852-9401

2. dillard’s

13933 S. Virginia St., 852-3080

3. off Broadway shoes

1420 Scheels Drive, 331-5705

Best Boutique clothing store 1. The niche 1300 E. Plumb Lane, 348-8661

2. plaTo’s closeT

1535 S. Virginia St., 322-0110

3. Junkee cloThing exchange & anTique mall 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best hotel for a romantic getaway 1. peppermill resorT spa casino

2707 S. Virginia St., (866) 821-9996

2. aTlanTis casino resorT spa 3800 S. Virginia St., (800) 7236500

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2. guild morTgage

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6340 N. Virginia St., 322-1199 5301 Longley Ln., 826-3772

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3. fanTasia peT resorT

2500 E. Second St., 789-2000

5390 Kietzke Lane, 200-0155 6900 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8555

Best grocery store 1. whole foods markeT 6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

2. Trader Joe’s

5035 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-1621

3. greaT Basin communiTy food co-op 240 Court St., 324-6133

Best specialty ice cream store 1. cold sTone creamery

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2. eTernal Board shop

33 E. Freeport Blvd., Sparks, 358-1002

3. ouT of Bounds Board shop (closed) 805 S Virginia St., 323-7669

Best wireless phone service coverage 1. Verizon 2. aT&T 3. sprinT Best Brothel 1. moonliTe Bunny ranch

69 Moonlight Road, Carson City, 246-9901

2. musTang ranch

Peri Ranch Road, Sparks, 342-0176

Reno Harley-Davidson has been a landmark business in Reno for over 40 years. The Chester Group purchased Reno Harley-Davidson in 2010 and since then we have grown and become even more successful. The management and staff work extremely hard to make Chester’s Reno Harley-Davidson an amazing dealership which has led us to win the prestigious Harley-Davidson Gold Bar & Shield Award for Dealership Performance twice, once in 2011 and again last year in 2013.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

Harley-Davidson is one of the best and most recognized industries in the world. Working in an environment surrounded by beautiful pieces of machinery and amazing people makes working at Chester’s incredibly fun. The people that work at Chester’s have such a huge passion for motorcycles and Harley-Davidson that it makes work less like a chore and more enjoyable and exciting.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted Chester’s Reno Harley-Davidson the best?

Our customers come first. We pride ourselves in providing a top notch customer experience whether it is with service, purchasing a bike, or just buying some Harley gear. Making sure our customers are happy and satisfied is our number one priority. It is always a positive atmosphere at the dealership which keeps the staff happy and in turn makes the customers happy.

Best motorcycle dealer, shop 1. chesTer’s reno harleydaVidson 2315 Market St., 329-2913

2. indian moTorcycle of reno 3445 Kietzke Lane, 355-8810

3. michael’s reno powersporTs

10828 S. Virginia St., 825-8680

The Discovery opened to the public on September 10, 2011.

3. liThia chrysler Jeep of reno

What inspires you to go to work every day?

multiple locations

2. peTsmarT

6675 S. Virginia St., 852-8490

3. peTTin place

1121 S. Wells Ave., 323-3348

Best pet supply store 1.healThy Tails 2892 Mayberry Drive, 787-2287

2. peTsmarT

780 Kietzke Lane, 789-7999

2100 Kietzke Lane, 826-2750

3223 Mill St., 323-3106

1220 Kietzke Lane, 379-2252

2. reno ToyoTa & scion

2100 Kietzke Lane, 826-2750

3. Bill pearce moTors

11555 S Virginia St., 826-2100

3. peTedge

Best pet Boarding 1. peT play house

2. cosTco

3875 Corsair St., 825-1156

2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202

2. a doggie’s dream 2697 Mill St., 322-5400

5067 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-6488 2200 Harvard Way, 689-2200

3. walmarT

multiple locations

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When and how did you get started in this business?

Inspiring the curiosity and exploration that creates lifelong learners.

Best used car dealership 1. inTerneT auTo

Best place for photo prints 1. gordon’s phoTo serVice

6675 S. Virginia St., 852-8490

Any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

Your customers are what make your business. Listening to their input both good and bad can take your business a long way. If you expect to grow and become the best you need to take a tip from your customers. Keeping your staff happy and treating them right helps to build good customer relationships.

490 S. Center Street, reno, nV 89501 (775) 786–1000 IntervIew wIth PatrIck turner, MarketIng & coMMunIcatIons dIrector

2. reno ToyoTa & scion

Best pet store 1. peTco

We fulfill people’s dreams to own the greatest motorcycle in the world - a Harley-Davidson! We strive to make purchasing a Harley-Davidson a truly enjoyable, no hassle experience from start to finish. We offer quick and easy financing and insurance on site. We offer Rider Training Classes to help folks learn to ride and we offer Motorcycle Rentals right here at the Dealership. One of the biggest strengths is the professional qualifications and depth of experience of our staff.

Terry Lee WeLLs Nevada discovery MuseuM (The discovery)

3. swensen’s ice cream

3340 Kietzke Lane, 825-3444

What makes your business different than your competitors?

1000 Wild Horse Canyon Drive, Sparks, 343-1003

2. Baskin-roBBins multiple locations

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Best new car dealership 1. Bill pearce moTors/ courTesy honda

299 E. Plumb Lane, 322-3110

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When and how did you get started in this business?

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Got any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

Impress and inspire your customers and they’ll reward you with their loyalty.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

The community’s pride in The Discovery.

It truly is a world-class, hands-on science museum right here in Reno.

What makes your business different than your competition?

The shear scale and immersive handson experience The Discovery offers cannot be found anywhere else in Northern Nevada.

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When & How Did You Get Started in this Business?

Doing business in Reno, downtown to be specific, has been awesome. There are so many people all working together to make this city be the best it can be. Whether you are a solo person running a small home business or part of a huge Casino, we are all moving in the same direction. That is powerful. Can not be denied. Look at the biggest little movement. That inspires me to make sure we aredoing our part.

I got into cooking a along time ago, because I love being in the middle of a somewhat chaotic industry. It reminds me of playing football and maybe it is a far reach for some to connect those dots, but to me, they are so alike.

What Inspires You To Go To Work Every Day? The planning, the strategy, the hard work, the extra work when no one is looking, calling plays, the ups and downs, the fans and the haters but mostly the teammates. I am inspired by everyone I work with and around. Obviously everyone who works at Campo, but I also include farmers, sales people, delivery drivers, all the people who help service us so we can do what we do. It is pretty cool.

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Why Do You Think RN&R Readers Voted You The Best?

We will keep working hard, trying to get better every day. Looking at what we can improve on. How can we help move the dial for downtown, for Reno, for the region. Those are the things we worry about.

Everything else we can not control.

Any Advice For People Who Want To Make Their Business “The Best”?

I think if businesses think beyond there own doorstep, they will see tremendous returns on that energy giving. We do our best to practice that each day!

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Thank you Reno News & Review readers for voting Wells Fargo ‘Best Bank’* Our bankers live and work in your community and know that good relationships make us all stronger. By getting to know you our experienced bankers can offer customized tools and services tailored to meet your financial needs.

Visit us at a location near you and talk with a banker today. wellsfargo.com

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2. Best Buy

5575 S. Virginia St., 448-9797

3. camera clinic

1220 E. Greg St., Sparks, 829-2244

BESt pIlatES StudIo 1. Ball Fitness studio

460 California Ave., 324-3224

3. renoWn reGional medical center 1155 Mill St., 982-4100

2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202 2697 Mill St., 322-5400

3. Washoe community education

BESt athlEtIc ShoE SElEctIoN 1. scheels all sPorts

BESt pIlatES INStRuctoR 1. John Wade 2. ashley moore 3. soPhia seFchick BESt yoga StudIo 1. the studio

1085 S. Virginia St. 284-5545

2. Bikram yoGa

631 Sierra Rose Drive, 827-9642

3. yoGa loka

6135 Lakeside Drive, 337-2990

BESt yoga INStRuctoR 1. kim allcock Yoga Loka

2. anGie Fraley The Studio

2. Jen donovan Yoga Loka

BESt outdooR outfIttER 1. rei

2225 Harvard Way, 828-9090

2. caBela’s

8650 Boomtown Road, Verdi, 829-4100

3. scheels all sPorts

1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

BESt optIcal Shop 1. adlinGton eye center & eyeGlass Gallery 500 W. Plumb Lane, 284-3937

2. dr. anGelini oPtical disPensary 350 W. Sixth St., 322-4061

3. eyemart exPress

6633 S. Virginia St., 345-3822

3. eyeZone, inc.

9700 S. McCarran Blvd., 525-9420

BESt hoSpItal 1. va sierra nevada healthcare system

975 Kirman Ave., 786-7200

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3. Fantasia Pet resort

1575 S. Virginia St., 348-6666

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681 s. virginia st, reno nv 89509 (775) 333–0915 IntervIew wIth KevIn Cox, owner

6340 N. Virginia St., 322-1199 5301 Longley Lane, 826-3772

1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

2. reno runninG

13987 S. Virginia St., 853-801

3. ecliPse runninG

6990 S. McCarran Blvd., 827-2276

BESt WoRkout WEaR SElEctIoN 1. scheels all sPorts 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, 331-2700

What inspires you to go to work everyday?

4865 Longley Lane, 786-4464

2. reno Print store

Working with a great group of guys and creating beautiful works of art on people.

280 Greg St., 313-9720

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BESt SElEctIoN of 14 local aRt 1. artists co-oP Gallery oF reno 627 Mill St., 322-8896

2. reno art Works

1995 Dickerson Road, 391-0278

3. ryrie’s art & home

6135 Lakeside Drive, 827-5757

BESt SpEctatoR SpoRt 1. reno aces 2. university oF nevada, reno FootBall 3. university oF nevada, reno BasketBall BESt local NoN-caSINo BuSINESS 1. BiZarre Guitar

Why do you think RN&R Readers voted you the best?

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Any advise for people who want to make their business “the best”?

Remember what you got in the business to begin with. You must have passion for what you are doing in order to succeed. We feel that the public can see if you’re only in it to make a buck. Having a ton of sarcastic employees helps too.

Consistently the best artists - same crew for essentially 17 years - unheard of in tattooing.

Going to the shop you went to years ago for your first and having the same guy do your kid’s first is pretty cool! Quality, consistency, and friendly, reliable artists definitely helped.

What makes your business different from your competitors?

Great crew of amazing artists. The core of employees have been here since the beginning we try and relate to each customer individually, as each person is different then the next.

2. lululemon

2. Pet Play house

3. sPorts authority

3. Great Basin community Food co-oP

SuzieS Adult SuperStoreS

BESt NEWSpapER 1. reno neWs & revieW

195 KietzKe Lane, Reno nv.

(775) 786–8557

D-727 Riverside Drive, renoshowroom@lululemon.com.

4813 Kietzke Lane, 828-1234

BESt outdooR gEaR SElEctIoN 1. scheels all sPorts

1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

2. rei

2677 Oddie Blvd., 331-1001

2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202

240 Court St., 324-6133

708 N. Center St., 324-4440

2. reno GaZette-Journal 955 Kuenzli St., 788-6200

2225 Harvard Way, 828-9090

3. caBela’s

8650 Boomtown Road, Verdi, 829-4100

BESt WEddINg REcEptIoN SItE 1. chism house 1401 W. Second St., 322-5455

2. the Grove

95 Foothill Road, 324-7683

3. lake tahoe BESt WEddINg EvENt plaNNER 1. liane mccomBs

3. san Francisco chronicle 901 Mission St., San Francisco, Calif., (415) 777-1111

BESt puBlIcatIoN (that’S Not uS) 1. reno tahoe toniGht 2. ediBle reno-tahoe 3. reno GaZette-Journal BESt NEW BuSINESS 1. JamPro music Factory

9300 Prototype Drive, 800-1772

2. Picasso & Wine

When and how did you get started in this business?

1969. We wanted to be able to sell something that you couldn’t buy at Sears.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

Being able to help customers on an intimate level. Teaching that sex is fun.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

3. lauGhinG Planet

Our outstanding customer service and our ability to make anyone comfortable.

2. sara kennedy Bynum 2. courtney meredith 2. denise sullivan

BESt placE foR muSIc lESSoNS 1. BiZarre Guitar

What makes your business different than your competition?

BESt puBlIc RElatIoNS agENcy 1. the aBBi aGency

2. JamPro music Factory

Wedding & Event Planning

Thunder Canyon Golf Course

275 Hill St., 323-2977

148 Vassar St., 453-1168

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Got any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

Make the work environment fun and keep the energy upbeat. Make your clients #1 priority.

650 Tahoe St., 360-2592

2677 Oddie Blvd., 331-1001

9300 Prototype Drive, 800-1772

3. carPenter’s music World

We have great product knowledge, awesome energy and we actually help find the perfect toys.

2700 S. Virginia St., 852-7618

2. BiGGest little GrouP 3. the Glenn GrouP

50 Washington St., 686-7777

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Deli towne usa 3650 lakeside drive, reno nv 89509 (775) 826–4466 IntervIew wIth LeAnn Cooper, GenerAL MAnAGer

When and How Did You Get Started In This Business?

In 1978 I started in the bakery business and through the years learned every aspect of the business, from frying donuts, to cake decorating to baking bread.

What Inspires You To Go To Work Everyday?

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What Makes Your Business Different Than Your Competitors?

We bake ten varieties of bread daily including our signature Dutch Crust. We use only high quality meats and cheeses and fresh produce to build the best sandwich.

I love what I do and enjoy working with all Any Advice For People Who of our employees and customers. KnowWant To Make Their Business “The Best”? ing that I can make people happy through You have to be involved in the daily ophealthy food is a good feeling. eration of your business and care about the effect that you have on your customWhy Do You Think RN&R Readers ers. When it is a positive effect, then your Voted You The Best? job has been well done.

Besides our great customer service, we put out a product that we take pride in preparing on a daily basis, whether it is our sandwiches, soups or fresh salads.

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1049 S. Virginia St., 322-9445

2. Junkee Clothing exChange & antique Mall 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

3. PrisM MagiC Clothing and iMPorts 2161 Pyramid Way, Sparks, 356-5577

BESt BuSINESS FacEBook pagE 1. Bizarre guitar

www.facebook.com/bizarreguitar

2. nevada huMane soCiety www.facebook.com/ nevadahumanesociety

3. Pet Play house

www.facebook.com/PetPlayHouse

Best sunglasses seleCtion 1. adlington eye Center & eyeglass gallery 500 W. Plumb Lane, 284-3937

2. sunglass hut

5189 Meadowood Mall Circle, 826-8778

3. doWntoWn vision

236 West Sixth Street, Suite 100, 322-4061

BESt INdEpENdENt coFFEE Shop 1. the huB Coffee Co. 32 Cheney St., 323-3482 727 Riverside Drive, 323-1911

2. BiBo Coffee Co.

460 S. Sierra St., 329-2114

3. Coffee Bar

682 Mt. Rose St., 800-1090

BESt INdEpENdENt BookStoRE 1. sundanCe Books & MusiC 121 California Ave., 786-1188

2. grassroots Books

660 E. Grove St., 828-2665

3. textBook Brokers

10 E. Ninth St., 284-9653 910 E. Parr Blvd., 323-8622

BESt INdEpENdENt uSEd BookStoRE 1. grassroots Books 660 E. Grove St., 828-2665

2. sundanCe Books & MusiC 121 California Ave., 786-1188

3. dharMa Books (Closed) 11 N. Sierra St.

3. textBook Brokers

10 E. Ninth St., 284-9653 910 E. Parr Blvd., 323-8622

BESt INdEpENdENt gRocERy StoRE 1. great Basin CoMMunity

221 n. virginia st, reno nv 89501 (775) 323-knit (5648) IntervIew wIth CIsCo Flores, General ManaGer

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2. trader Joe’s

5035 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-1621 multiple locations

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2. neW2u CoMPuters

50 E. Greg St. #103, 329-1126

3. reno CoMPuter fix

1170 S. Wells Ave., 996-0212

BESt INdEpENdENt haRdWaRE StoRE 1. Carter Bros aCe hardWare 1215 S. Virginia St., 337-1200

2. shelly’s true value hardWare

440 Greenbrae Drive, Sparks, 358-1841

3. hoMe dePot

multiple locations

BESt vEtERINaRIaN 1. southWest veterinary hosPital

960 W. Moana Lane, 825-7984

2. klaiCh aniMal hosPital 1990 S. Virginia St., 826-1212

700 Baring Blvd., Sparks, 358-6880

BESt placE to Buy cdS 1. reCyCled reCords 822 S. Virginia St., 826-4119

2. Best Buy

5575 S. Virginia St., 448-9797

3. sundanCe Books & MusiC 121 California Ave., 786-1188

3. laura ConroW

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3. sColari’s

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Why Do You Think RN&R Readers Voted You The Best?

I think they voted us the best because of how close they can get to the act on stage.

We also have the best bar staff and event staff in town. I cannot forget our Production Staff also. We bring a lot of good shows to Reno. Our sound system is top of the line.

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We are the only venue in town with a 1,200 capacity room that brings good sold out shows.

Like Michael Franti and Hank 3 just to name a couple. We make sure our patrons come to our venue to have a good time and have a wonderful memory of their favorite band!!

Any Advice For People Who Want To Make Their Business “The Best”?

Bring good shows to Reno and give your patrons a night of music they will never forget!!

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I started the business with my mom in March of 1996. It was always a dream for her to have a restaurant.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

Truly our customers! I have been fortunate throughout the years to be able to meet some of the most amazing people who have become great friends!

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

I like to think because the readers truly enjoy our food! Our dishes are priced right. We use nothing but the highest quality ingredients and we provide friendly service.

What makes your business different than your competitors?

We really care about our customers. We want our customers to feel at home. Come in relax and enjoy a great meal with my Family!

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What Inspires You To Go To Work Every Day?

What Makes Your Business Different Than Your Competitors?

Service above all and smiling faces.

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Customer Service, Customer Service, Customer Service.

Providing a helpful service and I enjoy meeting and helping my customers.

Why Do You Think RN&R Readers Voted You The Best?

RN&R readers are smart, informed and know what good service is.

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When and how did you get started in this business?

With a love for the entertainment and service industry, I entered 5 Star Saloon as a first time business owner. 8 years later, 5 Star Saloon has not only maintained its legacy as the longestrunning gay bar in Nevada, it’s an integral part of our community.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

The chance to share our unique family atmosphere here in the Sassiest Place On Earth! As an ally of the LGBTQA community, 5 Star gives me a unique opportunity to advocate equality, foster a safe atmosphere of acceptance, support local nonprofits, and have a blast in the best gay hangout in Reno!

What makes your business different than your competition?

Our history of involvement in the community and active efforts to promote equality and integration contributes to the positive culture that 5 Star is famous for, and our customers recognize that.

Got any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

Write your own script and focus on why you do what you do – commit to making a difference and to integrating the special talents of your team.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

Well…Everyone loves the infamous 5 Star Saloon Cage, but mainly because everyone—from college kids to drag queens—is welcome and feels part of the family at 5 Star Saloon. In addition to dual dance poles, a full dance floor and stage, we offer fun events that range from karaoke to open mic, movies on the big screen, a live DJ plus gogo dancers on the weekend.

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Probably because we’ve served generation after generation of our Nation’s finest here in Northern Nevada and they undoubtedly read the RN&R and are proud of our hospital.

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What Makes Your Business Different Than Your Competitors?

The fact that we are not a business. We serve Veterans and provide them with the excellent health care they have earned and deserve.

Any Advice For People Who Want To Make Their Business “The Best”?

It doesn’t matter whether it’s business or life, you should always take care of the people that take care of you. In our case, Veterans have served us and sacrificed, therefore we owe them the same dedication.

pet play house 2403 E. 4th StrEEt, rEno nV 89512 (775) 324–0202 • www.PetPlayHouse.biz IntervIew wIth AddIe JArAmIllo

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Nightlife BESt placE to Watch MoNday NIght FootBall 1. CoaCh’s Grill & sports Bar 1573 S. Virginia St., 329-2202

2. home 3. Bully’s sports Bar & Grill

2005 Sierra Highlands Drive, 746-8006

BESt NEIghBoRhood BaR 1. CoaCh’s Grill & sports Bar 1573 S. Virginia St., 329-2202

2. reno puBliC house

33 Saint Lawrence Ave., 555-5663

3. shea’s tavern

715 S. Virginia St., Reno, 786-4774

MoSt RoMaNtIc BaR 1. ChoColate Bar 95 N. Sierra St., 337-1122

2. Fireside lounGe

Peppermill, 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

3. death & taxes

26 Cheney St., 324-3287

BESt SpoRtS BaR 1. CoaCh’s Grill & sports Bar 1573 S. Virginia St., 329-2202

2. Bully’s sports Bar & Grill

2955 N. McCarran Blvd., 352-8400

3. Bully’s sports Bar & Grill

2005 Sierra Highlands Drive, 746-8006

BESt placE to Watch MovIES 1. Galaxy luxury + imax 1170 Scheels Drive, Sparks, 313-0118

2. Century theatres riverside

11 N. Sierra St., Reno, 786-1743

3. Century theatres summit 13965 S. Virginia St., Reno, 851-4635

BESt placE FoR lIvE MuSIc 1. KnittinG FaCtory

We started the Pet Play House in October of 2000 because we had our own dog who needed to attend daycare. We looked at daycares in our area and didn’t find what we felt our pet needed. That’s when we decided to travel and explore dog daycare facilities and concepts in larger cities and also around the world to see what other ideas were out there. We modeled the Pet Play House after the things we felt we and others in the Reno area would want for their own dogs.

2. the alley

What inspires you to go to work every day?

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2. dJ Chris enGlish 3. dJ GimmiCKs BESt placE to havE SEx IN puBlIc 1. BurninG man 2. downtown river walK 3. laKe tahoe BESt placE to SEE a coNcERt 1. KnittinG FaCtory 211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

2. the alley

211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

906 Victorian Ave., 358-8891

3. CarGo

Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia St., 398-5400

BESt BaR 1. CoaCh’s Grill & sports Bar 1573 S. Virginia St., 329-2202

906 Victorian Ave., 358-8891

3. Grand sierra resort

2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

BESt StRIp cluB 1. men’s CluB oF reno 270 N. Lake St., 786-7800

2. Fantasy Girls

1095 E. Fourth St., 322-2582

3. madam suzette’s red liGht CaBaret

45 Kit Kat Drive, Mound House, 246-8383

BESt coNcERt vENuE 1. KnittinG FaCtory 211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

2. the alley

906 Victorian Ave., 358-8891

3. CarGo

Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia St., 398-5400

BESt gay haNgout 1. 5 star saloon 132 West St., 329-2878

2. tronix

303 Kietzke Lane, 333-9696

3. the patio

600 W. Fifth St., 323-6565

BESt happy houR 1. Bistro napa

3800 S. Virginia St., 825-4700

2. old Granite street eatery 241 S. Sierra St., Reno, 622-3222

3. sierra Gold

680 S. Meadows Parkway, 850-1112

BESt BoWlINg allEy 1. Grand sierra resort

2500 E. Second St., 789-2000

2. wild island

250 Wild Island Court, Sparks, 359-2927

2. Chapel tavern

1099 South Virginia St., 324-2244

3. moonliGht BunnyranCh

69 Moonlight Road, Mound House, 246-9901

BESt coMEdy cluB 1. CatCh a risinG star

Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777

BESt MIcRoBREWERy 1. Great Basin BrewinG Company 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 355-7711

2. silver peaK restaurant & Brewery 135 N. Sierra St., 284-3300

3. Brasserie saint James 901 S Center St., 348-8888

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3. the patio

600 W. Fifth St., 323-6565

BESt dIvE BaR 1. shea’s tavern

715 S. Virginia St., Reno, 786-4774

2. 5 star saloon

132 West St., 329-2878

3. shooters saloon

434 N. Virginia St., 329-9646

BESt placE to hEaR quIEt MuSIc 1. reno musiC proJeCt

2. JuB JuB’s thirst parlor 71 S. Wells Ave., 384-1652

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235 W. Second St., 324-4255

3. the patio

Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia St., 398-5400

Our staff has a personal connection with each of our doggie clients, knowing their personalities and what makes them happy. Our facility is state-of-the-art, designed and build specifically for the dogs. Large windows and skylights which let plenty of natural sun shine into the indoor play areas, combined with an advanced ventilation system

2. CluB Cal neva

2. midtown wine Bar

125 W. Third St., 323-5005

What makes your business different than your competitors?

125 W. Third St., 323-5005

2. the alley 3. CarGo

Do a lot of research to find out what people are looking for, and then also figure out what you would want if you were your customer, and model your business around that criteria.

100 S. Virginia St., 322-5233

BESt opEN-MIc NIght 1. 3rd st.

906 Victorian Ave., 358-8891

Because doggy parents love picking up a tired dog at the end of their day or vacation, and going home to a house and yard that has NOT been destroyed by a bored or anxious pup!

Any advice for people who want to make their business “The Best”?

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3. amF starlite lanes

1201 Stardust St., 747-3522

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

are essential in providing a stress-free home-like environment. Our indoor play areas and outdoor yards are covered in K-9 Grass on raised grids for traction, cushioning and comfort. They are all connected through doggy doors so dogs are free to go inside and outside as they choose. And we have a “small dog only” area with its own yard, separate from the big doggie areas. Our staff provides close supervision and 24hr pampering for all doggie guests, whether they’re staying just for the day or for an extended vacation!

2. reno-tahoe Comedy/ pioneer underGround

BESt placE to hEaR loud MuSIc 1. KnittinG FaCtory 211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

We like to see how happy our facility makes the doggies.

We offer a very different environment than a warehouse daycare or typical dog kennel, and we love to see how the dogs benefit from our happy home-like environment.

The fact that they come excited each day for daycare, or happy and relaxed each time their parents drop them off before a vacation is very rewarding!

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BESt placE foR a fIRSt datE 1. The ChoColaTe Bar 95 N. Sierra St., 337-1122

2. PiCasso & Wine

148 Vassar St., 453-1168

3. CamPo

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

BESt tRIvIa NIght 1. sT. James infirmary

445 California Ave., 657-8484

2. Ceol irish PuB

538 S. Virginia St., 329-5558

3. sierra TaP house

253 W. First St., 322-7678

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BESt BEER SElEctIoN 1. CrafT Wine-n-Beer 22 Martin St., 622-4333

2. GreaT Basin BreWinG ComPany

846 Victorian Ave., 355-7711 5525 S. Virginia St. 284-7711

3. reno PuBliC house

33 Saint Lawrence Ave., 555-5663

3. ole BridGe PuB

5 N. Sierra St., 322-8877

BESt all-agES Spot 1. holland ProJeCT

CoaCh’s Grill & sports Bar

2. KniTTinG faCTory

211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

3. laKe Tahoe BESt placE to Buy SExy uNdERWEaR 1. ChoColaTe Walrus 1278 S. Virginia St., 825-2267

2. ViCToria’s seCreT

5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, 828-2785 13945 S. Virginia St., 853-9516

1st I had worked in many aspects of the Restaurant/Bar business over the years. An opportunity presented itself in 2012 for me to take over Coach’s. The rest is history!

What Inspires You To Go To Work Every Day?

I love what I do...My job is to make sure people are enjoying themselves...That is a great job to have!

Why Do You Think RN&R Readers Voted You The Best?

We take pride in all we do, be it the food, customer service or how our location looks.

Without our loyal customers, there is no Coach’s! We don’t take them for granted.

BESt Spot to Smooch uNdER thE StaRS 1. Windy hill 2. laKe Tahoe 3. TruCKee riVer BESt Spot to RuN aRouNd NakEd 1. BurninG man 2. laKe Tahoe 3. my house/BaCKyard BESt Spot to hIkE 1. mounT rose sKi Tahoe

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

2. laKe Tahoe 3. Galena CreeK ParK

18350 Mount Rose Highway, 849-2511

3. Tahoe rim Trail BESt SNoWBoaRdINg 1. mounT rose sKi Tahoe

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

2. norThsTar-aT-Tahoe

5001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, Calif., (800) 466-6784

3. squaW Valley usa

1960 Squaw Valley Road, Squaw Valley, Calif., (530) 583-6955

30 Cheney St., 742-1858

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7520 Longley Lane, 852-1162

What Makes Your Business Different Than Your Competitors?

We’re not the biggest or fanciest, but we take pride in our work! We have EXCELLENT food and our prices are reasonable. We make our soups, sauces and dips fresh daily! What other sports bar does that?

Any Advice For People Who Want To Make Their Business “The Best”?

Re-invest in your business consistently. Don’t pull every dime out of it and let your location go to shit.

BESt placE to cuRE youR haNgovER 1. reno nuGGeT 233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

BESt SkI RESoRt 1. mounT rose sKi Tahoe

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

1099 South Virginia St., 324-2244

420 S. Sierra St., 329-2600

BESt daNcE cluB 1. edGe niGhT sPoT

Peppermill, 2707 S. Virginia St., 689-7444

2. BuBinGa lounGe

Eldorado, 345 N. Virginia St., 786-5700

3. Tronix

303 Kietzke Lane, 333-9696

306 E. Fourth St., 324-5426

901 S. Center St., 348-8888

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BESt mouNtaIN BIkINg 1. Tahoe flume Trail 2. Tahoe rim Trail 3. norThsTar-aT-Tahoe 5001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784

BESt local hot SpRINgS 1. daVid Walley’s hoT sPrinGs resorT and sPa 2001 Foothill Road, Genoa, 782-8155

2. sTeamBoaT hoT sPrinGs 16010 S. Virginia St., 853-6600

3. sierra hoT sPrinGs

521 Campbell Hot Springs Road, Sierraville, Calif., (530) 994-3773

3. Carson hoT sPrinGs resorT

1500 Hot Springs Road, Carson City, 888-917-3711

BESt golf couRSE 1. red haWK Golf and resorT 6295 Wingfield Springs Road, Sparks, 626-6000

3. norThsTar-aT-Tahoe

3. Thunder Canyon CounTry CluB

5001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, Calif., (800) 466-6784

BESt SkIINg 1. mounT rose sKi Tahoe

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

2. squaW Valley usa

1960 Squaw Valley Road, Squaw Valley, Calif., (530) 583-6955

3. alPine meadoWs

2600 Alpine Meadows Road, Tahoe City, Calif., (800) 403-0206

BESt placE to SWIm 1. laKe Tahoe 2. TruCKee riVer 3. sand harBor

2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, 831-0494

BESt placE to RIdE a pERSoNal WatERcRaft 1. laKe Tahoe 2. Pyramid laKe 3. BoCa reserVoir BESt pIcNIc Spot 1. ranCho san rafael 2. TruCKee riVer 3. idleWild ParK

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2. laKeridGe Golf Course

1960 Squaw Valley Road, Squaw Valley, Calif., (530) 583-6955

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1218 Golf Club Drive, 825-2200

19 Lightning W Ranch Road, Washoe Valley, 882-0882

FOOd & drink BESt fRozEN yoguRt 1. sWeeT froG 6637 S. Virginia St., 853-2020

2. honey TreaT

5000 Smithridge Drive, 827-2221

3. sCooPs

501 W Fourth St. 432-2662

BESt fRENch fRIES 1. The nuGGeT

233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

2. Jox

3652 S. Virginia St., 827-6688

3. fiVe Guys BurGers and fries

6395 S. McCarran Blvd., 737-4844

3. JuiCy’s GianT hamBurGers 301 S. Wells Ave., 322-2600

BESt Salad 1. GreaT full Gardens Cafe 555 S. Virginia St., 324-2013

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I was born and raised in Reno. I have been a plastic surgeon in Reno for the past fifteen years.

294 East Moana #10 REno, nV 89502 (775) 329-0800 sEan@RoundsbakERy.coM IntervIew wIth Sean Cary, Co-owner

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My specialty is breast augmentation. I perform more breast augmentations than any other procedure.

I take great pride when patients come to my office and tell me that they came to see me because my post-operative pictures were the best they had seen. I love to see patients’ faces light up after their surgery, they love their new shape, and their confidence soars. They feel so good about themselves. It makes my job very rewarding.

Are there any new procedures or technology in plastic surgery that excite you?

We have just introduced the newest laser for tattoo removal, the PicoSure laser. The PicoSure laser is the most advanced laser for tattoo removal to date.

The PicoSure removes tattoos in fewer treatments and with better clearance. It also treats unwanted hyperpigmentation on patients faces. We are fortunate to be the only office to have this new laser, it has really changed the way we treat tattoos and facial hyperpigmentation.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

It’s really difficult to narrow that down to any one thing. My job is so rewarding on so many levels, the smile on a parent’s face after repairing their child’s cleft lip, the excitement after a patient sees

their new look after a breast aug or a tummy tuck. The pride you feel knowing a patient trust you with a very important and personal event - their surgery.

No two surgeries are the same, you never stop learning or trying to perfect your craft. Sometimes it’s stressful, sometimes it’s aw-inspiring, but it’s always rewarding.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

I hope it’s because they recognize my commitment to doing the best I can for each patient on each surgery. That my relaxed, easy-going manner helps patients feel comfortable, and confident that they are choosing a surgeon that has their best interest at heart. That I choose safety over the growing trend to do multiple procedures at once. It’s not how many procedures you do, but how well you do each surgery.

When and how did you get started in this business?

Rounds Bakery, formerly the Bagel Stand, opened over on Longley Lane in the early 1990’s. My partner Anton Novak and I took it over at the beginning of the year. We saw a business that was in serious trouble and we came in and turned it around. We have taken a business that was literally days away from closing down and in just 6 short months we have turned it into a thriving local destination.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

We love what we do and we love our customers.

Making yummy things is what we do. Our number one job is to fill bellies and warm hearts.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

Our bagels are made the correct way, from scratch, every day. Not only are we so thankful to be voted Best Bagel, we are so elated to take 2nd place for Best Bakery, Best Bread and Best Doughnut.

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Coast method is just a round piece of bread with a hole in it. Also, social responsibility is paramount at Rounds Bakery. In the first 6 months of operation, we have donated over one ton of food the homeless shelter.

Any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

Make it your core philosophy to grow your business BECAUSE of the community, NOT on the backs of the community. Give back first, not as an after thought. Listen to your employees and to your customers. Love what you do and it will come across in every facet of your business. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Oh, and I did I mention LISTEN to your employees and your customers.

What makes your business different than your competitors?

Correctness of the product, for starters. A bagel that isn’t made in the old fashioned East

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Don Carano opened the Eldorado Resort Casino in 1973 with 282 guest room, two restaurants and 10,000 square feet of gaming space with 200 slots and 12 table games. Since then, the Eldorado has seen numerous expansions and remodels. Located in what is now considered the heart of downtown Reno, the Eldorado boasts nine award-winning restaurants, unlimited nightlife, a Broadway-style showroom, 817 luxuriously appointed guest room and 81,000 square feet of gaming action, including 1,500 of the most popular, industry leading slots, 55 table games, a Keno Lounge, state-of-the-art Race & Sports Book and Poker Room.

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

At the Eldorado, we strive to always be the best – from our world-class service and friendly employees to our incredible food and great bars and nightlife offerings. We make all our food fresh daily in our nine award-winning restaurants, we bring in fantastic Broadway-style shows to our showroom and we are committed to creating an excellent guest experience.

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We have the most incredible employees who go above and beyond for our guests each and every day. They make a genuine effort to take care of all our guests’ needs. We’re also a family-owned property with very involved owners. The Carano family truly cares about the community and making the Eldorado experience the best it can be.

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3. niCk’S Greek deli

3. Campo

Best thai 1. BanGkok CuiSine

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787 50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

Best salad Bar 1. Whole FoodS market

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

600 S. Virginia St., 786-9613

55 Mt. Rose St., 322-0299

2. thai lotuS

6430 S. Virginia St. A, 852-5033

2. Sizzler

3. thai Chili CuiSine

3. touCan Charlie’S BuFFet & Grille

Best salvadoran 1. el SalVador reStaurant

615 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 3563969

Atlantis Casino Resort Spa 3800 S. Virginia St., 824-4433

Best Mexican 1. el adoBe CaFé

55 W. Arroyo St., 327-4422

2. Bertha miranda’S mexiCan reStaurant and Cantina 336 Mill St., 786-9697

3. loS CompadreS

25 Foothill Road, 284-1301

Best italian 1. la VeCChia riStorante 3005 Skyline Blvd., 825-1113

2. Johnny’S riStorante italiano 4245 W. Fourth St., 747-4511

3. mario’S portoFino riStorante italiano

1505 S. Virginia St., 825-7779

Best Basque 1. louiS’ BaSque Corner reStaurant 301 E. Fourth St., 323-7203

2. Sante Fe hotel

235 Lake St. 323-1891

3. J t BaSque Bar & dininG room

1426 U.S. 395, Gardnerville, (775) 782-2074

Best sushi 1. hiroBa SuShi

3005 Skyline Blvd., 829-2788

2. iJJi SuShi

685 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 3568668

3. tha Joint SuShi & Grill 222 Los Altos Parkway, Sparks, 626-8677

Best Japanese 1. iChiBan

206 N. Virginia St. 323-5550

2. iJJi SuShi

685 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 3568668

3. hiroBa SuShi

3005 Skyline Blvd., 829-2788

Best Greek 1. niko’S Greek kitChen 148 West St., 284-3678

2. opa CaFe

1030 S. Virginia St., 786-7878

517 Forest St., 329-3022

Best coFFee roaster 1. huB CoFFee roaSterS 350 Evans Ave., 323-1038

2. Wood-Fire roaSted CoFFee Company 30 Ohm Place, 856-2033

3. maGpie CoFFee roaSterS 545 E. Fourth St., 393-9442

Best pizza parlor 1. noBle pie parlor

239 W. Second St., 622-9222

2. Wild GarliC

Mt. Rose St., 284-8900

2. el paiSano taqueria & pupuSeria

3. J.J.’S pie Co.

3. CaSa de oro

Best BreakFast 1. peG’S GloriFied ham & eGGS

1901 Silverada Blvd., Sparks, 324-5355

5220 Longley Lane, 853-4442

Best French restaurant 1. BeauJolaiS BiStro

753 Riverside Drive, 323-2227

2. 4th St. BiStro

3065 W. Fourth St., 323-3200

3. lulou’S reStaurant

1470 S. Virginia St., 329-9979

Best vietnaMese 1. Golden FloWer reStaurant 205 W. Fifth St., 323-1628

555 W. Fifth St., 786-5555

420 S. Sierra St., 329-2600

2. the Stone houSe CaFe

1907 S. Arlington Ave., 624-5745

3. peG’S GloriFied ham & eGGS

Best truckee restaurant 1. moody’S BiStro, Bar & BeatS

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

2. CottonWood

Best veGetarian 1. Great Full GardenS CaFe

3. reStaurant trokay

2. pneumatiC diner

3. Jax at the traCkS

555 S. Virginia St., 324-2013 501 W. First St., 786-8888

3. lauGhinG planet

650 Tahoe St., 360-2592

Best BurGer 1. aWFul aWFul at the nuGGet 233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

2. JuiCy’S Giant hamBurGerS 301 S. Wells Ave., 322-2600

3. BurGer me

6280 Sharlands Ave., 737-9404

Best Bakery 1. homaGe Bakery

519 Ralston St., 323-8952

2. roundS Bakery

294 E Moana Lane, 329-0800

3. houSe oF Bread

My personal hopes and aspirations are what inspire me. Passions and the need to feel useful (for me it translates to: cook the best food I know for others). Other people’s success inspires me.

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Any Advice For People Who Want to Make Their Business The Best?

Find what you enjoy doing the most and research/ develop those skills. Be true to yourself and be humble. Be selfreliant. Ask questions when you need it, never hold back. Work hard, and treat and value your staff as much as you do your customers.

Why do14 you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

I’d say it’s our commitment to quality, in all aspect of La Vecchia’s experience. We strive to provide authentic Italian fare. We use free range chicken, eggs, organic greens and vegetables (fresh from our garden when available), wild fish, etc. Our service is detail oriented, and we have a high rate of success, in fulfilling our customer’s needs. I think people recognize that. Of course having a great view doesn’t hurt either…

What makes your business different than your competitors?

Intimate knowledge about “all that is Italian” makes us standout when it comes to Italian food

Thank you, Reno news & Review Readers for voting us #1 for Best Print Shop aGaIn! “Digiprint not only gets my printing done right and on time, but their staff treats me like family. I can’t imagine using anyone else.”

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Best new restaurant 1. lauGhinG planet 650 Tahoe St., 360-2592

2. Great Full GardenS CaFe 555 S. Virginia St., 324-2013

3. heritaGe

255 N. Virginia St., 398-5454

Best Fine dininG 1. 4th St. BiStro

3065 W. Fourth St., 323-3200

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1470 S. Virginia St., 329-9979

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3. WhiSperinG Vine Wine Co.

530 W. Plumb Lane, 323-7733

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2. roundS Bakery

294 E Moana Lane, 329-0800

culture. It is reflected in our menus, wine selections and even our cocktails. We go the extra mile to maintain the highest standard, our patrons have become accustomed to, with our friendly service and the proud appearance of our restaurant.

10046 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, Calif., (530) 582-1040

Best Fresh Bread 1. houSe oF Bread

1185 California Ave., 322-0773

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10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee, Calif., (530) 587-5711

Best wine Bar 1. WeSt Street Wine Bar, WeSt Street market

1185 California Ave., 322-0773

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201 E. Second St., 323-7777

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Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., 785-9066

2. MoonLite Bunny Ranch

69 Moonlite Road, Carson City, 246-9240

3. chocoLate BaR

95 N. Sierra St., 337-1122

Best solo dining 1. Midtown eats

2. newMan’s deLi

Best place to eat when drunk 1. the nugget

3. deLi towne usa

180 E. First St., 786-1117

233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

239 W. Second St., 622-9222

3. goLd-n-siLveR

790 W. Fourth St., 323-2696

3. süp

2. the seed

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

Best outdoor dining 1. the stone house cafe

1907 S. Arlington Ave., 624-5745

2. wiLd RiveR gRiLLe

17 S. Virginia St., 284-7455

3. caMpo

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

20 California Ave., 348-8884

2. noBLe pie paRLoR

2. BRasseRie saint JaMes 901 S. Center St., 348-8888

3650 Lakeside Drive, 826-4466

Best seafood 1. RapscaLLion seafood house & BaR 1555 S. Wells Ave., 323-1211

2. oceano, peppeRMiLL ResoRt spa casino

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

3. atLantis casino ResoRt

191 Damonte Ranch Pkwy., 852-1401 1085 S. Virginia St. B, 284-5545

3. JaMBa Juice

5140 Kietzke Lane, 828-5483

Best produce 1. gReat Basin coMMunity food co-op 240 Court St., 324-6133

2. whoLe foods MaRket

3800 S. Virginia St., 825-4700

Best sparks restaurant 1. gReat Basin BRewing co.

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 355-7711

2. BJ’s BaRBecue

80 E. Victorian Ave., 355-1010

3. pinocchio’s BaR & gRiLL

4820 Vista Blvd., Sparks, 626-0101

Best amBience 1. caMpo

3. RaLey’s supeRMaRkets

Best food truck 1. gouRMeLt gRiLLed cheese tRuck

2. BeauJoLais BistRo

Best chicken wings 1. noBLe pie paRLoR

2. eLectRic BLue eLephant

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023 1441 Mayberry Drive, 786-3655

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555 753 Riverside Drive, 323-2227

Best restaurant view 1. La vecchia 3005 Skyline Blvd., 14 825-1113

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239 W. Second St., 622-9222

2. Jox

3652 S. Virginia St., 827-6688

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719 S Virginia St., 324-3287

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50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

3. faMous dave’s BBQ

4925 Kietzke Ln., 826-7427

Best vodka selection 1. chapeL taveRn 1099 N. Virginia St., 324-2244

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Best margarita 1. eL adoBe café

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8195 S. Virginia St., 827-3585 1415 S. Virginia St., 322-2722

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57 Damonte Ranch Pkwy., 8536844

2. Rounds

294 E. Moana Lane, 329-0800

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2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

855 Mill St., 348-8264

2. cheRRy BoMB cateRing

PO Box 4275, Sparks, 287-4121

3. faMous dave’s BBQ

4925 Kietzke Lane, 826-7427

Best steak 1. haRRah’s steak house 219 N. 14Virginia St., 788-2929

2. atLantis steakhouse

3800 S. Virginia St., 824-4430

Best tahoe restaurant 1. gaR woods gRiLL & pieR

3. the steakhouse, westeRn viLLage inn & casino

2. t’s MesQuite RotisseRie

Best cheap eats 1. Beto’s Mexican food

3. Lone eagLe gRiLL

2. goLd-n-siLveR inn

5000 N. Lake Blvd., Carnelian Bay, (530) 546-3366 901 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, 831-2832

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Best wine list 1. west stReet wine BaR, west stReet MaRket

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Eldorado Hotel-Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., 785-9066

Best BarBecue restaurant 1. faMous dave’s BBQ

247-3299

2. MuRRietta’s RestauRant and cantina

3. MoonLite Bunny Ranch

69 Moonlite Road, Carson City, 246-9240

(530) 414-4836

3. kenJi’s food tRuck

148 West St., 336-3560

55 W. Arroyo St., 327-4422

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575 W. Fifth St., 324-0632

790 W. Fourth St., 323-2696

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233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

628 S. Virginia St., 322-2323

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When and how did you get started in this business?

I got started in a business called “Yogurt Is?” opened by Kent Gardella in 1974 and have had the opportunity to work for some great people in this town and learn how food is done right with no short cuts. Barbeque I have to say has been very exciting to be involved with and learning all the right methods in making the “Best BBQ”.

What inspires you to go to work every day?

It is the challenge to do something fun, make people happy, create a Famous brand and build a great team that enjoys what they do in our industry and of course I get to eat the food everyday!

Why do you think RN&R readers voted you the best?

I see a lot of smiles on our guests faces as they are visiting our location and dining on our barbeque so I would have to say we made them happy with good food and a fun place to enjoy it in.

What makes your business different than your competition?

Being a part of a national brand like Famous Dave’s gives us the standards of excellent food prepared authentically as the founder had made it

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Got any advice for people who want to make their business the best?

Set your standards and hold to them, always listen to the feedback of your guests and staff, be happy doing what you are doing everyday it will show and of course don’t be afraid to make a profit so you can stay in business!!

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BESt SaNdWIch Shop 1. delI Towne usa

2. Flavors oF IndIa

2. yosh’s unIQue delI

3. TasTe oF IndIa (Closed)

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BESt local BEER 1. IChThyosaur IndIa Pale ale

BESt chINESE 1. PalaIs de Jade FIne ChInese CuIsIne

1091 S. Virginia St., 348-6222 1885 S. Virginia St., 323-4100 315 E. Moana Lane, 825-3008

Great Basin Brewing Co.

2. saIsonbeer

Under the Rose Brewing Co.

3. red headed sTranger Brasserie St. James

BESt SmoothIE 1.The human bean oF reno

8050 S. Virginia St., 853-2326 3915 S. McCarran Blvd., 800-1544

2. The seed

1085 S. Virginia St., 657-8743

3. Jamba JuICe (Closed)

1495 E. Prater Way, 358-7767

BESt gREaSy SpooN 1. gold-n-sIlver Inn 790 W. Fourth St., 323-2696

2. The nuggeT

233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

3. bIg ed’s alley Inn

1036 E. Fourth St., 348-6494

BESt dESSERt 1. CamPo resTauranT

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

2. homage baKery

519 Ralston St., 323-8952

3. The ChoColaTe bar 95 N. Sierra St., 337-1122

BESt latE-NIght dININg 1. golden Flower vIeTnamese resTauranT 205 W. Fifth St., 323-1628

2. The nuggeT

233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

3. gold-n-sIlver Inn

790 W. Fourth St., 323-2696

BESt caRSoN REStauRaNt 1. adele’s resTauranT and lounge 1112 N. Carson St., 882-3353

2. red’s old 395 grIll

1055 S. Carson St., 887-0395

3. sassaFras

318 N. Carson St., 887-8879

BESt BuSINESS luNch 1. CamPo

3650 Lakeside Drive, 826-4466 85 Foothill Road, 853-9674 669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

960 W. Moana Lane, 827-5233

2. 168 CaFe

2303 S. Virginia St., 622-3097

3. CJ PalaCe

29 Los Altos Parkway, Sparks, 626-8878

BESt SoupS 1. süP

BESt SERvER 1. lea allen, marIo’s PorToFIno 2. Trevor huTTon, Famous dave’s 3. JessIe waTnes, gourmelT BESt WhISkEy/BouRBoN/ Scotch SElEctIoN 1. ChaPel Tavern 1099 N. Virginia St., 324-2244

2. Ceol IrIsh Pub

538 S. Virginia St., 329-5558

3. deaTh & Taxes

26 Cheney St., 324-2630

BESt Bloody maRy 1. ChaPel Tavern

1099 S. Virginia St., 324-2244

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

2. greaT Full gardens CaFe 555 S. Virginia St., 324-2013

3. whole Foods marKeT

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

BESt RENo REStauRaNt 1. CamPo 50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

2. brasserIe saInT James 901 S. Center St., 348-8888

3. marIo’s PorToFIno rIsToranTe ITalIano

2. sTone house CaFe

1907 S. Arlington Ave., 284-3895

3. Famous dave’s bbQ

4925 Kietzke Lane, 826-7427

BESt tEquIla SElEctIoN 1. ChaPel Tavern 1099 S. Virginia St., 324-2244

BESt cookINg School 1. noThIng To IT! CulInary CenTer

3. la veCChIa

32 Cheney St., 323-3482 727 Riverside Drive, 323-1911 682 Mount Rose St., 800-1090 460 S. Sierra St., 329-2114

225 Crummer Lane, 826-2628

2. lanna ThaI CaFe & CulInary sChool

800 W. Second St., 284-1080

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340 California Ave., 333-1025

3. The grIll aT QuaIl Corners

3. bodawgs

2. ChuCK e. Cheese’s

1625 N. Virginia St., 770-4555

CaRsON City 1227 S. Carson Street Fax: 775.883.4908 Ph: 775.883.3077

205 S. Sierra St., 329-0800

2. Freeman’s naTural hoTdogs (Closed)

6520 S. McCarran Blvd., 827-6262

Photo Service

2. eInsTeIn bros bagels

BESt hot dog 1. sInbad’s hoT dogs oF nevada

106 California Ave., 322-3434

RENO 5067 S. McCarran Blvd.

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2. sodo

275 Hill St., 322-2710

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50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

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3. TruCKee meadows CommunITy College

7000 Dandini Blvd., 674-7660

SuPPlieS

250 Evans Ave., 334-7092

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3. bIbo CoFFee Co.

1907 S. Arlington Ave., 284-3895

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3. Famous dave’s

4925 Kietzke Lane, 826-7427

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BESt WEEkNIght actIvIty 1. Reno aces gaMe

250 Evans Ave., 334-4700

2. West WinD el Rancho DRive in

555 El Rancho Drive, Sparks, 358-6920

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3. boxeRs & buDDies

1595 N. Sierra St.

3. galena cReek paRk 18250 Mt. Rose Highway

BESt WEEkENd actIvIty 1. Reno aces gaMe

3. Float/play/Walk by the tRuckee RiveR BESt toy StoRE 1. leaRning expRess toys 197 Damonte Ranch Parkway, 853-7884 5110 Mae Anne Ave., 787-5646

2. toys R us

5000 Smithridge Drive, 827-8697

3. happy happy Joy Joy 955 S. Virginia St., 562-1113

BESt thINgS to do oN a FRIday NIght 1. Reno aces 250 Evans Ave., 334-4700

2. Movies 3. FooD tRuck FRiDays BESt placE to takE thE kIdS 1. teRRy lee Wells nevaDa DiscoveRy MuseuM 490 S. Center St., 786-1000

2. lake tahoe 3. coconut boWl

140 Vesta St., 742-1858

2500 E. Second St., 789-2439

1595 N. Sierra St.

2. iDleWilD paRk 1900 Idlewild Drive

3. pah Rah Mountain paRk 1750 Shadow Lane, Sparks

BESt local lIBRaRy 1. DoWntoWn Reno libRaRy 301 S. Center St., 327-8312

2. south valleys libRaRy

15650 A. Wedge Pkwy., 851-5190

3. noRthWest Reno libRaRy 2325 Robb Drive, 787-4100

BESt FamIly outINg 1. lake tahoe 2. caMping 3. teRRy lee Wells nevaDa DiscoveRy MuseuM 490 S. Center St., 786-1000

BESt chaRtER School 1. coRal acaDeMy oF science chaRteR school 1701 Valley Road, 322-1328

BESt muRal 1. cRaFt Wine & beeR 22 Martin St., 622-4333

2. Junkee clothing exchange

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

BESt chaRIty RacE oR Walk 1. MoMs on the Run 2. nevaDa huMane society Walk FoR aniMals 3. susan g. koMen Race FoR the cuRe BESt chuRch 1. living stones 445 S. Virginia St., 622-9772

2. unitaRian univeRsalist FelloWship oF noRtheRn nevaDa 780 Del Monte Lane, 851-7100

3. ouR laDy oF the snoWs catholic chuRch 1138 Wright St, 323-6894

BESt day tRIp 1. lake tahoe 2. viRginia city 3. sanD haRboR state paRk BESt dog paRk 1. Rancho san RaFael Regional paRk

2. high DeseRt MontessoRi

2. link piazzo Dog paRk

2590 Orovada St., 624-2800

BESt pIcNIc Spot 1. Rancho san RaFael Regional paRk

BESt 4th oF July FIREWoRkS 1. John ascuaga’s nugget

2. iDleWilD paRk

2. lake tahoe 3. Reno aces staDiuM

BESt dRag quEEN 1. gingeR Devine BESt gay pRIdE EvENt 1. Reno gay pRiDe Festival 2. noRtheRn nevaDa pRiDe Festival & coMMunity paRaDe BESt INdEpENdENt aRt gallERy 1. Reno aRt WoRks

3. WingFielD paRk 300 W. First St.

BESt placE to INtRoducE kIdS to NatuRE 1. lake tahoe 2. Rancho san RaFael

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THANK YOU For your votes again this year!

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1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, 3563300

250 Evans Ave., 334-4700

BESt aNImal ShEltER 1. nevaDa huMane society 2825 Longley Lane, 856-2000

2. spca oF noRtheRn nevaDa 4950 Spectrum Blvd., 324-7773

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3. spaRks MaRina paRk

1595 N. Sierra St.

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Wild Island Family Adventure Park, 250 Wild Island Court, Sparks, 359-2927

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2. RainshaDoW coMMunity chaRteR high school 121 Vesta St., 322-5566

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490 S. Center St., 786-1000

1400 S. Virginia St., 786-0558

3. the hollanD pRoJect

2707 S. Virginia St., (866) 821-9996

BESt paRk 1. Rancho san RaFael Regional paRk

2. lake tahoe 3. teRRy lee Wells nevaDa DiscoveRy MuseuM

160 W. Liberty St., 329-3333

2. stReMMel galleRy

3800 S. Virginia St., 825-4700

2. aRcaDe xtReMe at peppeRMill ResoRt spa casino 3. Fun Quest at gRanD sieRRa ResoRt

250 Aces Ave., 334-4700

BESt aRt gallERy 1. nevaDa MuseuM oF aRt

BESt aRcadE gamES 1. atlantis FaMily enteRtainMent Fun centeR

3. FeeD the caMel

McKinley Arts and Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, 450-0062

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1400 S. Virginia St., 786-0558

2. the holland Project 140 Vesta St., 742-1858

Best kept secret 1. homaGe Bakery 519 Ralston St., 323-8952

2. awful awful BurGer

The Little Nugget, 233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

2. won’t tell Best local Band 1. the GreG Golden Band 2. jelly Bread 3. moondoG matinee Best local Band alBum 1. Vacancy at the wonder lodGe By moondoG matinee 2. funk in PuBlic By mojo Green Best dance instructor 1. BB flanderS 2. leSa duSich 3. haleiGh hoff Best local dance company 1. reno dance comPany 2. aVa Ballet theatre 3. neVada dance academy Best local theater company 1. Brüka theatre 99 N. Virginia St., 323-3221

2. Good luck macBeth

713 S. Virginia St., 322-3716

3. reno little theater

147 E. Pueblo St., 329-0661

Best local weBsite 1. www.BizarreGuitar.com 2. www.Bunnyranch.com 3. www.newSreView.com/ reno 3. httP://renomomSBloG. com Best monthly event 1. wine walk 2. firSt thurSdayS at the neVada muSeum of art 3. food truck fridayS

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Best neighBorhood 1. midtown 14 2. old SouthweSt reno 3. northweSt reno Best non-casino thing to do downtown 14 1. downtown riVerwalk 2. float/Play/walk By the 14 truckee riVer 3. artown Best place to meet gay singles 1. 5 Star Saloon 132 West St., 329-2878

2. tronix

303 Kietzke Lane, 333-9696

3. the Patio

600 W. Fifth St., 323-6565

Best place to meet straight singles 1. St. jameS infirmary

445 California Ave., 657-8484

2. Grand Sierra reSort

2500 E. Second St., 789-2000

3. Shea’S taVern

715 S. Virginia St., 786-7447

Best place to people watch 1. truckee riVer walk 2. downtown reno 3. winGfield Park 300 W. First St.

Best radio station 1. 100.1 kthx 2. 104.1 krzQ 3. 104.5 kdot Best talk show host 1. Bill & connie 2. roB, arnie & dawn 3. chriS Payne Best scandal 1. harVey whittemore 2. firinG of Pedro martinez 3. mayoral race/election Best reason to live in reno 1. the weather/SeaSonS/ climate 2. lake tahoe 3. outdoor recreation

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most environmentally conscious company 1. Great BaSin community food co-oP 240 Court St., 324-6133

2. PataGonia

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3. whole foodS market

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

3. PePPermill reSort SPa caSino 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best local farm 1. loSt city farm

512 S. Center St. www.lostcityfarm. com

2. Girlfarm/Grow for me SuStainaBle farm

1400 Long Valley Road, 221-0001

3. riVer School farm

7777 White Fir St., 747-2222

Best non-profit group 1. neVada humane Society 2825 Longley Lane, 856-2000

2. momentS of memory

2346 Palmer Court, 848-4757

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3. urBan rootS

3001 W. Fourth St., 636-5105

Best green event 1. earth day 2. ktmB’S Great community cleanuP Best green store 1. Great BaSin community food co-oP 240 Court St., 324-6133

2. whole foodS

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

3. trader joe’S

5035 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-1621

Best special event in downtown reno 1. artown 2. hot auGuSt niGhtS 3. neVada humane Society duck race and feStiVal Best special event in downtown sparks 1. BeSt-in-the-weSt nuGGet riB cook-off 2. hot auGuSt niGhtS 3. farmerS’ marketS

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