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Central casting Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. In an Oct. 14 op-ed in the New York Times, the filmmaker Sarah Polley wrote one of the best new sentences I’ve read in 2017: “Harvey Weinstein may be the centralcasting version of a Hollywood predator, but he was just one festering pustule in a diseased industry.” The whole piece is excellent and well worth reading. (You can find it here: tinyurl.com/y8kwbe8z or in the Oct. 15 print edition of the Times.) Polley started out as an actress—appearing in movies as a child—like Terry Gilliam’s 1988 fantasy The Adventures of Baron Munchausen—and then as a leading lady in movies like Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead But in recent years, she’s worked more behind the camera, writing and directing. Her movie Stories We Tell is one of the best documentaries of the last decade. She, like so many other women in Hollywood, had a creepy encounter with Weinstein, the now disgraced producer. Polley’s experience wasn’t as bad as some—partly because, in her own words, she “didn’t care that much about an acting career,” which took away some of Weinstein’s abusive power. But, as befitting a great documentarian, her essay articulates something important about this scandal: This isn’t an isolated incident or a solitary predator. Abusive behavior is systematic to the entire movie industry. And it has been since at least the days of Fatty Arbuckle. And, of course, it’s not just the film industry. Systematic sexual abuse extends everywhere—including, as we all know, the highest office in the land. But the last few days has seen a wave of “me too” posts all over social media as people post their personal stories about sexual harassment and abuse. Here in Reno, I’ve seen stories from local bartenders, waitresses, business owners and librarians. For cisgender straight men like me, we need to shut up and listen. Hear those stories, and remember them—let them guide how we behave.
—Brad Bynum
De facto automatics Re “R.I.P.” (Editor’s note, Oct. 5) and “Generosity in Las Vegas, inaction in Congress,” (Left Foot Forward, Oct. 5): Both Brad Bynum and Sheila Leslie mention “automatic weapons” or “machine guns” when discussing the recent Las Vegas shooting. For people who consider themselves professional journalists, you are very sloppy with your terminology. The term “semi-automatic” simply refers to the system used to insert a cartridge into the firing chamber. The trigger must still be pulled to fire one bullet at a time. Most pistols, hunting rifles and shotguns are semi-automatic. (The other option is a bolt action.) Automatic rifles or machine guns are designed to fire as long as the trigger is held back. Only the military and a few collectors own automatic weapons. They are not available to purchase by anyone else, and they have been illegal in the U.S. since the 1930s. The public shootings over the past 20 years have all involved semi-automatic rifles or pistols. By confusing the types of weapons, you are being unprofessional and doing a disservice to your readers. Perhaps your writers should take a gun safety class and learn more about the subject before you spout off and allow your ideology to get in the way of the facts. Paul E. Johnson Carson City Editor’s note: We try not to be disingenuous with our readers, and making that distinction strikes us that way when discussing mass shootings and assault weapons. The term “assault weapon” usually includes semi-automatic weapons. As presumably everyone in the nation now knows, given the attention this matter has been given, a semiautomatic rifle can be altered into a virtually
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automatic one. That is why Slide Fire or bump stocks have gotten so much attention—they cushion the shoulder—and one weapon in Stephen Paddock’s hotel room was so outfitted. On its Facebook page, BumpFire Systems advertises the BumpFire Stock this way: “Did you know that you can do simulated full-auto firing, and it is absolutely legal?
Freeway lore Re “Freeway change coming” (news, Sept. 21): You reported, “Freeways in the Truckee Meadows are often sources of suspicion, given local history. Besides the Nugget bottleneck, the southern route of the 395 expansion was changed to accommodate some affluent residents in the 1980s. At Huffaker Lane, it suddenly heads east, missing the homes of the wealthy in the southwest, and then returns to its former trajectory after the Mt. Rose Highway.” When the new segment of I-580 had public access preview a few years back, my wife and I were walking across Galena Creek Bridge and after overhearing part of a conversation between two folks nearby, I approached and politely asked for clarification of a point the man was making. Come to find out, the freeway through Pleasant Valley to Washoe Valley had originally—and logically—been planned to overlay the path of now “old” 395. According to the gentleman, back in the day, Pleasant Valley was an exclusive enclave and when word spread of freeway construction plans, NIMBY went full throttle and following numerous court cases and legal proceedings, the freeway design was moved to its current mountainside location. Ironically—is that the right word?—the man said, in the many years which passed between initial planning and final construction, most of the folks who vociferously protested
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a freeway through their neighborhood had moved on, but NDOT was so deeply committed to the new route, it was built at the high elevation and at considerably greater cost. And don’t get me started on the aforementioned Galena Creek Bridge and the $50,000,000 paid to the first construction contractor to just go away. Not NDOT’s proudest moment, but the freeway, all six lanes of it, is a marvel and I’m not complaining about the now 30-minute drive from Carson City. Steve Waclo Carson City
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By JERI CHADWELL
Are you a gun owner? asked at West stReet plaza
Becca Reed Librarian
I am not a gun owner. You know, I grew up in a house with guns, and I just—I never really felt like they were necessary, to be totally honest with you.
Jason FaRmeR Sports editor
Yes ... because I’m a military vet—so, hunting, family tradition, protection, support, all of that stuff.
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Sparks locks up It may be a while before Sparks residents forget Oct. 11, 2017. In one of those cases of dubious planning for which this valley is known, the unanticipated interaction of two road projects—changes to Fourth Street and Prater Way, plus changes to the Pyramid/McCarran intersection—locked up traffic in the Rail City unlike anything seen before. One project (Prater Way) narrowed Prater to one lane, halting any vehicles from traveling east and impeding any passage between north and south. The other (McCarran/Pyramid) narrowed McCarran, halting any vehicles from traveling west. As traffic from both projects backed up toward each other, the result was that Pyramid Way was jammed with hundreds of cars that moved incrementally or not at all. As traffic on Pyramid backed up, drivers sought other ways of finding their way past this massive bottleneck, with the result that traffic was pushed down side streets into residential neighborhoods, where it backed up and eventually moved incrementally or not at all. Central Sparks became a parking lot. One driver’s car boiled over. An elderly driver took 70 minutes to reach her pharmacy. An employee at Raley’s in the Mercantile Shopping Center at Pyramid and McCarran parked at the Pyramid Park Shopping Center at Pyramid and Holman and walked the rest of the way. A cashier at one store said, “I’ve never seen anything quite like this.”
As we thought of it, it occurred to us that there was a time when government traffic projects and business construction projects in this valley were handled much differently than they are now. The convenience of the public was protected and traffic was kept flowing. Public road building projects did all they could to keep businesses from being hurt. Businesses did their best to keep from blocking pedestrian traffic. But now, those factors seem not to even be a consideration. It is possible to build and still have a livable city. It also occurred to us that in all our years of covering government meetings of various kinds, we have never heard questions asked like, “Is this construction going to keep the sidewalk clear?” or “Where is your plan for keeping traffic moving?” Nor, much less, have we ever heard a public official say, “You need to redesign this project to avoid inconveniencing people.” There is another factor. Flagpeople were once used to keep traffic moving, not to give special treatment to their own employers. We have seen cases of traffic being stopped to let construction vehicles enter or leave construction sites instead of their waiting for a break in traffic as with any other driveway. Modern life offers enough tension and stress. If would be nice if both public and private construction projects were designed to avoid it. Ω
Not a gun owner. ... We have a small child, and we know the statistics are your kid’s more likely to get hurt than protected by a gun. I think we broadly think that there are too many guns. It makes it too easy for everything from mishaps to suicides to mass shooting to happen.
teRRy Russell Facilities maintenance employee
No. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
daRRell spenceR Retiree
I’ve never owned a gun in my life. I just don’t feel the need to own a gun.
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by SHEILA LESLIE
Women battle retreat to past Yes, women are mad. We’re fed up with the fanaticism of Republicans and their zeal to control our most personal health decisions as they insist we conform to their narrow belief system. We can’t believe the continued denial of climate change as fires rage across California while most of Puerto Rico still has no power or clean water. We’re irate over Trump’s endless efforts to sabotage Obamacare while the vice president frivolously dashes back and forth across the country, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a stunt at a football game he never planned on attending. Meanwhile, the president racks up more days on the golf course. We’re furious at new “guidance” from the Justice Department allowing employers to use their religious beliefs as a foundation for discrimination, giving private businesses the same conscience protections as churches. The guidance underpins Trump’s decision to expand the religious exemption for employers who object to birth control coverage and don’t want to include it in the health
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care plans they provide their employees. The document says the federal government shouldn’t “second guess the determination of a religious employer that providing contraceptive care to employees would make the employers compliant in wrongdoing.” Apparently, supplying Viagra to men whose sexual performance is disappointing doesn’t meet the same standard of wrongdoing since that wasn’t included in the directive. It’s only the sexual lives of women that must be controlled. The right-wing ideology police view the contraceptive mandate as a “relentless assault on the First Amendment,” according to the Family Research Council, lifting up an employer’s right to limit women’s health care coverage as a First Amendment concern, something the foremost champion of the First Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union, disputes in a new lawsuit. “The Trump administration is forcing women to pay for their boss’s religious beliefs,” says ACLU senior staff attorney Brigitte Amiri. “We’re filing this lawsuit
because the federal government cannot authorize discrimination against women in the name of religion or otherwise.” The National Women’s Law Center also plans to sue, because the guidance “showed callous disregard for women’s rights, health and autonomy.” The latest directive comes on the heels of another discriminatory action by the Justice Department, which now believes the federal civil rights law does not protect transgender people from workplace discrimination, eliminating guidance issued during the Obama administration that says civil rights law covers a transgender person just like every other worker. Then there’s the most recent annual report from the Violence Policy Center: “When Men Murder Women.” The report has been published for the last 20 years, and Nevada has been in the top 10 states for 19 of those years. This year we’re number two, just behind Alaska. It’s one of the most tragic of Nevada’s consistently poor national rankings, but our leaders yawn.
We are incensed at this callous disregard for our safety. Women can be slow to anger, but our simmering frustration is close to the boiling point. We’re sick of the violence that is literally killing us, almost always at the hands of men. We’re exhausted by politicians who endorse the policies of discrimination against our transgender sisters and brothers, and we’re disgusted by actions that take us backwards, diminishing our ability to determine our own futures. Birth control is essential health care. Discrimination is wrong. Violence against women is abhorrent and must end. These concerns transcend political party, race and socio-economic status. If Republicans refuse to reverse Trump’s decisions by enacting legislation to override his actions, women must vote as a bloc next November and throw them all out of office, starting with Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei. If we don’t, we acquiesce to second-class citizen status, and we’ll continue to pay for it with our very lives. Ω
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Air traffic uncontrol You’re sitting in the gate area for your connecting flight. Your feet ache from walking from Concourse A to this gate in Concourse C, lugging your carry-on bags. Then the gate agent makes an announcement: Your flight has been canceled due to air traffic control. Because it’s weatherrelated, you will not be given hotel or meal vouchers. You have a checked bag but are told you can’t retrieve it. You look out the terminal windows and see the sun shining. Why is this a weather cancellation? The weather pattern is actually at your destination, or maybe somewhere in between. Air traffic control is slowing down flights, canceling a few as well. Because of our outdated, inefficient air traffic control (ATC) system, airlines and passengers lose $33 billion per year in wasted time and excess costs. Passengers are having their work and vacations interrupted needlessly because the ATC is a government bureaucracy, as opposed to a private, non-profit corporation, and
because it is radar based, instead of using global positioning satellites (GPS). United States ATC lags behind most of the world because it is a bureaucracy nestled within a bureaucracy, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Bureaucracies, plodding and rule-bound, are not known for innovation. Canada completed its conversion to NextGen GPS system ADS-B more than a decade ago. That is because Canadian ATC is not a bureaucracy, but a corporation called NAV-Canada. The U.S. is supposed to have all planes use GPS by 2020, but it doesn’t look like it will. Bureaucracies are also not known for completing projects on time and under budget. The tortoise-slow conversion to digital means pilots and controllers communicate by phone, while foreign ATC corporations have digital transmissions. Amazingly, ATC controllers communicate in the control tower with small paper strips that are posted after being torn off ticker tape machines.
Nearly 50 percent of all ATC delays arise from the congested New York City airspace, but the FAA for some perverse reason has scheduled New York last for updates. Bureaucracies are also not known for efficient economic calculation. Because airplanes must appear on ground-based radar, planes are routed in a zigzag pattern to be seen by the radar beacons. Non-stop flights are not direct from point to point, wasting time and fuel. Passengers in the U.S. pay for this inefficient system in airline ticket taxes and from the federal general tax fund. Congress then micromanages the allocation of the funds to ATC, often for arbitrary political reasons. In countries like Canada, the UK, France and many others, the ATC corporation is paid directly from fees, bypassing legislative interference. The Civil Air Navigation Services Organization has over 80 private ATC corporations as members. ATC reform is on President Trump’s agenda for this session. Reformers like
Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles libertarian think tank, have been lobbying for change for decades and are hopeful Congress will act soon. ATC reform requires separating ATC from its safety regulator, the FAA. It is a conflict of interest for the FAA to investigate itself under the current structure. Then, separate ATC from the federal funding process. Finally, corporatize the structure so the ATC is governed by a board of directors, responsible to the stakeholders and passengers, rather than to Congress and government agencies. Private business jet pilots, public employee unions and politicians who ideologically abhor privatization are organized to oppose change. It remains to be seen if the Trump deregulators have the stomach to shepherd this reform through Congress. If they do, you will have less chance of a bad experience on your flight to your sister’s wedding. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
ExtrEmE wEathEr The wildfires that have filled our valley’s air with smoke recently have gotten a good deal of national news coverage, but clean energy consultant and former U.S. State Department official Andrew Eil went farther than most in describing their impact. He calls them a “crime against humanity.” After listing a litany of Donald Trump’s antienvironment actions and faulting appointment of officials with financial conflicts of interest in a New York Observer essay, Eil went on: “Immediately after Irma ravaged Florida, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt went so far as to say, ‘To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm … is misplaced.’ What could be more pressing for the federal government than protecting lives, livelihoods and property from losses—including understanding the causes and effects? Instead, the pathological preening and slavish shilling for fossil fuel interests has gone from predictable to grotesque, as the president and his corrupt cabinet ignore the conflagration while peddling matches and lighter fluid. Another day, another shocking headline: Last week, President Trump named a coal lobbyist as the number-two official at the Environmental Protection Agency. Think about that for a moment. … Corruption and service of special interests are age-old pursuits. But in our era of ample scientific knowledge and real-time media access, ignorance is no longer possible, let alone excusable; the hypocrisy and mendacity are breathtaking. In this context, impeachment doesn’t do justice to their dereliction of duty—indictment for crimes against humanity is more fitting.”
ObstaclE drug Two new studies reinforce the notion that, far from being a gateway drug, marijuana serves to keep people off of other drugs, including opioids and alcohol. The journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research has published information from University of California, Berkeley/Kent State University that found pain victims are using cannabis instead of pain medication. An abstract of the study reads: “Cannabis can be an effective treatment for pain, greatly reduces the chance of dependence, and eliminates the risk of fatal overdose compared to opioid-based medications. Medical cannabis patients report that cannabis is just as effective, if not more, than opioid-based medications for pain.” And in a University of New Mexico study of 125 patients in which 83 used cannabis for pain while 42 chose not to use cannabis, 98 percent of the abstainers stayed with the prescription pain medication, while 34 percent of the users dropped their pain medication. There have long been indications that marijuana serves as an obstacle to hard drug use. The addictive qualities of marijuana are far less than hard drugs. They are described by some drug experts as akin to coffee.
—Dennis Myers
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This is one of the swastikas that was painted on the UNR stairwell. UNR PHOTO
Symbols Graffiti is applied to a meaningful stairwell between 1931 and 1934, a beautiful downtown post office was constructed in Reno. Built in an art deco style (zigzag moderne), it featured many swastikas, an arresting, symmetrical symbol. The Nazi movement was just gaining power in Germany. Decades later, on the first day of the new year, century and millennium, three arsonists torched Temple Emanu-El in Reno. Forty-eight minutes into the day, according to a video tape system, a Molotov cocktail was thrown, igniting the temple doors. One of the perpetrators was wearing a shirt bearing a cross, profaning two religions at once. There is nothing in either a cross or a swastika that denotes good or evil. They are neutral designs that are employed by good and bad people. The swastika has existed at least since the Bronze Age and has usually had a positive meaning, such as hope, luck or fertility, though the architect who designed the Reno post office— Frederic DeLongchamps—probably
Department chair Rebekah Bogard decided not to wait for Sunday. They painted over the troublesome images. “I felt a responsibility because some of the students were really upset, so Friday evening we came in and did cover some of them over,” Bogard said. Paradoxically, unpopular art was being removed from a site created to encourage student expression. Once the swastikas had been covered up, the department went ahead with the Sunday paint party. Bogard said the event was still needed as an outlet, and a considerable crowd did gather. Some seemed almost disappointed that the swastikas had been removed, so they could not paint them over. One student brought a bag of spray paint cans. The stairwell was originally designated for student expression a decade ago by instructor Michael Sarich, though campus officialdom reportedly painted it clean a couple of times before the department was able to get administrators to leave it alone for students to use. Today’s harsh political climate was a concern for many of those in attendance, who linked outside developments with the stairwell and other disruptive events such as Charlottesville.
was drawing his inspiration from buffalO and crOw Native American art. At a pre-paint party news conference, But the swastika, of course, became Liberal Arts College Dean Debra the symbol for Nazism, and its unauModdelmog said in a prepared statethorized use on walls or other surfaces ment, “I want to be clear what this is now normally treated as a hate gathering is not: It is not an effort to crime. When swastikas were painted paint over or suggest that antiOct. 13 on the walls of a University Semitism and other forms of Nevada, Reno stairwell of hate don’t exist in that had been reserved our society or on for the self-expression this campus. The of art students to Anti-Defamation use for graffiti and League notes other forms of art, that anti-Semitic University Galleries incidents in the put out a stateU.S. jumped 86 ment: “University percent in the first Galleries firmly quarter of 2017 rejects the Paul Baker Prindle compared to the anti-Semitic and UNR Galleries Director same period last year. inhumane values such Other minority groups, symbols express.” A from Latinos and Asians gathering on Sunday to paint to Muslims and the LGBT over the offending markings was community have also reported a spike scheduled. in hate crimes directed at them over the But that Friday evening, without last year and a half. … Our work didn’t publicity, unhappy students and Art
“Hate has the ability to grow only in darkness.”
A student brought spray paint cans to cover up the swastikas painted in the UNR art building.
begin here, and it doesn’t end here today— we are a place of education, and the College of Liberal Arts has a number of faculty and courses that examine the history or culture of hate movements, their consequences, and how such movements were resisted. … This is ongoing work.” Earlier, she had said of the stairwell, “It’s a place for self-expression but when that expression is hateful, we need to replace it with expression that is hopeful or positive.”
The building’s galleries director, Paul Baker Prindle, said, “Hate has the ability to grow only in darkness.” In her statement, Bogard said, “In my mind, the painting of the swastikas was an act of terrorism as the intent behind this was to intimidate and scare people and a call to violence.” She said she regretted that the patch work eliminated two of her favorite parts of the colorful walls—“the orange buffalo and the crow looking at his reflection in a worm-hole. But that is the nature of this space. It is constantly evolving and a place where students feel safe and free to express themselves.” Chatting with visitors, art professor Howard Rosenberg said, “The worst thing you can do is paint them out. … Make them into something wonderful.” That did happen. Bogard said at the Friday evening session, swastikas were turned into a mosquito and a version of the Microsoft Windows logo. There were reports that swastikas were painted in other UNR buildings, and also that one had been carved into a wall, but no confirmation of those reports. Ω
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Hitting home Nevadans grapple with the legacy of mass murder by Dennis Myers
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age Leehey was not sure where the bullets were coming from at the Route 91 Harvest countrymusic festival in Las Vegas. Actually, she wasn’t initially certain they were bullets. She is young (25), very smart (a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno), a fine writer (a former special projects editor for the RN&R), and now a teacher. The situation seemed unreal to her as she and her friend Torre ran from place to place seeking somewhere to hide. That wasn’t easy when they didn’t know the bullets were coming from above. They thought it was ground level. “We just assumed it was on the ground, so we didn’t want to stay there.” Still, the popping did not sound like gunfire. Then they encountered something that made it real—a body. It was very bloody. At some point, she texted her parents, sister in law, and others a message she remembers as, “There are gunshots. I’m not sure that they’re real. I love you all.” She kept telling herself, “Don’t lose Torre. Don’t lose my phone.” They ran into the media tent. Tables there were overturned, and they crouched behind one. “Some guy came up and told us, ‘No, no, no.’ He lifted up the tent.” They crawled out. The fellow stayed with them.
“We can’t live in this moment.” Sage Leehey Shooting survivor
“We found his car and got down in the back.” He drove out of the area. “We decided to go to Town Square. I told my parents to come get us there.” The immediate terror was over for Leehey, though like so many, she’s still badly shaken. In the days after the massacre, Nevadans became familiar with the kind of didn’t-think-it-could-happenhere and what-does-this-mean questions that have previously afflicted folks in Colorado, Oregon, Connecticut and other places. These incidents may not be omnipresent, but it sometimes seems so. A Canadian newspaper, the Toronto Metro News, was doing a telephone interview on Oct. 6 with Arizona gun control activist Jennifer Longdon about the mass shooting in Las Vegas when
she got a text. It told her there had just been another one, this one in Arizona itself, about 45 minutes from Longdon’s home—four shot dead in Casa Grande. Longdon, a candidate for the Arizona Legislature, is herself paralyzed as the result of being shot by a stranger in a 2004 road rage incident. Three violent incidents are referenced in this paragraph. The comic newspaper the Onion ran a story about the Las Vegas killings under the headline “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” It ran similar stories after the mass murders in Isla Vista, California, in 2014, and in Charleston, South Carolina; San Bernardino, California; and Roseburg, Oregon—all in 2015. All of them headlined “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” The Columbia Journalism Review asked, “Is the Onion’s repeated republishing of a satirical article about the inevitability of mass shootings still satire when it is no longer a caricature but actual news?” There was commentary on Nevada, too. In the United States, readers read this headline in USA Today and YouTube: “Yes, you can buy a machine gun in Nevada.” In Britain, readers read the headline, “Nevada voters approved a new gun control law—so why was it not enforced?” But Nevada’s peculiar image lent itself to this kind of thing. No one raised questions about Nebraska or Indiana after incidents in Omaha and Terre Haute. Although there were recollections in various media of earlier mass killings, particularly the Charles Whitman case in Texas, there seemed to be a homestate reluctance to mention that it had happened before in Nevada—in Reno in 1980, and without guns. On Thanksgiving that year, a 51-year old woman of uncertain sanity named Priscilla Ford drove a Lincoln Continental onto the sidewalk, knocking people over like bowling pins (“The day terror came downtown,” RN&R July 17, 2003). Six people died and 23 were injured. It was hard not to recall Priscilla Ford when someone in Las Vegas told the Washington Post that the Las Vegas shooting was like “something we would see in a war zone.” Many had made the same comparison in 1980. Yet no one wrote about Ford. Guns had sucked up all the air in the public dialogue room.
Intense focus People often ask how the National Rifle Association, a relatively small group of five million, has the influence it has. It’s a question that was once asked about the alcohol prohibition movement that accomplished enactment of a constitutional amendment. Prohibitionists operated much like the NRA. In the early 20th century, the Anti-Saloon League took
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leadership of the issue away from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Prohibition Party. The WCTU and Prohibition Party had other issues besides alcohol, such as vice or the Christian amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The League did not. Today it would be called a single issue interest group. It did not care how legislators—or voters—felt about the League of Nations, labor strikes, anarchism, tariffs, child labor or lynching. It focused solely on alcohol, and its membership, by aiming its votes like a rifle instead of a shotgun, could affect single digit percentages in elections. That was often enough to turn election after election to the drys, in both primaries and general elections. In one Ohio election, every single state legislative seat went to prohibition candidates. That effectiveness swept across the nation, turning legislatures and Congress toward a policy stance that probably could not have prevailed any other way. The League also developed highly effective organization, leadership and fundraising. The NRA doesn’t care about whether candidates are Republicans or Democrats— only how they vote on guns. And its membership is highly responsive to the organization’s leadership and highly motivated at election time. Surveys consistently show the NRA is out of step with public opinion, yet politicians know it can turn elections, both with its one-issue focus and an effective organization. And the NRA is the more moderate of gun lobby groups. This is sometimes portrayed as a Republicans vs. Democrats issue. But key Democrats are often dedicated supporters of the gun lobby. At the state level, longtime Democratic speaker of the Nevada Assembly Joe Dini lent important support to NRA lobbyist Ed Bruce. At the federal level, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada advertised his successful efforts to protect assault weapons from legal curbs. Reid’s replacement in the Senate, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, takes a more flexible position on gun control, but it is uncertain how firm she can be on issues, based on her past performance. As for Reid’s replacement as Nevada’s senior senator, the blood was scarcely dry in Las Vegas when U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said, “Let me be clear, I’m not interested in watering down the Second Amendment.” But that’s a straw person. No one has asked Heller to undercut the Second Amendment. The amendment requires that firearms be “well regulated,” which is why in the same appearance, Heller said of a ban on bump stocks, “You show me the law that would stop that, not only will I support it, I will be an advocate for that law.” The politicians and gun lobby skillfully framed the post-Las Vegas issue around 12 | RN&R | 10.19.17
peripheral matters, like bump stocks and silencers, not automatic and semi-automatics, and journalists went for it like children offered candy by strangers. Gun regulation is not the only issue. It’s also whether gun regulation is discussed. The gun lobby tries to suppress such discussion. There is a federal law which vaguely discourages gun control research. No one knows exactly what that means, but at the CDC, they got the message. No one is going to put a job on the line over such an ambiguous instruction. At the Nevada Legislature, when a committee was formed in 2012 to advise legislators on criminal justice and recommend law changes, the committee voted 8 to 5 not to talk about assault weapons. Silence is always politically safe.
Background checks Nevada is new to the gun control battles other states have experienced for decades. In 2013, things started to change when the Nevada Legislature, with a Democratic majority, approved a measure that expanded background checks before gun purchases, including barring gun ownership to anyone burdened with a court finding of mental illness. It was a mild measure compared to some state and federal checks, but Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed even such minimal regulation. His veto message read: “[T]he provisions of Senate Bill 221 pertaining to background checks for the private sale and transfer of firearms constitute an erosion of Nevadans’ Second Amendment rights under the United States Constitution and may subject otherwise law-abiding citizens to criminal prosecution. For example, the bill mandates that a private person wishing to sell a firearm to a family member must request a background check through a federally licensed firearms dealer. Additionally, a private person wishing to sell a firearm to a holder of a concealed weapon permit must conduct the transaction under the supervision of a federally licensed firearms dealer.” The Second Amendment calls for “wellregulated” weapons, and Sandoval did not explain why regulation erodes the amendment. Nor did he explain what is sacrosanct about family weapons transfers that they should be treated differently from others. Nevada has a long history of crime families, from Barker gang members who frequented the state in the 1930s to 1990s Nevada death row inmate Gerald Gallego, Jr., whose father was executed by Mississippi for murder in 1955. We recently learned the Las Vegas killer’s father was on the FBI most wanted list. Moreover, Sandoval could—through his lobbyists—have informed the lawmakers early on that he had a problem with the bill so they could have addressed his concerns
Attorney General Adam Laxalt halted enforcement of the voter-approved gun purchase background checks. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
and amended it. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Justin Jones, told us, “I attempted to work with representatives from the governor’s office, including the chief of staff Gerald Gardner, during the 2013 legislative session to resolve any reasonable concerns they had. The governor’s office did not articulate any concerns regarding transfer of weapons between family members that were not already covered by SB221.” Sen. Richard Segerblom, who took up the issue after Jones left the senate, says to this day, “I would certainly be willing to address family member transfers if that would allow [the] governor to come around.” Nevertheless, this first fight over regulating weapons—the veto, cast after the lawmakers went home for the year, was later sustained by the 2015 Republican legislature—was important. It hardened feelings and convinced many that state government was not on their side. It was true that they were fighting longstanding conventional wisdom in the capital that the Nevada public was fiercely resistant to gun control, which tended to make efforts for gun regulation more of an uphill fight than other issues. It took outsiders to see changes in the state and give a voice to Nevadans who bucked the truism.
Changes Nevada has evolved. Assumptions about the state had dropped like flies in recent years. The state, which had not voted Democratic in a presidential race since 1964, started doing it again. According to the 2010 census, Nevada is the third most urban state, behind only California and New York. Few people live in its rural expanses. Across the nation, mayors were becoming fed up with the power of the gun lobby as carnage destroyed their cities’ quality of life. They formed Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which later merged with a mothers’ group to form Everytown for Gun Safety. When Everytown came calling in Nevada, it found plenty of receptive ears.
A group called Nevadans for Background Checks was formed, and it easily gathered the needed 101,667 signatures to put a measure on the ballot—and then some. It obtained 242 percent of the necessary signatures (“Aim for the truth,” RN&R, June 30, 2016). The achievement sent a tremor through pro-gun forces and shocked traditional Nevadans, to say nothing of the NRA—which also faced a successful Maine ballot measure. The petition went first to the 2015 Nevada Legislature, which could adopt it outright or propose an alternative. It did neither. The legislature had been taken over by Republicans who rubbed salt in the wounds of gun regulation advocates by passing a panoply of pro-gun measures. Among others, there were bills taking power away from municipalities with stronger gun laws than the state. They shut down a Clark County gun registration program and ordered its records destroyed. It advanced the feeling that state government was not to be trusted on the issue, a feeling that had already led to a fatal misjudgment by Nevadans for Background Checks. NRA spokesperson Catherine Mortensen liked to point out that some support for the measure came from out of state. (She’s a Virginian.) But so did opposition to it. The gun lobby mounted a multi-million dollar campaign against Question 1 and lost. The measure passed with 50.45 percent of the vote, dealing a sharp blow to Silver State conventional wisdom. There were plenty of campaigning Nevadans, like businesswoman Elaine Wynn, former sheriffs Mike Haley and Bill Young, and Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson to offset the notion that it was an out of state effort— to say nothing of the whopping 246,674 Nevadans who signed petitions putting the measure on the ballot. But there was a poison pill in the initiative. Though advocates have faulted Attorney General Adam Laxalt for blocking
implementation of the background checks, he was not wrong in his interpretation of the law. Nevada has a circuitous procedure for background checks. Distrusting state officials who had been so hostile to gun regulation, the drafters of the initiative petition language avoided using the complicated state system administered by the Nevada Department of Public Safety. We’ll call it Nevada/ DPS. Instead, the petition directed that background checks be run directly through the federal system, National Instant Criminal Background Check System, administered by the FBI. We’ll call it FBI/NICS. The petition’s legal language not only directed that FBI/NICS conduct its background checks, but directed that Nevada/DPS not be used. This created a problem for the state. Having a state system effectively meant Nevada had opted out of the federal system, according to the FBI. An inquiry from DPS to the FBI brought a letter confirming that the FBI could conduct checks only for eight states, Nevada not among them. DPS asked Laxalt what to do. Laxalt rendered an opinion, written by his deputy Gregory Zunino, saying that according to the initiative petition’s own language, Nevada/DPS checks were prohibited by the new voter-enacted law. Laxalt’s formal Dec. 28, 2016, opinion advised DPS not to enforce the law and said that Nevadans were “excused from compliance” with it.
Keeping faith with the public vote might now call for further action by Laxalt or the governor making recommendations to the Nevada Legislature on how to fulfill the voters’ intent without the new law. Having issued the opinion and brought the program to a halt, Laxalt now could have advised lawmakers on whether the program could still be implemented another way. So might the governor. The legislature was about to meet, and its new Democratic majority was ready and willing. Many watched to see what Laxalt would do. Former Washoe sheriff Haley predicted Laxalt “will not try to find any resolution to what the FBI has said because he’s adverse to the initiative’s language, anyway.” It was a golden opportunity for Laxalt to expand his political base beyond Republicans and the rural areas. There were ways of saving the program. But Laxalt was content to do nothing. More than that, he muddied the waters to reduce the chances of a remedy being devised. He had included a footnote in his opinion that seemed to threaten that if a way was found to make the new law work, he would have three and possibly more other ways of invalidating it. As for Sandoval, two days after the Las Vegas killings this month, he asked Laxalt to look into whether there were ways to implement the law. It was a question he could have asked on Dec. 29, 2016, when the legislature was about to go into session.
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One way was very much open. The lawmakers could have accepted the Laxalt opinion, treated the initiative petition as null and void, and then enacted a similar law along the same lines as approved by voters— but without the FBI/NICS problem. For whatever reason, neither Laxalt, the governor, nor the Democrats tried to revive the voterapproved system. The Democratic majority did approve a bill curbing gun ownership by domestic abusers and stalkers.
Next Asked about the White House line that now is not the time to discuss gun regulation, Sage Leehey said she disagreed. “No. … It does not make sense to me that he had all of those guns. … How is it that the only illegal thing he did was shoot people?” Still badly shaken, she intends to get past it. “I don’t want to be scared to go to a concert,” she said. “We can’t live in this moment. We can’t live in this forever.” If the ballot measure had taken effect, it would not have prevented the Las Vegas killings. The Nevada Firearms Coalition’s Don Turner quickly pointed that out, saying, “Explosives obviously are illegal under Nevada law, and he had them. So how did that law prevent him from having the explosives?” Many societal maladies are dealt with incrementally. Steps proposed to deal with
deliberate and accidental killings are not intended to prevent all such killings, nor are they intended to prevent only one such killing. No one-size-fits-all-crimes law is possible. If we had a vaccine that would prevent only 40 percent of diabetes cases, should we not use it? While Don Turner is right that background checks would not made a difference in Las Vegas, can he say that would have been true in Orlando; Sandy Hook; Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771; Washington Navy Yard; Virginia Tech; Tucson; Killeen, Texas; San Bernadino and San Ysidro, California; Binghamton, New York; Camden, New Jersey; Aurora and Columbine, Colorado; Jacksonville, Florida; DeKalb, Illinois; Red Lake, Minnesota; or Edmond, Oklahoma? Guns that microstamp bullets, or limits on total gun purchases, or workplace weapons bans, or bans on high capacity magazines, or assault weapons bans, or barring weapons to the mentally ill, domestic abusers and no-fly listees will not stamp out all future tragedies. But they may reduce them or make them less grievous. “Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured,” Albert Camus said in 1948 at the Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg. “But we can reduce the number of tortured children.” Ω
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Mary Lee Fulkerson, who is 81, has a new book, Women Artists of the Great Basin, published in September. The idea simmered in her mind for nearly two decades before she started working on it. In 2013, Fulkerson, along with photographer Susan Mantle, began a four-year process of traveling to women’s studios in Nevada and a few neighboring states to interview and photograph them. Fulkerson has had a long career as a basket maker. In art and craft circles, she’s something of a local legend, known as much for being an encouraging team player as for pushing the limits of her materials and exhibiting in hundreds of venues near and far—including the White House. Her trademark style includes large, expressive baskets, some with undulating or irregular shapes, others woven from materials such as colorful plastics. She’s incorporated stories and inspirational messages into her pieces. In earlier work, she wrote words onto reeds before weaving them. Later, she figured out how to form letters from grasses or willow and work them into the structure of a piece. She led the Great Basin Basketmakers and was a longtime member of Wild Women Artists, a group formed in response to a lack of venues for women to show their work in. By the time Fulkerson started thinking about her current book, she’d already authored a book about Native American basket makers and contributed to another book on using locally harvested materials. Even with all this experience, it took a while for her to sort out how to approach writing it. She knew at the outset, though, that she wanted it to be about women.
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Author Mary Lee Fulkerson and photographer Susan Mantle gave a talk and signed their new book recently at Sundance Books and Music. Photo/Kris Vagner
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“I think work by men is every bit as good as work by women,” said Fulkerson, sitting at the dining room table in her West Reno condo under a tidy, floor-to-ceiling arrangement of basketry and other artworks. “That’s a no brainer.” But she’s long been a champion of other women and their work—and she brought up some common differences between women’s careers and men’s careers. For one, the Wild Women aren’t the only ones who’ve been underrepresented in galleries. “We know most work we see “I think we is by men,” Fulkerson said. The art-world gender gap—while need to look beyond it’s been narrowing in recent even defining what’s art. years—still exists. A 2017 report by the Association I love that I was able to put of Art Museum Directors shows that almost half of art wearable art and jewelry museum directors are now and purses in this book— women, but that men are still more likely to be at the helm because that’s art.” of the most prestigious institutions—and more likely to earn Mary Lee Fulkerson higher salaries. Feminist arts group Artist and author
Guerrilla Girls often points out that women artists are noticeably underrepresented in the most prestigious galleries. That group also made public the fact that between 1995 and 2015, the average number of solo shows per year by women artists in New York’s main art museums increased from an average of zero to an average of one. Fulkerson said that women she’s known have often had to decide how to balance work and family. Fulkerson—who earned an art degree from University of Nevada, Reno in the 1970s—said that she made her own artwork in a sphere separate from the one her late husband, Chuck, circulated in, and she’s thankful for that arrangement. “We had the best marriage,” she said. “We were married, like, 58 years or something. And he was a great father. He didn’t know one thing about art or care one thing about art, and he was a military man.” She didn’t connect closely with his friends and never could keep their military ranks straight. Some women she knows have husbands who’ve offered strong opinions about their wives’ artwork, sometimes changing its course. “I never had that issue,” Fulkerson said. Chuck stayed out of the studio—though he would willingly stop the car on the freeway so she could collect some tire tread to use in a sculpture. “I could do anything,” she said. “He didn’t belittle anything. So, that was lucky.”
Road tRip To research the book, a collection of profiles on 32 artists, Fulkerson and Mantle traveled together to Gold Hill, Tuscarora, Utah and many other locales, packing small suitcases to leave room in the car for Mantle’s camera equipment. They took four years and many trips, totaling around 4,500 miles. Along the way, they interviewed and photographed female artists of all stripes. Some have juggled artwork and families. Others have remained single and made artwork full-time. Some—such as Reno’s Joan Arrizabalaga, Elaine Jason from Tahoe City, and Jean LaMarr from Susanville—are well known. Others show their art in smaller circles. A few don’t exhibit very often, and one refuses to sell her work at all. Fulkerson narrowed down her search to sculptors in particular and stayed mostly within the Great Basin. Within those parameters, she tended to be inclusive. “I’ve never been a good show juror,” she said. “I don’t like excluding people.” She also wanted diversity. “That was my big thing,” she said, adding that Northern Nevada has a culturally diverse population, and she’d like to see more cultural groups better represented in galleries and other venues.
She told an audience at a book signing event recently that white, male European taste still sets the standards in the art world. One goal of her book was to expose readers and viewers to a wider range of artistic expression. “I think we need to look beyond even defining what’s art,” she said. “I love that I was able to put wearable art and jewelry and purses in this book—because that’s art.” In the book, artists such as Pam Bowman from Utah, who Fulkerson said, “wanted to make art about doing very mundane things around the house” share equal billing with artists such as Rebekah Bogard, a UNR art professor whose ceramic sculptures are shown internationally and profiled in hip magazines.
in pR aise of failuRe One of the most notable strengths of Women Artists of the Great Basin is that Fulkerson conducted her interviews such that she could detail the ideas, spaces, lifestyles and philosophies behind each woman’s work. She posed the same list of questions to each of her subjects, asking about their backgrounds and their artistic practices. Her son suggested one question, which she’s glad she added to her list: In praise of failure, what makes you strong? That one, Fulkerson said, turned out to be the question that elicited the personal stories about life-changing events telling glimpses into the sacrifices and triumphs of what it’s like to set up a life as an artist. “I think the most surprising thing to me was how open and wonderful the artists were,” she said. “I didn’t know a lot of them. I was so surprised that they were so willing to just fling everything out. … We didn’t know when we even started if it would even work.” After a few more author events for this book, Fulkerson might start another one. “I’ve got two books in my head,” she said. One is a novel she’s already drafted. “I could make that a good novel instead of just a mediocre novel,” she said. The other might be a book version of a class the she used to teach called Tools For Transformation/ The “tools.” she said, were “things you make that lift your spirit—they’re little prayers that you make yourself. And I thought, golly, I should write those down, if even for my own grandchildren, if nothing else.” Ω Book signing events for Women Artists of the Great Basin are scheduled for 3-6 p.m. Nov. 6 at Barnes & Noble, 12 p.m. Dec. 2-3 at Sierra Arts Gallery, 11:30 a.m. Dec. 9 at Reno Buddhist Center, and 1 p.m. Dec. 16 at Barnes & Noble.
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Lately, the world’s been getting me down. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, mass shootings and devastating North Bay fires burning way too close for comfort to my own mother. I mean, isn’t everything the worst? I’ve been exhausted from anxiety, feeling hopeless about anything ever being good again. It was probably the perfect frame of mind in which to see Annie Baker’s The Flick, now in production at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Church Fine Arts building. This small, lovely play offers something few others do—space to breathe and think. It’s a meditation on the subtle, random unfairnesses in life, big and small, and the pain of watching the world pass you by. At The Flick, one of the last cinemas in Massachusetts running a 35-millimeter film projector, three employees keep the dilapidated, single-screen theater limping along while its absent owner debates upgrading to digital. As the play opens, it’s the first day on the job for Avery (Jelani Best), a young African American with glasses who’s obsessed with 35-millimeter films and The Flick’s ancient projector. Training him is Sam (Jason Pitak), a 30-something has-been who still lives with his parents and keeps getting passed over for promotions— namely, by Rose (Karly Puccinelli), a snarky girl with green hair who has unwittingly captured Sam’s heart. Days pass mind-numbingly in the same way: The three wear their dingy uniforms and sweep the same aisles, dump the same garbage into the same cans. The audience is party to long silences, broken by the odd interjection about the garbage people leave behind, debates about what movies can be considered “great” or the odd round of Six Degrees that connects the likes of Pauly
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Shore with Ian Holm and proves Avery’s film prowess. Yet what’s really happening is the stuff of life—issues of class and race, the alienation of a society ruled by technology that stops valuing its past, the cruelty of unrequited love. The play is not written with a poison pen, nor does it attempt to plunge too deeply or rant too long about life’s inequities—with gorgeously wrought, natural-sounding prose that feels true and real and painful and exultant and absolutely nails it. This story is small yet mighty. Its three actors squeeze every drop of power out of silence, gesture and tone of voice. Pitak’s Sam is lovable and pitiful to watch, and Puccinelli gives Rose the exact right mixture of too-cool attitude with inner vulnerability. But most worthy of praise is Best’s portrayal of Avery. His first-act, one-sided phone call to an on-vacation therapist is so painful, raw and heartbreaking it feels impossible that it’s not real. These college students’ acting chops are nothing short of impressive. When The Flick first opened at Playwrights Horizon in New York in 2013, critics loved it. And it went on to win that year’s Obie Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. But many in that debut audience walked out, or never returned after intermission. It’s a quiet play—many might say too quiet—in which very little actually happens. But the little earthquakes under the surface are so resonant and true to life that, if you can bear the silence, you’ll be moved. Ω
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12345 The University of nevada, Reno Department of Theatre & Dance presents The Flick, Oct. 18-21, 7:30 p.m. at the Redfield Studio Theatre in UnR’s Church Fine Arts Building. For tickets, call 784-4444 or visit www.mynevadatickets.com.
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All over again A college girl learns a few lessons about life—and not being a total ass—by reliving the day she is murdered over and over again in Happy Death Day, a mediocre movie that gets by completely on the star power of a relatively unknown actress, Jessica Rothe. Rothe plays Tree Gelbman, who wakes up in a strange dorm room on the morning of her birthday to discover she has spent the night with a bit of a dweeb in Carter Davis (Israel Broussard). She storms out of the room, ignoring phone calls from her dad and basically being nasty to everybody she encounters on her walk of shame. It’s established fairly quickly that Tree is a campus jerk and has more than a few enemies. All of those enemies, and even some of her friends, become murder suspects when Tree is stabbed to death by a mask-wearing baddie on her way to a party that evening. After her life force is snuffed out, she immediately wakes up in Carter’s bed again. She goes about the same day thinking it’s just déjà vu, but when she is murdered again and wakes up in the same bed on the same day again, she figures things out. She’s living a murder mystery—Groundhog Day style. The list of murder suspects is long. There’s Lori (Ruby Modine), the caring, neglected roomie who baked her a cupcake for her birthday. Then there’s Gregory (Charles Aitken), the slimy teacher she’s having an affair with, and Tim (Caleb Spillyards), the creepy stalker type who took their one date a little too seriously. Even Tree’s own dad (Jason Bayle) can’t be scratched off the suspect list. In fact, director Christopher Landon and writer Scott Lobdell pile enough suspects on, then break so many rules, that it becomes virtually impossible to guess the killer. I guess that’s a good thing. Rothe just sort of comes out of nowhere to make this movie more than a rip-off of the classic Bill Murray vehicle. She was one of Emma Stone’s friends in La La Land, and that’s
probably the only place most of us have seen her before. She sort of has a Rachel McAdams meets Piper Perabo thing going. This is the darkest of dark horror comedies, and it takes major acting chops to keep something this repetitive both engaging and humorous. Rothe is basically playing a jerk that you are supposed to like and root for as she learns a few lessons and becomes a better person. And, yes, even though her character is a pompous twit at the start of the movie, Rothe manages to make her a funny, semi-likeable pompous twit so that the audience can hang in there and get invested in her character’s evolution. While the movie isn’t horribly scary, it’s scary enough to put it alongside that other classic horror spoof, Scream. Actually, you could make the argument that Happy Death Day rips off both Groundhog Day and Scream shamelessly. The movie even mentions Groundhog Day at one point, to let you know the filmmakers are well aware of what’s getting copied. When the movie finally wrapped after what turned out to be a pretty good fake-out ending, I realized I’d had a relatively good time watching it. I also appreciated the little nod to Sixteen Candles. Therefore, I’m giving it the mildest of recommendations. It’s PG-13, so if you like your horror movies hardcore and super bloody, you might be let down. Happy Death Day is a decent enough goofball of a movie, and it marks the arrival of an actress you’ll probably hear a lot about in the near future. If she can make something as contrived as this movie enjoyable, just imagine what Rothe could do with some real material. Ω
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American Made
The messed-up life of pilot Barry Seal gets a movie that’s not messed up enough in American Made, an entertaining film that plays it a little too safe. Drug cartels and Iran-Contra are played for laughs in a story that probably shouldn’t have us giggling all that much. The movie winds up being moderately enjoyable thanks to Tom Cruise sweating it out in the lead role. Director Doug Liman, who teamed with Cruise on the sci-fi masterpiece Edge of Tomorrow, rips off Catch Me if You Can, The Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, Blow and many more in telling the story of the notorious TWA pilot turned pawn for the CIA. Inspired by Seal’s true story—and some of the more outlandish stuff depicted in the film actually happened—the movie starts with him grinding out flights for TWA, smuggling the occasional box of Cuban cigars and trying to support a family that includes wife Lucy (Sarah Wright). He winds up taking a side gig for the CIA, taking reconnaissance photos, delivering arms to Central America. This eventually leads to smuggling drugs for Medellin cartel. The movie is a whirlwind of activity, but skimpy on some of the details that could make it more than just a silly blast. Honestly, this story might have played better as an HBO or Netflix miniseries than a big motion picture. It feels far too slick for the source material and needs some more meat on the bone. A 10-hour running time probably wouldn’t even be enough to cover everything Barry got himself into.
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Battle of the Sexes
Usually reliable directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris (Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks) somehow manage to make this, the story of Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs’ infamous early ’70s tennis match, quite boring. King is played by Emma Stone, who brings a nice warmth to one of the great trailblazing athletes of the 20th century. Steve Carell labors a bit playing Riggs, the chauvinist pig who challenged the much younger King to a battle of the sexes, an exhibition tennis match to prove the superiority of the male athlete. The actual match happens in the film’s final half hour, and it’s an entertaining half hour that manages to incorporate real footage of Howard Cosell and a realistic depiction of the actual tennis play. The movie doesn’t have much of a pulse in the buildup, portraying King’s love life in a way that would seem too schmaltzy for your average soap opera. Surely, there must’ve been some fireworks when the married King started sleeping with her hairdresser on her tennis tour, but this movie goes a dull and sappy route. I expected to laugh more at this movie, but the film just sort of drags along until Stone and Carell pick up their rackets, which looked a lot like badminton racquets back in the ’70s. The movie also tries to make Riggs too likeable, and it probably would’ve been OK to make him a little nastier. No doubt, Billie Jean King is a legend. This movie doesn’t quite live up to that legend.
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Blade Runner 2049
Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner came out in 1982—35 years ago. Scott has tooled with the cut of that movie numerous times, resulting in a final cut that was released about 10 years ago. While there was a lot of monkeying—in a good way—with the original, it didn’t seem there was much thought, or chance, for an actual sequel. The original was a box-office bomb and didn’t start gaining its classic status until a decade after its release. In fact, critics beat up on it a bit. Here in 2017, we actually do get a sequel, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve, the visionary behind Enemy and Arrival. (Scott remains involved as a producer.) Harrison Ford, who has classically moaned about the original movie, has, nonetheless, returned to play blade runner Rick Deckard. A terrific Ryan Gosling steps into the starring role of K, a new blade runner tasked with “retiring” older model replicants, the synthetic humans originated by the likes of Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah in the original. Other than the presence of Ford in the final act of the movie, and the vision of
Pan Am and Atari logos still present in the Los Angeles skyline, there’s little to make this one feel like a standard sequel. 2049 goes off on many new tangents, bending the mind when it comes to topics like artificial intelligence, what really constitutes love, and determining what is “real” in this world. Villeneuve, along with writers Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, have concocted a whole new world, a realistic evolution of Scott’s. Cinematographer Roger Deakins puts pure art in motion with his camerawork, giving us a dirtier, gloomier, yet still beautiful Blade Runner. K’s travels take him to the ruins of major cities. Ruined cities have never looked this gorgeous.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
If you saw Bone Tomahawk a couple of years ago, you saw the directorial debut of one S. Craig Zahler, who also wrote the script, a guy who knows how to tell bleak, brutal stories. I thought Tomahawk was nasty but, as things turn out, it’s a tea party with bunny rabbits compared to Zahler’s second feature, for which he also penned the script. Vince Vaughn shaves his head and steps into the role of Bradley Thomas, a tow truck driver who loses his job and discovers his wife (Jennifer Carpenter) is having an affair. After a meltdown in which Bradley destroys a car with his bare hands, he makes a bad career choice, and returns to running drugs to save his marriage and make some money. Things go bad, and Bradley winds up in a couple of prisons, ultimately resulting in the event mentioned in the title, an unholy showdown with his new enemies. That event is a bloody affair—the film in unrated and often quite gross—featuring heads getting crushed by boots, and victims spitting jawbones out of their mouths while dying. The transformation Vaughn undergoes here is stunning. Yes, he’s handled dramatic roles well in the past, but he’s never done anything this dark and physically brooding. He’s a one-man wrecking machine here, and you believe he can take out rooms full of attacking marauders with violent proficiency. This movie is a sick trip, with the normally humorous Vaughn a million miles away from any jokester laughs. (Available for download and streaming on iTunes and Amazon.com during a limited theatrical release.)
Writer-director Noah Baumbach delivers his best movie yet with his latest story of family dysfunction that is yet another reminder that Adam Sandler is a knockout actor when he puts his mind to it. Sandler plays Danny, older brother to Matthew (Ben Stiller), father to Eliza (Grace Van Patten), and son of Harold (Dustin Hoffman). Danny is going through hard times, separating from his wife as Eliza prepares for college. His only option is to live with his dad and stepmom (Emma Thompson), a move that drudges up a lot of past difficulties. Matthew comes to town, looking to sell his parents’ house, much to the chagrin of Danny, and tensions grow. Yet, despite the tension, there’s a hilarious way this family communicates and, even when things get bad, their warmth and desire for better times with each other shines through. While Sandler gets some good laughs in the film (especially when he’s allowed to rage, Sandler style), it’s the quieter moments that put him in legitimate contention for an Oscar. As for frequent Baumbach collaborator Stiller, this just happens to be his best dramatic performance as well, so he qualifies as legit competition for Sandler. (A public speaking meltdown by Matthew constitutes the most impressive moment in the film.) Hoffman, who has played father to both Sandler and Stiller before—Sandler in The Cobbler and Stiller in the Focker movies—hasn’t had a chance to shine like this in a long while. Like Gene Hackman as the unreliable patriarch in The Royal Tenenbaums, he owns his every scene. This is one of the year’s funniest and best acted movies and a fabulous reunion for Stiller and Sandler, over 20 years after they shared the screen in Happy Gilmore. (Available on Netflix during a limited theatrical release.)
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’Fast talk There are regional variations, to be sure, but you can usually count on finding a sample of Mom and Pop cooking wherever you go. Tucked away in Lemmon Valley, Hometown Cafe is exactly the sort of place I’m looking for when it’s time for good ol’ fashioned, stick-toyour-ribs breakfast or lunch. Our server recommended we start with a giant, fresh baked cinnamon roll ($2.99). This was no exaggeration, as the plate-sized pastry barely left room for a side of butter. I’ve never previously added butter to an iced roll, but it did add a decadent touch of salty creaminess that we all enjoyed. A pair of large fluffy omelets were next, each with home fries and choice of toast. The Denver ($8.99) was packed with ham, onion, bell pepper and cheddar cheese, with even more cheese melted on top. The menu did specifically note, “Denver with cheese,” though. I suppose a lot of folks expect all omelettes to be cheesy, in the same way I don’t understand why anyone would order a burger sans fromage. The California ($9.50) was just as hearty, filled with mushroom, spinach, a ton of bacon and jack cheese, and topped with melted jack and half an avocado. It was tasty and filling, most definitely something you could share with a friend. The home fries on both plates were plentiful if not very crispy. Next, we sampled a plate of eggs benedict ($9.50), with corned beef hash standing in for the ham. The split English muffin was topped with hash, a pair of poached eggs and a hollandaise sauce that was smooth and buttery, yet didn’t have much in the way of lemon flavor or seasoning. A touch of pepper improved it, and the eggs were perfect.
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The hash itself was quite good and plentiful, adding a lot of flavor. Sadly, the hash browns were barely browned, with even fewer crispy bits than the home fries. Still not bad with a bit of sauce, and there were plenty on the plate. I do love a good chicken fried steak ($10.50), and the one I ordered from the lunch menu was good. Pounded thin, hand breaded, then fried up crispy enough to withstand a deluge of of housemade country gravy, it filled half the plate and cut easily with a fork. Served with sauteed veggies, soup or salad, and choice of potato, I opted for the day’s potato cheese cup and mashed, buttery spuds topped with more sausage gravy. The gravy was slightly bland, but a shake of seasoning and a couple dashes of hot sauce did the trick. The mashed potatoes were chunky and filled the plate’s other side, leaving just enough room to squeeze in the sautee. As good as everything was, the soup was one notch better. Chunky and creamy with plenty of celery and bacon, it was essentially clam chowder without the shellfish. I definitely need to return on a Friday. Last was a serving of fish and chips ($8.99) with three beer battered planks of pollock served with crispy golden fries, coleslaw, and tartar sauce. As with the gravy, the coleslaw improved with some vinegar and seasoning, but the fish was on point—very crunchy, definitely hand battered and super moist and flaky inside. I’d say it was above average for most cafe fish and chips, and a surprisingly good end to our meal. Ω
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Gin was less pungent than expected. (I also learned the three types of gin and that native Nevada juniper berries are toxic.) We also sampled Recession Proof Moonshine—a potent, hot-white booze— and two whiskeys, a one-year-old single malt and a two-year-old bourbon, both quite pleasant and drinkable. From there, we proceeded on a brief tour. Having visited a few distilleries now, the general operation seems to be the same. Seven Troughs does things a little differently, however, fermenting in open rustic barrels, old-West style. And there’s always something to learn, whether it’s the type of tree used for the oak aging barrels, or the dueling temperature needs of fermentation and aging barrels in the same space. The latter will see some relief soon, as Seven Troughs recently announced an expansion. Beyond the science of fermentation, distillation, grains and wood, what really struck me was how rooted Seven Troughs is in the community. Naming the company and products with Nevada references is easy, but partnership with other local businesses takes commitment. A partnership with Nevada Brining Company puts the booze in that company’s Boozy Pickles. Great Basin Brewing provides unfermented malt that eventually becomes whiskey. Corn and wheat from Bently Ranch in Minden later feeds hogs at Girlfarm north of Reno when spent. I’m not the ultimate connoisseur of booze, but the experience, liquor and lessons learned were certainly worth the time and price of admission. Ω
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Heidi Armas’s bachata class practices the basics at The Reno Empire dance studio.
In step Latin Unity Dance & Show If you were wondering when and where to go in Reno for an evening of Latin dancing, Elsie Jimenez would be an excellent person to ask. “Through the Motion dance studio by Irene Robles has socials on Thursdays, and she has classes all the time,” Jimenez said during a recent phone interview. “BB and KiKi have their classes on Wednesdays, and they have their dance social. And they do the EDGE at Peppermill every Friday. And then Gerzon [Chaves]… he’s done salsa and bachata music on Wednesday nights at the Little Wal. And I think Monique [Manzo] at her dance studio, [the Reno Empire], now, has Heidi Armas, who’s teaching classes there.” In fact, she said, “There’s dancing pretty much every day of the week.” Jimenez only wishes more people knew. “It’s usually the same crowd that goes,” she said. “But if we had more people come, it would grow. It would be big.” Growing the city’s Latin dance scene was an aim for Jimenez and her husband, Edgar Vazquez, when they planned their Latin Unity Dance & Show. But there were other goals, too. Jimenez, a nurse who spent six years working in a pediatric ICU, said she was keen to see the event benefit the community. To that end, a portion of ticket and alcohol sales will go to Give Hope Northern Nevada—a nonprofit that provides assistance to families of children with life threatening illnesses. According to Jimenez, another goal of the event—as the name suggests—is to bring unity to the dance community, which is comprised of people from different local studios and dance teams. “We thought it would be a really good idea just to unite everybody—because they tend to create little silos between them,”
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she said. “The other reason why we call it the Latin Unity Dance is also to unite the community, especially right now. I feel like with everything that’s going on nationally with our Latin and Hispanic communities, this is just another way to unite. The Latino community does give back to the community.” The event will kick off at 2 p.m. on Oct. 21 at the National Bowling Stadium with a series of one-hour workshops led by instructors from as far away as Tijuana and Venezuela. They’ll teach lessons on salsa, bachata and dance tricks. After that, there will be performances by dance teams and musician Antonio Bliss—who applied saxophone to bachata music in the mid-2000s and has been credited with the creation of a new fusion genre, “Saxchata.” At 9 p.m., the dance social begins, with music from Bliss and 102.9’s DJ Boogie. The party goes till 2 a.m. Jimenez said she’s pleased with the talent that will be there, but she doesn’t want novices to get the wrong idea and think it’s geared toward more experienced dancers. “The people teaching the workshops will see who comes in,” she said. “If most of them are performers, then they’re going to teach a more intermediateadvanced level. But if there’s a lot of beginners there, they’re going to teach a beginners’ workshop. And that’s what we want, because we want more people to learn.” It’s also a family event—another aspect that’s important to Jimenez. “I mean, bachata and dancing and music, it’s not just for 21 and over,” Jimenez said. “My son loves to dance. There are a lot of people in the community who take their kids to their workshops. And because it’s for the Give Hope Foundation, it’s for families.” Ω
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Frank Perry Jazz Combo, 8pm, no cover
Reno Comedy Showcase, 9:30pm, no cover
Wunderlust, 8pm, no cover
5 Star Saloon
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover
Dance party, 10pm, $5
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3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third St. (775) 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition with host Pat Shillito, Wed, 9pm, no cover The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 15 Hig jhway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Tommy Savitt, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25; Sat, 8:30pm, $30 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Jay Black, Thu, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Steve Marshall, Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno Tahoe Comedy, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Frankie Quinones, Thu, 8pm, $10-$15; Fri-Sat, 9pm, $12-$18
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Dimond Saints, 10pm, $15
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The Creepshow, Sammy Kay, The Fast Four, 9pm, $TBA
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FOR THE WEEK OF OcTObER 19, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. FREE SHRED EVENT: The Better Business Bureau and its partners will provide free document-shredding plus tips to help you protect your identity. Bring up to three boxes/bags of documents to be shredded on the spot. Participants are asked to bring non-perishable food items to benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. Sat, 10/21, 9am. Free. AT&T parking lot, 645 E. Plumb Lane, (775) 322-0657, www.bbb.org.
GRAND SIERRA CHILI AND BEER FESTIVAL: The festival features the International Chili Society’s (ICS) World Championship Chili Cookoff, a wide variety of local and national brews, live music, chili vendors and craft vendors. Sat, 10/21-Sun, 10/22, noon. Free. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000.
RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Rusty King will present “Happy Birthday Nevada” and draw on his vast knowledge of Nevada coins and medals. See the new Ellis Island quarter. There will be early bird prizes, quarter pot, raffle and more. All ages welcome. Tue, 10/24, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN FLAT MILL: Howard Goldbaum, director of
Carson City Ghost Walk
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The 25th annual all-day ghost walk explores Carson City’s spooky and intriguing history. Hear about lingering spirits and other paranormal stories, meet characters and tour historic homes and businesses. This year, there will be two tour paths—The Major Arcana and Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana is a 100-minute tour featuring five home tours and characters from Carson City’s past represented by tarot cards offering insights into their personalities and histories. The Minor Arcana is a 60-minute tour through the historic downtown and is created especially for kids and families who would like a shorter walking path. Costumes are welcome on both tours. These are both spirit-led, guided walking tours of the downtown district’s west side historic homes and businesses. All tours leave every hour beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21. Check in 15 minutes before your tour leaves. Tickets for the Major Arcana Tour are $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the event. Advance tickets for the Minor Arcana tour are $5 for children ages 12 years and younger and $10 for general admission. Tickets on the day of the event are $7 for children under 12 and $12 for general admission. Admission is free for kids under 3 years old. Tours depart from the McFadden Plaza, located behind The Fox Brewpub inside the St. Charles Hotel at Third and Curry streets. Free parking is available across the street. Call 348-6279 or visit carsoncityghostwalk.com.
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A MYSTICAL VIEW OF ASTRONOMY: Rosicrucians in Reno host free celestial viewing with two astronomers on Saturday. These astronomers will give presentations on a variety of topics on Sunday. Sat, 10/21, 7pm; Sun 10/22, 10am. $35. The Masonic Lodge, 601 W. Peckham Lane, (775) 750-0227.
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director of the University of Nevada, Reno’s Center for Basques Studies, discusses the presence of the Basques in the American West. Sat, 10/21, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.
Graduate Studies at the Reynolds School at the University of Nevada, Reno, presents a lecture on the planning, construction and brief operation of the mill. It will include elements of economics and mining technologies and will explore the different uses and cultural appropriation of the mining complex in the modern era. Sun, 10/22, 1:30-2:30pm. Free. Sierra View Library, Reno Town Mall, 4001 S. Virginia St., (775) 827-3232.
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, 10/21, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.
SO VERY LITERARY BOOK CLUB: This month’s selection is The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy. The book group meets every third Thursday. Thu, 10/19, 2-4pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.
SLAUGHTER HOUSE: The 12th annual haunted house returns with a new attraction, the Terror Train Ride, a 10-minute, frightening train ride through the interior of Greater Nevada field. A separate ticket is needed to ride the train, or you can purchase the $30 combo ticket offering access to all the haunted attractions. This year, a portion of the proceeds goes to help fund Washoe County’s Children in Transition Program. Hours are 7-11pm, ThursdaySaturday, through Oct. 28, 5-9pm on Sunday through Oct. 29 and 7-11pm on Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 30-31. Thu, 10/19Sat, 10/21, 7pm; Sun, 10/22, 5pm. $10-$30. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, (775) 885-6999, renofrightfest.com.
WHAT WILL THE WEATHER BE?: Chris Smallcomb of the National Weather Service will discuss the wild weather of Reno. He’ll also take some time to do an “ask a meteorologist” session. Sun, 10/22, 3pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.
PUMPKIN PALOOZA: The sixth annual festival celebrates all things pumpkin with pumpkin carving, contests, a family costume parade, pumpkin derby, live music, haunted storytelling, carnival games and more. Sun, 10/22, 10am. Free. Victorian Square, downtown Sparks, www.pumpkinpalooza.org.
WINE WALK: The Riverwalk Merchants Association hosts the popular monthly wine walk along the Truckee River and neighboring streets in downtown Reno. Visit any of the participating Riverwalk District merchants to get a map. Then, go to the participating merchant of your choice, and, for a $20 wine-tasting fee and valid photo ID, you’ll receive a wine glass and an ID bracelet that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Sat, 10/21, 2pm. $20. Downtown Reno along the Riverwalk, www.renoriver.org.
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 show is open daily through Nov. 8. Thu, 10/19-Wed 10/25, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.
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ALL AGEs A DAY OUT WITH THOMAS: Fans of the popular TV show Thomas & Friends get a chance to take a 25-minute train ride with Thomas the Tank Engine and to meet Sir Topham Hatt. Explore the Imagination Station Caboose, create colorful memories in the Coloring Caboose, dine at the P. B. & J. Pullman car and have fun with plenty of other Thomas-themed activities including motor car rides and putt putt golf at Sudor Island. Children can collect a Thomas tattoo, an engineer license and have their passport stamped. Day Out With Thomas rides are on Oct. 20-22, 27-29. Fri, 10/20-Sun, 10/22, 10am. $15-$19. Virginia City Depot, 166 S. F St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0380.
ANDELIN FAMILY FARM PUMPKIN PATCH & CORN MAZE: The farm’s fall festival pumpkin patch features pick-your-own pumpkin from a variety of pumpkins. Activities included in the admission price are hay rides, a cow train, meeting farm animals, lassoing, a corn shed, a hay bale maze for kids, “cow milking,” sling shooting, hamster wheel, bean bag toss, kids’ corn maze, among others. Pumpkins are priced according to variety and weight. The festival also offers the Corn Creepers Haunted Attraction, Scarecrow Paintball Safari and Zombie Paintball Apocalypse on selected days in October. The pumpkin patch is open 10am-3pm, TuesdayThursday, and 10am-6pm, FridaySaturday, through Oct. 31. Thu, 10/19-
Sat, 10/21, 10am; Tue, 10/24-Wed, 10/25, 10am. $7-$15. Andelin Family Farm, 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 530-8032, www.andelinfamilyfarm.com.
FERRARI FARMS PUMPKIN PATCH: The pumpkin patch is open for the 2017 harvest season Sunday-Thursday, 9:30am-8pm, and Friday-Saturday, 9:30am-10pm, through Oct. 31. Attractions and activities include a five-acre corn maze, hayride on a tractor-pulled trailer, farm animals, a mechanical bull and bounce houses for the little ones. Activities are individually priced. The pumpkins are all priced according to size. Thu, 10/19-Wed 10/25, 9:30am. Free. Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 997-3276, ferrarifarmspumpkinpatch.com.
2018 Poster. Artown is accepting art submissions for the Artown 2018 poster concept. All artists are encouraged to submit selected designs that will brand the monthlong arts and culture festival. The chosen artwork will be showcased throughout the month of July to promote over 500 multidisciplinary events. Submissions must be received by 4pm on Monday, Nov. 13. Email the art submissions to raquel@renoisartown.com or submit in person at the Artown office. For more details visit website. Thu, 10/19Wed, 10/25. Free. Artown office, 528 W. First St., renoisartown.com.
CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Hallowed Absurdities. Mixed-media works by Theodore Waddell. The exhibition runs through Nov. 18. Thu, 10/19-Wed, 10/25. Free. Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.
E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: American Landscapes. Multimedia installation by Willem Volkersz. The show runs through Nov. 18. Thu, 10/19Wed, 10/25. Free. E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.
GALLERY EAST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Angles and Eaves Deconstructing Architecture. Karen Anable-Nichols’ art exhibition features hard-edge acrylic paintings reflecting the architectural styles of California before the turn of the 20th Century. AnableNichols creates colorful abstractions based off the angles and geometry of buildings using arbitrary colors to create an exciting juxtaposition between color and form. The show runs Monday-Friday through Dec. 1. Thu, 10/19-Fri, 10/20, Mon, 10/23-Wed, 10/25, 8am-5pm. Free. Gallery East, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264.
GALLERY WEST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Preserved Limb, timber and tree-spirit. Jennifer Kapnek’s art exhibition features paintings of serene, color drenched environments exploring themes of nature. The art will be on exhibit through Dec. 1. Thu, 10/19-Fri, 10/20, Mon, 10/23-Wed, 10/25, 8am-5pm. Free. Gallery West, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Dive., (775) 334-6264.
METRO GALLERY, RENO CITY HALL: Turning Over a New Leaf Fabric Constructions. This art exhibition by Lisa Flowers Ross features bright and bold abstract artworks using hand died fabric. Drawing upon themes of nature and daily observation, fabric and thread is transformed into simple shapes with an emphasis on line, color and composition The show runs Monday-Friday through Dec. 1. Thu,
10/19-Fri, 10/20, Mon, 10/23-Wed, 10/25, 8am-5pm. Free. Metro Gallery, Reno City
Hall, 1 E. First Street, (775) 334-6264.
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 over the last 40 years. This display will be up until Oct. 25. Library hours are 10am-6pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am-7pm on Wednesday and 11am-5pm on Saturday. Thu, 10/19Sat, 10/21, Mon, 10/23-Wed, 10/25. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.
SIERRA ROOM AT CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Tahoe Clarity. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its photography exhibition by artist Dylan Silver. The artwork will on view in the gallery through Nov. 9. Thu, 10/19, Mon, 10/23-Wed, 10/25, 5-8pm. Free. Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 283-7421, www.arts-initiative.org.
THE HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY: Discernment. This art show features work by Yanessa Martinez, a local, conceptual artist working primarily in acrylic. Her haunting paintings deal with the displacement she perceives in her generation that has resulted from recent, global upheaval. Martinez’s art, like her generation, brings into question social constructs that have formerly been taken for granted. Her pieces balance the spiritual and existential, inspiring foreboding but also hope in the viewer. Discernment will be up through Nov. 10. The closing reception will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 6pm to 8pm. Thu, 10/19-Wed, 10/25. 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 365 photo gallery, Mike Higdon used film to capture Reno life as he saw it—without a filter. Starting July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, he used one roll of 35mm film with 36 exposures per month. He took one, sometimes two, shots per day, then developed them at the end of each month at a local film store. See the results of his year-long project. Thu, 10/19-Wed, 10/25. Free. 836 E. Second St., (775) 867-5309.
MUSEUMS NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl. On view through Dec. 31; City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man. The show runs through Jan. 7; Unsettled. The exhibition runs through Jan. 21; View from the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger. The show runs through Dec. 7. Thu, 10/19-Sun, 10/22, Wed, 10/25, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.
TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): Science Underground. Located on the museum’s lower level, Science Underground features an eclectic, subterranean collection of exhibits from The Discovery’s first five years, including big, blue building blocks, Electrosketch, Nano Science, an oversized Nevada puzzle, the Tubeo-Phone, a walking piano and more.; 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 exhibit through Jan. 15. Thu, 10/19-Sun 10/22, Tue, 10/24Wed, 10/25. $10-$12. The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.
WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM: Sherlock Holmes
RL GRIME: The music producer brings his
& the Clocktower Mystery. A shocking crime has been committed, and Victorian London’s most celebrated detective needs your help to find out “whodunit!” Challenge your powers of observation and deductive reasoning as you work to solve a baffling mystery. The exhibition runs through Oct. 29. Hours are 10am to 4pm Wednesday and Thursday, 10am to 8pm on Friday and noon to 4pm on Sunday. The exhibition is closed on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday. Thu,
NOVA Tour with special guests Graves and Kitten to town. Sun. 10/22, 7pm. $23$80. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 771-6792, freshbakin.com.
ONSTAGE BEAUTIFUL—THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL: The
10/19-Fri, 10/20, Sun, 10/22, Wed, 10/25, 10am. $8-$9. Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595
N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.
FILM FALL SERIES—DANCE ON FILM: Churchill Arts Council’s film series continues with a showing of the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever directed John Badham and starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney and Donna Pescow. Fri 10/20 - 7pm. $10$12. Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, www.churchillarts.org.
8pm; Sat, 10/21, 2pm & 8pm, Sun, 10/22, 1pm & 7pm. $60-$125. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.
THE FLICK: Nevada Repertory Co. presents
THE WONDERS: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of Alice Rohrwacher’s coming-of-age tale that centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in central Italy. In Italian, French and German with English subtitles. Sun, 10/22, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.weebly.com.
MUSIC APEX CONCERTS—VOILÀ, VIOLA!: Apex
monthly dinner murder mysteries at Lili’s Family Restaurant. The doors open at 5pm with a no-host bar. The show starts at 6:30pm with dinner service starting at 7pm. Ages 10 and up are welcome to attend. Visit website for dinner selections. Sat, 10/21, 5pm. $50. Lili’s Family Restaurant, 2325 Kietzke Lane, www.funtimetheater.com.
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HOLLAND HALLOWEEN SHOW: The Holland Project’s annual Halloween show features members of local bands, including Moondog Matinee, Arizona Young, Surly, Stirr Lightly, Okay Urge, among others, performing as some of their favorite bands, like The Cure, Violent Femmes, The Strokes, Gorillaz, Amy Winehouse and other recording artists. Sat, 10/21, 6:30pm. $3 with costume, $5 without costume. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.
Reno Zombie Crawl
10/21:
More than 20,000 “zombies” are expected to take over downtown Reno for the 10th annual bar crawl. Get creative with your ghoulish look and join the undead mob for a night of drink specials, live entertainment, costume contests and free admission with the purchase of a $5 commemorative cup and map to more than 40 participating bar crawl venues. The party begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21. On the night of the event, you can purchase cups from 7:30-11:30 p.m. at Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., Harrah’s Reno Plaza, 219 N. Center St., Silver Legacy, mezzanine level, 407 N. Virginia St., or the Freight House at Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave. You must be 21 or older to participate in the crawl. Call 624-8320 or visit crawlreno.com/event/zombiecrawl.
winning fingerstyle guitarist and harp guitarist Muriel Anderson performs her new concert “Wonderlust” accompanied by Peruvian percussionist Raul Ramirez. The program is a musical journey around the world, bringing together diverse cultures and settings, shining a gentle light on our common humanity. The evening includes a silent auction and reception. Proceeds will support children’s music programs at Mountain Music Parlor. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm. $35. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500, mountainmusicparlor.com.
this play by Annie Baker, which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In a run-down movie theater, three underpaid employees sweep popcorn and tend to an antiquated but beloved 35-millimeter film projector. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. Thu, 10/19- Sat ,10/21, 7:30pm. $5$15. Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
FUNTIME THEATER - DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Funtime Theatre holds its
Concerts continues its seventh season with a program exploring different chamber combinations that are possible with the viola. The concert features guest violist Paul Neubauer and music by Loeffleur and Benjamin Dale, SaintSaens, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Neubauer will be joined on stage by oboist James Austin Smith, as well as distinguished University of Nevada, Reno faculty members. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm. $5$30. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.apexconcerts.org.
MURIEL ANDERSON & RAUL RAMIREZ: Award-
Tony Award and Grammy award-winning musical tells the true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom—from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. Along the way, she made more than beautiful music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm; Fri, 10/20,
work created in collaboration between Reno band Weapons of Mass Creation (WMC), The Potentialist Workshop’s Pan Pantoja and Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company. Based on WMC’s Generation WE, and coinciding with the release of the final 10 tracks of the album of the double album, this production tells the story of four individuals each in possession of a mysterious silver ticket and each searching for America but finding a lot more than they bargained for along the way. The story unfolds through theatrical performance, song, rap, poetry and dance. The show will be presented at Good Luck Macbeth starting on Oct. 20 running through Nov. 11. Fri, 10/20-Sat, 10/21, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, generationweglm2017.bpt.me.
NICK & BOBBY ACT WEIRD FOR ABOUT AN HOUR COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA: The two-man comedy extravaganza combines sketch, stand-up and musical numbers. Sat, 10/21, 7pm. $5. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 450-4772, breweryarts.org.
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THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: Sage Ridge Theater presents its
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: TMCC Performing Arts presents the original musical that tells the story of a newly engaged couple who, after experiencing car trouble in a storm, seeks help at the home of a mad transvestite scientist named Dr Frank N. Furter, and end up with more than they bargained for. Performances are at 8pm Friday-Saturday through Nov. 4 with matinee shows at 2pm on Sunday Oct. 29 and Nov. 5. There will be additional shows at 8pm on Tuesday, Oct. 31, and Thursday, Nov. 2. Fri, 10/20-Sat, 10/21, 8pm. $10-$15. Nell J. Redfield Performing Arts Center, 505 Keystone Ave., (775) 673-7291.
ages 9-12 will explore a variety of mediums, including drawing, pastels, watercolor and more. The four-week session will be held on Wednesdays through Nov. 15 in the Art Studio. Park in the lot off of Arlington Avenue and walk down the ramp. Supplies are included in cost. Class size is limited to 15 participants. Wed, 10/25, 4pm. $40. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.
YOGA FOR BREAST OR GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER WARRIORS: The class is designed to help
SPANISH LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND COFFEE IN RENO: This group gets together
facilitate lymph drainage and to promote physical and mental health. If you are currently under treatment, please get permission from your physician. Wed, 10/25, 6pm. Free. Midtown Community Yoga, 600-A S. Virginia St., (775) 772-3892.
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, 10/24, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.
group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 10/20, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.
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build your family tree, discover your ancestors and amaze your family with your research skills. Fri, 10/20, 11:30am. Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd, (775) 674-7602.
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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, 10/2, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.
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focuses on fitness and fun for students and families. There will be a 5k/10k timed run, a half-mile fun run and the Sparks Marina March (untimed). Proceeds directly support physical education and nutrition initiatives in Washoe County schools. Sun. 10/22. 6:30am. $10-$60. Outlets at Legends/SCHEELS, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 353-6950, ed-alliance.org.
Halloween-inspired fall production adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella by Noah Smith. Thu, 10/19, 6:30pm; Fri, 10/20-Sat, 10/21, 7pm. $5-$18. Sage Ridge School, Crossbow Theater, 2515 Crossbow Court, (775) 852-6222 ext. 547, www.facebook.com/sageridge.
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kicks off its 25th anniversary season with this one-act play by Tom Stoppard. Feuding theater critics Moon and Birdboot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, as mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdboot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. Performance are ThursdaySaturday, through Oct. 28. Tickets are $10 on Artist Night, Wednesday, Oct. 25. Thu, 10/19-Sat, 10/21, Wed, 10/25, 8pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.
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every Saturday for one hour or more to discuss different topics of Spanish grammar over coffee and cookies or sweet bread. You will receive a binder with content corresponding to the day’s lesson. Sat, 10/21, 11am. $10-$20. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Bldg. B, Ste. 117, (775) 224-6271.
TEEN DRAWING IN SPARKS: Teens ages 12-16 years will learn how to draw by recognizing basic shapes and altering them. They will explore the techniques of line quality, hatching and shading during this two-hour evening class. Supplies are included. Thu, 10/19, 5pm. $15. Larry D. Johnson Community Center, 1200 12th St., Sparks, (775) 826-6100.
ART EXPLORATIONS: A variety of different techniques and mediums will be introduced, such as drawing, multiple paint mediums and more. The class will be held on Thursday through Nov. 9. Thu, 10/19, 6:30pm. $55. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., www.artsforallnevada.org.
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-yearold and 17-year-old donors. Contact United Blood Services to make an appointment. Thu, 10/19-Wed, 10/25. Free. United Blood Services, 1125 Terminal Way, (775) 324-6454.
NEVADA DAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: The Nevada State Museum seeks volunteers and history ambassadors for the Nevada Day celebration on Saturday, Oct. 28. Volunteers are needed to help with youth activities, such as medallion rubbings, coloring pages and paper weaving, and to give directions or to help ensure safety of the exhibits and displays. Volunteers are needed to work two-hour shifts between 8:30am and 4:30pm. Admission to the museum is free on Nevada Day and a larger-than-normal crowd is expected. Contact Reece Wade at NSMEducation@ nevadaculture.org. Thu, 10/19-Wed, 10/25. Free. Nevada State Museum, Carson City, 775) 687-4810, ext. 237.
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A little respect My boyfriend unplugs my laptop when it’s charging and plugs the charger into his, despite knowing that I need my computer charged for work. This is actually part of a pattern—a general lack of consideration, from constantly being late to always leaving messes for me to clean up to knocking the shower door off the track and then just leaving it leaning against the tub. How can I get him to be more considerate? When you’re romantically involved with someone, it’s kind of a problem if the most reliable thing about them is their unreliability. Granted, we all fail in the follow-through department every now and then. But when somebody has a pretty pervasive pattern of carelessness—when they’re basically an entitlement-infused, corner-cutting slacktastrophe of a person—it points to their coming up short on what psychologists call “conscientiousness.” This is one of the five core personality dimensions—along with openness, extroversion, agreeableness and emotional stability—and it reflects a person’s level of self-control and sense of responsibility to others. Personality researcher Brent Roberts explains that people who are “high in conscientiousness” “tend to write down important dates, comb their hair, polish their shoes, stand up straight and scrub floors.” That last one is an unexpected plus if you have dingy grout. However, there’s such a thing as too much conscientiousness—which is cool if your “type” is a rigid, perfectionistic mini-Mussolini. Meanwhile, on the perennially chillaxed end of the spectrum, people “low in conscientiousness” tend to break promises, cancel plans, watch more TV, oversleep and see credit limits as credit suggestions. The plan-canceling and promise-breaking reflect something noteworthy—selfcenteredness and a lack of concern for how their behavior affects others. Essentially, they tend to do things halfway—but only when they can’t get away with doing them a third of the way or less. Not surprisingly, researchers find that people’s lives work better if they keep their promises, don’t go around with yesterday’s sloppy Joe on their shirt and get to work at an
hour that does not require an explanation that opens with “you’ll never believe what happened this time!” However, it isn’t just your own level of conscientiousness that impacts your life. Psychologists Brittany Solomon and Joshua Jackson find that having a partner high in conscientiousness makes you likely to have higher income and job satisfaction and a better shot at getting promoted. They suggest that having a more conscientious partner makes for a more satisfying and supportive home life, allowing a person to focus more on their work. Personality traits are, to a great extent, genetic and are largely stable because of that. However, Roberts finds evidence that people can increase their level of conscientiousness. This starts in the smallest ways, like making the bed and tidying the house in the morning so it looks more “lived in” than “ransacked.” Repeated behaviors become habits, and, collectively, our habits form who we are. Of course, changing starts with wanting to change—valuing conscientiousness enough to be motivated to make it an integral part of everything one does. This sometimes happens when a person gets a tragedy-driven wake-up call. Absent that, your best chance for inspiring your boyfriend to want to live more conscientiously is by using empathy as a motivator—gently explaining to him how unloved you feel and how disrespected other people must feel in the wake of his constant sloppy disregard for anyone but himself. If he says he wants to change, give yourself a deadline—perhaps two or three months down the road—to see whether he’s making meaningful improvement. If you decide to break up, you might want to make conscientiousness one of the “must-haves” on your “What I Need In A Man” list so your next relationship feels more like a romantic partnership than a remedial finishing school for one. Ω
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wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries? If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. So what would it mean to be your own muse? What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Happiness comes
from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.” According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are.
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medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the 20thcentury, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you, or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next twelve
months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you interested in diving
down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that nurture your wild soul? I hope you’ll be working on projects like these in the coming weeks, Leo. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May Alcott
wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth—but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.
to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home, and in the groove.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon & Garfunkel
released their first album in October 1964. It received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sound of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement. When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Consider how
hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, your self-transformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you. Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1969, two earth-
lings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. I suspect that in the coming months, you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict your
ambitions will burn more steadily in the coming months, and will produce more heat and light than ever before. You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it. Hooray and hallelujah! But keep this in mind, Aquarius: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success— not just the kind of success that merely impresses other people— you’ll be required to take on more responsibility. Can you handle that? I think you can.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top
conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group that is supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government? Or does it involve the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials who are allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders and influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment? Or is your pet conspiracy theory more personal? Maybe you secretly believe, for instance, that the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they will forever prevent you from fulfilling your fondest dream. Well, Pisces. I’m here to tell you that whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproven once and for all. Are you willing to be relieved of your delusions?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman I know, Caeli
La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need
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How did this get started? Well, I’m new to this area. I only moved here about a year ago. I used to work at Antelope Valley College in Southern California. I worked there for 15 years. I had gotten into genealogy not long after I started there. The head librarian showed me some records, and I’d had a friend who I’d worked with at another school who showed me some records. … It really inspired me. I started thinking, “Hey, look, you know, I wonder if my ancestors go back to the Civil War?” … They would bring in all of these wonderful Civil War artifacts, these old marriage certificates from the 1800s. … I started thinking, “Gosh, well, why can’t I do it?” … I found classes online. I found classes locally through the genealogical society. I even found that there was a convention every year in Southern California called Genealogy Jamboree. … The interest became so intense I started telling everybody I worked with about it. … Before I knew it, almost every librarian I worked with was starting to do their genealogy, and we were all going to the conventions
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together. Then they started saying, “You’re so interested in this, why don’t we start buying books for it?” … So they gave me a book budget, and I started buying books, and, sure enough, they started flying off the shelves. And it was right about that time that my husband decided he had a better career here than in California. … So we got up here, and after a few months I got the job here, and I started telling everybody, “Gosh, you know, I’m really into genealogy.” Some people were interested. It wasn’t a huge amount of people in the department that were interested, but they could very plainly see that I had a real passion for it. … I said, “Look at Fridays. There’s nobody on campus, hardly at all on Fridays. This room sits empty, so why not use it?” … So I presented it to my dean, and he said yes, and we started it.
But it’s open to the public as well. It’s not just open to students. … We tell everybody we meet, “Tell your friends.” … I tell everybody who comes every Friday, “Go home and tell your neighbors.” You know, we want more people. We want to spread the word. Because it’s in a library, I want them to leave with knowing [more than how to do their tree.] … I send out an email every Friday morning. I spam everybody who’s on my list, … and I say, “This is what I want to go over today.”
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Is it a class for newbies, too? Absolutely. And the class is really appreciative of new people, newbies— because when they came in, most of them were newbies, too. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
Devil and deep blue sea It turns out that South Korea is actually quite a nice, happening country. For starters, let’s note that South Korea had a 30 year span from about ’60 through ’90 where its economy grew at an annual rate of 10 percent, a stat that now sounds unreal and absurd. This hyper-economic phase is called the Miracle on the Han River. Today, SK is the world’s 15th largest economy and the only G20 nation trading with China, the U.S. and the EU simultaneously. Its revised constitution guarantees a liberal democracy and universal health care. Yes, universal fucking health care and, indeed, the SK health care system is rated the fourth most efficient in the world. As a result, the country ranks highly in personal safety, life expectancy and job security. It’s home to the UN Green Climate Fund and is the world’s
third least ignorant country as ranked by the Index of Ignorance. (No surprise at all to see the U.S. rank 37th.) Twelve years ago, SK committed to a national highspeed internet grid, and today it has nothing less than the world’s fastest internet speed and highest rate of smartphone ownership on the planet. In other words, it’s a lovely, civilized, progressive, happy country, and not really little, with its population of 51 million that includes nine cities of a million or more, capped, of course, by Seoul, which has at least 20 million people living in its metro zone. So let’s pause and ponder as to how much they’re enjoying being in the middle of this ridiculous pissing match between Dum Dum Beavis and Kim Jong Butthead. I’m betting many, many, many, many South Koreans are currently and passionately hating
both of these blustery jerkoff manmutants. And really hating the reality that they are the ones caught in the crossfire of morons. But North Korea doesn’t care. Because it ain’t gonna nuke anybody. Not a chance. It just can’t do it. NK can’t even hit Guam, much less Portland. You know what? It has a better plan. While it keeps waving this nuclear bugaboo at us in its right hand, NK already has its real threat in place in its left. And that would be its hackers. Yep. Its hackers. If you can wreak havoc on the computer networks of America, you can do some serious damage to our economy and our lifestyle. Make no mistake, NK has a bunch of talented and skilled and badass hackers. And with Dum Dum leading the way, we are rumblin’, bumblin’ and stumblin’ into what may be a very nasty surprise. Ω
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