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Fear is the mind-killer
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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Assumption: Fear is a powerful tool to motivate people. When I’m talking about government, fear is one method by which government and politicians get citizens to act in the ways that suit the government agenda, while making them think they’re acting independently. There’s often a bogeyman; Saddam Hussein was portrayed as a super villain with weapons of mass destruction to get a large minority of this country to support an unnecessary war. Politicians use fear to get votes, lying and creating distrust of accurate information in order to further an agenda. Usually, it’s industry or religion that gets the benefit at the expense of society. I’ve lately noticed that the technology sector has begun to use similar fear techniques to create anxiety. It’s related to planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is the idea of selling something that will eventually be useless and require replacement. Take the Windows XP operating system. A big part of the Windows business model was to create a system by which almost anything was plug and play, so they had to add little fixes to incorporate any new device. And every update created new exploits requiring new patches. But each succeeding system—Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8—was a rebuild from the kernel up. So, when Windows stopped patching Windows XP, anyone who had an interest in security and privacy was forced to buy a new system. Now, as my contract approaches expiration, I notice weird little things happening to my phone. Changes to the operating system—exclusive to Verizon—through updates that suddenly disable functions that have worked well for years. For example, my custom ringtones no longer work, and Bluetooth and wifi no longer function at the same time. I see in the forums that these “bugs” don’t have solutions. My theory is that most people wouldn’t try to figure out workarounds but would be made fearful enough of missing an important call to buy a new phone and contract. Call it the strategic malfunction corollary to planned obsolescence.
Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): The idea of the armed citizen speaks to the very core and foundations that made this country. Studies have been done in numerous prisons that go something like “If you were to commit a crime in an area where the number of people are armed is considerably high, what is the likelihood of you committing said crime on a scale of 1 to 10?” It doesn’t take a big fancy college degree to know what the answer was. More crimes have been stopped by armed citizens than the media is willing to report on. In a study over the course of eight years’ worth of news stories, armed citizens have stopped tens of thousands of crimes. Many will point to the fact that armed citizens don’t stop mass shooters. This is because mass shooters usually pick “gun-free zones” as their targets for a reason. Recent psychological findings conclude that each mass shooter is trying to “outscore” previous mass shooters. They want a turkey shoot, not a force-on-force shootout that will prematurely end their killing spree. Criminals in elected office also fear armed citizens standing up to kangaroo courts and illegal seizure of land and assets. Brandon McDoanald Gardnerville
Right to self-defense Re “Campus Carry letters” (Letters to the Editor, April 2): The letters about campus carry in the past couple weeks have frustrated me quite a bit. I own a Mossberg 500 and a Ruger SP 101 for sport and to protect me and my fiancée in whatever situation may arise. However, when I get to the University of Nevada, Reno campus, I have to disarm myself and leave myself vulnerable. People have argued that the passage of this bill will lead to accidental discharges, but in the 150 college campuses that allow conceal carry, there have been three cases of a negligent discharge. Two of those occurred because the gun was
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not in a holster, a rule that can easily be added by the university. None of the cases caused serious injuries. Those who have a carry permit have been trained to be responsible. Plus, if there is a shooting, I personally would like to protect myself as an adult against the aggressor rather than let a massacre continue uncontested until campus police finally show up. There was also a letter that commented on the police not knowing who the attacker is, but this has never been an issue anywhere else in society, as gun fights are over in a matter of seconds, and the police are trained for such an occurrence. Disarming good guys won’t stop bad guys. I’m not a vigilante; just an adult who wants to protect himself. Jacob Guariglia Reno
Silence Trainor Re “Should Nevada dance to Israel’s tune?” (Let Freedom Ring, March 5): Shame on Brendan Trainor’s pathetic attempt to slip Jew hatred into his weekly conservative column. Nevada and Israel are mutually exclusive. Heck, you can’t even find a Jew here to stand up and defend Israel. That doesn’t give Mr. Trainor the green light to spew the tired, false Israel rhetoric in an article crafted only to show his progressive mindset. Then, bam, he goes right into a square dance diatribe. Disproportional reaction to Gaza? Mr. T should inform us as to how 10,000 indiscriminate rocket barrage aimed at civilians in Tel Aviv compare to the surgical take-out of undisputed launching sites placed in hospitals, schools and apartments in Gaza? Maybe you and Ira Hansen should hook up and form your own radio program. “Pseudo-Republicans for Hamas” or something catchy. Shame on the Reno News & Review for not catching this obvious propaganda ploy. Patt Vinikow Washoe Valley Editor’s note: There was nothing for us to catch. We do not censor our columnists. Moreover, we object to the
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idea that criticism of Israel constitutes anti-Semitism. That notion has chilled Middle East debate far too much. As for Nevadans willing to defend Israel, Sheldon Adelson, Harry Reid, the Las Vegas Sun, author John Marschall (Jews in Nevada), state legislator John Ellison, and thousands of other good people of all faiths come to mind. Trainor will probably enjoy your characterization of his “progressive mindset,” though.
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Re “Driving us crazy” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, March 5): The Reno DMV office has problems beyond the workload. There’s sometimes a tone of disdain for the public there that may have to do with bad branch management. If you have to kill a morning, drive to the Carson office early in the middle of the week. It’s a beautiful 30-minute drive, and your wait time is often short, but if it is a couple hours you can spend it across the street at Schat’s Bakery (wrecking that low carbs New Year’s resolution). But yeah, when the parking lot overflows at Reno, we need more capacity. Along other lines, how many times does WCSD General Council Randy Drake have to “step in it” before he’s called to account? As I pointed out when the Pedro Martinez mess blew up, the Board was acting like it had no legal counsel, and I thought then that Drake should be fired. He continues to display a level of job performance that’s worse than not showing up at all. When your lawyer gets you in trouble just by opening his mouth, it’s time for a new lawyer. C.G. Green Reno
Pierce the corporate haze Re “High desert” (Green, April 2): I was wondering if any of your investigative journalists were going to do a follow up or original story on the link between those who have been granted either dispensary licenses or growing licenses for marijuana and those entities that already have liquor
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licenses. I saw the tail end of a news broadcast in which a debate was to be held on the subject here in Reno, but the person from the Nevada State Regulatory division did not show up. I know that most likely the decision to make medical and/or recreational marijuana available in this state is a hot potato and will probably not be brought up for discussion in the current legislature and therefore will appear on the 2016 ballot as a citizen initiative. However, I am more concerned about the cards being stacked against a financed small businessman/woman being able to compete when casinos and other major businesses who hold liquor licenses have the advantage of gaining a license for a marijuana dispensary or growing facility, due to the possible fact that a marijuana license of any kind is linked to an existing or purchased liquor license, which could be sold to another entity along with the dispensary and/or growing license. Tim Sanders Reno
Shared wealth Re “This land is your land” (Left Foot Forward, March 12): The open landscapes of Nevada and our clean water and air are the state’s greatest natural resources, far more valuable intact than developed. We will do very well with it, not so well without it. Of the few other states that share this tremendous asset, we are the warmest, with the most historic communities and the closest to California. Nevada is one of the five most popular states for global visitors because of what we have right now. While mining, gambling and the other extractive industries fluctuate with their markets, the American West is a universal attraction and we have it in abundance. Our history has taught us that the bottom line is not always the best gauge of value, and that a boom is prelude to a bust. Sustainable is best, long-term is best. Anything less is a bubble, Tesla included. David Toll Gold Hill
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The Nevada Rural Housing Authority (NRHA) hosts a free Home Buyers Expo. It is designed to educate prospective homeowners on the process of purchasing a home and ways to prepare for homeownership down the road. There will be presenters from NRHA, USDA Rural Development, Financial Guidance Center, lenders and more. For more information about this activity, contact Melissa Meneses at (775) 887-1795. Sa, 4/18, 1-4PM, free. Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., (775) 3563300
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Guns on campus? Asked at the University of Nevada, Reno student union Shannon Hughes International business major
Because we’re a school, I don’t think they’re necessary. School should be a safe environment for everyone.
Angie Herrera Marketing major
I don’t think they should be carried on campus, because I personally don’t feel safe. I know anything can happen when you have a weapon.
Jeff Erickson Faculty member
Three cuts to the budget The Nevada Legislature, in its 10th week, is still struggling with the tax package, a struggle mostly between Republican factions. The Democrats seem ready to vote for any tax package, oblivious to whether it represents greater or lesser tax fairness in this state where the working poor already carry such a heavy burden. We believe there are three steps legislators can take to simplify their choices. First, kill all-day kindergarten. We understand that teachers want to expand job opportunities. But this proposal is a throwback to the 1980s, the greed decade when Let’s-Be-Like-Japan was all the rage and training schoolchildren to be workaholics was chic. Small children should be eased into the world of school and of separation from home. So many of the reasons for all day kindergarten rely on the needs of the adult world: Half-day kindergarten is a mismatch with Common Core standards, all-day boosts student achievement, it produces returns on investment (at a Nevada cost of at least $150 million annually). Those are in the interest of adult society. But they steal childhood from children. Yes, studies show children make the transition, but they shouldn’t have to. “This is a simple step we can take as we move toward implementing a comprehensive early education program,” according to the National Education Association, a teachers group. But that presupposes an early education program is a good idea. Second, kill the second Nevada medical school. Nevada has fewer than 3 million people, most of them hard pressed by a tax system that screws most of them. The state has provided a medical school, located in Reno. The notion that this state can afford two medical schools—one north, one south—is sanity-challenged. The existing school is not called the UNR Medical School. It’s the Nevada
School of Medicine. Its annual budget is $270 million. It’s in Reno not for any good reason but because billionaire Howard Hughes offered money for it at a key moment, when Reno had muscle in the Legislature. Political scientists like Eleanore Bushnell warned that allowing Hughes to interfere in the political process would cause problems, but no one listened to those ivory tower folks. Other than regional pride, there is no sensible reason for a second medical school, nor can taxpayers afford one. Those pushing the idea aren’t the ones who would bear the burden of paying for it. Medical schools are incredibly expensive. The first Nevada medical school forced the repeal of a long-time state law capping all state salaries. Third, get rid of public information officers. Legislative budgeters will find salary savings are substantial. Public information officers were created to put reporters in touch with those in the bureaucracy who have the information needed and then step aside. But over the years, their role has evolved. PIOs now shield officials and agencies from scrutiny and often serve as spokespeople themselves instead of the actual experts. “But over the past 20 years, government leaders have been using [PIOs] to monitor employee communication with the press,” the Columbia Journalism Review recently reported of federal PIOs, quoting reporter Kathryn Foxhall: “It is massive, pernicious censorship that is now a cultural norm. It’s people in power stopping the flow of information to the public according to their own ideas and desires.” PIOs should be cut at all government levels, but let’s start with the state. It’s time for state agency directors and Supreme Court justices to start speaking for themselves again instead of hiding behind flacks. Ω
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I do not agree with guns on campus. I think it makes an unsafe classroom. It elevates risk on campus.
Terri Van Hoozer Parent of UNR student
Totally opposed. I think it makes things more dangerous for everybody. You’ve got a lot of people who police don’t have any idea if they’re really trained or mentally able to handle a situation where there’s guns.
Natalie Brown Pre-nursing
I feel like they’re very unnecessary and unsafe, and I would not want some of these people walking around with guns. On a college campus, it’s not necessary.
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The lies candidates tell “I just came back from New Hampshire, where there’s snow and ice everywhere. My view on this is simple: Debates on this should follow science and should follow data, and many of the alarmists on global warming, they have a problem because the science doesn’t back them up.” by So sayeth newly-announced Sheila Leslie presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, personifying the weather report view of climate change, i.e. ‘I see snow, therefore global warming doesn’t exist.’ Cruz is a long-time denier, stating last year: “The problem with climate change is there’s never been a day in the history of the world in which the climate is not changing.” California Gov. Jerry Brown, leader of a state experiencing a drought reaching historic proportions sees the issue differently. And he’s tired of the climate change deniers’ nonsense. On Meet the Press, he proclaimed Senator Cruz “absolutely unfit to be running for office. That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of existing scientific data. It’s shocking,
and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office.” Nevada Sen. Harry Reid recently took on Senate Republicans who have no plan to address climate change “and cannot even bear to utter the words.” He blamed the Republicans’ anti-global warming position on the influence of the fossil fuel industry. He said, “There is a massive political and public relations operation being run by the fossil fuel industry to create false doubt and plant phony questions to delay their day of reckoning, so they can keep making money.” Certainly, the recent exposure of Harvard researcher, Willie Soon, who was paid $1.25 million by Exxon Mobil, other fossil fuel companies and a Koch brothers foundation, should raise some eyebrows. Soon believes climate change is caused by the sun, not rising greenhouse gas emissions. His funding sources were undisclosed until Greenpeace uncovered proof through the Freedom of Information Act.
Yet, the denial continues, with Cruz and his cronies obsessed with ignoring science, calling climate change activists “flat Earthers.” In 2014 Cruz told CNN, “The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that—that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.” Better get your facts straight before you come to campaign in Nevada, senator. According to the Nevada State Climate Office report, in 2014, Nevada had the highest average statewide temperature, at 53 degrees, since recordkeeping began in 1895. Our normal average temperature is 49.5 degrees. Ski resorts are closing earlier than ever and the Lake Tahoe Basin’s snowpack on April 1 was just 3 percent of normal, the worst snowpack on record. It was refreshing to see the city of Reno show leadership in acknowledging the issue of climate change as a threat to the region. At the city’s annual retreat, Councilmember David
Bobzien argued strongly for growth policies to take climate change into account. Councilmember Jenny Brekhus agreed, saying, “(City) master plans, they are more or less climate action plans.” The council intends to consider policy changes in land use planning, public transit, and perhaps embedding carbon footprint mitigation requirements in local building codes. Even FEMA is getting it right. Beginning in 2016, states must address climate change in their hazard-mitigation plans or risk loss of disaster-preparedness funds. This will roil governors like Rick Scott of Florida, who ordered his Environmental Protection staff to avoid using the terms “climate change” and “global warming” in any official communications despite the fact that Florida is the state most susceptible to the effects of global warming. Can we please bravely face the truth? Climate change is real. Any politician who refuses to acknowledge that fact doesn’t deserve your vote. Ω
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As predicted, the Republicans grow government The legislative session is at the halfway mark, and the battle lines over the state budget are beginning to take shape. There are already major media ads opposing Gov. Sandoval’s budget, which calls for over $1.3 billion in new taxes and makes temporary taxes permanent. The by Brendan Democrats have introduced their Trainor own budget proposal. It calls for new taxes and more spending but is essentially dead in the water, as the last election rendered the Democrats irrelevant. That leaves the Assembly Republican budget. All during the last election campaign, the Republican candidates had one virtually universal promise: No more taxes! The Republican platform says that Nevada has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. So, this Assembly Republican budget, the first one proposed by Republican legislators since 2003, must surely repudiate any tax increases while championing spending cuts, right?
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Alas, just like in 2003, the Republican Assembly budget is little more than an alternative without any difference. In 2003, it was Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn. Today it is Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval. The governors’ names are different, but the goal is the same: more government. Whether you take the governor’s high road or the Assembly’s low road, you arrive at more taxes and spending. Assembly Majority Leader Paul Anderson (R-Las Vegas) actually called the plan “a different path to the same results.” The Republican Assembly plan would not create a new tax, kinda sorta, but would instead expand the Modified Business Tax on payrolls from those businesses with $350,000 in payroll to now include those paying $200,000 in wages. Plus it would repeal the health insurance exemption, the only real deduction allowed, because Obamacare now mandates insurance coverage. (Never mind Republicans’ constant calls to repeal Obamacare.) They would also
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increase the business license fee by 50 percent, while Sandoval’s plan calls for a 100 percent increase. If only someone could introduce a way to increase spending by a reasonable amount, say by population growth and inflation, minus productivity gains, that would not require new taxes and would even sunset those taxes supposed to die? The libertarian Nevada Policy Research Institute has stepped to the plate and pinch hit a home run. Its recently released “Freedom Budget” allows for an increase in spending over 2013 levels while much less than the governor’s 2016 proposal. Some departments would be slashed dramatically, like the Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Tourism office. Government should not be in the business of picking economic winners and losers or promoting tourism in order to raise public revenue. But others, like the Nevada Department of Conservation, would see a generous increase. NPRI generally calls for the full funding of state agencies’
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budget requests, simply because the governor has actually asked for much more than what the agencies themselves have! As I have predicted, putting Republicans in charge of government did not result in reducing the state budget by one dime. But reasonable spending increases could be palatable if there are real economic reforms. There have to be serious reforms in collective bargaining, in education accountability, school choice, the Medicaid expansion, prisons, economic opportunity, drug policy, and the basic tax structure of the state. Republicans in charge could put an end to class size reduction proposals. There is no need for more preschool. Fortunately, there is still a twothirds requirement for tax increases, although in 2003 that was overcome in a dramatic special session. Principled Republican legislators can kill new taxes. The hope is they can help midwife a Nevada that is more flexible, competitive and built for the 21 century. Ω
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Nevada Republican Platform: We strongly support those in public office who resist higher taxes and fees, and seek to reduce the size, cost and scope of government at all levels. www.nevadagop. org/about-thegop/2014-platform/
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Measures to allow guns on campus have roiled the student population at UNR.
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Two plaques bolted onto the Riverside Bridge on Booth Street have been pried out and stolen. The first bridge at the location was constructed in 1920. The plaque installed on that bridge carried the list of county and city officials who were in office when it was constructed, along with the name of the contractor, J.L. Hoffman of Minden, and a consulting engineer, C.P. Hill of Reno. When the bridge was replaced in 1993, a member of the Reno City Council sought assurances that the 73-year-old plaque would be mounted on the new bridge, and it was installed on the east side. Now it is gone. The plaque marking the new bridge was installed on the west side and it, too, is missing. When the News & Review contacted the city to report the 1920 plaque was gone, city official Erich 1920 PLAQUE Strunge consulted old Google street level images and was able to determine the plaques disappeared between Google images from 2007 and 2011. Among the 13 names that appeared on the 1920 plaque was that of Reno City Councilmember Roy Frisch, a bank teller who— on the eve of his federal fraud trial testimony against two Reno mobsters—vanished and was never seen again. FBI officials believed Frisch was abducted and murdered on March 22, 1934, by gangsters Lester “Baby Face Nelson” Gillis and John Paul Chase (“Public enemies in Reno,” RN&R, July 9, 2009). “We will continue to obtain information and look at recreating and re-installing the plaques at some point in the future,” Strunge said in an email message.
Presidential primary proposed Sen. James Settelmeyer, a Republican representing Churchill, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties, has introduced legislation to create a presidential primary system in Nevada. Though some news reports said that Senate Bill 421 would replace the presidential caucuses held in Nevada for decades, in fact, the caucuses would still be held both for party organization and for national presidential nominating convention delegate selection. The bill requires that the delegates selected in the caucuses—known in Nevada as precinct meetings—“must reasonably reflect the results of the presidential preference primary election.” This would keep the delegates from being free agents and, apparently, would bind them to candidates who might have dropped out of the race or suspended their campaigns. The bill also contains New Hampshire-style language that would allow the secretary of state to shift primary dates around, apparently to move Nevada to an early point in the delegate selection process, a status it already enjoys under the caucus system. It would also require the consent of the Legislative Commission for date changes, putting legislators in the position of enjoying executive branch powers. Nevada held a Democratic presidential primary in 1912, a Republican primary in 1996, and primaries for both parties in 1976 and 1980. The primary created in 1975 was discontinued after its second use for budgetary reasons—it had cost more than twice the expected amount. In the absence of a new presidential primary, Nevada’s presidential caucuses are expected to retain their early placement in spite of the retirement of Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, who was instrumental in the state getting its early date. Nevada’s caucuses and South Carolina’s primary are expected to be on Feb. 18, 2016, the third date of the presidential nominating calendar, after Iowa’s caucuses and New Hampshire’s primary.
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Empty chambers? Legislature’s power to approve weapons on campus in doubt Legislative measures being processed to allow guns on state college campuses may face an obstacle state by lawmakers have not dealt with—they Dennis Myers may lack the authority to pass them. And if they do enact them, the Nevada Board of Regents may still have the power to disallow guns on campus. The Nevada Supreme Court has twice ruled that “exclusive executive and administrative control of the university” rests with the Regents, not the Nevada Legislature.
“The framers vest[ed] exclusive executive and administrative control of the university in a board of regents.” Nevada Supreme Court The issue first arose in 1948 in the court case King vs. Board of Regents. The Legislature had enacted a statute creating a sort of shadow board of regents that was appointive and appeared to intrude on the elected Board of Regents’ administrative authority. While the second board was alleged to be advisory and the statute contained a clause saying it should not usurp the elected board’s authority, it appeared to have the power to do just that.
It was the first time the issue of the Legislature’s power over the university compared to the regents’ power over the university had been litigated, and the court issued an 11,580-word ruling. The court said it had consulted the 1864 constitutional debates and found that Nevada’s founders had withheld from legislators the authority to curb the regents’ powers but had empowered the legislators to define the regents’ duties, a conundrum of which the court observed, “In frankness it must be said that the recourse to these debates affords scant assistance.” In the ruling by Justice Milton Badt, the court found, “While it is urged by [the state taxpayer who brought the lawsuit] that the act is invalid for the further reason that it divides and clouds responsibility for official acts done in the name of the elected board, that it will result in ‘buck passing’ and shoulder shrugging and would discourage men from seeking or accepting the office of regent, and while these contentions have some measure of appeal, they go more to the wisdom, judgment and policy of the legislation, in which field the legislature is supreme. … “It is urged by [the state attorney general who defended the statute] that the act in question grants to the advisory board ‘rights and privileges’ only, and no ‘powers,’
and thus cannot encroach upon the powers of the elected board. This distinction is too finely drawn and we are not impressed by it. The terms have often been held to be synonymous and it has been said that whatever may be the value of the distinction in ethics, in law it is ‘very shadowy and unsubstantial.’ … “[The attorney general] insists that the unquestioned right of the legislature to appropriate the required funds for maintaining the university indicates that the elected board of regents was not vested by the constitution with exclusive and plenary control. However, the two processes are distinct. The power of the legislature to provide the requisite money and to limit and decrease the amount considered by the regents to be necessary is entirely a different function from the administration and control of the university itself. From what we have said it is clear that we are of the opinion that it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to vest exclusive executive and administrative control of the university in a board of regents to be elected by the people and that the act creating the advisory board would change, alter or modify its constitutional powers and functions and cannot find its justification in the power of the legislature to define the duties of the elected board.” In 1981, another court ruling came down in Board of Regents vs. Oakley that further clarified the authority issue but still left the regents masters of their own administrative house. In Oakley, the issue was whether the board had to comply when a new state law on age discrimination conflicted with its own mandatory retirement age policy that had been in place for many years. The regents overreached in defending their position, claiming—based on King—absolute autonomy. The Nevada Supreme Court disagreed, ruling “that this statute reasonably and properly imposes upon the governing board of our state university the same obligation that it imposes on other state, county and municipal boards. … Since the law in question simply prescribes duties concerning fair treatment of its personnel, it in no apparent way interferes with the Board’s essential management and control of the university.” The court did not undercut its previous King finding that
the board has authority over the legislature in the administrative duties of running the university system. It still found “that the legislature may not invade the constitutional powers of the Board through legislation which directly interferes with essential functions of the University.” Attorney Don Klasic, who was for many years the university system’s general counsel and participated in Oakley, said that though he has not yet read the specific provisions of the bills the legislature is considering (the principal bill is ever-changing), said he thinks they have some problems. “If the legislators were processing a bill that applied to all state offices, that would be one thing,” he said. “But when they pass a measure that targets just the university, I doubt that it will prevail.” As noted above, the Oakley opinion observed that the age discrimination law did not target the campuses but applied widely to state agencies. “I don’t know what’s more essential than running your own campus,” Klasic said, noting that Oakley upheld “essential” administrative functions of the Board of Regents. “If the board chooses to create a regulatory structure for this purpose, I think [they] can do it.” In fact, that structure already exists. As Jeri Chadwell-Singley
reported in these pages last week (“Campus targeted,” April 2), there is a procedure for applications to carry weapons on campus. Those applications are sent to the campus police for review, and the police may run background checks and interview applicants. While some rejected applicants have complained about the basis for their rejections, for the Legislature to substitute its judgment for that process raises questions of micro-managing the regents’ administrative procedures.
“ I don’t know what’s more essential than running your own campus.” Don Klasic Former university counsel Of five applications filed in 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available, four involved weapons to be brought onto campus for academic reasons. They were approved. The fifth, filed by a holder of an off-campus weapon permit, was denied. The Nevada Assembly approved Assembly Bill 148, providing for campus carry, on April 6. To become law, it must now be approved by the Senate and signed by the governor. Ω
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Large sections of grass have been taken up on the University of Nevada, Reno, campus, most of them in straight lines or geometric patterns. A campus spokesperson said it’s part of a project underway since December to upgrade “the high temperature hot water system for all of campus. … Facilities Services is completing a construction project that will route new heating water and electrical lines from Lombardi Recreation Center south down West Stadium Way to Fitzgerald Student Services [building].” About 20,000 feet of grass is being replaced as a part of the project, which should conclude about May 1. OPINION
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Why state efforts to grab federal land keep failing
tate Legislatures magazine/ April 1980: Fierce regional sentiment; generations of history; tangled political and legal questions; new economic and social
realities ... Christopher A. Wood/Washington Post/May 1995: Buildings damaged by anonymous bombers. Armed men threatening federal officials. Politicians passing local ordinances repudiating federal law. These two quotes, separated by 15 years, fairly portray the evolution of the image of efforts to wrest control of public lands from the federal government. Nevada has been in the forefront of these efforts, which continue today with Senate Joint Resolution 1 at the 2015 Nevada Legislature. It’s an effort that reflects an enduring notion in Nevada politics, that the small counties are the “real” Nevada and that politicians can advance by tailoring their appeal to that region. This notion has had little election success, but a good myth dies hard, and state politicians keep pandering to the small counties. And few envisioned the 2014 election, which swept Republicans more oriented to dogma than practical action, into the legislature.
The SagebruSh rebellion In 1976, Congress enacted the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, which outlined new functions of the Bureau of Land Management, set federal policies on control of public lands and mining, and established multiple use, sustained yield, and environmental protection practices and policies. It also ended the practice of homesteading, which—along with benign uses—had been used to shift tribal lands to whites. More to the point, the new law
made federal land holdings permanent. It was not a new idea—the original founding Atlantic coast colonies that held land had willingly turned it over to the federal government. On the quarter-century anniversary of the act, the BLM said, “[B]ecause of the insight and vision of the people who crafted it, FLPMA provides us with the tools we need to cooperatively and creatively manage the public lands, and in the process, dispel the notion that a variety of uses and resources cannot co-exist.”
Legislature, Rhoads listened to criticism with an open mind, accepted amendments, treated critics with respect. Many, including some liberals who should know better than to use guilt by association, have portrayed the Sagebrush Rebellion as akin to the extremist groups like county supremacists (fired by a theory that county officials, particularly sheriffs, trump federal power) who followed later. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said in a report after the 2014 Cliven Bundy standoff, “Today’s disputes with
We just weren’t making any headway. Richard Bryan
Former Nevada attorney general
federal authority, many long simmering, are an extension of the earlier right-wing Sagebrush Rebellion, Wise Use and ‘county supremacy’ movements.” In fact, while there were extremists on the fringes, the Rebellion was a peaceful movement motivated by issues. “The bill does not constitute a rebellion, a revolt, or a secession,” Rhoads told the Assembly on April 25, 1979, the day the Nevada Assembly voted for Assembly Bill 413. “It does constitute a constitutional challenge to the right of the federal government to unilaterally control and manage the public domain and to hold the land in perpetuity without any conversion to private ownership.” Many moderate legislators who voted for Rhoads’ bill would not have gone along otherwise. It was later organizations—from which Rhoads dissociated the Rebellion—that gave the issue its unsavory reputation. In national news coverage, such as the U.S. News & World Report article quoted
Not everyone agreed. “The legislation dashed Western hopes that the U.S. would gradually turn control of public lands over to local governments, which residents argue could do a better job of managing public land than bureaucrats stationed in Washington,” reported U.S. News & World Report. In 1979, Nevada Assemblymember Dean Rhoads convinced his colleagues in the Nevada Legislature to launch an effort to take state control of federally held land through a lawsuit. Rhoads is one of those very conservative Republicans—a longtime member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—who later found himself less comfortable with the Republican Party as militants, evangelicals, and social conservatives used the GOP as a vehicle for increasingly extreme public policies and accused those traditional conservatives who didn’t go along with being RINOs. In getting the Rebellion legislation through the Nevada
earlier, journalists tended to describe the Sagebrush Rebellion as representing the West and Westerners. But once it was authorized by the Nevada Legislature, public attitudes began to evolve. In Nevada, the passage of the bill had been low key, but soon its provisions were becoming well known through heavier news coverage. In addition, urban dwellers—who included most Nevadans—got a taste of what the Rebellion prevailing might be like when Ronald Reagan became president in 1981. Reagan, a Rebellion supporter, appointed a wide array of officials who sympathized with the anti-public lands movement, and implemented policies that advanced movement goals. Of course, every political action has an equal and opposite reaction, and as Reagan’s policies threw more attention on the goals of the Sagebrush Rebellion, and the implications of Reagan’s proRebellion policies became clearer, it lost support in the urban areas of Nevada where the state’s open spaces were beloved. Interior Secretary James Watt became a lighting rod. Public concern centered on the specter of development and the cost.
oppoSiTion formS No one knew what the cost of providing services such as law enforcement and fire protection to such huge swaths of land would be, or the consequences of the state’s gain of legal liabilities, or the depth of the loss of various kinds of federal funding and subsidies, or the cost of providing infrastructure. Advocates of the Rebellion had produced a study arguing that there would be few costs, but there was no independent assessment along those lines, and the state was deep within the throes of the impact of
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1978’s California tax-cutting measure, Proposition 13, a ballot measure whose successful passage had caused a groundswell of budget cutting in state governments across the nation. A 1929 offer by President Herbert Hoover to turn public lands over to the states had foundered in part on just this issue. Comic Will Rogers wrote, “Nobody knows why Mr. Hoover got it in for the states and wanted to sick the land on them. If the Federal Government can’t keep it up what could some poor state like Nevada do with it? … Now, if you are going to force this extra percentage of land on them you are just going to make them that much poorer.” Just as threatening was the risk that the state, if it obtained the land, would sell it off to private interests for development. Washoe County Sen. Cliff Young—a former GOP U.S. House member who later became a Nevada Supreme Court justice—said, “If it looked like the state was going to get that land, [developers would] spring out of the desert like wildflowers. I just feel safer if the key’s back in Washington.” There was considerable evidence for the view that states are less responsible custodians. At statehood, Nevada had received 4 million acres of public land. The land was supposed to be held in trust for the state’s schools, but state government regularly used it for other purposes, sold it off in corrupt land deals—some of them involving state legislators—and lost virtually all of it. Today there are only 3,000 acres in six counties remaining and the Nevada Legislature is mulling over how to raise money for schools (“Congress gave the new state of Nevada 4 million acres to pay for schools. What happened to them?” RN&R, July 18, 2013). In addition, the behavior of county governments was not heartening in considering how the land in state hands would be used. Some counties are entirely undiscriminating in what they will accept to generate business, such as private waste incinerators and nuclear waste dumps, so much so that former Assembly Speaker Joe Dini of Yerington once said that Lincoln County will take “any dirty project.” Sentiment in Nevada turned sharply against the Sagebrush Rebellion. That’s not to say the Rebellion had no victories. The ascendancy of Reagan had changed federal land policies, and many Rebellion supporters were satisfied with that. They had to be. There was no sentiment remaining in the urban-dominated legislature to keep the Rebellion going in the state of its birth. The lawsuit was never filed.
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State legislator Dean Rhoads sponsored the original Sagebrush Rebellion.
But there were those who were not satisfied, and those on the fringe now came to the fore. Outflanked in every political way, they resorted to more radical, episodic activism, often involving guns. On July 4, 1994, Nye County Commissioner Richard Carver, atop a bulldozer and in front of a crowd, illegally opened a National Forest road, Jefferson Canyon Road, that the U.S. Forest Service had closed for archaeological and environmental studies. “After Commissioner Carver strayed from the right-of-way, Forest Service Special Agent Dave Young stood directly in the path of the bulldozer and displayed a sign ordering the commissioner to stop,” Federal Judge Lloyd George later wrote. “Although Young continued to display the sign while the bulldozer was on national forest land, Commissioner Carver did not stop his activities.”
The bill does not constitute a rebellion, a revolt, or a secession. Dean Rhoads
Sagebrush Rebellion founder
The court ruled against Carver, who ended up on the cover of Time. (Easterners are always bewitched by these confrontations.) Carver later said, “All it would have taken was for one of those rangers to have drawn a weapon. Fifty people with sidearms would have drilled him.” This became the pattern for what became known as the county supremacy movement—short episodes in which guns could enforce fleeting symbolic victories over the federal government. On July 4, 2000, 300 protesters at tiny Jarbidge opened a road that had been damaged by flooding and kept closed by the Forest Service because of erosion and decreasing numbers of bull trout in a nearby creek. And, of course, there is the Bunkerville confrontation last year, in which a small army of people, many of them with weapons, gathered to protect scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy from BLM action over his failure to pay his fees for grazing his cattle on public land. It was another “victory” accomplished through sheer force of arms and the restraint of federal officials. There have been numerous other disputes and incidents. On Oct. 31, 1993, the state BLM headwaters in Reno was bombed by person(s) unknown. On March 29, 1995, a Forest Service restroom near Elko was bombed, persons
unknown. The next day a Carson City Forest Service office in Carson City was bombed, persons unknown. The day after that, a Sparks Forest Service office received a phone call: “You’re next.” Federal land agencies started changing their routines for safety reasons, letting employees drive their private vehicles on official business and allowing rangers to skip wearing their uniforms. They often traveled in pairs. Local governing officials and even law enforcement officers allied themselves with the county supremacists. Seventy counties adopted resolutions challenging legal authority on federal land. A few weeks after Bunkerville, an emboldened crowd of supremacists on all-terrain vehicles led by a local county commissioner tore up Recapture Canyon in Utah, closed by the federal government to all but hikers and horseback riders because it was full of dwellings, artifacts, and burial sites of the ancient Pueblos, a people who lived between 1150 and 1300 AD and then disappeared. Shortly after the Bundy standoff,
Bundyites Amanda and Jerad Miller killed two police officers and a resident in Las Vegas. Other Bundyites hastened to claim the two had been asked to leave the Bunkerville standoff, which was never confirmed. On June 14 last year, a California man shot a BLM ranger and a California Highway Patrol officer near the South Yuba River. In May last year, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts brandished a handgun at a BLM worker driving an agency vehicle, holding up a sign that read, “You need to die.”
new initiative At the 2013 Nevada Legislature, advocates of a public land takeover took a new approach designed to avoid the influence of the urban areas that opposed the Sagebrush Rebellion. They won creation of a Land Management Task Force to study the issue and report back to the next Legislature. But this was an unusual interim study. It was
headquartered not in the Legislative Counsel Bureau but at the Nevada Association of Counties, a lobby group. And it was composed of one person from each county, all chose by county commissions, a deft maneuver that meant it was malapportioned—the 15 smaller counties, with 12 percent of the state’s population, had 88 percent of the members. Clark and Washoe, with 87.9 percent of the population, received 2 out of 17 members. The panel, in other words, was rigged to produce protakeover recommendations by shorting the urban areas on votes. The result was Senate Joint Resolution 1, “transferring title to certain public lands to the State of Nevada in accordance with the report prepared by the Nevada Land Management Task Force.” (Assembly Bill 408 has a similar goal.) But if S.J.R. 1 is approved, the legal problem the Sagebrush Rebellion faced will also face the new effort—there is no known legal theory that supports it. Richard Bryan, who was state attorney general during the Sagebrush Rebellion period, said last week that he worked hard to build a case. “We did press the issue,” he said. “We spent quite a bit of time.” Bryan hired Brigham Young University Law School founding dean Rex Lee, later solicitor general in the Reagan administration, for Rebellion litigation.
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Initially, the attorney general’s office tried for a quick hit—amending an already existing lawsuit by the state against the U.S. Interior Department dealing with land patents to add a Sagebrush Rebellion-related claim. But U.S. District Judge Edward Reed ruled against the state and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld him. So the AG’s office moved on to a full-fledged Rebellion lawsuit. Faced with a field in which there was little encouraging case law, the office focused on two ways of making a case. One was that Nevada—which, in its 1864 constitution, had “forever disclaim[ed] all right and title to the unappropriated public lands” in the state—had done so under pressure and thus had not been admitted to the union on “equal footing” with other states. What was also found in the case law was that, legally, it was not enough just to say, “We want the land.” If it could be shown that there were ways that the state’s lack of control over territory was preventing it from exercising its sovereign functions, then the state might have a case. Former deputy attorney general Larry Struve last week said the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources—where the state land registrar’s office was located—was asked to come up with specific examples of how Nevada’s sovereign authority was being thwarted by federal
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public land ownership. It was never able to do so. The AG’s office explored a number of other theories, but in the end nothing that supported the Rhoads bill. “We concluded that we just weren’t making any headway,” Bryan said. “We argued that, in effect, under the doctrine of equal standing that indeed the public lands were within [state influence].” But that alone wasn’t enough. “We found some cases that were not clearly on point, such as a dispute over where a state capital was located,” Bryan said. That was an Oklahoma case. “In the end, we didn’t get any traction on it.” He said he believed the current measure in the Nevada Legislature “would not pass constitutional muster. We raised the same legal issues.” There is actually no reason to pass S.J.R. 1 or similar measures. It is said that Rhoads’ original measure is still on the books. But until someone comes up with a way of making a legitimate case, launching another lawsuit will just be an intentional waste of money. These matters do not bother the supremacists. Like Cliven Bundy, they tend to judge the validity of law by the outcome—court rulings that find in their favor are legitimate, those that rule against them are illegitimate. No system of law can function that way, of course. An unwillingness to abide by court findings undercuts the whole basis of law.
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The supremacists tend to cherry-pick theories and market their case on that narrow basis. It exasperated serious legal scholars who know how intellectually dishonest it is and how good people were being sucked in on the basis of partial information. When she was Nevada attorney general, Frankie Sue Del Papa addressed the supremacists directly: “There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.” Moreover, the supremacists’ dogma—strong on private enterprise taking the land—exacerbates urban concerns. Rhoads himself has long been skeptical of the new face of efforts to take control of federal lands. He once said he did not want the term Sagebrush Rebellion applied to later groups, such as the effort by Carver. He has regularly disassociated the Rebellion from incidents like the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade. “The original thrust of the Sagebrush Rebellion was more friendly and more credible,” Rhoads told journalist Florence Williams in 2001. “The Jarbidge thing is more a right-wing group opposed to a lot of the things the federal agency does. They’re not willing to cooperate and compromise. Compromise to them is a dirty word.” Ω
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been writing about performing arts in this town for more than a decade, and I’ve gotten to know the local theaters and the people running them pretty well. So when I was putting together February’s spring theater guide (“Playing Around,” Arts & Culture, Feb. 5), I found it remarkable how often my sources at the usual venues told me they were hosting productions by new companies. Merry War Theatre Company, Vaude Villain, Potentialist Workshop and Homeslice Productions are just a few of the company names recently added to Reno’s increasingly vibrant performing arts scene.
The local comedy troupe The Utility Players can be scary funny. Shane Tolomeo and Amanda Alvey are pictured.
You slice it “There’s a burgeoning happening in all of Reno arts right now,” said Jessica Levity, a local radio personality who founded Homeslice Productions (www.HomesliceProductions.com) in 2009, calling it the umbrella company under which she plays with her imagination. Under it are The Utility Players comedy and improv troupe; spirituality and inspirationbased Alchemist Theatre; and the adult storytelling project she co-produces with Steve Emmerich titled Cincinnati, NV. “The Renossance you’ve heard about is very real,” she said. “There’s a can-do energy that extends to the arts. Everybody wants to start their own something.” But could the increasing number of new companies create an oversaturated marketplace for Reno’s tiny theater-going audience? Perhaps, but Levity is optimistic. “I once heard a statistic that it’s the same 3,000 people going to local theater, so every show you go to, it’s the same people,” Levity says. “But for me, it’s all about the quality of the product. If the quality blows you away, you’ll come back. A lot of new things are cropping up and people are being blown away, so as long as the quality stays high, it will grow.”
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There’s certainly no fear of failure where artists Pan Pantoja and Aric Shapiro are concerned. When they cofounded their performing arts company (“We are not a theater!” they both insist), Potentialist Workshop (https://www.facebook.com/PPPWS), they did so with the intention of bringing brand-new works—no matter the genre or how nuts the ideas may seem—to the stage. This philosophy is an extension of Pantoja’s artistic style, which he calls Potentialism. “We Potentialists refuse to pick a genre or even a form,” Pantoja said. “It’s being able to flow in and out of art forms seamlessly.” Since the Workshop space first opened last year— its current space is on Dickerson Road—they’ve produced some outrageous things. “We’ve produced stuff that’s been brought to me on napkins,” he said. “I think Reno is brilliant. There’s so much talent here.” To illustrate, he cites one show that was essentially a one-hour gripe about artists, performed by “workers” hanging paintings on a wall. Productions have included live music, live painting and sculpting, and a comedy called Dementia: The Musical.
There’s an original show each month and performers are all paid. The rest goes back into rent for the space. Though Pantoja, Shapiro and local patron Deb Girard supplement what’s needed, the art, Shapiro says, largely pays for itself. “There’s clearly a fundamental creative drive, a wave of creativity happening in Reno right now,” Shapiro said. “The reason is that people share resources here, whether it’s social capital, materials, tools. There are lots of spaces and communities here willing to work together to make projects happen.”
Winning the battle Born and raised in Reno, Chase McKenna’s love for theater began at age 6 and was cultivated through study and work in Los Angeles from high school until her 20s. At age 24, she formed her own theater company, Merry War Theatre Group—a reference to a line from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. “I’ve found that theater is a merry war,” McKenna said. “It’s so creative, so fun, but there are a lot of battles—with rules and regulations, sites, spaces, directors. You’re constantly fighting this merry war until the battle is won.” She moved back to Reno in early 2014 and brought Merry War (www.MerryWar.com) with her. McKenna also is committed to paying cast and crew for their time. Merry War shows are often at nontraditional locales, such as the VFW military bunker or the steps of the Lear Theater. McKenna says that Reno’s theater renaissance may partly be driven by professionals, like herself, who once left town to follow their passions and now are returning. “They’re realizing there’s a home here for art and a desire for it, and it’s making people come out of the woodwork, whereas before that wasn’t feasible,” she said. And she’s convinced there’s an audience for all of them. “The challenge with more theater companies is an improved audience palate for quality shows. It forces everyone to a higher standard, not just to make art but to make it very well.”
Wild party “The theater scene has always been around, but it absolutely has grown in quality over the last few years,” said Kate Atack, who, along with John Frederick and Ashley James, owns Vaude Villain Entertainment, a performing arts and entertainment company founded in August 2014. Frederick, whose longtime position heading up the TMCC Performing Arts company was eliminated, wanted to start his own business that would put his training and passion to work. He and James, who worked together on Brüka’s The Wild Party, cofounded Vaude Villain (www.VaudeVillain.com) based
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on their shared interest in Evil Dead: The Musical. Vaude Villain "was born out of our mutual desire to create theater catered toward the freaks, geeks and misfits,” said James. “Our goal is to expose theater to new audiences who don’t typically see local productions. Evil Dead: The Musical, which ran at Goodluck Macbeth last fall, is a great example of that.” It’s more than just a theater company, running the gamut from event planning to linking actors with gigs, to commercials and short films. “We cater to those misfits from odd walks of life,” Frederick says. “We’re working with burlesque groups, comedy groups, everyone. Our biggest goal is to show the world the amazing theater and performing art we have here in Reno.” Atack, who has worked with nearly every established theater company in Northern Nevada over the last 17 years, recalls a time not long ago when she felt she wasn’t growing or having her artistic needs met in Reno, and wanted to leave.
The Renossance you’ve heard about is very real But then, she said, “This amazing thing happened! It was almost like a complete transformation of the theater scene, and now I am proud to call Reno my home, and proud to be doing the work I’m doing here. And all of us in the theater community feel this way.” Like Levity, Atack believes that Reno’s theater scene won’t really take off until attendance increases. She cites one statistic saying that while the average city’s theater attendance is 8 percent of the general public, Reno’s is 1 percent. “[A]nd I can almost guarantee you that it’s mostly the same group of people who attend all shows,” she said, adding that most of them are friends of the actors or fellow artists. “But there is currently such a sense of collaboration and community amongst the companies that I believe it’s a big part of why we’re seeing so much great work being produced,” she said. “We’re helping each other, instead of competing against each other. We’re sharing resources, and promoting each other’s shows, and volunteering at each other’s companies, and creating art together. It’s truly amazing.” Ω
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The Producers: The Musical I think the worst thing I can say about Truckee Meadows Community College Performing by Arts’ current production of Mel Brooks’ Jessica Santina The Producers is that it’s so faithful to its Broadway and film predecessors that it was hard to ever put them out of my mind as I watched. But is that really a bad thing, when those predecessors are the likes of Zero Mostel, Mel Brooks’ the Gene Wilder, Nathan Lane and Matthew Producers: the Broderick? Musical, produced Brooks’ classic may be a slapstick and directed by comedy, but the talent it requires is no carolyn Wray is at the tMcc Nell J. redfield joke—it’s a full three hours of belting out Performing arts tunes, performing rigorous and challengcenter, 505 keystone ing choreography and maintaining sharp ave., on april 10, 11, comedic timing, all while wearing some 16, 17 and 18 at 7:30 outlandish and uncomfortable costumes. p.m.; april 12 and 19 at 2 p.m. TMCC’s consistently well-rounded and talented performers execute all of this nearly advanced tickets: $15 general; $13 for flawlessly. students, seniors; $10 The story begins as once-luminary tMcc students Broadway producer Max Bialystock’s at the door: $17 latest show bombs. Max (Jeffrey Bentley) general, $15 seniors/ now finds himself out of money and with a students, $10 tMcc growing reputation as Broadway poison. students When Leo Bloom (Cody Hamilton), tickets available online Max’s anxiety-ridden accountant, offhandat www.showtix4u.com, edly points out a Broadway flop could or at 673-7291.
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all; they’re in the marketing business. And it’s often true that what producers think will become sure-fire hits actually bomb, while the scripts they ignore become unexpectedly successful. Part of what’s so enjoyable about The Producers is its modern-day resonance. Producer-director Carolyn Wray hit it out of the park with this cast, which is at least 30 people deep and, for the most part, solid all the way through. (OK, a few of the ensemble actors obviously didn’t know their lines, but because they’re ensemble and ruined none of the joy for me, I’m giving them a pass.) Foremost in my mind is Bentley as Max Bialystock, whose voice and mannerisms were at times so reminiscent of Nathan Lane it was startling. It’s a physically
demanding role, both because of his character’s schlubbiness and the voice that must boom steadily, and Bentley nailed it. Hamilton epitomized everything Leo Bloom should be—jittery, nervous, frail—but as his character evolved and grew confidence, this became visible in Hamilton’s demeanor, too. I’ve seen Kelly in numerous productions, but this is by far my favorite of his performances. Shirey is a hilarious Franz Liebkind; he can sell “freakishly obsessed about Hitler” purely with facial expressions. And Alexa Bernal is captivating as Ulla. She even manages to channel Lee Meredith, who performed the role in the original film. And I must mention Lane Saunders, an ensemble member who you will, I promise, find unforgettable for his remarkable dancing and many other … assets. The songs, the sets, the stunning choreography by Mig O’Hara, which includes impressive acrobatics…all of it made The Producers my favorite TMCC show ever, and one of the best locally produced musicals I’ve ever seen. Ω
Tehching Hsieh blurs the line between life and art.
Punch the clock Tehching Hsieh From April 11 of 1980 to April 11 of 1981, Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock almost every by hour on the hour for an entire year. During Josie Luciano this time, the Taiwan-born performance artist did not fall asleep or leave his studio for more than 60 minutes at a time. Three decades after this performance, University of Nevada, Reno will host Tehching Hsieh and his “One Year Performance: 1980-1981” at the Sheppard Contemporary Gallery. Only the second time on display in the U.S.—the first was at tehching hsieh will the Guggenheim in 2009—this installation be at UNr for an includes the uniform Hsieh wore day in and artist reception and day out, 8,760 photographs of the artist’s talk on april 16, 6-8 clock-in mugshots, and a 6-minute film that p.m. in the sheppard loops the photos ad infinitum. contemporary Gallery. For more information, In the film, the artist’s appearance visit www.tehching changes before the viewer’s eyes as his hsieh.com. own eyes reveal dark circles, his hair grows longer, and his expression shows signs of weariness. The photographs cover two walls and 2,821 feet of gallery space, forcing the audience to pick a face to focus on or else OPINION
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give in to the overwhelming sense of repetitive form. This experience of simultaneous focus and flow is a fitting descriptor for the act of passing time itself and exploring the limits of projected units of measurement—in Hsieh’s case, hours, days, a year. Paul Baker Prindle, director of the university’s galleries, describes the blurred line between life and art that Hsieh always seems to court. “At a basic level, his work is about just living … the way that he slows everything down and pushes the boundaries of time makes us aware of how tied we are to it.” “One Year Performance: 1980-1981” is also known as the “Time Clock Piece,” perhaps in part to differentiate it from Hsieh’s four other “One Year Performances.” His first piece in New York was made in 1978, four years after jumping ship near Philadelphia to come to the United States as an illegal immigrant. Known as the Cage Piece, it involved the
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artist locking himself inside an 11.5-by-9by-8-foot cage he built in his Tribeca loft while a friend brought him sustenance and carried out his waste. For an entire year, the artist did not read, write, talk, or leave the cage. Time Clock Piece was his second performance. Next was the year that he lived completely outside in New York, never entering a shelter of any kind including buildings, cars, or homes. After that he spent a year tethered to artist Linda Montano by an 8-foot-long rope in their “Rope Piece.” Next came the year the artist abstained from making art, followed by a
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13-year performance piece during which he made art, but did not show it until the 13-year-mark when he issued a statement that simply read, “I kept myself alive.” Since that time, Hsieh has not made any art at all. While his work is often characterized as a political statement on industrialization or capitalism, Hsieh views his art as more of a philosophical record of the passing of time. In a recent email, he wrote, “Through my works I passed time in different ways, but they are all based on one perspective: life is a life sentence, life is passing time, life is freethinking.” The artist’s decision to stop making work only adds to the mythos of a man who never set out to be an art star in the first place. When asked the reason he stopped being an artist, Hsieh simply replied, “I went back to life itself. Art has a form, but for me they are not much different—doing art and doing life are both doing time. Ω
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Yes, you can spot some of the moments when his face is grafted onto one of his brothers’ bodies, or archival footage is inserted to look original, but it still looks pretty darned good. It’s not too distracting, like when Ridley Scott sloppily pasted Oliver Reed’s face onto a stunt double in Gladiator. Director James Wan, primarily known for horror movies like Saw and The Conjuring, has delivered the franchise’s best offering since the first one. He goes balls-out crazy with the stunts and scenarios while making Walker’s character blend in smoothly. Vin Diesel is still a task to watch and listen to, but the addition of Jason Statham as a seriously bad guy helps to balance things out. First and foremost, this movie gets my blessing for the sequence involving Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and Walker’s Brian O’Conner jumping a car through not one but two skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi. Now, there’s no way in hell that anything like this could actually happen without people getting mushed, but you won’t care once you see
how Wan and friends present this nuttiness. Logic doesn’t matter when the special-effects choreography is this good. While Wan won’t necessarily make you believe that cars can fly, he will put a stupid smile on your face while watching it. While the skyscraper sequence is far and away the franchise’s high-water mark, the film contains a couple of others that garner second and third place showings. A mountainous car chase that ends with Walker’s character trying to escape a truck teetering on a cliff, and a parking garage street fight are both epic. The film also features Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson battling a helicopter with a really big gun, Rambo-style, and Toretto avoiding capture by driving his muscle car off a mountain. It’s a movie that gets a big rush out of continuously topping itself, and it could care less about things like reality. On the bad side, there’s a stupid subplot involving Letty’s (Michelle Rodriguez) amnesia—good Christ, I hate amnesia subplots!—and another stupid one involving Brian and Mia’s (Jordana Brewster) home life. And there are also all of those times that Diesel is required to emote, which is always a sketchy affair on movie screens. In Diesel’s defense, he does look pretty badass in his street fight with Statham. Statham, who I can only take in small doses, is used perfectly in Furious 7. He’s this franchise’s equivalent of the liquid metal Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Throw in Kurt Russell as a craft beerloving federal agent named Mr. Nobody, and you really can’t go wrong, even with the dopey and sluggish moments. For the first time in a long time, the good outweighs the bad in a Furious movie. Will there be an eighth film, even though Walker is no longer with us? Um, given that the movie made nearly $144 million in its opening weekend, I think it’s a foregone conclusion that Universal will find a way to keep the engines running on this sucker. The bigger question is how will they ever manage to top that skyscraper jumping sequence? I think they are going to have to add dinosaurs or rampaging gorillas to this franchise to keep things interesting. Ω
Director Kenneth Branagh knows what Disney junkies, young and old, crave in their fairy tale movies, and he unabashedly delivers the goods with this, the latest “live action” remake of a Disney animated classic. Of course, any Cinderella movie would be a slog without a good actress playing the title character. Luckily, Branagh has scored a great one with Lily James (TV’s Downton Abbey), as charming an actress as any to ever play an iconic Disney role. Screenwriter Chris Weitz gives Cinderella a sweet and sad backstory, showing us a young girl (Eloise Webb) living a happy and secure life with her doting parents (Ben Chaplin and Hayley Atwell). As the fairy tale dictates, Cinderella loses her mom, paving the way for the Queen Bee of all stepmothers, played here by a spot-on, devilish Cate Blanchett. Blanchett and James are so good in their roles because they aren’t trying to break the mold. They both embrace their parts as if they know what we have come to expect, and the result is a sort of adorable nostalgia in the case of Cinderella. She’s a genuinely nice person you can root for as portrayed by James. Adding to the charm would be Helena Bonham Carter (Branagh’s ex-girlfriend) as Fairy Godmother. As to be expected, Carter plays it joyfully weird and quirky. When the pink gown transforms into that glorious blue dress adorning the spinning James, it’s pure movie magic. It’s a lot of fun seeing Branagh embracing the Disney canon and making it his own for nearly two hours.
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I’ll say this for Sean Penn: even though he has a major smoker’s face, he’s sporting some pretty nice muscularity at this stage in his life. Seriously, he’s got the six-pack abs, and some major shoulder and back muscles leading down to an impressive, slender waist. While I didn’t exactly get a glimpse of his buttocks, I have to imagine that they are smooth and rock hard, enviable for all men over 50. When properly oiled, his surfer body is the sort of thing to make humans of all genders and sexual preferences swoon. I wonder whether his is a body made by steroids, or HGH, or just the toned, shaped, visually delicious yet functional results of a man who works hard and cares about himself. I wonder why he would do all this work on those fabulous muscles and still smoke cigarettes, a habit that destroys him little by little with every puff, like mold on a fine art painting. I wonder what he drinks in the morning, whether it’s a protein shake full of nutritious supplements, or just a big glass of raw eggs Rocky style. While I’m at it, let’s not ignore his hair. I think it’s dyed, but not to an extent that makes him look like “old guy trying to look young.” I feel his stylist should be commended. He or she has found the right balance in that dye mix. Topping it all off is a nice pencil mustache, with just enough of a soul patch under his lip to make Frank Zappa proud. All in all, I can see why Charlize Theron is dating Sean Penn. He is, indeed, a catch, even if he tastes and smells like a stank ashtray. Oh, and I almost forgot. … This movie, with his hunky ass playing an assassin trying to make good on his sins, is freaking terrible!
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A story about seven groundbreaking landscape architects.
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It Follows
A young woman (Maika Monroe) pays for having some car-sex fun in a very, very big way in this creepy, ghoulish, unrelenting horror film from writer-director David Robert Mitchell. Taking more than a few cues from John Carpenter’s Halloween and the zombie works of George Romero, Mitchell is very much tuned into the sort of stuff that makes filmgoers squirm and sweat. The movie, based on one of his own nightmares, combines voyeuristic camera work, eerie soundtrack vibes and some fine acting for one of the better, oldschool cinematic scares of the past decade. Monroe’s character gets cursed after having the aforementioned car sex. The curse involves an unstoppable force that can take the shape of any human, be it an old naked man on the roof or one of your parents. That force is not only out to kill the cursed individual; it’s out to kill the cursed individual in very violent ways. The shape-shifting “monster” proves a highly effective device, because you will find yourself constantly scanning every frame of this movie, evaluating every human being that appears. Crowd shots are especially unnerving. There are times when the “monster” is fairly apparent, and others where it is something vaguely visible in the back of the shot. In short, you don’t ever feel safe watching It Follows.
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Director Robert Schwentke chooses a lot of gray tones to go with his dull dialogue and muddled, straining performances to make this one a sleeper in a bad way. Shailene Woodley, an actress who is impressive most of the time, simply doesn’t make for an intriguing action heroine. The material seems beneath her. After the oh-so-rousing events of the first film, Tris (Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are living in a “faction free” zone, meaning the zone is not run by any of the factions by which everybody in this society is categorized by. The factions are Amity, Abnegation, Erudite, Dauntless, Candor, Flounder and Douchebag. I would say this mess has the worst Young Adult fiction premise ever, but I’ve seen the Twilight films, so I would be lying my ass off. While living among the factionless, they have a surprise meeting with Four’s hot mom Evelyn, played by the incomparable Naomi Watts, one of my all-time favorite actresses. Watts is totally wasting her time in this crap, because, well, if Kate Winslet can slum in this pigeon spooge, so can Watts. While Watts makes a fairly brief appearance in this chapter, her character figures to be bigger in future installments. So, consequently, I weep for Watts’s immediate film future.
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For me, a new Will Ferrell movie is usually a cause for celebration. Hey, I even liked Land of the Lost, a film I feel was unjustly dismissed by the masses. Alas, even the great comedic masters misfire from time to time, and Ferrell’s latest goes on the dung heap with the likes of his Kicking and Screaming and Bewitched. Ferrell plays a finance guru who gets convicted for crimes he supposedly didn’t commit, and sentenced to hard time in San Quentin. In an attempt to not get raped when he goes to jail, he hires his car washer (Kevin Hart) to train him in prison ways, for he immediately assumes the man did time because he’s black. So, right there, the Ferrell character is a racist ignoramus that we are supposed to feel sorry for, and that just doesn’t happen. Ferrell and Hart labor for laughs in a sea of dick and ass rape jokes, and it’s all quite ugly and mostly unfunny. There are some highlights, including a simulated prison riot in a wine cellar that inexplicably includes the appearance of an angry baboon, but the jokes are mostly duds. You know you are in trouble when your plot is mostly identical to a failed Rob Schneider movie (the equally offensive Big Stan).
The Gunman
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This is a relatively small movie for the Will Smith mega machine, a semistandard 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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Thursday, April 23 Donny McCaslin with The Collective
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SFJAZZ Collective / Vertical Voices 7:30 p.m., Lawlor Events Center Festival and Ticket Information:
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Work in progress Running with Ravens When scrolling through the list of local bands under the “Alternative” section of ReverbNation, what makes one by Kent Irwin photoshopped band logo stand out from the rest? What is it that drives someone to risk clicking the play button, knowing that anyone can upload whatever noise they’ve made onto this platform? “Pay attention to that innate signal inside of you, whether it’s to start that restaurant you’ve always wanted, to sign up for that 10k run, or pick up that paintbrush you haven’t touched since you were in college,” wrote Grant Runacres in a recent email. “Toss out the mundane and be what you dream.” Photo/Eric Marks
“Overall, we probably spent a cool 500 hours writing, recording and producing this album ourselves,” wrote Runacres. “We wanted nothing shy of a clean, warm and listener-friendly album that we could professionally network with and have people listen to without feeling like they were hearing something that was very obviously recorded in a garage.” To this end, Running With Ravens’ demo serves its purpose. It has been embraced by members of the ReverbNation community, with some gushing: “Exceptional job, guys, look forward to hearing more.” And other, less enthusiastic members stating, “The music was thin and not very pumped up. This is just a demo and that by a wannabe who needs to get more into it.” As any modern musician understands, navigating the internet provides unique challenges and rewards. In their struggle to create something memorable, Runacres and Ravenelle landed on the band name Running With Ravens—a twist on both their last names. “For months, we tried to muster up a name that would encapsulate our sound as well as resonate with our potential future listeners and tie in with our somewhat unique last names,” said Runacres. “The raven as a symbol also had some cool allure to it, so the name stuck,” added Ravenelle. Running With Ravens is new to the Reno music community, although Runacres has been involved in a number of Northern Nevada bands over the years. His technical prowess and soloing ability were showcased in a metal band called Bloodlust Revenge. Echoes of this brazen style are still evident in his work with Running With Ravens, in spite of the band’s laid-back vibe. Runacres and Ravenelle consider themselves perfectionists, and as a result are fully committed to Running With Ravens as an all-encompassing creative outlet. Their goals include establishing a presence in the local area, continuing to write and record music, growing as both recording and performing artists, and playing gigs with different artists in town. Those who know Running With Ravens only by their studio sound might be surprised by the band’s live set, which they describe as “eruptive” and “volcanic.” Ω
Running With Ravens is a local duo that plays progressive acoustic music, which means two guys who know their way around their instrument. Runacres and guitarist Ryan Ravenelle seem like the kind of dudes who could be entertaining with just a couple of guitars in a living room or backyard barbecue. However, their radio friendly sound won’t alienate discriminating music geeks. Running With Ravens displays a casual virtuosity in their acoustic guitar sound that even wins the respect of dexterous metal shredders. Running With Ravens’ lyrics sound like they were written during a warm summer that peaked in a series of revelations made while taking mushrooms at a Dave Matthews Band concert. With song titles like “Illusions of Control” and “F(am)(i)ly,” dorm-room philosophy and youthful idealism abound in their self-recorded EP.
Ryan Ravenelle and Grant Runacres are Running with Ravens, a "progressive acoustic" duo.
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125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005
Blues jam w/Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover
Deep house DJs, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after
Blue Haven, 9pm, no cover
DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover After Mic, 11:30pm, W, no cover
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Karaoke, 10pm, no cover
Dance party w/DJ DoublePlay, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after
Dance party w/DJ DoublePlay, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after
Open Mic w/Steve Elegant, 7pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke, 10pm, W, no cover
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Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover
Drop Theory, 8pm, no cover
Drop Theory, 8pm, no cover
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132 West St., (775) 329-2878 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626
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Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover
BRASSERIE ST. JAMES
Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover
901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888
CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL CEOL IRISH PUB
Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover
COMMA COFFEE
In Stride Music, noon, no cover
538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662
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DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY
Marsyas Complex, 9:30pm, no cover
275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917
EL CORTEZ LOUNGE
235 W. Second St., (775) 324-4255
FUEGO
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Sturgill Simpson, Electric Western, 8pm, Tu, $17.50
Rob, Tony and Jimmy of Reno Music Project, 9pm, no cover
Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover
A Chamber Mixer with Dunn & Bias, 5pm, W, no cover
DJ Trivia, 9pm, no cover Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover
8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300
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Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover
10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088
HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL 9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 622-8878
Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA
Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover Open mic, 7pm, no cover
1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665
HELLFIRE SALOON
Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Open Mic/Ladies Night, 8:30pm, W, no cover
Mad Beaters, 9:30pm, no cover
THE GRID BAR & GRILL
Pawn Shop, 8:30pm, no cover
HIMMEL HAUS
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Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5 Moon Gravy, 7pm, no cover
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COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711
3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, 882-1626: Will C, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Ivan Pecel, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Rich Aronovitch, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: James Stephens III, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Will C, F, 7pm, 9:30pm; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $16-$18
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Chon, Chon,8pm, 8pm,$18-$35 $18-$35
RAC, RAC,Aether AetherSt.,St.,Jami JamiDeep, Deep, 8pm, 8pm,$15-$30 $15-$30
Anuhea, Anuhea,Tenelle, Tenelle,Luisa LuisaLavulo, Lavulo, 8pm, 8pm,$20-$30 $20-$30
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Joe JoeHome HomeTrio, Trio,8pm, 8pm,nonocover cover
George GeorgeSouza SouzaTrio, Trio,8:30pm, 8:30pm,nonocover cover
George GeorgeSouza SouzaTrio, Trio,8:30pm, 8:30pm,nonocover cover
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Localz, Localz,8pm, 8pm,nonocover cover
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3rd 3rdParty, Party,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover Johnny JohnnyLipka’s Lipka’sGemini, Gemini,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover
Open OpenMic MicNight, Night,7pm, 7pm,M,M,W,W,nonocover cover
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Icona IconaPop Pop April April11,11,1010p.m. p.m. Grand GrandSierra SierraResort Resort 2500 E. Second 2500 E. SecondSt. St. 789-2000 789-2000
Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu,Tu, Reno Beer and Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Reno Beer and Record Club w/guest DJs, 9pm, W,W, nono cover Record Club w/guest DJs, 9pm, cover Terry TerryGeil, Geil,Jenny JennyPezDeSpencer, PezDeSpencer, Cliff CliffMcGrady, McGrady,8:30pm, 8:30pm,$5$5
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Yuri’s Night 2015 Channel your inner Ziggy Stardust for Reno’s ninth annual celebration of the anniversary of the first manned space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. This year’s theme is “Glam ... In Space!,” and attendees age 21 and older are encouraged to wear their best gender-bending, glam-rock space attire. The local Burning Man Playa Re-Compression party features live bands and DJs on two stages, space-themed art by local artists and a midnight stage show with a “Bohemian Rhapsody” sing-along and an “explosive surprise.” The space-themed soirée lifts off at 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door in costume or $20 if not wearing a costume. Tickets are available at Melting Pot World Emporium, 1049 S. Virginia St., or online at http://yurisnightreno2015.brownpapertickets. com/. Visit www.facebook.com/YurisNightReno.
May Arboretum Spring Community Cleanup Day The spring community cleanup event is an all-ages volunteer event with hands-on work throughout Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. Bring a rake and gardening gloves. Bags will be supplied. Baked goods and refreshments will be provided to volunteers. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 11. Please RSVP if you plan to bring a group by calling Bill Carlos at 785-4153. Visit http://www.washoecounty.us/parks/.
Reno Chamber Orchestra: The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos The RCO concludes its 40th season with a two-concert event featuring pianist Robert Levin. Levin—who has performed at the RCO's Nevada Chamber Music Festival pianist and is an authority on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven—will perform all five of Beethoven’s concertos with Maestro Theodore Kuchar and the chamber orchestra in one weekend. The Friday, April 10, concert will feature Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 and Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. The Sunday, April 12, concert features Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 and Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor.” Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. on April 10 and 2 p.m. on April 12 at Nightingale Concert Hall inside the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $70 for one concert or $100 for both. Call 348-9413 or visit www.renochamberorchestra.org.
Enchanted April Astronomy: Globular Clusters
Reno Little Theater presents Matthew Barber’s 2003 Tony Award-nominated stage adaptation based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel The Enchanted April. Set in 1922, the play tells the story of two bored London housewives who are looking for an escape from their humdrum lives. They plan a holiday in Italy and recruit two upper-class women to split the cost of a rented villa with them. While their personalities clash at first, the women eventually ease into the relaxed pace of life at the villa where they rediscover themselves, form new friendships and rekindle the spark in their marriages. The play opens on Friday, April 10, at Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, on April 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 with 2 p.m. matinee shows on Saturday, April 25, and Sunday, April 12, 19, 26. Playwright Matthew Barber will be in attendance on opening night. Tickets are $16 per person and $13 for seniors, students or military personnel. Call
Dennis Jamison, president of the Astronomical Society of Nevada, will discuss the dense spherical collection of stars called globular clusters. These are bright astronomical objects are common to many external galaxies, including the Milky Way, and have remained relatively unchanged since the early history of the universe. The presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at the Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway. Outdoor telescope viewing will follow the presentation. Admission is a $5 suggested donation. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.
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Flee circus My mom left when I was young, and my former husband left me, too. Maybe because of this, I’ve noticed that I’m quick to assume that any man I’m seeing is ditching me. In the early stages of dating, if there’s a lag in calling or texting me back, I’ll lash out—block the guy on Facebook and delete him from my phone—only to feel stupid when I learn that his phone battery died or he was already asleep. As a relationship progresses, I still perceive relatively innocuous things as signs it’s over, and I keep testing a guy’s limits with demands and drama. How do I stop doing this? It’s totally unconscious in the moment. British psychoanalyst John Bowlby had a theory that our “attachment style”—the way we relate in close relationships—stems from how attuned and responsive our mother was to our needs for comforting when we were infants. If your mommy was consistently there for you during your infant freakouts, you end up “securely attached,” meaning that you tend to feel that you can count on others to be there for you when you need them. Research on adults by social psychologists Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver found that patterns of relating to romantic partners seem to trace back to childhood attachment experiences. But attachment history isn’t the whole story. Genes, temperament, childhood environment and other factors also shape how we relate. And though research finds that securely attached children seem likely to end up securely attached grown-ups, adult shifts in attachment style are common. In other words, just because somebody’s mommy was kind of an ice bucket, they aren’t 32 | RN&R |
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necessarily doomed to see every boyfriend as an ice bucket with a penis. Pledge to yourself to step back and run suspicious situations through the reason department. A technique called “cognitive reappraisal” seems to help. This involves dialing down your emotional response by changing the meaning some situation has for you. Instead of thinking “I know he’s left me!” when an hour goes by without a text back, reframe his absence in a positive light. For example, “He’s out getting me flowers.” You don’t have to know that this explanation is true. It just needs to be positive and possible. Research by psychologists Iris Mauss and James J. Gross and others finds that using this imaginative reframing not only decreases knee-jerk negative emotions but activates the prefrontal part of the brain involved in emotional control and downshifts the pounding heartbeat of stress to the thumping heartbeat of possibility. How secure you feel can also be transformed by who you’re with. The best partner to help you shift out of auto-panic is one who is loving and caring and has a more “secure” attachment style. With some consistent work and the right guy, you could someday get to the point where absence really does make your heart grow fonder. Ω
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Rent, but don’t
buy yet. That’s my $250-per-hour advice. Keep rehearsing, but don’t start performing the actual show. OK? Flirt, but don’t fall in love. Can you handle that much impulse control? Are you strong enough to explore the deeper mysteries of patience? I swear to you that your burning questions will ultimately be answered if you don’t try to
force the answers to arrive according to a set timetable. I guarantee that you will make the necessary connections as long as you don’t insist that they satisfy every single one of your criteria.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Guerrilla Girls are a group of prankster activists who use humor to expose sexism and racism in the art world. Every so often they take a “weenie count” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. During their first survey in 1989, they found that 5 percent of the artists who had work hanging in the galleries were women, while 85 percent of the nudes depicted in the paintings were women. More recently, in 2012, their weenie count revealed that four percent of the artists were female, but 76 percent of the naked people in the paintings were female. The coming week would be a good time for you to take a weenie count in your own sphere, Scorpio. Conditions are more favorable than usual to call attention to gender disparities, and to initiate corrective action.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
The English term “engine” refers primarily to a machine that transforms energy into mechanical power. But its roots are in the Old French word engin, which meant skill or wit, and in the Latin word ingenium, defined as “inborn talent.” I’d like to borrow the original meanings to devise your horoscope this week. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your “engine” is unusually strong right now, which means that your cultivated skills and innate talents are functioning at peak levels. I suggest you make intensive use of them to produce maximum amounts of energy and gather more of the clout you’d love to wield.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What
I’m about to say is not a hard scientific fact, but it is a rigorous poetic fable. You don’t need to go to the mountain, because the mountain is willing and able to come to you. But will it actually come to you? Yes, but only if you meet two conditions. The mountain will pick itself up and move all the way to where you are if you make a lot of room for it and if you are prepared to work with the changes its arrival will bring.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you
were a 4-year-old, cookies might be a valuable treasure to you. Given a choice between a bowl of stir-fried organic vegetables and a plate full of chocolate coconut macaroons, you’d probably choose the macaroons. For that matter, if you were 4 years old and were asked to decide between getting a pile of macaroons and a free vacation to Bali or an original painting by Matisse or a personal horoscope reading from the world’s greatest astrologer, you’d also opt for the cookies. But since you’re a grownup, your list of priorities is screwed on straight, right? You would never get distracted by a sugary, transitory treat that would cause you to ignore a more nourishing and long-lasting pleasure. Right?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): On June 23,
1917, Babe Ruth was the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball game against the Washington Senators. After the first batter drew a walk, Ruth got upset with the home plate umpire and punched him in the head. Ejected! Banished! The Babe had to be dragged off the field by the cops. The new pitcher was Ernie Shore. He proceeded to pitch a perfect game, allowing no further Washington player to reach base in all nine innings. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I see you as having the potential to duplicate Ernie Shore’s performance in your own sphere. Coming in as a replacement, you will excel. Chosen as a substitute, you will outdo the original.
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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Peanut Maybe it’s no longer worthy of comment, since people have been remarking on Sundance Books and Music’s longevity for years, but the bookstore seems to just keep growing and improving, particularly since it took over the Levy Mansion, 121 California Avenue. Stephanie Lauer has worked for Sundance for eight years. She says there’s no secret to the business’ success—it’s grounded in the community and offers a human connection. For more information, check out www.sundancebookstore.com.
What’s new going on here at Sundance? How is it you guys are still growing continuously? Part of what we’ve really enjoyed about moving to this new location is we’re much more connected and intertwined with our neighborhood and with the other people who are doing really exciting things in this neighborhood. There are a lot of people, I think, who are looking for that experience, which is an experience where you come and you talk to actual people. You go to an actual event with people who also participate in your community. And we’re doing more and more work with people in different organizations like the Holland Project. Or we have big events where, like David Sedaris came and spoke on the porch, and Bibo stayed open late, and the pizza shop [Blue Moon] stayed open late. And it’s just more and more of a neighborhood experience, especially since we’ve been here.
So what are some other things going on here? How’s the publishing house?
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We’ve got some great books coming out this year. A children’s board book, a book of poetry, a novel. All that’s in the works. It’s really fun. It’s always going on on the third floor, people in and out.
I’m interested in how you’re doing it from a financial aspect. That seems counter to the way things are going in the country.
And what’s your part in that? I’m the peanut gallery. Like for real, I’m the peanut gallery. I sit up there and pay all of Sundance’s bills and sit up there and do a lot of paperwork and just weigh in.
We’ve seen a return in people who want to read an actual physical book, not an ebook. We’re not the cheapest place to buy a book. If that’s how you’re making the choice, you’re probably not here in the first place. We just try to be the most ... solid, and always have a really interesting selection of things that we think the people we know and the people we don’t know—books that we think are awesome—would like to come in and look at.
What else should we talk about in this little corner of heaven? I love it. Tonight is another Sunland, which is the symposium series we’ve been running with the Holland Project. It’s the history of hip-hop in Northern Nevada. They’re awesome. We fly in a couple panelists from different places, have a moderator. They talk, but it’s very much everyone who comes and listens talks as well. It’s a discussion. We had one on the genesis of the Grunge movement in Seattle. We had the president of Sub-Pop Records come for that one. They’re usually packed, and it’s fun because it’s packed by people who are in their early 20s. We’re seeing a lot more young people come in, buy books. Ω
What do you attribute that need for a physical book to? I’m an ebook guy, but it’s almost like I want different kinds of media for different kinds of books. Like I prefer old-school books for poetry. The Laura Ingalls Wilder book that sold so many copies at Christmas, are you familiar with that one? South Dakota State
MAD about Iran Let the spewing, spouting, and sputum sputtering begin! I’m sure by the time this Neon Babylon ignites your Weber, the jawjacking about the Iranian nuke deal will have approached critical mass. Allow me to add a few bullet points to the mix that are probably being forgotten— and shouldn’t be. For starters, it’s looking like ole Bebe Netanyahoo is a rather paranoid individual who isn’t particularly inclined to peace-making. Jesus, the guy makes Dick Cheney look like Ringo Starr. So Israel doesn’t like the deal? All right already. Duly noted. Now don’t muck it all up. The way Israel screeches about the specter of all these big bad Iranian nukes, you’d think the Iranians already have a closet full of warheads somewhere out in the desert. So how about a reality check? The number of nukes currently owned by Iran is zero. The number of nukes owned by Israel is 100, at least. It’s the Israelis who can turn Iran into a parking lot, not the other way around. It’s the Israelis who zealous-
Historical Society put out this book. It’s like an annotated Little House on the Prairie. It traces everyone she wrote about. And it’s this huge beautiful book, and it’s so much fun to spend time with and to hold. And I can’t imagine reading that on my iPhone. But I can totally imagine reading a mystery novel on my iPhone.
∫y Bruce Van Dye Actually, it was both us and the U.K. The newly elected iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, got into a beef with western petroleum kingpins and threatened to nationalize Iran’s lucrative oil industry. This kind of talk quickly got the attention of the Brits and Yanks, all the way up to Ike himself. With his approval, the CIA engineered the removal of Mossadegh and the installation of the Shah, a murderous puppet of Oil Pigs who hard-heartedly ruled Iran for 26 years until toppled by the Revolution of ’79. Bottom line—we wrecked Iran’s government and country, with no apologies or regrets. It served our interests, simple as that. Just remember that when scads of beady-eyed hawks start calling the Iranians wicked villains who can’t be trusted. Iran has every reason to respond, “Us? Yeah. Right.” The relentless haunting of history. Ω
ly hide their stockpile, who won’t let any inspectors verify a damn thing about their program. It’s the Israelis who have steadfastly refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, an agreement Iran signed years ago. Just for the record. By the way, isn’t MAD still a very viable factor when it comes to making nuclear countries act with restraint when things get touchy? MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction, a 1950s U.S. policy. It was MAD that kept us and the Russians from roasting the planet in mid-century, and its considerable power of persuasion will most certainly be felt by the Iranians and Israelis as well, I hope. When mushminded hawks like Tom Cotton and John Bolton talk about the sneaky and lying Iranians, perhaps a little history refresher is in order. Because back in the summer of 1953, guess who engineered a coup of the Iranian government, tossing its democratically elected president, and replacing that popular individual with one of the most reviled pricks of the 20th century? Yep. You got it. U.S.
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