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The Reno band People with Bodies recently toured South America.

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My favorite week Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

In many ways, this is my favorite week of the year. The world’s greatest twofer holiday, Halloween/Nevada Day, fast approaches.

All around town, folks are dressed in one sort of costume or another. Grownups all zombied out for a crawl.

Kids decked out for parties and trick-ortreating. There are bowls of candy around the office. Even the most squeamish members of my family are willing to watch scary movies. The World Series is on—and terrifying for us Giants fans who really hope the fat-payroll Dodgers somehow manage to blow it.

But the best thing is the weather: cool enough to bundle up in a favorite sweater, but not so cold as to require a winter coat.

The air is crisp and not as overburdened with allergens as it was at the beginning of the month. The daylight is perfect—a long, pretty sunrise followed almost immediately by a long, pretty sunset—a perpetual crepuscular state. And the colors—golds and reds—are vibrant, astounding, strange and ever-changing.

Driving around town lately, it’s hard not to gape, as each street presents a new delight of technicolor foliage. I’d be hard-pressed to choose a favorite—but if you haven’t driven down Nixon Avenue in a while, do yourself a favor.

Still, all of that said, reading this week’s cover story—a good piece of travel writing by two of Reno’s better music writers, recounting their recent tour through South America with their band—definitely awakened some latent wanderlust in me.

We live in an amazing, beautiful place—never more so than now— but there are so many amazing, beautiful places. I wonder, just how does a Brazilian spring compare to a Reno fall?

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

Dave’s game Re “Best of Northern Nevada” (special section, Aug. 10): I have to wonder about your process for collecting votes. Pretty obvious Famous Dave’s gamed the system pretty hard. I mean, Best Wine List, Best Martini, Best Salad, Best Server, Best Margarita, Best Ambiance, Best Dessert?

This is a barbecue hole-in-the-wall! I was surprised they didn’t get best sushi!

Hopefully you consider this for next year.

Derek Southworth Reno

Zorro the rat?

Re “Walled in” (Arts & Culture, Sept. 21): Banksy’s “Haight Street Rat” Rides Again. It was fascinating for me to see—in Reno—the “Haight Street Rat” painted by street artist Banksy.

I am a fan of Haight-Ashbury, the Red Victorian Hotel on which the “rat” was stenciled, and the works and lore of Banksy, whose true identity is unknown to the public. What adds to the curiosity and fame about Banksy and his artwork is the fact that to some he is a vandal, graffiti artist and outlaw. But to myriad others he is a skilled and celebrated artist of the first order. In some ways, Banksy is reminiscent of the fictional Zorro, whose identity was known to only a few, and who was deemed a vigilante but was idolized by the masses.

Also, like Zorro, Banksy is foxlike, has never been identified or caught by the authorities, seems to delight in humiliating those who wish to stop him, and has been generous to “commoners.” (In Banksy’s case, it is through his dissemination of a number of his pieces of art.)

While I was in the Sierra Arts Gallery looking at and thinking about the “Haight Street Rat,” I got the sense that Banksy views himself as that rat—chased but constantly elusive, dissident, despised by

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some, defying the established order, and with messages to deliver on behalf of outcasts through his painting.

Seth Bell Reno

Vote no on United Re “Air traffic uncontrol” (Let Freedom Ring, Oct. 19): Response to Brendan Trainor: You can vote out a government bureaucracy.

You can’t vote out a corporation.

(Privatized prisons, e.g.?) And c’mon— they’ll be responsible to the passengers?

My laugh of the day. You slay me.

Craig Bergland Reno

Planning the end Re “In passing” (cover story, Sept. 28): First, I would like to commend you on your choice of printing this article. It is high time we humanoids talked about the “End of the Hunt” openly and simply deal with it. The article was in depth and worthy of much needed publicity and discussion.

However I found that there were zero comments devoted to a subject that most of us old farts consider far and above keeping our mostly worthless, worn out carcasses alive. That issue is called quality of life!

I am now 80 years old and for about 75 years of my life I was an active, athletic, and energetic man and had no major health issues. I can honestly say that I have led the life of at least a half a dozen men and left very few pages unturned. Presently, I am undergoing treatment for the removal of a cancer attached to my bladder and face another minor surgery for a biopsy in November to determine where we go from there. For the most part I am mobile but have a great deal of difficulty—and pain— climbing stairs and simply doing odd jobs in and around the household. My doctor simply said, “These things can get out of

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hand, so we have to watch it carefully.”

Who knows where this will lead me ? I consider myself a Christian and thus have no fear of death, save my concerns about the well being of my wife after the fact.

Dr. Brian Callister was quoted in the article, “We have advanced so far in control of pain and symptoms that we can look you in the eye and say, We can control your symptoms.” Now that’s really nice and thoughtful. You can administer enough pain medication so that we will be no more than breathing zombies! I will pass on that.

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By JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

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It was a family thing. We have two children. They’re seven and four, and we were all clowns. We were scary clowns. [My spouse] was hella scary. He would stand back when people would open the door, and they’d look out past me and the children and see him. We scared so many people.

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I’m from Boston originally. One year, I dressed up as a Klansman.

It was not very tactful. I was in my early 20s. I made a full-on Klan outfit … and went walking around town. People were pulling up next to me in the road, getting out of their cars, ready to fight me. And then I’d pull the hood up.

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Next stop: Fix health care The efforts by congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act seem to be grinding down to only occasional and ad hoc efforts, and that is good news.

But one thing can be said about the GOP—it offered alternatives, as dubious as they were.

As it happens, the Democrats have not done the same.

No one, least of all Democrats, ever considered the ACA to be a final product. It was the result of the Senate’s sanity-challenged procedures in which majorities do not rule and a single senator can halt all action.

It was a patchwork of ideas and sections designed to satisfy individual senators. Nevada’s Harry Reid, then the Democratic leader, said the program could one day be made better.

When Republicans won a majority of both houses of Congress last year, they went into the new session without a new version of health care ready to go. Being unready for that battle lost the initiative for Republicans, and they never got it back.

The nation is about nine weeks away from the next election year, one in which Democrats have an excellent chance of regaining lost ground, thanks to their best campaigner—Donald Trump. For decades, the Democrats’ vacuous corporate-driven stances have meant that they win mainly when Republicans lose, which does little to create mandates for subsequent congressional action.

It would be nice if, this time, the Democrats shed toadying to corporate money and tell us what they are going to do to change the ACA. They’ve apparently

saved the program, but the program was never supposed to remain as it is, and its troubled state now requires some preparations for the 2018 campaign. A status quo approach to health care in indefensible, yet we have no idea what the Democrats are going to do if they win back a majority.

Ron Fournier wrote a National Journal article, “Why I’m getting tired of defending Obamacare.” That was three years ago and came from a supporter of the program.

The ACA has a lot of achievements to its credit.

Health coverage has risen. Bankruptcies caused by health care bills have fallen. Lifetime limits on coverage are gone. And both the enactment of the ACA and the Democrats’ battle this year against repeal-and-sort-ofreplace have gone a long way toward establishing the principle that national health care is needed.

But health care is still far from affordable. And toadying to the insurance market drives many voters crazy. The program badly needs simplification.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced Medicare-forall legislation, and a substantial number of Senate Democrats have joined him, while House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is hanging back.

Here in Nevada, we don’t know where candidates’ heads are at. Democratic candidates for the House and apparent Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen all need to speak up and tell us how they would fix the ACA. A national consensus is needed. This is one time when just being against the Republicans is not enough. Ω

I was Aunt Flo. Yeah, and my ex-boyfriend was a giant box of tampons. It was great. It was the best costume of my life—and we won the costume contest that year. And it cost us 10 dollars to make.

JoSeph Lundergreen Butcher

I was the Mad Hatter one year—just because it was the only costumey piece of clothing I had. I went to Disney World one time and fuckin’ got the Mad Hatter hat.

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I’m going to go with this year.

I’m going to be Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time. And my best friend is going to be Marceline, the vampire queen.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Another kind of harassment “I was horrified. I was pissed. I was done.” Those were the quotes KNPR used to promote its interview with state Sen. Patricia Farley regarding her experience with the Republican caucus at the Nevada Legislature in 2015, before she switched to non-partisan status and decided to caucus with the Democrats. Farley was recruited

by Senate Republican Leader Michael Roberson, now running for lieutenant governor, who assumed her gratitude for his assistance in obtaining her political position would translate into automatic obedience and subservience.

Farley is one of three senators the Republicans have targeted this year for recall for reasons they refuse to articulate beyond they didn’t like how they voted, a cynical strategy to overturn the voters’ decisions and regain majority control of the state Senate since the 2018 electoral map is not favorable for Republicans.

While some insist misogyny is not a factor in the recall, it’s telling that each 8975_NHL_RenoNewsandReview_PrintAd_Nov30.pdf of the three Senators is female. Farley

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had previously announced she won’t be a candidate for re-election in 2018, making a recall against her meaningless and obviously retaliatory. In any event, a recall of three Senators who have not committed any egregious act right after a legislative session is unprecedented and disturbing.

Listening to the KNPR interview, it’s hard to conclude that sexism isn’t a factor in the Republican caucus. Farley speaks of caucus life with the incredulity of a newly elected legislator suddenly thrust into a system of power that quickly threatens to mow her down. Her descriptions of the behind-the-scenes shenanigans have the ring of truth, especially when contrasted with the rote statement issued by Roberson to counter her accusations.

Farley describes the recall as a “vindictive” power grab and an effort “to professionally and personally attack me.”

She says she left the Republican caucus because her integrity was being damaged.

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all male and asserts that men and women in the caucus were treated differently.

She can’t resist underscoring that one of the caucus leaders, former senator Greg Brower, was recently cited for sex discrimination and retaliation when he served as Nevada’s U.S. Attorney.

Farley relates her experience in the Republican Senate caucus in a straightforward manner. She tells KNPR she “was elected and not expected to talk … or share my opinion.” On her first day of voting, Farley describes how Senator Kieckhefer walked up to her desk on the Senate floor and told her to vote yes on a bill, with no discussion or explanation. When she later objected to this dismissive treatment in the privacy of the caucus room, she was rebuffed. When she challenged the “poison pill” strategy of linking popular and unpopular bills together to create a policy quagmire for the Democratic caucus, she was ignored and sidelined, the political equivalent of a pat on the head.

Perhaps the most revolting “inside baseball” maneuver described by Farley during the interview was Roberson’s deliberate scheduling of key votes late at night in an effort to torment the late Sen. Debbie Smith, who was struggling with brain cancer during the session and unable to withstand the stress of an extra-long legislative day. Farley says education bills that were important to Smith were routinely pushed later and later into the evening hours when Smith was exhausted and then often rolled over to the next day.

You might find this level of sheer meanness difficult to fathom, but it has long been tolerated by those not wishing to rock an already unsteady ethical boat.

Farley, echoing the disclosures of many women over the past few weeks in the #metoo campaign, decided to expose it, attributing her treatment to “too many people who inhaled too much power too quickly.” Ω

by Brendan Trainor

What hath Colin wrought?

It has been only one season since former University of Nevada, Reno and San Francisco 49ers football star Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest during the playing of the national anthem at an NFL football game. Since starting his silent protest, he has been blackballed from the National Football League, but his protest has spread to every NFL team, as well as to other sports leagues.

Kaepernick’s simple protest does not bring forth an articulated manifesto.

Instead, by taking a knee, he has brought awareness and discussion of the oppression of minorities by the police and political system. It has become a protest against the American Dream betrayed.

For those who disagree, it is a symbol of disrespect for law enforcement, the military, the flag and patriotism itself.

There was no national anthem played during the old leather-helmet days of professional football. In World War II, it began to be played before every game, but there was no requirement for players

to be present. After September 11, the league began to require players be on the field and standing while the anthem was played.

The game of football is the most militaristic of American sports. The teams line up in a military style formation, and plays are executed like a real battle. The opposing lines are the infantry, slugging it out in the “trenches.” The classroom Xs and Os resemble battlefield divisions on a military map. Men in motion are like cavalry on flanking maneuvers—linebackers blitz, quarterbacks throw bombs, coaches relay intelligence and plan counterattacks. Serious injuries are common.

Brain disease and arthritic conditions in retirement mimic battlefield PTSD and war wounds.

The NFL has piled on the militarism and wrapped itself shamelessly in the flag. It has even been paid by the military to promote patriotism, and the NFL has never been shy about making money, including heaps of tax dollars

in sweetheart stadium deals and its taxfriendly nonprofit status.

President Trump is an old-fashioned law-and-order politician, and so are many NFL fans. The Republicans have long had a thing about disrespecting the flag. Kaepernick has rubbed that nerve raw. Conservatives believe that society is red like fang and claw, and without a large military and unquestioned police forming a thin blue line of protection, the blood-red chaos will overwhelm us all.

So, Trump tweets marching orders to the NFL to fire the players and threatens the owners’ tax breaks.

Kaepernick led the 49ers to the Super Bowl and to a conference championship game, but no owner will sign him because they believe he is not quite talented enough to be worth the attention that he would bring. When the Tennessee Titans recently signed a 34-year-old journeyman as a backup quarterback, Kaepernick filed a lawsuit alleging collusion by league owners to keep him out of the NFL.

Old-guard coaches like Mike Ditka tell the protesting players to love America or get out. Broadway Joe Namath tells Mike to walk a mile in a black man’s shoes before he says there has been no oppression of blacks for a hundred years. The old American Football League Namath played in was the first integrated pro football league, and far more American than the corporate NFL. Conservatives question Kaepernick’s credentials because he did not vote in 2016. But Kaepernick has proven there are other ways to bring about a national conversation than voting for politicians who caused the problems in the first place.

You just have to kneel down for what you believe in. Ω

Journalist Harvey Wasserman, who owns two shares of Green Bay, demanded the Packers hire Kaepernick, prompting a fan petition supporting the idea. Here’s Wasserman’s essay: tinyurl.com/y9q6orqp

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by Dennis Myers

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FBI official Kimberly Del Greco’s signature on her letter to Nevada’s public safety chief.

Gun shows in the Silver State preceded rises in gun-related deaths and injuries in the Golden State, according to a National Institutes of Health-funded study scheduled for publication in Annals of Internal Medicine, a professional journal.

The study contains figures indicating that deaths and injuries in some California areas increased up to 70 percent after Nevada gun shows, which are less regulated than in California.

The effect lasts for about two weeks.

According to a prepared statement, “The study identified 275 gun shows in Nevada (mostly in Reno and Las Vegas) and 640 gun shows in California between 2005 and 2013. No publicly available database of gun shows exists for either state, so the researchers combed through trade publications to identify the dates and locations of gun shows. Gun shows in Nevada were associated with increases in firearm deaths and injuries in California communities within convenient driving distance.

California gun shows, in contrast, were not associated with local, short-term increases in firearm deaths and injuries.

Non-firearm injuries served as a negative control and were not associated with California or Nevada gun shows.

“Compared to the two weeks before the gun shows occurred, post-show firearm injury rates remained stable in regions near California gun shows. But post-show firearm injury rates increased from 0.67 per 100,000 people to 1.14 per 100,000 in regions near Nevada shows. This 70 percent increase translates to 30 more firearms deaths or injuries in California near the state line after 161 Nevada gun shows.”

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hotel to be sold Lake Tahoe’s Cal Neva Lodge appears likely to go through the latest in a nine-decade whirl of ownership changes. Published reports say billionaire Larry Ellison—named by Forbes as the world’s seventh richest man—is likely to purchase the Lodge.

Ellison won the right to make the purchase by default when no other buyer came forward. A federal bankruptcy judge gave the OK for a sale.

The hotel is noted for a line representing the Nevada/ California border painted on the floor of the swimming pool.

On June 10, 1980 when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected California’s effort to move the state line, the National Association of Attorneys General happened to be meeting in convention at the hotel, providing reporters with a ready-made story.

Built in 1926, the hotel was a case of life imitating art. A long-running 1918 Broadway play, Lightning, had told the tale of a Lake Tahoe hotel that straddled the Nevada/California state line, allowing guests to establish residence for a Nevada divorce while using a California return address in writing to the folks back home.

The property went through numerous owners over the years, including part owner Frank Sinatra, who briefly invested while the hotel was held by an investment group headed by Bert Grober. Sinatra added a showroom and once held a notable party for the cast of The Misfits, a movie then being filmed in western Nevada starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter. Sinatra was forced to surrender his gambling license and sell his interest in the club after he entertained an organized crime figure at the hotel and cursed a state agent who was trying to investigate the incident.

In recent years, the hotel has continued bouncing from one owner or entity to another, and the hotel has been promoted with folk tales of dubious accuracy on its history.

While the Sinatra period got attention, the property has long been troubled, with debtor committees, needed repairs, disputes with casino regulators, and management changes.

—Dennis Myers

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information for processing background checks than the FBI, thus resulting in fewer system misses of disqualified persons and enhancing system responsiveness for non-qualified persons. The [Nevada officials] have access to more current criminal history records and more data sources—particularly regarding noncriminal disqualifiers such as mental hospital commitments—from their own state than does the FBI, and have a better understanding of their own state laws and disqualifying factors.”

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Weighty letter FBI letter to Nevada examined In the 2016 election, nevadans enacted a new law providing for background checks on some weapons purchases. It was listed on the ballot as Question One. The law provides that, of two check systems available—state or federal—the federal system must be used.

The state system is administered by the Nevada Department of Public Safety.

We term it Nevada/DPS. The federal system has a name—the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. We call it FBI/NICS Following the election, on Dec. 14, FBI official Kimberly Del Greco wrote a letter to Julie Butler, an official in the Nevada Public Safety Department. Del Greco’s letter prompted Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt to issue an opinion that allowed state officials to ignore passage of Question One. Del Greco’s letter has become of greater interest since the Las Vegas concert killings that left 58 people dead and 546 injured.

A few days after writing the letter, in January, Del Greco was named deputy assistant director of the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services division’s information services branch. She now heads the FBI/NICS. The letter in some reports (“The FBI Won’t Help Nevada Enforce Its

Background Check Law”) was characterized as adversarial toward Nevada, even belligerent, an impression neither Laxalt nor any other local official sought to correct. That impression was created by the last paragraph in the letter: “The recent passage of the Nevada legislation regarding background checks for private sales cannot dictate how federal resources are applied. The position of the NICS section is that these background checks are the responsibility of Nevada to be conducted as any other background check for firearms, through the Nevada DPS.” That impression was also fostered by the language of the AG opinion: “The FBI’s refusal …”

In context, however, the letter was cooperative and offered advice on ways Nevada could go about trying to make the ballot measure work. Because Del Greco did not know the details of Question One, some of her suggestions were not workable, but they indicated the collaborative tone of the letter.

In the letter, Del Greco made a remarkable admission. She wrote that Nevada’s background check system is better than the FBI system.

State and local officials seeking a background check, she wrote “are likely to have readier access to more detailed

Further, Del Greco wrote, “Nevada checks additional databases to include state protection orders, state warrants, state driver’s licenses, parole and probation [reports], and SCOPE (which is Clark County, Las Vegas area records).

Also, most of Nevada’s protection orders are not in the National Crime Information Center file, which is important to note since only the [Nevada officials have] access to these protections orders, and if the FBI were processing background checks on private sales of firearms for Nevada, these protection orders would not be part of the NICS check.”

Question One dealt with private sales.

The Nevada/DPS check includes an FBI/NICS check, plus the additional sources listed by Del Greco. Moreover, she said Nevada officials are better able to understand their own legal terrain.

“The state of Nevada can provide a more comprehensive NICS that is accomplished when a [state or local official] accesses state-held databases that are not available to the FBI,” Del Greco wrote. “The Nevada DPS is also in a better position for understanding and applying state laws. It is for these reasons… the state of Nevada will be best suited to conduct the NICS checks for private sales as provided for in [Question One], as opposed to the FBI conducting these checks.”

As though to make Del Greco’s point, she was apparently not aware that Question One bars the state of Nevada from using Nevada/DPS for the checks it requires. Question One, whose text has been removed from the Nevada secretary of state’s website, contains language barring the background checks from being done through “the central repository”—a term for the Nevada/DPS system.

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Places to listen The Reno band People with Bodies recently toured South America.

Here, in their own words, is what they found.

by Fil Corbitt and Kent irwin

Kent Irwin and Fil Corbitt are freelance music and travel writers based in Reno. They both contribute to the RN&R, and Corbitt also hosts and produces the Van Sounds podcast about music and travel. And, along with bassist Mark Nesbitt and guitarist Julian Jacobs, they perform in the group People with Bodies.

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When we start shows in the United States, we usually say “We are People with Bodies and so are you.” This September, in four cities across southern Brazil we said, “Somos Pessoas Com Corpos e você esta também,” and later in Uruguay and Argentina, “Somos Personas Con Cuerpos y ustedes estan también.”

It was our second time touring Brazil, our first time playing Montevideo and Buenos Aires. We booked the five-week tour across three countries exactly the way we’d book a D.I.Y. tour in the U.S.—finding bands, asking around, and writing a bunch of emails.

There’s an air of importance when you tell somebody you’re touring internationally. It must mean your band is big, or that you’ve made it. But that’s simply not the case.

In 2016, we toured twice—in Brazil and in the Pacific Northwest. In 2017, we returned to both, and each time booking in South America was the easier and more fun of the two routes.

Reno band the Vampirates said something on stage once after returning from a sprawling international tour. It was along the lines of “If the Vampirates can do it, so can you.”

That’s the perfect way to put it. If you want to be in an internationally touring band, you can. You just have to do it yourself.

In Curitiba, a city south of São Paulo, there’s a DIY house called Lavanderia. Lavanderia means laundry room in Portuguese, and the show space is exactly that—a tiny room in the basement with no windows and just enough space for a small band and maybe 20 people. They moved the washing machine into the bathroom.

There’s a semi-enclosed, down-sloped driveway—think Reno’s Fort Ryland—and a large backyard. The outside of the house is covered in art and tags, and when the show starts a person sits at the front gate and collects a cover.

Like any DIY show, the cover goes mostly to the band, but what sets Lavanderia apart is the bar.

In the corner of the living room, there’s a counter with a selection of liquor, a fridge full of beer, and a lit up delistyle hot box filled with empanadas made in the home’s own kitchen. The roommates DJ behind the bar and mix drinks, selling them for a mark up, but still less than they’d cost at a conventional club.

“It pays almost everything … the rent, lights, water, internet,” João Paulino told me. Paulino is one of three housemates, and on the night we played there, he shifted between tending bar and checking in on the 100 or more people who filled the living room and backyard.

“Yeah, we do it like two or three times a week, and it covers everything.”

We shoulder through the packed basement and set up.

The room can fit 20 people, and there are about 30, some pouring out into the hallway. It’s sweaty, it’s loud, and people listen.

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“places to listen” continued from page 11

Minor House is a vegan, straight edge space in Porto Alegre.

Porto Alegre is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul which is the southern most state in Brazil and shares a border with Argentina to the west and Uruguay to the south.

The show space recently moved from its original location—a small apartment under a night club—to a commercial storefront. We played the house last year and were ecstatic to be invited to the new location by the venue’s sole resident, Alan Chaves.

“It’s a store now, but it’s a house inside of a store,” Chaves said. “When you open the door, you go into another universe. … It’s very exciting.”

Chaves lives in the storefront and is building a kitchen in the back. In addition to running the show space, he’s a chef and restaurant owner. Every Minor House show has a giant pot of vegan rice and beans, and a perfectly sweetened jug of iced tea. The food is always free, and instead of a cover, Chaves passes a hat around for a suggested donation.

After moving from a small apartment to a big commercial space, Chaves was worried he might lose the cozy living room feeling, so instead of pushing the band in the back of the room like a bar might, he asks the band to set up in the middle. There’s no stage, and people surround us. We start to play, and they sing the words from the songs we have online.

They sway and nod, and they make eye contact. The people aren’t there to drink, Chaves explains, they’re there to be with other people, and to listen.

If you want to be in an internationally touring band, you can. You just have to do it yourself.

—Fil Corbitt

How to go tHere To get to your show in São Paulo, walk past the pitched tent of a woman who screams all day and night, to the subway station on Ave. Paulista. Buy a ticket, then take the green line from Brigadeiro to Clinicas, in the cleanest and fastest train you’ve ever seen. Walk about a mile through the Pinheiros district, carrying your guitars, as Mark’s bass case gradually falls apart, to finally arrive at your venue. Answer the first of many interviewers who will ask “Why did you decide to come to Brazil, of all places?” by saying, “I dunno, we just like it here.”

To get to Curitiba from São Paulo, watch Mark duct tape his bass case back together while you wait at the bus station for Fil to buy tickets. Get stuck in a traffic jam in the mountains. Look out your window to a lush landscape of tropical forest under a radiant sunset. See a boy maybe 5-years-old in the seat ahead, staring at Fil like he’s an orangutan in a suit.

Listen to a tape as you watch the sun go down, and when it’s over, the sky is dark and the little boy has fallen asleep with his head on Fil’s shoulder.

To get to Florianopolis from Curitiba, take another bus.

To get from the station to the venue, in Rio Vermelho, in the northeastern part of the island, wait for Fabiano, the bassist of the band Decurso Drama. He will have brought his friend Gesiel along with an old Volkswagen Beetle. You won’t be able to fit all three of you with the guitars in the Beetle, so one of you will have to ride on the back of Fabiano’s motorcycle to Rio Vermelho. Elect Fil. He’ll take hairpin turns through the mountains while you and Mark get lost in the sprawling commercial district known as Ingleses. Finally get to the dirt road that leads to the venue. Play a 30-minute set before the crowd asks for a few more.

To get to Porto Alegre from Florianopolis, use a Brazilian rideshare app called BlaBlaCar. Stop at a gas station for a stale hot dog. When you arrive in Porto Alegre, glean from your limited Portuguese that the driver is telling you not to linger in this part of town, because it’s dangerous. Rain clouds are gathering. Walk through a crowded street and hear 12 | RN&R | 10.26.17

People with Bodies performs at the Minor House in Porto Alegre. COURTESY/ALAN CHAVES

a sudden series of explosions, but don’t stop to investigate.

Meet Julian in a coffee shop right before the clouds burst.

To get to Montevideo from Porto Alegre, take an overnight bus and arrive at the Uruguayan coast at dawn. Send a postcard back to the states and wonder if you’ll get back before it does. Make small talk with the cab driver about how your disparate homelands have legal marijuana in common.

To get to to Buenos Aires from Montevideo, first talk to people across Uruguay and Brazil who will suggest setting aside some time to visit the beautiful, historic Colonia Del Sacramento. When you actually get to the Colonia Del Sacramento by bus, it’s being assaulted by a torrent of cold rain. Get on a ferry that takes you across a stormy channel, swaying back and forth. Listen to all the passengers on the boat gasp in unison as the vessel dips low, as if the boat is a roller coaster. Stumble around the deck trying to keep your balance. Look out a window at the rain beating the glass. Listen to Leonard Cohen in your headphones as brick buildings start to appear out of the gray horizon, then some skyscrapers. Look to your right and see a little girl next to you being hoisted up by her grandfather, pointing at Buenos Aires approaching you.

To get from Palermo, in central Buenos Aires, to your show in Jose C. Paz, on the western end of the city, take a train. Ignore the vendors walking along the aisles with snacks bought from a corner store to sell to the passengers. Ignore the little girl making the rounds with a photocopied handwritten note asking for “ayuda” because you know someone else is bound to hand her some pesos. Meet songwriter Luis Baumann at the train, take another crowded bus. Get to the venue, only to fall asleep waiting for the show to start. Wake up to a performance artist screaming into a plastic bag. Wait for the Metallica cover band to finish, wait through another band, then finally plug your guitar into the amp. Play your heart out. Sit out the remaining four bands, because you don’t know how to get home on your own. Get frustrated, tired.

Long for the comfort of your own bed. When you finally get to the end of your rope, hear Luis play the first few chords of his set. Instantly become moved to tears by his beautiful

music. Realize that you live in a world much bigger than yourself. Walk back to the train station, past old ladies opening their shops for the morning. Ride back into Buenos Aires as the sun rises, thinking of all the people who thanked you for being the first American band to venture so far out to play for them. Sleep for a whole day.

To get to São Paulo from Buenos Aires, first buy as many bottles of wine and Fernet as you can carry on your person.

Then buy a single bus ticket for a 41-hour journey across three countries. Drink the wine you bought. Listen to a lot of music while looking out the window at small Brazilian villages, dogs running down the road, kids playing soccer in bright orange dirt lots underneath swaying green palm trees. See a flamingo flying against a cloudy sky with a spot of sun leaking through.

Watch clusters of birds fly, keeping pace with the bus. Sleep a lot. Get woken up in the middle of the night to groggily stand in the customs line at the border. Show an irritable man your passport. Get back on the bus. Sigh at the beauty outside your window. Wonder how many countless beautiful places there are around the planet you may never get to see. Drink more Fernet. Start to resent your friends and bandmates. Stop in gas stations and buy cheap meat to keep yourself going. Sleep, eat, wait. Get to São Paulo, but stay stuck in traffic for two hours.

Think, this is harder to stomach than than the entire previous 40 hours, because you can see your destination, but can’t touch it.

Finally, get there.

—Kent Irwin

Soul food People with Bodies has been to São Paulo twice and has eaten at Bar do Biu five times.

Bar do Biu is a neighborhood restaurant in Pinhieros, a hilly district in South America’s biggest city. The outside is a nondescript facade up against a bunch of other nondescript facades on a gentle slope. The front room straddles a street corner, tucked underneath a canopy of wide leaves, wads of power lines, and São Paulo’s endless grid of towering skyscrapers.

The fluorescent front room features a TV above the grill, playing either a Corinthians game—the bar’s favorite Paulistan soccer team—Metallica concert footage, or a YouTube samba playlist. Other times it’s shut off, because this is a restaurant that always seems to maintain the perfect vibe.

Our third time in, fumbling through Portuguese, Kent and I ask a waitress for a table. She quickly realizes we’re idiots who understand nothing, and sits us in one of the two small dining rooms. She smiles and leaves to get Rogerio from the bar. He’s more equipped to handle idiots. He speaks English, and from his Instagram we find out that he goes to punk shows, and that he has a picture standing next to Thundercat in the front room of this very bar.

By the fourth time in, Rogerio recognizes us and points at some items on the menu. “You haven’t had this, yeah?”

He starts to explain it, but then just says, “You’ll like it.”

He snaps his fingers, takes our menus, and heads off to the kitchen.

The first time we came here, Bar Do Biu was suggested by our host as “kind of a slap-in-the-face, you’re-in-Brasil kind of place,” thinking we might prefer pizza.

An hour later we were in the back room with a dozen plates of food on the table. I recognized two dishes—one was white rice, and the other was feijoada—a classic dish of meat, fat and black beans that I saw on an Anthony Bourdain episode once.

The rest was a mystery. An entire plate of spiced pork, a bean thing with plants in it, an entire plate of different plants, some sort of stew thing, and a half-dish of muted yellow powder. The waitress held the powder up and showed us how to shake it onto everything, to coat the whole meal.

Our second time back, we’d learned the powder was called farofa, a salty, savory, corn flour thing, that can be its own dish, or can be sprinkled over any other dish. We sat with our host, Alex, and my old friend Marcelo, the two of them speaking in Portuguese, and Kent and I sucking down caipirinhas, Brazil’s national cocktail made of booze, sugar and lime. Bar do Biu serves them in pint glasses.

The light blue dining room walls are covered in Corinthians memorabilia, a thousand best-of restaurant articles, and a crooked framed photo of a golden retriever driving a car. The beer fridge proudly displays its temperature “-3.2 C” and like most of Brazil they serve beer in freezing cold liters with a bunch of small cups meant to be shared.

That’s also how Bar do Biu serves the food—big piles of meat, beans and greens, with plates to pass around. Nobody owns any dish.

The fat, the beans and the greens are filled with brand new flavors, sharp and subtle, salt and citrus, ones I don’t have words for. Every meal is filled with soul. Kent describes it as a psychedelic experience.

The last day of tour, on our way to the airport, we stopped for a final meal. Halfway through the meal, Rogerio came out of the kitchen and held his hand up to his ear. “Hear that?”

He asked us. We didn’t, so we asked him what he meant. He pointed to the front room, and we walked out to see the TV over the bar playing People with Bodies. We made it.

Fil Corbitt, Mark Nesbitt and Kent Irwin are three of the four members of People with Bodies. courtesy/fil corbitt

There’s a TV camera pointed at me, and I’m trying to figure out how I should present myself. Should I sit with my legs crossed, should I smile and gesticulate to seem engaged with the interviewer? He puts on a song by a famous Brazilian singer, hoping to get my reaction. I’m conscious of how I appear. I think, “How should I make this fun to watch?” So I do a dumb move with my hand like it’s surfing. I don’t want the viewers at home to see me just sit there while the music is going. Then the interviewer asks me what bands influence ours. I offer him Nick Drake and the Buzzcocks. He asks if I like Weezer. I give him a lukewarm “yeah, sure.” I think that’s the end of it. When we see the finished program, I see my dumb surfing move has made the cut. Also, he lists three of our main influences as “Buzzcocks, Nick Drake and Weezer.”

There’s a chicken crossing the road. It’s blocking our way to a vegetable market. We’re on our way there to try and find a pepper spicy enough to cook Mexican food for dinner. We chose this as a uniquely North American way to thank our friend Gus for letting us stay at his house for almost a week.

I put “Brazil” by Wire on the car stereo. It’s late evening, and there are people walking everywhere.

—Fil Corbitt

Song of SongS A lot of my memories of South America are tied to specific songs. There are some universally revered oldies among young punks in Brazil. Caetano Veloso, Tim Maia, Chico Buarque come up in conversation across the country. Outside of Kiko’s Bar in Curitiba, a group of older dudes sit around a table singing classic samba songs with classical guitar and makeshift shakers. A crew from the venue we played hang out front smoking and drinking. They know every word to these old songs and sing along, while Fil and I eat french fries with mayo and farofa. When they start singing “Ella Partiu” by Tim Maia, Fil and I sing the chorus.

Birds across South America sing a wider range of notes. Their voices feel omnipresent, making even the innermost city districts sound like a rainforest. This is because you notice the sounds they make. For the people who live there, it just blends into the background noise, along with cars, voices and moving feet. Noticing an unusual bird sound is just one detail that can make a place feel like a foreign country. Food is another. Something might taste like it has 12 exotic ingredients in it, but it is probably something as simple as lime in a place where you wouldn’t expect it. But for the most part, nothing really feels foreign.

There is a Boom Boom Kid sticker on the wall at Minor House in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I recognize the name. Boom Boom Kid is a great Argentinian punk band, who I once saw play at Clark Lane Maul, mere blocks from our house in Reno. Our friend Rael also has a Boom Boom Kid sticker on his guitar, at our show in Florianopolis. It’s exciting to see how all these vastly different places are connected through the music of one artist, and to feel a sense of camaraderie with another touring band.

The first time I saw the sand dunes in Florianopolis, I felt that I was in the spiritual center of all I had come to know as Brazil. The golden sand stretched for miles, with jutting green mountains rising up in the horizon, and the line of the Atlantic Ocean surrounding it all. This time, Gus’s dog Winnie follows us there, runs around free in the sand. Our friend Marcos points to the mountains on the other side of the dunes, identifying them as the Spider Hills. “One time, I saw two spiders there, tarantulas. They were copulating,” he says.

“That’s not something you see all the time.” I follow the dirt road back home and listen to “Spider Cider” by Man Man. The dunes feel like a very sacred place to us, but even they aren’t isolated from some of the city’s darker aspects. One morning, Gus’s neighbor informs us a dead body was found in the dunes, shot twice. It was the latest in a long series of drug-related homicides this year. It’s difficult to imagine any violence, anything bad at all happening in Florianopolis. It’s such a beautiful, peaceful place. Yet things are not always as they seem.

In a park in Porto Alegre, Brazil, we hear an accordionist and a guitarist perform Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango.”

Many gather around to watch this passionate rendition of the Argentinian classic. We continue through the park with our friend Alan Chaves and pass a group of indigenous children singing a song. A boy strums the open strings of a guitar, and a girl beats irregularly on a tambourine. Alan tells us that the number of indigenous tribes in Brazil has steadily been dwindling, and is in particular decline now. Brazilian president Michel Temer recently slashed crucial programs protecting indigenous groups from aggressive loggers and developers, which has already resulted in ethnic violence.

Later on the tour, in Buenos Aires, Mark and I hear “Libertango” again, this time in a dance hall, drinking Fernet and coke and watching countless couples try their hand at tango dancing. There are many different people with varying ages and skill levels. The tango is a very intimate dance, often performed by two total strangers. Depending on who you watch, the dance can look like a strained first date, a decadeslong romance, or a tense argument. In contrast, on our way home from the tango bar, we walk by an endless row of clubs with throbbing bass drum beats behind their doors.

Standing in front of the TV at Bar Do Biu, I watch myself play “Finder.” For possibly the first time, I feel completely at peace with my own music. The music video features a staircase in São Paulo we visited on our first trip. One of the bar employees recognizes it, remarks that the video was shot before they painted over all the graffiti. We walk by the staircase again, and see the new paint job, new graffiti already taking root. We take a taxi to the airport, on our way home.

—Kent Irwin

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Tucker Rash, Thomas Snider, Ana McKay and Kate Biel are behind KWNK, a community radio station slated to begin airing at 97.7 FM on Oct. 31.

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KWNK,

a new community radio station, is set to hit the FM airwaves in Reno on Oct. 31—but that’s probably not news to a lot of local folks.

Some may have seen the station’s logo and the faces of its staff at summer fundraising events—a DJ night at The Bluebird, a benefit auction featuring denim jackets by local artists at Bad Apple Vntg., or a popcorn stand at free movie nights in Wingfield Park during Artown. Others, however, have been in the know much longer. In fact, some people have been awaiting the launch of KWNK for years.

Radio silence

The foundation for KWNK lies in the Local Community Radio Act of 2010. It was signed into law by President Obama in 2011 and cleared the way for the Federal Communications Commission to issue new licenses for low-power, FM radio stations—which had previously been basically outlawed by the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000. (Many media organizations, including NPR, supported the 2000 act, claiming that low-power stations created too much frequency interference on the FM dial.)

But low-power stations are just that—they operate at a maximum of 100 watts, considerably less than commercial radio stations, the largest of which operate at around 50,000 watts.

They’re also not commercial. Low-power stations are ad-free, community-based and generally licensed to educational entities— which is how the Reno Bike Project got involved in radio.

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After Obama signed the act, Noah Silverman—founder of the Bike Project—was approached by a man named Todd Urick, co-founder and then program director for the non-profit Common Frequency, which worked to get low-power, community-based radio stations on air.

Urick helped Silverman with the FCC’s application project.

The Reno Bike Project obtained a license. And Silverman began recruiting people to develop content for the station.

That was, of course, a few years ago. In the intervening time, many people from the community have become involved in the project.

Tim Conder—co-owner of Bootleg Courier Co., cannabis delivery service BlackbirdGo, and the former artists’ work space Cuddleworks—offered to host the station in his space next to the former Reno Bike Project location on Fourth Street. He also suggested getting University of Nevada, Reno students involved through a partnership with Wolf Pack Radio, the school’s online radio station.

Thomas Snider, KWNK co-founder and general manager, was one of those students.

“I came to Reno in 2012, and right away I found Wolf Pack Radio,” Snider said. “I discovered the Holland Project. I discovered all of these other communities within Reno through the radio station. It was this spot where people of all different kinds from the university would come to one place, all around one thing— this radio station.”

But Wolf Pack Radio had been an online-only station since its inception about a decade earlier. For Snider, the idea of getting

it on air was enthralling. He joined the team—sticking it out through several years of quiet planning.

At one point, there was a plan to transfer the Bike Project’s license to the university. But this fell through. According to Snider, it was only this summer—with the help of Jeff Cotton from Open Sky Radio—that the KWNK took the final steps necessary to get off the ground.

“They helped us execute getting our license—having our construction permit turn into a license,” Snider said. “They helped us with facilitating all of the antenna work, equipment we would need and those things to actually getting the official license to begin broadcasting.”

In exchange, KWNK will share air-time with Open Sky Radio—broadcasting for 12 hours daily, from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., during its first six months of operation, while Open Sky fills the rest.

The spirit of radio

So what will KWNK programming sound like?

“Predominantly, the station will be music,” said Silverman.

“But we want to include the talk radio, if you will, the forum for discussion and/or education about local events and local—hopefully not too much politics—but goings on about town.”

KWNK’s daily broadcasting hours will—at least initially— be divided between pre-recorded shows, for which the station began taking applications a few months ago. As for the content of said shows, the station’s staff explained, it’s basically no holds barred.

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“Of course there are all sorts of weird little fringe cultures you see in Reno, and looking through all of the applications we’ve gotten so far, we’ve seen a lot of different, somewhat unexpected voices that want representation on live radio,” said Tucker Rash, one of KWNK’s program directors. “So, it’s really interesting looking at that stuff, because you see people who want to have radio shows about bicycling and people who just want to have basic, college-radio-style radio shows.”

Ana McKay is KWNK’s art coordinator. She’ll be working with local artists to design logos for the station’s different shows—including one for which she’s particularly excited.

“There are these two people who are trying to make a radio show celebrating house shows, so talking to people about what house shows are and what they mean to them, recording some house shows, playing music that’s heard at house shows and just really exploring that culture,” McKay said, adding that she thinks it’s a show that exemplifies the purpose of community radio.

As the launch date draws closer, there is plenty of excitement for other shows, too. New radio personalities—like Kate Biel—are considering just what they’ll do with their freeform airtime.

“My show is Peach Radio, and, basically, every week, I’ll be doing a different theme or genre,” Biel explained. “For my first one, I just did my favorite songs—just to give people a taste of what kind of music I listen to. … I’m thinking of doing a friends show where I play songs that my friends have shown me that have become my favorite songs. Basically, the point is, I’m trying to get people to listen to different genres, rather than just one— because I was guilty of that for a long time.” Ω

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Bodies of work Stephanie Hogen In 1970, when Stephanie Hogen was around 20, she shot a photo of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Her picture won first place in a contest.

“That kickstarted me enough to want to get a camera,” she said. She saved up some money, bought a Canon AE-1—which she still sometimes uses—and enrolled in a community college photography class.

“Then, I just got into it,” she said.

Hogen has lived in Reno since the 1980s. She’s studied photography with Truckee Meadows Community College professors Dean Burton, Nolan Preece and the late Erik Lauritzen and has shown her work in galleries around Reno, in several California venues, and in a group exhibit at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

One semester, early in her Reno days, Hogen was in Peter Goin’s class at the University of Nevada, Reno. The class photographed nude models that semester.

That’s where Hogen discovered her aesthetic groove. Since then, most of her work has been contemplative, black-andwhite images of nudes, almost always women, a lot like the ones that were popular in American photography in the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s. The photos have a calm, moody, geometric sensibility that was perhaps most widely made known by early20th-century artists like Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham.

Photographers might take pictures of bodies for various reasons—to explore themes of identity politics, body image, sexuality or desire, to note just a few.

Hogen’s reason for photographing bodies, though, is simple and straightforward.

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includes the models themselves, whether they have “model-like” bodies or not, and the tonal and compositional effects that a skilled black-and-white photographer can work into a print.

“The light has so much to do with it,” she said. “I always use sun. I never use studio lights. Everything has been done either outside or in my house.” She’s deeply fascinated by the technical properties of light, the way it bounces off of skin.

“Either I like the soft light on the nude, or as you go along, you can decide whether you want detail in the black, or in the white—it becomes more abstract, almost,” she said.

Hogen has made a new body of work recently with a different subject matter altogether, images of flowers, leaves and the occasional insect part, just as calm, moody and geometric as her figurative work, with parts abstracted by lighting shifts just as in the model shots. These aren’t exactly photographs in the traditional sense— they’re photograms, made by placing the flowers, leaves and insect parts themselves directly onto light-sensitive paper, or, in some cases, into a photographic enlarger.

Just like in Hogen’s figurative work, a lot of detail is left out, which focuses the attention on the elegant, almost eerie subtleties—the intricate lace of an insect wing, the contours of a pear, the veins of an orchid petal. While her appreciation for that subject matter is evident, her passion for values, shapes and textures is just as strong.

Hogen’s photograms, rich in technical details, are straightforward in the metaphorical implications she has for them.

“Maybe it’s the light and dark of life, you know, how you have to have the dark to have the light,” she said. “It just speaks to me.” Ω Stephanie Hogen’s Photograms: Alternative Printing is on view at Hub Coffee Roasters, 727 Riverside Drive, through Nov. 1. A reception is scheduled for 5-7 p.m., Oct. 26.

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“is that Bigfoot? i’m pretty sure that’s Bigfoot.”

Catch fire After a slow start, Only the Brave becomes a solid tribute to the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who lost 19 men battling the massive Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013.

The Hotshots were an elite Prescott, Arizona, crew led by veteran firefighter Eric Marsh, played here by Josh Brolin. Brolin’s performance ranks among his best, showing us a man presiding over his crew like a father to his sons.

Marsh takes a risk on Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller), a former drug user seeking redemption and a decent living to help provide for his newborn daughter. The always reliable Teller matches Brolin’s acting triumph every step of the way, making both Marsh and McDonough fully fleshed, complicated and ultimately likeable characters. The two seem right at home with each other on screen.

Director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) takes a solid step beyond his prior sci-fi missteps to provide a movie that is technically sound, emotionally powerful, and just a little hokey and overlong in spots. The movie is never bad, but it does drone a bit during some of the melodramatic build up. It never goes wrong when the team is on the job, fighting fires. It just gets a little sleepy when folks are sitting around talking or bickering.

There are numerous fires we see the team contain throughout the film, giving the sense that these guys were in full command of their trade. Of course, nature is a sometimes awesome and awful beast, and when that wind shifts and sends the Yarnell blaze toward the unsuspecting men, you get a sense of how random and crazy the event was.

These guys were the best of the best, and even they couldn’t predict what was going to happen.

Kosinski has assembled a cast that includes Brolin’s True Grit cast mate Jeff Bridges as Duane Steinbrink, Marsh’s supervisor. You can’t go wrong with Bridges, who delivers good humor, at one point busts out his guitar, and ultimately provides the movie with solid emotional punch during the finale. Taylor Kitsch gets some good laughs

as troublemaker Christopher MacKenzie, who gripes about handing over his new Vans to trainee Brendan, but winds up becoming his best friend over time.

As Amanda Marsh, Eric’s caring wife who takes care of injured horses when Eric’s away, Jennifer Connelly gets a mighty chance to shine.

Like Eric, Amanda has a rough past, and problems bubble to the surface during some of his quick visits between fires. Connelly does well with material that would seem a little played out in the hands of others. She adds a little angst to the mix with Amanda, and it works.

Knowing nothing about the art of firefighting, I can’t vouch for the authenticity of this film, but it sure does seem and feel authentic. The Hotshots do controlled burns to protect landscapes, save historical trees, and rescue neighborhoods.

Even though the movie that precedes it is a little long-winded, and the fate of the men in the film is well known, the depiction of the Yarnell Fire still blindsides you. Brolin’s Marsh figures it’s just an easily contained fire, and he will be home for dinner. Kosinski portrays the shock of the whole situation effectively. The men were working what seemed to be a situation entirely under control.

The final sequences in the movie are so well done, you’ll feel kind of bad for groaning during the film’s more lumbering parts. By the time Kosinski shows the real-life firefighters alongside their Hollywood counterparts, the film had driven a major message and homage to these guys successfully and memorably.

Parts of the country are going through some of their worst fire seasons in modern history. It’s not surprising that this film didn’t have a big opening weekend. It’s a movie that will gain an audience over time. Ω

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For the second time in just a month, Netflix scores again on the Stephen King front with this horrific ghost story starring Thomas Jane, no stranger to King territory having starred in Frank Darabont’s The Mist.

Jane plays Wilfred James, a farmer who kills his wife Arlette (Molly Parker) with the help of his lovestruck son, Henry (Dylan Schmid).

Of course, Arlette has been murdered in a Stephen King movie so it goes without saying that her soul will not rest peacefully, and her corpse will be riddled with rather spirited and determined rats. Jane delivers a chilling, complicated character in Wilfred, a terrible man yet somebody we can watch for an entire movie and feel some concern for his welfare and the welfare of his misguided kid. Wilfred is one of those men who speaks through clenched teeth, and Jane simply disappears into the character. Parker doesn’t have a lot of scenes before becoming a scary spectral, but she does both the pre- and post-murder scenes well.

Schmid is kind of heartbreaking as the dumb son who goes along with his dad’s dumb ideas and winds up paying the price. (Available for streaming on Netflix.)

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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, 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. Honestly, this story might have played better as an HBO or Netflix miniseries than a big motion picture.

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.

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Happy Death Day

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 this 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 déja 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. Rothe just sort of comes out of nowhere to make this movie more than a rip-off of the classic Bill Murray vehicle.

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Leatherface

Once again, somebody tries to make a Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise entry to revive things and, once again, we get proof that some things are better left alone.

This time, things go to prequel territory, with a silly story about how Leatherface became Leatherface. As was the case with Rob Zombies’s faulty interpretation of Halloween, in which Michael Myers got a bigger backstory, some movie monsters are best left mysterious and mostly unexplained. Much of the action here centers around an insane asylum where a teenaged Leatherface-to-be is hanging out until a riot ensues. He escapes with a hostage nurse (Vanessa Grasse), while being pursued by yet another evil Texas Chainsaw franchise lawman, this one played by Stephen Dorff.

Leatherface’s mom is also looking for him, and she’s played by Lili Taylor, whose career is clearly in a downward spiral along with Dorff’s.

Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury throw in some gory scares and extremely gross sex scenes, but there’s nothing that puts it in a league with Tobe Hoopers’s original except for the title. (I’ll take this moment to say I’m a fan of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, also directed by Hooper and highly underrated.) This one is a dreary exercise in paint-by-numbers slasher film moviemaking, and totally lacking in fun and legitimate scares.

(Available for rent on iTunes and Amazon.com during a limited theatrical release.)

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

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. 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. (Available on Netflix during a limited theatrical release.)

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What do tacos, pizza, barbecue and cheesesteak sandwiches have in common?

The answer is endless disagreement over what constitutes the “real” or “best” version of each. I particularly enjoy debates about the beefy cheesy sandwiches, which hail from the “City of Brotherly Love,” where residents often have fierce disagreements over authenticity and, of course, their favorites. While I love a pile of meat and provolone chopped and melted together on the grill, I’ll also admit a fondness for the cheddar-flavored cheese sauce variety.

Recently, my crew and I headed to Little Philadelphia, where cheese goo rules supreme.

Although the cheesesteaks are available with provolone or Swiss cheese upon request, the default option is served with a liberal slathering of yellow cheese product.

It’s like nacho cheese without the spice.

Grilled onion is optional, or you can go all-in with “The Works” ($9.19, large) and top the beef and cheese with grilled mushroom, bell pepper and onion on a grilled Italian roll—which is how I ordered mine. The meat well-seasoned, the veggies a perfect accompaniment, and the toasty roll held up well.

Our small hoagie cheesesteak ($6.49) with chopped lettuce and tomato tasted something like a loose meat cheeseburger.

While it wouldn’t be my first choice, it wasn’t half bad. Less effective was a small pizza steak ($6.49) with marinara sauce and melted provolone. The sauce was quite sweet, and the cheese quickly rubberized.

A little kid might enjoy this sweet, chewy thing, but I did not.

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combined deli ham with melted Swiss cheese, set atop three uniform, deep-fried chicken fingers. It wasn’t bad, just something I’d expect from a chain burger shop.

A hot ham and cheese ($6.49) coupled a pile of deli ham with a pool of cheddar sauce, reminding me of a school cafeteria favorite. I loved them as a kid and still enjoyed this nostalgia-laced treat.

For the fries, we tried one order plain, then added cheese sauce to the rest for an additional 75 cents each. The fries were thin and crispy, but with the addition of cheese transformed them into something beautiful to my inner child. They seriously pour on the cheese, which locks the fries into a mass that can only be politely eaten with a fork. It’s really more of a potato cheese pie at that point, worthy of the tag “guilty pleasure.” A large order of battered onion rings ($3.69) wouldn’t beat the best in town, but they were way beyond what I’d expected.

My wife loved them.

Lastly, I had to try a gyro ($6.99). I knew the meat would probably be from a package, but low expectations were met with surprise. It was good—really good.

The meat was tender with tons of flavor.

The tzatziki had just enough tang, and the pita was lightly toasted and served warm with plenty of chopped purple onion, lettuce and tomato. It won’t supplant my favorite spit-roasted sandwich, but I might have to flip a coin to choose between cheesesteak and gyro the next time I visit Little Philadelphia. Ω

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Whole hog From the first time I heard of Pignic Pub & Patio’s unique concept when it opened a few years ago, it struck me as kind of weird. Briefly, it’s a bar with multiple grilling stations outside where customers can grill meat they bring or purchase on site. Cooking at home isn’t really in my wheelhouse—I embrace the dishwasher role—and when we go out to eat, part of the reason is to have someone else take care of it all. Eating out is one thing, home cooked meals are another, and aside from some Asian places, cooking for yourself at a restaurant is atypical. I never bring meat when I go to a bar. Nevertheless, I’ve been curious. Having worked nearby for many years, and glad to see something breathe life into a handsome historic house in downtown Reno, I have long wanted to visit Pignic, so my wife and I decided to stop in for a drink before dinner on a recent Sunday.

After passing a group of young patrons enjoying beverages and board games out front and running a short gauntlet of cigarette smoke on the front porch of this grand 1920s home, my first reaction was disorienting. It’s not immediately clear where to go and I felt like I was going into a private residence, particularly since small groups were having their own little gettogethers in different parts of the property.

Some food was laid out buffet style, baked beans and slaw, but it was unclear who it was for. I flashed back to crashing tailgate parties in college for the free food, only this felt a little more awkward.

I found the relatively small bar around a corner. Nearby was a welcome listing of about 20 draft beers, mainly quality craft options along with a few macro lagers.

The back of the bar was a chaotic visual array of assorted spirits, wines and decor,

Bartender Annalisa Suarez and a coworker make a house special cocktail featuring Pasote, Champagne, lemon and cinnamon simple syrup during this year’s Zombie Crawl.

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ingredients for handcrafted cocktails lining the front. It felt like a snap decision, overwhelmed with stimuli, but a hazy IPA from Tahoe Mountain Brewing sounded good, and our friendly bartender had us served promptly. I wish I had considered a special cocktail, but I just felt like I needed to order something and get out of the way.

We took a corner of the large, otherwise vacant living room to sit with our drinks, familiar reggae playing overhead. I felt perplexed, pondering as people walked through who was staff and who was customer, and what clientele Pignic appeals to. I suppose urban apartment dwellers without a backyard of their own appreciate a communal grill with all the needed accessories and someone else to clean up afterward. Others perhaps want a space to entertain groups. We had to ask for details, and our bartender explained clearly and concisely. It’s not complicated, really.

Bring or buy meat—they provide spices, utensils and the like—buy some drinks, grill it up, enjoy. We sipped our drinks while appreciating the old home and period decor, then decided to call it a night. We’ll play shuffleboard next time, maybe.

I never considered the missed opportunity of not naming it Pignic Bar and Grill until we were leaving. Come on, it’s literally a bar with grills! Still, bar and grill is already defined differently, so they probably didn’t want to confuse people. The “Patio” part of the name is apt, however, with plenty of outdoor space to be enjoyed, whether you grill or not. I still wrestle with the punny “Pignic”—even carnivores like me don’t always want to be reminded of the animal your food used to be. Ω

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Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra, will play trumpet and conduct the Reno Chamber Orchestra in two November guest appearances.

On the horn Reno Chamber Orchestra Back in the golden mid-century years, Reno’s downtown casinos like Harrah’s and the old Harold’s Club employed complete house orchestras that played night after night, backing people like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra when they came to town.

These orchestras were made up of talented, classically trained musicians making a living catering to the toe-tapping sounds of showbiz.

By the 1970s, as the sounds of the Rat Pack were echoing into the ether, a group of musicians informally got together to create the Reno Chamber Orchestra. By 1974, the group was playing concerts here and there around town, gradually acquiring an audience willing to listen to a more classical timbre. They eventually started a nonprofit organization, formed a board of directors and offered a regular concert series.

“Chamber orchestras are about the [same] size as orchestras were two hundred years ago, around the time of Mozart and Beethoven,” said Chris Morrison, RCO’s executive director. The group has between 30 and 50 members, versus philharmonic or symphony orchestras with 100 members or more. Morrison said classical era composers like Mozart and Beethoven would have been writing their pieces with an orchestra the size of the RCO in mind.

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“Very few communities of this size outside of Reno can actually have two orchestras that coexist that do great, and we do,” said Morrison. The music-loving audiences here also support various ensembles at University of Nevada, Reno and the Reno Pops Orchestra.

Conductor Theodore Kuchar—who has been widely recorded and led Czech, Ukranian and Venezuelan orchestras— normally leads the group. He has been the music director of the RCO since 2003.

However, two November shows will be led by guest artist Michael Sachs. Sachs is principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra and the head of the trumpet department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

“Although Michael Sachs wouldn’t describe himself this way, he’s kind of a legend in the trumpet world,” said Morrison. To give context, John Williams, famed score composer for movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones, wrote Concerto for Trumpet specifically for Sachs with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1996.

According to Sachs—whose orchestra is on a European tour of Luxembourg, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris and Linz through October—playing with a large orchestra is different than playing with a chamber orchestra.

“It’s kind of like moving the rudder on a large ship,” he said. It takes a little while to turn, while, on a smaller ship, it’s just going to go a different way. It’s the same thing with a chamber orchestra versus with a larger orchestra. The smaller orchestra has a little more dexterity, a little more flexibility potentially.”

The November concerts will begin with a symphony for strings written by composer Felix Mendelssohn when he was a teenager.

Then, Sachs will be featured as soloist in both Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto and Mozart’s lively Posthorn Serenade.

In that piece, Mozart introduced a posthorn, an instrument that is part of the trumpet family and looks like a mini French horn without valves. It was used by mailmen in the 18th and 19th centuries announcing their rides into town. Ω

The next Reno Chamber Orchestra performances are Nov. 11 and 12 in the Nightingale Concert Hall at the University of Nevada, Reno. For tickets, visit RenoChamberOrchestra.tix.com.

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cottonWood reStaurant & Bar

Paul Covarelli, 7pm, no cover

Whitherward, 7pm, no cover

daVidSonS diStillery

Hellbound Glory, 8:30pm, no cover

Evil Ash, 9:30pm, no cover

Sinners & Saints Halloween Party w/Hellpig, others, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, W, 8pm, no cover

Gabe Plank, Dashel Milligan, Marshall Johnson, 7pm, no cover

Halloween Party with Atomic Highway, 7pm, $5

A Very Spooky Open Mic Night hosted by Lenny El Bajo, 7pm, Tu, no cover

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee, (530) 587-5711 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

fine VineS Wine Bar

6300 Mae Anne Ave., Ste. 3, (775) 787-6300

From The Old Streets of Truckee, 5pm, $45

HeadQuarterS Bar

Anything But Zombies Burlesque Show, 8pm, $10

219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020

Hellfire Saloon

Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover

tHe Holland project

Fate Awaits, 8pm, $5-$7

3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

juB juB’S tHirSt parlor 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

VAMP, 10pm, no cover

Hellfire Halloween Asylum w/John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover

Metal Halloween Party: Apothesary, Blasphemous Creation, 7pm, $3-$5

The Secret Emchy Society, 9pm, $TBA

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Outspoken Monday Open Mic, 7pm, M, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4844

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Halloween Costme Party w/Jamie Rollins, 8pm, no cover

Canyon White, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover Jazz Jam, 7:30pm, W, no cover

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THURSDAY 10/26 The LoFT

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45

The Loving Cup

Jazz Night, 8:30pm, no cover

MidTown wine Bar

DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

1001 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024 188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

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2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 772-6637

FRIDAY 10/27

SATURDAY 10/28

SUNDAY 10/29

MON-WED 10/30-11/1

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45 Halloween Bash, 9pm, no cover

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $0-$45

Magic Fusion, 7pm, M, Tu, W, $20-$45

Musicole, 8pm, no cover

Baker Street Halloween Party, 8pm, no cover

Jesus Ojeda y Us Parietes, La Irrestible Banda Ausente, 11pm, $20

Halloween Fiesta, 10pm, $TBA Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

MoodY’S BiSTro Bar & BeaTS

Live music, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

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Acoustic Wonderland, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

10007 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 587-8688

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 359-1594

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Bingo Tuesdays with T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover

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The Soft White Sixties You Play Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

9235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

Halloween Party w/The Electric, 10pm, no cover

The poLo Lounge

Halloween Bash, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke Sundays, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Bobby Dee, 8pm, Tu, no cover Richie Ballerini, 7pm, W, no cover

Mo’z Motley Blues Band, 8pm, no cover

Deep Grove, 5:30pm, no cover

Lady an the Tramps Halloween Party, 7:30pm, Tu, Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

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

red dog SaLoon

Deception, 8pm, no cover

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

The SainT

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

Shea’S Tavern

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

SparkS Lounge

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

Blues Etc. Jam with Tony G & Friends, 8pm, no cover

Live blues, 8pm, W, no cover

Ghouls Night Out, Madrost, Skull Diver, Jukebox Rebels, 8pm, $7

Battalion of Saints, Oppressed Logic, The Cryptics, VIE, 9pm, Tu, $18-$20

La Santa Cecilia

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

The Soft White Sixties, 8pm, $10-$12

Halloween Party with DJ Outlaw, 9pm, no cover

ST. JaMeS inFirMarY STudio on 4Th

The American Weather, 8pm, W, no cover

The Sweet Lillies, Britt Straw, 9pm, $5

Gruve Nation, Erika Malone’s Eminence, 9pm, $5

whiSkeY diCk’S SaLoon

Halloween Massacre 2: Murderock & Rooftop Becky, 9pm, $5 Good Ol’ Boyz, 9pm, no cover

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425

XhaLe Bar & Lounge

Oct. 28, 8 p.m.

The Saint 761 S. Virginia St. 221-7451

Rittz, Sam Lachow, Eric Biddines, 9pm, Tu, $25

Nov. 1, 7 p.m.

Cargo Concert Hall 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

Vibe Friday: Rekoh Suave & DZ Beatz, 9pm, no cover

27 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (530) 580-7221

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ATLANTIS CASINo RESoRT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom 2) Cabaret

BoomTowN CASINo

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

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Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 833-6333

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

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

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SATURDAY 10/28

SUNDAY 10/29

2) Joey Carmon Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Joey Carmon Band, 8pm, no cover Trey Stone, 10pm, no cover

2) Joey Carmon Band, 8pm, no cover Trey Stone, 10pm, no cover

2) Trey Stone, 8pm, no cover

2) Brother Dan, 6pm, no cover

2) Brother Dan, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) John Palmore, 5pm, no cover

2) Mike Furlong, 6pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover

2) AUX & Kowta, 10pm, no cover

1) Creepers Ball with Tainted Love, 9pm, $25

2) DJ Montague, 9pm, no cover

2) Monster’s Ball, 9pm, $10, no cover w/costume

2) Monster’s Ball, 9pm, $5-$10 3) Halloween Blackout Black Light Party, 9pm, $5-$10

2) Kevin Shea, 6:30pm, $14.99

2) Panic City, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) Adrian Uribe y Omar Chaparro: Imparables!, 8pm, $55 2) This is IT..., 9pm, $30

1) Dan Aykroyd, 6pm, $49-$99 2) Rockin’ Dead Halloween Bash, 9pm, $10

2) Brother Ali, 9pm, $20-$25

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

1) Chris Botti, 7:30pm, $68-$154 2) DJ KOKO & Bayati, DJ SN1, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 7:30pm, $32-$42 2) Take 2, 8:30pm, no cover

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 7:30pm, $32-$42 Essence, 10pm, $30.04 2) Take 2, 8:30pm, no cover

CRYSTAL BAY CASINo

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

ELdoRAdo RESoRT CASINo 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

GRANd SIERRA RESoRT

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

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THURSDAY 10/26

HARd RoCk HoTEL ANd CASINo 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625 1) Graceland Ballroom 2) Vinyl

HARRAH’S LAkE TAHoE

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 427-7274 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

HARRAH’S RENo

219 N. Center St., (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge 3) Plaza 4) Convention Center

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 7:30pm, $32-$42

NuGGET CASINo

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

3) Ladies Night with DJs Enfo & Twyman, 3) Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20 10pm, $20

SILVER LEGACY RESoRT CASINo

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

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Stephen Lord, 6pm, Tu, no cover 2) Chris Twomey, 6pm, Tu, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover It—A Halloween Party, 9pm, Tu, no cover DJ Sam Forbes, 9pm, W, no cover

2) Audioboxx, 9pm, no cover

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

Billion Dollar Nightmare, 8pm, $12

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2) The Breakfast Klub, 9pm, no cover 3) Fetish and Fantasy Halloween Party, 9pm, no cover w/costume 4) Just Us, 9pm, no cover

3) Dark Twisted Fantasy, 10pm, $20

2) Baldo Bobadilla, 6pm, no cover

2) Baldo Bobadilla, 6pm, no cover 3) Trick, 10pm, Tu, $20

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FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 26, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

HALLOWEEN MONSTER MASH: The Reno Blues Society will hold its 24th annual veterans’ benefit dance on Halloween weekend. There will be a costume contest, raffle prizes, food drive for the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and live blues music by Joker’s Wild Blues Band, Blue Haven, the Rick Hammond Band and 9below0. All proceeds will benefit the Adopt-a-Vet Dental program and the Veteran’s Guest House. Sat, 10/28, 6:30pm. $12-$17. Club Cal Neva, 38 E. Second St., www.renoblues.org.

HAUNTED HALLOWEEN BENEFIT BASH: Community Chest, Inc. will hold its second annual Halloween benefit concert featuring acclaimed musical troubadours The Novelists. Come dressed as your favorite Alice in Wonderland character in this special Halloween, literary-themed show.

Proceeds support CCI programs, including the Storey County Community Library and the Classroom On Wheels mobile rural preschool program. Fri, 10/27, 7:30pm. $30. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-9311 ext.

115, www.communitychestnevada.net.

LIGHTS ON AFTERSCHOOL: Boys & Girls Clubs

Nevada Day Parade

10/28:

On Oct. 31, 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to join the union. Every year, the state capital Carson City marks the admission day with a big parade, parties and other special events. The 79th annual parade will feature over 200 entries, including floats, marching bands, horses, entertainers, youth groups, celebrity guests and Burning Man creations. The day’s festivities begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, with a hot air balloon launch on Carson Street near the Carson Mall (weather permitting), followed by the firing of a canon and a flyover of military aircraft to signal the start of the parade at 10 a.m. The procession begins at the intersection of William and Carson streets and concludes about four hours later at the intersection of Stewart and Carson streets. Other Nevada Day celebration highlights include the La Ke Lel Be Nevada Day Pow Wow, the Chili Feed at the Carson Nugget, the Nevada Day Beard Contest at McFadden Plaza, and tours of the Governor’s Mansion. Admission is free to most events. Visit nevadaday.visitcarsoncity.com.

of Western Nevada will participate in a nationwide series of events celebrating and supporting afterschool programs.

More than 8,000 events are expected to take place this year across the country and at U.S. military bases worldwide. The local event will include an ice cream social, face painting, games, bounce house, S.T.E.M. labs provided by the University of Nevada, Reno and information on community partners. Thu, 10/26, 4pm. Free. Boys & Girls Club, 1870 Russell Way, Carson City, (775) 882-8820.

NEVADA STATEHOOD BALL: Complete your celebration of Nevada’s birthday with a light supper and ballroom dancing in the style of Nevada’s early days guided by an expert dance master. Formal wear of any period is welcome. Sat, 10/28, 7pm. $30-$35. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 626-8205.

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COSTUMES & COCKTAILS: MRD Foundation presents this Halloween party featuring gourmet small plates, music by Attic Ratz and prizes for best costumes. Sat, 10/28, 6:30pm. $20-$25. The Bunker VFW Post 9211, 255 Historic Lane, (775) 848-2224, www.mrdglobal.org.

BUILDING SACRED SPACES: Internationally renowned American sculptor David Best and a group of friends first built a sacred temple out of reclaimed wood and waste from a local toy manufacturer at Burning Man in 2000. Since then, he has been involved in the design of nine temples. Best explores the important collaborative and participatory nature of his works and the experience of planning, building and burning these hallowed spaces to the ground in an emotional spectacle of light and heat.

Thu, 10/26, 6pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

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CAPITAL COLLAGE: An evening of food, drink and live entertainment celebrating this year’s Nevada Day Parade theme of “Arts & Entertainment.” There will also be a raffle and silent auction. All money raised goes toward public art programming in Carson City. Fri, 10/27, 7pm. $50. Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada, 1870 Russell Way, Carson City, (775) 687-7410.

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explore the new opportunities, activities and exhibits available for K-12 students and educators. Meet experts in engineering, science, history, medicine and the aerospace industry. Enjoy free admission to see art, cars and exhibits, including painting and fashion displays, space exhibits like Be the Astronaut, a Mars Rover from NASA, a race car exhibit and a new scavenger hunt, Cars of the Future. Sat, 10/28, 9:30am. Free.

National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., www.nevadachallenger.org.

includes bowling, dancing, live and silent auctions. Costumes are optional.

All proceeds will benefit rhinoceros and cheetah conservation programs.

Reno Bowls for Rhinos is an American Association of Zoo Keepers sanctionedevent. Sat, 10/28, 7pm. $36-$50. National Bowling Stadium, 300 Center St., www.renobowlsforrhinos.com.

NEVADA DAY COIN EXCHANGE: The Reno Coin Club and Nevada State Museum will celebrate Nevada Day with a coin exchange, displays of ancient coins and obsolete U.S. coins and free admission to the museum. Fri, 10/27-Sat, 10/28, 10am. Free. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 815-8625.

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. Thu, 10/26-Sat,

7-11pm; Sun, 10/29, 5-9pm; Mon, 10/30-Tue, 10/31, 7-11pm. $10-$30. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, (775) 885-6999, renofrightfest.com.

ALL AGES ANDELIN FAMILY FARM PUMPKIN PATCH & CORN MAZE: The farm’s fall festival pumpkin patch features hay rides, a cow train, 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 other activities and attractions.

Pumpkins are not included in the general admission ticket and 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 through Nov. 5. Tickets are $10-$15 for these attractions. The pumpkin patch is open through Oct. 31. Thu, 10/26-Sat, 10/28, 10am-6pm, Tue 10/31, 10am-3pm. $7-$12. Andelin Family Farm, 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 530-8032, www.andelinfamilyfarm.com.

DAY OUT WITH THOMAS: Fans of the popular Thomas & Friends television show can take a 25-minute train ride with Thomas the Tank Engine and 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. Fri, 10/27-Sun, 10/29, 10am. $15-$19. Virginia City Depot, 166 S. F St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0380, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

FERRARI FARMS PUMPKIN PATCH: The pumpkin patch features a five-acre corn maze, hayrides on a tractor-pulled trailer, farm animals, a mechanical bull, and more than 40 varieties of pumpkins and gourds. The pumpkin patch is open Sunday-Thursday, 9:30am-8pm, and Friday-Saturday, 9:30am-10pm, through Oct. 31. There isn’t an entrance fee but activities are individually priced. The pumpkins are all priced according to size. Thu, 10/26-Tue, 10/31, 9:30am. Free.

Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 9973276, ferrarifarmspumpkinpatch.com.

GOBLIN HALLOWEEN PARADE: Little ghosts and goblins are invited to walk in the parade on Halloween Day. Check in begins at 4pm at the VC Jerky Company. Tue, 10/31, 5pm. Free. C Street, Virginia City, (775) 847-7500.

SAFE TRICK OR TREATING: Bring the family to check out spooky decorations, visit with Nevada Humane Society staff, volunteers and animals in costume and enjoy indoor trick or treating. Free candy for kids in costume. Tue, 10/31, 4-6:30pm. Free. Nevada Humane Society, 2825 Longley Lane, Reno; 549 Airport Road, Carson City, (775) 856-2000, nevadahumanesociety.org.

TRICK OR TREAT IN THE STREETS: The National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection, holds its annual Halloween event offering trick or treating in a climate-controlled environment. The event includes candy stations, games and admission to the museum. Tue, 10/31, 4:30-7:30pm. $2. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300, www.automuseum.org.

TRICKS, TREATS & TREASURES: Costumed youngsters will get a “treasure map” where they’ll find sweet treats at participating Riverwalk District merchant shops. The ninth annual event also features live music and entertainment. Sat, 10/28, 5-7pm. Free.

Riverwalk District and Reno City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., (775) 825-9255, 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, 10/26Wed, 11/1, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Hallowed Absurdities. Mixed-media works by Theodore Waddell. The exhibition runs through Nov. 18. Thu, 10/26-Wed, 11/1. Free. Classroom Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: American Landscapes. Multimedia installation by Willem Volkersz. The show runs through Nov. 18. Thu, 10/26Wed, 11/1. Free. E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

GALLERY EAST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Angles and Eaves Deconstructing Architecture. The art exhibition features hard-edge acrylic paintings reflecting the architectural styles of California before the turn of the 20th century. Karen Anable-Nichols creates colorful abstractions based off the angles and geometry of buildings using arbitrary colors to create an exciting juxtaposition between color and form. Angles and Eaves: Deconstructing Architecture will be on exhibit Monday-Friday through Dec. 1. Thu, 10/26-Fri, 10/27, Mon, 10/30-Wed, 11/1, 8am-5pm. Free. Gallery East, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, renoculture.com.

GALLERY WEST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Preserved Limb, timber and tree-spirit. The art exhibition features paintings of serene, color-drenched environments exploring themes of nature. Artist Jennifer Kapnek uses layers of acrylic paint on recycled wood while incorporating natural elements to reflect concepts of history, endurance, and preservation. The artwork will be on exhibit Monday-Friday through Dec. 1 Thu, 10/26-Fri, 10/27, Mon, 10/30-Wed, 11/1, 8am-5pm. Free. Gallery West, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, renoculture.com.

LASTING DOSE TATTOO & ART COLLECTIVE: Annual Lasting Dose Creepshow. This Halloween-themed, group art show features local artists showing off their creepiest artwork. Sat, 10/28, 8pm. Free.

Lasting Dose Tattoo & Art Collective, 888 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-0666.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Anja Ulfeldt— Perpetual Moment. The first exhibition of Anja Ulfeldt’s work to be shown in Nevada, Perpetual Moment features new kinetic and sound sculptures, as well as the latest site-specific installation in her series of interactive fountains made from upcycled drain pipes. Artist reception on Oct. 26. Thu, 10/26, 6-8pm. Free. Sierra Arts Gallery, 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY: Discernment. The art exhibition features work by emerging artist Yanessa Martinez, a local, conceptual artist working primarily in acrylic. The show runs through Nov. 10. The closing reception is on Nov. 8, 6-8pm. Thu, 10/26-Wed, 11/1. Free. The Holland Project Micro Gallery, 945 Record St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

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

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 Thursday, 10am to 8pm on Friday and noon to 4pm on Sunday. Thu, 10/26Fri, 10/27, Sun, 10/29. $8-$9. Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

MUSIC GOBLINS & GHOULS CONCERT: The Reno Pops Orchestra starts its “Season of Adventure” with a family favorite night of goblins, ghouls and other fantastical, musical tricks and treats. Come in costume and be a part of the costume parade. Sat, 10/28, 7pm. Free. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., www.renopops.org.

MASTODON: The metal band performs along with guests Eagles of Death Metal and Russian Circles. Fri, 10/27, 7pm. $39.50$49.50. Reno Ballroom, 401 N. Center St., (775) 325-7333.

TRICK OR TREAT: The ghostly sounds of Halloween will fill the air as the Reno Wind Symphony performs spookythemed musical selections from movies and performances, as well as jazz and marches. This concert will feature music

by Danny Elfman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others. Thu, 10/26, 7:30pm. $10.

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RONN MCFARLANE: The Grammy-nominated lutenist strives to bring the lute, the most popular instrument of the Renaissance, into today’s musical mainstream and make it accessible to a wider audience. Fri, 10/27, 7pm. $20 suggested donation. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 200 Island Avenue, www.cgwest.org.

ONSTAGE FROM THE OLD STREETS OF TRUCKEE: Richard Blair presents the history of Truckee in the late 1800s through a musical and theatrical performance. Sun, 10/29, 5pm. $45. Cottonwood Restaurant & Bar, 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee, (530) 587-5711.

GENERATION WE—A HIP-HOPERA: This new work is a collaboration between Reno band Weapons of Mass Creation, 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 runs Thursday-Saturday through Nov. 11. Thu, 10/26-Sat, 10/28, 7:30pm. $15-$18.

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LIGHTS OUT COMEDY HALLOWEEN SHOW: Come dressed up as your favorite TV character, hero or villain and take part in the costume contest while listening to some of the area’s funniest comics, including Nick Josten, Nik Taro, Matt Weigand, Kate Brady, Paul Spock, Adam Terry and Verma Celli. Fri, 10/27, 8pm. Free. Perk Up Coffee Shop, 310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 250-5696.

OUT OF STERNO: Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer, Out of Sterno is a coming-of-age play in an Alice in Wonderland world. It explores the triumph and heartbreak of growing up and the contradictory societal pressures women face just trying to make it across town.

Performances are at 7:30pm FridaySaturday through Nov. 11 with an additional performance on Thursday, Nov. 9 and 2pm matinee performances on Sunday through Nov. 12. Fri, 10/27-Sat, 10/28, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/29, 2pm. $12-$15.

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THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND: Brüka Theatre 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. Thu, 10/26-Sat, 10/28, 8pm. $18$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: TMCC Performing Arts presents the original rock musical about a wholesome and innocent young couple on a harmless road trip when, by a turn of fate, they run into some unexpected car trouble. After seeking help at the castle of transvestite scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the naive pair gradually lose their innocence as the

night progresses. 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, 10/27-Sat, 10/28, 8pm; Sun, 10/29, 2pm; Tue, 10/31, 8pm. $10-$15. Nell J. Redfield Performing Arts Center, 505 Keystone Ave., (775) 673-7291.

SPORTS & FITNESS 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, 10/28, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

IDLEWILD HEALTH WALKS: These interpretative walks are a safe and supportive environment designed to offer people in all stages of Alzheimer’s and their care-partners an opportunity to get outdoors, get some exercise and socialize with their peers. Tue, 10/31, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.

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Wipe that green off your face I’m a very envious person, though I don’t act on it (meaning I don’t try to mess things up for people who are doing well). Where does envy stem from? How can I get rid of it?

We think of envy as an ugly, counterproductive emotion, but it’s really just a tool, like a jackhammer or a blender. To understand this, it helps to understand that even emotions that make us feel crappy have a job to do—motivating us to act in ways that will help us survive and make a bunch of little buggers who’ll totter off through the generations, passing on our genes.

In other words, envy is adaptive.

Envy is a form of social comparison that probably evolved to help us keep tabs on how well we’re doing relative to our rivals. As evolutionary social psychologist Abraham (“Bram”) Buunk and his colleagues explain, envy pushes us to dial up our game so we can “narrow the gap” between ourselves and “the superior other” (a.k.a. that annoying co-worker). So envy is basically a social alarm clock: “Yoo-hoo … get cracking, girl! That witch is about to get that promotion, and you’ll be lucky to end up executive vice-scullery maid.”

Buunk and his team explain that there are actually two kinds of envy—malicious envy and benign envy. Each kind motivates people to try to shrink that “status gap” between themselves and others. The difference is in how. Benign envy pushes people to work harder in hopes of matching or beating the competition. Malicious envy is the nasty kind—the kind that motivates a person to loosen the ladder rungs, hoping to cause their golden-girl co-worker to topple to her (professional) death.

The upshot? Envy isn’t something to be ashamed of. You should just see that you use it in a positive way—as a tool for self-motivation instead of co-worker sabotage.

However, getting ahead isn’t just a solo act—it’s often a cooperative endeavor. To decide when to cooperate and when to compete, consider the level of “scarcity.” When resources are scarce—like when there’s just one job available—go after it with everything you’ve got (within ethical boundaries, of

course). But when the rewards aren’t limited, it’s good to be the sort of person who brings along other people. This tends to make others more likely to do nice things for you in return—even helping you get ahead.

Unprivate Ryan My girlfriend’s wonderful. Unfortunately, whenever we have a disagreement, she shares it on social media. She feels she has a right to do that because it’s part of her life. Am I not entitled to a private life while I’m with her?

The longing for privacy—keeping certain info about yourself from public consumption—is a very human thing, a desire that probably evolved out of our need to protect our reputation. In ancestral times, having a bad reputation could lead to a person being booted from their band and made to go it alone.

Contrary to your girlfriend’s notion that “relationship” is just another way of saying “two-person surveillance state,” you have a right to privacy. This is a fundamental human right, explained Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, and it comes out of our right to be left alone. So, yes, you are entitled to pick the “privacy settings” on your own life, because the information about your thoughts, emotions and romantic interactions belongs to you. Nobody gets to dispense that info publicly without your permission—even if this means they have to keep part of their life—the part with you—under wraps.

To stop your girlfriend from turning your relationship into a giant data breach, trigger her sympathy—explaining how awful it feels to become infotainment for a bunch of strangers (and, worse, people you know). Better yet, help her feel it: “Honey … just imagine going on Twitter and finding your therapist’s new account: ‘Heard In Session.’” Ω

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Yes, We Have No

Bananas” is a silly novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series The Muppet Show, puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of classical composer George Handel’s religious oratorio Messiah. I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next two weeks,

you may have to navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,” superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news, and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes, and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch out for a fake

pizza-delivery driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet sometime soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies.

The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is the material

object you want most but don’t have? This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Did you get a chance

to go to circus school when you were a kid?

How about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? Probably none of the above, right?

Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next ten months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is an excellent

phase in your cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets, and wash windows. But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your

motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past, and fact-check the stories you tell about yourself. So which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You never sing the

same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday.

“If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.” That’s an extreme statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How can you

enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last ten months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind. Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are no

such things as magic healings and miraculous redemptions and impossible breakthroughs.

Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. Not right. There is in fact another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions, and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many years from

now, in your last hours on earth, you will have visions that show you how all the events in your life were crucial to your life story. You will understand the lesson that was provided by each twist and turn of your destiny. Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been. And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You might be able to

pass for normal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness. Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence.

Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

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Facing ourselves So back in the summer, a thought crossed my mind, and it won’t go away, the thought being that Donald Trucking Fump is America’s Ugly Karma, one that must be suffered and accommodated, because the USA has some dues to pay.

Yes, I’m saying we may have Orangeman as our prez because we have to reap what we have sown.

Universal rules. And what we sowed in our horrific Iraq misadventure was death, mangling, wounding, pain, sorrow, and dumpsters of hatred in staggering amounts.

A lot of people got dead because of our blustering decision. Many more got hurt, injured, mutilated and deformed. This isn’t good. This isn’t good at all. You do not, as a country, fuck up at that magnitude and storm into a place, shoot it up with all our high-powered Shock and Awe, and then just split, saying “Oops” without incurring some serious debt. Especially when the

utterly regrettable invasion was based on a lie. If there is such a thing as karma in this universe, well, dig the cosmic beauty of it.

We caused epic suffering because of a lie. Hence, we now suffer and cope with a pathological liar as our president. We elected an ignorant, racist, regressive, mentally ill (malignant narcissism) Superprick, through a complex flurry of forces and factors that we’re just beginning to understand, because sooner or later, karmic principle would not be put off or denied.

Bloodthirsty ole Uncle Sam was gonna have to own up. It’s as simple as that.

Now, the great Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone appears to have considered and accepted a similar possibility in terms of “what goes around, comes around.” In the Oct. 5 Stone, he wrote, “This is who we’ve always been, a nation of madmen and sociopaths, for

whom murder is a line item, kept hidden via a long list of semantic self-deceptions, from “manifest destiny” to “collateral damage” … Now, the mask of respectability is gone, and we feel sorry for ourselves, because the sickness is showing … We see this hideous clown in the White House and feel our dignity outraged, but when you really think about it, what should America’s President look like?

Trump is no malfunction. he’s a perfect representation of who, as a country, we are and always have been: an insane monster … When it’s not trembling in terror, the rest of the world must be laughing its ass off. America, land of the mad pig president.”

An insane monster. Liberal hysteria or spot-on journalism?

Who can watch Dum Dum hassling Myeshia Johnson and favor the former? Ω

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