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Home is where the art is Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Guess what’s happening this week? Spring break!

I don’t think I’ve ever needed a break more. Truly. I’m very happy with the path I’ve walked over the last three years, but two full-time jobs and two master’s are a bit much. Fortunately, I’ll graduate from the journalism master’s this semester. Maybe I’ll be able to reincorporate gym time. But in the meantime, I’m off to Central America next week, and I expect to come back with mosquito bites.

People who’ve been following this column for a while know I’ve always got a home improvement project going this time of year.

This year, it’s kind of weird. It’s also a paid project because I neither know how to hang wallpaper or paint “faux” surfaces.

OK, so picture this. My TV room downstairs has a stained concrete floor, sort of an ochre color, with stone baseboards I cut out of natural tile. The walls are an electric turquoise. (It’s hard to describe, I combined several turquoises to make the one on the walls.) The room has kind of a beachy, retro look.

There’s this deeply textured wallpaper called anaglypta that seems to have fallen out of fashion (like most wallpapers). For my room downstairs, I had a tilestyled anaglypta pasted to the ceiling. Picture those stamped tin ceilings like you’d see in Virginia City. The wallpaper is white, and honestly, just to add interest to a ceiling, it looks great. A coat of white to hide the seams would be plenty. But I’m going to have it painted copper (still debating whether to use the copper reactive paint or just copper-colored paint), then a verdigris treatment applied to make it look old.

I know, I know. It sounds weird, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say it’s going to be cool. This project has also reminded me that any time you choose to pay someone else to work, you have to get several estimates, not just for the price, but for the different ideas that contractors have for how to do projects. As far as price, though, the first estimate was threeand-a-half times as much as the third estimate.

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Utopian libertarianism

Re “No welcome mat” (Feature story, March 5): The spirit of decency that we saw in Bill Raggio may yet live in Sandoval. I just looked at Bill Raggio’s legislative biography 2009, at his list of awards and acknowledgements: Champion of Education Award, Civic Leader of the Year, Dean’s Award, Educational Leadership Award, Distinguished Contributions to Health Care and Medicine in Nevada, etc. Two pages worth. It wasn’t so long ago that the Republican Party still had a soul.

C.G. Green Reno

Re “Spoils has two meanings” (Let Freedom Ring, Feb. 19): Recently Brendan Trainor replayed his favorite tune, cut taxes because—government. Really, why cut taxes? Referring to the Nevada Republican platform, Trainor says we should cut because “Nevada doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem.” Indeed, we do have a spending problem, and it has been caused by freeloading, anti-government, anti-tax cranks like Trainor, the same cranks who have helped Nevada get to the bottom of many a good list and the top of some embarrassingly bad lists, like these, for example: • Dead last in public school education • Worst dropout rate • Worst graduation rate • 44th in math • 48th in reading skills • No. 7 in teen suicide • No. 2 for suicide overall Yet Trainor says Nevada should imitate North Carolina, which recently reduced its state income tax to 5.75 percent. How much higher is that than the Nevada state income tax? Umm, it’s 5.75 percent higher.

We don’t have state income tax. When Nevada wants to cut fat, it can’t. It has to cut bone.

One consequence of such cutting is the sort of mental disorder Brendan Trainor has contracted: Ayn-Randychosis. Symptoms include blurred vision, loss of hearing, ahistoricity, factual malformations, data indigestion, obsessive sloganeering, and the general wooden-headedness that sets in when doctrine substitutes for thinking.

The cure is a short rehabilitative stay in a country with virtually no government or taxes—Somalia tops the 2013 Failed States Index. His time there would be a breath of fresh air for us all.

Joe Calabrese Reno

No playing with fire I am writing to express my discomfort in the possible passage of A.B. 148 and the idea that with only a few hours of training any person would be able to carry a concealed weapon on a college campus in Nevada. The thought of this is terrifying to me.

I was raised around guns, and am very comfortable around and using guns. I have also been a student for the past three years at the University of Nevada, Reno. While there have been times while walking alone on and around campus that I have felt fear, the thought of others around me having weapons on them has not and would not give me any comfort. The fact is that just because you have a concealed carry permit does not mean that you are well trained enough to never be disarmed by a stranger who could then turn that gun on you, or that only good upstanding citizens would use guns to step in to help fellow students in need. People who mean harm are able to obtain guns all the time, and I would rather they not be walking next to me or anyone else on campus.

Megan Queral Reno

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It’s on the internet so it must be true Re “You will be hacked” (Feature story, Feb. 12): “They just found different attack vectors,” pretty much sums up all electronics since computerization and network security began. Consider the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on “network security” over the past 50 years, and yet, doink, they find new vectors. That is not going away. Now, about the Help America Vote Act and the entire U.S. electoral system (and much of the industrialized world) being on Windows-based AKA a sieve, secret software 80 percent-plus of which is sold and administered by three companies, Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia. The vote, the count, the tally and the send to final aggregation via the internet all being electronic. Is that a bill of goods or what? Argonne Labs techs hacked two Diebold machines from a mile and a half away with a laptop and a $10 gizmo from RadioShack.

Do a search, it happened.

Christopher Lunn Carson City

Family matters Re “True colors” (Left Foot Forward, Feb. 12): With all due respect to Sheila Leslie, whom I admire greatly, I will believe Gov. Sandoval truly cares about children, families, and education when he vetoes S.B. 119, the bill that guts fair wage requirements for many public construction projects. The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation recently reported that wages in Nevada did not grow last year in “real” terms due to inflation.

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power to fall even more. With much fanfare, state Senate Republicans have approved Senate Bill 119. It’s specifically designed to lower wages paid to construction workers. This state will never again flourish as long as the paychecks of hardworking people can’t even keep up with inflation. If Gov. Sandoval is truly interested in children, families, and affordable education, he will veto S.B. 119.

That is, of course, unless he intends his so-called economic recovery to benefit only those who are already wealthy.

Paul duPre Reno

Locked and loaded As a graduate student at UNR, I am extremely concerned about two bills which have recently been introduced into the legislature. A.B. 2 and A.B. 148 will both allow weapons on school properties, including the college that I currently attend. I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, but there must be common-sense protections in order to ensure the safety of our nation.

This is a frightening prospect for a number of reasons. In 2013, Time reported that New York police officers, with extensive gun training, only hit their targets about 18 percent of the time. Concealed carriers will inevitably have a lower accuracy rate, thus constituting a serious threat to students if they ever feel the need to use their weapons, even when attempting to help. Furthermore, if a shooting does take place, a trained officer or fellow concealed weapon carriers are unlikely to know which individual brandishing a gun is the “bad guy.” These bills must be defeated for the safety of students throughout the state. Take the time to call your legislator and tell them about your opposition. Help keep me my fellow students and me safe on campus.

Erienne Overli Reno

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What’s at the top of your list?

Asked along the Truckee River Michael Dee Railroad worker

Be prosperous and just move on with life, and be happy with what I’m doing, and get out of Reno.

Cynthia Pickett Therapist

Freedom, because with freedom you can do anything. I do pretty much anything I want.

Mary King Retiree

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For today, it’s feeding the ducks at the river because it’s such a nice day out.

during this session of the Nevada Legislature. Few It’s fashionable to say our government is broken. While people who are spending time at the Legislature come it’s true that it’s not working very efficiently these home talking about anything except the pervasive days, broken is an exaggeration. At various times in our rancor. In fact, the very fact that formerly moderate country’s history, partisanship has disabled the smooth statesmen are painting themselves into party corners workings of our system. Think of it like an out-ofthat will hurt their re-election chances down the road is balance washing machine—when the load is a little out reason for celebration on the opposing side. of whack, the spin cycle functions, if somewhat noisily.

This session of the Legislature will likely be judged It’s only when the blanket gets all on one side of the a failure by history, which raises hopes that politicians tub that forces operating without balance will throw the will sooner rather than later come to the conclusion that machine around and cause us to get off our dead asses their self-interests are best served by cooperating and and adjust the weight. negotiating with the opposing side to It’s the discomfort caused by the This session of come up with laws and debates and inefficiency that makes us change taxes that will move the citizens of things. That’s the way our system is the Legislature this state ahead in a smooth forward supposed to work. Sure, it would be motion instead of lurching from left great if politicians made the people will likely be to right like a lobbyist driving home the priority over the parties, but in judged a failure from Adele’s. most cases, they’re in there to serve It’s really sort of funny or ironic their own interests. Often, their inter- by history. or something. People agree on the ests are aligned with those that give vast majority of issues we discuss on them money or gifts. a regular basis. Everybody agrees that people should You can see it from Washington, D.C., all the way be safe. Everybody agrees children should be educated. to Carson City. A great example would be the letter 47 Everybody agrees that the air we breathe shouldn’t Republican senators sent to Iran with the intention of cause cancer. undermining the United States’ attempt to curb Iran’s Not everything has to be a line in the sand. Not every ostensible nuclear ambitions. Isn’t there a law in the detail is a battle that can’t be lost. Sometimes minor United States that’s supposed to address the situation differences can be surrendered to the opposition as a when individuals take actions to undermine our national strategy to get a more important concession. These are interests? Seems like there should be one. We do have simple truths that we teach our children when they begin soldiers in that region, after all. to play with others. Ω But even closer to home, intense partisanship has been undermining our shared community interests OPINION

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Happiness, because I think it would make a better living for people if they were just a little bit happier every day.

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This land is your land Whose land is it, anyway?

That was the key question in the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections last week when Senate Joint Resolution 1 (SJR 1) was heard, an essentially meaningless bill that doesn’t carry the weight of law. But the resolution serves as by a proxy battle between those who Sheila Leslie believe public lands should be sold to the highest bidder and those who believe these lands are a collective birthright meant to be enjoyed, and owned, by generations to come.

SJR 1 “urges Congress” to pass legislation giving public lands to the state of Nevada to manage. These properties could then be sold into private hands as needed to generate revenue and allow for private development.

The resolution is based upon a study that was designed to produce just such a result. Rural leaders involved in land issues were happy to meet with each other under the official rubric of a legislative commission, the Nevada Land Management Task

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Force. In their bubble of like-minded colleagues, unanimity was hardly surprising.

At the legislative hearing, supporters of SJR 1 featured rural county officials, cattlemen, the NV Farm Bureau, radicals from the Independent American Party and Families for Freedom, Bundyites, and Comstock Mining. (Who do you think is going to buy up these lands?)

There was a lot of ranting and raving and conspiracy theories and plenty of historical fiction about Nevada’s past stewardship of its public lands.

The truth is the state previously sold virtually all of its land trust and has nothing to show for it now.

If one is new to Nevada, the ranting might have been shocking at first, and then downright embarrassing, but really, it was standard fare. There were incomprehensible arguments about Dr. Zhivago, the need for the term “whatsoever” spelled out as one word in preparation for a U.S. Supreme Court case, and citizens referring to the federal employees who serve them as “thugs.”

When the debate shifted to the opposing side, the message was passionate and clear: Nevada’s public lands should not be sold. One of the most eloquent arguments was given by a citizen in Elko, Pete Bradley, who spoke of the need for public lands as refuge for wildlife and humans alike. “Nevadans have an obligation to future generations,” he said. “Don’t give away our public lands for a song, personal gain and a tidy profit.”

He was joined by environmental groups, the Sierra Club, Friends of Nevada Wilderness and people representing no one but themselves.

Written testimony was also submitted including a letter from Bob Fulkerson of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, who told legislators: “If we convert federal public lands to state lands in places like the Pequop Mountains, they’ll be off limits to you and me quicker than you can say Newmont Mining Corporation.”

Before voting on the Resolution, committee members would do well to read The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, and refresh their memory about

President Roosevelt’s epic battle to protect public lands from the timber industry. There are many lessons in our past that should direct our future.

Egan writes, “The Republican Party that Teddy Roosevelt had built– the uneasy meld of progressives, Main Street capitalists, and the founding voices of American conservation— was falling apart. One big reason: the establishment of national forests in an expanse of wild country that Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, had kept from the control of men they castigated as robber barons and plunderers of the public domain. The land that had not been settled, not been promised to vanquished Indian tribes, not been given over to railroads, not been cleared for cities, factories, and farms—this big, rumpled, roadless quilt of original America belonged to everyone, Roosevelt said; it belonged to the ages.” Ω

Ever looked into the Independent American Party? Really looked?: www.independentamericanparty.org.

Always bet on the come line Sometimes I think that being a libertarian is a little like the guy shooting craps who goes from betting on the come to the don’t come, and each time he guesses wrong.

Because libertarians share some beliefs that both major U.S. parties maintain—or rather, both the liberals by Brendan and conservatives hold some beliefs Trainor that we maintain—you would think that sometimes we could help with a breakthrough consensus. Instead, it seems that both liberals and conservatives like to emphasis our differences and won’t discuss our common ground. Well, that also cuts the other way, as libertarians have been known to emphasize the differences, rather than the common ground, they have with conservatives and liberals.

After all, we are all flowers from the same roots, the Enlightenment and the American Revolution.

That is why Sen. Rand Paul has been called the most interesting man in the Senate. He showed that again

when he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention. He spoke about how conservatives believe that government is inept at domestic affairs, but that suddenly they believe government is a force for good internationally. Actually, Joseph Sobran said it best: “If you want government to intervene domestically, you are a liberal.

If you want government to intervene overseas, you are a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you are a moderate.

And, if you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you are an extremist.”

Barry Goldwater once said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” I hastily add “nonviolent” extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.

Sen. Paul also said in his CPAC speech that there should be a “presumption of liberty” in our political affairs. This is a profound statement. When liberals want to

intervene in our economic and personal liberty, it is always justified by notions like the “precautionary principle” and “scientific consensus” or their state-centered theories like Marxism, Keynesian economics, and their big government “third way.” It always comes down to the “common good” rather than the rights of individuals.

When conservatives push for foreign adventures, preemptive wars and more police powers, it is almost the same principle at work with a different set of priorities. Now it is national security, vice and crime and drug-abuse punishment, and Americas “credibility,” that define the common good, rather than the rights of individuals.

Somehow, it is always the state— big government—that will protect us. What happened to protecting our rights so we can protect ourselves?

You know what? I am tired of this dance. I want the band to play a different tune. Rather than a dreary re-run between the Bush

family dynasty and the Clinton family dynasty, I would like to see a new family, the Paul family, get a shot. I like the Pauls because they believe in both federalism and individual liberty. I do not see liberalism or conservatism giving us a viable way out of our dilemmas. The only consistent philosophy of optimism, peace, and prosperity is the belief in free minds and free markets.

Gov. Sandoval was quoted saying he had to “reluctantly” push for more taxes because businesspeople told him Nevadans are not prepared for the workforce by our schools. If we had a “presumption of liberty,” when business leaders say, “Nevada needs a better educated work force,” why equate that to more government, and more taxes? Why not allow that which consistently gives us more value for less cost—the market—to educate our children and supply the superior workforce Nevada needs? Ω

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Plenty of websites for true crime buffs, such as this one called Murderpedia, still have ambiguous language on Cathy Woods’ guilt or innocence, even months after the new DNA evidence came to light.

Keeping the lines straight The Washington Free Beacon, a faux news site founded in 2012, is becoming a supplier to the National Senate Republican Committee of attacks on U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. The NSRC tries to soften Reid up until the GOP can find a candidate to run against him.

On March 5, for example, the NSRC sent out a 6:10 a.m. message to reporters claiming that Reid was allegedly supporting President Obama allegedly putting Iran “on a 10-year path to a nuclear weapon.” That mailing was sourced in part to a Beacon item.

Then, an hour and 56 minutes later, the NSRC sent out another mailing attacking Reid for allegedly providing federal monies to corporations that financially aided a green energy project that once had a couple of former Reid aides in its organizational structure. That item was also sourced to a Beacon item.

The Beacon was created as a 501(c)4 by a Republican group, the Center for American Freedom. While it occasionally targets Republicans, its main targets are Democrats. Last year, it created a short splash by recycling Hillary Clinton’s handling—as an attorney—of a 1975 rape case.

Incidentally, to show how necessary sorting out front groups has become, shortly after the Beacon released its item about the green energy group and Reid, its accusations were seconded by an outfit called the National Legal and Policy Center, which is another 501(c)4 group that targets mostly Democrats and a few Republicans. SourceWatch has called it an “industry funded conservative political and policy lobbying organization.” SourceWatch was created to help sort out front groups.

The case goes on Cathy Woods cleared in Mitchell murder

Gold corporation bankrupt Allied Nevada Gold Corporation, operating in Winnemucca, filed for bankruptcy protection March 10.

Gold prices tend to rise in hard times, and Nevada gold mines thrived after 2007, when the recession got under way. Gold mining troubles now are, if anything, a sign of a strengthening economy.

Allied Nevada has the Hycroft open pit gold and silver mine.

The company’s debt load was $543 million in October.

Trading in the company’s shares was suspended on stock exchanges in New York and Toronto.

Lobbyists in plain sight When the Nevada legislative building first opened, its most striking feature was phone booths—there were dozens of them on every floor, lining walls, tucked under stairs, inside closets that Clark Kent would have loved. The public lobby was lined with them and there was a switchboard office in the lobby. Today, of course, the booths are gone, and with them privacy.

“What I miss most is the privacy that came with those booths,” said lobbyist George Ross.

Overhearing lobbyists can be helpful to competing lobbyists, which is why some lobbyists seem to have people trailing behind them in hallways.

“I know I have been followed at times,” Ross said.

Lobbyist Joe Guild said rather than talk in hallways, “If I have a sensitive phone call, I go outside.”

The same goes for meetings with associates. Guild said after one hearing on court reporters—he represents the Nevada Court Reporters Association—he made his clients wait until they got out of the building before asking him questions about what had happened in the hearing.

“All right, step into my office over here,” said lobbyist Peter Kreuger one day as he led two other lobbyists to an empty space near the legislative gift shop where they could talk quietly.

“I don’t worry about it [privacy], but I’m cognizant of it,” Krueger said. “You have to be aware of it.”

There is a lobbyists’ room, across the hall from the press room, but its close quarters compound the privacy problem. It’s no place to meet with a client.

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On Feb. 6, 1976, the University of Nevada, Reno student newspaper Sagebrush ran a story, “Nevada Murders,” by about historical homicides in the Dennis Myers state. Eighteen days later, the campus saw an addition to the list. A beautiful nursing student, Michelle Mitchell, was driving past the campus on Ninth Street, taking a container of orange juice to her diabetic father at the Sterling Village Bowling Lanes at Valley Road and Denslowe Drive. Her car broke down as she was passing the agriculture college. She pushed or coasted the Volkswagen into a parking lot and called her mother from a phone booth at the college for a ride.

“That is not justice.”

Chris Hicks Washoe County District Attorney When Barbara Mitchell arrived to pick up her daughter, Michelle was not there. Soon Barbara, the police, and Michelle’s father Edwin—who brought a Labrador to help—were there and a search was underway. The parents and police several times passed near a garage but it was not until the residents of the property came home late that night and opened the garage that Michelle’s body was found. Her throat had been both stabbed and slit.

“Michelle had a fear of sheds and spiders,” Barbara Mitchell later told Sagebrush. “How could she have been taken into that old garage without a fight?”

The murder occurred three days after the murder of a cocktail waitress named Peggy Davis in an apartment on Stevenson Street downtown. That murder that had initially gotten little attention.

But when taken together with the Mitchell murder and a third, nonfatal assault on a local woman, they caused wide community concern.

Though some recent news reports have portrayed a hysterical campus, in fact, after the initial shock, UNR engaged in practical actions and went about normal business. Members of the campus community used greater care in their routines, a Juniper Hall resident assistant organized an escort service, campus police said they became more rigorous in their duties.

The victim’s parents, Barbara and Edwin Mitchell, were both local school district teachers. Barbara, like Michelle, was a UNR student, taking graduate studies. Michelle, a redhead with arresting eyes, had attended Our Lady of Snows and Manogue High School.

As a police investigation went on, sympathy naturally flowed to the family. In those first days, Barbara Mitchell said, the family

“wanted for nothing. … Michelle has Muslims praying for her and trees planted for her in Israel.”

Edwin Mitchell took a class on coping with death, but he said there is a difference between dealing with a death and dealing with a murder.

“She was Daddy’s little girl, the baby sister. … I still can’t grasp it.”

A few weeks after the murder, the Reno Commission on the Status of Women engaged in a discussion around the question, Why was the Reno Police Department seemingly so focused only on a male killer?

The years passed.

Three years after the murder, a woman suspect dropped out of the sky. Cathy Woods, a psychiatric patient at a Louisiana facility, confessed to the murder in a therapy session. The facility informed officials in Reno.

“Cathy Woods was not on anybody’s radar until she brought it on herself,” Washoe District Attorney Chris Hicks said last week.

In interviews with police, what Woods—who had a long history of mental problems—knew about the case was principally what had been in the newspapers. After that, she got vague. Nevertheless, she was tried and convicted. The conviction was overturned, the case tried again, another conviction entered, then that conviction overturned.

During the first trial, the prosecutor produced a surprise witness who put Woods near the scene of the crime—on a concrete stairs on the slope below UNR’s Morrill Hall. After Woods was convicted in part on that testimony and went to prison, the witness was himself arrested for accosting a woman in a shopping center parking lot and sent to prison.

Even without that testimony, Woods was convicted a second time.

The first conviction was overturned because the Nevada Supreme Court believed the defense had been prevented by the trial judge’s rulings on evidence from fully airing its theory of the case—that the Mitchell murder was linked to the Peggy Davis murder and the killer was one of the figures in the Davis case.

As the years passed, to the pain of the Mitchell family was now added Cathy Woods’ distress.

“I’m writing to you to state my innocence and requesting your help,” she wrote to KOLO News anchor Tad Dunbar at one

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point, when she was in a mental health unit at Northern Nevada Correctional Center. “Do you know anyone in the legal community that may be able to assist me or could you direct me to Geraldo Rivera or other talk show hosts who might be interested in my case[?]”

Dunbar said he has little memory of the letter. “I may have just written her back. I don’t remember doing an interview with her.”

Woods’ confession not only damaged her own life, it interfered with the investigation. Hicks said, “Investigations stopped into other people and began into Cathy Woods.”

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Woods’ second conviction was overturned after a fellow inmate filed an appeal for her seeking DNA testing. When the DNA test became known, and Woods was released pending a new trial, public sympathy that had been absent during her trials appeared.

When a news article reported that Woods “downed a cheeseburger at Archie’s, a 24-hour diner near the University of Nevada, Reno, in her first meal since she was freed,” there were objections on Facebook to the term downed: “That she ‘downed’ the cheeseburger as opposed to just her eating one is probably the very kind of condescending disparagement that got her convicted in the first place.”

A scheduled third retrial in July has now been canceled by Hicks, who said that—based on the DNA evidence—he will not retry the case. “[J]ustice dictates that we move to dismiss this murder charge

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He acknowledged that wrongful murder convictions “upset our society, and rightfully so. … That is not justice in any way, shape or form.”

The new suspect is a male.

The DNA in the garage initially remained unidentified until a new name entered the genetic system— 66-year-old Rodney Halbower, a Michigan native serving an attempted murder sentence in Oregon until being extradited to San Mateo County in California to stand trial for murder in the deaths of 17-year-old Paula Baxter and 18-year-old Veronica Cascio, 18, both killed the same year as Michelle Mitchell.

In some wrongful convictions in various jurisdictions, law enforcement or prosecutors have fought against exonerations in spite of new evidence, but that was not the attitude present in the room where Woods’ exoneration was announced. “To me, it’s refreshing that we have been able to use the technology of modern times to exonerate Ms. Woods on this charge,” deputy Reno police chief Mac Venzon said.

“She no longer has to live under the threat of prosecution for this murder, and she can go about her life,” Hicks said.

Deputy public defender Maizie Pusich described Woods’ current life in California. “As strange as it sounds, she’s very lucky. She lives with her brother and sister-in-law, who have retired from jobs in which they have psychiatric training. That’s perfect place for her.”

Pusich said Woods has bonded with the family’s “beautiful German Shepherd” and will soon attend her mother’s 92nd birthday celebration.

For the Mitchell family, the case begins again. Ω

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Exposed bloomers Is a fruitless spring around the corner?

Being a late bloomer isn’t all that bad, if you’re a fruit tree.

“The early blooming varieties took a hit this last weekend,” landscaper Mike Short said of the freeze at the end of February. “And we’re by Georgia Fisher still at the beginning of March. This could happen again.”

It certainly could. georgiaf@ “Is there a word for weather-history myopia?,” joked arborist and newsreview.c om master gardener Michael Janik. People are always going, ‘Oh, it’s so much worse than [years prior].’ And it really isn’t.”

The Reno area’s many microclimates are basically overlords to our plant life, which is to say that neighbors on the same street—or hell, sometimes two all-but-identical trees in the same big yard—can have wildly different fruit yields from year to year.

On the whole, apricot blossoms have already bloomed and been shriveled by the latest cold spell, Janik said, and some plum-tree varieties were flowering by the first week of March. The latter usually sell as fruitless specimens anyway, however, because they almost always freeze again at the wrong time (or the right one, if you hate a plummy avalanche).

Plenty of apples will come through, Janik said, and Northern pears are another standby.

But “I don’t predict the weather,” he said with a chuckle, “and I don’t predict the stock market.”

Some factoids worth noting, though: Hidden Valley has an especially fine microclimate for local fruit production. And if you want great cold-hardy trees, Janik suggests varieties with the prefix “Har”—such as Hargrand apricots, for example. They hail from an agricultural station in For an apple-growing calendar and other Harrow, Ontario, which is obviously no stranger to biting frost. He also information from fruit likes to tend a broad sampling of dwarf apple trees rather than rely on expert Michael Janik, one or two big ones, so at least a few “make” every year. visit michaelsapples.

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“Sometimes if it freezes on your blossoms, the tree will actually bloom again, but you don’t get as good fruits and you don’t get them as big because it takes a lot of energy out of the tree to bloom twice,” said Pamela Mayne of the Reno Gleaning Project (“Free Falling,” RN&R, Sept. 15, 2011). Mayne and her volunteers visit callers’ fruit-littered yards to gather all the produce they can find—donating the edible haul to folks in need and the semi-edible fare to a local pig farmer, who in turn brings pork to the food bank. Truly expired stuff is converted into ethanol and such.

You’ll never see a wholly fruitless year in Reno, Mayne explained, though lots of trees do “take a year off” between bouts of high production, then come back twice as strong as they would otherwise. “They’re just tired.”

That said, the gleaners often have far more food than they can donate anyway. “Honestly, in a big year we can’t give away the fruit,” she said.

“We saturate these food banks, so even in a low year, I think we’ll still be able to provide for needy families.”

What’s more, “there’s still a lot of needy families who don’t recognize this as food,” Mayne said. “It breaks my heart to tell you that.” Ω

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Parks will be grass, trees, picnic tables, playgrounds—not concrete or gravel (note Wingfield Park and Mapes site)

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A week’s worth of socks and unders A convertible dress, if you like that sort of thing Swimsuit/swimsuit bottoms that double as shorts Something that’ll work as a clothesline Money for detergent (this is key), food, lodging, gear rentals and any souvenirs. Plan to find one really badass souvenir rather than 10 little cheap ones.

Pills, CPAP machine, or whatever else keeps you alive Toiletries. Pack light and plan to buy more, especially overseas (foreign grocery stores are fun).

ID/passport A big shopping bag you can wad up into something tiny An empty spray bottle to fill with water, for de-wrinkling clothes Phone and charger, if only for the phone’s camera Reading material, preferably downloaded Cash for whatever you’ve forgotten

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Beef jerky A can of soup that looks, tastes and is labeled almost exactly like dog food (“sirloin burger with country vegetables”) Headphones A big Hefty bag in case I get fired Feminine products Paperweight from my dear friend Rick. He’d give me shit if I knew how emotional I am about it.

Advil Xanax Tweezers Concealer Jolly Ranchers Camera

What’s hidden in and on my desk at the RN&R

All you need to pack for most warm, non-camping vacations of any length:

9. Dinner at Bertha Miranda’s 8. Wing night at Pub & Sub 7. Lunch at India Kabab & Curry 6. Lunch at Sup 5. Dinner at Granite Street Eatery 4. Lunch at Thai Chili 3. Dinner at Centro 2. Dinner from the late night menu at Golden Flower 1. Dinner at Gaman Ramen

My favorite meals dining out in Reno so far in 2015

260 Island Avenue/Medical Arts Building 825 California Avenue/Residence 209 West First Street/First Methodist Church

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Three to Tango My Best Friend’s Wedding Footloose (1984 version) The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The best movie credits

Does this count as steps on my Fitbit?

Sex What do I need to do tomorrow?

Who’s making that noise?

What’s that gunfire on the movie?

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What It Was, Was Football (Capitol Records LP 1953) A Face in the Crowd (Warner Bros. 1957) No Time for Sergeants (Warner Bros. 1958) Waitress (Fox 2007) “Waitin’ on a Woman” (Brad Paisley music video 2008)

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Rick Michel’s tribute to Frank Sinatra. Sa, 3/14, 8PM, $29.

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DANWISE AND FRIENDS

A free monthly comedy show featuring local talent. The event is BYOB and limited beer will be provided free. Third Th of every month, 8PM, starting 1/15. Free. The Generator, Inc., 1240 Icehouse Ave. (775) 530-1477 ACOUSTIC WONDERLAND

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Write lists Edit stories Work on issue plans Work on music transcriptions for my thesis project Finish class readings Cultural studies seminar at 4 p.m.

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The last 13 albums I listened to

Steely Dan: Aja Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising Daft Punk: Random Access Memories Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes Curtis Mayfield: Curtis Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold John McLaughlin: Extrapolation Steely Dan: Katy Lied Morphine: Like Swimming Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly Queen: A Night at the Opera Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love Brian Eno & Karl Hyde: High Life

An incoming Texan’s favorite things about the Reno area, apart from Tahoe and the mountains, which are obviously badass Jeans, hoodies and the shared understanding that no one’s wearing high heels to work.

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Genuine friendliness toward strangers Horses, quail and other desert critters The fact that marijuana isn’t demonized, that prostitution and gambling are legal, and that grown-ass adults are treated with a modicum of respect. One more reason to raise kids here.

Gay marriage Our relative utopia of an airport Loulu’s The Nevada Museum of Art Achingly beautiful classic cars Regular, sensible cars being driven until they’re old. This doesn’t happen everywhere.

All sorts of kids on skateboards.

Even girls.

Pyramid Lake, in all its eerie purple emptiness. I went to Iceland once, and swear it feels a helluva lot like Pyramid.

Both places will leave you speechless, but one of them is right up the road.

Nithulanians south of town.”

“When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.” “Circus Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war.”

“Going to college must do something to girls’ tits, I swear.”

Top vices

Worrying Fretting Lamenting Procrastinating Loathing Bitching Moaning Hissing Queso-ing. (Blend 32 oz. melted Velveeta, a tube’s worth of browned breakfast sausage, a rinsed can of black beans and an un-drained can of Ro-Tel. Serve with lime-flavored tortilla chips and a dollop of sour cream. Eat the whole thing at 3 a.m. Cry.) Ω

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Kay Radzik Warren is a finalist for the Mars One mission.

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ay Radzik Warren, Reno’s new ambassador to outer space, is a petite woman, poised and articulate, with long hair and glasses. Picturing her in a spacesuit is strange—not for her lack of knowledge, ambition or passion, but because it means picturing her far away on Mars, never to return to Earth.

Warren is one of 100 global finalists selected for the Mars One project: a one-way trip to Mars to establish a settlement and conduct research. Mars One is a private nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands and funded by donations and investors.

Warren is 54 years old. If chosen as one of the final 24, she’ll spend the next eight years as an employee of Mars One participating in rigorous training exercises. If—and it’s a big if—the trip is a go, she’d be setting off for Mars in approximately 10 years, when she’s 64.

“The plan is to launch in the 2024 window,” Warren says. “The window for traveling to Mars is every 26 months. No one is going to Mars or anywhere unless all the technology is in place. Long duration space flight, also called LDSF, is something that has never been studied in-depth.”

It’s an ambitious project, not without its critics. Many say that the endeavor is a waste of time and money, which is the usual criticism of any sort of space effort. NASA and SpaceX receive similar feedback regularly. And there’s been a slew of articles speaking out against the project after the final 100 were announced.

A study by MIT used the Mars One mission architecture as a theoretical study, and in its abstract claimed that any settlers on Mars participating in that mission would last a maximum of 68 days on the planet.

The study abstract lent itself easily to headlines. However, the report also provides some suggestions for the trip. Not long after the report was released, Buzzfeed published an article called “Mars missions are a scam.”

The Buzzfeed article was just one of dozens that emerged criticizing Mars One. Much of the criticism comes from a lack of concrete research. No scientist—yet—really seems to know the answer to the questions “What will happen to humans on another planet?” And “Is it worth it find out?

And it’s true that space travel is complex and costly. There’s a fine line between progressive idealism and unwavering pessimism. Space travel is polarizing, but Warren welcomes the criticism.

“The MIT abstract is pretty frightening, but if you keep reading, they have some good solutions,” she says. “There’s a balance of ideology and practicality going into this whole endeavor.”

The more research, she says, the better.

“Humans will travel to other planets,” she says. She says the project “represents the inevitability,” not the possibility, of planetary travel. “It’s in our future. It’s what humans do.

That’s what really intrigued me about Mars One. I applied because I thought I would be perfect for this endeavor. I am trained in architecture, and I’ve been a Jack-of-all-trades, master of none, my whole life.” Warren attended Cal Poly, where she took courses on structural engineering and geology, among others that she thinks would be helpful for the mission.

Better off red Mars One’s application process began in spring 2013. After a global call for applicants, more than 200,000 people applied.

“I heard about it soon after that on Facebook, of all things,” says Warren. “On one hand, I was, ‘Really?’ and on the other hand, I was like, ‘Yeah!’ So being the person I was, I looked into it, and about a nanosecond later I said, ‘Yes, I’ll apply.’”

Warren made it through the next few rounds—around a thousand people were selected, then 700, then 600, until the final 100. Now it gets more intense. She’ll spend the summer being observed in training exercises in unknown locations, and bonding with the other participants.

Warren says she’s always had a fascination with science and space. She’s an avid reader of science fiction and science fact, citing authors like Neal Stephenson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Isaac Asimov among her favorites. This passion for reading started in her childhood, and Warren says her mother “was probably in love with Carl Sagan,” and that her mother’s love for innovation was inspiring. She’s been introducing the Mars One mission to her parents in small doses since they don’t have the internet, and her mother is fascinated by the concept art of the Mars settlement.

Warren is married, and has stepchildren.

She says her family has been very supportive from the get-go. Warren married her husband, Greg, when she was 48.

“When you marry late in life, you have a different understanding of what a relationship is,” she says.

“It’s really great—she’s always been really passionate about it and she’s always been a true nerd,” Greg says, mentioning her passion for science fiction. “She loves science and loves learning things. Frankly, we didn’t think she’d get this far. Kay and I came together later in life, and we’re kind of independent already. And if she goes, it won’t be for another 10 years or so, at least.”

Warren is in good shape physically, which is partly what got her this far in the process, since the physical requirements ruled out many applicants. The finalists span all ages— the youngest is 18. Warren imagines being part of the settlement process, and helping to establish a sustainable outpost for future travelers.

She’s aware of the dangers that come with traveling to Mars, but speaks calmly about it.

In the event that she’s not selected, she plans to continue publicly supporting space research.

“I will always be a proponent of human settlement on Mars,” she says. “If I can inspire one kid to follow their heart, study their math and become an astrophysicist, I’ve done my job.”

If she has the choice to go and bring an item with her, she’d bring a guitar or a sketchbook (which she notes would be a finite resource). But she thinks these choices are indicative of a larger human experience—what do we leave behind when the call to explore is relentless?

“I think that’s the key factor in any migration,” she says. “Think about this—this about the Cro-Magnons who emigrated out of Africa and into Europe, the caveman who stepped out of his cave and went north never to come back. Look at Europe, look at Asia, look at the Asians who journeyed across the Bering Strait, never to come back. And a multitude of them died.

“Every phase of human migration, mass exodus, you look at the why and the what.

And you think, perhaps, settling on anther planet might be what we’re made of. We do these things naturally. If it works out, that’d be great. I look at things in the big picture.” Ω

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Using a mixture of impressionistic and expressionistic techniques perfected by artists—mostly European men—beginning in the late 1880s, Turner appropriates well-worn territory to tell the story of black women’s hair. Her nod to expressionism traci turner’s exhibit employs the use of bright, sometimes clashhair is at the never ing colors to set an emotional tone for the ender Gallery, 119 portrait. The quick, loose dots of color that thoma st., from depict the ever-changing light that impresMarch 12 to april 4. sionists sought after are effective in creating the reception is March 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. movement and immediacy in her paintings.

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such a stylized manner. The real feature that sets these women apart is the hair on their heads. Each piece in her upcoming “Hair” series portrays a black woman who does not chemically straighten her hair. This transition to natural hair is one that many women make and one the artist has made herself.

“I have seen other artists enter the fold with their interpretation [of natural hair], but it feels good to be able to answer that call too, and I hope that other people can be inspired,” she said. “Painting black women’s natural hair is a big deal for me specifically because for so long we’ve been told that it’s not beautiful.”

The controversy in the way that natural, black hair is depicted and received in our society is hardly a new topic. From performance pieces such as Antonia Opiah’s “You Can Touch My Hair” to exhibits like Mickalene Thomas’ Hair Portraits and Michael July’s Afros: a Celebration of Natural Hair, artwork that exposes and embraces the natural texture of black people’s hair gives voice to the cultural questions, social customs and glaring

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Adding images of natural hair to a world that is already saturated with messages that restrict and police African-American bodies—both from within and without—is only a good thing. And while Turner’s paintings focus primarily on the aesthetic beauty of natural hair, the artist acknowledges the deeply painful and personal underpinnings of her subject matter. “To make that transition [to natural hair] for people can be very hard, it’s a very psychological thing, and not too many people

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understand that. It comes from the media, but it also comes from our families. I hope what I’m doing here can connect with little girls or other people who are natural or thinking about it.”

In many ways, Turner’s paintings accomplish the radical shift in perception that the European men of the late 19th century employed for their paintings of bucolic landscapes, setting suns and vibrant cafes. But instead of changing the way we see haystacks, Tuner shines a light on our own perception of natural hair—and it is pretty revealing. Ω

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Why is it people get so worked up about sandwiches? They are, after all, a meal that just about anyone can make regardless of skill. Perhaps it’s that simple ubiquity that makes a standout sandwich so coveted. I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t have an opinion on the subject, and it seems everyone has a favorite sandwich shop they want you to try. It was just that kind of buzz that sent my wife and I into this particular gas station seeking better-than-average sustenance, but what we found was a mixed bag.

We hadn’t had breakfast, and my wife was fresh from the gym, so I over-ordered a bit and figured on leftovers (three small sandwiches, $6.99 each, two cups of soup, $3.99). First

up was the sandwich everyone told me to try, the Max Italian. A fantastic basil Parmesan bread served as foundation for salami, pepperoni, ham, provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles, sliced black olives and peperoncinis with mustard and mayo, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. It sounds like a big mess, and it is. A big, delicious mess. The price might seem steep for a 5-inch sandwich, but the flavor combination is well worth it.

You can build your own sub for the same price, so our second selection was a simpler combination of turkey and roast beef on three cheese peperoncini bread with Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, mustard and mayo, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Again, the bread was bangin’, but I discovered something odd on inspection. Cut in half, most of the sandwich had roast beef but only one half had turkey. Also a bit of a misstep, there was perhaps half as much cheese on this sandwich.

Perhaps someone got a bit rushed?

Sandwich number three was perfectly fine if your idea of a Reuben is to place a slice of Swiss cheese and a little sauerkraut on thin-sliced pastrami—no corned beef available— warm it just above room temperature in a microwave and serve it on cold marble rye. Typically, a Reuben is grilled throughout, insides melted and a little crispy, nestled between slices of rye bread and grilled with butter. An acceptable no-grill option is to place hot meat, kraut and cheese between slices of toasted rye. Further, the dressing shouldn’t be candy sweet.

With so many better options on the menu, why include a subpar example of an American deli classic?

I’m unsure of whether the soups are made fresh, but someone needs to rethink the clam chowder. it was very watery, with mostly a bacon and potato flavor despite plenty of visible clam bits. Wanting to thicken it up, I crushed the crackers provided and only made it worse—very stale crackers in a very watery “chowder.”

Ugh. On the other hand, the beef stew was pretty tasty, with tender meat and the right viscosity. Odd that one soup could be so good when the other was such a disappointment.

Salads, wraps, breakfast items and fresh baked desserts are available, and despite a couple of errors, I’ll be back if only to try every bread on the menu. Ω

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Robot robbery Chappie There are some good ideas at play in Chappie, the latest from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. The problem is many of those ideas are unabashedly lifted from other movies. There’s nothing seriously original in this strange and goofy story of a sentient robot that loves his drug dealer parents.

Deon Wilson (Dev Patel, star of Slumdog by Millionaire, possibly the most overrated film Bob Grimm of the new century) is sick of his cubicle job working for a company creating police robots in Australia. He wants to take things to the next level and create the world’s first “human” robot, a robot with a consciousness.

So we get a bunch of sequences with him vigorously typing (aided by prominently placed Red Bull) only to be left with the screen saying “UNSUCCESSFUL.”

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Eventually, the screen says “SUCCESSFUL” and the program to make an emotional robot has become reality.

Against the wishes of his superior (Sigourney Weaver), Deon steals a damaged police robot with the intent of loading his program into the sucker and making it metal with feelings.

Right at the same time, some drug dealers kidnap Deon and discover his plans. They force him to upload the program into the damaged robot, and insist that he leave the robot with them for reasons involving a big heist. So while Deon is off doing whatever, Chappie the robot learns the ways of the street and starts speaking slang.

Chappie is voiced by Blomkamp mainstay Sharlto Copley, who also provides a decent motion-capture performance. Because Chappie is basically portrayed as a baby robot learning rapidly, Copley has to go with a very childlike performance. It’s endearing at times, but nothing he’s going to want on his resume reel.

Chappie’s drug dealer parents are Yolandi and Ninja, played by Yo-Landi Visser and, yep, some guy named Ninja. They teach

Chappie in the ways of swearing and shooting things, and even get him to steal cars.

Blomkamp’s screenplay seeks to give these characters redemptive qualities toward the film’s end, but fails to really pull off such a feat. They are scumbag drug dealers, after all.

If this sounds stupid, that’s because it mostly is, which is shocking considering it’s from the mind of the usually reliable Blomkamp. Yes, his Elysium starring a bald Matt Damon as a partial robot of sorts was a step down from the very good District 9, but it still had its merits. Chappie, on the other hand, is misguided flop from the start.

A year after we got a RoboCop remake, we get a film where police robots have the same voices and basically say the same things as Peter Weller’s original half-man, half-robot.

There’s even a bigger robot called “The Moose” that is much like the ED-209 championed by Ronny Cox’s bad guy in the original. This time out, the villain is in the form of Hugh Jackman, Deon’s mullet-wearing coworker who wants The Moose to go into mass production. It’s the same damned plot! Somebody’s ass should get sued. And what were they thinking with that Jackman haircut?

While the movie most notably being ripped off is RoboCop, there are noticeable traces of I, Robot, Run Lola Run, WALL-E, Terminator, District 9, Elysium, E.T. and others. The film never takes off as its own entity, and feels like a hodgepodge of every robot ever made. Well, every robot movie ever made with perhaps 10 percent originality thrown in, and the original part is lame.

So now I’m concerned, because Blomkamp just got the green light from Fox to make Alien 5, possibly with Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn. Now that Chappie is dead on arrival, and shows proof that Blomkamp isn’t bowling strikes at the moment, is the Alien project in jeopardy?

If so, everybody run out and see this piece of shit so we get our Alien movie. Chappie needs a big return and, as film geeks, we must make sacrifices sometimes. Ω

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American Sniper

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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Focus

This is a relatively small movie for the Will Smith mega machine, a semi-standard conman movie that allows Smith to use his wisecracker persona. It does a good job making him likeable again after crap like After Earth, 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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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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 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 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.

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These Final Hours

Writer-director Zak Hilditch makes a movie reminiscent of 1988’s Miracle Mile, that weird indie film that had Anthony Edwards racing to find Mare Winningham before the Earth went kablooey in a nuclear holocaust. Hilditch sets his film in Australia, where that part of the globe awaits a wall of fire resulting from some sort of asteroid strike (the true cause is never fully explained). James (Nathan Phillips), with his wife’s permission, makes the decision to leave her and join his mistress at an apocalypse party. On the way to the mayhem, he rescues a young girl (Angourie Rice) from a fate worse than death, and begins to attain a sense of responsibility and compassion in the last hours of his life. Phillips puts forth a strong, frantic performance while Rice provides a nice, serene balance. The party itself is madness personified, with James coming to the rescue of Rose, and he reaches a true turning point. Some of the film drags a bit, but it’s quite good for most of its run. I especially liked the ending, which wraps things up nicely. (Available for rent on iTunes, Amazon.com and On Demand during its limited theatrical run.)

Chamber music Emily Chamberlain “I don’t want to waste my breath singing something if [the audience] isn’t going to feel something from it,” said local by Anna Hart musician Emily Chamberlain.

On a brisk afternoon, Chamberlain, someone more naturally inclined to give warm hugs than stiff handshakes, radiates the same magnanimous romanticism at a small table nestled in Bibo Coffee Co. that drives her work as a performer.

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Chamberlain’s acoustic compositional style reveals traces of jazz, indie rock and ambient music, emerging from the convergence of her musical influences.

Her songs embody the intimate sincerity that typifies the singersongwriter genre, as well as employ the melodic language of the late Ray Charles and the alternative flair of Radiohead—all enveloped in an atmospheric dreamscape reminiscent of shoegaze bands like Blue Foundation.

Aside from an unshakeable air of optimism, arguably the biggest galvanizing factor of Chamberlain’s music, as well as in her private life, is the power of emotion.

“If passion were a genre, this would be it,” she said. “I am sending out the harsh and beautiful emotions I’ve felt, and not just my own, but

those around me as well. I want to put that all out there musically and stimulate people so that they want to feel something. That’s the best thing for this world, especially when people feel like they can connect.”

Chamberlain has wasted no time in making a name for herself in the last year, playing concerts alongside other local artists, like Bazooka Zoo and Up is the Down is The. Since her debut in November, Chamberlain has been eagerly taking on opportunities to perform anywhere in town, like bars, art galleries and concert venues.

However, this has not always been the case.

“I had the worst stage fright,” she said. “I was a closet musician.

Then I started working at a kid’s camp for children with Type 1 diabetes. People brought their music to perform and I began to play there. I got completely addicted and realized I needed to be making and performing music!”

As a child, Chamberlain was well-acquainted with music, especially her father’s “bluesy jams” and her mother, an opera singer also played a part in Chamberlain’s musical development.

Now 21, Chamberlain writes in her own distinctive style, with evocative melodies, free from musical parlor tricks and theatrics.

Instead, she chooses a stripped-down combination of rich vocals and a subdued piano accompaniment to build an emotive channel directly to the audience.

“I really want people to see and feel me being vulnerable up on stage alone, because maybe they’ll get to see how beautiful it is to not always be OK,” she said. “When we accept ourselves and others, we get the opportunity to flourish together.”

While personal experience and society are obvious points of inspiration, Chamberlain’s music is also shaped by her time studying anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

“I feel like studying anthropology influences my writing.

Understanding and being aware of people in this world puts compassion into me. … That’s the place I write from. … I sing about life, but also about things that I want to see more of in the world, as if to say, ‘Look at what we could be!” Ω

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1) Beats Antique, Lafa Taylor, Whitney Myer, 8pm, $30-$35

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

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1) Madame Houdini, 8pm, Tu, 7pm, W, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Lavish Green, Rigorous Proof, 5pm, Tu, no cover

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2) DJ Hollywood, 10pm, $25 3) County Social Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

1) Moondog Matinee, 9pm, no cover

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Reno Leprechaun Crawl Go green for the third annual bar crawl. Participants age 21 and older can dress in St. Patrick’s Day-themed attire and purchase commemorative cups and maps that will get them drink specials, entrance into costume contests and free admission to 25 participating bars, clubs and restaurants. This year’s event will include micro-wrestling, pictures with The Little Leprechauns and the Sparks Shamrock Shuffle on the morning of the crawl in which participants can run a 5K and get a free crawl cup. The Sparks Shamrock Shuffle begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 14, at Victorian Square in downtown Sparks. The bar crawl begins at 8 p.m. at The Waterfall, 134 W. Second St., and the Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St. Cups are $5.

Call 342-9565 or visit http://crawlreno.com.

Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry/ St. Patrick’s Day Parade More than 20 cooks will compete in the 24th annual “testicle festival” featuring the snipped bits of young bulls, aka Rocky Mountain Oysters. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, in downtown Virginia City. Tastings range from $5 to $60. But if that’s not your thing, you can always stay for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The procession heads down C Street starting at the Historic Fourth Ward School. The parade begins at noon. If you’re planning to stay the whole day, you can belly up to the bar during the Ball Breaker Saloon Crawl.

With a $15 crawl cup, get your first beer free at the main event bar. Take your cup to participating saloons and sample a variety of specialty drinks. Call 847-7500 or visit http://visitvirginiacitynv.com.

The Jungle vs. Reno 775 Battles presents this emcee battle featuring California battle rap league The Jungle taking on local hip hop poets. The lineup is Daylyt vs. Tiger Ty, QP vs. Looney Divine, Cold P vs. Ace High, 2Face vs. Digital, Ncredable vs.

MK Ultra, Madflex vs. Darth Tone, Eon vs. Ray Mac, Tine vs. Emcee Kush and Knowledge Bone vs. Big C. Okwerdz, J Fox and Guilty One will host the event with DJ Plan C on the turntables. The show is open to those age 18 and older. The battle begins at 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave. Admission is $5.

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Men of Worth Since 1986, Scotsman Donnie Macdonald and Irishman James Keigher have performed Irish and Scottish folk music, combining traditional and contemporary styles.

The duo will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City. Tickets are. $18-$30. Call 883-1976 or visit www.breweryarts.org.

Call for submissions The Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth Live-Action Graphic Novel The University of Nevada, Reno’s Performing Arts Series concludes its 2014-2015 season with this homage to 1930s radio dramas with a 21st century spin. The plot of this touring production involves “a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter, an evil hypnotist, a time-traveling librarian, alien sludge monsters, outrageous overacting,

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horrific accents and sounds for everything.” The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, in the Nightingale Concert Hall of the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at UNR. Tickets are $5-$25. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/pas.

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Think Free

The taming of the spew This guy I’m dating usually texts back when I text him.

But sometimes, like last night, he doesn’t write back.

And I’m just texting stuff like “How was your night?” and not “OMG, I miss you.” His not responding feels so disrespectful. I want to read him the riot act.

Unfortunately, it’s the rare man who has a mind-reading helmet, and even if this one does, there’s a good chance it’s in the back of his closet under a pile of socks containing semen specimens from the mid ‘90s.

So yes, you actually do have to tell a man what you want. But choose your tone wisely. Reading a man the riot act is the right idea if you’re just looking to vent and be done with him. Angrily attacking someone or even just criticizing them will set off their fight-or-flight system. Their brain dispatches a bunch of biochemical messengers to alert the internal palace guard that they’re under attack. This, in turn, shuts down the systems that aren’t necessary for escape or battle, such as their digestive system (yeah, whatever) and their intellect—as in, their ability to consider your point. Oops.

To give this guy a chance to hear you and maybe even change his ways, turn to the wisdom of the world’s first behavioral economist, Adam Smith. In his 1759 potboiler, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith notes that evoking someone’s sympathy motivates them to want to ease the suffering of the 32 RN&R | march 12, 2015 32 | | RN&R | MAY 9, 2013

person they’re feeling sympathy for. In other words, instead of attacking the guy, simply let him know how hurt you feel when you text him and get only the cold glare of the blank screen in response—the equivalent of his replying to some question you ask him at a party by diving over the porch railing into an embankment.

Unless he has an ashtray or another small household object where his heart is supposed to be, chances are he’ll feel bad that you’re feeling bad and try to reassure you. Also, technology makes a nearly instant response possible; it doesn’t mandate it. But by calmly explaining that you’d really appreciate a response—at some point, even the next day—he can lay out what works for him, and the two of you can see whether it’s possible to meet in the middle. By talking instead of raging, you’ll be getting off to a very good start that transcends problem-solving in the text messaging department. (If you can’t tell a guy he’s hurting your feelings, how can you tell him, “Slower—and a little to the right”?) Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the old

Superman comics, Mister Mxyzptlk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: if Superman fooled him into saying his own name backward. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Kltpzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1637,

mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem.

Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own long-running riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your upcom-

ing efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There’s a meme

rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have taken

a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anais Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm.

Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As soon as

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

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m

a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only 2 inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000mile journey that takes ten years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.

Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock ’n’ roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Whoever

travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.” That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases.

Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides!

On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves.

A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you.

Where you’re headed, you would benefit from an adviser, teacher or role model.

Gloria Gaynor recorded the song “I Will Survive” in 1978. It sold more than two million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the B-side of “Substitute,” the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main offering.

Luckily, radio DJs ignored “Substitute” and played the hell out of “I Will Survive,” making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn.

What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be preeminent.

tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please, please, please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably not helpful or constructive for you. So here’s my wiser advice: To prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the fairy

tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is, in fact, a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are.

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

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Yogi Eleanor Girdis is the co-owner of Midtown Community Yoga, a new yoga studio opening at 600 S. Virginia St., the building at the corner of Virginia and Moran streets that also houses College Cyclery, Michael’s Deli and other businesses.

Classes start March 22. For more information, email midtowncommunityyoga@gmail.com.

We have a prenatal teacher, Mandy Loader Colbert, and she’s going to be teaching that once a week. Then we have Linda Azar who’s going to be doing kundalini, and that’s a traditional, rooted practice. Everyone has their own brand of yoga and we want to bring them all here.

Tell me about this space.

The main thing about the space is the actual physical space. It’s a big studio, but it’s not like it’s buried in someone’s basement. It’s the windows, and the light and the feel. This building was built in 1930 to be a Dodge dealership, and this part of it was the garage.

It’s just a different space than anything else in Reno.

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like the conclusion of the film A.I., where lots of slim, elegant cyborgy humanoids will be cruising around in their sleek submarines, darting in and out of the submerged skylines of Manhattan, Miami, Tokyo, etc., so something like gender pay equality will be about as significant as your basic Anasazi petroglyph.

In fact, there are two propositions that should be passed into national law instantly, as in the next five minutes, but instead just continue to dangle, avoided by our Congress as fervently as Kryptonite enemas are avoided by Superman. The first of these props is, obviously, equal pay for equal work. You know. Duh. In fact, not just duh, but duh, duh, duh. Argument for—it’s the decent, fair, and right thing to do. Argument against—it allows us white men to hang on to a considerable chunk of one of our most beloved precious resources, namely our apparently inexhaustible reservoir of dickishness. The sobering fact that an equal pay for equal work referendum

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would probably just barely pass by a vote of 52-48 percent or something equally squeaky speaks volumes about Reasonable Behavior’s current status in the USA, which resides somewhere between Stupid Clod and Troglodyte.

And the other bill that should be instantly passed, but is held in the same strange limbo as equal pay— background checks at Fucking Gun Shows. Ninety percent of us want this idea to become law. And yet, nada.

So once again, a weary, bewildered nation looks around and says—WTF? And then, “Top off my drink, please.”

• In last week’s rave about the DAMV, I opined that we need a spiffy new DMV office here in Reno. To be clear, I didn’t mean we should shut down the Galletti office and replace it, but build a gleaming new DMV office in addition to the current faciity. Ω |

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This debate, if you can call it that, was recently refreshed by both President Obama, who mentioned it in his State of the Union speech, and Oscar winner Patricia Arquette, who reminded viewers that the gender pay gap still exists, and it still sucks.

But it’s odd. We’ll talk about it, everybody will nod and agree that it sucks, and then—forget about it.

In ’89, Laurie Anderson released a song called “Beautiful Red Dress” in which she noted that women were making, on average, 77 cents for every dollar a man earned. As of 2013, that figure had skyrocketed all the way up to—78 cents. At this rate, women will achieve salary equality in approximately 2525. No, really. The year 2525. Work it out. Of course, the planet at that time will look a lot

I really started doing yoga because of Studio Eight. My dear friend Amanda Lewis opened it with her friend Carol Lyons, and they’ve been going for five or six years now. They’re above Blue Moon Pizza. … They just started their business because ashtanga yoga was going to disappear from Reno. No one was going to teach it, there wasn’t going to be a house for it. So they started that business to keep it alive, and provide it for the community. I started doing yoga there when I was training for a marathon. I used it as cross-training. I had turned 30 and decided I was going to run this marathon and prove to myself that I was going to be this star athlete or whatever—I don’t even know. And I ran the marathon, and when the marathon was done, what I learned about running was that I wanted to do yoga. So now I do yoga. Ω

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It’s a yoga studio, basically. But we also want to promote the yoga community in general. It’s a space for yoga teachers to do their thing and make a living. We also want to do cross promotions with other yoga studios so everyone can benefit from making a business out of yoga. I started doing yoga at Studio Eight, which is ashtanga yoga, which a lot of people don’t attempt because they don’t think they can do it, because it’s one of the harder yogas. … I still go to Studio Eight, and I’ll continue to go to Studio Eight. We want to provide them a venue to do monthly workshops and get the word out about them as well.

We’re having a teacher training here that starts on Saturday [March 14]. It’s Melissa Martinez, and it’s a one-flow vinyasa training. We also want to promote the community in general—midtown. Just the fact that we’re able to say, “Midtown Community Yoga,” and anyone even knows what that means, is a testament to people like Angela Watson [of Black Hole Body Piercing] and

Jessica Schneider [of Junkee Clothing Exchange] who have been trying to make midtown a thing for years, and now it is one, so we get to say, Midtown Community Yoga, and everyone knows midtown.

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People get different things from it. Some people are religious about it. For some people, it’s just their exercise. For people like me, it’s a way to ground myself, with all the crazy stuff that happens in my house.

Like this morning, I had one kid sleep in, two kids were fine, but I had to make their lunches and feed them, all while I’m doing that [gestures toward her baby daughter], and my husband is sleeping because he bartended all night. So, to have a place where I can’t do laundry, and I can’t be distracted, and to really look inward—I think that most people need that, whether they know it or not.

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