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Personal project Welcome to this week’s Reno News  & Review. I wrote this week’s cover story.  It’s a look back at the history and  vision of the local arts nonprofit  Holland Project, as the organization prepares to celebrate its  tenth anniversary. In some ways,  it feels like a story I’ve been  working on for a decade.  I became this  newspaper’s  arts & culture  editor in  2008, not long  after Holland started.  My beat was  covering local art  and music, and the Holland hosts  both, so over the years I’ve written dozens of stories about art  exhibitions, concerts and other  events they’ve presented. I’ve  attended other events simply as  a patron—sometimes glancing  around the room and noticing  that I appeared to be the oldest  person present.  And, full disclosure, I’ve performed at several Holland events  over the years—mostly with my  bands. It’s also worth mentioning  that some of my closest personal friends have worked there,  served on the board or been  involved in other ways. More to the point, I belong to  that same generation of frustrated Reno kids who launched the  organization. Growing up here, I  had experiences very similar to  the ones that the Holland founders describe in the feature story.  The older I get, the stranger it  is to think that, as a teen, my  friends and I would routinely  drive down to San Francisco, see  a concert, and then drive back  the same night—and then go to  school at like 7 a.m. the next day. Anyway, this is still a small  town, and that little nonprofit  has generated a lot of goodwill  over the years, partly through  its collaborative spirit, which has  positively affected many local  lives, including mine. But I know  I’m not the only one. On a different note, I wasn’t  able to attend any of the protests   this weekend ... but fuck the ban.  Fuck the wall.

—Brad Bynum bradb@newsreview.com

Just wow Re “Russian agent in the White House?” (Let Freedom Ring, Jan. 5): Wow! Just wow! With a reporter like you, and those that cannot tell the difference between right and wrong, there is no wonder how we ended up with the likes of Trump as our next, forgive me, president. Maybe you should have served in office during the Obama Administration so we could have all been told of such stories, before the end of his service. You’re an idiot! Melynda Mall Sparks

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and illegal, come to the “profession” with a history of childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Does Trainor care that, in most cases, a woman’s desire to prostitute herself was born out of traumatic sexual assault and degradation? Though Trainor is horrified at the supposed attack on one’s “right” to engage in sex acts with someone who likely is doing so under extreme duress or coercion, I am more horrified by his support for the practice. In this case, restrictions will produce greater human flourishing for all involved. Michael Cox Reno

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Life experience Weeks after my daughter entered the world, I became sick. Because I had insurance, I didn’t hesitate to go to urgent care and ultimately found my way to an oncology office, where I was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and told I’d likely need a bone marrow transplant. What followed over the coming months was solid medical treatment consisting of prophylactic drugs for my malfunctioning immune system and blood transfusions to keep me alive. The Affordable Care Act was there when I needed new prescriptions. I recognize it has problems. But it made it easy for me to seek quality, low-cost care when I needed it. When I couldn’t work, the subsidies kicked in to lower my premiums. So before you get rid of the ACA without having an alternative in place, think of me. Think of what a guy who just happens to have a medical condition and a family to support. … We should all seek to retain and improve the ACA, not to destroy it. Jeff Benson Sparks

You should call on Adam Laxalt, and other Republican attorneys general, to do an investigation of the three to five million illegals who voted for Hillary Clinton as claimed by Trump. Laxalt should use this opportunity to gain favor with the Trump administration by being the first to lead the way and start the investigation ahead of a federal investigation. With three to five million illegal votes across the country as stated by Trump over and over again, it shouldn’t be difficult for Laxalt to find evidence of wrongdoings in the Nevada election process. When other Republican attorneys general went after Obama for what they perceived as wrong policies, Laxalt was ready and willing to sign on to their efforts. I think it is time for Laxalt to show he can be a leader in the GOP and start the charge. Dewey Quong Reno

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Sex work Re “Liberal feminists conspire with social conservatives” (Let Freedom ring, Jan. 26): This column inaccurately stated a fact concerning sex trafficking—that the average age of entry into prostitution is 12-14 years old. That is, most currently involved in prostitution, legal or illegal, were introduced into prostitution, legal or illegal, between the ages of 12-14 years old. Additionally, legalized prostitution increases sex trafficking (see “Theory versus reality: Commentary on four articles about trafficking for prostitution” by Melissa Farley). Suppliers of commercial sex acts can’t meet the demand with willing prostitutes because most women don’t want to sell their bodies to strangers, so there is more incentive to force mostly vulnerable women and children to engage in “sex work.” The majority of prostitutes, legal

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I grew up in a Christian household, so my music range was very limited. I grew up listening to a lot of music like the Supertones. … And then one day I turned on the radio, and Third Eye Blind “Jumper” was one the radio. And it totally revolutionized my taste in music. K ay roman Job seeker

The Killers, Jimmy Eat World. I’m trying to think now. … I was into Maroon 5 when they first came out. That was a pretty big band. When I was a teen, what else did I listen to? … I don’t know. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head.

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America best In September 1968, Republican vice presidential nominee Spiro Agnew created an uproar among both Democrats and Republicans when he said that Democratic presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey was “soft on Communism.” GOP presidential nominee Richard Nixon sent a babysitter, Stephen Hess, to the Agnew campaign plane to watch over the Agnew operation. Hess found that neither Agnew or his aides realized that the phrase “soft on Communism” had a history. One account of the campaign later reported, “Hess found to his horror that [Agnew] and most of his staff were delighted with the effect the ‘soft on communism’ speech had had. Apparently, they were infected by the Billy Rose approach to publicity: don’t read it, measure it. Hess arrived just in time to stall more diatribes on the same subject. Such crowd-pleasing gambits as ‘Communists in our midst’ and ‘lists of names’ were under consideration. At this point, it emerged that Agnew genuinely did not know that these phrases were the slogans of McCarthyism. ... In 1953, Agnew had been an apolitical manager of a supermarket, and in the years since he hadn’t bothered to find out about McCarthy.” It’s appalling how often our leaders are ignorant of history and insensitive to the power of words. After the Sept. 11 tragedies in 2001, as the United States geared up for war in Afghanistan, George W. Bush said, “This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile.” In Europe, which has had more experience with terrorism than the United States and is more sophisticated in its approach to combating terror, Bush’s use of the

term crusade caused leaders to shudder. They want a battle between civilization and extremism, not between civilizations. In the Middle East, crusade is a reminder of Christian terrorism in the medieval period—and a synonym for extremism. Bush at the time was reportedly reading the study Warriors of God by James Reston Jr., about the third Crusade (Reston: “the crusades were among the most disgusting blots on the human record”). One wonders how much Bush absorbed of the volume. Which bring us to Donald Trump. His use of “America first” panders nicely to U.S. chauvinism, to those who believe the United States is exceptional. “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first. America first,” said Trump at his inauguration. “America first” is a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan (see http://tinyurl.com/zj2ta9w), by U.S. anti-Semites—including Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Pat McCarran—who opposed this country fighting against Nazi Germany, by Reform Party presidential candidate and Holocaust skeptic Pat Buchanan. Trump seems to consider himself a legitimate judge of the quality of various races and religions: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he claimed. But the quality of his own appointees is hardly testament to his judgment of people. Because the slogan is so associated with dark forces, Trump’s use of “America first”—however popular—sends a message that those forces are approved by a U.S. president. We would argue “America best” will never emerge from “America first.” Ω

The Stones. … My uncle got me into that when I was 13, and then the Animals … Nirvana … the Cramps. … And then I got into like psychedelic music, ’70s, so I liked Black Sabbath. … Then, by the time I was 19 or so, I got into the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Jeffery fisKe Federal technician

Pretty much radio-based rock, I guess—rock, hip-hop, early 2000s, … like Papa Roach. … Panic at the Disco was another one. … A Day to Remember back when they were still kind of underground. Which brings me to my question. Kimberly Lynn Esse, will you marry me? Peter Barnato Entrepreneur

Queen and Wu-Tang and Weezer and David Bowie. But I see all of these lists online where people are giving their top 10 albums. And I know they’re all full of shit, because I definitely listened to Sublime … in high school. … Oh, En Vogue, SWV, Aaliyah. … I forgot about that phase of my life.

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By SHEILA LESLIE

The devil is in the details It’s been fascinating and frightening to watch the GOP Congress and President Trump decide what they’re going to do about Obamacare. Republicans voted dozens of times during the last six years to repeal the Affordable Care Act, to no avail, most recently in 2016 when President Obama vetoed repeal. But now that the GOP controls the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives and the presidency, they’re having second thoughts. Some still want to “repeal and replace” although specifics on the replacement are illusionary. Other Republicans advocate “repeal and delay” so that the effective date of repeal is years away, perhaps after the 2020 election, to avoid voter anger as people lose their health care. Recently, a few Republicans have publicly called for “repair” instead of “repeal.” Sen. Ron Johnson says that repair would be better than a repeal of Obamacare because “Nobody here wants to pull the rug out from under people.” Last week GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins

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offered the “Patient Freedom Act,” tossing the decision of how to provide health care to individual states, a proposal sure to cause chaos in the health care markets throughout the country. Another GOP idea is to transform Medicaid from an entitlement into a block grant, capping the federal government’s payments and giving states more flexibility. This would also likely eliminate the guarantee that everyone who is eligible could enroll. President Trump has been all over the place, as usual. At a January press conference he pledged, “It will be repeal and replace. It will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day. Could be the same hour.” On the afternoon of his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order authorizing federal officials to grant waivers and exemptions, reduce regulations, and delay provisions of the ACA as a first step to

eliminating a program that has enabled more than 20 million people to access health care insurance, many for the first time in years. Nevada’s Gov. Brian Sandoval is concerned about the effort to repeal the ACA, which could potentially affect 400,000 Nevadans. He wrote a letter to the House leadership in early January pleading for caution and communication with state leaders before any decision is reached. He wrote, “States are integral players in this conversation [about health care], and the decisions that are made going forward will have a profound impact on our citizens’ lives and the health care providers who serve them.” His letter outlined at great length how Nevada has benefited from the ACA and warned that gutting the law could leave many “without the care they need to live healthy, productive lives.” Sandoval noted that implementing the ACA “decreased Nevada’s uninsured rate from one of the worst in the country,

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23 percent, to approximately 12 percent, making Nevada one of the most improved states in this regard. Nevada also saw one of the most significant decreases in child uninsured rates in the country from 16 percent in 2012 to eight percent in 2015. This means over 92 percent of the children in Nevada have health care coverage ... 32 percent of them by Nevada Medicaid.” The Commonwealth Fund projects that 22,000 Nevada jobs will be eliminated if the ACA is repealed, resulting in $377 million in lost tax revenue by 2023. If Nevada’s congressional delegation supports the GOP in their quest to deprive Nevadans of their jobs and their health care coverage while also reducing revenue to hospitals, providers and the state budget, they should be prepared to face the fury of their constituents. Progressives have established a regular Tuesday protest at noon at the federal building in Reno to make their voices heard. Ω

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BY BRENDAN TRAINOR

Can school grants be saved? Gov. Sandoval’s State of the State speech painted a rosy picture for Nevada, but constitutional conservatives are concerned that his $8.1 billion proposed budget only contains $60 million for school choice. The Educational Savings Account (ESA) program, the jewel of the 2015 Republican controlled legislature, is in danger. After surviving two separate constitutional challenges, the legislation was put on hold by the Nevada Supreme Court. The court ruled the program could not be paid for by the State Distributive School Account because it took funding from already-allocated public school moneys in violation of the Nevada Constitution. The Republican-controlled special legislative session failed to correct this technical issue and, in November, the Democrats took over the legislature. Now, a legislative battle looms over how—or if—the ESAs will be funded. To deny funding would be a major disappointment for the more than 8,000

parents already signed up. ESA proponents welcome that the governor has put the funding in his proposed budget, but say that it is just a start. They would like to see it doubled. Las Vegas Democrats like new Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford and likely House speaker Jason Frierson have already expressed opposition. Northern Nevada Dems joined the chorus, with new Assembly Democratic Whip Mike Sprinkle of Sparks and Assembly Democratic Leader Teresa BenetizThompson of Reno critical of using the new Commerce Tax revenue to allow parents to choose private school options. Maybe more magnet or charter schools, but private school choice for parents is not something Democrats want to allow. Many believe the school choice movement began with libertarian economist Milton Friedman. But Friedman only revived the original classical liberal concept of education, formulated by John Stuart Mill in his 1859 essay “On

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Liberty.� Mill wrote the state’s only obligation was to ensure that citizens in a democracy be able to read and write in order to understand the issues of the day. Most parents naturally want what is best for their children, and most children want to learn. Mill advocated state testing for literacy, accompanied by fines for terribly negligent parents, and coupled with aid for the indigent to attend private schools—i.e vouchers—as the only state involvement. The actual state provision and control of education was to be a very last resort. The markets would provide the tools for learning the classics and the trades. Instead the Prussian model of statecontrolled education designed to mold future bureaucrats and military leaders for a strong centralized state prevailed. American progressives created the system of “free,� compulsory, state-run K-12 education that attempts to mold future Democrats or Republicans, just as Mill foretold. After decades of mediocrity and outright failure of public schools,

the modern school choice movement was born. President Trump’s controversial nomination of choice activist Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education signals school choice is now a permanent, ascendant movement. To use a well worn progressive phrase, the Democrats are on the wrong side of history. They are champions of an outdated model of education that simply doesn’t provide good enough outcomes to justify its high costs. The dominance of the state in education helped create the PC culture Trump voters voted against. The bureaucratic imposition of “zero tolerance� and the stationing of police (school resource officers) in public schools with arrest powers alarms many parents. Even the ACLU opposes School to Prison without recognizing it is a natural outgrowth of state control. Nevada could be America’s leading laboratory of educational experimentation. But only if the reactionary Dems can be persuaded to allow it. Ί

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‘RemembeR the IndIans’ In an interview with Indian Country before she left office, Obama Interior Secretary Sally Jewell left a piece of advice she had been given. “I had no real understanding of the importance of self-governance and self-determination and the trust and treaty rights that are a fundamental obligation of the U.S. government,” Jewell said, describing her arrival in D.C. But she said an Interior official named Kevin Washburn gave her some advice which she said would be useful to the Trump administration: “He said, ‘Sally, it’s as simple as this: Don’t forget the Indians.’ It’s not simple, but it’s really important, and it’s a simple phrase that reminded me through the course of my tenure that my job is complicated, the federal government is complicated—there are many different moving parts— but if you just remember our obligations to tribal nations, those trust and treaty obligations and the importance of self-governance and self-determination, it will pop into your mind in every decision you make. Whether it is the permitting of a project on federal public land, or cajoling your colleagues at the Department of Education to not forget the Indians when it comes to a budget line item that deals with, say, early childhood education or some other education grant program, or making the Department of Transportation aware of how much Indian country relies on their funding and support for roads on reservations that are some of the worst in the country.” Nevada has 19 reservations where Washoe, Paiute, Goshute and Shoshone reside.

net neutRalIty at RIsk Donald Trump has nominated Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai to chair the commission. Pai is an opponent of net neutrality and will likely push as chair to do away with it. Net neutrality is a governing principle that governments and internet service providers should handle all data equally, without imposing higher prices or otherwise treating anyone different for different methods of data delivery. When the web is neutral, a homemaker’s information travels at the same speed as Citicorp’s. And neutrality requires regulation—on an unregulated web, service providers can discriminate and provide different speeds at different prices. Critics of net neutrality call an unregulated internet “open.” Net neutrality is opposed by Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, who says he opposes regulating the web. Consumer-oriented sites like Scientific American are warning, “One of the first regulations on the chopping block is likely to be the 2015 Open Internet Order, which aimed to ensure that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot intentionally slow or block any of the content in their networks—a prohibition that forms the essence of net neutrality.” But some business sites like Forbes are running headlines like, “Why Is The Media Smearing New FCC Chair Ajit Pai As The Enemy Of Net Neutrality?” By this, it apparently means quoting Pai’s actual positions. It gave this Inquirer headline as an example of smearing: “New FCC Chief Ajit Pai Who Promises To Kill Net Neutrality Is Confirmed.”

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ACLU of Nevada spokesperson Holly Welborn took a hard line against Trump anti-refugee orders.

Refugee disarray Trump makes national policy into local affair “We are involved in these issues for a variety of reasons,” J.S. Klippenstein said in a small gymnasium at Sparks Christian Fellowship. “Probably the most important—our faith compels us. … Jesus Christ began his work on this planet as a refugee.” Klippenstein is a neatly dressed, optimistic, clean cut looking youth, one of several spokespeople at a news conference called Jan. 25 after Donald Trump issued executive orders providing for a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration—“to prevent further illegal immigration into the United States, and to repatriate [deport] illegal aliens swiftly, consistently, and humanely”—and construction of a wall along the Mexican border. At the same time, the White House said more orders were being prepared curbing legal immigration, barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, and restricting immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries.

In addition, Trump was expected to propose a program for local and state law enforcement agencies to arrest and detain illegal immigrants with criminal records as a step toward deportation and to reinstate a program in which unconvicted arrestees’ fingerprints are submitted to criminal and immigration databases to facilitate deportation. Entry into the United States by Syrian refugees would be stopped indefinitely, and all refugees from all nations would be barred for four months. Besides Klippenstein at the Sparks event, there were Sherif Elfass of the Northern Nevada Muslim Community, Carina Black of International Center of Northern Nevada, Rabbi Ethan Bair of Temple Sinai, Holly Welborn of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, Michael Thornton of Acting in Community Together in Organizing Northern Nevada and a crowd of local residents upset by the Trump actions.

“The ACLU will fight with the full firepower of our litigators, activists and policy specialists in every state, to defeat these dangerous, un-American polices,” Welborn said. In Reno, one attorney specializing in immigration law said his phones have been ringing steadily. The International Center of Northern Nevada had arranged for local families to take in up to 100 refugees, some of whom have already arrived, others who are on their way and expected to face interruption in their passage. At any rate, the number accepted locally will probably be well below 100. On subsequent days after Trump’s orders were issued, airports in the U.S. and elsewhere were the scene of standings and protests. U.S. troops were angered at their often heroic interpreters being barred from the U.S., and members of Congress in both parties found fault with the way the orders were drafted. Republicans Mitch McConnell and Dean Heller both distinguished between improved vetting of refugees and blocking members of specific religions. In a statement released in several consecutive tweets, Heller said, “I share the president’s desire to protect our nation from harm. I agree that better vetting and border protection measures are necessary. That’s why I support the thorough vetting of individuals entering our country. However, I am deeply troubled by the appearance of [a] religious ban. The use of an overly broad executive order is not the way to strengthen national security. I encourage the administration to partner with Congress to find a solution.” Nevada’s other U.S. senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, said she is cosponsoring legislation to void Trump’s actions.

up In the aIR Courts overturned various parts of the Trump orders, only to have executive agencies disobey the court orders. Some of the confusion seemed to stem from the way the orders were written, which some observers called

“amateurish,” particularly when it became surrounded the families and comforted known that Trump himself was pressuring them. Right now, they are just up in the air the National Park Service to release photos and dealing with it, waiting for the other that made his inaugural ceremonies look shoe to drop.” larger. He said there has been some pushback “Big companies notice when against the refugees within the administrations seem this church from a few people, amateurish,” Horizon but the “overwhelming Investments execuresponse has been tive Greg Valliere positive.” told Politico. An Thornton said Australian columlater members of his nist said that group will travel nation’s governto Modesto this ment “feels its month to meet way forward with with grassroots the unpredictable, organizers and amateurish presireligious leaders to dency of Donald exchange informaU.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Trump.” tion on effective Nevada Democrat Klippenstein techniques “to push for deals with several workers rights, housing, Syrian families and one and environmental justice, Congolese family already as well as deepen relationships established in the Truckee among these organizatioins and the Meadows. He said the impact of Trump’s faith community.” orders rattled them. PICO National Network—reportedly “I would say it was difficult for the largest network of faith-based organizthem—confusing and frightening,” he ing groups—will be a part of the gathering. said. “Luckily, most of the volunteers have So things are just beginning. Ω

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ollowing national politics lately has been a bit like watching a family member get mixed up in an abusive relationship. It’s hard to see a person—or, in this case, nation—that you love continue to make poor choices. You want to help. You obsess and worry and feel like nothing you do is enough. Your own health starts to suffer. You feel confused. It can be difficult to sleep or focus on anything else.

The Holland Project, Reno’s youth-oriented arts organization, turns 10 by Brad Bynum photos by Eric Marks

“This is the time when we have to look toward organizations like the Holland Project and say, this is the undeniable positive change that this organization has brought to our community,” said Chelsie Rose Kern. She first encountered the local nonprofit organization, which presents all-ages workshops, concerts and gallery exhibitions tailored for young people, when she was an 18-year-old who had just moved to Reno. Now, 10 years later, she’s president of the organization’s board of directors. “There are powers that be out there that don’t like that, that don’t like the arts, obviously, or alternative lifestyles, and by looking at organizations like the Holland Project, we can continue to be emboldened by those values, even in dark times,” she continued. “This last week [since the presidential inauguration] has been very trying for me. But I grew up—this current political environment, that’s what my home was like, paired with drug addiction. I could have been like those people, but the Holland Project and some other extenuating circumstances, opened up my worldview to something totally different, and because of that, I’m a totally different person. It is hard to celebrate right now, because I feel like there’s so much activism that needs to be done, but it’s crucial that we look at organizations like the Holland Project and Planned Parenthood or whatever—that might lose funding or be shut down because the powers that be don’t agree with their values—and celebrate them.”

Brigdon Markwad, Britt Curtis and Alisha Funkhouser are among the many people who’ve played a role in the Holland Project over the years.

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then. Which was cool in its own way, because everyone still created it—they just created in their own homes and basements, which was still fun, but not for everybody and very limited. … The feeling was very strong that we’re going to do this, let’s make this happen now so that future kids have what we didn’t.”

SOuR timES In early 2006, Curtis began circulating a proposal for “an all-ages music and arts venue in Reno, NV. Modeled after successful ventures in Holland and Seattle, Vera Reno would provide a safe, smoke- and alcohol-free place for everyone, specifically youth, to partake in art and listen to music.” The early name “Vera Reno” was just a placeholder taken directly from the Vera Project, Seattle’s all-ages youth arts organization, which in turn took its name from Vera Groningen, a similar project in the Netherlands—thus the sometimes mysterious name Holland Project. A key part of Curtis’ proposal was under the heading “Why Reno?”: “Reno youth are hungry. They are creative, energetic, motivated and active. The city currently has very little to offer youth outside their schools. Young people who like music have little incentive to create and play their own, form bands or promote their projects. Young music fans have very few opportunities to see local acts, and even fewer to see hot national acts. More often than not, young people squeeze into basements to see local shows and small touring acts, or drive four hours to San Francisco to see bigger bands. It should not be this hard. Additionally, in a city that caters so much toward adults and tourists, young people often feel displaced or ignored. Giving them a place of their own … will give Reno youth, for the first time, an outlet of their own for expression and empowerment.” Curtis passed this mission statement on to local business leaders and other potential donors as well as to Reno City Council member Dan Gustin. Later that spring, Gustin phoned her to say that the city had an unused warehouse space on Keystone Avenue that might work as an initial, temporary home for the project. It was in disrepair and would require renovation, and the loan of the building would initially only be good for 18 months. That July, Ferguson and Curtis, along with Curtis’ boyfriend, Joe Crawford, and her father, Artown founder Mark Curtis, checked out the building for the first time. By September, they were meeting with other volunteers, asking for input, and developing the space. In December, the organization hosted its first fundraiser, a jump-roping competition. In the spring

of 2007, it began hosting small events— including performance artists and teenage bands in the new space. And the grand opening was on April 28, featuring all sorts of live music, performances, art and food. But by June, they had to move out. The venue was in a commercial zone, but there were homes within earshot, and a neighbor who was disturbed by the sounds and heavy foot traffic filed noise complaints. “Despite our best efforts to soundproof, it was fairly loud,” said Curtis. “When he started to really loudly complain and beat the drums, it really turned a microscope on the space, which ultimately wasn’t fit for occupancy. And then a noise complaint issue went to safety concerns about the building. There weren’t sprinklers. There wasn’t proper exiting for the size of the space. … We put all this time and energy into the place, and we didn’t have any more.” At that point, the very young nonprofit organization did not have the funds to bring the building up to code. “We were building something in a really hard time, anyway,” said Curtis. “And we were babies. We had no legitimacy or credibility in our community because we hadn’t done anything yet, so we didn’t have a funding base or donors. We had a couple people that had supported us through grants that we had written, but very minimal. And the kicker to it all was that the space was slated to be torn down. I mean, it’s still standing today, which is funny, but it was supposed to be torn down. So it was, ‘you can raise all this money, put in all this work and energy, but you’re still going to have to find another space in a number of years.’ The decision was made for us.” Losing the Keystone space only a matter of weeks after the grand opening created a huge challenge for the organization. And it began a few years of wandering in the desert, presenting events sporadically at a variety of venues, including Studio on 4th, the River School, Record Street Café and Rainshadow Community Charter High School. In January of 2008, the organization moved into a small space on Cheney Street, where the bar Death & Taxes is now. It was too small to be a long-term venue, but provided the organization a headquarters, gallery space and a place for small acoustic shows. It was a challenging period, but Curtis, Fuss and other organizers and volunteers stuck with it, despite the few rewards, motivated by deeply held convictions and tough-to-talk-about emotions. Crawford, Curtis’ boyfriend who had been part of the first group to check out the Keystone space, had died suddenly in April, just as the organization presented its first few shows.

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In its 10 years of existence, the Holland Project has become a cornerstone of the local art and music scenes. As the teenoriented nonprofit enters its own second decade, it’s still small, but more stable now than when it started. In fact, the wheels almost came off just as the organization got rolling. It suffered early setbacks that would have derailed most new ventures, but a core group of dedicated, inspired people kept it going. The biggest inspiration for the Holland Project was the frustration felt by teenagers growing up in Reno during the decade or two immediately prior to the founding of the organization. “Teenagers have a lot of energy, and they have a certain amount of angst,” said Heather Fuss, who was the program director during Holland’s first three years. “And music and art and activism are really great outlets for that energy that’s building and pent up in teenagers. There wasn’t any of that [in Reno]. There were some underground shows, some basement shows, but they were few and kind of sparse. It was in this culture that was primarily focused on casinos. At the time, the casinos hadn’t started to go on the decline yet. So there wasn’t anything set up to keep kids engaged and to keep them moving forward, especially if you were kind of on the fringe and feeling a little artsy. You’d watch movies and see these bigger cities that had all this culture and spunk. I turned 17, and I left the same week I graduated.” Fuss graduated from Reno High School in 1999 and moved to Seattle, where she found the excitement and vitality she was craving. Britt Curtis, Holland’s director since its inception, also graduated in 1999, but from McQueen, and also moved to Seattle. “It really made us thirsty for a world outside of our own community, I think, for people like me,” said Curtis. “You’d go to San Francisco or Oakland on the weekends. You’d seek out the kind of culture that your city or your town wasn’t providing for you. It was also why people wanted to leave the second they graduated high school. Reno is maybe a different place now, but for so many people I knew then, it was like, ‘Get me out of here. When I graduate, my bags are packed. I’m done. Good riddance.’ That’s definitely how I felt when I left when I was 17. I never thought I’d come back or have the kind of connection to this place as I do now.” It might seem strange that these two young women had roughly the same experiences without meeting each other, but at the time, prior to the Holland Project,

Reno lacked a gathering place for people with these kinds of cravings. Thus, the long-running brain drain of many of the best and brightest moving away from town. Many of those people who graduated from local schools in that era moved to the Pacific Northwest, many of them never to return, although those who did, like Fuss and Curtis, or Noah Silverman of the Reno Bike Project, or Amber Sallaberry of the Great Basin Community Food Co-op, came back with inspired missions. “OK, Seattle is great, San Francisco is great, L.A. is great, New York is great, but it’s super, super saturated with all that stuff that Reno didn’t have at all,” said Fuss. “I think there’s that thing in you after you’ve been in a place that’s super saturated like that, that if you do have a connection still with the place where you grew up, the place that I considered home still, there’s this desire to create what I was enjoying in Seattle in the place where I grew up.” Of course, some musically or artistically inclined young people did stick around town and find meaningful connections in town—often in the local punk and hardcore music scene. “The scene was really unique, and has always been really great, even going back to the ’80s with bands like 7 Seconds making a name for Reno within DIY culture,” said Joe Ferguson. He was another founder of the Holland Project, and he helped forge important connections for the organization to the underground music scene that already existed in town. “It’s always been a good scene. It’s always had a really rugged, do-it-yourself attitude and ethic, and not a lot of places—there was never really a community center where kids like me could find our voice or find our values or our expression. So we were getting in trouble—skateboarding, biking around town. And all the shows were done, you could say, illegally or semi-illegally in places where it was really a house in some neighborhood or a warehouse, someplace it really wasn’t supposed to be. So I think in order to make art and music accessible and open to a broader audience, the Holland Project was kind of necessary in that realm. The scene only fostered a certain amount of people.” And although there was an underground music scene, Reno still lacked other important cultural amenities. “The [Nevada Museum of Art] was not what it is now,” said Curtis. “The culture was just very different. There weren’t galleries really or cool coffee shops, really. We’d go to Java Jungle, which was always a mainstay. We’d hang out all hours at Pneumatic [Diner] or Deux Gros Nez or something, but the pockets of alternative culture or culture that was independent or a little outside the norm were fairly small

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fOr aLL ages continued from page 11 “I felt very rooted all of a sudden in Reno,” Curtis said. “I didn’t want to go back to Seattle. I only thought I’d be here for a year, and that this project would be easy, and then I’d go back to my life. When that happened, I think it really rooted me here. It erased whatever vision of the future I thought I had. And I also felt like I owed it to him. … My dedication to Holland and to Reno all of a sudden became very fever pitched, very intense. It felt like this was now my mission. He was part of the whole beginning. He was there when we first looked at the space. He donated all of our light and sound equipment—speakers that we still use. … So there was a lot of really intense emotion for me in it. For other people, it was the same, but for different reasons.”

Changes Although she’s now the president of the board, back in 2007, Kern was one of the teens who attended the grand opening. “I had just moved here for school, kind of, and in part due to some pretty serious familial issues,” she said. “I was 18 years old, and I grew up in Las Vegas, which—maybe not so much now—but was really devoid of anything countercultural or anything that I really identified with. … I feel super corny saying it, but the Holland Project changed my life. I didn’t have any friends, I didn’t have any connections, but I also grew up in a poor, working class family, which, I think, right now, is the archetype of the Trump voter. So I grew up in that. I grew up in a very controlling environment, but the Holland Project gave way to this whole world that I didn’t know existed, and it changed my life. I just continued going to shows, going to art shows, going to events, the double dutch competitions. All this really rad shit that the Holland Project was doing molded my worldview and who I am as an adult. … Without the Holland Project, I could have ended up just like any of my other siblings. I have three siblings, and my older brother is a year older and my younger brother is a year younger, and they didn’t get out of that environment or have any positive influences, and they’re heroin addicts, to be frank, and are not necessarily good people. But the Holland Project put in place alternative role models. … I had never seen any examples of that—that you could be alternative and positive and make good changes in your community, and you don’t have to hate everything or be repressive in the way that you live your life.” Another one of the “first generation” of teens who went to early Holland events was Clark Demeritt, who started going to Holland events when he was 16 and eventually served as its music director from 2010 to 2015. “I remember going there and Britt and Heather being really, extremely welcoming,” he said. “They treated you like a peer. They asked 12   |   RN&R   |   02.02.17

you questions and actually cared and were interested. And I just started going to everything. No matter what they had, I just went to anything Holland was doing. … Before that, I would hang out at the skate park and, like, drink. And going to Holland, I just stopped doing that. It actually made me not drink at all, because it seemed cooler not to, which is weird. As a teenager, it was weird to find the place that would turn you away from that.” He was only 19 when he became the organization’s music director. “They really put their all-ages money to their all-ages mouth,” he said. “‘Yeah, you’re 19? Go for it.’ The experience was fantastic. It will always be one of the best times of my life—meeting all these people in Reno and helping kids out, and meeting all these people from abroad and being an ambassador for Reno made me really proud to be from Reno, showing people around.” In 2011, the organization moved into its current location on Vesta Street, near the southern end of Wells Avenue and the area that nowadays people refer to as midtown. After a few years, the organization decided to buy its building, and launched a fundraising campaign to do so, which was ultimately successful, enabling the nonprofit to buy the building in late 2015. In its time in the neighborhood, staffers of the organization say they’ve seen changes in the area—both good and bad. The good has included the recent opening just around the corner of Our Center, which houses an LGBTQIA+ advocacy group. The bad has included some ongoing negative effects of gentrification, including rising rents for nearby residential and commercial properties. “The neighborhood, Wells, has always been such a vibrant, Hispanic-driven neighborhood that that kind of gentrification, some out-of-town dude snatching stuff up, raising rents and kicking out longstanding businesses really freaks all of us out,” said Curtis. “It’s a real problem, and it’s exactly what propelled us to buy the building. … The rooting of ourselves has been such a theme in Holland’s history—where is our place? Where do we do this thing? And the risk of losing that yet again was really terrifying for us especially with no real place to go. … For us, securing the building now secures our future and our longevity in our community with stability for years to come.”

The fu Ture Fuss attributes Holland’s ongoing success to its collaborative spirit. Over the years, the nonprofit has partnered with the Nevada Museum of Art, the Pioneer Center for the Arts, the Reno Bike Project, Boys & Girls Club, Artown, the City of Reno and many more businesses, nonprofits and others. And because it’s driven by young people and their ever-changing tastes, the aesthetics of the venue tend to change regularly. For instance, many of the early shows were punk and hardcore, but that shifted more toward psychrock a few years in, and in the last year or

reno band fall silent plays a show at the holland Project last november.

two, there’s been a lot more hip-hop. But the open-ended framework remains solid. “As long as Holland stays true to its mission and vision that we set up from the very beginning, it will always be a reflection of the youth culture,” said Ferguson. “It’s not like, here’s a bunch of old people telling us what to listen to and what to do. … That culture is for the youth. It’s not punk. It’s not hip-hop. It’s not hardcore. It’s not metal, whatever. It’s a youth cultural thing. It’s for kids to do. Because you know Reno is just naturally a 21-plus town. If you’re not 21, you’re not shit in that town—because of the culture, because of gambling, because of drinking. … We knew that, and that’s why we started that place.” Brigdon Markwad, who has been Holland’s music director for about a year and counting, was only 11 years old when the organization started back in 2007, but now he helps steer the bus. He said that, even during his time with the organization, he’s seen many new faces start appearing regularly at events, many of them younger teens and many of them politically motivated. “Providing an outlet in these troubling times and providing a safe place for people to go when they’re being threatened is incredibly important,” he said. “I think now more than ever … high schoolers, young people are really upset about a lot of this. Even if they’re not old enough to vote. They’re influenced by this, are strongly affected by this, just because you get bombarded with it on social media. You have more access to your friends

and strangers socially. It gives young people a lot more access to how they’re affected and how their peers are affected by political happenings, so I think they want to be more involved.” And he’s cautiously optimistic about the future of the organization. “It’s easy to say it’s not going anywhere, and it’s just going to keep going straight up— and I honestly think it’s going to be, but it’s not going to be super easy,” he said. “This last year has been incredibly rewarding, but incredibly, incredibly difficult and stressful. Britt, myself, Alisha [Funkhouser, Holland’s gallery director], and tons of other people have put so much time and energy into making the last year the biggest year Holland has ever had.” “It’s got to be sustainable,” said Ferguson. “All kinds of venues get shut down because they don’t mold to the needs of the people that want to attend, so they get neglected, and they fall apart. As long as it stays relevant, I think it will be there. That’s my only hope is that it stays sustainable and moves on and adapts to the new kids, whoever wants to be there and wants to make a positive impact on that scene.” “It has a whole new group of people that are making it run—that aren’t the people that started it,” said Curtis. “One hundred percent, I feel that Holland is theirs now and not mine, which is cool. It’s exactly what it should it be. It’s exactly as the organization should run and function. It’s a young person’s organization.” Ω

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ou won’t find them on Fandango or in the multiplexes, but the region’s independent filmmakers, festival organizers and DIY art house reps have a lot to say about the wide world outside of Hollywood—and they have a rich lineup of winter events.

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Erica French plays a doe in Ravendoe, the Third Coast Dance Festival’s first Reno-made film.

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There were already major, long-standing dance film festivals like the Dance On Camera Festival in New York and Dance Camera West in Los Angeles, but Rosie Trump, a dance professor at University of Nevada, Reno, noticed they were missing something. “I wasn’t seeing artists like myself being presented,” she said. She wanted to see more work by local filmmakers and more work by women. So, in 2010, while living in Houston, she started the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. “Whenever dance is taken off of the stage and captured in film, all these possibilities become available,” Trump said—manipulation of speed and time, for example, jump cuts instead of fixed viewpoints, the ability to undo the laws of gravity with a camera. In some cases, this all adds up to having the freedom to mix up reality and fantasy. In Ravendoe—the festival’s first Reno-made film, by Erica French and Shaila Holihan—the two dancers play animals meeting in a forest. Third Coast Dance Film Festival screens at 6 p.m., Feb. 9 at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Tickets are $5-7. Organizers recommend purchasing tickets in advance, as the festival has sold out in recent years. For tickets, visit www.nevadaart.org. For info, visit thirdcoastdancefilmfestival. wordpress.com. To see the trailer, visit vimeo. com/187416351.

Flicks in FallOn Churchill Arts Council Film Series On the night of a concert, if you try to enter the Barkley Theatre with a beer in your hand, a friendly usher will instruct you to abandon it at the door. This venue, located inside Fallon’s Oats Park Art Center, is too classy to tolerate sticky floors. During the less frequent movie screenings, which attract a dedicated but

smaller crowd, however, they’ll let you bring your drink right in. The programming leans toward vintage films but also shows newer work. “Sometimes we do thematically related series,” said program director Kirk Robertson. “We do ’50s sci-fi. We do film noir. We’ve done later sci-fi.” There’ve also been romantic comedies and showcases of “little-known or overlooked films” by particular actors. Once it was Nicole Kidman. This month, it’s Burt Lancaster. The theater is primarily a music venue, and Robertson said that when he shows films there, “The sound is very good because we run it through the house speaker system.” The art center’s galleries are open during film showings, and the bar opens an hour before show time. The two remaining showings in the “Three With Lancaster” series are The Swimmer, Feb. 10 and Atlantic City, Feb. 17. Both films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 or $7 for members. For information, visit www. churchillarts.org.

art hOuse DiY Artemisia Moviehouse Artemisia Moviehouse isn’t exactly a movie house. It’s an iteration of the former Great Basin Film Society that’s been showing classics, animation, foreign films and the like in Good Luck Macbeth’s 50-some-odd-seat theater for a few years. The group has established a few fun traditions for film lovers. “We introduce the movie, talk about directors, certain things to look out for, little insights, without giving away the plot or the ending,” said organizer John McCarthy. And sometimes the hosts offer insider trivia. Before a recent screening of a French comedy, Mon Oncle, which features a pack of street dogs, viewers learned that the director eventually found homes for his orphaned canine actors. Other things you should know about Artemisia: “If a film is short, we’ll show cartoons,” said McCarthy. Admission is payable only by cash. And there’s free popcorn. Artemisia Moviehouse shows films at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., most Sundays at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, $6 for students and seniors, and $5 for members. The next film is Phantom Boy, March 5, a French/Belgian animation with Audrey Tautou. For more information visit http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com/.

Harold Aldridge Jr. is a resident of Taft, Oklahoma, one of the all-black towns that are the subjects of UNR professor Kari Barber’s film, Struggle and Hope, which will be screened at the Carson International Film Weekend.

TasTy pairings Films on Tap When Nate Ashley was 6, he’d gather the neighbors in the yard, make popcorn and show a movie. Much later in life, after cultivating a taste for art-house films and craft beers during a stint in Austin, Texas, he and his friend Paul Taylor began holding movie-and-beer pairing events in ever-larger venues. First they hung a sheet to use as a projection screen and invited about 10 friends for a showing of Jurassic Park and a keg of Great Basin Icky—“because there’s a dinosaur beer.” They’ve shown movies at non-movie venues like Craft Wine & Beer and Hub Coffee Roasters and branched out from beer to other libations—pairing Karate Kid with sake, Can’t Buy Me Love with rose. “We have done everything from simple, backyard cinema to pop-up dinners,” said Ashley. “Early on we had a lot of silly pairings. … We had an event called ‘Action Packed.’ We combined the movie Commando with New Belgium’s Ranger and cap guns. It was 2011.” Now, Ashley and Taylor, a.k.a. Films On Tap, program films for Artown and are preparing to host the two-day Films On Tap Winter Film Festival. Ashley said that the fesival will screen six limited-release, festival-circuit films that have not yet shown in Nevada theaters. Films on Tap presents a two-day film festival at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Feb. 25-26. A $100 ticket, $90 for NMA members, includes an all-access pass, beer, wine, small bites and admission to an afterparty. A one-day pass is $50, or $45 for members. For tickets and information, visit filmsontap.org.

From page To screen Carson International Film Weekend Five women in a church book club in Carson City decided to read some work by international authors. They read a Brazilian novel. Then they watched the film version. Then they launched a film festival in the church, drawing about 400-500 viewers the first year. The group connected with Friends of Carson City Library, a nonprofit that could help secure grant funding, and moved to a larger venue. Now, Carson International Film Weekend is a three-day showcase for films from around the world and close to home. Among the goals, said co-organizer Linda Bellegray, are showcasing cultural diversity and human resilience. Also, “it has to be a film that shows a significant degree of film craft,” she said. This year’s bill features three international features—a French/Chinese film called Wolf Totem, an Indonesian drama, The Look of Silence, and the Italian classic Cinema Paradiso—and six short films by UNR students. Also on the bill is journalism professor Kari Barber’s first feature-length picture, Struggle and Hope, a documentary about all-black towns in her native Oklahoma that are struggling to survive financially but have an unbreakable community spirit and a blues music scene that makes it hard not to nod your head and tap your feet along to the movie. The film has already won an award for cinematography and is headed to Paris soon on the festival circuit. Carson International Film Weekend takes place Feb. 16-18 at Carson City Community Center, 851 E. Williams St., Carson City. Admission for all films is free. For information, visit Carson City Library's Facebook page. Ω

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JANUARY 21 - JULY 16 Take an intimate look at Maynard Dixon’s life in the American West through more than sixty works drawn from the collections of brothers Bruce Paltenghi and Dr. Richard Paltenghi. Included are many never-before-seen drawings of mountain and desert landscapes, portraits, and figure studies.

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“There’s visual information that we can’t explain that we inherit from culture,” said Gig —pronounced “Jig”— Depio. He’s a painter who was born and raised in the Philippines and lives in Las Vegas. His imagery, which is as funny and inviting as it is serious, is made up of politics and pop culture from past and present, say, JFK at a baseball game, a hefty, imposing Mexican wrestler in a luchador mask and jack-o’-lantern print shorts, Elvis wearing his usual wide lapels plus a tool belt full of oil-painting supplies. Depio’s images teeter between celebratory and sardonic. They can come off as odes to realistic photojournalism, storybook fantasy, or, more often, both in one bite. Take the huge, vertical painting in which FDR drives past the Delano—a Las Vegas hotel, “a shimmering, Trump-like building,” as the artist put it. Gen. MacArthur stands outside the car with a muzzled canine on a leash, “the wolf of Wall Street.” MacArthur has his trademark aviators and corn cob pipe—and a not-so-trademark balloon animal on a string. Chunky, old-fashioned microphones from broadcast stations are clumped in the foreground. Cash, coins and a Mickey Mouse pocket watch fall from the sky, and a military drone flies by. Somehow, this mashup—painted realistically in the kind of thick, oozy brushstrokes usually reserved for abstract expressionism—is nowhere near as heavyhanded as it might sound. It’s more like an easy combination of manic and precise. Here’s how Depio decides on his subject matter: “I look at the news, and

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A rendering of Gen. MacArthur is among the images from the past and present that Gig Depio juxtaposes in his paintings, now on view in the Nevada Arts Council’s front office, a.k.a. the OXS Gallery. PHOTO/KRIS VAGNER

these are things I remember in my head. I remember images more than I remember the information.” “You negotiate with culture,” he said. “You negotiate your knowledge with history. It changes. … You don’t inherit exactly what they put down there. You question it.” Depio’s own perspective was largely informed by Marxist theory he studied as a philosophy minor in Manila. He’s also influenced by his position in the Las Vegas art scene—he has one foot in the world of self-taught artists and DIY galleries, and one foot in the academic and museum parts of the art world. He majored in business, not art, but in 2016 he was awarded what’s probably the highest honor given by the state, an Artist Fellowship grant. One of his best examples of varying viewpoints on culture, though, comes from his own family. “The Elvis painting is the funniest to me,” he said. It carries not only all the cultural weight of Elvis himself—from trailblazer to subject of velvet kitsch paintings—but also an insider reference to a longstanding argument Depio and art critic Dave Hickey waged on social media. To Depio’s 16-year-old son, however, “The Elvis … means nothing.” The teen read the painting as none of the above. Through his cultural lens, made in present-day Las Vegas, it’s a picture of an Elvis impersonator. You look at my work, you’re understanding it in the way your generation tells you,” Depio said. Ω

Negotiating the Influence of Culture is on view through Mar. 17 at the OXS Gallery in the Nevada Arts Council office, 716 N. Carson St., Suite A, Carson City. The artist will give a talk in the gallery at 5:30 p.m. Mar. 2.

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Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig and Billy Crudup shine in Mike Mills’  ode to his unusual mother, who raised him in  the late ’70s and tried to like punk music as  much as she could. Bening is terrific as Dorothea, perhaps the best work of her career. She  represents the late ’70s woman, still cool but  perhaps slowing down a bit due to too many  cigarettes and a general disillusionment with  certain aspects of the changing culture. Mills  uses Dorothea as a sort of narrator from the  future who talks about the events of the film  while observing from a perch in years ahead.  It’s an interesting technique, and Bening’s  performance is a career milestone. Gerwig  and Fanning are great as two different women  who hang around Dorothea’s apartment, both  with their own interesting subplots. Cruddup  chimes in capably as a local handyman who will  sleep with you if you ask him to. I love the way  this film uses music on its soundtrack, from  Talking Heads to the Buzzcocks.

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All that glitters

and another substantial part of the film that deals with the business/stock exchange ramifications of Kenny’s dealings. It all becomes a bit much, a little too hard to keep track of, and ultimately too routine You have to give Matthew McConaughey an A for to distinguish itself. effort in his latest film excursion, the “loosely In the end, it plays like The Wolf of Wall based on a true story” Gold. Street minus most of the fun, but not minus the McConaughey not only stars as wannabe gold McConaughey. (He’s in both!) It’s the same basic magnate Kenny Wells, he also co-produced the plot: A headstrong guy tries to take the fast track to movie, thinned his hair, put in some weird teeth and big riches and gets his butt kicked hard in the end. gained some weight for the role. Unfortunately, this movie doesn’t feature Kenny Sadly, maximum effort doesn’t result in optiWells trying to get in his car after taking a bunch of mized return for Gold. The movie is an uneven, slow-release Quaaludes. confused endeavor, and McConaughey’s physicality Bryce Dallas Howard, who had a lousy 2016 comes off looking like a guy who’s in really good with this and that god awful Pete’s Dragon shape simply messing himself up for the few remake, plays Kenny’s long suffering girlfriend, months it takes to shoot a movie. He doesn’t look a role that uses absolutely none of her talents. like a real guy in the way Robert De Niro did when She shows up every now and then looking mildly he destroyed his physicality for frustrated, than disappears for Raging Bull. He just looks slightly large swaths of the story. out-of-shape and made-up, which is If the film has a partial saving distracting. grace, it’s McConaughey, who Even if he looked like a fuzzy remains fully committed to the elephant wearing sunglasses, Gold role and makes Wells an engaging would still be a bit of a mess, albeit Director: Stephen Gaghan character, even when the events a sometimes entertaining one. Starring: Matthew McConaughey,  swirling around him are confusWells is a fictional character, Bryce Dallas Howard ing and lacking originality. The and the film is based loosely upon movie is almost worth seeing if the Bre-X gold scandal of the 1990s. only to see a good actor giving his all. The original scandal occured in Canada, while As for simple storytelling, there’s nothing new director Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) brings the story here, and the big twist isn’t a surprise at all. The to the U.S. movie wants to be a jungle adventure movie and McConaughey goes full throttle as Wells, business adventure all in one, and the two don’t owner of a prospecting business in Reno, who’s meld together well. The movie winds up feeling looking for that one strike that will make him like four or five movies mushed together. legendary. In his search, he comes across a While it’s hard to feel bad for a multi-millionrenowned explorer, Michael Acosta (Edgar aire, Oscar-winning actor, it is a bit depressing to Ramirez), who has the ties and ingenuity to mine see one of the good ones do all of this for naught. unsearched parts of Indonesia. Kenny pawns his This is definitely one that plays on paper better than watch, goes into business with Acosta, and starts it does on the big screen. panning for the real deal. It’s not worth the strain he must’ve put on his This is where the movie goes a little haphazard. cardiovascular system to obtain added weight, There are a lot of shots with Wells flying around although I’m sure he had some fun nights pounding to different locations like Indonesia and New milk shakes and burgers. So, at least he’s got that York. There’s a substantial sequence where Wells going for him. Ω runs around in the jungle with Acosta and gets ill,

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The Comedian

Robert De Niro delivers a good performance in a film that doesn’t match  his prowess from director Taylor Hackford.  De Niro plays Jackie Burke, an aging standup  comedian dealing with a TV sitcom past he isn’t  all too proud of. De Niro does a nice job playing  a Don Rickles-type, old school standup. He’s  not entirely hilarious, but he’s convincing in his  standup sequences. He’s also good when Jackie  is off stage being an ornery bastard. Where the  film lets him down is in its handling of modern  day things like viral videos and reality TV. Hackford’s take on modern media is woefully out  of touch, and De Niro finds himself stranded  in some rather ridiculous, tone deaf scenes.  Leslie Mann is her usual great self as a younger  woman Jackie winds up trying to romance; the  two actually make for a convincing almostbut-not-quite couple. Harvey Keitel is a little  overbearing as Mann’s dad, but Danny DeVito  scores as Jackie’s bemused brother. However,  for everything that works in this movie, there  are two things that don’t. There are lots of  cameos from standups like Richard Belzer,  Hannibal Buress, Brett Butler and Jimmie  Walker. Yes … Jimmie Walker is still alive.

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The Founder

Michael Keaton is flat-out great as  Ray Kroc, the sorta-kinda founder of  McDonald’s. Director John Lee Hancock’s film  tells the story from when Kroc was selling  milk shake mixers door-to-door up through  his wife-stealing days as the head of the  McDonald’s corporation. Hancock’s movie desperately wants you to like Kroc, but maybe we  shouldn’t? After all, he swept in and took the  name of McDonald’s from the McDonald brothers (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch),  effectively cutting them out of most profits  and leaving them in his dust. The film is at its  best when it is in old-time, Americana mode.  It’s a beautiful looking movie that captures  the essence of those old timey fast food joints  that replaced the traditional drive-in diners.  It slows down a bit and gets a little muddled  when it tries to depict Kroc as some sort of  commerce hero. I suppose if they went into  details about how his co-creating McDonald’s  has contributed to worldwide obesity and environmental concerns, McDonald’s themselves  would’ve mounted up the lawyers and put the  kibosh on the whole thing. Offerman is great as  the well-meaning, high-standards McDonald  brother who regrets the day he met Kroc.

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Hidden Figures

Katherine Johnson was part of a segregated division at NASA in the ’50s, a  wing of mathematicians who did the work that  computers do today. Hidden Figures depicts  the humiliation she and two other historical  African-American figures, Dorothy Vaughan  and Mary Jackson, went through while solving  equations that helped put men safely into  space. The women had to put up with a lot  of racist bullshit, and the film shows their  hardships, albeit in PG fashion. Taraji P. Henson  plays Johnson, the “smart one” astronaut  John Glenn personally demanded check the co-

ordinates before his historical flight launched.  Octavia Spencer is her usual great self as  Vaughan, doing the work of a supervisor without the title and curious about that new IBM  thing they just installed down the hall. Vaughan  would become crucial to the implementation  of computers at NASA, as well as being the  agency’s first African-American supervisor. As  Jackson, NASA’s first female African-American  aeronautical engineer, singer Janelle Monae is  so good, it’s easy to forget that this is just her  second movie role. As a composite, fictional  character named Al Harrison, Kevin Costner  does some of his best acting in years.

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La La Land

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

4

Split

This is an all new, original musical from  director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)  that’s surprisingly low on melodrama while  full of vibrancy, beautiful tunes, outstanding  set pieces and a stunning sense of realism for  a movie where the characters bust out singing. It’s the best original movie musical ever  made. The story follows wannabe actress Mia  (Emma Stone) and jazz composer Sebastian  (Ryan Gosling) as they try to make it in crazy  Los Angeles. They meet, they don’t like each  other much at first, but then they fall in love,  which provides Chazelle and his performers  ample opportunities for musical numbers that  surprise at every turn. This solidifies Gosling  as one of the best actors of his generation. He  can wow you with insightful indies and carry  big-budget blockbusters. Now, with La La Land,  he takes his game to a new level. He proves he  can pretty much do anything when it comes  to movie characters. He can sing and dance  with the best of them. Stone doesn’t just make  her mark with a beautiful voice and expert  footwork—she embodies the character with  the honest and almost tragic drive to “make it”  in the business.

There was a quick little moment in the  very first Star Wars (now known as  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) where a  character mentions rebels possibly obtaining  vulnerability secrets regarding the Death  Star. That group of people actually gets their  own movie in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a  Star Wars spinoff that’s technically another  prequel. In fact, it tells a story that leads right  up to where A New Hope begins. It’s also a little  different from your typical Star Wars movie in  that it doesn’t mainly deal with the Skywalker  saga—although a couple of them make notable  appearances—and doesn’t prominently  feature the John Williams score (although that  makes some appearances, as well). Director  Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) goes for something  a little different here, a tonal shift that reminds  of the big change The Empire Strikes Back  brought to the saga. Felicity Jones is terrific as  Jyn, a woman who finds herself with strange  ties to the Death Star, and becomes part of the  effort to destroy it.

Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan  has finally made his first good movie  since Signs (2002) with Split, a down-to-thebasics, creepy thriller propelled by excellent  performances from James McAvoy and Anya  Taylor-Joy (The Witch). The film reminds us  that Shyamalan can be quite the capable  director and writer when he isn’t getting too  carried away. Taylor-Joy plays Casey, a high  school outcast who attends a birthday party  and soon thereafter finds herself and two  classmates imprisoned by a strange man with  multiple personalities (McAvoy). In addition to  the angry man who kidnaps them, he’s also a  stately, mannered woman, a 9-year-old child  and, well, a few others. One of those other  personalities plays a big part in taking the film  into other realms beyond psychological thriller.  McAvoy goes nuts with the role, and Shyamalan  takes things into supernatural territories in a  chilling climax. Taylor-Joy is quickly becoming  the new scream queen, McAvoy’s work will  surely stand as one of the year’s most fun  performances, and Shyamalan finds himself  back from the dead. Stay for the credits, which  include a nice cameo.

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The chirmol salsa of cilantro, avocado, tomato and onion was the perfect accompaniment to the super savory marinated and grilled skirt steak on my plate of carne The pupusa—a thick corn tortilla stuffed asada con chirmol ($8.99). I couldn’t with goodness and grilled until just crisp— decide which was better, the meat or the is most folks’ gateway to Salvadoran condiment. More of a mixed bag was a cuisine. In recent years, our area has seen Salvadoran-style chile relleno ($8.99). A many places offer this Central American bell pepper rather than poblano was stuffed staple, usually alongside more familiar with plenty of spicy, shredded beef and Mexican fare. However, family-operated La served with salad and rice. The sauce was Santaneca Restaurant in Carson City servbland, and the egg coating was mushy, but ing nothing but Salvadoran favorites, and the meat and pepper were pretty good. it’s among the best I’ve had thus far. Finally, El Típico or “The Typical” My group ordered cheese pupusas ($13.99), was a combo plate with a bean ($1.89 each), which were also stuffed with pupusa, beef pastelito—a beef pasty— loroco—an edible flower bud—pork and an enchilada Salvadoreña, yuca con spinach. They were on the large size, with chicharrón—cassava root and pork—and plenty of fillings and flavor. The requisite an empanada. complement, curtido—mildly fermented The beef pasty was a small, thick deepcabbage slaw—had more seasoning than fried tortilla filled with meat, potato and usual, and the tomato soup-esque salsa roja carrot. The enchilada was akin to Mexican was served nice and warm. sopes and tostadas—but also something The loca pupusa ($5.99) was indeed all its own. The thick crazy. It was as large as annatto-stained, deepthe dinner plate it was fried corn tortilla piled served on and stuffed high with shredded with a delicious mix chicken, refried beans, of cheese, mushroom, 316 E. Winnie Lane, Carson City, 301-6678 lettuce, carrot and spinach, refried beans, La Santaneca Restaurant is open from crumbled hard cheese pork, chorizo, zucchini, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. was an enjoyable blend loroco, onion, jalapeño of seasonings and and probably more. textures. It was stacked so high that it was a Also on the large side was a Salvadoran challenge to eat, though I managed to make chicken tamale ($2.00), wrapped in plantain it through with a smile. leaf and made with masa, red sauce and Large pieces of yuca were lightly fried, bone-in chicken; caution is recommended and the pork was more like carnitas than while eating. other deep-fried varieties. The pile of meat I’ve had Mexican pollo enceboland starch was topped by a curtido salad, lado—chicken pieces with sauteed onion which by itself would have been a meal. and spices—but this Salvadoran rendition Finishing off the plate was an empanada ($8.99) featured a roasted, whole chicken of sweet yellow plantain dough filled with quarter, served with a pile of grilled onion refried beans, then deep-fried and tossed and bell pepper. The dish also came with in sugar. It might sound a bit odd to those rice and a simple salad. The meat fell off who are unfamiliar with it, but makes for a the bone, and the herbed rice was light and surprisingly nice dessert. Ω just right for the dish.

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Randy Linscheid, Nik Tillman, Travis Brockett and Amearist Phillips play a chameleon mix of rock ’n’ roll subgenres.

Time travelers Fossils When Travis Brockett moved to Reno, he turned to the internet to find other musicians with whom to play. Now—two years later—he laughs about what he calls the ridiculous post he placed on Craiglist, “seeking musical fusion.” Ridiculous or not, Brockett’s wording paints a fairly accurate picture of the band that eventually came of it. Fossils is the product of more than a year of experimentation by Brockett and fellow musicians Randy Linscheid, Nik Tillman and Amearist Phillips. During that time, the four bandmates jammed together off and on, trying out different sounds and switching between instruments to fill in the gaps. It’s been a little more than two months now since the band settled into its current configuration—Brockett on lead guitar, Linscheid on rhythm guitar, Tillman on bass and Phillips on drums. While Fossils’ lineup may be settled, the band’s sound remains in flux. It’s a chameleon mix of rock ’n’ roll subgenres—one for which Brockett provides an entertaining synopsis. “You’re in a dive bar, and the jukebox is playing,” he said. “You’re walking through, and you think the Allman Brothers are on, but you’re not really sure. At one point the acid hits really hard, and it’s just an awesome, really intricate jam. And then somebody kicks the jukebox, and you think the White Stripes turned on for a little bit, but you’re not really sure. And then it all just kind of fades out into some Earth Wind & Fire jam.” When Fossils took the stage at the Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave.,

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Sparks, on Jan. 13, the bandmates’ set demonstrated their varied musical influences. With Linscheid, Tillman and Brockett taking turns on lead vocals, the effect was something like rock ’n’ roll time travel. Linscheid’s soulful, clear voice flowed readily over ’90s-alternative-andfunk-inspired originals. Brockett’s vocals— at once sweet and rough—lent a folky vibe to harder, more contemporary rock covers. And Tillman’s wailing style with its occasional edge of vibrato and vocal fry played particularly well with a punkish rendition of “Love Potion No. 9.” The bandmates were without a soundman during much of their Elbow Room Bar performance but still managed to showcase their instrumental aptitudes (despite incessant—and unwarranted— complaining from the bartender and some of the seemingly more regular patrons about the volume of the music). Phillips’ joyfully animated drumming conveyed the fluctuating heartbeat of the band’s set with a fluency acquired from his time at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Music. And Tillman added extra flavor by switching off between a standard, four-string and a custom, fretless fivestring bass. His occasional use of a whammy pedal tuned up several octaves served as effective punctuation to the band’s mix of styles. With several shows under their belts, the bandmates are hoping to head into the studio to record some time in the near future. They’re not yet sure if they’ll produce a demo, an EP or a full-length album. But one thing they do know is that—at least at this point—they’ve got no intention of narrowing in on a single subgenre of rock. “That’s pretty much why I love playing with these guys more than anybody— because it’s so diverse,” Phillips said. “It’s just so different.” Ω Fossils will play the Sparks Lounge Bar, 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks, on Friday, Feb. 10 at 9 p.m.

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THURSDAY 2/2

FRIDAY 2/3

SATURDAY 2/4

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

Zooly, Big Bad Wolf, Davonta, Grunge, Randulhe, 10pm, no cover before 11pm

The Green Ball: Meaux Green, Kalvin and Clein, Zepra, Crisp Rice, 9pm, $5-$15

3RD STREET

Zona Norteña, 9pm, no cover

The Whiskey Haulers, 9pm, no cover

National Soul, 9pm, no cover

National Soul, 9pm, no cover

1UP

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

BAR OF AMERICA

Brett Dennen Feb. 4, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 648-3353

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

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

SUNDAY 2/5

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL

Lotus, El Ten Eleven, 8pm, Tu, $20-$25

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

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

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

COMMA COFFEE

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

Comedy

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Matteo Lane, Nika Williams, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 9pm, $30; Bob Zany, Marcella Arquello, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 325-7401: John Caponera, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; FSa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Bruce “Baby Man” Baum, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Anthony K, Th, 8pm, $10-$15; F, 9pm, $12-$18; Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$18

2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-6700

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

Lex the Bluegrass Man, 9pm, no cover

Roger the Lodger, 9pm, no cover Songwriters in the Round, 6pm, no cover

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

COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR

Serina Dawn Duo, 7pm, no cover

Jeff Campbell, 7pm, no cover Room Full of Mirrors, 9pm, no cover

Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover CW and Dr. Spitmore, 11:30am, Tu, no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Triage, 9pm, no cover

HANGAR BAR

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088 3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

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9BelowZero, 9:30pm, no cover

ELBOW ROOM BAR

HELLFIRE SALOON

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/6-2/8

Reckless Envy, 8pm, no cover

Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

Saxaholics, 8pm, no cover

HIMMEL HAUS

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

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

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

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

Snack, Surf Curse, Royal Noble, 8pm, $5

Miserable, City Wolves, Blackstallion, 8pm, Tu, $5

1) Spice 1, Mr Blacc, Y.G., 7pm, $10 donation

1) Robb Bank$, Da$h, Wifisfuneral, Ski Mask the Slump God, 7:30pm, W, $20

THE JUNGLE

Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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

LAUGHING PLANET CAFE

Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633

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

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

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

THURSDAY 2/2

FRIDAY 2/3

Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, $19-$37

Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, $19-$37

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $19-$37

Wunderlust, 8pm, no cover

The Run Up, 8pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

MORRIS BURNER HOSTEL 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171

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

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $19-$37

Lost Whiskey Engine, 8pm, no cover

The Flusters, 8:30pm, no cover

The Flusters, 8:30pm, no cover

Miserable

Roger & Marshall’s Cancer Fundraiser, 7pm, donations

Käthärsis (open mic), 7pm, no cover Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter showcase, 8pm, no cover

U Play Wednesday (open mic jam), 8pm, W, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

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

ROCKBAR THEATER 211 N. Virginia St., (669) 255-7960

Feb. 6, 8 p.m. The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858

Open Spike Night w/Spike McGuire, 7pm, Tu, no cover

235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, M, Tu, W, $19-$37

Tammy Tam Tam, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover T-N-KEYS, 7pm, W, no cover

PIGNIC PUB & PATIO

RED DOG SALOON

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/6-2/8

Ladies Night, DJ/dancing, 10pm, free for women before 11pm

2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 772-6637 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

SUNDAY 2/5

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

MILLENNIUM NIGHTCLUB MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

SATURDAY 2/4

Gemini Duo, 9pm, no cover

Open mic and jam, 7pm, no cover Karaoke with Steve Starr, 8pm, no cover

Rockaraoke, 8pm, no cover

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

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

DJ Alastair, 9pm, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

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

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

Voodoo Cats, Falling Giants, 9pm, $5

Lotus

Boss’ Daughter, Falcon A, Machine Gun Vendetta, Voted Best Band, 9pm, $6 Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Live Blues Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

Radio Relapse, 9pm, no cover

Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover Music Industry Night, 8pm, W, no cover

Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

Ritual (industrial, EDM, ’80s) w/DJs David Darkness, Rusty, Owen, 9pm, $3-$5 Natural Revolution, 9pm, no cover

THESE DON’T MIX Think you know your limits? Think again. If you drink, don’t drive. PerIod.

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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

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

CARSON VALLEY INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

THURSDAY 2/2

FRIDAY 2/3

SATURDAY 2/4

SUNDAY 2/5

2) Trey Stone, 8pm, no cover

2) Trey Stone, 4pm, no cover Hindsight, 10pm, no cover

2) Trey Stone, 4pm, no cover Hindsight, 10pm, no cover

2) Hindsight, 8pm, no cover

2) Kid and Nic Show, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Whiskey Maiden, 7pm, no cover

2) Whiskey Maiden, 8pm, no cover

2) Whiskey Maiden, 8pm, no cover

2) Rock River, 6pm, no cover

2) Rock River, 6pm, M, no cover Adam Bergoch, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) The Motet, 9pm, $20-$23

1) Dead Winter Carpenters, Peter Joseph Burtt and the King Tide, 9pm, $15-$18

2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover

2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Lex Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

2) Romeo Reyes, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) Miles Medina, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

The Motet Feb. 3, 9 p.m. Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

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

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/6-2/8

1) Bill Kalmenson, 8:30pm, W, $15-$18

2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover Apple Z, 10:30pm, W, no cover

HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO

Karaoke

50 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

Corkscroo Bar & Pizzeria, 10 E. Ninth St., 284-7270: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party F, 8pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 772-2475: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

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

The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, 359-1209: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party, Th, 6pm, 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

1) Pete George, 8:30pm, $10

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

HARRAH’S RENO

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 7:30pm, $32-$42 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

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

SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO

1) Tower of Power, 7:30pm, $45.87 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 7:30pm, $32-$42 3) Frank & Jerry, 9pm, no cover

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 7:30pm, $32-$42 Decadence, 10pm, $32.75 3) Frank & Jerry, 9pm, no cover

2) Karaoke w/Dreu Murin, 10pm, no cover

3) Buddy Emmer Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

1) Brett Dennen, 8pm, $25-$35

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Rye Brothers, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Rye Brothers, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Rye Brothers, 9pm, no cover

2) The Inciters, 7pm, no cover

2) The Inciters, 8pm, no cover 3) The Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10 before 10pm, $20 after

2) The Inciters, 8pm, no cover

1) Lisa Lampanelli, 8pm, $39.50-$49.50 2) Superbad, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Fridays, 9pm, no cover 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover

2) Superbad, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Ivan, 9pm, no cover 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 4) Punktematrix, 9pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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1) Tower of Power, 7:30pm, $45.87 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover

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

2) DJ Ivan, 9pm, no cover 3) Sunday Funday Industry Night, 10pm, no cover 4) DJ Kronik, 9pm, no cover

2) AMP Ent DJ, 9pm, M, no cover DJ Ivan, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

FOr tHE WEEK OF FEBrUArY 2, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. RENO/TAHOE SENIOR WINTER GAMES: The

SCIENCE UNDERGROUND: Located on

games offer individual and team competitions for people age 50 and older. Participants compete within age groups to win gold, silver and bronze medals. M-Su through 2/14. $10-$40. Call or visit website for details, (775) 657-4602.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. Sa, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

Valley Alpine Meadows presents a fireworks show on the KT Deck every Saturday, weather and conditions permitting. Sa, 6pm through 3/4. Squaw Valley Resort, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, http://squawalpine.com.

TODDLER TIME: Stories, songs, finger plays

ACTING FOR BEGINNERS TO INTERMEDIATE:

2/2:

EvEnts ABORIGINAL ART IN SPINIFEX COUNTRY: Australian Aboriginal art fulfills the desire to share knowledge and create respect both within and across Aboriginal and settler cultures. This sharing of artistic traditions reached a high point during the 1980s when the people of the Spinifex Country sought to reclaim their lands that had been used for atomic testing by the British and Australian governments in the 1950s. Center for Art + Environment Director Bill Fox traces the historical role of art from the early 20th century through today’s art centers in rural Australia. F, 2/3, noon-1pm. $10 general admission, free for Nevada Museum of Art members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: O FREEDOM: Greta de Jong, professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, presents “You Can’t Eat Freedom: Struggles for Social Justice After the Civil Rights Movement.” Patricia Gilmore, president of the Reno/Sparks NAACP, will talk about local and national issues. Sa, 2/4, 1-3pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

A CONVERSATION WITH DEAN BAQUET: Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, will explore the status of media and conflicts over First Amendment practices at this public forum. Baquet will reflect on newsroom leadership and how The New York Times is positioning itself during this era of social media, audience discontent and uncertain financial support for robust news-gathering. The conversation will address what this all means for the next generation of journalists and for consumers who crave reliable, credible content. w, 2/8, 7-10pm. Free. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., http://journalism.unr.edu.

EVENING OF ROMANCE—ENCHANTED MASQUERADE: The masquerade ball includes performances by the Reno Jazz Orchestra and The Note-Ables. This event supports adaptive music programs and music therapy provided by Note-Able Music Therapy Services. Sa, 2/4, 8-11pm. $65. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 324-5521, http://note-ables.org.

FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a drink, hear music by First Take featuring Rick Metz and check out the galleries at NMA’s monthly party. Th, 2/2, 5-7pm. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

HEALTH FAIR: Northern Nevada Medical Center hosts its community health fair in the main lobby of the hospital. Screenings include blood pressure, complete blood count, lipid profile, thyroid function, among other tests. First Th of every month, 7-10am. $0-$40. Northern Nevada Medical Center, 2375 E. Prater Way in Sparks, www.nnmc.com.

JESSICA NAKAMURA: CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Jessica Nakamura, assistant professor of theater, will present “Becoming the Missing Comfort Women: Yoshiko Shimada’s Performances of History in Contemporary Japan.” W, 2/8, 5:30pm. Free. Wells Fargo Auditorium, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 1664 N. Virginia St. University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND POLICYMAKING: Christopher Hare, assistant professor of political science the University of California, Davis discusses polarization in American politics and the implications for policymaking in the 115th U.S. Congress. Th, 2/2, 5:30-7pm. $5 suggested donation. UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560 ext. 7474, http://tahoe.ucdavis.edu.

Children ages 7-11 can build confidence while expressing their creativity through acting and theater practices. Supplies included in cost. Class will be held on Mondays, except on Feb 20. M, 4-5pm through 3/13. Opens 2/6. $45 for five classes. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3.

ART ADVENTURES: Budding artists ages 6-10 can explore a variety of mediums, including drawing, pastels and watercolor. Six-week session. Each class will be held on Wednesday in the Art Studio beneath the Lake Mansion. Supplies are included in cost. Class size is limited to 15 participants. W, 4-5pm through 3/8. $60. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 8266100 ext. 3, www.artsforallnevada.org.

DOWNTOWN LIBRARY STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 10:30am. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Come into the library, find a table, grab a game and have some fun. Second and fourth W of every month, 4:30-6:30pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

FAMILY STORY TIME: This event for children from birth to age 6 includes book reading, songs, rhymes and movement activities. Children must be accompanied by a parent or other trusted adult. W,

11-11:30am through 8/31; W, 11-11:30am through 6/28. Free. Northwest Reno

Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100, http://washoecountylibrary.us.

encourage a love of books, stimulate thinking and promote feelings of selfassurance. Th, 10:15-10:45am through 8/31. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist lowincome families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. Th, 10am-noon. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

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Violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist James Winn of the University of Nevada, Reno’s ensemble-in-residence Argenta Trio will perform works by composers from North America and South America. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, at the Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $25 for general admission and $5 for UNR students with valid ID. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/arts.

STORY TIME: Stories and activities to

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINIC: The

WINTER FIREWORKS CELEBRATION: Squaw

Argenta Concert Series: Americana

the museum’s lower level, Science Underground features an eclectic, subterranean collection of exhibits from The Discovery’s first five years including big, blue building blocks, Electrosketch, Nano Science, an oversized Nevada puzzle, the Tube-o-Phone, a walking piano and more. M-Su. $9-$10. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000.

and wiggle action are part of the fun. Designed for children 18 months to 3 years, but all ages are welcome. F, 10:1510:45 & 11-11:30am through 8/31. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

Art HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Young Blood. This one-night only pop-up gallery exhibit features artwork by artists under age 21. The Young Blood series takes place seasonally throughout the year, allowing young artists a chance to celebrate and showcase their artwork while learning some of the ins and outs of curating, hanging and promoting an art event. F, 2/3, 6-8pm. $1. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Domestic Dreams. The exhibition features photographs capturing altered landscapes of rural Nevada and portraits of people who live there, all through the lenses of the students of Smith Valley High School. M-Su through 2/10. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Inside the Mind of da Vinci. Northern Nevada artist Mischell Riley worked with engineering and art students at the University to realize the 10’ x 23’ sculpture, which premiered at the most recent Burning Man event. M-Su through 5/1. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

INSIDE OUT: AN ANATOMY EXPERIENCE: This exhibition will take you on a journey into the curiosities of human anatomy. Through digital and hands-on exhibits, you’ll learn how our bodies work, grow, age and heal. Tu-Su. $9-$10. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000.

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MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Light  Abundant: Lainie Vreeland. The abstract  painter creates innovative and imaginative compositions centered on water,  forms and plant life as they interact  with light. The artist reception is on Feb.  2, 5-7pm. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24;  Extravagant Chemistry. West Gallery in  McKinley Arts & Culture Center present new work by abstract painter Liz  Penniman. The artist reception is on Feb.  2, 5-7pm. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24.  Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Toytopia. This immersive  and hands-on exhibition takes visitors  through 100 years of classic toys, games,  dolls and more. Learn about the origins  of toys, who made them, and why they  are fun or dear to us. Discover why some  toys succeeded and some failed, which  toys have become collectors’ items and  why. The show even highlights which toys  were the most popular in every decade  of the 20th century. W-Su through 4/16.  $9 adults, $8 seniors, children ages 3-17.  1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: No  Expectations: A Photographic Exhibition.  Matthew McIver’s photographic series is  inspired by architecture, sustainability,  water and art. Artist reception is Feb. 2,  5-7pm. M-Su, 8am-5pm through 2/24. Free.  1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

filM PHANTOM BOY: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of Jean-Loup Felicioloi  and Alain Gagnol’s animated tale of  a boy whose mysterious illness gives  him the ability to live outside his body.  While in the hospital, he’s befriended  and recruited by a detective who needs  immediate help bringing down a New  York City mob kingpin. Su, 2/5, 6-8pm.  $7 general, $6 seniors, students, $5  members. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre  Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223716, http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Truckee  Meadows Reflections. The Sparks  Museum & Cultural Center presents  this exhibition detailing historical water  usage in the region. In conjunction with  the exhibit, Latimer Art Club will present  work by their members in the museum’s  Cultural Center. Artists from Latimer  explore the theme of water in their artwork, which showcases a wide variety  of mediums. Meet the artists and enjoy  light refreshments at the exhibit reception Feb. 25, 4-7pm. Tu-Sa, 11am-4pm through 3/25. Free. 814 Victorian Ave.,  Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH: BFA Midway

MusiC tainment series continues with a performance by Suspect Terrane. Seating  is limited to 200 people. Sa, 2/4, 7pm. $3  suggested donation. Western Heritage  Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch  Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road,  (775) 828-6612.

FIRST TAKE FEATURING RICK METZ: Jimmy  Vermilion and Rick Metz perform vocal  jazz selections from the Great American  Songbook. F, 2/3, 5-7pm; F, 2/24, 5-7pm; F, 3/17, 5-7pm. Free. The Great Western  Marketplace, 4855 Summit Ridge Drive,  (775) 771-4926, www.rickmetz.com.

Call for artists CALL FOR ART: MARCH POP-UP ART SHOW:

sports & fitness GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a naturalist along one of the Galena Park trails  and learn about the area. Bring water,  sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes  (depending on weather.) Sa, 10am. $5  donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center,  18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948,  www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

MuseuMs NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Maynard Dixon:  The Paltenghi Collections, W-Su through 7/16; Spinifex: Aboriginal Paintings

from the Robert Kaplan and Margaret  Levi Collection, W-Su through 5/28; Ugo  Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, W-Su through 5/11; A Place in the Country:  Aboriginal Australian Paintings, W-Su through 6/4; Peter Stichbury: Anatomy of  a Phenomenon, W-Su through 5/28; Tarek  Al Ghoussein, W-Su through 2/19; Trevor  Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St.,  (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

Are They Out There?

2/4:

Seth Shostak,  senior astronomer at the  SETI Institute in Mountain  View, California, predicts  that scientists will detect  extraterrestrial life within the  next two decades. Learn more  about his thoughts on the  search for extraterrestrial  life, why new technologies  and the laws of probability  make the breakthrough  likely and how the discovery  of civilizations far more  advanced than ours might  affect us here on Earth during  a talk on Saturday, Feb. 4. The  event begins at 2 p.m. at the  Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W.  Liberty St. Tickets are $12 for  general admission and $8 for  NMA members. Call 329-9300  or visit www.nevadaart.org.

COME IN FROM THE COLD: The family enter-

Exhibition. Annual review exhibition of  artwork by first-year bachelor of fine  arts students from the University of  Nevada, Reno. M-Th, noon-4pm through 2/16. Opens 2/6. Free. 1164 N. Virginia St.,  Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada,  Reno, (775) 784-6658.

Pitch Black Printing Company will host  a video game-themed pop-up art show  titled Level Up on March 11. Artists of all  genres are encouraged to submit work  with an video game-related theme. All  mediums will be accepted. Work must  be submitted no later than Saturday,  Feb. 25. Please email any questions or  submissions to megan@pitchblackprintingco.com. M-Su through 2/25. Free. Pitch  Black Printing Company, 1108 California  Ave., www.pitchblackprintingco.com.

SUGAR LOVE UNIVERSITY: SLU’s course

onstage CALENDAR GIRLS: Reno Little Theater presents Tim Firth’s stage adaptation of his  own film script inspired by a group of  Yorkshire Women’s Institute members  who stripped off for a charity calendar  to raise money for leukemia research.

Th, 2/2, 7:30pm; F, 2/3, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/4, 7:30pm; Su, 2/5, 2pm. $22 adults, $18,

seniors, military, $15 students, $12 for  kids 12 and younger. Reno Little Theater,  147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANDA JUNE: Brüka  Theatre presents this play by Kurt

Vonnegut. Th, 2/2, 8pm; F, 2/3, 8pm; Sa, 2/4, 8pm. $20 general admission, $18 students,  seniors, military, $25 at the door. Brüka  Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221,  www.bruka.org.

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SEX WITH STRANGERS: Good Luck Macbeth  presents Laura Eason’s erotic comedy/ drama. F, 2/3, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/4, 7:30pm; F,

2/10, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/11, 7:30pm; Su, 2/12, 2pm; F, 2/17, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/18, 7:30pm; Th, 2/23, 7:30pm; F, 2/24, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/25, 7:30pm.  $15-$18. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre  Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716,  www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

offerings cover a variety of ideas—from  turning inspiration into confection to the  history of chocolate through the ages.  Learn about the origins of chocolate, its  role in commerce and culture and its  transformation throughout culinary history. Each session will feature limitededition chocolate flavors, complimentary  wine, beer or spirits and light hors  d’oeuvres. Students must be at least 21  years old. W, 2/8, 7-9pm; Th, 3/9, 7-9pm;

Tu, 4/4, 7-9pm; W, 5/10, 7-9pm; Th, 6/15, 7-9pm. $28 for early bird tickets. Sugar

Love Chocolates, 50 S. Virginia St., Ste. 11,  (800) 479-9830.

CoMMunity ABWA RENO TAHOE EXPRESS NETWORKING LUNCH: The group hosts its monthly  luncheon featuring a guest speaker, a  raffle drawing and networking with businesswomen from many different types  of businesses. First Th of every month, 11:30am-1pm through 10/31. $20 members,  $25 guests. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa,  3800 S. Virginia St., www.abwa.org.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: This group is for  patients and families facing cancer and is  facilitated by an oncology social worker  who is skilled in the emotional aspects of  cancer. Participants can share experiences and express feelings and concerns.  The support group meets in Room 101 in  the Sierra Tower. Th, 11:30am-1pm. Free.  Renown Regional Medical Center, 1155 Mill  St., (775) 982-4400, www.renown.org.

CLICKETS KNITTING GROUP: Jean Peters  guides this class for knitters of all ages  and levels. Yarn and needles are available. First and third Su of every month, 1:30-3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library,  7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at  Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs,  (775) 424-1800.

CROCHET CONNECTION: Learn to crochet or

Classes DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS TO INTERMEDIATE:  Students ages 10-15 will learn how to  draw by recognizing basic shapes and  altering them. Explore the techniques of  line quality, hatching and shading. The  class will be held in the Art Happens Here  Studio. Tu, 4-5:30pm through 2/28. $75 for  six classes. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St.,  (775) 826-6100 ext. 3.

INDIAN COOKING CLASS: Truckee Meadows  Community College offers this four-session class. Pre-registration preferred,  but walk-ins are welcome. Tu, 6pm through 2/28. Opens 2/7. $79 plus $20 for  materials. Damonte Ranch High School,  10500 Rio Wrangler Parkway, (775) 8299010, www.tmcc.edu/wdce.com.

PAINTING WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT & GESTURE:  Learn basic gestural and abstract painting skills in a relaxed environment. Call  for appointment, M-Sa through 2/28.  $50 per person. Reno Art Works, 1995  Dickerson Road, (651) 361-0757.

share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45pm. Free. Spanish Springs  Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway,  located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish  Springs, (775) 424-1800.

FOUR SEASONS BOOK CLUB: The book club  meets. First Sa of every month, 1-2pm.  Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St.,  Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

KNITTING GROUP: The group is open to all  knitters, crocheters, loom artists and  people who enjoy the company of other  yarn artists. Bring your project or start  a new one. Tu, 4-6pm through 4/3. Free.  Atelier Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road,  Truckee, www.ateliertruckee.com.

MAN TO MAN PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Facilitated by a prostate cancer  survivor, this support group is designed  to help men cope with prostate cancer  by offering education and support for  patients during their cancer journey.  The group meets in the Orthopedic  Conference Room on the third floor in  the Roseview Tower. First and third M of every month, 5:30-7pm. Free. Renown  Regional Medical Center, 1155 Mill St.,  (775) 982-6831, www.renown.org.

MYSTERY SLEUTHS: Mystery book fans are  invited to join this group which holds  meetings on the second Wednesday of  the month. W, 2/8, 5:45pm. Free. North  Valleys Library, 1075 N. Hills Blvd., Ste.  340, North Hills Shopping Center, Golden  Valley, (775) 972-0281.

PFLAG SUPPORT GROUP: PFLAG is made up  of parents, families, friends and allies  united with people who are lesbian,  gay, bisexual and transgender. PFLAG  is committed to advancing equality and  full societal affirmation of LGBT people  through its mission of support, education and advocacy. First Th of every month, 5:30pm. Free. Comma Coffee, 312  S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 220-4151,  http://community.pflag.org/cr.

SOUTH VALLEYS BRIDGE GROUP: Join Jill and  meet new friends. Basic bridge knowledge preferred. F, 1-4pm. Free. South  Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway,  (775) 851-5190.

SPARKS LIBRARY KNITTING AND CROCHETING CIRCLE: Join the Sparks Library every  Thursday and learn the techniques to  start your masterpiece. Th, 4-6pm. Free.  Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks,  (775) 352-3200.

THE TUESDAY NIGHT YARN CREW: All skill  levels and yarn-crafts are welcome.  Bring your project to this “sit and knit”  gathering. Tu, 5:30-7pm. Free. South  Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway,  (775) 851-5190.

WOMEN’S BREAST AND GYNECOLOGIC CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Patients and survivors  are invited to share experiences, concerns and feelings and offer hope and  help to one another through their cancer  journey. This support group meets in the  Orthopedic Conference Room on the third  floor of the Roseview Tower. Second and Fourth W of every month, 5:30-7pm. Free.  Renown Regional Medical Center, 1155 Mill  St., (775) 982-6831, www.renown.org.

YARN TIME: Learn to knit or crochet or  improve your skills with other knitting  enthusiasts. Second W of every month, 2-4pm; fourth W of every month. Free.  North Valleys Library, 1075 N. Hills Blvd.  Ste. 340, North Hills Shopping Center,  Golden Valley, (775) 972-0281.

Volunteer BLOOD DONATIONS: Give the gift of life and  donate blood. Donors must be healthy,  weigh at least 110 pounds and be at least  17 years old. Call to make an appointment. M-Su. United Blood Services, 1125  Terminal Way, (775) 324-6454.

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Wishful sinking The girl I’m in love with has a boyfriend. She and I have already fooled around, but she can’t bring herself to break up with this guy. She insists she doesn’t want to lose me and promises we’ll date eventually. I’m confused. Do you think she’s playing me? It’s nice to hope for the best about people—but still put a note, “tofu-kelp casserole,” on that foilwrapped plate of brownies you stuck in the break room refrigerator. However, especially when our ego is involved, we’re prone to believe the best about people, because of what psychologists call “optimism bias.” This is a form of selecto-vision that leads us to overestimate that things will turn out wonderfully for us and underestimate the likelihood of our experiencing bad stuff, like being in a flaming car wreck or a flaming car wreck of a relationship. In short, we believe that bad things happen to other people. For example, that cheater we’re in love with is only cheating because the other dude’s such a fuckbuckle, not because she has the ethics of a dust mite. Because optimism bias is ego-protecting, understanding that we’re susceptible to it typically isn’t enough to dig ourselves out. What might help you, however, is telling yourself your story, but about some other girl and guy. Then advise that guy on his prospects. For example: Yes, here’s a woman you can trust completely to be faithful—whenever she’s trapped, totally alone, 2,300 feet below ground in a Chilean coal mine.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming weeks

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Catfish, the directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, present a metaphor drawn from the fishing industry. They say that Asian suppliers used to put live codfish in tanks and send them to overseas markets. It was only upon arrival that the fish would be processed into food. But there was a problem: Because the cod were so sluggish during the long trips, their meat was mushy and tasteless. The solution? Add catfish to the tanks. That energized the cod and ultimately made them more flavorful. Moral of the story, according to Joost and Schulman: Like the cod, humans need catfish-like companions to stimulate them and keep them sharp. Do you have enough influences like that in your life, Leo? Now is a good time to make sure you do.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The city of Boston

allows an arts organization called Mass Poetry to stencil poems on sidewalks. The legal graffiti is done with a special paint that remains invisible until it gets wet. So if you’re a pedestrian trudging through the streets as it starts to rain, you may suddenly behold, emerging from the blank gray concrete, Langston Hughes’ poem “Still Here” or Fred Marchant’s “Pear Tree In Flower.” I foresee a metaphorically similar development in your life, Virgo: a pleasant and educational surprise arising unexpectedly out of the vacant blahs.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When he was in the rock

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Wee’s Playhouse, his process went into overdrive. He typically wrote an entire show’s worth of music each Wednesday and recorded it each Thursday. I suspect you have that level of creative verve right now, Libra. Use it wisely! If you’re not an artist, channel it into the area of your life that most needs to be refreshed or reinvented.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many vintage American songs remain available today because of the pioneering musicologist, John Lomax. In the first half of the 20th century, he traveled widely to track down and record obscure cowboy ballads, folk songs and traditional African American tunes. “Home on the Range” was a prime example of his many discoveries. He learned that song, often referred to as “the anthem of the American West,” from a black saloonkeeper in Texas. I suggest we make Lomax a role model for you Scorpios during the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to preserve and protect the parts of your past that are worth taking with you into the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The mountain

won’t come to you. It will not acquire the supernatural power to drag itself over to where you are, bend its craggy peak down to your level and give you a free ride as it returns to its erect position. So what will you do? Moan and wail in frustration? Retreat into a knot of helpless indignation and sadness? Please don’t. Instead, stop hoping for the mountain to do the impossible. Set off on a journey to the remote, majestic pinnacle with a fierce song in your determined heart. Pace yourself. Doggedly master the art of slow, incremental magic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Who can run

faster, a person or a horse? There’s evidence that under certain circumstances, a human can prevail. In June of every year since 1980, the Man Versus Horse Marathon has taken place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells. The route of the race weaves 22 miles through marsh, bogs and hills. On two occasions, a human has outpaced all of the horses. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns will have that level of animalistic power during the coming weeks. It may not take the form of foot speed, but it will be available as stamina, energy, vitality and instinctual savvy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Who would have

guessed that Aquarian Charles Darwin, the pioneering theorist of evolution, had a playful streak? Once he placed a male flower’s pollen under a glass along with an unfertilized female flower to see if anything interesting would happen. “That’s a fool’s experiment,” he confessed to a colleague. “But I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” Now would be an excellent time for you to consider trying some fools’ experiments of your own, Aquarius. I bet at least one of them will turn out to be both fun and productive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Shakespeare’s

play MacBeth, three witches brew up a spell in a cauldron. Among the ingredients they throw in there is the “eye of newt.” Many modern people assume this refers to the optical organ of a salamander, but it doesn’t. It’s actually an archaic term for “mustard seed.” When I told my Piscean friend John about this, he said, “Damn! Now I know why Jessica didn’t fall in love with me.” He was making a joke about how the love spell he’d tried hadn’t worked. Let’s use this as a teaching story, Pisces. Could it be that one of your efforts failed because it lacked some of the correct ingredients? Did you perhaps have a misunderstanding about the elements you needed for a successful outcome? if so, correct your approach and try again.

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Catherine Magee is the director  of the Nevada Historical Society,  where a new lecture series and book  signing event kicked off in November. Learn more about the Writer’s  Wednesday lecture and book signing  by visiting the society’s website at  http://bit.ly/2jw0E67. The next event  will be Feb. 8, starting at 5 p.m. The  lectures are $5 for non-members  and free for NHS members.

Tell me a bit about the Writer’s Wednesday series. The Writers Wednesday lecture series is to highlight the writers that specifically focus on Nevada or the Great Basin or the West in general. The main reason why we do this is because we have so many writers that come in here, into our library and use our resources. And so we’re really familiar with local authors, regional authors and even national authors. … We’ve had events … where we have had book signings, but I thought it would be a really great way to highlight the authors—have question-and-answers with the audience as well as book signings and just be very specific to [one author] instead of having, you know, a group of authors here. It started in November. And we’re having really great luck with people who are coming. We’re getting requests from people who are interested in participating [as authors]. And … it’s from a

variety of people. We most recently had David Lowndes who wrote a book called Reno’s Heyday. … It was really great because, you know, he spent a lot of time really identifying photographs and telling people a lot about the photographs of Reno. And you get a lot of history that way. So, for his lecture, he talked a lot about his book, but he also really talked about the process of how he was able to identify the photographs and how he could tell the era and the buildings he used as markers for time frames and things like that. So it’s a great way for people to learn how to also identify their photographs.

How many lectures have there been so far? We’ve only done three, and the next one is the eighth of February, and it’s going to be Guy Clifton, who you

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The Twitler watch Well! It took all of a week—one zany  week liberally sprinkled with faux  facts, fuckups and farcicles—for  President Twitler and his crack  team of knuckleheaded newbies  to firmly establish that they  indeed don’t have the eentsiest  teentsiest clue as to what the  fuck they’re doing. While everybody is wrangling  today with the considerable fallout  from Twitler’s pissy little Arab  travel ban, I wanna go way, way  back to Saturday the 21st, when  Trump wasted no time whatsoever in showing off some 5-star  cluelessness. This happened in  front of the CIA’s Wall of the Fallen,  adorned by 117 stars, one for each  life given by agents in the line of  duty. It was the third appearance  ever by a sitting president at this  hallowed spot, and whereas both  Dubya (speaking there after Sept.  11) and Obama (speaking after the  successful hit on Bin Laden) were

measured and respectful in their  solemn remarks, Twitler wasted  no time in offending the daylights  out of every intelligence employee  in earshot as he broke into his  narcissist rap, talking about,  among other things, how many  times he’s been on the cover of  Time and other galling egomaniacal  trifles. To say the veteran agents  in attendance were unimpressed  is to greatly understate the case.  One observer said Twitler’s routine  was about as appropriate as a  president doing standup schtick at  Arlington National Cemetery. Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald  said he actually didn’t blame Trump  for this gaffe, but instead pointed  his finger at the president’s staff,  pointing out that if these reckless rookies had had the slightest  clue as to what the hell was going  on and where Trump was speaking, they would have briefed him  accordingly as to the proper tone.

But they didn’t, because they didn’t  know shit, because they’re frightfully ignorant amateurs. They just  showed up and applauded for The  Boss like good minions, and presto!  In less than 24 hours, Team Twitler  had recorded its first lameass  misstep. By the way, do you know how  many Americans have been killed  by terrorists from the seven countries singled out by Team Trump for  the Muslim travel ban? ZERO. That  shooting at Fort Hood (2009) was  carried out by Nidal Hasan, born  in the United States to Palestinian parents. The Bomb Brothers in  Boston (2013) were both Russians.  The male San Bernadino shooter  (2015) was an American citizen,  his wife a Pakistani raised in Saudi  Arabia. The Orlando madman (2016)  was U.S., born here to Afghan  parents. Twitler’s order makes us  safer in the same way that bacon  makes you smarter.        Ω

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