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Fire starter Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Our cover story last week, Jake Highton’s essay making a progressive argument in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, has generated a lot of fiery discussions. We’ve received a lot of letters to the editor—which will run soon— and personal emails about it, as well as hearing a lot about it around town over the long weekend. This has been, and will no doubt continue to be, a strange, passionate and contentious election. We didn’t run Highton’s essay merely to stoke the fires of the proverbial angry letter writers or to present a straw man argument. It’s just a different perspective—and one we found fascinating, even if we don’t agree with it. And of course there’s no more fitting way to celebrate our country than a good ol’ fashioned American political argument. Speaking of politics, don’t forget to vote in the Best of Northern Nevada readers’ poll. Voting end at 7 a.m. on July 14, so this is your last chance to vote in the contest that really matters: which casino has the best carpet. I want to take a quick minute to congratulate Laura Davis and Bryan Jones on their recent engagement. Laura was a freelance writer who contributed regularly to the RN&R circa 2010 to 2014. In the summer of 2013, I assigned her to write a story about Bryan, who had recently become a solo act after years performing with the excellent Reno band Buster Blue. They had never met before, and now, three years later, they’re getting hitched. That’s about the only time I’ve ever successfully—albeit unintentionally—played matchmaker. They live up in Seattle now, and they’re a great couple—the kind of people who warm all the hearts in a room—and I wish them all the best. And finally ... does our paper look any different?

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Love those quotation marks The news cycle obfuscation and diversions propagated by the Obamski White House are to facilitate his own evil “final solution.” The MSM—ever the gullible lemmings—routinely regurgitate the White House official line on transgender bathrooms, white cops killing black kids, educational equality, Brexit, military downsizing, etc. This is nothing but smoke and mirrors of Obozos real design— namely, to cancel the November elections, declare martial law, and become “Emperor for Life.” A WH manufactured “crisis” of “Chicken Little the sky is falling” proportions will soon become apparent. Iran scraping the nuclear deal would be a likely candidate as the WH is not known for original thinking in the crisis department. The “crisis” will then manifest itself as completely at odds with the constitutional process of presidential selection “for the safety and security of the country.” Elections subsequently indefinitely “voided” by “presidential decree” and Obummer will declare himself in charge until “the crisis is averted.” Of course, the crisis will never be averted. Nothing would please this writer more than to be didactically incorrect in this supposition. I merely put it out there in the hopes that rational and thinking Americans will have a chance to not be taken in by this future B. Hussein charade. KIM & LILIBETh KoLLMAN

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Well of Wells Re “Islamic expert” (letters, June 23): K.R. Kollman wrote in his letter published on June 23, 2016, “without becoming an Orson Wells 1984 society!” While we can agree with his intent, he was no doubt referring to the book, 1984 that was written by Herbert George Wells, not Orson Welles, who was the radio and movie actor who gained notoriety for his War of the Worlds radio drama—which, just to confuse the matter more, happened to be based on the book by H.G. Wells—that caused panic in various cities across America when it was aired on CBS radio, October 30, 1938. Be a sport and print a line to correct this error so that your dear readers learn the difference between these two notable gentlemen.

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Yes, marijuana should be legal. It’s probably one of the safest drugs on the planet. It’s natural—all the health benefits to it, no real side effects whatsoever. Yeah, all the health benefits I would say—from cancer to nausea to sleep to everything, pretty much.

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When does Trump go too far? In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was riding high with the progressive wing of the Republican Party. The major GOP progressives were behind him in his planned campaign to return to the presidency by defeating his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Then in a speech to the Ohio Constitutional Convention on Feb. 21 four days before he announced his candidacy, Roosevelt said he supported letting the public vote to overturn court rulings of constitutional interpretation. The notion of letting the public vote constitutional rights up or down shocked progressives and they abandoned him in droves. Some of his closest allies, such as Elihu Root and Henry Stimson, abandoned him for Taft. The racist proposals of Donald Trump are worse than anything Roosevelt proposed, yet nearly all Republicans who have endorsed him are standing by him. Like most people, we don’t know whether Trump is a racist, but it no longer matters, because he is clearly willing to employ racism in both his private business and public affairs. So the result is the same—racist policies. In 1912, principled Republican leaders abandoned Roosevelt. In 2016, there are very few Republican leaders. There are delegates who say they are following what the public wants. This is akin to Nevada Assemblymember Jim Wheeler’s assertion that he would vote for slavery if his constituents wanted it. Where does that notion end? When does Trump go too far? When do Republicans act? In the 1930s, someone observed Germans voting for authoritarianism and called it a flight from freedom. Are the delegates to our presidential

nominating conventions nothing more than seismographs, registering prejudice but doing nothing about it? In May in these pages, our columnist Sheila Leslie drew our attention to the words of conservative columnist David Brooks on Trump as nominee: “So for those of us appalled by this prospect—what are we supposed to do? Well, not what the leaders of the Republican Party are doing. They’re going down meekly and hoping for a quiet convention. They seem blithely unaware that this is a Joe McCarthy moment. People will be judged by where they stood at this time. Those who walked with Trump will be tainted forever after for the degradation of standards and the general election slaughter.” Do Republican delegates really want to live with a Trump outcome they did nothing to stop, and do they really want to have to explain it in the years ahead to their children, friends and neighbors? Republicans look in horror at the opposing candidate, Hillary Clinton. But they have done a lot of this to themselves. She’s a conservative, Wall Street Democrat who goes to war too easily. By misrepresenting her as some kind of flaming liberal feminist all these years, Republicans bought into their own propaganda. Republicans are about to nominate a candidate whose executive style is to pit people against each other, to leap on tragedy and milk it for its political value, to call out the worst in our people. This is not the way to build a country that is competitive, productive and innovative—or decent and humane. Ω

Yes, it should be. Coming from Washington, where it’s already legal—yeah—I think it should be legal. There should be, I think, maybe a fine line between some rules that come with it—like you can’t drive after you smoke, because some people can take it and some can’t. But I do think it should be legal. The benefits outweigh the negatives. luke Morehe aD IT director

I think that there needs to be more research publicized before making a decision on that. I think there’s been a tremendous amount of study on the effects of alcohol and, you know—where the dangers lie, not only to health but public safety. And I think the same amount of research—maybe it’s already been done, but certainly it hasn’t been publicized as widely. carolyn Decator Accounts clerk

Yes. Not for recreational use, though, only for medical reasons. My father has terminal cancer. So he has stage four cancer, and it helps him with all of his pain. … If it’s going to be for casual use, then it should be regulated—just like how we have liquor laws, blood alcohol levels. It should be the same for marijuana.

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by Sheila leSlie

Necessary trouble This Fourth of July week, progressives have much to mourn, but it’s worth reflecting on the glimmers of hope as well. If the murder of 26 elementary school children and their teachers wasn’t enough to convince our elected officials to do something about gun safety, why would we think 49 mostly young, gay Latinos cut down in the haven of a gay nightclub would change the hearts and minds of a Republican Congress? At least we can count on their thoughts and prayers. It was reassuring to see national Democrats find their voices and demand Congress do more than observe a minute of silence each time a gun-fueled tragedy erupts. Democratic senators forced four votes on common sense gun safety measures broadly supported by the public, to close loopholes in background checks and prevent those on no-fly lists from buying firearms. The votes failed, but left behind a tell-tale track of those beholden to the National Rifle Association instead of their constituents.

Then the House Democrats, led by U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, literally sat down on the House Floor and demanded Speaker Paul Ryan allow a transparent vote on similar legislation. Ryan refused. He turned the CSPAN cameras off, and members of the House broadcast the protest via Periscope. Then he tried to redirect the debate to the members’ lack of decorum and flaunting of the rules. The U.S. Supreme Court also recently took a swing at the NRA, upholding the Lautenberg amendment, which allows for guns to be removed from those convicted of domestic violence, a major concern in Nevada, a state that too often leads the nation in women murdered by firearms wielded by their domestic partners. Another major U.S. Supreme Court decision favored women’s reproductive rights, declaring that Texas anti-abortion laws—served up as a deceitful effort to “protect” women’s health—were unconstitutional. The 2013 legislation imposed

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ridiculous standards of care that were not supported by medical associations or health professionals as a way to force abortion clinics from operating and, ironically, place many more women in danger from unsafe abortions. Dissenting justices clearly showed their cards in response to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s concurring opinion, which said “it is beyond rational belief” that the law “could genuinely protect the health of women.” The anti-choice justices who think women should not be allowed to make their own health decisions suggested the Texas clinics that closed in response to the new law might simply have all had older doctors who decided to retire on the same day. Who do they think they are kidding? Also last week, justice was finally served in the murder of Victor Jara, a Chilean folksinger (often described as the “Bob Dylan of South America”), during the 1973 military coup in Chile. His assailant, a former Chilean military

officer who later immigrated to the United States and is now a naturalized citizen, was held to account by a Florida jury, who awarded Jara’s family $28 million in damages. Rebecca Solnit, the West’s leading intellectual and writer, summed up the good news in a social media post, citing these and other meaningful progressive steps forward, commenting: “And yeah, I know forest fires, floods, coral reefs, climate change, Brexit, skinheads, corporations. The troubles didn’t go away, but you can’t wait until they all do or you’ll never ever celebrate. Good things are good even in the presence of bad things.” Let’s allow ourselves a bit of celebration and gratitude that we live in a country where we can keep trying to get it right. There will be plenty of time next week to get into some of the “good trouble, necessary trouble” promoted by Rep. Lewis. As he said, “Sometimes by sitting down, by sitting in, you’re standing up.” Ω

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Nevada speaks, Congress sits The constitutional conservative cause to repeal the Sandoval commerce tax is off to a shaky start. State Treasurer Ron Knecht’s “RIP Commerce Tax” referendum was abandoned because the Nevada Supreme Court in its infinite pettifogging wisdom ruled the ballot summary wording failed to clearly state a tax repeal might involve some spending cuts. Their legalistic ruling trumped the will of the 77,000 signatures already gathered from angry Nevadans. The June 9 Republican primary featured some conservative victories, but quite a few liberty warriors failed on their first assault up the statist beaches. Jennifer Terhune, radio talk show co-host, lost her first bid for office in Assembly district 25. She will be heard from again. In Assembly district 40, Al Kramer beat two other conservatives and Sandoval candidate Philip “PK” O’Neill. Constitutional conservative Victoria Seaman easily defeated Sandoval centrist Erv Nelson in Senate district 6. In Assembly 26, conservative constitutional

educator Lisa Krasner defeated Sandoval lite Jason Guinasso. Cue Snidely Whiplash entrance: Assembly district 36 commerce tax villain James Oscarson hog tied constitutional conservative Tina Trenner to the railroad tracks. The only one who can save her from the evil Whiplash and keep Nye County taxpayers from being swindled out of their tax dollars is Dudley Do-Right—er, Libertarian Party candidate and brothel magnate Dennis Hof. This race looks like fun! Danny Tarkanian used name recognition and a conservative platform to defeat Sandoval favorite James Roberson in U.S. House district 3. For U.S. Senate, what the Heck, it’s Joe. Sharron Angle is a dedicated tax foe but just couldn’t muster support against Dr. Heck. Heck is OK, but his opponent is awful. Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto is, in my view, despicable for exploiting the discredited “human trafficking” moral panic. Cortez Masto wants to use “sex trafficking”—in

practice, all commercial sex—to expand federal sex crime databases and enhance sentencing for the imaginary “traffickers.” Do-gooders like Cortez Masto rank among the lowest of political power seekers. Her plan to “help” sex workers involves arrests, and then a specialty court procedure to reform the soiled doves who were “trafficked” into sex work. “Traffickers” turn out in real life to be mainly friends, family and clients who are accused of “trafficking” because they drove a sex worker to work (god forbid across a state line), rented them a room, or paid for sex with a “trafficked” 15-year-old carrying a phony ID. The “traffickers” will likely not get the diversion treatment, but rather a fat mandatory minimum sentence. The sex workers are degraded and put in more danger. The only thing worse than a moral crusader is a gaggle of jaded old millionaires who try to relive their glory days cloaked in a shroud of ignorance. The crackling sound of bending arthritic joints heard in the House of Representatives

was caused by the millionaire boomers comprising the House Democrats thudding clumsily to the floor in a sit-in just like they did in the ’60s, only now much heavier and with a lot less hair. Those sit-ins were to protest the Vietnam War or Jim Crow segregation, but now they were to authorize the use of secret government watch lists to deprive innocent people of their right to self-defense. Taking away constitutional rights without due process now takes “courage.” Real courage would have been to sit in to protest Hillary and Barack’s global sales of real weapons of war to irresponsible allies that inflamed foreign civil wars and killed hundreds of thousands. Left liberalism has failed to reign in the warfare state or protect civil liberties. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Kochs attacK candidate A political action committee supporting Republican  U.S. Senate candidate Joe Heck is accusing his opponent of enforcing the law as attorney general. Television and online ads say Democrat Catherine  Cortez Masto, “after accepting $70,000 from taxi  companies … went after Uber—once, twice, three  times until she drove them out of town along with all  their jobs.” What actually happened is that when Cortez  Masto was attorney general in 2014, the ride-sharing  firms were unlicensed. The state Transportation  Authority called on the attorney general’s office  to deal with the companies “until Uber comes into  compliance with the laws and regulations passed by  the Nevada Legislature,” according to a Nov. 20, 2014  brief she filed. She had to go to court “once, twice,  three times” because Uber continued to operate  even after temporary court orders were issued,  that brief said. The TV ads say Cortez Masto “protected special  interests instead of us.” Us, in this case, is Freedom  Partners Action Fund of Arlington, Virginia, funded  by the Koch Brothers. It was Uber, operating illegally, which cost Nevadans their jobs. And it was the courts that shut Uber  down because legislators had not had a chance to  meet and change state law since Uber emerged as  a new transportation form (the Nevada Legislature  meets only every other year.) When lawmakers met in 2015, they changed the  law, and Uber now operates legally. Uber’s argument  was with the law and the legislature, not with the attorney general’s office, which was enforcing the law.  It’s not the only time recently that conservatives  argued in favor of overriding state law and ignoring  the role of legislators. See next story.

At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, a Nevada senator was booed—and the party nearly self-destructed. Here the Nevada standard is seen in a demonstration for Al Smith.

What’s ahead Democrats and Republicans prepare their shows

treasurer attacKs ifc The Interim Finance Committee—a legislative panel  that allocates state funds when the full Nevada  Legislature is out of session—has blocked a plan by  Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz to expand a college  savings program. Schwartz responded by issuing a  prepared statement attacking the committee: “Nevada children were the ones who really lost  in yesterday’s IFC hearing. I brought forward a plan  to provide Nevada families with $1,000 worth of  incentives to save for college without using taxpayer  dollars. Yet, the IFC voted to pay over a half million  dollars in credit card fees using taxpayer dollars. ...  Nevada families deserve better than they received  yesterday.” The “College Kick Start” program is a tax-advantaged savings plan authorized by Section 529 of the  Internal Revenue Code. Schwartz wanted to expand  a pilot program beyond the level envisioned by the  legislature and offer greater incentives. Legislators were reluctant to act on such a sizable  expansion without authority from the full legislature  and also felt they did not have enough information  on the implications of expanding the pilot program.  Schwartz was unable to explain to the committee’s  satisfaction why it is urgent to act now instead of at  the next legislature, which goes into session in eight  months.

—Dennis Myers

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this is the month of the national presidential nominating conventions. Until 1956, the Republicans went first with their conventions. No one knows why, it was just usually that way (well, there was 1888, but that’s why usually). In ’56 there began an informal practice of whichever party holds the White House going last. It’s been that way ever since. This year, the GOP will meet July 18–21 in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena, with 30 Nevada delegate seats. The Democrats will gather July 25–28 in the Wells Fargo Center and Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, with 43 Nevada delegate seats. It was around the time the White House party started going last that the conventions started changing and becoming less newsworthy. By the 1970s they were so settled in advance that they were scripted—literally, not figuratively. In 1972, a copy of the Republican National Convention script was accidentally delivered to a reporter. When the mistake was discovered, he refused to give it back and a game

of keep-away ensued in a convention press trailer. There is a school of thought in the rank and file of the political parties that elected officials get touted and pampered and spotlighted their entire lives and that the national conventions are for the rank and file. Occasionally, they have even enforced that view on the big shots. In 1976, when Nevada Democrats sent a delegation supporting presidential candidate Jerry Brown to the national convention that would nominate Jimmy Carter, Nevada Democratic leaders slated U.S. Rep. James Santini to chair the Nevada delegation. But when it came time for the delegation to elect Santini, it instead chose feminist leader Maya Miller. Nevada’s delegations suffer from small state syndrome, but occasionally they have broken into the news. Sometimes this derives from the fact that small state congressmembers become leading figures in Congress, as with Nevadans Paul Laxalt and Harry Reid. During Laxalt’s days in the sun as a close ally of President Ronald Reagan,

Nevadans (1) Frank Fahrenkopf chaired the Republican National Committee, (2) Cheryl Lau chaired the Republican National Convention, and (3) Laxalt himself made the nominating speeches for Reagan at the conventions. But it is the unexpected that makes the conventions more interesting, like the time in 1968 that Richard Nixon set off a near revolt by choosing Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew as his vice presidential running mate. With a barnburning speech, Nevada GOP chair George Abbott nominated Michigan Gov. George Romney against Agnew. It made for great television but Agnew still won, and when Abbott arrived back in Nevada he faced efforts to fire him as party chair. (He survived it.) In 1920, Nevadan Hugh Henry Brown made a seconding speech for Republican Herbert Hoover in Chicago. The crowd apparently thought the Hoover demonstration had already started. The New York Times reported, “The galleries were cheering and shouting Hoover’s name when Mr. Brown of Nevada appeared on the platform. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, temporary presiding officer, rapped loudly for order. The harder he rapped the louder cheered the crowd. Mr. Smoot registered indignation. There was Mr. Brown wanting to say something nice about Mr. Hoover, and Mr. Hoover’s friends wouldn’t let him be heard. Finally Senator Smoot retired to the background, leaving Brown of Nevada standing there alone and unsupported, dashed hither and thither on a sea of cheers. … He stood there, like the Golden Gate, calm, imperturbable to fate. The cheers kept on. Brown of Nevada stood it as long as he could. Then he drew a deep breath and went to it. … What he said nobody knew, perhaps few cared.” In 1924, there was a Democratic convention that would never be forgotten. Its lessons are still followed to this day by both parties. On June 4 that year, U.S. Sen. Key Pittman of Nevada withdrew his name from consideration as chair of the convention in favor of Sen. Thomas Walsh of Montana. Pittman may have foreseen what was coming and spared himself the ordeal of presiding over the disastrous convention that was ripped apart by the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and took 16 days and 103 ballots to nominate unknown candidate John Davis. All of the party’s divisions

were broadcast on radio to the nation. Pittman, speaking to the delegates on the League of Nations, was booed and jeered. By the time the convention ended, the Democrats were doomed. This year, the New York Times ran a piece comparing the approaching 2016 GOP convention with the Democrats’ 1924 “Klanbake.” U.S. Rep. Walter Baring, a right wing Democrat, once passed up his party’s convention, and this year Gov. Brian Sandoval is skipping the Trump convention. Sometimes absence is the better part of politics. At the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, where the Vietnam war and a police riot in the streets tore the party up, Hubert Humphrey supporter Grant Sawyer of Nevada broke with his candidate to support a platform plank backed by antiwar forces. In 1976, with Ronald Reagan making a serious run against an incumbent Republican president but falling short in delegate votes, he decided to try an unconventional tactic—choosing his running mate in advance. Nevada’s Paul Laxalt recommended his seat mate in the Senate, liberal Pennsylvanian Richard Schweiker. The move backfired and President Gerald Ford won the nomination. Nevada has played lesser roles from time to time. It put Richard Nixon over the top in

the GOP balloting in Chicago in 1960. The state’s delegate Cliff McCorkle won approval of a plank in the 1980 Republican national platform calling for an end to the national 55 mile-an-hour speed limit. The delegates who are not elected officials get very little attention, and must pay their own way, though there are reports of various ways they are subsidized. Some of them hold fundraisers for their travel and hotel costs. The hours when the conventions do not meet spawn stories the public rarely hears. At the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, a group of Nevada delegates kept getting terrific service at restaurants and clubs. It turned out that the striking features of delegate Juliann Wright led various maitre d’s to the conclusion that she was a Kennedy. On the second day of the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco, so many people partied late the first night that of 200 people who had signed up for an early morning bus tour of the Napa wine country, only nine showed up—all of them Nevadans. In spite of the off-hours partying, the conventions are serious business. In fact, in 1956, Judge Joseph Butler dismissed charges of scalping tickets to the Democratic National Convention against Ben Mitchell of St. Louis because, he ruled, the convention was not a place or event of amusement. Ω

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The way lying was used—and still is—can be explored in our earlier article, “Lies our drug warriors told us” (RN&R, Aug. 26, 2006). Thus, the initiative petition that seeks to make marijuana legal but regulated, much like booze, will offer special challenges. Voters can’t really count on reporters to keep the facts straight for them, if history is any indication. Not only were journalists in on the act in the early days, they are loath to be seen as soft on drugs now. Still, there are much better fact-checking features in journalism today than ever before. Had they existed in the 1930s, marijuana might never have been made illegal. So we’ll hope for the best but also plan for the worst. Given this history of lies in the service of prohibition, and against the possibility that this campaign will be as shot through with bad information as it has been since Virginia City enacted the nation’s first anti-drug law, we want to help voters understand what lies ahead and offer this guide.

Forms oF misinFormAtion May 1, 1971: “In some schools, says NIMH [National Institute of Mental Health], there is evidence that marijuana use has crested.” —Associated Press Not all cases for marijuana prohibition involve lying, and those that do can conceal the lying with other deceptive techniques. Some don’t lie at all. They use facts—but manipulate them, conceal some of them, color them with loaded terms, spin them, ignore them. To demonstrate, we will use some actual arguments employed by prohibitionists—when possible, in Nevada. To make it as up-to-date as possible, we will frequently use essays and letters to the editor (“Economic boom ahead,” RN&R, June 30) written in the current campaign by Republican Douglas County lawyer Jim Hartman, president of a prohibitionist group called Nevadans for Responsible Drug Policy, as examples of what lies ahead. Make it up. Some prohibitionists invent anti-marijuana information on the grounds that they are serving a higher cause. For instance, on April 2, 1970, Reno physician Wesley Hall—newly elected president of the American Medical Association—announced that the AMA would shortly release a study showing that marijuana deadened the sex drive and caused birth defects. The AMA knew nothing about this; his board did not authorize his statement, and it wasn’t true. No such study was ever released. Much

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“keep the lines straight” CoNTINUEd FRoM PaGE 13 later, Hall claimed he was misquoted and said he didn’t bother to correct the record because “it does some good.”

Because I say so. Some people flatly state an assertion but provide no substantiation. Hartman: “The result has been an alarming growth in underage marijuana use, increase in drug crimes, a continuing marijuana ‘black market’ and sales dispensaries focused on inner-city neighborhoods, as well as issues related to health, banking, pesticides and neighborhood zoning. The tax revenues raised from pot sales have not covered the regulatory overhead.” No citations accompany these assertions. But just for the fun of it, we checked out one of them—the “increase in drug crimes.” According to the Denver Post, “It depends on what you consider an increase. Certainly there are more crimes being committed at marijuana stores compared to five years ago—if for no other reason than there are lots more stores. But police in Colorado have never demonstrated that marijuana businesses make their neighborhoods less safe. The slight increase in crime near medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver in the first half of 2013 was in line with overall crime trends in the city. A three-year-old Denver police analysis showed that marijuana stores were robbed at a lower rate than banks.” If there was an increase in drug crimes, it would presumably show up in related costs such as prisons or public safety. But the Deseret News reports “no unusual budget increases or decreases” other than normal cost of living or inflation increases for public safety, public health, or corrections since legal marijuana came to the state. Colorado Department of Corrections

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Screen out the good stuff. Some prohibitionists offer assertions which mislead by leaving out important information, cherrypicking the available information to offer the most damning interpretation. Hartman: “The experience of legalization in Colorado has already shown that recreational marijuana use has compromised the state’s workforce and caused large companies to hire workers from other states, as would-be employees fail pre-employment drug tests. The ‘New Nevada’ is expecting to see large growth in advanced manufacturing jobs; can we afford to have Nevada jobs imperiled?” But the New York Times reported that Colorado’s workforce was “compromised” before legal marijuana: “In Colorado, ‘to find a roofer or a painter that can pass a drug test is unheard-of,’ said Jesse Russow, owner of Avalanche Roofing & Exteriors, in Colorado Springs. That was true even before Colorado, like a few other states, legalized recreational use of marijuana.” (Emphasis added.)

Hartman: “Nevada voters should now brace against millions of dollars from outof-state ‘Big Marijuana’ interests supporting Question 2 on the November ballot, the legalization of recreational marijuana.” Nevada held special sessions of the Nevada Legislature in 1984 to change banking law for the gargantuan, out-ofstate Citicorp and in 2014 to amend state marketing law for Tesla, which isn’t exactly a local mom-and-pop operation. And state officials laid out the largest package of corporate welfare in human history to get the Ideological truth. Tesla factory. But Some people bigness has apparently don’t really care if gone out of style in something is true the past two years. or not—instead At any rate, Hartman of going where did not complain the evidence takes about the out-of-state, them, they follow massive Tesla when dogma, which it was being wooed to requires them to the state. reject any assertion Hartman: “Out-ofthat—however state pot industry true—violates promoters are pouring doctrine or money into Nevada to ideology. legalize recreational Richard Nixon marijuana in this knew nothing state.” about marijuana. Hartman was not When it came into always so finicky wide use during about out-of-state the late 1960s, he promoters. In 2002, Pat Hickey, former Assembly appointed a presiBush drug “czar” Republican floor leader, is a critic dential commisJohn Walters came to of Ballot Question 2. sion headed by Nevada to campaign Republican Gov. repeatedly around Raymond Shafer the state against a of Pennsylvania. marijuana ballot (Declaration of measure, including interest: Shafer using a series of was this reporter’s television campaign first cousin.) When commercials. In checkthe commission he ing for letters to the appointed reached editor or essays in the conclusions his Reno Gazette-Journal, cultural and political background rejected, the News & Review, and his hometown Nixon in turn rejected the report out of newspaper, the Gardnerville Record hand. The content of the report was unimCourier, we drew a blank. We didn’t even portant. On such a culturally loaded issue, find any complaints from Hartman about Nixon could accept it only if he agreed Walters’ refusal to file campaign disclosure with its findings. reports with Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller, as required by state law and Cross talk. Prohibitionists love emotiondemanded by Heller. ally loaded terms to make ordinary things Another example—Hartman: “The taxes sound menacing. It makes legal marijuana generated from marijuana sales under this sound threatening without having to dip initiative would be totally consumed by the into actual facts, which could backfire. For bureaucratic costs of legal pot administrainstance, Nevada has been trying to lure tion run by state government.” big corporations and industries to the state That’s not what happened in Colorado, for much of its history—but now, “Big which Hartman himself uses as an example. Marijuana” is seen as a threat instead of Gov. John Hickenlooper: “Our FY 2015economic development. 16 budget request includes a request for Other terms and phrases that are already $33.6 million from the Marijuana Tax being used to tilt the board by tainting Cash Fund for enforcement and oversight perfectly legitimate political activity: “out of Colorado’s new marijuana industry, of state,” “massive bureaucracy,” “promotincluding required reserves and addressing ers,” “radical,” “special-interest.” a shortfall in the current appropriation. The

official Adrienne Jacobson: “Any budget increases are in no way related to the legalization of marijuana.” The Post also reports that marijuanarelated crime accounts for less than a percent of total offenses, and that in at least one year since marijuana legalization, crime in the city has gone down. (Denver figures are often used as an indicator of legal marijuana’s impact because marijuana remains illegal in at least 249 Colorado communities, including most of the rural areas.)

Nevada’s peculiar history comes into play in this campaign.

FY 2015-16 request includes a continuation of several initiatives that promote public health and public safety, robust regulatory oversight, law enforcement and the prevention and deterrence of youth marijuana use.” The previous year, according to Forbes, Colorado took in nearly $70 million in marijuana tax revenue from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015, not only covering the budget of the Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue, but nearly covering the $74,419,435 budget of the entire department and all its divisions. (There are also ancillary marijuana functions in other departments but those are lesser budgets.) Even that overstates the cost of administering the program, according to MED spokesperson Robert Goulding, who told us, “The cost of administering DOR’s marijuana related functions is projected to total nearly $10M for fiscal year 2015-16. It is important to note that marijuana ‘pays its own way’ in Colorado as marijuana related taxes, licenses and fees fund our regulatory costs as well as address some of the social considerations surrounding marijuana.” Off the point. This one involves ad hominem attacks by prohibitionists that question the character or motives of advocates to get people to stop thinking about the issue. Hartman: “It qualified for the ballot as a result of pot promoters paying $660,000 to mercenary signature gatherers.” Paid signature gatherers were also used to collect signatures to remove the sales tax on equipment used by the sick and dying. Were they mercenaries, too? Is it possible to work a job disapproved of by bluenoses without evil intent? Karl Rove tactic. This one involves attacking the strengths of the opposition, such as the involvement of locals. Hartman: “This initiative isn’t a Nevada-based libertarian effort to ‘decriminalize’ or ‘legalize’ marijuana.” Nearly 200,000 citizens with Nevada residences signed the petition—nearly twice the 101,666 required. What do they have to do to be considered real Nevadans?

Coda June 29 1970: “The Justice Department says it is highly pleased with initial results of ‘Operation Cooperation,’ the joint U.S.Mexican drive to destroy opium poppies and marijuana in Mexico and catch those who trade in the illegal drugs.” —Associated Press One particularly interesting facet of the criticism of the Nevada ballot measure so far is that prohibitionists have been so busy using the most lurid language and most emotional claims that they have missed some of the truly difficult problems Colorado has faced. For instance, impaired driving is a still unresolved problem, in

part because technology is not yet available for measuring impairment and because marijuana has different traits than other drugs such as alcohol. It has not been a large difficulty so far, because the number of driving under the influence drugs cases has not changed radically, but it still needs attention from policymakers. It’s also an issue that could use some serious discussion instead of exploitation. Nevada’s peculiar history comes into play in this campaign, and motives may be all over the map. Supporters may simply want marijuana available for their personal use. Others may genuinely believe the drug war mentality is injuring society, just as was true of the woman who led the campaign to repeal alcohol prohibition because it was damaging so many families. Nor are those two viewpoints always mutually exclusive. On the other side, though business always gets its way in Nevada, many businesspeople suddenly have found their limits, now considering entrepreneurs synonymous with communists. Or they may truly feel the state’s image may be damaged. Former Assembly GOP floor leader Pat Hickey: “It may be what certain Nevada denizens have done in the past. The question before voters this November is whether or not future Nevadans want to continue

doing business modeled on the past? What I said earlier about ‘one (stupid) step backwards,’ is this: Why should the ‘New Nevada’ many of us envision have to resort to an ‘old’ reliance on the tourist industry in and around the state’s casino corridors? Why create another industry predicated on people’s predilection to pleasure, in order to bankroll our schools?” Nevada does business over the decades with every cancer cure, youth drug,

Keep in mind regarding this year’s campaign dialogue that police and prosecutors are not health care experts. It’s also a useful reminder to journalists, who have a habit of pitting patients or physicians against law enforcement. The flipside is also true—physicians are not enforcement experts. In a recent essay in the Reno Gazette Journal (“‘Big Marijuana’ misleads us”), prohibitionist physician Greg Juhl writes that he will “let the Colorado

Lurid language and emotional appeals often substitute for legitimate criticism of marijuana. mobster, mining con man, corporate shyster and brothel lord, while accepting nuclear contamination of its land and promoting gambling addictions by the boatload, but it’s going to reform over marijuana? Nevertheless, Hickey is one person thinking the issue through and writing position papers on the issue rather than just reacting to mythology or appealing to emotion. He brings some intellectual honesty to the campaign.

police officers discuss how, in fact, they are not free to do other policing”—and then speaks for them: “Instead they spend more time dealing with the black market, illegal growing, drug trafficking and money laundering,” all reasonable police duties in a state where marijuana remains illegal in more than 200 communities. It should also be kept in mind that police are able to keep or sell forfeited assets from busts, so they have a financial stake in prohibition.

Voters should avail themselves of the internet to do their own research, instead of succumbing to vile advertising or listening only to advocates or essayists. When techniques discussed here cause alarm, check the claims out. This requires some discernment—the internet comes with a lot of chaff among the few patches of wheat. But the effort to find the reliable information is worth it. Looking for confirmation of one’s preferences is the last thing voters should do. In the end, what Nevada voters will have to decide is whether government prohibition, which creates both the lure of the forbidden (incentivizing use) and public demand (incentivizing a black market) is a remedy for anything— whether history shows prohibition to have been a success. August 5 1985: “The campaign will continue until every available known plot of marijuana has been eradicated.” —U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. Ω

The report of the Shafer Commission can be read in its entirety online: tinyurl.com/yw8g9q. Pat Hickey’s observations can be read at PatHickeypolitics.com.

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LoneLy HeArts CLub Billed as “an original, unromantic, feel-good dramedy,” New Canula tells the story of two lonely men at the end of their ropes who find solace in their new, unlikely friendship. John Wayne McGillicuddy (played by Cremeans himself) gave himself the “cool” nickname of J. Dubbs to impress his friends, but in the end he still has none. Alone, unsuccessful and going nowhere, he’s about to end it all when Bull (played by David Simpson) breaks into the apartment waving a gun and threatening to kill its inhabitant if he doesn’t do as instructed. The only problem is that he’s unwittingly given J. Dubbs his fondest wish. Through the course of the play, the men realize they are more alike than they would have imagined, and their new friendship gives them redemption and hope. Gary Cremeans came up with the idea as a college student and originally wrote it as a short story under a different title. Then, in 2014, producing artistic director Mary Bennett was looking for submissions to Brüka’s annual original short-play invitational, the Biggest Little Theatre Festival. Bennett approached Cremeans, a company member, about submitting something, and he decided to dust off this story for the stage. “I’d never written a play, but I figured, ‘How hard could it be?’” Cremeans laughed. “I had no idea what I was getting myself into … I didn’t know if anyone would laugh or hate it or what.”

Meanwhile, Bennett was wrestling with some real-life personal heartbreak. Her mother, Mary Ann Bennett, was terminally ill and in hospice care. “My mom was a nurse, and she had this crazy sense of humor,” Bennett said, explaining that Mary Ann was wearing a canula constantly to assist her with breathing. “She would describe hospice for me, with nurses and visitors coming and going, and she said she felt like she was holding court. People would come in and tell her stories, or they’d write her letters and I’d read them to her, or she’d dictate letters to me and I’d write them for her … She would joke that she was living in this magical place called ‘New Canula.’” In her darkest moments before her mother’s death,

Bennett shared these stories with Cremeans, and he liked the idea of New Canula, a place where even the darkest moments in life are imbued with light and hope and humor. “It’s this place you can go where things will be better,” Bennett said. “You get to a place in life where everything’s going wrong. You want a place of hope, and this represents that idea in a really great way. There is a place you can go where there’s hope.” It became the perfect title for Cremeans’ play, which honors Mary Ann Bennett as well as his own Grandma Betty, whose witty aphorisms and lessons for life are woven into the story. “J. Dubbs is constantly referring to her good manners, how this criminal came in without being invited, how he’s using the lord’s name in vain,” Cremeans said. “It’s really sweet but not sappy in its portrayal of how these two men are dealing with their situations, and how this onehour meeting changes their lives.” “So much humor is divisive and negative, but this isn’t,” Bennett said. “This is a kind play.”

Fringe binge Bull (David Simpson) is accustomed to having people protest when he threatens their lives, but in the case of John Wayne McGillicuddy (playwright Gary Cremeans) things worked out a little differently.

David Simpson, Mary Bennett and Gary Cremeans took New Canula to the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June. Next they take New York.

That first production of New Canula in November 2014 was met with enormously positive response and suggestions that it should be entered into some festivals. Bennett took those suggestions and submitted the play to the highly selective New York International Fringe Festival in January 2015. Though it wasn’t accepted that year, a second submission in January 2016 struck gold. It became only the second show from Brüka to be accepted to the festival (the first was The Medea Project in 2012). The three involved— producer/director Bennett, Cremeans and Simpson, who happens to be Bennett’s husband—opted to improve their Fringe game by taking New Canula to the annual, open-access Hollywood Fringe Festival in June, where they were at the time of this writing.

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New York alone will be about $15,000 in all, Bennett said. The company has actively been working to raise money to fund this dream, starting with a GoFundMe campaign. And they’re pinning high hopes on two fundraiser performances of New Canula on July 10. The New Canula trio have committed to supporting this effort with everything they have, financial and otherwise, because they have seen the rewards such efforts can reap. They’re among the many theater companies who have returned home from previous Fringe festivals ready to mount the new works they caught there at their own theaters. “If your show is popular, you can generate audiences, so your company is winning,” Bennett explained. “But also the theater will be interested in keeping you there because they’ll make money from it.” The potential for having New Canula selected to remain in New York, picked up by other theater troupes or even optioned by Samuel French or another licensing company is worth the effort and costs to get themselves there, they said. So is the benefit for Reno’s art community at large. “One of the neatest things is that many people we know from Brüka have gone on to New York from Reno, and we’re now working with them to get them to help us, to represent us out there,” Bennett said. “We’re connecting the dots with people we know and creating a larger base for people to perform, to band together and create a community that supports the show there. … We’re starting to get Reno on the cultural map.” Ω

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“New York is really the clincher to being able to get this show touring, but we needed to find out the environment,” Bennett said. “Hollywood is so local, 90 percent of the groups registered are local companies, and they all know each other and have been here forever. We’ve learned so much, but it’s still teaching us about New York Fringe, about new plays being done regionally and nationally. And the huge thing is that it’s representing Reno and Brüka in a larger place.” The Hollywood festival ran a full week in June, and Fringe NYC goes two weeks, August 12-28. Getting to Hollywood and New York, not to mention lodging, food and associated fees and expenses that come with their involvement, is costly. Putting up the show in

To raise funds to take Gary Cremeans’ play New Canula to the New York International Fringe Festival, Brüka Theatre has started a GoFundMe campaign at www.gofundme.com/ sq7udg. Fundraiser performances are scheduled for 2 and 4 p.m. July 10. Tickets are $25. Donations in any amount will be welcome. The show is recommended for ages 14 and up, and reservations are advised. A karaoke fundraiser at The Patio also takes place 5:308:30 p.m. July 10. For information, call 323-3221 or visit www.bruka.org.

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furniture business,” Miller said. “It’s not like I had a huge interest in furniture before that.” “I ended up loving it,” she said. “It was my calling.” She ran that business, which was in Sparks, for a few years, then started tailoring her inventory to better reflect her own taste. “I really love vintage—vintage stuff that’s well made,” she said. “It has style.” She opened The Nest in 2009. When Miller visited the UNR collection, she was immediately drawn to paintings by Craig Sheppard. Unbeknownst to her, Sheppard was a revered Reno painter who chaired UNR’s art department in the 1940s and ’50s and happens to be the Sheppard Gallery’s namesake. “I’m just pulling out art and saying I want this piece and this piece and that piece,” she said. “He’s got a really cool mid-century, abstract vibe that I really like.” She selected about 20 pieces and plans to design three different rooms around them, using as many paintings as possible in each room. “What’s cool about this installation is—it’s how I work anyway,” said Miller. “I just look at whatever catches my eye, and I grab it, and I build stuff around it. The message I wanted to portray is that art is accessible and it’s everywhere, and it doesn’t have to just be in a gallery. I wanted to make the rooms look like a home. My vision was to make a space that looks like it was lived in.” She’s considering real-life touches such as pairs of shoes strewn here and there, kids’ toys on the floor, or maybe a half-eaten bowl of cereal. “If you go into a gallery it’s like a pristine room,” she said, “but people don’t really live like that.” Ω

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script and get credit for one of cinema’s most bizarre directing debuts. This one is up there when it comes to wonderfully strange directorial first timers, right alongside David Lynch and his Eraserhead. Swiss Army Man, like the dead corpse at its It’s also a keen observation on our current digital center, is a multipurpose entity. It can be a lot of age, with advances in phone and camera technology different things to the viewer. making it easier for people with problems to do stupid It can be a story about the wild things starvation things in High Definition. On top of the stunning and desperation can do to the brain, and the strange camerawork, Andy Hull and Robert McDowell of movies that play in your head when you are losing Manchester Orchestra provide one of the year’s best, it. It can be a story about how a deranged stalker most triumphant musical scores. deals with the end of his life and afterlife. It can be Dano, who shined so brightly in last year’s Love a story about how funny it would be if somebody’s & Mercy, continues to make the kind of daring role farts could propel him like a jet ski across the ocean choices Nicolas Cage used to make. (Let’s hope he and how funny it would be if his erect dick were a doesn’t end up in any remakes of The Wicker Man or compass. Ghost Rider sequels.) He makes Hank very likeable, I’ve made my choice what this movie is about, or despicable, again, based on the way you take this but you could walk away from it thinking something movie in. If you make a list of some of the more completely different. That’s the beauty of a movie like daring, eccentric films of the last 10 years (There Swiss Army Man. Will Be Blood, Ruby Sparks, Looper, Where the Wild As Hank, Paul Dano gets yet another careerThings Are), you will often find Dano involved. defining, nutty role. He’s seemAs for Radcliffe, this qualifies as ingly stranded on a desert island, a completely insane triumph. Other at the end of his rope, literally. Just actors—most notably Terry Kiser in before killing himself, a corpse Weekend at Bernie’s—have played (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on corpses being dragged around the beach, and starts farting. It or present for a long stretch in a Director: Dan Kwan and  starts farting—a lot. movie. Radcliffe brings a dimension Daniel Scheinert Before much time has passed, to corpse acting that has, quite Starring: Paul Dano,  Hank is riding the corpse, dubbed honestly, never been seen before. Daniel Radcliffe Manny, across the ocean as its farts It’s a marvel of physical acting provide jet propulsion. Hank, with that unconventionally marks the the arrival of his new friend, decides actor finally transcending his Harry Potter reputation suicide is a drag, and takes Manny along with him on and doing something beyond notable. What he does a trek through the forest to find civilization. Manny here deserves some sort of special Oscar—the Oscar eventually starts having conversations with Hank, and for Playing Dead While Sort of Being Alive at Times they are both aided in the forest by Manny’s hard-on, and Delivering Massive Amounts of Body Humor in which acts as a compass. Oh, did I already say that? a Way That is Somehow Moving in Addition to Being Manny’s dick is a compass. Kind of Gross yet Awesome. Sound weird? It is. It most assuredly is. It’s also Yeah, they probably won’t create that category, strangely beautiful, deeper and richer than most but let’s just hand over that award in this here movie movies with this many farts in it, and, depending upon review. Daniel, you deserve it. the way you take the movie, super disturbing and sad. Swiss Army Man is destined for cult classic status. It also gets some high points for special effects. It’s also destined to hold some sort of record for Hank discovers multiple uses for Manny, including corpse farting and corpse erections in a movie. While water dispenser, rocket launcher, and more. All of such things are mighty prominent, don’t let them these moments are delivered convincingly by directors distract you from the powerful story at the center. It’s Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who also wrote the a true mindbender. Ω

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The BFG

And with this, the startling run of  Steven Spielberg duds continues. After  delivering two of the dullest movies of his  career (Lincoln, Bridge of Spies) Spielberg does  the almost impossible; he makes Roald Dahl  completely boring. Oscar-winner Mark Rylance  delivers a motion-capture CGI performance as  the central character, the Big Friendly Giant,  that results in more yawns than smiles. His  giant captures dreams and blows them into  the sleeping residents of London. On one of his  excursions, he kidnaps Sophie (Ruby Barnhill),  and takes her to the land of giants, where  most giants are meat eaters. Luckily, he’s a  vegetarian, but he’s being bullied by a group  of bad giants led by Jemaine Clement in the  film’s most fun motion-capture performance.  Despite a winning performance from Barnhill,  a true star in the making, the film drags on  and on, trying to get by on big special effects  rather than an engaging story. Everything feels  a little off for Spielberg. A visit to the Queen’s  house, which should be bizarrely funny and  subversive, winds up feeling awkward and  uncomfortable. The whole movie seems to be  playing it safe in Dahl land, as if it is E.T. in Dahl  land, and it throws the tone completely off.  It doesn’t help that John Williams rips off his  own E.T. score. It never clicks. Nothing really  works, yet again, for Spielberg, a director who  seems to have momentarily lost his mojo, but  if he makes stinkers for the rest of his life, he’s  still one of the most amazing men to sit in the  director’s chair. That said, here’s to hoping for  a return to form with one of his next ventures,  which allegedly include another crack at  Indiana Jones.

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Central Intelligence

While it doesn’t boast much along the  lines of originality, this winds up being  an above average action/comedy buddy movie  thanks to its stars, Dwayne Johnson and  Kevin Hart. The guys belong together. The plot  feels like a bunch of parts from other movies  cobbled together to make a whole. It has elements of Lethal Weapon, Grosse Pointe Blank,  Just Friends and even a little Sixteen Candles,  all stitched together, albeit capably, by director  Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers).  It’s a well-oiled movie Frankenstein. Johnson  and Hart are a strong screen duo, with Johnson actually scoring most of the laughs. Hart,  who certainly chips in on the laughs front,  actually delivers one of the more well rounded,  warm performances of his career. He plays  Calvin, the most popular guy in high school who  grows up to be humdrum. Johnson plays Bob, a  former obese guy who Calvin took pity on. Bob  grows up to be a rogue CIA agent who looks  like the Rock. The two wind up on an adventure  that, of course, eventually leads to their high  school reunion.

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Independence Day: Resurgence

I enjoyed the goofy, funny, balls-out  alien invasion movie that was Independence Day (1996). The film was dumber than a  stoned golden retriever in a Harvard calculus  class, but Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and, yes,  Randy Quaid made the grandiose stupidity somewhat of a blast. Two decades after  the original, Independence Day: Resurgence  finally arrives, without Smith, who probably  didn’t think the check was big enough. While  the original was a stupid blast, the sequel is  the equivalent of a nasty two-hour alien fart.  Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Brent Spiner return  for alien nonsense that is fast paced yet dull,  and utterly void of laughs. It’s evident in the  first 10 minutes that the movie will somehow  manage to be lethargic even though the editing  is frantic, and lots of things are exploding.  Returning director Roland Emmerich is clearly  not on his disaster-epic game. It’s a wasteful  effort, where camp has been replaced by total  ineptitude, and the performers look lost. And,  let’s face it, Liam Hemsworth is no Will Smith.  He’s a dud, the movie’s a dud, and the franchise  needs to stop now.

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Finding Dory

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The Shallows

This sequel to Finding Nemo goes a little  darker than its predecessor. Ellen DeGeneres returns as Dory, the lovable fish with  short-term memory loss. An event triggers a  memory of family in her little brain, and she  sets off on a journey to find her mom and dad  (voiced by Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy). Pals  Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) join Dory on her quest, which culminates  in an aquarium amusement park graced with  voice announcements by the actual Sigourney  Weaver. Dory winds up in a touch pond, in a  bucket of dead fish, and swimming around in a  lot of dark pipe work. In some ways, this is to  Finding Nemo what The Empire Strikes Back  was to Star Wars. It’s a darker, slightly scarier  chapter, that still delivers on the heartwarming elements and laughs.

Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey),  a Confederate army medic, decides he’s  had enough and deserts. He returns to Mississippi where his people are being harassed  by looting soldiers. He winds up in the swamps  with escaped slaves where they form a pact,  and eventually create a militia to rebel against  the Confederacy. Based on a true story, director Gary Ross definitely delivers on the brutality and terrors of the Civil War. McConaughey  is powerful in the central role, as is Mahershala  Ali as Moses, leader of the escaped slaves. The  film stumbles a bit in trying to do a too much.  There are courtroom scenes 85 years after the  Civil War’s where a relative of Knight is in a civil  rights dispute. These scenes feel completely  out of place, and they sort of muck up the  film’s ending (things just come to an awkward  stop). It’s too bad, because the movie winds up  being good instead of great. The battle scenes  are harrowing, the tensions are frightening  and real, and there’s not a bad performance in  the lot. Yet, because Ross has overstuffed the  film, aspects like the rise of the KKK are almost  glossed over. This project, with its dual storylines and many plot points, probably would’ve  worked better as an extended series on HBO.

After the misstep that was Only God  Forgives, director Nicolas Winding Refn  gets things back on track with this, perhaps  the most toxic and nasty film ever made about  the modeling industry. Jesse (Elle Fanning)  moves to L.A. to become a model. She’s underage, naïve and lost, but finds a helping hand  in Ruby (Jena Malone), a makeup artist who  knows what it’s like to be the new girl in town.  As her career begins to take off, Jesse begins  to gain confidence to a fault, and a couple  of other models (Bella Heathcote and Abbey  Lee) develop sinister intentions to go with  their envy of Jesse’s spectacular looks. Refn  mesmerizes yet again—his Drive remains one  of the best films of the past decade—combining  stunning visuals and an excellent soundtrack  to go with the outstanding performances from  Fanning, Malone, Heathcote and Lee. Keanu  Reeves has a small but memorable role as a  sleazy hotel manager, while Alessandro Nivola  is most memorable as a fashion designer who  must have Jesse for his show. Refn is working  in very dark, cynical satire here, with elements  of horror mixed in for good measure.

Blake Lively, whose best role until now  was the secretary in that SNL “Potato  Chip” sketch, is terrific as Nancy, a medical  school dropout who goes to a secret beach in  Mexico in the wake of her mother’s death. She  sets out for a day of surfing and reflection in  what she thinks is a completely solitary setting  (with the exception of a couple of other friendly  surfers). Turns out, there’s a big-assed Great  White shark, and this is its territory, and no  trespassers are allowed, even if they are as  pretty as Blake Lively. As shark movies go, this  is a good one, with decent CGI effects, a couple  of tense shark attacks, and a constant level of  terror that never lets up. The only thing really  keeping this from being “very good” rather  than “nice and good” is the ending, which made  me laugh a laugh I shouldn’t have laughed.

by Kent IRwIn

Deep space Moons of Vega Music never hits quite the same way as it does during adolescence. During that period of intense growth, we appreciate deeply the discovery of exciting new sounds. For Moons of Vega, adolescence didn’t just bring new music to their ears. Hardcore punk, alternative rock and grunge were bringing teens together in a way that popular music never had before. With distorted guitars, heavy drums, and deeply personal, heartfelt lyrics, the youth of America were given a license to their own voice. “I was just hooked on making sound,” said drummer Don Piletic. “When you find out that playing music is something that you can do that’s in your soul, and is not necessarily academic, you know, for me, that sparked my interest quite a bit. For Piletic, learning the drums wouldn’t come until after high school. He honed his chops on his favorite jazz records, then went on to play in the Bay Area rockabilly scene. The internet, as well as a relocation to Minden, brought him into the vicinity of Moons of Vega, who were in the process of finding a new drummer. “We crafted a very specific Craigslist advert,” said guitarist Chris Maciejewski. “We said what all our influences were and said, ‘If you don’t like the same bands, just don’t bother.’” He found this to be a tried and true method of locating like-minded people. “That’s how we all met,” Maciejewski said. “Bryce and I, we actually met at an audition for another band. We didn’t quite like the other band, but we saw something in common. So we started writing together.”

Moons of Vega members Chris Maciejewski, Bryce Becker and Bruce Ruff wrote the perfect Craigslist ad and found just the right band member, Don Piletic. PHOTO/KENT IRWIN

Non-musical art forms and performance mediums can be just as telling as a person’s music taste. Maciejewski and guitarist Bruce Ruff both draw inspiration from photography and visual art. They see the common ground in both forms’ abilities to capture the feeling of a particular moment. With photography, a specific time and place is immortalized in a visual representation. For music, a performance can capture the emotion of a period of time and the energy of the specific place where the songs are being performed, differing from photography only in its ephemerality. For bassist and vocalist Bryce Becker, stand-up comedy lends a unique perspective. He sees a correlation between the ways that musicians and comedians can ride the waves of energy within a room, when to push and when to pull. For both types of performers, reading a room is key. However, he notes that there is one critical difference in the mediums, one that makes it more difficult for musicians to effectively debrief their performance. “You know, I’ve been doing this for more than 20 years, played a lot of shows. Never been booed offstage, never been booed,” said Becker. “What you will get is indifference. And that’s almost worse, because then you’re dismissed. If you hate me, you’re listening. With music, either they’re into it, or they don’t care.” Thankfully, Moons of Vega approach each show with a passion for live performance, aiming to impact audiences with their high-energy sound. “It’s about people getting together,” said Maciejewski. “It’s about giving people a feeling. If you can do that in some way, you can be successful. It doesn’t get better than that.” Becker added, “We’ll play at a gas station if you ask us.” Ω

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Moons of Vega play at 9 p.m. July 7 at St. James Infirmary, 445 California Ave. For information, call 657-8484.

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1UP

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

THURSDAY 7/7

FRIDAY 7/8

SATURDAY 7/9

VNDMG, BOGL, 10pm, $10

ASK: Music by the People, For the People, 10pm, no cover

Go Freek, 10pm, $10 after midnight

The Mener, S.A. Mattos, Roy Lindauer, Alcheme, 10pm, no cover

Mustache Kitty, 9pm, no cover

3RD STREET

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

5 STAR SALOON

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

BAR OF AMERICA

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

Caribbean Soul, 9pm, no cover

Caribbean Soul, 9pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626

VNDMG July 7, 10 p.m. 1up 214 Commercial Row 329-9444

SUNDAY 7/10

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover Free-Spin Sundays w/DJ Zoiree, 5pm, no cover

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES

THE BRIDGE RESTAURANT & BAR

Clemón Charles, 4pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

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

Dues, 9pm, no cover

Comedy 3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, 882-1626: Justin Rivera, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Brian Dunkleman, Matt Knudsen, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Graham Elwood, David Gee, Tu-W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Andrew Norelli, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Mike Marino, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Justin Rivera, Th, 8pm, $8-$10; F, 9pm, $15-$18; Sa, 3pm, $12-$15, (all-ages show); Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15-$18

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

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

Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

Lawrence Johnson, 6pm, no cover The Coney Dogs, 9:30pm, no cover

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Kelly Ann Miller, 9pm, no cover

COMMA COFFEE

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

9 Below Zero, 9:30pm, no cover

ELBOW ROOM BAR

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

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

Jagertown, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

HELLFIRE SALOON

John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover

3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

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Open Mic Jam Slam w/Adrian Diijon, 9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, 9pm, W, no cover

Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

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

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room

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

Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover

HIMMEL HAUS 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5 Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

Bourgeois Gypsies, 7:30pm, no cover

HANGAR BAR

THE HOLLAND PROJECT

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

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

901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888 425 S. Virginia St., (775) 432-1633

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/11-7/13

Redfield Clipper Band, Ourselves, SAM Collective, 8pm, $5 1) Ricky Dreamz, 9pm, $8

2) Adara Rae & The Homewreckers, Gina Rose Band, Team Francis, 10pm, Tu, $4

THURSDAY 7/7

FRIDAY 7/8

SATURDAY 7/9

SUNDAY 7/10

THE JUNGLE

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

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

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

THE LOVING CUP

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

MIDTOWN WINE BAR

Reno Sax Man, 7pm, no cover

Dane Rinehart, 8pm, no cover

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Everyday Outlaw, 8pm, no cover

Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

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

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7:30pm and 9:30pm, $35

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $35

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

The Fire

Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover U Play Wednesday (open mic jam), 8pm, W, no cover

Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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

I Set My Friends on Fire, Alive/Alone, Roots Like Mountains, 9pm, W, $7-$10

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

THE SAINT

Canyons, 9pm, $5

761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451

SHEA’S TAVERN SHELTER

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

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

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 409-3340

Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover City Mouse, Scully, 10pm, Tu, $5

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

I Set My Friends on Fire

Thursday Blues Jam hosted by Rich Maloon, 8:30pm, no cover

Mentally Spent, 9pm, no cover

July 13, 9 p.m. PB&J’s 555 E. Fourth St. 322-4348

Blackwater, Berdoo, Wayward Stranger, 9pm, no cover Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Wheatley Matthews, Josiah Knight, 8pm, $7

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON

Moonshine Bandits, Good Samaritans, 9pm, $18-$20

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

St. Christopher Project, 6pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Earles of Newtown, 9pm, $10 Intronaut, Entheos, Moon Tooth, Weight of the Tide, 9pm, $TBA

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

SPARKS LOUNGE

July 12, 8 p.m. Studio on 4th 432 E. Fourth St. 737-9776

Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM AND JUKE JOINT (PB&J’S)

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

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

Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover Jamie Rollins, 7:30pm, W, no cover

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

POLO LOUNGE

SINGER SOCIAL CLUB

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/11-7/13 Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

Alex Muddy Smith, 6pm, no cover

The Power of Voice Project, 6pm, no cover Making Magic, 8:30pm, $10

Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, Vinyl Night with Johnny B, 10pm, W, no cover Shelita Burke, Athena McIntyre, Amanda Wisler, 8pm, $7

The Fire, 8pm, Tu, $15, Matt Wiegand, Adam Terry, Daniel Howard, 8pm, W, $5 Rootz Underground, Thrive, 9pm, W, $15

Alex Muddy Smith, 6pm, no cover

Colin Ross, 2pm, no cover Milton Merlos, 6pm, no cover

Colin Ross, 6pm, M, no cover

July Showtimes

THE GATHERING PRE-PARTY INSANE CLOWN POSSE MOVIE FEST & BOWLING TOURNAMENT July 8th SUPER BASS BROS! July 9th I SET MY FRIENDS ON FIRE W/ROOTS LIKE MOUNTAINS July 13th SWMRS W/PARTYBABY July 14th TOY CALLED GUT W/KUT PYLE July 15th MAXX KREAM July 16th

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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret

BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTEL

Monophonics July 9, 9 p.m. Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

2100 Garson Rd., Verdi; (775) 345-6000 1) Event Center 2) Guitar Bar

THURSDAY 7/7

FRIDAY 7/8

SATURDAY 7/9

SUNDAY 7/10

2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 4pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 4pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

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

2) Jonathan Barton, 6pm, no cover

2) Ty Phillips, 5pm, no cover George Pickard, 9pm, no cover

2) Ty Phillips, 5pm, no cover George Pickard, 9pm, no cover

2) Alex Smith, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Jason King, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 10pm, no cover

1) Monophonics, Coburn Station, 9pm, $15-$20

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live country bands, 9pm, no cover

1) Michael Carbonaro, 9pm, $25 2) Lex Fridays, 10pm, $15 3) Country Nights w/Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) Lex Saturdays, 10pm, $15 2) G-EAZY, 10pm, $30 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) Dance Bootcamp with Eric & Corrie, 6pm, Tu, $15

1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, $29.35 2) Greg Lopez, JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, $29.35 2) DJ KOKO, DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm Tu, W, $29.35 3) Live blues w/Buddy Emmer Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

3) Take 2, 9pm, no cover 4) L.A.vation, 6pm, no cover

3) Take 2, 9pm, no cover

2) Bread and Butter, 9:30pm, no cover

2) Mad Karma, 10pm, no cover

2) Mad Karma, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

1) James Taylor, 7:30pm, W, $59.50-$129.50 2) Suns of Jimi, 9:30pm, W, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Voodoo Cowboys, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Voodoo Cowboys, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Voodoo Cowboys, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover

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

2) Kyle Rea Biggest Little Orchestra, 7pm, no cover

2) Kyle Rea Biggest Little Orchestra, 8pm, no cover 3) The Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20

2) Kyle Rea Biggest Little Orchestra, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Baby Yu, 10pm, $20

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

4) Live Jazz Sundays by the Pool, 5pm, no cover

4) Wednesday Blues Jam Pool Party, 6pm, W, no cover

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

2) Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Lex Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

Karaoke CBQ, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, 359-1109: Karaoke w/Larry Williams, Th, 6pm, no cover Corkscroo Bar & Pizzeria, 10 E. Ninth St., 284-7270: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques, W, 6pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 772-2475: College Nite/Karaoke, F, 7pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, H&T Mobile Productions, F, 10pm, no cover The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., 322-3001: Karaoke, Th-Sa, 8:30pm; Su, 6pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, $29.35

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE

18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) Outdoor Arena 2) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge

NUGGET CASINO RESORT

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rd Street Lounge 2) Copa Bar & Grill 3) The Tent 4) Pool

SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO

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

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3) Greg Golden Band, 6pm, no cover

2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover

3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/11-7/13

1) Sean Kanan, 8:30pm, W, $15-$20

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, The Money Shot, 10:30pm, W, no cover

FOR tHE WEEK OF JULY 7, 2016 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. CHALK IT UP @ ATLANTIS FESTIVAL: A group  of juried artists and a few professional  madonnari compete for prizes. Watch as  parking spaces in the west parking lot  are transformed into colorful works of  art. Sa, 7/9, 10am-5pm; Su, 7/10, 10am-5pm.  Free. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S.  Virginia St., (775) 825-4700.

CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: MARIACHI FLOR DE TOLOACHE: The Artown music series continues with a performance by New York’s  all-female mariachi band. Mariachi Flor  de Toloache includes a rotating cast of 13  members featuring all of the traditional  mariachi instruments—violin, trumpet,  bass and five-string guitar. W, 7/13, 7:3010pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First  St., (775) 322-1538.

DELONGCHAMPS RESIDENTIAL TOUR: This  walk takes you on a neighborhood tour  of homes, large and small, designed  by Reno’s notable architect Frederic  DeLongchamps. Hear about his life and  what made him unique to this area.  Reservations required. Tu, 7/12, 6-8pm.  $10; free for HRPS members. Arte Italia,  442 Flint St., www.historicreno.org.

EXTRAVAGANZA AT THE PLAZA: Explore the  riverwalk and visit unique booths, artists  displays and a kids’ zone. Sa, 10am-9pm through 7/30. Free. West Street Plaza,  West and First streets, (775) 303-6551.

FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a drink, listen to live  music by The Pretty Unknown and view  the NMA’s galleries. Th, 7/7, 5-7pm. $10,  free for NMA members. Nevada Museum  of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

GREAT BASIN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL FAIR: The arts and crafts fair includes

Artown’s Family Festival The Artown Monday evening

7/11:

series features interactive art projects, food and fun  for the family starting at 5 p.m. on July 11. Later that  evening, Binghamton, New York dance trio Galumpha will perform  their combination of acrobatics, visual effects, physical comedy and  inventive choreography at 7 p.m.  The free event takes place at Wingfield  Park, 300 W. First St. Call 322-1538 or visit www.renoisartown.com.

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EvEnts ANIMAL ARK WOLF HOWL NIGHT: Enjoy an  educational presentation about wolves,  followed by a live wolf howl featuring the  Animal Ark’s five wolves and even a few  coyotes. There will be prizes awarded  for the best human howlers. Gates  open at 6pm for viewing the Ark’s other  resident animals. The presentation  begins at 7pm. Sa, 7/9, 6-8pm. $15 adults,  $13.50 seniors age 62 and older, $12 children ages 3-12, free for kids age 2 and  younger. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary  and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road,  (775) 970-3111.

ART IN THE GARDEN: Art by local artists  Dayna Galletti, Christine Shively, Kerra  Kinion, Amina Harris, Katie Packham,  Charlotte Voitoff, Shirie Wallace, Kathleen  Hallamore, Bryn McCubbins and others. A  percentage of sales from this event benefits Friends of Washoe County Library.  Sa, 7/9, 9am-4pm. Free. Art in the Garden,  1280 Monroe St., (775) 323-6773.

ART WALK RENO JULY EDITION: An evening  of art, music and community starting  at West Street Market. There will be an  after party at Pignic Pub & Patio. A portion of all ticket sales will benefit the  Newton Learning Center. $5-$15. Th, 7/7, 5-8pm. West Street Market, 148 West St.,  http://artspotreno.com/art-walk-reno.

an artist demonstration by mouth stick  painter Mack Nez Johnson and a Native  American drum and dance exhibition.  Sa, 7/9, 10am-4pm. Free admission. RenoSparks Indian Colony Gym, 34 Reservation  Road, (775) 785-1326.

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MEET KIDS & TEENS BOOK AUTHORS: Meet the  members of Nevada Society of Children’s  Book Writers and Illustrators and explore  the Arboretum. Enjoy coffee, snacks and  conversation. Members will sell and sign  their books. Su, 7/10, 1-3pm. Free. Wilbur  D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden,  Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N.  Sierra St., www.renoisartown.com.

MIDTOWN ON MARTIN STREET: SOUTH AFRICAN ALL-STARS FEATURING BAKITHI KUMALO:  The Artown music series continues with a  program of South African music featuring  bass player Bakithi Kumalo, who played  on Paul Simon’s album Graceland. Su, 7/10, 7:30-8:30pm. Free. Craft Wine & Beer, 22  Martin St., www.renoisartown.com.

POPS ON THE RIVER: Reno Philharmonic  present its annual Broadway-inspired  concert as part of Artown. Sa, 7/9, 8-10pm. $50+. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First  St., (775) 323-6393, http://renophil.com.

RENO’S BIGGEST LITTLE MEDICAL MARIJUANA EXPO: Vendors, licensed dispensaries  and all-natural companies gather at this  medical marijuana expo to raise awareness and education. There will be guest  speakers, artists, food and more. Su, 7/10, 3-11:30pm. $22.75. Jub Jub’s Thirst  Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The  44th annual festival presents William  Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors  and the Off-Broadway musical revue  Forever Plaid, written by Stuart Ross. The  productions will be performed in rotating repertory Tuesday through Sunday  at 7:30 p.m., July 8-Aug. 21. The Showcase  Series includes performances by Sierra  Nevada Ballet, Reno Jazz Orchestra  and InnerRhythms. The series is held on  Monday through Aug. 15 and continues  on Friday, Aug. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 3  and Sept. 10. M-Su, 7:30pm. Prices vary.  Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28,  Incline Village, (775) 747-4697.

summer music series continues with  music by the funk-soul band. F, 7/8, 5:308pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St.,  (775) 324-4440.

TRUCKEE TAHOE AIRSHOW & FAMILY FESTIVAL:  The event features an air show with  world-renowned performers, a jet  car, STEM Expo, Family Festival, static  displays and more. Sa, 7/9, 9am-4pm.  Free entry and parking. Truckee Tahoe  Airport, 10356 Truckee Airport Road,  Truckee, www.truckeetahoeairshow.com.

OnstagE BUYER & CELLAR: An underemployed Los  Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra  Streisand’s Malibu, Calif., basement in  Jonathan’s Tolin’s absurdist comedy and  one-man play. F, 7/8, 7:30-9pm; Sa, 7/9,

7:30-9pm; F, 7/15, 7:30-9pm; Sa, 7/16, 7:309pm; Th, 7/21, 7:30-9pm; F, 7/22, 7:30-9pm; Sa, 7/23, 7:30-9pm; Su, 7/24, 2-3:30pm; F, 7/29, 7:30-9pm; Sa, 7/30, 7:30-9pm. $15-$18.  Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company,  713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

DANCING IN THE PARK: DANCING BY THE RIVER: Sierra Nevada Ballet will present

an evening of dance, song and music. Tu, 7/12, 8-10:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300  W. First St., www.renoisartown.com.

DISNEY’S ALADDIN, JR.: Wild Horse  Children’s Theater presents this musical  adventure based on the Disney animated  film about a resourceful young hero and  a wise-cracking genie. F, 7/8, 7pm; Sa, 7/9, 2 & 7pm; Su, 7/10, 2pm. $8-$12. Carson  City Community Center, 851 E. William St.,  Carson City, (775) 887-0438.

AN EVENING WITH YOUNG CHAUTAUQUA:

JOURNEYING TO THE MOON: Explore the  moon with Tom Taormina, who worked at  NASA Mission Control during the Apollo  Missions, and Dr. Richard Simmonds,  former chief veterinarian for NASA. Run  a simulated mission to land on the moon,  drive on the moon and explore American  and Russian landing sites. Sa, 7/9, 9:30am-1pm. $12 plus $1.65 fee. National  Automobile Museum (The Harrah  Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295,  www.nevadachallenger.org.

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of creating an instrument, as well as  playing the instrument. Making Magic  attempts to put the spotlight on both  sides of the equation. Builders of fine  quality instruments will be on hand to  discuss the process. Skilled musicians  will also be present to discuss what they  look for and how the instrument relates  to the creative process. Sa, 7/9, 8:30pm.  $10. Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St., (775)  737-9776.

7/09:

Reno Mini Maker Faire

The third  annual showcase of invention,  creativity and resourcefulness  features DIY science,  technology, engineering, arts,  crafts and more. Visitors can  learn about drones, see the  latest Burning Man art, or  learn how to knit, solder, make  rockets and other cool things.  The fair takes place from 11  a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday,  July 9, at Idlewild Park, 1900  Idlewild Drive. Tickets are  $5 in advance and $7 at the  door. Kids ages 12 and younger  get in for free. Visit http:// makerfairereno.com.

—Kelley lang

Young Chautuaquan performers will  portray Benito Mussolini, Marie Curie,  Nikola Tesla, John Lennon, Rachel Carson  and Dian Fossey, among other historical figures. W, 7/13, 7-9pm. Free. National  Automobile Museum (The Harrah  Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 623-7792.

MALVOLIO OR WHAT YOU WILL: Brüka Theatre  presents an original play by Sandra  Brunell-Neace and Rachel Lopez that  explores what it means to live as a  transgender person in an intolerant  society. Post-show opening night champagne reception on July 8. All tickets are  $10 for Artist Night on July 13. F, 7/8, 8pm;

Sa, 7/9, 8pm; W, 7/13, 8pm; Th, 7/14, 8pm; F, 7/15, 8pm; Sa, 7/16, 8pm; Su, 7/17, 2pm; W, 7/20, 8pm; Th, 7/21, 8pm; F, 7/22, 8pm; Sa, 7/23, 8pm; W, 7/27, 8pm; Th, 7/28, 8pm; F, 7/29, 8pm; Sa, 7/30, 8pm. $20-$25. Brüka

Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM: Reno Little  Theater presents this Tony Awardwinning musical that explores the music  of Stephen Sondheim. Sa, 7/9, 7:30pm; Su,

7/10, 2pm; Th, 7/14, 7:30pm; F, 7/15, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/16, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 7/17, 2pm; Th, 7/21, 7:30pm; F, 7/22, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/23, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 7/24, 2pm; Th, 7/28, 7:30pm; F, 7/29, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/30, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 7/31, 2pm. $18-$20. Reno Little Theater, 147 E.  Pueblo St., (775) 329-0661.

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Fasten your deceit belt I’m a 44-year-old woman who’s been dating a successful actor for a year. When we met, he told me he was 35. Well, in picking up a prescription for him, I discovered he’s actually 42! I’m relieved—but miffed that he lied. I’ve felt uneasy about being so much older (especially because his previous girlfriend was 24). He said he’d been meaning to say something and he was glad I found out. He explained that as an actor, it’s important to be viewed as young. (His agent doesn’t even know his real age.) He seems to be a good person, but I’m wondering what else he’s lied about. I don’t lie, and I don’t want to be with someone who is a liar. Welcome to Moral High Ground, population: you. Wow, so that’s your real weight on your driver’s license? The truth is, we all lie—yes, all of us —which is why social psychologist Bella DePaulo explains in her research on lying that people can’t be tossed into “one of two moral bins, one for people who are honest and the other for the liars.” DePaulo explains that you are lying whenever “you intentionally try to mislead someone.” This includes telling your friend “I completely forgot you were performing at the coffeehouse!” or assuring her that her new haircut looks “cool and edgy” and not like a small animal that got hit by a car. However, there are different kinds of lies, and the kind your boyfriend told is an “instrumental lie”—a strategic lie people use to take a shortcut to something they want. This kind of lie is common to Machiavellian personalities—schemers who manipulate other people to get their way. It’s also linked to having crappy relationships, since you can’t very well be close to somebody who’s frequently pretending to be somebody else. Ruh-roh, huh? Maybe not. Context matters— including why he lied, why he didn’t tell you and whether his lie has lots of brothers and sisters to keep it company. If he doesn’t seem to be a big truth shaver, consider that this age fibbie may be a necessary evil—a “cost of doing business” lie. In poetry, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” In Hollywood, truth is unemployment. 28   |   RN&R   |   07.07.16

Why didn’t he tell you? Maybe because he didn’t tell you, and then he still hadn’t told you, and then it seemed he was way late in telling you. If you don’t see a pattern of lying, maybe this is a sign, not that he’s a terrible person but that he dreaded disappointing you. You and he could even turn this incident into a positive thing—an opportunity to come up with a policy for honesty in your relationship. What’s especially important is making it a safe place for telling the truth—pledging to sit down and talk stuff out instead of going all explodypants over it.

Your place aura mine? I’m a man who respects science and tries to live rationally, and I’m dating this truly great woman who, unfortunately, is into astrology, energy healing, past lives and other ridiculousness. I try to be open-minded, and I’ve been telling myself, “Hey, people can be different and still be together.” However, she recently told me she’d seen a giant space worm out of the corner of her eye. It was 4 feet tall. Come on. Yes, “people can be different and still be together.” In one case, headphones made this possible—for a sweet guy who cheers up by listening to death metal but fell in love with a woman whose favorite music video scene has the von Trapp children skipping around the Swiss Alps in drapes. Unfortunately, there’s no nifty audio technology to block out the lack of respect you feel for your girlfriend when you hear about her getting pony rides from a space slug or refusing to eat chicken when the moon’s in Aquarius. A lack of respect for your partner’s beliefs is the starting line for contempt—the amped-up form of disgust—which marriage researcher John Gottman finds is the single best predictor that a relationship will tank. Ω

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fications, enabling you to be recoded with the destiny you desire. Unfortunately, the cost of this pioneering technology is still prohibitive for most people. But here’s the good news, Libra: In the coming months, you will have an unprecedented power to reconfigure your life’s path using other, less expensive, purely natural means.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In high school, I

was a good athlete with a promising future as a baseball player. But my aspirations were aborted in sophomore year when the coach banished me from the team. My haircut and wardrobe were too weird, he said. I may have been a skillful shortstop, but my edgy politics made him nervous and mad. At the time, I was devastated by his expulsion. Playing baseball was my passion. But, in retrospect, I was grateful. The coach effectively ended my career as a jock, steering me toward my true callings: poetry and music and astrology. I invite you to identify a comparable twist in your own destiny, Scorpio. What unexpected blessings came your way through a seeming adversary? The time is ripe to lift those blessings to the next level.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you

remember that turning point when you came to a fork in the road of your destiny at a moment when your personal power wasn’t strong? And do you recall how you couldn’t muster the potency to make the most courageous choice, but instead headed in the direction that seemed easier? Well, here’s some intriguing news: Your journey has delivered you, via a convoluted route, to a place not too far from that original fork in the road. It’s possible you could return there and revisit the options—which are now more mature and meaningful—with greater authority. Trust your exuberance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I love writing

horoscopes for you. Your interest in my insights spurs my creativity and makes me smarter. As I search for the inspiration you need next, I have to continually reinvent my approach to finding the truth. The theories I had about your destiny last month may not be applicable this month. My devotion to following your ever-shifting story keeps me enjoyably off-balance, propelling me free of habit and predictability. I’m grateful for your influence on me! Now I suggest that you compose a few thank-you notes similar to the one I’ve written here. Address them to the people in your life who move you and feed you and transform you the best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After an Illinois

man’s wife whacked him in the neck with a hatchet, he didn’t hold a grudge. Just the opposite. Speaking from a hospital room while recovering from his life-threatening wound, Thomas Deas testified that he still loved his attacker, and hoped they could reconcile. Is this admirable or pathetic? I’ll go with pathetic. Forgiving one’s allies and loved ones for their mistakes is wise, but allowing and enabling their maliciousness and abuse should be taboo. Keep that standard in mind during the coming weeks, Aquarius. People close to you may engage in behavior that lacks full integrity. Be compassionate but tough-minded in your response.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Can water run

uphill? Not usually. But there’s an eccentric magic circulating in your vicinity, and it could generate phenomena that are comparable to water running uphill. I wouldn’t be surprised, either, to see the equivalent of stars coming out in the daytime. Or a mountain moving out of your way. Or the trees whispering an oracle exactly when you need it. Be alert for anomalous blessings, Pisces. They may be so different from what you think is possible that they could be hard to recognize.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): After years of

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by JERi ChADwEll-SiNglEY

Radio star Greg Glover is a former record  label talent scout from New York  City turned Portland Radio DJ.  His weekend show, The Bottom 40,  has been on the air for more than  12 years. Glover calls the show  “nondenominational radio” and uses  it to feature new music and deep  tracks from alternative artists. Now,  the show plays on KJIV, 89.1 FM, in  the Truckee Meadows on Saturday  nights at 10 p.m. KJIV is a division of  Open Sky Radio. RN&R writer Bruce  Van Dyke is a board member.

How did the show end up on air in Reno? My best friend here in Portland is Franz Spielvogel, and he is the CEO of Laughing Planet. He went to school at UNR and lived in Reno. And he now lives here in Portland. … He was a fan of The Bottom 40, so he reached out via email and we met up for a beer and we just became friends. … When he was in college there in Reno he worked for … a restaurant that was called Deux Gros Nez. … and the place was owned by Tim Healion. … They have been lifelong friends. The way it came full circle is, Duex Gros Nez ended up closing, and now Tim actually works for Laughing Planet. He now works for Franz. … And I listened to it while I was there, and I was like, “Wow, this is like radio used to be, like

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would go to this church. … It was called a nondenominational church, like you couldn’t put labels on it. … And that word has just stuck with me all these years. And that’s kind of what I want the program to be. … It goes from one thing to the next … just kind of all encompassing. That was a longwinded way to say all encompassing.

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radio should be. It’s pretty radical.” … Tim put me in touch with Jeff Cotton who is one of the guys that runs the radio station. I told him about my program … and he loved it. And Franz was like, “Why don’t we underwrite the program at Laughing Planet? … Let’s support their radio station by underwriting your radio show.”

What does nondenominational radio mean? I was raised by a single mom in Alabama. … I spent my summers visiting my dad out in Texas, and he was married to a fundamentalist Christian that wouldn’t let me listen to any rock music. So here I am as a kid growing up in Alabama, with my mom taking me to see KISS and Alice Cooper. And then I go out there for the summers and I can’t listen to any music. We

Um, I’ve got some listeners that’ll email me … and they’ll make suggestions like, “Hey, I’ve never heard this.” … Or, “I heard you play this one song. Have you ever played this?” I’ll be like, “Oh, I haven’t heard that in a while. It’s a good suggestion. I’ll play it.” I’m always welcoming any sort of feedback.

You’ve done interviews on the show with some big names like Mick Jones of the Clash. Do you have a favorite interview? Oh, absolutely. It has to be Noel Gallagher from Oasis. He was just—I was a little nervous because I was a big fan back in the day. … He could not have been a nicer, funnier guy. … That guy should host a late night show at some point. I mean, he is so funny. He was super charming, really nice. That’s probably my favorite that I’ve done. … Mick Jones of the Clash was pretty cool, too. That’s absolutely legendary. … Another one that was just super nice was Suggs [Graham McPherson] from the band Madness. You remember them? He was super nice, too. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Exploiting tragedy On May 19, Egypt Air 804   crashed into the Mediterranean  Sea, spelling the end for all 66  people on board. Just a couple of  hours after this news broke, our  boy Donaldo tweeted “looks like yet  another terrorist attack. Airplane  departed from Paris. When we will  get tough, smart, and vigilant?  Great hate and sickness.” In the six weeks after the crash,  no terrorist organization has taken  credit. USA Today’s July 4 update  on this disaster read, “Investigators found heat damage on parts of  the wreckage but have yet to conclude what caused the crash.” The  article also says the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an inquiry  into the crash, but at this time it’s  not a terrorist investigation. I bring this all up to point out  that Trump, as a bloviating developer and TV celebrity, can be as  loose of a cannon as he wants, and  nobody gives a shit. But as a man

who is one election away from being the leader of the United States,  his tendencies to “shoot from the  lip,” previously thought charming  and entertaining, aren’t much of  either. Now, they just look like the  oafish remarks of an impulsive  dipshit, about as presidential as a  prospector’s spittoon.  •  A couple of comments here in the  wake of the end of season six to all  my Westerosi brethren and sistren,  notes to all us Game of Thrones  geeks who find that, in the end, we  are all helplessly hooked. I mean, Arya, for example. Look,  I realize that to fully enjoy GoT one  has to bring a certain amount of  reality suspension that makes it  possible to not get too hung up on  those moments where you might  exclaim, “oh, now come on!” But  with Arya’s thread, I had problems. I mean, The Waif stabbed the  absolute stuffing out of Little Mizz

No One on that bridge, just pierced  her big time in the belly, and then  twisted the knife! OK? So what the  hell was Arya doing the week after  her guts got shredded, hopping out  of bed and running all over Braavos, sliding under fruit carts and  jumping from walls to escape the  determined and murderous Waif. But all things considered, you  take the lame with the awesome  in this show, and Holy Hugeness  of Hodor, Cersei’s fiery revenge in  the season finale was the kind of  stupendous spectacle that makes  it worthwhile. All hail Cersei, Queen  Bitch of Westeros! And her rap to  Septa Umella, the Dame of Shame,  was beyond great, flat out juicy. Cleanup in King’s Landing— watch out for that bigass Bell  of Baelor!—will take about nine  months. And then, season seven  will be upon us, which promises to  be crazy ass! Dragons and zombies  and wargs, oh my!        Ω

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