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Broken Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I feel as though I’m drowning in death. One of my best friends has end-stage pancreatic, liver and lung cancer. I didn’t intend to write about it, but we had a couple of big parties at my house over the weekend, and I was tagged dozens of times on Facebook, which pretty much launched the cat from the bag. We’ve been friends since 1987, and she ’s really my only long-time close friend left in Reno. Her name is Carmen Garcia. She’s 47 years old. She was recently curriculum director at the Davidson Academy. Carmen defies description. Brilliant mind, hard-working, beautiful, audacious and profane, she’s been a hero and inspiration to me for all these years. She was the first out of our little group to get a graduate degree, pounding through it by tending bar in places like Doc Hollidays. I would never have achieved my modest levels of accomplishment without her blazing the path. Her first diagnosis in July was Hep A, because she’d turned yellow, and nobody looks for cancer in somebody so young and vibrant. Hep A is curable, but then we learned it was Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and because of her youth, the prognosis was six months to two years. Then a week ago, on Sept. 11, the hospice nurse said two weeks. We’ll see. Carmie has always broken expectations. I’m fortunate to be able to be around for her in emergency situations and to have house for the family and friends who are coming to say goodbye. It’s beyond bittersweet, more like inside out. I can’t wrap my mind around the idea of a world without Carmen in it, and therefore, I can think of nothing else. I’ve been through this before. One of my best friends died of viral meningitis, and the friend I moved to Reno with died of AIDS. Since I’m six years older, I always thought she’d always be around. For years, I’ve pictured her as one of those cantankerous, gray-haired writers into her 90s. If one of the strongest can get put in the express checkout lane, what’s that say about the rest of us?
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Where’s the coverage? What happened to coverage of the U.S. Open Women’s final? The little I could find on Yahoo sports had me believing it was Vinci and Penetta playing in the semis. Nay! It was the two fantastic Paisan girls playing for the cup! The final! The championship! And not a word on TV. Not a clip. The little I saw of Penetta, who won, was incredible. And Vinci had to beat Serena Williams just to go to the final! So much for equal pay—coverage—for equal work. I get more and more sick and fed up with the entire media. And what about the Women’s National Basketball Association? Those girls put up almost as many points in their All-Star game as what the men used to. 229 this year. I love basketball, and I love women. What could be better than the WNBA? C’mon people, try to pick it up! Jon Obester Reno
Re “All the hate in one letter” (Letters to the Editor, Sept. 10): Your response to Jane Peterkin’s letter from Milwaukee regarding what is happening in her school system and, no doubt, around the country was not appropriate nor serious. She wrote to share with you what she sees happening in her community and all you can do is call her names? Illegal immigration into our country is a serious matter to most citizens and invites a serious discussion from all parties. Instead of engaging her in a thoughtful, mature exchange of ideas, all you can do is be crass. I realize your paper has a liberal/left wing perspective, but a community newspaper should be able to engage in a meaningful dialogue about issues that concern the country. Just because you have a different opinion, doesn’t mean other people don’t have valid arguments and viewpoints. Calling people names and belittling their opinions doesn’t help our country get any closer to resolving problems. Paul E. Johnson Carson City
Feel the Bern! Re “Vote No Evil” (Feature story, Sept. 17): In the article “Vote No Evil,” the staff of RN&R discuss what they consider to be the most important issues that need to be brought up during the primaries and the election in 2016. Whether by intent or a misguided sense of being fair and balanced, it seems that there were some glaring omissions in this article’s cry for substance from our candidates. 1) Brian Burghart decried Citizens United and said “there’s no hope.” That’s depressing, but he doesn’t even mention that Bernie Sanders has, at every public engagement and most of his interviews, argued vehemently to undo the mess created by Citizens United. In fact, Sen. Sanders advocates public financing of elections in order to remove the influence of money at the source. 2) Rachel Leibrock says, “Immigration reform proposals must center on how all lives, undocumented or otherwise, can be improved.” Sanders has stated he would not
Editor’s note: I have a knee-jerk reaction when someone cherry picks a line from a religious text in order to encourage racist hate and bigotry. Why would someone claiming to be from Milwaukee send a letter to a weekly newspaper in Reno? Are we supposed to assume they don’t have the internet in Wisconsin, and therefore the distance protects her from being stigmatized back home? Sometimes we print distasteful letters so that readers will see the quality of the discussion out there, but it doesn’t mean we have to treat it as anything but what it is.
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only establish a path to citizenship, but insure that immigrant labor gets fair treatment, protection, and living wages. 3) Bruce Maiman suggested that the campaigns of presidential candidates “shuts out the average citizen who can’t cut a check for $10,000 to buy his ‘free speech’.” Sanders has refused to accept PAC money, and his biggest “price tag” events have been a $25 dinner. 4) Food insecurity = income inequality. Janelle Bitker has pointed out that 49 million Americans are food insecure. When he was here at the University of Nevada, Reno, Sanders pointed out that same problem. He advocates living wages, investment in public works jobs, free education, universal childcare, and national health care to get more people to work, more people healthy, and put more money in the pockets of our citizens. 5) Just a pollution tax, Nick? Pollution taxes alone can’t be the answer. If every corporation simply takes that tax as a cost of doing business, we reduce pollution zero. Sanders has said that bold action is required. That means moving away from fossil fuels, funding building upgrades to 86,000 buildings to go solar, stopping the Keystone pipeline and yes strict carbon taxing to help pay for the stimulus in sustainable energy. 6) Kel Munger pointed out that Sanders responded to Black Lives
Matter by issuing a statement on reforming institutional racism. But this included addressing our militarized police, pursuing aggressive prosecutions of police officers who break the law and election reform to make sure minorities have a strong voice in how the government works in all matters. 7) Bruce Maiman says, “put up or shut up” on the issue of women’s reproduction rights and the care of poor children. Does it need pointing out? Sanders has strong policy on women’s rights across the board. The right to choose, protection from domestic violence, and closing the pay gap. Plus, as I said before, he wants to quality childcare available to all Americans. Maybe RN&R was concerned with appearing biased toward one candidate. But it’s worth noting that every key issue the writers presented as important and ignored, has been a key plank in the Sanders campaign from the beginning. Even more importantly, if you look at his record, they’ve been a key part of his whole political life. So maybe the RN&R should take a longer look at one candidate since he appears to answer all their questions. And remember, a key part of this article was the power of the media (that’s you) to influence what (or who) is and isn’t discussed this campaign. Felix Danger Reno
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How’s your memory? Asked at the University of Nevada, Reno
Vicky Pascucci Librarian
Not very good, because I’m getting older, and I don’t remember things very well. I try to do things like crossword puzzles, and I read a lot to keep my brain active.
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Choose dignity next time
I think I have a pretty good memory. It depends on the topic. I have tricks—I try to associate something with something else. I worked in coffee for 10 years, and I would associate people or their cars with their drinks. That helps with remembering their names. I have to write everything down. I have an old school planner, and I use the calendar function in my email like crazy.
seeking facts instead of superstitious rhetoric and Back in April, the Nevada Legislature had a chance to prove itself concerned about liberty, personal freedom political fearmongering, passed a bill to allow physicianassisted suicide for terminally ill patients that would and compassion, when Senate Bill 336 was introduced allow mentally competent patients to request a prescripby a bipartisan group of senators, including Democrat tion to end their lives. The medical establishment’s David Parks and Republican Ben Kieckhefer. That bill claims of ethical vows to do no harm ring hollow in the regarded provisions governing prescribing, dispensing face of unrelenting pain, particularly since the profit and administering controlled substances designed to end margins are so high with the heroic measures taken to the life of a patient, a death with dignity bill. It can be prolong life and suffering. read here: http://bit.ly/1QD7S3C. We don’t know which way California Gov. Jerry Our craven legislature allowed the bill an undignified Brown will go. We do know he’s a deeply religious death, not giving it a single hearing. man, a former Jesuit seminarian. Let’s be honest. People hate to The public Will he let his religious convictions talk and think about death, particutrump his responsibility to help the larly the death of loved ones or of interest trumps most helpless among us? It remains ourselves. But there’s only one time to be seen. to talk about it, and that’s before it’s religion. So, let us be clear. If the state upon us, before the unrelenting pain owns an individual’s right to decide that no amount of diladid, morphine when to end his or her own life, it owns that individual. or oxycontin can begin to sooth takes over, before the There is no right that should be more fundamental pain medications disable the ability to think or to make than the ability to choose with sound mind a death that rational decisions, before a disease robs us of agency doesn’t include blood-spattered floors or walls, the and self-determination. But it’s a religious issue, and we’ve seen the coward- knowledge that a family member will discover a dead or dying loved one’s body, or a botched effort. The very ice the Legislature frequently exhibits when church idea that the state owns an individual’s life is antithetical exerts its power over state. to principles this country was supposedly founded upon. As we’ve seen with many religious issues, like Suicide is easy, but without the ability for an indisame-sex marriage, religious groups can be willing to vidual to end a life medically and humanely, it’s rarely misrepresent facts in order to enforce religious views clean, painless or dignified. The state has no vested upon people who have different belief systems. interest in prolonging the lives of people who would Nevada once again has shown the weakness of choose to die rather than lose their minds and bodily its convictions regarding personal liberty. And once agency. again, we find ourselves looking west for leadership. This is about humanity being humane. Ω California’s legislature, after doing its due diligence, OPINION
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I don’t think it’s that great. I’m starting to forget things. When I go into a room to get something, I often forget it. I repeat names a lot just so that I remember them, but that’s about it. I could use some memory tricks.
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Either do your job or get a different one Where does it end? I’m not usually all that sympathetic to the arguments of the business sector when it comes to employee disputes since the deck is usually stacked in favor of the house. But the intensifying debate about religious beliefs in the workplace is by more complicated than it seems. Sheila Leslie Kim Davis, an elected official, was sent to jail because she defied a court order to do her job and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She refused to comply with a routine job duty because it conflicted with her personal morality. Instead of resigning her position, she seemed to relish the idea of becoming a persecuted martyr of Christianity, despite her oath to uphold the law of the land, as affirmed in this instance by the U.S. Supreme Court. Several Republican presidential candidates couldn’t wait to embrace her cause, rushing to Kentucky to presumably woo voters who have been persuaded by Fox News that the political elite in America is at war with Christianity. The inflamed
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rhetoric of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was endlessly broadcast on cable news shows, as he compared her religious objection to placing her name on a same-sex marriage license to those who served as conscientious objectors to slavery. Upon her release, Davis vowed to continue her legal battle for a religious accommodation, as outlined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), which requires businesses to make exceptions to their standard employment practices on a case by case basis, as long as it doesn’t cause “undue hardship” on other employees or the business itself. Davis, as an elected public official sworn to uphold the law, is a bit different from the Muslim flight attendant who was recently suspended from work because she refused to serve alcohol. The airline had agreed to her request to refrain from serving cocktails as a reasonable religious accommodation until a co-worker complained about the situation. The flight attendant has
now filed a discrimination compliant with the EEOC regarding the revocation of the accommodation, a matter that may eventually lead to additional EEOC guidance for employers. The Nevada legislature grappled with another version of religious job interference when complaints started surfacing a few years ago about pharmacists declining to fill birth control prescriptions for certain patients, usually young, unmarried women in rural communities. To its credit, the state Pharmacy Board issued strong guidelines about the ethical responsibility of pharmacists to limit their concern about filling certain prescriptions to drug safety issues and refrain from moral directives, but the issue is intensifying across the nation as more and more pharmacists are citing religious beliefs as a reason to deny birth control. It makes you wonder why a pharmacist with such deep-seated moral views wouldn’t find another line of work more compatible with his religion? Or why the Muslim flight attendant doesn’t seek employment
that doesn’t involve alcohol at all? And why doesn’t Kim Davis honorably resign her office now that her job duties are causing such a crisis with her conscience? The heightened awareness of workplace religious conflicts is bound to be cable news fodder for the foreseeable future as the Republican presidential contenders try to outmaneuver each other in search of primary voters who feel religiously persecuted. But a few have struck a more practical, long-term view, no doubt worried that more rational voters might be alienated by the spectacle. Somehow the treasured American value of freedom to practice the religion of your choice, in your own way and on your own time, has been transformed into workplace demands to accommodate particular religious views, especially if they are Christian. It almost makes you empathize with the business owner muttering in the background about wanting their employees to just do their jobs. Ω
Don’t you wish we could take off all religious holidays? http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/2015.htm
The school money goes to the parents On August 27, the Nevada ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit in Clark County to stop the Educational Savings Account program that makes Nevada one of the best states for school choice. The lawsuit cites Article XI, Section 10 of the Nevada Constitution by Brendan that forbids public funds being used Trainor for “sectarian purposes.” When we talk about ISIS as a throwback to the 12th century, remember religious persecutions in western civilization were just as violent into the 17th century. The Protestant Reformation caused what is known as the Thirty Years War in Europe between different religions, primarily Catholics and Protestants. In 1648 at the Treaty of Westphalia, the modern nation-state system was created to try to end religious violence. The religious strife in Europe led to the colonization of America. The Pilgrims and others came to our shores seeking religious freedom. Only one colony, Maryland, was a haven for persecuted Catholics. Immigration in the early years of the
Republic was only 2 percent Catholic. Many of the colonies established one religion or another and supported their pet religions with taxpayer money. After the Constitution was ratified, many were concerned that a religious sect would gain control of the federal government and establish a national religion. In 1801 Connecticut Baptists expressed their concern to President Thomas Jefferson because the established religion in Connecticut was Congregationalism. Jefferson, who was called an atheist anarchist by his political enemies, wrote back assuring them that he believed in a “wall of separation” between Church and (the federal government) State. Jefferson, like most of the founders a moderate Deist, opened federal buildings to church services. Later the states voluntarily repealed their establishment laws. In the 19th century, waves of Catholic Irish and German immigrants changed American demographics. The Democratic Party welcomed immigrants, the Republican Party was
generally nativist. It is no coincidence that Catholic Jeb Bush is the most immigration friendly of Republican presidential candidates. During the Grant administration, Republican Congressman James G. Blaine tried to pass a constitutional amendment forbidding federal funds or land grants to religious institutions. Although the federal amendment failed, 38 states— including Nevada— adopted the amendment into their constitutions. The “common school” movement in America was implicitly Protestant. Many who bemoan getting religion out of the schools believe in a Bible-based, essentially Protestant curriculum. Catholics were never comfortable sending their children to the common schools and formed the parochial school system, the largest religious private school system in America. In 2007, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights published a report showing that “sectarian” as used in the Nevada Constitution was at the time a code word for “Catholic.” Oregon even tried to prohibit parochial schools.
That law was struck down by the Supreme Court. Americans United for Separation of Church and State founded in 1947 was originally called “Protestants and other Americans United for Separation of Church and State” and urged the House un-American Activities Committee to investigate Catholic Cardinals for espionage. It is a shame that the ACLU lends itself to these lawsuits. The U.S. Supreme Court, and nearly all state supreme courts, have ruled against their argument. School choice programs like Nevada’s do not fund “sectarian” schools, but give vouchers directly to parents. A parental decision to spend the money for a parochial education does not violate the Separation of Church and State. It would be better if the ACLU sued to end the public school system entirely, but perhaps since their preferred religion, secular humanism, is the new state religion taught therein, they attack private religious schools instead. Ω
Here’s the part of the Nevada Constitution that refers to money for religious instruction: Article 11, Section 10: https:// www.leg.state.nv.us/ const/nvconst. html#Art11
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When the Reno Veterans Hospital opened in 1939, the surrounding area was mostly empty fields. In the postwar years, residences and schools were built around the hospital to accommodate the baby boom’s impact on families. The open land in front of the hospital seen in the foreground here, which could have been used for large buildings with pickup and dropoff lanes—eliminating the need to use Kirman Avenue for that purpose— was instead covered with several small boxy buildings. In fact, the original hospital is almost surrounded by small buildings.
Karas loses big Anargyros Karabourniotis, a.k.a. Archie Karas, has been placed on the Nevada List of Excluded Persons, meaning he is barred from Nevada casinos forever. Karas is famous for an alleged poker winning streak in the 1990s that turned into $17 million over a period of months, then $40 million in three years. However, he was added to the List—known informally as the black book—because of repeated cheating. He later lost the entire amount. Once noted for the organized crime figures it was originally created for, the List of Excluded Persons additions in the 21st century have all been cheats.
Word games Initially, the information appeared to be another of those national rankings in which Nevada comes in last. It was a news release from a federal agency: “The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging caution after reviewing child drowning data for August released this afternoon. This new data shows that Nevada had more than twice as many child drownings per capita in August as any other state in the U.S. In light of this data, the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Pool Safely campaign is urging Nevada parents and caregivers to be vigilant to reverse this trend, to follow the Pool Safely simple safety steps, and to take the Pool Safely Pledge.” That’s always good advice, of course, but the news release seemed low on hard facts, so we asked for names and dates for August. The agency responded: “Three drownings took place this past August—one fatal and two non-fatal. We only know the name of the toddler who died, 2-year-old Israel Hall on August 3. The two non-fatal drownings took place on August 5 and 13. I’ve provided links to coverage of all the drownings.” Non-fatal drownings? We checked seven dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, and they all said the same thing, that a drowning is a death by submersion in water. We also checked Nevada Revised Statutes, which contains the language “a human being is drowned or otherwise killed” in Chapter 200. We contacted CPSP again and asked what a non-fatal drowning is. The reply: “CPSC uses the World Health Organization definition of drowning, which is: Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid; outcomes are classified as death, morbidity and no morbidity. We use the terms fatal and non-fatal rather than death, morbidity and no morbidity.” Then a couple of hours later, we received a phone call from CPSC’s Jim Luetkeneyer, who said there was another correction, a sad one—that the three Nevada drownings were all fatal. We took the opportunity to clarify the definition of a drowning. Luetkeneyer said his group follows the lead of the “community” of advocate organizations involved in this issue, and that while “there’s a debate in the community,” CPSC has chosen to use the term drowning to refer to both fatal and non-fatal events, such as “brain damage that can affect them for the rest of their lives.” There is no single term that describes those, he said, so they use the WHO definition. At the RN&R, we use the same definition of drowning as everyone else save a U.N. official and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, but we don’t want to deny readers the information, so make of it what you will.
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New plan Residents cautious about hospital The Veterans Administration hospital in Reno said last week it will go to the Reno City Council to ask that Kirman by Avenue between Taylor and Burns Dennis Myers streets—where hospital arrivals and departures are handled—be changed from two to one lanes. The announcement was made at a neighborhood meeting called by the hospital on Sept. 17. No member of the Reno City Council attended, and citizen turnout was sparse. The hospital is flanked on east and west by one-way streets— southbound Kirman on the east, northbound Locust on the west.
No official addressed traffic forced into surrounding neighborhoods. The concern at the meeting was almost entirely for neighborhood issues, with little discussion of the impact of changes on those who use the two one-way arteries but do not live there. The hospital had previously said it was considering asking the city to close down Kirman altogether. “We know that there was a lot of heartburn on that,” hospital chief engineer Michael Rowley told the meeting, referring to negative reaction to the idea.
But that was not the only issue on the minds of residents. And even the one-lane plan for Kirman was not swallowed whole. Some residents worry that the Kirman choke point will send some traffic into surrounding residential streets. “I’m assuming some of those cars would just shoot down Willkinson to Vassar,” one member of the audience said, referring to a residential street that runs parallel to Kirman between Taylor and Vassar to the east. “Before you go to the city, I think you need to come up with a plan for Wilkinson,” another resident told the hospital officials. Another resident said after the meeting that she suspected the plan to close down Kirman was a decoy to make the one-lane plan for the street seem more palatable after the hospital gave up the shutdown proposal. After the Kirman shutdown had been disposed of, hospital planner Arlee Fisher said at one point, “I’m hoping that [the one-lane proposal for Kirman] is amenable to everyone and that it won’t be an issue.” Toward the end of the meeting when someone raised doubts about the one-lane proposal, Fisher said flatly, “The application [to the city] is going to have one lane for Kirman.” Some hospital proposals for possible changes beyond making Kirman one lane were more difficult for audience members to grasp.
There were hospital graphics that showed Locust changed to two-way traffic for the stretch between Burns and Taylor, and parking removed from the hospital side of Burns, Taylor and Locust. Hospital spokespeople also talked about coaxing traffic west to Wells, two blocks west of the hospital, and adding a stoplight on Wells, in conjunction with changes around the hospital. “Why does that necessitate anything else, like going to Wells?” asked an audience member. Another resident said there are already long traffic delays on Wells, which was narrowed to two lanes in 2004 and has had constricted traffic ever since. When Fisher talked about taking down one of the hospital’s out-buildings, an audience member asked, “That is what will be coming down, not homes in the area?” Fisher said yes, then added, “For full disclosure, however, we do have a project to purchase properties in the area.” But she said it would not include condemnation to achieve its aims. “We will not go to eminent domain—no how, no way,” she said.
Poor planning? Residents voiced longstanding complaints about parking in the neighborhood, and it was revealed by hospital officials that a relatively new parking garage—built five to ten years ago, depending on who told it—could not be expanded upward. “The structure cannot support more floors,” Rowley said. He said the existing parking garage has “structural deficiencies.” (Construction of the garage was already underway when Rowley arrived in Reno in 2006.) That information and other items prompted some discussion by residents after the meeting of whether planning for hospital expansions had been adequate. The hospital property is an enormous piece of land, and much of its footprint has been incrementally used over the years with small buildings that went out more than up. It has been an instance of sprawl within a single city lot. For instance, only one of the several newer structures now surrounding the original hospital buildings is more than three stories
high. Out-buildings have been scattered around the property creating sprawl without creating much additional space, raising the question of whether that space is well used. None of it was used for off-street drop-off and pick-up lanes that would have eliminated the need to use Kirman for that purpose. In addition, on resident suggested, if a setback on the Kirman side of the hospital were cleared of all the steps, posts, steel overhead structure, and so on, an off-street driveway for drop-offs and pick-ups could be installed that would eliminate the need for any changes to Kirman. As the dialogue unfolded, some audience members offered ideas for the hospital to adopt that didn’t really have much to do with the hospital’s original reason for changing Kirman but served other neighborhood interests or needs. One resident talked about elimination of some parking to make it easier to navigate when Waste Management Inc. trash collecting trucks were around. One resident suggested that the hospital make the street one-lane before it reaches Taylor and the hospital in order to “slow down the traffic before the approach to your facility.” That led another audience
member, operator of a patient family guest house, to suggest that Kirman be made one-lane as far back as Ryland—13 blocks north of the hospital.
The discussion dealt only with concerns of neighbors—not drivers. The officials reminded the audience that the hospital can control only its own property, not city property. One resident asked if the hospital could decide what happens to parking on its own side of the street, and the answer was that is still the city’s call. Rowley also reminded the residents, “The federal government can only pay for things on federal property.” The hospital can suggest expensive changes to the city, but not impose them. Participants were disappointed at the small turnout for the meeting. “At all of last year’s meetings it was standing room only,” one wrote later in an email message. “Either people didn’t hear about it or didn’t care.” Ω
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In downtown Reno, Tammie and Scott Nelson have noticed trash along the banks of the Truckee River. “We talk about it every day, it’s so bad,” Tammie said.
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Casting for trash Local fly fishermen to help with Truckee River cleanup effort For most of the past decade, Jim Litchfield, owner of the Reno Fly Shop, has spent the day of the annual Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful “Truckee River Cleanup” in an inflatable raft, paddling down the Truckee River channel and by Kelsey Fitzgerald picking up litter that volunteers on the riverbanks couldn’t reach. “We would get a dozen or so rafts and tubes, and load them up with all the stuff people couldn’t access from along the banks,” Litchfield said. “It was kind of a cool way to clean up the channel, when there was water in it. Last year was the first year in about 10 years that I didn’t do it, because there wasn’t enough water.” This year, again, Litchfield will participate in the cleanup on foot— because this year, again, the water level in the river is too low for boating. All summer, the Truckee has been flowing at a fraction of its normal rate. Because of the low flows and high summer temperatures, Litchfield and other local fishermen opted to participate in the Nevada Department of Wildlife’s campaign to “Rest Your River,” in which they did not fish after 11 a.m., or when the water temperature climbed above 68 degrees. “That was to allow [the fish] to experience as little stress as possible, given the low water conditions they were experiencing,” Litchfield said. “We were hoping people would give them a break.” The low flows haven’t been ideal for fishing, but Litchfield thinks the low water level may make for a good cleanup. “So we have a great opportunity to get in and clean up stuff that we rarely have access to,” he said “I think as a result we’re going to have less litter and debris, because people didn’t use the river recreationally like they did during other summers.” On the other hand, there could be more litter than usual, says Jaime For more information on the Souza, program manager for Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful. There Truckee River Cleanup hasn’t been as much water in the river channel to carry trash out of town, and how to volunteer, and wind may have blown in plastic bags and other items from the streets. visit the Keep Truckee The annual Truckee River Cleanup, which will occur on Sept. 26, is Meadows Beautiful the biggest cleanup event of the year for KTMB. Last year, 800 people website: ktmb.org/ volunteer. participated, and this year, KTMB is expecting similar numbers. Volunteers will be cleaning up 20 sites located along a 15- to 20-mile stretch of river between Verdi and McCarran Ranch. “We’re supposed to be ‘resting the river,’ so we have a lot of interest from fly fishers to come out to the cleanup and participate in a different way,” said Souza. “Instead of doing the thing they love and want to be doing the most, fishing, they’re coming out and helping us to clean up the river, so I think that’s really special.” This year, Litchfield will be volunteering with a group of local fly fishermen called the Renegades at Mustang Ranch, on the lower Truckee River. Another group of local fly fishermen, the Truckee River Fly Fishers, will clean up near Museum Drive in Reno. “This year is obviously different from previous because we’re in the middle of a significant, historic drought,” Litchfield said. “It’ll be a little different this year. I’m interested to find out how it is.” Full disclosure: The author has volunteered with the Truckee River Cleanup in the past and plans to help out again. Ω
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Scientists explain why our memories are so inaccurate melindaw@newsreview.com
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’ve been re-experiencing my youth lately as movies that replay at random times inside my own head. Sometimes, it’s the one where I’m rushed to the emergency room, age 10, after accidentally stabbing myself in the guts while climbing the spiky gate in front of my childhood home. Or when my bike-riding brother was hit by a car. Or when my father, home from the hospital, gathered his children in the back bedroom to tell us that our cancer-stricken mother, age 45, had “gone home to God.” It’s not surprising that my brain films usually contain highly emotional or fear-charged content, since those are ones we all are said to recall most vividly, and with the greatest detail. But recently I’ve wondered: Are these memories even accurate? Consider the Brian Williams episode. If you discard the notion that he lied outright, the former NBC news anchor’s inability to distinguish fact from fiction in recounting his 2003 helicopter-in-Iraq tale received a near-universal shrug from memory scientists, if not media pundits, who said the occurrence was not that big a deal. Turns out, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton—to name just a few White House types—have all been caught on tape merging an emotional tale from the past with what’s known as a “prestige enhanced memory distortion.” But when New York Times media critic David Carr died in February less than a week after Williams went off the air, I took it as evidence that it was time to explore the topic of memory. I knew the renowned columnist and former alternative weekly editor a bit, and his newsroom death sent me back to his 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun. In it, Carr investigated his own volatile life’s events and basically discovered that his memories were vastly unreliable. “Memory,” he concluded, “uses the building blocks of fiction—physical detail, arc, character, and consequence—to help us explain ourselves to ourselves and to others.”
Well, the possibility that our memories suffer from truthiness seems especially weighty today, what with the world’s population living longer than ever, baby boomers confronting age-related memory loss in record numbers, and disorders like Alzheimer’s disease readying to avalanche the health care system. There’s no doubt that the human brain—and how it encodes, stores and retrieves information—has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years and is surely one of the most remarkably complex marvels to be found in the universe. The memory is genius, serving as a GPS (with astonishing spatial navigation capacity), interactive Rolodex (cross-indexing people, places and things with dexterity) and personal encyclopedia (sparing us from having to learn the same things over and over). But even given all that—just how flawed are our memories? Is it possible that some of our most treasured ones never really happened? Can false memories really be planted inside our brains? Finally, in this age of exponential self-documentation, will our memories’ fallibility become more or less relevant?
The stuff inside the brain Jordan Crivelli-Decker—a graduate student with a giant white smile and face like Michael Cera, the teenage love interest in Juno—sits inside what looks like a double-wide refrigerator on the second floor of the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience. He’s inside this soundproof booth to demonstrate what it’s like to undergo a particular memory experiment: an EEG, or electroencephalogram. Two female principals of the Davis Dynamic Memory Lab team apply hair gel-type goo to dozens of small, metal discs attached to a stretchy purple cap on Crivelli-Decker’s head. They fasten wires and plug everything into a computer, with the gel serving as a kind of conductor between the electrodes and the subject’s brain. Seated at a
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Jordan Crivelli-Decker, a lab manager in UC Davis Professor Charan Ranganath’s Dynamic Memory Lab, is seen here as the subject of an EEG, a standard working memory test. The hair gel-type goo being applied serves as a conductor between the electrodes and Crivelli-Decker’s brain, helping improve accuracy in measuring patterns of brain activity.
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keyboard, closed into the cubicle, CrivelliDecker begins tapping out responses to a standard working memory test. The goal of the EEG is to monitor small amounts of electric currents the brain produces and, sure enough, we’re soon looking at a computer readout of a memory at work. The trial is just one of several used “to measure stuff inside the brain” in the lab of prefrontal cortex rock star Charan Ranganath, a cognitive neuroscientist and UC Davis psychology professor. “The currents are very, very tiny,” said Ranganath. “But when there’s populations of tens of thousands of cells operating in sync,” he says, you can see patterns of brain activity. Ranganath—a charismatic young scientist who loves Twitter, guitar bands (noise rock, math rock) and cognitive neuroscience—won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship recently for his work on Alzheimer’s disease. “We’re trying to figure out how different brain areas code for different pieces of information,” he explains. In addition to the EEG, Ranganath’s crew uses eye-tracking techniques and fMRIs (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to track areas of activity in the brain so as to better learn how it files and retrieves information. There’s something experts agree on:
Memories are not as accurate as most of us believe they are. Basically, every time a person recalls an experience, that memory is opened up for potential change. In remembering, you are actually reconstructing a memory. Once an event is over, it’s gone, says Ranganath. “All you have is the story you created. It’s more like bits of sights, sounds and words stored in different parts of the brain that you put together into a story. “You ask anybody who does memory work and they’ll tell you that,” he says. “Nothing’s true in memory.” Ranganath calls himself “part of a movement” of scientists who believe that the brain makes a “pretty fundamental distinction between two halves … the ‘who’ and the ‘what’ parts, and the ‘when,’ ‘where’ and ‘how’ parts.” Half concerns itself with information about people and things, and the other is devoted to the context in which you encounter those people and things. “When you track different features of memories, there are parts that track the objective part of what really happened [who and what], and then there’s brain areas that follow much more the mental construction [when, where, how]—the story we tell ourselves.” The later realm, with the context, is where the brain gets a bit creative in recall,
and tends to generate a “story” around what actually happened. When I mention to Ranganath that I’d often experienced a memory from childhood as a video, he agrees that’s how most people think it works: The mind records an event, then plays it back. But that’s wrong, he says. “It’s not like you’re pulling a book off the shelf and putting it back on the shelf,” he said. “It’s more like pulling it off, doing a little bit of scribbling in it, then putting it back.” And what about out-and-out memory failures, regardless of our tendency to “reconstruct” some of the context? Memory can fall short for various reasons, he explained. Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, stroke, brain trauma—all can seriously disrupt recall processes. And plenty of people experience run-of-the-mill memory failure simply because they didn’t pay enough attention at the time of “encoding,” when the brain takes the first step in processing a new memory. But simply getting older is the main culprit when it comes to most failing memories. In normal aging, the hippocampus shrinks naturally, resulting in an increased loss of details, such as names or where you last placed an object (like your keys). Is there hope for the average person
facing memory loss due to aging? Ranganath’s advice is simple: Make sure to get exercise (30 minutes a day), try to get enough sleep and reduce chronic stress. “Those are as good as we have right now,” he shrugs. “Our brain cells require energy to do what they do, and you want to be able to deliver that as quickly as possible. A brain that can rapidly get the glucose it needs—that brain has the advantage.” Still, for most people, memory “improves until you hit college age,” he says. The professor holds his hand up high, as if it’s an airplane that’s taken flight. “Then it starts to decline,” he laughs. “From 30 on, it’s …” Ranganath moves his hand swiftly downward, crashing the plane.
Famous blue Icee When you were 5 years old, you got lost in the shopping mall. Remember? Your mom gave you some money to buy a blue Icee, you ran ahead and somehow got turned around. This elderly Chinese lady found you, right? Then your mom appeared and took you to get the Icee. The above is a fictional tale, spun by experimental psychologist Beth Loftus, one of the world’s leading authorities on memory. Loftus, now a professor continued on page 16
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of psychology and professor of law at University of California Irvine, has testified in hundreds of courtrooms, mostly for the defense in criminal cases, as an expert on the human mind’s ability to distort memories. Loftus invented the “lost in the mall” story—and many other such narratives— to demonstrate that she could implant false memories in human minds. The result: She could. By merely suggesting the “lost” scenario to 24 adults, six came to fully believe that they’d actually been lost in the mall. “We can easily distort memories and implant memories,” Loftus said flat out. “There is no question that memories can be contaminated.” In fact, Loftus has a three-step “recipe” for how to plant a fake memory, whether purposefully or not. (Hint: It’s not how Leonardo DiCaprio did it in Inception.) First, you must possess the subject’s trust. Second, you plant the seed of an incident with specific detail (like the blue Icee). Third, you coax the subject to imagine the scene unfolding. In the mid-1980s and early ’90s, the recipe was what some therapists unknowingly followed to “recover” incest memories from their clients’ childhoods. Loftus and others eventually proved that many of these recollections were false and had been unwittingly “implanted.”
Her work has perhaps a more verifiable parallel in mice. Just last March, French neuroscientists successfully implanted false memories into the brains of sleeping mice, confirming findings from previous studies. Using electrodes to stimulate and monitor the activity of nerve cells in the mice, they created fake memories that changed mice behavior when they awoke. UC Davis neuroscientist Brian Wiltgen has done similar work, using light to actually erase specific memories in mice (as with that memory-erasing stick in Men in Black, I imagine). Another expert in the recall field is Jianjian Qin, a Sacramento State psychology professor who studies the mechanisms of memory in humans. Qin conducted research that indicated it was indeed possible to get adults to believe an event occurred in their childhood that actually did not. His work, co-published in 2008 with others in The Journal of Experimental Psychology, went on to show that people are basically no good at differentiating between their “fake” and “real” memories. “Confidence does not equate with accuracy,” Qin said. “If you have an eyewitness sitting there in a courtroom, pointing to the defendant, saying, ‘He’s the one,’ that’s the most convincing, powerful evidence you can have,” said Qin.
But it’s often not good evidence, he said. The Innocence Project (a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to upending guilty verdicts with genetic evidence) found that more than 70 percent of convictions overturned through DNA testing were based on eyewitness testimony. Qin conducts a basic exercise in his cognitive psychology class. “I ask them to remember the last time they had a fight with their significant other,” he said. “Then I say, ‘How many of you remember something that happened in a different way than your significant other did?’” All the hands go up. “At some level,” he said, “people know memory is not always trustworthy.” According to Ranganath, the fallibility of our recall system is not a flaw, just a fact. “Even when people think they’re telling you what actually happened, they’re making it up,” he said. “And you have to. If you didn’t do that, you’d have a memory disorder.” Ranganath believes our brains developed the way they did to best “predict our future based on our past.” “It’s not like our brains evolved to remember with precision a 16th birthday party or a first date or something,” he said. “Those things don’t give you much survival power.” Ranganath theorizes that the human brain is simply not designed to enable us to
accurately remember each and every detail about events that are nonessential from an evolutionary or “survival” standpoint. However, brain functions and memories that enhance our ability to adapt and survive— say, by enabling us to size up an individual or situation that may pose a threat—tend to be more truthful. “What gives you survival power is the ability to use information to do things in the future that are adaptive. “Our brains are designed to take experiences we have and strip them like somebody might strip a car,” he said. And then figure out, “How can I use this in my world?”
The future of memory Each of us has two selves, writes Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. The behavioral economist used an infamous 2010 TED Talk to unpack how our “experiencing self” differs from our “remembering self.” “There’s a difference between being happy in your life and being happy with your life,” said the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. He described how the self “which does the living” (the experiencing self) is completely different than the self that “maintains the story of our life” (the remembering self). The experiencing self lives in the present, he said. The remembering self compiles “stories” we reconstruct from our
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less-than-trustworthy memories for future reference. Kahneman’s theory manages to inspire a thoroughly modern question: How might social media—with its 24/7 ability to document what we are experiencing—impact our individual and collective recall going into the future? In other words, will it matter that we remember poorly if there’s backup evidence as to what really happened on Facebook or Instagram? Jesse Drew, a self-described “social media fanatic” who teaches media archeology as an associate professor of technocultural studies at UC Davis, thinks the answer is equal parts yes and no. The most accurate way of digging up history, i.e., remembering the narrative of our past events, used to be through people’s correspondence and personal diaries, he said. But both these modes are “almost dead,” replaced by Facebook and social media. “As we all know, Facebook is PR,” he said. “It’s used primarily to boast and show off the good side of things. That’s not very helpful when you’re trying to uncover what really happened.” Still, Drew believes the technology may hold its own cure. There’s a tendency, especially among the young, to engage in “memory testing,” he said. And the trend may catch fire enough to aid our collective
memory going forward. “People throw out a memory of an event on social media, and people chime in and say, ‘Yes, it happened that way,’ or ‘No, it didn’t happen that way really, but I remember this,’” he said. “Social media doesn’t have to be PR. It can actually help hone your memory.” Drew said he’s seen a tendency, too, toward young people using social media for oral histories and to build “memory sites.” He referenced the many Facebook pages now dedicated to displaying collective memories, for example, of the ever-gentrifying Mission District in San Francisco, where he has a personal history. “People are starting to preserve memories more and test memories with other people,” he said. “There are a lot of great history projects out there.” When asked for thoughts about science’s ability to “incept,” or implant, memories in human minds, Drew said it’s been there, done that. “The Nazis knew that, too,” he said. “History is what people write about history. It’s not really what happened.” Acutely aware of the failures of memory since his own mother suffers from Alzheimer’s, Drew encourages his young students to dig up some history of their own, find the oldest member of their extended family, “sit down and interview them” about their life while it’s possible. If some of the
You must remember this In the spirit of memory testing, I sought the help of my sister and brothers. I asked them to describe the details about that shared, traumatic event from our childhood that I mentioned earlier: the one where we were told our mother had died. It turned out our memories varied, but only very little. It happened in daylight, we all agreed. The sun poured in through the louvered windows in the back bedroom, where my father asked his six children, all under the age of 12, to gather. Our grandmother and an older cousin were also present, though a few of us don’t remember these two in attendance. My brothers recall spatial aspects, like where they were seated in the room, while my sister and I do not. We all remember our father delivering the awful news that our mother was never coming home again. We all recall crying together as a family. I’m the only one with a memory of
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memories are not entirely accurate, he said, so be it. “Video is cheap,” he said, “and you can counter the fluff of Facebook with deeper storytelling and oral histories. … I think it’s starting to swing this way. People want more authenticity, a more in-depth understanding of their world and the people in their lives.”
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Local theater companies put kids’ programs in the spotlight BY JESSICA SANTINA Last week, the nation celebrated its fifth annual National Arts in Education Week. One major drama unfolding here in Washoe County and around the country is the severe lack of funding for arts education. Currently, the federal government’s Arts in Education grants program receives $25 million per year—its lowest point since its passage as part of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. Despite the growing body of research showing that arts education leads to higher rates of graduation, lower participation in at-risk behaviors, and overall improved outcomes, arts programs in schools limp along at historically low funding levels. In Washoe County, elementary schools offer part-time, pull-out music courses for all students, but have no dance or visual arts; theater classes exist only as electives at middle and high schools. “The first things that get cut are the arts and music,” says Carol Scott, executive director of Wild Horse Theater Company and Children’s Theater in Carson City. “In our community, the high school has the only 18 | RN&R |
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legitimate drama program for kids. It’s really lacking in elementary.” “Arts education has been cut dramatically, no pun intended,” says Andi Glover, TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada’s new executive director. “[Theater studies] aren’t just for those who plan to major in theater or who want to be stars. It teaches so many things about collaboration, personal empowerment, confidence.” Wild Horse and TWNN are among a growing number of theater companies around the Truckee Meadows who are working to fill this gap in arts instruction.
TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada Since its founding a decade ago, TWNN has offered theater classes, workshops and performances for youths and adults alike. Glover explains that TWNN’s classes provide training in all facets of production, from selection of a show to acting, costuming, set design, lighting, marketing and ticketing. Participants deal with a range of material, from fairy tales to shows with a diverse range of mature themes, such as war, bullying and gun violence. And classes aren’t just for aspiring actors; shy kids without an ounce of experience are more than welcome. “We like
students from every walk of life,” Glover says. Classes are available for ages 5 and up. They run year-round (currently on Thursdays), and registration is monthly, with all classes culminating in performances at the Laxalt Theater downtown. In addition to its classes, TWNN works to make theater accessible through its free Artown shows—it’s currently the only local company included in the Monday night Family Series—and its community outreach efforts.
Brüka Theatre Brüka debuted as a children’s theater 23 years ago, and has made children’s offerings a prominent feature every season since. Its annual Theatre for Children production, usually a Grimms’ fairy tale made socially and academically relevant, is aimed at K-6 students and families. Performances are held at Brüka Theatre, in schools and around the Truckee Meadows as part of the Pioneer Youth Programs touring roster, reaching about 8,000 kids each year. Producing Artistic Director Mary Bennett and other theater artists with the company teach kids’ workshops as part of Brüka’s Artist in the House series, and do artist residencies in schools, working directly with students on
elements of performance. Each summer, Brüka also offers a twoweek kids’ camp for ages 8-18, during which students create an original piece of theater, with help from pros, and perform it. “I give them a title and read them a story that’s accessible to kids,” Bennett says. “Then they make a show from that story.” Brüka is also part of the Northern Nevada Cultural Coalition’s 2016 Willpower, a festival in honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. From April to October 2016, members of the NNCC intend to present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays at theater companies, schools and other locations around the region. Brüka will be putting up Lamb’s Tales—staged readings of four of Charles and Mary Lamb’s Shakespeare stories for children, presented so as to make Shakespeare accessible and enjoyable for children.
Reno Little Theater The fact that RLT recently hired a full-time educational outreach coordinator says a lot about its desire to put kids’ offerings center stage. “Education is a huge factor in our strategic plan and budget,” says Sara Phillips, who holds this new position. Her task has been to determine where the needs of the community
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Greta Pugh portrays Litte Bo Peep in a rehearsal of Wild Horse Theater Company's production of Babes in Toyland.
Designed to supplement what seems lacking in Carson City-area schools, Wild Horse Theater, through its children’s theater program, offers student performances of its productions, so that groups of students from around the area can come to see a show for free. Area kids are always welcome to audition and participate in those shows, whether enrolled in classes or not. Thanks to a Nevada Arts Council grant, the company also offers an after-school program for fourththrough sixth-graders. During the six-week program, which is free to schools, students put together a show that Executive Director Carol Scott says is “educational and has social value to the school and students.” The program culminates in two performances. Additionally, the company offers master classes and workshops for kids ages 5-18; Scott says Nevada Arts Council funding keeps pricing affordable.
Goodluck Macbeth’s Spotlight Youth Theatre Established in 2012, Spotlight Youth Theatre has offered performance classes for tweens and teens. Founder and director Rachel Lopez says that when the program first started, it was more about providing accessible theater opportunities for all income levels and backgrounds. That focus was transformed last year when she wrote an original script titled In Our Own Backyard. The play about a school shooting, with its cast of 11 teens from six different schools, was first performed in January and got so much positive attention that a performance was held at the Center for Spiritual Living, and the University of Nevada will host a performance this fall. Lopez has had to put Spotlight classes on hold, but has been inspired to take the program in a new direction in 2016. “There’s a lot of musical theater and comedy out there for youth, but I’ve noticed there aren’t a lot of plays dealing with serious subjects for teens to stretch their acting muscles,” she says. “We’ll be putting up plays that are more serious, raising awareness and raising money … so that kids are feeling like they’re giving back to the community on top of enjoying the process and being entertainers. Ω
are, what currently exists and how RLT can fill the gaps. What she’s found is that while middle and high school students often can find programs in and out of school, “pre-K through sixth grade is the most neglected age group in terms of theater and fine arts training.” As a result, RLT offers three classes aimed at this group. They include a Mommy and Me class for ages 2 and 3, Creative Drama and Beyond, basic drama classes for pre-K through fifth graders; and Staging Stories, offered for kids in grades K-2 and 3-5, specifically emphasizing literacy skills through fairy tales and fables and developing storytelling and performance basics. Registration for six-week sessions will take place in winter and spring of 2016. RLT’s location on the Wells Avenue corridor puts it in proximity to a diverse community with very little access to live theater, which is what prompted the creation of La Gente, RLT’s brand-new Latino theater series. The first installment, Mi Vida Gitana, a Latino retelling of Romeo and Juliet, will be a touring OPINION
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Since the 1940s, the term lowrider has been used to refer to special types of cars as well as their drivers. The cars range from customized Impalas and Cadillacs to Monte Carlos, El Caminos and Ford Mercurys. “Basically anything that looks good low,” said Lopez. Cars are custom built, often costing up to $100,000 in modified parts, paint, chrome, hydraulics and lowered suspensions. “Nothing can go untouched,” said Medellin. Often synonymous with Chicano culture, lowriding has expanded in the last few decades to include other hot spots—like Japan!—where publications such as Lowrider Magazine have expanded their reach since the ’80s. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the love that lowriders have for cars and community. Tales From the Boulevard is an exhibit showcasing both. On display at Lasting Dose Gallery through
the end of the month, Tales brings together artists from all over the country—including local talent like Armando Serrano, Handsome Hernan, and Mike Lucido—in celebration of lowrider culture. There are hand drawings of custom cars, old records that feature R&B, oldies, and funk cruising tracks, airbrushed metal pinstripe jobs, photographs of zoot-suit era rigs, and images of attractive women throughout. Several tattoo-style paintings and flatsheets also hang on the walls. “I kind of handled the tattoo side of the show,” said Medellin, a tattoo artist himself. “It’s just the people who get the cars [also] get the tattoos … in the early years of tattooing, the people who were getting black and gray single needlework were Chicanos, prisoners, Mexican folk.” This broad grouping of Latinos, criminals, and lowriders is not a new thing and like any other stereotype, there are those that fit the bill and those that don’t. Responses to the stigma are as diverse as the drivers themselves. Some lowriders choose to change the narrative—like the United Cities Car Club in Alton, Texas, that last month modified a donated and decommissioned police car to improve public perception of local car clubs and law enforcement. Others, like Medellin and Lopez, are less intent on making a political statement than simply showing all sides of the culture. “I don’t think [prison culture] is a huge part of [lowriding],” said Medellin. “It has nothing to really do with it, but at the same time it kind of does.” This contradicting perspective is on display in a corner of the exhibit, where Rome Chacon, a convicted felon serving two life terms for first degree murder, has his own wall of paintings and the closest thing to an artist statement in the show. Looking at his work, it’s clear why he was included. Chacon’s representations of skulls, movie monsters, and realistic animals are impressive, especially when you find out that they were done in solitary confinement with handmade materials. It’s an inclusion that trusts the audience to make the distinction between exhibition of talent and endorsement of conduct. And like with any good exhibit or Hollywood drag race sequel, there are always some questions left hanging. Ω
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Senior project Grandma Lily Tomlin moves right to the top of my 2015 best actress list with Grandma, a film that should put her in strong contention for an Oscar nomination nearly 40 years after she got a nom for her first movie role in Nashville. As Elle Reid, a grandma who will kick your boyfriend in the dick rather than offer up tea and cookies, Tomlin delivers by a performance that runs the gamut of Bob Grimm emotions on top of being consistently funny. Her every line delivery feels organic and b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m natural, as if the role was created and written with her in mind. Writer-director Paul Weitz, who worked with Tomlin a couple of years ago on Admission, did, in fact, write the role of Elle for Tomlin. It’s a role that the legendary comedian richly deserves. It’s nothing short of a total blast watching Tomlin let loose in the sort of spotlight role that has evaded her for too many years. Grandma is her best role since playing Ben Stiller’s druggie mom in Flirting with Disaster nearly 20 years ago.
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Elle breaks up with Olivia (Judy Greer), her younger girlfriend, and then Sage (Julia Garner), Elle’s granddaughter, shows up at the door with an age-old problem: She’s pregnant, she’s scheduled for an abortion in a few hours, and she’s flat broke. Elle, a wellknown writer, would seem a good candidate to have some cash on hand. Unfortunately, she has just used all of her cash to pay off credit card debts, and she cut up those credit cards to make some nice wind chimes for the front porch. The two jump in Elle’s old 1955 Dodge Royal (a car actually owned by Tomlin) and set out to find some quick cash before Sage’s appointment at the clinic. Their travels include a stop at a café for bad coffee. (There’s a good cameo from John Cho, a.k.a. the new Sulu, also a.k.a Harold from Harold & Kumar.) They eventually wind up at Sage’s boyfriend’s house, where said boyfriend (Nat
Wolff) gets a hockey stick to the nuts courtesy of Elle, who thinks her granddaughter can do better. Elle and Sage meet a lot of people along the way to the clinic, and each encounter gives Tomlin a chance to just blow up the screen. There’s nothing stereotypical about this grandmother, a potentially cantankerous woman with a good heart behind all of her sarcasm and staged coldness. Coming out of nowhere with what might just be his best career performance is Sam Elliott as Karl, one of Elle’s past lovers. Elle and Sage drop by his house in their quest for monetary assistance, and Karl’s reaction to their visit goes from pleasant to confusion to utter disgust. Elliott only has one scene in the film, but it’s so powerful, he could find himself in Oscar contention for best supporting actor. He’s that good. Past Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden arrives late in the film as Judy, Elle’s daughter and Sage’s mom, a career-driven woman who has a treadmill set up at her workstation. Harden puts another charge into a movie that is already high-octane, managing to find the humanity in a woman who’s a bit neglectful as a mom, but can perhaps come through in the clutch. Harden, like Tomlin, finds some stinging laughs in Weitz’s script, and it’s her best work in many years. The late Elizabeth Pena, in one of her last performances, makes a memorable appearance as a former friend of Elle’s who lowballs her on some first edition books she attempts to pawn. The film eventually wraps after a series of character resolutions that are completely satisfying and devoid of schmaltz. It’ll be a shocker if Tomlin doesn’t attend the Oscars with a shot at gold next year. Elle is the kind of role that wins awards, or at least earns you a seat next to Brangelina for the show. Tomlin, who has received an Emmy nomination for Grace and Frankie, a Netflix series co-starring her 9 to 5 partnerin-crime Jane Fonda, is back in top form with a vengeance. Ω
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Jesse Eisenberg, having himself a great summer with his career best performance in The End of the Tour, spreads his wings as a stoner with a secret in this sporadically fun film from director Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) and writer Max Landis (Chronicle). While enjoying a fine cup of soup, convenience store clerk Mike Howell (Eisenberg) notices some dudes monkeying with his car. Seconds later, he’s killing people with a spoon. Mike’s girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart, kicking mortal ass) is concerned about her beau, who has suddenly attained the ability to wipe out people with robot precision. I will not tell you why. You have to see the movie to find out why. The film has a great premise, and could’ve been a classic dark comedy. Unfortunately, it leans a little too heavy towards the dark side in its second half and goes light on the laughs. Eisenberg and Stewart rise above any of the tonal problems and story lags to make the movie something worth seeing. Stewart just gets better with every movie she shows up in. I think her Bella-Lag is wearing off for sure. Eisenberg plays his part like an ignorant, coiled rattlesnake, and he’s actually appropriately scary at times. Again, a fun film for most of its running time, but it could’ve been something really special.
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Johnny Depp breaks his slump with a riveting performance as James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston crime lord who also acted as informant to the FBI while killing people and destroying lives. Depp goes under some heavy makeup, including some gross teeth, to play the infamous brother of William “Billy” Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch) and pal of FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton). The movie examines the strange dynamic that occurs between one of the worst criminals in Boston history, his high-ranking brother, and his meat-headed FBI friend. All three are very good in a film that, alas, feels like it was supposed to be a lot longer. (I suspect there’s a four-hour cut of this movie somewhere in director Scott Cooper’s basement.) Depp is scary good, yet his work feels strangely abbreviated, making him feel like more of a supporting player. Edgerton’s Connolly feels a little more well rounded, and this continues a fine year for the actor after The Gift. Peter Sarsgaard, Kevin Bacon and Dakota Johnson are all good in supporting roles. As mobster movies go, this is a good one, but it should’ve been a great one. If anything, it’s good to see Depp truly digging into something rather than acting like a goofball for a paycheck.
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Director Baltasar Kormakur makes a grueling testament to the hell that is climbing the world’s tallest mountain in a production that demands to be seen on an IMAX screen. Jason Clarke does his best work since Zero Dark Thirty as Rob Hall, who co-led an ascent of Everest that resulted in the deaths of eight people in 1996. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Scott Fischer, another of the expedition’s leaders and legendary for his ability to scale the mountain without the aid of oxygen. Josh Brolin is on hand as Beck Weathers, the brash Texan who has perhaps bitten off a little more than he can chew, and John Hawkes chimes in as Doug Hansen, an ambitious climber returning after a failed ascent the year before. Yes, some of these real people have been written a tad stereotypically and thin, but you won’t care once the snow hits the mountain. Kormakur has crafted a movie that puts you right in the middle of things—genuinely uncomfortable things. The effects are very good, and there’s a nice attention to detail when it comes to the perils of climbing. Supporting cast also includes Emily Watson as the mother hen at base camp, Keira Knightley as the worried wife, and a solid Sam Worthington as climber Guy Cotter. This expedition is the one Jon Krakauer based his book on. He was on the expedition and he’s in the movie, played well by Michael Kelly.
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Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt. This time around, he’s hanging from airplanes, performing overly long tasks underwater, and riding a motorcycle again. Everything he does is in service of a convoluted plot involving some sort of evil syndicate of international agents. All sorts of nationalities are in on the evil, but the United Kingdom is especially nasty in this one, giving the whole thing a James Bond vibe. Simon Pegg’s role is increased this time out,
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his computer analyst guy becoming Hunt’s sidekick. Newcomer to the series Alec Baldwin gets a couple of good scenes as the CIA guy trying to eradicate Hunt’s agency. Rebecca Ferguson is impressive as an English agent who may or may not be a villain. Jeremy Renner is around to crack wise as he messes with Baldwin’s character, while Ving Rhames still gets to collect a paycheck. As for Emilio Estevez, sadly, he’s still dead after his elevator accident in the first film. This is my least favorite M:I yet, but it’s still a good film.
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I watched the entirety of this thrilling new N.W.A. biopic, not knowing that Ice Cube’s son was playing Ice Cube. It’s not like the guy is named Ice Cube, Jr. He’s actually named O’Shea Jackson Jr., his dad’s birth name with a Jr. tacked on to the end. Jackson, Jr. is the No. 1 reason to see Compton, a blast of a film that chronicles the rise of rap group N.W.A., the eventual infighting, and the birth of some gigantic solo careers and record labels. Along with Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell is a revelation as Eazy-E, and Corey Hawkins provides a nice anchor as Dr. Dre. The film works best when covering the early days and the creation of the legendary album that shares the movie’s title. It also spends plenty of time on the band’s management problems with Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti in a moderately distracting wig), and Eazy-E’s eventual death from AIDS. At a running time of 180 minutes, plenty of ground gets covered, and covered in a way that never gets boring. This is a solid cinematic time capsule that gives some deserved glory to an influential group that forever changed the landscape of hip-hop and brought much needed attention to a very troubled part of the world. It does the band, and the biopic genre in general, proud.
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The hilarious Amy Schumer gets her first starring vehicle with a screenplay she wrote under the directorial tutelage of Judd Apatow and costarring Bill Hader. I would say this movie signals the arrival of Schumer as a cinematic force to be reckoned with. She plays Amy, a magazine writer playing the field in New York and doing it rather sloppily. When she’s assigned a story covering a sports medicine doctor (Hader), she unexpectedly falls for the guy, which puts into flux her whole plan to just fool around with a lot of people. Schumer has crafted a pretty run-of-the-mill romantic comedy plotline with her screenplay, peppered with sometimes beautifully shocking profanity. She shows that she has the ability to nail the laughs, but she can also bring the emotional stuff, too. She has a funeral scene that is, dare I say, sublime. Hader is his always-terrific self as the shell-shocked boyfriend just trying to bring some stability into Amy’s life, and Colin Quinn is terrific as her retirement home-dwelling father. The story is a little weak and predictable, but Schumer and Hader are awesome together, so that makes this very much worthwhile.
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M. Night Shyamalan makes another bad movie, but this one actually shows a little bit of promise after a rancid run of films that includes The Village, The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth. Becca and Tyler (Olivia LeJonge and Ed Oxenbould) have never met their grandma. When Mom (Kathryn Hahn) decides to go on a cruise with her boyfriend, she leaves them with her parents, even though they have been estranged for many years. Becca and Tyler are game to meet their Nana, so they board a train to Pennsylvania and meet her and their granddad at the station. Things get weird fast on the farm. Nana (a delightfully strange Deanna Dunagan) is prone to sleep walking and projectile vomiting, sometimes naked, after 10:30 p.m., while Pop Pop (creepy Peter McRobbie) has a tendency to stick shotguns in his mouth and pile his used adult diapers in strange places. There are a couple of good scares, but Shyamalan (who wrote the script and directed) opts for the stupid found-footage gimmick, which does nothing but trip up his narrative. The film doesn’t need the found-footage angle, and it suffers for it. Still, Dunagan is a creepy movie monster, and Shyamalan shows that maybe he still has some creativity left in the tank. With him, it seems simpler is better, but still not that good.
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City of angels Eddie Subtitle Eddie & the Subtitles is one of those band names that pop up from time to time in books and articles about old punk rock. by Brad Bynum Singer-songwriter-guitarist Eddie Subtitle graduated from Reno High br a db@ School in 1967. He moved first to newsr eview.c om San Francisco and then down to Los Angeles. In L.A., he started playing in a band called The Rockets, which did surf rock and rockabilly and eventually morphed into Eddie & the Subtitles, part of the first wave of punk rock in L.A. in the late 1970s. Photo/Brad Bynum
Eddie Subtitle is a punk veteran who has turned toward psychedelic pop.
Eddie & the Subtitles songs, especially “American Society,” were hits on the influential L.A. radio station KROQ. Eddie & the Subtitles played shows with many of the best known punk and hardcore bands of the era, including X and Black Flag. In November 1980, Eddie and the Subtitles played with Black Flag and the Minutemen at the legendary Starwood nightclub in West Hollywood. After the show, somebody started throwing beer bottles at cop cars. This led to exaggerated news stories about violence in the L.A. punk scene. Venue owners and managers became even more hesitant than they already were to book punk bands in L.A.’s already notoriously competitive music scene. “Punk rock got shut down by the police,” said Subtitle. “After the Starwood show, I think we had seven shows in a row canceled. They started opening up roller rinks for punk rock, and they’d either have a show and then they’d close it down or before the show they’d close it down. They weren’t going to allow anything to happen.” So Subtitle moved back to Northern Nevada. He got sucked into the black hole of working for
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the casino industry and stopped making music from 1982 until recently. “That’s like a 30-year gap—I’m sorry!” he said. “I got lost in a bar somewhere, counting my chips that I didn’t get.” A couple of years ago, Subtitle approached Rick Spagnola, the owner and recording engineer of Dogwater Studios, with the intention of recording some songs he’d written. Spagnola suggested Subtitle record the songs with a full backing band. Subtitle first tried out a bluesy local bar band, but no one was happy with the results. Spagnola then suggested that Subtitle try playing with the Grim Tones, who were then known as Scarlet Presence, a classic rock-inspired duo with tastes more along the lines of the BeatlesStones-Zep-Floyd spectrum than the rockabilly-hardcore punk hybrid of Eddie and the Subtitles. The result, eventually, was a band called Eddie Subtitle and the Rocking Horse People. That band’s debut album, Kaleidoscope Eyes, came out this year. Both the band name and the album title are taken from The Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which is a clear signpost toward the feel-good psychedelic pop on the record, which includes several cover songs, including Beatles tunes and songs associated with Elvis Presley. It’s pretty far removed from the sound of a band that used to regularly share stages with Black Flag. But Subtitle was a hippie, digging the scene in San Francisco in the ’60s, before he was a punk, playing raucous shows in L.A. Kaleidoscope Eyes was released on CD by No Label Records, Subtitle’s own label. He also recently released an anthology of Eddie & The Subtitles’ material, called From the Womb to the Tomb (The Full Horror), which includes the bulk of the band’s discography on CD for the first time. Subtitle’s next project is a new album by a reconstituted Eddie & The Subtitles, now featuring members of Reno bands The Shames and The Liver Scars. The album will be called The Songs of Lee Harvey Oswald, and, without giving too much away, Subtitle promises that the album artwork and the music are sure to be controversial. Ω
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3RD 3RD STREET STREET 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005
YourDay Karaoke w/DJ Manny, YourDay Karaoke w/DJ Manny, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover
THURSDAY THURSDAY 9/24 9/24
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Blue Haven, 9pm, no cover Blue Haven, 9pm, no cover
55 STAR STAR SALOON SALOON 132 West St., (775) 329-2878
Karaoke, 10pm, no cover Karaoke, 10pm, no cover
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BAR OF BAR OF AMERICA AMERICA 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626
Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover
Thick As Thieves, 8pm, no cover Thick As Thieves, 8pm, no cover
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Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover
BAR-M-BAR BAR-M-BAR 816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206
Monday Night Open Mic, Monday Open Mic, 8pm, M, Night no cover 8pm, M, no cover Strange on the Range, Strange Range, 7pm, W, on no the cover 7pm, W, no cover
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BRASSERIE ST. ST. JAMES JAMES BRASSERIE 901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888 901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888
CARGO AT CARGO AT WHITNEY WHITNEY PEAK PEAK HOTEL HOTEL 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400
The Stone Foxes, Mark Sexton Band, The 8pm,Stone $12 Foxes, Mark Sexton Band, 8pm, $12
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CEOL IRISH CEOL IRISH PUB PUB 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558
Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover
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DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917
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ELBOW ROOM ELBOW ROOM BAR BAR 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-9799
Open Jazz Jam Night w/First Take Open JazzRick JamMetz, Night7:30pm, w/First no Takecover featuring featuring Rick Metz, 7:30pm, no cover
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Krystal McMullen, 9pm, no cover Krystal McMullen, 9pm, no cover
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Chaz O’Neill Band, Iron Age, Chaz O’Neill Band, Iron Age, 7pm, no cover 7pm, no cover
FREIGHT HOUSE FREIGHT HOUSE DISTRICT DISTRICT 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7041
Audioboxx, 9pm, no cover Audioboxx, 9pm, no cover
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THE GRID THE GRID BAR BAR & & GRILL GRILL 8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300
Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover
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HANGAR HANGAR BAR BAR 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088
Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA
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Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Open Mic Night, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm,9pm, W, noM,cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover Criminal Code, Lysol, 8pm, Tu, $5 Criminal Lysol,8pm, 8pm,W, Tu,$5$5 Traps PS,Code, Pissmixer, Traps PS, Pissmixer, 8pm, W, $5
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Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover
THE JUNGLE THE JUNGLE 246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484
Outspoken: Open Mic Night, Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover 7pm, M, no cover
246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484
Comedy Comedy 3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: 3rd Comedy Street,Night 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, Comedy & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, Night no cover W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson Nugget, N. Carson Carson City,507 882-1626: HuckSt., Flyn, Carson 882-1626: Huck Flyn, F, 7:30pm,City, $13-$15 F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys The Lake Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: LakeRogers, Tahoe,Chris Stateline, 553-1022: Kivi Mancini,(800) Th-F, Su, 9pm, Kivi Rogers, Chris Mancini, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Rocky LaPorte, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, W, 9pm, $25 Ron Morey, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Laugh Factory Resort Casino, 407at N. Silver VirginiaLegacy St., 325-7401: Casino, 407 N.Th,Virginia St., $21.95325-7401: Bobby Slayton, Su, 7:30pm, Bobby Slayton, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95$27.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45-$32.95; Tim Gaither, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $27.45-$32.95; $21.95-$27.95 Tim Gaither, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, S. Virginia 686-6600: Steve100 Hytner, Th, 8pm,St., $12686-6600: Steve Hytner, Th, 8pm,9:30pm, $12$16; F, 9pm, $14-$20; Sa, 6:30pm, $16; F, 9pm, $14-$20; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $14-$20 $14-$20
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The Green, Mike Love, Hirie, The Mike Love, Hirie, 8pm,Green, $13-$27 8pm, $13-$27
THE LOVING CUP THE LOVING 188 California Ave.,CUP (775) 322-2480
Reno Jazz Syndicate, 8pm, no cover Reno Jazz Syndicate, 8pm, no cover
MIDTOWN WINE BAR MIDTOWN BAR 1527 S. VirginiaWINE St., (775) 323-1377
Pholkahontas, 7pm, no cover Pholkahontas, 7pm, no cover
MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS MOODY’S BISTRO BEATS 10007 Bridge St., Truckee;BAR (530) & 587-8688
Darcy Kathleen, 8pm, no cover Darcy Kathleen, 8pm, no cover
211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648
188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-1377
Dave Alvin Alvin Dave & Phil Alvin & Phil Alvin
THURSDAY 9/24 THURSDAY 9/24
KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE KNITTING CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. VirginiaFACTORY St., (775) 323-5648
10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688
FRIDAY 9/25 FRIDAY 9/25
For Those Searching, Blinded Youth, For Searching, Blinded Youth,$7 ManThose the Tanks, Impurities, 7:30pm, Man the Tanks, Impurities, 7:30pm, $7
Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover
Darcy Kathleen, 8:30pm, no cover Darcy Kathleen, 8:30pm, no cover Tazer, 8pm, no cover Tazer, 8pm, no cover
O’SKIS PUB & GRILLE O’SKIS PUB GRILLE 840 Victorian Ave.,&Sparks; (775) 359-7547
Shamrockit Open Mic Night, Shamrockit Open Mic Night, 6pm, no cover 6pm, no cover
840 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 359-7547
906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484
Acoustic Wonderland Singer-Songwriter Acoustic Wonderland Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 8pm, no cover Showcase, 8pm, no cover
Karaoke w/Cyco Mike, 9pm, no cover Karaoke w/Cyco Mike, 9pm, no cover
POLO LOUNGE POLO LOUNGE 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864
Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover
PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM AND JUKE JOINT (PB&J’S) AND JOINT (PB&J’S) 555 E. JUKE Fourth St., (775) 322-4348
Sammy Warm Hands, Dubldragon, Sammy Warm Hands, Dubldragon, Ogar Burl, Another Chapter, 7pm, $8 Ogar Burl, Another Chapter, 7pm, $8
1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864
555 E. Fourth St., (775) 322-4348
Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover
RED DOG SALOON RED SALOON 76 N. CDOG St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, The Guilty Ones, Dave Phil Alvin, Guilty Ones, DeadAlvin Rock&West, 8pm, The Tu, $50 Dead Rock West, 8pm, Tu, $50
76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474
RUBEN’S CANTINA RUBEN’S 1483 E. FourthCANTINA St., (775) 622-9424
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1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424
SINGER SOCIAL CLUB SINGER SOCIAL 219 W. Second St., (775)CLUB 657-9466
Sept. 29, 8 p.m. Sept. Cargo29, 8 p.m. Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400 398-5400
219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466
445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484
Dance party, 9pm, no cover Dance party, 9pm, no cover
STUDIO ON 4TH STUDIO ONSt.,4TH 432 E. Fourth (775) 737-9776 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776
Unplugged! Unique, Jason Washington, Unplugged! Unique,others, Jason 9pm, Washington, Johnnice Burton, no cover Johnnice Burton, others, 9pm, no cover
Voodoo Cats, Encounter, 8pm, $TBA Voodoo Cats, Encounter, 8pm, $TBA
1) The Writers’ Block Open Mic, 1)7pm, Theno Writers’ cover Block Open Mic, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769 7pm, no cover 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret
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Local Music Night w/local bands Local Music bands or local DJs,Night 9pm,w/local no cover or local DJs, 9pm, no cover
Eric Andersen, 5:30pm, no cover Eric Andersen, 5:30pm, no cover
17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455
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Blues Jam Thursday, 7pm, no cover Blues Jam Thursday, 7pm, no cover
WILD RIVER GRILLE WILD RIVER 17 S. Virginia St., GRILLE (775) 284-7455
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Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY ST. JAMESAve., INFIRMARY 445 California (775) 657-8484
WILDFLOWER VILLAGE WILDFLOWER 4275-4395 W. FourthVILLAGE St., (775) 787-3769
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Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, no cover no cover
Jamie Rollins, 8pm, no cover Jamie Rollins, 8pm, no cover
906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 409-3754
PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775)PUB 358-5484
SUNDAY 9/27 SUNDAY 9/27
Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover
MUMMERS BAR MUMMERS BAR 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 409-3754
Sept. 29, 8 p.m. Sept. 29, Saloon 8 p.m. Red Dog Red Saloon 76 N.Dog C St. 76 N. C St. Virginia City Virginia 847-7474City 847-7474
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Milton Merlos, 2pm, no cover Milton Merlos, 2pm, no cover 1) Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 1)8pm, Comedy Open Mic, Tu, noPower coverHour 3) Jamming with 8pm, Tu, no 7pm, coverW, 3)no Jamming Ray Saxon, cover with Ray Saxon, 7pm, W, no cover
ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA ATLANTIS 3800 S. VirginiaCASINO St., (775) RESORT 825-4700 SPA 3800 S. Virginia St.,Stage (775)2)825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Cabaret 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret
CARSON VALLEY INN CARSON VALLEY 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; INN (775) 782-9711
THURSDAY 9/24 THURSDAY 9/24
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SATURDAY 9/26 SATURDAY 9/26
SUNDAY 9/27 SUNDAY 9/27
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2) Soul Persuaders, 8pm, no cover 2) Soul Persuaders, 8pm, no cover
2) Soul Persuaders, 4pm, no cover 2) Soul Persuaders, 4pm, no cover Melissa Dru, 10pm, no cover Melissa Dru, 10pm, no cover
2) Soul Persuaders, 4pm, no cover 2) Soul Persuaders, 4pm, no cover Melissa Dru, 10pm, no cover Melissa Dru, 10pm, no cover
2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover 2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover
2) Highway 42, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover 2) Highway 42, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
2) After Dark, 7pm, no cover
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1) Shafty (Phish tribute) vs. Achilles 1) Shafty (Phish tribute) vs. Achilles Wheel (Grateful Dead tribute), Wheel 9pm, no(Grateful cover Dead tribute), 9pm, no cover 1) Saltoriya, 7pm, 9:30pm, $26.95+ 1) Saltoriya , 7pm, 9:30pm, 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no $26.95+ cover 2) 10:30pm, 3) Audioboxx, Mini Kiss, 9pm, $10 no cover 3) Mini Kiss, 9pm, $10
1) Chronic Vitality, 9pm, no cover 1) Chronic Vitality, 9pm, no cover
1) Trey Stone Band, 9pm, no cover 1) Trey Stone Band, 9pm, no cover
2) DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 2) 3) DJ ArtyJosBeatz, the Party,10pm, 9pm,$20 no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
1) George Thorogood & the Destroyers, 1) George$58 Thorogood & the Destroyers, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, $58 2) DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 2) 3) DJ ArtyRick theGee, Party,10pm, 9pm,$20 no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40 Marino’s 8pm, $30-$40 1) Frank 3) Carolyn Dolan, Divas 8pm, ,no cover 3) Dolan, 8pm, cover 4) Carolyn Rebel Soul, noon, no no cover 4) Rebel Soul, noon, no cover
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1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 1) Frank 8pm, M, Marino’s $30-$40 Divas, 8pm, M, $30-$40
3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) 5pm,nonocover cover CJ DJ/dancing, Simmons, 8pm, CJ Simmons, 8pm, no cover
3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) 5pm,nonocover cover CJ DJ/dancing, Simmons, 8pm, CJ Simmons, 8pm, no cover
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3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover
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2) Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah, 2) LeenoGallagher 7pm, cover and the Hallelujah, 7pm, no cover
2) Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah, 2) LeenoGallagher 8pm, cover and the Hallelujah, 8pm, cover 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm 3) FixxnoFridays, 3) Fixx Fridays, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm
2) Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah, 2) LeenoGallagher 8pm, cover and the Hallelujah, 8pm, cover10pm, $20 3) DJ no Scene, 3) DJ Scene, 10pm, $20
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1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm, $26.95+ 1) Saltoriya 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Dallas Smith,10:30pm, 11pm, $5no cover 345 N. Virginia2)St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom Brew Brothers 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin 3) Audioboxx, 3) Dallas Smith, 11pm, $5 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin GRAND SIERRA RESORT 2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover GRAND SIERRA RESORT 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 2) Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 3) Flirt Honky Tonk Thursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 2500 E. Second 789-20003) Sports Book 3) 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) (775) Lex Nightclub Honky 10pm, no Tonk coverThursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion
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Divas 8pm, $30-$40 1) Frank 4) Rebel Marino’s Soul, noon, no,cover 219 N. CenterShowroom St., (775)2)788-2900 1) Sammy’s The Zone 4) Rebel Soul, noon, no cover 1) Showroom 2) The 3) Sammy’s Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Zone Convention Center 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center
NUGGET CASINO RESORT NUGGET 1100 Nugget CASINO Ave., Sparks;RESORT (775) 356-3300 1100 Nugget Showroom Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity 1) Showroom 2) Celebrity Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s
PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO PEPPERMILL SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St.,RESORT (775) 826-2121 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 1) Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Tuscany Edge4) Capri Ballroom 3) Edge4) Capri Ballroom
2) Jonathan Barton, 2) Jonathan Barton, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover 6pm, Tu, W, no cover
1) Saltoriya, 7pm Tu, W, $26.95+ 2) Live Band , 7pmM,Tu,DJW,Chris $26.95+ 2) Live Band 1) Saltoriya Karaoke, 10pm, English, 10pm, Karaoke, 10pm, M,10:30pm, DJ ChrisW,English, 10pm, Tu, Cash Presley, no cover Tu, Cash Presley, 10:30pm, W, no cover
1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm, $26.95+ 1) Saltoriya 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover
2) Lex Saturdays, 10pm, $15-$25 2) Saturdays, 10pm, $15-$25 3) Lex County Social Saturdays 3) County Saturdays w/DJ JamieSocial G, 10pm, no cover w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover
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2) The Wiz Kid, 9pm, no cover 2) Wiz Kid, 9pm, no cover 3) The Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 3) Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Seduction Atomika, 9pm, no cover 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover
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Duran Duran Duran Duran Sept. 25, 9 p.m.
2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 2) Sundays, no cover 3) Recovery Industry Night, 9pm,10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover
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Cobra Lounge at Asian Noodles, 1290 E. Cobra Lounge Noodles, E. Plumb Lane, at Ste.Asian 1, 828-7227: Cash1290 Karaoke Plumb Lane,Simard, Ste. 1, Sa, 828-7227: Karaoke w/Jacques 8pm, noCash cover w/Jacques Simard, Sa, 8pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, La Morena 2140Nite/Karaoke, Victorian Ave.,F, Sparks, 772-2475:Bar, College 7pm, 772-2475: no cover College Nite/Karaoke, F, 7pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180Karaoke W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: w/DJ Lane, 1070, 823-9977: KaraokeF, w/DJ Hustler,Ste.H&T Mobile Productions, 10pm, Hustler, no coverH&T Mobile Productions, F, 10pm, no cover Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Virginia City, 847-7210: Steel Rockin’ Virginia 847-7210: Karaoke,City, F, 7:30pm, no Steel coverRockin’ Karaoke, F, 7:30pm, no cover Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, 551 E. Moana Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, E. Moana Lane, 200-0635: Karaoke w/DJ551 Hustler, Lane, 200-0635: Karaoke Sa, w/DJ Hustler, H&T Mobile Productions, 9pm, no cover H&T Mobile Productions, Sa, 9pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Spiro’s & Grille, 1475 F-Sa, E. Prater Way, Sports Ste. 103,Bar Sparks, 356-6000: Way, 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, Ste. no cover 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., West384-7976: SecondDaily, Street 118 W. Second St., 8pm,Bar, no cover 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover
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For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno Events 10TH ANNUAL BUDDY WALK: The National Down Syndrome Society’s 10th annual walk raises funds and awareness for Down syndrome. Sa, 9/26, 8am-noon. Price varies. Reno High School, 395 Booth St., (775) 828-5159, www.bit.ly/BuddyWalk2015.
2015 WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: This is the nation’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s research and is held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide. The ceremony starts at 9 a.m. and the walk begins at 9:30 a.m. Sa, 9/26, 9am. Price varies. Sparks Marina, 325 Harbor Cove Drive, Sparks, 353-2376, www.bit.ly/AlzheimerWalk.
BATTLE OF THE RATTLE: This 5K run on Rattlesnake Mountain benefits the Nevada Diabetes Association. Registration starts at 8 a.m. in the Fitness Connection parking lot. The race starts at 10 a.m. Sa, 9/26, 8am. Price varies. Fitness Connection, 5390 Longley Lane, (775) 853-7373, www.bit.ly/BattleoftheRattle.
FEED THE CAMEL: The family-friendly food truck event features mobile food purveyors, libations and arts. W, 5-8pm through 9/30. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, 450-0062, www.facebook.com/pages/Feed-TheCamel/256832417824677?fref=ts.
GENOA CANDY DANCE ARTS & CRAFTS FAIRE: The 94th annual fundraiser for the town of Genoa features more than 300 vendors offerings crafts, homemade candy and food, among other items. The fair is Saturday and Sunday, Sept.
and Washoe County. KTMB hosts a Volunteer Appreciation Picnic after the cleanup to thank volunteers for their efforts with barbecue, beer and prizes. Sa, 9/26, 9am-noon. Free. Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful, 2000 Del Monte Lane, 851-5185, http://ktmb.org/volunteer.
26-27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Candy Dance Dinner & Dance is Saturday night from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Genoa Town Park on Nixon Street. There is a $5 per vehicle parking fee in designated lots, with free shuttles to and from the Candy Dance Faire. The locations are Foothill Road, Genoa Lane and Jacks Valley Road
Sa, 9/26, 9am-10pm; Su, 9/27, 9am-5pm.
PARTY IN THE GARDEN 2015: Sample and
Free admission for fair; call for tickets for dance. Main St., Genoa, (775) 782-8696, www.genoanevada.org.
enjoy some of the best food and drink from local establishments while strolling through the arboretum and gardens. There will also be a silent auction featuring works of art donated by local artists. Live music by the Colin Ross Band. Su, 9/27, 4-7pm. $30-$50. Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., 785-4153, www.mayarboretumsociety. org/events.html.
GRAND OPENING RECEPTION: The Potentialist Workshop holds its grand opening celebration featuring studio tours, a meet and greet with Potentialist directors and volunteers, the opening performance of Scapegoat by R.S. Bennet, an improv show by Reno Improv and a new music jam session hosted by No Labels the Band. Sa, 9/26, 6pm. $15 at the door. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201, www.potentialist.com.
RAIL CITY FARMERS’ MARKET: The boutique
RENO STREET FOOD: PARTY IN THE PARK: The
market will offer fresh produce and products from local farms and food purveyors, including Snyder Family Farms, Workman Farms, Sand Hill Dairy, the Bakery Gallery and Mitchell Pickle Packing Company. Su, 10am-2pm through 9/27. Free admission. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way, Sparks, 355-1551; www.railcitygardencenter.com.
gourmet street food event features more than 25 gourmet food, craft desserts, beer, wine and mixed drinks vendors and live music. Relax in the park and bring your lawn chairs and a blanket. F, 5-9pm through 10/2. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, 825-2665; www.facebook.com/ RenoStreetFood.
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RENOWNED: Quintessential Pro Wrestling presents this pro wrestling match featuring some of the top indie wrestlers, including Cheerleader Melissa, Chris Hero, Reno Scum and Christina von Eerie. Meet the wrestlers from 7pm8pm. Bell time at 8pm. Sa, 9/26, 7pm. $15 general admission, $20 front row. Evelyn Mount Northeast Community Center, 1301 Valley Road, (702) 612-8858, http://qpwrestling.com.
Saturday of every month from 2-6pm. Purchase your glass and map for $5 at The Waterfall at 134 W. Second St. and enjoy $1 refills at 12+ downtown Reno taverns. Fourth Sa of every month, 2-6pm through 12/26. $5 glass and map. The Waterfall, 134 W. Second St., 322-7373, http://renobeercrawl.com.
SNC TAHOE’S COMMUNITY READ: This year’s Community Read, a communal reading program that is open to the entire Lake Tahoe community, will feature books and graphic novels that present an interesting relationship between text and image. Tu, 9/29, 6:30-8:30pm; W, 10/7, 6:30pm; Th, 10/22, 6pm. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 831-1314.
Ga lena Fest & Ga lena Pioneer Days
JDRF ONE WALK: The JDRF One Walk is a fund-raising event aiming to eliminate type 1 diabetes. This year’s 5K walk is happening at the University of Nevada, Reno. Su, 9/27, 9am. Price varies. University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., 784-1110, www.bit.ly/JDRFOneWalk2015.
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un, walk, ride a bike or go back in time to the 1860s during two annual events at Galena Creek Regional Park. The day’s activities kick off at 8:30 a.m. with the Bloody Rose Mountain Bike Climb, a 12.2-mile race that takes riders through some gnarly turns, steep climbs and tough terrain. The Wicked Trail Run and Walk is a 7.25-mile course taking participants along challenging trails through Galena Forest. There will also be a 1-mile kids’ run starting at 11 a.m. Awards will be given to the top finishers in each race starting at 12:30 p.m. Even if you’re not athletically inclined, you can still enjoy a cold brew in the beer garden, Art in the Park and live music by Escalade at the festival, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27. Visit renogalenafest.com for more information. Galena Pioneer Days takes place concurrently with Galena Fest. Visitors can learn about the history of Galena, try their hand at making butter and candles, participate in pioneer games and activities like gold panning and more. The living history event begins at 10 a.m. and wraps up around 2 p.m. at the Bearmat Picnic Area near the north entrance of Galena Creek Recreation Area, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway. Admission is free. Call 849-4948 or visit www. galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.
KTMB’S TRUCKEE RIVER CLEANUP: The Truckee River Cleanup Day is a community-supported event that spans more than 20 miles along the river, with cleanup sites from Verdi to Lockwood. Volunteers are needed for trash pickup, invasive weed removal, river park beautification and other activities at cleanup locations along the Truckee River in Reno, Sparks
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SPARKS FOOD TRUCK DRIVE-IN: The Sparks Food Truck Drive-In pairs food trucks with a free screening of Ghostbusters. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, stadium and low-back chairs and an appetite. Adult beverages may be purchased from 39 North establishments. Sa, 9/26, 6-9pm. Free. Victorian Square, 14th Street and Pyramid Way along Victorian Ave., Sparks, 450-0062, www.facebook.com/ foodtruckdrivein?fref=ts.
STREET VIBRATIONS FALL RALLY: The celebration of music, metal and motorcycles. Street Vibrations offers tours, live entertainment, ride-in shows, stunt shows and more to more than 50,000 biking enthusiasts. W-Su through 9/27. Free admission for most events. 329-7469, http://roadshowsreno.com.
SUPER SOUL FOOD SUNDAY: Celebrity chef is Oliver X. Music by DJ Tony Walker. Proceeds go to Cash 4 Kaia and the Shakespeare Animal Fund. Su, 9/27, 4-9pm. $50. Great Full Gardens, 555 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2013.
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All Ages ACTING AT THE LAKE MANSION: Kids 8-12 years will earn improvisational skills from a professional actor focusing on movement, stage direction, interaction and fun. M, 4:30-5:30pm through 10/19. $45. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., 826-6100 ext. 3, www.artsforallnevada.org.
ACTING IN SPARKS: Children ages 8-12 can build confidence while expressing their creativity through acting. Beginner to intermediate levels. W, 4:30-5:30pm through 10/14. $35. Larry D. Johnson Community Center, 1200 12th St., Sparks, 826-6100, ext. 2, www. artsforallnevada.org.
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Is there anything inherently bad about getting into a serious relationship quickly? I met this guy about a month ago. We hit it off instantly, became boyfriend and girlfriend two weeks later, and have been dropping Ilove-yous. It all feels pretty great. I don’t have a history of poor relationship judgment, and I wasn’t desperate or even looking for a new partner. However, popular opinion seems to run against getting involved so fast. Your thoughts? Ah, yes … your love is like a summer’s day—if a summer’s day chased its lemonade with two Red Bulls and a five-shot latte. It’s easy for you to assume you’re in your right mind, just because you haven’t started throwing peanuts at people in the park while debating abortion with a squirrel. But there are three stages of love: the “falling in it” stage, the “figuring out how it’ll work” stage, and finally, the “you’re the one!” commitment stage. You’re in the starting days of the “falling in it” stage—getting hit by rushing hormones and neurotransmitters—which is to say that you’re chemically dazed. Which is to say that making any sort of decision about what you two have is like getting really high before going to sign papers for a bank loan. In fact, according to research by psychiatry professor Donatella Marazziti, it’s likely that right now, you and this guy are each chemically different people—and thus behaviorally different people—than you will be once the chemical storm dies down. Marazziti found significant shifts in testosterone levels in both men and women who’d recently fallen in love. Compared with single people and people who’d been in relationships awhile, women newly in love had elevated testosterone, likely making them more sexually tigress-y, while the T levels of men newly in love dropped, likely making them more gooey and emotional—to the point where even a Navy SEAL might start sounding like a Valentine’s Day card. How long the biochemical inebriation lasts varies, but Marazziti’s research suggests that couples are pretty much out of the falling in love daze a year to two years later. It’s only then—once you sober up— that you find out what you actually have together. The kind of love that sticks around is not just a feeling but a feeling that inspires loving action. As novelist Marlon James, quoting a former lover, put it: “Love isn’t saying ‘I love you’ but calling to say, ‘Did you eat?’” Love that lasts should also inspire a sort of
loving inaction—loving the person enough that you don’t hate them for all the ways they turn out to be a total idiot: how they can’t seem to understand that pee goes in the big white porcelain thing, not on the floor; that those gross phlegm-clearing sounds are not a mating call; and that socks left on the bedroom rug will not grow tiny legs, crawl up the hamper, and fling themselves in.
Growing mold together I’m a 70-year-old man, and my wife is 68. I suffer from ED, and we both seem to have lost our sex drive. Don’t get me wrong; we are still very loving and affectionate with each other. We just don’t have sex. Is this a problem I should be addressing or just a side effect of aging? My male ego keeps telling me that I should still be a horndog. No need to pull out the hose if there’s no fire. So, on date night, you have a romantic dinner— early-bird special!—and then repair to bed for some rough hugging. Assuming your ED doesn’t stem from some more serious medical condition, the only thing that’s wrong with you is your thinking that something’s wrong with you. OK, your sexparts aren’t as perky as they were back when Warren G. Harding—or whoever!—was president. Would you deem yourself less manly if you got osteoarthritis in your elbow? Probably not. But predictably, your elbow has probably stopped working as well as it did when you were 22—just like Mr. Winky Senior. The reality is there’s much more to physical intimacy than being all Vlad the Impaler—a point sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein makes in his book Sexual Intelligence. Touch and affection are essential, and you have those. So instead of lamenting what you don’t have, focus on what you do. You might also consider that your level of manliness is reflected in your character—what you do when the chips are down—not by how, lately, your favorite thing to do in bed is sleep through the night without getting awakened by the twins: your bladder and your prostate. Ω
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ANIMAL ARK PAWS & CLAWS 2015: Enjoy an afternoon with wildlife experts, food and refreshments, live music, silent and live auctions, raffles, and a cheetah run featuring cheetahs zooming off-leash at 60 mph. Su, 9/27, 1:30-6pm. $125. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road, (775) 970-3111, www.animalark.org.
ART ADVENTURES AT THE LAKE MANSION: Budding artists ages 7-11 will explore a variety of mediums including drawing, pastels, watercolor and clay. Supplies included in cost. W, 4:30-5:30pm through 10/21. $55. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., 826-6100, www.artsforallnevada.org.
ART ADVENTURES IN SPARKS: Young artists ages 7-11 will explore a variety of mediums including, drawing, pastels and watercolor. Th, 4-5pm through 10/15. Opens 9/24. $35. Larry D. Johnson Community Center, 1200 12th St., Sparks, 826-6100, ext. 2, www.artsforallnevada.org.
ART START AT THE LAKE MANSION: Art, creative movement/music and imaginative play in one hour of creative and active fun for children 3-5 years old accompanied by an adult. Th, 11amnoon through 10/8. $40 for one child and adult; $15 each additional child. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., 826-6100, ext. 3, www.artsforallnevada.org.
ARTE EN ESPANOL AT THE LAKE MANSION: Children ages 3-6 will learn Spanish through play, music, games and art. Reinforcement of Spanish vocabulary will be taught and practiced daily. Supplies included in the cost. Th, 10-11am through 10/8. $40. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., 826-6100, ext. 3, www.artsforallnevada.org.
BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIMES: Staff members and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882.
PAINTING AT THE LAKE MANSION: Students ages 10-14 will explore multiple painting techniques through different paint mediums, such as watercolor and acrylics. Supplies are included in the cost. Th, 5:30-7pm through 10/22. $75. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., 826-6100, ext. 3, www.artsforallnevada.org.
PRESCHOOL MUSIC AND MOVEMENT CLASS: This class will expose preschoolaged children to the joy of moving and grooving. Children will sing, play instruments and learn a variety of fun dance moves. M, 10:30-11:15am through 11/2. $60 for six-week session. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, 324-5521, www.noteables.org.
RANCHING AT RANCHO: A fun, free ranching-themed open house in the main barn area. Each week features a new theme from goats to tractors and everything else in between. Kids can visit with resident chickens and turkeys, cool off inside the Discovery Room or enjoy pony rides for $5. Themed Ranching at Rancho activities will only be offered on Saturdays, but you can ride the ponies on Friday, Saturday or Sunday between 10am-1pm each week. M-Su, 10am1pm through 11/21. Free admission; $5 for pony rides. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4512, www.washoecounty.us.
RUN WALK ROLL AGAINST BULLYING: The 5th Annual Run Walk Roll Against Bullying offers 5k and 1.5 mile events. The 5k will be chip-timed with prizes for individuals and teams. There will be raffle prizes and food. Su, 9/27, 8:30am-12:30pm. $10-$25. Mira Loma Park, 3000 S. McCarran Blvd., (702) 388-8899, www.nvpep.org.
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINICH: The Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist low-income families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. First come, first served. Th, 10am-noon. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.
Art FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Pinhole Project: Photos from the Playa, Pinhole Project photographers document the people, art and events at Burning Man each year, while they teach others to explore their creativity through this 100-year-old technique of pinhole photography. M-F through 10/1. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.
NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: October Exhibits at North Tahoe Arts, Glass Quartet features artwork by regional glass artists Catherine Strand, Pam Sutton, William Hutchison and Toni Rockwell in the NTA Main Gallery. Lake Tahoe & The Sierra features oils by Howard Friedman in the NTA Corison Loft Gallery. The opening reception will be on Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 5-7p.m. 9/29-11/2, 11am-5pm. Free. 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.
STREMMEL GALLERY: Ewoud de Groot, Stremmel Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Dutch artist Ewoud de Groot. M-Sa through 10/3. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 7860558; www.stremmelgallery.com.
Museums NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): SpaceMobiles: From Rockets and Rovers to Cars on Mars. This exhibit takes a look at America’s fascination with exploring new frontiers and the machines that make it possible. M-Su through 4/11. $4-$10, free for members and children age 5 and younger. Contact National Auto Museum (775) 333-9300, www.automuseum.org/exhibits for details on this exhibit. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Tahoe: A Visual History. Experience Lake Tahoe landscapes through the eyes of 175 painters, photographers, architects, weavers and sculptors. The Nevada Museum of Art has organized the first major art historical survey exhibition of painting, Native baskets, photography, architecture and contemporary art dedicated to Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region. TAHOE: A Visual History spans over two centuries of cultural and creative production related to the second largest freshwater alpine lake in the United States. W-Su through 1/10.Tahoe: A Visual History, W-Su through 1/10. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.
Film MOONLIGHT MOVIE SERIES: Brasserie St. James’ summer movie series takes place every Thursday on the Rooftop Patio. Dress in character to receive drink specials. Enjoy live entertainment following the movie. Visit the bar’s facebook page for weekly movie and character specifics. Th, 8-11pm through 9/24. No cover. Brasserie St. James, 901 S. Center St., 348-8888, www.facebook.com/ BrasserieSaintJames?fref=ts.
RUN FREE FILM SCREENING: This feature documentary directed by Sterling Noren, chronicles the life of American ultra running legend Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse) and his quest to create an ultra marathon in Mexico’s Copper Canyon to promote and preserve Tarahumara running tradition. Tu, 9/29, 7-9pm. $7-$15. Joe Crowley Student Union Theater, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (603) 209-5010, www.facebook.com/ events/417776001742124.
Poetry/ Literature THE WRITERS’ BLOCK OPEN MIC AT WILDFLOWER: A weekly event for eager writers who want to share the madness they have written. This show is open to all ages for the first half with the second half open to whatever words need escaping. No cover. Signups for participants begin at 6:30 p.m. Readings begin at 7 p.m. Th, 7pm. no cover. Wildflower Village, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (415) 640-0389, www.facebook.com/events/134295256740895.
Music BENISE: STRINGS OF PASSION: The guitar virtuoso takes audiences on a musical journey of salsa, flamenco, tango, waltz, samba and more. Th, 9/24, 7:30pm. $26.80-$95. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600, https://secure. ticketsage.net/Pioneer_Center/ pioneercenterweb/Web/EventsPage. aspx?PerfID=293446.
THE CROOKED JADES: The bluegrass band explores the roots of Americana and interweave diverse musical influences of Europe and Africa. Sa, 9/26, 7pm. $20 general, $18 BAC members, $25 at the door. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, www.breweryarts.org.
NEVADA WIND ENSEMBLE: The Nevada Wind Ensemble begins its 2015-2016 season with a mix of traditional and contemporary works for wind band. M, 9/28, 7:30pm. $5; free for students. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., 784-4278.
PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon. Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.
Sports & Fitness GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist. Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sa, 10am-noon. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.thegreatbasininstitute.org.
Onstage PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE: Reno Little Theater opens its 2015-2016 season with Steve Martin’s Off-Broadway absurdist comedy piece which places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the 20th century’s achievements and prospects, as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. Th, 9/24, 7:30pm; F, 9/25,
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10/1, 7:30pm; F, 10/2, 7:30pm; Sa, 10/3, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 10/4, 2pm. $18 general, $15 seniors, students, military. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 329-0661, www.renolittletheater. org.
SCAPEGOAT: A play by R.S. Bennett based on real-life stories, produced and directed by Pan. What happens when a man kisses a cop in the midst of a feverish party? His subsequent trifles with the mental health and legal systems post-make-out describe the political nonsense we as Americans face today, behind the humorous faces of clowns of course. Preview on Sept. 25 at 7pm. Grand opening reception on Sept. 26 at 7pm. Th-Sa, 7pm through 10/10. Opens 9/25. $15 at the door. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., 686-8201, www. potentialist.com.
TRIBE-OLUTION: Tahoe Arts Project presents this dance concert that explores the roots of hip hop dance in African, Brazilian and Asian traditional styles. F, 9/25, 7pm. $10-$15. MontBleu Resort, 55 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (530) 542-3632, http://tahoeartsproject.org.
Classes ADVANCED CARE LECTURE: Mary-Ann Brown, Renown Health’s director of hospice and palliative care, will discuss how you can receive the care you want in the event something happens to your health and who can speak for you. Th, 9/24, 12-1pm. Free. Neil Road Recreation Center, 3925 Neil Road, 982-5400, www.bit.ly/AdvanceCare.
ART EXPLORATIONS IN SPARKS: A variety of mediums will be introduced during this four-class series. Th, 5:15-7:15pm through 10/15. Opens 9/24. $65. Larry D. Johnson Community Center, 1200 12th St., Sparks, (775) 826-6100 ext. 2; www.artsforallnevada.org.
THE BREASTFEEDING FORUM: Breastfeeding mothers are invited to join this breast-feeding support group. Mothers exchange their experiences and discuss concerns such as milk supply, pumping, going back to work, sleeping or lack of sleep, etc. RSVP at http://doodle.com/cy5nrur23mbg6pie. Tu, 4-5pm. $10 drop in; free for first-time attendees. Renown South Meadows Medical Center, 10101 Double R Blvd., 240-9916, www.wellnourishedbaby.com.
FELDENKRAIS CLASSES: Guided Feldenkrais classes in pain-free movement will give you the tools you need to improve stability, balance and performance and increase your vitality and flexibility as you learn to do slow, non-habitual movements with focused attention. These carefully structured lessons activate neural pathways, relieve pain and stress, and improve the communication between you brain and body. Tu, 10-11:30am through 12/15. $12 drop-in. Midtown Fitness, 600 S. Center St., Ste. 300, (775) 240-7882, www.renofeldenkrais.blogspot.com.
JIMMY BEANS WOOL OPEN KNIT NIGHT: Join local and visiting fiber enthusiasts for an evening of knitting and crocheting. Door prizes awarded. Fourth Th of every month, 6-8pm. $5. Jimmy Beans Wool, 5000 Smithridge Drive, 827-9276, www.jimmybeanswool.com.
LEARN HOW TO MARKET YOUR BOOK: Learn how to market your book while it is in the cover design or editing stage and how to get readers to care enough about your book to buy it before it comes out. This workshop will provide you with techniques needed to get those sales kickstarted and more. Breakfast, lunch and materials provided. Sa, 9/26, 10am-2pm. $88. ZLS Publishing office, 502 S. Wells Ave. Ste. 201, (562) 354-1938, www.zlsauthorinstitute.com/courses.
WEST COAST SWING DANCE: High Sierra Swing Dance Club presents its monthly dance party. At 6:30 p.m., Clay Mitchell will teach an intermediate lesson in applying blues to West Coast swing. Social dance is 7:30-10 p.m. Partners are not required. Lesson and dance is $7 for members, $10 for non-members. Join the club that night and the dance is free. Sa, 9/26, 6:30-10pm. $7-$10. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 443-8870, www.highsierrasdc.org.
Community CROCHET CONNECTION: Learn to crochet or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, (775) 424-1800.
DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: The Reno chapter of the national DBSA meets. Fourth Th of every month, 7-8:30pm. Renown Health Boardroom, 1495 Mill St., 835-6410.
GALENA BOOK ’N TEA: Discuss naturebased literature over hot tea. Call to reserve a spot. Fourth Sa of every month, 3-4pm. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway; (775) 849-4948; www.thegreatbasininstitute.org.
LIFESCAPES: The memoir writing pro-
gram for seniors meets. Second and Fourth Th of every month, 10:30am. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Pkwy.; (775) 851-5190; www.washoe. lib.nv.us.
SCRAPBOOKING SUNDAY: Bring your favorite photos and basic supplies to this open scrap. Learn tips and tricks from fellow scrappers. Su, 9/27, 10am5pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway located at Lazy 5 Regional Park in Spanish Springs; (775) 424-1800.
SOUTH VALLEYS BRIDGE GROUP: Join Jill and meet new friends. Basic bridge knowledge preferred. F, 1-4pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Pkwy.; (775) 851-5190; www.washoe. lib.nv.us.
SPARKS LIBRARY KNITTING AND CROCHETING CIRCLE: Do you know how to knit or crochet, but just want to meet new people? Join the Sparks Library every Thursday and learn the techniques to start your masterpiece. Th, 4-6pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. in Sparks; (775) 352-3200.
THE TUESDAY NIGHT YARN CREW: All skill levels and yarn-crafts are welcome. Bring your project to this “sit and knit” gathering. Tu, 5:30-7pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Pkwy.; (775) 851-5190; www.washoe.lib.nv.us.
Volunteer BLOOD DONATIONS: Give the gift of life and donate blood. Donors must be healthy, weigh at least 110 pounds and be at least 17 years old. Call to make an appointment. M-Su. United Blood Services, 1125 Terminal Way; (775) 3246454; www.unitedbloodservices.org.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are des-
tined to become a master of fire. It’s your birthright to become skilled in the arts of kindling and warming and illuminating and energizing. Eventually you will develop a fine knack for knowing when it’s appropriate to turn the heat up high, and when it’s right to simmer with a slow, steady glow. You will wield your flames with discernment and compassion, rarely or never with prideful rage. You will have a special power to accomplish creative destruction and avoid harmful destruction. I’m pleased at the progress you are making toward these noble goals, but there’s room for improvement. During the next eight weeks, you can speed up your evolution.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli won a Nobel Prize for his research. His accomplishment? The Nobel Committee said he discovered “a new law of nature,” and named it after him: the Pauli Exclusion Principle. And yet when he was a younger man, he testified, “Physics is much too difficult for me and I wish I were a film comedian or something like that and that I had never heard anything about physics!” I imagine you might now be feeling a comparable frustration about something for which you have substantial potential, Taurus. In the spirit of Pauli’s perseverance, I urge you to keep at it.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1921, the
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logical omens suggest you could get caught up in dreaming about what might have been. I’m afraid you might cling to outworn traditions and resuscitate wistful wishes that have little relevance for the future. You may even be tempted to wander through the labyrinth of your memories, hoping to steep yourself in old feelings that weren’t even good medicine for you when you first experienced them. But I hope you will override these inclinations, and instead act on the aphorism, “If you don’t study the past, you will probably repeat it.” Right now, the best reason to remember the old days is to rebel against them and prevent them from draining your energy.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a favorable
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time to fantasize about how to suck more cash into your life. You have entered a phase when economic mojo is easier to conjure than usual. Are you ready to engage in some practical measures to take advantage of the cosmic trend? And by that I don’t mean playing the lottery or stealing strangers’ wallets or scanning the sidewalk for fallen money as you stroll. Get intensely real and serious about enhancing your financial fortunes. What are three specific ways you’re ignorant about getting and handling money? Educate yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I feel like a
wet seed wild in the hot blind earth,” wrote author William Faulkner. Some astrologers would say that it’s unlikely a Libra would ever say such a thing—that it’s too primal a feeling for your refined, dignified tribe; too lush and unruly. But I disagree with that view. Faulkner himself was a Libra! And I am quite sure that you are now or will soon be like a wet seed in the hot blind earth— fierce to sprout and grow with almost feral abandon.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You and I
both know that you can heal the sick and raise the dead and turn water into wine—or at least perform the metaphorical equivalent of those magical acts. Especially when the pressure is on, you have the power to attract the help of mysterious forces and unexpected interventions. I love that about you! When people around you are rendered fuzzy and inert by life’s puzzling riddles, you are often the best hope for activating constructive responses. According to my analysis of upcoming cosmic trends, these skills will be in high demand during the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Some astrologers regard the planet Saturn as a sour tyrant that cramps our style and squelches our freedom. But here’s my hypothesis: Behind Saturn’s austere mask is a benevolent teacher and guide. She pressures us to focus and concentrate. She pushes us to harness and discipline our unique gifts. It’s true that some people resist these cosmic nudges. They prefer to meander all over the place, trying out roles they’re not suited for and indulging in the perverse luxury of neglecting their deepest desires. For them Saturn seems like a dour taskmaster, spoiling their lazy fun. I trust that you Sagittarians will develop a dynamic relationship with Saturn as she cruises through your sign for the next 26 months. With her help, you can deepen your devotion to your life’s most crucial goals.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The
coming weeks will be a favorable time to break a spell you’ve been under, or shatter an illusion you have been caught up in or burst free from a trance you have felt powerless to escape. If you are moved to seek help from a shaman, witch or therapist, please do so. But I bet you could accomplish the feat all by yourself. Trust your hunches! Here’s one approach you could try: Tap into both your primal anger and your primal joy. In your mind’s eye, envision situations that tempt you to hate life and envision situations that inspire you love life. With this volatile blend as your fuel, you can explode the hold of the spell, illusion or trance.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Go to
the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.” So advised author Ray Bradbury. That strategy is too nervewracking for a cautious person like me. I prefer to meticulously build and thoroughly test my wings before trying a quantum leap. But I have observed that Aquarius is one of the three signs of the zodiac most likely to succeed with this approach. And according to my astrological calculations, the coming weeks will be a time when your talent for building robust wings in midair will be even more effective than usual.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are
being tempted to make deeper commitments and to give more of yourself. Should you? Is it in your interests to mingle your destiny more thoroughly with the destinies of others? Will you benefit from trying to cultivate more engaged forms of intimacy? As is true for most big questions, there are no neat, simple answers. Exploring stronger connections would ultimately be both messy and rewarding. Here’s an inquiry that might bring clarity as you ponder the possibility of merging your fortunes more closely with allies or potential allies: Will deeper commitments with them inspire you to love yourself dearly, treat yourself with impeccable kindness and be a superb ally to yourself?
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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Home alone Britt Curtis On Saturday, Sept. 19, at the awards ceremony for the Reno Instagrammys, the Holland Project, Reno’s all-ages, nonprofit art and music venue, announced “Grounded for Life,” a new fundraising effort to help the plucky organization buy the building it currently rents. Britt Curtis is the co-founder and director. For more information, or to donate, visit www.hollandreno.org/grounded.
How did this come about? About a year ago, we found out that our landlord was going to raise our rent pretty significantly when our lease was up. And buying our building has been a long-term goal for Holland always, securing a permanent space. It’s in our 10-year plan; it’s been the thing we’ve reached for. And so when we found out about this [rent change] a year ago, it jump-started the issue. We weren’t entirely ready to have that conversation, but it made us face it in a really real way. Either we have to secure this space or we have to find whatever space it’s going to be and not do this again. We need to lay down roots—to protect Holland, and the future of the organization, and not go through the kind of thing that we’ve gone through for the last seven years, which is moving all the time.
How long have you been in that space?
like home. That was a big deal for us. We definitely felt a panic like can we find another space like this if we’re forced to move?
What about it do you like? Holland has a long list of requirements for a space that will work. It has to have an open floor plan. It has to have a space for the gallery and the show space. It has to be all one story so it’s ADA accessible. It has to have proper existing and fire safety stuff. It has to be in a neighborhood without [residential] neighbors. There’s this long list of things that we have to check off and that space checks them all off, and there aren’t many that do that, to be honest. And we know because we’ve looked long and far and wide. So we love it. It’s definitely a DIY space that’s constantly changing and evolving and getting better—steps forward, steps backward that kind of thing. But we’ve spent years transforming it, and it definitely feels like home.
Since November 2011. ... It definitely feels
Biblical radio ads Gee, it just hit me the other day that it’s literally been months since there’s been an incident where a cop went haywire and killed a guy armed with a straw or a kid wearing a SpongeBob mask. How very nice! Has America turned some kind of corner? Or am I just not paying proper attention? • I hear this all the time when I dare to listen to local radio—small businesses pounding away at listeners with their phone numbers. If you’re a business owner, and you’re doing this in your ads, you’re blowing it. Think about it. When was the last time you were driving around town and you wrote down somebody’s phone number? The reality of advertising is that the listener is lucky to take away one thing from your precious 30/60 seconds. So if that’s the case, don’t waste time pounding your phone number. That number is just toodling off into the ionosphere. Use this time instead to pound your name, assuming your name is supported by your website. OPINION
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It wasn’t really a “let’s do this!” kind of thing. Like everything with Holland, it was really collective, and [it had] to go through intense questioning from everybody. So, the questions at first were, “Is this our space? Do we want to fight for this space? Is this our home? Are there other spaces that could work?” But we were all partial to staying there, so it became, “How do we make this offer? How do we stay here? How do we make this happen?” So our board and our membership made the decision. So we brought in some of our biggest funding supporters for an informal meeting to just chat—this is where we are, will you be behind us? Can we count you in? And it was really amazing, actually—really inspiring, really incredible. It wouldn’t have happened for Holland a few years ago, but in the last seven years, we got to a place where some of our community’s biggest philanthropists and funding sources believed in us enough to help us pull this off.
Which is how much? The last 10 percent, which is about $80,000. So that secures Holland and all the necessary upgrades, including a new roof. Anyone who’s been there and felt roof water leak onto their heads will be excited about that. And new HVAC—so, new air conditioning, which everyone has had a comment about, so that’s probably the thing people are most excited about. New electrical. Necessary upgrades—so the building is all dialed in and ready to go for the next generation and the generation after that. Ω
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Then, if you’re lucky, the shopper will remember your name when he needs a hose, look up Flaming Dinosaur Garden Hoses, and then get your phone number. Yes, I’m of the opinion that whatever your biz is, whether it’s tires, teeth whiteners, or garden gnomes, you should use the name Flaming Dinosaur. It’ll work. Trust me. People remember that kind of crazy shit. • Kentucky heterosexual warrior queen Kim Davis is the latest American to find out that the 21st century is not gonna be a picnic for people who actually want to live by the Old Testament. And so it goes. I mean, Leviticus can’t compete with Twitticus. Deuteronomy got mugged by Astronomy. Hosea became a play-uh. Ezra bought a Tesla. And Good Ole Job, man, he’s out lookin’ for a job. • Speaking of things Biblical, I would nominate that one for Trump’s most baldfaced lie. You know, when he tells the folks that his favorite book is |
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the Bible. I don’t believe him for a nano-second when he coughs that one up. And then there’s Ben Carson, who appeared on Meet the Press and said, “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.” So how many people do you think share Carson’s opinion? How many of us would not vote for a Muslim for president? I guessed 50-70 percent. As it turns out, I’m a bit off and a bit bleak. We aren’t, apparently, as Islamaphobic as I reckoned. According to a Gallup poll from four months ago, 38 percent of Americans would not vote for a Muslim candidate. The only candidates who would have a tougher time in a presidential race are atheists and socialists, with 40 percent and 50 percent negative (numbers respectively). Ω
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