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March madness Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Is it spring yet? After the longest, wettest, most apocalyptic winter of recent memory, it’s finally starting to feel like spring around here. The thermostat has floated above 60 a couple of times recently. The change to Daylight Saving Time successfully conjured the illusion of an extra hour of sunlight every afternoon. And this week I’ve encountered the surest, truest sign of the coming spring: plants trying to fuck my face. I don’t know what just started blooming around the Truckee Meadows, but whatever it is, it wants to crawl up my nostrils, and tickle me ’til I explode. My sneezes have been loud, messy and gross. People around the office think I’m exaggerating them for comic effect. My girlfriend is annoyed that I lost the Claritin. Earlier today, I sneezed with a mouth full of food and then had to change my shirt. Fortunately—or not, depending on your perspective—nobody was around to witness that particular disaster. Anyway, I think that extra frisky pollen cozying up to vulnerable, sensitive faces like mine is just one of the many strange side effects we’re going to experience after that wet winter. In this week’s cover story, Kris Vagner talks to some local sports folks about how the wet winter is going to affect their passions. And, as I’ve said before and will say again, it feels so good, in these troubled times, to think about sports. Only a couple of weeks ’til the MLB opening day! Oh, and big congrats to the Nevada Wolf Pack men’s basketball team on winning the Mountain West Tournament title and making the NCAA Tournament! AAAAATTCHOOOOOOO!

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Join our boycott now Re “Resist” (cover story, March 2): I’ve been a long time reader of Reno News & Review, and I’ve always known its a liberal paper trying to disguise itself as hip and trendy. Until now I’ve had absolutely no problem with your paper stating it’s views, whether on the environment or Burning Man, and everything in between. This latest edition with “RESIST” on the cover has ended my loyalty to you. I’ve always promoted your paper to friends and tourists. You have become inflammatory and hateful, which is the last thing this country needs right now. I’m putting you on notice that I’ll be spearheading a Facebook campaign to boycott your hateful paper, because of its dangerous agenda-driven statements that only encourage violence in the end. You can sugar-coat it however you want, but I will not stand back and let you abuse the first amendment without a fight. Darren Castellano Reno

More on Oroville Re “Don’t Damn the Dam” (Let Freedom Ring, Feb. 23): Brendan Trainor trivializes a serious problem with Oroville Dam by politicizing it. He uses the damage to the emergency spillway to indict all government programs from infrastructure development to emergency response. This anti-government rant deceptively ignores facts. Many nongovernment dams have suffered problems too, including complete failures causing massive damage and loss of life. A partial list of such complete failures includes the Buffalo Creek coal slurry flood. West Virginia (1972, Pittston Coal Co.); Meadow Pond Dam, New Hampshire (1996, private owner), Martin County coal slurry spill, Kentucky. (2000, Massey Energy), Silver Lake Dam, Michigan (2003, private business), and Delhi Dam, Iowa. (2010, Interstate Power Co.). So much for the government being the threat to the environment! The truth? Oroville Dam was declared safe and has functioned well for its nearly 50-year history. The emergency spillway was damaged by excessive water flow. Any deferred maintenance was most likely due to unwillingness to spend money. State, federal and private dams are all subject to problems. Building dams is a difficult endeavor. Sometimes unexpected floods simply overwhelm the structure. But, in no fair way can problems at Oroville Dam be generalized to demean government. What about the benefits of government owned dams like Oroville? How could private agriculture have initially afforded to develop the projects that provide irrigation water to the Central Valley when farmers had no viable businesses without the water? And, what would your electric bill be without cheap, efficient hydropower from government

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dams? This piece exemplifies the deceptive use of incomplete facts to support a political position. Bruce Schmidt Sparks

The ACA battle As a result of the Affordable Care Act, Nevada has made great strides in increasing positive health outcomes. Having spent my career in early intervention programs for children with disabilities, I know first-hand that families have better access to care, which means parents can seek health care for their children when needed. This is especially important for parents with a child with special health care needs. Although the ACA has improved coverage for both parents and children, there are still many children and their families who remain uninsured. These ACA requirements must be retained at the federal level: No caps on lifetime benefits; no premium increases on age or gender; no pre-existing conditions exclusions; ability to cover dependents until age 26; maintain at least the current tax credits; recognize that HSAs are only effective for people with higher incomes and have minimal effect on controlling health care costs; retain subsidies at least at the current level; and continue Children’s Medicaid Expansion Program, block granting and per capita caps are not viable approaches. Janelle Mulvenon Sparks

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by JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

your favorite outdoor activity as a kid? aSked aT reI, 2225 harvard Way Ian Machen Mechanical engineering student

Mine was always sailing. I grew up in Annapolis, [Maryland]. Sailing and hiking were my two favorite activities as a child. … I went down to Belize and sailed, recently, with my wife. And I teach for the REI outdoor school, so I get to bring new people into the outdoors. Jody MIller Retiree

I’m from Texas. … Oh, swimming—totally swimming. That’s what we all did. It was hotter than hell there, and everybody swam from the time they were 1 year old.

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Two accusers In 2012, when Barack Obama was running for reelection as president, Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Harry Reid claimed that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had failed to pay his federal income taxes. “He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years. Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain. But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look? You guys have said his wealth is $250 million. Not a chance in the world. It’s a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don’t pay taxes for 10 years when you’re making millions and millions of dollars.” There was widespread outcry, both by Republicans and more neutral observers. Reid had no special knowledge of Romney’s taxes, and his claims against Romney did not mesh with either the tax return Romney had released or with the analyses of Romney’s taxes done by experts who were better informed on Romney’s finances than Reid. Yet Reid kept it up. “Let him prove that he has paid taxes—because he hasn’t,” Reid said. That, of course, is pretty un-American, which was quickly pointed out, as by Peter Roff in U.S. News & World Report: “By challenging Romney to prove his innocence, Reid has turned the traditional American standard of ‘innocent until proven otherwise’ on its head, just like [U.S. Sen. Joseph] McCarthy did.” Reid never apologized. Two years later, the Nevada senator came in for another round of denunciations when he set a lousy example for the nation’s children by arguing that the end justifies the means. “Romney didn’t win,

did he?” Reid said when CNN’s Dana Bash asked if Reid regretted what he had said about Romney. “Where to begin?” wrote one Washington Post reporter after reading that amoral comment. Through all of it, Reid’s fellow Democrats—Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama— stood by him, refusing to criticize his behavior. Jump forward a few years. “Terrible!” Donald Trump wrote online on March 4. “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” This was a serious claim. The Obama administration is regarded as perhaps the cleanest in U.S. history. If Trump was undercutting that reputation, he needed to prove his case. Instead, he sent aides out to say things like, “That’s what investigations are for.” Once again, the accuser was not the one providing proof. Republican legislators Susan Collins, Marco Rubio and others called on Trump to produce evidence. Sen. John McCain said Trump should either produce proof or retract his claim. The House Intelligence Committee gave Trump until March 13 to supply it with proof. Instead, Trump—he lacked the class to do it himself—sent his press secretary out to claim that because Trump put quotation marks around the term “wire tapping,” he didn’t really mean what he was writing. It was, in other words, the text equivalent of air quotes. Still, good people can be forgiven if they took some satisfaction from the Democrats’ “outrage” this past week, as Donald Trump imitated Harry Reid. Ω

I didn’t get to do it often. Maybe that’s why it was my favorite, but it was shooting. My father, when we were very young, took us out shooting a little .22 that he bought. And I’ve been hooked on it ever since. I’ve got a … collection going on of .22 rifles.

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Swimming. I grew up on the East Coast, so the Long Island Sound, the beach—and then going to a friend’s house who had a pool was always a perk, because not everybody had pools. So, yeah, I did swim team and grew up by the beach, so I always looked forward to that. JIM lechner Retiree

Really, it was going out and going snake hunting. I’d collect snakes and, I mean, it’s still a hobby of mine. … Well, actually, about a year ago I collected one that I still have. … Probably you’d have to interview another hundred people before you got that answer, huh?

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by Sheila leSlie

Taking care of health care The contrast couldn’t be more stark. Republicans in Washington announced their plan to jam through an Obamacare replacement last week, potentially stripping tens of millions of people of their health care. Meanwhile several bills sponsored by Democratic women from Washoe County were heard in the Nevada Legislature to preserve basic preventive health care measures from the Affordable Care Act by enshrining them in Nevada law. Assemblymember Teresa BenitezThompson presented AB 249, building on the efforts of former Assm. Chris Giunchigliani requiring insurance policies in Nevada to cover contraceptives without co-pays. When that legislation was passed in 1999, Giunchigliani was forced to include a religious exemption in order to get the bill approved, providing a loophole for insurance companies to claim religious liberty as a reason for denying women access to birth control. It’s no surprise that insurance companies have declined to claim the exemption, no doubt realizing birth control

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helps women avoid unwanted and expensive pregnancies. Assembly Bill 249 removes the religious exemption while also requiring pharmacies to distribute up to 12 months of contraceptives at one time, rather than limiting women to a 90-day supply. The Affordable Care Act currently covers the full cost of contraceptives, deeming it a key prevention component of women’s health care, but that provision may be eliminated under the new American Health Care Act supported by President Trump and the Republicans. Sen. Julia Ratti is the lead sponsor of Senate Bill 233, which also contains the new contraceptive language. Her bill requires insurance plans to continue to cover Pap smears and mammograms, screenings for diabetes, blood pressure abnormalities and depression, federally-recommended vaccinations, prenatal care, hormonal replacement therapy, and counseling for breastfeeding, sexually transmitted diseases and domestic violence. Ratti noted that “Cancer screenings, prenatal care and birth control aren’t

luxuries, they’re necessities. If the federal government won’t commit to preserving this care for women, then Nevada will.” Republicans hearing the bills expressed a concern that emergency contraception would be covered, which some see as contributing to abortion. It’s an ironic position because as contraceptives have become more accessible, the nation’s abortion rate has decreased by 26 percent along with the number of unplanned pregnancies. A third bill heard last week addresses the national GOP plan to defund Planned Parenthood. SB 122 from Sen. Yvanna Cancela creates a mechanism for Nevada to receive family planning grants services and redistribute them to community organizations such as Planned Parenthood. President Trump reportedly approached Planned Parenthood with a proposal to continue its federal family planning funding if they would stop providing abortions, an idea quickly rejected by its leaders, who prefer to stay true to their mission of offering women a full array of health care services.

The bills are especially timely as women brace for Obamacare repeal and loss of preventive care. Across the nation women are frightened that their local family planning clinic might disappear. Many are visiting the clinics to switch to long lasting and cheaper birth control methods, worried about not being able to afford the more convenient but expensive birth control pills. Three states in the West have already gone further than the proposals in Nevada, allowing birth control pills and certain other contraceptives to be prescribed by pharmacists without a doctor’s visit. Eleven other states are considering similar bills this year. The Nevada bills have an excellent chance of passage given widespread support in the Democratic caucuses and the prioritization of these issues by leadership. But will Gov. Sandoval sign them? As the Republicans proceed with their zealous destruction of the Affordable Care Act, Sandoval will risk the wrath of half the state’s population if he denies them access to basic health care. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

A gold bug’s proposal for reform Nevada is called the Silver State. We are Battle Born, because in the Civil War both sides fought over the chance to get our silver. Silver and gold coins (specie) were money in the 19th century. The U.S. Constitution enshrines specie as the money of account for the government. Article one, section eight grants Congress the power to “coin Money, and regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin.” Section 10 forbids the states the power to “coin Money, emit Bills of Credit, [or] make any thing except gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debt.” The nature of money and government was a big political deal in the 19th century. The Democrats were the hard money party then. Democratic Presidents Jefferson, Jackson, Polk and Cleveland all defended gold and silver coins over paper money. Then it changed. In 1932, President Franklin Roosevelt forbade the use of specie as money and confiscated the

people’s gold. In 1972 President Nixon gave gold money the coup de grace by stopping even the payment of foreign debts in gold. After Ronald Reagan was elected president, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul managed to pass legislation to make it legal again for U.S. citizens to buy gold and silver, but not for use as actual money. Now we get to watch William Devane pitch gold-backed IRAs. Several times in recent years there have been attempts in the Nevada Legislature to have Nevada issue silver coins. Bills were debated but never became law. One time I ran for state treasurer as a Libertarian. In those days, KNPB allowed the minor parties into political debates. Neither major party candidate showed up for the debate, so I had 30 minutes to talk about gold money. I said if I was elected treasurer, I would refuse to remit any Nevada state money to the feds until they showed cause why

they forced Nevada to use paper money instead of gold and silver coin. The producers of KNPB were furious. After that, minor party candidates were no longer allowed into the debates. Sorry, guys. A long time ago, President Andrew Jackson used the constitutional monetary clauses to discipline the states for the inflation their wildcat banks caused. He issued an executive order to force the states to pay the federal government in specie. Jackson was the last president to leave the country debt free. If Jackson could discipline the states by the money clauses, why can’t the states discipline the feds? Gold money forces fiscal discipline on governments. But it is also good for workers. Most of the time, gold money gains value, without even earning interest. Instead of the constant inflation we experience with paper money, there would generally be a mild deflation. Prices would usually go down, not up.

Inflation is a hidden tax, caused by printing too much fiat money. Fiat money is currency that is not redeemable on demand into a specified amount of a tangible commodity, usually gold or silver. Government and big business like a controlled inflation. Because we are such a large wealthy nation, our money loses its value relatively slowly year over year. In some countries, like Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany, state controlled inflation suddenly spiraled out of control and became “hyperinflation.” A paper bill that says its is worth a million won’t buy a candy bar. This year, Arizona is considering legislation to make gold legal tender. They even invited Dr. Paul in to testify. The constitutional monetary clauses were quoted in the papers. If the bill passes, Mr. Devane won’t be alone in talking about gold. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Two ways The judge now presiding over the Cliven Bundy trial also decided another, similar Nevada case without the need of guns or standoffs. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro last month ordered the Hage family to pay $587,294 for “repeated willful unauthorized grazing.” The unpermitted grazing began under the late E. Wayne Hage, owner of the Pine Creek Ranch in Monitor Valley, which he purchased in 1978, moving there from California. Over time, Hage became attracted to movements like the Sagebrush Rebellion and its successors like the county supremacy movement. After several disputes with the family, in the early 1990s federal officials cancelled some of Hage’s grazing permits but he continued grazing his cattle on the public’s land, even increasing the size of the herd. He wrote a book, Storm over Rangelands: Private Rights in Federal Lands. Hage also married former U.S. House member Helen Chenoweth of Idaho, noted for her claims that “black helicopters” were used by federal Interior officials in enforcement of the law in her state. In 1991, the Hages filed suit, claiming the federal government had “taken” Hage property, including water and forage as well as “improvements” made by the family to the property at issue. Following Hage’s June 5, 2006 death, the younger Wayne N. Hage continued his father’s practices. By 2011, more than 600 cattle were being illegally grazed. In 2012, the Hages were charged with unpermitted grazing. In both legal actions, the Hages won split decisions, but their winning portions were overturned by higher courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their lawsuit. Judge Navarro also ordered the Hages to stop unpermitted grazing unless they follow legal procedures. Navarro was at least the third judge to sit on the long-running case.

Too hard The business section of the New York Times—there is no labor section—last week reported that U.S. workers have increased productivity while their pay has declined—creating what the newspaper called “a stark leap in inequality.” It stands in contrast to the relatively stable share of the economy workers enjoyed during the early 20th century. “Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that’s not growing very much,” said Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor. “Over the last 15 years … labor productivity has grown faster than wages, a sign that workers are not being adequately compensated for their contributions,” the Times reported. “And some industries have fared worse than others. Slices of the pie going to mining and manufacturing narrowed the most, while service workers (including professional and business services) had the biggest gains.” A team of leading economists pointed at the development of gargantuan companies like Facebook, Google, Costco, Target and Walmart as fueling the disparity. The Times report was illustrated with a photograph of an Amazon Arizona workplace. An Amazon distribution facility in northern Nevada has operated for several years in Fernley. The corporation is in the process of abandoning that town for Reno. The Nevada Legislature is considering enactment of bills increasing the minimum wage, though at least two them make the change gradual over a period of years.

–Dennis Myers

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Last week communities in the North Valleys were separated by heavy swaths of snow, most of which has melted by this week. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

Perspective Amateur climatologists call off climate change a colleague of ours was heard to say, “If I hear one more person say, ‘So much for global warming—’.” She didn’t finish the sentence but the exasperation was familiar. A tiny shift in weather is regularly taken as meaningful when it’s not. For instance, on Feb. 16, 1990, in the middle of a major multi-year drought, western Nevada was hit with a major snowfall. It was followed immediately by premature “Is the drought over?” news stories. It is akin to a comment Donald Trump made in a New York Times interview during the campaign— “You know the hottest day ever was in 1890-something. Ninety-eight.”— as though it had meaning. As usual with Trump, he never provided any verification, but even if what he had said was true, scientists and factcheckers quickly pointed out that one point in time is not a trend. It may, indeed, be an exception or anomaly.

Far from the snowfalls this year disproving climate change, University of Nevada, Reno scientist Glenn Miller said they are exactly “what you would expect to happen” with warming. “This is one of the symptoms of global warming,” he said. “If you have a lot more water evaporate, that water is going to come down at some point. This is exactly consistent with global warming. You have more extreme events happening.” Thus, hotter summers, colder winters. “Stronger events” also are a cause of shorter autumns and springs. The Union of Concerned Scientists has said extreme events like flooding, heavy snowfalls and downpours can all be a sign of global warming. This winter’s downpours in western Nevada are relatively new. The region did not experience them in, say, the 1950s or ’60s. “In fact, as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into

the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme storms in all seasons, capable of causing greater impacts on society,” said UCS scientist Jeff Masters in 2011. It is possible to assess the year’s heavy snows without reading more into them than there is. Some have been trying to do that. Heather Emmons, spokesperson for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, issued a statement that said what is significant about this winter is its resemblance to 1983. “1983 is a winter talked about with awe and reverence by snow surveyors and water managers in the western United States,” the statement said. “Putting it in the same sentence as 2017 indicates that we have a real heavy hitter at bat this winter.” The numbers across the state are impressive. “The Truckee, Lake Tahoe, Carson and Walker river basins have snowpacks 200-218 percent of normal. These amounts break all previous March 1 [snow telemetry] records for snow water content. … It is not just the Sierra—other parts of Nevada are having a drought busting year, too. The snow on Mt. Charleston, near Las Vegas, is 182 percent of normal. Snowpacks are 146-156 percent of normal in the Humboldt Basin and 134 percent in Eastern Nevada. The Humboldt River experienced flooding in February. Springtime streamflow forecasts for the Humboldt River exceed the amount of space left in Rye Patch Reservoir, making it likely that Rye Patch will fill this year.”

droughT sTill ahead? Another place where there could be a jump to conclusions is in the Western drought. There have been a lot of headlines: “California snowpack could bring 5-year drought to its knees” and “Drought finally over in nearly every part of California.” But no scientist has called an end to the 17-year drought. After all, an extreme winter could easily be followed by an extreme summer that undoes a lot of the gains made. At Lake Mead, where the “bathtub

ring” and the lake’s dramatic fall have been is down 19 percent as a result of the drought. used incessantly to illustrate the drought, the In a Wired essay, hydroclimatologist winter has raised the lake a bit, but Bureau Peter Gleick wrote that there are two kinds of Reclamation spokesperson Rose Davis of drought. still told KLAS News, “It’s a very important “But another key variable is temperaconcept to remember that nobody’s out ture. Temperature determines, among other of drought. … I mean, regardless of what things, the demand for water by crops, you’re seeing on the flooding in California vegetation, and people, and especially the and other places, one year doesn’t ratio of snow to rain that falls in the undo drought.” mountains. The past five years And amid all the were by far the driest and snow, the journal Water hottest in more than a Resources Research last century of recordkeepweek issued a study ing—in part because that said, in part, of human-caused “Fifteen years into climate change—and the 21st century, the those high temperaemerging reality is tures played a key that climate change role on worsening is already depleting the scarcity of water Glenn Miller the Colorado River and devastating the UNR scientist water supplies at the snowpack. This combiupper end of the range nation of hot and dry suggested by previously led to massive groundpublished projections. water overdraft, cutbacks to Record-setting temperatures farmers, loss of snow storage are an important and underappreciin the mountains, reductions in ated component of the flow reductions now hydropower production, and a range of being observed.” voluntary and mandatory restrictions on The study was done by hydrology urban water use. And while the wet year researchers Brad Udall of Colorado State may end the ‘precipitation drought,’ higher University and Jonathan Overpeck of the and higher temperatures and a persistent University of Arizona. Forty million people ‘snow drought’ are here to stay.” Ω rely on the Colorado’s water, and its volume

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e’ve already sprung forward and been teased by temperatures in the high 70s, so it’s time to count the days till summer. But what does a record snow year mean for sports and outdoors enthusiasts during the spring? We turned to the region’s experts and found out that the extreme snowpack and fast-flowing rivers will change a few things—mostly on the calendar. Skiers get a bonus month this year. Campers and anglers will have to wait a while for their seasons to start. And outdoor experts in a couple of high-elevation locales who’ve been watching precipitation patterns for years said, “Weather? What weather?” Plus, guides from all over talked about some spring-specific hazards to watch out for—some obvious and some you may not have thought of.

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ranger-led snowshoe walks at Lassen national Volcanic Park are scheduled through april 1, and snow is likely to remain in some parts of the park until well into summer.

Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe announced that it will be open through Memorial Day, May 29, this year, just three weeks before the first day of summer. “Usually we go to late April, around the 20th,” said Mike Pierce, the ski mountain’s marketing director. “Last year we went to May 8.” “It’s a historic year,” he said. The more than 600 inches of snowfall so far this season? “That’s happened before,” he said, thinking back to the mid ’90s. “But to get this much snow is pretty much unheard of,” he said, referring to the 700 inches or more he expects to see by the season’s end. For Mt. Rose’s staff, the heavy snowfall has meant some added logistics. “It’s just that

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much more plowing, that much more clearing of lifts,” Pierce said. And for skiers and boarders, it means more skiing, more boarding and more partying. “The powder hounds have had more days than they can remember this year,” said Pierce. And a few extra events will likely be added to the calendar. “We’re working on that as we speak,” he said. “Exactly what is to be determined. We do deck parties. There’s talk of another Pond Skim.” Yes, a “Pond Skim” is exactly what it sounds like—an event in which brave souls, some dressed as superheroes, gain momentum on a hill, then “skate” across a rectangular pool of water on a snowboard or skis as crowds cheer on the sidelines. And yes, a few people do make it across without falling in. “In general, spring skiing itself is a party,” Pierce said. “Locals love tailgating.” One drawback to late-season skiing is “spring snow.” According to the snow-report website On The Snow, spring snow can involve variable surface conditions and exposed rocks, but Pierce isn’t worried. “We actually can claim some of the best spring snow in the area,” he said. He credits Mt. Rose’s high elevation—the base is at 8,250 feet—and the fact that about half of the runs face north, minimizing sun exposure. Perhaps the burning question on your mind at this point is: Can I ski in shorts? Even though Pierce cautioned, “Anybody who lives here long enough knows you can get winter into June,” his best guess is that there will be warm days. He said it’s usual for some late-season skiers and boarders to show up in shorts and bikinis. If you’re one of them, be one of the smart ones who remembers that the travelsize tube of sunscreen you’ve been dabbing your nose with all winter isn’t going to cut it. Bring the large bottle. “SeaSonally affected” continued on page 12

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pring S fiShing: Good things come to those who wade Anglers have a reputation for being patient, and this year they’ll need to be even more patient, but experts think it’ll pay off in the long run—that being a few years. First, the good news. We asked Reno Fly Shop’s Jim Litchfield how the fishing will be this year. “It’ll be great,” he said with no hesitation. The catch is expected to be about the same as in an average year, he said. So, what’s the “great” part? Litchfield said a wet year is likely to bring heightened visibility and extra enthusiasm to his favorite sport. “To state the obvious, water’s relatively integral, not only biologically, to the fish and bugs, but for business,” he said. “People will be talking about it. People will be thinking about it. It’ll be around the water cooler.” “The water will be high, for periods—it will also be cold,” he cautioned. His shop is prepared to outfit anglers with additional gear for managing these conditions, such as boots with spikes and wading staffs, which are basically walking staffs designed to be used in water. And for anyone wondering what the wide world of fly fishing entails, Litchfield’s website, renoflyshop.com, has an email list sign-up and his podcast. Visitors to his shop, 238 S. Arlington Ave., may well find fishing guides standing there at the ready. (If you want a guarantee, call in advance, but Litchfield said if you’re walking around downtown and get a wild hare, it’s not unusual for an unannounced drop-by to result in a spontaneous fishing trip.) “If they’re standing around, if there’s a few of them in the shop, we can do a class right then,” he said. The most important thing Litchfield wants folks to remember is that the river is not a Disneyland attraction. Even the parts of the Truckee that flow through the nicely architected downtown spots are under the governance of Mother Nature. “Realize it’s a wild environment that needs to be treated with care and respect,” he said. Chris Healy, public information officer for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, explained how the wet winter will affect the management end of fishing. “The previous two years to this, we had to stock the river really early in the year, and we also had to stock our urban ponds,” he said. “We had little to no water, and we knew we would have to 12 | RN&R | 03.16.17

hurriedly get the fish out of the hatcheries and into the waters before the water dried up.” The Sparks Marina has already been stocked with 5,000 rainbow trout, but anglers who favor river fishing may have to wait a while. In a typical year, the river is stocked some time between the third week of March and the first week of April. “We don’t know when we’re going to stock [the Truckee River this year], but we do know back in 2011, because the river was so high, and it made it difficult for anglers to catch fish, we did not start stocking until July.” Healy anticipates similar delays at White’s, Thomas and Galena Creeks. “We stock those sometimes as early as late May,” he said. “They’re rushing so hard that we’re not sure when we’re going to be able to stock those. And we’re going to have to get the fish truck in there to stock.” “Anglers are getting itchy to go out and fish,” Healy said. “They really have to be patient.” “More importantly, none of us are complaining that we have all this water,” he added. “All the high water is really good for the river. When you have high flows for a long time, it gets rid of siltation. … This is all good news for the wild fish. It cleans out those spawning gravels, gets rid of the silt.” “We do know through long-term data that we gather after flood events like this—you see an increase in reproduction,” Healy said. “It’s going to take a little while, two or three years, to know.” He said there’s a good chance we’ll see more wild-reproducing brown and rainbow trout over that time period.

igh-altitude h hiking: Trailing behind schedule For hardcore hikers who cannot wait to hit the trails and don’t mind boots heavy with mud and harder-than-usual creek crossings, the trails in and near Reno are currently traversable. Up the hill, it’s a little more complicated. “Snow levels up in higher elevations, anything that has a north facing aspect will have snow longer,” said the Tahoe Rim Trail Association’s Justine Lentz. She mentioned that parking access will likely be compromised by lingering snow near spots such as Tahoe Meadows. But that doesn’t mean you can’t go hiking. It just means you need to up your game and be extra-prepared. Lentz advised keeping several tips in mind. First, plan your route accordingly if

Forrest Greer practices going up the rapids at the Truckee River Whitewater Park.

you’re hiking near Lake Tahoe. “Typically the east shore tends to melt out first, but the west shore and those higher elevations, who knows,” she said. It could be late into July for some trails. If you do want to start highelevation hiking before the snow melts, strapping crampons onto your boots will make snow hiking doable. Lentz advised carrying a GPS and brushing up on your navigation skills. It’s a lot easier to get lost when the trail is covered with snow. And trail stewards ask that people avoid hiking and biking on muddy trails. “It does do significant damage,” Lentz said. While foliage is about as predictable as weather, Lentz and others do have high hopes for a great wildflower year. Carson Pass is one place to keep an eye out for a good flower show. One final reminder for hikers this spring. Whether you want to trounce some trails close to town at, say, Hunter Creek, or wait for the snowmelt to start up near South Lake Tahoe, here’s one word to keep in mind on a super-wet year: Waterfalls. OK, two words: Epic waterfalls.

k ayaking and whitewater rafting: Go with the flow Jordan Golnik is a whitewater photographer and an avid kayaker in Coloma, California, near Auburn, and he answered the question “How’s the kayaking this year?” with something like “duh”—but much friendlier. “Obviously we’re going to have a ton of water, a lot of high water, significantly higher than in the past few years, through June, July” he said. “This will mean a lot of work for people in the guide industry—and tourism for local businesses.” For beginning kayakers, Golnik said, “We are lucky to have rivers like

the Truckee and American that have sections, even in high runoff years, that are still pretty forgiving and pretty friendly. … It’s going to be a great year to get into kayaking—more releases on different rivers.” And for the daredevils—Golnik was hard pressed to narrow down which spots might be the experts’ picks this year. He led with, “Everywhere,” adding that the rivers near Coloma—and the entire High Sierra region—look promising, and that the advanced, Class-V rapids, eight-foot drops and granite boulders at Yosemite’s Cherry Creek sound appealing, too. As with other sports this year, the season is likely to be pushed back in some places. Actually, kayakers are a hardy bunch—the season never really closes. They’re already out enjoying the heavy flows in spots like the Truckee in downtown Reno and the Yuba River near Nevada City. But for other prime spots, they’ll have to wait. “Flow windows are short and difficult to predict most times,” Golnik said. But he’s betting that many runs that tend to become possible early in the summer in a drier year won’t be navigable till fall this year.” Lorraine Hall has been the office manager at Tributary Whitewater Tours in Lotus for at least 30 years, and she is not fazed by the recent snow dumps—or by the raging rivers that follow. “It’s not the first time we’ve seen high water,” she said. Her operation will likely start river rafting tours in April. Meanwhile, she said, “Our guides are out there on the rivers as we speak, checking out which things get moved around. … Early in the season we have to be particularly careful for trees and debris that might have come in.” Over a harsh winter, riverbeds can change, and rapids are likely to work differently than they did the previous year. “A path that was to the left of a rock last year might be to the right this year,”

Hall said. “Gravel bars change. Rocks move. Our guides know how to read whitewater and act accordingly.” After decades of watching the weather, she advised, “You can never predict what Mother Nature’s going to do” and recommends a high level of awareness and caution for paddlers. “You kind of have to be ahead of the curve,” she said. “Eldorado County just put out a warning for private boaters,” Hall said. “Some people haven’t always got a large amount of common sense and get themselves in trouble, and it’s horrific. People can lose their lives through not understanding what’s going on, and it reflects badly on everyone.” According to the website, no paddlers have died under Tributary Whitewater Tours’ watch. For the prepared and the cautious, Hall said, “It’s going to be a great season for people to get out there and do some stuff that hadn’t been available.”

ummer S camping: Pack the s’mores— eventually If Reno or Tahoe is your home base and you like to camp, you basically live in the middle of a mother lode of amazing spot

for sleeping under the stars. Within driving distance are the entire Sierra Nevada range, Northern Nevada’s beautiful high desert, Southern Nevada’s wonderland of low-elevation desert gems, our beloved Black Rock Desert, the balmier coastal regions of California’s Bay Area and Sonoma Coast, and a few national parks. And that means you can, in most years, camp somewhere every month of the year. Here are reports from two popular camp spots. The theme, yet again, is: Be prepared. At some mountain camping areas, such as Lassen National Volcanic Park, it’s likely to be business as usual for campers this year—but let’s review what “business as usual” means. As park ranger Shanda Ochs said, people often are surprised by the conditions when they get there. “A lot of people come not expecting the snow,” she said. “They’ll come in April, May or even June.” Also potentially surprising, the trail to Lassen Peak, at above 10,000 feet, sometimes isn’t hike-able until summer. “On average, if we’ve got a regular snow season, it’ll be hike-able without a whole lot of snow usually by late June or early July,” Ochs said. People are also sometimes disappointed to find that the park’s main road can stay closed due to snow well into spring.

And when the website says, “Southwest Walk-in Campground open year-round,” that may well mean you’re pitching a tent on top of a 10-foot snow cliff or sleeping in a vehicle in the parking lot. (Don’t knock it till you try it. Trouncing around in the dark on a 10-foot snow cliff with a flashlight and stumbling across an ambitious Boy Scout troop’s encampment of snow caves and igloos is an experience magical enough to be worth braving the cold for.) Ranger-led snowshoe tours at Lassen are scheduled through April 2 this year. Michael Myers, executive director of Friends of Black Rock-High Rock, lives in Gerlach and had this report about the Black Rock’s playa, as of early March: “Basically from [the three-mile entrance] out to Black Rock Point, it’s covered in water.” You already know it’s easy to get stuck in the mud out there. Also consider, said Myers, “The bigger thing that will impact the wetness of the playa will be any spring storms we get. Because of the saturation we have had, any storms might have a longer lasting impact.” As with all things weather, it’s impossible to say for sure what to expect, but Myers offered a rough guideline to think about—A passing summer storm that may have had a vehicle stuck in slick mud for a few hours in a drier year could have it stuck for days.

He reckons this season’s moisture will replenish some nearby springs and make for a particularly pretty year in other parts of the Black Rock. “There’s a lot of snowpack in the Granite Mountains,” he said. “When you get up into the mountains in the wilderness areas, there are lots of little side canyons and creeks that flow seasonally. We’re probably going to have more wildflowers.” Myers recommends putting off spring travel in the Black Rock until as late as possible. He cautioned that the secondary roads have been roughed up by the winter snow and rain, and that roads that were accessible last year aren’t necessarily passable this spring. Some Burning Man participants, whose event takes place on that flat playa, spend the summer facetiously surmising whether it’ll be dusty year during the event in late August and early September. Will all this extra water mean a harderpacked playa and clearer air this year? Don’t get your hopes up. “Intuition would suggest that would be the case,” he said. “But in reality more and more people recreate on the playa.” And with the crowds, crews, trucks and RVs that come in before and during the event, Myers said, “I imagine the dust is going to be similar to the way it always is.” Ω

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hen Peter Hazel’s “Octavius,” a giant, tiled-concrete octopus sculpture, debuted on a downtown Reno sidewalk at Sculpturefest 2016, it almost seemed like the artist had appeared fully formed out of nowhere. It turns out that’s not too far from what actually happened. Hazel sat down with the RN&R at his studio inside Artech, where he works with a small team of assistants, to tell us about becoming an artist and his plans for installations later this year at Burning Man and Virginia Lake. How did you end up in Reno? Tile and granite contractor in Lake Tahoe, North Shore, raised my kids up there for 30 years. Recession comes along, and I have to move my granite shop to Verdi ’cause it’s cheaper. The recession hit hard, and it was tough on me. … I went on a trip to Barcelona. I saw what Gaudi did. I was blown away. I didn’t even know who he was. Antonio Gaudi, he [was] a mosaic artist in Barcelona. … Super amazing. So I came back and I went, “Oh, I want to do that.” Had you done mosaic work as a contractor? No. … Both my parents were artists. I was intimidated by it. I didn’t think I was good at it, so I stayed away from it. But I’ve been in the trades. And I kind of came full-circle back to my roots, my heritage. My dad was a very successful artist in Half Moon Bay. Back to the Reno story … I made an apartment in my studio in Verdi. I moved there because it would be cheap, and I just dedicated my whole life to making art. I’m very tenacious and very driven. And that’s why I’ve done so much in just five years. Because—I’m 59. The clock’s ticking. I don’t have 20 years to go to art school. I have to make this stuff now. There’s been failures, and you learn and just keep going and going. Let’s talk about the octopus. I think a lot of people in Reno will recognize that one. Did you make the tiles for that? Yeah, 250,000 handmade tiles. 16 | RN&R | 03.16.17

How did the idea for a giant octopus come about? I thought it would be neat to make an octopus. And I had a kind of a vision in my head, what I wanted it to be doing. I had this crazy idea that he’s this Don Juan octopus guy, and he’s got a woman under each arm. … And his eyes are kind of sinister looking. That kind of launched me. I got in USA Today and all kinds of stuff.

During the recession years, Peter Hazel’s tile business was struggling. Now he’s one of Reno’s story and photos by Kris Vagner most visible artists. “Octavius,” a 25,000pound concrete octopus, made an appearance at Burning Man in 2016.

How was it constructed? The whole thing was made out of rebar, and the legs are solid concrete, and the head’s hollow, and it weigh 25,000 pounds. I’m, like, super-competitive. So I wanted mine to be the biggest and the best last year. The city commissioned a piece from you to be installed in Virginia Lake this fall. What’s that piece like? My stuff really relates to everyday people. Not a big, square thing or whatever, you know, my work’s happy. Everyone gets it. Maybe the big art critics might snub their nose at me, but whatever. I make what I want to make. There’s going to be this 12-foot-wide pad, a concrete pad to keep it level. … The concrete pad is hidden under water. You will never see that. It’s 12 inches thick, just for stability. Then there’s metal coming out of the concrete. It’s 20 feet tall, but with the water level it’s going to look 17 foot tall. And then [a] dragonfly. His body’s all mosaic. His wings are going to be stainless steel and glass, so it’s going to be three colors of blue and black. You’ve got a style that works well for public sculpture, works well as Burning Man art, and makes sense for private commission work. What was your process like of developing that kind of style so that your work could fit smoothly into all those different contexts? I’m a new artist, and I don’t even know I have a style yet. … I just make things I like. For Burning Man, the first piece were those daffodils I made [a 12-foot-high sprig of mosaic-tiled daffodils, currently placed on Victorian Avenue in Sparks], and I took

them out there. People liked it and stuff, but there weren’t big crowds by mine like there were other places. … It impacted me. I want to be a major player at Burning Man. And I’m like, “What do I have to do to be a major player at Burning Man?” And so, first of all, it has to be interactive. We made that glass manta ray too, but it wasn’t interactive. So the octopus was colorful, fun … and everyone could climb on it. … So, it’s a learning process. I didn’t know. The daffodils—people would come by at Burning Man and say, “What’s it do?!” But you learn, you know? Art’s all about learning. You just learn and learn and learn. What do have planned for Burning Man this year? I just got an honorarium! I’m so stoked. … We went for a four-story-tall jellyfish that you climb inside, and the whole head is made out of 1300 jellyfish, and they’re all glass. … The whole head is going to be 30-foot-wide, 10-foot-tall, encapsulated-by-glass jellyfish, and it’s called “Bloom” because a school of jellyfish is called a bloom.

We’re going to do 1,400 linear feet of LEDs. Right now it’s getting engineered by K2 Engineering. Once they give us the green light, it’s like, game on. It’s going to be a really huge piece. Like I said, I’m supercompetitive. I want it to be the best, and if it’s not, I’ll come back and figure it out. I’m just really driven. How are you funding it, in addition to the honorarium? We need more money. I’m worried about it. Materials alone are going to be about 50 grand. We’re going to do a GoFundMe and probably two big [fundraising] parties. Do you have a favorite piece of advice for aspiring sculptors? Number one, throw away your TV. I’m not kidding. … Sacrifice stuff, and just be really tenacious about what you’re doing. I think art’s all about failing. You fail. You learn. You keep going and going. Just be tenacious. Ω

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Keep the change Texas Martin Sometimes the sum is more than the parts, the woods is more than just the trees, and the universe is more than the stars. Texas Martin’s exhibition Journey of the Celestial Body, on display at Reno Art Works, is a ramshackle hodgepodge including paintings, sculptures, assemblages, found objects and photos, some made for the show, others dating back 20 years. But the exhibition is more than just an eclectic collection of individual works. It’s also a narrative-driven installation about accepting, even embracing change. Her exhibition is separated into three components: night, sunrise and day. The night scenes include nebulae, starscapes and moodier works like the sombre figure drawing “Submission,” made with oil pastels, china marker and charcoal. She said this part of the exhibition represents “the cold, dark part of the night. The part that we think is unchanging.” Many of the star scenes are rendered on assemblages made from fragments of denim and other materials—the fabric of the universe. Martin said that she started working with fabrics as an homage to her mother, who sewed. The second room is what she calls the sunrise room. This room has an interactive component—gallery visitors are encouraged to take a page from a dictionary and write down what holds them back from changing, and then go through a curtain, and put the page in a box in the day gallery. That transitional curtain is what Martin calls “the flaming door,” a wall of flame that is passed through during times of personal change. An accompanying text 20 | RN&R | 03.16.17

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explains the concept further: “Our fear keeps us from crossing, but I have crossed, at least in my heart. I have kept walking. And I turn and see the one who was me, standing at the door and not moving, with suitcases tied to her wrists, that are sinking into the earth, and they are filled with preconceptions.” The sunrise room represents the moment of trepidation and hesitation just before overcoming a personal obstacle. And walking through the curtain also requires gallery visitors to overcome the gallery taboo against touching artwork. Then, after passing through the curtain, the works in the day gallery are bright, light and cohesive. Martin grew up in Paso Robles, California. Texas is her given name. (“It’s not my playa name. Everyone thinks that.”) She earned a degree in public art from California State University, Monterey Bay, an experience she said encouraged her mixed-media approach to art—“dumping your art box out on the table and working on whatever.” She discovered Reno on the way to Burning Man and connected with the inclusive attitude among local artists. “I love the way the artists here work, she said. “They’re showing their work, but they’re not caught up in the whole gallery thing very much.” She’s been a resident artist at Reno Art Works for four years, and it’s the perfect place for a show that’s more personal than would likely be seen in a more polished gallery. In many ways, the show is a midcareer retrospective, but instead of being organized chronologically or by media, it’s united around the theme of change. “We’ve all gone through something major,” Martin said. “But despite all that, we go through something, the sun still rises. There are still beautiful days.” Ω Texas Martin’s show is at Reno Artworks, 1995 Dickerson Road, through the end of the month. An open-studios event at RAW is open to the public March 18, 12-5 p.m.

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“Well, now, that brings a whole new meaning to ape shit.”

Return of the king

setup and Nixon-era themes, plays like Apocalypse Now meets King Kong. When Reilly is on screen, it plays like Apocalypse Now meets King Kong meets Talladega Nights. Samuel L. Jackson gets to play the psycho military commander who still holds a beef about the war, while John Goodman is on hand as the explorer who thinks “something” is on this strange, uncharted The King Kong cinematic machine gets cranking island. He’s essentially this film’s Carl Denham—one again with Kong: Skull Island, an entertaining enough of the main characters from the 1933 original and new take on the big ape that delivers the gorilla action Peter Jackson’s remake—without being named Carl but lags a bit when he isn’t on screen smashing things. Denham. The likes of Shea Whigham, Jason Mitchell Among Kong incarnations, this one has the most and Richard Jenkins round out the cast. in common with the 1976 take on the classic story, As for Hiddleston and Larson, one gets the sense basically because it’s set just a few years earlier in their parts were supposed to be bigger, but director ’73. While there is a beautiful girl the big guy does get Jordan Vogt-Roberts looked at a first cut and realized a small crush on (Brie Larson as a photographer), the they sucked, so he replaced a lot of their screen time story eschews the usual “beauty and the beast” Kong with Kong action. And Kong gets angle for more straight-up monster plenty of time to destroy things. vs. monster action. Unlike the past He battles helicopters, strange dino American Kong films, this one never creatures and, in one of the film’s makes it overseas to Manhattan, greater moments, a giant octopus opting to stay on Kong’s island— that results in an eating scene that’s a thus, the title of the film. direct homage to Oldboy. Kong himself is portrayed by How does this Kong stack up motion-capture CGI, and he’s a Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts against past Kongs? I’d say it’s the badass. He’s also tall enough to Starring: Tom Hiddleston, weakest of the American Kongs. (I’m be a formidable foe for Godzilla, a Brie Larson a sucker for the ’76 Twin Towers/ mash-up already announced for 2020. Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange one.) In the few scenes where he interacts Oh wait, it’s better than King Kong with humans, Kong plays like an organic creature Lives, the ’86 sequel to the ’76 Kong where he got rather than a bunch of gigabytes. He blends well with the heart transplant. That’s actually one of the worst his human counterparts. movies ever made. It’s so bad, I forgot it existed until That’s right, there hasn’t been much mention of this paragraph of this very review. Kong: Skull Island those human counterparts yet. That’s because, with is also better than the loopy, strangely enjoyable the exception of John C. Reilly as a fighter pilot Japanese Kongs, although it owes much to those films stranded on the island during World War II, most of in spirit. the humans are bland. Tom Hiddleston might make As you must do with Marvel films now—with the a decent James Bond someday, and he’s a lot of fun exception of Logan—stay through Kong: Skull Island as Loki, but he just doesn’t play here as a rugged credits. There’s an initial sequence during the credits tracker/action hero. His presence constantly suggests that I won’t give away, and a scene after the credits his character might turn bad mid-mission and feed his that I also won’t give away. I’m being stingy with the friends to the monsters or, alternatively, stop for tea credit sequence secrets today. and biscuits every five minutes. He’s too much the Kong: Skull Island is a shallow enterprise, but a pretty boy for the role. fun shallow enterprise at that. It’ll be interesting to see Reilly, on the other hand, gives the film the how they bridge the time gap between this excursion bursts of humor it needs. His castaway is a wild and the present day Godzilla. Kong ages well, so card, like Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. they’ll probably just leap over a few decades and get Actually, the whole movie, with its post-Vietnam to the good stuff. Ω

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Get Out

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young AfricanAmerican man, is a little nervous. He’s going to visit the parents of Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), his white girlfriend. Rose is relaxed about the trip, but Chris is anxious. His anxiety proves justified shortly into the trip. Upon arrival at her large estate, her parents like Chris. They really, really like Chris. Actually, parents Missy and Dean (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) like Chris at a level that’s a bit unsettling. Chris shrugs it off at first, as does Allison, but strange things start happening. Writer-director Jordan Peele, the comedic performer from TV’s Key & Peele, and the adorable, funny cat movie Keanu, delivers a huge cinematic surprise with Get Out, a twisted, darkly satiric, nasty little horror film that pulls no punches when it comes to race relations and dating. Peele has cited Night of the Living Dead and The Stepford Wives as inspiration for this journey to the dark side of his creative soul. Those films’ influences are detectable, and I’d say you could throw in a pinch of Rosemary’s Baby with a side of Being John Malkovich as well. Two of the hardest things to accomplish with a movie are to make people laugh and get them legitimately scared. Get Out manages to do both for its entire running time.

The Great Wall

Matt Damon stars in this mess, and this may very well represent the low point of his career, a career that has included the atrocious Jason Bourne and Hereafter. He probably thought he was in safe hands because The Great Wall is helmed by director Zang Yimou, maker of such masterpieces as Hero, House of Flying Daggers and—one of my very favorite movies—The Road Home. Damon was probably all like, “Hey, Yimou is calling the shots. If anything, I’m going to look good in this pic!” Then … he saw his wardrobe. A wardrobe that begins with big furry wigs and beards, and then declines into a sad man-bun wig as the film progresses. He looks silly from frame one. He sounds silly, too. He’s attempting some sort of accent here, a cross between Irish, Scottish and just plain dickweed. Every time he talks in this movie, it hurts the ears and the soul—especially the souls of those who love Matt Damon. It’s all in the service of a wannabe period epic about non-distinctive, stupidlooking CGI monsters attacking China’s Great Wall, with Damon’s character being the savior with a bow.

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. Taraji P. Henson plays Johnson, the “smart one” astronaut John Glenn personally demanded check the coordinates 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 AfricanAmerican 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.

La La Land

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 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. Stone doesn’t just make her mark with a beautiful voice and expert footwork—she embodies the character trying to “make it” in the business.

The Lego Batman Movie

Logan

Split

This is the great Batman story that Batman v Superman failed to be. Even better, it has Will Arnett voicing Batman with a new, super amped, still dark, but amazingly well rounded and sometimes humorous incarnation. After all these years of dark—and admittedly sometimes brilliant—Batman movies, it’s nice to have a vehicle where we can just have fun with the character. Director Chris McKay, along with a long list of writers, has come up with a story that will please adult Batman fans as much as the kids who will most assuredly be dropped off at the local Cineplex to watch a movie while parents catch a break from the little mayhem makers. Arnett’s Batman not only faces off against the Joker (a very funny Zach Galifianakis), but finds himself in a scenario where he’s battling a smorgasbord of movie villains including King Kong, the Gremlins, Dracula, evil British robots and Voldemort (Eddie Izzard), to name just a few. It’s a nutty plot element that also allows for Batman mainstays like Bane, Two-Face (Billy Dee Williams, who was Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman) and the Riddler (Conan O’Brien!) to get in on the act. It’s a geek fest, a movie lover’s delight that has a funny little trivia bit at nearly every turn and an emotional center.

Hugh Jackman—allegedly—says goodbye to Wolverine with Logan, a total shocker of a superhero movie that lays waste to the X-Men and standalone Wolverine movies that came before it. Director James Mangold, who piloted the decent The Wolverine, revamps the character’s mythos, and pulls along Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) for the gritty, bloody, nasty, awesome ride. It’s the future, and the X-Men are gone. A mutant hasn’t been born in a quarter of a century, and Logan isn’t looking too hot. He’s driving a limo to make ends meet, coughing up blood, and basically not aging well. He’s doing a lot better than Xavier, the mutant formally known as Professor X, who’s prone to seizures and suffering from some sort of degenerative brain disease. In short, the days of X-Men glory are way, way over, with Logan and Xavier having a shit time in their autumn years. Just when it seems as if the pair will waste away in their miserable existence, along comes Laura (a dynamite Dafne Keen). She’s a genetically engineered mutant equipped with the same retractable claws and viciously bad temper as Logan. When her life becomes endangered, Logan throws her and Xavier in the back of his vehicle, and they are off on one wild, dark road trip. To say this movie is violent would be an understatement.

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 a capable director and writer when he’s not getting too carried away. Taylor-Joy plays Casey, a high school outcast who attends a birthday party but soon 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.

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Singer-songwriter Jonathan Rolling has a folk-pop sound, a DIY drive and a lust for precision.

Perfectionist Jonathan Rolling There is a certain perversity shared by artists. They pour their hearts into their projects, which often come to nothing or are met with indifference. But for some reason, they can’t help themselves. “Anyone who really wants to do music—there’s something a little bit wrong with them,” said Jonathan Rolling, who recently completed a folk-pop, five-song EP titled Lines that is basically the culmination of his last six years of work. To start at the beginning, in 2011, Rolling auditioned for the television show The Glee Project, an American Idol-style contest program. First prize was an appearance in several episodes of the show Glee. Unfortunately, Rolling didn’t make it past the premiere episode. (For the curious, however, his audition tape—a cover of the Jason Mraz hit “I’m Yours”—is still on YouTube.) The experience awakened his competitiveness and spurred his attempts at songwriting. It seems to be a pattern for Rolling—a disappointment leads him to dig in and redouble his efforts. “I’m going to do something way better than Glee,” he said. “I’ll prove it to them!” He was only half-joking. The mellowness of his sound belies a fierce competitive streak and a drive to produce music he can be proud of. Songs of his placed sixth and fifth in the Reno Gazette-Journal’s best local song of the year contest in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Following the Glee Project experience, he wrote enough material to do local coffeehouse shows. Later, Rolling and some friends formed the band Love Like Wes. The band went into the studio for an intense 12 days of recording. The nearlyfinished results were promising, but the producer had yet to mix and complete the

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recordings before having a mental breakdown and being arrested for arson. Love Like Wes disbanded, and Rolling started recording as a solo artist. Determined not to have to depend on others again, he took the small amount of equipment he had and the skills he’d learned in two recording classes, and made a record by himself. A single song ended up costing him nearly a thousand dollars, and it sounded pretty good. Over the course of five months, he recorded five songs in his house, playing all the instruments—or programming those things he couldn’t play, like drums. He mixed it himself, and then hired someone for the final mastering. “There’s just so much new music always happening,” said Rolling. “If people are going to spend their time listening to your shit, you gotta make sure your shit’s good.” Rolling has a talent for melodies, and since the songs on Lines are all based around acoustic guitar accompaniment, it would have been simple to record straightforward, unadorned tracks that sounded like pleasant, Jack Johnson-y folk-pop. But he decided to not do the obvious. His songs start quietly, and often give the impression that they aren’t going anywhere dynamically. Then, as often as not, something unexpected happens—layers of instruments are built up, a drum set and electric guitars jump in—and the song is suddenly very different. Rolling said the songs all have dozens of tracks and that the simplest has only 18. But they maintain a clear, airy sound, a testament to his obsessive mixing. “I was only doing five songs and mixing a whole album by myself,” he said. “I was like, ‘Oh shit—I totally get why that guy had a mental breakdown.’ Ω Jonathan Rolling plays with La Safari March 17 at Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St. He’ll also play a solo set during the Reno Earth Day celebration April 23 at Idlewild Park.

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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

INTHESHIT, Dissidence, ADHOD, Toeknife, 8pm, $5

juB juB’S thirSt parlor

Andre Nickatina, 7:30pm, $25

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

The Co-Founder, Happy Trails, BASHA, Gina Rose, 8pm, Tu, $5 Joey Fatts, D Savage, 8pm, $15

Escape the Fate, Purge the Perfect, The Lives We Live, 7pm, $15

the jungle

Veio, Purge the Perfect, Serenity Awaits, 9pm, W, $4 Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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THURSDAY 3/16 Laughing PLanet Cafe

FRIDAY 3/17

SATURDAY 3/18

SUNDAY 3/19

Matt Mayhall Trio, 7:30pm, $10

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

the Loft tahoe

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

the Loving CuP

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

Midtown winebar

DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

Moody’s bistro bar & beats

Chuck Hughes Trio, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

Jazz Jam Session, 7:30pm, W, no cover Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $19-$37

Michelle Moonshine, 8pm, no cover

Paddy & irene’s irish Pub

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

PigniC Pub & Patio

St. Patrick’s Day Party, 11am, no cover

235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

Saint Pignic’s Day with 3-17, Spike McGuire, 8pm, no cover

red dog saLoon

Hellbound Glory, 8:30pm, $12-$15

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

the saint

Live blues, 8pm, no cover

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

shea’s tavern

St. Patrick’s Day with Sucka Punch, Viva Revenge, Misfritz, 9pm, $5

Treazy Album Release Party, 8pm, $5

Actors Killed Lincoln, Machine Gun Vendetta, Castle Irony, 9pm, no cover

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

sParks Lounge

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

Tony G’s Blues Etc. Jam, 8:30pm, no cover

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Boondoggle!, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

St. Patrick’s Day Party with Gruve Nation, 8:30pm, no cover

studio on 4th

LA Safari, Night Rooms, Happy Trails, 9pm, $5

whiskey diCk’s

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

St. Patrick’s Day Party with DJ (R)Styles, DJ B3, 9pm, no cover

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

27 Highway 50, Stateline; (775) 580-7221

Andre Nickatina

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St. Patrick’s Day Party with Chili Sauce, 8pm, no cover Acoustic Wonderland Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 8pm, no cover

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $19-$37

Michelle Moonshine, 8pm, no cover

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

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 409-3754

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

Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

Morris burner hosteL MuMMers bar

MON-WED 3/20-3/22

Mo’ Drum Circle, 8pm, M, no cover

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

March 17, 8 p.m. Jub Jub’s Thrist Parlor 71 S. Wells Ave. 384-1652

Open Spike Night, 7pm, Tu, no cover

The Sam Chase and The Untraditional, Jake Houston, 8pm, $8

Izaak Opatz, Chops Rodgers, Mason Frey, 8pm, M, no cover

Tavern Trivia Night, 9pm, no cover

Soft White Sixties, Silver, Spencer Kilpatrick, 8pm, Tu, $13-$15

Chili Sauce, 8:30am, no cover

One Man Jam, 5:30pm, M, no cover Jazz Jam, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Weeed, Flaural, 8pm, W, no cover

The Sam Chase and The Untraditional March 19, 8 p.m. The Saint 761 S. Virginia St. 221-7451

Jake Durst, 9pm, $5

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Boomtown CAsino Hotel

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

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2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, Escalade, 10pm, no cove

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Reckless Envy, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Jason King Band, 6pm, no cover

2) The Robeys, 5pm, Stephen Lord, 9pm, 2) The Robeys, 5pm, Stephen Lord, 9pm, no cover no cover

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Lake Street Dive March 17, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort 18 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 648-3353

Karaoke O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, (775) 359-1209: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party, Th, 6pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: F-Sa, 7pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St.: Daily karaoke, 8pm, no cover

2) Just Us, 7pm, no cover 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

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eldoRAdo ResoRt CAsino 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

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2) Mike Furlong, 6pm, Tu, no cover Scott Parson, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover

2) Hans Eberbach, 6pm, no cover

2) Hans Eberbach, 6pm, M, no cover Adam Bergoch, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no coverr 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover Garage Boys, 10:30pm, W, no cover

2) Chris Brown, 9pm, $70 3) Grand Country Nights with Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Peeti-V, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) Lettuce, 9pm, $27-$30

2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 1) Death Cab for Cutie, 8pm, $35

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 2) Poperz, 10pm, $15 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book

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Hair Nation, 10pm, $10

50 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (844) 588-7625

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

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terpene profile, my nose tells me everything I want to know about a particular strain. I personally lean towards strains with a pungent gassy flavor and some lighter citrus notes like Sour Diesel or OG Kush. These strains tend to have higher levels of Myrcene and Limonene. I also enjoy uplifting strains like Jack Herer which tend to have elevated levels of Alpha and Beta Pinene. Great flowers have tangible characteristics beyond flavor and potency. The density of the flower and the moisture content will also determine how enjoyable your experience will be. Dry or fluffy flowers will tend to burn

rapidly and may feel harsh on your throat; Wet or overly dense flowers will not burn well in a joint or a bowl. Don’t ignore the physical characteristics of the flowers you purchase. Even if you are sold on buying your flowers based on THC percentage, remember that these tests only represent a snapshot in the life of the flower. THC and other cannabinoids are constantly in flux. For instance, THC degrades into CBN (cannabinol) over time. This means that the effects of the flower will change over time as well. Just some food for thought (or cannabis for smoke).

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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 16, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. SO VERY LITERARY BOOK CLUB: The book

club meets every third Thursday. 3/16, 2pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650-A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5188.

ART EXPANDED READINGS—THE BOOK TO COME: The exhibition explores the book as art and as a site for artistic exploration. 3/16-3/17, 10am. Free. Sheppard Contemporary Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.nevadahumanities.org

FILM

THE WORD BEGINS: Mashing up spoken word, comedy and hip hop, Richard McIver and Lachlan McKinney deliver hyperkinetic performances in this satire that examines the current American cultural landscape as it appears to a young white man and a young black man. Written by Steve Connell and Sekou Andrews, the play follows the journey of two men as they explore race, faith and morality in America from the inner cities to the heartland. Throughout their compelling journey, the actors move through a chaotic landscape as they attempt to come to terms with the realities of this American moment. Merry War Theatre Group is the first to perform this piece outside of the original cast. 3/2224; 29-31; 4/5-7, 7:30pm. $10-$14. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 848-9892.

LAST TRAIN HOME: Artemisia MovieHouse presents this 2009 documentary/ drama. Every spring, China’s 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This exodus is the world’s largest human migration. Director Lixin Fan traveled with one couple who has embarked on these annual treks for almost two decades. The result is this heartbreaking, intense documentary. In Mandarin with English subtitles. 3/19, 6pm. $5-$7. Artemisia MovieHouse at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111.

GIL MARTIN—FROM THE GROUND UP: The Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) presents work by artist Gil Martin. M-F

through 5/24, 8am-4pm. Free. CCAI

Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

3/17:

After lifting a pint in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, head down to Brewery Arts Center for an evening with Celtic folk duo Men of Worth. For more than 30 years, the two musicians have been combining traditional and contemporary styles of Irish and Scottish folk music. Scotsman Donnie Macdonald often sings in his native Gaelic, while Irishman James Keigher includes stories saved from the oral traditions of his native County Mayo. Together, they blend their voices in harmony and support their collection of songs with their varied selection of instruments. The concert begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 17, at the Maizie Harris Jesse Black Box Theater in the BAC, 449 W. King St., Carson City. Tickets are $15-$20 in advance and $25 at the door. Call 883-1976 or visit http://breweryarts.org.

EVENTS DISCOVER LECTURE SCIENCE SERIES: Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, who is leading the imaging science team for NASA’s Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn, will speak at the University of Nevada, Reno as part of the Discover Science Lecture Series presented by the University’s College of Science. 3/16, 7pm. Free. Redfield Auditorium, Davidson Math and Science Center, 1055 Evans Ave., (775) 784-4591.

GEM FAIRE: This show brings a wide array of quality crystals, beads, gems and more straight from importers, wholesalers and manufacturers. 3/17, noon-6pm; 3/18, 10am-6pm; 3/19, 10am-5pm. $7, free admission for children age 11 and younger. Reno-Sparks Livestock Events, 1350 N. Wells Ave., www.gemfaire.com.

JOE CROWLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN NIGHTINGALE: The evening will feature a discussion between Crowley and Nightingale about the perils of propaganda in contemporary society. 3/17, 6pm. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

artists Ben Aleck, Topaz Jones, Jack Malotte, Melissa Melero-Moose and Topah Spoonhunter. M-F through 6/19, 9am-6pm. Free. Carson City Visitors Bureau, 716 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-7410, visitcarsoncity.com.

NATURE IN BLACK & WHITE: Gallery East in

BAKERSFIELD MIST: Restless Artists Theatre

McKinley Arts Center presents artwork by monochromatic photographer Barbie Crawford. Her work draws much from the inspiration of the flora and fauna around her. 3/16-22, 8am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

MIROSLAV ANTIC AND ROGER BERRY: Antic’s large-scale paintings and installations aim to make the most fleeting and nostalgic parts of American culture tangible. Roger Berry creates metal sculptures with arching shapes, evoking loosely intertwined knots. The opening reception is on March 16, 5:30-7:30pm. M-Sa through 4/15, 9am5pm. Free. Stremmel Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558.

TRUCKEE MEADOWS REFLECTIONS: The Sparks Museum & Cultural Center presents Truckee Meadows Reflections, an exhibition detailing historical water usage in the region. In conjunction with the exhibit, Latimer Art Club presents work by their members in the museum Cultural Center. Artists from Latimer explore the theme of water in their artwork, which showcases a wide variety of mediums. Tu-Sa through 3/25, 11am. Free. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave, Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

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. 3/18, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

WORDS TO LIVE BY—AN EVENING WITH DOROTHY PARKER: Brüka Theatre

ANNIE, JR.: Wild Horse Children’s Theater presents the musical based on the comic strip about a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City orphanage, run by the sinister Miss Hannigan. 3/17-18, 7pm; 3/18-19, 2pm. $5-$10. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 440-1170, www.wildhorsetheater.com.

GREAT BASIN NATIVE ARTISTS: Featured

Men of Worth

ONSTAGE

presents Stephen Sachs’ play that centers on a 50-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park who is convinced a painting she bought in a thrift store is a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock. But when worldclass art expert Lionel Percy arrives at her trailer home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he has no idea what he is about to discover. Inspired by true events, this comedy-drama asks vital questions about what makes art and people truly authentic. 3/1618, 7:30pm; 3/19, 2pm. $12-$15. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.

COME IN FROM THE COLD: Cowboy poet Larry Maurice closes this season’s family entertainment series. Seating is limited to 200 people. 3/18, 7pm. $3 donation. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 786-4512 x106.

MUSEUMS TOYTOPIA: This exhibit is an immersive and hands-on adventure through 100 years of classic toys, games, dolls and more. Visitors will learn about the origins of toys, who made them and why they are fun or dear to us. W-Sa through 4/16, 9am-5pm. $9. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist. Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. If there’s enough snow, this will be a snowshoe hike. There will be a few pairs of snowshoes at the visitor center available for rent. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. 3/18, 10am. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

league team plays the Texas Legends. 3/20, 7pm. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800.

presents Robert Askin’s dark comedy—a play that explores themes of faith, morality and the ties that bind us. 3/18, 3/24-26, 31; 4/1-2, 6-8, 7:30pm. $15. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St. (775) 322-3716.

about three outsiders—a foundling girl known only as Girl, a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence, and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language, chronicles the journeys of these three to find themselves, and each other, in a troubled time. 3/16-18, 7:30pm; 3/18-19, 3/26, 2pm. $12-$22. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

SPORTS & FITNESS

RENO BIGHORNS: The NBA development

HAND TO GOD: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre

MOTHER HICKS: Susan Zeder’s play is

presents Mary Bennett’s one-woman show based on the works and life of 1920s writer, wit and critic Dorothy Parker. The show weaves a collage of dramatic devices and literary slightsof-hand to lure the audience into a world imagined by Dorothy Parker. All tickets are $10 on Artist night, March 22. The matinee on March 19 will be followed by a talk back with the company and the audience. 3/16-18, 3/22-25, 8pm; 3/19, 3/25, 2pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

CLASSES HERBAL REMEDIES: Learn about all-natural remedies to soothe common cold and flu maladies. Each attendee will leave with at least three remedies as well as a tip sheet and recipes to make at home. Light refreshments will be served. 3/16, 7pm. $40-$50. The Basement, 50 S. Virginia St., (775) 848-2248.

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National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine-Kiev

3/18:

The Reno Chamber Orchestra presents a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Kiev (NSOUK). The orchestra will be conducted by its “conductor laureate”—RCO music director and conductor Theodore Kuchar. Formed by the Council of Ministers of Ukraine in November, 1918, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is regarded as one of the finest symphony orchestras in Eastern Europe. Since 1993, the NSOUK has released more than 100 recordings which include Ukrainian and international repertoires. The orchestra’s CD of Silvestrov’s Requiem for Larissa was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005, followed by another Grammy Award nomination four year later for its CD of Bloch and Lees’ Violin Concertos. The orchestra’s Reno performance will include the music of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Khachaturian and Beethoven. Lukáš Vondráček will be the soloist in the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor.” The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 18, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $25$75. Call 348-9413 or visit www.renochamberorchestra.org.

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH PRACTICE: Practice Spanish and improve language skills. Meet other travelers and professionals who are interested in Spanish language and culture. 3/18, 11:30am. $10. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Ste. 117, Building B, (775) 224-6271.

C@PITAL CODERS: Learn how to code or improve coding skills at Carson City Library’s new club The C@pital Coders. The club will practice coding through activities using NC Lab, Makey Makey, Scratch and more. 3/21, 4pm. Carson City Library, 900 N. Roop St., Carson City. (775) 887-2244.

PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF RENO: PSOR meets every Wednesday. There is painting from life models (no instruction). All artists are welcome. There is a $10 drop-in fee. For more information, email psor2016@gmail. com 3/22, 9am. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., www.nvfinearts.com.

SGA STUDENT LIFE AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP: This workshop will show how to increase your organization’s attendance and participation for activities and special events. Sponsored by TMCC’s Student Government Association. 3/17, 11am. Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 240-5943. www.tmcc.edu.

WEDNESDAY WORKSHOPS: Multiple hourlong workshops and presentations on various topics. Changes weekly. Topics vary from consciousness to art, music, social networking, theater, etc. Contact ksweetsparlormint@gmail.com if you are interested in facilitating a workshop of your choice. 3/22, 6pm. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., www.potentialistworkshop.com.

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COMMUNITY BLANKETS, TOWELS AND TOY DONATIONS: Tax-deductible donations of blankets, towels and toys for homeless pets may be dropped off at the new SPCA of Northern Nevada Pet Care and Adoption Center and at the SPCA Thrift Store, 401 Vine St. Daily, 11am-6pm. SPCA of Northern Nevada, 4950 Spectrum Blvd., (775) 324-7773.

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

SAM ADAMS NIGHT: Join the Nevada Capital Libertarian Party at this monthly gathering. Learn about the NVCLP, listen to speakers and featured guests and visit with fellow Libertarians. 3/16, 7pm. Free. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson St., Carson City, www.commacoffee.com.

by AMY ALKON

Pleaser burn My problem is that I’ll go on one or two dates with a girl and then get the whole “I just wanna be friends.” And they really mean that. They want me to do lunch and go shopping and talk on the phone about their guy problems. How can I nicely tell these girls, “I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but no, I’m not going to be your friend—and I especially don’t want to hear about your new guy”? I guess the problem boils down to the fact that I don’t want to make a woman mad. Your first problem is that you’re wrong about what your problem is. It isn’t how to tell a woman you aren’t up for the role of pet eunuch. It’s how to be the man holding her in his arms instead of the one holding her purse while she’s exploring her options in the tampon section. Consider what the ladies tend to want. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers’ theory of “parental investment” explains that in species that provide continuing care for their young after they’re born, females have evolved to go for “dominant” males. Dominance translates to being more able to “provide protection and material support” through physical ability, as well as high social status. However, women aren’t looking to be dragged off into the sunset by some thug. Social psychologist Jerry M. Burger and one of his students, Mica Cosby, took a nuanced look at dominance and found that women overwhelmingly want a man who is “confident” and “assertive” as their ideal date or romantic partner. And though most also want a man who’s “sensitive” and “easygoing,” none of the 118 women they surveyed wanted a man who is “submissive.” Chances are, “submissive” is exactly how you’re coming off. Your pleaserboy bottom line—“I don’t want to make a woman mad”—suggests a hunger for women’s approval and probably leads you to wilt like a man-daisy to avoid even the slightest conflict. Unfortunately, that won’t get you out of the friend zone. What will is self-respect and the assertiveness that comes out of it—showing that you have opinions, needs and preferences, and tough tostadas if a woman doesn’t like them. This, of course, doesn’t mean being rigidly uncompromising. However,

when you do sacrifice your needs, it should be because you feel good about doing something nice— not because you’re dreaming of a day when your “Well, hellooo, gorgeous!” won’t be followed by “Thanks! And I seriously appreciate your watching Señor Fluffyface while I’m on my date.”

How do I love three I’m a 40-something woman, living with my 50-something male partner. Our relationship is slightly open, in that every Tuesday, we each go out separately and “do whatever with whomever.” I have lived up to my part of this, but I recently discovered that my partner has not. On Tuesdays, he stays home by himself. Beyond being irritated that he’s effectively been lying, I feel weird being the only one doing the open relationship thing. How do I get him to live up to our agreement? Chances are, his lying and your feeling “weird” that things aren’t all even-steven in the sexual snacking domain come out of the same place—the evolution of cooperation and the sense of fairness that fostered it. We evolved to get all freaked out about imbalances—even when they’re in our favor, explain population biologist Sarah Brosnan and primatologist Frans de Waal. In fact, we are driven to equalize things “to our own detriment.” But, don’t get too misty-eyed about human moral nobility. They point out that it’s in our self-interest to take the long view—trying to avoid being perceived as unfair, which could kill the possibility of “continued cooperation” between ourselves and a partner. Understanding the likely evolutionary psychology behind your feeling upset could help you focus on why your partner is saying “nope!” to the sex buffet. My guess? He loves you and wants you to have what you need—and he doesn’t want you to feel uncomfortable about going out and getting it. Ω

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The more unselfish

and compassionate you are in the coming weeks, the more likely it is you will get exactly what you need. Here are four ways that can be true: (1) If you’re kind to people, they will want to be kind to you in return. (2) Taking good care of others will bolster their ability to take good care of you. (3) If you’re less obsessed with I-me-mine, you will magically dissolve psychic blocks that have prevented certain folks from giving you all they are inclined to give you. (4) Attending to others’ healing will teach you valuable lessons in how to heal yourself—and how to get the healing you yearn for from others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope you will

consider buying yourself some early birthday presents. The celebration is weeks away, but you need some prodding, instigative energy now. It’s crucial that you bring a dose of the starting-fresh spirit into the ripening projects you’re working on. Your mood might get overly cautious and serious unless you infuse it with the spunk of an excited beginner. Of course only you know what gifts would provide you with the best impetus, but here are suggestions to stimulate your imagination: a young cactus; a jack-in-the-box; a rock with the word “sprout” written on it; a decorated marble egg; a fox mask; a Photoshopped image of you flying through the air like a superhero.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many Geminis verbal-

ize profusely and acrobatically. They enjoy turning their thoughts into speech, and love to keep social situations lively with the power of their agile tongues. Aquarians and Sagittarians may rival your tribe for the title of The Zodiac’s Best Bullshitters, but I think you’re in the top spot. Having heaped that praise on you, however, I must note that your words don’t always have as much influence as they have entertainment value. You sometimes impress people more than you impact them. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, that could change. I suspect your fluency will carry a lot of clout. Your communication skills could sway the course of local history.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your world is

more spacious than it has been in a long time. Congrats! I love the way you have been pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and into the wilder frontier. For your next trick, here’s my suggestion: Anticipate the parts of you that may be inclined to close down again when you don’t feel as brave and free as you do now. Then gently clamp open those very parts. If you calm your fears before they break out, maybe they won’t break out at all.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I like rowdy, extravagant

longing as much as anyone. I enjoy being possessed by a heedless greed for too much of everything that feels rapturous: delectable food, mysterious sex, engrossing information, liberating intoxication, and surprising conversations that keep me guessing and improvising for hours. But I am also a devotee of simple, sweet longing … pure, watchful, patient longing … open-hearted longing that brims with innocence and curiosity and is driven as much by the urge to bless as to be blessed. That’s the kind I recommend you explore and experiment with in the coming days.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know that forbid-

den fruit you’ve had your eyes on? Maybe it isn’t so forbidden any more. It could even be evolving toward a state where it will be both freely available and downright healthy for you to pluck. But there’s also a possibility that it’s simply a little less risky than it was before. And it may never become a fully viable option. So here’s my advice: Don’t grab and bite into that forbidden fruit yet. Keep monitoring the situation. Be especially attentive to the following questions: Do you crave the forbidden fruit because it would help you flee a dilemma you haven’t mustered the courage to escape from? Or because it would truly be good for you to partake of the forbidden fruit?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I expect you will get

more than your usual share of both sweetness and tartness in the coming days. Sometimes one or the other will be the predominant mode, but on occasion they will converge to deliver a complex brew of WOW!-meets-WTF! Imagine

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chunks of sour apples in your vanilla fudge ripple ice cream. Given this state of affairs, there’s no good reason for you to be blandly kind or boringly polite. Use a saucy attitude to convey your thoughtfulness. Be as provocative as you are tender. Don’t just be nice—be impishly and subversively nice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I want to gather

your darkness in my hands, to cup it like water and drink.” So says Jane Hirshfield in her poem “To Drink.” I bet she was addressing a Scorpio. Does any other sign of the zodiac possess a sweet darkness that’s as delicious and gratifying as yours? Yes, it’s true that you also harbor an unappetizing pocket of darkness, just like everyone else. But that sweet kind—the ambrosial, enigmatic, exhilarating stuff—is not only safe to imbibe, but can also be downright healing. In the coming days, I hope you’ll share it generously with worthy recipients.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Saturn has

been in your sign steadily since September 2015, and will continue to be there until December 2017. Some traditional astrologers might say you are in a phase of downsizing and self-restraint. They’d encourage you to be extra strict and serious and dutiful. To them, the ringed planet is an exacting taskmaster. There are some grains of truth in this perspective, but I like to emphasize a different tack. I say that if you cooperate with the rigors of Saturn, you’ll be inspired to become more focused and decisive and disciplined as you shed any flighty or reckless tendencies you might have. Yes, Saturn can be adversarial if you ignore its commands to be faithful to your best dreams. But if you respond gamely, it will be your staunch ally.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Born in the Afri-

can nation of Burkina Faso, Malidoma Somé is a teacher who writes books and offers workshops to Westerners interested in the spiritual traditions of his tribe. In his native Dagaare language, his first name means “he who befriends the stranger/enemy.” I propose that we make you an honorary “Malidoma” for the next three weeks. It will be a favorable time to forge connections, broker truces and initiate collaborations with influences you have previous considered foreign or alien.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every relationship

has problems. No exceptions. In the beginning, all may be calm and bright, but eventually cracks will appear. Here’s the corollary to that rule: Every partner is imperfect. Regardless of how cool, kind, attractive or smart they may seem in the early stages, they will eventually unveil their unique flaws and troubles. Does this mean that all togetherness is doomed? That it’s forever impossible to create satisfying unions? The answer is hell no!—especially if you keep the following principles in mind: Choose a partner whose problems are (1) interesting; (2) tolerable; (3) useful in prodding you to grow; (4) all of the above.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like

some free healing that’s in alignment with cosmic rhythms? Try this experiment. Imagine that you’re planning to write your autobiography. Create an outline that has six chapters. Each of the first three chapters will be about a past experience that helped make you who you are. In each of the last three chapters, you will describe a desirable event that you want to create in the future. I also encourage you to come up with a boisterous title for your tale. Don’t settle for My Life So Far or The Story of My Journey. Make it idiosyncratic and colorful, perhaps even outlandish, like Piscean author Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

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by DENNis MYERs

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[with politics]. There are five signs of emotional suffering that our client wanted us to be putting out. And we kind of decided that in order to recognize those five signs, you need to have compassion, and to show compassion in order to reach the people that you want to be reaching. And our audience wasn’t those people that are suffering. It was the friends of those people.

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Five public relations students at the Unversity of Nevada, Reno conducted a campus mental health awareness campaign as part of a competition. Madison Stiegel was one member of the team. More information can be found at www.ChangeDirection.org.

Who suggested this project? Every year for the past five years, the journalism school has done the national Bateman Competition Team. There’s 120 teams that do it countrywide. Every year we get a new client, as well, and so the campaign will change directions.

What did you think when you got the assignment? I was excited because mental health has always interested me and especially considering [we] were allowed to choose where we wanted to have an audience and where we would want to have the campaign based. I really liked the idea of bringing that to campus and to be able to open up that conversation at UNR.

And how did you and your colleagues carry the message? When we started, it we didn’t really have a clear direction on how we wanted to go about it. It’s kind of

a touchy subject. Mental health on campus is something that can be taken the wrong way. … So we wanted something that was unifying that would be more uplifting than clinical because that’s the way a lot of the campaigns have gone in the past. In general, when you’re talking about mental health, a lot of it is seeing the signs. We wanted to capitalize on the student government election because it was going on at the same time. And so we developed our “Vote for Compassion” campaign.

How did you get it out to students? We launched a social media campaign to start. We got influencers on campus to help us put out our message. We gave them material and messages, and they had significant followings on their own social media that allowed us to reach a pretty wide audience on campus. And then we started aggressively reaching the campus with tabling and going into classrooms. We had teachers [give us] five minutes to give a little message. … It all snowballed.

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I assume since the competition is over, the campaign is over? We are stepping out of it, but there are some people who have expressed an interest in keeping it going, and I hope that is going to happen. Ω

What was Vote for Compassion? Right when we launched our campaign, a candidate running for president had some incriminating tweets found about him. Also, in the political climate, a lot of our students are uncomfortable

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

The age of reason Bruce took a week off from venting all over his keyboard. This is an oldie. Number one: The sleekness of the boat glides through the Lake. The light is fading on the Friday evening, but there is still enough to easily see down to the bottom, through 40 feet of water. Yes, the Lake is clouding at a rate of one foot a year, but it’s still an utterly remarkable place. The boat’s engine glugs along at an easy chug, heading toward the dock of a swank little cafe on the Lake’s western shore. The stern, pushing breeze that had been dominating the Lake for the last six hours backs off, and the west shore of Tahoe is, at this moment, one of the great places to be in this galaxy. Our quartet nurses drinks, makes small talk and gazes eastward, awaiting the show. Shortly after sunset, a glow from the east, and then a thin sliver of lunar silver. The moon surfaces,

and does so like it knows what it’s doing. Even veteran moonrise fans are impressed. Number two: Saturday at dusk, the day of the summer solstice. This bluff overlooking The Other Big Lake is, as always, empty. It’s warm and windy, the time of shadows and color, all changing slightly every minute. The crazed waterfall up the canyon about a quarter mile shoots its stream over the cliff every second, gushing with peak runoff force. The bright yellow blazing star, one of the top five beautiful wildflowers of the North American desert, is here, and several plants bloom and climax. A seagull spots the family-sized sub sandwich being passed among our party, and immediately contacts Seagull Central Headquarters, which instantly sends out a squadron of mindless gull drones in search of human handouts. Pelicans fly past our

beach spot in their usual manner, skimming across the water about six inches above the waterline, wingtips never once flicking the surface. Number three: Halfway up the main road to the top of Peavine, there is a thick, beautiful stand of Curlleaf Cercocarpus, commonly called mountain mahogany. I suspect that somewhere in this grove, overlooking Reno, there’s an excellent little sheltered spot that will prove to be a killer place to take a Sunday nap. Armed with my comforter and a nice, boring book, I find out I’m right. No match for the lullaby of wind, leaves, and cicadas, I’m knocked out in seconds, sawing horrifying, troll-like Zs with thorough satisfaction. There they are. Three of the most common reasons why people say they love living here, and none of them have anything to do with Reno. Ω

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