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Tough on plaques Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. We’ve heard from a few local businesses that they’ve been approached by parties attempting to sell them Best of Northern Nevada plaques—supposedly associated with our readers’ poll, the results of which we published a couple of weeks ago. If you or your business receive a communication from a firm representing itself as being associated with Best of Northern Nevada and attempting to sell you plaques, please disregard it. These companies are not associated with the RN&R or our contest. We don’t sell plaques. We give awards to the winners at our annual Best of Northern Nevada party, the details of which are pending. And if you’ve been approached by one of these outfits, feel free to send us their contact information, especially addresses, so that we can send them cease and desist notices. That said, we can appreciate the desire to purchase something special to commemorate such a prestigious victory. One option: how about one of the original artworks by Best Of artist Jeff Rogers? You know, all those great science fiction-themed illustrations that appeared alongside the results? Pitch Black Printing Co., 1108 California Ave., will host an exhibition of Jeff’s pieces created for the Best Of issue. He’ll also have some prints and pins for sale. The opening reception is Sept. 2, starting at 6 p.m., and it’ll feature music by the Thermites, and food from Nom Eats, winner of best food truck in this year’s poll. (And that’s a well-earned win. Nom Eats is delicious. I’m about the furthest thing from a vegan, and I crave their meatless grub on the regular.) So, don’t spend your money on one of those phony plaques. Buy an original piece by a great local artist instead. Accept no substitutes.
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Corruption? Despite the ad in Craigslist Philadelphia for seat-fillers, I thought Ms. Clinton made a good appearance/speech/moment. I especially appreciated the specific reference to tuition-free post secondary education. If you think that happened for any reason other than Bernie Sanders’ influence, please don’t upset yourself by reading further. So, tuition free for families under $120,000 or so, that’s a fine thing. But that’s not the end of the story at all, nor even a significant solution. The education industry is as corrupt as its fellow juggernauts. Two examples: I took one introductory Spanish course last fall. I thriftily attended Truckee Meadows Community College, where the textbook mandated three semesters of lessons and cost very close to the amount of the tuition. In addition, the content was airheaded. Not the desired experience and I am sure TMCC is not unique in this situation. But some textbook companies go further: The GED is no longer available as a paper and pencil test. Yes, computer literacy—and the willingness to go forward and never backward—is expected of testtakers now. In an amazing coincidence, two alternatives have sprung up, one sponsored by Glencoe and the other by ETS (and what took them so long to milk this gravy train?). For these new equivalency tests, there are no state reciprocity guarantees, takes yer chances, and here, too, they pay for three tries just to try once. Ah, the humanity! (This information is a year or so old, but I bet it’s still true.) I pick these scabs to say, please participate in life around you. Corruption doesn’t appear overnight. To a great extent it has flourished because there has been a clear path, minus the balances of spoken or written alternate views.
world. There are glaring and irreconcilable differences between our Constitution and Shar’iah law. And Mr. Kahn believes Shari’ah is supreme. So why wasn’t the Quran the prop used by Mr. Khan in his attack on Mr. Trump? Robert R. Kessler las Vegas
The nominee’s intent Re “On the Trump Train” (Let Freedom Ring, July 28): It was my pleasure to serve Nevada on the Republican Platform Committee in Cleveland. With my fellow committeeman, Jesse Law, we tried very hard to bring more of an “open to everyone” type of platform but to no avail. Our fellow committee of freedom lovers seemed to be overthrown by the less informed. Fortunately, our presidential nominee, Donald Trump, gave an open light, open tent speech which opened his arms to everyone (who are legal). His speech and beliefs were what the freedom platform was trying to achieve. Maine state senator and fellow platform member Eric Brakey tried to make various motions and achieved some to further freedom. Our own Nevada Republican Committeewoman and Rules Committeewoman Diana Orrock along with Platform Committeeman Jordan Ross were able to hold off many challenges to those rules by the “Cruz” members. The platform may not be perfect but our nominee’s intent is. Juanita Cox Reno
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Apparently I certainly honor Army Captain Humayan Khan, who paid the ultimate price in Iraq. Against terrorists. After pledging to defend our Constitution. That’s why I’m disturbed by the recent appearance of his father, Khizr Khan, at the Democratic National Convention. Mr. Khan angrily waved that same Constitution as he attacked Donald Trump. But does Mr. Khan really honor our Constitution to the same extent as did his heroic son? In a recent Breitbart online article (http://www.breitbart.com/ national-security/2016/08/02/khizr-khan-constitution-sharia/), Paul Sperry, a former Hoover Institute fellow and author, cites several published articles in which Mr. Khan praises and endorses the supremacy of Islamic law, Shari’ah, as based on the Quran. Mr. Khan apparently shares the belief of many other Islamic scholars that “there is no such thing as human rights in the abstract.” They can only be guaranteed through the establishment of Shar’iah’s moral and legal code. Hopefully we all understand what Shari’ah’s moral and legal code says about the rights of women, gays and non-believers in an Islamic Leslie, Eric Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Brendan Trainor, Bruce Van Dyke, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live. Editor Brad Bynum News Editor Dennis Myers Special Projects Editor Jeri Chadwell-Singley Arts Editor Kris Vagner Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Contributors Amy Alkon, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Bob Grimm, Anna Hart, Ashley Hennefer, Shelia
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Better than Trump is not enough With Donald Trump saying everything he possibly can to get Hillary Clinton elected, it is difficult to focus on her gaffes and below-the-belt attacks. But they are out there. There is, for instance, the smearing of Trump as a Russian handpuppet. “It’s troubling that some experts are now telling us that this [leaking of emails] was done by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump,” said Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook. It is more troubling—far more—that Mook provided no evidence. though he was asked directly for it. Imagine if U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy had made such a comment in 1953. How would Democrats have reacted? Probably the way some of them are reacting to Clinton’s Russia-baiting. This is from the Nation Magazine, a century-plus old liberal journal: “Instead of engaging Trump on ... issues, politicalmedia elites, including the Clinton campaign itself, have assailed him with McCarthyite allegations of being Putin’s ‘puppet,’ ‘agent,’ ‘Manchurian candidate,’ and ‘Kremlin client’.” Clinton cannot claim that these were excessive statements by her aides. When they reach the level of campaign manager, they are part of a campaign strategy approved by the candidate. Moreover, as journalist Robert Parry recalls, Hillary Clinton has a history of using McCarthyite guiltby-association: In 2008 she “injected a false suggestion that [Obama friend William] Ayers had either hailed the 9/11 attacks or had used the occasion as a grotesque opportunity to call for more bombings. … In another guilt-by-association moment, Hillary Clinton linked Obama, via his former
church pastor Jeremiah Wright, to Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan and a Hamas representative who had been allowed to publish an essay in the church’s newsletter.” There is also the issue of Hillary Clinton’s casual acquaintance with facts, such as the 40 percent myth on gun background checks. During the New Hampshire primary, she said, “Forty percent of guns are sold at gun shows, online sales.” By the time she used that hoary statistic it was already discredited. President Obama had used it more than once in 2013, and it had been found flawed by fact checkers at the Associated Press, Politifact and (twice) the Washington Post. Yet it is still posted on Clinton’s website, albeit softened a bit: “It is estimated that 20 to 40 percent of all gun purchases in America are conducted with no background check.” Even the 20 percent figure is high. The Obama/Clinton claim rests on a survey for which data was collected between 1991 and 1994, when the Brady Law finally took effect. Moreover, their use of sales and purchases overlooks the fact that the study referenced acquisitions—including gifts and inherited guns. It is difficult for the public to hold Trump to account for his vicious, false and underhanded verbiage when his opponent is doing the same thing. Ω • This is a message for winners in the RN&R “Best of Northern Nevada” competition: This newspaper does not sell plaques. First-place winners will receive framed copies of their awards at the “Best of Northern Nevada” party later this year. But anyone trying to sell plaques associated with the competition does not speak for the Reno News & Review.
One of my favorite local artists is this girl called Amanda Kwok. It’s different. It’s something you don’t really see everywhere. I don’t even know how to describe it. She does portraits but they’re not, like, realistic. They’re kind of fantasy. … She bases them off of people she’s known, I think. abbe y K ay Blogger/photographer
My favorite artist is Melody Joy Munn. I actually was able to meet her at this Insta meet-up in Atlanta, Georgia, when I went and visited. I met her and her husband. … She does lifestyle blogging and graphic design and stuff. For me, her just aesthetic of photography is really appealing. adriana br avo Student
I really like Tori Kelly. She had a couple of songs on the radio like “Nobody Love” or “Should’ve Been Us.” … It’s something I want to do as a singer-songwriter. So I really like what she has to say in her music, and it has a really kind of old-school vibe, which I really like.
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by Sheila leSlie
Narrow view at the top Why is it that Nevada has never elected a female governor or U.S. senator? The Silver State has a rich history of women in politics, especially in the Nevada Legislature, where the number of female legislators has steadily increased since 1918, when Washoe County’s Sadie Hurst became the first woman elected to the Assembly. Women have never come close to reaching the 50 percent parity mark, however, although the newest rankings pushed Nevada up to fifth place in the country, with 33 percent of legislative seats filled by women. Sandra Chereb of the Las Vegas Review-Journal points out that Nevada is one of 23 states that have never elected a woman governor and one of 22 states with no history of a woman serving as its U.S. Senator. Chereb interviewed several women who almost ran for those offices as well as others who ran and lost. But you won’t hear a hint of a whine from any of them except to say they’re looking
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forward to reaching gender parity in the highest elected offices—some day. These women, all highly qualified and well liked by the political establishment, cite timing and political experience as factors in their races, but it was also funders who decided they’d rather back a more traditional male candidate and party bosses who discouraged them in not-sosubtle ways. Clearly there have been far fewer mentors for women involved in politics as many male elected officials want someone just like them to take over—that is, a man. But Nevada’s strongest political women don’t seem to hold a grudge. Forer Las Vegas mayor Jan Jones, who twice ran for governor, reflected on her experience, blaming herself for her losses. “I have to factor in my own naivete and misjudgment. It was more of a problem than my gender.” Frankie Sue Del Papa, Nevada’s first female secretary of state and attorney general, took a more fatalistic
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view when she told Chereb: “The problem with politics, you can be the best candidate and still lose the election.” A recent article in Politico pointed out that Republican women in particular are in short supply in Congress, dropping from 11 percent of the House GOP caucus in 2006 to just 9 percent this year. The opposite trend was observed in the Democratic House caucus, where the number of women grew from 21 percent in 2006 to 33 percent today. But 33 percent is still a long way from 50 percent. There is something to be said for breaking the proverbial glass ceiling to inspire other women to follow. When Barbara Buckley became speaker of the Nevada Assembly in 2007, her picture in the gallery of speakers in the foyer of the Legislative Building stood out from the rows of men. She told Chereb that she noticed male lobbyists bringing their girls to see her at the podium of the Assembly, recalling, “It was striking because they
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wanted their daughters to see, visually, that women could have any position they set their minds to.” And a second female speaker, Marilyn Kirkpatrick, soon followed. Catherine Cortez Masto may break a double-paned glass ceiling in November, becoming the first female U.S. senator, and the first Latina, to represent Nevada in the most exclusive body in the nation, echoing the shattering of the highest glass ceiling of all, with the election of Hillary Clinton. The electoral success of these two women will send a powerful message to the world, proving that the United States is indeed ready for female political leaders at the highest levels of government. After all, women aren’t demanding that men hand over all the keys of government power. As Democratic national chair Donna Brazile is fond of saying, “We’re not telling men to leave the room, just scoot over.” Ω
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We’re on the wrong side again Russia is the only country on Earth that can survive a nuclear attack and launch thousands of missiles at us. Nuclear war with Russia would destroy both countries and cause a nuclear winter that could wipe out life on the planet. Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump shocked the foreign policy establishment when he said the people of Crimea were content with rejoining Russia after they passed a controversial referendum in 2014. Trump said Pussian President Putin had no intention of going into the Ukraine. Interviewer George Stepon-all-of-us (Stephanopoulos) countered with “Putin is already in Russia.” Trump had a very bad week by arguing with Muslim Gold Star parents, and fighting unnecessary twitter wars. But he was more correct than the urbane liberal interviewer who confronted him. If he had been quicker he could have replied: “No, George, Putin is not in the Ukraine. Putin is not in Crimea. Crimea is voluntarily and willingly back in
Russia. Crimea peacefully voted to rejoin the Russian federation, which has built a bridge to them and has provided energy for them. Putin is not in the Ukraine at all, but brokered a peace agreement there and stepped back. Obama and the U.S. are in the Ukraine, and American taxpayers are paying for it.” The Democrats are now the party of Patriotic Love of Empire. Only the Bernie Bros. spoke out forcibly for peace in Philadelphia. The Democrat elites cannot portray Hillary Clinton as a peacemaker, so they smear Trump. The Democrats’ strategy is to portray Trump as a crazy egoist who cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons, and simultaneously as a willing tool of Putin. The first charge has been levied by Democrats against Republicans since Barry Goldwater. The second charge is ironically reminiscent of the red baiting tactics used by Republicans against antiwar Democrats since the 1950s.
Hillary Clinton has called Putin a thug, dictator, murderer, invader and even a new Hitler. The reality is Putin came to power as a reformer. He drove corrupt oligarchs out of Russia. They still hate him, and the oligarchs are responsible for most of the violence in Russian politics. By the way, our friends in Ukraine, Poland and Turkey have jailed far more journalists than Putin. Russians believe Putin has restored dignity and a better life to Russia. Russia is no longer the Soviet Union, and Putin is not Stalin or any other Communist dictator. Putin’s popularity in Russia is genuine. Russia wants to be independent of overbearing US control. She wants to be treated as a responsible power in a multipolar world. Our foreign policy elite wants American “hegemony” and wants Putin replaced. Putin has criticized the American invasion of Iraq and the regime change in Libya. His military intervention in Syria
and attempts to broker a peace there are seen by most countries as benign. Russian U.N. resolutions passed last December acknowledged Assad as the legitimate president of Syria. Now Turkey is making peace with Russia. Putin is not a threat to the U.S., but to the New World Order of the neocons. Russia is twice as large as the US, but has half the population. Western governments have lusted after its sparsely populated but resource-rich eastern expanse for centuries. It is not Europe that is endangered by Russia, but Russia that is endangered by the “Great Game” of U.S. and British rivalry. I hope the peace-loving people of Nevada will investigate the truth about Russia and Putin. We do not need a new Cold War, which could turn hot over some trivial incident. Tell Obama and Hillary to stop poking the Russian bear! Ω
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With its usual exquisite political timing, the National Rifle Association chose the day after Donald Trump suggested gun owners kill Hillary Clinton to announce it would spend $3 million to attack her in Nevada broadcast messages. Its news release read in part: “The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) today launched a new $3 million TV ad buy making the case that Hillary Clinton is an out of touch, hypocritical politician who would leave the American people defenseless. This ad helps highlight the fact that the right of law-abiding Americans to keep a firearm in their homes for self-protection is on the ballot in this presidential election. The ad, titled ‘Defenseless,’ began airing this week on national cable as well as local broadcast stations in key battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and North Carolina.” The NRA is already active in a campaign against a Nevada ballot measure calling for background checks, so it will probably put a fair amount of capital into the state’s economy this year. The group has opened a Las Vegas office and is running television spots in the campaign, which have pitted some law enforcement officers against domestic violence victims. Last week gun advocates got wide publicity for announcing that all sheriffs but one in Nevada are opposing Question One. The one—Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who represents most Nevadans—has said he will remain silent on the issue. However, his undersheriff Kevin McMahill is speaking out against the measure and is featured on the NRA website. Of course, in Nevada the NRA acronym might first call to mind the casino lobby—Nevada Resort Association.
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pot tAle of the week In an interview with Guy Farmer in the Nevada Appeal, prohibitionist Genoa lawyer Jim Hartman said of Colorado marijuana supporters, “They claimed the marijuana black market would disappear with legalization, but it didn’t.” Here’s the part Hartman didn’t tell Farmer—legalization never came to Colorado. It came to certain places, but remains illegal in more than 240 towns and cities and broad swaths of the state. So there is still a black market. Colorado Amendment 64, enacted by voters in 2012, left it up to communities to decide whether to make marijuana legal. Moreover, this they-claimed-the-black-marketwould-go-away pitch is repeated often by critics of marijuana, but they rarely cite sources. Hartman does not name anyone he is quoting. Colorado supporters of 64 didn’t necessarily all speak with one voice. Some may have made the claim, but certainly not all. We have been unable to find anyone who said the black market would just go away. Rather, they tended to say illicit marijuana sales would be reduced. For instance, this is the Denver Post in 2012: “[Mason] Tvert and other supporters of the measure have said it will generate tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue for state and local governments. They said it would shed light on the black-market marijuana industry and ultimately cause dangerous cartels to wither.” Ultimately is a good word to keep in mind. After decades of prohibition and government-generated crime, it takes a while for the effect of restored liberty to be fully felt.
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Third way Nowhere is it required that voters choose either Trump or Clinton the Green party is still battling its way onto the Nevada ballot. “We had until June 3 to collect at least 5,431 signatures to get ballot access for the Green Party in Nevada,” reads one of the party’s sites. “We turned in 8,277.” It’s always good to have a cushion, particularly in a state with Nevada’s population turnover. But those 2,846 extra signatures were not enough. On June 22, the state reported that the party had fallen 400 signatures short. Greens went back out for more signatures, circulating petitions through the end of July. But on Aug. 12 the Nevada secretary of state’s office announced the party had still not crossed the threshold. Party leaders said they would go to court and that a map on the “Jill2016” website—Jill Stein is the party’s presidential nominee—shows Nevada and Oklahoma as two states where the issue is “under litigation,”
although at this writing no legal action has been filed in Nevada. Two other small political parties, meanwhile, are already on the Nevada ballot by virtue of their draw in the last election—the Libertarian Party and the Independent American Party. In the past, even when there were strong independent candidates, like John Anderson in 1980, or third party candidates, like Ross Perot in 1992, they tended to fade as election day neared and voters returned to the comfort of the familiar two major parties. This year, however, there is a dynamic at work never seen before—two very unpopular major party nominees who do not make a return look all that comforting. Could the lesser candidates keep their standing this time? “They can, and they likely will,” said Nevada political analyst Fred Lokken. “Ironically we have more than one potentially viable third
party candidate. This time around Republicans, especially, are shopping, because they just cannot vote for Donald Trump. Democrats can’t do it either, but I think there are more Republicans looking for another place to go.” He said the smaller parties could “revitalize American democracy.” The Libertarians at the moment are riding high with their candidates—former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson for president and former Massachusetts governor William Weld for vice president— picking up a considerable number of disaffected Republicans. Johnson is placing at about 10 percent in leading opinion surveys, unusually strong for a third party. Fifteen percent is required to get into the presidential debates controlled by the two-party Commission on Presidential Debates. Jill Stein is at about five percent. The American Independent Party—its name everywhere except Nevada, where the first two terms are reversed—is the surviving remnant of George Wallace’s 1968 third party. It’s not clear whether it will have a national presidential nominee this year. In California, the party has named Donald Trump as its candidate, giving the billionaire Republican two lines on the ballot. The Greens’ problems in Nevada are not unusual. The two main political parties have structured state and federal election laws to be convenient for themselves and inconvenient for smaller parties. The Democratic Party in particular is a thorn in the side of independents or third parties. When it comes to third parties and independent candidates, the Democratic Party is the least democratic party. Over the years, the Republican Party has more or less rolled with what came. It twice lost the presidency to Bill Clinton because Ross Perot drained off votes from its candidates, yet did not try to stop Perot’s candidacy and didn’t complain afterward.
pARty of the people? Democrats, on the other hand, have tried to throw legal obstacles in the way of Eugene McCarthy in 1975, John Anderson in 1980, and Ralph Nader whenever it could. And Democrats still whine that Nader cost
them the presidency in 2000, even though all Al Gore had to do was carry his home state, which he was unable to do, to win the election. Nor do Democrats question why their choices for the presidency so often fail to bewitch voters to the point that third candidates can be such a threat. The wild dynamics of this year are making it more difficult than usual to sort out the players. With Republicans abandoning their nominee in droves and a conservative Democrat at the head of the Democratic ticket, third parties are enjoying a remarkable degree of attention. Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, is threatening to crack even the poll threshold the two parties use to keep third parties out of debates. And Green nominee Jill Stein is luring Democrats whom even Trump does not drive back home. Some of the Greens’ problems are of their own making. There are multiple websites with various addresses that
purport to speak for the Greens, and those addresses tend not to be well tended. We sent messages to each address and received one unsigned two-sentence message back—nine days later. The unappetizing choices in the two major parties are throwing more attention on smaller parties than usual and right on schedule, establishment journalism entities have begun cranking out articles like these: “Third Party Support Will Likely Wane by Election Day” (New York Times). “Third party candidates won’t really matter in November” (Washington Post). “State official in charge of elections says third-party vote is a ‘waste’” (Boston Globe). “Third Party Votes Mean Less of a Mandate to Govern” (New York Times). Given the dysfunction in D.C., the notion of a mandate affecting governance these days seems like a musty notion from a bygone era. Ω
When it comes to third parties and independent candidates, the Democratic Party is the least democratic party.
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Artist Killbuck—that’s what he calls himself—gives a facelift to some commercial art he first created three years ago on South Virginia Street. (Real name: Rex Norman.) PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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Sheila LaDrew hangs some DIY indigo undies for her upcoming workshop on Aug. 28.
Wild and wooly Multitasker green pulls groups together Sheila LaDrew is an art teacher, environmentalist and mom. She is also as close to a pixie as you will find in Reno. Pint-sized with rainbow hair, homemade clothing and an agelessness that has you guessing whether she is in her 30s or 40s. (She’s in her 50s.) LaDrew punctuates her sentences with laughter and writes her emails in poem-like stanzas. She is lovely. But what’s really special about LaDrew is her ability to “just get people together.” In fact, that’s her job. Through her home-based business, Art on Earth, LaDrew offers classes like kids art camp, sacred feminine circles, choir practice and—most recently—a new project called “Fibershed.” Spelled out in lowercase, “fibershed” is the textile equivalent of a “foodshed,” a geographic footprint for sustainable production within a 20- to 300-mile radius. It’s easy enough to picture a fibershed if you sub out the parts of a foodshed—replacing “organically grown food” with “organically grown fibers,” “local grocers” for “local weavers,” and “drip irrigation” for “greywater-grown dyes.” These small-scale methods stand in contrast to the cheap labor and environmental degradation that characterize the $3 trillion global fashion industry, which is responsible for 20 percent of the world’s industrial water pollution and 10
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percent of global carbon emissions every year. LaDrew calls it “fast food fashion.” The capital “F” version of Fibershed is a Califonia-based 501(c)3 that supports local textile production and “climate beneficial clothing” through small-scale sourcing. Started two years ago by founder Rebecca Burgess, the non-profit boasts a good-looking website with pictures of lush fields of indigo, smiling farmers, and lots and lots of sheep. Their tagline, “local fibers, local dyes, local labor,” is a concept they are looking to spread with the help of their affiliate membership program. A few weeks ago, LaDrew became Fibershed’s newest affiliate, a role loosely defined as “organizing efforts that work to connect fiber farmers, processors and artisans.” It’s a tall order for a membership with no structured protocols or financial support, but Fibershed does offer its members a platform to share stories and access tools to learn more about their own region. “I’m still fact finding,” said LaDrew. “If anyone is interested they should contact me to get it started, too. Artists, people that are raising animals for wool, anyone that’s raising plants for dye materials. I’m just trying to get it all started and off the ground.” To kick off the project next weekend, LaDrew is hosting “DIY Indigo Undies,” a sort of gateway drug into other fibershed activities. During the class, participants will learn how to hand-sew organic bamboo underwear and dye it using a Japanese technique called shibori. “Just start with your underwear, if you don’t wear any bright colors,” advised LaDrew. Ω “DIY Indigo Undies” will take place on Aug. 28 and Sept. 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m, at Sheila’s house. For more details or to contact Sheila LaDrew, go to www. artonearthreno.com. For further information about Fibershed, go to www.fibershed.com.
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Galleries come and go and coffee house exhibition walls change hands. Sometimes the out-ofsight-out-of-mind phenomenon kicks in, and people lose track of which out-of-town art spots are seriously worth getting in the car for. Here are our latest picks by neighborhood and region, from the mainstays you know and love to the underrated gems and outof-the-way surprises.
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Downtown: museum on the move
The Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., attempts to be many things to many people—and it’s working. Over the last decade, curators have kept one eye on the global art world’s pulse and the other on Nevada’s cultural traditions, finding opportunities to show us lots of both. The Horse, largely a natural history show that closed in July, seemed anomalous to those of us who’d been noticing the museum’s long-running trend toward ever-morecosmopolitan programming, but it was all-around informative and smartly done, and the museum reported a hearty 40,000 visitors to that exhibit. With recent mentions in the New York Times and Juxtapoz magazine and current shows by international superstars Ai Weiwei and Anthony McCall, the NMA is carving out a niche for itself with exhibits that rival those of big-city venues while it maintains the Reno-style attributes we know and love—free parking, loud monthly First Thursday parties and a killer rooftop view of our city, mountains and dazzling summer sunsets. Tilting the Basin, a group show of Nevada’s finest and freshest, is one of late summer’s hottest tickets. It’s up through Oct. 23.
While you’re near downtown: To explain the range of tastes at Sierra Arts, 17 S. Virginia St., a word like “potpourri” or “assortment” doesn’t even come close. Expect work by locals, Europeans, students, professors, long-standing household names, and outliers you’ve never heard of. The randomness adds up to a reasonably accurate ongoing survey of what the art world looks like as a whole, if such a wildly diverse thing could in fact be surveyed. Metro Gallery,
on the first floor of City Hall, 1 E. First St., demonstrates consistently good taste in regional art. Hub Coffee Roasters, 727 Riverside Drive, hosts rotating exhibits that are usually fresh and hip. The Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., has a gallery space, inconspicuously located upstairs. Neapolitan Gallery is conveniently nestled inside a bar, Monolith, 100 N. Arlington Ave., Arts for All Nevada’s Art Access Gallery at the Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., exhibits the work of artists with disabilities. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, is a charming Spanish Mission Revival school building with a hallway gallery that’s a good venue for up-and-coming artists, where the often-updated marquee facing Keystone Avenue makes it easy for passersby to stay in the know about current shows and events. Arte Italia, 442 Flint St., hosts rotating exhibits that highlight culture and artwork by Italians and Italian Americans, both historic and modern. The Beckwith Gallery, 10 State St., a serene, airy space that looks like a set for an ultra-hip home decor-magazine photoshoot, is scheduled to open for business Sept. 1. Owner Anicia Beckwith said, “We will specialize in contemporary art and photography and hold juried shows, exhibitions and private events.”
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There’s a common perception that visiting University of Nevada, Reno’s Sheppard Contemporary Gallery, 1664 N. Virginia St., isn’t worth the parking hassle. Parking is, in fact, a hassle. Good luck securing one of a handful of metered spaces outside the Church Fine Arts Building. But if you don’t score one, it’s still 100 percent worth your while to hike a half mile, bike up that hill, call an Uber or whatever it takes to enact a Plan B to get there. This place is an under-recognized cultural gem where the curator pays obsessively close attention to the national academic art scene and selectively invites mega-famous artists to town for our edification. Each time a new season calendar is printed, there’s reason to shout giddy exclamations across the dinner table such as: “No way! They got legendary 1980s performance artist Tehching Hsieh? And he’s giving a free lecture?” or “Seriously? They got conceptual photographer Jack Pierson, of Whitney Biennial fame, to guest-curate a show in little ol’ Reno?” The whole operation is scheduled to move from its current space, basically a concrete 1960s cube, to a new main gallery in a new fine arts building, hopefully in 2017. Parking at UNR is expected to suck until the end of time, but suck it up and go there anyway.
While you’re north of downtown: At UNR, ask the Sheppard staff to point you down the hall and to nearby buildings on campus for rotating student shows. The main gallery at Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., in the Red
Mountain Building, is another one that can be hard to access. Here, it’s not so much the parking—it’s getting oriented once you’re there. The best way to find the gallery is to ask someone where the bookstore is. The gallery is right next door. It’s another underrecognized spot that’s polished, beautifully lit and consistently reliable for high-quality shows. Some of Reno’s long-established artists show there, as do experienced sculptors, painters and photographers from neighboring states. A few hallway galleries, also in TMCC’s Red Mountain Building, are carefully curated venues for artwork by students and professionals. A juried exhibition called Next, featuring artwork by Washoe County School District students and teachers, is on view through Sept. 7. The Micro Gallery at Bibo Coffee Company, 945 Record St., is a practice ground for Holland Project’s curatorial interns, and the newest Hub Coffee Roasters, 941 N. Virginia St., sports changing exhibits in a comfortably airy, two-story cafe.
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MiDtown: art for the ages
Usually an arts organization has to choose between inclusiveness and professionalism. It’s hard to do both. The Holland Project, a decade-old youth arts group covers both with aplomb. “Our main goal is kind of to reach those younger kids who are finding out about the art scene in Reno and want to learn more,” said Art Director Alisha Funkhouser. While Holland offers workshops, exhibition opportunities and career advice for high-school and college-age artists—and stages all-ages garage rock and punk shows that gray-haired adults aren’t afraid to be seen at—the group also shows work by longtime local legends and up-and-comers from all over the country. This summer, Holland is experimenting with the new Serva Pool Space, which used to be the building’s back garage and is now a testing ground for residencies and pop-up exhibits. Work by Brooklyn-based photographer Frank Carino is on exhibit in the main space through Sept. 2, and Reno’s Omar Pierce shows through Aug. 27.
While you’re in Midtown: A lot has changed in Midtown since Stremmel Gallery opened in 1969, but Reno’s largest and oldest commercial gallery has held steady in its mission of “keeping up with important artists on the West Coast,” said gallery rep Parker Stremmel. You won’t find the cutting-edge, genre pushing work here that’s becoming a hallmark of the neighborhood, but you will find incredibly well-made sculptures, collages, ceramics and paintings, often by late-career artists who’ve been refining their crafts and their concepts for decades. Stay tuned for a show in October by Phyllis Shafer, easily the Lake Tahoe region’s most recognized landscape painter. Never Ender, 25 St. Lawrence Ave., is a boutique for handmade fashions that boasts a strong
rotation of functional and fine art by local crafters and painters in a small back gallery. Lasting Dose Tattoo & Art Collective, 9888 S. Virginia St., is a great-looking storefront known for group shows and good parties.
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South Reno: library art nook takes the cake
Too often, art exhibition spaces in public buildings feel like afterthoughts. After a school or office complex is built and occupied, someone sticks some artwork in a fluorescent-lit hallway without using a level and calls it a “gallery.” South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Pkwy., built in 2003, offers a smart example of how to do it right. The exhibit space is a compact alcove that looks like a real gallery. Regional artwork is showcased with professional spotlights, clean, white walls, cool-looking carpet and benches to contemplate from. Photographer Kevin LeVezu got the technically adept, long-exposure shots of fire spinners you wish you’d shot at Burning Man. They’re up through Aug. 24.
While you’re in South Reno: BVW Jewelers, Southcreek Shopping Center, 35 Foothill Road, does justice to local artists’
work with carefully hung exhibits and occasional evening receptions. Art Source, 9748 S. Virginia St., near WinCo Foods, more like an enormous store than a gallery, stocks just about any style of painting you could think to hang above the couch.
and clichéd in the hands of a less capable artist but that positively soars under Gilmore’s particularly obsessive attention to detail, mind-boggling polish and rocksolid craftsmanship. His sculptures are on view through Sept. 1.
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“You might come for painting and stay for opera,” said co-director Pan Pantoja, describing the Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St. What he means is that this modest retail space turned artist-run gallery really does cram in an art studio, a DIY gallery and a black-box theater, where there really is sometimes an opera singer. On a given evening, there might also be improv comedy, an album release party or non-profit fundraiser. The enthusiasm here has always been strong, and the presentation and professionalism have been slowly, steadily on the rise. The current show by Guy Gilmore features gritty ceramic and metal assemblages of drug paraphernalia and creepy, relalistic animal figures. It’s the kind of work that could easily be leaden
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What used to be a sleepy, light-industrial zone is now a thriving arts district, thanks to a handful of studios and workshops, the full-service Oxbow Café and two art spaces that have very different programming goals but still make harmonious neighbors.
Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, is in a converted garage that’s half rental studios and half gallery. Expect a friendly welcome—maybe even a hot dog off the grill during an opening—and a fast-changing roster of splashy, assertive paintings and mixed media pieces. The public is invited to evening art-making events such as “Drink & Draw,” a drawing class with minimal instruction and maximum stimulation in the form of films, burlesque dancers and the like. Right next door, Wedge Ceramics Studio, 2095 Dickerson Road, is a collaborative work space for clay artists—serious professionals and beginners alike. A small, front-room artisan gallery stocked with ceramic jewelry and mugs is among Reno’s best bets for handmade gifts. Wedge’s side gallery is a slightly more spacious venue for shows by local or visiting artists who teach workshops there. Speaking of good neighbors—sometimes RAW and Wedge schedule parties or receptions on the same night, so mini-gallery strolls are a pretty regular occurrence on this block.
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VirginiA City: vintage treasure Saint Mary’s Art Center, 55 North R Street, Virginia City, is housed in a charming, threestory brick building from 1876, formerly a hospital, with wide hallways, thick, wood banisters and a venue-sized front porch. Visiting hours are Friday through Sunday. During receptions, held every few months on weekend afternoons, you can stroll the hallways and gallery rooms, sip a glass of wine and mingle with artists and visitors. The center’s new Artisan Gallery—a good spot to remember when holiday shopping season comes around—opened in June.
CArson City: capital culture Western Nevada College, 2201 West College Pkwy., Carson City, has three exhibition spaces and is a convenient stop on the way into Carson City, and the downtown area has enough galleries to merit its own excursion from Reno. OXS Gallery, 16 N. Carson St., Carson City, is part of the Nevada Arts Council’s office. It might appear as if it’s a private
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space, but visitors are very much welcome. While that may not sound like a very glamorous set-up for artwork, the venue is actually a pretty prestigious place to exhibit. The roster mainly includes prominent Nevadans who’ve been awarded NAC fellowships or grants. Las Vegas artist Justin Favela exhibits Mi Casa Es Mi Casa, an examination of the concept of home, rendered in cut-paper wall sculptures, through Oct. 14. Don’t be too put off by the goofy name of Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery, 220 A. West Telegraph St., Carson City. Every inch of this eclectic cottage is crammed with a thoughtful selection of work by the region’s artists and artisans, in just about every medium there is. Capital City Arts Initiative exists to bring academic art to as wide an audience as possible. One method is to hang professionally curated solo and group exhibits in the Carson City Courthouse, in a bright, airy second-floor lobby that doubles as the CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 5 E. Musser St., Carson City. (Disclosure: Earlier this year, this author penned the essay for the current exhibit, New Crop 2016, which closes Sept. 29.)
fAllon: best in the West Yes, for real, you do want to drive all the way to Fallon to see a gallery show. Inside Oats Park Arts Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, elegant galleries highlight some of the best work being produced in the modern West. This venue covers two slices of the professional-artist demographic—those from a few states over whose work you won’t see elsewhere in the region, and accomplished Nevadans whose work merits a polished venue. Renoite Richard Jackson’s elegantly weird cartoon/noir ceramic skulls and Montana sculptor Francis Paul Pearson’s energetic assemblages will be on view Aug. 20-Nov. 20. And the permanent collections in the hallways—not to mention the center’s lavish yet welcoming old-West bar—are well worth lingering over.
front-office space that serves as The Generator Gallery. “It’s a starter gallery,” said director Ryan Ostler. He advises artists—usually beginners with a seasoned pro in the mix here and there— on how to select work, hang a show and promote an event, and the rest is up to them, resulting in a pretty-much-anything-goes roster. There’s a group exhibit up through September.
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There’s something fabulous about rounding out a day of hiking, kayaking or skiing up at Lake Tahoe with a stop to ponder some fresh artwork. The galleries at Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, host dependably fresh exhibits—for example the current one by painter Tom Letson, who deftly layers contemporary madness over classical figurative styles, through Sept. 23. Ω
Just inside the front door of the Generator, 1240 Icehouse Ave., Sparks—a busy warehouse full of industrial artists, dancers, costume makers, Burners and the like at work—there’s a former
author’s note: did i overlook a gallery you like? drop me a line at krisv@newsreview.com to tell me about your favorite art venues.
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nside Freeman’s Shorin-Ryu Karate in Sparks, the karate mats were pushed to the edges, bold colors adorned the walls and parents and young siblings lined the room. In the center was a class of 12 girls dressed in sarongs or pareos as they practiced a new otea, a traditional Tahitian dance. This class is part of the Halau Hula ’O Leilani, a hula school in Northern Nevada run by the hula master or Kumu, Leilani Rivera Low, who founded the Halau’s sister school on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. The Halau teaches the two main subcategories of hula, Hula ’auana and Hula kahiko. While the former is the contemporary hula that Westerners are often more accustomed to, the latter refers to ancient hula, which is set to traditional chants and instruments. The school also teaches other types of Polynesian dance, such as those originating from Tahiti and from the Maori people of New Zealand. On that particular night, Cecilia ReyesPeros, the assistant instructor or Alaka’i of 16 | RN&R | 08.18.16
the Halau, led the girls through an otea, a dance that tells a story. That one was about coconuts. Reyes-Peros smiled at the children as they bouncily drifted around the room, fruitlessly trying to keep their coconut shells in their hands instead of on the floor. Even to a stranger, the class felt like a family affair. “[The kids] are such a blast, with all of that young energy,” Reyes-Peros said. “Then the aunties come and sedate us with comfort food.” It is moments like this that best exemplify the Polynesian spirit—which lives on through the practice of artful, ancient traditions and their passage from one generation to another.
Cultural transitions So what exactly is Polynesia? In its most basic form, the term refers to over a thousand islands that make up the largest
subregion of Oceania, spreading across central and southern areas of the Pacific Ocean. It includes places like Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand. Although the islands are dispersed over an expansive area, many of them share similarities in their languages, histories and belief systems. These cultures are also each rich with complexity and distinct beauty, and it has become all too easy for Polynesian cultures and people to be oversimplified to the point of offensive inaccuracy. While dances from Hawaii and Tahiti originated as means of sharing stories and oral histories, today they are often all lumped into a mass-produced, artificial hula that is at best exoticized and at worst fetishized. Demonyms such as “Tongan” and “Samoan” are frequently used interchangeably even though Tonga and Samoa are two different nations, and these populations are sometimes more renowned for their body size than for their cultural achievements. Meanwhile, traditional tattoo designs from some Polynesian areas have been appropriated by guys with soul patches and Affliction T-shirts. And Polynesians in Reno have definitely encountered some stereotypes. “When people talk about Polynesians, sometimes it is so general,” said Sefina Tautu, a student who plans to attend the University of Nevada, Reno in the fall. “Hawaiians are always happy, and hula girls make great dashboard decorations. Samoans
are either linebackers or professional wrestlers, and Tongans are just Samoans who don’t like being called Samoans. But we can’t be that easily compartmentalized.” However, if there ever were to be a single factor that could characterize Polynesian people, it would be their dedication to family in the community. “Everyone becomes family,” laughed Jasmine Gunn, president of the non-profit group Kekoa of Aloha, as she talked about her experience learning more about her Hawaiian heritage. “If they are older, they are your aunties and uncles. If they are your age, they are your cousins. But they all end up as family.” This extends to the Tongan and Samoan communities in Northern Nevada, which are largely centered around churches, such the First Samoan Full Gospel Pentecostal Church or the First Tongan Fellowship United Methodist Church. These buildings have become not only places of worship, but centers of celebration. The churches host weddings, birthday parties and other functions. Most importantly, it is where people feel they can connect with one another. “Going to church is like going home. It feels like all of your family is together,” said Tolini Kam, a young mother who comes from a Tongan and Hawaiian background. However, even with this strong sense of unity within families and neighborhoods,
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Students of the Halau Hula ’O Leilani school of hula practica an otea, a dance that tells a story.
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Not his first rodeo Jeff Myers The Quiet Woman Cattle Company is not the name of a ranch, though its owner, Jeff Myers, is definitely a cowboy. He’s also an artist—a leather worker whose unhurried manner and eye for detail come across in his elaborate tooling technique. Those same mannerisms set the tone for his story of how a career in rodeos and ranching led him to the world of art. It starts with the genesis of the Quiet Woman Cattle Company name, 35 years ago when Myers was an aspiring rodeo cowboy. “I was going through a place called Dana Point—Southern California coastal town—and there was an old bar and restaurant, pretty rough looking on the outside but good on the inside,” he recalled. “It was called the Quiet Woman.” Myers paused before continuing. “Well, I don’t want to offend anybody,” he said. “It was just one of those flashes that struck me, and it stuck. … There was a billboard with … an old English-style barmaid—big arms and big fists holding up two big steins of beer, and she did not have a head on her shoulders. Right at that point, I said, ‘By God, when I run my own cattle, it’ll be the Quiet Woman Cattle Company.’” After a few unsuccessful years on the rodeo circuit, he decided it was time to do just that. “If I’d won a nickel, I could say I’d won money, but I never did,” Myers said. “So I became a real cowboy and started working cattle in Montana.”
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He spent the next two decades working as a cow boss and ranch manager at different operations. Seven years ago, he retired and moved to Nevada, where he met the saddle maker who set him on the path to creating his own leatherwork. “He gave me a couple stamps to practice with and a bunch of scrap leather,” Myers said. “Instantly I knew this is what I was going to do for the rest of my life.” Myers’ first projects were simple baskets he made by soldering coiled lariat ropes together. In the center of each basket he placed a circle of leather with a tooled design. According to Myers, his baskets were an immediate hit with Western art collectors, and the Quiet Woman Cattle Company was resurrected as a name for his leather working business. “Pretty soon I was building baskets as fast as I could just so I could get what I thought was pretty creative work in them,” he said. “It was pretty simple work back at that point.” As Myers’ leather working skills developed, customers began coming to him for custom orders. And in recent years, almost all of his work has been commissioned. He’s branched out into custom leather carving and restoration projects for historical leather pieces. “I like to say—and it pretty much holds true—if I can see it on leather I can carve it,” he said. Earlier this year, Myers embarked on another new venture when he was asked to set up shop as a salaried employee at Consign Furniture on Sierra Center Parkway. “They have set me up with my studio, anything I want tool-wise, and I just carve,” he said. “I’ve got the greatest job in the world.” Ω
Jeff Myers has a studio at Consign Furniture, 6865 Sierra Center Parkway, 434-1970.
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That loophole also allows for a food orgy that would be too much for your average porno, yet, there it is, a bunch of characters openly fornicating in just about every way possible on a big screen playing next door to Finding Dory. There have been a few too many “more of the If you’re a parent out there who doesn’t watch same” type movies at theaters this summer—flat, commercials and takes kids to the movies based big-budget blockbusters and sequels without an on the poster, you are in for the shock of your ounce of creativity or originality puking out of life. However, the first word in this movie is the Hollywood industrial complex, delivering an actually “shit,” so you should know early on that astounding amount of expensive, vapid horseshit. the wrong entertainment has been chosen for the Sausage Party, the animated hellcat from day. Unless, of course, you and your kids are writer-producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, truly twisted, in which case, have at it. is the first big studio film in a long time with Other exquisite touches include a main villain screaming levels of originality. It’s a profanitywho is a total douche. And by total douche, I laden, blasphemous middle finger to the moviereally mean he’s a literal douche voiced by Nick making establishment that thinks it’s OK to turn Kroll. He’s also a leaky douche, so his thing is out sequels and comic book movies that suck to suck the replenishing juices out of his prey, as long as people shell out for them. It couldn’t sometimes in a way that is most provocative. be more fun, and it’s like nothing you’ve seen James Franco is on hand as the voice of a before. druggie experimenting with In a sunny supermarket, a bath salts, while Edward Norton bunch of vegetables, hot dogs and voices Sammy Bagel, Jr., a bagel buns wake up and sing a happy who plays a pivotal, perverted song, convinced that today will be part in that food orgy. Rogen and the day they are chosen by humans Goldberg mainstays like Jonah to enter the great beyond—the Hill, Craig Robinson, Bill Hader, Director: Greg Tiernan, world on the other side of those Michael Cera, David Kurmholtz Conrad Vernon automatic sliding doors. and Danny McBride all have Starring: Seth Rogen, Frank (Seth Rogen), an optiKristen Wiig, Jonah Hill roles, and they all contribute to mistic hot dog with teeth like Seth make this the most outrageously Rogen’s, longs for the moment he insane Hollywood comedy since, can leave his packaging and “fill” his sweetheart, well, their own brilliant This is the End (2013). a bun named Brenda (Kristen Wiig). That moment What makes Sausage Party a cut above your seems to be coming when they are selected and average stoner movie full of food items screwing placed in a cart, but things quickly go awry. Frank and being murdered is that it’s actually a smart and Brenda are left behind on the supermarket swipe at organized religion and politics. I don’t floor, while their friends go to the Great Beyond, want to give much away other than to say this only to find out that things are far from great. movie makes you think a lot more than you On top of being super profane, Sausage Party would expect from a movie that features a taco is one of the more violent films you will witness going down on a hot dog bun. at a cinema this summer, with various foods and I heard Rogen on the Howard Stern Show condiments suffering unthinkable, heinous fates. saying he thinks Sausage Party could be a fran(What happens to heads of lettuce and baby chise ripe for sequels. Just how the hell he thinks carrots is particularly nightmarish.) Rogen and he can top the madness of this movie is beyond Goldberg have found themselves a little loophole, comprehension, but I will certainly be in line to since the main characters aren’t human or animal, find out when he tries. Ω which allows for non-stop carnage within the confines of an R-rating.
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Don’t Think Twice
An improv group called the Commune faces an uncertain future when their theater is closing and members of their team are faced with life-changing events. Writerdirector-actor Mike Birbiglia plays Miles, an improvisational actor in his mid-30s who feels passed over, while Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) finds himself in line for a role on The Weekend (the film’s less copyright infringed stand-in for Saturday Night Live). Gillian Jacobs—who’s having a nice year with this and her role in the excellent Netflix series Love—plays Jack’s girlfriend, Samantha, who also has a chance to advance her career. They, and other members of the troupe, must decide between real money-paying gigs and doing what they actually love, getting up on stage and making up stuff for free. I personally can’t stand watching comedy improv, so that perhaps knocks the film down a peg for me, because there’s a lot of bad improv in this movie. Balancing things out for the better are the performances from all involved, especially Key and Jacobs, who should do more projects together. Birbiglia does a nice job of portraying the artistic need to do one’s art in the face of all adversity.
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Jason Bourne
It’s been nine years since the last Bourne movie that mattered. (2012’s The Bourne Legacy, with Jeremy Renner, was a joke.) After saying he wouldn’t play the part again, Matt Damon is back as Jason Bourne, with his director buddy Paul Greengrass in tow. The result: a tedious, desperate and sad extension of the Bourne storyline. Jason Bourne is currently holding hands with Ghostbusters as a film prominently displaying how not to continue a beloved franchise. At the end of The Bourne Ultimatum, Damon’s Bourne woke up after a bridge dive and swam off into an unknown and unpredictable future. It seemed a fitting and perfect end to the character or, perhaps, that particular story arc. Bourne found out his real name, learned why he was an assassin with amnesia, and got himself a little revenge. Case closed, right? Wrong. Money matters, and Universal wanted to keep the Bourne locomotive on track. Greengrass and his writers have come up with a way to further confuse Bourne about his identity. As it turns out, there’s more to his amnesia. He doesn’t know everything after all! He’s also got some daddy issues. Attempts to modernize Bourne with mumbo jumbo involving a tech mogul (Riz Ahmed) and his new social media platform make parts of this movie feel like a jettisoned episode of Silicon Valley.
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Lights Out
Three years ago, director David F. Sandberg made a great short about a woman home alone at night, noticing a dark figure when she switched the light off. The payoff was both hilarious and scary as shit. So, of course, producer James Wan got a hold of Sandberg and now there’s a full length feature film based on that light-switch premise. Writer Eric Heisserer takes the idea, fleshes it out, and comes up with a pretty good story to go with Sandberg’s strong horror directing abilities. Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) is an angry woman with mommy and commitment issues. Her mom, Sophie (Maria Bello), recently lost her husband and has fallen into a depression where she is talking to herself. Her son, and Sophie’s brother, Martin (Gabriel Bateman) is seeing a strange dark figure when the lights go out. It all leads up to a finale where flashlights are very valuable and potential victims behave like idiots. Sandberg repeats the same jolt scare over and over but makes it all work nicely.
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The Little Prince
After sitting on the shelf for quite some time, Mark Osborne’s unorthodox, animated adaptation of Antoine de SaintExupery’s classic story finally gets a release, albeit a release streaming on Netflix. It’s a good enough movie, but it’s by no means a straight retelling of The Little Prince. There’s a modern story about a young girl (Mackenzie Foy) who befriends an old aviator (Jeff Bridges), and the aviator is the one from The Little Prince.
He recounts part of that story to the little girl, which we see in stop-motion animation. The modern story is mostly CGI. So there’s an interesting mix of animation techniques to go with some twists to the story, and while it feels a little uneven and perhaps slow at times, it’s an enjoyable film. Other voice performers include Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, James Franco, Benicio del Toro and Albert Brooks, and its fun hearing all of their great voices in one place.
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The Secret Life of Pets
A bunch of comedians lend their voices to some cartoon characters, and the results are moderately entertaining. Louis C.K. voices Max, a Jack Russell terrier who loves his master, Katie (Ellie Kemper of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), with that undying loyalty that makes dogs so damn cool. Katie brings home a new brother for Max, a big brown shaggy dog named Duke (Eric Stonestreet), and it creates some turmoil in the household. Max and Duke eventually wind up in the hands of Animal Control, and eventually fend for themselves in the sewers of Manhattan. There they become enemies of the Flushed Pets, a group consisting of alligators, lizards, snakes and furry critters led by Snowball the Rabbit (Kevin Hart on a sound booth tear). The advertised premise for the film suggests the movie might be about what our pets do in the house when we leave home. That part of the film is out of the way early in the movie’s opening minutes. The rest of the movie is the band of pets in Max’s neighborhood trying to find him and Duke when they get lost. Some of the sequences are borderline deranged. This doesn’t feel like the stuff of kids’ movies.
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Suicide Squad|
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a skunk blast to the face for most of us trying to have a good time with a superhero movie earlier this year. Suicide Squad looked like a chance to get DC movies back on the good foot. With David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch) at the helm, and a cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie, it looked like summer was due to get a fun blast of movie mischief. Suicide Squad does nothing to improve the summer blockbuster season. It actually sends a big, stinking torpedo of shit into its side, and sends the thing barreling toward the bottom of the bowl. That’s being kind. After a first half build-up/tease that does a decent job of introducing bad guy characters like Deadshot (Smith), Harley Quinn (Robbie) and the Joker (Leto), the movie becomes what can only be described as a spastic colon, resulting in that big turd referred to above. While Smith and Robbie deliver relatively fun performances, the movie is a scattershot mess with no sense of direction. The tone is all over the place, as if the studio meddled and turned the movie into a hackneyed heap of nothing.
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Star Trek Beyond
While the latest Star Trek film lacks a little bit in soul and story cohesiveness, it scores high on the zip factor and introduces a creepy new villain. The third film in the franchise’s reboot might be the weakest chapter featuring the newish cast, but it’s still a lot of fun. J.J. Abrams stepped down from the conn to direct his revamped Star Wars, relegating himself to a producer’s role. In stepped Justin Lin, best known for making cars jump between skyscrapers in the Fast & Furious franchise. It’s also not a surprise that some of the action scenes motor along with the efficiency of a Dodge Challenger Hellcat. The film picks up with James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his crew in the midst of their five-year mission. Kirk, as he did in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, is starting to get a little bored. He’s up for an admiral’s position, and might soon find himself grounded to a desk job. The movie has barely started when the U.S.S. Enterprise is attacked by thousands of marauding spaceships, and the crew finds themselves shipwrecked on a sparsely inhabited planet. Unfortunately, one of those few is Krall (Idris Elba), a nasty looking alien with evil intentions involving an ancient weapon.
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Video stars Violent Human System The Japanese company Funai Electric was the world’s last commercial manufacturer of consumer videocassette recorders—that is, until last month when it ceased manufacturing VCRs. By that measure, VCRs and VHS tapes, the home entertainment format they supported, are now officially on the road to obsolesce. Violent Human System is a punk rock quartet, but, on show fliers, internet posts and the like, the band is better known as VHS. The band name evokes the nostalgic atmosphere found in some of the group’s music and the specific era—the 1980s and early ’90s—when VHS, the format, was cutting-edge technology. VHS, the band, has the energy and atmosphere of some of the smartest, artiest bands of that era’s American punk underground—like Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, the Wipers and the Pixies. Melodic vocal lines and thoughtful lyrics are sung over quick rhythms, tight ensemble performances and twisted, distorted guitar tones. Also in the aural mix is an undercurrent of the dour, downbeat, Gothic post-punk of British bands of the same era, like Joy Division and the Cure. It’s almost like a group of sun-baked desert rockers moved to some northerly clime and started staying indoors on rainy days, drinking caffeinated beverages, wearing black and exploring their sadness. The lyrics are full of references to various illnesses and medical calamities, as in the songs “Wheelchair” and “Hospital Room” from the band’s new record, Gift of Life. Although VHS is based out of Seattle, three of the members are Reno transplants. Guitarist/vocalist Josh Hageman, guitarist Morgan Travis and bassist Chris Costalupes were key pieces of the local scene, members of some of the best Reno punk
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bands of the last couple of decades, like Over Vert and the Young Lions, and more than a dozen other groups. As each of them moved up to Seattle, it felt like a blow to the Reno scene. The band members say that people always ask them about being from Reno. “It’s not a typical thing for many bands in the Northwest, so people focus in on that a lot, which is fine,” said Travis. “I like talking about Reno.” “I’m very used to Seattle, but Seattle is not my home—Reno is my home,” said Hageman. The members say that moving to Seattle hasn’t drastically changed their approach to music. But Hageman says the recurring medical imagery in the songs have been influenced by his day job—non-emergency medical transportation, like driving people with mobility issues to doctor appointments. And the band members give a lot of credit to Gavin Tiemeyer, the group’s usual drummer, as well as Dillan Lazzareschi, who is filling in on drums for their tour, which comes through Reno this month. Band members say that playing in Reno feels like a homecoming gig. “It’s great,” said Travis. “It’s wonderful. We put in a lot of time there, and we kind of reap the benefits of it. It’s awesome seeing all our friends, and playing with our friends’ new bands. … It’s the weirdest size for a town, because it’s large enough to the point where there are definitely people doing really cool things and awesome art, really interesting people to hang out with all the time, but it’s small enough to where everyone knows everyone, and everyone can be involved in everyone’s business to an annoying degree sometimes. But coming back, you’re not involved in any of that. People are just really stoked to see you.” Ω
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THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING 1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024
Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $19-$27
The Coathangers, L.A. Witch, The Shames, 8pm, $10
Audacity, VHS, Negative Sex, 8pm, Tu, $5
1) Full Force Metal Festival, 3pm, $15-$20
1) Friendly Males, Night Rooms, Gonzo, 9pm, W, $5 2) Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover
Liam Kyle Cahill, 8pm, no cover
Markus Hegman, 9pm, no cover
Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover
Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $19-$27
Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $19-$27
71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room
THE JUNGLE
Kevin Seconds, Steve Soto, Josiah Knight, 8pm, $10
Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $19-$27
Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, M, Tu, $19-$27
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THURSDAY 8/18 THE LOVING CUP
FRIDAY 8/19
188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480
MIDTOWN WINE BAR 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960
MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS
Everyday Outlaw, 8pm, no cover
10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688
PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/22-8/24
RED DOG SALOON
Musicole, 8pm, no cover
Clemón Charles Band, 8pm, no cover
Dirty Cello, 8:30pm, no cover
Dirty Cello, 8:30pm, no cover
Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, W, no cover
U Play Wednesday (open mic jam), 8pm, W, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover
Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover
Rockaraoke, 8pm, no cover
Great White, 9pm, $18-$50
Vixen, 7pm, $15
Karaoke with Steve Starr, 8pm, no cover
The Siren Society: Blacklight Burlesque, 9pm, $5
Dusty Green Bones Band, 9pm, $5
Dance Party w/ETHK, 9pm, no cover
St. Christopher Project, 6pm, no cover
The Ataris, Newbound, Me Time, 8pm, $15-$17
Ese, Machine Gun Vendetta, 9pm, $5
1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864
ROCKBAR THEATER 211 N. Virginia St., (669) 255-7960
THE SAINT 761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451
SHEA’S TAVERN 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774
SHELTER
DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover
111 N. Virginia St., (775) 329-2909
SPARKS LOUNGE 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 409-3340
Thursday Blues Jam hosted by Rich Maloon, 8:30pm, no cover
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY
Josh Clemens, 9pm, no cover
445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484
STUDIO ON 4TH
The Hubcap Stealers, 8pm, $7
432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776
WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON
LUZCID Aug. 20, 10 p.m. 1up 214 W. Commercial Row 329-9444
Open mic and jam, 7pm, no cover
76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474
Metal Mondays, 9pm, M, no cover Beer and Record Club, 10pm, W, no cover
DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover
Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover
Daniel Echo, 10pm, M, no cover Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover
’80s New Wave Party w/DJ EroticBuddha, DJ 1334, DJ Xenobia, 9pm, $3
Michael Fracasso, Tara Velarde, 8pm, M, $7
Silversun Pickups Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m. Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000
Conga Beth & The Roamers, 9pm, no cover
2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425
17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455
SUNDAY 8/21
Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter showcase, 8pm, no cover
POLO LOUNGE
WILD RIVER GRILLE
SATURDAY 8/20
Live jazz, 8pm, no cover
Milton Merlos, 6pm, no cover
Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover
The Socks!, 6pm, no cover
The Socks!, 2pm, no cover Milton Merlos, 6pm, no cover
Dave Manning & Jack Rudisill, 6pm, M, Colin Ross, 6pm, Tu, Tany Jane, 6pm, W, no cover
WILDFLOWER VILLAGE 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret
1) Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 8pm, Tu, no cover
FALL 2016 STRAWBERRY MUSIC FESTIVAL SEPT 1ST – 4TH | WESTSIDE IN TUOLUMNE, CA
THURSDAY: RISKY BISCUITS, ANNE AND PETE SIBLEY, DAVID LUNING, ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
SATURDAY: THE BROTHERS COMATOSE, HOWELL DEVINE, RUTHIE FOSTER, LOS LOBOS
FRIDAY: SHINYRIBS, SHANNON MCNALLY, SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, THE DEL MCCOURY BAND
SUNDAY: HILLBENDERS, MANDOLIN ORANGE, SESSION AMERICANA, LEFTOVER SALMON
AND MANY MORE! OVER 20 MAIN STAGE ACTS, TOP NOTCH KIDS & TEEN PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY, LEGENDARY CAMP JAMS, HOG RANCH RADIO, SHOPPING, COMFORTABLE & SCENIC SETTING FOR CAMPING, FINE FOOD IN FOOD COURT Single-day, evening, & 2-,3- & 4-day camping passes available. Children under 5 are free.
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FOR TICKETS AND FESTIVAL DETAILS VISIT US AT: WWW.STRAWBERRYMUSIC.COM OR CALL (209)984-8630 M-F, 9-5
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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA
3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret
BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTEL
Michael Franti & Spearhead Aug. 19, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 648-3353
2100 Garson Rd., Verdi; (775) 345-6000 1) Event Center 2) Guitar Bar
Corkscroo Bar & Pizzeria, 10 E. Ninth St., 284-7270: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques, W, 6pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 772-2475: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., 322-3001: Karaoke, Th-Sa, 8:30pm; Su, 6pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover
FRIDAY 8/19
SATURDAY 8/20
SUNDAY 8/21
2) Platinum, 8pm, no cover
2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover Steppen Stonz, 10pm, no cover
2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover Steppen Stonz, 10pm, no cover
2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover
2) Kick, 10pm, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
2) Jason King, 6pm, no cover
2) George Pickard, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover
2) George Pickard, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover
2) Crush, 6pm, no cover
2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover The Robeys, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover
2) Pasto Seco Band, 10pm, no cover
2) The Waybacks, 10pm, no cover
1) The Full Monty, 7pm, $36.95 2) The Money Shot, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover
1) The Full Monty, 7pm,9:30pm, $36.95 2) The Money Shot, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover
1) The Full Monty, 7pm, $36.95 2) The Money Shot, 10:30pm, no cover
1) The Full Monty, 7pm, Tu, W, $36.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover Left of Centre, 10:30pm, W, no cover
2) CeeLo Green DJ Set, 10pm, $10 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover
2) Lex Saturdays, 10pm, $15 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover
1) Silversun Pickups, 7:30pm, $26-$46.50
1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, $29.35
1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, $29.35 2) DJ Rick Gee, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, $29.35 2) DJ J-Nice, DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50
1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50 3) Andersen Ackerson Duo, 9pm, no cover 4) Apple Z, 6pm, no cover
1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50 3) Andersen Ackerson Duo, 9pm, no cover 5) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 8pm, $39-$49
1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50
1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, M, $39.50-$40.50
2) A-Train, 10pm, no cover
2) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover
2) Suns of Jimi, 9:30pm, M, Tu, no cover 14k, 9:30pm, W, no cover
3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover
3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover
2) Sunday Funday Industry Night, 10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover
2) Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover
CRYSTAL BAY CLUB
14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room
ELDORADO RESORT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi
GRAND SIERRA RESORT
1) The Full Monty, 7pm, $36.95 2) The Money Shot, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Lex Thursdays, 10pm, no cover
3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover
HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE
Karaoke
THURSDAY 8/18
15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge
HARRAH’S RENO
219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center
HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE
18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) Outdoor Arena 2) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge
MONTBLEU RESORT
55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Showroom 2) HQ Center Bar 3) Opal Ultra Lounge 4) Blu
NUGGET CASINO RESORT
1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s
1) Steve Miller Band, Roy Rogers & The Delta 2) A-Train, 10pm, no cover Rhythm Kings, 7pm, $39.50-$139.50 2) Karaoke w/Dreu Murin, 10pm, no cover
1) Michael Franti & Spearhead, 8pm, $30-$45 4) The Killer Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover
3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Sandy Nuyts, 9pm, no cover
3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Sandy Nuyts, 9pm, no cover
1) Country Artist Tribute Show, 8pm, $15-$35 3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Sandy Nuyts, 9pm, no cover
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 7pm, no cover
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover
1) Lynyrd Skynyrd, 8pm, $38-$109 2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Yo Yolie, 10pm, $20
3) Fashion Fridays, 9pm, no cover 4) Vegas Roadshow, 9pm, no cover
3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Vegas Roadshow, 9pm, no cover
PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO
2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge
SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO
2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia,
407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 8pm, no cover 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 4) Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge
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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/22-8/24
1) Alex Ramon IMPOSSIBLE, 7:30pm, Tu, W, $29.35 3) Buddy Emmer Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover
FOR tHE WEEK OF aUgUst 18, 2016 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. 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 through Aug. 21. The Showcase Series continues on Aug. 26, Sept. 3 and Sept. 10. Tu-Su, 7:30pm through 8/21; F, Sa,
7:30pm through 8/27. Sa, 9/3, 7:30pm; Sa, 9/10, 6:30pm. Prices vary. Sand Harbor
State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 747-4697.
NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY DUCK RACE AND FESTIVAL: Adopt a rubber duck to benefit
Molly’s Revenge
8/24:
The trio will perform as part of the Valhalla Art, Music and Theatre Festival before it wraps up its season at the end of the month. The acoustic Celtic group combines bagpipes, whistle and fiddle with a backdrop of guitar, mandola and bodhran. Molly’s Revenge has performed at many of the top folk festivals and performing arts events in the United States and prestigious events in Scotland, Australia and China. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, at the Valhalla Boathouse Theatre at the Tallac Historic Site, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe. Tickets are $20-$28. Visit http://valhallatahoe.com.
EvEnts BACK TO SCHOOL FAMILY FUNDRAISER: SOS Washoe holds this fund-raising event featuring carnival games, barbecue and live entertainment. Tu, 8/23, 5:30-7:30pm. Free, donations welcome. Rancharrah, 6001 Talbot Lane, (775) 527-2738.
CARSON CITY GHOST WALK: Hear about lingering spirits of the past centuries, haunted and paranormal stories and gossip from the past during this guided walking tour of the downtown district’s historic homes and businesses. The tour leaves rain or shine. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the walk begins. Sa, 8/20, 6:30pm;
Sa, 9/17, 6:30pm; Sa, 9/24, 6:30pm; Sa, 10/22, 10am-3pm. $15 in advance, $20 day
of walk; free for children under age 3. Corner of Third and Curry streets behind Firkin & Fox/St. Charles Hotel, Carson City, http://carsoncityghostwalk.com.
GREEK FESTIVAL 2016: The annual festival features traditional dance, desserts, music, imports and more. F, 8/19,
5-10pm; Sa, 8/20, noon-10pm; Su, 8/21, 11am-3pm. Advance tickets are $12
(includes $10 of food); general admission is $5 at the door. St. Anthony Greek Orthodox Church, 4795 Lakeside Drive, (775) 825-5365, www.renogreekfest.com.
HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLORS: The celebration includes interactive dance, live mantra bands, DJs, yoga, food and throwing of colors. Sa, 8/20, 11am-3pm. $5 general admission, free for kids. Great Basin Adventure, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (801) 787-1510, www.festivalofcolorsusa.com.
JAZZ AND BEYOND: CARSON CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL: More than 100 musicians in over 60 events perform at venues across Carson City. M-Su through 8/21. Call or visit website for details, (775) 883-4154, http://jazzcarsoncity.com.
KTMB’S RAISE THE RIVER 2016: Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful presents an evening of culinary delights created by Chef Mark Estee, local craft libations, live music and sensory activities. This event will help to raise funds to support KTMB’s beautification and education programs, including their work to protect and enhance the Truckee River corridor. Th, 8/18, 5:30-9pm. $100. Officers Memorial Garden at Idlewild Park, 74 Cowan Drive, (775) 851-5185, http://ktmb.org.
LAKE TAHOE REGGAE FESTIVAL: Performances by Pepper, Ky-Mani Marley, Israel Vibrations & Roots Radics, Don Carlos, Mike Love and Squarefield Massive. Sa, 8/20, 4:30-10:30pm. $55$100, free for kids age 6 and younger. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe, 50 Highway 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625, http://hardrockcasinolaketahoe.com.
homeless pets. Spend a day in the park to cheer on your duck as it, along with thousands of other rubber ducks, races down the Truckee River. The grand prize is a 2016 Toyota Corolla. The festival includes live entertainment, clowns, carnival games, vendors and dogs and cats from Nevada Humane Society in search of loving homes. The Duck Race will begin at 4pm with prize winners announced shortly after the conclusion of the race. Su, 8/21, 11am-5pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 856-2000 ext. 335, www.duckrace.com/reno.
THE PACIFICA FESTIVAL: This inaugural twoday festival will include Polynesian and Asian-Pacific entertainment and music, arts and crafts, educational demonstrations, as well as and food and Asian and Polynesian merchandise vendors. There will also be interactive cultural activities for the kids. The main stage will feature free performances from Benjeezy, Brittany Straw, CRSB, Lila, Mango Kingz, Wakane, W.I.L.L, and other acts. Sa, 8/20, 10am-8pm; Su, 8/21, 10am-5pm. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., www.pacificafestivalreno.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. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665.
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. 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.
ROMANCING LAKE TAHOE: Meet cover models, Bollywood stars and best-selling romance authors. Sa, 8/20, 10am-6pm. Free. Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611.
SKY TAVERN SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Jelly Bread and opening act Mel Wade and Gia perform at this fundraiser, which includes a barbecue and microbrews from On Tap Catering. Donations and proceeds from food and beverages sales benefit the Junior Ski and outdoor programs at Sky Tavern. Su, 8/21, noon-5pm. $10 suggested donation. Sky Tavern Ski Area Lodge, 21130 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 323-5125.
TAHOE CITY FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL: Meet with more than 35 artisans and craftspeople showcasing a wide variety of arts and crafts including photography, paintings, ceramics, jewelry and more. The open-air art galleries take place on Aug. 19-21 and Aug. 26-28. F,
8/19, 10am-5pm; Sa, 8/20, 10am-5pm; Su, 8/21, 10am-5pm. Free. Boatworks Mall
Shopping Center, 760 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, http://pacificfinearts.com.
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 event includes free live classic rock concerts, food trucks, a beer garden and summer games. Th, 4-9pm through 8/25. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2295.
XTERRA LAKE TAHOE: The off-road triathlon includes a 750-1,500 meter swim in Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile bike ride and a 10K trail running course. Sa, 8/20, 8am-3pm. Registration fees vary. Village Green, 960 Lakeshore Blvd., Incline Village, http://bigblueadventure.com.
Film
NCMF in August
8/21:
The Nevada Chamber Music Festival isn’t until the end of December, but the Reno Chamber Orchestra will present a preview of things to come in a one-day event on Sunday, Aug. 21. The program will feature Antonin Dvorák’s Miniatures Op. 75a for two violins and viola, Zoltán Kodály’s Trio Op. 12 for two violins and viola and César Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major for violin and piano. Performers include guest violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv, NCMF Artistic Director Theodore Kuchar on viola, Ruth Lenz on violin and James Winn on piano. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 DeSpain Lane. Tickets are $25. Call 348-9413.
COMMUNITY HIP-HOP NIGHT: Cypher, battle, freestyle, share choreography and connect with your fellow dancers. No dance experience necessary. Sa, 8/20, 8-11pm. $5. Marigold Movement Center, 2285 W. Dickerson Road, (775) 293-8619.
UNCANNY VALLEY: Restless Artists’ Theatre presents its first production in their new location. Thomas Gibbons’ new play charts the relationship between Claire, a neuroscientist, and Julian, a nonbiological human. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through
9/3. Opens 8/19; Su, 8/21, 2pm; Sa, 8/27, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 9/4, 2pm. $15 general admis-
LANDFILL HARMONIC: Artemisia Moviehouse presents this documentary film directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley about the Recycled Orchestra, an ensemble of slum-dwelling children who play instruments made of trash from the local landfill. After years of performing in their native country, a video teaser thrusts these talented but unlikely stars into the global spotlight. In Spanish with English subtitles. Tu, 8/23, 7-9pm. $5-$7. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.
sion, $12 students, seniors, military. Restless Artists’ Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Sierra School of Performing Arts presents this classic story based on the 1939 Academy Award-winning movie. F, 8/19, 7:30pm; Sa, 8/20, 7:30pm; Su, 8/21, 7:30pm. $15-$40. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 852-7740.
RENO-SPARKS OPEN STREETS: Experience the concrete jungle like never before by walking, biking, dancing or running in the vehicle-free Reno and Sparks streets, stopping at vendors serving the best in local food trends, offering yoga classes, dance sessions, health tips and showcasing local businesses all to experience the area in a brand new way. Sa, 8/20, 10am3pm. Free. Downtown Reno, Virginia St., (775) 323-4488, www.renopenstreets.org.
OnstagE CABARET: Laughing Owl Productions presents John Kander & Fred Ebb’s musical about American writer Cliff Bradshaw’s journey into the nightclub scene in Berlin during the era of Weimar Germany. W-Sa,
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8-10:30pm through 8/27; Su, 2-4:30pm through 8/21. $25 in advance, $30 at the
door. Laughing Owl Productions, 75 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-9967.
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by AMY ALKON
Casual coroner I dress like a tomboy: jeans, T-shirts, hoodies and work boots. My boyfriend of a year wants me to wear skirts and dresses more often. Nothing trashy—just not my usual tomboy wear. This weekend, I wore a sundress to brunch. It made him so happy, and he kept telling me how beautiful I looked. I did feel a little uncomfortable because I’m not used to dressing like that. Some women in my circle are like, “He should accept you as you are. Don’t change for a man.” Am I giving up some important source of power? There are women out there who still see dressing to please a man as some sort of Stockholm syndrome thing—participating in your own flouncy, spaghettistrapped subjugation. So, it’s possible that those advising you “Don’t change for a man!” are just trying to help you be a modern and empowered woman. Social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Jean Twenge report that it’s widely believed that men drive the “cultural suppression of female sexuality”—which could include shaming women for how they dress. However, in reviewing the research, they make a persuasive case that it’s primarily women— often without awareness of their motives—who work to “stifle each other’s sexuality.” This is right in keeping with research on female competition. While men fight openly, women take a sneakier approach. As female competition researcher Tracy Vaillancourt explains it, women fight for their interests using “indirect aggression,” like gossip, mean looks, disparaging remarks and other underhanded tactics to “reduce the mate value of a rival.” Underhanded tactics? You know—like suggesting you’re selling out womankind if you wear a skirt or winged eyeliner. In other words, your best interest and these other women’s may diverge—though they may not consciously intend to hurt you. As for whether you should throw on a dress from time to time, consider that if you love somebody, you do sweet things for him or her. Sometimes, this requires a bit of a stretch on your part—like from the teen boys’ section of the department store to that rack in the women’s department.” 28 | RN&R | 08.18.16
The truth about catfish and dogs I’m a 39-year-old woman dating for the first time since the ’90s. I’m doing the online thing, and none of these guys look like their photos! It’s incredible. When we meet, they always say, “You look just like your pictures.” Isn’t that the point? Guy, in online dating profile: “I’m 55!” Guy’s neck, when you meet for coffee: “I was a war hero. In the Peloponnesian War.” Unfortunately, Mr. Peloponnesian Pants On Fire has plenty of company on dating sites. In fact, about a third of the photos people post aren’t true to life, according to research by psychologist Jeffrey T. Hancock. Sometimes, that’s due to Photoshop. Sometimes, the photo is less-than-current. And sometimes, along the lines of “every picture tells a story,” the story is “This is how I’d look if I were someone else entirely.” That last kind of lie—posting photos of somebody else—is less common than other photographic deceptions, because, as Hancock notes, people have to balance looking good enough to meet with not making somebody stomp angrily away once they do. The same goes for the other lies people tell. Hancock also finds that 81 percent of people on dating sites are lying about their height, weight and age. So, where you go wrong is in your expectations—expecting online daters to be truthful. Going forward, assume everyone on a dating site is lying. Meet prospective partners as soon as possible and as casually as possible. If you’re throwing back a $4 latte, as opposed to waiting for the waitress to bring the entree, it’s a little easier to make a quick exit from the guy decades older than his picture: “Wow, will you look at the time?! I didn’t realize 20 years had passed since we set up our date.” Ω
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FOR ThE wEEk OF AUGUST 18, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Can you imagine
feeling at home in the world no matter where you are? If you eventually master this art, outer circumstances won’t distort your relationship with yourself. No matter how crazy or chaotic the people around you might be, you will remain rooted in your unshakable sense of purpose; you will respond to any given situation in ways that make you both calm and alert, amused and curious, compassionate for the suffering of others and determined to do what’s best for you. If you think these are goals worth seeking, you can make dramatic progress toward them in the coming weeks.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I tried to medi-
tate on your horoscope, my next-door neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud. So I decided to drive down to the marsh to get some high-quality silence. When I arrived at the trailhead, I found an older man in ragged clothes leaning against the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. “Doing nothing is a very difficult art,” he croaked as I slipped by him, “because you’re never really sure when you are done.” I immediately recognized that his wisdom might be useful to you. You are, after all, in the last few days of your recharging process. It’s still a good idea for you to lie low and be extra calm and vegetate luxuriously. But when should you rise up and leap into action again? Here’s my guess: Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My readers have a
range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer. Some study the horoscopes for both their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-ityourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week is over before consulting what I’ve written. They don’t want my oracles to influence their future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are the folks who read all 12 of my horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, and want to be free to explore multiple options. I encourage you to try experiments like these in the coming days. The moment is ripe to cultivate more of your own unique strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb—both from me and from everyone else you listen to.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Have you been
drinking a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water that rejuvenate you? Have you been opening your soul to raw truths that dissolve your fixations and to beauty that makes you cry and to love that moves you to sing? I hope you’re reverently attending to these fluidic needs. I hope you’re giving your deepest yearnings free play and your freshest emotions lots of room to unfold. Smart, well-lubricated intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear. Stay very, very wet.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my opinion, you need
to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm—preferably multiple brainstorms over the course of the next two weeks. What can you do to ensure that happens? How might you generate a flood of new ideas about how to live your life and understand the nature of reality? Here are some suggestions: Read books about creativity. Hang around with original thinkers and sly provocateurs. Insert yourself into situations that will strip you of your boring certainties. And take this vow: “I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When you were a
child, did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend? Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way. Unexpected sources are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When you were born,
you already carried the seeds of gifts you would
someday be able to provide—specific influences or teachings or blessings that only you, of all the people who have ever lived, could offer the world. How are you doing in your quest to fulfill this potential? Here’s what I suspect: Your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely. But in the coming months, they could ripen at a more rapid pace. Whether they actually do or not may depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities—interesting responsibilities, to be sure—but bigger than you’re used to.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect that you
will soon be culminating a labor of love you’ve been nurturing and refining for many moons. How should you celebrate? Maybe with some champagne and caviar? If you’d like to include bubbly in your revels, a good choice might be 2004 Belle Epoque Rose. Its floral aroma and crispy mouth-feel rouse a sense of jubilation as they synergize the flavors of blood orange, pomegranate and strawberry. As for caviar: Consider the smooth, aromatic, and elegant roe of the albino beluga sturgeon from the unpolluted areas of the Caspian Sea near Iran. But before I finish this oracle, let me also add that a better way to honor your accomplishment might be to take the money you’d spend on champagne and caviar, and instead use it as seed money for your next big project.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some
species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse—especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your assign-
ment, if you choose to accept it, is to compose an essay on at least one of the following themes: (1) “How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death.” (2) “How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter.” (3) “How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity.” (4) “How I Helped Myself by Helping Other People.” For extra credit, Capricorn—and to earn the right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one—write about all four subjects.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect that
in the coming months you will be drawn to wandering through the frontiers and exploring the unknown. Experimentation will come naturally. Places and situations you have previously considered to be off-limits may be downright comfortable. In fact, it’s possible that you will have to escape your safety zones in order to fully be yourself. Got all that? Now here’s the kicker. In the coming weeks, everything I just described will be especially apropos for your closest relationships. Are you interested in redefining and reconfiguring the ways that togetherness works for you?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’re playing the
card game known as bridge, you’re lucky if you are dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the beginning, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Let’s apply this metaphor to your immediate future, Pisces. I’m guessing that you will benefit from what may seem to be an inadequacy or deficit. An absence will be a useful asset.
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Cynthia Townley Ewer, once a leading local legal researcher and daughter of the former director of the Nevada Historical Society, now runs OrganizedHome.com and is author of several books, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Organized and Houseworks (now reissued as Cut the Clutter or, in its German edition, Nie wieder Chaos).
Is there a term for your field? Home management and home organization.
What is it? It’s how you live your life in your surroundings. It’s about the relationship to your home, your activities and your stuff. A lot of times people think an organized home looks a certain way. And Ikea and Crate and Barrel and all those wonderful shelter stores really want you to believe that. But an organized home doesn’t look any way specifically. The way you adjust something is, How well does it work for you? Can you get out of the house in the morning without losing your keys, searching for a school paper, missing a briefcase? Are meals or making some meals available on a regular basis, or are you getting supermarket meals? … So home management is just the study of how to live at home in harmony with your surroundings, your activities and your stuff.
When you first got into it, did you expect it to take off as it has? Absolutely not. This all got started back in 1990. I was a very early adopter of computer technology. I lived in the San Francisco bay area and there were computer current magazines on every corner and Build Your Own PC, and so I had a little PC. And [my husband and daughter] had a five-and-a-half-inch floppy disk with Prodigy online service on it. … We slid this little disk in, and we logged in to our very first online community. … It was old. It was slow. But it absolutely blew me away. Only about one in 10 users were female at that time and of those females not many of us were mothers with children. … I found this group, a very early [online group of] women, in 1990. I’m still friends with many of them today, 26 years later. We began encouraging each toter to make changes around the home,
clutter. So I just started writing. Every Friday morning I’d get up, and Prodigy allowed six tiny screens, so I would write my six screens as articles and people liked it. [After working for several years for the operation of now-discontinued MyCyberMom.com], I set up a little personal home page. Two months later, I get a slap on the wrist from Concentric, my provider: “Too many people are visiting your site. You have exceeded your bandwidth allowance.” So I said, well, fine. I registered a domain name in June of 1998. I set up OrganizedHome.com. … Well, nine months later, I wake up on a Sunday morning to find I have won the USA Today Hot Site award and my site had gone down because of the traffic. … I had to learn to be an administrator. So that’s when, rather than having a little tiny site. … I leased my own servicer. So in 2002, same thing. In my little basement office, a phone call: “Hello, this is ABC’s The View. We want you to be on the show.” I’d never seen the show until the day before I was on it. … This is very early in the whole let’s-find-a-bloggerand-put-them-on-TV. But it worked out well so I appeared on the show again about a month later. … 2003, I get a call about six in the morning. … “Hello, Cynthia,” says this English accent. “This is Mary Claude Shannon from DK Publications in London. We’re looking for an author to write a homemaking book and we love your blog. … Since then, it’s just kind of continued like that. Ω
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Snark and schaudenfreude So last week, I try to throw Trump a bit of a fair and balanced bone, and take his side on the relatively minor dispute involving the scheduling of his debates with Hillary opposite NFL games. So what does the sumbitch do? He gets up there in North Carolina the very next day and ever not so subtly hints that one of his big hairy gun nut mad dogs might just know how to deal with the situation, if you know what I mean, wink-wink and ferfuxsake are you kidding me? What a statesman. And this tax thing isn’t going well for El Payaso. The more he refuses to come clean and just give us the damn returns, the more folks who were amused by his blustery schtick in February are unamused in August. He knew a year ago the tax return issue would eventually surface, that he would be expected routinely, as every presidential candidate has done since Nixon,
to make available his tax returns for our consumption. The fact that Donaldo won’t come clean tells us one thing—he’s got a bomb in those returns. Maybe a bunch of bombs. Ho. You ready for a tsunami of glorious schaudenfreude this autumn, the kind of raging schaudenfreude that will lead directly to the popping of the veins in Sean Hannity’s forehead? I am. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of muddled chowderhead obstructionist dipsticks. But—Michael Moore is spot on when he warns us Dems not to get complacent. This thing ain’t over! And yes, while I’ve been hoping Hillary might use some of her television budget to remind us of some positive things that have happened on Democratic watch the last eight years, I have to admit, her ad showing Letterman talking to Trump about his shirts and ties being made in China and Bangladesh is perfect. Totally on
target ballstomp of a spot, and MAGA my ass! • My earlier snarky comments about the Rio Olympics notwithstanding, I have to admit that, despite the ongoing adulteration of the Olympic experience with all the skeet shooting, windsurfing—watch out for that sofa!—and synchronized salsa preparation, this past Aug. 14 was pretty doggone fantastic sports spectacle. I mean, with South African Wayde Van Niekerk’s dazzling world record dash in the men’s 400 meter final, Simone Biles’ outrageous vaults that claimed the first-ever gold for a Yankee female in this event, and the electrifying Usain Bolt winning his unprecedented third 100 meter gold medal, that was some really good stuff. (And at one point, I began to wonder how ex-brothel kingpin Joe Conforte, who fled to Rio 25 years ago, is enjoying the games.) Ω
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