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Letters............................ 3 Opinion/Streetalk............ 5 Sheila.Leslie.................... 6 Brendan.Trainor.............. 7 News.............................. 8 Green........................... 10 Feature......................... 12 Arts&Culture................ 17 Art.of.the.State............ 20

Foodfinds..................... 22 Film.............................. 24 Musicbeat.....................25 Nightclubs/Casinos........26 This.Week.....................29 Advice.Goddess........... 30 Free.Will.Astrology....... 34 15.Minutes.....................35 Bruce.Van.Dyke............35

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years old This week! Finally old enough to drink! (Legally, that is—we’ve been sneaking sips of our parents’ booze for years.) Time to party. We’re going to throw not one, not two, not three, not four, but five parties to celebrate. And these aren’t going to be any regular ol’ parties, but hootin’, hollerin’ summer block parties out at Wingfield Park. We’re revamping our long-running Rolling on the River concert series, and turning it into a community celebration with a special focus on local music.

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These concerTs will be free, ouTdoors and liberally lubricaTed wiTh local brews. So, Reno residents and faithful readers, the question for you is what local performers would you like to see headline the main stage at these celebrations? Send an email to contest@newsreview.com with the subject line “Party Music” and tell us your favorite local bands and artists, regardless of genre. Hip-hop? EDM? Country & Western? Rock ‘n’ roll? Reggae? Doom metal? Doo wop-disco-grindcore? Let us know. Feel free to suggest more than one. submissions must be received by May 1.

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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I’m both the worst guy to write about our 21st anniversary and the best. I’m the best because I was here on the first masthead of the Reno News & Review on Feb. 22, 1995. (I was also on the first masthead of its progenitor, Nevada Weekly, Nov. 17, 1993.) I’m the worst because I’m not a sentimental person. I’m mostly embarrassed or humbled when I think of myself in context of what this newspaper has done and has been in this community. In many ways, this newspaper caused the Reno that exists today. The biggest battles we fought, we lost. The two biggest were our efforts to save the Mapes Hotel and against the train trench. I can think of a hundred little battles we won, but the Mapes and the train trench still sting because, after all these years, I still believe we were right. But we helped build this community over the last 21 years—particularly the arts community—in many ways. We helped build it by covering it, by making it real with our ink and our efforts. There was one theater troupe in Reno when we started. There was no Artown. Burning Man was a couple hundred San Francisco people in the desert. The only city arts organization was Sierra Arts. I can’t remember more than two or three places that had regular local live music. So, congratulations to us. Still vibrant, still shaking things up. We’re 21, feel free to buy us a cocktail next time you see us out. To celebrate our local impact—and ourselves—this year, we’re making our local concert series truly local. For the first time ever, all the bands in Rollin’ on the River are going to be local. It’s going to be awesome. (For details, check out the ad on page 21.) This seems to me to be another great chance to buy drinks for all the people who’ve been associated with this paper for 21 years. I think there’s about five of us. Every week, I think, “One of these weeks will be my last.” Man, 21 years seems like both forever ago and yesterday.

In 2015 the Nevada Legislature thankfully made some changes to the Public Employee Retirement System (PERS). Unfortunately, other storm clouds are on the horizon for current pensions of retired Nevada employees. Cases in point: 1.) The funding ratio of PERS in year 2000 was over 84 percent. Currently, it is under 72 percent. That means if all the systems benefits came due today, PERS would only be able to pay 72 cents on the dollar! 2.) In the 1990s it took around 19.5 percent of one’s salary to keep PERS solvent. Each employer and employee now contributes 28 percent of the employee’s salary to the fund each year. 3.) The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 5, 2015 had an article on why several states had come to a logical conclusion—that to project eight percent return or more on the pensioners’ money is not realistic. Unfortunately Nevada did not heed this advice and still claims it can earn 8 percent a year. From Jan. 1, 2006 to Feb. 1, 2016 (over 10 years) PERS has had a rate of return of only about 6 percent for its pensioners! Timothy Bauer Reno

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Project this Re “Money talkers” (Let freedom ring, Jan.28): Brendan Trainor’s Jan. 28 column contains a major mistake regarding population projections. Trainor states that “Asian-Americans will supplant Latinos and African-Americans as the largest minority in the U.S. by 2050.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2050, the U.S. will be composed of the following: White (non-Hispanic) 46.3 percent, Hispanic 30.2 percent, Black 13 percent, Asian 7.8 percent, American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2percent, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander 0.3 percent. Any projections 34 years into

the future may be incorrect based on changes in immigration laws, or events such as wars that drive residents to leave a country, etc. But it seems highly unlikely that Asians will surge past blacks or Hispanics in the next few decades. Phillip Kaiser Reno

New math Re “The Real You” (cover story, Feb. 4): My mind was drawn to the highlighted box on page 15: “Finding out I am one-tenth Japanese…” is just not possible. Unless there is some form of human procreation that I am not aware of, one cannot be one-tenth in ancestry. Because of the pairing of human DNA, the denominator of the fraction must be a power of two: 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. The RN&R, usually good in editorial proofing, may be a victim of today’s widespread mathematical innumeracy. David Von Seggern Reno

Living in the past Re “Rock’n Caucus” (cover story, Jan 28): Kudos to Dennis Myers for this timely and wonderfully informative feature presentation that lucidly recounted and put into context not only Nevada’s history with its primaries and caucuses, but also that history in relation to those of the other states, in a way that I found truly remarkable. Myers brought the past into the present by thoughtfully highlighting the course of this development and pointing to the competing interests between (and within) the national political parties that drove the process. As an inveterate newspaperreader of over 60 years, I honestly don’t recall reading a more measured, well-developed, and readable newspaper account on any Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Drivers Tracy Breeden, Alex Barskyy, Denise Cairns, Steve Finlayson, Debbie Frenzi, Vicki Jewell, Marty Troye, Warren Tucker, Gary White, Joseph White, Margaret Underwood

Ashley Hennefer, Shelia Leslie, Eric Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Brendan Trainor, Kris Vagner, Bruce Van Dyke, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live. Editor-at-Large/Publisher D. Brian Burghart Associate Editor Brad Bynum News Editor Dennis Myers Special Projects Editor Jeri Chadwell-Singley Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Contributors Amy Alkon, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Bob Grimm,

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want to go to war. More important to have is a great heart, which, by the way, my brother also has. Really glad to see Scalia go. He will be remembered for the legal maneuver that stopped the Florida recount and put his friends, George and Dick in the White House, a move that has cost us dearly and for which we are still paying. And now the Senate Republicans want to wait a whole year to replace him? Does that show respect for the Constitution? Unbelievable. We need to kick these guys out come November. Jon Obester Reno

comparable topic. It seemed as if every time something seemingly confusing arose, Myers was beforehand with his readers, being very quick to dispel the mystery. I would, however, be much less complimentary towards the proof-readers and editors who ran this story, listing the dates of the Democratic and Republican caucuses as Jan. 20 and Jan. 23 respectively, rather than the correct dates of Feb. 20 and Feb. 23. Robert Palgon Sparks Dennis Myers replies: The same person who was responsible for the good parts of the story was also responsible for the error. I made the mistake in writing and then we all missed it in proof.

Correction Re “Cut the county sales tax” (editorial, Feb. 11): We reported that the Public Schools Overcrowding and Repair Needs Committee is a body of the Washoe County School District. It is not. The committee’s agendas are posted on the school district website because the district is required by statute to provide administrative support for it.

STAR wars I am so tired of hearing what a “great legal mind” Antonin Scalia had. My brother has a “great legal mind.” In fact, he should have been a lawyer because he can rationalize and justify anything. Just the kind of person to have on your side if you

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Tell me about your 21st Birthday Asked at Chapel Tavern, 1099 S. Virginia St. Joe Belanger Bar manager

So, I was working road construction in Yerington, Nevada for Road and Highway Builders, and we got off work at like 10:30 or 11 at night and all the bars were closed, so we went into one of the downtown casinos. … We met one of the locals, and he happened to own like the only bar on the strip at the time. He took us down there, and opened up the doors for us and let us go in there and celebrate my 21st. River Fruhwirth Hair stylist

I was trying to think of one bar around town that didn’t know me, so I could have a proper 21st birthday and not lie about, so I ended up at Shooters until 5 a.m., then walked over to 5 Star, had my first dance on the stripper pole, and that was that night. I think I walked home at like noon.

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The caucuses Last week we received a couple of queries from presidential campaigns on whether or not we would endorse before the Nevada caucuses. It’s nice to feel appreciated. We considered not commenting at all on the Republican caucuses, for two reasons. One is that the Nevada GOP seems determined to force the Republican National Committee to strip Nevada of its early berth in the presidential race. The other is that if the national Republican Party can’t treat the presidential race seriously, why should we? So here’s our comment: Fun’s fun. We’ve all had a good laugh. Now would you please offer up some candidates for president? As for the Democratic side, we won’t endorse. It is difficult to make a choice when only one candidate can be pinned down. Our first priority is always the economy, and, instead of endorsing, we want to offer advice to caucus goers: Be very aware of the need to repair this nation’s top heavy economy and be aware of the Democratic Party’s culpability. One Nevada Democratic Party caucus ad says “Democrats will fight the growing income inequality in our country.” If true, it’s about time. Up to now, Democratic leaders have been part of the problem. In 1976, the most conservative Democrat since Wilson was elected president with a Democratic House and Senate. When the dust settled on Jimmy Carter’s four years, we learned that the gap between rich and poor had widened. (See “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2003). In 1992, a corporate Democrat scraped through to win the presidency, initially with Democratic majorities in both houses. When his eight-year tenure was over, the gap between rich and poor had widened. (See Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007, Congressional Budget Office, October 2011.) OPINION

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So, my 21st birthday, I was out of town at my aunt’s house. I’m a Sept. 4 baby, so I am Labor Day, a lot of the times. That particular year, on my 21st birthday, it happened to be Labor Day. So, I ended up in a parade, throwing candy. Very boring compared to the many other parties I’d had before that time. It was what it was. It was fun.

In the sixth year of Barack Obama’s presidency—he had big Democratic congressional majorities—we learned that the gap between rich and poor had hit a 30-year high (“America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is widest on record,” Pew Research Center, Dec. 17, 2014). Thus, politics as usual is part of the problem. The uncertainty created by Hillary Clinton’s shifts make it impossible to know where she stands on the economy. We have become so accustomed to political analysts talking about candidates “moving to the right” or “moving to the left” that we forget that’s not the way democracy is supposed to work. While candidates are expected to change their minds based on changed circumstances or new information, there should be some unchanging principles they use to guide them. We have a very good idea what Bernie Sanders’s economic policies will be as president. Neither we or anyone else know what Clinton’s program will be as president because while she is a candidate that program is a moving target. Sanders may have changed issue stands as he learned more, but there are fixed stars in his universe. Clinton, however, does not change positions in response to new information—she has never admitted a mistake in voting for war in Iraq—but only as a result of political reverses. She moved left as her standing in this race shrank and is now becoming an economic populist. But will she be one after taking office, when her political future is no longer threatened? Caucus goers should use great care in making their choices. Now is your chance to hold party leaders accountable. You won’t be able to when one of them is in office. Ω |

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Clinton for president Endorsements in big races don’t carry much weight in politics these days as the electorate has been reduced to those who still believe their vote matters, and they are fully capable of making up their own minds. Nevertheless, I’ve been asked frequently by friends, family and neighbors about my by reasons for supporting Hillary Clinton Sheila Leslie in our caucus this Saturday, and I’m happy to oblige. Twitter wars about who is the “real” progressive in the Democratic primary hold no appeal for me. I don’t get diverted by ruthless outrage over coin tosses in the Iowa caucus or misleading information distributed by campaign staff. I’m also not much interested in the daily glossy mailers, full of lofty language designed to appeal to my progressive heart. And I’ll definitely discount this week’s last minute visits and phone calls to sway me to another candidate. I made up my mind a long time ago. Although I like much of the populist message Bernie Sanders is promoting, he has no realistic plan

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to achieve any of it. While I support universal health care, the battle over the Affordable Care Act revealed the strength of the prescription drug companies and the various factions of the health care industry. We’re not going to get universal health care until we get rid of the dark money in political campaigns. We can’t do that without changing the orientation of the Supreme Court. Let’s face reality. The Revolution is not arriving this year or anytime soon. Half the country refuses to acknowledge the science of climate change and our complicity in subsidizing energy policies that complicate a solution. They seem just as determined to deny a woman’s right to choose. Their candidates have no plan to replace Obamacare after they repeal it, but that doesn’t seem to bother their voters. They want to privatize prisons and schools, and aren’t all that worried about the environmental destruction of fracking or the nation’s crumbling infrastructure that poisoned the children of Flint.

Remember, they want their country “back.” These forces, evil as they seem to those of the progressive persuasion, are not going to elect a democratic socialist, especially one with no record of success despite his decades in the Senate. The anti-intellectual, procorporate interests of the right have convinced half our country of another vision, and they righteously defend it. There’s very little middle ground in a political environment that rewards combat over compromise. But given the right circumstances—i.e., Donald Trump as the Republican nominee— these voters might be swayed to vote for Hillary Clinton. We can’t risk a Revolution in the form of a victory for Trump or Cruz or Rubio. We can’t allow far-right extremists to fill vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, leading us dramatically backwards in reproductive rights, voting rights, environmental standards, and labor law. Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, the depth of decades

of experience, and the ability to withstand the withering attacks of the national campaign conducted under the spotlight of fake news outlets searching for salacious scandals. Her calm, steady performances during the Benghazi hearings and presidential debates have been impressive. She is a natural collaborator who knows how government succeeds and how it fails and she has the political relationships to move progressive issues to the next level. Clinton has many detailed policy plans, including an approach to the heroin epidemic that will work. When other candidates are challenged they revert to robotic talking points while she delivers complex but understandable answers. Clinton has devoted her life to making sure the voices of women, children, and the poor are heard. She was an effective senator and a stellar secretary of state. Despite the dismissive and mocking attitudes of those who have constantly undermined her efforts, she has persevered. I’m with her. Ω

For information on the Democratic caucuses go to http://nvdems. com/caucus/express/

The Republican caucuses On February 23, Nevada Republicans will caucus to name their preferred candidates for president. Donald Trump is a force of nature and ego that has dominated this Republican election cycle. Jeffersonians can work with Jacksonians like Trump, by Brendan in fact must do so, to temper Trainor the Jacksonian impulse to rash action. Without Jeffersonian Sen. Rand Paul in the New Hampshire debate, the Donald displayed utter contempt for civil liberties. We like Trump when he says he will force other nations to pay for their own defense, and will work with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We really don’t know what a President Trump’s nationalistic foreign policy would be. Whatever, we will all be “winners.” We can say that Trump will alienate Hispanic voters because they do not like constant talk of deportations. President Jackson left the federal government debt free, but Trump contradicts himself about reining in spending. His

support for retaliatory tariffs is not free market. Neither is his love of eminent domain. His unconditional support for federal entitlements is typically Jacksonian. It is assumed he is a moderate on social issues, like gay marriage. Fresh from victory in New Hampshire, he is the front runner in Nevada. Will liberty voters caucus for him? Sen. Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses. He wants to abolish entire federal agencies. He needs to show how his radicalism promises to deliver more health care and a higher standard of living than Democrat Bernie Sanders’ socialized medicine and minimum wage increases can do. His flat tax pitch sounds like a used car salesman: “OK, what will it take for me to get you to like the income tax?” I would rather see serious talk of reining in the Internal Revenue Service than loose talk of abolishing it. Cruz often seems like the Goldilocks candidate of the right, tasting his political porridge to

be sure its not too hot and not too cold, while always claiming to be the only true conservative. Cruz was recently awarded a large check from Las Vegas kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. If Cruz is elected, Israel will have a special friend in the White House. She needs all she can find. When Cruz criticizes neocon regime change, liberty voters like him. When he talks of carpet bombing and waterboarding, we see another neocon devil. While claiming to be a foe of crony capitalism, he has close ties to banking giant Goldman Sachs. Ask him sometime which big bank’s lawyer he will make secretary of the treasury. He is anti-immigration reform, rabidly anti gay marriage, and has waffled on criminal justice reform. Thankfully, he says he will leave marijuana drug policy to the states, but not hard drugs. For that problem he believes building a border wall is the solution. Gee, wonder why no one thought of that before? If it wasn’t

for the evil Mexicans, no one would want heroin, right? Sen. Marco Rubio promises to be another George W. Bush, offering more regime change, confrontations with Russia, retrenchment on Cuba, hatred of Iran, warrant-less snooping, etc. He wants taxpayers to spend another trillion on defense. Is everyone our enemy? Gov. Chris Christy popped the boy’s bubble in the New Hampshire debate. Christy exposed Sen. Rubio as robotic and inexperienced with too few accomplishments. It was a kamikaze attack for Christy, however. Of the establishment governors, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is now the front runner. He is the best choice for liberty voters who are not for Trump or Cruz. He looks like a closet realist, a pragmatist not an ideologue. I hope he stays in the race longer. Ω

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Deputies, guards back gun checks An organization of police, prison guards, and other law enforcement officers have endorsed a ballot measure requiring criminal background checks for private gun sales, except in the cases of transfers among family members or temporary loans of weapons for hunting or self defense. “The bottom line is criminals must be prevented from acquiring guns in simple, ‘no questions asked’ transactions,” said Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers Executive Director Richard McCann in a prepared statement. “While not an absolute answer to this crisis, this initiative is a further step that must be taken to counter gun violence in this state and in our nation.” The initiative is one of a dozen state initiative petitions funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It qualified for the Nevada ballot with 242 percent of the needed 102,000 signatures.

Delicate flower offended With any luck, Elon Musk’s cars have thicker skins than he does. After he paid a $5,000 deposit on a Tesla Model X, Californian Stewart Alsop wrote an open letter of complaint about the shoddy launch event for the car. Alsop said the event began just under two hours late, was overcrowded with 3,000 people, and oversold the safety features to an audience of people who had already ordered the cars. “[I]t would still be nice if you showed some class and apologised to the people who believe in this product,” Alsop wrote. So Musk cancelled Alsop’s order—for a car that is now three years overdue. When the story hit the headlines, the super-rude exec posted, “Must be a slow news day if denying service to a super rude customer gets this much attention.” Alsop: “When I wrote a blog post about my BMW X1 called ‘My Car Makes Me Feel Stoopid’, the CEO of BMW didn’t take the car back.”

Bundy jailed Scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy last week was arrested on an array of charges stemming from the April/May 2014 standoff at Bundy’s Clark County ranch. Bundy, 69, was arrested at Portland International Airport after deplaning on his way to visit his jailed son Ammon, arrested in a separate dispute. The elder Bundy is charged with assault on a federal officer, weapon use an possession, extortion to interfere with commerce and aiding and abetting, obstruction and conspiracy, which carry the possibility of 40 years in prison and more than $1 million in fines. The 2014 standoff came after Bundy had grazed his cattle on the public’s lands without pay fees for two decades, running up a bill of unpaid fees of more than a million dollars. No current figure is available for how much he now owes. The Bureau of Land Management, which had failed to act to halt the illegal grazing all those years, finally started a roundup of the cattle that were being grazed illegally. Anti-government activists, many arms, turned the dispute into a convention and traveled to the site where it turned into a long standoff. The BLM finally withdrew to avoid violence.

Crunch time Democrats run hard in West as GOP candidates mostly stay East With Nevada and six Southern presidential nominating contests approaching, Hillary Clinton and Bernie by Sanders shifted after Iowa and New Dennis Myers Hampshire to targeting minorities, which were in small numbers in the first two contests. In Nevada, besides a large Latino bloc, there is also the high jobless rate of 6.5 percent and enduring foreclosures. On the Republican side, the caucuses were down in the grass on the radar screen as a result of the state GOP’s decision to push its date back from Feb. 20 (third in the nation) to Feb. 23 (fifth in the nation).

Some reporters were at a loss without polls.

Family Feud II On Dec. 22, Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison filed a lawsuit seeking expedited court review of lawsuits that sought to stop a new state program that pays parents to take their children out of public schools. His fellow Republicans—State Treasurer Dan Schwartz, who administers the program, and Attorney General Adam Laxalt— threw fits over what they considered Hutchison’s interference. Laxalt called Hutchison ethically challenged and went to court to quash his suit. Schwartz said he was “baffled” by Hutchison’s “side trip to nowhere.” This month, after the program was enjoined, Laxalt and Schwartz demanded expedited court review of the case. The Nevada Supreme Court granted it.

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For information on the Democratic caucuses go to http://NvDems.com/ caucus/express/ For information on the Republican caucuses go to www. NevadaGOPCaucus.org

For the second time, Clinton was scrambling to hold together a presidential campaign that she had entered as frontrunner but then had seen unravel. She kept increasing her time in Nevada. This week she canceled a trip to Florida to stay and campaign in Reno, Elko and elsewhere. She naturally spent most of her time in Clark County, where votes are packed. To keep up with Sanders, who was outspending her

two to one, she started tapping a political action committee fund that was supposed to be reserved for her general election campaign. Clinton seemed to be feeling the heat of Sanders’s dogged pursuit and attempted to preempt his issues, in part by trying to outdo him in populist rhetoric in the state which suffered the highest foreclosure rate in the nation: “I’ve taken on Wall Street before and I’ll do it again.” Clinton’s claim to the women’s vote was undercut by National Nurses United—the nursing profession is 91 percent female, according to census figures—which backed up its endorsement of Sanders with mailings in Nevada, canvassings in several communities, and a Las Vegas rally. In fact, Sanders’s union support came in for criticism from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, now under Sheldon Adelson management: “Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is very fond of telling voters that he is the only Democratic candidate for president who doesn’t have a super PAC, and that he’s ‘going to prove the experts wrong’ by winning the election without one. But Sen. Sanders is not counting contributions from labor unions. ... SEIU, NEA, Communications Workers of America, National League of Postmasters, National Nurses United and many other unions among his biggest supporters.” Well, not many others—most union support still goes to Clinton.

Reporters and political volunteers poured into the state as it became clear Sanders was making a serious run at Clinton in what has been called a stronghold for her. For Sanders, there was nothing to lose by spending his entire campaign treasury in Nevada if necessary, because there was nothing ahead after Nevada but rough waters, including five Southern or border states on March 1. His best chance for a win after New Hampshire was Nevada. It was also the best place to keep his momentum going. For every six television spots Clinton ran, Sanders ran ten. Republican spots trailed by comparison. The Democratic caucuses were an economic bonanza for the state, as the airwaves filled up with millions of dollars worth of broadcast commercials. The Republican caucuses were less so. By pushing their caucuses back three days, Nevada Republicans not only reduced the state’s influence in the presidential race, they also reduced the bump the state’s economy received. It made South Carolina the first post-New Hampshire GOP contest, giving that state 11 days of media buys. The original date would have made Nevada a higher priority. The full force of Republican advertising will come only after South Carolina, giving Nevada the full benefit of only two days of buys. There was one journalism benefit in Nevada. There were no polls during most of the final surge, freeing reporters to cover more productive topics. That lack seemed to confound some national reporters. Huffington Post: “Nevada’s Democratic caucuses are only a week away, but it’s really unclear who has an advantage ... given how little polling has been done in the state.” Business Insider: “But with about a week to go before the crucial Nevada caucuses—seen by some Clinton allies as the first of her ‘firewall’ states that could stop Sanders’ surge—there’s almost no recent public information gauging how the last four months of the race have affected Nevada voters.” One poll came out, but it was commissioned by Washington Free Beacon and done by TargetPoint. Both entities are far right and so were deemphasized by most news coverage. The Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill reported, “The Free Beacon is a conservative publication seen as antagonistic toward Clinton. And TargetPoint is ‘a conservative firm stocked with Republican operatives,’

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according to Slate.” The poll showed a virtual tie. There was another reporting option—to concentrate on telling Nevadans about the candidates’ positions on Western issues, such as climate change and the drought across the West or the high foreclosure rate and the candidates’ economic programs. But few reporters took advantage of it, preferring to stay with political chit-chat. (Reuters was one of the few news entities that devoted one entire article to the Nevada foreclosure rate.) Still, getting to see the candidates at close range let some everyday Nevadans talk issues with them. At a Feb. 13 conference at the University of Nevada, Reno sponsored by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and other groups that attracted hundreds of people, Sanders and Clinton surrogate Cory Booker answered direct queries from pre-selected questioners such as union leaders and tribal members on topics that ran the gamut. Sanders spoke emotionally when asked about Native American problems, including suicide. For some Democrats who recalled Robert Kennedy making an issue in a presidential campaign 48 years ago of the high rate of suicide among young tribal members, it may not only have caused a pang but may have fostered anger that the matter is still an issue. Sanders said, “There is no excuse for not only copper companies coming in trying to take over Native American lands and poison that land, but there is no excuse that we have rates of unemployment, of suicide, of alcoholism which is unparalleled in America. … So, yes, I will stand with you and do everything that I can to bring dignity and economic opportunity to those people who do not have it today.” Booker made barn-burning comments that got the crowd rocking and at one point touched on the issue of alternative energy that has been brought to the fore by Nevada’s net metering dispute. “This idea that the private market will take care of everything is one of the perversions [of the political process],” he said. “We need to start doing what our [foreign] competitors are doing and investing in industries like those new energy industries. Right now more people are employed by solar than are employed by coal. But yet, where are all the tax breaks going? They’re going to old energy.” Sanders: “I believe we need to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And in that regard I have introduced legislation which would end the extraction of fossil fuels from publicly owned lands.” But even as her surrogate was arguing that she would lead the nation away from old fashioned energy practices, Clinton said in a debate with Sanders on Feb. 11 that she would keep the nation in the kind |

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is nothing in broadcast law that requires it, and no television station in the nation could be found that has ever blacked out a debate for such a reason before. Barbano queried Public Broadcasting System ombudsman Michael Getler about the Reno situation but no response had been posted at press time. The caucuses are plagued by rumors that Nevada will be stripped of the influential early berth it now enjoys, particularly on the Republican side. The state GOP tried in the 2015 Nevada Legislature to kill the caucuses and shift to a presidential primary, which also would have lost the early berth for Nevada. But U.S. Sen. Harry Reid outmaneuvered the Republicans and got their primary legislation killed. They responded by moving the date of their caucuses so they were not held the same day as the Democrats. Barbano wrote in his column this week, “This month may bring the last Nevada caucuses. If you want to have an outsized impact nationally, this is your chance, perhaps for the last time in your life.” Ω

Sen. Cory Booker, a Hillary Clinton surrogate, poses with Nevada union leader Todd Koch at the UNR gathering. An interview with Koch can be read on page 35.

of health care system developed in the World War II era while Sanders argued for the more common single-payer system used in most of the world. “The last thing we need is to throw our country into a contentious debate about health care again,” Clinton said. “And we are not England. We are not France. We inherited a system that was set up during World War II—170 million Americans get health insurance right now through their employers.” Las Vegas columnist Steve Sebelius wrote, “She’s right: Health insurance benefits were created to get around wartime wage caps, a way of competing for workers without raising pay. But we won the war. We defeated the Axis powers. Wage caps are no longer the law. And the president who was in office for most of that conflict—Franklin Delano Roosevelt—believed strongly that Americans should have health care as a matter of right. ... For Clinton, the answer isn’t to replicate the system found in Canada, Great Britain or France, but seemingly to build on the shaky foundation of American for-profit, insurance company-run health care.” But while a few hundred people may have heard the Sanders/Booker discussions of issues and other direct exchanges around the state, some Nevadans who depend on over-the-air television did not get to see that Clinton/Sanders debate. Its broadcast was suppressed in northern Nevada by KNPB seven days before the caucuses. About a fifth of households lack cable. When the debate failed to appear on KNPB, Sparks Tribune columnist Andrew Barbano queried president Kurt Mische, who replied: “Unfortunately, PBS was not able to secure a debate between the Republican presidential candidates. We cannot, in good conscience, provide coverage of a debate for one party without a debate being scheduled for the other.” The notion of equal time is usually applied to a single race at a time. The |

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Republican and Democratic candidates are not yet running for president, and are in separate races. They are running for their parties’ nominations for president. Thus, the Republican race is a different race than the Democratic race. Equal time is satisfied by including all the Democratic candidates in the Democratic debate. Mische’s stance is equivalent to withholding a debate in a Republican primary for governor if no debate in the Democratic primary for governor will be held. The notion that Republicans should be given equal time in a Democratic race, or vice-versa, is a novel one. There

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Will Adler of the Nevada Medical Marijuana Association spoke before the Washoe County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 9.

A hazy future Recreational marijuana for Washoe County? Recreational use of marijuana is not yet legal in the state of Nevada, but the Washoe County Board of Commissioners is considering early steps toward regulating what may come. At a Feb. 9 meeting, the board listened to concerns from by Kelsey members of the public on proposed changes to existing medical marijuana Fitzgerald regulations, and whether the use of recreational marijuana should be allowed in the county at all if legalized at the state level next November. Medical marijuana use was approved by Nevada’s voters in 2000, and medical marijuana establishments such as dispensaries, cultivation centers, production facilities and laboratories were approved by Senate Bill 374 in 2013. Although these decisions made medical use of the drug legal in Nevada, it is still illegal at a federal level, and local jurisdictions were given the option of deciding whether or not to participate. A ballot measure legalizing recreational use of marijuana in Nevada goes before voters in November, but if passed, it is currently unclear whether local jurisdictions will again have the opportunity to opt-out. Up for discussion at the commission meeting was whether to ban recreational marijuana use in Washoe County in advance of this ballot measure. Several commissioners felt that it was too early to be making such decisions. “I do urge this board to tread lightly until we do see what this ballot question says,” cautioned commission chair Kitty Jung. Options presented to the board by assistant county manager Kevin Schiller included disallowing use of recreational marijuana in unincorporated areas of Washoe County, making recreational use illegal in all of Washoe County, disallowing sales of recreational marijuana from medical marijuana dispensaries, or taking no action until after hearing from voters in November. To read the Feb. 9 staff report on No language is being prepared for making it legal. proposed changes to “I am not opposed to that concept of medical marijuana at all,” said marijuana regulations Commissioner Marsha Berkbigler. “I am, however, opposed to recreational in Washoe County: marijuana. It would be my personal desire to completely ban it in Washoe http://tinyurl.com/ County. However, I don’t know that I would have the votes on this commitjm7uv26 tee to do that.” In lieu of a preemptive ban, Berkbigler proposed changes to existing regulations so that no new marijuana facilities could be placed in residential areas, and that no recreational marijuana be sold from approved medical marijuana dispensaries without a full public hearing before the board. Other concerns discussed by the Board regarding recreational marijuana establishments included potential for high vehicle traffic around dispensaries, the need to coordinate with law enforcement on how to approach public safety issues, the need to increase the required distance between new marijuana facilities and schools, and the need for more impact studies. The Board directed staff to draft requirements for how to best regulate the possibility of marijuana sales in and around residential areas, and to require a full public hearing before allowing sales of recreational marijuana from medical marijuana facilities, if recreational use is approved by voters in 2016. They also voted to raise business license fees for marijuana establishments. As for a ban on recreational marijuana use in Washoe County, the Board took no action. Ω

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makes little sense, on paper, for Reno to have an alternative weekly newspaper. Alt weeklies, as they are affectionately known, have typically been influential, countercultural niche papers that catered to a small but loyal segment of readers that lived in big cities. Yet in the winter of 1993, three journalists—Mike Norris, Bill Martin and Larry Henry—decided to launch Nevada Weekly. Norris, a former investigative and political reporter at the Reno Gazette-Journal explained why he helped found the paper. “Our role at Nevada Weekly, as I saw it, was to offer a sound journalistic alternative to mainstream media, which, simply put, were not doing their jobs.”

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LocaL is a core vaLue National and international news stories attract a wider readership—and help sell to a broader range of advertisers—which is why the content of daily newspapers and news websites is globally focused. While the Reno News & Review runs only 31 pages some weeks, it fills each of those with stories that most affect its local readers. Burghart used to keep a motto on the wall of his office that read: “Local is a core value.” “Here’s where I’ll give the News & Review credit,” said Dave Aiazzi, former Reno city councilmember and Washoe County School Board member. “They’ll let their reporters roam to write a story.” Aiazzi said he appreciates the stories that have been thoroughly researched and fleshed out, though he doesn’t feel that the

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Many different voices While the vocabulary of certain Reno News & Review articles—even some not written by Bynum—could definitely be described as “profane,” the reporting of the News & Review is often profane in the true sense of the word—treating certain topics irreverently. And this often means tearing down icons and institutions favored by local readers. Take, for example, Bynum’s 2007 article “Ten Things I Hate About Burning Man” that goodnaturedly criticized some of the less appealing experiences on the playa, including the portable bathrooms, bicycle thieves and dust storms. It was not the most popular article ever to grace the News & Review, and, seven years later, still draws the ire of some

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There are many different voices on the news and editorial staff as well. This allows them to combine the sometimes irreverent stories on local music, bars and off-beat entertainment with hard-hitting investigative journalism dedicated to keeping politicians and other influential Renoites honest. “You’re not going to find a better watchdog than Dennis Myers,” said Bynum, a frequent champion of up-and-coming bands and local entertainers, “and you won’t find a better flufferdog than me.” The full-time writing staff is often very critical of one another’s work, according to special projects editor Jeri Chadwell-Singley. “It’s very relentlessly honest out of necessity. We make sure everyone else’s work is as good as it can be.” The editors have developed a system of respectful but critical checks and balances.

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Belle”) and was soon a contributor for Forbes and a reporter at Fortune Magazine. She was most recently the Reno Gazette-Journal’s Sparks Watchdog reporter. Weekly papers tend to adapt to the culture of their communities, but almost all serve their readers in similar ways. Burghart points out that in tumultuous economic times, “We are small enough that we can get tossed around pretty easily. I don’t think the things that fuel a digital news outlet are the same things that fuel a print news outlet. For us, we only do local, so when people come to us, we’re only doing local advertisers. It has an impact on whether those advertisers get a result on their advertising.” This dedication to community is just one of six traits listed by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, of which this paper is a member, commonly shared by alt weeklies in their mission to serve their unique, diverse, and changing communities.

would-be Burners. “I still get letters about that article,” said Bynum. The informality of the Reno News & Review’s voice is reflective of its alt weekly beginnings. Unlike the formal distinction formed between a daily newspaper and its readers, the News & Review blurs the lines between reader and writer. Local readers are frequent contributors, not only as writers and photographers, but also as advertisers, and as unique voices in the letters to the editor and in the “Streetalk” column. Likewise, Reno News & Review contributors, reporters, editors and even the subjects of its stories, are frequently readers, and some of them have been for decades.

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Now, 23 years later, you hold this week’s copy of its successor in your hand. (Nevada Weekly was purchased outright by California-based News & Review in 1995.) Somehow, through multiple recessions, the rise of the internet, and a changing Reno readership, the News & Review has ridden the endless boom and bust cycles of Northern Nevada for the past two decades. “We’re a very small market for an alt weekly,” said Reno News & Review publisher and editor D. Brian Burghart. Typically, these papers trend far left on the political spectrum as they represent only a small segment of much larger communities. But Reno’s not big enough for a paper that caters only to a liberal fringe. “Here, we had to go more toward the middle,” said Burghart. “In some ways, we represent the far right and the far left. In other ways we represent the middle in different sections of the paper.” It hasn’t always been easy. Free papers used to be a hotbed of classified advertising for everything from used furniture to anonymous hook-ups—a market taken over by Craigslist and other online matchmakers of buyers and sellers. But the familiar masthead and red wire racks of the Reno News & Review are still sought out every Thursday in bars and coffee houses all over town. According to Reynolds Chair of Business Journalism Alan Deutschman at the University of Nevada, Reno, some of the nation’s best reporting has been done by alternative weekly newspapers, which often become training grounds for young journalists. The News & Review has been a springboard for local journalists who have subsequently reached a national audience. UNR journalism alumna Chanelle Bessette was hired to be the conservative opinion writer for the Reno News & Review in 2012 (“Liberty

stories about him were always as comprehensive. Aiazzi said that in the early days of the paper, he felt the coverage of certain issues like the ReTRAC project was “a little petty,” though he added, “later on I thought it got to be a lot more balanced.” One of the challenges of local political coverage in Reno is that reporters and their subjects can end up in the same bar. It is, after all, a small city. While Burghart and Aiazzi don’t always agree on political issues, they share a mutual personal respect. And whatever feeling Aiazzi, a Sparks native, has about the hard news, he values the local cultural coverage in the paper. “The News & Review is the number one spot to find arts information,” said Aiazzi. “They always seem to have local bands and local artists.” Former News & Review Editor Eric Espe feels that the paper’s coverage of the local arts and culture scene helped redefine Reno. “There was no publication covering the arts in Reno, and we were embraced by the community for doing that,” said Espe. “That was a big shift, and it probably changed the town.” News & Review associate editor—and former arts and culture editor—Brad Bynum is adamant that the focus remains intensely local. “I think the arts are super important to how we view ourselves as a community, but I think it’s more important how we view ourselves locally than it is as far as our national branding recognition, because I could give a fuck about that,” said Bynum. “As far as the Reno News & Review goes, we’re not writing for those people. We’re writing for the people we see around town.”

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“We argue over the way things are written, the content, and the stories we choose,” said Chadwell-Singley. The dedication to putting out the best product every week extends far beyond the newsroom. While there is a clear physical and metaphorical space between the advertising and the news staff at Reno News & Review headquarters—the advertising sales staff and the news staff are on opposite ends of a long hallway—Chadwell-Singley notes how important the advertising element is to the paper. “We have an ad team that works their asses off. They make sure we can pay the printer, and we make sure there are people reading the paper.”

One of the most important purviews of the Reno News & Review is to find and showcase a broad range of local voices.

Points of view Open a daily newspaper and take note of the voice and persona of a typical news reporter. By design, that voice is often distant—making note of facts and important details to convey what happened, in the most efficient way possible. (Newspapers measure space in column inches—the more real estate used by words, the less space available to sell to advertisers.) Read the entirety of a Reno News & Review, and you’ll notice a broad range of voices and styles, and much longer features. This is narrative journalism. It tells a story by moving beyond mere facts, by digging into the “how” and “why” behind these facts. But the reporters are held to the same high standards of confirming details with sources and fact-checking and verifying their reporting. And you’ll also find frequent first-person accounts of reporters documenting personal experiences for their readers. This might be as vulgar and

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pedantic as Brad Bynum peeing in a sensory deprivation tank (“Altered states,” September 23, 2015), Jeri Chadwell-Singley facing her fear of ophidians for “Snake Charmed,” (January 28, 2016), or Deidre Pike writing from the raw emotional state of someone watching in real-time as her own daughter deals with the loss of a close friend who died while deployed to Iraq in the U.S. Army (“An Improvised Explosive Device,” January 5, 2006). One of the drawbacks of publishing on a weekly schedule is the fact that the News & Review cannot deal with breaking stories with the immediacy of other news outlets. Deidre Pike recalled one cover story that was particularly ill-fated in its timing. “I did a story that came out on September 13, 2001, two days after September 11th, that was called ‘Burning Ban,’” said Pike. The story was about law enforcement and Burning Man officials asking a theme camp to remove a large animated plywood sign that depicted anal sex and was deemed too graphic, even by the community standards of the playa. “We were super embarrassed that that was on the cover because September 11th happened on a Tuesday while we were going into production,” Pike said. By then, it was too late to change the cover. So, on the week of September 11, 2001, the Reno News & Review hit the racks with a cover featuring a barely clad body jumping through flames and the text, “Burning Ban: In Black Rock City, almost anything goes— unless you hang something huge and homoerotic on the street corner.” (Editor Jimmy Boegle addressed the national tragedy in his Editor’s Note of that week’s issue and the next edition was devoted to the tragedy.)

A reAl difference One of the most important purviews of the Reno News & Review is to find and showcase a broad range of local voices. Alternative weeklies are unique in the world of journalism in this regard, as they are one of the few media outlets that regularly give the cover to local freelance journalists, giving a broad range of voices the chance to be featured for a week. Cover stories for the News & Review have been written by the likes of Caitlin Thomas, a college sex-advice columnist who wrote about her life as a stripper, and her physical and literary lust for her poetry instructor (“The Naked Truth,” March 29, 2012), and the opinion column has been given over to a wide range of voices and perspectives, including conservative freelance journalist Ken Ward who wrote about his de-facto termination from the Las Vegas Review-Journal in

“A Left Hook in Vegas,” (January 16, 2003). An entire week is given up to young would-be journalists and new voices for the annual Teen Issue. News editor Dennis Myers discussed the importance of freelancers to the News & Review. “When you’ve got a diversity of voices and eyes, you get different information.” He related this to his time spent covering the Nevada Legislature. “When the senate finance committee got its first woman member, they got different information than they got previously. She was asking different questions. … She was asking about programs, and how they affected families and children.” While the News & Review explores a wide range of issues and topics, from the live music scene and local theater productions to family events and the outdoor culture, the paper is also known for publishing dark, often discomfiting stories not seen elsewhere. This long-form journalism allows reporters and readers to explore news events with a depth of empathy and understanding. Steve Timko’s “When Hate Comes to Town” (Sept. 20, 2015) appeared in the wake of the June 17, 2015 shootings in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Timko focused on two hate crimes that occurred in Reno— the murder of Tony Montgomery, a black teenager randomly gunned down by two skinheads on Dec. 9, 1988, and the stabbing of William Metz, a gay man, on a field at Reno High School on July 8, 1994. How does a newspaper help to diversify and change the culture of its town? By becoming part of an ongoing conversation about its own community, which is something the News & Review has striven to do since it was Nevada Weekly. “The belief is that newspapers can make a real difference,” said News & Review president and CEO Jeff VonKaenel, who, with his wife, Deborah Redmond, purchased Nevada Weekly 21 years ago, changing the name to the Reno News & Review. They want Reno “to have a place where different people in the community can have a dialog with each other and develop a consensus on what can be done.” VonKaenel has seen Reno change a lot in the past two decades. The town is much more inclusive and open than when the paper started, and has a much better arts scene. VonKaenel feels that the News & Review has played an important role in those progressive changes.

rePorting for duty “There was a lot of freedom to publish political news and political opinion that just wouldn’t show up in the daily,” said Espe. “and a willingness

to upset people.” Espe noted that the Sacramento News & Review—part of the same three-paper chain as the Reno News & Review and the Chico News & Review—was the last paper to publish Gary Webb, the journalist who left the San Jose Mercury News after his controversial coverage of a story that alleged the CIA had helped start the inner city crack epidemic of the 1980s. The weekly nature of the Reno News & Review provides its staff and freelance writers an almost unheard of luxury in today’s 24-hour, seven-daysa-week news cycle driven by Twitter, video clips, sound bites and online news—the ability to take the time to research, develop and write a nuanced, thoughtful, and often longer story. “Dennis Myers political reporting is so essential,” said Alan Deutschman. “He’s such a good reporter and having that there every week, knowing he’s on the case checking out what’s happening, is so valuable.” The local focus and unconventional nature of many of the stories drives a Thursday morning ritual that’s repeated at the 950 racks located through Reno and Sparks (and as far away as Carson City, Minden, Truckee and Lake Tahoe). No one is more familiar with the rhythm and ritual of Renoites waiting for Thursday’s News & Review than delivery driver Warren Tucker, who runs Route No. 6, including parts of the North Valleys, Sun Valley and McCarran Boulevard. Tucker says its not unheard of for him to find people at the racks on a Thursday, waiting for a bundle of fresh News & Reviews. “As soon as I drop them off, people grab them,” he said. And while there are occasionally a few of the previous week’s issues left on a rack from time to time— Tucker takes any unread issues back to the office to be recycled—Tucker feels there are a lot of good covers, and keeps a copy of each issue for his own archives. The most popular cover Tucker has seen in recent years was the one on Jan. 23, 2014 (“Gone to Pot”) that had a large marijuana leaf prominently featured. “I don’t think I had any returns that week,” he said.

sPeAk truth to Power On the way home from work one day, D. Brian Burghart saw a phalanx of police cars parked at a crime scene. “Either a cop had killed somebody, or somebody had killed a cop,” Burghart said. The scene sparked a curiosity in Burghart about how often there were law enforcementrelated killings in Washoe County. His journalistic instincts soon led him far beyond the local records and he eventually launched the Fatal

Encounters database, a national effort to catalog and document all people killed in interactions with law enforcement nationwide, and one that has sparked similar efforts by the FBI, the Guardian, and the Washington Post, and garnered national attention, including Burghart’s appearance on The Daily Show. While Fatal Encounters is a project that Burghart worked on during his off time, he gives his credentials and experience at the Reno News & Review a great deal of credit for its growing success, and in 2014, the paper ran a series of six related “Fatal Encounters” stories which won several national awards as well as the Nevada Press Association’s “Story of the Year” award. Perhaps one of the most notably effective stories of the last few years was Dennis Myers’ revelation of state legislator Ira Hansen’s inflammatory columns from the archives of the Sparks Daily Tribune (“On Paper,” November 20, 2014). Myers’ investigative reporting—aided by Andrew Barbano’s additional coverage of Hansen’s past racist, sexist, and homophobic comments—led to Hansen subsequently declining the post of speaker of the Nevada Legislature, and Myers and the News & Review received national coverage, including in the New York Times and the Washington Post. “As it stands now, today, the Reno News & Review is the best newspaper in the state of Nevada—and I can defend that ’til the cows come home,” says Sparks Tribune columnist and blogger Barbano, who adds that Dennis Myers is currently the best journalist working in the state of Nevada. “You look at what Dennis and Brian have done in recent years, nobody’s done what they have done, which is why I nominated the News & Review for the NAACP’s highest award last year and was one of the co-presenters of it.” Speaking truth to power is not always about knocking public figures from pedestals however. Myers has proven numerous times that an equally, if not more powerful and exemplary kind of journalism is restorative, rather than destructive in nature. “I’ll tell you the two accomplishments I’m proudest of here,” said Myers. “I was able to give two men back their reputations.” One was a Nevada attorney and candidate for the Nevada Supreme Court named John Mason who had claimed for years that he’d played guitar for the 1960s rock band the Surfaris (“True Story”, August 26, 2004). Mason was plagued by allegations that his rock guitarist story was fabricated, and those charges made it all the way to the front page of the Wall Street Journal. It turns out that Mason was hired as

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an official Surfari for a tour, as the original recording members were high schoolers, and not old enough to go on the road. It was only through careful research—Myers tracked down former producer Donnie Brooks, among others, to verify Mason’s earlier claims—that Myers was able to prove that Mason had indeed been telling the truth. The second man whose reputation Myers restored was Dr. Edward Crippen, the Nevada Health Officer in the late 1960s. Acting on a tip from a retired nurse, Crippen discovered that Fallon’s water supply had high levels of arsenic. The city fathers, concerned about tourism, were furious that Crippen submitted a formal report detailing the tainted water, and they started a chain of events that led to Governor Paul Laxalt convening the Nevada Board of Health to fire Crippen on February 26, 1969. Crippen, who managed to have a successful career elsewhere despite his high-profile termination, had never had his story fully told until Myers related it, nearly 40 years later (“Blinded to Science,” March 1, 2007). “He and his family were literally thrilled,” said Myers. Crippen died about six months after publication of the story vindicating him.

The nexT 10 As a rule, journalists are reluctant to make predictions about the future. It’s not in their nature—they’re used to following leads and tracking down stories to get at the underlying truth in things. The Reno News & Review is in a unique position in Nevada’s changing news landscape. The Reno Gazette-Journal has seen a steady decline in its circulation. (Down from a high of 60,000, the paper now averages under 30,000 on weekdays. The News & Review now averages over 28,000 weekly.) In addition, the Gazette-Journal has been reducing its reporting staff with many long-time reporters having taken buyouts or having been laid off. This means the next few years will be full of opportunities for the Reno News & Review—and many great challenges. Will the News & Review try to fill the news hole left behind by a shrinking daily newspaper? What will the dialog turn to next? Cultural changes? A thriving tech economy? Check back in 10 years when this paper drops into the racks on a Thursday morning and see where the Reno News & Review, and the town that has supported it for 21 years, has ended up. Ω

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his theater guide marks major changes in the Reno arts scene. First, take note of its length. See how it’s longer? Since we began doing these theater guides eight years ago (holy cow, eight years?), we’ve gotten to the point where we can’t fit a season’s worth of theater into a 1,200-word story. There’s just too much theater. Cool, right? So we’ve expanded the guide to include even more about the area’s upcoming theatrical performances, including details about the long-overlooked casinoresort productions. Also, this guide now covers events only through May. There are so many productions taking place in spring and summer that we will add a special summer theater guide to the May roster. Now, let’s see what spring has in store.

Voice for change: Brüka Theatre

schools and libraries throughout spring and summer. On April 15, Brüka laughs in the face of tax day by opening Death Trap, Ira Levin’s hilariously wicked whodunit that will keep audiences laughing for its long six-week run. Brüka’s prom returns May 21 in time for the WillPower 2016 festival celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth and death. This Shakespearean ballthemed prom will be an evening of dancing, fundraising, and pictures, without the high school misery. Brüka’s involvement in WillPower also extends to its April and May performances of Lamb’s Tales, a series of family-friendly performances of Shakespearean short stories written by Charles and Mary Lamb in easierto-understand-than-Shakespearean English, performed as readers’ theater. Tickets and information: www.bruka.org

Immediately, it’s clear that as deep political and social divides emerge in this election year, theater companies are taking the opportunity to tell stories of people who have spoken their truth, despite the price. Brüka Theatre has chosen “Raise Your Voice” as this season’s theme and opened 2016 with the epitomizing show: The Diary of Anne Frank, with an extended run that ends Feb. 19. Running March 4-20 is Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, about a university student who submits to making radical changes to his own appearance and lifestyle to please his latest love interest, a woman with her own twisted agenda. On March 12, Brüka opens its annual Theater for Children with Snow-White and Rose-Red, a heartwarming tale about two girls who repeatedly show kindness and are rewarded for it. The play will also be part of the Pioneer Youth Program and will tour | MUSICBEAT

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In another’s shoes: TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada In its 10th anniversary season, TheatreWorks is not only exploring the idea of speaking out but also that of cultural identity. First, there is perhaps no other story more widely known for both than Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which TWNN will present March 25-April 3. Featured during the run will be an expert-led talk back and discussion about tolerance (details yet to be released). In late May comes Walk Two Moons, based on the Newbery Medal-winning novel for young people by Sharon Creech. Complementing the ideas in Mockingbird, this is a story about grief, love, death, cultural identity, and how you can’t judge a man until you’ve “walked two moons” in his moccasins. Tickets and information: www.twnn.org

Better life and death: UNR Department of Theatre and Dance The university’s first production of the year is a seminal piece for the company and one of the most important of the 20th century—Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, about a black family facing racial discrimination in an allwhite Chicago suburb. It’s the company’s first time with a primarily African-American cast, doing a play that is not known to have been produced in Reno before, according to department chair Rob Gander. It runs March 4-12. April 21-23 brings student-directed one-acts, with A and B programs consisting entirely of plays running 10 minutes or less, some funny and some poignant, that take place in a funeral home. Watch for a couple of student-written plays among the professional works. The department’s annual spring dance concert brings guest choreographer Kathleen Hermesdorf, professor at UC Berkeley and artistic director of ALTERNATIVA dance company in San Francisco. Concert dates are April 28-30. Tickets and information: www.unr.edu/cla/theatredance

Breaking down walls: Reno Little Theater Radium Girls is Reno Little Theater’s production about women, suffering at the hands of their employer, who courageously spoke out and took the employer to court. (See review in the Feb. 11 issue.) That show wraps up this weekend. Next comes the second show in RLT’s new Latino-driven La Gente series, Roosters, by Milcha Sanchez Scott. It’s a family drama about a young man who’s left to run the family farm and awaits the return of his father from jail. Performed entirely in English, this nationally recognized show runs March 8-13. Running April 1-24 is Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-nominee Lee Blessing’s Fortinbras, a contemporary, comedic, wholly imagined sequel to Hamlet in which Fortinbras, the only character left at the end of the Shakespeare tragedy, takes over as king but is haunted by the ghosts of the departed. Blessing 18 | RN&R |

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the theater will be converted to a dark, cavernous winter wasteland that provides a truly immersive experience for audiences, complete with snow and wintry temperatures, lectures and discussions on the time period, visual displays focusing on 16th century Russia and authentic period costuming. Good Luck Macbeth produces King Lear, April 22-May 21

himself will attend opening weekend. Next, May 13-29, is William Missouri Downs’ The Exit Interview. Bertolt Brecht scholar Dick Fig has been terminated from his position as a university professor, and now he is giving his exit interview. This dark comedy employs the true Brechtian style of breaking the fourth wall and plunging into social commentary. Tickets and information: www.renolittletheater.org

Postwar punk: TMCC Performing Arts Green Day wrote its 2004 album American Idiot as a response to the war in Iraq and the band members’ fears about what America was becoming under George W. Bush’s presidency. The album was turned into a Tony-winning Broadway musical in the style of a punk rock opera by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer—one full of searing commentary on the disillusionment of post-September 11 life. TMCC Performing Arts is the first company in Nevada to present this show, with choreography by Mig O’Hara and musical direction by Ted Owens. The show runs April 8-24 and features a live stage band and a cast of 21. Tickets and information: http://www.tmcc. edu/vparts/ or www.tmcc.edu/puso/.

Chasing Dreams: Goodluck Macbeth On stage at Goodluck Macbeth through Feb. 27 is Jennifer Haley’s The Nether, with special guest director Eric Damon Smith. In this unsettling sci-fi thriller, a young detective uncovers a virtual world in which anyone can indulge their darkest desires, raising the question of whether the virtual world can, or even should, be policed.

Speaking of the dangers of hedonism and moral corruption in America, GLM’s next offering is Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, running March 17-26. Performed as a series of monologues by several actors, the production is being overseen by Joel Lippert but technically speaking it is directed by the actors themselves. The company’s contribution to WillPower is a production of King Lear that will be directed by Joe Atack. The production looks to be monumental in its scale. Drawing inspiration from the history of Ivan the Terrible and 16th century Russia, the theater will be converted to a dark, cavernous winter wasteland that provides a truly immersive experience for audiences, complete with snow and wintry temperatures, lectures and discussions on the time period, visual displays focusing on 16th century Russia and authentic period costuming. King Lear will run April 22-May 21. Tickets and information: www.goodluckmacbeth.org

Bigger and better: The Utility Players The improv comedy troupe is flying high as it celebrates its seventh birthday and 11th season. The company lost comedians Derek Sonderfan and Shane Tolomeo—big losses, indeed—at the end of last season. But after 21 aspiring comedians showed up to audition, the troupe is back with four all-new cast members (Robert Romo, Jr., Marki Ho, Dave Gormley and Naomi Dixon) and a brand-new repertoire of improv games to be played every Saturday through April 30 in the newly revamped Jester’s Theatre at the Sands Regency. Tickets & information: www.utilityplayerscomedy.com or www.sandsregency.com

If you’re looking for more family-friendly fun, check out Disney’s Aristocats Kids, opening March 11 at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City. Based on the movie, it’s the story of Parisian cats kidnapped by an allergic butler whose eye is on their inheritance. With a double-cast show comprised of 85 young actors, the musical runs for two weekends. Also, throughout spring, you can purchase raffle tickets online for prizes such as Disneyland tickets and a hot-air balloon ride— all part of a fundraising effort that will enable Wild Horse to purchase equipment needed to present Disney’s Aladdin Jr. in July, complete with a flying carpet. Tickets and information: www.wildhorsetheater.com.

Lullaby of Broadway: Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company WNMTC presents another visual spectacle with 42nd Street, featuring heart-pounding tap numbers and elaborate costumes and sets. This long-running, Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of a troupe putting on a spectacular Broadway show and the young, naive chorus girl who suddenly becomes a star. Running weekends May 6-13. Tickets & information: www.wnmtc.com

Gotta dance: Eldorado Resort Casino Speaking of dance spectaculars, four-time Tony-winner Footloose is on stage at the Eldorado now through April 17. Directed and choreographed by Paula Hammons Sloan (of Ebenezer fame), the show tells the story of Ren McCormack, a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town where dancing and rock music are banned and leads an effort to have a senior prom. The rock ’n’ roll life is alive and well in the next show, Rock of Ages, running April 26-July 24. Full of hits like “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” “The Final Countdown” and “Wanted Dead or Alive,” this musical set in 1980s Hollywood introduces us to Drew and Sherrie, two employees at a nightclub who struggle to find stardom and fall in love. Tickets & Information: www.eldoradoreno. com

Pursuit of pleasure: Harrah’s Reno Indulge in a bit of hedonistic pleasure at Sammy’s Showroom at Harrah’s Reno this spring, with two adults-only productions. Running now through March 5 is Prestige Productions’ Decadence, a cabaret-style show featuring burlesque, circus acts, humor, live vocals and technical artistry for adults 21 and over. The cast of 11 Reno performers presents such spectacles as a seven-foot male “Ursula” in heels, a trapeze artist and krumping Nintendo characters. Or, if half-naked men is more your thing, check out the Chippendales dancers March 11 and 12. Tickets and information www.caesars.com/ harrahs-reno/shows Ω

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To say that Daniel Douke is a painter is technically correct, but missing some by key details. Although Douke works Josie Luciano exclusively with oil, acrylic and canvas, his paintings look nothing like anything else you’re likely to ever find hanging on a wall. Piled in the back of a semi, though? Maybe. Sitting in a Dumpster? Definitely.

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Daniel Douke stands next to “iMac,” 2007.

extraordinary is on display at the nevada Museum of art, 160 W. Liberty st., through april 24. For more information, visit www.nevadaart.org. Following the nMa exhibit, Daniel Douke’s paintings will be shown at the stremmel Gallery, 1400 s. Virginia st., alongside chester arnold’s work from april 28-June 4.

That’s because Douke has spent the better part of his life creating true-to-scale replicas of discarded and ignored objects like cardboard boxes, concrete road barriers, and stacks of lumber through a combination of hand-painting, airbrushing and canvas-building techniques. He calls his pieces “icons of expendability” and right now, the Nevada Museum of Art is collectively titling them Extraordinary. Open through the end of April, Douke’s exhibition features 11 paintings that look exactly like the throwaway packaging and stacks of overlooked objects that make our consumerdriven lifestyle possible. Some of Douke’s paintings have titles that remind us of the real-world objects they represent, like “iMac,” “Relay Mailbox with Declarations,” or “Barricade with Skid Marks.” Other pieces have more mysterious names, such as “Core” (a hanging row of empty, color-coded fruit crates) and “Them” (a cord of upright color-coded

lumber)—possibly references to the hidden meanings that such items convey to the few individuals familiar with their coding. By placing these objects in a gallery space, Douke hopes the viewer will be able to “slow down and take a little closer look.” But the artist gives us more than one look; he gives us three. The first look is the reveal. The thing you’re looking at is not the thing you think you’re looking at. By displaying a majority of his paintings in the round and exposing the backs of the canvases, Douke makes sure that the audience understands the illusion for what it is—a “concrete” road barrier that you can move with one foot or a mailbox whose only function is to display bumper stickers made entirely of raised paint and lacquer. The second look is about relationships. While most of us pay attention to the computer instead of the packaging, the house instead of the lumber, and the fruit instead of the crates, Douke’s focus on the transitory function of these materials is so strong that we find ourselves being pulled into his line of sight momentarily— dredging up questions about our own interactions with these objects while comparing them to the thousands of hours that the artist surely must have spent bringing them into hyper-reality. The third look is retrospective. It imagines future you, several centuries from now, examining Douke’s paintings as artifacts of a bygone era—documentation of resource use in the age of diminishing returns and unlimited demand. It’s a public service perspective in a way that is more Natural History than Art Museum. Although a piece of actual insulation won’t survive to tell the tale of how we kept our homes warm with toxic materials, Douke’s insulation painting, “Dow,” probably will. “I never wanted to really fool people,” said Douke. “What I wanted to do—and this sounds kind of esoteric—is to take the object which has a meaning in the real world and take it out of that meaning and convert that meaning to only a work of art.” After their stay at the NMA, Douke’s paintings will move into the Stremmel Gallery for the month of May, making the occasional trip to come back and haunt your mailbox, mailed box, or Mac box for at least several months after you see the exhibit. Ω

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Zoolander 2 A bad film sticks in the craw a bit more when somebody capable of genius delivers it. Ben Stiller is one of the great modern day comedic actors. He started with The Ben Stiller Show, a project that basically gave birth to Mr. Show and Tenacious D. The man is directly or indirectly responsible for about 78 percent of the laughter that has come out of my face by over the last 24 years. Bob Grimm As a director, he made a clunker out of the gate with Reality Bites, but followed it up bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om with an underrated gem, The Cable Guy. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is much better than it gets credit for, and Tropic Thunder is a bad taste masterpiece. Of all the comic creations Stiller has come up with and directed, Zoolander is the most bothersome. It’s a skit that wasn’t funny in the first place stretched into a feature that feels flat and in-jokey.

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Stiller returns for another shot of unneeded male model parody with Zoolander 2, far and away the worst thing he’s ever done. It’s so bad, it’s a formidable, early contender for 2016’s worst film. It basically takes a half-baked premise from 2001 and sequel-izes it, with the resultant goo having close to nothing to do with the original, tragically stupid half-baked premise, making it even more half-baked. It’s like, one quarter-baked. It represents Stiller at his most lost and floundering. It’s 15 years later, and Derek Zoolander is living a hermit crab’s life in remote New Jersey, mourning the loss of his wife (Christine Taylor) after the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too collapsed and crushed her to death.

Note to Stiller: Zoolander came out just a couple of weeks after 9/11, and is forever associated with that event because the Twin Towers were digitally removed from the film. Is it really a funny idea to have your wife’s character killed in an NYC building collapse that takes place in 2001? I didn’t laugh, so I’ve answered my own question. Hansel (Owen Wilson) is living a secluded life in the deserts of Malibu with his orgy family (including a very sensitive Kiefer Sutherland). He’s visited by a messagedelivering Billy Zane and goes on a quest to find Derek. Unfortunately, he does find him, and a forever boring comic duo gets another chapter. A search for Derek’s son and some other nonsense leads them to Rome and an eventual showdown with fashion bad guy, Mugatu (Will Ferrell). The Mugatu subplot feels tacked on, as if they only had Ferrell for a week. He’s given close to nothing to work with, forcing him to mug for his paycheck. This feels like a total rip-off of Austin Powers, with Zoolander and Hansel becoming spies, Penelope Cruz stepping in as the tightly clad female sidekick, and a daddy issues subplot involving Zoolander’s long lost son, not to mention Mugatu has become a sad riff on Dr. Evil. The first half hour of the movie is actually less than terrible. Benedict Cumberbatch shows up as a hauntingly androgynous model called All who has married himself, and Derek’s comeback when somebody calls him a narcissist is the best line in the movie. So, I laughed twice. There are too many cameos to count, many of them fashion icons I could care less about. When a big moment in your movie hinges upon the dramatic talents of Tommy Hilfiger, you’ve got yourself a problem. Did I mention that Kristen Wiig is in the movie, too? No, I didn’t. That’s because her bizarre character is something that begs to be forgotten. Stiller got lazy and perhaps a little distracted with Zoolander 2. Time to reboot. Hopefully, he’ll consider a stint on some Netflix comedy series. (He would’ve made a great Wet Hot American Summer camp counselor, right?) He needs to get his edge back after this tremendous miscue. Ω

Director Adam McKay, the master behind such broad comedy gems as Anchorman and Step Brothers, flexes his slightly more serious muscles for this one, a take on the housing bubble that nearly destroyed the global economy. An ensemble cast featuring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt make this a funny-yet-scary look at how big banks nearly sent us back to the stone ages. Carell is especially good as Mark Baum, a banker with a conscience who realizes a little too late that things are going bad, and his wealth is going to come at the expense of a many U.S. homeowners. Bale is typically good as Michael Burry, the man who saw the storm coming and made a boatload of money betting against the biggest monsters of modern finance. Pitt has fun as a financial guru who has taken to the hills in anticipation of the oncoming financial apocalypse, while Gosling gives the whole thing a nice Martin Scorsese vibe as a fast-talking banker/narrator. It’s a drama, but it’s often funny. McKay shows that his chops go well beyond directing Will Ferrell with a fireman’s mustache.

Deadpool

After a false start with the character of Wade Wilson in 2009’s uneven yet unjustly maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds gets another chance at superhero—albeit unorthodox superhero—stardom. This time he scores big in this twisted film from first time director Tim Miller. The movie establishes its weirdness with scathing opening credits that poke fun at Reynolds’s stint as Green Lantern and all aspects of that film’s production. It then becomes a consistently funny tragi-comedy involving Wade, a recently smitten mercenary who comes down with terminal cancer, dimming the lights on his future with girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). He submits himself to an experiment that leaves him disfigured yet superhuman, bent on revenge against the criminal who made him this way. Reynolds finally gets a really good movie to match his charms, and Deadpool gets the nasty film the character beckons for. The film gets an R-rating for many reasons, and there really was no other way to make a Deadpool film. It needed to be depraved, and it is. T.J. Miller provides nice comic support as a weary bar owner, and a couple of X-Men show up in a hilarious way. A sequel is already in the works, and this is a very good thing.

The Finest Hours

In 1952, an oil tanker called the Pendleton split in two during a blizzard off the coast of Cape Cod. All eight crewmembers who were in the stern at the time the boat broke perished. Thirty-three men initially survived in the bobbing bow section of the ship, mere hours away from certain death. Upon hearing news of the situation, a four-man crew boarded the smallish CG-36500 boat and set out to sea, a violently choppy sea, in search of the Pendleton and its crew. Director Craig Gillespie has crafted an exciting seafaring movie. That is, an exciting seafaring movie when it is actually out at sea. Some of the stuff that happens back on shore bogs the movie down in schmaltziness. Chris Pine plays Bernie Webber, who captains the tiny ship tasked with saving over 30 men. Yes, this provides the opportunity for the guy who plays Captain Kirk to be called Captain a lot during the course of this film. Bernie rides into the belly of the beast with three crewmembers played by Ben Foster, John Magaro and Kyle Gallner. All four are terrific at looking scared shitless while being drenched and bounced about like a 5-year-old in a bounce house with a bunch of energetic and older fat people. Casey Affleck is terrific as a member of the Pendleton crew trying to keep everybody alive. The film rocks when there’s lots of water involved, but it falters when the story turns to Bernie’s new love affair. Holliday Grainger is given a tough role to pull off as the love interest. Most of her scenes simply distract from the good stuff.

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The Big Short

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The latest from the Coen brothers follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a studio enforcer at Capitol Pictures in the 1950s tasked with keeping stars out of trouble and assuring moving pictures stay on schedule. In the middle of filming a biblical epic, huge star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) is kidnapped by Hollywood

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communists, who demand ransom money. Mannix must figure out how to get his star back while dodging two gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton in increasingly hilarious wardrobe), navigating the latest scandal of studio star, DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) and comforting hot director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes), who has had a marble-mouthed stunt actor named Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) forced into his romantic comedy. The plot is paper thin, but it does give the Coens a chance to do their quick interpretations of old timey movie Westerns, screwball comedies, Esther Williams pool epics, overblown Bible movies, Gene Kelly musicals, and more. The film is comprised of short homages to all of these cinema genres, and each one of them is a total blast to behold. On top of that, the movie features communist writers in a manner far less serious than the recent Trumbo. The whole thing is a blast but, admittedly, will probably go over best with diehard Coen fans.

Kung Fu Panda 3

Jack Black returns as the voice of Po in this decent second sequel in the saga of the Panda warrior and his warrior cronies. This time out, Po encounters his long lost dad, Li (the warm growl of Bryan Cranston), who takes him to the land of the pandas so that he can learn the powers of his chi. Such an advancement in his warrior techniques is absolutely essential for the lands are being threatened by a spirit realm warrior named Kai (J.K. Simmons voicing what I think is some sort of super muscular yak-type thing). The stuff with Po and Li is cute, with the added element of Po’s adopted dad (James Hong) being a little jealous. There’s a cool psychedelic look at times, and the animated series continues to impress on artistic levels. The story feels a bit like a repeat of the previous two. That’s OK, but doesn’t necessarily place this chapter high on the originality scale.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The zombie movie craze hits its low point with this crap attempt at horror comedy featuring a fairly faithful take on the Jane Austen classic mixed with the undead. Lily James, so delightful in Cinderella, plays Elizabeth Bennet, one of the esteemed Bennet sisters and zombie hunter. She sets her sight on Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), who thinks she’s pretty and all that but must refrain from serious courtship in order to behead some ghouls. For starters, director Burr Steers shoots for a PG-13 rating, which results in much of the action taking place off screen, via incomprehensible editing, or in the dark so as to reduce the bloodletting. The movie features so much carnage that it feels incomplete for soft-shoeing the yucky stuff. As for the balance of period romance and comedic bloodletting, Steers never finds a comfortable place. The movie feels uneven and sloppy, with lousy special effects and players that look lost. Like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter before it, a perhaps clever idea gets lost in messy direction and lousy scripting. It’s a shame, because Riley and James are much better than this.

The Revenant

For the second year in a row, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has delivered the year’s best film. The best movie of 2015 is The Revenant, an eye-popping Western thriller that gives Leonardo DiCaprio, the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actor, the role that should finally score him that first Oscar. DiCaprio gives it everything he’s got as Hugh Glass, a scout working with fur traders on the American frontier in the early nineteenth century. Glass, while doing his job, gets a little too close to a couple of bear cubs, and Mama Grizzly is not all too happy about such an occurrence. What follows is a lengthy and vicious bear attack where Glass tangles with the nasty mother not once, but twice. Inarritu, DiCaprio and some amazing visual technicians put you in the middle of that bear attack, minus the searing pain of actually having a bear’s claws and teeth rip through your flesh. Trust me when I tell you, it’s an unforgettably visceral moment when that bear steps on DiCaprio’s head. DiCaprio is incredible here, as are Tom Hardy as a villainous fur trapper who wants to leave Glass behind, Domhnall Gleeson as the commander forced to make horrible decisions, and Will Poulter as the compassionate man who makes a big mistake. It’s a revenge tale amazingly told.

Song of the day Bob Greenwood You might see Bob Greenwood behind the counter at Saigon Diner, a little pho shop in Shopper’s Square, where by Kent Irwin his wife, Diane, works as a cook and proprietor. Unless you asked, however, you might never know that the man unloading a crate of coconut water had performed music for two presidents, or that Paul McCartney once sat in for one of his concerts. Today, Greenwood considers himself first and foremost a keyboardist; however, it wasn’t piano or keyboards that got him into music, but percussion. Though he eventually left the drum set behind him, he believes that it had a lasting impact on his writing style. Photo/Kent IrwIn

“When I write, I write rhythmically,” said Greenwood. “I think every musician would benefit from learning the drums.” Though the Big Band era bestowed its fair share of influence on Greenwood, he says he really awakened to the world of jazz through a close friend, who turned him on to Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. “What really appeals to me about jazz is the self-expression,” he said. Even more than rock ’n’ roll, jazz allows you to express yourself.” Everything changed for Greenwood when, in 1965, his ship left for Vietnam. “I bought a Wurlitzer electric piano, like Ray Charles used on ‘What’d I Say,’” recalled Greenwood. “I took it with me aboard the ship, and I put a band together.”

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Greenwood worked on an oil tanker, which was used for a task known as ‘underway replenishments.’ A ship would come alongside the tanker, which would send over hoses to pump them full of oil, a process that took two to four hours. With plenty of time to kill, Greenwood set up his band to play for the other ship. “The term for underway replenishment is ‘unrep.’ So our band was called Unrep A-Go-Go,” recalls Greenwood with a smile. After returning stateside, Greenwood formed a band that lasted 15 years. Then he retired, only to return to Vietnam, where he stayed for the next three years before meeting his wife. He took that time to focus on composing songs, about 70 of them. “I read a book by Henry Mancini,” explained Greenwood. “He said, ‘I’m not an inspirational writer.’ Nor am I. He says, ‘I sit down at my keyboard with my coffee, and try to write a tune.’ So I started doing that. It was just something I did, like going to the gym. I wrote a song every day for two months.” One song was called: “The Singapore River Is Calling,” which expressed the idea that the river could beckon visitors to discover more about Singapore, another place Greenwood visited. Another song was written after Greenwood moved to Da Lat, a mountain town built by the French in 1907. A popular destination for tourists in Vietnam, it was nicknamed “The Riviera of the Mountains.” But Da Lat also had another type of reputation. “My wife told me that in Saigon, a lot of the young girls would find a married man to come up to Da Lat with on the weekends, and they called them ‘Saigon Girls.’ So I wrote a song on that premise.” After a long, enlightening stay in Vietnam, Greenwood returned to the United States where, in 2003, he performed with Paul McCartney at Moody’s Bistro, in Truckee. “It was a snowstorm one night, and he came and had dinner while I played,” said Greenwood. “He came up and sang three songs. One of them he made up right while he was listening to me play. He called it the ‘Truckee Blues.’” Ω

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3RD STREET 3RD STREET 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

YourDay Karaoke w/DJ Manny, YourDay Karaoke w/DJ Manny, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover

Re-No Comedy Showcase, Re-No 9pm, noComedy cover Showcase, 9pm, no cover

Blue Haven, 9pm, no cover Blue Haven, 9pm, no cover

5 STAR SALOON 5132STAR SALOON West St., (775) 329-2878

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DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

BAR OF AMERICA BAR OF AMERICA 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

The Routine, 9pm, no cover The Routine, 9pm, no cover

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Feb. 20, 8:30 p.m. Feb. 20, 8:30 p.m. Cargo Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400 398-5400

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BRASSERIE ST. JAMES BRASSERIE ST. JAMES 901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888 901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888

CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

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

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

COMMA COFFEE COMMA COFFEE 312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

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COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

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SundaYze: Brunch and live jazz SundaYze: Brunch and live jazzno cover w/Reno Jazz Syndicate, noon, w/Reno Jazz Syndicate, noon, no cover

Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover

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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 Carson 507Justin N. Carson Carson City,Nugget, 882-1626: Rupple,St., F, 7:30pm, City, 882-1626: Justin Rupple, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 $13-$15 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys The Lake Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Will Durst, Larry “Bubbles”(800) Brown,553-1022: Th-F, Su, Will Larry “Bubbles” Brown, Th-F,Palascak, Su, 9pm,Durst, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Michael 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Michael Palascak, Kat Simmons, W, 8pm, $25 Kat Simmons, W, 8pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Laugh Factory Resort Casino, 407at N. Silver VirginiaLegacy St., 325-7401: Casino, N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Bob Zany,407 Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, Bob Zany, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; F-Sa, 9:30pm, $27.45; Basile the Greek, Tu, W, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Basile the Greek, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, 100Rupple, S. Virginia St.,$10; 686-6600: Justin Th, 8pm, 686-6600: Justin Rupple, 8pm, $10; F, 9pm, $12-$17; Sa, 6:30pm,Th,9:30pm, $12-$17 F, 9pm, $12-$17; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$17

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Will Clarke & Billy Kenny, 10pm, $10 Will Clarke & Billy Kenny, 10pm, $10

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Michael Griffin & David Wells, Michael 7pm, no Griffin cover & David Wells, 7pm, no cover

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ELBOW ROOM BAR ELBOW ROOM BAR 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-9799

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CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover CW Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover Daveand Leather, noon, W, no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

HANGAR BAR HANGAR BAR 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088

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Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, W, no cover Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, W, no cover

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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

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

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

Skinwalkers, City Wolves, Twin Cities, Skinwalkers, City$5Wolves, Twin Cities, With Age, 8pm, With Age, 8pm, $5

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

Ryan Davidson, Matt Weiner, Chris Fox, Ryan Matt Weiner, Chris Fox, 9pm, Davidson, $3 9pm, $3

Arizona Young, Night Rooms, Nice Boys, Arizona 8pm, $5 Young, Night Rooms, Nice Boys, 8pm, $5

Machine Girl, Tea Haze, Qwizz, 8pm, $5 Machine Girl, Tea Haze, Qwizz, 8pm, $5

Harm’s Way, Badlands, Sever, Harm’s Blinded Way, Youth,Badlands, 8pm, W, Sever, $10 Blinded Youth, 8pm, W, $10

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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

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THE LOVING CUP THE LOVING CUP 188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

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Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion 7:30pm, $35 w/Tony Clark, 7:30pm, $35

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion w/Tony 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $35Clark, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $35

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

MIDTOWN WINE BAR MIDTOWN WINE BAR 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

Live music, 8pm, no cover Live music, 8pm, no cover

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

Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter showcase, 8pm, no cover showcase, 8pm, no cover

10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

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

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

PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM AND JUKE JOINT (PB&J’S) AND JUKE JOINT (PB&J’S) 555 E. Fourth St., (775) 322-4348

Wage War, Purge the Perfect, Wage War, Purge7:30pm, the Perfect, Man the Tanks, $10 Man the Tanks, 7:30pm, $10

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 322-4348

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Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion 4:30pm, $35 w/Tony Clark, 4:30pm, $35

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Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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RUBEN’S CANTINA RUBEN’S CANTINA 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424 SHEA’S TAVERN SHEA’S TAVERN 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

Old Glory, The Sorority, Handle Bars, Old Glory,Staggers, The Sorority, Bars, Midnight 9pm,Handle no cover Midnight Staggers, 9pm, no cover

Machine Gun Vendetta, Heartless Folk, Machine Vendetta, ProtectedGun Left, 11pm, noHeartless cover Folk, Protected Left, 11pm, no cover

SHELTER SHELTER 111 N. Virginia St., (775) 329-2909

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

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SINGER SOCIAL CLUB SINGER SOCIAL CLUB 219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466 ST. JAMES INFIRMARY ST. JAMES INFIRMARY 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484 STUDIO ON 4TH STUDIO ON 4TH 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

Black Cobra, 7pm, M, $10 Black Cobra, 7pm, M, $10

Supersuckers, The Yawpers, Charlie Overbey Punk Rock Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, no cover Supersuckers, Yawpers, Charlie and the BrokenThe Arrows, 10pm, $TBAOverbey Punk Rock Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, no cover and the Broken Arrows, 10pm, $TBA

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Feb. 24, 9 p.m. Feb. 24, 9 p.m. Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor Jub 71 S.Jub’s Wells Thirst Ave. Parlor 71 S. Wells Ave. 384-1652 384-1652

Bands For Bernie w/CRUSH, Eric Anderson, Soul Persuaders, 9pm, $7 Bands For Bernie w/CRUSH, The Grups, 8pm, no cover Eric Anderson, Soul Persuaders, 9pm, $7 The Grups, 8pm, no cover

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

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

South Shore Riot, The Convulsionaires, South The Convulsionaires, Lethal Shore Gospel,Riot, Psychos in Love, 9pm, $5 Lethal Gospel, Psychos in Love, 9pm, $5

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

Industry Night w/DJ Keenan, Industry w/DJ Keenan, 9pm, Tu, Night no cover 9pm, Tu, no cover

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

1) Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 1)8pm, Comedy Tu, noPower coverHour Open Mic, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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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

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2) Hindsight, 8pm, no cover 2) Hindsight, 8pm, no cover

2) Hindsight, 4pm, no cover 2) Hindsight, 4pm, no Melissa Dru, 10pm, nocover cover Melissa Dru, 10pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover 2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover 2) Platinum, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) T Sisters, 10pm, no cover 2) T Sisters, 10pm, no cover

1) ALO, Baskery, 9pm, $22-$27 1) ALO, Baskery, 9pm, $22-$27

1) The Infamous Stringdusters, 1) TheBluhm, Infamous Stringdusters, Nicki Della Mae, 9pm, $23-$43 Nicki Bluhm, Della Mae, 9pm, $23-$43

1) Edwin San Juan, 8:30pm, W, $14-$17 1) Edwin San Juan, 8:30pm, W, $14-$17

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 , 7pm,10:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 2) Left of Centre, no cover 2) of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover cover 3) Left DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose , 7pm,10:30pm, 9:30pm, no $24.95-$26.95 2) Left of Centre, cover , 7pm,10:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) 2) Footloose Left of Centre, no cover 2) of Centre, 10:30pm, 3) Left DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

2) Riff Raff, 10pm, $10-$15 2) Raff, Nights 10pm, w/DJ $10-$15 3) Riff Country Colt Ainsworth, 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

2) Lex Saturdays, 10pm, $15 2) Saturdays, $15 Ainsworth, 3) Lex Country Nights 10pm, w/DJ Colt 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

1) Slaughter, 9pm, $30 1) $30no cover 2) Slaughter, DJ Chango,9pm, 10pm, 2) DJ Chango, 10pm, no cover

1) House of Floyd, 9:30pm, $15 1) House of Floyd, 9:30pm, $15

2) DJ Audio 1, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 2) 1, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) DJ ArtyAudio the Party, 9pm, no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Jefferson Starship, 7:30pm, $40.36 1) $40.36 2) Jefferson DJ Spryte,Starship, DJ Rick 7:30pm, Gee, 10pm, $20 2) DJ Rick 10pm, $20 3) DJ ArtySpryte, the Party, 9pm,Gee, no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover 3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover

1) Decadence, 9:30pm, $32.75 , 9:30pm, 1) Decadence 3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover$32.75 3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, Rustlers’ Heat, 5pm, 8pm, no no cover cover Rustlers’ Heat, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Dusty Miles & the Cryin’ Shame, 2) Dusty Miles & the Cryin’ Shame, 7pm, no cover 7pm, no cover

2) Dusty Miles & the Cryin’ Shame, 2) Dusty Miles & the Cryin’ Shame, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

2) Max Minardi, 6pm, no cover 2) Max Minardi, 6pm, no cover

2) Max Minardi, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover 2) Max Minardi, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO ELDORADO RESORT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 345 N. Virginia St., Brothers (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew 3) NoVi 1) Brew Brothers 4) Theater Cin Cin 5)2) Stadium Bar 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin 5) Stadium Bar

ALO ALO Feb. 20, 9 p.m.

GRAND SIERRA RESORT GRAND SIERRA RESORT 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000

Feb. 20, 9 p.m. Crystal Bay Club Crystal Bay28 Club 14 Highway 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay Crystal 833-6333Bay 833-6333

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 , 7pm,10:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 2) Left of Centre, no cover 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 2) Thursdays, 10pm,Colt no cover 3) Flirt Country Nights w/DJ Ainsworth,

2500 E. Second (775)Nightclub 789-2000 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) Lex 3) Sports Book 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 1) Nightclub Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Grand SummitTheater Pavilion2) 5)LexSilver State3)Pavilion 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO HARD ROCK HOTEL CASINO 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (844)& 588-7625 50 Hwy.2)50,Center Stateline; 1) Vinyl Bar (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE HARRAH’S LAKE(775) TAHOE 15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 588-6611

Karaoke Karaoke CBQ, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, CBQ,359-1109: 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, Karaoke w/Larry Williams, 359-1109: Karaoke Th, 6pm, no cover w/Larry Williams, Th, 6pm, 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, H&T Mobile Productions, F, 10pm, no cover no cover The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia TheSt., Man499-5322: Cave Sports Bar, Karaoke, Sa,4600 8pm,N.noVirginia cover St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, 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 E. Prater Way, Sports Ste. 103,Bar Sparks, 356-6000: Way, F-Sa,Ste. 9pm,103, no Sparks, cover 356-6000: F-Sa, 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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HARRAH’S RENO HARRAH’S RENO 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900

219 N. CenterShowroom St., (775)2)788-2900 1) Sammy’s The Zone 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 Edge 4) Capri Ballroom 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL SANDS REGENCY CASINO 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200HOTEL SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO SILVER LEGACY RESORT 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 CASINO

407 N. Virginia St., Hall (775)2) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Rum Bullions Island Bar 1) Grand Exposition Hall4)2)Silver Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge Baron Lounge 3) Aura Ultra 4) Silver Baron Lounge 5) Silver BaronLounge Ballroom 5) Silver Baron Ballroom

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3) Live blues w/Buddy Emmer Band 3) blues w/Buddy andLive guest, 8pm, Tu, no Emmer cover Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

1) Blues Box Bayou Band, 8pm, no cover 1) Blues Box Bayou Band, 8pm, no cover 1) Blues Box Bayou Band, 8pm, no cover 1) Blues Box Bayou Band, 8pm, no cover 2) The Utility Players, 8pm, $15 2) The Utility Players, 8pm, $15

345 Arlington Ave.,2)(775) 348-2200 1) 3rdN. Street Lounge Jester Theater 1) 3) 3rd CopaStreet Bar &Lounge Grill 2) Jester Theater 3) Copa Bar & Grill

2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no coverof Aura, 3) University 3) University 9pm, no coverof Aura, 9pm, no cover

1) Ramón Ayala w/Ramon Ayala Jr., 1) Ramón Ayala w/Ramon Ayala Jr., 9pm, 8pm, $52.50-$69.50 2) Night Fever, 8pm, $52.50-$69.50 2) Night9pm, Fever, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, no9pm, cover no cover 3) Fashion 9pm, no cover 4) Soundwave, 9pm,Friday, no cover 4) Soundwave, 9pm, no cover

1) Jim Jefferies, 8pm, $32.50-$45.50 1) Jefferies, 8pm,no$32.50-$45.50 2) Jim Night Fever, 9pm, cover 2) Fever,Saturdays, 9pm, no cover 3) Night Seduction 9pm, $5 3) 9pm, $5 4) Seduction Soundwave,Saturdays, 9pm, no cover 4) Soundwave, 9pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 2) Live Band, Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover 2) Karaoke, no cover DJ Live ChrisBand English, 10pm,10pm, Tu, noM,cover DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover

3) Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover 3) Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 2) Sundays, no cover 3) Recovery Industry Night, 9pm,10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover

2) Trey Valentine’s Backstage Karaoke, 2) TreyTu,Valentine’s 8pm, no cover Backstage Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover 9pm, W, no cover

For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

Events

DOWNTOWN LIBRARY SUNDAY MOVIE MATINEE: Watch a variety of popular movies for free in the library auditorium on selected Sundays. Call the library to inquire about movie titles and for more information. Su,

EAGLES & AGRICULTURE: The annual event provides the public an opportunity to experience the influx of bald eagles and other birds of prey that come to Carson Valley during the winter calving season. The fourday event includes tours of ranches accompanied by expert birders and historians, the Owl Prowl, a wildlife photography class and the Falconers Dinner where guests can get to close to a variety of raptors. Th-Su through 2/21. Opens 2/18. Various locations in Carson Valley, (775) 782-8144, http://carsonvalleynv.org.

2/21, 2pm; Su, 3/6, 2pm; Su, 3/13, 2pm. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8301.

ENVIRONMENTAL DRAMA: Kids will learn about their environment through an interactive presentation, drama activity and craft. Children will practice creative expression with Mrs. Clays and her daughter Kelsea.

library, find a table, grab a game and have some fun. Second and fourth W of every month, 4:30pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100. tion program for toddlers includes storytime, outdoor exploration and crafts. Third Th of every month, 10am through 3/16. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

INSIDE OUT: AN ANATOMY EXPERIENCE:

St., (775) 742-1858.

HOLMAN ARTS & MEDIA CENTER, SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: Beyond

ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE: Luscious Abstracts. The abstract art gallery is open for the Riverwalk Wine Walk on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2-5pm, and Artist Open House on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2-5pm. Gallery hours: Monday 1:30-6pm, TuesdayThursday 3:30-7pm or by appointment any day/evening of the week. Sa, 2/20, 2-5pm; Su, 2/21, 2-5pm. Free. 142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367.

ages 8-12 will build confidence while expressing their creativity through acting. The class takes place in the Garden Pavilion adjacent to the Lake Mansion. M, 4:30-5:30pm through 3/14. Opens 2/22. $35. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2, www.artsforallnevada.org.

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Shades of Red. Artists Co-op of Reno presents an all-member and friends showcase celebrating “one of the most passionate and fiery colors in the artist’s palette.” M-Su, 11am-4pm through 2/29. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

ART ADVENTURES AT THE LAKE MANSION: Kids ages 6-10 can explore a variety of mediums. Designed for beginner to advanced with plenty of one-on-one instruction. The class takes place in the Lake Mansion’s lower level art studio. W, Th, 4:30-5:30pm through 3/16. Opens 2/24. $35. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2.

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3-6pm through 3/4. Opens 2/16; Th, 2/18, 6-8pm. Free. 140 Vesta

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ACTING AT THE LAKE MANSION: Children

Quiet Things. Emerging artist and photographer Abigail Swanson presents her first multimedia solo exhibition Quiet Things. With this installation, Abigail examines individual truth and the illusions of womanhood through a feminist perspective. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, Feb. 18, from 6-8pm. Tu-F,

exhibition encourages visitors to embrace their fear as they discover the secrets of North America’s four indigenous venomous snakes: the copperhead, cottonmouth, coral and rattlesnake. The exhibit features more than 20 live venomous snakes along with dozens of interactive stations and imaginative displays. W-Su through 4/10. $9 adults, $8 children and seniors. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St, (775) 785-5961, www.facebook.com/WilburMayCenter.

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SSSNAKES ALIVE!: This interactive

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series presents a visual lecture by new media sculptor Matt Kenyon. Th, 2/18, 5:30pm. Free. Wells Fargo Auditorium, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 1664 N. Virginia St. University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE GALLERY: For

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Material is a traveling show of work conceptually responding to the history of fiber as a craft as well as the materiality of textiles work. Past and Present examines the experimental process of deconstructing what has existed before in order to create a new context for consideration. The reuse and reconstruction of materials becomes a process that values reconnection and renewal by bringing together and acknowledging history with the present. Art by Mandy Cano Villalobos, Miriam Wassenaar, Christine Mauersberger, Erin Minckley Chlaghmo, Rita Grendze, Kelly McKaig, Ann Chuchvara, Dulcee Boehm, Sage Dawson, Marcelyn Bennett-Carpenter. The reception is Feb. 18 at 5-7pm. Curator Talk with Kate Garman at 5:30pm. 1008 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 831-1314.

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The four-member ensemble brings its mix of traditional and contemporary music to the University of Nevada, Reno as part of the Performing Arts Series. The group takes its inspiration from the traditional Chinese “plucked string” repertoire that is seldom heard in the West. Featuring only plucked strings, the quartet creates a unique sound while performing a repertoire that spans genres and even centuries, including transcriptions from the Tang Dynasty to modern compositions. The quartet performs a range of musical genres from bluegrass to Chinese imperial court classics to cutting-edge jazz fusion on ancient stringed instruments: zheng, pipa, ruan and sanxian. Red Chamber performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St. at UNR. Tickets are $24 for adults, $20 for seniors, UNR faculty and staff, $12 for students and youths, $5 for UNR students with ID. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/pas.

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Detail View. Jeff Hantman creates his wood sculptures using found wood

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: I Wonder If I Care

The first show in University Galleries’ new mural series features mural art by the Oakland-based artist. M-F through 11/11. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

life-size sculptures, hands-on interactive exhibits and video installations that puts you face to face with more than 20 species of giant freshwater fish. Tu-Su through 4/24. $9-$10. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: MATT KENYON:

paintings and drawings by Michelle Lassaline. M-Su through 3/12. 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 4231440, www.churchillarts.org.

FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Brett Flanigan.

MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: The exhibit features

live music, skate contest, raffles, food and prizes. Bands include Nevermute, Decent Criminal, Boss’ Daughter, No Brainer, HexaShooter and Donkey Jaw. Skateboarders under age 18 must wear helmets and have their parent/guardian sign a waiver. Sa, 2/20, 2pm. $10. Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652.

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Cirque. Recent

As Much. Mixed-media installation featuring art by Timothy Conder, Nick Larsen and Omar Pierce. M-Su through 3/12. 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

This exhibition will take you on a journey into the curiosities of human anatomy. Through digital and handson exhibits, you’ll learn how our bodies work, grow, age and heal. Tu-Su. $10 general admission, $9 veterans and active duty military. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

SKATE JAM 2016: An all-ages event with

W. Telegraph St., Carson City; (775) 575-7333.

GALENA TODDLERS: This nature educa-

Merchants Association hosts its monthly event along the Truckee River and neighboring streets in downtown Reno. Visit any of the participating Riverwalk District merchants on Wine Walk day and receive a wine glass, a map of Wine Walk merchants and a wristband that allows you to sample wine at any participating venue. Must be 21 years old and older to participate. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm through 4/15. Opens 2/20. $20. The Riverwalk District, Downtown Reno, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.

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Pots On Earth. Featuring work by Carson City potter John Rotheram (1941-2013). Proceeds from the sale of Rotheram’s work will sponsor a scholarship in his name at Carson City Pottery. Tu-Sa,

Third Sa of every month, 1pm through

Schuster received a HRPS Neighborhood Preservation Fund Grant to remove an enclosed sun porch and restore the facade of her 1925 bungalow to its original appearance. She will take you on a pictorial journey of this process and explain how her sense of connection to the history of her home contributed to her remodeling decisions. She will share the story of the original owner of her home, locally famous musician and dance hall owner Tony Pecetti, and how she came to know the former inhabitants who provided her with a wealth of information. W, 2/24, 7-9pm. Free. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

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5/21. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

THE HOUSE THAT TONY BUILT: Barrie

objects and printmaking techniques. Rather than removing paint and sanding for smooth surfaces, he keeps the old paint, shelf paper and scratches as a history in each piece of wood he finds. He alters it with additional wood pieces, images and color to enhance the story as he builds a new sculpture. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/25. Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

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continued from page 29 MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Media Technology: Past & Present. Visitors will enjoy a visual display of media technological leaps through this exhibit on display in the Whittemore Gallery of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. M-Su through 6/30. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: Leeway. Reno artist Nate Clark examines order and structure through mark making. The paintings highlight the subtle contrast between the imperfections of hand-made marks and a methodical formula or scientific method. M-F, 8am-5pm through 3/11. Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680.

RENO CITY HALL: Foreign Bodies. Metro Gallery at City Hall hosts artwork from Chicagobased visual artist Vesna Jovanovic. Through 2/26. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-4636.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Great Basin Native Artists Exhibit. The Sparks Museum & Cultural Center presents a group exhibition by the Great Basin Native Artists. The exhibition features the work of contemporary Native American artists Ben Aleck, Phil Buckheart, Louinda Garity, Topaz Jones and Melissa Melero. The show includes a collection of paintings, ink and graphite drawings and assemblage sculpture. M-Su through 2/27. Free. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

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. 10 S. Lake St.,(775) 333-9300.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Don Dondero:

A Photographic Legacy, W-Su through 7/10; Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; Cedra Wood: A Residency on Earth, W-Su through 5/15; Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, W-Su through 4/17; Daniel Douke: Extraordinary, W-Su through 4/24; Monuments & DeLIMITations: Projects by David Taylor and Marcos Ramírez ERRE, W-Su through 4/17. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques. The exhibit tells of the unique origins, language and history of the Basque people, along with their contributions throughout history. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques is a traveling exhibit from the Basque Museum & Cultural Center in Boise, Idaho. Sa, 1-4pm through 5/14; Tu-F, 11am-4pm through 5/13. $5 or free for museum members. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

Film 2016 OSCAR SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: Reno Public Radio and the Joe Crowley Student Union present the Oscar-nominated short films at the Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Attend any of the four screenings of the entire set of films. Seating is limited and advance ticket purchase is recommended. F, 2/19, 7pm; Sa, 2/20, 2 & 7pm; Su, 2/21, 2pm. $12 general admission, $6 with student ID. Joe Crowley Student Union Theater, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 682-6056, http://kunr.org.

SHOESHINE: This 1946 film by Vittorio De Sica is the Oscar-nominated tale of two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome who want to buy a horse, but instead wind up in jail after being duped by black marketeers. In Italian with English subtitles. Tu, 2/23, 7-9pm. $5-$7. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

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film experience, combining audience participation with Disney’s full-length motion picture Frozen. Audiences of all ages are invited to sing along with Anna, Elsa, Olaf and other characters. Audience members are encouraged to dress as their favorite Frozen character for the costume parade and have your photo taken with Anna and Elsa. Call or email for reservations pat@ wildhorsetheater.com. Sa, 2/20, 2 & 7pm. Donations at the door. Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 887-0438.

Music BANDA MAGDA: The Brooklyn-based musical collective moves from samba to French chanson and from Greek folk songs to Colombian cumbia. Sa, 2/20, 8pm. $17 Churchill Arts Council members, $20 nonmembers. Barkley Theatre, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, http://churchillarts.org.

COME IN FROM THE COLD FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES: The 2016 series continues with a performance by Backstage Pass. Sa, 7pm through 3/12. $3 suggested donation per person. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

DUSTBOWL REVIVAL: The band merges old school bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, swamp blues and the hot swing of the 1930s to form a spicy roots cocktail. F, 2/19, 6pm. $22 in advance, $28 at door, $5 students with ID. CVIC Hall, 1602 Esmeralda Ave., Minden, (775) 782-8207, www.cvartscouncil.com.

NEVADA WIND ENSEMBLE AND SYMPHONIC BAND: The Nevada Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band perform classics and contemporary works from the canon of wind band repertoire. F, 2/19, 7:30pm. $5; free for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

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.

RENO PHILHARMONIC CLASSIX FOUR: The Reno Philharmonic continues its 2015-2016 Classix series with guests the Donald Sinta Quartet. The program features Gershwin’s An American in Paris (new critical edition), Bolcom’s Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet Orchestra, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Berstein’s West Side Story: Symphonic Dances. Su, 2/21, 4pm; M, 2/22, 7:30pm. $32-$86, senior discounts available. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393, www.renophil.com.

WEEKLY DRUM CIRCLE: Bring your drum, your didgeridoo, poi, hoops and silk or just yourself and enjoy the soothing sounds of the Morris Drum Circle. All are encouraged to participate, dance and play. M, 8:30pm through 7/25. Free. Morris Burner Hotel, 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171, https://www. facebook.com/MorrisBurnerHotel.

Sports & Fitness GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a naturalist along one of the Galena Park trails and learn about the area. Bring water, sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes. Sa, 10am through 3/18. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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Fifty shades of wait I’m a very successful guy in my 30s. I had a lot of casual sex in my 20s, but I got sick of the disconnection and emotional fallout. I’m looking for a relationship and I’ve started waiting to sleep with women for at least a month. I tell them this, but the waiting thing seems to make them want me more and push to have sex. What I don’t get is why some get so angry at me. Women are used to men wanting sex right away—or sooner, if possible. Your being the one with your legs crossed? Well, it’s like offering a dog a strip of bacon and having him look up and say, “Aww … thanks, doll, but I’m good.” Now if these women getting angry with you were just lusty, there’s an app for that —one that allows a moderately attractive woman to swipe a sex partner over faster than Domino’s can get there with a pizza. The problem here is female sexual psychology. We all want to be wanted, but research by clinical psychologist Marta Meana finds that women, especially, seem to have an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. This makes evolutionary sense, in light of women’s need for reliable signs that a guy would stick around after sex to “provide.” A man having an uncontrollable longing for a particular woman is pretty great insurance—right up there with leg-shackling him to the cave wall. Not surprisingly, according to research by evolutionary psychologist Patricia Hawley, if there’s catnip for women it’s those “bodice ripper” novels. They feature intense male desire for a woman, but not of just any male—a “powerful, resource-holding” one, like the playboy prince or titan of industry. This alpha god cannot be tamed, until—whoops—up pops our heroine, the apparently ordinary maiden. The hunky royal or CEO is so taken with her unique (and otherwise overlooked) beauty and spirit that he can’t help but grab her and “ravish” her. Of course, in real life, we call this felony rape. In romance novels, when the guy is uber-rich and cruelly handsome, it’s the start of a beautiful relationship. So, women’s inability to defeat the time lock on your zipper is telling them something—no, not “Wow … he thinks I’m really worth getting to know,” but “Wow … he thinks I’m uggo” and “That two-week sabbatical from Booty Barre has really caught up with me.” It may help a little to reassure them that you find them wildly

attractive— like by “confessing” that you have to take three cold showers and stare at pictures of steamed vegetables before every date. For you, this is the only possible way to keep from giving them one of those man-scam long hugs that turns into sex—uh, that is, three weeks and four days later.

The silent scram I was dating this girl for about three weeks but I just wasn’t really feeling it, so I “ghosted”— stopped asking her out and just didn’t respond to her texts. Some of my friends said I was mean to “ghost,” but honestly, I think it’s a lot kinder than telling somebody you’re not into them. Why have an uncomfortable conversation when you can just slip out and everybody is spared? Why take 45 seconds to text a girl that it’s over when you can make her obsess about you for two months straight, stalk you on Instagram and bore her friends catatonic with “Is his phone broken? Is my phone broken? Did he see that drunken Facebook post? Should I have waxed my mustache?” Wordlessly disappearing on somebody you’ve spent more than a couple of hours with at a coffee bar is a kick in their dignity—telling them they aren’t even important enough for you to tell them they aren’t important. It also makes a person go unnecessarily berserko due to what’s called the “Zeigarnik effect.” Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik observed that unfinished business causes administrative problems for our mind—leaving it in a “state of tension” and causing it to annoy us (over and over) to get “closure” on whatever’s been interrupted and left incomplete. This isn’t to say you owe a woman a detailed rundown on your feelings—you just need to tell her that you’re done. Ideally, open with something complimentary and then bring down the ax: “Not working for me.” “Not feeling it.” That sort of thing. She’ll cry, she’ll eat some cake and she’ll move on. Ultimately, if you want to be kind, a breakup should feel more like ripping off a Band-Aid than hysterically searching for your car for four hours in a multi-level parking structure. Ω

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Onstage HEY BROTHER: Merry War Theatre Group presents Bekah Brunstetter’s play about the subtle nuances of life’s complications, what it means to belong and just how far someone might go to find love.

Th, 2/18, 7:30pm; F, 2/19, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/20, 7:30pm; Su, 2/21, 2pm; Th, 2/25, 7:30pm; F, 2/26, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/27, 7:30pm. $12-$15. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 848-9892.

MURDER AT THE TONYLOU AWARDS: Come walk the red carpet at this audienceparticipation, murder-mystery, dinnertheater show where you are the detective and just might become a part of the action. F, Sa, 5:45-9:30pm through 2/28; Su, 2/21, 12:45-4pm. $38.95. Gold Dust West Casino Carson City, 2171 U.S. Highway 50 East,Carson City, (775) 781-0664.

THE NETHER: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre opens their 2016 season with Jennifer Haley’s award-winning play, set in the not-so-distant future, that explores the darker side of the Internet. F, Sa, 7:30-

9pm through 2/27; Th, 7:30-9pm through 2/25. Opens 2/18. $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223716.

RADIUM GIRLS: D.W. Gregory’s drama is based on the true story of female factory workers at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey, who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. Five of the women challenged their employer in a case that established the right of individual workers who contract occupational diseases to sue their employers. Th,

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Classes 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., (775) 240-9916, www.wellnourishedbaby.com.

TAI CHI FOR EVERYONE: This is a class for those interested in the mindful practice of tai chi with some occasional qi gong mixed in. Yang-style tai chi lessons. Wear comfortable loose fitting clothing and comfortable shoes. Su, 2/21, noon. $5-$10 donation. Morris Burner Hotel, 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171.

TV & FILM PRODUCTION WORKSHOP: Take 2 offers a new television and film production class for students age 13 and up, which will focus on script writing, camera operation and cinematography, lighting strategies, audio engineering and more. At the end of the 12-week session, students will have created a professional production/short film and have the opportunity to enter it into a film festival. Th, 6pm through 4/28. Take 2 Performers Studio, 9490 Gateway Drive, Ste. 110, (775) 853-3375, www.take2performersstudio.com.

WATERCOLOR FOR ADULTS: Designed for beginner to advanced with plenty of oneon-one instruction. Open to students age 15 and older. The class takes place in the garden pavilion adjacent to the Lake Mansion. Th, 2/18, 5:30-8:30pm; Tu, 2/23, 5:30-8:30pm; Th, 2/25, 5:30-8:30pm. $30. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2.

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Reno Darwin Day Celebration This year marks the 207th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday and the 157th anniversary of the 1859 publication of his groundbreaking book The Origin of Species. Darwin Day celebrates science and humanity, and the local observation of the day will feature children’s activities, a falconry exhibit, lectures on fossils, ecology, evolution morality and the Big Bang, and an open panel discussion. The event takes place from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21, at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St. Admission is $10. Call 815-1988 or visit www.darwindayreno.com.

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KNITTING & CROCHET CLUB: This group is open to anyone who enjoys knitting or crocheting. Second and Third Sa of every month, 1-3pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

SAM ADAMS NIGHT: Join the Nevada Capital Libertarian Party at this monthly gathering. Learn about the NVCLP, listen to speakers and featured guests and visit with fellow Libertarians. Third Th of every month, 7pm. Free. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 883-2662, www.nvclp.org.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet Barbara

Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life. I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do? One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary. Do you want the lukewarm tea or the hot tea with a different flavor?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Russian

writer Ivan Turgenev was a Scorpio. Midway through his first novel Rudin, his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a woman companion. “It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.” Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks. That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Asking you Sagittarians to be patient may be akin to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable? Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.” French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Writer Ann Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.” I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If

you ask for help it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from—even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For a

limited time only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.”

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

long-running TV show M*A*S*H, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care. He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches. In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

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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Leader Todd Koch is regional director of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades in the Northern Nevada/ Northern California region, headquartered in Sparks.

How would you describe the state of the union movement now? Well, I think the way the laws and regulations are set up against unions, I think it’s been very difficult at best for us to survive and thrive, and I think that there need to be some changes or you’re going to continue to see the labor movement as a whole not do well. And when the labor movement does not do well, neither does the middle class—neither does training of skilled workers, the case of building trades.

And in Nevada? I think Nevada does fairly well. As a labor movement, Nevada does fairly well. The building trades have continued to thrive in Nevada. Of course, we found the recent “great recession” to be very hard on us, meaning that it lost us members. People left to go to other states and continue their careers in their chosen trade, but we also had people just leave the trade altogether.

Do you see the national picture changing in the foreseeable future? Not unless there’s a change to the way that the deck is stacked against labor as far as organizing.

Even before Citizens United, labor was always outspent in political campaigns by business, election after election for decades. Now, with that ruling, how can labor ever hope to compete on a level playing field?

I very much enjoyed President Obama’s remarks after Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly headed off to the Great Wherever. “Judge Scalia had a brilliant legal mind with an energetic style, incisive wit, and colorful opinions.” Translation—“The dude hated my guts, I hated his, and the number of tears shed in this White House upon his demise will be approximately the same as the number of sperm whales in Lake Mead.” To call the death of Scalia “shocking” is slightly melodramatic. Let’s face it, there’s absolutely nothing shocking about a rotund, 79-year-old man playing with guns at a remote Texas hunting ranch going bye-bye via heart attack. Not even the tiniest, infinitesimal iota of shock. Of course, this won’t stop the ding-dong wing of the Republican Party from issuing breathlessly insane statements from its headquarters in Yoyoton, Florida, about how Obama had Scalia offed by a pillowwielding hitman and so forth. I read this stuff belching forth on the ever Wacky Web and yearn for a doobie of OPINION

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I first joined the union when I was in high school as a summer apprentice. And then the reason why I did that was because my father worked in the trades. He got me a job working for the same shop he worked for. That was just a summer job. And then after I went to college for about a year I came back and rejoined the union at age 20 as part of my apprenticeship and my trade. And so I’ve been a member of the union every since 1978. I like to say that I came upon joining the union the easy way, and it was because my father opened the door for me. So it wasn’t the way that your typical worker gets in a union these days when they have to fight tooth and nail to have a union in their workplace. Ω

∫y Bruce Van Dye pissy McConnell is proposing. Never. The longest stretch for an eight-man Supreme Court was 120 days, which is how long it took an anti-Semite Senate to affirm Woodrow Wilson’s nomination of Jewish Louis Brandeis, who went on to become one of the great Supremes ever. In the present situation, it’s safe to assume that President Obama will fire up a nominee by, at least, March 15. That means there will probably be either a confirmation or, more likely, rejection, by mid-July, at the latest. But now that the Republicans have shown the President their hole card, Obama is free to make a savvy play that will make these obstructionists look feeble, futile and petty when and if they actually reject. Prediction: Barack will nominate a judge whom Republicans will pretty much have to confirm—and the Supreme Court will be greatly improved as a result. Ω

the obviously high quality shit these kooks are harfing with gusto. President Obama couldn’t say it, but I sure as hell can. Scalia was a villainous dirtbag who could be counted on, 100 percent of the time, to make a completely horrific call on whatever decision was before the court. He won’t be missed. Not for a second. As for the Republican snitfit to deny Obama the chance to seat a new judge, it’s outrageous, ridiculous, and borderline treasonous. Sorry, Grand Wizard McConnell and the rest of your Repub Reptiles, but you should have told Scalia to cool it with the steaks and martinis and the shooting of javelinas or whatever the fuck he was blowing up out there in the Big Bend desert and make sure he stayed alive a few more months. As it stands now, you do-nothing sad sacks have to deal with the reality of Oops. Bad timing. Heh heh. Gee, ain’t that a shame? In the history of the United States, no Senate has ever pulled a stunt of the kind that the eternally|

Well, the Bernie Sanders campaign would have you believe that this is that year. I’m not sure if it’s going to happen this year or not. Obviously, no matter who the president of the United States is, you still have to deal with the party that controls the House and the Senate. … That was part of the checks and balances set up by our forefathers in the United States Constitution. It was set up that way so that change happens more slowly in our country, and so it’s hard for me to understand how there could be a revolution that changes everything, especially how it’s possible we could only take over one of the parts of our government, the executive branch.

When did you first join a union, what was the job, and why did you join?

I think the only way we can compete—and the only way we competed before—is with our feet on the streets, by contacting our members. As you know, Citizens United [a U.S. Supreme Court ruling permitting unlimited campaign expenditures by corporations and individuals] also opened it up so that labor unions could contact other people besides its own members. The only way that we’re going to be able to compete is when the voters get so frustrated with this inequality of wealth and the distribution of wealth in our country that they finally decide to rise up against that inequality and do something about it. And overturning Citizens United would have to be one of the first things that would have to happen.

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