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Spotlight Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’ve said it before and will say it again: The University of Nevada, Reno and all of us who graduated from the university, or taught there, or even just took an afternoon stroll around the campus, should be proud that an alumnus from our little university took advantage of his time in the national spotlight to make a simple gesture that’s altered the course of political discourse in this country.

There’s a part of me that thinks that Trump keeps trash talking Colin Kaepernick and other current and former NFL players because he wants to distract the American people from his saber-rattling brinksmanship with North Korea, or his efforts to roll back American commitments to environmental protections, or his failure to provide adequate financial support to American territories (i.e. Puerto Rico) that have been devastated by natural disasters.

Still, the fact remains that professional sports—like just about everything else—are a political arena. And professional sports—a meritocracy where financial connections can be less helpful than natural ability or work ethic—is a realm where people from minority and repressed communities can excel, and then use that fame to shed light on issues like the systematic racism in American law enforcement.

And the fact that this discourse has managed, to some small degree, to cut through the matrix of beer and car commercials, of violence and committee meetings, is profound—and a much bigger accomplishment than winning the Super Bowl.

On an unrelated note, I’m really excited about this week’s issue.

It’s always fun to take on a taboo subject. Props to our special projects editor, Jeri Chadwell-Singley, for writing the feature story and editing the end-of-life Health Guide, and props to our creative director, Serene Lusano for the great job on our Edward Gorey-inspired cover illustration.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne ws r ev i ew . com

Jake Highton Re “Jake” (cover story, Aug 17): I was a student of Professor Highton’s more than a decade ago. He tore my writing apart, gave me a very bad grade in his course, but I was grateful because of how much I learned from him. He loved to teach, loved to write, loved history, and was passionate in every sense of the word.

He recommended me for a writing job after graduation, regardless of my poor grade in his course, saying, “He’s a political science major, but there’s a catch: He can write.” Praise from Professor Highton was one of the absolute highlights of my life as a writer. Better still, he offered sound professional guidance: “You should read Reporter,” (his book) to learn mechanics. Then, he touched me more personally: “If you can’t afford it, I will give you the money.” Touched doesn’t begin to scratch the surface. He was genuine. Many of his students probably never got to see past the stern and rigorous teacher to the kind and considerate man beneath the surface. Many probably learned for the first time that they weren’t as smart as they thought they were when Professor Highton got ahold of their writing. His grading probably sent many a millennial crying to a parent that they didn’t get their “A.” Few did. This alone was a great service to our society, given the growing sense of self-importance among college students.

After moving away and staying in touch, I found that he had included one of our conversations about literature in a Sparks Tribune article, which I read in one of his books that he continued to send me over the years. What an honor that was. Even more so that he would inscribe them (as I’m sure he did to many others): “To my friend.”

Thank you for the cover story, RN&R. What a joy it was to see the photo of the office-bound Highton which I remember so vividly, always ready to grab one of those books off the shelf behind him to

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quote a passage from Dante or Shakespeare, connecting the classics to modern political or other issues with the ease of a master himself. He was proud to tell students, “I take a book with me everywhere I go,” as if to say, “and you should too.” I have since tried to imitate him in this and other ways.

Memories of my discussions with him about writing, style, Ward Churchill, Robert Pirsig, and the world of politics and history will stay with me forever. I hope to find a shred of the passion he had for his work. ... Teachers don’t teach like he did; writers don’t write like he did.

I remember him saying, “All writers,” no matter their style or specialty, “should experiment with poetry,” an expression of his love of and dedication to his craft.

And what a beautiful image to close the Highton chapter of our local history, on which I believe he has had a marvelous impact with his writing and his spirit: the photo in RN&R’s cover story of the Journalism Department’s lunch meeting at a restaurant where everyone has a soft drink or a water, and Professor Highton has a glass of wine. Cheers to you, Professor Highton. Thank you for your service to our community as a champion of reason and truth and for setting the bar so high for the journalism, writing, and teaching professions.

Jonathan M Cummins Reno

Don’t rewrite history Re “Rewriting history,” (editorial, Sept. 14): So, should Mount Rushmore be demolished or covered with a tarp?

Perhaps just a posted sign to tell visitors sculptor Gutzon Borglum was a KKK member. Might as well remove Thomas Jefferson from the nickel, since he was a slave owner. Oh, and change the names of all towns and counties named “Davis.”

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chess piece from the Civil War chess set, lest an easily offended guest arrives. I’m so afraid to play Dean Martin singing “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” on my iPod. Someone might overhear it and deem me a racist. Perhaps even Lake Tahoe’s MS Dixie II is a threat to one’s principles.

Hmm. While the overly sensitive are at it, Martin Luther King Day should be deleted as a holiday, since the reverend was allegedly an adulterer.

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By JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

A song for your own funeral?

Asked AT reno PuBlic house, 33 sT. lAwrence Ave.

GeorGe AnGel Business owner

I’m going to have to go with “Highway to Hell.” I like AC/ DC, and nobody ever plays that at a funeral, so people will remember me. I think it will sound awesome on the organ.

Todd FArenholTz Business owner

I was just thinking about that the other day. ... Honestly, I can’t answer that question. To me, there’s so many lyrics from certain songs that apply to my life, but you’ve got to think about the people who are at the funeral. So it has to be a song that resonates with them. It’s kind of about them.

Moe FArenholTz Manicurist/fashion stylist

The secret dossier It’s difficult to know who came off looking worst among the players in the Case of the Dirty Dancers Dossier.

There was City Attorney Karl Hall, who spent money doing the kind of thing we have the Reno Police Department to do. Using police to spy on strip joints would have meant using agents who must be accountable to the public. Hiring a private detective firm means using agents who must be accountable to whoever pays the bill, like asking a barber for a haircut. Surprise!

The private detectives found just what the city attorney wanted them to find. And then, although Hall said the material gathered was for use in a possible lawsuit, what did he do with it? In serial meetings, his office briefed members of the city council who were about to vote on cracking down on the strip clubs, something Hall should never have allowed if he wanted to keep the report under wraps on grounds of attorney-client privilege. He was plainly using the report to influence the vote.

Then there was the Reno City Council, which was upset for the wrong reasons. Some members—and certainly the mayor—persist in believing that the city attorney works for them. There is no excuse for using this dispute to disrupt the proper relationship between counsel and council. The city attorney, as an independent elected official, is free to give the council the advice it needs, not what it wants to hear. The legislature, thank goodness, was prevented by a governor’s veto from making the city attorney positions in Reno and Sparks appointive, and the city council should stop acting like they are.

The council also dropped the ball by seemingly using the information in the report to make their decision when the report’s authors were not subject to questions by both the council and the club representatives in open meetings. This is raw investigative material, the kind of thing that should not have been swallowed whole, particularly given the fact that the contents alleged criminal activity, and the council has no way of determining its credibility.

Finally, it’s appalling that the council spent the time it did on this peewee of a topic—strip clubs—when good people in the city are starting to feel real pain from the out-of-control effects of economic development.

As for the strip clubs themselves, if any of the findings in the undercover report are true, the owners have only themselves to blame for the bad publicity.

Strip clubs are always under greater review than most businesses, and they surely knew that in recent months they were under especially vigorous scrutiny because of complaints by elites in town who have the council’s ear. It was surely in their own best interests to keep everything strictly, strictly within the law.

There was one player that came out looking good.

The Reno Gazette-Journal filed requests for the secret report and its funding as soon as its existence became known. Our colleagues at the newspaper kept the pressure on until the city spat out the secret report and let the public see it. It’s a reminder of the kind of thing society will lose if our industry fails to survive. Ω

It would have to be an ’80s song—no ballads, no drama. I would think it would be a tape that I’d want to listen to in my truck. … I would need to start with “What You Give” by Tesla, maybe end with Def Leppard, “Hysteria.”

Maybe my son should pick for me.

He knows what I would like.

JAckson sTonehAMMer Public servant

“Touch My Body” by Mariah Carey. I want to creep my family out forever.

AdAM ne Ace Bass player/warehouse manager

“It’s Raining Men.” They say “hallelujah” in it.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Their adventures with your money Here we go again. This time it’s Amazon HQ2, dangling 50,000 jobs and a supposed $5 billion in spending on construction and operations in front of the city who will give them what they want.

Predictably, Gov. Sandoval and his economic development minions are scurrying around, frantically designing a desirable incentive package to lure this “once in a lifetime” opportunity to Nevada. We’ll be competing with other locales desperate for jobs and private sector growth by responding to a request for proposal (RFP) issued by Amazon to determine who will offer them the most upfront cash and goods.

So what does Amazon want for the privilege of becoming their HQ2 hometown? In their RFP, they talk about sustainability, connectivity and a cultural community fit. They also are looking for a quality workforce, access to an international airport and a major highway corridor, and “a community where our employees will enjoy living, recreational opportunities, educational opportunities, and an overall

high quality of life.” But mostly they care about the money.

Amazon’s “high-priority considerations” revolve around incentives to “offset initial capital outlay and ongoing operational costs.” Competitors must provide a highly detailed description of each type of incentive they are prepared to offer, how long it will last and the amount. The company emphasizes that incentives such as land, tax credits/ exemptions, relocation grants, workforce grants, utility incentives/grants, permitting, and fee reductions are all welcome, stating “the initial cost and ongoing cost of doing business are critical decision drivers.”

Amazon is not the least bit subtle in suggesting communities pursue special incentive legislation to compete for their business, but it’s clear they’re not going to be patient about waiting for local or state political bodies to act. They indicate they may select more than one proposal and pursue further negotiations, or perhaps they won’t pick any proposal at all, if their demands aren’t adequately met. It seems

they’ve learned a lot from Tesla’s billion dollar shakedown of Nevada’s legislators a few years ago.

Amid paragraph after paragraph of potential incentives, Amazon also asks communities to comment on their recreational opportunities, crime rates and affordable housing. They want to know about education attainment, existing wage rates and traffic congestion.

One would think Northern Nevada would automatically be eliminated based on the lack of affordable housing alone as the Tesla effect continues to exacerbate the extreme housing shortage for those making 80 percent or less of the area median income. The chronic choking traffic and overcrowded low-performing schools in Las Vegas would seem to rule out the southern end of the state as well. The negative effects of granting millions and billions of tax incentives to Tesla, Apple, Switch and other corporations are all too obvious as Nevada’s local and state governments continue to struggle to provide basic services.

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if Nevada refused to participate in bidding wars with other communities that don’t have our low taxes, high quality of life, and rich natural resources to meet the demands of corporations looking to enrich themselves further at the expense of everyone else? Every time we pay out billions of dollars in tax giveaways to attract growth, each and every one of us pays the price in overcrowded schools and roads, spiking rent and real estate to unsustainable levels, resulting in increased community stressors as more people, especially seniors on fixed incomes, become homeless or unable to maintain their quality of life.

Instead, let’s welcome Amazon HQ2 to set up shop on our terms. Pay your fair share in taxes, guarantee a living wage for all workers, not just the few at the top, and show us a thoughtful plan for good corporate citizenship. Then we’ll decide if your company deserves Nevada instead of the other way around. Ω

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by Brendan Trainor

U.S. government too cozy with Israel The American Legion held a national convention in Reno in August. President Trump flew into town to address the group of patriotic American veterans. Nothing unusual there.

But then something very unusual happened. The Legion passed Resolution 40, which read: “RESOLVED, By the American Legion in National Convention assembled in Reno, Nevada, August 22, 23, 24, 2017, that the American Legion calls upon the 115th United States Congress to publicly, impartially, and thoroughly investigate the attack on the USS Liberty and its aftermath and to commence its investigation before the end of 2017, the 50th anniversary year of the attack.”

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an American intelligence ship, was attacked in international waters by Israel. Thirty four U.S. Marines and sailors were killed, 171 wounded. It is the worst attack on a U.S. Navy vessel in peacetime.

Most Americans are unaware that our supposed best ally attacked us, or of the political coverup that followed. The American Legion acted heroically to right a very serious wrong.

Admiral John McCain, Jr., and then his son, Sen. John McCain, played major roles in squashing the official naval inquiry and later the Senate investigation. The 50-year coverup that followed reveals the extent of Israel’s political influence. Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has long called the U.S. Congress “Israeli occupied territory” because both political parties have failed to hold Israel accountable for its numerous questionable actions. The attack on the USS Liberty was described by witnesses and impartial jurists as deliberate, vicious and unprovoked. Their testimony was suppressed.

Israel wanted to sink the ship and kill all the crew. It is a miracle they failed.

Bush 41 and his realist secretary of state James Baker were the last Republicans in the White House to criticize Israel. President

Obama fashioned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran over Israel’s strident objections. But even these presidents did not sanction Israel or decrease the military aid we send to Tel Aviv.

U.S. politicians love to say there should be “no daylight” between the U.S. and Israel. But Israel often widens the daylight by its actions against our interests. The State of Israel was created through terrorism and ethnic cleansing.

Israeli spies stole the nuclear weapons secrets from U.S., making Israel the only nuclear power in the Middle East. Israel disregarded U.S. and U.N. mandates against building settlements on the West Bank and the occupation of the Golan Heights. Israel provided medical aid to Islamic State soldiers. The defense minister publicly declared Israel would rather see the black flag of Islamic State fly over Damascus than Syria to win the war.

Any criticism of Israeli policies brings accusations of anti-Semitism. Israel has numerous non government agencies

promoting its views. The corporate media rarely presents articulate critics of Israel.

Other countries of the world have acted to keep Israel’s ravenous appetite for territory under control. Russia, Iran, Syria and Lebanon have all clipped Israel’s wings recently. The Palestinian resistance of Hamas and Fatah is working toward a unified front. Our European allies are skeptical of Israeli policy. Students and activists call for economic boycotts of Israel No one, including Iran, threatens Israel’s hard won power to exist. Not only is Israel the only nuclear power in the region, but it has the best defensive armed forces. Israel is threatened only by its internal policies toward the Palestinians.

The United States’ one-sided special relationship with Israel and outsized hatred of Iran could lead to another Middle East war. President Trump so far puts Israel first while telling his base he is for America First. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Republicans and bundy

While marijuana enjoys new respectability, some are still pushing for a stigma on the plant.

Roger Stone, GOP gadfly who testified this week before a U.S. House committee investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election, has taken up the cause of Cliven Bundy.

Stone was kicked out of the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition in Los Angeles this month because of his tweets against women, Jews and minorities. He says he has revived his efforts to get presidential pardons for rancher Cliven Bundy and his co-defendants who are being tried on charges stemming from the 2014 armed standoff that followed efforts to make Bundy pay his bills. Bundy supporters with guns poured in from around the West until the Bureau of Land Management called off a roundup of Bundy’s cattle, intended for sale against his unpaid grazing fees.

Stone was an adviser to Trump in the 2016 campaign until forced out of the Trump organization.

Republicans and cRime Republican Michael Roberson, running for lieutenant governor, got into someone else’s race last week, attacking Democratic candidate for attorney general Aaron Ford.

Roberson said Democrats at the 2017 legislature “spent last session pushing the most pro-felon session in history rather than doing more to protect innocent Nevadans from those seeking to commit fraud and violent crime in our state. Democrat[ic] leaders had an opportunity to pass AB 15, which would have addressed these kinds of crimes, but they turned a blind eye on the very Nevadans that this legislation would have protected. … They sought to reduce sentences for violent criminals, make it easier for convicted felons to vote and worked to turn Nevada into a sanctuary state. Their efforts do not represent the values of the majority of Nevadans, nor of our law enforcement community.

“The Democratic public defender caucus in the Assembly pushed policies to take it easy on violent criminals and to make our communities less safe, and Senator Aaron Ford, the very Democrat seeking to become Nevada’s next Attorney General, sponsored a bill to provide sanctuary to violent criminals in our communities and on our streets.”

Ford declined comment—“I plan on running a positive, forward-looking campaign”—but sent a list of his endorsements from law enforcement. Assembly Democratic leader Teresa Benitez-Thompson, however, had this to say: “Legislative Democrats spent the session vigorously defending victims and expanding their rights. Any notion to the contrary is nothing more than hyper-political rhetoric.

Assembly Bill 122, for example, enshrined access to Victim of Crime funds for all victims. Assembly Bill 97 puts into place reporting deadlines and mandatory testing timeframes of sexual assault kits. The passage of Marcy’s Law, too, demonstrates our commitment.”

Roberson’ statement was sent out jointly with Assemblymember Jim Wheeler, best known for saying he would vote for slavery if that’s what his constituents wanted.

Republicans and health caRe Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Dean Heller got a touch of national attention in an unfamiliar forum on Sept. 20—the Onion, a comic news site. It showed Heller in a photo of prominent Republicans under the headline “GOP Leaders Confident They’ll Have Cruelty Necessary To Pass Healthcare Bill.”

The accompanying text quoted Sen. Lindsey Graham saying enough votes showing “utter contempt for the lives of middle class and poor Americans appeared to be ‘falling into place nicely.’”

—Dennis Myers

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Branded Marijuana’s legal, but still stigmatized during alcohol prohibition, u.s. citizens had exactly the access to alcohol that pot smokers have to marijuana today in Nevada. They could drink at home.

Nevadans can now smoke marijuana—but only at home, or on private property with the owner’s permission.

Why can’t they smoke it anywhere tobacco smokers can? After all, tobacco is dangerous—people die from it. No one has ever died from marijuana. Why the stigma?

There’s a smoke shop within two blocks of Greenbrae Elementary School—but marijuana dispensaries must keep their distance from schools.

Is this a message to children that the more lethal drug—tobacco—is acceptable?

The fact is that politicians are still tiptoeing around marijuana for fear of the political consequences. The effects of 80 years of government falsehoods about the plant cannot be dispelled by a few public votes. There are still a lot of people who believe those lies that kept the war on pot going. Officials

may want the revenue—boy, do they want the revenue—but they still fear the consequences of being seen as too cozy with pot.

When the legislature’s head lawyer opined that local governments have the authority to license marijuana lounges, no one at the local level rushed to take advantage of it.

The Clark County Commission decided to wait and watch what happens in Denver on lounges before doing anything. Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani—normally a supporter of legal marijuana—conceded that she is nervous about the sword of Damocles the federal government holds over the states, keeping marijuana technically illegal under federal statutes. She doesn’t want to poke or prod federal officials. “I don’t want to invite the feds in any more than we need to,” she said.

And Gov. Brian Sandoval called the little-used Gaming Policy Commission to meet and decide what are the implications of legal gambling and legal marijuana in the same jurisdiction.

He wants a look at rules on corporate gambling being financed by marijuana executives or firms or casinos investing in marijuana operations. He’s acting as skittish as college athletic associations used to act about having casinos donate money to universities with teams.

Sandoval also asked Attorney General Adam Laxalt—who, like Sandoval, opposed last year’s legal marijuana ballot measure—to offer a more authoritative opinion on whether local governments can allow marijuana lounges.

Some of the cautiousness around marijuana is laudable.

“In California, they have home grows that can donate to dispensaries in a donation program without any lab testing or third-party verification,” Sierra Cannabis Coalition owner Will Adler said at a marijuana forum in Carson City this month. “In Nevada, every step of the process is going to be regulated.” No one who recalls the Drug Enforcement Administration’s program to poison marijuana crops with the lung-toxic and Parkinson’sgenerating herbicide paraquat wants tainted marijuana on the market.

But there are still those who would use any rationale to characterize marijuana as dangerous or use the mythology about the plant to slow its marketing.

Prohibitionist attorney Jim Hartman recently wrote, “In states outside of Nevada that ‘legalized’ marijuana, local communities have been cautious or resisted marijuana commerce.

While Colorado voters ‘legalized’ marijuana statewide, the vast majority (73 percent) of the state’s cities and counties banned commercial recreational marijuana in their jurisdictions. Similarly, Oregon ‘legalized’ marijuana statewide, but 89 cities and counties have banned all commercial marijuana activity. In Massachusetts, the 91 communities in the state that voted against legalization have been given authority by the state legislature to prohibit commercialization.”

Repeal and Replace Those “vast majority” percentages are the percents of the state’s communities, not the percentage of the state’s population. Moreover, the end result was not to reduce access to marijuana but just to make it more difficult for

the elderly and disabled to obtain. What Greeley’s Chief Garner feared marijuana happened, according to John Aguilar of the sales would bring crime, but Aguilar reports Denver Post, is that some nearby communi“pot shops as a target for thieves and ties became pot sources for those that banned burglars hasn’t proved to be the problem it. For instance, Garden City, Colorado is many feared, according to several law mostly surrounded by Greeley and Evans. enforcement officials interviewed for this “Garden City, which weighs in at less story. Even Garner said he hasn’t seen any than one square mile, has four recreational evidence that Garden City’s pot shops are pot businesses,” Aguilar writes. “On the nudging up Greeley’s crime stats. Inside other side of 25th Street lurks Greeley, Garden City’s tightly drawn borders, police with more than 96,000 residents. aren’t any busier than they were It has none. … Jerry Garner, before pot sales began in 2014, Greeley’s chief of police, according to Weld County likens the situation in his sheriff’s Cpl. Matthew city to what existed with Turner, whose agency liquor half a century provides the city with ago, when Greeley police services.” established itself as a What the local bans ‘dry’ town and Garden mainly do is maintain the Chris Giunchigliani City became the destinastigma around marijuana.

Clark County Commissioner tion for those seeking a However, given the lure stiff drink. ‘I see a parallel of the forbidden, that there,’ he said.” stigma may very well be Some communities like aiding sales where the plant is Marin County, California, and legal and sold.

Vail, Colorado, have reputations Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of either as tourist towns or free-living areas.

New Jersey has introduced legislation to get So those local governments opted out of the federal government out of the marijuana legal marijuana or restricted it for public business altogether. It would repeal federal relations reasons. But they are still places anti-marijuana laws and replace federal where marijuana is freely consumed. Marin regulation with state regulation. While allowed four dispensaries in unincorporated Booker’s measure is DOA in this Congress, areas. Vail gets its pot from dispensaries in if the Democrats score in the 2018 elections, unincorporated sections of Eagle County. his measure will be ready. Ω

“I don’t want to invite the feds in.”

Still petitioning

Signature gatherers are still getting signatures on pro-gun petitions at the Department of Motor Vehicles, as they have been all summer (“Petitions,” RN&R, June 15). The petitions do not seek to place measures on the ballot—no such legal petitions have been filed with the secretary of state’s office. Readers have informed us they have filed complaints with both the DMV and the secretary of state about the petitioners. The DMV told us they have not, contrary to rumors, barred the petitioners from the property. The secretary of state’s office has not responded.

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hysician assisted suicide, aid in dying, death with dignity: the words vary depending on who’s addressing the issue, but the debate at hand—whether or not a person should have the choice to use medication to end his or her own life when faced with terminal illness—is a contentious one, regardless of the language used. And it’s been heating up in states across the country for years.

More than two dozen state legislatures have considered aid-in-dying measures this year. In Massachusetts, two such bills were slated for discussion on Sept. 26. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan—whose legislatures adjourn on New Year’s Eve—similar measures have sat for months, unaddressed by the legislative committees to which they’ve been assigned. And in 24 states, Nevada included, aid-indying legislation was introduced but failed outright after being tabled in committee, withdrawn or voted down.

Senate Bill 261 was Sen. David Parks’ second attempt at passing aid-in-dying legislation in Nevada. His first attempt— S.B. 336, introduced during the 2015 session—failed early, after missing a committee deadline when the Senate Health and Human Services committee chair declined to schedule a hearing for it. This year, the measure passed the Senate in an 11-10 vote before stalling in the Assembly Health and Human Services committee.

Committee hearings on S.B. 261 in May were packed with people who came to testify in favor of or opposition to aid in dying. And, as is often the case when Nevada takes up high-profile, national issues—think gun control, marriage equality, reproductive rights—many of those who came to speak were not, in fact, Nevadans at all.

Representatives from interest groups on both sides of the debate turned up to testify alongside Nevadans, bringing with them the kind of well-rehearsed talking points and carefully chosen statistics upon which their campaigns are built (and the national debate remains, inevitably, focused).

From arguments in favor of personal autonomy to concerns about coerced suicide—the main talking points on both sides are emotionally charged. And it’s no wonder. Death is an emotional topic, at once personal and universal.

Aid in dying may be off the table in Nevada for now, but it won’t be for long. The Nevada Legislature reconvenes in 2019, and Sen. Parks has confirmed that, when it does, aid in dying will be up for deliberation again.

Several legislators who voted against S.B. 261 on the senate floor said their decisions were rooted in a lack of information and understanding of the issue. Among them was Sen. Mo Denis, who co-sponsored the bill but later voted against it.

“I’ve had family members—my mom and others—that have passed away, that had cancer and other things,” Denis said in a recent phone interview. “I thought it was important enough an issue that we should have that discussion. … I tried to follow the discussion that they had in committee, talked to some of the folks that were there.”

In the end, Denis said, he simply wasn’t convinced this time around but is prepared to consider it again, next session.

“Yeah, I’m usually pretty open to doing that—unless there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever to spend time on it,”

he said. “But I didn’t hear that with this. What I heard with this is that there are some different things going on. Some places have done it, and I think that perhaps there might be some additional information that could come forward.”

New information may be available in 2019. At the very least, fact sheets and testimonies will be updated to reflect the latest year’s figures from California, Colorado, Vermont, Oregon and Washington—the five states with established aidin-dying laws. The underlying rationalizations driving people on both sides of the issue will, however, almost certainly remain the same. They’ve never really changed.

A quick examination of the ways each side used data, accurately and otherwise, to support their positions during 2017 will serve as a good model for those wondering what to expect the next time around. And an overview of the history of the aid-in-dying movement and its roots in Nevada may be of interest.

Oath breakers?

Many people have at least heard of the Hippocratic Oath, the ethical code attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. These days, most graduating medical school students swear to some form it—promising to maintain patient privacy, to treat the infirm to the best of their abilities, and to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation.

The Hippocratic school of medicine strictly forbade euthanasia. In his book Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide: Killing or Caring? Dr. Michael Manning explains that the rise of Christianity, “with its view that human life is a trust from God, reinforced the views of the Hippocratic school,” and “by the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, it culminated in the near unanimity of medical opinion in opposing euthanasia.”

Yet today, only a small percentage of the oaths taken do. According to survey results published in the Journal of Clinical Ethics, by 1993, the number had fallen to around 14 percent.

And, in fact, the oath itself has gone through periods of disuse. According to Robert M. Veatch’s book Hippocratic, Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: The Points of Conflict, in 1928, 75 percent of medical schools surveyed in the U.S. and Canada reported using no oath at all.

Of course, the oath has never been the only thing standing in the way of people who desire medical assistance in their deaths. As the U.S. Supreme Court has reiterated in several of its written decisions concerning landmark aid-in-dying-related cases, because the common law tradition—which the American colonies largely adopted—has punished or disapproved of both suicide and assisted suicide for many hundreds of years, it was a nonissue for most of the country’s history. The court has also noted that most states have, at some point, had laws against both.

However, that’s not to say that there weren’t efforts to discuss and even legalize aid in dying historically. According to Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has written extensively on the history of the issue, “Modern interest in euthanasia in the

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United States began in 1870, when a commentator, Samuel Williams, proposed to the Birmingham Speculative Club that euthanasia be permitted “in all cases of hopeless and painful illness” to bring about “a quick and painless death.”

Dr. Emanuel, who has maintained a stance against aid in dying, has written in both news articles and scholarly papers about how Williams’ proposal sparked debate among physicians in the United States and the U.K. and ultimately contributed to the consideration of a few euthanasia bills by state legislatures in the early 20th century.

But political science researcher and author Howard Ball, in his latest book, pointed out that euthanasia was also “linked to the eugenics movement during the first decade of the 20th century,” when bills to legalize euthanasia were introduced and failed in both Ohio and Iowa.

The debate over aid in dying—and the public’s support of it—has ebbed and flowed over time. Gallup reports on its website that it began polling about euthanasia in 1947 and, at that time, 37 percent of Americans reported supporting it. Groups like the Euthanasia Society of America and the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society in the U.K. had already been in existence for more than a decade at that point, and the aid-in-dying issue might have continued to gain ground, had it not been for World War II. But, as Manning notes in his book, “the discovery of the Nazi death camps, and the recognition of the complicity of German physicians in the extermination camps quelled” discussions of euthanasia.

In the decades following World War II, the focus of the aid-in-dying debate shifted away from euthanasia toward more general patients’ rights. Even groups like the Euthanasia Society of America backed away from advocating “active” euthanasia. Many instead turned their attention toward right-to-die issues, lobbying for public education regarding things like advance directives and do not resuscitate orders.

It was about this time when Nevadans first took up the issue.

the state. According to Thornton, both she and Del Papa were eager to participate in a panel and study on death and dying in the hopes of coming to terms with their own mothers’ painful deaths.

“At that point, there was very little talk of physician assisted suicide,” Thornton said. “And that was not our issue. Our issue was telling people about hospice, how to talk to people, how to get people to not be afraid of death.

It’s like death was in the closet. It was in the closet much more than sexual issues or anything. You just didn’t talk about death.”

But the task force did—bringing in medical experts from across the country to speak with them and the Nevadans who participated in their study.

“And we came out with a fascinating report that was well received, but we weren’t going to publish it or anything,” Thornton said. “But we were encouraged to publish it. We did. And then Frankie Sue was going to end the board and the study of death and dying. And so many people were opposed to that, that she kept it going.”

Around the same time, Thornton was teaching and studying death and dying issues at the university—when she heard about a grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The task force was one of four groups nationwide to receive the grant.

“With the backing of Robert Wood Johnson, we thought we were in great shape,” Thornton said. “And Bill Raggio was our backup in the senate in Nevada. His wife had died a painful death, and he’d had a lot of problems, so he was right there with us. And he got enough money from the legislature that, with the grant, we could establish a Nevada Center for Ethics and Health Policy.”

The Center remained open for many years at its location on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. But according to Thornton, it eventually just stopped receiving funding, from the grants, the state, the school.

But Thornton has since changed her thinking on end-oflife issues, coming to embrace aid in dying as an option.

Means to an end

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Archives of Nevada newspapers document an uptick in discussions of right-to-die issues in the state beginning in ’70s.

An August 1975 editorial in the Nevada State Journal noted that senior citizens had gathered a few weeks prior to discuss end-of-life issues—as well as a person’s right to die. The writer of the piece remarked that, “Many of the senior citizens in Carson City suggested registering a petition in court expressing a desire to die and that no extraordinary precautions be taken to prolong life.”

Two years later, in 1977, state Sen. Bill Raggio and Assemblymember Steve Coulter each sponsored bills to address the matter. As reported in the Reno Gazette-Journal in March of that year, the legislation was aimed at providing people with the opportunity “to order the withdrawal or withholding of life sustaining mechanical procedures when they serve no purpose except to artificially delay the moment of death.”

The state joined an additional seven others with so-called death-with-dignity laws in place, including California’s, upon which the language in several of the others was based.

Things quieted for a while with these measures in place, but in the early ’90s, the debate was again raging across the nation, with Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. “Dr. Death,” dominating the conversation. In Nevada, the issues of death and dying came to the forefront again in the form of a study. The people who initiated it are involved in matters of medical ethics and patients’ rights in the state to this day.

Frankie Sue Del Papa became attorney general for the state in 1991. She and Dr. Barbara Thornton had previously worked together on a study concerning women’s issues in

In the end, it was both a belief in autonomy and a means to end pain and suffering that Thornton said motivated her to embrace the idea of aid in dying. After a career in medicine and ethics, she’d seen enough people resuscitated, only to be kept alive with machines, that she was ready to see policies change.

“In many cases, they weren’t conscious,” she said. “They weren’t anything. They were just alive as animals. Or not as animals—we don’t treat animals like that. … We love them and we keep them with us until they’re in pain. But when they’re in pain, we do something. And we do it kindly, and we do it lovingly. So I think it was the animal example that got me to realize that it wasn’t just enough to urge advance directives and have people learn more about death.”

Both she and Del Papa testified before the legislature on S.B. 261 earlier this year.

So did many, many other people. Overflow rooms were designated during committee hearings on the bill in both the senate and assembly. Committee members received dozens of pieces of written testimony concerning the bill, including testimony from national organizations in opposition and support of aid in dying.

But numbers produced by people on both sides of the argument seemed at times dubious. Some proponents claimed to know that a majority of physicians support aid-in-dying measures, though—in truth—the numbers vary widely by poll. Others asserted statistics about the percentage of dying patients with particular diseases who suffer from pain.

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Hospitalist and board certified internal medicine specialist Callister is also distressed by the frequency with which Dr. Brian Callister was among those who spoke in opposition patients experience complications in taking the medicine. to the bill. His list of talking points—which he discussed Trouble ingesting or regurgitating the medication has been during a recent interview—is long. However, he said, the documented in a total of 30 cases over the last 19 years in basic reason for his opposition is simple—in his opinion, Oregon—which is just over five percent of cases for improvements in palliative and end-of-life care which that information is available. have made it a nonissue: In the end, though, one of Dr. Callister’s “We have advanced so far in assertions stands out among the rest. control of pain and symptoms …

He claims to have been contacted that we can look you in the eye by two insurance company repreand say, ‘We can control your sentatives offering aid in dying in “We have advanced symptoms,’” Callister said. “Now, lieu of lifesaving treatment for so far in control of of course, there’s always going two separate patients seeking to be an exception. Nothing in treatment at out-of-state-hospipain and symptoms … medicine is a hundred percent, tals in California and Oregon, and nothing is zero. But, in respectively. that We can look you general, for the vast majority His statement to the Senate in the eye and say, of people—I tell patients that Health and Human Services if a physician can’t control committee read in part: ‘We can control your your pain and suffering, your “When I spoke with the symptoms’” symptoms at the end of life, you insurance medical directors of need to change doctors.” the patients’ insurance companies Dr. Brian Callister Callister came to May’s legislaby telephone … both … told me that Hospitalist and internal medicine specialist tive committee meetings prepared, with they would approve coverage for either a host of concerns and statistics. Like hospice care or assisted suicide but would many opponents, he said he worries about not approve the lifesaving treatment option.” potential abuses and coercion when the drugs And according to Callister, that’s what the are taken at home without a physician present. He treatments would have been. He said neither of also has concerns about the reliability of doctors’ estimates the patients were terminal. It didn’t take long for Callister’s of how long people have after terminal diagnoses, which he testimony to make national news. Other people’s claims of says are often wrong, and about the prospect that doctors insurance companies offering aid in dying in lieu of treatment might one day start actively recommending assisted suicide. have gone viral in the past, but the stories of these people

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have turned out to be half-truths—cases in which aid-in-dying drugs were offered as one option among several, including palliative care, as well as cases in which people have asked about the drugs only to later claim they were offered up front.

Callister, who spoke with the Washington Times and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, said he can’t reveal much information about the two cases for fear of potentially exposing the patients’ identities. “I can’t say anything that would potentially disclose or lead one to be able to find out the identity of the patient,” he told the RN&R. “Now, the other problem is that I can’t get more specific on that. I’ll put it to you this way—I would love to get a HIPAA release from both of those patients. Let’s just say it’s not possible.”

But Sen. Parks, the bill’s sponsor, said he thinks Callister has taken the wrong approach.

“I would say that I believe that he has an obligation to file a report of wrongdoing on the part of the insurance companies,” Parks said. “So, I think that he was negligent by virtue of the fact that he said he had these conversations; however, he couldn’t show any verification that he had such conversations or that such documentation existed, that this is what the insurance companies were doing. As a doctor, he has the obligation of reporting those insurance companies to the authorities for their investigation and review. So, I think he’s really off the mark.”

Parks said he’ll be watching the 2018 legislative session in Colorado to see if legislators there make any changes to their new law that could strengthen the measure.

“But, for the most part, I’ve requested it to be resubmitted in the form that it’s currently in,” he said, adding that there’s a chance he’ll pursue the Nevada initiative petition process instead. Ω

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Frances Melhop, seen below at her University of Nevada, Reno studio, recently finished a series of life-sized photographs of Comstock residents, like Rick Ireland, left.

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Frances Melhop’s photo series of Comstock residents debuts after four years in the making

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fter leaving her native New Zealand, Frances Melhop spent over two decades as a fashion photographer. She traveled the world, crafting meticulous, dreamy imagery for magazines like Vogue, Marie Claire and Elle. In 2010, she moved to Reno with her husband and experienced a very different kind of culture.

In the barren hills and tiny towns of the old Comstock frontier, she found a new type of inspiration for her work—one bred from the enduring traditions and isolated lifestyles of the people she met there. Now enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of Nevada, Reno, Melhop is debuting her newest exhibition, The Comstock Portrait Project.

Since conceiving of the project in 2013, she has captured stark, honest portraits of the residents of towns like Silver City, Gold Hill and Virginia City. The exhibition will feature almost 50 life-sized prints, along with audio tracks of recorded oral histories. RN&R sat down with Melhop in her studio at UNR to discuss the inspiration for her portraits and how she went from creating narratives to archiving them.

The Comstock Portrait Project runs from Sept. 28 through Dec. 1 at the Haldan Gallery at Lake Tahoe Community College, 1 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, California. On Sept. 28, there’s a reception from 5-7 p.m. and an artist’s talk at 5:30 p.m.

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I can imagine coming to Reno was a bit of a culture shock. What were your first impressions of the town?

Yes, it was a huge culture shock. But there was something really strangely familiar because we’ve been observing the Wild West on TV our whole lives. I used to run home from school to watch Bonanza.

Some of it’s a bit staged, but most of it is actually people doing their lives in the exact way they’ve done the whole time. And it’s kind of geographically isolated, so, yeah, it was strange and familiar all at the same time.

Did you have the idea to start this project upon seeing these towns, or was it vice versa? Did you know you’d be moving to this “Wild West” and want to do something there?

No, I totally didn’t have a clue, because I had no idea that Reno was part of the extended Comstock. Basically, when I first arrived here, my husband was showing me around all over the place, showing me skiing mountains, which I was really happy about.

We went all over Nevada and checked out lots of ghost towns and all sorts of things. It was super fun and super interesting, and super different than anything that I had been to before.

And also just the high-altitude desert took me a long time to get used to, physically. And then also just to understand that, if you look really closely, it’s not all dead. There are these tiny little violets growing between the rocks and things like that. It’s just another way of looking at things, I guess.

I didn’t have this project in mind at all. It’s just that I kept meeting all these amazing people who were just really individual and just cool, and I wanted to photograph them. But I didn’t want to put my stamp on them, or I didn’t want to put my interpretation of who they were on them.

What are your plans for the future of the prints once they leave the gallery?

I’m going to give each person a print … but then I just feel it’s really important that the recordings and the images—at the very least, the digital copies of the finals—go into some sort of archive there, a community archive.

One thing I did find was that someone else had actually done this before in a more contemporary time, and that is Peter Feldstein.

He set out—I think about 20 years ago, maybe in the ’90s or ’80s or something—he set out to photograph the entire town of Oxford [Iowa], and then, 20 years later, he went back to do the same thing. And the images are just—they’re the same sort of thing. They’re taking people out of context, and they just stand alone.

They’re just such amazing characters.

And is that something you think you’d maybe even like to pursue in future as well? Coming back and photographing these same subjects?

Yeah, I feel like, you know, the Comstock might change really dramatically quite soon.

It’s stayed the same for so long, just with the

tech companies coming in, and they’re right there, they’re really close—Tesla factory and things like that.

Less space for everyone?

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I just feel like this is the moment to photograph everyone now, and then it’s going to be fairly different.

What were people’s initial reactions when you approached them?

I actually didn’t approach them. I left fliers around in bars saying, “If you would like to have your portrait taken,” come down at this time to wherever I had set up a studio.

And the audio aspect of this project? What kind of stories were you looking for? And why did that become something you wanted to do at the end?

I felt like it added more dimension to the project. ... [Filmmaker] Mary [Works] and [arts advocate] Quest [Lakes] had actually told me a few of the stories, and I was like, “This is so hilarious. This is so brilliant. Just these crazy things that happen out at Comstock.” And so it became, “We’ve got to record this. We’ve got to save this because it’s so incredible.”

And so I didn’t give them any specifications. ... And, like I said, Mary was fantastic because she grew up there, and her dad ran the Red Dog Saloon. And, so, they were kind of fairly central to the whole story, and she could prompt people if she remembered something from when they were growing up.

In your artist’s statement, you wrote about how you’re so used to creating narrative in your photography, and you went from creating narrative to documenting it. What was the biggest challenge you found in that?

It was super challenging, because I’m used to being kind of a control freak about my photographs and my subjects, and it’s always about a narrative story. So, I’m always molding them with the help of a crew—hair and makeup, loads of pre-production, and I storyboard everything absolutely—like making a little movie. ... It’s all planned out. There’s nothing left to chance. … So this was just bizarre, allowing people to just float in, talk to them and start photographing them, and then for them to come down and tell stories to Mary, who was recording.

I guess the most difficult thing—like, once I got my head around that, it was fine, but the most difficult thing was possibly in the postproduction stage, where I’m used to perfecting everything. I’m in Photoshop, and I’m making my character the real Alice in Wonderland, or whatever. So it was really hard to not fix up skin and take away wrinkles. … I have done some post-production on this: cleaning the floor or the background or whatever. But they—I don’t know—I just think everyone’s beautiful. Ω

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by HOLLY HUTCHINGS

Lost Marbles Ranch in Beckwourth, California, is one of 13 stops on the Sierra Valley Art & Ag Trail.

Rural route Sierra Valley Art & Ag Trail If you’re anything like me, a lazy artgoer, a 40-minute trip out of town to attend an art event may seem too far. But one event in California’s Sierra Valley is on my calendar. Driving up there for a sneak peek, I dipped into the valley on Highway 70, where green fields filled my periphery, and mountains showed hints of fall colors.

An old, white schoolhouse appeared around a bend. Farms and ranches spread out across the landscape, and it felt like a place that could foster creativity.

Maybe that’s why so many artists call the area home. Kristi Jamason, a potter who lives up a charming road off the beaten path, is one of many creators who live in the valley. Noticing the talent among her neighbors—furniture makers, glass artists, painters and even an arrow craftsman—she thought there must be a way to showcase their skills and introduce people to their products.

“I just started thinking, you know, it would be fun to have an artist studio tour in Sierra Valley,” Jamason said. “I just kept learning about more artists that were around. Then I got involved with the ag community.”

Her agricultural neighbors had invited the public to check out their barns in the past. She hoped they’d do so again, this time with art included. Thus, the Sierra Valley Art & Ag Trail was born in October 2016.

This one-day event is a self-guided tour. Visitors can start at one of three entry points, then crisscross the valley to explore 13 sites and 40 artists. As during last year’s event, ranchers will throw open their barn doors and show the public their farms and barns, some of which have been around since the

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1800s. Constructed with wooden pegs and made of hand-hewn timbers, the barns are pieces of art in their own right. The ranchers who live here know people are curious about the ranches as they drive by. They want educate the public and show their efforts to be good stewards of the land, which include, for example, planting willows to help protect riparian wildlife areas.

Some barns will strictly host artists and their work. Others will let the kids ride a tractor, run through a hay bale maze or play at a pumpkin patch. Some will teach mini classes on farm life and introduce visitors to real farm work, like Harvey Family Farms.

Anna Harvey is a fifth-generation livestock producer and lives on a sprawling ranch that’s been in her family for years. She raises sheep and yaks, and she’s a fiber enthusiast who produced wool.

Getting the fiber from the animal to a wool sweater or blanket is time consuming and difficult. But when she hand-spins the natural fiber into a smooth, usable thread, she makes it look like anyone could do it.

And at the event, they can try.

“We will have pickers, a carder, some spinning wheels, drop spindles, looms,” she said. “People can get an appreciation for what it takes. Someone doing it awhile makes it look easy. It’s second nature. But there’s so much going on, and it’s hard.”

So, what would make a reluctant traveler make the drive to the trail? To organizer Jamason it’s simple: “There’s kind of a getting-back-to-your-roots feel to it, getting to walk in those barns and look around. There’s also something about fall, going out into the country. Pumpkins, apples, getting away from the city.” Ω

The Sierra Valley Art & Ag Trail takes place Sept.

30. Start at the Sierra Valley Grange Hall in Vinton, California or one of two other locations. For more information, vist, sierravalleyartagtrail.org.

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That cast includes Taron Egerton as Eggsy, Harry Hart’s (Colin Firth) young recruit from the first film.

The Kingsman, an underground, sharply dressed spy agency in England, remains in operation after the death of Harry, who took a bullet to the head in the first chapter. Eggsy has settled down with a royal girlfriend (Hanna Alstrom), and has segued comfortably into the life of a secret agent.

Then, as things often go when you’re just starting to enjoy your job, things start sucking badly as missiles destroy Kingsman headquarters and strongholds, leaving behind only Eggsy and techy Merlin (Mark Strong). Eggsy and Merlin wind up in America, where they meet the Statesman, secret agent allies doing a similar spying service for the U.S.A. The task force includes Tequila (Channing Tatum), Ginger (Halle Berry) and Champ (Jeff Bridges).

The two organizations join together to battle Poppy (Julianne Moore in gloriously crazy mode), a very rich drug dealer who can afford to build a compound that looks a lot like Disneyland’s Radiator Springs in the middle of a jungle. She also wields enough power to kidnap Elton John, who makes for a very colorful hostage in her music hall.

Poppy has hatched an evil scheme to poison her drugs and hold all users’ lives in the balance in exchange for the antidote. When she calls the President (Bruce Greenwood), demanding he pay a price for the antidote, the POTUS proves to be 10

times meaner than Poppy. (An evil, selfish, conniving president? That’s just crazy!)

Does it sound like there’s a lot going on in this movie? Well, there is, and it’s probably enough to command two films. Vaughn should’ve practiced a little more restraint and streamlined his movie. It’s a good, fun movie, but it could’ve been great.

It does achieve greatness in some of its sequences, including a ski slope fight that goes to dizzying extremes, and just about every fight scene in the film is a decent pulse racer.

If you’ve seen the commercials, you know that Colin Firth returns for this movie. I won’t give away the nature of his return, but I will say it’s good to have him back and, speaking as a fan of the first movie, I accept the ridiculous plot twist that puts Firth back in the character. He’s an important part of this franchise.

Like its predecessor, Kingsman: The Golden Circle is very violent, super profane, and steeped in dark humor. This is a movie where men wind up in meat grinders and are cooked into hamburgers for other men to consume under duress. It takes a director with chops to pull this sort of stuff off and even make it funny. Vaughn is up to the task.

While the likes of Bridges, Tatum and Berry do fine with their smallish roles, Moore basically steals the movie in portraying one of the year’s greatest, most memorable villains. Poppy is a total, sick hoot, and her penchants for cooking manburgers and terrorizing Elton John make her a unique kind of evil.

Moore is no stranger to getting laughs, and she gets a lot of them in this movie, even when she’s turning henchmen into chopped meat.

If you liked the first movie, you will like this one just fine, so get yourself to it for a nice blast of sick action as autumn kicks off. Also, if this movie is any indicator, you should be very careful not to ever piss off Elton John. Ω

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Angelina Jolie directs the memoir of Loung Ung, who also wrote the screenplay, a Cambodian woman who, as a child, survived the genocide brought upon her country by the Khmer Rouge in the mid ’70s, after the Vietnam War. The result is a triumph for Jolie and Ung, who succeed in telling the story through Ung’s eyes as a child. Young Sareum Srey Moch is a movie miracle as Ung, a happy child the day the Khmer Rouge arrive in her town, marking her dad for death and causing her family to flee into the jungle. Jolie keeps the vantage point of the movie through the eyes of this child, ingeniously filming the landscape around her in a way a child would see it: as something beautiful being invaded by monsters. Moch is required to deliver every emotion in the role, and she delivers them in a way that would seem impossible for a child actress. The movie is terrifying, and it should be. It stands alongside 1984’s The Killing Fields as a fierce, unyielding depiction of this terrible time in human history. Jolie filmed the movie in the Cambodian language, and it is actually Cambodia’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It’s definitely a contender. (Available for streaming on Netflix during a limited theatrical run.)

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The Limehouse Golem

The benefit of a movie like Andy Muschietti’s It is that the director and his writers can keep some core themes that worked in the novel but streamline the narrative to make the story work a bit better 30 years after it was written. In that respect, the new It is a triumph. While the 1990 TV miniseries dealt with both the young and older versions of The Loser’s Club, the posse of kids that stand up to evil, the new It stands as Part One, completely dividing the kid and adult stories.

There’s also a major time change, with the kids’ story taking place in the late ’80s instead of the ’50s. Thank you, Stranger Things. The core story remains the same: Children in Derry, Maine, have been disappearing for many years, and the film starts with the sad case of Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), a little boy in a yellow rain slicker who follows his paper boat to the sewer drain and makes an unfortunate acquaintance. That acquaintance is Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling clown, played as a savage beast by Bill Skarsgard. The kids are great.

The standout is Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh.

Lillis has that kind of leading-lady-in-a-teenfilm commanding screen presence. It: Part Two, with the adults, while not official yet, is a certainty. As for It: Part One, it draws the best elements of King’s work and comes out a frightening winner.

Bill Nighy plays Inspector Kildare, commissioned by Scotland Yard to find the notorious Golem Killer, a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer. Based on a 1994 novel that incorporated actual historical figures like Karl Marx, Juan Carlos Medina’s movie is good-looking,

and Nighy is a fun sort of cranky Sherlock Holmes. Problem is, the mystery itself isn’t that absorbing, and a side plot involving the murder trial of a local actress (Olivia Cooke) fails to engage. Granted, it is pretty cool that Medina somehow manages to stage a hypothetical scene where Karl Marx commits a very bloody murder. There are a few macabre moments, like that one, that work well. Not enough to make this anything really worth watching.

Cooke labors hard in the role of Lizzie Cree, a stage actress in a bad marriage who becomes an object of sympathy for Kildare as he goes through his list of suspects, who include a local actor/playwright, a doctor and, yes, Karl Marx.

The movie is weird, but it’s not weird enough, and Nighy’s decent performance is ultimately wasted. (Available for rent and download on iTunes and Amazon.com during a limited theatrical release.)

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Logan Lucky

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Mother

A gang of losers plots to rob a NASCAR racetrack on one of its busiest weekends, and they do it in a hackneyed way that makes absolutely no sense. Steven Soderbergh comes out of retirement to direct Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan, a former football player who has fallen on bad times, then suddenly gets it in his head to rob the racetrack in a way that involves sneaking people out of prison, blowing things up with gummy bears, and secret allies within the establishment. Soderbergh did the Ocean’s Eleven movies, the first of which has a reasonably fun and inventive heist. This one is sort of Ocean’s Eleven for rednecks, and their ability to pull off the heist is totally unconvincing. The film is almost saved by some of the supporting performances, including Daniel Craig as an incarcerated safe cracker who digs hard boiled eggs, and Adam Driver as Jimmy’s one-armed brother. But, for every character that’s a plus, there’s a lame one, like Seth MacFarlane’s heavily accented millionaire that’s not as funny as he thinks he is. It’s good to have Soderbergh back in action, but this is just a rehash of something he’s done before with a Southern accent.

Writer-director Darren Aronofsky is a nut, and his latest film, Mother!, is one helluva nutty movie. Jennifer Lawrence is currently dating Aronofsky, a fact that infiltrates the mood of Mother! because the film takes unabashedly nasty aim at relationships— among its many targets. Those targets also include the Bible, narcissism, celebrity, art, family, smoking and, oh, yeah, motherhood. By the time it’s over, you might not know exactly what went down, but you know that it landed on the side of cynicism—highly stylized, lunatic, entertaining cynicism. Lawrence plays Mother, an apparently kindhearted partner to Him (Javier Bardem). They live in an old-style country house out in the middle of nowhere. Him is a writer, going through some major writer’s block and occasionally speaking of having lost everything in the past to a fire. He has some sort of crystalized object on a stand that he claims empowered him to move on after the fire. It’s in a room nobody is allowed to enter alone. They live a quiet life in their little Eden, Mother preparing meals while Him tortures himself, unable to produce a single word for his next great work. Then, there’s a knock at the door. It’s Man (Ed Harris), soon to be followed

by Woman (Michelle Pfeiffer), a strange couple who wind up houseguests thanks to Him’s hospitality, and much to the chagrin of Mother.

Man and Woman invade Mother’s space, with Man huffing cigarettes and frequently vomiting from illness while Woman swills alcohol and asks Mother extremely personal questions.

Later, after a rage-inspired sex session, Mother becomes pregnant, and Him is suddenly fertile with ideas. He writes his next big thing, and their home is besieged by agents, fans, religious zealots, paparazzi, former SNL cast members, policemen, soldiers, terrorists and fire. If there’s a takeaway from Mother!, it’s that Aronofsky doesn’t have the most pleasant attitudes toward celebrity and Sunday school.

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There’s nothing better than watching a pizza be made by hand, fired in a brick oven and served up with crust still crackling from the heat. With a menu touting imported Italian tomatoes, cold cuts and cheeses—plus sauces, crusts and breads made in-house—Flat Earth Pizza clearly intends to provide that classic pizzeria experience, with a few modern touches.

For appetizers, we ordered a plate of smoked beef and pork meatballs ($10.99), served with marinara sauce, mozzarella, and toasted crostini on the side, and smoked pork ribs with whiskey barbecue sauce ($17.99, half rack). The meatballs had nearperfect texture. They were easily cut with a fork but firm enough to not fall apart.

The sauce was nice and chunky, with just enough melted cheese. The toast rounds were just shy of toothbreaker territory, so we focused on the tasty meatballs.

Although I’m a sucker for hot wings with pizza, I’m equally drawn to the promise of good ribs. These had a basic dry rub and a fair amount of smoke, served with a very good sauce on the side. The meat was tender and generally enjoyable, although a bit of effort was required to chew it off the bone. Fans of the “slides right off” variety may be a little disappointed, but the flavors were worth the effort.

Moving on to pizza, the menu starts with “Old World” and “New York” styles, i.e., olive oil and basil margherita, and East Coast red sauce with mozzarella. There’s a list of about 25 toppings to punch up your pie—with both classic and less conventional options. Broccoli rabe slice, anyone?

We chose a few 12-inch pies from the specialty menu, starting with “From Russia with Love” ($17.99). Of primary note was the crust, which was very thin and crispy, with a toasty flavor and good

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chew at the edges. In fact, I could barely detect the pizza’s tomato cream vodka sauce alongside the flavors of the crust, mozzarella, seasoned mushrooms, green peas and prosciutto. Everything worked well, but I don’t know that the peas were really necessary. At least they added some nutrients and fiber.

Next, we tried “The Great Bambino,” a combo pizza ($18.99) topped with plum tomato sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, onion, seasoned mushroom, smoked sausage, black olive and fire-roasted bell pepper.

The thin crust held up well under the load, likely aided by another example of very light sauce. The overall effect was good—and considerably less greasy than similar combos—but I’d really like to taste a little more tomato and herb flavor with the garlic and smoke. To be clear, this was a good pizza, but with just a tweak, it could be great. The use of thin-sliced link sausage in lieu of ground loose meat was a good call. The snap from the casing adds a nice bit of texture.

The last pizza we tried was “The Mediterranean” ($18.99). It featured pumpkin seed basil pesto sauce, mozzarella, feta, smoked chicken, spinach, artichoke heart, tomato, black olive, red onion and garlic. I don’t know that I really noticed the ground seeds, but this was the one pie where I could really taste the sauce. It was definitely my favorite out of the three. The chicken was fantastic, tender and moist, with a good amount of wood smoke and seasoning. It was perfect counterpart to the herbs and veg. Ω

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In the interest of transparency, I must divulge that I’ve known Imbib Custom Brews founding partner Matt Johnson for a while, although I can’t remember when or how we met. When he and cofounders Jason Green and Bart Blank were raising funds for their planned brewery/homebrew store/brewed-to-order business, I chipped in a few bucks. I’ve enrolled in their Collaborator’s Club, enjoying exclusive beers and discounts for a fee. After I went through instruction at his brewery and passed the exam, Matt and I volunteered on beer competitions together. In short, I didn’t walk into Imbib with unfamiliarity.

I took a vacation day recently with a singular purpose—my kids decided to take on the task of getting rid of some of our excesses by way of a garage sale, so seizing the opportunity of having us all in the garage for a few hours, I convinced my wife that yard sale Sunday would be ideal to clean out the garage. After the morning full of tidying, sweeping, discarding and depressingly few customers, we rewarded ourselves—first, with showers and a quick lunch. Then, ironically, after divesting ourselves of our old stuff, my wife insisted on a thrift store visit. I opted for a stop

by Imbib for beer. Not only would this mid-afternoon break let us recharge a bit, but, as an added bonus, we could pick up a 32-ounce can for a dinner party later.

If there’s any question or wonder what’s happening at Imbib’s brewery and taproom on East Second Street, the visual cues are hard to ignore. Entering through the front door, you run a small gauntlet of barrels on racks towards the barrel stave-clad bar, above which is a light fixture, decorated in still more barrel parts. A giant oak foeder—an aging barrel—stands as a stoic centerpiece behind the bar.

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I’ve mentioned briefly in past columns the focus on sour beers and barrel-aging at Imbib, and the draft selection did not disappoint. I love the complexity of sour beers that have spent time in former wine barrels, picking up nuances of oak, wild yeasts and bacteria, and, often, added fruit.

Fifteen house beers were available, about half of them in this vein. They were also pouring a few different hoppy beers and other interesting styles. The only noted gap was dark beer—the only porter or stout was the single guest beer. (Also available were one guest cider, two wines, root beer and small snack plates.)

While I sampled a whiskey-barrel-aged “Kentucky Common” and a blackberry sour, my wife enjoyed—to varying degrees—tasters of the IPAs. As in past visits, Imbib beers could be counted on to represent their intended beer styles well, though they sometimes have broad guidelines allowing wide interpretation by the brewer. I haven’t loved every Imbib beer I’ve had, but I can always appreciate the thought and skill that went into making it, even if it’s not my thing.

Imbib has evolved into a fairly typical brewery business model since opening in 2015. Beyond the usual on-site sales and local draft accounts, hand-bottled club releases and small batches have been Imbib’s most recent step. During my visit, Johnson and Blank were struggling to bottle the latest, an effervescent foeder-aged amber saison. They looked like garage homebrewers, trying to contain the mess of spilled beer, frustratedly muttering at things not going smoothly. Somehow, this laborious process fits this brewery, a labor of love by three homebrewers pouring well-crafted beers for our imbibing enjoyment. Ω

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by Matt Bieker

Silver front man Greg Gilmore works on some solo tracks in his studio at the Potentialist Workshop.

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Expanded horizons Greg Gilmore Greg Gilmore came to Reno with the band The Kanes seven years ago, and various musical projects have kept him here ever since. He currently helms the band Silver as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, composing music to fit the band’s slick rock ’n’ roll ethos.

But from his recording studio at the Potentialist Workshop, he has recently begun recording and releasing music under his own name—and for his own sensibilities.

“With Silver, it’s really easy to know if something will fit,” Gilmore said. “The stuff that I put out with my own name is any other off-the-wall kind of shit—so stuff that would be a stretch for Silver.”

Gilmore references as inspirations some of the giants of rock: Cake, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Nirvana and Tom Petty. His most recent single, “Who Am I,” marks a departure from his usual hard rock style. It’s a wistful ballad featuring Gilmore’s single staccato guitar underscored by sweeping strings and a refrain commenting on the

transience of life: “on and on it goes / like the wild wind it blows.”

“I usually do, like, more rock ’n’ roll kind of stuff, Gilmore said. “It was a little different, going to the more orchestral side of things. That whole song I started recording at the beginning of August. I finished it by the end of August. So it took like a month to get all the cello tracks, the fiddle tracks, my tracks.”

“Who Am I” features cello accompaniment by Mike Grover of Pushbox and Alan Lyons of Actors Killed Lincoln. It is receiving airtime on local radio station 100.1 The X. In publishing his own music, Gilmore finds the creative control that can be compromised in a group project.

“I get to be more of a producer on my solo stuff,” he said.

As a booker and promoter for Pignic Pub & Patio, Gilmore became involved with the Loud as Folk showcase founded in 2011 by Spike McGuire— which has since taken on a life of it’s own as a record label. Lately, he’s been exploring his passions as a producer in a rented a studio in the basement of the Potentialist Workshop.

As a producer and audio engineer, Gilmore is committed to polishing Silver’s first EP for release in the near future but hopes to record a full EP of his own solo efforts, which will include “Who Am I,” as part of his goal to remain on the tour circuit.

“While Silver is my focus, it’s kind of tough to tour a lot with five members,” Gilmore said. “So when those stars don’t align, I can have something to tour on my own with.”

Gilmore hasn’t set any release or tour dates just yet, and he’s in no rush to press the issue. As someone with close ties to the music community, he feels like he’s in the right place. All he needs is time.

“It all comes together, but it’s weird— you’ve got to take time to smell the roses too,” Gilmore said. “That gets hard when you get too involved in too many things.

But, luckily, I work with a lot of really cool people, and I love the music scene here. It all comes around.” Ω

Greg Gilmore’s new track “Who Am I” is available on iTunes, Spotify and Tunetrax.

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432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S. L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425 27 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (775) 580-7221

Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover Music Industry Night, 9pm, W, no cover

Victor Wooten Trio Oct. 4, 7 p.m.

Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

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The Virginia City Cemetery comes alive with the 19th century Comstock residents. They share their stories, lives, and deaths.

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

Boomtown CAsino

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

CARson VAlleY inn

Megadeth Oct. 3, 8 p.m.

Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

1627 Hwy. 395 North, Minden, (775) 782-9711

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave, Sparks, (775) 358-6700: Karaoke with DJ Toni Tunez, Tu, 8pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 7pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

FRIDAY 9/29

SATURDAY 9/30

SUNDAY 10/01

MON-WED 10/02-10/04

2) Kick, 8pm, no cover

2) Kick, 8pm, no cover All In, 10pm, no cover

2) Kick, 8pm, no cover All In, 10pm, no cover

2) All In, 8pm, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

2) Mike Furlong, 5pm, no cover New Wave Crave, 9pm, no cover

2) Scott Parsons, 5pm, no cover The Robeys, 9pm, no cover

2) RYE Brothers, 7pm, no cover

2) RYE Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) RYE Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Moondog Matinee, 10pm, no cover

2) Jaw Gems, 10pm, no cover

1) Adam Trent—The Next Generation of Magic, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) The Hellenbacks, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Adam Trent—The Next Generation of Magic, 8pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) The Hellenbacks, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Adam Trent—The Next Generation of Magic, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) The Hellenbacks, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Adam Trent—The Next Generation of Magic, 2pm, 5:30pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) The Hellenbacks, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Adam Trent, 7pm, W, $19.95-$49.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover DJ Logan, 10pm, Tu, DJ Sam Forbes, 10pm, W, no cover

2) JR De Guzman, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15

3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, 10pm, $19.27

1) Janet Jackson, 8pm, $114-$345

1) Scorpions, Megadeth, 8pm, Tu, $87-$161

2) DJ Sykwidit, DJ Josbeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Chris English, DJ Josbeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Dave Mason, 7:30pm, $45-$180

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

1) Solid Gold Soul, 7:30pm, $29.50-$40.50, iCandy The Show, 10pm, $30-$55 3) Reckless Envy, 8:30pm, no cover 4) Caravanserai, 7pm, no cover

1) Solid Gold Soul, 7:30pm, $29.50-$40.50, iCandy The Show, 10pm, $30-$55 3) Reckless Envy, 8:30pm, no cover 4) Skynnyn Lynnard, 7pm, no cover

CRYstAl BAY CAsino

14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room

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

GRAnd sieRRA ResoRt

Karaoke

THURSDAY 9/28

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex 3) Race & Sport Book

HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 427-7274 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

HARRAH’s Reno

1) Solid Gold Soul,

7:30pm, $29.50-$40.50 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 4) Life in the Fastlane, noon, no cover 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center Riff Raff, 7pm, no cover

montBleu ResoRt

1) 42nd Annual San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition, 8pm, $20-$35

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (800) 648-3353 1) Showroom 2) Blu 3) Opal

nuGGet CAsino ResoRt

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

2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 7pm, no cover 8pm, no cover 3) Ladies Night with DJs Enfo & Twyman, 3) Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20 10pm, $20

2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Spider, 10pm, $20

4) DJ Kronik, 9pm, no cover

1) Scott Stapp, Sick Puppies, Drowning Pool, Trapt, 8pm, $39.50-$59.50 4) DJ Kronik, 9pm, no cover 2) Big Bad Boogie Rock, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

silVeR leGACY ResoRt CAsino

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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1) Skynnyn Lynnyrd Reloaded: Salute to Lynyrd Skynyrd, 8pm, $10 1) Vince Neil, 8pm, $30-$70

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300

peppeRmill ResoRt spA CAsino

2) The Novelists, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

2) Big Bad Boogie Rock, 9pm, no cover

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KATE HERS-RHEE: The visual artist will talk

about her work. Thu, 9/28, 5:30pm. Free.

Mackay Science, Room 215, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts/calendar.

KERRY ROHRMEIER ON THE URBAN GEOGRAPHY OF BLACK ROCK CITY: Kerry Rohrmeier is a lecturer in geography and global studies at San Jose State University. Formerly a professional land use planner, Rohrmeier conducts fieldwork at Black Rock City.

In this talk, Rohrmeier explores the construction of innovative, creative public and private spaces that generate cultural questions about community values, social relationships and city growth. Fri, 9/29, noon. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

MEXICAN DRAMAS FROM STREETS TO STAGES:

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

9/28:

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Performing Arts Series kicks off its 2017-2018 season with this concert by the Chicago-based quartet of classically trained musicians. Third Coast Percussion members David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin and Sean Connors explore and expand the possibilities of the percussion repertoire.

The group is known for its groundbreaking collaborations across a wide range of disciplines, including residency projects with engineers at the University of Notre Dame and architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. The Grammy-winning ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, at Nightingale Concert Hall inside the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $5-$35. Vist www.unr.edu/pas.

EVENTs

NEW COINS & DISPLAYS: See Native American and Presidential Dollar coins and national park quarters, as well as old and obsolete U.S. coins. Fri. 9/29, 10am. $8 adults, free for children under age 18. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.

ROBOTS PRESENTATION & DEMO: Discover CARSON CITY GHOST WALKING TOUR: Carson City’s history is explored and theatrically relived in seasonal evening walking tours led by Madame Curry, a fictional character named after the widow of one of Carson City’s founders, Abe Curry. This is a guided walking tour of the downtown district’s west side historic homes and businesses. These scheduled tours leave rain or shine.

Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the walk begins. Sat, 9/30, 6:30pm. $15$20, free for kids age 3 and younger.

Meet at the corner of Third and Curry streets, Carson City, (775) 348-6279, carsoncityghostwalk.com.

ANDELIN FAMILY FARM: The farm’s pumpkin patch and corn maze is open for the season. Attractions and activities include hayrides, farm animals, hay bale maze and Art Barn. Corn Creepers Haunted Attraction, Scarecrow Paintball Safari and Zombie Paintball Apocalypse will be offered on selected days in October.

Pumpkin patch hours are 10am-3pm, Tuesday-Thursday and 10am-6pm, Friday-Saturday through Oct. 31. Thu,

9/28-Sat, 9/30, Tue, 10/3-Wed, 10/4, 10am. $7-$12 for pumpkin patch, $10-$15 for paintball. Andelin Family Farm, 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 530-8032, www.andelinfamilyfarm.com.

A resident of Mexico City, Bárbara Colio will discuss her work and the recent earthquakes that have affected the country. Colio is the author of more than a dozen prize-winning plays, including La boca de lobo, Pequeñas certezas, Usted está aquí, El día más violento and Cuerdas. She is also the founder of the Mexico City-based theater company BarCoDrama. She is the first Mexican playwright to win the prestigious María Teresa León International Prize for female playwrights and also has won the 2017 Dramaturgical Prize Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. Thu, 9/28, 6pm. Free. Redfield Proscenium Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

DEMENTIA CONVERSATIONS—DRIVING, DOCTOR VISITS, LEGAL AND FINANCIAL PLANNING:

CAAW 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: The Committee to Aid Abused Women will pay tribute to its founders and this year’s Hannah Humanitarian award winner Sylvia Gonzalez. New York Times bestselling author Leslie Morgan Steiner will deliver the keynote address detailing her experience surviving domestic violence. Thu, 9/28, 6pm. $125. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-4150, www.caaw.org/40th.

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This program will offer tips to assist families with difficult conversations related to dementia, including going to the doctor, deciding when to stop driving and making legal and financial plans. Thu, 9/28, 10am. Free. Alzheimer’s Association, 1301 Cordone Ave., Lobby Conference Room, (800) 292-3900.

DOGS OF ROTARY: The Rotary Club of Reno Centennial Sunset sponsors this fundraising event to provide service dogs to veterans. Sat, 9/30, 10am. $0-$5. Idlewild Park, 1850 Idlewild Drive, (775) 691-2700, dogsofrotary.org.

FERRARI FARMS: The farm’s pumpkin patch and corn maze is open for the season. Attractions include hayrides, farm animals, bounce houses and a mechanical bull. Pumpkin patch hours are 9:30am-8pm, Sunday-Thursday and 9:30am-10pm, Friday-Saturday through Oct. 31. Thu, 9/28-Sat, 9/30, Tue, 10/3-Wed, 10/4, 9:30am. Free admission, $2-$6 for hayrides, bounce houses, mechanical bull.

Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 997-3276, www.ferrarifarmspumpkinpatch.com.

THE FOLK & THE LORE STORIES OF OUR VETERANS: This month’s event is an evening of storytelling and films based on the stories of local veterans and active servicemen and women. Doors open at 5pm for social hour; stories begin at 6pm. Sat, 9/30, 8:30pm. $8-$12.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

the brave new world of robots and experiment with a variety of mechanical friends from the Nevada Space Center collection. Presentation is free with registration and purchase of a museum ticket. Wed, 10/4, 10am. $6-$12. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295, www.nevadachallenger.org.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack 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, 9/30, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

SCIENCE CAFE NV: Scientists and researchers to give 15-20 minute presentations to the public, followed by roundtable discussions. Mon. 10/2, 6:30pm. Free. Brasserie Saint James, 901 S. Center St., (775) 785-3416.

SOLAR TELESCOPE VIEWING: Join members of the University of Nevada, Reno Astronomy Club and the Nevada Space Center for a safe viewing of the sun.

Weather permitting, try out a variety of ways to study our home star—from glasses and telescopes to a method to see a total eclipse of the sun any day of the year using NASA space telescopes.

Learn about physics and astronomy programs in the College of Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tue, 10/3, 10am. Free. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295, www.nevadachallenger.org.

STORY SALSA: Bilingual storyteller Liz Mangual will weave a tapestry of bilingual stories from “Latin lands.” Thu, 9/28, 10:30am. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Blvd., (775) 972-0281.

STREET VIBRATIONS FALL RALLY: The celebration of music, metal and motorcycles features poker runs, live entertainment, ride-in shows, stunt and bike shows and more. Thu, 9/28Sun, 10/1. Free. Various locations in Downtown Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, (775) 329-7469, roadshowsreno.com.

V&T RAILROAD STEAM TRAIN: The V&T Railroad offers round trips on its steam engine on Saturday and Sunday and select Fridays through Oct. 15. The train departs Carson City Depot at 10am.

Return trip departs Virginia City at 3pm. Advance booking is recommended.

Please arrive a half hour before your train departure time. Sat, 9/30-Sun, 10/1, 10am. $32-$52. Carson City Eastgate Depot, 4650 Eastgate Siding Road, Carson City, (775) 291-0208, www.vtrailway.com.

ART ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Nevada Beauty in All Seasons. The Artists Co-op Gallery and the Latimer Art Club presents the 10th annual juried and judged miniature art exhibition. The opening reception and awards ceremony is on Oct. 8, noon to 4pm. The show is open daily Oct. 1-Nov. 8. Sun, 10/1-Wed, 10/4, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: American Landscapes. Multimedia installation by Willem Volkersz. The show runs through Nov. 18. Thu, 9/28-Wed, 10/4. Free. E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

GALLERY WEST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Womb to Tomb, Birth to Earth, Dust to Dust. In this series of prints and books, Lauren Cardenas pays homage to something that was lost—using digital print along with traditional print methods to evoke a sense of longing and aloneness. The exhibition is open through Oct. 6. Thu, 9/28-Sat, 9/30, Mon, 10/2Wed, 10/4, 8am-5pm. Free. Gallery West, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Imagined—New Painted Images. Mixed media painter Bruce Clark’s work integrates photography and paint to create surreal, industrial-looking images on canvas. The show runs through Oct. 6. Thu, 9/28-Fri, 9/29, Mon, 10/2-Wed, 10/4, 8am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 771-5512.

METRO GALLERY: Desert Dreams. Peter Ruprecht’s photography attempts to capture the natural spirit of people and places all across the world. The exhibition runs through Oct. 6. Thu, 9/28-Fri, 9/29, Mon, 10/2-Wed, 10/4, 8am-5pm. Free. Metro Gallery, 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Take Me Home Huey Opening Ceremony. Nevada Arts Council board and the Nevada Museum of Art welcomes the Take Me Home Huey Project to Reno. The 47-foot contemporary sculpture was made from a re-purposed boneyard Huey helicopter, serial #6717174, which was shot down with two casualties in 1969 during a Medevac mission in Vietnam. Artist Steve Maloney partnered with Light Horse Legacy, a non-profit outreach organization supporting veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, to create the project dedicated to the more than 2.7 million Americans who served in Vietnam. The ceremony will feature special guests and live musical performances. Thu, 9/28, 6pm. Free. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: A 40-Year Collection of the Art of Lady Jill. Plein air watercolorist Lady Jill Mueller presents favorite works from her personal collection. This display will be up until Oct. 25.

Library hours are 10am-6pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am7pm on Wednesday and 11am-5pm on Saturday. Thu, 9/28-Sat, 9/30, Mon, 10/2Wed, 10/4. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

REID HOUSE GALLERY AND STUDIO: EcLectic Art. DJD Foundation for Freedom of Expression presents an exhibition of abstract art by Javier Sosa. The show runs through Sept. 30. Thu, 9/28, Sat, 9/30, noon-6pm. Free. Reid House Gallery and Studio, 515 Court St., (775) 391-2668, www.arthealswarwounds.com.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: LACED & The Prints of E.M. Washington. University of Nevada, Reno graduate Austin Pratt returns to Reno with a solo exhibition as part of University Galleries’ exhibition series that investigates the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Art Permanent Collection. Austin Pratt, Walter McNamara, Lynda Yuroff and Joan Arrizabalaga will offer exhibitions of work inspired by and including objects they’ve chosen from the permanent collection. The show runs through Oct. 6. Thu, 9/28-Fri, 9/29, Mon, 10/2-Wed, 10/4, noon-4pm. Free. Sheppard Contemporary, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts/calendar.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: A Colorful Life. Sierra Watercolor Society’s judged show for 2017 is the largest exhibition of new watercolor paintings by local artists. Both framed and unframed original paintings are available for sale. The exhibit runs through Sept. 30. Thu, 9/28-Sat, 9/30. Free. Sparks Heritage Museum & Cultural Center, 820 Victorian Avenue, Sparks, (775) 852-1583.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Young Blood. This one-night only, pop-up exhibition showcases work by Reno’s up-and-coming artists under 21. There will be a DJ and pizza donated by Noble Pie. Sat, 9/30, 5-7pm. $1. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY: In Contempt. The exhibition features artwork by tattoo artists Maya Claiborne and Brooke Warn. Thu, 9/28-Wed, 10/4. Free. The Holland Project Micro Gallery, 945 Record St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

THE POTENTIALIST WORKSHOP: Mike Higdon’s 365 Days of Reno Gallery. In this 365photo gallery, Mike Higdon used film to capture Reno life as he saw it—without a filter. Starting on July 1, 2016 and ending June 30, 2017, he used one roll of 35mm film with 36 exposures per month. See the results of this year-long project. Sun, 10/1-Wed, 10/4. Free. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 867-5309.

MUSEUMS

MUSIC

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel

CLASSIX ONE: The Reno Philharmonic

Wallsprawl. On view through Dec. 31; City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man. On display through Jan. 7; Unsettled. The show runs through Jan. 21; View from the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger.

The exhibition runs through Dec. 7. Thu, 9/28-Sun, 9/24, Wed, 10/04, 10am. $1-$10.

Nevada Museum of Art, (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 T. rex ever discovered.

A dramatic, life-sized skeleton cast of Sue is the centerpiece of this exhibition that also features digital and hands-on interactive exhibits that help you uncover Sue’s past and explore the field of paleontology. A T. rex Named Sue will be on view through Jan. 15. Museum hours are 10am to 5pm on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am to 8pm on Wednesday, 10am to 2pm on Thursday and noon to 5pm on Sunday. Thu, 9/28-Sun, 10/1, Tue, 10/3-Wed, 10/4. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM: Sherlock Holmes & the Clocktower Mystery. A shocking crime has been committed, and Victorian London’s most celebrated detective needs your help to find out “whodunit!”

The exhibition runs through Oct. 29. Thu, 9/28-Fri, 9/29, Sun, 10/1, Wed, 10/4. $8-$9.

Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

kicks off its 2017-2018 Classix season with a concert featuring guest violinist Chloë Hanslip. The program includes Strauss II’s Overture to Die Fledermaus, Zhou Tian’s Concerto for Violin, The Infinite Dance, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, op. 14. Sun, 10/01, 4:30pm; Tue, 10/3, 7:30pm. $29-$89. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

THAT’S LIFE—A TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA: Rick Cornell, Jean-Paul DeChambeau and Rebecca Schembri will sing some of Frank Sinatra’s top hits, accompanied by Carol House on piano. Sat, 9/30, 7pm. $15.

St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 1070 W. Plumb Lane, www.poperanv.org.

ONSTAGE 2017 VOICES OF THE PAST: FunTime Theater presents annual ghostly walking tour to raise funds for the restoration of the Silver Terrace Cemetery. Sat, 9/30-Sun, 10/1, 10am. $10-$15. Silver Terrace Cemetery, 381 Cemetery Road, Virginia City, www.funtimetheater.com.

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GOING GREEN: This tragic comedy by David Tristram centers on John Brown, future leader of the Green Party. A man with a vision. A man with charisma. But a man with a problem. John decides to give one, last blistering farewell speech. The party faithful rise as one to greet their hero. John stands to deliver his final, stark message to the waiting world: “Go green...or die.” Little could he know how profound those words would be.

Performances are 7:30pm on ThursdaySaturday through Oct. 7 and 2pm on Sunday, Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. Thu, 9/28-Sat, 9/30, 7:30pm; Sun 10/1, 2pm. $12-$20.

Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, www.rattheatre.org.

NIGHTFALL WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE: Proscenium Players, Inc. presents this play by Eric Coble. Edgar Allan Poe stands alone in the flickering darkness of his mind, trying desperately to convince himself—and the audience—that he’s not mad. The spell he weaves brings us a highly theatrical adaptation of four tales Poe himself considered his best: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The TellTale Heart.” Fri, 9/29-Sat, 9/30, 7pm; Sun, 10/1, 1pm. $13-$18. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 546-5202, www.ppitheater.com.

RENO IMPROV SHOW: Join Reno Improv for an evening of spontaneous comedy. Every week is a new show. Sat, 9/30, 8pm. $5.

The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

SPORTS & FITNESS CONDITIONING HIKES: These series of hikes will gradually condition you to be able to complete the whole Jones Creek Trail by the end of October. Please bring water, food and a good pair of hiking shoes.

Please call ahead to reserve your spot and to find out the details regarding the hike. Sun, 10/1, 6:30am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist.

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 9/30, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

IDLEWILD HEALTH WALKS: These interpretative walks are a safe and supportive environment designed to offer people in all stages of Alzheimer’s and their care-partners an opportunity to get outdoors, get some exercise and socialize with their peers. Tue, 10/3, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.

RENO 1868 FC: The professional soccer

club plays Real Monarchs SLC. Sat, 9/30, 6:45pm. $15-$27. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., www.reno1868fc.com.

SENIOR HEALTHY WALKING PROGRAM: Center for Healthy Aging offers a free walking program for people 50 years of age and older. Snacks and water will be provided at the walk. Wed, 10/4, 9am. Free.

Meadowood Mall, 5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, (775) 384-4324.

LIFESTYLE LIFESCAPES: In this program, seniors are given an opportunity to write and share their memoirs. New members are always welcome. Lifescapes is a project sponsored by the Washoe County Library System, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), and the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Lifescapes meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month. Thu, 9/28, 1pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

OUTDOOR SPANISH GROUP: Practice Spanish language in an outdoor setting. The group meets every other Sunday at a different trail or park. Sun, 10/1, 7am. Free.

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SPANISH LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND COFFEE IN RENO: Discuss different topics of Spanish grammar over a cup of coffee and cookies or sweet bread. You will receive a binder with content corresponding to the day’s lesson. Sat, 9/30, 11am. $10$20. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Bldg. B, Ste. 117, (775) 224-6271, www.trainingconnexion.com.

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WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a

DRINK & DRAW: An unorthodox figure 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 offered (charcoal, pencils, paper, drawing boards). Please bring materials as you like. Wed, 10/4, 7pm. $10-$20. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, (651) 361-0757.

FALL SCHOOL BREAK KIDS’ ART CAMP: Teaching artists will provide an hour of art, theater and creative movement and music to students ages 6-10. This camp is held Monday, Oct. 2-Friday, Oct. 6, in the art studio, located on the Arlington Avenue side of the Lake Mansion.

Supplies included in cost. Mon, 10/2-Wed, 10/4, 9am-noon. $100. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Beginner, intermediate and advanced family researchers are welcome to this open lab. Learn how to build your family tree, discover your ancestors and amaze your family with your research skill. Fri, 9/29, 11:30am. Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd, (775) 674-7602.

group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 9/29, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

COMMUNITY BLOOD DONATIONS NEEDED: Donors must be age 16 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health. There are some weight and height restrictions for donors younger than 23 and parental permission is required for all 16-year-old and 17-year-old donors.

Contact United Blood Services to make an appointment. Thu, 9/28-Fri, 9/29, Mon, 10/2-Wed, 10/4. Free. United Blood Services, 1125 Terminal Way, (775) 3246454, www.unitedbloodservices.org.

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, 10/3, 4:30pm. Free. Saint Mary’s Center for Health, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Suite 120, (775) 722-1222.

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I’ve been dating this girl for just over a month, and she never offers to pay for anything. I was OK with this in the beginning, as I saw it as a courtship thing. I guess I wonder whether this points to problems down the road with her not being a real partner, pulling her weight, etc. How do I politely broach this without blowing up the blooming relationship?

If there’s one thing heterosexual men and women have in common these days, it’s confusion over who exactly is supposed to pay on dates.

The problem driving the confusion is a sort of Godzilla vs. Mothra clash between age-old evolved emotions—still driving us today— and modern-day beliefs about male and female equality.

As I explain with some frequency—per big, cross-cultural studies by evolutionary psychologist David Buss, among others—women evolved to seek male partners who show they are willing and able to invest in any children they might have. Whether the particular woman actually wants children is immaterial—as in, of zero interest to her emotions.

Anthropologist John Marshall Townsend observes from his research and others’ that women’s emotions evolved to act as a sort of police force for a man’s level of commitment—making women feel bad when the investment isn’t there.

This leads women to either push a man to invest or ditch him and find a man who will.

Men co-evolved to expect this, meaning that men evolved to try to appeal to the ladies by showing—or successfully faking—generosity, high status and earning power.

Many people mistakenly assume evolved adaptations like this will change with the times.

Unfortunately, evolution is not a lickety-split process—especially when it comes to our psychological engine panel. In fact, anthropologist Donald Symons explains that “natural selection takes hundreds or thousands of generations”— generations being 20- to 30-year periods—“to fashion any complex cognitive adaptation.” So women, even now—even highly successful women who can comfortably pay

for their own meals—have their emotions pushing them to look for a man who shows generosity, as well as the ability to “provide.”

This is reflected in the findings of sociologist Janet Lever and her colleagues from a survey of heterosexual men and women—17,067 “unmarried and non-cohabitating” heterosexuals, ages 18 to 65—on the extent to which they embrace or reject the traditional “man pays” dating behavior.

A snapshot of the responses from women: Overall, 57 percent of women said yes to “I always offer to help pay even on the first date.” But check out the mixed feelings: Many women (39 percent) wished men would reject their offer to pay. But many (40 percent of women) said they are bothered when men don’t accept their money.

Men’s responses were similarly contradictory. Overall, more than half the men—64 percent—said that after the first few dates, the woman should help pay expenses, and nearly half (44 percent) said they would stop dating a woman who never offers to pay. Yet, men overwhelmingly—that is, 76 percent of men—feel guilty if they don’t pay the bill on dates.

So, the reality is, like all of these conflicted men, some women just aren’t sure where the lines are on whether to chip in and when. As for this woman you’re seeing, it is possible that she’s waiting until you two are “exclusive” to start picking up the tab. Instead of assuming the worst, do two things: First, observe and reflect on her behavior and attitudes—so far and as you get to know her—and see whether they suggest an interest in partnership or princess-ship.

Second, simply ask: “Hey, we’ve been dating for a while, and it seems like we should start sharing the costs. Where do you stand on that?” See what she says and take it from there. Ω

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For the week oF September 28, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion, he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current. Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations. The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some newspapers

publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported. They were pink underpants. I tell you this, Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself. Before bedtime on the next ten nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently—perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity. This will have a deeply tonic effect. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s high time to allow

your yearnings to overflow to surrender to the vitalizing pleasures of nonrational joy to grant love the permission to bless you and confound you with its unruly truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love.

My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the oldest

houses in Northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual.

The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach. Listen with alert discernment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The United States has

a bizarre system for electing its president.

There’s nothing like it in any other democratic nation on Earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. So, theoretically, it’s possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world.

For example, in two of the last five elections, the new chief of state has received significantly fewer votes than his main competitor.

I suspect that you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo. You’ll be able to claim victory on a technicality. Your effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I found this advertise-

ment for a workshop: “You will learn to do the INCREDIBLE! Smash bricks with your bare hands! Walk on fiery coals unscathed! Leap safely off a roof! No broken bones! No cuts!

No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then everything else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, a very different approach is preferable for you: I recommend that you start with safe, manageable tasks. Master the simple details and practical actions. Work on achieving easy, low-risk victories. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself

for more epic efforts in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be realistic, Libra:

Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before. Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles. You are braver than you know, as sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with

the astrological omens, I invite you to take extra good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit can’t or won’t give it to you, seek elsewhere. Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of self-respect and self-healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A queen bee

may keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from many different drones. When composing my horoscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparable receptivity. Long ago I realized that all of creation is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher.

If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the possibility that they may arrive from unexpected directions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favorable time to expand your capacity to be fertilized.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re approach-

ing a rendezvous with prime time. Any minute now you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourself—or both. This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both liberating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1901, physician

Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That question is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner state has been heroic. It’s like you’ve been ingesting a healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are enough

authorities, experts and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you what to think and do. In accordance with current astrological factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily.

Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives you to trust your own assessments and heed your own intuitions.

Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good practice for dealing with the little voices in your head that speak for those authorities, experts and know-it-alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies.

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There have been several good histories of the city relatively recently, and for a long time we went along without any at all.

I used quite a few of these for research, the past books, but the pickings [earlier] are slim, quite often, you know. That was one of the reasons I decided to write this particular book. But I didn’t want to do something that had already been done a number of times before, so that’s why I focused in on the bridge and the Riverside Hotel, because those were the first two occupied sites. And I thought if I told both histories and weaved the history of the city in with it, it’ll make somewhat of a different viewpoint. ... Probably the best historian around is Guy Rocha. Guy had often said, “Somebody should write more about W.C. Fuller, who was here before Myron Lake was.” And he always believed that Fuller should be recognized as the founder of Reno, as opposed to Myron Lake. I even looked up the word founder

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in a number of dictionaries and it always said, you know, something about the person who initiates something or gets something started. Well, that really fills Fuller’s bill. So, you know, I wanted to see what I could find that had been written before [about Fuller], and very little had been written before, and quite a bit of it was wrong. The dates when Fuller sold [his property] were wrong. I had never found anything in [earlier writings about the fact that the winter of, I think it was ’62-’63, they had an ARk storm [atmospheric river 1,000, or megastorm] and it wiped out [this area]. … It’s a 1,000-year flood, and they had one in 1863, and no one had ever talked about that before. They did say that the bridge had washed out. No one said anything about the hotel, but I figured a storm that big and the hotel sitting right at the edge of the river, and it was just a log and board hotel. It had to be gone, too.

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You know, I don’t think we do, no. We’ve got the [Reno] sesquicentennial coming up, of course, next year. There were two or three of us—Guy Clifton was one, myself, one or two other historians … but about six months before the one-year prior to the sesquicentennial, we started on the city and county and various committees and everything else, saying, “Folks, we have a sesquicentennial coming up. Did you know that? Shouldn’t you be starting now? Shouldn’t something be done about this?” And it really took a lot of prodding before they put a committee together and something started happening and everything. ... How many opportunities do you have to celebrate 150 years? They did a bang-up job, I thought, you know, when we had Nevada’s sesquicentennial. Ω

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Since Dum Dum’s High Falootin’ Heehaw for Hicks and Hillbillies in Huntsville, His Orangeness has tweeted zero times about Puerto Rico and twelve times about pro sports. How deeply caring.

Our 51st state got absolutely devastated by Maria, and the odds are now looking more and more that the federal response to this mega-disaster is going to do for Trump what Katrina did to Dubya. I’m writing this on Monday morning, so there may be a rally in terms of aid to P.R. by the time you read this. We can only hope.

You wouldn’t think it’d be that tough to figure out.

The horror of Dum Dum the Doddering Dotard (thanks for the cool new adjective, Krazy Kim!) is this—we knew he would be, by a large margin, the worst president ever, but the now horrific and obvious reality is that this asshole is actually far worse than

we dared to imagine. How about that? We knew he would suck and suck hard, but we had no idea we could so grossly underestimate his degree of turbosuck.

• And please, please, please, don’t lose sight of what Kap was doing. God bless him, he was cool and pure last year, and he just wanted to say that this terrible rash of cops murdering unarmed young black men was absolutely outfuckingrageous and of course he was right. The protest had nothing—repeat, nothing—to do with the military. So you jarheads, flyboys, grunts, and squids, STFU! Kap’s protest was simple—Hey, cops, stop shooting us and killing us in racist cold blood. And by the way, people died for the flag so we citizens would have the freedom to react to it any way we want. Stand, sit, kneel, trim nails, doze off,

whatever. Because we’re free.

Ya know? Free? Duh? Why is this concept so difficult to grasp for so many?

• Last week, Bill Maher spoke for many of us who still are not OK with the malevolent mischief of Trumplodytes. “When Trump tells a crowd at his rallies ‘I love you,’ what he means is that in middle America he found something he had long ago run out of in New York: Suckers. Trump voters were played for rubes by the ultimate fast talking city slicker, who saw vulnerable people getting nervous about jobs and the melting pot getting too melty.

And he told them he’d build a great wall and get their jobs back at the mine, and they said where do I sign? Folks, you didn’t Make America Great Again. You enrolled in Trump University.” Ω

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