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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

We’re working on a project for this summer that we’re really excited about. Brian Burghart mentioned it last week here in this very column, but I’d like to go into a bit of detail.

As you might’ve seen on the cover last week, this newspaper just turned 21 years old.

Depending on how you look at that, we’re either a storied, hallowed institution or a young, dumb, full-of-cum kid. Or both.

Either way, we’re ready to party.

This year also marks the 21st anniversary of Rollin’ on the River, the Friday night concert series we produce during July every year. So, this year, we’re revamping the event to make it into a full summer block party at Wingfield Park.

We’ve also prided ourselves on being the definitive source for local arts information for the last two decades. So, we’re hoping to turn this event into a celebration of the local music scene. That’s where we want your help, dear readers. What local bands or solo performers would you like to see on the amphitheater stage at Wingfield Park?

And don’t feel limited by genre. We know you probably expect to see some pleasant, light-hearted, family-friendly, acoustic-guitar-strumming, ’60s soft rock—good-day-atthe-barbecue type music. And yeah, we’ll probably want to include some of that. But we’d also like to highlight some of the weirder, riskier, wilder music in the community—so, hip-hop, EDM, metal, punk and whatever else. Some of that stuff might not end up on the main stage, but we hope to do some afterparties and late-night events as well.

Just be sure to keep it local.

In recent years, there have been several attempts at starting music "festivals" in the city, and just to be clear, this is not that. This is just going to be a few parties—fun community celebrations with a focus on local music.

Please send music recommendations for our events by email to contest@newsreview. com with “Party Music” in the subject line.

Re “Is occupation terror?” (Let Freedom Ring, Feb. 11): Brendan Trainor, self appointed expert on the criminals—er, um, “heroes” who took over my national wildlife refuge at gunpoint up there by Lake Malheur, knows so much about the situation that he doesn’t even know the name of the damned county where this all took place. It’s Harney County, not Hanley County, cupcake.

Secondly when a bunch of fruit bats spend weeks telling the world how much they want to kill law enforcement officers, and then one of them tries to run a cop over with his vehicle, it should come as no surprise that when he gets out of the car and reaches into his jacket, the law enforcement officers opened fire immediately and killed him. And no, Mr. factually devoid granny boy, Finnicum didn’t just “drive into a snowbank”; he accelerated and aimed his vehicle directly at a law officer and tried to run him over. This is called attempted murder of a law officer, and the cops had every right to blow his brains all over the landscape at any point after he tried that little chickenshit maneuver.

Oh, and by the way, it wasn’t just a maintenance shack they took over.

You lied about that, and you know it. It was an office building. With computers and file cabinets inside it that had personal information such as the addresses of the government employees who worked at the refuge. I guess that, as usual, all I can really say about your wild fabrications and piss poor journalism is that you, sir, are a liar. But you’re obviously a big fan of these kind of people. So next time some of these nuts try to take over a government facility, I suggest you get yourself a cute little AR-15, thump your atrophied old chest a few times, and go join them. Mostly so I can either come visit you while you wear your orange jumpsuit in prison, (which would be a hilarious thing to see) , or come visit your desolate grave after the feds rightfully cap you.

Chris Rosamond Reno

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Re “Is occupation terror?” (Let Freedom Ring, Feb. 11): First, I didn’t see anyone else exiting the truck before Finicum was shot. Second, Finicum, who had just asked the cops several times to, “Just shoot me,” did exactly what someone would do, who wanted martyrdom for himself, but the safety of the other truck passengers. He quickly exited the truck, stuck both hands up in the air, walked approximately 25 feet to the rear of the truck and away from it, then he pretended to be fumbling to get his gun. He got his wish. He was “martyred” and the other truck passengers were not harmed by any stray bullets.

Scott Perry Salinas, California

Letters that make us cry Re “Songs that make us cry” (cover story, Feb. 11): As soon as I saw the cover story, I started making my list, and I didn’t see any of my weepy songs in the article.

They are: “For Once In My Life” by Stevie Wonder.

“A Room Full of Roses” by Mickey Gilley.

“I’m Sorry” by Brenda Lee. Anything by Patsy Cline, but especially “Crazy.”

And always, “God Bless America”

by Kate Smith.

How about a story about movies that make us cry? I’m making my list.

Hey, I’m running out of tissues!

Brad MacKenzie Reno

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Apple is taking a stand against President Obama’s administration and the FBI because of Edward Snowden’s courageous actions. Technology companies would never have stood up to the Obama Administration if Edward Snowden chose to stay silent.

Suddenly Apple and other tech companies are embarrassed because they created an all you can eat data buffet for the NSA. Now Apple is rightfully trying to make amends to privacy conscious consumers.

However, my concern is that Apple iPhones might already have some sort of anti-encryption back door built into their software in the Chinese and Russian markets.

In order for Apple to sell iPhones in China, or Russia, Apple had to agree to the these repressive regimes internet and telecommunications regulations. Unfortunately, I worry that Apple might have inadvertently built in technological back doors into their iOS and iPhone software in the Chinese and Russian markets that can be exploited by the NSA. Earl Ammerman IV Reno

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Re “Songs that make us cry” (cover story, Feb. 11): Thanks very much for your great piece. I found it in my ASCAP daily news letter. I can relate to many of your respondents’ answers as to the songs that make them cry or the reasons in the songs. I am an amateur musician and have a little band. We

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play what is known as “Americana” style music. That is a fancy word sometimes for hillbilly music or “Old School” country music.

At any rate, there are some songs that I have learned and in the process of learning them, would actually not be able to sing the song because it would make me start crying in the middle. One in particular is “Seminole Wind” by John Anderson, which I first heard the day after the “storm of the century” back in the 90s. It describes the total greed and corruption that has devastated the Florida environment and the lives of the Seminole tribe.

I could listen to the song and get emotional but to sing it and to say the lyrics out loud made me cry. I think the tears were guilt of what my people (white people) have done to this state and this planet and to Native Americans. It took me about a month to be able to get all the way through “Seminole Wind” without crying.

You are correct in that different songs strike different chords to different people, but thank God, that is just one of the many powers of music.

Lew Dawg Cloninger MrHillbilly49 The Stray Dawgs Plantation, Florida

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What is Reno’s signature food?

Asked at the Great Western Marketplace, 4855 Summit Ridge Drive Shannon Martell Business owner

Barbecue. Why? Because we live in the West, and barbecue is mostly like a Southwestern kind of thing. With the rib cook-off we hold every year and the chili cook-off—these things go handin-hand.

Sandy Little House cleaner

Ribs. Because of the rib cook-off. I love them. I like the pork, little spare ribs, short ribs.

Lynn Wilkinson Screenwriter

Debbie Smith 1956-2016 The first message received in our newsroom about the death of Washoe Sen. Debbie Smith came from a Republican, U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei. It said in part that because she had “a huge heart for children and families, Debbie fought tirelessly to ensure every child in Nevada received a great education.”

Democrat Smith would have been pleased. In these days of polarization and vitriol in politics, she worked hard in the legislative halls to avoid breaking off dialogue between Republicans and Democrats. In this case, she served in the Legislature with Amodei.

But grace notes were not played in every forum. Even death did not shelter her from the meanspiritedness of our age, the malignant brain tumor that killed her becoming grist for the ideological mill. Reader comments contained findings of fault like “she should have resigned and tried to recover and spend time with her family. Not to be seem [sic] as a political martyr”; “DemocRATs, by definition, are brainless, so whatever disease she had may have been malignant, but I doubt this parasite suffered long”; “her support of government-funded education.”

This last was an accusation to which she would have happily pleaded guilty. To the end, she was working to fund education, as a member of a committee planning a measure to appear on this year’s ballot.

In the Assembly, she succeeded Jan Evans, her good friend and neighbor who lived on the same street in Sparks. That said a lot about her—first, that she knew her neighbors, and second, that she practiced politics as a neighbor.

Smith was often fearless, speaking up on issues like gun background checks and gun bans against domestic batterers on which, if she had been more concerned with OPINION

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The reason it’s a tough question is because some of the best restaurants have gone. ...

No Marie Callender’s, no Hungry Tiger.

All of those have gone away. What is the longest running restaurant that’s been here? Probably Johnny’s Little Italy …

The one thing that I wish we had is a place where you could go and have a piece of pie. … We need a Village Inn.

protecting her political career, she would have stayed silent. And her districts, not always in agreement with her, usually rewarded her candor.

She tried to deal with the damage STAR Bonds (Sales Tax Anticipation Revenue) are doing to public schools.

What she was not willing to do was demonize those with whom she disagreed on this and other issues. Like a lot of folks, she didn’t understand the rancor some Republicans use to advance their positions.

This is not one of those “both sides do it” matters.

Independent voices have spoken up against a polarization that is created mostly on the right. Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, who with Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution has documented the asymmetrical nature of polarization, has written that it is time for journalists to stop creating a false equivalence “which in many ways is a larger ingrained journalistic habit that tries mightily to avoid any hint of reporting bias, is the reflexive ‘we report both sides of every story,’ even to the point that one side is given equal weight not supported by reality.”

Like most people, Debbie Smith didn’t really understand those who spread divisiveness in politics. She just did her best to cope with it and set a better example. Her soft answers may have turned away some wrath, but wrath kept becoming more and more the norm in the Nevada Legislature until it looked pretty much like Congress.

A good way to remember Debbie Smith might be to criticize without rancor, to return some decency to the practice of politics, some gentleness to the way we conduct ourselves in public life. But that would require submerging ideology to maturity, forbearance, and civility. Ω |

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M&M’s soul food restaurant, for me.

I don’t know about nobody else. It’s a good—it’s a heartwarming food that makes you feel comfortable. It’s a comfort food. It’s comfort, and it’s from my roots. It reminds me of my mom.

Collard greens, fried chicken wings—I love chicken wings. And I love their ribs too.

Barry Klumpp Wizard

Ribs. Let me tell you what—ribs, ribs, ribs. Well, because of all the things I’ve eaten here—as a visitor and as a new person that moved here a while back— the ribs really got my attention. They are exceptional. I’ve had ribs everywhere, and I’ve never had ribs as delicious as I’ve had here.

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Obstacles to democracy It’s over! It’ll be another four years until we caucus again. And that’s not long enough for many people who left Saturday’s Democratic caucus disillusioned with the process, desperately longing for a presidential primary instead.

They have a point. In many by precincts, the caucus was chaotic Sheila Leslie and beyond messy. Turnout at 80,000 Democrats was nowhere near the 120,000 people in 2008, so it’s hard to fathom why it was so much more disorganized and tumultuous.

Lines to get in were endless, stretching for blocks in my west Reno neighborhood where three of Reno’s largest precincts were assigned to an elementary school with a small multi-purpose room that was quickly crowded, humid, and deafening.

Brightly-clad Bernie volunteers pleaded for patience but cheerfully ignored the “you must be in line by noon” rule, as even more people crammed into the packed room well after 1 p.m. My precinct

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of 197 people was moved to the playground but since there was no microphone to announce the change it seems likely some people were never informed.

After an hour of milling about on the playground, several of us dove into the overwhelmed multi-purpose room and finally identified a young woman with a white packet, a precinct leader.

We strongly encouraged her to join us outside so we could begin our caucus before even the diehard Democrats left.

For me, the best part of the caucus was actually standing in the long line to get into it. There were lots of neighbors and friends to greet, and the political discussion was organic, bubbling up naturally as we slowly inched forward. It felt like an hour well spent, chatting about politics and marveling at all the Democrats in a line that stretched to opposite corners of a long city block.

Once inside, patience quickly turned to annoyance. Volunteers

were working hard to check people in but seemed clueless as to which precinct went where or when the process would begin. No one seemed to be in charge. I offered several times to assist but was politely waved off. There was no microphone and no hope of being heard above the din. Worse, there were no accommodations for the disabled or elderly, many of whom had spent more than an hour in line and now could not sit down and rest.

People asked me why Nevada doesn’t have a primary instead of a caucus, rightly pointing out the number of people who were disenfranchised due to the short window for voting and the insanity of the process, at least in our neighborhood. I gave them the historical perspective, noting that before Senator Reid managed to move us up to third in the nation in 2008, Nevada almost never earned a visit from one presidential candidate, much less virtually all of them.

If only there had been an organized political discussion, a real

caucus, I would have come away happier. Instead, after two and half hours, we were finally able to turn in our voting cards, and the majority of our large precinct immediately departed—missing the final tally and the selection of delegates to the Washoe County Democratic County Convention.

The best dialogue I had occurred while I was searching for our precinct leader. I bumped into a friend I hadn’t seen in months who told me he was caucusing for Sanders, and we had a friendly argument about the merits of the two candidates. His bottom line was wishing to send the party a message. My counterargument was the need to move beyond a symbolic message and pick the candidate who gives us the best chance of winning in November.

He gave me a kiss and a hug and said he wasn’t ready to stop sending his message yet.

It was an answer I could respect. Ω

For more on caucus vs. primaries, see www.factcheck. org/2008/04/caucusvs-primary/

The market and solar When the Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) raised the monthly connection fees and reduced the compensation for distributed or rooftop solar power that homeowners would be paid for selling excess power to Nevada Energy from retail to wholesale rates in December, the by Brendan Trainor solar industry in Nevada went into panic mode. At least three major companies are leaving Nevada, and others are cutting jobs.

The Alliance for Solar Power and the Libertarian Party of Nevada circulated a petition to remove the PUC members who voted this in and restore the incentives. I wish I could join my Libertarian Party friends in this, but I believe they are wrong.

Certainly everyone wishes the government would keep its word, but ask any Native American if they believe government is trustworthy.

There are no legally binding contracts with the state. Sure, petitions or elections may sometimes work, but that is far different from enforceable private contracts.

4. NV Energy Renewable Generations Rebate Program.

This program is run by NV Energy.

It is offered to solar, wind and hydro systems. It was established in 2003 as a result of Assembly Bill 431 (“the Solar Energy Systems Demonstration Program”) and began in August 2004.

These are on top of the federal tax deductions and low cost loans offered to solar power companies and homeowners. The list also includes the Nevada Renewable Energy Portfolio, which is the mandate to increase power derived from renewables in Nevada, special licensing breaks for solar installers, green building requirements that cover both state and private buildings, Nevada sales and use tax abatements, etc.

I can sympathize with Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force director Judy Treichel and others who complain that they invested their hard earned money in solar energy as part of their retirement plans to save energy costs. I can also

Solar power is simply not ready for the marketplace without massive government subsidies.

The list of subsidies is long and complicated. There are numerous websites devoted to figuring them out, and dedicated solar installers standing by the phones to crunch the numbers for you if you can’t figure it out yourself.

Here is a short list of major subsidies: 1. Property Tax Exemption.

Any value added by a home solar power system will not be included in the assessed value of your home, and therefore your property taxes will not increase.

2. PACE Financing. PropertyAssessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing allows property owners to finance the purchase of a home solar power system through a special assessment on the property.

3. Net-Metering. With the latest amendment in 2007, Nevada’s net-metering laws allow home solar power systems up to 1MW to join.

sympathize with owners of municipal taxi medallions that are now made worthless by Uber. But both Ms. Triechel and the medallion owners made the choice to invest in the monopoly power of the state rather than in the (relatively) free market.

Nevada Energy says that solar power subsidies cause non-solar users to pay more for their electricity. Undoubtedly, NV Energy wants to build their own solarpowered generation plants and reduce the incentives for distributed power. Let the birds burn!

There is no “right” to solar power. Government subsidies are a privilege, not a right. Libertarians should support a mandate and subsidy-free energy market, and should advocate the end of the progressive model of regulated monopolies like NV Energy, so consumers have real choices in who provides their energy needs. Ω

For the Bloomberg analysis of the Nevada net metering dispute, go to www.bloomberg. com/features/2016solar-power-buffettvs-musk/

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Trish Swain, a precinct chair and Sanders supporter, directs Linda Van Orman during Democratic caucus registration at Shaw Middle School.

Cooperation trumps polarization On caucus eve last week, leaders of several faiths announced a new effort to make common cause in the religious community and combat those who want to pit religions against each other.

At the Reno Islamic Center, it was announced that substantial funds have been committed by various religious groups to build a home in Reno through Habitat for Humanity while also building amity and joint cooperation among the faiths.

Habitat spokesperson Christine Price thanked the group for “help in welcoming home one more family,” a comment that was both literal and figurative.

Rabbi ElizaBeth Webb Beyer of Temple Beth Or and North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation said there is a local history of faiths closing around each other when one is under fire.

“As a clergy group we tend to work on promoting peace and unity in our community,” she said “In the past we have helped Sikhs who were being attacked in Reno and Christians who were being vandalized in Incline Village.”

Attacks on religions in this area have been a chronic problem. For instance, just 48 minutes into the New Year, the new century, and the new millennium on Jan. 31, 2001, three arsonists—one of them wearing a shirt bearing a cross—tried to torch Temple Emanu-El in Reno, the city’s oldest Jewish congregation.

“I see it as more of communities coming together to support Muslims,” said Buddhist Rev. Shelley Fisher at the Habitat announcement.

To make sure no one missed the message, a flyer announcing the event read, “In light of today’s political climate and national rhetoric, we are making a statement about our shared values in Northern Nevada: diversity, inclusion, and community.”

“It is important to counter the notion that America hates Muslims,” said Catholic diocesan spokesperson Rita Sloan.

The effort A young mother and her son listen while was organized in community leaders speak. part by News & Review owner Jeff vonKaenel, who set up a similar initiative in Sacramento and is now working on others for urban areas around the nation. He said the ease with which churches and leaders joined in and committed funds surprised him. “They were like—‘Jeff, we love this idea.’ … So why should we not come together and build a hundred homes?” vonKaenel said. “A hundred homes, a hundred communities coming together.”

Imam Abdul Rahim Barghouthi said of the effort that “this is a blessing and it comes with responsibility. And that responsibility is to take care of one another.” He added, “I see Islam in America and I see America in Islam.”

Headlinizing A student named Ali Amoroso at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill wrote in 2011, “A noun serves as the subject of a sentence; a verb expresses the action of a sentence.

So then why is the line between the two being blurred by transforming nouns into verbs by simply adding -ize at the end?”

In that connection, we offer this heading from a news release issued by the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources: “Inspection of totalizing meters in the Humboldt River Basin will begin in April.”

—Dennis Myers

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School days Laboratory of democracy gave up its verdicts The parking lots at Shaw Middle School in the Spanish Springs Valley were nearly full, and drivers would soon start by filling up dirt lots and desert. Linda Dennis Myers Carson, a first-time caucus-goer, was startled by the number of people at the event. As she headed from her car to the school, she asked another arrival, “Are all these people for the caucuses?” Assured that they were, she asked, “Are they both Democrats and Republicans?” No, just Democrats, she was told. She absorbed that, then said, “Good job, Democrats.”

Glitches were a bigger deal in news coverage than on the scene Carson works at a Spanish Springs pharmacy.

“I don’t know what to expect,” she said. “From everything I’ve heard, they’re unsure about who’s going to show up.”

Her candidate? Hillary Clinton.

“I’ve followed her for my whole life, pretty much. She’s the strongest person running.”

She signed a Planned Parenthood petition on her way into the building. While she did, an unidentified woman tore down Clinton signs taped to the brick posts at the front door of the school, something that

has not happened in earlier caucus years, when signage was left in place until the end of the caucus. Once inside, Carson was faced with several lines. She got in one and began waiting. Seventeen precincts were meeting at Shaw.

Trish Swain was already registered and was working on other matters.

She’s caucused before, and has been a precinct chair before, so she knows the routine. The retired school counselor was wearing a Bernie Sanders t-shirt. Her reason for supporting Sanders is one heard a lot from Berners—authenticity.

“Number one, Bernie is not changing his position just to appear to be whatever he is not,” she said. “He is genuine. He has been consistent throughout a long career of being a progressive.”

Back in the Truckee Meadows, meanwhile, Native American Lydia Perez, who works as a trainer, was trying to learn her way around the process at Booth Elementary School, where five precincts were meeting.

It was her first time at a caucus. In earlier years she had to work on caucus day. She’s supporting Clinton.

“I had to vote for somebody that could really help us, basically the middle class people. …Because I guess she has enough experience to help us people.”

At Booth, Sanders signs were stuck in the lawn, and they were left undisturbed. Turnout was everything the Democrats could have hoped

for—maybe too much. Supplies ran low, the process dragged.

When the vote counting began, the Democratic Party lagged well behind media reports. Just before 3 p.m., for instance, CBS was reporting the results of 76 percent of precincts.

The party’s website was at 32 percent—and this was half an hour after Clinton had claimed victory and thanked Nevadans. (“The feeling is mutual, Nevada.”) It was also easier to tell where the votes were coming from on the commercial sites. On the other hand, CBS stopped posting results once it called the race.

Several days later Carson City and Clark results are still incomplete.

The Democratic Party may have LINDA CARSON been slower, but it finished the job: Clinton 52.65 percent (6,316), Sanders 47.34 (5,678).

Sanders carried Washoe (54 to 46 percent) and the small counties (52 to 48), but he could not overcome Clinton’s showing in vote-rich Clark (55 to 45), which contains most of the state’s population.

In 2008, after Obama lost Nevada to Clinton, his campaign fuzzed the issue by claiming that Obama had won more delegates to the national convention even while losing the caucuses vote. It wasn’t true, and the party denied it, but journalists reported it as fact, so it took the edge off Obama’s defeat. This year, Clinton’s campaign tried the same thing. Jarred to learn from entrance/ exit polls that Sanders took the Latino vote away from Clinton 53 to 45 percent, Clintonites put out the word that the polls are flawed and that precincts with Latino majorities were more reliable—and LYDIA PEREZ that she carried them.

Some things in the exits could not be obscured, however. They show some weaknesses in winner Clinton that could be exploited in the general election. Among voters to whom trustworthiness and honesty is important, Clinton got only 11 percent—and this is among Democrats. And Sanders has cut heavily into Democratic women, getting a whopping 73 to 22 percent among women under age 45.

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Rubio supporters gathered in a Traner Middle School classroom.

There had been those who, earlier in the year, trivialized the importance of the Nevada caucuses. But by the time they were held, they had taken on considerable importance. The Los Angeles Times called the stakes in the Nevada race “exceedingly high.”

Politico: “It’s the most representative early state, and offers the first real test of whether the two parties can capture new voters.”

Of course, those described the Democratic caucuses in Nevada.

Punch trump Five hours before the Nevada GOP caucuses began, the Washington Post threw up a story headlined, “The Nevada caucuses are still Trump’s to lose—and he still could.”

Well, not so much.

To be sure, Republicans in the state troubled by Donald Trump had begun closing around Rubio as the best alternative to Trump. Ken Lax, a car sales manager, is a veteran caucusgoer, and he was on hand again this year, supporting Rubio at Traner Middle School. He calls the caucuses “trying” but also values them as an important democratic process.

“I believe in our entire system and what it accomplishes. … I think sometimes it becomes mundane, but the end result is much more appreciated than any other form of voting or caucusing I have come across.”

Today’s politics fosters cynicism, but somehow, some people avoid falling prey to it. When asked questions, Lax takes his time answering, thinking before he speaks. That makes him a perfect caucus participant, because caucuses demand deliberation. It also contrasts sharply with Trump, who speaks without KEN LAX thought a good deal of the time. In the last rally of his Nevada campaign, Trump responded to a Nevada heckler—“I’d like to punch him in the face” and hinted that the man should be carried out of the hall on a stretcher—a hint the crowd fortunately did not follow.

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The entrance/exit polls offered information on Republicans’ thoughts about the candidates, but also revealed some things about the party itself.

NBC exits indicated that only eight percent of those attending the GOP caucuses came from the group that Ronald Reagan once hoped would become a regular source of GOP strength—Latinos. Respondents to an ABC exit poll said they value being outside the system over experience by about two to one.

There were problems in the GOP caucuses, as in the Democratic caucuses, but they loomed larger in news coverage than in the settings themselves. The Democrats were more festive in the face of whatever glitches came to pass.

Washington Post: “Why aren’t the Nevada Republican caucuses a bigger deal?”

The Nevada GOP leadership did it to themselves. Last year, they tried to kill the early caucuses in favor of a primary that would help them control the party better than caucuses, which had allowed supporters of Ron Paul to twice take a majority at the state convention. But personal intervention

by Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid prevented the Republican-dominated legislature from making the switch to a presidential primary.

The GOP then pushed the date of their caucuses back three days so it would not be on the same day as the Democrats. The move reduced the clout of the state and of state Republicans, making the Nevada GOP caucuses the fifth presidential nominating event in the nation instead of the third. It also sharply reduced the amount of money the candidates spent in the state. Trump, Rubio and company spent millions more in the Republican contest in South Carolina than in Nevada. Ω

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“Basically, the phosphorus pellets are one of three components you’d buy at Home Depot in a bag of fertilizer: phosphorus, nitrogen, maybe a potash or potassium-type additive,” explained Reno Public Works Department professional engineer David Kershaw.

At TMWRF, wastewater is processed by microorganisms as it travels through a complex series of tanks and digesters. Digested sludge is separated into a solid (called “cake”) and liquid (called “centrate”) via a centrifuge. The cake is then hauled off to Lockwood Landfill. The nutrient-rich centrate is where the fertilizer will come from.

“The centrate that comes off the digested sludge, the liquid part of it, it’s kind of a dark beer color,” said Kershaw. “That is really high in phosphorus and ammonia, nitrogen.”

With new equipment purchased as part of a $24.9 million program to make improvements at the facility, TMWRF will produce approximately 2,000 pounds of Crystal Green pellets per day. The pellets will then be sold For information on back to Ostara at a fixed price, providing income for the facility and helping the Truckee Meadows to reduce costs in other ways.

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Ostara and Crystal Another component of the improvements at TMWRF is a new co-generGreen: ation unit that will allow the facility to produce electricity by combusting http://ostara.com/ methane gasses that come off the digester tanks. TMWRF had this capability in the past, but the previous system stopped working about 10 years ago. The replacement unit went online in late January, and will generate about one third of the power required to operate the plant, said Kershaw.

Although the cities of Reno and Sparks were fined in 2013 for water quality violations related to nitrogen discharges to the Truckee River, TMWRF is back in compliance. When the violation occurred, the facility was operating at 99 percent of its capacity to process nitrogen. Last year, according to Kershaw, the plant operated at about 82 percent of capacity, and should be able to handle projected growth for approximately the next 20 years—assuming no major changes occur in arriving water chemistry.

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In search of the city’s signature dish

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hicago has deep-dish pizza. Kansas City has barbecue. Philadelphia has cheesesteak. But what’s Reno’s food? What’s the one item that every visiting tourist arrives in town dying to try? Or the one dish that, if a Renoite were to taste a convincing facsimile, even if concocted far away, would taste like home?

Reno food culture has changed substantially over the course of the last decade or two. Local tastes have moved away from casino buffets and toward locally grown farm-to-table produce, from chain diners to gourmet gastropubs. Food is both how we understand ourselves as a community—we are what we eat—and part of how the rest of the country sees us.

Every local resident probably has a short list of local restaurants where they like to take visiting friends and relatives. But these restaurants are probably chosen more for their overall quality—the best food and ambiance—rather than for representing some unique regional identity. However, there is one ethnic cuisine that is on almost every resident’s list: Basque food.

“Basque is usually mentioned, but we only have two restaurants in town, and I bet more people will say they had a taco than sweetbreads in any given week,” said Todd South, the RN&R’s resident foodie and restaurant reviewer. “Boise has a much larger selection of Basque food and culture than we do.”

Yes, there are only two Basque restaurants in Reno, but that’s two more than most cities. And both restaurants—Louis’ Basque Corner, 301 E. Fourth St., 323-7203, and Santa Fe Hotel, 235 Lake St., 323-1891—are staples of the local culinary landscape— long-running, family-owned joints that have been popular for generations. Debates about which of the two places is better can grow fierce and bitter. Either way, the misleadingly named sweetbreads—which are neither sweet nor bread—are worth trying, as is the picon punch, the cuisine’s signature drink. Still, two beloved restaurants don’t really constitute a region-defining culinary movement—especially not when the food in question already represents a region and ethnic population on the other side of the planet.

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Fish Food Perhaps Reno’s culinary identity is not based on a single dish, but rather a style of eating: gluttonous face-stuffing. For Reno folks, accustomed to allyou-can-eat sushi, it can be a confusing experience to dine out on sushi anywhere else. You walk into any sushi restaurant in Northern Nevada, and the assumption is almost always AYCE. The host or hostess might confirm, “All-you-can-eat, right?” or you might even need to speak up if you want to order a la carte. Most other places, asking about the AYCE price is like asking the conductor of a symphony orchestra to play “Free Bird.” Some recent transplants to Reno refuse to eat out at local sushi restaurants for fear of observing the troughslurping approach to edible art.

Sushi & Teri, a now defunct south Reno restaurant is sometimes credited with starting AYCE sushi back in the ’90s. To compete, other local sushi places started offering the deal, and now it’s considered industry standard in the valley, with at least two dozen local restaurants offering AYCE deals.

The AYCE sushi ritual might be a surprising holdover from the glory days of the local casino industry, when casino buffets were considered hot spots.

“It’s still a town whose eating habits are influenced by the casino buffet mentality—quantity and price over quality,” said Art Farley, the owner of Brasserie Saint James, a popular and awardwinning Belgian-influenced brewpub in midtown.

“That’s why all-you-can-eat sushi is so popular here, and also why a proper and traditional sushi bar will probably never make it in Reno. In fact, all-you-can-squat-and-gobble sushi may be the closest thing we have to a Reno signature meal.

I’ve heard it started in Reno, but I have not taken the time to confirm whether that is true. It’s the one thing everyone I know in Reno eats regularly.”

Although many sushi lovers, including Farley, think that the quality of local sushi suffers because of the emphasis on AYCE dining, other local foodies think the fact that the local market is so competitive helps keep the quality up.

“The closest thing I can come up with as being a Reno phenomenon—if not actually a unique cuisine—is AYCE sushi that doesn’t suck,” said South. “Although it is becoming more common to find the occasional AYCE sushi bar in other cities, more often than not the quality is very poor. …

The thing that perhaps makes Reno sushi stand out is the sheer number of restaurants offering it, the competitive nature of the market, and the fact new options open every year.”

Either way, there’s some irony to eating a food with as many supposed health benefits as sushi in a manner as unhealthy as AYCE tends to be.

“All-you-can-eat sushi and seafood buffets— while these might be the first things that come to mind for tourists, they are not exactly representative of Reno’s cultural and culinary heritage,” said Barrie Schuster, a local realtor involved with historical building preservation causes in the area and former owner of Café De Luxe.

Sushi Sake in the Eldorado is one of several dozen AYCE sushi joints in the Truckee Meadows.

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“In fact, all-youcan-squat-andgobble sushi may be the closest thing we have to a Reno signature meal.”

Art FArley,

the owner of Brasserie saint James

Schuster proposes that Reno doesn’t necessarily have a signature dish or even a signature approach to eating, but instead has a signature meal: breakfast.

“Have you seen the lines outside all of Reno’s breakfast places on a Sunday morning?” she asked.

“Does any other city breakfast the way Reno does? Or is this just a sign of a breakfast restaurant shortage?”

Some of the most popular and beloved local restaurants are breakfast joints, like Peg’s Glorified Ham n Eggs, which has expanded from a single location in downtown Reno, 420 S. Sierra St., 329-2600, to a small chain with locations all over the region. Two Chicks, 752 S. Virginia St., 323-0600, is an anchor of Reno’s midtown and one of the city’s most popular new restaurants. But big, sloppy breakfasts are part of a long tradition in the valley—the meal is a cornerstone for classic Reno restaurants, like the iconic Gold ‘N Silver Inn, 790 W. Fourth St., 323-2696, and most of the casino diners have offered various breakfast specials over the years.

In fact, the love of breakfast is also based on an emphasis on quantity: Reno breakfasts, like Reno sushi, are often big meals with giant plates of food.

Schuster speculates that local love of breakfast is the flip side of another well-documented local habit: Binge drinking. Many Renoites are perversely proud of our deliriously high per-capita alcohol consumption. Drinking happens 24-hoursa-day, seven-days-a-week here, and we love it.

And what’s best after a long night of drinking (possibly one preceded by a long day of drinking)? A big ol’ breakfast to soak up the remaining booze, maybe accompanied with a Bloody Mary or a mimosa for hair-of-the-dog purposes, or maybe with a strong, stimulating cup of coffee to perhaps achieve some semblance of equilibrium.

So, what is Reno’s signature food? There’s no definitive answer. Basque cuisine, big breakfasts and AYCE sushi are all contenders, but they’re not the only ones. For many longtime locals, the casino steakhouses still offer the final word on quality. The city’s large Latino population means that there’s a lot of great options for Mexican and Salvadorean food, but no single dish dominates. In fact, the Mexican food landscape in Reno remains gloriously complex. There’s no single restaurant that stands as the best in the valley. Instead, the answer to which Mexican restaurant is the best changes for each dish. Want a burrito al pastor? Go to Mi Ranchito, 500 Denslowe Drive, 337-8411. A fish taco? Beto’s, 575 W. Fifth St., 324-0632.

Some folks might claim that the Awful Awful burger from the (Little) Nugget, 233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716, might be in the running as a signature dish of the city, but the “Awful Awful” name is now widely used to refer to mediocre, runof-the-mill burgers throughout the valley. There’s nothing distinctive about it other than the name.

Reno is still a relatively young city, and the market for culinary innovation has only recently started to take off here.

“I don’t believe Reno has a signature dish or cuisine, if you will,” said Farley. “It’s not a large enough or old enough city with a diverse enough population or food culture to have that evolve yet. I say yet because I hope it will, and we have pushed the envelope by serving people dishes like our house made blood sausage, tripe cassoulet, braised oxtail or bone marrow, dishes that you never saw on a menu in Reno. … I’d say as a

rule it takes a long time for a place to develop a signature dish. Time and diverse population. Reno seems to be headed in the right direction. People just need to be more concerned about the quality and source of their food, and a little less concerned with quantity versus price.”

Most of the cities and regions that have developed signature dishes are older cities that have had time to try many approaches and incorporate ingredients endemic to the region. New England is famous for clam chowder. Key lime pie originates in Key West, where the namesake fruit is plentiful.

Ingredients endemic to Reno include piñon nuts and wild rabbit.

“Frankly, I can’t think of many cities in the West that can lay claim to a particular dish or cuisine,” said South. “Coastal towns have seafood, but nothing that stands out in my mind the way New England chowder or Maine lobster do (or Chesapeake blue crab, for that matter). Basque food is scattered throughout California, Idaho and Nevada ranching areas. ‘California Cuisine’ sort of makes sense, but that’s a pretty broad category without a single definition.” (Although, more often than not, in menu speak, “California” is usually code for “with avocado.”)

“I think Reno’s food culture has had a major paradigm shift recently, and we are moving into a new era,” said Schuster. “I think the real answer to this question lies somewhere between ’Old Reno’ and the new local food culture that has been facilitated by the Great Basin Food Co-op’s [Distributors of Regional and Organic Produce & Products] system. When I think of Old Reno food,

Regina So (left) and Monica Perera smile over full breakfast plates at the Gold ‘N Silver.

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I think Basque and Italian. Some of the oldest restaurants in Reno are Casale’s, the Santa Fe Hotel and the Gold ‘N Silver. There’s obviously a reason they’ve been around so long. The new era of Reno food culture has a strong local component to everything from meats to eggs to vegetables.

Many of the dishes that I am seeing in the new

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SNUBS: There were two slots that could’ve

been filled with the likes of Beasts of No Nation, Steve Jobs or The Hateful Eight.

(The Academy can nominate up to 10 films for Best Picture but usually falls short. I really don’t understand that.) Star Wars: The Force Awakens deserved a nod before the weak Bridge of Spies.

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es, the crop of Oscar nominees this year is white. It’s very white. It’s inexcusably white. It’s snow sticking to Amanda Seyfried’s bare ass as she skydives naked through a fluffy cumulus cloud white.

Incidentally, FAA regulation 105.17 prohibits skydiving through any clouds due to visibility issues, so my little scenario involving Seyfried, although highly erotic and exciting, would result in arrests and/or deaths.

The Academy recently announced sweeping reforms to provide a better chance at diversity in its future nominations than what we’ve witnessed over the last few years. Mind you, I believe the best movies and performances should be nominated, regardless of ethnicity.

That said, my favorites came out at the beginning of the year, and there were quite a few glaring omissions in the nominees. I address them by category down below.

Most notably, two black actors got snubbed in the Best Actor category, men absolutely deserving of being nominated.

At this point, it’s fair to say that a bad trend has emerged in the Academy’s nominating system, and I’m glad to see that they are making an effort to fix that.

So here are my Oscar predictions, and I fully expect you to play the Bob Grimm Oscar Drinking Game while you view. I want you to take a drink every time somebody says the word “the” or “phallus”

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during the ceremony, and I want you to use chocolate milk instead of alcohol. If you are lactose intolerant, I want you to eat a block of Muenster cheese instead.

Yeah, it’s not a very good game, actually.

It’s hard on the digestive system.

Best Picture The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max The Martian The Revenant Room Spotlight This seems to really be a race between The Big Short, Spotlight and The Revenant. I think The Revenant has the combination of acting power and technical prowess to put it over the top. Plus, it has a really big bear. This would be the second year in a row a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu takes the big prize (after Birdman last year).

Spotlight was the early favorite, and The Big Short just won the Producers Guild of America Award (usually a good Oscar predictor). I still think The Revenant will take it.

Best Actor Bryan Cranston (Trumbo) Matt Damon (The Martian) Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs) Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)

heart, and she did the best she could do with Joy despite being miscast.

SNUBS: I think Daisy Ridley was deserv-

ing of a nom for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like DiCaprio, she delivered a great physical performance, but unlike DiCaprio, she spoke a lot and brought great humor to an action role. (Not a dig on DiCaprio … just saying Ridley did a lot with her character.) Also, damn you, Academy, for ignoring the great Lily Tomlin’s work in Grandma!

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No doubt, it’s DiCaprio’s year, and it’s about time. I’m a big fan of Fassbender’s work, and Damon was a blast, but Leo is going home with the gold.

SNUBS: The Academy ignores Michael

B. Jordan and his incredible Creed performance. They ignored him before for his equally amazing work in Fruitvale Station. I would have dropped Redmayne and Cranston from this list and replaced them with Jordan and Samuel L. Jackson’s career best work in The Hateful Eight.

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Cate Blanchett (Carol) Brie Larson (Room) Jennifer Lawrence (Joy) Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

Christian Bale (The Big Short) Tom Hardy (The Revenant) Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight) Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

I liked Larson, but Ronan had the best and most consistent performance from this list. Early awards momentum shows Larson as the favorite. I thought Carol was OK, but a little overrated. Rampling was excellent in 45 Years, but I think it was last on the list for voters to watch.

I love Jennifer Lawrence with all of my

Stallone is just so damn good in Creed, even when the screenplay gets a little schmaltzy. It’s some sort of movie miracle that he’s made Rocky such a deep and compelling character again. That said, I wouldn’t cry if Hardy got the award over him. His work in The Revenant is mind blowing.

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SNUBS: Lose Rylance and Bale

from this category and replace them with Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Jacob Tremblay (Room) or perhaps Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation). All three are more deserving.

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est B supporting Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) Rooney Mara (Carol) Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) This is probably the toughest one to call. Vikander is getting a lot of early awards love, as are Winslet and Mara. For me, Leigh is the clear winner here, but I don’t think she stands a chance. My gut tells me that Winslet is the victor here.

SNUBS: I would drop Vikander for The Danish Girl and either nominate her for her Ex Machina performance or Elizabeth Banks for Love & Mercy.

Best AnimAted movie Anomalisa Boy & the World Inside Out Shaun the Sheep Movie When Marnie was There Shaun the Sheep Movie and Inside Out were epically good, but Anomalisa was incredible, something beyond imaginative. I would love to see that one sneak in here, but I honestly think not enough Academy voters saw it. So, Pixar it is.

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SNUBS: Even though Creed just

missed my top 10, a nod for Ryan Coogler would’ve been appropriate.

He got an Oscar-worthy performance out of Stallone, one that deserved a nom from Jordan, and the boxing scenes are some of the best ever put to film.

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Stronger than fiction Sue Latta “I’m a little bit of a cynic,” said Sue Latta.

The sculptures she makes in her by Boise studio are sumptuously colorKris Vagner ful. Her materials—photographs, plastic resin, cast aluminum, cut bronze and wood—are so different from each other they almost shouldn’t work together, yet they’re combined into compact wall pieces in fully resolved harmony. Her presentation is slick and glossy, and her craftsmanship is absolutely flawless.

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But she’s not kidding about the cynicism. Latta’s images, while indulgently beautiful, are laden with ominous signals: rust, rubble, faded surfaces, locked doors, lost hopes, and a general sense of entropy.

She started her career as a photographer and later switched to steel sculpture. Now, her work combines photos and sculptures.

“I like to think of them as works of fiction,” she said. “They have content built into them. We read the world in a certain way. Some of that is a little universal, and some of that is a little personal.”

“I went to grad school and I told all these autobiographical stories, this one about this terrible thing that happened to me, that one about that terrible thing that happened to me,” she said.

By the time she finished grad school, in 2007, she was tired of telling the same stories. She wanted to hold onto some of her thoughts about navigating through the difficult parts of life, but she didn’t want her output to be intensely revealing.

“I decided, ‘authors get to use fiction,’” she said. She decided to use it, too. Instead of using characters and plots as her narrative building blocks, she uses thick layers of clear resin with nostalgic pictures of abandoned places adhered to them. She uses titles and phrases that confirm a sense of regret and despair: “Worst Case Scenarios,” “The mathematics of regret,” “When I said I loved you it was a slip of the tongue.” And her attention to the details of each material—cast aluminum rendered amorphous as fabric, for example— convey a strong sense of wonder and optimism.

“I think of myself as a problem solver,” she said. She constantly chips away at the technical problems each medium presents and the aesthetic problems of how things fit together, say, a cast bronze thorn and a handwritten letter in the same piece, or a photograph on a flimsy sheet of transparency film with a thick slab of cut bronze. She also works a lot on conquering what she calls “story assembly problems: How do they work together? How do they look together? How do I build it?”

Hence the flawless craftsmanship.

“I’m very particular about the way things go together,” she said. “I’m of the belief that if there’s a flaw that’s the one thing people are going to see, and that’s not what I want to get across. If I read a typo, that’s the thing I remember. I think of myself as a writer, and the viewer as a reader.

This is my version of spell check, that slick, well-crafted surface.”

“I work very hard at those surfaces, and sometimes they fail,” she said. “Most things I push to completion.”

Latta’s work is labor intensive.

Of the couple of dozen or so pieces on exhibit at the Truckee Meadows Community College main gallery, she said, “That’s about six years worth of work.” She aims for 30 to 40 hours a week in her studio, teaches art as an adjunct at Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho, and runs The Sculpture Studio, where she offers workshops. Ω

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Spring break Water Springs Diner & Bar 5015 Pyramid Way, 425-5550

In a busy shopping center at the edge of Spanish Springs lies a stand-alone building that has been home to more by Todd South than one failed “casual dining” restaurant. Capitalizing on a prominent location with a heck of a view, the recently opened Water Springs Diner & Bar has recently risen to the challenge.

With both a dining room and a lounge area, there’s seating for at least 150. The lounge can be closed off for private events. On our evening visit, the place was more than half full, with karaoke taking place in the lounge.

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at actual steakhouses. Steamed asparagus on the side was just a tad overcooked, but a big pile of mashed potatoes was above average. Topped with a peppered chicken gravy, several inch-sized chunks of spud made me feel right at home.

My wife’s dinner salad was a simple, small pile of chopped romaine lettuce with just a touch of diced tomato and grated cheese, dressing on the side. In contrast, her lobster ravioli entree was about as rich as a dish of pasta can be ($15.99). Fresh basil cream sauce topped with plenty of grated parmesan supported a combination of spinach, onion and shellfish in al dente envelopes of pasta. As with my soup and gravy, a noticeable-yet-acceptable note of black pepper was present in the seasoning.

My buddy’s mushroom Swiss burger featured a half-pound of ground Angus chuck, lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickle, house sauce, and plenty of sliced, sauteed mushrooms embedded in the melted cheese. Though ordered with onion rings, the plate came instead with fries. Our server realized the error without being told and quickly returned with a side of huge, beerbattered rings to enjoy along with the crispy, salt-and-peppered fries.

Deep-fried ice cream ($5.25) and housemade flan ($4.75) were ordered and shared; both were quite good. The ice cream was still so frozen it was a bit tough to dig in a spoon. The flan was just a tad lumpy in texture, akin to smooth tapioca, with a very good caramel sauce.

My order of apple pie was less successful ($5.25). The filling was tasty, but the crust was ruined by a run-in with microwaves. For me, a pie with top crust should always be either re-heated conventionally or served at room temperature. Microwaving turns a flaky crust into mush. I would have gladly waited a few extra minutes for a just-warmed, flaky slice of allAmerican indulgence.

This friendly little diner is still new and finding its way, but we all agreed it was a meal we’d repeat. With an extensive menu of breakfast, lunch, American and Mexican options, Water Springs is working hard to become a neighborhood favorite. Ω Photo/Allison Young

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Service was friendly and prompt throughout our experience. An order of coconut shrimp got things started, served with a wedge of lemon and sweet and spicy orange marmalade sauce ($9.99). The tender shrimp were on the large side, their deep-fried coconut coating providing a nice, golden brown crunch.

Following tradition, entrees are served with a choice of soup or salad.

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This cup was actually a small bowl filled with plenty of thick and creamy housemade soup, sporting big chunks of potato and plenty of chopped clam.

My only criticism would be that the seasoning—with a lot more salt and pepper than I normally expect for chowder—overpowered the clam flavor a bit. This nitpick didn’t stop me from finishing every drop.

My entree was cooked to order— medium rare—though possibly the thinnest cut of ribeye steak I’ve been served ($19.99). About half an inch by 10 inches, it was still a full 12 ounces of very tender and perfectly-seasoned beef. I’ve paid more for worse steaks

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Must be the season The Witch Remember how let down you felt when The Blair Witch Project never even showed a witch? That “What, that’s it?” feeling you had after the shot of the dude peeing up against the wall, having never really seen anything scary in the film, unless you count Heather Donahue’s snot and twigs as really scary?

The Witch, the Sundance award-winning by directorial debut—and total masterpiece— Bob Grimm from Robert Eggers, who also wrote the script, actually has a witch in it. She makes b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m her first appearance very early on in the film, and she’s doing a bad thing. A really, really, horribly disturbing, oh-that’s-howthis-movie-is-really-going-to-start bad thing.

Set in 1630s New England with an exceptional attention to detail, there are plenty of ways to interpret the events and themes of The Witch—the mark of a good, heady horror film. Eggers has made a horror movie with some major meat on the bone that stands in league with such classics as The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby.

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And, oh lordy, is this film creepy. The sense of dread kicks in immediately after William (Ralph Ineson) is banished from his New England settlement for getting a little too over-the-top with his religious beliefs.

He, his wife Katherine (Kate Dickie), their little baby, their oldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), son Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw), and creepy twins Mercy and Jonas (Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson) must head out into the gray forests and fields to make a life away from government and society.

The family has a lot of issues. William leans a little too hard on the Bible stuff, as does Katherine. Caleb is clearly going through puberty, and stares at sister Thomasin’s boobs in a way that surely would get him put in time-out at Sunday school. Thomasin herself, a budding woman, is starting to think there’s more to life than listening to her dad spout religious

psychobabble and milking goats all day. As for the twins, well, they’re just a couple of scary kids who scream and dance outside while allegedly talking to the family goat, Black Phillip.

Let me just get this out of the way right now. You will hate Black Phillip. Black Phillip will give a bad name to goats everywhere. Next time you see one of those goats shouting like a human being during a YouTube video, it’ll hit you in a much different way.

Thomasin engages in a simple game of peekaboo with the toddler, and the witchery commences. The setting of The Witch takes place decades before the Salem witch trails, and the movie seems to be asking the question, “Say, what if all of that hysteria was based in truth?”

Eggers doesn’t use this as a platform for anything to be considered historical, but it does provide a deliciously nasty premise for an outrageous horror movie. His period details, including the excellent costuming and structures built for the movie, definitely suggest what the times might’ve been like, and in that respect, it feels historical.

When you throw in witches drinking blood and shoving apples down kids’ throats, you get a scary vibe that is all too real.

There are many ways to interpret The Witch. Some will see it as a straightforward witch tale. Others might see it as an allegorical play upon religious zealotry and radicalization. And still others might chime in and say it’s about going through puberty with super uptight parents.

All of the interpretations work, and that’s what makes the movie so much fun for those of us who like to play guessing games about the movies we’ve seen for days afterward.

I’m still thinking about the significance of certain moments, who was actually doing all of the dirty deeds, etc. I also remember how unsettling Mark Korven’s score is, and think Jarin Blaschke’s cinematography should get some Oscar consideration come year’s end.

Also, I’m definitely hung up on Black Phillip, that damned staring rabbit, and those twins screeching and dancing in the barnyard. Eggers knows what is freaky, and The Witch pulls no punches. It will render you frightened by apples, rabbits, twins, goats, muskets, pilgrim hats, babies, milk and, oh yeah, witches. Ω

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.

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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. 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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Hail, Caesar!

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 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,. The whole thing is a blast but, admittedly, will probably go over best with diehard Coen fans.

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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

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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.

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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.

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What starts as a fairly interesting film about how foreign countries feed and teach their children goes off the rails and loses any sense of focus in this, the latest junk food documentary from goofball Michael Moore.

The premise for this one has a flag-toting Moore representing America “invading” other countries and threatening to steal ideas like great school cafeterias and free tuition. Moore has a way of presenting scintillating factoids only to cloud their presentation with dopey and gimmicky showboating. The bit where he plants American flags and says he’s claiming shit for America is lame the first time, and incredibly mundane the tenth. There’s just something about this guy when he gets all sad and somber and scary with his narrations that makes me want to throw a small car at the movie screen.

As usual, Moore presents some facts about other great countries while demonizing the one we live in. Sure, we have room for improvement, but so do the countries Moore visits in the movie. Oddly enough, we only see the really good stuff other countries have to offer with only mere small mentions of any problems they might be having. Moore has a history of twisting and playing with the facts to match up with his agenda, and this movie is no exception. Plus, it just isn’t very well made. It’s sloppy and lazy documentary filmmaking.

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15 years after the first one, a movie that wasn’t all that great to begin with, Ben Stiller returns to the land of male model mockery with what is easily the worst film he’s ever been a part of. Derek Zoolander (Stiller) 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. When Hansel (Owen Wilson) urges him to find his long lost son, they wind up in Rome battling the evil fashion guy, Mugatu (Will Ferrell).

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, OK, 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.

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Guitarist Schlingheyde and drumby Jeri Chadwell- mer Donovan Martin are the founding Singley members of the heavy metal band DownTime. j eri c@ news r eview.c om “You know what NSP means?”

Martin asked. “Prison. You know it’s prison?”

Schlingheyde and Martin met in 2000 while serving sentences at Nevada State Prison on drug-related charges. They explained that the NSP warden at the time was working to expand programs for inmates. There’d been a music program at the prison in decades past, but the equipment was old and worse for wear—much of it dating back to the ’70s and ’80s.

PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

Though Schlingheyde and Martin are the only two remaining members of DownTime to have served prison sentences, they actually met another of their fellow band members there.

“I met them somewhere along the line,” said Mark Wright, the band’s rhythm guitarist. “I probably handed them a food tray or two, or some shit like that.”

Wright was a corrections officer at NSP for 10 years. He joined the band after answering a Craigslist posting from Schlingheyde. When the two talked on the phone before Wright’s audition, Schlingheyde asked him where he was traveling from so he could give him directions.

“He goes, ‘OK, well, don’t laugh.

I’m coming from Carson— I’m a corrections officer,’” Schlingheyde recalled. “I busted up laughing. And the dude showed up. I never thought in a million years that he would have showed up.”

DownTime has played together for more than a decade. In that time, members of the band have come and gone, some have switched roles, and—as of May 2012—the Nevada State Prison has closed its doors.

Bassist Jim Wilson and singer Tommy Furlong are the newest members of DownTime. Both joined the band in 2015.

Some of the original songs DownTime recorded at NSP can still be heard online at www.reverbnation. com/downtimereno. The feelings of isolation and despair reflected in these early songs are carried through into the lyrics of the band’s newer songs, many of which are written by Wright.

While he’s never served a prison sentence, Wright said his time as a C.O. helped him relate.

“I talked to these guys all the time,” Wright said. “You get a lot from that. You can hear the struggle that a lot of them go through just talking on the phone. You can hear. And I would take time to talk to these guys when they were in there, just man to man. I got to know a lot of those guys, and I wasn’t a hypocrite. Everybody’s done something that they could have went there for. They got caught. I didn’t. That’s the bottom line.” Ω

Mark Wright, Jim Wilson, Scott Schlingheyde, Donovan Martin and Tommy Furlong are inmates of the band DownTime.

“We basically made a recording studio out of nothing, like we were MacGyver,” Schlingheyde said.

“People started buying their own guitars,” Martin explained. “We got a drum set donated, and then everybody started chipping in on a PA system and then they bought their own amps.”

DownTime’s first album was recorded at NSP in 2004. Originally, DownTime was comprised entirely of people who’d served time in prison— thus the name.

“We were down,” Schlingheyde said. “We were in prison. That’s a lot of downtime.”

Martin helped clarify the parlance, explaining that people who meet in prison will ask one another how long they’ve been there—how long they’ve been “down.” Martin was down 10 years and 45 days between 1998 and 2008, Schlingheyde for 10 years to the day. He was released in time for Thanksgiving in 2010.

DownTime play Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., on March 12.

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1UP 1UP 214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444

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FRIDAY 2/26 FRIDAY 2/26

214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444

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

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

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

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Drinking with Clowns, 9pm, no cover Drinking with Clowns, 9pm, no cover

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Bootie Reno: ’90s Mashup Night Bootie Mashup10pm, Nightno cover w/DJs AReno: Plus ’90s D, Entyme, w/DJs A Plus D, Entyme, 10pm, no cover

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UZ, Boggan, SubDocta, Mr. Rooney, UZ, Boggan, SubDocta, Gurbtron, 10pm, $15-$20Mr. Rooney, Gurbtron, 10pm, $15-$20

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Feb. 25, 7 p.m.

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PB&J’s PB&J’s 555 E. Fourth St. 555 E. Fourth St. 322-4348 322-4348

THURSDAY 2/25 THURSDAY 2/25

SABO, Zach Rawlinson, Jami Deep, SABO, Zach Rawlinson, Jami Deep, Shady Acres, 10pm, $5-$10 Shady Acres, 10pm, $5-$10

The Whiskey Haulers, 9pm, no cover The Whiskey Haulers, 9pm, no cover

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

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DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

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Chase Bryant, Scotty Mac Band, Chase Bryant, Scotty Mac Band, 9pm, $19 9pm, $19

Claude VonStroke, Max Kronyak, 530, Claude Max Kronyak, 530, Chango,VonStroke, 8pm, $25-$30 Chango, 8pm, $25-$30

Lake Street Dive, The Suffers, Lake Dive, The Suffers, 8pm, Street $20-$23 8pm, $20-$23

Anti-Flag, Leftover Crack, War on Women, Anti-Flag, Leftover Crack, War7pm, on Women, The Homeless Gospel Choir, W, $20 The Homeless Gospel Choir, 7pm, W, $20

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

The Coney Dogs, 9pm, no cover The Coney Dogs, 9pm, no cover

Irish Oscar Watching Party, Irish Watching Party, 5pm,Oscar no cover 5pm, no cover

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Kip Yager, 7pm, no cover Kip Yager, 7pm, no cover Myke Read w/guests, 9:30pm, no cover Myke Read w/guests, 9:30pm, no cover

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Jack Di Carlo, 7pm, no cover Jack Di Carlo, 7pm, no cover

The Shames w/guests, The Shames w/guests, 9:30pm, no cover 9:30pm, no cover

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 Tandymonium, 7pm, M, Open Mic Jam Slam, Tandymonium, 7pm, M,9pm, OpenW,Mic Slam, 9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, noJam cover 9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, 9pm, W, no cover

Deception, 9pm, no cover Deception, 9pm, no cover

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

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

Canyon White Open Mic Night, Canyon 8pm, noWhite coverOpen Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

Benefit Fashion Show, 7pm, donation Benefit Fashion Show, 7pm, donation

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

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

THE JUNGLE THE JUNGLE 246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484 246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

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DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Fourth Friday Session, 6pm, no cover Fourth Friday Session, 6pm, no cover

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

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 507Edwin N. Carson St.,F,Carson City,Nugget, 882-1626: San Juan, 7:30pm, City, 882-1626: Edwin San Juan, 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 Stateline, (800)Th-F, 553-1022: MichaelTahoe, Palascak, Kat Simmons, Su, 9pm, Michael Kat$30; Simmons, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa,Palascak, 8pm, 10pm, Graham Elwood, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Graham Elwood, Carrie Snow, W, 8pm, $25 Carrie Snow, W, 8pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Laugh Factory Resort Casino, 407at N. Silver VirginiaLegacy St., 325-7401: Casino, 407 Th, N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Chris Kattan, 7:30pm, $27.45; F-Sa, 7:30pm, Chris Kattan, Th, 7:30pm, $27.45; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $32.95, Basile the Greek, Su, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $32.95, Basile the Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; John Caponera, Tu, Greek, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 $21.95; John Caponera, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, 100Correa, S. Virginia St., Th, 686-6600: Freddy Kelly Hilbert, 686-6600: Freddy Correa, Th, 8pm, $10; Edwin San Juan, F,Kelly 9pm,Hilbert, $12-$18; 8pm, $10; Edwin San Juan, F, 9pm, $12-$18; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$18 Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$18

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Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Lex the Hex Blaze Dead Homie, Lex the Hex Master,YaTrilogy, 7pm, $15 Master, Trilogy, 7pm, $15

Celly Cel, WC, King Tee, 9:30pm, $15 Celly Cel, WC, King10pm, Tee, $TBA 9:30pm, $15 American Killers, American Killers, 10pm, $TBA

Signalman, Running with Ravens, Signalman, 9pm, $3 Running with Ravens, 9pm, $3

Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Outspoken: Open Mic Night, Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover 7pm, M, no cover

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THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING 1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024

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

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

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

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

Britt Straw, 7pm, no cover Britt Straw, 7pm, no cover

1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

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

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

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775)PUB 358-5484 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

King’s X, 7pm, $25 King’s X, 7pm, Thursday Night$25 Out w/Wabuska Yachting Thursday Out w/Wabuska Yachting Club, 8pm,Night no cover Club, 8pm, no cover

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

SATURDAY 2/27 SATURDAY 2/27

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

Priority Mail, 8pm, no cover Priority Mail, 8pm, no cover

Dane Rinehart, 8pm, no cover Dane Rinehart, 8pm, no cover

Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Marty O’Reilly and the Soul Orchestra, 8:30pm, noOld cover Orchestra, 8:30pm, no cover

Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Marty O’Reilly and the Soul Orchestra, 8:30pm, noOld cover Orchestra, 8:30pm, no cover

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

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

Petty Theft, 9pm, $15 Petty Theft, 9pm, $15

Showdown Fiesta: Bands vs. Tattoos, Showdown 10am, $10 Fiesta: Bands vs. Tattoos, 10am, $10 Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover

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

Krosphyer, Beauty Betrayal, Krosphyer, Beauty Betrayal, Tragedy Spring, 8pm, $5 Tragedy Spring, 8pm, $5

1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

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

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

SINGER SOCIAL CLUB SINGER SOCIAL 219 W. Second St., (775)CLUB 657-9466

DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY ST. JAMESAve., INFIRMARY 445 California (775) 657-8484

Bazooka Zoo’s Groovy Good Time Bash, Bazooka Zoo’s Groovy Good Time Bash, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover

219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 4:30pm, $35 Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 4:30pm, $35 7:30pm, M, Tu, $35 7:30pm, M, Tu, $35 Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover

RUBEN’S CANTINA RUBEN’S 1483 E. FourthCANTINA St., (775) 622-9424

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

STUDIO ON 4TH STUDIO ONSt.,4TH 432 E. Fourth (775) 737-9776

Jamie Rollins, 7pm, W, no cover Jamie Rollins, 7pm, W, no cover

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Punk Rock Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, no cover Punk Rock Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, no cover

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

Anti-Flag Anti-Flag

March 2, 7 p.m.

March Cargo 2, 7 p.m.

Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400 398-5400

Saturday Night Dance Party, Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover Ray Bonneville, Tyler Stafford, Ray 8pm,Bonneville, $8-$10 Tyler Stafford, 8pm, $8-$10

Athena McIntyre, 8pm, $TBA Athena McIntyre, 8pm, $TBA

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/29-3/2 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/29-3/2

SUNDAY 2/28 SUNDAY 2/28

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

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

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

FRIDAY 2/26 FRIDAY 2/26

WEST STREET WINE BAR WEST WINE BAR 148 WestSTREET St., (775) 336-3560

Zack Teran Group, 7:30pm, W, no cover Zack Teran Group, 7:30pm, W, no cover

148 West St., (775) 336-3560

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

Roach Gigz, Rappin 4 Tay, Logic One, Roach Gigz, Rappin 4 Tay, The Gas Station, 10pm, $15Logic One, The Gas Station, 10pm, $15

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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2) Platinum, 8pm, no cover 2) Platinum, 8pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover 2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover Steppen Stonz, 10pm, no cover Steppen Stonz, 10pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover 2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover Steppen Stonz, 10pm, no cover Steppen Stonz, 10pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover 2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover

2) The Palmore Remix, 2) TheM,Palmore Remix, 8pm, Tu, W, no cover 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Coburn Station, The Space Heaters, 2) Coburn 9pm, Station, Space Heaters, Funksalot, no The cover Funksalot, 9pm, no cover

1) Dead Winter Carpenters, Gipsy Moon, 1) Galactic, The Record Company, 1) Dead Winter Carpenters, Gipsy Moon, 1) Galactic, The Record Company, 9pm, $15-$35 9pm, $30-$50 9pm, $15-$35 9pm, $30-$50

1) Papadosio, Bluetech, 9pm, W, $17-$37 1) Papadosio, Bluetech, 9pm, W, $17-$37

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

1) Footloose, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.951) Footloose , 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95$26.95 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover $26.95 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 7pm Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 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

1) Brian Regan, 8pm, $36.70-$68.81 1) Regan, 10pm, 8pm, $36.70-$68.81 2) Brian Lex Fridays, $15 2) Fridays, 10pm, $15Colt Ainsworth, 3) Lex Country Nights w/DJ 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

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

Events BENEFIT FASHION SHOW: Sophimoya will host a fashion show benefiting the Eddy House of Northern Nevada, a non-profit dedicated to providing homeless, foster and runaway youth with programs and services to allow them to reach their full potential. The show will feature the works of local designers as well as looks by Banana Republic. Sa, 2/27, 7pm. Donation. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St. Suite 330; (775) 742-1858; www.hollandreno. org.

HORN DAY: Join the University of Nevada, Reno Horn Studio for a day of music featuring a master class and performance by guest artist Maria Serkin from North Carolina School of the Arts. Watch the University Horn Studio Cadenza Competition and bring your French horn to participate in the community horn choir. Sa, 2/27, 1pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St.; (775) 784-4278; www.unr.edu/arts.

THE HOUSE THAT TONY BUILT: Barrie

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. Su, 2/28, 1-2:30pm. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St.; (775) 7474478; www.historicreno.org.

RENO BEER CRAWL: Purchase your glass and map at The Waterfall and enjoy $1 refills at 12+ downtown Reno taverns. Fourth Sa of every month, 2-6pm through 12/24. $5 glass and map. The Waterfall, 134 W. Second St.; (775) 3227373; http://renobeercrawl.com.

WHAT EL NIÑO MEANS TO US: Stephanie McAfee, assistant professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno, is an applied climatologist with experience in analyzing both historical climate and projections of

future climate and in applying that information to resource management and conservation questions. She willdiscuss what El Niño is, how and why those conditions occur in the tropical Pacific and how they influence weather outside of the tropics. The discussion will shift to how El Niño and its companion La Niña influence rain, snow, flooding and the fire season in this area. Sa, 2/27, 10am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway; (775) 849-4948; www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

All Ages DOWNTOWN LIBRARY STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 10:30am. Free.

Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St.; (775) 327-8312.

INCLINE VILLAGE STORY TIME: Stories

and crafts for all children. W, 4pm.

Free. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave. Building A, in Incline Village; (775) 832-4130.

INSIDE OUT: AN ANATOMY EXPERIENCE:

Schuster received a HRPS Neighborhood Preservation Fund Grant to remove an enclosed sun

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.

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

RECYCLING WITH KTMB: Lauren McCullough, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful’s education coordinator, will discuss recycling in Reno and how different trash items biodegrade at different rates. She will also talk about food waste and ways to reduce our carbon footprint. Su, 2/28, 10am. $5 donation requested. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway; (775) 849-4948; www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

SOUTH VALLEYS STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 11:15am. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Pkwy.; (775) 851-5190; www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

SPANISH SPRINGS STORY TIME: Stories, songs and fun geared toward preschool children ages 3-6. M, 10:3011am. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway located at Lazy 5 Regional Park in Spanish Springs; (775) 424-1800.

SPARKS STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child.

W, 10:15am. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. in Sparks; (775) 352-3200.

SSSNAKES ALIVE!: This interactive 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.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINIC: The Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist low-income families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. First come, first served. Th, 10am-noon.

Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St.; (775) 327-8312.

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ne of Mexico’s leading brass quintets will make a visit to the Biggest Little City for a series of free performances at several Washoe County libraries. The group combines their skills at virtuosic chamber music in all styles with showmanship, Latin-American charm and non-stop interaction with the audience. M5 has been touring the United States and Canada extensively since 2008. The quintet has also played venues across the world, including stops in Colombia, Chile, Algeria and China.

M5 had their debut at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in 2015. In their 2014-2015 season, the quintet

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performed educational concerts for more than 30,000 children in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. The brass quintet will give several musical presentations this week, including one on Thursday, Feb. 25, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St. Other performances are on Saturday, Feb. 27, from 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, and later that afternoon from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at Sierra View Library, 4001 S. Virginia St. Visit www.washoecountylibrary.us.

—Kelley Lang

Art 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; www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE GALLERY: For Detail View, Capital City Arts Initiative presents work by artist Jeff Hantman. Hantman creates his wood sculptures using found wood 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. Contact Christel Passink (775) 450-3842, cpassink@gmail.com, www. arts-initiative.org/exhibit/jeff-hantman for details on this exhibit. 885 E. Musser St. in Carson City; www.artsinitiative.org.

CHARLIE B GALLERY: John Rotheram : 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, 10am-5pm through 2/29. Free. Contact Charles A. Blim Jr. (775) 575-7333, vasefndr@ cccomm.net, www.charliebgallery. com for details on this exhibit. 114 W. Telegraph St. in Carson City; (775) 575-7333.

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Cirque, Recent paintings and

drawings by Michelle Lassaline. M-Su through 3/12. 151 E. Park St. in Fallon; (775) 423-1440; www.churchillarts.org.

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: I Wonder If I Care As Much, Mixed-media installation featuring art by Timothy Conder, Nick Larsen and Omar Pierce. M-Su through 3/12.

151 E. Park St. in Fallon; (775) 423-1440; www.churchillarts.org.

FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Brett Flanigan, The first show in University Galleries’ new mural series features mural art by the Oaklandbased artist. M-F through 11/11. Free.

1664 N. Virginia St.; (775) 784-6658.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Quiet Things, Emerging artist and photographer Abigail Swanson presents her first multi-media 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, 3-6pm through 3/4. Free. Contact Alisha Funkhouser (775) 742-1858, alisha@hollandreno.org, www.hollandreno.org/event/quiet-thingsopening-reception for details on this exhibit. 140 Vesta St.; (775) 742-1858; www.hollandreno.org.

JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: BFA Midway Exhibition, Bachelor of fine arts candidates at the University of Nevada, Reno show their work at the midway point of their degree coursework in a wide range of disciplines. 2/29-3/10, 11am4pm. Free. 900 N. Virginia St.; (775) 784-6837.

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. Contact Becky Contos (775) 6825669, rcontos@unr.edu, http:// for details on this exhibit. 1664 N. Virginia St.; (775) 784-4636; www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu.

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Shrug, actually I’m in my first serious relationship. It started off super hot and sexual. Now, a year in, it’s lovey-dovey and cuddly. Not that my boyfriend and I don’t have sex. We do, and it’s still good. But we no longer sext or send cute selfies and the butterflies feeling is gone. Is it all downhill from here?

Once you’ve been together for a while, you may still have vivid fantasies running through your head during sex, like the one where you get to the dry cleaner’s before closing time.

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that we have a right to “the pursuit of happiness,” but it doesn’t get into actually having it, which, as you’ve discovered, can be a bit of a bore. This makes biological sense, considering that there are stages in attraction and bonding and a cocktail of biochemicals behind each. Dopamine, a neurochemical that researchers associate with wanting, “novelty-seeking,” and focused attention is a star player when you’re in chase mode (a.k.a. “infatuation,” “attraction,” or, more descriptively, “Who knew you could get a callus down there?”).

However, evolution is no fool, and it realized that we couldn’t spend all of our time chasing each other around whatever passed for the kitchen table back when “the man cave” was an actual cave. So bonding hormones—oxytocin and vasopressin—eventually take charge. And that’s why, a year into a relationship, you may be doing “unnatural acts” in the bedroom, but they probably involve things like dusting the miniblinds.

Going from hot sexts to ho-humming along is a result of “hedonic adaptation.” “Hedonic” comes from a Greek word for pleasure, and hedonic adaptation describes how we quickly acclimate to changes in our circumstances— positive or negative—to the point where they no longer give us the boost (or kick in the teeth) that they first did.

Research by social psychologist Philip Brickman and his colleagues suggests that we each have a happiness “set point,” and we keep getting pulled back to it. A fascinating example of this is their finding that people who won big in the lottery were (of course) stoked at first, but ultimately, they ended up being no happier than victims of crippling accidents.

Happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky finds that people in relationships can resist hedonic adaptation but it takes “ongoing effort” to bring in variety. She’s talking about varied experiences and, especially, varied surprising experiences. Surprise, Lyubomirsky explains in The Myths of Happiness, delivers “strong emotional reactions.”

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Remember strong emotional reactions? They’re a little hard to come by once you can close your eyes and draw a solar system of your beloved’s every birthmark, freckle and mole.

The good news is that, even now, you can bring surprise into your relationship—you just need to stage it.

Try to inject it into every day, and maybe take turns planning a weekly secret date night—secret from the person who isn’t the planner—so at least one of you is surprised.

You might also take turns planning separate sextracurricular activities, on the same model. Without this extra effort, sex may still be fun, but the only way it’s likely to be surprising is if one of you tries to sneak out the window afterward.

Really old men in the hood When I was in my youth, a lot of women I knew fell for bad boys. I’m now a man in my 60s, entering retirement.

Amazingly, I’m finding that even women my age prefer bad boys. What’s this about?

Since older women often end up dating much-older men, this leads to the question: What’s the profile of the elderly bad boy? Cheating at bingo? Swearing on the golf course? Shotgunning Ensure?

Some older women—just like the younger ones—go for bad boys because they don’t think much of themselves and feel most comfortable with someone who seems to share their view. But even older women who aren’t emotional shipwrecks can be drawn to the aging delinquent. It turns out that a bad boy’s unreliability has a neurological upside.

Neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz finds that unpredictable “rewards” seem to be the most satisfying for the brain— maybe even giving us three or four times the buzz of the experiences that we see coming.

So, as a nice guy, the thing to be is exciting and unpredictable—without the downside of the deviousness, thieving and unreliability. Use the element of surprise—even by hiding small presents (tiny chocolate bars) or funny notes around her house (as opposed to a bag of unmarked bills).

Ultimately, even thrill-seeking women prefer a man who says, “Quick, grab your suitcase. I’m taking you to Paris,” and not “Quick, duck down. The cops are here, and they have a warrant.” Ω

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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.

ART EXPLORATIONS AT THE LAKE MANSION: A variety of different techniques and mediums will be introduced, such as drawing, multiple paint mediums and more. Open to students age 15 and older. The class takes place in the Lake Mansion’s lower level art studio. W, 10am-noon through 3/16. $95. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2.

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.

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.

JIMMY BEANS WOOL KNIT NIGHT: Join local and visiting fiber enthusiasts for an evening of knitting and crocheting.

Fourth Th of every month, 6-8pm. Free.

Jimmy Beans Wool, 1312 Capital Blvd., Ste. 103, (775) 827-9276.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Don Dondero:

A Photographic Legacy, W-Su through 7/10; Cedra Wood: A Residency on Earth, W-Su through 5/15; Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; 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.

MASTER CLASSES: ERIC WHITACRE: The Department of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno presents a series of master classes with the internationally renowned composer Eric Whitacre. Whitacre will hold an open forum with students in the music department and present other sessions with the University Wind Ensemble, University Chamber Singers and composition classes.

The specific schedule and location of each session will be posted on the music department website. Tu, 3/1, 10am. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

Reno Jazz Orchestra CD release show The 18-piece big band salutes the Godfather of Soul with their new CD Bring Me The Funk of James Brown. The RJO, along featured vocalists Trey Stone, Jackie Landrum, Pat Esters and Maurice Allen, will perform hits by the founding father of funk including “Living in America,” “The Big Payback” and “Cold Sweat,” as well as songs by other funk greats such as Tower of Power’s “What is Hip” and “Soul Vaccination.” The show begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Celebrity Showroom inside the Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $10 for students. The ticket price includes $5 off CD at the event. Call 356-3300 or visit http://renojazzorchestra.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,

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beginner to advanced with plenty of one-on-one instruction. Open to students age 15 and older.The class takes place in the garden pavilion adjacent to the Lake Mansion. Th, 2/25, 5:30-8:30pm. $30. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2, www.artsforallnevada.org.

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.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunch-

Film INSIGNIFICANCE: Theresa Russell and Tony Curtis star in Nicolas Roeg’s look at how time, place and circumstance define our universe and our existence. Tu, 3/1, 7-9pm. $5-$7. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

of the slow burn and the groove, the blues artist performs at this concert that benefits the Silver City School House Community Center. Please RSVP on Facebook or by email. Su, 2/28, 5pm. $10-$20 suggested donation. Silver City School House, 385 High St., Silver City, https://www.facebook.com/ events/608398115975901.

battle between New York City street gangs rages from Coney Island to the Bronx. The Warriors are mistakenly fingered for the killing of a gang leader. Soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge and they must make their way across the city to their own turf. W, 3/2, 8:30pm. $2.50. Psychedelic Ballroom and Juke Joint (PB&J’s), 555 E. Fourth St., (775) 322-4348, http://psychedelicballroom.com.

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Bring water, sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes (if weather permits.)

Sa, 10am through 3/18. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

University of Nevada, Reno coincides with the Northern Nevada Day of Percussion and will feature the California Institute of Arts based Hands On’Semble along with the University of Nevada, Reno Percussion Ensemble and the Sacramento State University Percussion Ensemble. F, 2/26, 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.

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Onstage HEY BROTHER: Merry War Theatre Group presents Bekah Brunstetter’s dramedy about the subtle nuances of life’s complications, what it means to belong and just how far someone might go to find love. Th, 2/25, 7:30pm, F, 2/26, 7:30pm, Sa, 2/27, 7:30pm. $12$15. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 848-9892, www.merrywar.com.

Community CROCHET CONNECTION: Learn to crochet or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45pm. Free.

Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

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

DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: The Reno chapter of the national DBSA meets. Fourth Th of every month, 7-8:30pm. Renown Health Boardroom, 1495 Mill St., (775) 835-6410.

GALENA BOOK ’N TEA: Discuss naturebased literature over hot tea. Call to reserve a spot. Fourth Sa of every month, 3-4pm. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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by Contraband. 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.

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Morris Burner Hotel, 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171.

The symphony will play wind band literature from past years. Su, 2/28, 3pm. $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.

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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. $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

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GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Renown Hospice Care offers a grief support group every first and third Wednesday.

Support is available for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one. The group is facilitated by Fr. Karry Crites and is open to anyone.

First W of every month, 6:30-8pm. Free.

Washoe County Senior Center, 1155 E. Ninth St., (775) 982-2817, http://bit.ly/GriefSupportGroup.

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For the foreseeable future, all the cleansing revelry and cathartic rapture you need can be obtained through the wild stories and outrageous scenes that unfold in your imagination. Giving yourself the gift of pretend immersions in fertile chaos could recharge your spiritual batteries in just the right ways.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Hell is the

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defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by,” says Virgo writer A. S. Byatt. That’s a key meditation for you as you enter a phase in which boundaries will be a major theme. During the next eight weeks, you will be continuously challenged to decide which people and things and ideas you want to be part of your world, and which you don’t. In some cases you’ll be wise to put up barriers and limit connection. In other cases, you’ll thrive by erasing borders and transcending divisions. The hard part—and the fun part—will be knowing which is which. Trust your gut.

No worries, Libra! I am confident that you have the imaginative chutzpah and resilient willpower necessary to turn the mishmash into passable nourishment. Or here’s another alternative: You could procrastinate for two weeks, when more of the available resources will be natural.

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

Mythic Metaphor for the coming weeks is dew. Many cultures have regarded it as a symbol of life-giving grace. In Kabbalah, divine dew seeps from the Tree of Life. In Chinese folklore, the lunar dew purifies vision and nurtures longevity. In the lore of ancient Greece, dew confers fertility. The Iroquois speak of the Great Dew Eagle, who drops healing moisture on land ravaged by evil spirits. The creator god of the Ashanti people created dew soon after making the sun, moon and stars. Lao-Tse said it’s an emblem of the harmonious marriage between Earth and Heaven. So what will you do with the magic dew you’ll be blessed with?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): It’s prime time for you to love your memory, make vivid use of your memory and enhance your memory. Here are some hints about how: (1) Feel appreciation for the way the old stories of your life form the core of your identity and self-image.

(2) Draw on your recollections of the past to guide you in making decisions about the imminent future. (3) Notice everything you see with an intensified focus, because then you will remember it better, and that will come in handy quite soon. (4) Make up new memories that you wish had happened.

Have fun creating scenes from an imagined past.

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

of us know about Albert Einstein’s greatest idea: the general theory of relativity. It was one of the reasons he won a Nobel Prize in Physics. But what was his second-best discovery? Here’s what he said it was: adding an egg to the pot while he cooked his soup. That way, he could produce a softboiled egg without having to dirty a second pot. What are the first- and second-most fabulous ideas you’ve ever come up with, Capricorn? I suspect you are on the verge of producing new candidates to compete with them. If it’s OK with you, I will, at least temporarily, refer to you as a genius.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may

be familiar with the iconic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. It’s about a boy named Max who takes a dreamlike journey from his bedroom to an exotic island, where he becomes king of the weird beasts who live there. Author Maurice Sendak’s original title for the tale was Where the Wild Horses Are. But when his editor realized how inept Sendak was at drawing horses, she instructed him to come up with a title to match the kinds of creatures he could draw skillfully. That was a good idea. The book has sold over 19 million copies. I think you may need to deal with a comparable issue, Aquarius. It’s wise to acknowledge one of your limitations, and then capitalize on the adjustments you’ve got to make.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “People

don’t want their lives fixed,” proclaims Chuck Palahniuk in his novel Survivor.

“Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” Your challenge in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to prove Palahniuk wrong, at least in regards to you. From what I can tell, you will have unprecedented opportunities to solve dilemmas and clean up messy situations. And if you take even partial advantage of this gift, you will not be plunged into the big scary unknown, but rather into a new phase of shaping your identity with crispness and clarity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When life gives you lemon juice from concentrate, citric acid, high-fructose corn syrup, modified cornstarch, potassium citrate, yellow food dye and gum acacia, what should you do? Make lemonade, of course! You might wish that all the raw ingredients life sends your way would be pure and authentic, but sometimes the mix includes artificial stuff.

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Music Lover Nathan Lundhold The Sierra Boys Choir was a notable part of Northern Nevada’s arts and culture scene in the 1960s and ’70s.

In 1974, they performed the song “Mr. Wonderful” for The Godfather Part II. The group disbanded not long after, when their director moved out of state. Nathan Lundholm is a local arts and culture lover who’s trying to reestablish the choir.

When did you get the idea to bring the Sierra Boys Choir back to life?

I was inspired in November when I saw the Vienna Boys Choir in concert. I’ve been a fan of theirs for a couple years, and I actually got the idea that we need something like that in this community. Then I found out we already had one back in the ’70s, so I decided to get it going again.

What are the steps you’re taking right now to get it off the ground?

They actually just wrote an article about it in the Nevada Appeal. I am looking for volunteers because I’m trying to get it going on a zero budget, and that’s not easy— actually I correct that, a $5 budget. Still not easy. So, I’m looking for volunteers. The Boys and Girls Club just called. I still need to return their call, but they wanted to see what they can do to help.

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Yep. (775) 229-6142. I do need a venue to host the auditions from, and I need a venue to use for practices weekly.

Still looking for that?

Yep, and that’s very important.

Yeah. Absolutely. My other question at the moment is, you know, we have the Sierra Nevada Children’s Choir—is there a market for the Boys Choir, or is there just enough interest to support two?

I saw it on my social media, and then I saw the GoFundMe campaign. Is that still up and running? Are you still hoping to get funds from your GoFundMe?

I’m trying to go for a high tenor to treble sound like the Vienna Boys Choir, so that would be around 9 to 12.

Basically, $1,000 is a bare minimum. In the meantime, I can get it started based on volunteers. When it’s started, it’s going to have operating expenses. $1,000 would be a bare minimum, beginning.

And where were you when you saw the Vienna Boys Choir?

They were on a U.S. tour, and I actually saw them in Provo. I actually know some of their families on Facebook.

And when do you think auditions will be?

I actually have auditions slated for April 19 through the 21st. And I’m giving preference to those who have appointments, so their parents can call me to make appointments for them, but there will be walk-in auditions available also in between appointments.

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“Only 10 percent?” I marveled. “What a pleasant surprise! Hell, they’re makin’ progress down there in that rathole! I betcha ole Strom is rollin’ in his grave!”

What the hell, the Civil War has only been over for 150 years.

• Remember a few years ago, when us libs used to amuse ourselves by calling John Boehner “Agent Orange” because of his blatant overuse of that tanning goop that orangifies one’s face? Well, the new Agent Orange is here, and it is Trump! Somebody on Team Donald (Ivanka?) better tell Dad to lighten up on that stuff before the press starts calling him Orange Julius.

Lately, Trump makes Boehner look like Ziggy Stardust!

• Speaking of El Donaldo, I’ve been noticing lately that most of the Huffington Post Trump articles finish with something like, “Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther, and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban ARTS&CULTURE

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How old would the kids in the boys choir be, like the age range?

How much would you be looking for to get it off the ground?

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I think we need more for the kids to do, and boys choirs are a very ancient art form that, at present, hasn’t lost popularity in the world.

Yes.

Palmetto and orange South Carolina is known as the Palmetto State. To me, it’s the Saltine State, because it’s so loaded with crackers.

In fact, South Carolina could well be, politically speaking, the most horrid state in the Union. This is the state that kept putting proud Dixiecrat segregationist Strom Thurmond in the Senate until that dipstick finally keeled over and expired. This is the state with a black senator, Tim Scott, whose politics are, astonishingly, slightly right of Vlad the Impaler. This is the state that removed the racist flag of the Confederacy only after massive public outcry in the wake of the massacre of nine church-going blacks. In other words, South Carolina’s politics are routinely and constantly, decade after decade, execrable.

In the days before South Carolina’s primaries, a cable news host showed a poll of Republicans in the state, revealing that 10 percent of them consider whites to be the superior race (11 percent labeled themselves unsure).

The commentator presenting this data did a poor job of disguising her disgust

And you said parents can call you?

ART OF THE STATE

all Muslims—1.6 billion members of an entire religion—from entering the U.S.” OK, I realize the HuffPo ain’t the New York Times or the Washington Post. I realize it’s now purveying a modified code of journalistic ethics that’s entrenched in this new celebrity-sucking digital age. But still, this egregious anti-Trump blast is ... well, it chafes me like ill-fitting scivvies.

Call me old-fashioned. Call me old school. Fine. But HuffPo, how about you just tell me what Trump said/did, and let me figure out for myself if it’s racist, xenophobic, misogynist, etc., etc.?

Okey-doke? I realize there are a bunch of dummies out there that perhaps benefit from this sort of ham-fisted electioneering/editorializing. I happen to not be one of them.

If you want to roast Trump every day, fine. Do it in your editorials.

That’s what they’re for. But in your reporting, honor your inner Cronkite/ Rather and assume I can handle the heavy lifting. Ω |

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