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City limits Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I just got back from Austin, Texas, and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s annual convention. It was great to meet with colleagues from other alternative newsweeklies across the country, and I had an especially nice time talking to folks from other smaller market papers, like the Eugene Weekly, the Tulsa Voice, and North Carolina’s Triad City Beat—great papers y’all should check out if you’re ever in those necks of the woods. One disturbing and gross thing was how much discussion I heard about “native advertising” and “branded content,” which is to say, ads that looks like articles and articles created to promote sponsors. Yuck. This kind of crap is getting more common as advertisers and publishers look to monetize digital content. Readers beware. I attended engaging discussions about women’s health—sadly, an especially contentious issue in Texas— copyright laws, historical reporting, data journalism, and more. It was an invigorating experience, and many kudos to the Austin Chronicle for putting it together. And Austin itself is amazing. Folks who say that Reno might become “the next Austin,” in terms of live music, must not realize what a long way we have to go. There’s so much live music happening all over that town, it can be overwhelming, and it’s surprisingly eclectic. In just three nights there, I saw honky tonk greats Dale Watson & Ray Benson, esteemed bluesman Jimmie Vaughn, super cool Austin post-rock band Marriage, and a fantastic Brazilian psychedelic band, Boogarins. But the wildest thing I saw was mounted Austin police officers clearing Sixth Street of pedestrian traffic at 3 a.m. on the night of July 8. The street closes to automobile traffic during weekend nights so bar hoppers can wander aimlessly, but as the police cleared the streets of early morning revelers, there was a palpable tension in the air—at least partly a result of the terrible events that occurred upstate the previous night.
—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne ws r ev i ew . com
Highton feedback Re “The Trump card” (cover story, June 30): I don’t know where to begin in responding to Jake Highton’s defense of his decision to vote for the least qualified nominee for president in the history of the United States. His rant sounds like Fox News, Karl Rove and a Koch Brothers PAC, all spitting up the same really old, ridiculous talking points in unison. I won’t attempt to counter every contorted point Highton tries in vain to make. But I will point out that his strange illusion, bordering on delusion, begins with sentence #2. He says, “Sanders won most of the Democratic primaries ...” That, of course, is simply not true. Hillary Clinton won 34 state and territorial primary contests to Sanders’ 23 wins. She won 3.7 million more popular votes and almost 400 more pledged (not super) delegates. It’s over. Clinton won, not because the system is rigged, but because more people voted for her. It’s time for the Reno News & Review to just get over it. It’s time for the new editor to do his job and tell Dennis Myers and Jake Highton to stop boring us with old news and bad information. Stop talking about throwing chairs and super delegates and how Bernie really won and instead join the rest of us in the real post-primary world. Barack Obama happens to think Hillary Clinton is the most highly qualified candidate to ever run for President and Elizabeth Warren is with her. So, Jake, you go right ahead and vote for The Donald. You bet, he’ll bring some “excitement” to the White House, if watching an implosion is your idea of excitement.
experience and qualifications are unsurpassed. As Kathleen Kennedy Townsend says, Clinton will show “young people how a powerful American woman, on the cusp of winning the biggest job in the world, looks and acts.” Give me a break, Jake. mary lee FulkerSon
Reno Congratulations, Reno News & Review, for balancing two opinion pieces on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. On one side you presented a four-page, convoluted diatribe by Jake Highton that suggested that those who supported Bernie Sanders should move their allegiance to Trump because of some unsubstantiated transgressions by Hillary Clinton. This nonsense was beautifully repudiated several pages later by the succinctly written Bruce Van Dyke column. Well done. ron Smith
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Correction Re “Keep the lines straight” (cover story, July 7): The print version of our cover story on things to watch for in the Question 2 campaign this year ran without a byline. It was written by Dennis Myers.
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Reno Yes, Trump might be a bigot and a con man, but at least he is not a career criminal like Hillary. Both are extremely poor choices. It’s like having to choose Bozo the Clown or organized crime. I’ll take Bozo, despite his flaws. Stephen Bloyd
Carson City Right now, any president is helpless to make the great changes this country needs. Hillary can hold the line, work with the other side, keep the Democrats viable until support—in the form of new blood—arrives to save the day. Highton exaggerates. Hillary Clinton has never been indicted for anything. It’s so macho to refer to her feminism as “elite.” You mean the way she supports a path to immigration? Black Lives Matter? I’ve heard the old saw “America needs a woman president. Just not ___________(fill in the name).” Clinton’s
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The lawbreaking Kochs The Koch Brothers claim that government regulations hinder U.S. business. Koch Industries is so hindered by regulation that it makes only in excess of $100 billion a year. The Kochs pass out a pittance in charitable contributions to clean up their unsavory reputation. Corporate polluters David and Charles Koch are running ads in Nevada through their front group, Freedom Partners Action Fund of Virginia, that accuse Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Catherine Cortez Masto of enforcing the law against Uber, which operated illegally in Nevada until she succeeded in shutting them down at the request of the state Transportation Authority. How would you have liked being in an accident while riding with an illegal, unlicensed car and driver? Of course, it’s not all that surprising that the Kochs fault Cortez Masto for upholding the law. After all, the Kochs are chronic lawbreakers. That’s why they need to make those charitable contributions. In 2011, Bloomberg Business reported that its investigation of the Kochs “found that Koch Industries—in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East—has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism. Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban. Koch Industries units have also rigged prices with competitors, lied to regulators and repeatedly run afoul of environmental regulations, resulting in five criminal convictions since 1999 in the U.S. and Canada.
From 1999 through 2003, Koch Industries was assessed more than $400 million in fines, penalties and judgments. In December 1999, a civil jury found that Koch Industries had taken oil it didn’t pay for from federal land by mismeasuring the amount of crude it was extracting. Koch paid a $25 million settlement to the U.S.” Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone: “Under the nearly five-decade reign of CEO Charles Koch, the company has paid out record civil and criminal environmental penalties. And in 1999, a jury handed down to Koch’s pipeline company what was then the largest wrongful-death judgment of its type in U.S. history, resulting from the explosion of a defective pipeline that incinerated a pair of Texas teenagers.” Under a government that protects its citizens and curbs rogue corporations, Koch Industries would have been put out of business long ago. Instead, the Kochs go their merry way, trashing the environment, consumers and the airwaves. So every time you see a television or online ad accusing Cortez Masto of driving Uber jobs out of Nevada by enforcing the law, or any time you see an ad signed by Freedom Partners, remember that it is paid for by men who routinely break the law. And next time you are shopping, keep in mind that the Kochs own the companies that make Angel, Brawny, Mardi Gras, Perfect Touch, Quilted Northern, Sparkle, Zee and Vanity Fair paper products; Lycra fiber and Stainmaster carpet; Dixie cups; Georgia-Pacific office and building products; and AGROTAIN fertilizer. Ω
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by Sheila leSlie
Post-election campaigns ahead It’s mid-summer in an election year, and Nevada’s legislative candidates are pounding the pavement in their districts, endeavoring to make a good impression on general election voters. It’s the perfect time for revealing the first round of bill draft requests (BDRs), giving voters a glimpse of some key issues which will consume the Nevada Legislature in 2017. To say it’s a glimpse is to overstate the situation. The BDR list offers only the name of the bill’s sponsor and a few words of description that almost willfully obscure the bill’s intent. For example, BDR 1 has been requested by Sen. Patricia Farley and “makes certain changes relating to education.” What those changes are is known only to Sen. Farley and the bill drafter. In fact, Sen. Farley may not know exactly what she intends to do with the BDR at this point. It might be a placeholder, a bill waiting for “the details” in legislative parlance. Or she may be perfectly clear about what she wants. The
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public won’t know for sure until the bill is introduced in the 2017 session. If the BDR is never converted to an actual bill, we’ll never know. The Legislative Counsel Bureau has posted a helpful chart showing the precise number of bill draft requests that legislators, committees and public bodies are allowed, along with key deadlines. Legislative observers and reporters weed through the BDR list every week looking for “retreads,” or bills that failed in the last session, and are likely to be resurrected in 2017. This gives lobbyists a clue that it’s time to start mobilizing their forces if they oppose the legislator’s idea, or, conversely, it confirms that a legislator intends to follow through with a campaign promise to introduce a particular piece of legislation. Retread bills abound in the first 100 bill draft requests for 2017. Sens. David Parks and Ben Kieckhefer have already submitted their bipartisan “death with dignity” bill, responding to widespread
public interest in the rights of terminally ill patients to end their lives on their own terms. The bill failed to get a hearing in 2015 due to the objection to physicianassisted suicide expressed by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee chair, Senator and medical doctor Joe Hardy, who rationalized his actions through his personal belief system that palliative care and hospice should fill the needs of those facing imminent death. Without a hearing, Nevadans were unable to publicly debate this difficult topic, instead watching passively as California became the fifth state in the nation to pass such a law. Other BDRs on the retread list include Assemblymember Ellen Spiegel’s legislation to codify accommodations that must be made for nursing mothers. Assm. Mark Manendo also has submitted a request for a bill to require a registry for those who abuse animals. And it appears that Sen. Pat Spearman intends to push equal pay issues again, having submitted
a resolution for Nevada to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and a bill to enact the provisions from the federal Paycheck Fairness Act. The first 108 bill draft requests also feature bills to reform elections, regulate trapping, and the usual Nevada obsession with not regulating firearms. Sen. Tick Segerblom will continue to push the envelope with a bill to allow the public use of marijuana in social clubs, events and concert arenas. He also wants to rename the Las Vegas airport to Harry Reid International, a concept bound to get caught up in partisan rhetoric. All these issues will be decided in the next legislative session. Engage the candidates on these concerns and choose your representatives wisely. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
Latest straws in the wind A Monmouth University survey shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 45 to 41 percent in Nevada, with Libertarian Gary Johnson holding five percent. Analyst Nate Silver wrote on July 12, “With its rapidly growing Latino and nonwhite populations, Nevada has demographics that increasingly look like California’s.” Last year, Nevada analyst Fred Lokken said, “Based on the 2010 census, this is pretty much a blue state,” though he limited that to presidential races. A Pew Research Center survey shows the gender gap, with Donald Trump doing all he can to offend women, has widened to a whopping 24 percentage points. In most places, that is an aid to Clinton. But Nevada is one of two states with a majority of men.
nV energy powerLess Two major Las Vegas resorts have informed the state they are dropping Nevada Power—an arm of NV Energy—as their power supplier. Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts will have to pay for the privilege—$86.9 million in MGM’s case and a bargain $15.7 million for Wynn. “After careful thought and analysis over many months, we have concluded our objectives are best met by purchasing the energy required to operate our resorts, and serve our customers and guests, from a source other than NV Energy,” said an MGM letter to the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, which approved the exits in December. The casinos will seek suppliers on the open market. MGM will break away on Oct. 1. Wynn has not yet named a date. The Las Vegas Sands had also announced such plans but has not completed filings and objects to the size of exit fees. The PUC has said the fees “are necessary because NV Energy’s remaining ratepayers would otherwise be forced to pay increased rates to allow recovery of costs already incurred to provide reliable electric service to the casinos.” To exit, the casinos are using a law that was enacted to deal with shortages during the early 21st century deregulation crisis, which was not repealed after that crisis passed.
pot taLe of the week In the July 6 edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Douglas County lawyer Jim Hartman wrote, “With marijuana’s new high potency levels—it’s up to seven times more potent than it was in the 1970s—about one in six marijuana users who starts as a teenager becomes physically dependent.” According to a study of 38,600 samples of illegal marijuana seized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration over a period of 20 years, the level of tetrahydrocannabinol—marijuana’s main psychoactive ingredient—rose from about 4 percent in 1995 to about 12 percent in 2014. The study was published Jan. 19 in the journal Biological Psychiatry. However, potency is a so-what issue, since if marijuana is more potent, users smoke less. One likely reason for reduced use is that, according to the Bush administration’s 2005 “National Drug Threat Assessment,” higher potency marijuana is not marketable because it makes tokers sick—“more intense—and often unpleasant—effects of the drug leading them to seek medical intervention.” To put it another way, for prohibitionists, higher potency is a good thing.
—Dennis Myers
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Candidates do not always see flattering photos of themselves when they are the subject of attack ads. This one, using an image of Catherine Cortez Masto, was put together by the right wing group Priorities Nevada and ran in January.
The money race Political dollars pour into Nevada democratic U.s. senate nominee Catherine Cortez Masto is facing more than one opponent. She faces Republican Joe Heck. But she also faces Secure America Now, which raised more than $3 million for its efforts in the 2014 election. It is running ads against Cortez Masto. And she faces the Koch brothers, whose Freedom Partners Action Fund is accusing her in its ads of enforcing the law as attorney general against unlicensed Uber drivers and vehicles in Nevada. This cost the state jobs, the Kochs say. They live back east. Secure America Now is spending $46,693.11 to attack Cortez Masto. The Koch ad buy is $1.2 million. Of course, Cortez Masto also has groups on her side running ads against Heck. But the spending disparity is normally pretty wide between Democratic and Republican groups. “Even among PACs [political action committees]—the favored means of delivering funds by labor unions—business has a more than 3-to-1 fundraising advantage. In soft money, the ratio is nearly 17-to-1,” according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
During this political season, according to CRP, business is responsible for 74.2 percent of all contributions, labor for 2.9 percent. Cortez Masto would normally be lucky to win. But business is not putting all its money behind the Republicans this year. It is a 55 to 45 split, with the Democrats getting the 45. That’s not great for them, but it has been worse in some years. Given that business likes to go with the winners, it suggests that businesspeople are doubtful about Republican prospects this year. The labor split is more lopsided—83 percent to the Democrats, 17 to the Republicans. But even if labor gave all its 2.3 percent to the Democrats, it wouldn’t address the imbalance. Democrats are doing better with groups that CRP calls “ideological.” These are groups like the Koch PAC and Secure America Now. And for once, the Democrats are ahead in this category. Of the $136,267,574 raised so far by these groups, Democratic groups have received $48,947,275 with Republican groups receiving $38,942,607.
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As a result, the League of Conservation Voters will spend almost $1.4 million to support Cortez Masto in this campaign. (The League supported Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the presidential race.) According to the League’s Seth Stein, the $1.4 million will not be spent on broadcast or online ads: “The money is spent on an on-the-ground persuasion canvass effort—in other words, hiring staff to knock on doors and speak with voters about why Cortez Masto is a better choice for Nevadans. This campaign will run through Election Day.” As a member of the U.S. House, Heck has received a score of eight percent from the League. In the past his ranking has been as high as 13 percent, in 2013, and as low as six percent, in 2015 and 2014. League national campaigns director Clay Schroers issued a prepared statement reading in part, “Heck is dangerously out of touch with Nevada’s families, who can’t afford to be represented by someone who rejects the conclusions of 97 percent of climate scientists, wants to block the Clean Power Plan, and consistently fights clean air and water protections.” In a prepared statement, Heck spokesperson Brian Baluta said, “As the father of three, of course Dr. Heck cares about the future of our natural environment, which is why he
co-sponsored legislation supporting renewable energy development in Nevada. However, Heck’s acceptance of Koch money tends to play into the story line Cortez Masto and the League are selling. The two billionaires are number 13 on the Political Economy Research Institute’s list of Toxic 100 Air Polluters. The Kochs also fund climate change denial groups. All this kind of national money trafficking, of course, is happening in Nevada’s U.S. House races as well, and in ballot measure campaigns, particularly Question 1, providing for gun LOKKEN purchase background checks, and Question 2, providing for marijuana regulation. Political analyst Fred Lokken said corporate money can hurt a candidate if her opponent knows how to use the issue. It can nullify the advantage that money provides. “At least with Bernie Sanders he was calling her [Hillary Clinton] on it,” he said. “He was relating it to her positions. Bernie Sanders did actually nullify it this year.” He said it’s not surprising that Democrats are getting more corporate money. “It’s been 15 years in the making,” he said, arguing that Bill Clinton took a lot of
corporate money, and “it did not hurt him in his election bids. So Democrats are doing it all over.” Lokken said the public is generally not aware of how much money comes into their states, and even when they hear about it, they don’t seem to object. “I resent it, and I talk about it, and nobody seems bothered by it,” he said. “They are certainly unaware of how much money is coming from outside the state of Nevada. They don’t even realize that a number of their ballot initiatives are brought in from out of state.” He said people or organizations from out of state get ballot measures on the Nevada ballot by paying for signature gatherers, and the public likely assumes those people with clipboards are local volunteers. Two years ago, Nevada received a dramatic demonstration of the power of outside money. In a heavily Democratic U.S. House district, Democrat Steven Horsford was coasting to victory against bumbling, gaffe-prone Republican Cresent Hardy when a Karl Rove PAC suddenly dumped three quarters of a million dollars into the race a few days before the election, the money going to broadcast ads attacking Horsford, who never knew what hit him. This time, Hardy has the power of incumbency and a healthy campaign fund, and the Democrats had a primary in which they used up a lot of money. Ω
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A dozen people rallied in Tahoe City last weekend, calling attention to Black Lives Matter. The event was organized by Nicole Lutkemuller, who thought it was important to draw attention to the issue in a setting where the populace is overwhelmingly white. “Everyone is too complacent in Tahoe because we live in a little bubble of paradise where everyone loves everyone and everything is beautiful,” she wrote in a call for participants. PHOTO/CAROL CIZAUSKAS
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by JoSiE Luciano
Discovery Museum Education Director Sarah GobbsHill wants to keep adults interested in science. PHOTO/JOSIE LUCIANO
Science, class Discovery Museum goes adult At what age does science start to feel like it’s off-limits for amateurs? Sarah Gobbs-Hill, education director at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, thinks it might be some time after college. The idea that science can only be experienced or appreciated by professionals is a myth that is carefully busted for us when we’re kids and tacitly reinforced by the time we hit adulthood—a double standard that Gobbs-Hill and others at the museum are looking to counteract with Social Science, the three-years-running, filled-to-capacity event series with a tagline that reads “Adults only, brain building fun.” “One of the things I’m really learning is that people like science,” said GobbsHill. “We get a lot of young professionals who still care about life knowledge.” Past themes have included fermentation, drones, robots and DIY minicomputers. The topic for July is urban sustainability—a term that sidesteps the controversy that “green” often steps in. “I think sustainability is sort of the new rhetoric,” said Gobbs-Hill. “And in some ways I don’t think sustainability has been as politicized as, say, ‘global climate change’ or ‘green efforts.’” This month’s dive into urban sustainability includes a vermicompost workshop from edible landscaper Jana Vanderhaar of Verdant Connections, a tiny 144-square-foot house built by ACE High School students; and a city reimagining 10 | RN&R | 07.14.16
activity led by Colin Robertson, communications and strategy director of the Cathexes design firm’s proposed West Second District development. Other presenters from Sustainable Nevada, Polygrarian Institute and Urban Roots will be stationed around the museum for participants to visit with when they’re not eating, drinking and listening to live music. Although it’s easy to think of Social Science and this month’s Urban Sustainability theme as stand-alone gatherings, a big piece of its identity comes from being a part of a larger whole. It’s one event in a series of events that the museum is counting on to reposition itself as a science center, instead of just a children’s museum. The hope is that Social Science—along with other programs and exhibits like Science Distilled, Discovery After Dark, Inside Out, and Monsterfish—will help to bolster the 12-and-over audience as well as the museum’s ability to stay on the edge of scientific issues. “We can move pretty fast since we’re a pretty small organization,” said GobbsHill. “So if there’s a new topic that’s super emergent that people are really excited about, it’s easy for us to kind of dive in and learn more.” July’s Urban Sustainability theme is a part of a larger Arizona State University fellowship that includes big-name museums like the Franklin Institute, the Cal Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Science and Industry. In that kind of company, the Wells Discovery Museum seems to be on track to make a ripple effect on multiple generations—and not just the ones who walk in the door. Ω Social Science: Urban Sustainability will take place on July 16 from 6-9pm at the Discovery Museum. Adults only. $15 for members, $20 for non-members in advance and $25 at the door.
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C AT C H I N G FIRE Wildfire season heats up in the American West
By Alastair Bland
The smoke from the 2015 Butte Fire as seen from Gary and Monika Rose’s property. The fire burned 70,000 acres.
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plume of smoke rose from the woods early in the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 9, last year. Gary Rose was on his way home to his rural house in Mountain Ranch, Calaveras County, California, about three hours southwest of Reno. His wife, Monika, called to ask if he could see the fire.
Tens of millions of trees killed by the drought are ready to burn. Decades of fire suppression practices have also contributed to the woodland fuel load, allowing underbrush to build like kindling in a campfire ring. “California has always been a flammable place,” said Jens Stevens, a post-doc plant ecologist at the University of California, Davis’ John Muir Institute of the Environment. “What’s different today is there’s evidence the forests are denser than ever before. This is going to create bigger, hotter fires.” Thinning out that fuel load is a top priority for forest managers hoping to avert disastrous fires—but there may not be time. Already, record-setting heat baked the West in June, and it’s likely the summer will see furnace-like conditions in the months to come. With large fires already burning, fire officials are already facing what could very well blow into the worst fire season in regional history.
“He told me it was over the ridge, on the Amador side, and that it wasn’t coming our way,” she recalled By the next day, however, the plume had grown larger and closer, smearing the sky a rusty, smoky brown. That afternoon, the Roses, along with two of their three adult children, packed their belongings. Their unease grew into a frantic rush as the fire moved closer and closer. In the morning hours before sunrise, they piled into the truck as, behind them, the flames soared 150 to 200 feet above the ground. Rose said propane tanks could be heard exploding as the inferno claimed each new home in its path. QuEsT FoR FIRE “I could hear the fire breathing,” she said. “It was like a dragon coming down the mountain, and if it Fire has always burned through the hills and mountains wanted something it took it.” of the West. Some plants, like manzanitas, depend The Butte Fire eventually burned 70,000 acres, directly on the intense heat of fires to activate seed destroyed hundreds of homes and took two human lives. germination. The lodgepole pine, too, needs fire to open The Roses were allowed to return after nine days. They its pinecones. Some believe the landscape as a whole were lucky. Their home, and their small herd of cattle, benefited from regular fires, which cleared away dense survived the fire. A team of firefighters had, it turned underbrush and allowed animals to use the area. The out, camped on the property, using it as a base to try to heat of the flames generally had little negative effect on defend the surrounding region. Their success was only most adult trees, protected by thick bark and internal middling. Within a half mile of the Rose property, 11 water content. neighbors’ homes were destroyed—about a 50 percent The entrance of European Americans into the landrate of loss. scape abruptly changed the way fire plays into forest Rose said the devastation was almost surreal. ecology. By the 20th century, people became extremely “They were totally gone,” she said. “It effective in putting out fires. Andrew Latimer, an was eerie, like a war zone. The trees associate professor of fire ecology and plant were all blackened and standing like biology at UC Davis, said this change in a charred cathedral, and where the fire patterns can be seen in tree ring data, “I could hear the fire houses had been, there was nothviewable in the cross sections of old ing left at all—nothing, not even breathing. It was like a mountain conifers. pieces of metal.” “You can see the scars of fires, dragon coming down the 2015 was one of the most every six years, 10 years, 20 years,” mountain, and if it wanted destructive fire years ever. A Latimer said. “Then, starting around the record-setting 10 million acres something it took it.” late 19th century, early 20th century, it of the United States—mostly just stops entirely.” in Alaska and other Western For almost 100 years, local and state MoNIkA RosE regions—went up in flames. fire officials and the U.S. Forest Service “We no longer have fire seasons— extinguished fires aggressively and efficiently it’s more of a fire year now,” said across the West, and—for a time—Americans Mike Lopez, a veteran firefighter with the had conquered one of the most formidable forces of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection nature. who currently serves as president of Cal Fire’s The trouble is, in the absence of fire, the woods grew Sacramento-based firefighters’ labor union. thicker. To Lopez and many others, it’s clear that climate “You had all this fuel building up on the forest floor, change is driving longer droughts and warmer condiwith branches and needles dropping and just staying tions that are pushing the West into a new era of bigger, there and piling up,” Latimer said. “There were also hotter fires. many trees that would have been killed before but were “The forecast is that this is the new normal,” able to grow up, so you had all these medium to large Lopez said. trees and a forest that was much, much denser.” Demographic trends are also troubling. Millions of Eventually, so much biomass had accumulated in the Americans now live in areas prone to catching fire, and West’s forests that even the advanced fire extinguishing outward development from urban areas continues to strategies and technology of the 20th century could not plant new homes deep in the dry woods. Now, after nearly five dry years, the West’s forests continued on page 14 are perhaps as likely to catch fire as they’ve ever been/ 07.14.16 | RN&R | 13
continued from page 13 subdue the force of fire anymore. Fire suppression programs had, in effect, backfired. Latimer said an abrupt uptick in wildfire acreage began in the 1980s and 1990s. The 1991 Oakland hills firestorm, dubbed the Tunnel Fire, killed 25 people and destroyed 2,900 buildings. Twelve years later, over the course of several days in October 2003, the flames of the Cedar Fire consumed 273,000 acres of San Diego County, burning 2,820 buildings and killing 16 people. In 2008, so much of northern California went up in flames that many wines produced that year tasted like smoke. In 2012, the Rush Fire scorched 44,000 acres in northwest Nevada and another 272,000 acres on the California side of the border. That same summer, one of the largest wildfires on record—the Holloway Fire—burned more than 400,000 acres in Nevada and Oregon. Also, that year was the Long Draw Fire, which burned more than half a million acres in Oregon. In the years since, wildfires have remained the scourge of summer. An analysis by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy found that wildfires today are on average nearly five times bigger than the average fire in the 1970s. Nationwide, the fire season is more than two months longer than it was in 1970, and United States wildfires today burn twice the acreage each year that they burned in the 1980s. Nevada, according to Paul Carmichael, a firefighter who handles public relations for the Nevada Division of Forestry, has been lucky. “We’ve pretty much dodged the bullet,” he said. “We’ve got lots of fuel buildup, and we have dry conditions, but we haven’t seen the big fires like California has. It’s been a matter of luck.” But it’s only a matter of time before Nevada’s woodlands go up in flames. The massive tree mortality that has swept the West has placed Nevada, like California, in a very Steve Burns, a fire chief dangerous situation. Dry, warm weather for almost five with the Forest Service in South Lake Tahoe, years has killed tens of millions of trees, with the deluges of almost lost his home in March being too little too late. Estimates by Cal Fire and the the 2007 Angora Fire. U.S. Forest Service have pegged the mortality at more than 60 million trees in California alone. Twenty-six million, officials have reported, are believed to have died in just the past nine months. Many of the trees were first weakened by drought stress and finished off by bark beetles, which have thrived in California and Nevada in the dry, warm “There is only so much machinery and manpower out conditions. there to reduce the fuel load,” he said. Carmichael said Nevada’s woodlands have been affected The other option for reducing fire danger is prescribed just as severely as California’s, from the Sierra Nevada to burning—the practice of intentionally starting a fire in order the sagebrush country to the lodgepole pine forests to subsequently control fire. This approach involves farther east. less labor than mechanical thinning. There may Firefighter Kyle Jacobson, with the be a little prior chainsawing to prime the area U.S. Forest Service’s Lake Tahoe Basin and eliminate exceptionally dense patches. Management Unit, said tree mortality Then, fire itself is used to do the brunt of in the Sierras has not occurred in an the work. even distribution. Rather, there are Prescribed burns are generally set in 2016 is shaping into a locations—some of them miles from spring or fall, said Carmichael—cooler record heat year—just access roads—where trees have died in times of year when fires are easier to unison across areas as large as hundreds as 2014 and 2015 were. keep contained. However, prescribed of acres. burns come with risks. The smoke, for “In places like these where we have one thing, can be a health hazard for tons of dead and downed trees, it will people in the area, and the air pollution is be almost impossible to put fires out,” considerable. Jacobson said. Prescribed burns can also get out of control. Across the West, fire crews are laboring to The May 2000 Cerro Grande Fire of New Mexico thin this fuel load. The simplest approach is mechanical began as an intentional burn started by the National Park thinning—basically cutting down small trees and removing Service. The blaze was intended to clear the underbrush from them from the woods. However, mechanical thinning, which a small patch of woodland—about 900 acres—but got way involves men and women on foot in the woods with chainout of hand. It wound up burning for two weeks, consuming saws, can be brutally laborious. Carmichael said thinning the 48,000 acres and destroying hundreds of homes. The damage state’s overgrown forests is a monumental task that could be plus the firefighting bill ran to nearly a billion dollars. too great for the labor available in Nevada. 14 | RN&R | 07.14.16
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In many places prescribed burning is not an option at all. Too many people have built homes in the forests, making the risk of repeating the Cerro Grande disaster too great. “In some areas, the property values are so high, you just can’t start fires,” Jacobson said. The challenge facing firefighters and forest managers is to thin out the fuel load of the state’s woodlands to a point where huge fires are not the constant hazard they are now. “But we’re a long way from that,” said Steve Burns, a South Lake Tahoe fire chief with the U.S. Forest Service. He said that with strict limits on logging and the safety issues associated with controlled burns, drought induced tree mortality is outpacing the Forest Service’s ability to thin the forests—and it isn’t likely that forest managers will get a handle on the problem anytime soon. “With the fuel load out there, we’re going to be seeing these mega-fires for years,” he said. Burns almost lost his South Lake Tahoe home in the 2007 Angora Fire, which destroyed 254 other homes in the area. In the past 25 years, more than half of new homes in the United States have been built in areas of woodland or other vegetation likely to catch fire, according to the research firm Headwaters Economics in Montana. Nationwide, 15 million homes are now at risk of burning in wildfires, U.S. Forest Service officials have estimated. The number of homes built in the danger zone continues to grow as urban areas sprawl into woodland and
wilderness—an unofficial land designation that fire and forest managers call the wildland-urban interface, or WUI, pronounced “whoo-eeh.” “We used to see fires of 100,000 acres that would destroy one or two homes,” Lopez said. “Now, we might have fires that are 10,000 acres burning 100 homes.” Carmichael said homeowners in the wildland-urban interface are encouraged to keep a 30-foot cleared buffer between their homes and the surrounding vegetation. Junipers, also, are not a wise choice of landscaping trees. Their oil content makes them extremely flammable. “We call them green gasoline,” Carmichael said. Controlling vegetation growth is what helped save the Rose household in Mountain Ranch. Monika Rose said she and her husband always kept the acreage surrounding their home trim and tidy. The constant grazing of the cows and their goats helped, too. But Rose said she knew the mountains around their home would eventually catch fire. “We’d seen the heavy undergrowth and the thick trees, the amount of fuel and all the dead trees,” she said. “We knew the danger was real. Some of her neighbors, she said, were not so careful. “They were right under the trees, and the very thing that they loved, the beauty of the forest, actually caused their undoing.”
Fire in the sky The winter brought heavy precipitation. Deluges of rain fell in January before more downpours arrived in March.
Meanwhile, snow blanketed the higher elevations, but Lopez said this winter’s moisture didn’t do much good. “All that rain did was delay the fire season a month or two,” he said. In fact, the heavy March rains prompted growth of thick grasses that, by May, were already turning brown—the color of concern for firefighters. By June, the fire season seemed to be in full swing, with fires burning all over the state. The large Erskine Fire, for example, consumed almost 50,000 acres of forest in the mountains near Bakersfield and killed an elderly couple. As for the heavy blanket of snow laid over the West in the winter, it is nearly gone—melted by scorching spring temperatures. This is just one of many indicators that the climate is warming. Already, 2016 is shaping into a record heat year—just as 2014 and 2015 were. Warming trends seem to be causing the mountain tree line to move upward, resulting in forests at elevations higher than they grew in the past, according to researchers. In a study published last summer, scientists with UC Davis’ John Muir Institute of the Environment reported that fires are now burning higher than they did in the past. They reviewed data extending back more than 100 years. Fires, they found, rarely burned above 8,000 feet before 1980. Now, several fires each year burn in this subalpine zone, thanks to increasing fuel load and decreasing moisture levels. Another change sweeping the landscape of Nevada is the takeover of invasive Eurasian cheatgrass. Carmichael said this grass not only burns easily but colonizes scorched land more rapidly than native grasses. Thus, he said, it is turning into the cause, as well as the result, of Nevada scrubland fires.
Scientists, officials and firefighters all agree that the era of indiscriminate fire suppression must end. The practice simply doesn’t work. Fires can only be kept out for so long before they erupt again. Indeed, many firefighters and scientists want to see fire returned to the landscape. “We really want to reintroduce prescribed fire,” Carmichael said. But how to return fire to a landscape that is so densely packed with fuel without disastrous consequences is the foremost challenge. Stevens said that fires burn through a healthy forest every 15 years or so. Some scientists and forest managers believe that, eventually, fires could again burn on such a cycle. Meanwhile, rural homes and communities could be protected by buffer perimeters of intensively thinned woodland. However, in spite of prevailing opinions among scientists and managers that fire should be allowed to burn at some uninhibited level, fire suppression remains standard. Latimer said virtually every fire that can be put out is put out. This practice causes more problems than it solves but remains the status quo. “The trouble is, if you let a fire burn, you can’t always know what direction it will go,” Latimer said. “There’s always this risk that it will get out of control if you let it go.” In Mountain Ranch, the house of the Rose family was spared once, but the danger remains. “There’s still tons of fuel left out there to burn,” Rose said. “There are dead trees all over, still just waiting for the next fire.” Ω
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here have been a lot of swings and misses in 2016, especially since late March, when the summer movie season got off to an incredibly early start with a battle between a guy in a cowl and a guy with a cape. You know, the one with that epic fight that ended when Batman and Superman realized they loved their mommies. Since then, a couple of blockbusters have hit the mark, but most have fizzled. The summer, as of early July, is dragging. It’s a big movie beast that is hemorrhaging wasted dollars on screens across the world. Normally reliable directors are stinking up the place, while a bunch of newcomers are at least providing terrific, smaller fare in an attempt to balance things out. What does the summer have left? An attempt to reinvigorate Ghostbusters, a Star Trek movie, the return of Jason Bourne, a Pete’s Dragon remake and Suicide Squad, to name a few. As for the year, we have a Star Wars movie in December that will hopefully make up for this summer’s blockbuster dreck. So far, there’s not much greatness to report in 2016. In fact, there are a few disappointments that amount to catastrophic misfires. We’re talking DC drabness, Spielbergian nightmares and sloppy alien invasions.
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Heck, yeaH The Witch: So far, the only movie this year to get my highest marks is a horror movie that brings to mind old-school classics like The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby. It’s gloomy, terrifying, and not at all nice, like a horror movie should be. It’s also well crafted, amazingly acted, expertly written and … it has that damn goat.
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Hail, caesar!: Typical greatness from the Coen brothers. This spoof of old-timey Hollywood amounts to one of their more lighthearted, goofy efforts, and that means a good time for all with every frame of the film masterfully shot.
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Swiss army Man: Weirdness abounds as Paul Dano finds a corpse—magically played by Daniel Radcliffe—on a desert island and uses it as an all-purpose tool. He also befriends the corpse, and to say
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make for a great “Weird Movie Night” triple feature. Colin Farrell has a way of making it into some pretty terrific movies.
Midnight Special: Director Jeff Nichols has made the most Spielbergian movie of the summer so far in a summer that actually contains a Steven Spielberg movie. Nichols is a giant filmmaker, and he has another one coming out this year, Loving. This one probably won’t contend for Best Picture, but Loving looks to have a good shot. It’s the year of Nichols!
Zootopia: This one narrowly edges out The Jungle Book for best family film of the year, so far. I dug Finding Dory, but this Disney gem is closer to being a classic.
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The Neon Demon: Director Nicolas Winding Refn gets back on track after the disastrous Only God Forgives with this scathing look at the fashion industry. Elle Fanning is blazingly good as a young model who encounters soul-sucking fashion industry types who want her youthful energy a little too much.
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captain america: civil War: Marvel shows us what a mash-up between two superheroes should look like. In short, it shouldn’t suck ass!
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: This one bombed. It shouldn’t have. Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island pals made the funniest movie of the year to date, and nobody went to see it.
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HeLL, No I Saw the Light: Tom Hiddleston sure can sing like Hank Williams. He can act like Hank Williams too, if Hank Williams was a droning, massive bore. Come on, Hank Williams must’ve had a sense of humor. Or a pulse.
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Deadpool: Marvel also shows us that a superhero movie can be decidedly nasty while still being fun. And Ryan Reynolds can be just fine in a superhero movie, as long as his suit isn’t animated.
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Cell: If, 20 years ago, you told me John Cusack and Nicholas Cage would wind up as onscreen, worn out husks of their former selves, I would’ve laughed at you and thrown pastries at you. Oh, how the great have fallen. Nicholas Cage isn’t in this Stephen King mess, but Cusack is, and their careers continue on frightningly gloomy, similar trajectories.
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The Huntsman: Winter’s War: Watching great talents Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt trying to make this material worthwhile is something akin to watching two adorable golden retriever puppies with huge bags of rotten, smelly apples strapped to their backs trying to make it up a large staircase during an earthquake.
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Independence Day: Resurgence
This guy saves you money.
The BFG: Spielberg attempts to make a movie about dreams but makes a movie that will put you into a sleep so deep you will pool drool under your face and snore so loudly the guy with the flashlight will admonish you. It feels like Spielberg is copying himself. His first Disney venture is a slog. Like in Swiss Army Man, this movie has lots of farts. Unlike Swiss Army Man, the farts aren’t funny.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Great idea, abysmal execution. How could both this and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter be so bad? We are talking great opportunities totally wasted!
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Michelle Sperry and Jon Shown are planning to pioneer Reno’s multimedia mini-golf industry.
Haunted hole Cine Golf “It’s harder than it looks,” said Michelle Sperry, crouching in a small warehouse space on Dickerson Road lined with pegboard and shelves full of tools. She was trying to roll a golf ball up a foot-high slope, which is attached to a 1,000-pound sculptural contraption. After a few tries, she sent the ball into one of three possible holes and stood up to watch as a rotating metal spiral lifted it six feet. The ball dropped into a maze made of forest-green wood and soft, artificial turf, where it would take another putt or two to sink it. “This is the prototype hole for Cine Golf,” said Jon Shown, Sperry’s collaborator. The two plan to start an indoor, moviethemed, mini-golf establishment, complete with bar, movies projected on the walls and artwork by local artists. They hope to open it in the fall. Meanwhile, by this Saturday they will have encased the kinetic mechanisms in a wooden model of the Overlook Hotel, where The Shining was set. Internal mechanisms and switchbacks will be visible through windows. The ball will exit the structure through a miniature version of either an icebox, a bar or the legendary Room 237. They’re planning to debut the hole during the Discover Dickerson Road festival. They’ll also launch their Kickstarter campaign. A related fundraiser art exhibit will feature Jack Nicholson’s mug at its creepiest and other Shining-related work by artists including Mike Lucido, Kaleb Temple, Bryce Chisholm and Megan Ellis. The seed of this idea was planted about five years ago. Shown, a native Renoite who worked in the film industry in Los Angeles for a decade, was at a film festival at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where The Shining was filmed. A few years later, 18 | RN&R | 07.14.16
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back in Reno, over coffee, he and Sperry developed the seed into a business idea. They were inspired by a visit to Urban Putt, and indoor mini-golf course in San Francisco. They made a concept drawing of a mini-golf hole and handed it to builders Mikey Burke, Mike Mechanic and Paul Hutchinson, who’ve been doing the construction. Sperry and Shown have both reached their early 30s and seen their friends start families, and Shown volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada as a big brother to a 7-year-old. Given the increasing presence of kids in their circles, they wanted to open an entertainment venue that was as cool as any new Midtown bar but that also would accommodate families. Another of Cine Golf’s goals, said Shown, is “to introduce this level of creativity and engineering and art design to, you know, a 12-year-old. Maybe he’s never seen The Shining, but he still sees his ball go up an Archimedes’ screw, and now he knows what an Archimedes’ screw is.” (It’s a simple spiral device that pumps water upward, and the spiral mechanisms inside the golf hole strongly resemble one.) Sperry, who grew up practicing carpentry with her dad, added, “With some holes you won’t even have a conventional putter. For this one, there will be an ax head on it.” The hotel and patterned carpeting from The Shining are about as scary as the creators of Cine Golf intend to get. They’re also planning to make interactive golf holes themed after Harry Potter and various Christmas and Halloween flicks, and they said they’ll rotate in new holes every six months or so. Ω
Cine Golf debuts its first mini-golf hole and hosts The Shining Art Show at Black Rock Drive-In, 2245 Dickerson Road, during the Discover Dickerson Road festival, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. July 16. The project’s Kickstarter campaign is at www.kickstarter.com/profile/cinegolf.
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The same can be said for the sewer stuff, which actually might terrify kids under the age of 8 and perhaps some of the softer, sweeter adults in attendance. There’s a snake down there that initiates new A bunch of comedians lend their voices to some members of the Flushed Pets crew by biting or eating cartoon characters, and the results are moderately them, and that particular snake’s fate is something entertaining. Hey, it’s not a ringing endorsement, akin to the one suffered by Bambi’s mom. but The Secret Life of Pets is good for a laugh or Directors Yarrow Cheney, making his feature two, and the occasional whacked-out moment that film directing debut, and Chris Renaud (the qualifies it as a semi-original animated movie. Despicable Me movies) practice a very frantic OK, still not a ringing endorsement. pacing style that becomes a bit of a headache at Louis C.K. voices Max, a Jack Russell terrier times. Much of the movie goes by at whiz-bang who loves his master, Katie (Ellie Kemper of speed, although the action is fairly coherent. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), with that undying The animators have come up with a fun loyalty that makes dogs so damn cool. Katie brings vision of New York City, with apartment buildhome a new brother for Max, a big brown shaggy ings squished into each other and a compressed dog named Duke (Eric Stonestreet), and it creates Manhattan skyline. They manage to make the city some turmoil in the household. look friendly and crazy at the same Max and Duke eventually wind time, which is probably the way up in the hands of Animal Control, many of the city’s residents would and eventually fend for themselves describe their mega-famous home. in the sewers of Manhattan. There One of the greater joys of the they become enemies of the movie is hearing Louis C.K. toning Flushed Pets, a group consisting things down for PG animated fare. of alligators, lizards, snakes and It turns out he has a gift for playing Directors: Yarrow Cheney, furry critters led by Snowball the a dog, and Max even looks a little Chris Renaud Rabbit (Kevin Hart on a sound like him. And since he’s such a Starring: Louis C.K., Kevin booth tear). passionate endorser of New York, Hart, Ellie Kemper The advertised premise for the he’s right at home in a movie where film suggests the movie might be that locale is the setting. And he’s about what our pets do in the house when we leave just sort of really cute playing a dog. home. That part of the film is out of the way early Conversely, Hart goes for something a little in the movie’s opening minutes. (They basically more evil with his bunny rabbit, giving the killer eat all of our food, have parties, and listen to punk bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail a rock.) The rest of the movie is the band of pets in run for its money. With this, and his recent pairing Max’s neighborhood trying to find him and Duke with Dwayne Johnson in the sort of OK Central when they get lost. Intelligence, Kevin Hart is having himself a sort Some of the sequences are borderline deranged. of better than average, slightly better than fair-toMax and Duke wind up in a sausage factory, where middling summer. they gobble down hot dogs in an almost hallucinaWhere does The Secret Life of Pets rank in the tory scene set to Grease’s “We Go Together.” This list of animated movies released so far in 2016? Well doesn’t feel like the stuff of kids’ movies; it’s a below Zootopia, and somewhat short of Finding sequence that seems as if the animators took a little Dory, but still OK. No, you don’t need to run out LSD break, came back to their computers, and and see this one, but if it should play in front of your dreamt up some wild shit. face somewhere in the future, there’s a good chance you will enjoy substantial parts of it. Ω
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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.
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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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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
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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. 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.
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.
Like the dead corpse at its center, this film is a multipurpose entity. It can be a lot of different things to the viewer. It can be a story about the wild things starvation and desperation can do to the brain, and the strange movies that play in your head when you are losing it. It can be a story about how a deranged stalker deals with the end of his life and afterlife. It can be a story about how funny it would be if somebody’s farts could propel him like a jet ski across the ocean and how funny it would be if his erect dick were a compass. I’ve made my choice what this movie is about, but you could walk away from it thinking something completely different. As Hank, Paul Dano gets yet another career-defining, nutty role. He’s seemingly stranded on a desert island, at the end of his rope, literally. Just before killing himself, a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on the beach, and starts farting. It starts farting—a lot. Before much time has passed, Hank is riding the corpse, dubbed Manny, across the ocean as its farts provide jet propulsion. Hank, with the arrival of his new friend, decides suicide is a drag, and takes Manny along with him on a trek through the forest to find civilization. Manny eventually starts having conversations with Hank. Sound weird? It is. It most assuredly is. It’s also strangely beautiful, deeper and richer than most movies with this many farts in it, and, depending upon the way you take the movie, super disturbing and sad.
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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, and the movie’s a dud.
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FOr tHE WEEK OF JULY 14, 2016 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. $50. Donner Camp Trail at Donner Memorial State Park, 12593 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, (530) 563-6557, www. trailsandvistas.org.
EVENINGS ON THE RANCH: This familyfriendly program series presented by Washoe County Regional Parks & Open Space celebrates the ranching heritage of Northern Nevada. W, 7-8pm through 7/27. $3 donation. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 8286612, www.renoisartown.com.
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, www.renoisartown.com.
FEED THE CAMEL: The Hump Day food truck event and arts bazaar takes place under the Keystone Bridge. W, 5-8pm through 9/28. Free admission. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 450-0062.
FREE FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL: The art festival features eight art stations for kids, historic tours, a free book for each child, face painting stations, art for sale and more. Sa, 7/16, 10am-2pm. Free. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2, www.artsforallnevada.org.
Climate of Hunter Ouroboros Shadow Pictures presents this multimedia shadow performance based on the true events of the whaleship Essex. The central narrative of the piece presents a child’s perspective of growing up with a sense of home and safety, maturing into the modern world, and being overcome by an unnamed fear that distorts and picks away at their sense of security. Performances are at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, July 18-19, at Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 students, seniors and military. Call 813-8900 or visit http://renolittletheater.org.
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39 NORTH MARKETPLACE: The marketplace showcases the best in arts and crafts and highlights produce and specialty food from the Truckee Meadows. Th, 4-9pm through 8/4. Victorian Square, 14th Street and Pyramid Way along Victorian Avenue, Sparks, (775) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.
CIRCUS CIRCUS RENO 24-HOUR MURAL MARATHON COMPETITION: The competitors will have only 24 hours to paint an original mural in a panel 19’7” feet-wide by 14 feet high. Artists will compete for prize money—$2,000 to the first place winner, $1,000 to the second place winner and $500 to the third place winner. Each artist will also receive a $750 stipend to pay for paint and materials in order to complete the murals. Winners will be selected by a separate panel of judges to be determined. F, Sa, 10am through 7/16. Opens 7/15. Circus Circus, 500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711.
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM AND THE LURE OF THE ARTISTS’ COLONY: Scott Schweigert is the curator of the exhibition American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony and is a specialist in European art of the 17th century. He will discuss the emergence of artists’ colonies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as it relates to the American Impressionists. F, 7/15, noon. $10 general admission, free NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www. nevadaart.org.
CULTURAL LAND TOUR: WEBBER LAKE: This
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GOLD HILL GHOST TOUR: Enjoy a meal at the Crown Point restaurant and then join a guided ghost tour through the Gold Hill Hotel sharing stories of ghostly legends. Dining begins at 4pm. The tour starts at 8pm. M, 4 & 8pm. $40 for dinner and tour, $20 for tour only. Gold Hill Hotel, 1540 S. Main St., Gold Hill, (775) 847-0111, http:// goldhillhotel.net.
GREAT BASIN GEEK PROM: Dress to the nines or sport your favorite cosplay outfit and enjoy music and dancing, prom photos, raffle prizes, no host bar and more. F, 7/15, 7-11pm. $20. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 303-0334.
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., through Aug. 21. The Showcase Series takes place on Monday through Aug. 15 and continues on Friday, Aug. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 3 and Sept. 10. Tu-Su, 7:30pm through 8/21;
M, 7:30pm through 8/15. Opens 7/18; F, Sa, 7:30pm through 8/27. Opens 8/26; Sa, 9/3, 7:30pm; Sa, 9/10, 6:30pm. Prices vary.
Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 747-4697, http:// laketahoeshakespeare.com.
MANSIONS ON THE BLUFF: Walk past historical Reno homes located on Court, Ridge and upper California streets. Learn about the senators and merchants who made early Reno “The Biggest Little City in the World.” Bring water and wear comfortable shoes for this uphill tour. Reservations required online. Sa, 7/16, 8-10am. $10; free for Historic Reno
Preservation Society members. Cook House parking lot, 421 Court St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.
MOANA FOOD TRUCK ROUNDUP: The food truck gathering features family-friendly activities, entertainment and more. Th, 5-9pm through 9/29. Free admission. Rounds Bakery, 294 E. Moana Lane, Ste. 10, (775) 329-0800.
POWNINGS ADDITION WALKING TOUR: Discover one of Reno’s earliest vernacular neighborhoods, predominantly settled by Northern Italian immigrants. This neighborhood is the first City of Reno Conservation District. Reservations required online. Tu, 7/19, 6-8pm. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 7474478, www.historicreno.org.
RENO STREET FOOD—PARTY IN THE PARK: The gourmet street food event features more than 20 gourmet food, craft dessert, beer, wine and mixed drink vendors. Local musicians provide free live entertainment each week. F, 5-9pm through 9/30. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665, www.facebook.com/RenoStreetFood.
RENO SUPERHERO CRAWL: Dress as your favorite superhero and enjoy no cover and drink specials at participating downtown bars and nightclubs with the purchase of a commemorative cup and map. The crawl begins at Harrah’s Plaza. Sa, 7/16, 8pm. $5 cup and map. Harrah’s Reno, 219 N. Center St., http:// superherocrawl.com.
RENO WINE WALK: The Riverwalk Merchants Association hosts its monthly event along the Truckee River and neighboring streets in downtown Reno. Visit any of the participating Riverwalk District merchants on Wine Walk day and receive a wine glass, a map of Wine Walk merchants and a wristband that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Must be 21 years old to participate. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm through 4/15. $20. The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.
SASSABRATION! EQUALITY CELEBRATION 2016: Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint hosts its second annual equality event celebrating diversity, community and equality. The two-day event will kick off on July 16 with a Drag Race Bike Ride at 11am at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., ending at Sassafras Eclectic Food Join. There will be live music from a variety of musicians, craft vendors, food and food trucks, silent auctions, raffles, belly dancers and more. The event continues on July 17 with the Silver Dollar Court brunch and food truck fest. Sa, 7/16, 11am; Su, 7/17, 10:30am. Free admission, donations welcome. Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road, Carson City, (775) 884-4471.
“The Truth About Selling Your Home: 10 Mistakes to Avoid” on Aug. 22. The Truth About Preparing to Stay Put” on Sept. 12. M, 7/18, 2pm; M, 8/22, 2pm; M, 9/12, 2pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 432-6398, www. seniorlivingtruth.com.
STELLA POP UP: TASTE & LISTEN: Experience an artistic interpretation of a multi-continent inspired cuisine choreographed to live music. Chef Ben Knox will use the spices and prepare the food while being inspired by the music of India, Spain and Africa. F, 7/15, 6-9pm. $110. Cedar House Sport Hotel, 10918 Brockway Road, Truckee, (530) 582-5655.
THURSDAY DOWNTOWN FARMERS’ MARKET: Shirley’s Farmers Markets and the Sands Regency host the weekly farmers’ market. Local vendors will converge under the large tent in the Sands parking lot located south of Third Street in Reno. The weekly event includes free live classic rock concerts, food trucks, a beer garden and weekly summer games. Th, 4-9pm through 8/25. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2295, www.sandsregency.com.
TRUCKEE OPEN ART STUDIOS TOUR: The Nevada County Arts Council presents the second annual self-guided driving tour throughout Truckee neighborhoods. The tour invites visitors to experience the evolution of art from creative spark to finished product through dialog with some of Truckee’s best professional artists. You can also download a digital edition of the guidebook from the website.
7/15-7/17, 10am-5pm; 7/22-7/24, 10am-5pm. Locations vary, (530) 386-4976, www. creativetruckee.org.
VALHALLA ART, MUSIC AND THEATRE FESTIVAL: The 34th annual celebration of music, theater and the visual arts features events and activities through August. Events take place in the Boathouse Theater, the Valhalla Grand Hall and the Grand Lawn. M-Su through 8/31. Prices vary. Tallac Historic Site, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, http://valhallatahoe.com.
Art ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE: Adverse Possession and Lucent Fluidity. The abstract art gallery is open for the Riverwalk Wine Walk on July 16 and the Artist Reception on July 24. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 3:30-7pm or by appointment any day/evening of the week. Sa, 7/16, 2-5pm; Su, 7/24, 2-4pm. Free.142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367, http:// artindeed.com.
ARTE ITALIA: Italian-American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas. This documentary exhibit curated by the Museo Italo Americano at Fort Mason Center
SENIOR LIVING OPTIONS SEMINARS: A series of candid conversations with local experts focused on the complex housingrelated issues facing mature homeowners and their families. “The Truth About Reverse Mortgages” on July 18.
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Skinny genes I’ve always been a very athletic guy. I do jujitsu every day. When I don’t exercise, I feel depressed. My girlfriend, however, has never been very physically active. She has a great body—naturally slim— without doing anything, which is probably why she’s unmotivated to work out. I just think that if she did—even a little—she’d look like a superhero and feel better. I keep urging her to exercise, but it’s not working. How do I encourage her? There’s that saying, “You are what you eat.” Apparently, your girlfriend ate a supermodel. Numerous studies find that exercise is a mood booster and improves our cognitive abilities (like memory), even protecting them into old age. Incredibly, a study on female twins by geneticist Tim Spector found that those with fitter leg muscles showed fewer signs of aging in their brain 10 years later. But we humans have a very now-oriented psychology. So, for many people these pluses are merely fringe benefits of workouts for jiggle management. Unfortunately, when your girlfriend looks in the mirror, she sees that all those runs to the vending machine seem to be paying off. It’s sweet and loving that you want her to have the benefits of exercising, but stand back, because I’m about to make a big mess slaughtering a sacred cow. Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, low-carb pioneers whose evidence-based approach to dietary medicine I have great respect for, dug into the research on exercise after meeting professional fitness trainer Fredrick Hahn. They were surprised at what they found and ended up writing a book with Hahn—The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution. In their book, they note that many of the ways people exercise actually don’t do all that much for their bodies or long-term health. For example, they say that many endurance workouts are “tremendously inefficient” for improving health and often come with some serious costs, like the need to have your knees rebuilt with medical Tupperware. They also write that many sports that people consider exercise—including tennis, skiing and
(sorry!) martial arts—have some fitness benefits but would better be considered play. They explain that exercise should do all of the following: 1. Make you stronger. 2. Improve your cardiovascular system. 3. Help you lose excess body fat. 4. Improve your endurance. 5. Improve your flexibility. And 6. Preserve or increase your bone density and muscle mass. The one exercise that does all of these things is slow-motion strength training. This involves lifting extremely heavy weights—weights that you can barely lift at all— extremely slowly. You do just three to six reps in 60- or 90-second intervals—to the point where your muscles just scream and give out. Now maybe you’re saying, “Come on … weightlifting for cardio?” Consider that your heart is a muscle and muscle cells need oxygen as they work. Mike Eades explains on his blog that conditioning your muscles through strength training makes the body more efficient at getting oxygen into muscle cells, which is what improves your cardiopulmonary function—not all the pound, pound, pound of a run. As for how to get your girlfriend into this kind of exercise, first, it helps to explain that it requires a ridiculously small time commitment. Of course, there’s still the problem of motivating her. Well, when you’re in a relationship, you get to make requests of your partner— things you ask them to do simply because it would make you happy. Put your request in that light, but give her an attractive (rebellion-quashing) timetable: For just three weeks, try slow-motion strength training with you. Mary Dan Eades explains that the threeweek “try this” allows a person to experience some benefits, which often motivates them to keep going. Ω
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CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Silver State Swimmer. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents artwork by artist Michael Malley at the Carson City Community Center’s Sierra Room. M-Th, 8am-5pm through 11/10. Free. 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 887-2290, www.arts-initiative.org.
CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE GALLERY: New Crop 2016. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents artwork by five Sierra Nevada College and University of Nevada, Reno master of fine arts candidates. M-F, 8am5pm through 9/29. Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.
FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Brett Flanigan. The first show in University Galleries’ new mural series features mural art by the Oaklandbased artist. M-F through 11/11. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.
HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Fresh Flash. David Hall’s exhibition includes drawings, watercolor paintings and painted skateboards that reflect heavy influences from American traditional tattoos, skateboarding, rock ’n’ roll music, lowbrow art and Kustom Kulture aesthetics. M-Su, 3-6pm through 7/22. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087, www.hollandreno.org.
THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Driven To. Local printmaker/painter Angie Terrell’s exhibition consists of mixed media works, including hand embroidery, serigraphy on fabric and handmade letterpress books all dealing with women and mental illness. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 7/29. Free. 140 Vesta St., Suite 330, (775) 742-1858, www. hollandreno.org.
LAKE MANSION: From the Walls of the Riverside Artist Lofts to the Lake Mansion. Arts for All Nevada presents artists of the Riverside Artist Lofts. The featured art is photography by Megan Berner and the paintings by Martin Holmes. The Artist Lofts show also includes novels, jewelry, clothing, accessories, knickknacks and cards. Artists include Holly English, Erik Holland, Patricia Sherer, Dianna Sion, Catherine Sweet, Damien Cole, Maggy Anthony, Gene Anthony, Jay Fisher and Marilyn Fisher. Through 8/26. Free admission. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.
METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: In the Open: RenoTahoe Plein Air Painters. Artwork by Emma Auriemma-McKay, Pat Edwards, Bontia Paulis, Trina Gold, Carolyn Jean Thompson, Carol Grigus, Brent Logan, Sue Perry, Heidi Reeves, Lynn Schmidt, Linda Rosenblum, Nan Lathrop and Sarah Wharton-Riggle. Through 7/29, 9am-5pm. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Anna McKee:
68,000 Years of Ice, W-Su through 9/18; Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, W-Su through 5/11; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31; Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; Andrea
Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31; American Impressionism, W-Su through 8/14. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 3293333, www.nevadaart.org.
OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: Vantage Point of Distance. This exhibit features the sculptural work of Las Vegas artist David Rowe. He will give an artist talk at the reception on July 26. M-F, 8am-5pm through 7/29; Tu, 7/26, 5-7:30pm. Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680.
RENO ART WORKS: Creative Revolution Opening Reception. A juried show highlighting the impact of the arts within a community. The exhibit focuses on place-making, improving overall livability and the role of arts and culture within an ecosystem. Th, 7/14, 6-8pm; RAW Open Studios. RAW opens its studio doors inviting the Reno community to come see what the resident artists are up to. Meet the artists, explore the studios and buy local art. Third Sa of every month, noon5pm through 12/17. 1995 Dickerson Road, (775) 225-7295, www.renoartworks.org.
SIERRA ARTS: Stewart Easton. Drawing upon and using folk song, story and social history as a starting point, Easton works with the space and weight of story to create large scale wall-based pieces emphasizing the passage of time, within a single panel. Easton’s stitch work blurs the lines between craft, illustration and fine art. Artist reception on Thursday, July 21, 5-7pm. M-Su through 7/31; Th, 7/21, 5-7pm. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.
ST. MARY’S ART AND RETREAT CENTER: Summer Arts Exhibition. Artists Pete Paulos and Richard Wells are the featured artists exhibiting on all four floors of the historical building. Summer artisans include Casey Clark, Don Kennedy, Pam Sutton and Linda Gamble. F-Su, 11am-4pm through 8/22. Donations welcome. 55 North R St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7774. www.stmarysartcenter.org.
STREMMEL GALLERY: Robert Brady: Mined
of My Own. M-Sa through 7/30. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF NORTHERN NEVADA (UUFNN): Looking Out—Seeing Within. Twenty artists show their renditions of Nevada two ways: one realistic/impressionist paired with an abstract work of the same location. M-F, Su, 11am-2pm through 8/24. Free. 780 Del Monte Lane, (775) 851-7100, www. uufnn.org.
WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: ARTful Women. ARTful Women make their Nevada debut in a new exhibition. Their diverse styles are represented in works of fiber and mixed media that are stitched, dyed, painted, printed, stamped, waxed, fused and embellished. W-Su through 7/17. Free. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.
Film MOVIES IN THE PARK: BACK TO THE FUTURE II: The Artown series continues with a showing of the 1989 film starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. F, 7/15, 9-11:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.
PINA: Artemesia Moviehouse presents Wim Wenders’ documentary film about the late German choreographer Pina Bausch. Tu, 7/19, 7-9pm. Free. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, http://artemisiamovies. weebly.com.
music CLASSICAL REVOLUTION: Enjoy live classical music performed by a wide range of players who bring their favorite pieces to share and perform collaboratively with each other. F, 7/15, 7pm. Free. Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776, http://studioon4th.com.
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: GINKGOA: French songs with an American vibe, this group combines time periods from pop music to the swing of old New York with a mix of electro beats and poetics. W, 7/20, 7:30-10pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.
MUSIC ON THE BEACH 2016 SUMMER CONCERTS: Free live music performances featuring a variety of genres on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe. Concerts take place at Kings Beach State Recreation Area and start at 6:30pm (6pm on Aug. 19, Aug. 26 and Sept. 2). F, 6:30-9pm through 9/2. Free. Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, (530) 546-9000, www. northtahoebusiness.org.
PREZIDENT BROWN: The reggae artist per-
forms. Sa, 7/16, 6-10pm. Free. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, http://breweryarts.org.
RENO MUNICIPAL BAND: THE MAGIC OF DISNEY: The Reno Municipal Band will perform selections from two Disney animated films, Up and Frozen. F, 7/15, noon-1pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.
ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER: GUITAR WOODY & THE BOILERS: RN&R’s summer music series continues with music by the blues band.
F, 7/15, 5:30-8pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 324-4440.
AN EVENING WITH WORLD MUSIC: Traditional Association for Cultural Harmony (TACH) presents a collaboration of Indian and American artists, featuring Chakrapani Singh, Dallas Smith, Susan Mazer and Javad Bhuta, who will play Indian classical, jazz, fusion, saxophone, flute and harp. Su, 7/17, 5-7pm. $10-$15. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 336-9733, www. tach.info.
GOSPEL FEST: A celebration of gospel music. Su, 7/17, 3-6pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-6770, www.renoisartown.com.
ISADORA PASTRAGUS AND JENNIFER TIBBEN: University of Nevada Reno faculty pianist Isadora Pastragus and Reno Philharmonic Choir Director Jennifer Tibben collaborate on a recital featuring works for soprano and piano. Su, 7/17, 2:30pm. Free. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 341 Village Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0075, www.tahoechambermusic.org.
MIDTOWN ON MARTIN STREET: DANA LOUISE AND THE GLORIOUS BIRDS: The group draws from folk, jazz and bluegrass influences. Su, 7/17, 7:30-10pm. Free. Craft Wine & Beer, 22 Martin St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.
MONDAY NIGHT MUSIC SERIES: RENO JAZZ YOUTH ORCHESTRA: An evening of jazz performed by the young musicians of the Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra. M, 7/18, 7:30-10pm. Free. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.
MOONLIGHT MUSIC BY THE RIVER: Bring your picnic, your blanket or chairs and your friends for a relaxing evening of solo and chamber music involving harp. Featured artists include Marina Roznitovsky Oster, Anna Helwing, Vanessa Porter, Josue Casillas and other guests. Sa, 7/16, 7:30-10pm. River School Farm, 7777 White Fir St., (775) 747-2222, www.renoisartown.com.
MUSIC AT TRINITY: MAXIMUM BRASS: An evening of music for brass instruments.
Th, 7/14, 7-8pm. Free. Trinity Episcopal
Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.
SUMMER SOIREE UNDER THE STARS: ROSEANNE CASH WITH JOHN LEVENTHAL: The show features music from the singer-songwriter’s Grammy Awardwinning album, The River and the Thread, a collection of original songs celebrating the American South, the place of Cash’s birth and the home of her ancestors. Th, 7/14, 7:30-9:30pm. $50 assigned seats; $40 general admission lawn seats. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.
SWEET VIBRATIONS: TINTABULATIONS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE: The ensemble
Reno Basque Festival
7/16:
The 49th annual event features traditional folk dances and music, weight lifting and woodchopping exhibitions and competitions, a bota-drinking event, as well as food and drink. The festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St. Admission is free. Call 762-3577 or visit www.renoisartown.com.
dents of Heart & Sole Dance Academy, as well as Dysrhythmia Contemporary Dance Company. Tu, 7/19, 8-10pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 7472222, www.renoisartown.com.
AN EVENING WITH YOUNG CHAUTAUQUA: Young Chautuaquan performers will portray Benito Mussolini, Marie Curie, Jackie Cochran, Orville Wright, Nikola Tesla, John Lennon, Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey, among other historical figures. They will give a short monologue followed by a question-and-answer session. Th, 7/14, 7-9pm. Free. National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 623-7792, www.renoisartown.com.
MALVOLIO OR WHAT YOU WILL: As part of
features 120 handbells and chimes. Tu, 7/19, 7-8pm. $5 donation. First United Methodist Church, 209 W. First St., (775) 322-4564, www.renoisartown.com.
SWEET VIBRATIONS: WHEATSTONE BRIDGE: The Americana band offers sweet vocal harmonies, a variety of instruments and a repertoire that samples from all parts of the American folk songbook. Th, 7/14, 7-8pm. $5 suggested donation. First United Methodist Church, 209 W. First St., (775) 322-4564, www.renoisartown.com.
Artown, 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. The truth of the transgender journey through the eyes of those who live it is revealed through courageous stories and honest accounts of transgender then and now and what it truly means to live as your authentic self. The show opens each evening with The Brüka Greenshow, also an original performance piece. There will be a postshow talk Sunday, July 17, from 4-5:30pm at Brüka Theatre. 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. $22 general admis-
Onstage ALICE IN WONDERLAND: TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada presents a darker, more faithful version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale that reimagines the experience of Wonderland and ends with an unexpected new twist. M, 7/18, 7pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 2840789, www.twnn.org.
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, 7/15, 7:30-9pm; Sa,
7/16, 7:30-9pm; 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, 7:309pm. $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www. goodluckmacbeth.org.
sion, $20 students, seniors, military, $25 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.
PETER AND WENDY: Missoula Children’s Theater presents J.M. Barrie’s popular tale of the “Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” and his adventures in Neverland. Sa, 7/16, 3 & 5:30pm. $10 adults; $5 children. Damonte Ranch High School, 10500 Rio Wrangler Parkway, (775) 322-1538, www. renoisartown.com.
SHOW WHITE & ROSE RED: Brüka Theatre presents an original modern adaptation of the obscure Brothers Grimm fairytale. Sa, 7/16, 11am & 1pm. $10 general admission, $5 for kids under age 12. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.
DANCING IN THE PARK: MIND, BODY AND SOLE: The performances features many styles and stories in the art of dance. Performers include teachers and stu-
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that you’ll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course. The transformations I’m referring to may not be visible to casual observers. They will mostly unfold in the depths of your psyche. But they won’t be merely symbolic, either. There’ll be mutations in your biochemistry that will expand your sense of your own gender. If you respond enthusiastically to these shifts, you will begin a process that could turn you into an even more complete and attractive human being than you already are.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ll name five heroic
tasks you will have more than enough power to accomplish in the next eight months. (1) Turning an adversary into an ally. (2) Converting a debilitating obsession into a empowering passion. (3) Transforming an obstacle into a motivator. (4) Discovering small treasures in the midst of junk and decay. (5) Using the unsolved riddles of childhood to create a living shrine to eternal youth. (6) Gathering a slew of new freedom songs, learning them by heart, and singing them regularly—especially when habitual fears rise up in you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your life has resem-
blances to a jigsaw puzzle that lies unassembled on a kitchen table. Unbeknownst to you, but revealed to you by me, a few of the pieces are missing. Maybe your cat knocked them under the refrigerator, or they fell out of their storage box somewhere along the way. But this doesn’t have to be a problem. I believe you can mostly put together the puzzle without the missing fragments. At the end, when you’re finished, you may be tempted to feel frustration that the picture’s not complete. But that would be illogical perfectionism. Ninety-seven percent success will be just fine.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are smoothly
attuned with the cosmic rhythms and finely aligned with your unconscious wisdom, you could wake up one morning and find that a mental block has miraculously crumbled, instantly raising your intelligence. If you can find it in your proud heart to surrender to “God,” your weirdest dilemma will get at least partially solved during a magical three-hour interlude. And if you are able to forgive 50 percent of the wrongs that have been done to you in the last six years, you will no longer feel like you’re running into a strong wind, but rather you’ll feel like the beneficiary of a strong wind blowing in the same direction you’re headed.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How often have you visited
hell or the suburbs of hell during the last few weeks? According to my guesstimates, the time you spent there was exactly the right amount. You got the teachings you needed most, including a few tricks about how to steer clear of hell in the future. With this valuable information, you will forevermore be smarter about how to avoid unnecessary pain and irrelevant hindrances. So congratulations! I suggest you celebrate. And please use your newfound wisdom as you decline one last invitation to visit the heart of a big, hot mess.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The latest Free Will
Astrology poll shows that 33 percent of your friends, loved ones and acquaintances approve of your grab for glory. Thirty-eight percent disapprove, 18 percent remain undecided, and 11 percent wish you would grab for even
greater glory. As for me, I’m aligned with the 11 percent minority. Here’s what I say: Don’t allow your quest for shiny breakthroughs and brilliant accomplishments to be overly influenced by what people think of you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are at the pin-
nacle of your powers to both hurt and heal. Your turbulent yearnings could disrupt the integrity of those whose self-knowledge is shaky, even as your smoldering radiance can illuminate the darkness for those who are lost or weak. As strong and confident as I am, even I would be cautious about engaging your tricky intelligence. Your piercing perceptions and wild understandings might either undo me or vitalize me. Given these volatile conditions, I advise everyone to approach you as if you were a love bomb or a truth fire or a beauty tornado.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here’s
the deal: I will confess a dark secret from my past if you confess an equivalent secret from yours. Shall I go first? When I first got started in the business of writing horoscope columns, I contributed a sexed-up monthly edition to a porn magazine published by smut magnate Larry Flynt. What’s even more scandalous is that I enjoyed doing it. OK. It’s your turn. Locate a compassionate listener who won’t judge you harshly, and unveil one of your subterranean mysteries. You may be surprised at how much psychic energy this will liberate. (For extra credit and emancipation, spill two or even three secrets.)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What do you
want to be when you grow up, Capricorn? What? You say you are already all grown up, and my question is irrelevant? If that’s your firm belief, I will ask you to set it aside for now. I’ll invite you to entertain the possibility that maybe some parts of you are not in fact fully mature; that no matter how ripe you imagine yourself to be, you could become even riper—an even more gorgeous version of your best self. I will also encourage you to immerse yourself in a mood of playful fun as you respond to the following question: “How can I activate and embody an even more complete version of my soul’s code?”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On a summer day
20 years ago, I took my 5-year-old daughter Zoe and her friend Max to the merry-go-round in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Zoe jumped on the elegant golden-maned lion and Max mounted the wild blue horse. Me? I climbed aboard the humble pig. Its squat pink body didn’t seem designed for rapid movement. Its timid gaze was fixed on the floor in front of it. As the man who operated the ride came around to see if everyone was in place, he congratulated me on my bold choice. Very few riders preferred the porker, he said. Not glamorous enough. “But I’m sure I will arrive at our destination as quickly and efficiently as everyone else,” I replied. Your immediate future, Aquarius, has symbolic resemblances to this scene.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Early on in our work together, my psychotherapist confessed that she only works with clients whose problems are interesting to her. In part, her motivations are selfish: Her goal is to enjoy her work. But her motivations are also altruistic. She feels she’s not likely to be of service to anyone with whom she can’t be deeply engaged. I understand this perspective, and am inclined to make it more universal. Isn’t it smart to pick all our allies according to this principle? Every one of us is a mess in one way or another, so why not choose to blend our fates with those whose messiness entertains us and teaches us the most? I suggest you experiment with this view in the coming weeks and months, Pisces.
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Street cred
For the competition did you have to get your subject matter approved?
Joe C. Rock is a painter with about 40 local murals and several gallery exhibits to his name. Right now, he’s working on a series of onestory-high portraits—among them Abraham Lincoln and Dat So La Lee, the celebrated Washoe basket maker—on the back of the Junkee Clothing Exchange building. Rock is among a handful of artists scheduled to compete in the third annual Circus Circus Reno 24-Hour Mural Marathon. The public can watch artists paint on the part of Circus Circus’ exterior that faces Virginia Street between 10 a.m. July 15 and 10 a.m. July 16. For information visit www.circusreno.com/entertainment/mural-marathon.aspx.
You submit two concepts and they choose the one of their liking.
It’s definitely a response to the world in general. If I painted what I wanted on the wall, exactly, a lot of people wouldn’t let me paint on their walls. You know, so of course I have to sort of fit into those concepts and ideas that people make. If I had my choice it would probably be a black man’s face with a crown and maybe some buildings or even a gun and baseball bat behind him or something like
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You make murals that are out on the streets and also paintings for galleries. When you’re making murals, which of those milieus are you responding to? Is it a combination of both?
Can you tell us what you’ll be painting?
that. That’s what I paint myself for my canvasses, my work, but, painting it on the street, you really have to find someone who’s going to allow that, and Reno’s almost not there yet. It’s very hard for someone to just—especially on a main street—to paint what they feel like. So you definitely pick what is crowd-pleasing as well. In five years, hopefully I will be able to just paint whatever I want. With my paintings, I just put it out there. With mural work, I’m getting paid for it. It has to be appeasing to the masses as well.
I’ve always wondered about that. Obviously commissioned muralists might have to make compromises when it comes to subject matter. If I wanted to paint a big handgun, and, like, a rose wrapped around it, that’s something I’d want to paint on my own, but it probably wouldn’t be accepted by Circus Circus for the competition.
I’m going to paint [Mark] Twain, but in a very surreal way, kind of like, like my own style. … I really like painting those historical characters. Those old vintage photographs are so great to paint from as well. I really like the black and white and that very—it’s soft, it’s, like, blurry in a way. Using spray paint, that really just comes together well.
So, what about doing a mural in 24 hours? Is that a stretch? No, I did it the first year, and I even went and had a few drinks at the middle of the night and hung out for a little while. So, it’s not really a stretch. You know, on a portrait I can paint one in anywhere from one to seven or eight hours. It just really depends on how everything goes.
If you had your own building and you could paint any mural that you wanted, what would it be? That’s really hard. I go through so many different stages and ideas. I’m born from hip-hop and rap culture, and then I always grew up watching cartoons and comic books. If you asked me today, I’d probably paint a giant picture of Alton Sterling. That’s what I would paint today. Tomorrow it might be a different story. It really depends on the day. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
Wows ahead For those readers who’ve had their fill of urban dreariness for July, allow me to recommend some killer road trips that will do wonders to remind you how splendid life can be on this Third Stone From The Sun. These getaways have the power to provide truly superb escapism, and there ain’t nothin’ wrong with escapism, ever. Especially when you find yourself jabbering incoherently into your coffee cup due to various current affairs. So let’s start with the Great Yosemite. No, we don’t have quick access to the Valley. From Reno, that divine real estate is a haul. But we are a swift and scenic 2-3 hours away from the back door of 10,000foot Tioga Pass, and great googly moogly, if you’ve never made that road trip, you are missing out and fucking up royally. It just couldn’t be easier, you go to 395, head south, and 140 miles away is the little ice cream barbecue motel town of Lee
Vining and mind-boggling highway 120. Once you’re at Tenaya Lake or Tuolumne Meadows or anywhere up there in the Park, you’ll know what I mean. Godville, man, Godville. You get out of the car, you walk around, you say wow many, many times, you feel fortunate to be an Earthling. If you’ve never spent the night at Pyramid Lake, you are also guilty of a gigantic fuckup. Fortunately, you can take steps to correct this blooper by camping there some time this summer. When you’re in your camp chair on a bluff overlooking The Lake at sunset, nursing your chilled pinot gris, watching as a line of 10 pelicans glides by, each giant bird beak to butt, flying in a tight row a foot off the water, then gently landing in front of you— you’ve just been skullswiped by one of the essential Nevada wildlife moments and you’re a richer person for it. Again, multiple wows.
But I’m sure many of you have done Yosemite and Pyramid, and you’re saying, OK, BVD, what else you got? And what I got is, the Santa Rosas, mofo. I got the dadgum Santa Rosas, an imperially gorgeous and monstrously ignored mountain range of superb national park quality splendor, only it’s not designated as anything out of the ordinary, so only locals and Nevadans know about ’em. This is an incredibly beautiful thing. Your destination is Lye Creek, the main campground of the Santa Rosas. And yes, it’s a pretty crazy name for a gushing, sparkling mountain stream. To get there, you have to drive through the delightful Paradise Valley (4.5 hours from Reno), and then head up the fine gravel road to Hinkey Summit, and as you travel this wondrous road, you will eventually realize that you’re really traveling the highway of The Indescribable Wow. Ω
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