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Recovering from Surgery? Suffering from Pain that Just Won’t Go Away? Physical Therapy Might be for You Physical therapy is the practice of restoring optimal function to people with injuries in the muscles, bones, ligaments or nervous system. Physical therapists use specialized exercise and equipment to help reduce pain, weakness and stiffness, while also helping patients to rebuild strength and endurance.
Who May Need Physical Therapy? Ask your doctor about a referral for physical therapy if you have any of the following conditions: • • • •
Surgery preparation Postoperative recovery Sports injuries Arthritis
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Muscle and joint pain Back and neck pain Neurological disorders And more!
Meet the NNMC Physical Therapists Jessie Fisher
Heidi Streeter
PT, MPT, OCS Jessie grew up in the communities of Reno and Sparks. She has been an outpatient physical therapist since 2001.
DPT, ASTM Heidi is a native to Nevada and has been practicing physical therapy since 2008.
Her qualifications include: • Board certified orthopedic PT specialist • Level I Functional Movement Screen Certification (treats the body as a whole in the development of individualized treatment plans) • Certified specialist in the LSVT BIG protocol, to address the unique movement impairments of people with Parkinson’s disease • Experience with NCAA Division I athletes
Coming this Summer: Comprehensive Physical Therapy in South Reno Northern Nevada Medical Center (NNMC) is excited to announce the opening of a new rehabilitation facility for comprehensive physical therapy in South Reno. With the already established Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Center in Sparks, NNMC can now offer patients two convenient locations for physical therapy.
Personalized & Advanced Care At NNMC Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Center: Sparks and South Reno, physical therapists develop individualized treatment plans for a variety of common and complicated conditions in fully equipped clinics. Physical therapists are available to see patients Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 775.356.4960 for more information or to schedule an appointment.
Her experience includes: • Outpatient orthopedics and aquatic therapy • Post-surgical rehabilitation and worker’s compensation • McKenzie Mechanical Diagnosis & ASTYM (Assisted Soft Tissue Massage) Methods for treating pain • Certified Functional Evaluator
Sparks: 2375 E. Prater Way, Suite 301
New location coming this summer!
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South Reno: 1091 Steamboat Parkway, Suite 240 Phone: 775.386.2244 Fax: 775.335.1048
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Sick days Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Are you sick? I’m sick. A lot of other people of other people I know are sick, too. There’s some nasty stuff going around. I caught this damn lingering cough that just won’t quit. It comes and goes in varying degrees—from minor irritant to full-blown debilitation. I’ve missed a couple of days of work and had some sleepless nights. Everyone in my home, just about, has caught it as well. It’s a goddamn symphony of hacking around my house. It developed into strep throat for one of my stepdaughters, poor dear. So, yeah, everyone is sick. And do you know who’s to blame? The fossil fuel industries. That’s right. Bear with me for a second here. This is a little bit into crazy conspiracy theory land, but it’s less outlandish than it sounds. Why is there a lot of nasty stuff going around Reno right now? Because it’s a lush, green spring after the wettest winter in recent memory. More water means more plants, greener plants, stronger plants. And more plants? More pollen. And more pollen? More snot in the noses of all us poor, sorry allergy sufferers. And more snot— and more earwax and more eye boogers? That’s just more breeding ground for bacteria and viruses. And more bacteria and more viruses? More sickness traveling around. There are people walking around this town just dripping nastiness from their noses out into the streets. It all comes back to that wet winter. And that wet winter? That’s climate change, pure and simple. Scientists agree. And climate change? It’s caused by carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists agree. And the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions? Fossil fuels.
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Our leader Open letter to the prime minister of Montenegro: I apologize for the boorish behavior of my president when he felt a need to shove his way to the front of the group so that he could stick his surly face foremost in front of the camera. I’m embarrassed, as an American and a human being, that our current head of state doesn’t have even basic human decency or regard for anything other than feeding his already over-bloated ego. I hope that you and the other NATO ministers and everyone else who was there to witness this rude display of arrogant ignorance can remember that his tenure is temporary and that it in no way represents the majority of Americans. My other hope is that as the embarrassments accumulate, it will inspire more of us on this side of the planet to never let this happen again. Again, I sincerely apologize and hope you can forgive us for our sin. Michael Rottman Virginia Highlands
Evidence vs. dogma Re “A Christian view” (guest comment, May 25): It’s a fairly sure sign that someone has run out of useful arguments when one starts quoting the Bible. The only people who accept the Bible as a valid basis for an argument are true believers who most likely already accept the thesis. Or to put it another way, you’re preachin’ to the choir, Sister! But even worse, the Bible should give you great pause before you cherry-pick passages for an anti-abortion position. As you should already know, your Holy Scriptures also depict a Hebrew God who on many occasions showed incredibly callous disregard for the value of innocent life. One of the most foundational events in the history of the Judeo-Christian religious traditions is the original “Passover” event. This is also
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known as the “plague of the firstborn” which precipitated the Exodus. The god of Abraham and Moses, worshipped by Christians and Jews alike, attacked the families of Egypt by killing the firstborn male child in every non-Israelite household, thereby coercing the Pharaoh to allow the Israelites to emigrate from Egypt. According to population and family size estimates for that era, the death toll that night would likely have been well over 100,000 innocent children directly at the hands of their Creator, assuming the Bible is true. When you consider not just the dead firstborn male children, but their surviving siblings who cried their eyes out with grief over the loss of their brothers, plus all the moms and dads who lost a son, it’s hard to square that act of supernatural terrorism with how this Judeo-Christian god is portrayed today as having love toward all. If you’ve read very much of your Bible, you’ll recognize that its pages depict a Creator who, along with his servants, shows a very spotty record on the value of innocent life, especially regarding gentiles. Sometimes he shows deference for children, and sometimes he kills them in order to bring misery to the families who love them. Some deities are fickle, and most are no better than the people who invented them. Gary Marks Reno
Heller & Co. On the campaign trail, Candidate Trump pledged to “promote clean air and clean water,” but as president his budget does the exact opposite. It takes aim at Nevada’s budget, directly threatening the air our children breathe and the water they drink! With deep cuts to programs we’ve depended on for generations, Nevada and federal agencies will be powerless to prevent or tackle environmental disasters and public safety crises. Trump’s dirty budget has the EPA funded at its lowest level in 40 years, gutting
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common sense Clean Air and Water Acts safeguards that protect our air and drinking water from mercury, lead, arsenic and other pollutants. Under the Trump budget, we can expect catastrophes like the Flint water crisis to become tragically routine. We need our leaders, including Senator Dean Heller, to stand up to corporate polluters and their allies in Washington, and fight for our families and communities first, instead of selling out our children’s health to special interests. Louise Curtis Reno
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Food you hated but love now? askeD at iDlewilD Park, 2055 iDlewilD Drive. Jill Ferne yhough Teacher
Black olives. I think because I started eating them in France, and it was an unusual experience. Now I eat them all the time.
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Probably shrimp. As a child, I didn’t really like it, and growing up, my cousin made me eat it, and now I love shrimp.
Drevaun Jackson Warehouse worker
Pay people for their work First of all, we love dumb online contests just as much as the next purveyor of internet filth. (Just wait til our Best of Northern Nevada gets rolling next month. It’s the biggest, best dumb online contest in Reno.) And we love baseball, and we love celebrating dates of historical significance, like Reno’s upcoming 150th birthday. But we also love paying people for their work. The City of Reno recently released a call for artists to design a special Reno Aces baseball jersey to commemorate the city’s 150th anniversary celebration. But rather than commissioning a professional artist or graphic designer or fashion designer or baseball historian or any other professional to design the jersey, the city is just lazily crowdsourcing the job—like it’s a “What should I name my new pet duck?” Facebook post. We actually caught wind of the contest from a post on the city’s Facebook page: “Calling all artists and graphic designers! We’re searching for the best #Reno150-themed jersey for the Reno Aces!” And here’s the thing—they’re not asking for submissions from kids under 12 or whatever. They want submissions from professional artists and designers—the post lists resumes, references and digital images as “requirements” for submissions. So, they want professional artists to apply for this jersey gig like it’s a real job, and to do the work in advance “on spec,” like some kind of starving and/or
independently wealthy TV writer. Do all the work in advance for a shot at what? A major career opportunity to become the city’s in-house designer and make 100k a year, and sit behind home plate for every Aces game for all of perpetuity? Nope, for $200. By the time we saw the Facebook post, some local designers and artists were already taking the city to task for these cheapskate shenanigans. Joss Simmons: “As a professional graphic designer I cannot endorse this kind of spec work. I furthermore would like to see AIGA Reno-Tahoe and AAF Reno denouncing this type of design contest.” Tee Iseminger: “On the bright side, this gives me a great, money-saving idea for how we can recruit and pay Aces players and city officials from now on, too.” Hear, hear. The city doesn’t have low-paying speculation contests to decide who gets to put out fires or arrest domestic abusers. The city hires professionals and pays them. Artists and designers, like academics and scientists, already have the validity of their occupations undercut by the anti-intellectual fervor coming out of the White House these days. The city shouldn’t make matters worse by replacing artists’ wages with dumb, low-paying contests. Hire professionals, and pay them for their work. Ω
I’m going to have to say Brussels sprouts because you used to think that you had to eat them plain and cold. But now I know how to cook. … Put some butter on it, and grill them up.
Michelle nye Student
I like tomatoes now. I’m working on it. I can’t have whole ones or slices but having tiny pieces of it in pico de gallo and stuff I am OK with.
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Probably vegetables. I think mostly just as a kid you don’t like vegetables, but I love vegetables. I love to cook, too. So, embrace it all right!
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by SHEILA LESLIE
Tracking all the scandals It’s incredibly difficult to stay focused on the treasonous, scandal-by-the-hour antics of the Trump administration these days. The President’s immaturity and impulsiveness are truly frightening. His bumbling incompetence is unbelievable. And the sheer greed of Trump and his family members is astounding. Yet, one recent poll showed 84 percent of Republicans still think he is doing a great job. It leaves one almost speechless with frustration. The rest of the world cannot understand how our country has transformed from a much-admired democracy to a banana republic in just a few years, except for Saudi Arabia, whose citizens gave a collective shrug during Trump’s May visit. As one person said, “That’s how a king acts.” But how could we have exchanged cerebral and scandal-free President Obama for the ridiculous and traitorous Trump, not in a military coup but through the voting booth? How could the United States, with its renowned institutions of higher learning,
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have chosen someone so uneducated, inarticulate, and clearly in far over his head as the leader of the free world? The Trump presidency is less than six months old, but it’s hard to imagine it can survive the year at this intense pace of unconscionable behavior by the president, his family, his aides and a complicit Republican Congress. The appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special prosecutor over the Trump/Russia investigation provides a glimmer of hope, but it may be years before his work is completed. It seems likely that Trump will explode far sooner. Those of us who lived through Watergate and President Nixon’s resignation know a president can self-destruct, although the prospect of a President Pence is hardly comforting. Pence’s motivation seems to be turning our democracy into a Christian theocracy, and his ideas about women make the ’50s look like a feminist era. Last week, while President Trump traveled the world in his embarrassing,
blundering fashion, claiming exhaustion after just one day, his administration released the fiscal 2018 budget which is far worse than the direst predictions. Trump proposes massive Medicaid cuts, more than $800 billion over 10 years, leaving about 10 million Americans with no health care. The budget anticipates huge cuts in other anti-poverty programs, such as food stamps and Social Security Disability Insurance, allowing states to put stricter work requirements on recipients, even if they’re disabled or mentally ill. Where will all these budget savings go? Not to the budget deficit or better ways of helping low-income people. Instead, Trump will cut taxes for the wealthy under the myth of trickle-down economics, a fable shattered by recent history. Nevertheless, administration officials continue to insist that tax cuts for the rich will create “trillions of dollars in new revenue,” a bold lie they can’t possibly believe. Budget director Mick Mulvaney tried to sell the budget as “compassion” for
wealthy taxpayers and insisted that many recipients of public assistance programs such as Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or Social Security Disability Insurance don’t really need the help. Mulvaney said: “We’re no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the number of people on those programs, but by the number of people we help get off of those programs.” Once you make them ineligible, they’re off the program, you see—never mind how much they still need health care or disability payments. It’s clear that millions will suffer greatly if this budget is ever adopted. Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, summed up the Trump budget nicely, telling the Washington Post that “the indications are strong this budget will feature Robin-Hood-in-reverse policies in an unprecedented scale.” In other words, take from the poor and give to the rich. Ω
by brendan Trainor
Winding down in Carson City The Nevada legislature is winding down. Participants hope they can leave Carson City in their cars and not on a rail. Concealed carry is doing well, as a bill to prohibit carry in public libraries died. If you are in the military or a vet, age restrictions were lifted for those 18-20. Washoe Republican Assemblymember Jill Tolles’ Assembly Bill 260 is likely to pass. This bill is Nevada’s first version of the “Swedish Model” of anti-prostitution legislation. This model is the newest rage with prohibitionists. Sex workers are supposedly “helped” by being arrested, humiliated, forced to go to court, plead guilty, and then attend boring and irrelevant re-education in order to have their “crime” expunged. Meanwhile their customers (“johns”) face increasing fines and potential gross misdemeanor charges for paying for services that they need and/or desire from willing providers. The U.S. way of shame and confusion regarding sex and the law continues in Nevada as in the rest of the country. Only Nevada
has the added irony of permitting legal prostitution in government-approved bordellos that makes this not only a prurient criminalization of consensual commercial sexual transactions but also a blatant act of economic protectionism. Senate Bill 188 adds anti-discrimination language to many Nevada statutes for LGTBQ people. The bill pretty much confines itself to public entities, which I support. It does forbid housing discrimination, to which I would ask is there any evidence of widespread housing discrimination in Nevada for LGTBQ people? Just askin’. A.B. 229 and Assembly Joint Resolution 2 would legalize same sex marriage statutorily and then constitutionally. This is the right thing to do, and Senate Republicans voted for it. The constitutional amendment requires passage in the next legislative session and a vote by the people. Republicans did oppose S.B. 122, establishing public funding for “family
planning” grants to local government entities and non-profits (Planned Parenthood). We can only hope the Governor will veto this bill. There is a difference between a right to privacy and forcing everyone to pay for that right. And, yes, abortion is a relatively safe and sadly common medical procedure but, hey, it is not the same as an appendectomy! The left wants abortion thought of as just another procedure, but the majority of voters simply cannot. A.B. 258 passed with Republican opposition in the Assembly. It would create a women’s commission to continue to look into ways to make sure men know they are no longer in charge, which men already know very well. S.B. 107 passed the Senate without Republican opposition and will create ethnic and diversity studies in school. At least the bill was amended from mandatory to optional to create the class. Does this mean ethnic jokes are OK again? No, that kind of diversity will not be
tolerated, I’m sure. Those who attend this class will learn how differently superior we all are, and the idea of the “common school,” if it ever existed, will fade away some more. The Balkanization of America continues. Two other constitution-altering bills that are still in play are S.J.R. 14 and S.J.R. 11. Both had nearly unanimous Republican opposition in the Senate, and are in the Assembly as of this report. S.J.R. 14 would place an escalator clause on property taxes, allowing for a tax increase every time a property is sold or transferred. S.J.R. 11 would allow for annual sessions of the legislature, with a 45 day session in even years. If they pass this year, they have to pass in the next session and then face a vote of the people. Nevadans rarely vote to raise taxes or give legislators more opportunity to meddle in their lives. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
EddiE Scott 1928-2017 Eddie Scott arrived in Reno in 1950, when the city had just 32,497 residents. “There were signs saying they didn’t want colored trade,” Scott told reporter Ed Pearce in 2011. Scott arrived looking for work. He departed Reno for a time to work in nearby Herlong where he reportedly first became involved in civil rights. He served as Reno-Sparks branch president of the NAACP in 1961-64 and 1967-68. He worked to win enactment of equal rights legislation in the Nevada Legislature. In a 1961 wire to Nevada’s congressional delegation and President Kennedy, Scott described conditions for blacks in the state: “FHA discrimination everywhere. Negro service men suffering. Seventy percent relegated substandard rentals.” For 12 years, Scott was director of the Race Relations Center in Reno. Begun with seed money from feminist leader Maya Miller, the Center dealt with the problems of daily life for low-income people of any color—jobs, housing, rights. Scott fought constantly for funding to keep the Center alive, tapping contributors and governments at all levels. Funding from a now-defunct federal program, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), made life easier, but the details of administration caused friction with those who oversaw the funds, often leading to public battles county officials. At one point, County Commissioner Dick Scott advised the employees of the Center to seek other jobs. Elizabeth Gower Woodard, Scott’s aide at the Center, was one of those workers. She said he kept the Center going “on a slim budget. He got small grants here and there, like the one from Maya Miller, and small donations. But he was very smart in taking advantage of government programs, too. I was a CETA employee, and his association with CETA worked well for Mr. Scott.” Strain of fundraising and the work took their toll. Woodard said, “We tried to help everyone who called or came through our door. Mr. Scott was brilliant in finding partners to help people, many of whom had been denied help from agencies specifically designed to help them. It was maddening sometimes, but Mr. Scott just carried on with a quiet dignity.” What many of those who faulted Scott’s performance never knew was that he was illiterate. One of Woodard’s functions was to read office materials to him. His numerous accomplishments were achieved in spite of this drawback. Those who stumbled onto his secret were often disbelieving. In 2015, Scott was named a “Distinguished Nevadan” during a University of Nevada, Reno commencement. An NAACP branch award is named for Scott and his colleague Bertha Woodard. Scott was not voluble about his pre-Nevada life. He was born June 19, 1928. He reportedly arrived in Nevada from Louisiana, though whether he was born there is uncertain. He died last week in Seattle. —Dennis Myers
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Progress in protecting the clarity of the lake is under threat from climate change.
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Clarity undercut Climate change does its thing at Lake Tahoe For decades, those who love Lake Tahoe have fought for its clarity, the quality that helped make the lake famous and lured people and money. There have been periods when progress was steady, and there are those dismaying declines that cause scientists a pit-in-the-stomach feeling that they are losing ground. About the turn of the century, there was a sense that a corner had been turned, when gains in murkiness in the lake water more or less halted. In the subsequent decade and a half, there have been regular, favorable clarity readings that have encouraged all the players in the basin. But now, there have been declines in clarity once again. For much of the battle, the issue was man’s impact on the basin itself. But the planetary problem of climate change has also been making itself felt, and it is more difficult to combat. On May 18, the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at the University of California, Davis reported, “The decline in 2016 is the second year in
a row in which the effects of a changing climate have impacted clarity. However, the causes of the decline in each year were different. In 2015, clarity was reduced by relatively warm layers of turbid water entering near the lake surface. In 2016, the clarity was reduced by the early onset of spring, favoring the growth of light-blocking blooms of very small algal cells.” The environmental health of the lake basin has been the responsibility of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) since the mid-1960s, but it has dealt with direct human impacts on the basin. How does it deal with a planetary problem? “Climate change certainly complicates things for Tahoe and for all freshwater ecosystems globally,” said TERC director Geoff Schladow by email. “Local officials and citizens have a limited effect on stopping climate change, but what is important and very possible is to adopt mitigations to climate change that will offset its impacts.”
“It certainly does complicate the task of restoring the Lake’s historic clarity, but the good news is that we are seeing evidence that the actions partners in the basin have taken, to date, are working,” said TRPA analyst Dan Segan. “We have always known that the lake is [a] very complex system, and the two states have built an adaptive management process that continually incorporates new information. In this regard, we are fortunate to work closely with a strong academic community that is committed to dealing with emerging challenges.” The TRPA considers clarity “the iconic indicator of well-being” of the lake. Clarity was at about a hundred feet when the agency was created, meaning that is how far below the surface someone could see. Thereafter, during the 20th century, clarity fell into the 60s, then began recovering about 2002. On one celebrated occasion in January 2012, a level of 95.1 feet was recorded. Summer clarity last year was just 56.4 feet, a 16.7-foot drop in a year. Cyclotella, a small photosynthesising algae about the size of a human hair, is believed by scientists to have thrived in warm summer water, helping to cause the decline in clarity. Lake Tahoe, famous for its alpine cold water, last year experienced record high water temperatures.
mixing. This requires even greater focus on nutrient control as a way to reduce algal growth and ultimately to reduce the lake’s oxygen demand. “Another promising approach is new, innovative approaches to removing some of the invasive species that have disrupted the lake’s natural food web. Preliminary research has shown that restoration of the native food web AppeArAnces can greatly improve clarWill the introduction ity. This dual approach of new climate factors of external sediment be a steadily increasand nutrient control, ing threat to the combined with internal improvement that food web restoration has occurred in the offers great promise.” lake basin? A group called “What we are Tahoe Public Art said it Geoff Schladow finding is that climate is going to put a floating Hydrolic engineer change is not ‘steady,’ sculpture on the lake to but rather a highly varipromote “awareness” of the able factor,” said Schladow. lake’s problems, but if reac“Yes, it will always be present, tion to the UC Davis report is an but, as I said before, there are mitigaindicator, awareness is not the problem. tions. One of the threats from climate change An Associated Press piece on the report ran is the reduction in mixing, which may in newspapers across the country and even threaten the renewal of oxygen at the bottom overseas in places like India. Lack of action of the lake. One way to combat that is to seems to be more the problem than lack of increase the lake’s resilience to withstand awareness. Ω long periods—possibly decades—without Algae has always been at the heart of efforts to protect the clarity of the lake. Last year Schladow put out an appeal for old photos of the lake that might help the scientists chart the presence of algae in the pre-1968 years. 1968 was when clarity measures began.
“Climate change certainly complicates things for Tahoe.”
History
Wildflower Villiage is now rubble. The artists’ colony, made up of three 1950s-era motels on West Fourth Street (the former U.S. 40), was the project of Pat Campbell Cozzi, who put an art gallery, gift shop, rooms for rent, hostel, bicycle rentals, theatre, workshops, classes and coffeehouse all into it. Penske truck rentals helped pay for it. She kept it going for more than two decades. PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY
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On one of her trips to the Arabian Peninsula, Angela Watson, owner of Reno’s Black Hole Body Piercing, visited the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
onths before Donald Trump traveled to Saudi Arabia to sign a massive multi-billion dollar weapons deal, Reno business owner Angela Watson traveled to the country to punch some holes in skin. More precisely, she was there to meet behind closed doors with some of the region’s affluent women and pierce holes in noses, navels and ears—mostly ears. Lamb & Lu is a jewelry retail company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The company is owned by two women, still in their early 20s, and it sells curated jewelry online and at pop-up shops. Among the jewelry sold is earrings, and the owners had the idea to host a piercing event. Piercing is not widely available in Saudi Arabia—at least not piercing that adheres to contemporary standards for sanitation. Sanitary piercing is available at some medical clinics, but there the service is provided by medical technicians who might not understand the finer points of piercing aesthetics, like placement. Saudi Arabia, as evidenced by its recent 12-digit deal with the U.S. government and American weapons manufacturers, is a wealthy nation. It’s also an absolute monarchy that follows Islamic law. And piercing—especially piercing anywhere other than the earlobes or nose—is frowned upon in some sects of Islam. The owners of Lamb & Lu wanted to offer the careful sanitation of contemporary American piercing studios, and they also wanted to offer their customers the wild—what one might call “authentic”— experience of being pierced by a heavily tattooed, pierced-up, dyed-hair, heathen, looks-like-trouble American piercer. They initially contacted Adam Block, a piercer based in Brooklyn. But Saudi Arabia, like many Islamic societies, is, in many ways, heavily segregated by gender. Block and his staff are men, and Lamb & Lu needed female piercers to service their female clientele. So, Block directed them toward Watson and her business, Black Hole Body Piercing.
“Within my own industry, I’m known for the ladies of Black Hole,” said Watson recently. “We’ve always been an all-female shop. It was really odd when we hired a male last year. … It had been about eight years since I had a male on staff.” Black Hole has been in business for more than 20 years, and has become a local institution and one of the hubs of Reno’s midtown. Watson has owned it since ’94. She got interested in piercing in the early ’90s after she got her belly button pierced. At the time, she was a 21-year-old who had recently gotten divorced, and she now describes that piercing as an act of “rebellion,” but it eventually led to her attending a piercing seminar in Sacramento, which started her career. “My very first piercing was a penis,” she said. “Not many people can say that.” Watson and her business were instrumental in developing the area of town now commonly known as midtown. Thirteen years ago, when Black Hole moved into its current location, 912 S. Virginia St., there was no Junkee Clothing Exchange, no Craft Wine and Beer, no Brasserie Saint James. Recycled Records was several miles away. Now, all those businesses, and dozens of others, are within a block or two of Black Hole, in the most booming section of Reno. Watson was key to the economic and cultural growth of the neighborhood. She served on the board of the Midtown Merchants Association and the Creative Coalition of Midtown. She’s also a mom, who has been active with the PTA at Mount Rose Elementary School. Around the community, she’s known for her perseverance, quick wit and outspoken style. She and the owners of Lamb & Lu hit it off right away, and Watson has now led her staff on two trips to Saudi Arabia, the second of which also included a sojourn to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, exporting a quintessential Reno cultural experience to the Middle East.
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Angela Watson presents a slideshow lecture about her experiences in the Middle East at the Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., on June 6 at 7 p.m.
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The staff of Reno’s Black Hole Body Piercing visited Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
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Sex and the city The first trip was in October of last year. Watson and members of her staff traveled to Riyadh, the capital and most populous city of Saudi Arabia. Following the law of the land, while out in public in the country, they wore the abaya, the loose-fitting cloak, and hajib, the hood, commonly worn by Muslim women. After arriving in the country, they had a couple of days to adjust to the time change and, as much as they could, the culture. “They have zero tourism, and you can tell,” said Watson. “Being a tourist there, you can tell it’s not set up for tourism at all.” In the urban core, where Watson and her crew stayed, the city was very clean—with almost no trash or graffiti—although also very new, with many construction projects seemingly abandoned half-finished. “The people are very peaceful,” said Watson about the overall atmosphere of the city. “I feel a great sense of peace when I’m there. It’s very different. It’s quiet. There’s not loudness or craziness. I know that probably happens in all different types of settings, but none of the ones that I get put in.” Watson and her staffers had to adjust to the different modes of behavior expected along gender lines in Saudi Arabia. Something as simple as picking up a pizza became a complex navigation of gender norms. Single men and women are not allowed to intermingle, so since the pizza parlor was already being patronized by men, Watson and her crew had to send in their driver to buy the pizza. They visited an ice cream parlor that had separate entrances for men and women and a partition at the counter. They were allowed to order at a coffee place, but had to get their drinks to go. Perhaps the most difficult thing was finding a public restroom for women. Many businesses have public restrooms, but most of them, including the American chain restaurants, feature a men-only sign. And any hunt for a much-needed bathroom will quickly start to feel frantic and desperate. Watson recalled once trying half a dozen places, including the U.S. fast food sandwich shop Subway before finding a bathroom. “Subway is going to have a bathroom,” she remembered saying. “We look through the door, and we can see that there’s only a men’s bathroom. There isn’t a women’s restroom, so obviously women aren’t supposed to go to those places—or can go to those places but aren’t supposed to stay. We weren’t really sure. We went to the burger place next door, and there was no bathroom. Dunkin Donuts—super nice, Starbucks quality, really nice lighting. It only has a men’s bathroom.”
Eventually, she tried a nearby hotel. She asked the man behind the front desk if she and her friend could use the restroom. The man answered, “What’s your room number?” “No, we don’t have a room here,” she said. “We just need to use a restroom!” He eventually relented and let them use a service bathroom. “It wasn’t for public use,” said Watson. “It barely had a door.” The boundaries between public and private space were unclear, and all the more complicated because of the gender divisions—the rules of which were often unwritten. “There was a restaurant that we ate at several times, and it wasn’t a womenonly restaurant, it was just that no men ever came in,” Watson said. Another fact of Saudi life that took some adjusting for Watson and her crew was that alcohol is illegal in the country. Later, from some of the women that they pierced, they heard rumors about parties—with booze!—at some of the international compounds within the city, where ex-pats from places like Australia and South Africa would host fancy shindigs. “But we don’t know anybody in those kinds of places,” said Watson. “And the girls we work with don’t. But I pierced girls who were, [high-pitched, excited voice] ‘going to a party that night!’ So, it happens, I just wouldn’t know where. Just like I don’t know where to buy heroin in Reno.”
american pierce The piercing events were women-only events, always tucked away deep in some interior space, behind at least two sets of doors, so that, in Watson’s words, “somebody couldn’t accidentally walk in and see a room full of women without their abaya on.” The clientele was all women, mostly well-educated, mostly between 18 and 35, and clearly affluent. Many of them were professionals, including doctors and dentists, or college students. They spoke English and, once their abayas were removed, they revealed full makeup, carefully fixed hair, and expensive designer outfits and jewelry. “There’s nothing casual about it,” said Watson. On the first trip, four piercers from Black Hole performed more than 450 piercings in four days. Most of the women had found out about the event through social media—especially Snapchat. Because of the strict social rules for women, social media is an important, and subversive, communication tool for Saudi women. The event was fully booked before the Black Hole crew arrived.
“They’d never had anything like that there,” said Watson. “No one had ever stepped foot in Riyadh and done a professional piercing with bona fide body jewelry.” Watson and her crew had brought all the piercing equipment over, but all the permitting was taken care of in advance by Lamb & Lu. “We didn’t do much outside of the ear,” said Watson. “Mostly it was the ear that was popular. And it was the same piercings that are popular here—the forward helix, the rook.” They only did one tongue piercing, and three navel piercings. (The woman who got her tongue pierced at the first event came by to say hello at the second event, in April, but Watson had to avoid inquiring about the tongue piercing because the woman’s mother was present at the second event—and she didn’t know about her daughter’s pierced tongue.) “I thought we would do a lot of noses because it’s so popular here,” said Watson. “Because people spread out on the ear, if I had to pick one piercing that’s the most popular in the U.S., it’s the nostril. There, we did three out of 453 [total piercings], because their mothers and their grandmothers did it, so they’re not interested in doing that. So it’s old-fashioned.” Watson said that the question she heard the most at the event was, “What do you think of Riyadh?” The women wanted to know what the heavily pierced and tattooed Americans thought of them and their city. But for Watson, the big thrill was exporting her business: “I’ve been fighting to bring safe piercing to Reno for so long, and to be able to bring it to the Middle East was really fucking cool,” she said. At the second event, in April, women were showing Watson and her staff pictures from the first event and saying, “I want this.”
VegaS 2.0 In addition to visiting Riyadh again, the second expedition also included a trip to the extremely wealthy city Dubai, which Watson describes as “Vegas 2.0.” Unlike Riyadh, Dubai is an international tourist destination, but like Riyadh, it’s also a very new city, having only been built up since the 1990s. It’s also a city of tacky superlatives, home to the world’s tallest building and the world’s largest shopping mall. And although it’s only a two-hour flight from Saudi Arabia to Dubai, the transition between the two places took the Black Hole team an entire day, spent mostly in the Dubai airport. “Going through customs in Saudi Arabia was a breeze,” said Watson. “We had visas and we were stamped to be there—boom, go in. Going from Saudi Arabia to Dubai, on the other hand, they
did not like the way that we looked, they did not like the way were talking about what we were doing in Saudi Arabia, and they stopped us lickety-split. In hindsight, I should have worn my abaya all the way through customs in Dubai. And I will next time—if there is a next time going to Dubai—because I got profiled. They looked at me, and thought tattoos, crazy-looking, dyed hair—let’s talk to her.” Watson and the other five members of her crew got pulled out of line in the Dubai airport, and their bags were searched. But because only a woman could search their bags, and only one woman was on duty, scouring through one bag at a time, the search took even longer. “We weren’t doing anything wrong,” said Watson. “We had permits to do what we were doing, but it just becomes a hassle when they start asking you questions and start going through your things. … They wanted to know if we smoked, and they wanted to know if we drink, which neither are illegal, which is interesting since we kept getting asked. I got asked probably five times.” After two and a half hours in customs, the agent reached into one
of Watson’s bags and pulled out a little plastic container of apparently suspicious-looking pills and string. “What is this?” she demanded. “Mints and dental floss,” Watson explained. The agent wasn’t convinced, and showed the container to a man dressed in plain clothes, apparently some kind of supervisor. He smelled the container. “This smells sweet. What is it?” “Mints and dental floss,” Watson said again. “What time did your flight arrive?” “12:30.” At this point, it was almost 3 p.m. He said something in Arabic to the other agent, and they closed up all the bags and sent them on their way. “They never even got to opening my packages that had the piercing needles and all the things that looked like drug paraphernalia,” said Watson. “Because that’s the interesting thing—piercing equipment, an inexperienced person could put two and two together that maybe this could be used as drug paraphernalia. … I wasn’t really concerned about it, because I knew none of it was illegal—I was just afraid that they were
going to hold it, and I needed it in three days to do my job.” In Dubai, for the most part, the “ladies of Black Hole” were treated like celebrities. People on the street asked if they could take pictures with the American women. Most of the people in Dubai are tourists from around the world, including many Saudi men, who behave very differently in gaudy Dubai than in austere Saudi Arabia. Many of them proposed marriage to the American women. One man, after taking a picture with the women, exclaimed, “I’m going to masturbate to this for a hundred nights.” All over Dubai, as in many monarchies, are large murals depicting the royal family. Watson asked one of the drivers about the murals, and he told her that everyone in the country loves the king. “Well, not everyone in the U.S. loves our president,” she responded. “Not everyone loves Trump.” The driver started laughing so hard that car started swerving on the road— coincidentally right in front of a police car, which promptly pulled the vehicle over. The driver got a minor ticket, but the police didn’t even pay attention to the American tourists in the back of the car.
“We had two run-ins with the law in Dubai, and we didn’t do nothing,” said Watson. “We weren’t even up to no good.” Watson and her crew went up to the 148th floor of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. It actually extends up to 154 floors, plus an antenna, but the top six floors are private. The view from the observation deck on the 148th floor, according to Watson, is surreal. “You can’t even fathom it,” she said. “It doesn’t even look real. At some point, it just stops being real. … I have vertigo, and it absolutely did not make me feel vertigo at all, and I have it. I can’t go up in buildings that are too high, but it just didn’t seem real.” After visiting the skyscraper, the Black Hole team came back down to the ground level, which is connected to the Dubai Mall, the world’s largest shopping center, only to discover that the power had gone out in the mall, causing a minor panic as shoppers were being evacuated. There’s got to be some sort of parable about building some of the world’s largest structures and being unable to keep the lights on. Ω
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“I think that it is sometimes intimidating for people to come into the store, because they think I only make these cheeky little swimsuits. While I do love making those suits, really I love making swimsuits that make people feel good.” by AnnA HArt
Ali Conway, owner and designer, Strange Bikinis
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or some, buying a bathing suit is exciting. Each bikini is a promise of all the pool parties, river fests, and days at the lake that the summer is sure to bring. But for others, going shopping for swimwear is like taking a crash course on how to judge your body. From muffin tops, to under-boobs, to saddle bags, it seems that all become strikingly obvious in the ill-fitting suits one finds in the malls. This can be especially true for the women who have a little extra bosom or booty. Then there’s the matter of style—a concept that apparently goes out the window once your body is no longer a size small—did you want that shapeless tankini with spaghetti straps or a halter top? This is where Strange Bikinis comes in. In 2011, Ali Conway was living in Los Angeles, frustrated with shopping for bikinis and feeling as though she could never find one that was both stylish
and flattering. So, as a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Conway came up with her own solution—design and create bikinis that both felt and looked amazing, keeping in mind the wearer as well. The business began online with custom orders. Then in 2015, Strange Bikinis found a boost. Conway was named the winner of the year’s Biggest Little Startup Fair, a competition in which local entrepreneurs presented their business pitches to a panel of experts, with the hopes of winning a $25,000 prize. In the six years since Strange Bikinis was created, the brand has grown from a side project of making a few swimsuits for friends and family into a small storefront and an online store. It also has massive support on social media, with a follower count totaling in the tens of thousands. While Strange Bikinis has seen a huge rate of growth in the past few years, it has still managed to
maintain the standards that Conway built the brand on—high quality bathing suits in bold designs, created by a company that doesn’t outsource work to sweat shops—even if that means keeping the business small—and tries to reduce waste by using fabric remnants whenever possible.
Warm welcome The company prides itself on its message of body positivity and inclusion, and, while it would be nice to see the same level of diversity of size and shade in their models as they have in the swim line, it is still encouraging to see a brand stand on a platform of acceptance and self-love. The Strange Bikinis storefront is at 2115 Dickerson Road, part a lesser-known hotbed of action in Reno that embraces the offbeat, vibrant nature that has become the city’s cultural calling card. Amid neighbors like the Reno Homebrewer, Wedge Ceramics Studio, and Sierra Water Gardens, Reno’s “industrial arts district” seems to be a good fit for the brand. It is difficult not to feel nervous during one’s first visit to the Strange Bikinis store. Walking into the store feels a little like sitting down at the popular table, uninvited. On the walls are tiny bikinis and photos of beautiful women wearing them. Walking around the store are customers and employees who look like they spend their free time managing their Instagram fame. However, it is not long before the customer service that the company is known for kicks in, as associates take special care to help each customer find a suit that makes her feel amazing. “I was pretty scared about going in the shop,” said one customer outside of the store. “I was a little worried about being judged. But everyone ended up being super down-to-earth, and I ended up finding a bikini top that I loved.”
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For her debut collection, Deep Dreams, Conway has created a line that pairs the laid-back feel of Southern California with an edgy, modern aesthetic. The deep v-necks, side slits and lace-up fronts make for a Kardashians-at-the-beach vibe. The tops range from your standard triangle bikini to others with slits, wraps, and lace-up fronts for the more daring, while the bottoms go from full-booty coverage to barely-there thongs. Or if one-pieces are more your speed, Strange Bikinis offers a few designs that don’t skimp on the sex appeal. While all the styles look great, and range in sizes from extra-small to extra-large, the element that truly sets Strange Bikinis apart is the ability to modify each suit to fit to the needs of every customer. Patrons can buy swimsuits as they are in store and online, or have them customized. Suits can be tailored to your exact measurements, modified to add a little more coverage, or made reversible. If you are looking to buy a suit, it will cost a pretty penny. Bikini separates range in price from $55 to $89, while the one-pieces go from $150 to $179. But if you want a “custom kini,” be prepared to shell out more dough. Currently, the store is only open limited hours—Fridays from 3-7 p.m., Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sundays from 1-6 p.m. Customers can also browse the collection online and order from there or book a custom design and fitting consultation with Conway. “I think that it is sometimes intimidating for people to come into the store, because they think I only make these cheeky little swimsuits,” said Conway. “While I do love making those suits, really I love making swimsuits that make people feel good, and whatever that is, I can throw my spin on it and get it out there. With making the suits to order, the options really are endless.” Ω
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by NISHA SRIDHARAN
Rex Norman, a.k.a. Killbuck, paints banners like those from early 20th-century circus sideshows.
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Loud colors and a lot of paint are what first meet the eye in Killbuck’s workstation at the Generator. Rex Norman, a.k.a. Killbuck, has been painting for more than 40 years. He used to work on seascapes, boats and historical paintings. Then he stumbled upon the art of sideshow banners on the internet. He was fascinated by the work of Fred Johnson, a prominent circus banner artist from the 1920s and ’30s, part of a North American tradition that had, by then, been thriving for a few decades. He searched for more images of banners and started experimenting with painting them. Killbuck relayed a thought from an old showman: “There were three things that brought people into the side shows— morbid curiosity, sex and fear. These shows would have all kinds of weird acts such as fire breathers, belly dancers and people with physical oddities called ‘freaks.’” He began painting that kind of imagery. “You fiddle with a lot of things until you find that one thing that you want to do forever,” he said. “Since then, I have hardly painted anything else.” He’s been working in this style for over a decade, and, in the past three to four years, he has been getting more commissions. “For some reason, this style of carnival circus-y kind of art has worked itself back into popular culture in the past few years, which is great because I happen to be here at the right time,” Killbuck said. He was not always a full-time artist. He started off working in graphic arts and advertising and took up a summer job in the ’80s as a park ranger at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco.
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He later worked at the Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyoming, where his crew had nicknames such as Windybill, California Joe, and SideMeat. “Maybe because I was the boss they did not want to give me a nickname,” he whispered. One day, during the rut season, while driving along the range, he collided with “the biggest whitetail deer.” As Killbuck remembers it, SideMeat looked at the car and said, “Well, I think we know what we are going to call you now.” “So that became my nickname, and I have been known as that ever since,” said Killbuck. “There are a lot of people who don’t know me by any other name.” In addition to painting circus banners, Killbuck has also done some mural work and has a keen interest in making steampunk hats. He’s also busy working with the Merry War Theatre Group’s production of Comedy of Errors, which will be staged at the Lear Theater in a circus style. “I am helping them with set pieces,” he said. “I am also going to be loaning 14 big banners, which are going to surround the inside of the audience area.” Currently, he has a show at Jensen & Co., a beauty salon near East Fourth Street. One of his favorite pieces, “Professor Blamo,” is on display there, depicting a guy in an elegant tuxedo with a top hat sitting on a throne surrounded by dynamite, TNT, rockets and other explosives. The man is blindfolded and holding a lit match. A tagline reads, “One performance only.” Killbuck’s future plans include building a stronger body of work for future shows and bringing a piece called “Sideshow” to Burning Man for the last time this year. “Just keep painting, is the motto,” he said. Ω Killbuck’s artwork is on exhibit at Jensen & Co., 495 Morrill Ave., through June 27.
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“i just met ye, and this be crazy. But i’m a pirate, so call me matey.”
Sunken leisure In the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, a bunch of pirates run around and act like dicks while being pursued by ghosts and trying not to sink or get impaled by ghost swords. If my memory serves me right, that is basically the plot of all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The new one, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales rehashes the same plot, with Johnny “The Whore” Depp doing his whole drunken Keith Richards pirate routine again as Jack Sparrow. Actually, his Keith Richards routine has devolved into something more akin to Dudley Moore in Arthur 2: On the Rocks. I reference the Arthur sequel, for the original was somewhat funny, but the gag got real tired in part two. So it goes with Depp’s meandering, mumbling, tipsy performance as Jack Sparrow, the feared pirate that everybody in the world seems to have some sort of beef with, be them alive or dead. He’s laboring with a joke that stopped being funny four movies ago. This time out, a new legion of undead sailors is after Jack due to his having a compass that can lead them back to the land of the living, or some bullshit like that. The band of dead sailors is led by Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), some dude who was trying to rid the world of pirates in his living days, but wound up a cursed ghost under the sea due to a young Sparrow’s clever trick. Young Sparrow is depicted in a flashback that has Depp being the latest star to be de-aged by CGI. This movie trick is proving to be some hardcore, creepy-looking stuff. I liked it when they did it to Kurt Russell in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel, but this time out, it just looks weird. Yes, Bardem’s Salazar looks kind of cool in this film. He’s sort of half blown-up, and he always looks like his hair is flowing in water, even when he’s above ground. There, I said something relatively positive about this crap. There’s also some nonsense involving Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) trying to un-curse his
dead father, Will (Orlando Bloom), yet another undead pirate. He must also do something with the compass that Sparrow possesses to bring Will back. If he succeeds, that means Orlando Bloom will be back in full swing for more Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which had me rooting for the compass to be stepped on by a really big person and then burned in a “Please, No More Orlando Bloom Movies!” bonfire. If that plot doesn’t give you enough for a steady vibe of déjà vu, Geoffrey Rush is back as Barbosa, the monkey-toting dude who was dead in the first movie but is now resurrected. Like Depp, Rush’s pirate routine got tired after the first movie. The best part of the film actually belongs to Paul McCartney, who cameos as Uncle Jack, Jack Sparrow’s imprisoned relative. McCartney delivers a few good lines with the sort of deft comic timing he displayed over 50 years ago in A Hard Day’s Night and Help! It’s too bad this wasn’t his movie, because he’s far more interesting than Depp’s played-out, gimmicky bits. Also, kudos to having him singing the Beatles’ version of “Maggie Mae” in his jail cell. Nice touch. There, I’ve said two good things about this piece of crap. Stay for the credits, because there’s an aftercredits scene that sets up further adventures, even though Disney keeps saying each Pirates film is the last one. Actually, don’t stay for the credits, and just get your ass out of the theater as soon as you start seeing “Key Grips” and “Produced By.” Actually, just stay home and don’t watch this insulting cash machine at all. It’s a waste of time. Ω
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Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott’s third Alien film is an entertaining mashup of the overreaching but cool sensibilities from Prometheus and the old-school ick factor and dread that marked the original. Alien: Covenant continues the ruminations about the origins of mankind birthed in Prometheus while injecting a few more Xenomorphs into the mix. It will please those fans of the first two films of the franchise who want the shit scared out of them, while also appeasing those who enjoyed the brainy—if somewhat confusing and slightly inconsistent—ways of Prometheus. While Scott has leaned harder on the horror elements for this one, his budget is more than $30 million less than the one he had for Prometheus. That film constituted one of cinema’s all-time great uses of 3-D technology. Covenant totally abandons 3-D and features some CGI in the opening minutes that look befitting of a low budget Syfy channel offering. The film more than makes up for it once the crew members of the Covenant, a stricken colony ship in danger of not reaching its destination, set down to scout out a new planet as a closer alternate. They encounter Prometheus survivor David (Michael Fassbender), who has basically been up to no good. Fassbender also plays a new android named Walter, and he more than capitalizes on the chance to do something weird with this acting opportunity. There’s plenty of old school scares and gore to go with the musings about Earth’s creation.
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With The Fate of the Furious, easily the most stupidly titled installment in the Furious franchise—yes, even more stupid than the name Tokyo Drift—you get to see the single most disgusting, stomach-churning, horrifying moment in cinema so far this year. That would be when Charlize Theron plants a big, sloppy kiss on Vin Diesel, the image of which is some kind of “Woman from Monster Meets the Pillsbury Dough Boy On Steroids” nightmare. Some five years ago, I made up a list of five things I never wanted to see, and that came in at number three, right under “Donald Trump as President” and “Spiders in My Scrambled Eggs Being Served to Me By a Man with Weeping Hand Sores.” Somewhere along the way, the Furious franchise went completely bonkers and became less about cars racing around and more about dudes who think hair on the top of their heads is total bullshit and also think upper arms should be the size of a bull’s torso. It also went off on some sort of international spy team tangent, something that worked to a hilarious degree in Furious 7. In The Fate of the Furious, the franchise trajectory becomes ridiculous without being much fun.
The trippy Marvel fun continues with this big, nutty, spiraling sequel that brings the fun, along with a lot of daddy issues. Star-Lord, a.k.a. Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), had some major mommy issues in the first movie, and this time out his dad takes a turn at messing with his head. The dad comes in the form of Ego (Kurt Russell—yes!), who we see hanging out with Quill’s mom in the ’70s during the film’s prologue. (The CGI and practical makeup anti-aging effects on Kurt Russell ranks as one of the best examples of that particular trick.) After a killer opening credits sequence, the Guardians—including Quill, Baby Groot (voice of Vin Diesel), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (David Bautista) and Rocket (voice of Bradley Cooper)—find themselves on another quest. They are quickly diverted to Ego’s planet, where Quill finds out more about his celestial origins. Russell proves to be perfectly cast as Quill’s bombastic father, with Pratt possessing many of the legendary action film star’s alluring traits. Seeing them on screen together, at one point playing catch with an energy ball Quill conjures with newfound powers, is one of the film’s great joys. It also proves to be misleading, because writer-director James Gunn isn’t going to settle for an easy story about a wayward son reuniting with a dream dad. Vol. 2 is as dark and nasty as it is silly and action-packed.
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Richard Gere delivers one of his very best performances as Norman, a New York “businessman” who doesn’t really have a business or a job. A mysterious, earbudwearing, graying old man riding the trains and grabbing crackers for dinner at the local synagogue, Norman, nevertheless, has big aspirations. A self-professed “good swimmer” fighting to stay afloat, Norman finds himself in the company of an up-and-coming Israeli politician (an excellent Lior Ashkenazi) and, in a moment of generosity/desperation, buys the man a pair of shoes. That gesture earns him some good favor as the politician becomes the Israeli Prime Minister, and Norman’s act of kindness earns him the man’s friendship. With big friends comes more notoriety, and Norman finds himself involved in political intrigue and rising responsibility in the New York Jewish community. Gere, who basically shrinks himself under a sun cap and trench coat, sparkles in the role, making Norman a memorable, likeable and appropriately annoying character.
Fifteen years after her last movie, the terrible The Banger Sisters, Goldie Hawn has been coaxed back onto the big screen opposite Amy Schumer. While it’s great to have her back, it would’ve been super great had the movie been totally worth her time. Hawn and Schumer play Linda and Emily, mother and daughter, in what amounts to some decent dirty jokes, some dumb dirty jokes, and a lot of flat jokes powered by a plot with no real sense of purpose. The comic duo work hard to make it all a bit of fun, but they are ultimately taken down by a film that aspires to mediocrity. When Emily is dumped by her rocker boyfriend (the always funny Randall Park), she has no traveling partner for her upcoming, non-refundable trip to Ecuador. In steps Linda, a crazy cat lady mom who barely ever leaves the house. Just like that, the two wind up sleeping in a king bed in a lavish resort, with Emily constantly taking selfies to impress her Facebook friends, and Linda covered up with scarves by the pool. After Emily meets a hot British guy (Tom Bateman), she ultimately winds up on a sightseeing trip with mom along for the ride. Mom and daughter wind up kidnapped and held for ransom, with nobody but their nerd son/ brother (Ike Barinholtz) to save their asses. Director Jonathan Levine (50/50) isn’t afraid to take things to mighty dark places—Emily’s attempts to free her and mom from their captors has a body count—and the film earns its R-rating with raunchy humor, Schumer’s specialty. Hawn and Schumer make for a convincing mommy-daughter combo, and Snatched has its worth for putting the two in a movie together.
This movie is all screwy. Brad Pitt plays General Glen McMahon (based very clearly on real-life General Stanley McChrystal), put in charge of the War in Afghanistan during the Obama administration. As depicted by Pitt, McMahon is just his Inglorious Basterds character without a mustache. This time, Pitt never feels relaxed in the part. He’s lost in a movie that doesn’t really know where it’s going. It’s a military satire, then it’s a serious depiction of men at war, then it’s a straight-up comedy, then it’s a political intrigue movie. Director David Michod tries to wrangle this mess with the ultimate movie sin, the voiceover, provided by a character based on the late journalist who wrote the article. Michael Hastings (depicted here by a character called Sean Cullen and played by Scoot McNairy) wrote the Rolling Stone article which eventually inspired the book The Operators. It also brought down McChrystal, depicted here as a bit of a nut, but a lovely, friendly nut who cared about his men, but wanted to win, win, win. In trying to win, he basically leaked classified info, messed with the president, and essentially called him out on 60 Minutes. The film also tries to be a condemnation of American activity overseas, with a not-so-nice depiction of Obama, played here by a mediocre Obama impersonator. Streaming on Netflix.
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Bar food basement Tucked away in a downtown basement, The Rack offers nightly food and drink specials and a variety of entertainment, including bowling, billiards, air hockey, foosball, darts, pinball, ping pong, beer pong and an array of classic arcade games. The menu is a collection of bar bites, including 12-inch pizzas, deep-fried appetizers, salads, burgers, sandwiches and chicken wings. We started with a Freshie pizza ($13), featuring a thin, crispy crust covered in feta, mozzarella, parmesan, roma tomato, rosemary, basil and white garlic sauce. It had good flavor and texture—better than average for bar and grill pizza. Next up was a pair of housemade meatball sliders ($11) with marinara sauce and melted mozzarella. They were surprisingly good, with plenty of garlic, oregano and rosemary. Our server allowed us to split flavors in an order of 12 good-sized chicken wings ($10). We went with Hooters hot buffalo and garlic parmesan flavor. The wings themselves were average, but the garlic parmesan flavor sported tasty melted cheese and fresh garlic. A pair of burgers—the Firehouse ($11) and Big Lebowski ($13)—each featured a couple of well-seasoned one-quarter-pound patties cooked medium rare, the former topped with mild chili, red onion, jalapeno and pepper jack cheese; the latter with bacon, onion rings, mac and cheese bites, barbecue sauce, cheddar and pepper jack cheeses. They were served with curly and sweet potato fries, respectively. The fries were fine, but the real star was the beef— perfectly cooked with excellent seasoning. My daughter ordered chicken strips for herself ($9) and a grilled cheese sandwich for her son ($5.50), both with curly fries.
The Rack serves up a variety of bar food standards, including pizzas, deep-fried appetizers and chicken wings. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG
The chicken was moist and tender, and my grandson made short work of his meal. Next was a pair of sandwiches. The Black Jack Bust ($12) featured a blackened chicken breast, applewood smoked blue cheese, red onion, tomato, iceberg lettuce and chipotle aioli, on a sesame seed bun with a side salad. The chicken was moist, and the combination of flavors was good, but the salad was wilted, perhaps from a heat lamp. The 300 club ($12) came with better-than-average roast turkey, bacon, avocado, tomato, red onion, spring mix and sandwich spread on grilled sourdough with curly fries. We modified an order of gutter ball nachos ($10), offered with corn tortilla chips covered with a 50/50 blend of cheddar and American cheese sauce, corn, black beans, sour cream and a choice of pizza toppings. We skipped the sour cream and pizza goods and ended up with a pretty bland dish of cheese and chips, which wasn’t helped by the corn and beans. We also tried a family appetizer platter ($26), with six each of mac and cheese and pepper jack cheese bites, battered mozzarella sticks, Italian breaded zucchini sticks, battered dill pickle chips and mini corn dogs. It was served with habanero honey, chipotle barbecue, ranch and marinara sauces. The mac and cheese bites were creamy and tasty. The mozzarella, zucchini and pickles were average. And the mini corn dogs were pretty good. Unfortunately, two cups of ranch dressing had bulging lids and bubbled over upon opening, a sign of room-temperature fermentation. Someone in the kitchen needs to pay closer attention to food safety, but our overall experience was fun and tasty. Ω
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We are, for the most part, a social species. We like to get together, celebrate things and bond with others over common interests. We also, still broadly speaking, like to alter our consciousness—whether spinning yourself dizzy as a child, or through alcohol or other intoxicants as an adult, many of us like to catch a buzz. Combine those inclinations and you basically have a party. Make that party really big, full of strangers and all about my favorite drink, and you have yourself a beer festival. Worldwide, there are hundreds of these wonderful occasions to taste, drink, discuss and worship beer. Whether to raise funds for charity, have brewers compete against each other, or just to promote beer and brewing, beer festivals are a great opportunity to sample lots of brews in fun settings with others who love beer and a good time. Of course, being a city that loves both festivals and beer, Reno has a handful of worthy beer fests each year, and you just missed a good one, Strange Brew. While some festivals are content to maybe offer some beers you’ve never had, maybe a few special releases, Strange Brew outdoes them all with its unique twist, living up to its name by asking brewers to create the weirdest beers imaginable. Four years strong, Strange Brew has been hosted by local brewpub The Brewer’s 20 | RN&R | 06.01.17
Cabinet in their parking lot. This year, more than 20 breweries poured dozens of crazy brews, like a light sour served with a glazed cricket, a spicy chicken wing-inspired brew, an earthy ale aged on mushrooms, as well as slightly less wild recipes like a delicious tiramisu stout or key lime pie saison. Keep your eyes peeled for advance tickets in early 2018 before they sell out again. As if a festival celebrating beer wasn’t enough, beer lovers had to go bigger still and combine a bunch of events, “mini festivals” if you will, and create entire weeks dedicated to celebrating beer. The “beer week” was born. Reno has stepped right up to join major burgs like Philadelphia and San Francisco in holding our own Reno Craft Beer Week. For local beer lovers, it’s an embarrassment of riches, more events than you could afford, fit into your schedule, or should subject your body to. How better to start off a week of beer events than a beer festival? Reno Craft Beer Week kicks off June 2 with Backwash, the annual home brew competition and fundraiser. Since 2011, Backwash has recruited local home brewers to brew and pour their finest. Attendees taste a wide variety of local hobbyists’ beers and vote for their favorite, and the winner gets to brew their winning recipe at Silver Peak. Charity, live music and delicious beer made by your friends and neighbors is a great time. (Disclosure: I have entered Backwash in the past but am not entered or attending this year and have no connection to the event otherwise.) Backwash just gets the ball rolling for our Beer Week. The very next day you’ll have the option to go whole hog with two more events I’m excited for. Imbib Custom Brews is celebrating their second anniversary with food, games, and of course, great beer, while Chapel Tavern hosts Jupiter Fest, a celebration of barleywines, imperial stouts and other strong beers. (Gravity is a measure of the sugar density and resulting alcohol in brewing beer. Get it? Gravity on Jupiter is really strong.) From beer dinners to tap takeovers, Reno Craft Beer Week is like Christmas in June for beer geeks, although, with nine days of beer-y goodness, Hanukkah might be a better comparison. Get out there and enjoy the beer. Ω
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Justin Morales, John Ludwick and Ilya Arbatman’s band is called Negative Sex, and, no, it’s not named after amorous encounters gone wrong.
Dark arts Negative Sex Negative Sex is a trio that consists of John Ludwick on bass, Ilya Arbatman on drums, and Justin Morales as vocalist, guitarist and primary lyricist. “The original idea of the band was, if you pay attention to history at all, men are generally the negative sex—we cause most of the problems,” said Morales. “Financially, physically, pretty much for the last 500 years.” “Rats For Lost” is the title track of the band’s first 7-inch release. “The reason that’s the first song is that’s a general overview for society, thinking about how fast can we kill ourselves by being greedy and hungry for power,” said Morales. The emotional arc of the song, like a horror story, is a powerful exercise in building tension, partially thanks to Morales’ fondness for H.P. Lovecraft. “I don’t have a literal interpretation,” Arbatman admitted, when pondering the meaning of the song. “I have more of this mental image of like, rats jumping off a ship. Maybe that’s just an urban myth that I heard, that rats will maybe jump off a ship before the ship sinks?” In a way, it’s anyone’s guess what the lyrics of Negative Sex are meant to evoke. “I try and stay away from really specific meanings,” said Morales. “I don’t want in two years to feel like I don’t like how it’s portraying what I’m trying to get at. Whereas if I keep it semi-vague, in five years, you can interpret them and analyze them in a different way.” The three agree that lyrics and messages within Negative Sex songs
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are no more important than any of the instrumental parts on their own. “I mostly stick to my instrument,” said Ludwick. “It’s music. I like it, or I don’t like it, or it evokes an emotion in me.” Yet Ludwick is also a lyricist—of the band Plastic Caves—so the words to him are integral to conveying a feeling of introspection. “White Noise” starts right away with a sinister bass line and a driving, fouron-the-floor drum beat. Morales sings in sneering, bitter monotone, painting snapshots of daily life in the throes of depression. Verses and choruses thick with discordant guitar strokes and spastic drum hits move forward at a relentless, savage pace before dropping into a meandering, introspective bridge. The song bursts out once again with the words, “You’re too late.” Morales said the song was written in the head space of his own struggles with gambling addiction. Though overall he feels he is getting better, he continues to grapple with his past. “It only takes 30 seconds to make a bad decision,” said Morales. “A trip to 7-11, a drive home from work. By the time you’re asking yourself what happened, it’s too late. Your shame is back on the rise. Depression is back on the rise. You do it all over again.” “Brain Fatigue” kicks up the tempo with a frenzied punk assault. A hauntingly repetitive and mischievous guitar riff fills the space a solo would take in a more self-indulgent band. “I wrote that song in the middle of a gnarly depression,” said Morales. He said Ludwick and Arbatman helped him work through it. “When music is in a good space in my life, everything else falls in place,” he said. Ω
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SUNDAY 6/04
3rd Street Bar
Frank Perry Jazz Combo, 8pm, no cover
Reno Comedy Competition: Roast Battle, 9pm, no cover
Metaphysical, 8pm, no cover
5 Star Saloon
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover
Dance party, 10pm, $5
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Chile Verde, 9pm, no cover
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Doyle Stewart, 9pm, no cover
Gnarly Pints, 9pm, no cover
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Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield, 6pm, no cover
Mark Sexton, 6pm, no cover
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Hellbound Glory, 8:30pm, no cover
Knot Sorry, Abandoned, 9:30pm, no cover
275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917
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3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third Street, (775) 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition with host Pat Shillito, Wed, 9pm, no cover The Improve at Harvey Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Dennis Blair, Alycia Cooper, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm; $25; Sat, 9pm, $30; Amir K, Grant Cotter, Wed, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Adam Ray, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Mike Marino, Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 775) 322-5233: Carlos Rodriguez, Fri-Sat, 8:30pm, $13-$19
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Open Mic with Lenny El Bajo, 7pm, Tu, no cover
Blondasaurus Wrecks, 7pm, no cover Country line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover
Gruve Nation, 8pm, no cover
Leaving Town, 8pm, no cover
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Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, W, 9pm, no cover
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Mommy Long Legs, Okay Urge, Just Guys Being Dudes, 8pm, $5
Fall Silent, Drag Me Under, Pressure Drop, 8pm, $8
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Kaleido, 8pm, $10 Age of Collapse, 8pm, $5
Twisted Insane, Brainsick, 9:30pm, $15
140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858
71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652
Team Skins, The Americas, 8pm, M, $5 Dude York, Night Rooms, 8pm, W, $7 Bat Country, The Polyorchids, Pisscat, 8pm, $3
the jungle
Outspoken: Monday Open Mic, 7pm, M, no cover
246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484
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Live jazz, 6pm, no cover
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Open Mic Jam Slam, 8pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke, 8pm, W, no cover
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Karaoke with Romeo Sebastian, 8pm, W, no cover
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FRIDAY 6/02
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DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover
Jake’s Garage 5.0, 8:30pm, no cover
Jake’s Garage 5.0, 8:30pm, no cover
Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats
Jazz Cider, 8pm, no cover
Professor Columbo, 8:30pm, no cover
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MuMMers Bar
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Pignic PuB & Patio 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948
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The Violators, 8pm, no cover
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Acoustic Wonderland, 8pm, no cover
Karaoke, 10pm, no cover
Lawrence & Clare, Grace Hayes, Joshua & Sara, Jonathan Rolling, 10pm, no cover
You Play Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover Beards, Beers and BBQ with The Ponderosa Trio, 3pm, no cover
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Karaoke with Bobby Dee, 8pm, Tu, no cover
Gemini, 9pm, no cover
1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 Spur Crazy, 8pm, no cover
Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield, 8pm, no cover
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Elephant Rifle, Eddie & The Subtitles, The Grimtones, 8pm, $10
Sneaky Creatures, Ramblin’ Rounders, 8pm, $5
Live blues 8pm, W, no cover
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Bubba Sparxx, Struggle Jennings, Heidalicious, 8pm
Emo Night Reno, 9:30pm, $5
Uada, Blasphemous Creation, Ostracized, 8pm, Tu, $5
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Deep Groove, 5:30pm, no cover
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First Fridays with DJ Alastair, 9pm, no cover
Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover
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The Flesh Hammers, Moons of Vega, Flames Of Durga, 9pm, $5
Ritual (goth, industrial, EDM) w/DJs David Darkness, Rusty, Owen, 9pm, $3-$5
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Dead Letter Disciples, 9pm, no cover
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1044 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-5050
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17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455
Open mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover
Open Jazz Jam!, 7pm, Tu, no cover The Soul Persuaders, 8pm, W, no cover Music Industry Night, 9pm, W, no cover
Dude York Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, no cover Underground Session, 8pm, W, no cover
Hare of the Dawg String Band, 9pm, no cover
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June 7, 8 p.m. The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858
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2) Nasty Nate, Goetz Achwurd, 10pm, no cover
1) Cirque Le Noir, 8pm, $19.95-39.95 2) Ashley Red, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover
1) Cirque Le Noir, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-39.95 2) Ashley Red, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover
1) Cirque Le Noir, 2pm, 5:30pm, $19.95-$29.95 2) Ashley Red, 10:30pm, no cover
1) Cirque Le Noir, 7pm, W, $19.95-$29.95 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, W, no cover
2) Mya, DJ Romeo Reyes, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover
2) Miles Medina, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover
15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge
2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
1) The Yardbirds, 7:30pm, $42.20 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover
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1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27.06-$37.15 3) Double Trouble, 7pm, no cover Jackie Landrum, 8:30pm, no cover
1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27.06-$37.15 3) The Wiz Kid, 7pm, no cover
1) Mat Franco, 8pm, $36.67-$62.67 2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Scene, 10pm, $20
2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover
2) Superbad, 9pm, no cover 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover
2) Superbad, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover
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FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. RENO CRAFT BEER WEEK: Close to 40 events are on tap for the third annual celebration of Reno’s growing craft beer culture. The fest includes home brews, craft beers from all across the country, a sour-fest beer tasting, beer cocktail demonstrations, food and beer pairings and beer festivals that benefit good causes. This year’s Reno Craft Beer Week kicks off with Backwash, a celebration of the art and craft of home brewing in support of Environmental Traveling Companions on Friday, June 2, and concludes with the CollaBREWation Festival on Saturday, June 10, in Sparks’ Victorian Square. Fri, 6/2-Wed, 6/7. Various locations in Reno and Sparks, www.renocraftbeerweek.com.
RENO STREET FOOD: The weekly street food event features over 30 gourmet food, craft dessert, beer, wine and mixed drink vendors. Local musicians provide free live entertainment each week. Reno Street Food will be held every Friday night through Sept. 29. Fri, 6/2, 5pm. Free. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665, www.facebook. com/RenoStreetFood/.
SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack
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Whether you’re an active cosplayer or just a one-time participant, you can join thousands of other costumed revelers during the second annual event, which begins on Saturday, June 3, with a pre-crawl lightsaber battle at 7 p.m. at Harrah’s Plaza, 219 N. Center St. The crawl kicks off at 8 p.m. and cosplayers who are age 21 or older can purchase a $5 crawl cup and a map to 15 participating bars and clubs in downtown Reno offering $3 drink specials, specialty drinks, costume contests and more with no cover charge. All genres of cosplay are welcome. Call 624-8320 or visit http://crawlreno.com.
C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset. 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. Sat, 6/3, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.
SCIENCE CAFE NV: The monthly event
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BEATLES FLASHBACK PARTY WITH A PURPOSE: MRD Foundation presents its party to support community volunteer programs. There will be a silent auction, a raffle, gourmet food samples and music by the Beatles Flashback Band. Fri, 6/2, 6:30pm. $20-$25. Center Court Grill at Lakeridge Tennis Club, 6000 Plumas St., (775) 848-2224.
50 OF THE BEST STROLLS, WALKS AND HIKES AROUND RENO: Author Mike White and photographer Mark Vollmer will present a slideshow and book signing of their new University of Nevada Press collaboration. Sat, 6/3, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.
2017 SCI-ON!: The science-fiction film festival features award-winning animated and live action films from more than 23 countries. There will also be scifi readings, demos, panels, the Nevada Space Center Award Luncheon and a screening of Trek Nation with Heidi and Rod Roddenberry. Thu, 6/1-Sat, 6/3. $0$250. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295, www.sci-on.org.
THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S LENS: Lake Tahoe resident, activist and photographer Jim Markle explores photography through the lenses of interdisciplinary education, environmental research and the important role of photographers in documenting the Lake Tahoe ecosystem. Fri, 6/2, 1pm. $10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.
ESTIPONA PUTT-PUTT CLASSIC: The Estipona Group hosts a benefit miniature golf tournament. Teams of four to six will receive 18 holes of mini golf, pizza, a pitcher of beer and prizes. Each team is asked to come up with a clever team name and a costume theme to complement it. Thu 6/1, 4pm. $150 donation. Magic Carpet Golf, 6925 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4445.
BACKWASH 2017: This celebration of the art and craft of homebrewing kicks off Reno’s 2017 Craft Beer Week. All tickets include unlimited tastings. Food will be available for purchase from venue vendors and there will be an expanded selection of commercial exhibition brews for attendees to sample. VIP tickets include entry at 5pm to sample beers before the crowd arrives, a unique tasting glass and a private lounge to step away from the crowds. Drinking with Clowns will perform. Fri, 6/2, 6pm. $10-$50. Bundox Bocce at Renaissance Reno Downtown Hotel, 1 Lake St., www.backwashreno.org.
FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a drink, enjoy music
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by the Mark McKay Band and check out the art galleries. Thu, 6/1, 5-7pm. $10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.
FOUR SEASONS BOOK CLUB: This month, the book club will discuss The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry. Sa, 6/3, 1-2pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.
GOLDEN STATE 2017: Sundance Books and Music presents a reading celebrating the release of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing From California, the fourth volume in the series formerly known as California Prose Directory. Editor Lisa Locascio will host and contributors Andrea Lambert and Jasper Henderson will read. Authors will be on hand to sign copies of the book after the reading. This event will be the sole Nevada event on a tour of readings across California. Sat, 6/3, 2:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.
IMBIB BREWERY 2ND ANNIVERSARY PARTY: The brewery celebrates its second anniversary with a beer garden in the parking lot, special beer releases, commemorative glasses, food trucks and the Brewers Games. Sat ,6/3, 1pm. Free. IMBIB Custom Brews, 785 E. Second St. (775) 303-3385, www.imbibreno.com.
KAREN FOSTER ON BEEKEEPING: Local beekeeper Karen Foster will share tips on keeping bees. Wed, 6/7, 5-6pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.
is geared toward bringing science discussions to the public of northern Nevada. Scientists and researchers will give short, 15-20 minute presentations, followed by round table discussions. Science Café NV is on the first Monday of every month from 6:30-8 p.m. Mon 6/5, 6:30pm. Free. Brasserie Saint James, 901 S. Center St., (775) 785-3416.
SOCIAL SCIENCE BREWOLOGY: Explore the science behind your favorite brews when you examine varieties of hops, learn how beer is made, sample tasty beers from local craft breweries and challenge your skills and your friends in fun beer games, too. Presented as part of Reno Craft Beer Week. Sat, 6/3, 6pm. $15-$25. Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 7861000, www.nvdm.org.
STREET VIBRATIONS SPRING RALLY: The ninth annual motorcycle event features live entertainment, slow bike races, ride-in shows, poker runs, scavenger hunts, more than 80 vendors, VIP parties for participants and more. Fri, 6/2-Sun, 6/4. Free. Various locations in downtown Reno, Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Virginia City, roadshowsreno.com.
WINE WALK: On the first Saturday of every month, participants can stroll to over 35 locations pouring wine, providing entertainment and offering special deals for wine walkers. Sat, 6/3, 1pm. $10-$15. 100 W. Telegraph St., Carson City, (775) 443-0655, www.downtowncarson.org.
ART ART INDEED ABSTRACT ART GALLERY: The gallery is open for First Thursday Art Night and the Saturday Wine Walks. There will be an artist reception on Sunday, June 25, from 2-5pm. Thu, 6/1, 4pm. Free. 142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367, www.artindeed.com.
ARTE ITALIA: Color Fusion The Art of Dick Marconi. The show features a selection of abstract works by Italian-American artist Dick Marconi. The exhibition runs through July 30. Thu, 6/1-Sun, 6/4, noon5pm. Free. 442 Flint St., (775) 333-0313, www.arteitaliausa.org.
CARSON CITY VISITORS BUREAU: Great Basin Native Artists. Featured artists are Ben Aleck, Topaz Jones, Jack Malotte, Melissa Melero-Moose and Topah Spoonhunter. The exhibition runs through June 19. Thu, 6/1-Sat, 6/3; Mon, 6/5-Wed, 6/7, 9am. Free. 716 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-7410.
MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Animalia—Jennifer Wildermuth Reyes. Wildermuth Reyes’ work focuses primarily on animals and how they correspond to development of human culture and thought process. The exhibition runs through June 16; Historic Fort Churchill Robert Rollins. Photographer Robert Rollins seeks to tell stories with his iconic imagery of the American West—and in this case, the historic Fort Churchill. The exhibition runs through June 16; My Nevada in Black & White. Will Barber has a way of seeing the “ordered chaos” of our natural surroundings and visually expresses this concept through focusing on single elements, letting the viewer focus on the multiple aspects of the photographs. The exhibition runs through June 16. Thu, 6/1-Fri, 6/2; Mon, 6/5-Wed, 6/7, 8am-5pm. Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, renoculture.com.
WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM: Honoring Mother Nature Art Exhibition & Sale. This new art exhibition from the Sierra Watercolor Society will feature a variety of watercolor paintings that depict plants, nature, flowers and other spring themes. The show runs through June 4. Thu, 6/1-Sun, 6/4, 10am. Free. Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.
MUsEUMs NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: The Altered Landscape Selections from the Carol Franc Buck Altered Landscape Photography Collection. The show runs through July 5; Jessica Rath Projects. An exhibition featuring materials drawn from the archive collections of Jessica Rath in the Center for Art + Environment. The exhibition is on view through Aug. 27; The John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection. The show runs through June 4; Maynard Dixon The Paltenghi Collections. The artwork is on display through July 16; Miradas Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art. The exhibition runs through July 16. Thu, 6/1-Sun 6/4; Wed, 6/7, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.
TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): A T. rex Named Sue. At 42 feet long and 12 feet high at the hips, Sue is the largest, most complete, and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered. A dramatic, life-sized skeleton cast of Sue is the centerpiece of this exhibition that also features handson and digital interactive exhibits that help you uncover Sue’s amazing past and explore the field of paleontology. A T. rex Named Sue is on exhibit through Jan. 15; Science Underground. Located on the museum’s lower level, Science Underground features an eclectic, subterranean collection of exhibits from The Discovery’s first five years. Thu, 6/1-Wed, 6/7, 10am. $10-$12. 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.
FILM FOUR SILENT COMEDY CLASSICS WITH MUSIC BY THE RENO SWING SET: Thee Reno Swing Set will provide music to silent films, including Ko-Ko the Clown & the Inkwell Imps cartoon (1929), The Mystery of the Leaping Fish starring Douglas Fairbanks (1916), Number, Please? with Harold Lloyd and One Week starring Buster Keaton (both from 1920). Sun, 6/4 & 6/11, 6pm. $5-$9. Artemisia MovieHouse at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, artemisiamovies.weebly.com.
MUSIC AN EVENING WITH FROG & TOAD: The duo featuring Brad Jones and Ben Wilborn will perform songs off their new CD. Thu, 6/1, 7-8pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.
CELTIC WOMAN: The multi-platinum international music group and 2017 Grammy nominee Celtic Woman presents their new show, Voices of Angels. Fri, 6/2, 7:30pm. $47.42-$112.82. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8815, www.silverlegacyreno.com.
FRANK SOLIVAN AND CHRIS LUQUETTE: The bluegrass duo will lead a mandolin masterclass for advanced players at 2pm, followed by a performance at 7pm. The class is $70. Concert tickets are $25. Thu, 6/1, 2pm & 7pm. $25-$70. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500, mountainmusicparlor.com.
MUSIC INDUSTRY NIGHT: Open your ears to local albums, national releases and more. Make new friends, meet other creatives and/or fans. Drink local beer, plan upcoming projects and learn about events going on in the area. Sometimes a band or two will drop in to perform. Wed, 6/7, 9pm. Free. St. James Infirmary, 445 California Ave, (775) 657-8484.
SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Enjoy live music by Judith & Rocky and brunch presented by chez louie. The menu features artful dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary bar. Sun, 6/4, 10am. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921..
ONSTAGE GRIMM VIII—THE BREMMEN TOWN MUSICIANS: Brüka’s Theatre for Children presents an interactive retelling of a Brothers Grimm tale about four farm animals no longer needed by their masters who leave their homes so they can earn a living as musicians. Sat, 6/3, 2pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: The Emmy Award-
winning comedian returns to Reno. Sat, 6/3, 8pm. $36-$44. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, www.pioneercenter.com.
STUPID F**KING BIRD: Brüka Theatre presents Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece The Seagull—a story about love and loss, life and death, art and artifice. In this edgy, funny and contemporary retelling of an old story, Posner has discovered the new forms that Chekhov’s protagonist called for over a century ago, breaking down barriers between what is real and what is imaginary. The show runs weekly Thursday through Sunday through June 17. Evening shows begin at 8pm. All tickets are $10 on Artist Night, Wednesday, June 14. The June 4 matinee will be followed by a talk back with the company and the audience. Thu, 6/1-Sat, 6/3, 8pm, Sun, 6/4, 2pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.
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PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF RENO: PSOR meets
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. Sat, 6/3, 10am. Free, donations welcome. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.
every Wednesday. There is painting from life models (no instruction). All artists are welcome. For more information, email psor2016@gmail.com Wed, 6/7, 9am. $10. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.
WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 6/2, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.
WEDNESDAY WORKSHOPS: Multiple hour-long workshops and presentations on various topics. Contact ksweetsparlormint@ gmail.com. Wed, 6/7, 6pm. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., www.potentialistworkshop.com.
RENO ACES: The baseball team plays the
Las Vegas 51s. Thu, 6/1-Sat, 6/3, 7:05pm; Sun, 6/4, 1:05pm. $9-$34. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.
RENO 1868 FC: The soccer team takes on Rio
Grande Valley FC. Wed, 6/7, 7:30pm. $11$24. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.reno1868fc.com.
RENO-TAHOE ODYSSEY RELAY RUN ADVENTURE: The 13th annual event offers three race options, the original 178-mile course, a 63-mile relay run and a 29-mile relay. Ideally suited for 12-person teams, runners cover a 178-mile course that is divided into 36 legs of varying lengths and difficulty. The Reno Tahoe Oydssey starts in downtown Reno on June 2 and travels along the Truckee River, up the Sierra Nevada range, along the shores of Lake Tahoe, through the Northern Nevada high desert of Virginia City, before returning to Reno. The Capital Odyssey Relay on June 3 will join the regular Reno-Tahoe Odyssey Relay that will already be in progress for the last 12 legs of the regular RTO course. The Comstock Odyssey Relay on June 3 provides another option for teams that wish to run a shorter relay. The course starts in Virginia City and ends in Reno. Fri, 6/2-Sat, 6/3. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 825-3399, renotahoeodyssey.com.
COMMUNITY AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON MEETING: The group presents its monthly event featuring a guest speaker, a raffle drawing and networking with businesswomen from many different types of businesses. Thu, 6/1, 11:30am. $20-$25. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., www.abwa.org/ chapter/reno-tahoe-express-network.
BLOOD DONATIONS: Donors must be at least 16 years of age, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health to donate blood. Call to make an appointment. Thu, 6/1-Fri, 6/2; Mon, 6/5-Wed, 6/7. United Blood Services, 1125 Terminal Way, (775) 324-6454.
BREAST CANCER—ON WITH LIFE: Saint Mary’s team of social workers and educators, as well as other breast cancer survivors, meet weekly to discuss cancer survivorship. The group meets in the Tumor Board Conference Room. Tue, 6/6, 4:30pm. Free. Saint Mary’s Center for Health, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Suite 120, (775) 722-1222.
HEALTH FAIR: Northern Nevada Medical
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Center offers its monthly health fair. Services include blood pressure and body fat screenings, blood screenings, EKG for electrical activity of the heart and overall heart function and other tests. Fasting is required for best results in blood screenings. Thu, 6/1, 7-10am. $0$40. Northern Nevada Medical Center, 2375 E. Prater Way, Sparks, (775) 3317000, www.nnmc.com.
DIVORCE WORKSHOP RENO: A family law specialist, a certified divorce financial analyst and a marriage and family therapist will provide information on the divorce process. Thu, 6/1, noon2pm. Free. Rounds Bakery, 294 E. Moana Lane, www.divorceworkshopreno.org.
DRINK & DRAW: An unorthodox life drawing class with limited formal instruction and maximum visual stimulation from an assortment of the following: nude models, burlesque performers, musicians, staged still lifes, running films and projected images. Basic drawing supplies are available, but you can bring your own materials. Instructor: J. Charboneau. Mon, 6/5, 7pm. $10-$15. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, (651) 361-0757, www.renoartworks.org.
OPEN ART DAY WORKSHOP: Pop in to Reno Art
Sands EuroFest
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The 19th annual festival features a variety of European cuisines, European-style beer festival, arts and crafts and live music, including polka music by Polka Power California and Gruber Family Band and Celtic-influenced rock by Tempest (pictured) and The Young Dubliners. Festivals hours are 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, June 2, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 3, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 4, at Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave. Admission is free. Call 348-2200 or visit http://sandsregency.com.
Works, check out the latest gallery show and then get creative for two hours. A project will be provided each session and some days have guest teachers. This workshop is In partnership with Build Our Center and Nevada Youth Empowerment Project. All supplies are provided. Instructor: Meredith Tanzer. Email: meredith_tanzer@yahoo.com. Fri, 6/2, 11am. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, (775) 391-0278.
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by AMY ALKON
Sight for Thor eyes I’m a 35-year-old masculine gay man. I’ve had relationships with (masculine) gay men, but I’m often attracted to masculine straight men. I’m not looking to “turn” them, and I’m ready for a relationship, so I’m concerned that I’m so frequently attracted to men who won’t be interested in me. What is this about? Do I need therapy? Like you, I happen to like men who look like their hobbies are chopping down trees and going to war with foreign powers. Luckily for me, the sort of people I am attracted to did not require me to come out to my parents, nor are my preferences considered reason for suspicion that I might be a self-loathing heterosexual. As for you, because of the ugly views and behaviors toward gays, sure, it’s possible that your being attracted to straight men is some sort of internalized version of those camps for “praying away the gay.” If that seems to be a possibility, yes, you should look into that—perhaps with a therapist’s help. But if you were really so self-loathing and in denial about being gay, wouldn’t you just be sneaking glances at all the manly men on your way to marrying a woman and buying a house with a lot of closet space? Your being a manly man who’s into boyfriends who wield power tools not intended for hairstyling might be explained by research on “assortative mating.” This basically means “like mates with like”—reflecting how we seem motivated to choose mates who are similar to us on various levels, from age to looks to race to personality. In the gay world, psychologist J. Michael Bailey’s research finds that masculine gay men tend to prefer masculine partners. Increased similarity between partners is associated with happier, longer-lasting relationships. This makes sense, considering that more similarity means more compatibility—from shared beliefs to shared interests and activities. So, it’s good news you’re eyeing the manlier men, even if many are ultimately “for display purposes only.” Of course, it is possible that you’re telling yourself you want a relationship but picking people totally unavailable for one. If that isn’t the case, why worry that your
ideal relationship is basically a nature preserve for chest hair and testosterone? Just accept that it might take a little more effort to find a boyfriend for whom “contouring” is not skillful makeup application but helping you get the back of your head with the weedwacker before your welding group arrives.
Bleachable moments I went through a crazy party girl period in my 20s. My boyfriend recently asked me how many men I’d slept with before him. I told him, and he freaked out at the number—despite his having his own wild past. Now I wish I hadn’t been honest. What should I have said instead? There is a sexual double standard, though it doesn’t come from men wanting to keep women’s sex drives in park. What’s telling, however, are sex differences in jealousy— specifically, jealousy over infidelity. Evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that men across cultures are most distressed by sexual infidelity—the sex acts themselves. Women are substantially more distressed by his being emotionally gaga about someone else. These differences in freakouts dovetail with men’s and women’s differing evolutionary concerns. Women evolved to worry that their partner would divert his investment of time, energy and resources in her and her children to a rival. Men, however, have a different worry. Because a man can never really be sure whether a child is his, any sex act his partner has with another man could lead to his spending decades feeding and caring for some other dude’s genetic offspring. The thing is, having a crazy party girl period doesn’t mean you’re unethical. It’s possible that pointing that out to your boyfriend might help. If, in the future, another boyfriend asks for your sexual tally, be generally honest—you were a bit of a party girl—but avoid giving any specific number. Ω
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communicate with you rather lyrically. Here are just a few of the signs and portents you may encounter, along with theories about their meaning. If you overhear a lullaby, it’s time to seek the influence of a tender, nurturing source. If you see a type of fruit or flower you don’t recognize, it means you have a buried potential you don’t know much about, and you’re ready to explore it further. If you spy a playing card in an unexpected place, trust serendipity to bring you what you need. If a loud noise arrives near a moment of decision: Traditionally it signifies caution, but these days it suggests you should be bold.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your body is holy
and magic and precious. I advise you not to sell it or rent it or compromise it in any way— especially now, when you have an opening to upgrade your relationship with it. Yes, Taurus, it’s time to attend to your sweet flesh and blood with consummate care. Find out exactly what your amazing organism needs to feel its best. Lavish it with pleasure and healing. Treat it as you would a beloved child or animal. I also hope you will have intimate conversations with the cells that compose your body. Let them know you love and appreciate them. Tell them you’re ready to collaborate on a higher level.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The most intense
moments the universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds,” said philosopher Terence McKenna. He was naming a central principle of reality: that every new now is a harvest of everything that has ever happened; every fresh moment is a blast of novelty that arises in response to the sum total of all history’s adventures. This is always true, of course. But I suspect the phenomenon will be especially pronounced for you in the near future. More than usual, you may find that every day is packed with interesting feelings and poignant fun and epic realizations. This could be pleasurable, but also overwhelming. Luckily, you have the personal power necessary to make good use of the intensity.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Nobody likes to be
scrutinized or critiqued or judged. But we Crabs (yes, I’m one of you) are probably touchier about that treatment than any other sign of the zodiac. (Hypersensitivity is a trait that many astrologers ascribe to Cancerians.) However, many of us do allow one particular faultfinder to deride us: the nagging voice in the back of our heads. Sometimes we even give free rein to its barbs. But I would like to propose a transformation of this situation. Maybe we could scold ourselves less, and be a bit more open to constructive feedback coming from other people. Starting now.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The lion’s potency, bold-
ness and majesty are qualities you have a mandate to cultivate in the next three weeks. To get in the righteous mood, I suggest you gaze upon images and videos of lions. Come up with your own version of a lion’s roar—I mean actually make that sound—and unleash it regularly. You might also want to try the yoga posture known as the lion pose. If you’re unfamiliar with it, go here for tips: https:// tinyurl.com/lionpose. What else might help you invoke and express the unfettered leonine spirit?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “What does it matter
how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posed that question. I invite you to put it at the top of your list of hot topics to meditate on. In doing so, I trust you won’t use it as an excuse to disparage your companions for their inadequacies. Rather, I hope it will mobilize you to supercharge your intimate alliances; to deepen your awareness of the synergistic beauty you could create together; to heighten your ability to be given the universe by those whose fates are interwoven with yours.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): From my study of the
lost prophecies of Nostradamus, the hidden chambers beneath the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and the current astrological omens, I have determined that now is a favorable time for you to sing liberation songs with cheeky
authority … to kiss the sky and dance with the wind on a beach or hilltop … to gather your most imaginative allies and brainstorm about what you really want to do in the next five years. Do you dare to slip away from business-as-usual so you can play in the enchanted land of what-if? If you’re smart, you will escape the grind and grime of the daily rhythm so you can expand your mind to the next largest size.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “On some hill of de-
spair,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell, “the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky—though it’s true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in.” You may not exactly feel despair, Scorpio. But I suspect you are in the throes of an acute questioning that makes you feel close to the edge of forever. Please consider the possibility that it’s a favorable time to find out just how much light and heat are hidden inside you. Your ache for primal fun and your longing to accelerate your soul’s education are converging with your quest to summon a deeper, wilder brilliance.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re in a phase when you have the power to find answers to questions that have stumped you for a while. Why? Because you’re more open-minded and curious than usual. You’re also ready to be brazenly honest with yourself. Congrats! In light of the fact that you’ll be lucky at solving riddles, I’ve got three good ones for you to wrestle with. (1) Which of your anxieties may actually be cover-ups for a lazy refusal to change a bad habit? (2) What resource will you use more efficiently when you stop trying to make it do things it’s not designed to do? (3) What blessing will you receive as soon as you give a clear signal that you are ready for it?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical Capri-
corn cultivates fervent passions, even to the point of obsession. Almost no one knows their magnitude, though, because the members of your tribe often pursue their fulfillment with methodical, businesslike focus. But I wonder if maybe it’s a good time to reveal more of the raw force of this driving energy than you usually do. It might humanize you in the eyes of potential helpers who see you as too strong to need help. And it could motivate your allies to provide the extra support and understanding you’ll need in the coming weeks.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In accordance with
the astrological omens, I invite you to carry out a flashy flirtation with the color red. I dare you to wear red clothes and red jewelry. Buy yourself red roses. Sip red wine and savor strawberries under red lights. Sing Elvis Costello’s “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” and Prince’s “Little Red Corvette.” Tell everyone why 2017 is a red-letter year for you. For extra credit, murmur the following motto whenever a splash of red teases and pleases your imagination: “My red-hot passion is my version of high fashion.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “If you want a puppy, start by asking for a pony,” read the bumper sticker on the Lexus SUV I saw. That confused me. Would the owner of a Lexus SUV be the type of person who didn’t expect to get what she really wanted? In any case, Pisces, I’m conveying a version of this bumper-sticker wisdom to you. If you want your domestic scene to thrive even more than it already does, ask for a feng shui master to redesign your environment so it has a perfect flow of energy. If you want a community that activates the best in you, ask for a utopian village full of emotionally intelligent activists. If you want to be animated by a focused goal that motivates you to wake up excited each morning, ask for a glorious assignment that will help save the world.
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by DENNis MYERs
Reasoning together Joseph N. Crowley is a former president of the University of Nevada, Reno.
It seems to me to be a major challenge in terms of the history of how we do politics in this country. On occasion, we read a situation that represents a challenge that we are not—at least recently—accustomed to. And we have a very significant set of divisions, I think, both among the population and the two major parties. Although, there may be a sign or two that we are trying to get back to the approach to decision-making in Washington that has made the country a reasonably stable operation for much of our history, and that is how to get the parties, or at least the people involved from the parties in the two houses of the legislature, to find middle ground. That is critical to the survival of the republic. I think we’ve lost a good part of that.
What do you think of the quality of the public dialogue? It’s kind of a reflection on the quality of the legislative dialogue, it seems to me, although I believe the way in which the president handled his campaign probably exacerbated divisions. … So much name-calling. … Those are pretty
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How do you feel about the climate in the country?
significant differences from what we had been accustomed to, the presence of groups whose views run in a direction that is not the direction that the country is accustomed to or needs. … [Those who think] only whites can count in this country, their number is greater than it’s ever been, I think, at least in modern times. Just the use of language, I think—that in part is a reflection of what Mr. Trump did during the campaign, and that’s not a good sign for the country.
You’re a political scientist. Other than the Civil War, have there been periods of this kind of polarization? I think we came close to that in the ’60s when we had not simply the issue of the war in Vietnam to contend with, but, as well, the civil rights movement and those who opposed it, you know, those who
were responsible for moving that much needed Senate decisions to resolve what was possible to be resolved in the desires of the civil rights movement, and ultimately that led to significant changes. At the state level [today], it’s both parties taking, really, quite significant advantage of forgetting one person/one vote and seeing how they can building their legislatures with one party or the other ... strengthening the dominance of one party or another. I don’t think that’s healthy.
I would argue that the polarization of the 1960s created some good things. Do you think that will happen with this period?
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Oh, I agree. I was talking about living in the moment. I think we finally came out of that, but … the war was tearing us apart and the cities were burning. … What has to happen is for the parties to get straight with each other. When you look at the caucuses in the House of Representatives, the Tuesday Group, and the Freedom Group, and the middle of the road or—what do they call it?—the branch of conservatism that does really want to operate on the basis of the classical approach, that is, to do business with the other party. … There’s an opportunity, I suppose, for the Republicans to figure out something that works. Actually, let me back up a bit and say there’s also an opportunity in the House and probably in the Senate for the Democrats and Republicans—those believers in the need to try to find the way to meet in the vast middle territory. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
Russia redux So word of Jared Kushner’s skullduggery broke a couple of days ago, and I instantly wondered who he might be trying to establish a secret back channel with. How cool! How exciting! How Clancy! Italy? Angola? Thailand? But no. Once again—Russia. Always Russia! I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to suspect some real funny business is going on with all these Russians all over the place! For anyone who’s skeptical as to why Twitler would be up to his ass in Russian money, all you need to do is read David Cay Johnston’s book, The Making of Donald Trump. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Johnston lays it out very nicely and simply. Johnston reminds the reader that Trump, from 1990-2010, got into a lot of financial problems with his Atlantic City joints. His hotel-casinos lost piles of money, and Trump was skating on very
thin financial ice. American banks were repeatedly asked to help with loans to prop up these troubled establishments, and they repeatedly said, “Thanks, but no thanks. Now, go away.” Enter the Russians. Enter Deutschebank. Enter international entanglements. Perhaps the most telling, revelatory recent remark came not from Dum Dum, but from his son Eric, who was, back in ’14, showing off a new Trump golf resort to Golf Magazine reporter James Dodson. During that day’s round, Dodson asked Eric where the heck the Trumps were getting the millions to build new golf courses, since Dodson knew that American banks, after the recession of ’08, weren’t inclined to fund quasi-frivolous ventures of that ilk. That was Eric’s cue to blurt-boast that the Trumps didn’t need American money be-
cause—well, they got piles and piles of Russian rubles ready to rock. “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Gee, Eric, you don’t say? Oh, but golly, here’s the Old Man, tweeting away about never having anything to do with anybody Russian. Ever. Nope. Not ever. Promise! Let’s remember that back in ’14, Eric had no clue that Pops was two years away from becoming president of the freaking United States. He was free to say whatever he wanted. He was free to brag about how cool it was to have heavy hitter Russian friends with some extra cash. Lots of it. And so he did. Follow the bread. It’s gonna get good. And it’ll move faster than Watergate. Bookies in the U.K. are now taking bets on whether Trump makes it a year. Odds currently 5050. If the over/under is six months, what’s your bet? Ω
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