Letters............................ 3 Opinion/Streetalk............ 5 Sheila.Leslie.................... 6 Brendan.Trainor.............. 7 News.............................. 8 Green............................ 11 Feature......................... 13 Arts&Culture................ 16 Art.of.the.State............. 19
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MONEY FOR NOTHING See Left Foot Forward, page 6.
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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I don’t have what you’d call an addictive personality. There are few substances I haven’t idly sampled and lived to tell about. Nicotine was a long-term habit, pretty much the best part of 35 years, and I’ve always been a hard drinker, but I feel like the one who got away, as far as horrible addictions go. I thank first-person journalism because I don’t have to withhold my feelings, but I have had many family members who’ve been beset by that monster. But when I get anal about something—anal retentive, which means I can’t let something go, referring to Sigmund Freud’s psychological stage—I’m like a dog with a bone. Particularly if I’m chewing on a bone. Or alphabetizing books. Or reading Twitter. If I’m going to be a gardener, I’m going to take the master gardener classes. If I’m going to learn app design, I’m going to sell cutting edge apps on the open market. If I’m going to do a master’s, I’m going to do two—at the same time. You get the picture. It’s related to my ADHD. I know that because my shrink told me it was back when I considered— and tried—taking medicine for it. ADHD-positive people call it hyper-focus. People who have a problem with it, call it “obsessive.” But I’ve always considered it part one of the best things about me. I have an incredibly long attention span when I’m working on something that interests me. But my interest can drop like a penny when something more interesting comes along. I took the anti-ADHD drugs for a few months, but I quit them because I lost that hyper-focus. I also lost the bad temper, and the busybodiness, and my tendency to have a whole separate conversation going in my head when I’m talking to someone. But none of that “better human being” stuff was as important as sacrificing one of my favorite attributes about myself. I often think about that when somebody is telling me about shortcomings. Usually I think about it at the exact moment they’re telling me. Usually I think about it at the exact moment they’re telling me right before I move on in my head to categorizing the contents of the freezer.
Re “The next generation” (Feature story, Feb. 19): The answer is yes. As the artist who runs The Generator, the whole point of the space is to create a sustainable long term arts ecosystem in Reno that is not tied to any one particular interest, style or discipline. The Generator is not a Burning Man arts organization. We are not funded by the event. It acts as inspiration in the same way that the Tate Modern in London acts as inspiration. We are creating a long-term sustainable arts environment in conjunction with a wide range of arts organizations. And at no point has our mission been exclusively tied to Burning Man. We think there is inherent value to the ideas expressed in the desert and the question is: How do we bring those ideas and concepts to the real world in a way that helps to benefit everyone? In working with the city, we are trying to find a way to create a venue for everyone to show and see art in Reno at little to no cost to the city. It is a park that most cities and states pay for. We are going to fund the park using private funds and have it open to the public for free. Matthew Schultz Reno Editor’s note: The question Matthew Shultz is answering is, “Is The Generator Phase 2, a potential land deal between the city and a Burning Man-affiliated arts organization, good for Reno?”
Who does Congress work for? Re “When ignorance reigns” (Editorial, Feb. 12): There seems to be a consensus that a major problem in society is our lack of communication. It’s much easier to agree with a point of view similar to your own; therein lies the secret to the success of FOX news, or Rush, or others of their ilk. They can be found in a lie or discredited in some way, on a daily basis. But if you try to tell that to a “believer,” you will get nowhere. Their eyes glaze over
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when you suggest they “fact check” something, like, oh, I don’t know— something like science. Your editorial correctly points out that ignorance does indeed reign, and this is where we are today. A lie propelled forward through the media is a powerful thing when we have a percentage of our population who refuse to think for themselves. Unfortunately, there is nothing new here. Some of us have watched in horror as the failed policies of the drug war have wreaked havoc on society for many decades. Ignorance reigns! The government is responsible for this. The propaganda machine was hard at work in concert with media to sell the idiocy of criminalizing drug users. Why should we expect some folks to not shut them out completely, and instead listen to the soothing ranting of Hannity? Some of us have seen this coming, but it only adds to our cynicism that things will not change until we are faced with real calamity, the kind that will affect everyone, including those who think they are untouchable. It’s sad to think how little humans have evolved, and yet, how much we have accomplished in spite of it all. That is the reason I’m somehow still hopeful we can overcome this nonsense of hate and the feeling of needing to avenge something. Congress needs to do something FOR the people, not against them for a change. Then maybe folks will be a bit more amiable and perhaps, begin to listen to reason and get their kids vaccinated for the good of all of society, not just a select few. J.R. Reynolds Reno
Working for the wolves Re “Buck Wild” (Green, Feb. 5): The Bureau of Land Management is on the side of the ranchers and cattlemen! If left to BLM and our government, they will round up every wild horse left. These horses are
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housed in pens, which is the most ridiculous plan! BLM has provided no shade in the summer or shelter in the winter for the horses they have previously taken off the range. The helicopter roundup is horrible, and horses stampede from fear and many young ones are trampled in the process. Most are sold to kill buyers at auctions and end up in slaughtered in Canada or Mexico; they are subjected to abuse and torture along the way. How can our government spend millions to make this happen just for special interest groups? Where’s the democracy? Taxpayers are basically funding the wild horse extinction! Janice Kyle Columbus, Georgia
A bad idea whose time has come to die What do ‘being struck by lightning’ and ‘finding a five-leaf clover’ have in common? Both are more likely than being legally killed by an armed citizen. Never mind, say gun toters, who insist that just showing a gun usually stops a crime. All told 2.5 million times per year, according to the NRA’s pet study, a 1994 telephone survey of about 5,000 people. Of course, if you asked 5,000 people about Bigfoot sightings, in theory you could get a Sasquatch count, where they live, so forth. But could you find as many in the wild? Those welldebunked 1994 numbers predict that in Northern Nevada we should see 35-40 gun defenses police are aware of, with 13-15 involving shooting, and at least five perpetrators should be killed or wounded. Charles Bronson twice a day, Reno? These actually happen so rarely, you can probably recall only a few—don’t count that guy who’s up for murder, just yet. (No surprise that redefining murder is the other front in the gun culture war.) If there’s scant benefit to having concealed carriers on campus, is there any real harm? Well, we know that gun accidents outnumber heroes 4 to 1 in other settings, and you can already detect dozens of gun mishaps on campus with a simple Google
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search. The most ironic incident was in Arkansas, where an accidental shooting at the college radio station bookended a professor’s testimony against allowing guns on campus. This is one time we all need to call the Legislature’s comment line (775-6846800) and put a stop to a very bad idea. No on AB 148. No on AB 2. C.G. Green Reno
Everybody come together Re “The next generation” (Feature story, Feb. 19): Expanding Generator 2 isn’t taking away from other amazing art projects in town such as Reno Art Works, the Holland Project or Cuddleworks. There’s a new gallery in town—the Lasting Dose, and I know that the creators of that worked at and with the Generator. The Generator isn’t only for Burning Man; it’s for the arts community in Reno. Instead of fighting for a piece of a small pie, I think what’s being attempted is to make the pie bigger for everybody. I hope that becomes more apparent so that we can all come together and make Reno an amazing arts destination. Heaven knows we definitely have the talent. Michelle Leutzinger Reno
Spare the children I am writing because I am concerned about AB No. 148, and I’m against it as a mother of children in the public school system in Nevada. AB No. 148 would allow concealed weapons on any public property in Nevada, including college campuses and public schools. If AB 148 passes this will cause much more harm than good. Look at the school teacher who accidentally shot herself in an elementary school in Taylorsville, Utah. What if that bullet had hit a child? Lisa Cooper Reno
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Knock off the PR Nevada has an excess of two commodities: (1) residents who want to be told what they want to hear, and (2) leaders who are willing to accommodate them—and chastise those who are not. Here’s an example. On April 19, 2012, marketing strategic planner Lorna Shepard told the Commission on Economic Development that Nevada schools have a poor reputation. “There’s a belief there’s not a great education system,” she said. Gov. Brian Sandoval flared up, telling her, “I could point to anyone in the room, and they’d say that Nevada is not inferior to anywhere else.” Of course, Shepard was absolutely correct, as Sandoval knew perfectly well—and the problem has gotten only worse since then. Perhaps if the governor had been less focused on whitewash and had listened to what he was being told, the state might not have lost the next three years and Sandoval would not now be scrambling at the Nevada Legislature to gain lost ground in its schools. It is not the job of community leaders, least of all governors, to pander to local pride. It is their job to tell the public what it needs to hear. Last month, Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve publicly expressed her unhappiness with the Reno Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority. “What they’ve been doing hasn’t been working, period,” she said at an RSCVA meeting. “The board absolutely is too large. A lot of the members are not engaged.” At a more recent RSCVA meeting, member Cindy Carano was critical of Schieve for daring to criticize the authority. “I take offense,” she said, according to the
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Its diverse geography and things to do in that space. You can go skiing. You can go running. You can go cycling. You can climb mountains. You can go camp in the desert. I mean, there’s so much to do. There’s lakes. You can do water sports. You can—I mean, there’s everything—you can boat. There’s just so much to do.
Reno Gazette-Journal. “I think we all work very well together.” Well, first of all, working well together is part of the problem. There is far too much coziness among the members, with the result that matters are not thoroughly debated and critically examined. Drift at the agency has become a topic both in the community and on the board. But the board has not rigorously and frankly debated the lack of direction and strategic planning so the public would have a sense of the problem. Less camaraderie and more discourse is needed. But more to the point, Schieve, like Shepard, was saying what a lot of people have been saying—and the public needed to hear it. Carano is a casino executive. Of course she wants positive public relations everywhere for business reasons. But on the board, she is a government official, and public relations defeats the purpose of governing as a route to good public policies. It would be better if the RSCVA board were made up entirely of public officials from the three local governments who would be both more accountable to the public and would be able to clash and engage in explicit language and candor. Contention is healthy in governance. Schieve said publicly what community leaders had been saying privately, as even some RSCVA board members acknowledge. Local leaders should have been following her example all along so the public would have been better informed. Nevada needs more rigorous debate and less “working together.” Ω
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Stop giving our money away As legislators point fingers at each other over the school construction bonds stalemate, both parties seem obsessed with giving away our meager coffers. Already this session we’ve seen bills to award abatements, subsidies or tax credits to data centers, the by aviation industry, and the filmmakSheila Leslie ers. There will probably be more requests before June, as various business interests plead for their corporate handout, each with their own expert promising jobs and prosperity if only they don’t have to pay the measly amount Nevada demands as the cost of doing business in the Silver State. Like a stubborn child, they insist if they don’t get their tax break they’re not going to stay. Their whining is so offensive Democratic Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick has more than once offered the number for U-Haul, an attitude more legislators should adopt. In a state that does not generate enough revenue to fund education, human services, or infrastructure,
why do we continually strive to give our money away? Do we really believe the boughtand-paid-for expert economist who promises those data centers will produce “staggering effects on the state’s economy, generating billions of dollars in economic activity”? Or find credible the argument of the aviation industry that if we give them abatements for $665,000, in the first year we’ll get back “$1 million in increased tax revenue”? Or the film industry that says $10 million is just not enough—they need not a penny under $80 million? The same people who demand demonstrable outcomes for every dollar spent on education or human services—and then don’t believe the studies that don’t fit into their preconceived notions of the value of preschool or kindergarten—have no problem believing every economist who promises the moon if this one particular industry could just get a Nevada tax break. Those very same legislators who comb line after line in the state
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Should Nevada dance to Israel’s tune? There are two measures before the Nevada Legislature that have little to do with governing the state. There is a resolution in support of Israel (Assembly Joint Resolution 1), and the other is a bill declaring square dancing the Nevada State Dance. (Assembly Bill 123). by Brendan What the Legislature thinks Trainor about Israel will do little more than appease Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Israel no longer has the unconditional support of Americans. The disproportionate attacks on Gaza, the continued settlement of Palestinian lands, and the Israeli prime minister’s brazen meddling in American politics are affecting American opinion. The elder George Bush held a more neutral view of Israel, and we could claim to be honest brokers in the region. Our unconditional support of Israel since has changed that perception. President Obama has been critical of Prime Minister Netanyahu, but these spats have not resulted in reducing by one drop the river of foreign aid that flows to
Israel. More Americans are aware of the tremendous influence Israel’s U.S. lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has on Congress, but even that influence is declining under public scrutiny. Many politicians say that Israel is our ally. Not so. We offered Israel the opportunity to be our ally, but that would have meant sharing defense secrets they did not want to share. Realistically, Israel is a client state. Israel has nuclear weapons, created largely from secrets illegally taken from America. She will not discuss her nukes and is not a signatory to the U.N. International Nuclear Protocols. Iran does not have nuclear weapons, but is a signatory, and has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful means while undergoing inspections. Certainly if Israel was attacked by a major power, America would rightly and swiftly come to her aid. But, Israel has proven she can defend herself against any regional power. Even the Mossad, Israel’s CIA, concurs with our CIA: Iran
is not building a nuclear bomb. Republicans must resort to claiming, against all evidence, that Iran is suicidal and wants to commit nuclear suicide. Israel has a major disagreement with us over the ranking of threats. Our entanglements in the Middle East are dragging us into another low intensity conflict (LIC) with the Sunni Muslim ISIS extremists. Sunni extremism is currently our number one concern. Number two is Iran, with whom we are attempting to negotiate a landmark nuclear treaty. For Israel, it is the opposite—her number one enemy is Iran. Israel is currently attacking Syrian and Lebanese affiliates of Iran who could help us against ISIS. Israel always has and always will look out for herself first. I wish America would do the same. Why is square dancing being named Nevada’s State Dance? Nevada is not a rural state. Ninety-five percent of Nevadans live in cities. Rural Nevada loves to dance, but really—how many
square dances are there on a Friday night in Nevada, compared to other forms of dancing? Even Western line dancing is more popular than do-si-do-ing. Historically, did Nevada invent square dancing? Hardly. The dance we did invent was the topless chorus line. Pasties are Nevada’s contribution to fashion, and Lil’ Kim is grateful. You might object that bare-breasted women prancing around on a stage is too choreographed. You want something more spontaneous. Then I would suggest that any time of day or night, in many establishments throughout our great state, there are more people—mostly women—pole dancing than square dancing. Perhaps the Legislature should proclaim pole dancing, or its closely related cousin, lap dancing, to be our Nevada State Dance. We need a debate! Ω
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Lobbyist Carole Vilardo, like a lot of figures at the Nevada Legislature, is biding her time.
Advice trips up board, again For the second time in less than a year, the Nevada Attorney General’s office has accused the Washoe County School Board of an open meeting law violation for following the advice of the school board lawyer. At the Oct. 28 meeting, local resident Karen Dunaway was attempting to criticize the firing of school district police chief Mike Mieras by Superintendent Pedro Martinez when—according to the AG opinion—board counsel Randy Drake interrupted her remarks on the ground that Martinez had not been notified of the topic. Board member Barbara McLaury, who was presiding at the session, also said that Dunaway’s comments were inappropriate. Board member David Aiazzi disagreed, saying that the notification requirements applied to business before the board, not to the public comment period. But Drake’s reading prevailed, and Dunaway was not permitted to complete her statement. The attorney general’s opinion read in part, “Ms. Dunaway was not a member of a public body; therefore, the notice provisions of [the open meeting law] did not apply to her. ... Chairperson McLaury’s decision to stop Ms. Dunaway’s comment was an unreasonable restriction on public comment and a violation of Ms. Dunaway’s right to speak on a matter of public concern.” The opinion did not address Drake’s conduct. According to the Nevada Open Meeting Manual, prepared by the attorney general’s office, “[W]hen members of a public body rely on advice of counsel, they should not be held to know that a violation occurred.” The latest opinion was prepared by deputy attorney general George Taylor, who in 2013 wrote, “[P]ublic body members may be protected from penalties if the member has sought advice of counsel and acted in accordance with the advice.”
Remembering Jim The Jim Gibbons era in Nevada history may be difficult to forget, but the Nevada Democratic Party is making sure. The party’s www.AmericasWorstGovernor.com website is still posted online, four years after Gibbons’ administration became a memory. It has been years since anything new has been added to the site. Nevertheless, there are plenty of oldies but goodies for nostalgia buffs.
Tesla bill starts coming due Reuters reported that Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada executive Mike Kazmierski recently had “good news to report to the 400 local businesspeople who had gathered to hear him speak at Reno’s Atlantis Casino ballroom in January. During 2014, 34 companies had relocated to the area. Nearly 4,200 jobs were created, bringing unemployment down to 6.4 percent, a big drop from 2011’s high of 14.2 percent.” What the news service failed to report is that Kazmierski has also called for Nevada’s low income citizens to pick up the tab for the cost of this boom by raising the sales tax—again—for 10 years. “Our immediate need is four new elementary or middle schools and half of a high school,” Kazmierski wrote in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Feb. 18. “In the next 10 years, we need another 10 schools, and none of this funding is in the school funding proposal being considered by the Legislature! So we are looking at approximately 400 more portable classrooms at a cost in excess of $60 million, and there is no funding in the budget for portable classrooms, either!” Kazmierski then called for a half-cent hike in the sales tax for 10 years. Sales taxes impose a heavier burden on low-income residents. Since a 2 cent state sales tax was created in 1955, it has risen to 6.85 percent—one of the highest state rates in the nation—with county sales taxes supplementing that at an average rate of 1.08 percent per county. Washoe County is still carrying a sales tax hike to pay off the casino industry’s project lowering the railroad tracks through Reno.
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Phantom All await Sandoval’s details Republicans and Democrats both say they are working to make Nevada’s notoriously regressive tax system more by fair. But Republicans say that means Dennis Myers helping businesses and Democrats say that means helping individuals—and businesses. “Smaller businesses have not gotten as good a deal under our current tax system,” said Senate Republican leader Michael Roberson. “The governor is trying to get people who have skin in the game to come together to make business taxes fairer.”
“It is not just about the revenue.” Gov. Brian Sandoval Assemblymember Maggie Carlton, a Democratic leader, said, “That’s what we’re going to deal with, is tax fairness. I mean, equity. That’s what we’re talking about. We’ve been talking about policy issues. We’re not working on numbers. We’re not trying to get to a certain number. We’re trying to make sure that the system we have is fair and equitable across the board for all businesses and all citizens of the state.” Does she think fairness will get traction in the legislative process, for a change? Her new position in the minority made her laugh at the query.
“You’d have to ask the guys in control right now,” she said. “I know my people feel that way. We care about fairness with our constituents.” Whether fairness—however it is defined—will play any kind of role is far from certain. In most past tax changes in the Nevada Legislature, lawmakers started out talking about fairness and, pressed for time and pressured by lobbyists, settled for trying for stability and predictability in taxation. Members of the public tend to have few lobbyists on hand to speak for them. That is not a problem that afflicts the state’s businesses. From A&A Midwest, an auto wrecking firm, to Zuffa LLC, an “ultimate fighting” corporation, with various chambers of commerce and the Nevada Resort Association casino lobby in between, businesses are well represented at the Nevada Legislature—which explains why business taxes are higher on the radar. Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to raise about $440 million in a biennium (two years) with a business license tax will likely get considerable scrutiny, as tax proposals in Nevada always do, for how well the state can project the revenue it brings in and how much it will fluctuate in hard times. But legislators traditionally have far less interest in the fairness of tax plans, and that has been the case here. Sandoval has called it fair. “I do want to emphasize that it is not just about the revenue,”
he said. “As we go into this session, reform and accountability are going to be just as important to me as well.” But independent analysis from outside government of his proposal’s equity has not been forthcoming. That’s because, with a fourth of the legislative session past, Sandoval has yet to produce his plan in written form. Carole Vilardo, lobbyist for the Nevada Taxpayers Association—a business group—and one of the state’s leading tax experts, said on the day Sandoval proposed his plan that she would wait to see it in writing. She is well known for saying that the devil is in the details. But so far, the plan has not been presented in bill form, so Vilardo is still reserving judgment. “No, I haven’t seen any language,” she said. “I can’t very well give you a reading when we don’t know what’s in it.” She’s not the only one waiting on the bill. Fiscal analysts, economists, tax experts want the language so they can find out if it lives up to its billing. So far, the governor has been able to spend a month selling the phantom plan and no one has been able to respond in an informed way. The fact that the governor calls the tax a “fee” has raised suspicions among lawmakers, making them believe that they should withhold commitments for a while. Fees are generally regarded as costs applying to individuals or an identifiable class of individuals—a barber license, say, or a car registration. Sandoval is talking about how broad his tax is while calling it a fee, which by its nature is supposed to be narrowly based. His willingness to play with the language isn’t winning him any votes, particularly among the already wary tax intransigents of his own party. One legislator who didn’t want to be named said, “All we know is that it’s ‘broad, fair, uncomplicated’”— making quote marks with his fingers, referencing the governor’s mantra over the last month. “That’s not a tax plan.” Economist Thomas Cargill, who has been scrutinizing Nevada taxation for decades (“It happens,” RN&R, May 23, 2013), wants the language so he can examine a number of factors, including fairness. So far, even the governor’s descriptions have not been encouraging, he said. “In general, it is a poorly designed tax that has many of the same problems as the gross receipts tax because it ignores the different profit margins of various industries.”
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TECHNOLOGY • HOME DÉCOR • PATIO • BABY ITEMS • OUTERof extending Nevada’s sales tax to services as well as goods, which would make the sales tax more fair and less regressive. Economic populist Robert Reich last year wrote that states shielding services from sales taxes are engaged in a giveaway to the financial services industry: “Revenues from state and local taxes are 40 percent of all government revenues, and most come from sales taxes. Yet sales taxes are regressive, taking a bigger chunk out of the incomes of the poor than the rich. In addition, even though the rich spend far more on professional services than do the poor (services of lawyers, accountants, investment advisers, wealth managers, and so on), professional services aren’t subject to any sales tax at all. My view is if they must have a sales tax, state and local governments should also apply it to professional services.” Though it would involve extending an already existing Nevada tax to services, after Nevada legislative hearings on the proposal, some figures said the concept was too complicated and difficult to apply for the next state budget biennium, both in lawmaking and in implementation by the executive branch. Naturally, those who might expect to be hit hardest by a Nevada service tax—lawyers, stock brokerages, insurers—are not crazy about the proposal and legislators seem inclined to resort to that tested method for avoiding a decision, a study. No legislator ever
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Surprise, surprise ‘Hidden gems’ emerge on local trails Since its launch fewer than two years ago, around 500 people have registered in the Truckee Meadows Trails Challenge. The program isn’t necessarily a brow-wiping, heart-rate-monitoring athletic feat, though that’s an option by Georgia Fisher too, if you’re willing. In short, participants pay an entry fee, set a goal for themselves and/or small teams they’ve formed—five basic trails georgiaf@ being the program’s simplest challenge, and 50 miles of trail-walking and newsreview.c om hiking being the toughest—and try to finish in a year. The prize is a whole T-shirt. But that’s not the point. “All these little gems are tucked away that even residents aren’t aware of,” said North Carolina transplant Kathy Bobseine. One of her hiking buddies has been in the Reno area 35 years, for instance, and still found Lemmon Valley’s Swan Lake Nature Study Area to be a total surprise. “It’s a great way to get in there and see these things,” said Bobseine, who especially likes Crystal Peak Park, in Verdi. “It gives you the momentum to actually find them and go visit them.” Monthly guided hikes are an optional part of the program. They’re catching on, too. “We’re not hiking fast,” said Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation executive director Nathan Daniel, who’s often de facto trail leader. “The goal is not to really to get your pulse up and get to that aerobic exercise,” he said. “That’s for people to do on their own time. What we’re doing is trying to teach people about what geology is, and the plants, the animals—what the ecological interactions are between all those things, and how the climate affects what’s living where. We’re trying to give people a little more knowledge about that, so that when Next month’s guided hike is at Tom Cooke they go out and hike on their own, they can look at things differently. If and White Fir trails. you can identify the plants, it’s a more interesting relationship you have To learn more about with [nature] when you’re hiking. It’s not just a bunch of green stuff.” the Truckee Meadows Did you know Huffaker Hills are volcanic? Or that there’s a marsh in Trails Challenge, visit the middle of Reno? http://bit.ly/1vzv5NR “Definitely the wetland areas [were surprising],” said hiker and runner Monika Malnowicz. “It’s like, oh my gosh, I didn’t know there were so many birds living here.” Malnowicz is more of a backpack-toting, all-day hiker, but says she enjoys the mellow guided tours nonetheless. They also help her scope out new running trails to revisit on her own. “I go and I can breathe,” she said. “It’s like my church. It’s really important to protect it, so if you don’t love it, you don’t really care, and you don’t want to protect it. It’s really important what they’re doing to start these steps and get people into their local parks.” Daniel echoed her words. “There’s the health and wellness aspect, which is important to the community, but as far as conservation of resources … when people know and appreciate what’s out there, then they care about it,” he said. “If you don’t know about it, how can you possibly care?” Ω
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People used to call the Nevada Legislature a “people’s legislature.” In 1977, for instance, the Los Angeles Times reported that a railroad conductor oversaw the billion-dollar state budget in the Nevada Assembly, then went on, “Three other assemblymen are carpenters, three are electricians, and one is a railroad brakeman. There are two housewives, a motel operator, a liquor store owner, two ranchers, four insurance men, five real estate men, an optometrist, three college professors, three teachers, a radio news reporter, a retired high school principal and a preacher.” This sort of thing was always overstated. The Assembly speaker in 1977 was a casino owner, for example, and other key figures were power players. Moreover, it was less the jobs people did than the casual, informal routine that made the Nevada Legislature a people’s place. Simply walking uninvited onto the Assembly or Senate floor and talking to one’s legislators was a symbol of it. The public was welcome in the building then. The term “people’s legislature” is seldom heard anymore. Getting elected to the Nevada Legislature costs big money, not the kind of thing someone unconnected to money networks is likely to raise. Nor are trappings of legislative sessions as simple and welcoming as they once were. The politics, once relatively down-to-earth, have become cutthroat, as in Congress. It is still possible to get into the legislature in some districts for a song and a prayer, but generally those legislators are not particularly influential. And the legislative routine is now hostile to “the people.” OPINION
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The building is the Nevada capitol. That’s something that is little understood. The old building to the north, where the legislature used to meet, is invariably referred to by the term capitol. But a capitol is, by definition, where the representative legislative assemblies meet. Capitol—Merriam-Webster: “the building in which the people who make the laws of a U.S. state meet”; Oxford: “a building housing a legislative assembly”; Random House: “a building occupied by a legislature.”
That’s no longer a problem. Not only were there committee rooms in the new building, but the lawmakers later expanded the structure to the rear, essentially adding another four-story building to the back. The also bought a nearby bank building for staff space and built a parking garage, displacing a park. The original legislative building was 96,000 square feet, the expansion is 90,000 or 94,000, depending on who told it. There was staff talk in 2005 of acquiring the nearby Capital Apartments and of tearing down the bank building—now called the Sedway Office Building—for parking, but Sen. William Raggio put an end to that. (Raggio to staff: “We spent all that money to fix the Sedway Building, and now you want to tear it down?”)
The committee room designs tell a tale.
Req u es ts yo u R PRes eN c e The difference between the committee rooms in the first building and the later committee meeting rooms in the expansion pretty much tells the story of this legislature’s evolution. The first committee rooms generally had one or two doors that provided entrance and exit for both citizens and legislators together. The newer committee rooms have two sets of doors—one set for the “NO WELCOME MAT” legislators at the back, continued on page 14 the other for citizens. Lawmakers no longer
When the legislature met in the new building for the first time, in 1971, it was three stories high and some people made a fuss that legislators—or some of them—would get private offices. Until then, in the old capitol, legislators had desks and that was all. There were no hearing rooms and sometimes finding space for a committee to meet was a challenge.
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Washoe democratic Sen. debbie Smith sponsored a bill on school construction. Washoe/ Carson Republican Sen.ben Kieckhefer (right) co-sponsored a bill on school construction that cuts worker wages.
have to mix with those raggedy members of the public. There are signs: Please respect the privacy of committee members and staff. YOU MAY APPROACH THE DAIS ONLY IF A COMMITTEE MEMBER OR STAFF REQUESTS YOUR PRESENCE.
The public is less partyoriented, the legislature more. The word “only” is not only italicized but printed in red. Of course, if legislators wanted privacy, they chose the wrong line of work. There is certainly nothing wrong with citizens approaching their legislators during committee breaks or before and after the meetings. In fact, it was once routine. Some legislators, able to enter those private doors, were 14 | RN&R |
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surprised when we read them the wording of the unwelcoming signs. “I am certainly not uncomfortable with members of the public approaching me in committee hearings,” said Assemblymember Pat Hickey, who once covered the legislature as a reporter. “As for the floor, there may be some security issues there I don’t know about.” The Legislature went more than a century with citizens being able to approach their legislators on the Assembly and Senate floors with few problems. Security difficulties have been minor or unrelated to access to legislators, as when a Reno man named Donald Stolz— who felt aggrieved by his treatment by a Reno car dealership—broke windows in the legislative building. A man immolated himself in front of the legislative building on another occasion. In a lounge, a prominent activist once threw some hamburgers and fries at legislators who were rude to welfare mothers. Whether obstacles thrown up between legislators and their constituents—and there are many of them—were the desire of legislators or were planned by staff is uncertain. Overzealous staffers often put space between legislators
and the public, in apparent ignorance of what poor public relations it is. The signs alone send plenty of people home enraged. There also used to be large public lounges for individuals and groups to use. They were located right outside the legislative halls and were among the largest rooms in the building. Now there are no such accommodations. A room on the third floor, distant from the halls, was at least intended as a public lounge when planning for the expansion was going on—but it’s kept locked and dark now, in contrast to the open public lounges of yesteryear. In the Senate, public seating on the floor level slowly shrank and is now consigned entirely to the balcony, except for a press desk and “VIP seats” on the floor in a glass booth, akin to an Israeli courtroom. The glass booth is normally empty. The Assembly still allows floor seating. C l i m at e C h a n g e The tone of the Legislature, of course, is very different than it once was. For a long time, the kind of mean-spirited partisanship plaguing Congress stayed out of
the legislative halls. But eventually, as this century got underway, the poison started seeping in. Two incidents can demonstrate the change. During the 2013 legislature Sen. Debbie Smith of Washoe County—a Democrat—tried unsuccessfully to get more money for school construction. She returned to the 2015 Legislature ready to try again. She introduced Senate Bill 106 on Feb 1. On the same date, Sens. Becky Harris and Ben Kieckhefer introduced a very similar bill, S.B. 119, but it contained a provision that cuts the pay of construction workers on school buildings. On Feb. 3, it was announced that Sen. Smith had a brain tumor and would undergo surgery. The next day, a hearing was held on the Harris bill—but not the Smith bill, though its cosponsors could have filled in for Smith. On Feb. 6, the day Smith went under the knife, the Harris bill was approved by the committee. Ten days later, the Senate approved it and sent it to the Assembly. The Democrats were upset by the tastelessness of the maneuver. Bills with similar purposes are often heard in committee in tandem, but these two weren’t. Moreover, Smith’s history with the cause of school construction was well known. “It was hijacked,” Sen. Pat Spearman told the RenoSparks NAACP. The Democrats found themselves in the unaccustomed position of voting against a school construction bill because, as Spearman put it, “any time you use unskilled labor, you’re putting the people who are going to occupy that building, you’re putting their lives at risk,” she said. Now let’s jump back 16 years. Toward the end of the 1999 legislative session, a state birth defects registry bill sponsored by Democratic Assemblymember Jan Evans came under attack after she was hospitalized with the ovarian cancer that later killed her. In her absence, Christian conservatives tried to get the Evans bill killed, calling it an invasion of privacy. Women lawmakers in both parties, appalled at the tasteless assault, closed in around the Evans measure to protect it and make sure it got passed, speaking with direct, no-nonsense language. In a conference committee meeting, GOP Assemblymember Dawn Gibbons told one legislator that if he continued opposing the measure he would have blood on his hands. The bill became law. That kind of bipartisan cooperation—as well as simple courtesy—has become less common. Amber Joiner, who was appointed to a vacancy in the
Assembly in January, once wrote a scholarly paper on the play patterns of children. It may have been good preparation for legislative service. e m b ed d i n g “I’d be middle of the road here today,” said former Clark County Sen. Bill O’Donnell. The nowwhite haired O’Donnell, who served from 1986 to 2002, was schmoozing with a couple of acquaintances in front of the legislative building as a young family member played in the grass. O’Donnell was very conservative in his time—probably the most conservative in the Senate, so much so that he once staged an unsuccessful GOP rebellion against his own party’s leader, William Raggio. But even he can’t believe what has happened at the Nevada Legislature. Just as exclusion of the public has become ingrained in the institution of lawmaking, so dogmatism and divisive partisanship has become part of it—and is becoming more so. Party caucuses, for instance, were once very rare at the Nevada Legislature. “I don’t think we ever had a party caucus when I was there,” Reno attorney Thomas “Spike” Wilson, who served in the Senate for 16 years, once told us (“Evolution,” RN&R, Jan. 13, 2011). In the 1970s and ’80s, party caucuses were so infrequent that they stand out in memory, because they were held for uncommon reasons—and they were open. Now party caucuses are basic not to lawmaking but to party tactics and strategy and the enforcement of party discipline in lawmaking. At the 2003 Nevada Legislature, it was entirely possible that Assembly Republicans spent more time in caucuses than in the hall. Enforcement of discipline was so fierce that three moderate GOP members were either ejected or were made to feel uncomfortable attending. This year, the Republican leader of the Senate, Michael Roberson, has added something new to embedding partisanship in the process. Roberson, who gained a reputation in 2013 for being able to work well with Democrats on things like taxing foreign mining corporations, has become a more polarizing figure this year. Among his innovations was dividing the seating in the Senate hall along partisan lines—Democrats on the north, Republicans on the south. However petty this may seem, it serves a partisan purpose. The traditional Nevada practice of mixing members led to congeniality, members getting to know colleagues in adjoining seats,
forming friendships and having discussions of issues that helped filter and process proposals, often educating members of both parties and helping to prevent uncooked proposals from getting into the law books. It also distanced members from the hold party leaders have on them. The Democrats are not happy with the seating manipulation, but there’s little they can do. They are taking some comfort in knowing Roberson is trading his former moderate image for the role of partisan warrior. That’s one of the few satisfactions they, or anyone else, is getting from this particular Legislature. Staff, journalists, lobbyists all agree the tone this year is acrid. U n el ec t ed l awm a k ers But legislators are not the only people in charge of legislative sessions anymore. Voter approval in 1998 of a 120-day limit on legislative sessions has had all kinds of unforeseen consequences. For one, there has never yet been a 120-day session. The lawmakers get around it by starting budget hearings two or three weeks before the clock starts running on the 120 days, and often go into special session after the 120 days end.
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Until I was 16, my art education consisted of two field trips.
Boxer Milner Tjampitjin paints grids and primary colors that refer back to Mondrian.
The Spanish teacher at our small-town Connecticut high school had bused us to New York and let us wander all six floors of the Museum of Modern Art at our leisure, as long as we promised to get a good glimpse of the thick, impasto brush marks of a revered Van Gogh painting. The English teacher had taken us to the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, where we crowded into a small gallery on tiny, fold-out stools and listened to a docent passionately unravel the mysteries of a Mondrian painting. I lived in a bucolic, postcard-perfect town with white picket fences and Colonial-era homes. (Not Colonial-reproductionstyle homes. I mean actual homes from the 18th and 19th centuries. George Washington had slept in one. For real.) Our relative proximity to New York, about a two-hour drive, went pretty much ignored. Our art was Norman Rockwell. Those two careful glimpses into abstract painting lit a match inside my teenage head. The seeds of the dangerous idea we rural New England teens were being protected from—that there was a giant, exciting world out there, full of all kinds of people who didn’t think like us, who had different ways of communicating—germinated and sprang into bloom. I wanted in on that world. This was pre-internet, so I wrote in longhand to a student exchange group and filled out a lot of paperwork. The following year, I found myself living with a host family in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. I was obliged to wear a school uniform I hated—a thin, cotton, cleaning-lady dress that offended my American sense of freedom of expression. But other than that shapeless little pinstriped symbol of confinement, I was free to revel in discovering this new world where corner store clerks would happily sell stubby, brown bottles of Melbourne Bitter to teenagers. Even better, I had my very own Metro pass, a little laminated ticket to freedom I carried in my wallet. I’d take the Ballarat V/Line to Flinders Station and wander over to the Saturday market, where weathered old men with deep, black skin and very wide noses sat calmly against lamp posts playing didgeridoos. They’d breathe in and out at the same time to fill the long, hollow, wooden instrument with circulating air, making a distinctive, low, ancient-sounding, multi-pitch warble I had never heard before. It didn’t take long to discover that these exotic people who made these exotic sounds also made abstract paintings, and that these paintings, made almost exclusively of dots, pulled at my heartstrings harder than Van Gogh’s and Mondrian’s. I started noticing Aboriginal art everywhere. It decorated T-shirts and playing cards in souvenir shops. Bright, acrylic colored versions adorned the wooden boomerangs sold to decorate the walls of foreign tourists. The art teacher showed us pictures of “the real thing” in textbooks in class, and I could walk 10 minutes from the station to the National Gallery of Victoria any Saturday to see these paintings in person, rendered in the deep-red-brown earth tones of Australia’s outback.
Aboriginal content Dennis Scholl has a story about his first encounter with Aboriginal art, too. He was more discerning than I was. He’s a long-time collector of cutting-edge contemporary art. He said in a presentation last year at the Nevada Museum of Art, “I came away kind of uninspired, finding it repetitive and dull. Of course at that time I didn’t know that what I was looking at was tourist art.” He then saw some paintings at a gallery in Sydney, had an epiphany, and told his wife, “You won’t believe what we’re going to collect next!” So, what’s up with these hand-drawn dots and eccentric, concentric lines making people from across the globe stop in their tracks? What I most remember was that in these exotic designs, I found the familiar. 16 | RN&R |
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These paintings I’d never imagbad spirit. He was the color of clouds ined by people I’d never imagined at sunrise.” grabbed me by the gut and ripped the Yet, the world responded strongly world wide open, switching on big, to his work and work like it. imaginary, neon “Entrance” signs Tjapaltjarri started painting everywhere I looked. It’s exactly in 1987 and quickly became one the way some musicians talk about of Australia’s best-known artists. discovering Bob Dylan, how upon By 2012 his work was featured in first listen, Dylan suddenly distilled dOCUMENTA in Kassel, Germany, and materialized a worldview and an an art fair that, when it happens aesthetic for them, the exact type of every five years, fills the covers of expression they were looking for but the international art magazines. didn’t know was out there. Beginning this month, There was seriousness to the Tjapaltjarri’s work appears, along paintings, even though they were just with eight other Aboriginal artists dots and abstract lines. I knew the from Scholl’s collection, at the paintings were used to tell stories. Nevada Museum of Art. In keeping Even though I with tradition, didn’t know the the artists are all language or the men, all elders. history to read (Or they were. those stories, Some of them these works are deceased.) seemed accesThey are all, sible somehow, according to as if I could the catalogue, hear their tone text, “revered even without community being privy to leaders” and their lyrics. “custodians There was a of ceremonial handmade qualknowledge.” ity about them. Some use The paintings bright acrylic didn’t exactly paints. Some A close-up view of Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri’s look easy to use earth colors work. The Aboriginal artist began painting in make, but they and natural 1987, and quickly rose to prominence. did a lot to materials. Some make me think actual people could have taken the traditional dots and make artwork if they tried. (That’s abstract lines into modern directions. a common thought these days, of Boxer Milner Tjampitjin paints grids course, but as of 1988, I’d never and primary colors that refer back heard it uttered by anyone.) to Mondrian. Tjumpo Tjapanangvka Another of Scholl’s reactions to paints kinetic, almost figurative these paintings: Before he’d come images that resemble Keith Haring’s across Aboriginal paintings, he was work a bit. Paddy Bedford foregoes often irked by a sense that the artist’s the dots altogether and paints hand was getting lost in contempoabstract, gestural outlines of steep rary abstract work. hills using gouache (which is basiI wore the dot-painted T-shirts. I cally an opaque watercolor). bought the dot-painted boomerang And as they paint to commuand hung it on my wall. I spent the nicate between their spirits, their next two years filling sketchbooks ancestors, and their children, the with Aboriginal-inspired lines made sounds of those conversations ring of dots that eventually transitioned strongly with a lot of us. into my own kind of dots and lines. The day I visited the No It wasn’t as if any Aboriginal Boundaries exhibit, a group of artist set out to say to some young schoolchildren were touring. I heard East Coaster, “You got this, girl!” a lot of “oohs” and “aahs” and saw a Possibly the opposite, actually. lot of faces light up. Just a few years before my artistic As for me, Warlimpirrnga revelation, in 1984, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri is still my Bob Dylan. Ω Tjapaltjarri first came into contact with white people. He was 25. He’d been living with a remote group of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Western Australia, a state that makes No Contemporary Abstract Painting is on display Nevada look densely populated and at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty geographically small. He’s widely St., through May 3. For more information, visit www.nevadaart.org. quoted as having said, “I couldn’t believe it. I thought he was a devil, a
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line is set against a backdrop of the Sierra Nevada range, showing that the reach of the wall extends far beyond the states that border Mexico. Giant cloth flowers sprout to the North and South, representing the “undocumented flowers that grow on both sides.” To Underwood, these flowers are the young people, “the ones who are going to inherit the desert; the ones who are going to inherit the heat that we are creating.” This environmental devastation is an often overlooked consequence of the boundary. Kim Vacariu, Western Director of the Wildlands Network, points out the impacts that borderlands fragmentation have on native wildlife and people, “When [countries] build walls, they do not pay attention to the arroyos, washes, and streams, so when it rains the washes fill up and divert water from natural watersheds.” It is all too common to see migratory corridors and towns split by the wall, causing a loss of diversity for animal populations and flooding in human communities.
Beyond the scars on the land, Underwood captures the cultural fallout of the border with one iconic image that is repeated throughout several pieces in the exhibit. The image is that of the “border crossing sign” that dotted the highways of San Diego in the late 1970s. Resembling an animal-crossing marker, the graphic depicts the silhouettes of a father, mother, and child running across the street. In her piece “See Jane Run,” Underwood screenprints this image onto 120 pieces of cutout clothing, paying homage to the unidentified illegals who were killed while crossing highways during immigration. In another textile, called “Run Jane Run,” Underwood appropriates the crossing sign image into a woven wall
hanging, using construction tape and barbed wire alongside traditional fibers to create a life-size warning that simply reads, “CAUTION.” The rage of the land is a bit more subdued in Underwood’s hybrid flags. Created by superimposing the U.S. stars and stripes over the Mexican flag, stitch by stitch, these flags portray a dual identity that is both visually confusing and plainly beautiful as it hangs on the white gallery wall. Underwood is well aware of the tendency to downplay traditional weaving, but has come to terms with her role in the borderlands issue. “I just want to be a footnote,” she said. “I just want to be the person who said something with thread in the Southwest about the land.” Ω
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pleasantly surprised to find appetizers discounted $2 each, and my beer was only $4. Sweet! The pizza was tall and bready at the edge, thin and crispy in the center. The sauce was fairly standard, generously topped with meat and cheese. Tasty. The mac 'n' cheese balls were made with smoked cheddar and bacon, and then fried in tempura beer batter. I enjoyed them more than I should. The egg rolls were a little greasy, but a wrapper stuffed with smoked beef, red pepper, onion, and cheddar cheese is a guilty pleasure. Definitely the biggest hit at our table. Most deep-fried pickles I’ve had are crispier and hold on to the batter better than these, but the high quality pickle made it work. Could use improvement, but not bad. My wife ordered coleslaw with her barbecue, which I found very fresh (although she thought it a bit bland). However, the house barbecue sauces all suffer from an overabundance of sugar. As my friend noted, “You could pour that stuff on pancakes.” I skipped the sauce and let the meat speak for itself. The combo plate was a mixed bag. The ribs had plenty of smoke, but were a little dry. Speaking of which, the chicken was unbelievably dry and nearly inedible (it didn’t make it into the doggy bag). The tri-tip, though, was tender and flavorful, and the pulled pork was delicious. The menu indicates brisket that is slow-roasted for 18 hours then sliced “super thin.” The thick-sliced hunk on this plate was almost entirely fat, likely cut from what’s known as the “point,” with none of the lean meat from the “flat.” When asked, the co-owner said, “Brisket is a fatty meat. Some people ask for extra fat.” A response that equates to, “You just don’t know what you’re eating,” was not the best possible answer, especially when the rest of the service was exemplary. The “Famous Carrot Cake” ($5.99) lived up to its name, and the deep-fried PBJ was surprisingly good, with a crunchy, battered exterior and hot gooey insides. Having reached maximum density for one meal, we departed with a feeling that once they’ve settled in, MWF might be the first place to make that seemingly doomed Lakeside and Mount Rose location work. There’s a lot more on the menu I’d like to try. Ω
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American Sniper
Focus It’s been a couple of years since Will Smith and his mopey kid (along with eternal suck director M. Night Shyamalan) inflicted After Earth upon us. Will Smith has to eat, so it stands to reason he’d make movies again, even if his once adoring public is a little gun shy of his offerings at this point. Focus is a relatively small movie for by the Smith mega machine, a semi-standard Bob Grimm conman movie that allows Smith to use his wisecracker persona. It’s a movie that does a bgrimm@ newsre view.c om good job making him likeable again, even if he’s playing a lying scumbag. Nicky (Smith) is enjoying a fine meal at his hotel one night when Jess (Margot Robbie, who must be the hottest girl on God’s green Earth—and all of the arctic and desert parts, too) sits at his table.
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This starts a movie-long relationship between the conman and the conwoman wannabe. Nicky co-runs a thievery ring that specializes in a lot of little scams and robberies, claiming that the smaller stuff all adds up. Jess, his trainee with a perfect touch when it comes to lifting watches, craves the “big sting.” Nicky wants nothing to do with that. Or does he? The first half of the movie is actually quite good, as we see Nicky showing Jess the ropes and battling with an urge to gamble. His gambling addiction leads to a high stakes game of WTF? as Nicky squares off with a cigar chomping B.D. Wong at a football game. Wong’s character overhears Nicky and Jess doing some small bets regarding the game, and wants in. Needless to say, the stakes go very high.
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The second half of the film goes a little off course as Nicky goes to work for racecar mogul Garriga (Rodrigo Santoro) involving some sort of speed-reducing scheme. Gerald McRaney shows up as a grouchy bodyguard during this portion of the film, and he helps to elevate it over the material. The scams in this film, even the simple pickpocket stuff, are all outrageous to the point of implausibility. It also doesn’t help that it’s established early on that Smith’s character is a selfish liar, so every big reveal isn’t all that surprising or clever. He’s clearly bullshitting all of the time. Still, the scams do manage to be somewhat fun to watch at times, even if they are a bit too nutty to take seriously. The main reason to see the movie would be Robbie, who is just taking movies by storm. She absolutely stunned in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, and while this film isn’t half that movie, she’s atomically good. Robbie is lined up to play Harley Quinn in the upcoming Suicide Squad (alongside Smith and Jared Leto) and, at just 24 years old, she stands as one of the more interesting up-and-comers in Hollywood. Will Smith is a solid second best reason to see Focus. His role allows for that humorous, fast-talking side so absent from the likes of After Earth and Seven Pounds. (He did have a funny cameo in Anchorman 2 and Men in Black 3 was OK). His recent stinkers had me almost forgetting that I usually like his movies. It’s good to see him back in decent form. The film is co-directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the team responsible for Crazy, Stupid, Love. and the vastly underrated Jim Carrey vehicle I Love You Phillip Morris. In some ways, Focus is their least engaging venture yet, which says a lot for their abilities because it’s still good. Next up for them would be the wartime comedy Fun House starring none other than Robbie. As a conman movie, this one falls way short of films like The Sting, but is much better than crap like Now You See Me. As for Will Smith films, it also falls somewhere in the middle. As for Robbie, well, just see it for the watch-robbing Robbie. She steals the movie, lifting that sucker right off of Will Smith’s unsuspecting wrist. Ω
While Clint Eastwood’s film has plenty of problems, Bradley Cooper rises above the patchy melodrama and overly slick segments with his portrayal of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Kyle holds the American sniper record of 160 confirmed kills, and was killed by a veteran he was trying to mentor on a shooting range. The film works best when depicting Kyle at work in Iraq, constructing some very tense battle scenes and sequences as seen through Kyle’s riflescope. There’s a subplot involving an enemy sniper named Mustafa (Sammy Sheik) that feels like an entirely different movie. For some reason, Eastwood employs a showier style in the scenes involving Mustafa, which feel a bit false and artificial alongside the movie’s grittier moments. Saddled with the film’s worst dialogue, Sienna Miller battles hard in trying to make Kyle’s wife, Taya, an intriguing movie character. Cooper, who physically transformed himself for the role, does an excellent job of conveying the difficulties and stress that Kyle’s job entailed. He’s an actor forever taking risks and challenging himself, and he’s a big reason to see this movie.
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Subbing for her sick roommate, mousy college student with a porn name Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), who is so innocent she doesn’t know what a butt plug is, goes to Seattle to interview billionaire business guy douchebag Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). After the interview, Grey starts stalking Anastasia at the hardware store where she works, but that’s OK because he has billions of dollars and looks like the result of a night of passionate lovemaking between Ryan Phillippe and Eric Bana. His psychotic courtship eventually winds up with Anastasia becoming his prospective bondage slave. He offers her a formal contract that, if she signs, will allow him to be the dominant and her the submissive in a kinky sex relationship that will involve spanking, humiliation, nipple clips and eating toast in bed. The sex scenes eventually happen and, if anything, they provide some good, hearty laughs. While the screenplay doesn’t explain much, Grey’s sexual proclivities and needs to abuse his mate have something to do with his being a crack baby. So I guess we’re supposed to feel sorry for him when he’s torturing his girlfriend because his mom was a stupid crack whore. Fair enough. When people aren’t having sex in this movie, which is quite often as things turn out, they talk in a somber, slow, irritatingly elongated manner. Everybody in this movie is a mopey, sodden sop. I love Seattle, but watching how residents behave and communicate in this movie makes me never want to visit the city again, even if the Mariners make the playoffs.
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2
The primary charm of Hot Tub Time Machine was seeing John Cusack running around in the ‘80s again. That was the main reason for the film existing, and the main reason it was funny. The secondary charm was the antics of Rob Corddry as Lou, the suicidal heavy metal fan who had to deal with his bullied past. The film was the first to really highlight Corddry’s talents, and he kicked some ass. Now comes this dreck, sans Cusack, with Corddry taking the lead. The movie sort of stinks, but I’m not putting all of the blame on Corddry. Movie sequels often prove to be unnecessary, and this one would be a king of the unnecessary sequels. First off, without Cusack, we’re missing the main reason for the franchise’s existence, the glue that held it all together. Cusack provided a nice anchor for the madness going on around him. Corddry and his cohorts (Craig Robinson as Nick, and Clark Duke as Jacob) just seem to be running around like mad in this movie, with no sense of purpose. The plot involves the boys jumping the tub and traveling to the future, where they mine just a few laughs. In truth, this film has no business being on the big screen. If you don’t have the dough to bring a major star back, but you still want to do a mediocre cash-in sequel, go ahead and make it with the secondary stars, but send the results straight to Netflix.
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The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, who helped win the war against the Nazis when he and others invented a machine capable of breaking the Enigma code. Morten Tyldum’s film, while a tad cumbersome at times, does do a good job of illustrating the impossible odds
Turing and his team were up against in trying to decipher the code. Keira Knightley (who had a nice 2014 with this and Begin Again), Matthew Goode and Charles Dance contribute to a strong supporting cast. Cumberbatch portrays Turing as a disagreeable, unlikeable social outcast who just happened to play a huge part in saving the free world thanks to his talent for solving puzzles. The film also delves into some of the more controversial times in Turing’s life, and sometimes the order of things gets a little confusing. Cumberbatch keeps the whole thing afloat with a typically strong performance.
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The Last 5 Years
After some respectable musical efforts in awful films (Pitch Perfect, Into the Woods), Anna Kendrick takes a nice leap forward in this film adaptation of the offBroadway musical. She plays Cathy, a woman we see singing a mournful post breakup song at the film’s beginning. Her husband, newly famous writer Jamie (Jeremy Jordan), has just left her for superstardom and multiple girlfriends. The film then flashes back to show moments over the last five years of their lives, with almost all of the dialogue being sung. The two stars, especially Kendrick, have exceptional voices, and do much of their singing live. The music itself isn’t all that memorable, but it’s not bad and does require Kendrick and Jordan to use their upper register often. They both have impressive pipes. What drags the film down a bit is that the Jamie character is a bland, typical, reprehensible prick. That could work fine, but he’s portrayed sympathetically instead of for the asshole he is. The script calls for more humor and less sap. Still, the technical aspects of the movie are exemplary. The film, directed by Richard LaGravenese, was shot in about three weeks on a miniscule budget, but still winds up being a rather competent exercise in musical theater. In the end, it shows that Kendrick is the absolute real deal. (Available for rent on iTunes, On Demand and Amazon.com during its limited theatrical release.)
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Things go bad for the sea creatures of Bikini Bottom when the hallowed secret formula for the Krabby Patty goes missing. The undersea home falls into a deep apocalypse with everybody wearing leather, and it’s up to SpongeBob and some of his cohorts to go above water and get the recipe back. The film is typical zany SpongeBob when it’s underwater, rendered in traditional animation (albeit 3-D). When they go above water, it’s a different story. Live action and CGI mix in a way that’s visually fun, but a little spastic at times. Still, there’s a spirit to the movie that’s always alive, and some great random humor (Bubbles the Future Dolphin is definitely a highlight). Antonio Banderas has some fun as a goofy pirate looking to start his own food truck using his pirate ship. SpongeBob fans won’t be disappointed, although they will probably enjoy the underwater scenes more than the flashier live action sequences.
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Still Alice
Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease steals the mind of a very smart woman in this moving and heartbreaking film. Julianne Moore plays Alice, a professor at Columbia University who leads a very organized and regimented life of lectures, dinner parties and runs in the park. Alice starts forgetting words here and there, and then proceeds to lose her place in lectures. When she loses her way during a routine jog and can’t find her way home, she begins to realize that these aren’t normal memory loss problems for a 50-year-old woman. At first, Alice thinks she has a brain tumor. But some memory tests suggest to her neurologist (Stephen Kunken) that something else could be causing her difficulties. After a series of brain scans, the conclusion is made: Alice has Alzheimer’s. Moore gives us a deep, fully realized, multi-dimensional performance that never overdoes the sentiment or feels trite. Alice is a woman who prides herself on her encyclopedic knowledge for teaching, and exhibits nothing but grace as that knowledge is rapidly stripped away. Credit Moore for making every step of Alice’s tribulations seem honest and credible. A great supporting cast includes Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth.
Hard rock life Tooth of Crime Don’t call it a musical. Don’t call it a rock opera. Don’t even call it a play. According to the cast and crew of the upcoming by Kent Irwin theatrical production Tooth Of Crime, what you can expect to find in the showroom of Jub Jub’s will be an “environmental rock experience.” “Basically, it’s going to become clear to the audience that they’re not allowed to leave,” explained actor and producer Scott Dundas. “Once they’re in, they’re going to realize that they’re not observers, they’re a part of this, and that they can’t get out,” added actor-producer Lewis Zaumeyer. Photo/Eric Marks
Andy Luna as Crow and Lewis Zaumeyer as Hoss rehearse at Jub Jub's.
tooth of crime is presented at the Jub Jub’s showroom, 71 s. Wells ave., March 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m. and March 15 and 21 at 3 p.m. tickets are $15, and available at Jub Jub’s, the Melting Pot, and BrownPapertickets. com.
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If this sounds a bit dodgy, the production team of Tooth of Crime understands. They stress that this show is not for the faint of heart, or for anyone unwilling to step out of his or her comfort zone. Their goal is not just to put on a theatrical production, but to use the space to create a world for the audience to enter. The producers hope the audience will be transported into a postapocalyptic desert compound, with a crudely constructed throne room in the center. This is the kingdom of a guerrilla leader known only as Hoss, the king and rock god who sits on the throne. Local punk band Vampirates, along with Reno rock veteran Jeff Done, will crank up the volume, delivering a punch right off the bat. Live pyrotechnics and industrial effects will light up the room. “The show starts with a bang,” said director Dave Richards. “We aim to blow people’s fucking minds.”
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Tooth Of Crime was written by Sam Shepard in 1972, at the height of rock star culture in America. The plot follows Hoss as he uncovers the impermanence of his majestic persona in the face of a younger, tougher rocker who seeks to dethrone him. Many have read it as a satire of the fickle pop music audience that always seeks the newer and hotter trend. Zaumeyer, who stars as Hoss, reads a deeper level into the character’s motivations. “It’s all about his hyper-ego,” Zaumeyer explained. “Hoss is ruthless, relentless, unforgiving. But he’s totally intent on finding his true purpose.” “It’s a weird mirror for Lewis, who is nothing like this guy,” said Richards. “Here’s this total zen person in real life, and he’s playing a killer.” Zaumeyer and Richards agree that Tooth of Crime is violent, but they promise that none of the blood will fall on the audience. “It’s not gonna be like a Gallagher show,” laughed Zaumeyer. “The audience is going to be in it, but no one will die. Your emotions might get messed around with, you might get squeamish, but you’ll live.” T-Bone Burnett wrote the music for Tooth Of Crime, but Richards felt that the songs were too atmospheric, moody, and cinematic for his production. His decision to use the fury of the Vampirates gave the piece a new layer of raw energy. “As far as interpretation goes, we have the songs spelled out for us,” said Done. “But we want to rock a little harder than T-Bone Burnett.” The idea of producing Tooth Of Crime occurred to Richards, Zaumeyer and Dundas a decade ago while working as a part of Brüka Theatre. They spent those 10 years being told by their contemporaries that the script couldn’t be done, that the challenge was simply too immense. “I figure, with all these people telling me it’s impossible, it’s our chance to really push the envelope,” said Richards. “Anyone who loves the unusual, anyone who’s a musician or enjoys good theater should come,” said Zaumeyer. “Just be ready.” Ω
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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret
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2) American Made Band, 8pm, no cover
2) American Made Band, 4pm, no cover Hindsight, 10pm, no cover
2) American Made Band, 4pm, no cover Hindsight, 10pm, no cover
2) Hindsight, 8pm, no cover
2) Rebekah Chase Band, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
2) Melissa Dru, 7pm, no cover
2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover
2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover
2) Dale Poune, 6pm, no cover
2) Dale Poune, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
1) Tainted Love, 9pm, $25-$45
1) Zepparella, 9pm, $15-$35
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14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room
March 7, 9 p.m. Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333
ELDORADO RESORT CASINO
345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) Stadium Bar
1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover
1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover
1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover
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2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, $15-$30
2) Skamlife Takeover, 10pm, $15 3) Boots & Daisy Dukes w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover
2) A-Trak, 10pm, $15-$25 3) County Social Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover
1) Voodoo Cowboys, 9pm, no cover
1) Keyser Soze, 9pm, no cover
1) Craig Chaquico, 9pm, $20-$30
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3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
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1) Rockapella, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm, no cover 5) Blackhawk, The Outlaws, 7pm, $27-$42
3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover John Dawson, 8pm, no cover
3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 11pm, no cover John Dawson, 8pm, no cover
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2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) Fixx Fridays, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Four Color Zack, 10pm, $20
2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover
2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 3) Honky Tonk Thursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion
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Cobra Lounge at Asian Noodles, 1290 E. Plumb Lane, Ste. 1, 828-7227: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques Simard, Sa, 8pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Steve Starr Karaoke, F, 9pm, no cover
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219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center
Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover
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PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO
1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Rose Ballroom 3) Gilley’s 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom
SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL SILVER LEGACY
407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge
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1) Blues Jam Wednesday, 7pm, W, no cover
345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rd Street Lounge 2) Copa Bar & Grill
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2) Bonzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover 3) University of Aura, 9pm, no cover
3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover
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2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover
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ArgentA ConCert SerieS: the Poet’S Love The sixth concert in the series will feature lyrical masterpieces by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, among other chamber works. The highlight of the program will be Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” (“The Poet’s Love”). The work has been considered among the pinnacles of vocal literature since its composition in 1840. Baritone Randall Scarlata will join the pianists Hyeyeon Park and James Winn for this concert. Scarlata is a frequent soloist with some of the greatest orchestras around the world, a frequent guest at leading festivals, and a winner of multiple awards including first prize at Das Schubert Lied International Competition in Vienna. He will offer a free public master class during his residency in Reno. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 6, at the Nightingale Concert Hall inside the Church Fine Arts Complex, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $25 for general admission and $5 for students with ID. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/cla/music/acs.
A scene from Christina Yee’s Miss Todd, showing March 5 at Lunafest.
reno PoPS ConCert: Bio-ZoneS The Reno Pops Orchestra explores the natural wonders of the planet in this ecologically themed concert. Audience members will sonically travel the world through selections such as Aaron Copland’s “Variations on a Shaker Melody,” from Appalachian Spring and Elmer Bernstein’s “National Geographic Fanfare,” as well as songs from Disney’s animated films Frozen and Aladdin. Concerto Competition Grand Prize winner Wren Brady will accompany the orchestra during Edouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole. The free show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 6, at The Rock Church, 4950 Vista Blvd., Sparks. Call 673-1234 or visit www.renopops.org.
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The winter celebration continues this week despite the mostly dry conditions that have affected the Sierra Nevada this season. Snow or no snow, visitors can enjoy parties, parades, races, concerts, dining events and more at various establishments and ski resorts in North Lake Tahoe. The festival runs through Sunday, March 8. Call (530) 583-7167 or visit www.tahoesnowfestival.com.
Zonta Club of Greater Reno hosts this fund-raising film festival that highlights women’s issues as illustrated through nine short films by women filmmakers. The films range from animation to fictional drama and cover topics such as women’s health, motherhood, body image, aging, cultural diversity and breaking barriers. All proceeds from LunaFest will benefit the Breast Cancer Fund and Zonta Club of Greater Reno Grants & Scholarships Fund. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, in Room 108 inside the Sierra Building at Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $10 for students. Call 331-3465 or visit www.lunafest.org/reno0305.
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guyS And doLLS Broadway Comes to Reno continues its 2014-2015 season with this romantic comedy based on two short stories by Damon Runyon. Set in New York City, a shady gambler attempts to woo a Salvation Army missioner for a $1,000 bet. Meanwhile, a frustrated showgirl tries to hook her fiancé of 14 years, the founder of “the oldest, established, permanent, floating crap game in New York.” The musical won the Tony Award for best musical in 1951. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Performances are 8 p.m. on Friday, March 6, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $45-$75. Call 686-6600 or visit www.pioneercenter.com. |
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Hope fiend I met this man a few years ago, and it was like a thunderbolt struck us. He told me that his female roommate was just a friend. We went on a few dates before I realized she was actually his girlfriend. He promised that they were going to break up, so I hung around for a bit, but of course it never happened. Last year, I ran into him, and he said he was no longer with that woman and wanted to date me. I turned him down flat because I figured that if he was going to lie and cheat on her, then he would do the same to me. I’m kicking myself now because I have never met anyone like him. Is it really “once a cheater, always a cheater,” or could it be different for us? I have to put this to bed in my mind because I can’t stop thinking I missed out on “the one.” What you should do is tire your arm out by patting yourself on the back. You showed presence of mind in drop-kicking “the one”—the one who, before long, would have been in a bar telling some woman that you’re just his “roommate.” But now your loneliness is telling your logic to put a sock in it, luring you into a common error in evaluating risk that behavioral economists call “optimism bias.” This is best explained as the “I’m special!” bias and involves the unrealistic thinking that the bad things that befall other people will see us and go, “Nuh-uh … no way … not her!” Though we know—usually from painful experience—that character change is hard and rare, optimism bias leads us to flirt with bright ideas, like “Maybe he’s done with the cheating!” It’s probably easier to 28 | RN&R |
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think that now, not having seen him for a while. And the reality is, even serial killers sometimes go dormant. This shouldn’t be taken as a sign that they’ve grown weary of cutting up the neighbors and storing them in Ziploc bags in their freezer. Real change, when it happens, comes with signs there’s been a transformation—like expressions of deep remorse about being unethical and a sea change in a person’s moral standards. And these are just the preliminaries. Character change is revealed through action over time. Sure, you could keep this guy at arm’s length for a year while you observe his behavior. Or, instead of hoping against hope for character change, you could opt for a change of characters, as in getting out there and meeting new men. Should you fall back into feeling wistful about this guy, remind yourself of German psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm’s thinking that love isn’t just “a feeling”; it’s something you do (in this guy’s case, to more than one woman at a time). Or as one of my other favorite 20th-century philosophers, a Dr. E. Fudd, put it, “Good widdance to bad wubbish.” Ω
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): To depict what
lay beyond the limits of the known world, medieval mapmakers sometimes drew pictures of dragons and sea serpents. Their images conveyed the sense that these territories were uncharted and perhaps risky to explore. There were no actual beasties out there, of course. I think it’s possible you’re facing a comparable situation. The frontier realm you are wandering through may seem to harbor real dragons, but I’m guessing they are all of the imaginary variety. That’s not to say you should entirely let down your guard. Mix some craftiness in with your courage. Beware of your mind playing tricks.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Whenever
I close my eyes and seek psychic visions of your near future, I see heroic, Biblical scenes. Moses is parting the Red Sea. Joseph is interpreting Pharaoh’s dream. Jesus is feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. What’s the meaning of my reveries? Well, this psychic stuff is tricky, and I hesitate to draw definitive conclusions. But if I had to guess, I’d speculate that you are ripe to provide a major blessing or perform an unprecedented service for people you care about.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In a New
Yorker cartoon, Tom Gauld outlines “The Four Undramatic Plot Structures”: “1. The hero is confronted by an antagonistic force and ignores it until it goes away.”; “2. The protagonist is accused of wrongdoing, but it’s not a big thing and soon gets sorted out.”; “3. The heroine is faced with a problem but it’s really difficult so she gives up.”; and “4. A man wants something. Later, he’s not so sure. By suppertime he’s forgotten all about it.” In my astrological opinion, Gemini, you should dynamically avoid all four of those fates. Now is a time for you to take brave, forceful action as you create dramatic plot twists that serve your big dreams.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “To be happy
is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright,” said heavyweight German philosopher Walter Benjamin, a fellow Cancerian. I am happy to report that there’s a good chance you will soon be blessed with an extraordinary measure of this worry-free self-awareness. And when you do—when you are basking in an expanded self-knowledge infused with self-love and self-appreciation—some of your chronic fear will drop away, and you will have at your disposal a very useful variety of happiness.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “As you get older,
the heart sheds its leaves like a tree,” said French novelist Gustave Flaubert. “You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.” Do you agree with Flaubert, Leo? I don’t. I say that you can live with such resilient innocence that your heart’s leaves grow back after a big wind, and become ever-more lush and hardy as you age. You can send down such deep, strong roots and stretch your branches toward the sun with such vigor that your heart always has access to the replenishment it needs to flourish. The coming weeks will provide evidence that what I say is true.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I will not wait
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to love as best as I can,” says writer Dave Eggers. “We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” That’s your keynote for the coming weeks, Virgo. That’s your wake-up call and the rose-scented note under your pillow and the message scrawled in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. If there is any part of you that believes love will be better or fuller or more perfect in the future, tell that part of you to shut up and embrace this tender command: Now is the time to love with all of your heart and all of your soul and all of your mind.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I love the song
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” by Pink Floyd. Other favorites are Tool’s “Third Eye” and Yo La Tengo’s “Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind.” But all of these tunes have a similar problem. They’re more than ten minutes long. Even before my attention span got shrunk by the Internet, listening to them tested my patience. Now I have to forcefully induce a state of preternatural relaxation if I want to hear them all the way through. In the coming days, Libra, don’t be like a toomuch-of-a-good-thing song. Be willing to edit yourself. Observe concise boundaries. Get to the point quickly. (You’ll be rewarded for it.)
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sneaking
around isn’t necessary, Scorpio. There’s no useful power to be gained by hiding information or pursuing secret agendas. This is not a time when it’s essential for you to be a master of manipulation who’s ten steps ahead of everyone else. For now, you are likely to achieve maximum success and enjoy your life the most if you are curious, excitable and transparent. I invite you to embody the mindset of a creative, precocious child who has a loving mommy and daddy.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In
1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It took them seven weeks to climb the 29,029-foot peak. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh got into a bathyscaphe and sailed to the lowest point on the planet, the Mariana Trench at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It took them four hours and 47 minutes to go down 36,070 feet. Based on my analysis of your astrological omens, I think the operative metaphor for you in the coming weeks should be the deep descent, not the steep ascent. It’s time to explore and hang out in the depths rather than the heights.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The
African country of Ivory Coast has two different capital cities. Yamoussoukro is the official capital, while Abidjan is the actual capital, where the main governmental action takes place. I suspect there’s a comparable split in your personal realm, Capricorn: a case of mixed dominance. Maybe that’s a good thing; maybe it allows for a balance of power between competing interests. Or perhaps it’s a bit confusing, causing a split in your attention that hampers you from expressing a unified purpose. Now would be a favorable time to think about how well the division is working for you, and to tinker with it if necessary.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve gone
on three book tours and done my spokenword show in scores of bookstores. But one of my favorite author events took place at the Avenue C Laundromat in New York City’s East Village. There I performed with two other writers as part of the “Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose” reading series. It was a boisterous event. All of us authors were extra loose and goofy, and the audience offered a lot of funny, good-nature heckling. The unusual location freed everyone up to have maximum amusement. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, might thrive by doing what you do best in seemingly outof-context situations. If you’re not outright invited to do so, I suggest you invite yourself.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When Arnold
Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003, the state had the eighth largest economy in the world, right behind Italy and just ahead of Brazil. Schwarzenegger had never before held political office. When Cambodian doctor Haing Ngor performed in the film The Killing Fields, for which he ultimately won an Oscar, he had no training as an actor. He was a novice. Will you try to follow in their footsteps, Pisces? Is it possible you could take on a role for which you have no preparation or seasoning? According to my divinations, the answer is yes. But is it a good idea? That’s a more complex issue. Trust your gut
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Hurly burly Reagan Riot Reagan Riot is a Jill of all trades. The busy mother of two has a clothing line called Atomic Avenue, and she runs the Desert Rose Revue and the Biggest Little Shimmy School of Burlesque. She also lectures students on the origins and history of burlesque—a funny, sexy, historically subversive routine well-rooted in the Reno area—and often pays homage to her own family roots. She even wore one of her grandmother’s vintage dresses in her first show. When Riot came to the RN&R office for this interview, she was in a floor-length coat, with crystalstudded roses behind one ear. Beneath the coverup were heavy bling and a beyond-sparkly bra top she fashioned herself—in a shade of pink to match the fans and feather boa she’d brought in an inconspicuous cardboard box. The girl’s not boring.
I realized that was an actual thing. That was burlesque. I started thinking, ‘Ooh, where can I see more stuff like this?’” It wasn’t just vaudeville and variety, and there was that sarcastic humor which is very, very deeply ingrained in me. I am a total ass. But I can dress it up in sparkle and shove it down your throat, and you’ll go, “Oh, thanks! I’ll have some more!” And I get really political, but a lot of people don’t realize it, unless you’re in theater or you’re in art.
So what are your classes like? They’re challenging but very unique. One of my favorite students was a beautiful woman in her 60s who’d just taken ballroom. She and a friend took it together, and wanted to get a little more comfortable. Coming in and getting comfortable with your body is actually one of the most hilarious things, because there’s that dynamic of how you are with your closest friends and then everybody in general. And after you’ve progressed through the first two classes, that wall just shatters. It doesn’t just come down —it’s like broken glass. Ω
Let’s talk about your business. Which one? There are so many. [Laughs]
How ’bout just the burlesque stuff for now? Well, I always enjoyed big theater, comedies and musicals growing up, so I picked up on a lot of the little pieces a lot of people would miss. As I grew older,
Tell me about that—the political element. There are a lot of different ways that people approach burlesque. Originally, burlesque was satire, so it went against major politics and figureheads. Theater in entertainment was prominent; we
Driving us crazy It is fashionable in some circles to talk in Norquistian terms about the steady shrinking of government until it reaches bathtub size dimensions. That’s all well and good when one is bloviating away in order to put forth a position of fiscal conservatism, but it often comes up short when confronting reality. For example, I’m inclined to thank Big Government pretty much on a daily basis for saving the entire economy from being mangled beyond repair after Dub/Darth sent it flushing towards the sewer hole in the fall of ’08. All that horseshit you hear on Fux News about how the market will magically and properly correct all things financial was completely inapplicable during those anxious days in ’08/’09 when it became quickly obvious that the only entity capable of righting a ship that was taking on gigantic dumpsters of water was the much accursed federal goddamn government. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t look forward to the possibility, however remote, that our money was suddenly gonna be no good. Try using OPINION
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whittlesea checker taxi drivers ∫y Bruce Van Dye in the room is that the place is overwhelmed. There is simply not enough DMV to take care of the 400,000 people who now live in Greater Reno Sparks, and our Legislature needs to acknowledge this reality, authorize however many millions it will take to build a bigger, better, zippy, shiny new DMV mega-joint somewhere in Sparks and give us poor citizens a break from our current version of Kafkaesque normalcy. Yes, the new texting system of line updates is laudable and does indeed allow one to run around town for three or four hours to do whatever. But the bottom line is, it’s still gonna take half a day to get your DMV business done. It may not be an excruciating pain in the ass, but it’s still a pain of considerable size, and one that could be eliminated with a new DMV that we desperately need. Ω
an ATM in an economy based on gold dubloons. So contrary to the current fashionable trends in cocktail chat, Big Government still has an important part to play in our world. And you know one great way the state of Nevada could participate in Big Government in a way that all of us, from flaming psychedelic communists to crazed Bundy-loving gun kooks, would love unconditionally? Build another goddamn Department of Motor Vehicles! I had to renew my driver’s license in February. I showed up at 9 at the only DMV left, the big one on Galletti Way, figuring I would write off the entire morning to do my stuff. I got my number, got in line, and sat down with my mags, thoroughly prepared to grind it out. Four hours later, I got the call. Four freaking hours! My license took 10 minutes. I’m not crabbing about the people working at the DMV. Not at all. The woman who took care of me was courteous, friendly and professional. But the glaring 800-pound gorilla
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didn’t have television or anything. … You had news, and you had your satire, and it was very taboo even to be in tights, to show anything. To be a burlesque performer was really intense, so as that grew and progressed and vaudeville kind of deteriorated, a lot of the famous comics got their start in burlesque. I like the presentational value, too. We have a ton of history here. Reno and Northern Nevada have great burlesque history, and people have no idea, or they forget that we were the entertainment capital of the world forever. … [Burlesque dancers] were the original strippers. It’s a wholly different world now, definitely. Not to knock one or the other—it’s just different.
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THE 2015 ADDY AWARDS | Friday, March 6, 2015 | Peppermill Resort Casino After a year of long nights and strong coffee in search of bold concepts and brilliant ideas, it's time to name names and dish out awards. On March 6, the northern Nevada ad community steps away from
computers and board rooms and slips into cocktail wear for an evening of backslapping, backstabbing, snipes, celebrations and an annual celebration of the area's best work. The ADDY Awards are here.
ADDY AWARDS SHOW Friday, March 6, 5:30-9:30 pm EDGE Nightspot at the Peppermill
TICKETS $55 until March 6; $65 day of show Students $25 advance; $35 day of show Includes one drink, appetizers, dessert, Winner's Book, Celebration Party & free admission to EDGE Nightspot following Awards Show. Go to aafreno.com/2015-addy-awards/
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