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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

It’s still strange and exciting to me that, here in 2017, in Nevada, I can walk into a store, show an ID, drop some cash, and walk out with a bag of marijuana. Showing the ID still gives me a brief moment of anxiety—an oldschool smoker’s paranoia that my name is about to be added to some list or, more likely, moved to a more prominent position and marked with highlighter on a list that its been on for decades. Of course, in many places in the world that paranoia would be totally justified. Just look at the Philippines. And if Jeff Sessions had his way, that’s how things would be here too.

Still, over the weekend, I had the opportunity to visit Blüm, one of the few Reno dispensaries I haven’t checked out yet—despite the fact that I’ve interviewed folks who work there, and it’s the closest dispensary to my house. It’s a nice place.

It has that futuristic pharmacy vibe that most of the dispensaries have.

The customer service was quick and helpful, and I was pleased to note a rack of our newspapers in the waiting room. I picked up a gram of a sativa-dominant hybrid. (My band had a gig—part of the Off Beat Festival, which was lots of fun—and a little puff is nice before performing music—and, quite frankly, much easier on my system than booze.)

It’s remarkable how much attitudes have changed about cannabis over the last decade or two.

What was taboo and illegal a year ago is now plastered on billboards all over town. Paradigms can shift completely—sometimes seemingly over night.

In the wake of yet another mass shooting—this one in South Texas— it occurs to me that another major paradigm shift is needed. This time, something that is now commonplace should become taboo. The proverbial “thoughts and prayers” are useless. As California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted after this most recent massacre: “They were in their church praying when this happened. What they need is gun control.”

Re “MAG this” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Sept. 21): I don’t expect this to be put in the RN&R because of numerous reasons, but I’ve tried to be clean just in case.

It is simply amazing—I mean the seriously jaw-dropping kind of amazement—all the people who call the president racist, non-American, and all the other names that spew outta their mouths. I say this, of course, in regards to the uncountable, non-American things that we, as a nation, have seen, or may not see, the complete effects of for some time, that that horrid excuse for a man, let alone a former president, did. Things that are not even considered. How about the almost half a trillion, trillion, dollars given to Iran, as we watch them start testing their nuclear capabilities? Oh, but wait, that was OK, huh?

I could go on til my computer runs outta ink (which I know doesn’t have ink—that’s my point). Why would a person have to go any further anyway? Calling him a liar— what about all the piles that were leaving the country if Trump was elected?

That’s different though, huh? And Hillary, what a freaking joke—a very bad joke, at that. Are people like Flapperneck ever so proud as they watch a 3rd grade class kneel during the anthem? Once again, I could go on and on, but why? As the Neon Babble calls us names like Rethuglicans and such, and endless names toward Trump, yet says how childlike he is for doing it, is a perfect example of the tunnel visioned double standard ignorance of the Democraps. He should thank him every once in awhile, because if he took out Trump as his only source of his writings, he would probably be nothing at all. Remember, the majority that put him in office are still out here, and it’s only a matter of time before the ignorance burns itself out and the air exhausted from all the talking head air bags.

Larry Moody Sparks

Re “Hitting home” (cover story, Oct. 19): You, sir, are an ignorant and stupid person, ignorant because you know nothing of the Bill Of Rights, stupid because you chose to put to print your wishful thinking which resulted in lies for your readers to digest.

The Second Amendment requires that firearms be “well-regulated”—an out and out lie. The second amendment calls for a wellregulated militia.

And the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, period. The founders knew that one day, the government would become corrupt and despotic, therefore, they made provisions for the free people to defend themselves from that despotic government if need be. At the writing of the second amendment, the people had the same firearms as did the military. Sure, the technology has progressed, but the wisdom and trust in free people has not changed. However, the mistrust in the news media, that prints it’s own agenda rather than print the truthful news, is at an all time high.

So, it would do you well to keep your ignorance and stupidity to yourself, rather than expose others to your lies. You blast Nevada representatives for doing their job in defending the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The Constitution was written as a mandate for the operation of government.

The Bill of Rights was written to protect the individual free person from the ever reaching arm of an all powerful government.

If that government can give you everything you want, they are also in a position to take everything you have.

William Barwig Gardnerville

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job with her reviews. The acting in this show is so natural and realistic—these students should be extremely proud of themselves. Perhaps I’m biased, but it’s a shame the name of the director, Prof.

Robert Gander, is missing in this review.

For those who are familiar with theater, they know this show didn’t happen by itself, and deserved credit should be given to the talented director, as well. Huge kudos to all of those involved in this beautiful show!

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Bill Bowers Retiree

Except for sports probably, the coverage has been cut back considerably. They’ve moved more towards the social, longer articles, not that much local news. … It kind of makes me wonder why I take the paper issue—because the cost is like $46 a month. Paper print is kind of doomed, I think.

Dane Me yerhoff Flight instructor

I’m not too keen on local news.

It’s just, for whatever reason.

I don’t get much news. That’s a bad answer. All the news—I used to be very involved in it, but now, I hear people talk about it, and it just brings me down.

It’s too much all the time, so I just quit—deleted my news apps. lou Borrego Chief executive officer

The power of example In autumn of 1997, a young woman went to the University of Nevada, Reno Police Department and reported that she had been raped by a former boyfriend.

After bringing charges, she went downtown to the Temporary Protection Order office to try to get a protective order. She arrived too late, but got the paperwork and returned in the morning. When she arrived, UNR police officer Mark Covington was waiting. He had monitored her situation and arrived to help her. He stayed with her all through the TPO process, assisting and supporting her. She responded to his kindness.

“For her to have recently been raped and be responding to a man helping her was really something,” said Rebecca Thomas, then the TPO Office director, who had grilled Covington when he first arrived to learn his interest in the case. “I am impressed that a law enforcement officer would be that responsive to the needs of that student—or any citizen—and I appreciated the manner with which he dealt with her, showing compassion, not being pushy and cop-like. … He set a standard.”

As it happened, this incident occurred during a period when another UNR police officer was convicted of assault and battery in a domestic abuse case. That case was widely publicized. The Covington incident was not.

We wanted to preface this editorial with this information because it is important, during these weeks when two officers have embarrassed the UNR Police Services, to remember that no entity or group is all good or all bad.

What we need to know is whether they learn from their mistakes.

The new incidents involved a UNR officer who made a crack about using violence against a student, and another officer who was in blackface and a costume that mocked Colin Kaepernick. How did such cloddishness become popular? Parents might ask themselves.

By coincidence, Sparks Tribune columnist Andrew Barbano reports that a Yerington teen recently posed in with a gun and a knife in an online photo captioned “The redneck god of all gods we bout to go nigger huntin.” Was that teen following an example set by police officers?

How serious the campus is about making amends is uncertain. Campus officials showed the public little when they withdrew the video of the first incident. Now, of all times, they should be forthcoming. Police Chief Adam Garcia issued an admirable apology. It was not hedged or halfway. It was detailed and nuanced. But shouldn’t the officers have apologized?

It was a long, hard trip for the campus police to get policy authority. In the 1960s, the office had a reputation for recklessness, contaminating evidence, undercutting rape cases. In the 1970s when the Nevada Legislature considered full police authority for UNR, lawmakers learned false testimony was given on the measure, and they killed the bill. UNR Police Services finally got the authority, but many felt it was a mistake, and in 1993 the lawmakers required the university to file reports on the department.

Chief Garcia recognizes the need to “regain the trust of our students, and in particular those of color.” He can’t do it alone. It’s a campus and community responsibility to demand a better example. Ω

The housing shortage is much more critical than people think.

And I think the local papers should be really trying to pitch not only additional labor to come in to accommodate the construction boom … but also talk positively about what this is going to mean long-term for Reno. gaBi rios-sotelo Graduate student

I was in a news story this week that was in the [Reno GazetteJournal]. I was fishing bats out of Lawlor Stadium. ... It was cool that they featured bats, because I work on bats for my research. It was excellent. There were several stories ... well written and scientifically accurate. steve JeroMe Forest Service worker

I would say there probably needs to be even more local news, and it needs to be placed in a way that takes priority, perhaps, over stuff that’s farther away … In an ideal world, everybody would focus on their local community and news, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

A letter to the future As I visited my one-year-old grandson in Washington D.C. recently, just as Mueller’s arrests began to dominate the national news, I wondered how we will explain these dark and treacherous times to him a few decades down the road. I’ll tell him it was a year when every one of us had to make a choice about speaking up and taking action to resist the racist, sexist and immoral policies of a major party on the brink of destruction.

I’ll describe the moments of individual and collective conscience which separated those willing to stand up for the values of our democracy from those who hoped their silence would shield their power and position.

I’ll tell grandson Jack about Republicans like Senators Flake and Corker who denounced a President whose lies and incompetence became more than they could bear, although in choosing not to battle for re-election they essentially conceded defeat.

Some called them cowards for giving up, while others lauded their courage in speaking the truth to a polarized nation. At the

very least, I’ll tell him they deserved credit for recognizing that silence in these turbulent times is complicity, even if their actions in resistance to Trump were less courageous than their words.

Since Jack comes from a pioneering Nevada family who immigrated from Europe many generations ago, and a Latino family from El Paso with strong bi-national ties along the Mexican border, I know he’ll be interested in Nevada’s Republican leaders who decided the 2018 elections would best be manipulated by putting a bogus “sanctuary city” question on the ballot, hoping to draw xenophobic voters to the polls.

But I’ll also tell Jack, whose family on both sides is deeply Democratic, how Nevada had a few Republicans, like Assemblyman Ira Hansen, who were willing to speak up against the cynical and disgraceful tactics of their own party in an effort to overturn the voters’ decisions through baseless recalls that further undermined the public’s trust in the political process. I’ll relate the story of Gov. Sandoval, who much

like a previous Republican Governor, Kenny Guinn, became more and more moderate the longer he was in office. Sandoval denounced the recalls as “dangerous” and decried the “mean-spiritedness politics” of fellow Republicans Clark County Sen. Michael Roberson and Lt. Governor Mark Hutchinson, who traded their integrity for fleeting power. I’ll draw Jack’s attention to our Washoe County Sens. Heidi Gansert, Ben Kieckhefer and Don Gustavson, who endorsed these tactics through their silence.

It won’t make me proud to talk to Jack about the unprecedented attacks on the free press in our country as Republicans ranted about “fake news” whenever a reporter wrote something they didn’t like. In Nevada, in the richest of ironies, Roberson became Trump’s mini-me by attacking his own favored tactic of demonizing political opponents, issuing a press release in the midst of the madness he created, proclaiming “Politically-motivated slander is gutter politics, it drags everyone down and shows the true character of an individual.” Indeed.

Finally, I’ll tell Jack what Nevadans— hopefully—did to take back their democracy. Republicans left their party or actively engaged in the internal battle to restore its soul. Donors shut down the campaign money train for Roberson and his Senate Republican colleagues in response to the recalls and the racist sanctuary city measure. Citizens set aside their disillusionment and voted Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei out of office, heeding Gloria Steinem’s sage advice: “We must not only vote but fight to vote.

The voting booth really is the one place on Earth where the least powerful equal the most powerful.”

2018 must be a year of political courage and action in Nevada and in the United States. Jack and all of us have everything to lose. Ω

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by Brendan Trainor

How to cause drug use: prohibition President Trump announced a public health emergency on Oct. 26 because of the opioid overdose epidemic. Many object that his declaration did not include massive new federal spending to combat the problem.

The phrase “public health” used to be concerned with real epidemics—contagious diseases caused by bacteria and viruses spread by publicly accessed carriers, like vermin, water or air. Opioid abuse is public only because the government has become involved. Opioid abuse would be much more manageable if it was considered a private, individual health issue that would be handled by civil society, not the state.

At the turn of the 20th century, products containing now illegal substances were freely available commercially without regulation. Coca leaves were used to make Coca Cola—the real thing, for sure! Bored Victorian housewives like Wyatt Earp’s first wife imbibed laudanum, a tincture that contained 10 percent opium, to help the lonely hours pass. Civil War soldiers treated their PTSD with morphine. Three

hundred thousand Americans developed bad drug habits.

In 1911, Harrison Wright, the first federal opium commissioner, declared that U.S. citizens consumed more habit-forming drugs than any other nation. Over one hundred years later and despite—rather, because of— continuously escalating government involvement in regulating and prohibiting habit forming drugs, that has not changed. U.S. demand for illegal drugs fuels the international drug trade, an underground economy estimated at $350 billion annually. The U.S. today, with four times the population of 1911, has 10 times the addicts, and overdoses are overwhelming first responders.

There is an enormous black-market premium—by most estimates, up to 90 percent of the retail price—associated with black market sales. Prohibition enables the most unsavory, violence-prone individuals and organizations to dominate the commerce. Drug prohibition leads inevitably to corruption and violence. In Mexico, for example, about 60,000 people have perished

in armed conflicts among the various drug cartels and between the cartels Mexican authorities over the past six and a half years. Another 20,000 have gone missing.

Mexico-based drug cartels control major swaths of territory in both Honduras and Guatemala. They also now control most of the heroin imported to the U.S., superseding the Columbian cartels.

No, the Trump wall will have little effect on the Mexican cartel’s drug trafficking.

The U.S. government has even been accused of direct involvement in the illegal drug trade. Many believe the CIA funded heroin trafficking during the Vietnam war, and the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s.

The Afghan poppy crop has grown exponentially during our involvement in that country.

Efforts to control the ability of doctors to prescribe opioid meds and the requirement that prescription pills be tamper-proof have only led to increased heroin use, and the mix of heroin with more potent and lethal pharmaceuticals like Fentanyl.

The federal government responds by

blaming and arresting Chinese Fentanyl manufacturers.

During discussion in the major media surrounding the new opioid epidemic, the only person I saw who spoke about a different approach was the Virgin Atlantic CEO, billionaire Richard Branson. On Cable News Network he spoke of the decriminalization of hard drugs that has dramatically reduced overdoses in countries like Portugal. The CNN news people listened politely, but, after he left, the story line stayed the same— legislate, prohibit, arrest, sentence or treat: Wash, rinse and repeat.

Nevada, to its credit, is a leader in harm reduction strategies, and overdose deaths have declined recently. Medical marijuana can reduce opioid use by up to 64 percent.

The 2019 legislature should permit medically supervised injection sites as well. Ω

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The Fall Dance Festival

Choreography by Dance Faculty Eve Allen and Carl Cunningham Student choreography by Shannon Aguillon, Jess Alfonso, Kristin Austin, Leslie Balzer, Trisha French, Tiffany Foster, Brita Romans, Brittannee Sherman

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by Dennis Myers

Federal report disputes top guy

A WMI truck makes a pickup.

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Despite Donald Trump’s policy statements on climate change for his administration, researchers who prepared a U.S. government report—the fourth National Climate Assessment—found no way to comply with his policies. Their 60-page Climate Science Special Report, which drew for expertise on NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Energy—found of the last 115 years (1901–2016), “This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization,” representing a 1.8 Fahrenheit (1.0 Celsius) rise in planet temperatures. It further found there is “no convincing alternative explanation” for climate change except human activities.

Somehow, Environmental Protection Agency administrator and Trump appointee Scott Pruitt found it possible to read the report—we assume he read it—and react this way: “There’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.”

You can read the report at science2017.globalchange.gov/.

laxalt now knows all county names Republican Adam Laxalt announced his candidacy for governor of Nevada on Nov. 1 and then set off on a 17-county tour of the state, not an easy task since Nevada has only 16 counties plus Carson City, the state capital.

Laxalt, drawing on his connections—his GOP grandfather, after serving two U.S. Senate terms, stayed in D.C. to become a corporate lawyer—raised so much money he scared other Republicans out of the race. Laxalt lived in D.C. himself until five years ago, when he moved to Nevada and ran successfully for attorney general.

Democrats Chris Giunchigliani and Steve Sisolak, meanwhile, will be spending a lot of money attacking each other in their primary.

Offal laws

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A court case resonates with many

In Indiana, where the future of rooftop solar is a subject of considerable public debate, Nevada is being used as a bad example. That state’s Senate Bill 309 phases out net metering, which requires utilities to pay solar homeowners for unused power they generate.

This law has created a considerable fuss and headlines like “Blocking the Sun: New Report Documents Efforts to Undermine Rooftop Solar”; “New Indiana solar law could cripple small businesses and customer savings”; and “Indiana politicians got thousands in gifts while pushing solar policy.”

The Indianapolis Star recounted the incident when the GOP-dominated 2015 Nevada Legislature told the Public Utilities Commission to review solar, and the PUC effectively outlawed it. The Indianapolis Star, under the headline “How Nevada ruined its solar industry—and what it’s doing to fix it” recounted the long fight, which ended when a newly Democratic legislature repaired some of the damage, which effectively took Nevada out of the race for solar industry development when companies departed the state (“Fighting the future,” RN&R, Jan. 21, 2016).

the gop tax bill If you would like to read the proposed tax bill of U.S. House Republicans, go to waysandmeansforms.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bill_text.pdf. It is 429 pages long, but that’s doublespaced with wide margins.

—Dennis Myers

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a nevada supreme court appeal seeks to curb the power of Waste Management, Inc. in the city’s economy.

The case began when Nevada Recycling and Salvage Ltd.—which operates under the name Rubbish Runners—sued WMI to try to break the monopoly on trash collection it has in Reno.

Nevada Recycling’s case was dismissed by the late Nevada District Judge Patrick Flanagan, who ruled that as a matter of law there was nothing to litigate because the monopoly granted by the Reno City Council to WMI was legal. Flanagan quoted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who distinguished between when “a restraint upon trade or monopolization is the result of valid government action, as opposed to private action.”

In effect, it meant that monopolies created privately are illegal, but some monopolies created by government can be legal—and Flanagan found that the monopoly in Reno trash

collection “entered into by the City of Reno and Reno Disposal [a corporate name acquired by WMI when the chain purchased the local company] in this case is valid, unambiguous and enforceable.”

That happened on Sept. 19, 2016.

The matter is now before the Supreme Court of Nevada, and it grows more heated with each passing week.

On Oct. 19, Mark McKinnon, who owns a Reno tattoo company, posted this message on Facebook: “I’m just going to throw this out here because I think there needs to be some awareness of what’s going on in our city. I own a small business [that] is being threatened with legal action. Why? Because we chose to go with a more earth-friendly, recycling-conscious trash company, Green Solutions Recycling. [WMI] is threatening us with a lawsuit if we do not comply by switching back to them as our trash provider. Here’s the kicker. City of Reno Government is in contract with Waste Management for

all trash service in the city. Last time I checked, that was called a monopoly.

We are being threatened with fines if we do not comply. I would definitely like to hear from City of Reno government to explain how this is OK. I never agreed to have one choice for trash service, I like that there are options. Green Solutions recycles everything. If you allow a monopoly to happen like this, the company who benefits from it gets slack. This is unacceptable.”

He asked readers to spread the word to local media and officials. McKinnon plainly struck a nerve. Hundreds of responses to his message were posted, and he got news coverage from KRNV/ KRXI and This is Reno.

Not that this changed anything.

Exclusive franchises have been common in municipalities for generations, and they make money, reducing pressure for higher taxes. Nor do they happen only in trash collection.

But McKinnon’s action is just the latest in a long line of grievances that prompted the Nevada Legislature to take a serious look at curbing local monopolies this year. Senate Bill 315, sponsored by Clark County Sens.

Patricia Farley—one of three female senators currently being targeted by Republican recall efforts—and Moises Denis, actually passed the Senate on a 16-to-five vote before running out of time in the other house. The Farley/Denis bill did not offer a full exploration of issues, since it focused on distinguishing commercial from residential disposal and particularly construction and demolition, plus the unusual situation in Washoe and Clark counties of trash collection corporations owning their own landfills. But it did show there is an appetite in the legislature to do something about the problem.

As McKinnon wrote, uncontrolled power tends to become abusive, and WMI has acted fairly high-handed on occasion. There have been cases where WMI started service on the say-so of a landlord without ever telling the tenant, who discovered the service when s/he got a bill.

When Dean Barnett, a California resident, inherited his mother’s house in the Spanish Springs Valley, he had the house put into order and made pristine, then installed an alarm

system. Eventually, when he decided to the behavior of the corporation, but of sell it, he discovered WMI had put a lien the customer. In Sparks, for instance, the on it because he had not paid the trash law defines types of trash and, to prevent collection bill for the time the building had people from providing their own service, stood empty. prohibits residents from transporting it to It is a common practice for governlandfills, so that only WMI can do it. ments that grant monopolies to insist on Garbage is defined as “animal and ways for the public to be protected, such vegetable waste resulting from the handling, as ratesetting and an appeal process. In storage, preparation, cooking, sale and serving Microeconomics for Today, Irvin Tucker of food and beverage … offal, swill, kitchen wrote that for a century, “Privately and table waste, and other organic held utility companies obtained animal or vegetable waste … the right to operate a bottles, cans, cups, plates, monopoly in exchange for utensils, containers, and/or “If government government regulations covering of any construcremoves competition, that set rates and capped tion or material that has profits.” been in intimate contact it needs to create with food, confection regulation to protect and/or beverage … any Defining consumers.” component used in the garbage preparation or manufacture Glen Atkinson of matter intended for Local governments in Economist animal or human consumpthe Truckee Meadows tion, and … such matter and/ have not done that. They left or materials listed in subsections consumers at the mercy of an C(2) and C(3) of this section that have unregulated utility. Barnett had no been discarded without first being sanitized.” appeals process to turn to. He had to keep Residents are not permitted to transport it. battering away at WMI until they realized WMI is currently working under a contract he was not going to give up, so they lifted with the City of Reno that grants its monopoly the lien. In the interim, he had lost at least for a whopping 17 years. Among other things, one sale of the house. this means that the issue has been taken “The free market is based on competientirely out of the hands of the current countion,” said economist Glen Atkinson at cil. It was approved by a previous city council the time (“Unappealing,” RN&R, July 17, and will expire after the term limits on current 2014). “If government removes competicouncilmembers have run out. This contract tion, it needs to create regulation to protect basically leaps over the current councilmemconsumers.” bers, giving them little to say about the issue.

At the legislature this year, WMI’s Greg Councilmember Jenny Brekhus said the best Martinelli said, “A state-mandated price the council can do is give the next council control seems to be counterintuitive to the “the best situation” it can to deal with. desire for an open and competitive market“I think that there are a number of things place. The cities and counties know what that I would have done different,” she works best in their communities, and they said. “The term length is one. Requiring should be the ones making the decisions minimum staffing levels and fleet stanon whom and what they franchise in their dards would have been another. I think communities.” that I would have tackled the recyclables He did not address himself to appeals of differently also. I am not so sure that it is other matters since the bill did not deal with structured to be most cost efficient to the such matters. If the city or county issues a ratepayers or a best practice in sustainabilcitation on WMI’s behalf, the customer can ity. However, I am not sure that there is an appeal it—but must pay $50 for the appeal, off-the-shelf model for recycling programs plus whatever other costs are associated that can be borrowed from another city. with it.

When the next round of negotiations come At the time of the Barnett case, we up, I hope that there is a ‘third generation’ reported that we had heard the sentence of recycling franchise agreements that could “We are not required to inform you when be more advantageous to both the city and we provide you with service” used at the franchisee.”

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n the United States, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the government’s power to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework.

Article 19 reads: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

By highlighting the right to receive information and ideas, Article 19 makes it clear that press freedom is about everyone in society, not just the press, and that government censorship is only one potential way of thwarting that right. That’s the perspective that has informed Project Censored from the beginning, more than 40 years ago.

Even though Project Censored’s annual list focuses on specific censored stories, the underlying issue has never been isolated examples. They serve to highlight how far short we fall from the fully informed public that a healthy democracy requires—and that we all require in order to live healthy, safe, productive, satisfying lives. It’s the larger patterns of missing information, hidden problems and threats that should really concern us.

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Lead contamination threatens children’s health, could triple water bills In January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide, with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested.

In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 zip codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint, Michigan, at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint.

In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened had high blood lead levels.

Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6—about 500,000 children—have elevated blood lead levels.

But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hotspots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates.

They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Pennsylvania, where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.”

In January 2017, Schneyer and Pell reported that, based on their previous investigation, “From California to Pennsylvania, local leaders, health officials and researchers are advancing measures to protect children from the toxic threat.”

But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported

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for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs,” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote.

The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan.

In 2012, the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills.

As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

Over $6 trillion in unaccountable Army spending In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits, but a July 2016 report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades.

As Dave Lindorff reported for This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress—what it was spent on, how well it was spent, or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone.

“Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added.

The report appeared at a time when, “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare. … Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also

engaged in pervasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending … even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.”

In March 2017, after Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The Guardian that, “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.”

Pentagon paid United Kingdom PR firm for fake Al Qaeda videos Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what

“a disproportionate impact on AfricanAmerican and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes.

Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012 to 2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.”

As Berman noted in an article published

by Moyers & Co. in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “cable news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

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about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive—and questionable— operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011.

The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying Al Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and—most disturbing—fake Al Queda propaganda films.

A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, said he was given precise instructions for production of fake Al Qaeda films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former Gen. David Petraeus— the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq—and on occasion by the White House.

They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘gray area.’”

The reporters “traced the firm’s Iraq work through U.S. Army contracting

censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Defense Department’s inspector general, as well as Bell Pottinger’s corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda.”

Documents show that Bell Pottinger employed as many as 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point, and its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million per year on average.

Voter suppression in the 2016 presidential election The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v.

Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority in the Supreme Court struck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “pre-clear” changes.

As a result, changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance.

Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina, English-only elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations, and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision.

Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities USA, which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with

When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up.

In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed but with decades of refinement, technological advances and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting—based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters—as Carole Cadwalladr reported for the Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to datadriven communication has played such an integral part in President-elect Trump’s extraordinary win.”

Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.

But now they’re able to micro-target their deceptive, disruptive messaging.

“Pretty much every message that Trump

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“The 10 MoST CeNSoreD STorieS of 2017” continued from page 11 put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016.

On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook.

This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. In a New Yorker profile, Jane Mayer noted that Mercer argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a major mistake, a subject not remotely hinted at during the campaign.

Antibioticresistant “superbugs” threaten foundations of modern medicine The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs, “superbugs,” has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016.

Factories in China and India—where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured—have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine.

“After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’ news report,” Project Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries.

Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe, according to UK National Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies.

“At the heart of the issue is how to motivate pharmaceutical companies to improve their production practices. With strong demand for antibiotics, the companies continue to profit despite the negative consequences of their actions,” Project Censored noted.

Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices—organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy and care of pre-term infants—“will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake,” according to Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization.

The toll of U.S. Navy training on wildlife in the North Pacific The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost 12 million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by The West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for Truthout. This includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions and other marine wildlife such as endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters. The number was tabulated from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Letter of Authorization for the number of “takes” of marine mammals caused by Navy exercises.

“A ‘take’ is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment, to injury, and sometimes to death,” Jamail wrote. “Many wildlife conservationists see even ‘takes’ that only cause behavior changes as injurious, because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming, or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.”

As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement, including: A 778 percent increase in number of torpedoes.

A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary).

A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft.

An increase from none to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters.

“It is, and has been for quite some time now, well known in the scientific community that the Navy’s use of sonar can damage and kill marine life,” Jamail reported.

Maternal mortality a growing threat in the U.S. The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly even more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid.

“Each year, over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes and over

65,000 experience life-threatening complications or severe maternal morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized

by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking at 17.8 in 2011.”

“The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” Rep. Lois Capps stated at the meeting.

The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, has developed safety bundles of “best practices, guidelines and protocols to improve maternal health care quality and safety,” Gay wrote. “These ‘bundles’ include equipping hospital labor units with a fully stocked cart for immediate hemorrhage treatment, establishing a hospital-level emergency management protocol, conducting regular staff drills and reviewing all cases to learn from past mistakes, among other things.”

More broadly, Kiera Butler reported for Mother Jones that doctors rarely warn patients of the potential for serious injuries and complications that can occur following birth.

Many state laws require doctors to inform women of the potential complications and dangers associated with delivery, but none requires them to discuss potential long-term problems, including the fact that some complications are more prevalent in women who give birth vaginally, rather than by C-section.

DNC claims right to select presidential candidate A key story about the 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media—a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on the suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment.

As Michael Sainato reported for the Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the DNC Charter—which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries—is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” Sainato also reported that DNC attorneys argued that specific terms used in the DNC charter—including “impartial” and “evenhanded”—couldn’t be interpreted in a court of law, because it would “drag the

Court … into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs.”

Jared Beck, representing Sanders’ supporters, responded, “Your Honor, I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.”

Not only was running elections in a fair and impartial manner a “bedrock assumption” of democracy, Beck argued earlier, it was also a binding commitment for the DNC: “That’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says,” he said. “It says it in black and white.”

A record year for global internet shutdowns In 2016, governments around the world shut down Internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service.

“In the worst cases, internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun, of Access Now. “What we have found is that Internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities,” Olukotun said.

Kevin Collier also covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages”—like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized Internet “curfew”—as a single instance. The Vocativ report included a dynamic map chart, designed by Kaitlyn Kelly, that vividly depicts Internet shutdowns around the world, month by month for all of 2016, as documented by Access Now. As Olukotun told IPS, one way to stop government shutdowns is for internet providers to resist government demands.

“Telecommunications companies can push back on government orders, or at least document them to show what’s been happening, to at least have a paper trail,” Olukotun observed.

On July 1, 2016, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the Internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress,” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that, “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the Internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Ω

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A new mAjor And An upcoming festivAl give unr dAnce students A chAnce to show their skills

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trisha French is one of six students who have choreographed their own dance compositions for the Fall Dance Festival.

The University of Nevada, Reno’s School of the Arts boasts a museum, nationally recognized jazz program and classes ranging from art history to digital media. The school’s contingent of dancers is perhaps less known. Until now, it’s been spotlighted once a year in the Fall Dance Festival. But, as of this fall, students have the option to pursue dance as a major.

“Dancers, in general, are highly committed kinds of people, so even though we haven’t had a B.A. in dance, we’ve had strong dancers, dance technicians, people pursuing MFA degrees even after just having a dance minor,” said Eve Allen, ballet instructor and festival coordinator.

Allen, who was born and raised in Reno, is one such dancer.

After majoring in business and minoring in dance at UNR, she went on to receive a graduate degree from the University of Utah.

She believes Reno’s support of the arts community in general has set the stage for the expansion of the dance program.

“We’ve always had a smaller program,” Allen said. “But it’s growing, and the interest in dance is growing. Out in the community, the arts—it’s just kind of a prime time for growth right now, and so we’re just keeping pace with what’s happening locally.”

UNR’s theater and dance programs operate under one department. While the addition of a new major could seem like a bid for independence, Allen said the two programs share several core class requirements, and there’s little interest in separating the two departments.

“This is an ideal situation,” she said. “One of the students was interested in a double-theater [major] and thought, ‘Well this is perfect,’ and so she became a dance major. She’s a theater and dance major.”

Behind the scenes

Students in the festival also have creative control over the technical aspects of the show, and learning to balance the different elements of the performance can be just as demanding as the actual choreography.

“There’s so much more that goes into it than just the finished piece,” French said. “Like, there’s so many leadership skills, and how well you can work as a team and be responsible. There are so many deadlines with just planning costumes and lighting and being at every rehearsal. There’s a lot that goes into it that isn’t just, ‘How good is this dance?’”

French believes that these organization and project management skills will stead her well if she chooses to pursue a career in The Fall Dance Festival itself serves as an example of the kind the arts—and being selected for the festival improves her resume. of cooperation she’s referring to. In its first semester, the dance As the dance degree only just became available in her senior year, program has about 13 students, but the full cast and crew of the French is unsure if she’ll be able to pursue it as a major before festival numbers around 40, including theater students operating graduating, but she believes the program is already opening more lighting and doing production. This year’s performance will opportunities for work in Reno. feature eight student-choreographed pieces and two from faculty “A student that recently graduated started her own company, members—one by Allen and another from dance program adviser and a whole bunch of undergraduates auditioned for it,” she said.

Cari Cunningham.

“It’s called Collateral and Co. There are a lot of graduates now “The student pieces were adjudicated in starting their own companies and finding the spring semester as part of a small, informal studios in town and teaching classes. It Fall Dance Festival performances are Nov. 16-18 showing,”Allen said. “And then we selected at 8 p.m., with a matinee Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in the seems like there’s a lot growing in Reno, and Redfield Proscenium Theatre inside the Church Fine I hope that it continues to grow for dance the ones that had potential and offered them Arts Building. Tickets, $10-15, are available at the to be developed.” Students in the festival get and theater and arts in general.” Ω Lawlor Box Office or www.mynevadatickets.com.

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a budget for costumes, production and lighting help, and professional videography and photography.

Trisha French is a dance minor and one of the students whose work was chosen for this year’s festival. She began studying dance as a way to remain active during her studies as an English major, but has since found a depth to her dance education she didn’t expect. She’s taken classes in dance criticism, history and theory.

“I started to find out how many possibilities there were that I wasn’t aware of initially,” French said. “All of the different facets of dance that aren’t just auditioning for things on Broadway—that seems to be people’s main idea of what a dancer’s only route to take is.”

Her piece began as a final project for her upper-division choreography class and was inspired by her experience with graphemecolor synesthesia—a type of neurological sensory condition in which she perceives letters and numbers as having specific colors.

“My piece is about that kind of cause-and-effect reaction, where the music motivates the dancers who sort of portray what that music might look like and might feel like kinesthetically and visually, rather than just audibly.” French said. In her piece, four dancers represent four instruments—two violins, a cello and drums.

“They only move when their instrument is playing in the music, and they embody the qualities that the music represents,” she explained. “For example, the drums are very heavy and sharp, whereas the violins are a little bit lighter and more flowy.”

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Prior to this summer, artist Blair SaxonHill had never visited Nevada. But during her summer artist residency at Sierra Nevada College, she found herself immersed in the varied landscape of Northern Nevada, the combination of flatness, mountain ranges and Lake Tahoe.

As such, the work featured in her upcoming show, Laid Me Out, is based on her first observations of the region.

Born in Eugene, Oregon, and currently living in Portland, Saxon-Hill uses a combination of sculpture, painting, drawing and photography. Her residency began in late July, right after she experienced a painful breakup. The residency was short, just a couple of weeks spent at the Sagehen Creek Field Station in Truckee.

During that time she made some preliminary sketches, then it took a while for the ideas and the overall concept for a new body of work to emerge.

She found inspiration in an unlikely material: towels. The initial thought came when she saw towels labeled “reserved” on the beaches near the hotels, making the lake itself feel both within reach but also inaccessible. This material became the focal point of the whole show, and SaxonHill said that was unusual.

“Repetition like that doesn’t occur often in my work,” she said.

Saxon-Hill bought used towels from a thrift store, drew silhouettes onto them, and cut and formed them to resemble humanoid beings in various positions—prayer, work and exercise, for instance. She used different materials, such as plaster imbued with fiber or fabric stiffener, to harden the towels, and then painted over them with different colors. She made additional details, like

Oregon artist Blair Saxon-Hill made a body of work that explores her responses to Lake Tahoearea geography and culture.

hands and feet, from an array of materials such as fanny packs, sweat pants and rope. Once she arrived at SNC’s gallery, she assembled the pieces, matching the hands and feet with the silhouettes, and mounted them to the wall.

One such piece is inspired by the construction prevalent in the Lake Tahoe region during the summer.

Saxon-Hill’s construction worker is identifiable by uniform, but she added surrealist details, such as multiple arms and a paintbrush, depicting the construction worker as an artist.

She considers her work to be “social practice,” which she sees as “something that intentionally engages the public, either through the creating the work or experiencing the work,” she said. “The work itself requires collaboration. And it often has a social and political focus. … I really wanted to look at matters of climate change.”

This includes her choice of materials, many of which are reused and repurposed.

“There’s an interesting conversation in art about ‘recycled’ and ‘found’ materials,” she said. “I prefer the term ‘borrowed.’” When selecting sustainable materials to reuse for art, “it’s about choice and intent.”

Another recurring theme in the show is the color blue, and how this relates to an ecosystem like Lake Tahoe, in which shades of blue are found everywhere. The Keep Tahoe Blue campaign struck SaxonHill as a phrase with more meaning than the obvious.

“There’s this idea that if something is blue, it’s therefore clean,” she said.

“So ‘keep Tahoe blue’ can mean ‘keep it clean’ or ‘keep Tahoe a Democratic place.

Blueness has an enormous range.” Ω

laid Me Out runs through Dec. 2 at the Tahoe Gallery, sierra nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village.

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Thunderstruck Somebody was smoking some laced wild shit and licking frogs when they put together Thor: Ragnarok, a film so nutty it easily surpasses the Guardians of the Galaxy films as the screwiest offering in the Marvel universe.

When you hand the keys to the Thor franchise over to a director like Taika Waititi, you know you are going to get something bizarre, and Waititi doesn’t disappoint. Waititi is the New Zealand comic actor/ director responsible for the hilarious vampire faux documentary What We Do in the Shadows and the funny family drama Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

There’s really nothing on his resume that screams, “Hey, let’s have this guy direct an action-packed, highly expensive Thor film!” But he got the gig, so there you go. Sometimes the wild card pays off.

Borrowing from a host of Marvel comics, including the famed “Planet Hulk” storyline, the hallucinogenic plot drops Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a crazy garbage planet bent on round-the-clock, violent entertainment and led by Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, finally getting a high-profile role worthy of him outside of a Wes Anderson film). The Grandmaster cuts Thor’s hair, dresses him in gladiator gear, and throws him into the ring for a weaponized bout with his prized competitor.

That prized competitor is the Hulk, held captive on the planet for the past couple of years. He’s been nothing but the Hulk the whole time, with Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) trapped inside him. Thor and Hulk have a battle royale for the ages, followed by some great scenes where the Hulk actually speaks.

Ruffalo provides the voice, and this is the first time in the recent Marvel films where Lou Ferrigno isn’t providing Hulk’s growls.

There’s a whole other apocalyptic subplot going on, where Thor’s long-lost sister Hela (a striking and devilish Cate Blanchett decked out in black) is causing major havoc on his home planet of Asgard. Blanchett immediately sets herself high in the ranking of Marvel movie villains. She’s played a baddie before, but never this entertainingly.

Thor’s mischievous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) makes it into the mix, begrudgingly siding with his brother in the war for Asgard, but still not trustworthy. Waititi wisely plays upon the more comic notes from Loki’s past Avenger film participation and makes Loki, more or less, a clown in this movie. It works beautifully.The great Tessa Thompson plays Valkyrie, a former Asgardian turned trapper for the Grandmaster and sporting a slight drinking problem.

Karl Urban gets perhaps his best role outside of Star Trek as Skurge, an Asgardian who becomes Hela’s right-hand man, and boasts a collection of stuff that includes an infamous, Earthly exercising tool.

To say the result of all this is trippy is an understatement. The movie looks like Thor meets Boogie Nights—minus the porn—meets The Lord of the Rings. It scores high marks in the fantasy genre realm while being one of the year’s funniest movies, and that’s high praise. Most of the cast gets to demonstrate equal parts comedic and action chops, and the film never feels off balance. Goldblum, thankfully, gets to riff most of his dialogue Goldblum style. It all feels very improvised and loose.

As far as moving the stories of Thor and Hulk forward, the movie sort of spins its wheels. Ragnarok is mostly a standalone, expensively silly curio that looks great and distinguishes itself without worrying about connecting to plot threads in other films. I mean, it does do that (stay for the after credits scene), but it does so without being too obvious.And there’s no problem in that. These are comic book movies, and sometimes, as in Avengers: Age of Ultron, they can take themselves a little too seriously. Ragnarok embraces its insanity and takes it to highly entertaining, WTF levels.

No, I don’t want to see this happen with every Marvel movie. But, every fourth movie, just let a rogue director go crazy with some Avengers? That wouldn’t be so bad. Ω

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Blade Runner 2049

Ridley Scott’s original sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner came out in 1982—35 years ago. Scott has tooled with the cut of that movie numerous times, resulting in a final cut that was released about 10 years ago. While there was a lot of monkeying—in a good way—with the original, it didn’t seem there was much thought, or chance, for an actual sequel. The original was a box-office bomb and didn’t start gaining its classic status until a decade after its release. In fact, critics beat up on it a bit.

Here in 2017, we actually do get a sequel, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve, the visionary behind Enemy and Arrival. (Scott remains involved as a producer.) Harrison Ford, who has classically moaned about the original movie, has, nonetheless, returned to play blade runner Rick Deckard. A terrific Ryan Gosling steps into the starring role of K, a new blade runner tasked with “retiring” older model replicants, the synthetic humans originated by the likes of Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah in the original. Other than the presence of Ford in the final act of the movie, and the vision of Pan Am and Atari logos still present in the Los Angeles skyline, there’s little to make this one feel like a standard sequel. 2049 goes off on many new tangents, bending the mind when it comes to topics like artificial intelligence, what really constitutes love, and determining what is “real” in this world.

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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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Jigsaw

This film pulls the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) out of the mothballs and finds a way for the permanently scowling, droning party pooper to commence elaborate killings again. Hey, LionsGate needs a hit, and nobody over there is concerned about quality or making a lick of sense when it comes to this franchise. This mess is living proof of that.

Things start in that oh-so-familiar, Saw way, with a bunch of people trapped in a room and chained to contraptions that threaten to disembowel them. They are all bad people who must confess their crimes or face the wrath of Jigsaw and a rather stellar makeup department. This movie is idiotic, but the gore masters do some pretty decent yucky stuff.

There’s a half-sawed-off head moment that was quite good. Yeah, Jigsaw died in one of the past movies. I don’t remember which, and you couldn’t pay me enough to go back and watch them again to figure it out. I just know he died somewhere in the prior six films and lived on in flashbacks. The writers have come up with yet another way to return the crotchety psycho codger to the big screen because somebody at LionsGate needs one of those saltwater swimming pools and a new bike. Seven movies in, and I’ve yet to meet a Saw movie that I like. Jigsaw is more of the same, more of the lame.

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

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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. The final sequences 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 has driven home a major message about and homage to these guys.

The gang is all back, just one year later, for another round of ’80s horror and sci-fi nostalgia, and maybe they should’ve taken a little more time to let things settle in. The new, intermittently enjoyable season feels a little stretched out and undercooked at times, with a lot of silly subplots mucking up the works. Will (Noah Schnapp) still sees visions of the Upside Down universe, the place he spent a good part of season one languishing in while his pals searched for him. It turns out Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), after her huge season one sacrifice going into the Upside Down, came back to our universe almost directly after, and is hiding out with Sheriff Jim Hopper (David Harbour) in a storyline that makes little sense.

Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), in a shameless nod to E.T., has captured a creature in his garbage can, and feeds it Three Musketeers bars instead of Reese’s Pieces. Winona Ryder overacts while Paul Reiser basically replaces Matthew Modine as the scientist guy. Season two manages to maintain the charm that made the first season so watchable, so fans won’t be disappointed. But, there’s no denying that the proceedings seem a little strained this time out. Notable movie references, besides E.T., include Jaws, Pretty In Pink, The Goonies— Sean Astin joins the cast!—Lost Boys, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (Streaming on Netflix.)

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A trio of tacos is served with rice and beans at La Enchilada in Carson City.

Livin’ chile I recently lamented to a co-worker the lack of options for authentic Mexican food close to our Carson City office. Turns out her favorite is just a short jog down a road I’d never traveled. La Enchilada is located in a funky little building with a drivethrough window and a plethora of chile plants growing around the exterior and on the tables inside. A pair of food trucks take the goodies to the masses.

We were served housemade tortilla chips and scooped up a selection of dips from the salsa bar. The salsas and pico de gallo were first rate, definitely made fresh. The chips were a bit on the thick and crunchy side, though not bad.

Next, we dug into some tacos ($1.50 each), including cabeza (beef head), adobada (marinated pork), lengua (beef tongue) and pollo asada (grilled marinated chicken). Unlike most street-style tacos, these had a single corn tortilla that held up well under the pile of meat, onion, tomato and cilantro. The chicken was moist. The tongue was tender. The cow’s head had the earthy texture and flavor that is unique to that bit of beef. But the pork was a standout—with amazing flavor and texture.

Beef tamales ($1.50 each) were next.

They were on the large side but with a lot more cornmeal than meat. While they were perfectly acceptable rendition of this standard, they just weren’t my favorite thing.

A ceviche camaron tostada (citrus cured shrimp on a crispy tortilla) ($3) was much better. The tortilla was considerably lighter and crisper than the chips and doused in salt and lime juice. The shrimp was perfect, and there was plenty of onion, tomato, cilantro and about a quarter of an avocado on top—absolutely fabulous.

I had heard that the torta (Mexican sandwich) was the thing to order here, but they

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had already sold out by the time I got there.

Instead, I ordered a carne asada (steak) super burrito ($9) and wasn’t disappointed.

There were tons of meat, beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, lettuce, and just enough rice to fill up this pound-plus beast. It was pretty much everything you’d find on a carne asada combo plate stuffed into a giant flour tortilla. I can say without hyperbole that it was one of the best balanced big burritos I’ve enjoyed.

We also ordered a pair of combo plates, one with chicken enchiladas and the other with a chile relleno ($8.99 each). Both came with Spanish rice, refried beans and a simple salad. The rice and beans had a lot of flavor and worked well together.

There was more than your average amount of lettuce, tomato and onion, which I really like to mix in with each bite. The enchiladas were not what you’d normally expect, but I think that was due to the fact they’re made fresh to order. Rather than rolled, the corn tortillas were simply folded over with their meat and veg payload, then topped with red sauce and cheese. They were delicious.

The chef noted that she’d just cooked some fresh chiles rellenos, so that selection was a no-brainer. Not remotely crispy—and eggy to the point of being an omelette wrapped around a stuffed pepper—I still found this to be a winner. It was easily the spiciest relleno I’ve ever had, topped with plenty of melted cheese and sauce. They’re apparently grilled instead of the broiled, and I have to say, the restaurant is on to something. I’m already hooked, but I can’t wait to go back early enough to try that Ω much-lauded torta.

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I’ve barely ventured into any casino properties, despite the readily available drinks to be found there. It was something of a conscious decision, not because they aren’t worthy, but mostly because, at least in my mind, there’s not much variation or distinctiveness among them. I must admit, the same could be said for many non-casino bars, and I’m sure plenty of you are regular patrons of local gaming establishments.

At the risk of oversimplifying, there are two kinds of casinos—those that cater to visitors and those for locals. Whether by location, marketing, or lack of hotel, places like Bonanza and Baldini’s fall squarely into the latter category. After a nearby errand on a recent Sunday afternoon, I decided to check out High Sierra Brewing inside Baldini’s. The last time I visited High Sierra some years ago, at their brewpub in Carson City, I found the beer average, with good food and a nice atmosphere—nothing worth a special trip, but no regrets. To their credit, they did win a national gold medal for their Buzzed Bee Honey Ale in 2013. In the years since, High Sierra left that location, entered a partnership with Baldini’s, and, since 2016, became fully owned by Baldini’s.

I honestly had pretty low expectations for High Sierra Brewing at this point. It’s barely a blip on the radar among local beer aficionados. The social media accounts have been ignored for over a year, the website is dated and unclear about whether the brewery makes anything but the same

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core beers they have for years—OMG India Pale Ale, the aforementioned Buzzed Bee, Black Pussykat Imperial Stout, and Seamus O’Faolain Irish Red Ale. A lineup like that would have been mediocre in the heady microbrew days of the 1990s but wouldn’t suffice for a midwest airport bar in 2017.

I’m happy to report High Sierra was a pleasant surprise. For a working-class, locals joint, the selection of beers is impressive, and people were drinking them. Aside from one ultra low carb bottle, the other drinkers all had pints of one of the dozen house drafts in front of them. While the four expected flagship beers were there, I was pleased to find an acceptable Czech Pilsner. I briefly considered two fruit variations of the Honey Ale, but opted to taste the Espresso Stout and Doppelbock—a rich, strong, malt-forward lager. It’s uncommon for most craft brewers to invest the time and ingredients in, but I consider it an occasional treat. High Sierra’s version, Hallucinator, didn’t disappoint. The IPA was ordinary but inoffensive and drinkable.

I didn’t eat while I was there, focused on beer and a crazy World Series game, and there was only one occupied table, but the size of the dining area compares to a fullsized restaurant. Besides beer, a standard selection of spirits and a few wine choices are available.

My bartender was attentive between her other duties and friendly chats with her regular customers, serving up $2 happy hour pints and suggesting the new kölsch when the pilsner ran out. It was like being served by a neighbor. Ω

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Flux capacity Dale Dale is a band that consists of three Reno natives—Tucker Rash, Julien Nicolosi and Ben Jennings—whose musical roles are in flux. Generally, Rash creates a backing track, Nicolosi adds lyrics to it, and Jennings adds guitar.

The name of the band’s first EP, Heap Piano, is an anagram for apophenia, which, Rash explained, “is the human tendency to perceive patterns in meaningless strings of data. So we must be inspired by apophenia, or just coincidences—putting meaning to things where meaning isn’t there.”

The band members make and release their own music, but spreading confusion and mystery is where they excel. Of the three, the only member with significant musical experience is Jennings. The rest of their output consists of non-sequiturs, stream-of-consciousness, and plenty of face paint. Black metal “corpse paint” is a preferred style for the band’s live performance. Though the band isn’t black metal, it serves to further muddy the aesthetic waters. The lyrics, too, defy easy explanation.

“A lot of the lyrics we write are completely meaningless,” said Nicolosi.

“We’re just trying to make something we like to listen to. Then and only then can we give it a meaning.”

Heap Piano is Dale’s longest release, a blend of goth, darkwave, industrial beats, with mostly spoken lyrics. The final track “Don’t Ask Us About Aisle 5” alternates between the lyrics “We are Dale / happy to help you,” and “You are Dale,” while a frantic arpeggiator runs and an unsettling, minor key-whistle wails. “Cahoots”

recounts a strange, violent account at a grocery store. Goblins, Old English fonts, coffee and death are recurrent themes.

Live shows match the released material in their tendency toward unbridled expression. They exhibit attention to detail, performance and atmosphere, but they lack the contrived approach of many performance-art projects. It’s mischievous, confrontational, but it’s all earnest. Rather than most musical performances, which on some level serve to exhibit the skill of their musicians, Dale shows are all about the experience.

Despite the band’s freewheeling nature, its members still face the same trial-anderror process that every band experiences in the quest for how to create something memorable and exciting. Their first show, while spotted with some clever ideas, didn’t take off as much as they’d hoped.

“We made coffee on stage,” said Rash.

“And I wore a deck of cards around my neck with the word ‘iPod’ written on them,” said Nicolosi.

But they say things didn’t really click until Jennings entered the picture for their second show. All agree he was a welcome change of pace. It was then that they started feeling more like a realized band than a fun project.

Another inspiration for Dale comes in the concept of solipsism.

“It’s the idea that your consciousness is the only one in the universe, and everyone else is a figure of your imagination,” explained Rash.

They consider the name Dale to signify a kind of hive-mind. As soon as they take the stage, the three lose their identities and become Dale, along with everyone on the planet. Hence, “You are Dale.”

However, to breed further uncertainty, Nicolosi hints that Dale might not be so all-encompassing.

“Some are Doug,” he said.

The dualistic worldview ends there, not necessarily straying into a good/evil paradigm, but not ruling it out either. A Doug does seem to represent an other, but any further analyzing would be projecting the worldview of the analyzer. Like other fixtures in the Dale mythos, it’s best viewed as a Rorschach test. Ω

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I Need A Soldier, 7pm, $25-$30

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

Wolfgang Gartner, Blackgummy, 8pm, $25-$30

Ceol IrISh PUB

Dave Manning, 9pm, no cover

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

Chicano Batman, Khruangbin, 7pm, $19-$24

Anderson East, 6pm, Tu, no cover

1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244 10142 Rue Hilltop Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-5711

From The Old Streets of Truckee w/Richard Blair, 5pm, $45

Tom MacDonald & Tony Unger, 7pm, no cover

Erica “Sunshine” Lee, 7pm, no cover

daVIdSonS dIStIllery

Hellbound Glory, 9pm, no cover

Orion, 8pm, no cover

FIne VIneS WIne Bar

Vigil, 7pm, no cover

Jeff Davis & Marty Easter, 7pm, no cover

Team Skins, Black Magnet, Redfield Clipper, Slurry, 7:30pm, $5

Burnout, Skullcrack, ADHDOD, Sans Ami, Cruel, 8pm, $5

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917 6300 Mae Anne Ave., Ste. 3, (775) 787-6300

hellFIre Saloon

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

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

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

Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover

the holland ProjeCt jUB jUB’S thIrSt Parlor

Grieves, ProbCause, The Halve Two, 7:30pm, $13

Mike Sherm, 7:30pm, $20

See Through Dresses, Skew Ring, Mutual, 8pm, M, $5 A Flourishing Scourge, Four Stroke Baron, Rhine, Rat King, 9pm, $5

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Soul Persuaders, 8:30pm, no cover

1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663

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Suicide Boys, 7:30pm, Tu, $25 Latter Day Skanks, 8:30pm, W, no cover Outspoken Monday Open Mic, 7pm, M, no cover

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

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We Came As Romans, The Word Alive, Escape the Fate, 7pm, Tu, $15.60-$18.35 Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Cole Adams, 9pm, no cover

ChaPel taVern

CottonWood reStaUrant

MON-WED 11/13-11/15 A Night of Funk & Soul, 9pm, W, no cover

Kizouk Thursday Nights, 8pm, no cover

Cargo at WhItney Peak hotel

SUNDAY 11/12

The Pink Party with Croatia Squad, The Rhino, Miss Cooper, 10pm, $TBA

214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 813-6689

3rd Street Bar

SATURDAY 11/11

775.409.3340 1237 Baring Blvd. Sparks, NV

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Acoustic Tuesdays w/Canyon White, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover

THURSDAY 11/9

FRIDAY 11/10

SATURDAY 11/11

SUNDAY 11/12

MON-WED 11/13-11/15

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

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

The Loving Cup

Jazz Night, 8:30pm, no cover

The LoFT

Magic Fusion, 7pm, $20-$45

Magic Fusion, 7pm, $20-$45

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

MidTown wine Bar

DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

Chris Costa, 8:30pm, no cover

Tyler Furtrell, 8:30pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1001 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

MiLLenniuM nighTCLuB

Calibre 50, Banda Carnaval, 10pm, $55

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

MoodY’S BiSTro

Renegade Music, 8pm, no cover

Caravan to Winterwondergrass, 5pm, no cover

paddY & irene’S iriSh puB

Acoustic Wonderland, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

pigniC puB & paTio

The Cabin Project, 8pm, no cover

Bazooka Zac DJ Set, 10pm, no cover

10007 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 587-8688 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 359-1594 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

The poLo Lounge

Ladies Night with DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

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

John Ellis and Double Wide, 8:30pm, no cover

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Alias Smith Band, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke Sundays, 8pm, no cover

red dog SaLoon The SainT

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Kitchen Dwellers, 8pm, $12-$14

Shea’S Tavern

Bastards of Young, Viva Revenge, Basement Tapes, 8pm, $6

SparkS Lounge

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

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

ST. JaMeS inFirMarY

Artist Industry Night, 9pm, no cover

STudio on 4Th

Castletown, Plastic Paddy, 8pm, $10

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

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

Three Bad Jacks, Donkey Jaw, The Habituals, 8pm, $10-$12

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover Asylum Side Show, 8pm, $10-$15

Ritual (industrial, Gothic, underground), 9pm, $3-$5 Jake Nielsen’s Triple Threat, 9pm, no cover

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425 27 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (530) 580-7221

You Play Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

Nov. 12, 7 p.m.

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

Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover Richie Ballerini, 7pm, W, no cover

Live blues, 8pm, W, no cover

whiSkeY diCk’S SaLoon XhaLe Bar & Lounge

Chicano Batman

Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474 761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451

T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Chaki, 7-Out, 8pm, $4-$5

Boycott The Baptist, Pug Skullz, Sans Ami, G.O.A, 8pm, W, $5-$6

Anderson East Nov. 14, 6 p.m.

Chapel Tavern 1099 S. Virginia St. 324-2244

Vibe Friday: Rekoh Suave & DZ Beatz, 9pm, $TBA

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

Boomtown CAsino

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

CARson VAlley inn

Selwyn Birchwood Nov. 10, 10 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret

FRIDAY 11/10

SATURDAY 11/11

SUNDAY 11/12

MON-WED 11/13-11/15

2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm, no cover

2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

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

2) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

2) The Starliters, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) The Starliters, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) Phil Prunier, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Jamie Rollins, 6pm, Tu, no cover Jonathan Barton, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Justin Lee Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Justin Lee Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Justin Lee Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Selwyn Birchwood, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Lucky & micah j, 10pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, 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

Karaoke

THURSDAY 11/9

HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe

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

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

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

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 7:30pm, $32-$42 Essence, 10pm, $30.04

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 7:30pm, $32-$42 Essence, 10pm, $30.04

Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

Hit Parade, 9pm, no cover

Hit Parade, 9pm, no cover

DJ Chris English, 9pm, no cover

14K, 9pm, Tu, no cover Patrick Walsh, 9pm, W, no cover

2) Bon Bon Vivant, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Spryte, 10pm, $20

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 427-7274 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge 219 N. Center St., (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge 3) Plaza 4) Convention Center

HARVeys lAke tAHoe

15 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611

peppeRmill ResoRt spA CAsino

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

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover DJ Logan, 9pm, Tu, no cover DJ Sam Forbes, 9pm, W, no cover

Art Mulcahy and Roadside Flare, 9pm, $10

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

HARRAH’s Reno

2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Sykwidit, 10pm, $20 2) Wacka Flocka Flame, 10pm, $19.27 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Jeremy, 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Jeremy, 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

HARd RoCk Hotel & CAsino

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-6700: Karaoke with DJ Toni Tunez, Tue, 8pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Sat, 9:30pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001: 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

2) Jonathon “JB” Barton, 6pm, Tu, no cover RYE Brothers, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Bon Bon Vivant, 7pm, no cover 2) Bon Bon Vivant, 8pm, no cover 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

1) Maddie & Tae, 8pm, $45.50-$50.50 4) Mike Furlong, 9pm, no cover

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

3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Mike Furlong, 9pm, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF nOvEmbER 9, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET: Artemisia MovieHouse presents this 1958 comedy/ crime film directed by Mario Monicelli.

The Oscar-nominated story of a pawn shop burglary gone wrong stars Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as the leaders of the bungling cadre who learn the hard way that crime does not, will not and cannot pay. In Italian with English subtitles. Sun, 11/12, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

CERAMICS IN THE GREATER WEST: Bill Gilbert, emeritus distinguished professor of art and ecology and Lannan Endowed Chair, College of Fine Art, University of New Mexico, explores indigenous pottery traditions in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. He will join Bill Fox, director of the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, in a conversation about the connection of the Southwestern and pre-Columbian traditions to lands old and new. Thu, 11/9, 6pm. $12 general, $8 NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

11/11

: Hands ON! Second Saturday Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly program offers free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docentguided tour, live performances and community collaborations. This month’s event celebrates Native American Heritage Month. Visitors will learn basket weaving and how to make Southwestern-inspired terracotta pinch pots.

Herman Fillmore, culture and language resources director of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, will share a traditional Washoe story and information on the importance of language preservation, and Billie Jean Guerrero will talk about the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Museum & Visitors Center and the story of the Great Stone Mother. Ben Rupert will give a presentation on the traditional regalia and arts and crafts of the Great Basin tribes, and artist Audrey Frank will discuss the basket weaving traditions of the Washoe and Paiute people. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org.

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ARTIST TALK: Nicole Pietrantoni will discuss her installations, artists’ books and works on paper that combine digital and traditional printmaking techniques.

Her artistic research and work examine the complex relationship between human beings and nature. Thu, 11/9, 4:30pm. Free. Ansari Business Building, Room 106, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

A CONVERSATION WITH SALLY DENTON: Sundance Books and Music hosts a lunchtime conversation between journalists John L. Smith and Sally Denton as they discuss Denton’s writing and research. Denton is the author of The Money and the Power, American Massacre, The Bluegrass Conspiracy and The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World. Tue, 11/14, noon. Free.

Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

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AN EVENING WITH GAYLE BRENDEIS: Brandeis will sign and read from her new book The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide. Tue 11/14, 7pm. Free.

Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

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Nevada Bugs and Butterflies will discuss Nevada’s various native bees, their benefit to us as pollinators and how to conserve the populations of the different species. Sun, 11/12, 2pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

DECLINING SALMON POPULATIONS IN THE NORTHWEST: Steve Lynch will discuss the impacts of the decline of Pacific salmon and conservation efforts to save the species. Sat, 11/11, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

RENO BIGHORNS: The development league basketball team plays the Austin Spurs. Fri, 11/10, 7pm. $10-$46. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 853-8220, reno.gleague.nba.com.

SCIENCE SATURDAY—EATING IN SPACE: Prepare and sample fun “space” foods, explore NASA food with a trained chef, view a planetarium show about space and run a simulated mission to space, then explore the museum at your own pace. Sat, 11/11, 9:30am. $12. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295, www.nevadachallenger.org.

VETERANS DAY PARADE: The City of Reno holds its annual parade in honor of our nation’s veterans. The parade is preceded by a traditional opening ceremony at the Virginia Street Bridge.

The ceremony begins at 11:11 a.m. (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month) with a fly by and concludes with a wreath tossing at 11:20 am. The parade will follow at the conclusion of the opening ceremony. The procession heads north on Virginia Street from the Virginia Street Bridge at First Street and marches north to Fifth Street. Sat 11/11, 11am-2pm. Free. Virginia Street, downtown Reno, (775) 334-2414.

VETERAN’S DAY PARADE: Virginia City holds its annual celebration to honor America’s veterans. Sat, 11/11, 11am. Free. C Street, Virginia City, (775) 847-7500.

LAKE TAHOE WELLNESS WEEKEND: The event offers yoga, informational seminars and workshops that aim to inspire and educate the mind, body and soul. Sat, 11/11-Sun, 11/12, 7am. $120-$132.

Granlibakken Tahoe, 725 Granlibakken Road, Tahoe City, (530) 583-4242, granlibakken.com.

UNDERSTANDING ICE SHELF COLLAPSE: Ice shelf collapse is a catastrophic and powerful piece of evidence of climate change. These ice shelves create epishelf lakes, a rare lake system when freshwater overlies seawater.

Assistant professor Alex Forrest will give a presentation on using autonomous robotics to explore epishelf lakes to understand ice shelf collapses. Thu, 11/9, 5:30pm. $5 suggested donation. Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560 x 7474, tahoe.ucdavis.edu.

PANAMA-BEAVER READING: Sundance Books and Music presents an evening of poetry with William Wilborn and Paul Lyon, who will read some of their latest work and share a custom pamphlet with the audience. Thu, 11/9, 7pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

PASSPORT TO DINING: The popular event features up to 35 tasting stations, including restaurants, caterers, breweries and wineries, as well as a raffle and a silent auction. A portion of the net proceeds will go to Project MANA. Thu, 11/9, 6pm. $40-$50. Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, 5 Highway 28, Crystal Bay, (530) 546-9000, northtahoebusiness.org.

ART ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Holiday Treasures. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno holds its holiday show offering one-of-akind gift and decorating items, including paintings, drawings, photography, miniatures, handmade ornaments, jewelry, pottery, gourds, scarves and holiday cards. There will be an opening reception on Nov, 12, noon-4pm. The show runs daily Nov. 12-Dec. 28. Sun, 11/12-Wed, 11/15, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH, JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: MFA Midway Exhibition. A group exhibition featuring work by students in the second year of the master of fine arts in the visual arts program. The show runs Nov. 13-22. Mon, 11/13-Wed, 11/15, noon4pm. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Body Worship. Calgary-based sculptor and installation artist Svea Ferguson works primarily with linoleum and vinyl flooring to create sculptural work that speaks to the synthetic and natural elements encountered in our everyday world. Body Worship includes sensual, abstracted bodily forms that invite viewers to recognize their own physicality within the synthetic everyday materials. The exhibit is on view Tuesday-Friday, Nov. 14-Dec. 1. Tue, 11/14-Wed, 11/15, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project Gallery, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

mUSIC RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Michael Sachs, principal trumpet player of the Cleveland Orchestra, guest conducts the second performance of the RCO’s 2017-18 season. The concert begins with a symphony for strings written by Felix Mendelssohn. Sachs is featured as soloist in both Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto and Mozart’s “Posthorn” Serenade. Sat, 11/11, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/12, 2pm. $5-$55.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413.

SUNDAY JAZZ AT RLT: Jazz harpist Susan Mazer will perform at this month’s Sunday Jazz event accompanied by Dallas Smith on woodwinds and Eric Middleton on drums. Pay-what-you-can admission price. Sun, 11/12, 7pm. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

WHEATSTONE BRIDGE: The Reno band performs a mix of acoustic and Celtic music. Sat, 11/11, 7pm. $12-$20. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

OnSTAGE THE ARTIST IN AMERICA —AN EVENING WITH THOMAS HART BENTON: Doug Mishler, artistic director of Restless Artists’ Theatre and history professor at University of Nevada, Reno, will portray painter Thomas Hart Benton.

The Chautauquan performance will take the audience on a tour of art in the 20th century from modern to regionalism to drip to pop art. Mishler as Benton will offer his critiques and general reflections about life in America and what it means to be a true American painter and a true American individual. Tue, 11/14, 7pm. $5-$10.

Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.

GENERATION WE A HIP-HOPERA: This new work was created in collaboration between Reno band Weapons of Mass Creation (WMC), The Potentialist Workshop’s Pan Pantoja and Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company. Based on WMC’s Generation WE, and coinciding with the release of the final 10 tracks of the 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. Thu, 11/9-Sat, 11/11, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

OUT OF STERNO: Deborah Zoe Laufer’s coming-of-age play explores the triumph and heartbreak of growing up and the contradictory societal pressures women face just trying to make it across town. Thu, 11/9-Sat, 11/11, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/12, 2pm. $12-$15. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, www.rattheatre.org.

by AMY ALKON

Romancing the grindstone I’m a 32-year-old woman with a really intense job that I love. I work long hours every week, and I often work weekends, too—by choice. I don’t want kids, but I’d love to have a relationship. I just worry that guys will want more of me timewise and energywise than I can give, and will feel neglected and resentful.

Like you, I’m pretty fiercely “work first.” Because of that, I don’t cook—I heat. I’m annoyed by my body’s demands for sleep. Every night! And my home seems less like a home than … well, as my boyfriend said—stepping over the endocrinology research papers and corresponding Post-its laid out all over my bathroom floor—“It looks like an academic crime scene.”

You and I are actually somewhat unusual as women who see a “healthy career-life balance” as a threatening crimp in the work that means so much to us. In fact, it turns out that there are some pretty strong sex differences in ambition. This isn’t to say women aren’t ambitious. Plenty of women are—it’s just that women, in general, more often want “normal” lives with, say, a job they enjoy but go home from before the owls start pouring each other nightcaps.

There’s a great deal of research that reflects this. In a 2015 study, economists Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer surveyed young lawyers on their level of ambition: “When asked to rate, on a scale from 1 to 10, their aspirations to become an equity partner in their firm, 60 percent of male lawyers answered with 8 or more, compared to only 32 percent of female lawyers.”

However, there’s an assumption that women should want to join the cutthroat race to the corner office.

Psychologist Susan Pinker criticizes this as the “male standard” being forced on women. In her 2008 book The Sexual Paradox, Pinker points to countless studies that find that women tend to be more motivated by “intrinsic rewards”—wanting to be happy more than they want to be on top. As an example, she profiles “Donna,” who quit her prestigious job as a tenured professor in a computer science department for a lower-status job that allowed

her more one-on-one engagement with people. Pinker explains, “Donna decided to opt for what was meaningful for her over status and money.”

Like you, I don’t want kids.

However, Pinker notes that there’s “plenty of evidence that many more women than men”—including women at the top of their game— put family before career advancement. She tracked down “Elaine,” the author of an op-ed titled “My glass ceiling is self-imposed,” about why she’d declined a promotion that would have put her third from the top in a company with 12,000plus employees in more than 60 countries.

The president of the company was dumbfounded. But Elaine wrote that she was happily married with children (and grandparents nearby). The promotion would have required relocating, and that would have destabilized her family.

She concluded her piece with the observation that “many companies … would like nothing more than to have more senior female executives, but not all females are willing to give up what it might take to get there.”

These sex differences in ambition make evolutionary sense.

Because women evolved to prioritize finding high-status “providers,” mate-seeking men evolved to duke it out to occupy the spot of Ye Olde Big Man On Campus.

Getting back to you, though guys are likely to be surprised that a woman would be so job-obsessed, there are those who’ll be good with the limited amount of girlfriendhood you have to provide. Zeroing in on them just takes disclosure—on your online dating profile and when you go on dates. Giving clear forewarning is the right thing to do for anyone with any unusual or obsessive pursuit. As for you, sure, you do eventually see yourself leaving the office—but probably in a vintage Japanese cloisonné urn. Ω

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be one of the best times ever to ask provocative, probing questions. In fact, I invite you to be as curious and receptive as you’ve been since you were four years old. When you talk with people, express curiosity more often than you make assertions. Be focused on finding out what you’ve been missing, what you’ve been numb to. When you wake up each morning, use a felt-tip marker to draw a question mark on your forearm. To get you in the mood for this fun project, here are sample queries from poet Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions: “Who ordered me to tear down the doors of my own pride? Did I finally find myself in the place where they lost me? Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Is it true our desires must be watered with dew?

What did the rubies say standing before the juice of the pomegranates?”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Things to say when

in love,” according to Zimbabwe poet Tapiwa Mugabe: “I will put the galaxy in your hair. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.”

I hope these words inspire you to improvise further outpourings of adoration. You’re in a phase when expressing your sweet reverence and tender respect for the people you care about will boost you physical health, your emotional wealth, and your spiritual resiience.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you working on solving

the right problem? Or are you being distracted by a lesser dilemma, perhaps consumed in dealing with an issue that’s mostly irrelevant to your long-term goals? I honestly don’t know the answers to those questions, but I am quite sure it’s important that you meditate on them.

Everything good that can unfold for you in 2018 will require you to focus on what matters most—and not get sidetracked by peripheral issues or vague wishes. Now is an excellent time to set your unshakable intentions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Every one of us experi-

ences loneliness. We all go through periods when we feel isolated and misunderstood and unappreciated. That’s the bad news, Virgo.

The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make loneliness less of a problem. I urge you to brainstorm and meditate about how to do that. Here are some crazy ideas to get you started. 1. Nurture ongoing connections with the spirits of beloved people who have died. 2. Imagine having conversations with your guardian angel or spirit guide. 3. Make a deal with a “partner in loneliness”: a person you pray or sing with whenever either of you feels bereft. 4. Write messages to your Future Self or Past Self. 5. Communicate with animals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The drive for absolute perfection could undermine your ability to

create what’s very good and just right. Please don’t make that mistake in the coming weeks.

Likewise, refrain from demanding utter purity, pristine precision, or immaculate virtue. To learn the lessons you need to know and launch the trends you can capitalize on in 2018, all that’s necessary is to give your best. You don’t have to hit the bull’s eye with every arrow you shoot—or even any arrow you shoot. Simply hitting the target will be fine in the early going.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Remember the time,

all those years ago, when the angels appeared to you on the playground and showed you how and why to kiss the sky? I predict that a comparable visitation will arrive soon. And do you recall the dreamy sequence in adolescence when you first plumbed the sublime mysteries of sex? You’re as ripe as you were then, primed to unlock more of nature’s wild secrets.

Maybe at no other time in many years, in fact, have you been in quite so favorable a position to explore paradise right here on earth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As a courtesy to

your mental health, I minimize your exposure to meaningless trivia. In fact, I generally try to keep you focused instead on enlightening explorations. But in this horoscope, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m giving you a temporary, short-term license to go slumming. What shenanigans is your ex up to lately, anyway?

Would your old friend the bankrupt coke addict like to party with you? Just for laughs, should you revisit the dead-end fantasy that always makes you crazy? There is a good possibility that exposing yourself to bad influences like those I just named could have a tonic effect on you, Sagittarius. You might get so thoroughly disgusted by them that you’ll never again allow them to corrupt your devotion to the righteous groove, to the path with heart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the coming

months it will be crucial to carefully monitor the effects you’re having on the world. Your personal actions will rarely be merely personal; they may have consequences for people you don’t know as well as those you’re close to.

The ripples you send out in all directions won’t always look dramatic, but you shouldn’t let that delude you about the influence you’re having. If I had to give 2018 a title with you in mind, it might be “The Year of Maximum Social Impact.” And it all starts soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The punk ethic

is rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through “a cynical absurdity that’s redeemed by being hilarious.” So says author Brian Doherty. In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is “love is all you need.” It seeks a “manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour—inspiring but also soft and gelatinous.” Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Doherty says that each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that’s both skeptical and celebratory. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because the punk-plus-hippie blend is a perfect attitude for you to cultivate in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m falling in love

with the way you have been falling in love with exciting possibilities that you once thought were impossible. Oh, baby. Please go further.

Thrilling chills surge through me whenever you get that ravenous glint in your mind’s eye. I can almost hear you thinking, “Maybe those dreams aren’t so impossible, after all. Maybe I can heal myself and change myself enough to pursue them in earnest. Maybe I can learn success strategies that were previously beyond my power to imagine.”

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records and the show is them organizing these 7-inch records. To me, that’s a really fun show. … With free-form radio, sometimes you’re going to tune in and hear something you don’t like, but the reaction I’ve heard so far has been really positive.

Thomas Snider KWNK, on 97.7 FM from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., is a free-form community radio station with roots in Wolf Pack Radio, the University of Nevada, Reno’s student radio station (see “No static at all” Arts & Culture, Oct. 26). We checked in with Thomas Snider, the station’s co-founder and general manager, about how things have been going since the station launched this Halloween.

It’s amazing. It’s hard to express because it’s something that all of us—myself, the Holland Project, the Reno Bike Project—we’ve been working on this for a long time, as you know from the interview back in [2015—“Sound salvation,” feature story, April 23, 2015] when we really first started in this journey. So it feels great to finally get on the air and get the ball rolling. … It’s been going great.

The people who have come in to record shows, the people who have reached out that want to be a part of it—that’s been really fun for me. We’re getting all sides.

There are so many different people within our community that have such different taste in music and different things to say. ... We had a podcast workshop at the Holland Project on Sunday and had over

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You’ve been working on this for a long time. How does it feel that it’s finally come to fruition?

Is anyone doing shows that aren’t music?

30 people show up that are trying to host a show, do weekly segments, things like that. It’s an inclusive project that’s bringing together a community. I’m meeting new people I’ve never met before. ...

Give me a couple of examples.

Probably the most exciting thing to me has been getting some of the Wolf Pack Radio shows on the air, such as “D.E.P.T.H.”—that’s a big one. That’s Brian Jørgensen, he’s a PhD candidate at the university. He was on Wolf Pack Radio with me.

What’s the music been like? Every time I’ve turned it on, it’s been different.

It’s the nature of free-form radio that you’re going to get a lot of variety in the mix of music. One of the other shows I’m really excited about is Leah [Ruby] and Liz [Peto], and they have all these 7-inch

Yes, we do. The focus is on music, but we have talk in shorter segments. That would be two-to-three minute segments of talk. ... [One] show we have is by Angelo Sante, another example of a talk segment, is called the Cycle Spoke. He interviews local cyclists and he goes on a bike ride with them and has them bring in five to 10 songs, and he does a little interview. He talks about their cycling experiences in Reno, what got them into cycling, and they play a little music. It’s a cool show.

This is something that we’ve followed since it was just an idea that y’all had at Wolf Pack Radio years ago. [Former Wolf Pack Radio director and Holland Project curator] Van Pham was talking about that years ago.

You bringing up Van is an important thing. … There are a lot of people who have part of this project. Van helped provide the framework to make this possible. For us, it’s really important that someone like Van gets the recognition she deserves.

There have been a lot of people who helped, and we were finally able to get the stars to align. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Team attack To “celebrate” the one year anniversary of the Russian coup to install a hideous moron in our White House, I sent this tweet to Twitler.

“We are coming for you, Dum Dum. We’re coming. Get ready. Believe me.” Of course, Trump doesn’t see these, and I’d guess nobody does, but there’s a certain catharsis in just writing and sending that’s kinda fun. I wasn’t thinking of anything beyond the Specter of Mueller, really, but now, it’s obvious that more and more people are getting really tired of this ridiculous asshole, and they’re now ready to do something about it.

Attack Squad 1. The lawsuit involving Trump’s businesses benefitting financially because Dum Dum is now the President.

The suit centers around Orange Man and the family business running roughshod over the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars the President from

accepting economic benefits from foreign leaders without Congressional consent. Trump and family have been cashing in from Day One, and the argument that Trump has complied with The Clause because he’s turned all business interests over to the kids is laughably lame. The CREW crew (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) is headed by two presidential ethicists, Norm Eisen (Obama) and Richard Painter (Bush), and they have every intention of being a royal pain in Trump’s ass.

Attack Squad 2. None other than Larry Fucking Flynt. In October, Larry fired up a full page ad in the Washington Post, offering a cool $10 mill to anyone who has some data/evidence that leads to the eventual impeachment of Dum Dum. The ad was well-written and thorough and yeah, who knows if it will lead to anything or if Larry

just took a few thousand dollars and threw it down the toilet, but the message was rock solid.

With this ad, Larry showed more political courage that 90 percent of the Rethuglican Senate and 100 percent of the Rethuglican House of Invertebrates.

Attack Squad 3. The women who were groped, mauled, and assaulted by our Pussy Fiend Prez, who, as we heard on the Billy Bush rap, has all kinds of smooth moves to keep a date rolling. Their various suits and complaints haven’t died.

Not by a long shot.

Attack Squad 4. California businessman Tom Steyer, who is financing a national campaign to impeach Twitler. The television spot is impressive and heartfelt. The website is Need To Impeach dot com. He’s collected 1.4 million signatures. Does he have yours? BTW, 49 percent of us think impeachment is a swell idea. Ω

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