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A different scope

Las Vegas and guns, again

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: In the age of the world wide web, when information from all around the globe is instantly accessible with the click of a button, part of what makes newspapers like ours so special is that we’re not worldwide.

We’re not the internet.

Don’t get me wrong—we’re on the internet, obviously, but that’s not where we live. We live here in Reno. That’s where you’ll find us.

We’ve all lived here for years.

Some of us were born here. The faces that appear in these pages also show up at the local grocery store. You find our words in local coffee shops, restaurants and bars. You’ll see our pages in local gutters, lining local bird cages, and burning up in local fireplaces.

We live here. We’re not the world wide web. We’re the Reno News & Review.

So, we consider keeping it local a core value. We try to tell local stories, and comment about local events. This is our strength. And we try not to shy away from it.

Usually. But every once in a while, we veer away from our myopic view, in which the Virginia Street Bridge is the center of the known universe, and tell stories that have a different kind of scope.

This week’s cover story is one of those “every once in a while” occasions. I’ve never met the author of this week’s story in person. She’s an acquaintance of my fiancee’s, but when I read some of the journal entries she had posted up to social media, they struck me as a great firsthand, boots-on-the-ground account of a humanitarian crisis that has not been covered well enough by national outlets and has become grotesquely politicized.

It’s a story that needs to be heard.

Re “Las Vegas and guns” (letters, Oct. 12): McKechnie implies that Republicans are responsible. All of his examples are erroneous, or, already covered by state or federal law.

Congress is apparently going to regulate “bump” stocks. Bump stocks, mostly unheard of, and somewhat unreliable, are only slightly more technically advanced than a baseball bat. They have no moving parts, and can be made with a piece of PVC pipe, a piece of scrap wood, and a hacksaw, for maybe 10 bucks.

The oft heard song, that our forefathers did not envision modern weapons, is horse mierda as well. The Revolutionary War era saw advanced rifles already being designed and fielded. To imagine that our forefathers would not consider evolving technology underestimates their foresight. Bailek brings up the Second Amendment. The Second has nothing to do with hunting!

The militia was “every male citizen, 16 or older.” And even if the Guard has replaced the militia, during the LA riots, law of any stripe—federal or local—was spread way too thin! Some took advantage of the Second.

Self defense from any criminal element is only one reason the Second exists.

One common denominator with every event seems the fact that all the attackers have been on some kind of mood drug. Yep, every single one, Paddock included.

Ronal Ryder Fallon

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Horse birth control Re “Hold your horses,” (news, Nov. 2): I am a wildlife ecologist and have investigated and researched PZP and its effects not only on wild horses but on other species of wildlife. PZP advocates tend to look at this tampering with the most intimate organs and systems of the biological functioning of the horse, deer or whatever species through

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“rose-tinted glasses.” This is turning into a most tragic mistake as it not only tortures the darted animals and their band members but sets the bands and herds up for social disruption and decline. It also favors the reproduction of mares with weaker immune systems, and thus in the course of a few short generations, the herds would be subject to massive die-out when some new strain of disease or environmental stressor hits them, like very hot or cold weather, violent storms, or ecological disruptions caused by people.

Please consider supporting me on the respectful Reserve Design approach to saving wild horses and wild burros and all the species of wildlife that go together harmoniously in a natural ecosystem. This would be to fulfill the true intent of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act—not PZP or other ignorant, arrogant and disrespectful approaches to the “management and protection” of wild horses. People must learn to manage themselves and to share the land and freedom with the wild ones, and this means making adjustments so they can live out their lives in peace and establish their own wonderful relation to all the rest of life. For more in-depth information and how you can help, please go to my website thewildhorseconspiracy.org and check out my book of this title.

Craig Downer Minden As someone who studies desert ecosystems and the ecology of rangelands, I was disappointed to read this article on the “fate of the mustangs” and seeing how one-sided this article was, rather than focus on what our rangelands can support, and why we need to manage horse populations to conserve these ecosystems. The more we refuse to acknowledge our rangelands are in grave danger of desertification due to unchecked populations, the greater the problem will become.

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in a way that isn’t going to degrade our rangelands further, and as “activist” groups continue to litigate the BLM, wild horse populations continue to remain unchecked.

We need to realize that at this point, we have to take responsibility for letting horse populations get so out of control that birth control methods are not going to solve the mass problem right now. The immediate decisions we need to make for the health of our rangelands and wildlife may not be so pretty.

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By JERI CHADWELL

Best restaurant you’ve been to? asked at Foxy oLive, 220 MiLL st.

BoB Harington Manager

I’ve got it. It would have to be Scotty’s in Carson City. They closed down, but I used to go there all the time with my grandpa. And we’d just hang out for hours.

JacoB Leveroni Software engineer

And it can’t be a bar, because I can’t count a liquid dinner, huh? It doesn’t have to be a bar.

What’s the Thai place that was on Virginia that moved up off of Mount Rose? Bangkok. I love Bangkok Cuisine’s Panang curry.

It’s good food.

By JEff MItCHELL

Racism and policing The University of Nevada, Reno has a problem with and another half-hearted press release is not going to fix racism and policing. While these two issues may appear things. The university administration and police must take separate, they’re intertwined. Just take a look at UNR’s a stand to show that they are actually concerned about recent press statements. Many concern either embarrassing/ these issues, even if they are legally unable to bring disciunethical behavior on the part of the UNR police, the issue plinary action against the actors involved. Lucky, UNR has of racism on campus, or both. The following events draw a among its alumni a now famous civil rights activist, who straight line connecting the two. specializes in the intersection between racism and Recently, a UNR student was made policing. That’s right. Say it with me ... Colin infamous by his attendance at the white Kaepernick! supremacist rally. Swastikas have been I call on the UNR President Marc painted in campus hallways, and police Johnson and Director of Police Services UNR has among its have been caught on tape joking Adam Garcia to invite Kaepernick alumni a now famous about shooting a graduate student to speak on campus. This should during a traffic stop. All of this include an invitation for Kap to run civil rights activist, was topped off with embarrassing one of his “Know Your Rights” who specializes in the national news of photographs of a camps aimed at raising awareness on intersection between UNR police officer dressed in black higher education, self-empowerment face as alumnus Colin Kaepernick and instructions for interactions with racism and policing. with a sign around his neck that reads police. It should also include a meeting “Will stand for food.” The university’s with Kap and members of the various response to these blatantly problematic campus organizations representing the interevents has been to issue statement after tepid ests of people of color to address their concerns statement begrudgingly admitting that while it officially and begin to take lasting steps to make people feel safe. condemns this behavior it has no concrete plans prevent Sponsoring such an event won’t fix all of the issues listed it from happening in the future. Not surprisingly, the above, but it will be a strong symbolic step in the right university has reported having heard from the “community direction, one the university needs to take before it devel… over the past few weeks that they feel unsafe on campus ops a reputation for being on the wrong side of history. Ω because of our current social and political climate.”

And why should they feel safe? The people charged Jeff Mitchell is a former adjunct professor and double alumnus from the with protecting them have created a crisis of confidence,

Jessica Panter a Bartender

Anywhere Tony Ashworth is cooking. Well, he’s actually doing consulting for Clint Jolly right now. So he’s doing everything right now.

andrew warBington Bartender

Damn, that’s hard. I could tell you that the Great Full Garden’s grilled cheese sandwich is the best in town. In Fernley, there’s a 76 gas station, and in their deli they serve falafel. So you ate there? So you know how good it is.

gino cavaLieri Retiree

It’d have to be back in Buffalo— a good, old Italian restaurant called Santorini’s. The fifth generation is running the place now.

They’ve got great Italian food.

It’s the one thing I miss.

University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Sociology.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Off-year elections provide tea leaves Last week’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York offered stark choices and lots of drama, a prelude to Nevada’s gubernatorial race next year. Pundits questioned whether the resistance would show up to repudiate Trump in an off-year election that typically draws few people, perhaps a harbinger of voter disillusionment in Nevada’s mid-term elections in 2018.

Happily, the resistance won.

Nevada’s Democratic gubernatorial primary next June will feature two Clark County commissioners. Steve Sisolak, a former member of the Board of Regents, joined the Clark County Commission in 2008. He promotes himself as a champion of education, vowing to “restore funding to at least pre-recession levels and prioritize class size reduction” should he be elected Governor. In the “Meet Steve” tab of his campaign website he promises to “build on his successes diversifying the Las Vegas economy and recruiting new industries in the solar, clean energy, bio-tech and medical industries.”

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It’s a bit surprising that his website doesn’t yet mention his fame as a leading proponent in Southern Nevada for the huge tax giveaway to the Raiders to build a new stadium financed by dollars that could otherwise have been directed to his goal of increasing education funding. Maybe he realizes that progressives were widely opposed to diverting tax funds to the wealthy owner of the Raiders. If he doesn’t crow about his deal making, primary-voting Democrats might forget.

But there’s little chance his primary opponent, Chris Giunchigliani, will let the Raider deal slide, especially since she was a very vocal opponent of the Raiders’ taxpayer-funded corporate welfare. Chris G., as she is widely known, is a true progressive, with a strong record of supporting education and human services during her 16 years as a state assemblywoman before being elected to the Clark County Commission in 2006.

When announcing her candidacy, she told reporters she intended to run an “inclusive, progressive, grassroots campaign” targeting

public education funding, mental health and substance abuse issues, living wage jobs, and helping “mom and pop businesses.”

As a former executive director of the Nevada State Education Association, Giunchigliani (it’s pronounced june-killeeonny) spent years driving a motor home all over the state, meeting union members and spending time in rural and northern Nevada.

Her reputation as one of the smartest, hardest-working members of the Nevada Legislature and her steadfastness in support of progressive issues make her a favored candidate for those who see 2018 as the best opportunity in a lifetime to elect a progressive leader who would become the first female governor in Nevada’s history.

A few members of the Democratic establishment—namely, former U.S. senator Harry Reid and U.S. Rep. Dina Titus—have endorsed Sisolak, but progressive leaders on the ground are strongly behind Giunchigliani. The winner of the Democratic primary will likely face Republican Adam Laxalt, Nevada’s current attorney general,

who hopes to ride the coattails of the Laxalt family name into the governor’s mansion.

Laxalt shows every sign of running a model Koch brothers campaign, complete with xenophobic dog whistles and racial animosity. He supports the unnecessary Sanctuary City ballot measure and wants to repeal the minuscule corporate tax championed by Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval.

His Facebook page has a poll of potential voters regarding the NFL “take a knee” protest, although the majority of comments shame him for deliberately misrepresenting the protest in an effort to score misguided political points.

But the more Laxalt copies the Trump playbook, perhaps the better. After Republicans spent a year trying to destroy Obamacare, Maine voters sent a clear message last week when they overrode their governor’s five vetoes and expanded Medicaid. As Republicans raise taxes on working people to give more to the rich, the resistance is guaranteed to grow, just in time for the 2018 elections. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

How parties die Republicans, long used to accusations of insensitivity to women, are ecstatic over the neo-liberal crack-up over sexual harassment.

The term “limousine liberal” doesn’t begin to capture the class snobbery and hypocrisy of the modern, urban neo-liberal.

Billionaire and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein flew bro Bill Clinton on his plane least 25 times after Clinton left office—though prior to any revelations of Epstein’s criminal behavior. Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey’s names appeared on the manifests. Their associations with a known pedophile didn’t cause working-class Democrats to jump the blue tribe. But Donald Trump did.

As the ongoing sex scandals rock the Democratic Party Hollywood and media donor class, even Tootsie feminist male icon Dustin Hoffman stands accused. Former child actor Corey Feldman raises accusations of Hollywood gay pedophilia that led to his friend Cory Haim’s early death.

Nevada and California’s new Democratic senators attack the livelihoods

of working-class women engaged in sex work. Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto built her political career as the first Nevada attorney general to introduce sex trafficking laws in Nevada. California’s Sen. Kamala Harris came to power on the same anti-working women prosecutorial track. Her sex trafficking charges against Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer has the potential to destroy the internet as we know it, creating a liability on service providers for content posted by advertisers. Luckily, California Superior Court Judge Lawrence Brown threw out her second attempt to charge Ferrer with pimping. Other charges remain to be pursued by her successors as attorney general.

Recent studies have shown that the ability to advertise their services on the internet has reduced violence against sex workers by 17 percent. This is because it has reduced the number of sex workers on the street. Cities around the world are reporting dramatic reductions in the number of streetwalkers when the “apartment girls” have access to internet

advertising. Working from a hotel room or condo allows for screening clients and less need for a pimp. There are also fewer encounters with the police.

Limousine liberals expand the definition of coercion beyond its original meaning of physical or psychological attack or threats, to merely being obligated by the reality of a need to work in an occupation they do not approve of or understand. They claim all johns are rich, white, cisgender males, while, in fact, they are racially diverse and usually working class. Democrats preach advocacy for single mothers, always by taxing, spending and regulating. They nevertheless attack single mothers who choose sex work because it provides the best opportunity to keep their own hours to take care of their children while making a good living.

Neoliberals loudly proclaim their love of immigrants, but they have entered into an unholy alliance with social conservative Republicans to push punitive sex trafficking legislation aimed at immigrants. Asian

women have been coming to the United States for sex work since Gold Rush days.

Immigrant women often gravitate to service jobs: nannies, maids, health care and sex work. Because of Democratic politicians like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, we see long, expensive surveillance and vice stings by Homeland Security and the FBI on Asian massage parlors, the home of the happy ending. Asian women are being stalked, arrested and sometimes deported as if they were national security threats. When no prostitution is found, the businesses are often still hit with code and licensing law violations and shut down.

The only sex trafficking that is going on in America appears to be within the Democratic Party’s political and donor class.

But the laws are instead being used to harass working women, often women of color. Ω

For more on the topic, see Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law by Alison Bass

spirit of the season Live at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts

Light up your holiday season!

Showtimes: December 2, 2PM & 8PM December 3, 2PM

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 Ashley WArren

Tesla TumulT

Caren McNamara and Great Basin Brewing head brewer Nick Taylor stand in front of a pallet donated bottles ready to be shipped to Montana for washing and refilling.

On Oct. 13, the Bay Area News Group reported that Tesla had fired hundreds of its Fremont, California plant workers, and the company said it was a result of annual performance reviews.

On Oct. 17, the United Auto Workers filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing the corporation of firing labor union supporters.

Also on Oct. 17, former employee Abraham Duarte filed suit, accusing Tesla of violating the California WARN Act (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) by failing to provide adequate notice to 50 or more employees.

“Tesla, Inc. has interfered with, restrained, and coerced employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act by, among other things, terminating and/or disciplining employees for violating a confidentiality agreement that restricts protected concerted activities,” reads the UAW complaint filed with the NLRB Oakland office.

Tesla’s Solar City subsidiary has also been terminating employees in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The company has not provided numbers, but CNBC quoted former workers as estimating about 1,200 people have been cut loose in the waves of firings and layoffs at the two firms.

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marijuana 9, prohibiTion 1 The 2017 off-year elections advanced the legitimized status of marijuana.

In California, Palm Springs, Cotati and Pacifica voters approved taxes on legal marijuana.

In Colorado, Vail voters approved a marijuana tax.

In Detroit, voters relaxed regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries.

In Ohio, Athens voters repealed all municipal penalties for marijuana use. It is the fifth Ohio city to do so.

In Massachusetts, Amesbury voters vetoed a proposed ban on retail marijuana stores.

In Washington, Yakima County voters banned existing marijuana businesses in unincorporated areas, setting up a court fight by 20 retailers.

In New Jersey, legal marijuana supporter Phil Murphy was elected governor, replacing prohibitionist Chris Christie.

N.J. Senate President Stephen Sweeney said he hoped to make marijuana legal within 100 days. It is expected to generate about $300 million in taxes.

In the Virginia governor’s race, decriminilizatioin supporter Ralph Northam was elected.

QuoTes U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said on Oct. 26: “Now, many of you here know that the first piece of legislation I’ve introduced for the past two Congresses is my ‘No Budget-No Pay Act.’ The concept is simple. If Congress can’t pass a budget and all of its spending bills on time, then it shouldn’t be paid. Well, Mr. President, the Senate should apply the same concept, in my opinion, to confirming judges.”

Columnist Steve Benen said on Oct. 27: “[W]here was Dean Heller a year ago? Nearly all of the vacancies on the federal bench also existed at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, and if memory serves, Heller and his Republican brethren refused to hold confirmation votes on almost all of them last year.”

—Dennis Myers

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Bottle it up Refillable glass bottles are making a comeback according to the beer institute, Americans consume an average of 32 gallons of beer every year. (To no one’s surprise, Nevada tops the list at 44 gallons per year. California is more restrained, below the nation’s average, at 26 gallons per year.)

While this avid consumption is good for the growing beer market, the lack of an established bottle refilling program makes it exceedingly wasteful, too. But Caren McNamara, founder of Conscious Container, based in Truckee, sees a solution: bringing back the practice of reusing and refilling glass bottles.

This means collecting used glass bottles, sanitizing them and refilling them with new beer to sell. Although glass beer bottles are recyclable, processing recycled materials and creating new glass bottles is substantially less sustainable than reusing the existing ones. Refillable bottles use 82 percent less water and 97 percent less energy. Refillable bottles are still in use around the world, in Canada

and in Europe, but reinstating the practice in the U.S. is more complicated.

“Refillable glass bottles never went away,” said McNamara. “[The challenge is] that we don’t have that marketplace anymore. Customers are used to buying new glass bottles, so it’s about recreating that marketplace.”

The marketplace requires several components: standardized glass bottles that are thicker and can withstand repeated use, washing machinery that can handle large loads, breweries that are willing to invest in the materials needed, and consumers who are willing to participate in the ecosystem by donating their used bottles.

McNamara spent a year doing research on refillable bottle reuse worldwide to find out why it stopped and what would need to be done to bring it back.

In the U.S., the move away from glass reuse began during World War II. “We had refillables exclusively until the war,” McNamara said. Single-use

packaging was created to make it easier to ship goods to soldiers on the frontlines, and that trend soon permeated citizen life, too. By the 1950s, singleuse packaging had become a staple in American homes. Between the 1940s and the 1970s, the number of breweries steeply declined, from around 700 to 100 nationwide. Fewer breweries made bottle reuse a less common practice, and the infrastructure essentially collapsed. In the 1970s and 80s, five bills were introduced into the Nevada Legislature to establish a beverage container deposit and refund program, but all of them died, due to the challenges of such a program, namely, that there just weren’t enough local breweries to make it sustainable. In 2013, California passed a bill to allow brewers to refill glass growlers. The state has had glass refilling programs since the 1980s, but the practice isn’t yet widespread.

Now, there are more than 5,300 craft breweries across the United States, and this makes a nationwide program much more feasible. Many craft breweries are already focused on their communities, said McNamara, and make it a point to source ingredients locally and reduce their carbon footprints. McNamara noted that it’s also a marketing opportunity for breweries trying to distinguish themselves in a crowded market.

“We’re in a time now to innovate it a little bit,” she said.

McNamara is focusing on the beer industry to start but sees potential in other facets of the alcohol industry.

Winemakers tend to be particular about their bottles, said McNamara, so it’s harder to make waves there. She hopes that showing what’s possible with beer will convince other brewers and distillers to get on board.

raise a glass The first step is showing the community what a refillable glass infrastructure looks like in practice. Conscious Container partnered with Great Basin Brewing Company in Reno to launch a pilot program, which is currently running. Tom Young, Great Basin’s founder and brewmaster, was excited to participate.

“I think the whole concept of Conscious Containers is noble and the way we need to go,” said Young. “The huge, huge challenge, though, is that the diversity of different bottles and distribution channels makes it really

GRAND THEATRE difficult to have all bottles returned, rewashed “Reusable bottles are more costly up front and reused.” for brewers,” said McNamara. “Long term, it Because there isn’t a standardized bottle will cost them less.” Part of McNamara’s job in America’s alcohol industry, Young said is crunching the numbers for brewers. “We that companies try to distinguish themselves have to show them what the average cost is of from competitors by designing unique bottles whoever buys the industry-standard bottles, with different sizes and details, such as and what the average price is over how many embossed logos. This means additional labor turns. That way, the upfront cost doesn’t break and equipment. The different bottles must the bank for the brewer.” be sorted manually so they are refilled Regardless, McNamara thinks that with the correct product. And size the overall impact outweighs the differences, such as a longerinitial struggles, and businesses necked bottle that may only benefit from making an effort “Reusable be one millimeter taller to be more sustainable. bottles are more than another, make most That’s why McNamara costly up front for existing washing machinregistered Conscious ery unusable, because Container as a B brewers. Long term, it will the machines aren’t Corporation, which refers cost them less.” built to accommodate to “benefit corporation.” B varying sizes.

Corps are businesses that Caren McNamara, “In Europe, in many prioritize social practice. founder, Conscious Container places, they standardize the Young is hopeful that the actual bottle that beer goes into,” program will be the key to kicksaid Young. “Every single brand of starting bottle refilling throughout beer is in the exact same bottle.”

Nevada and California. Used beer bottles Currently, consumers can bring in used can be donated at any Great Basin Brewing beer bottles of any brand to a Great Basin Company location.

Brewing Company location. Once McNamara “If we can demonstrate this in a pilot that has collected enough to justify shipping costs, the concept works, we can focus on more she’ll send them to Bayern Brewing Inc. in diligent endeavors,” said Young. “It’s a matter Missoula, Montana, which is one of the only of public education. Still, the most sustainable places in the United States that has an estabconsumption of beer is going into a brewery lished washing and refilling process. for a glass, in-house.” Ω Brewery buy-in is a hurdle, both McNamara and Young acknowledge.

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A Puerto Rico resident documents her struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

I kept a diary over the past few days. Writing just helped keep me sane. The first entry was written in Rincon, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 21, the day after Hurricane Maria hit here. Please don’t look at this report as representative of what others went through.

We are some of the lucky ones, and others have much more heartbreaking news to report. Those who were in a hospital when the storm hit, anywhere on the southeast coast, or in the central mountains or along the water went through unspeakable horrors that make our experience seem like a cakewalk in comparison.

We all have a story to tell of how we weathered this horrible storm, and this is just mine.

Thursday, s e p T . 2 1 These past few days have felt like a nightmare. Hurricane Maria is finally over, and we are grateful to be alive. I’ve never experienced a storm of this magnitude before, and there were moments on Wednesday when I did feel truly afraid.

At 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Maria began to pound Puerto Rico. The wind was raging loudly, the shutters were rattling, and the doors were banging against their hinges. My husband Markus and I didn’t feel secure in our bedroom, so we retreated to our windowless bathroom “bunker” in the center of the house with our hurricane supplies and our cats, Simon and Fiona. Inside, it was nice and quiet—at first. We put sofa cushions on the floor and in the bathtub. We settled in and we actually fell asleep because at that moment we did feel safe.

We woke up at 11 a.m. to a very different scene. The wind was so strong and loud that it sounded like a train plowing through the hallway. I looked down and saw water gushing into the bathroom from under the door, quickly soaking through the sofa cushions, pillows and supplies. We threw towels down trying to slow the flood as it continued to fill the bathroom floor. I panicked at the realization that our home was actually flooding.

The storm grew louder and louder. We heard trees crashing, broken glass and everything slamming into our house. Each time something large hit the window, I winced instinctively. I was

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covered in a cold sweat and struggling not to hyperventilate with the continuous sound of destruction all around.

Maria raged on, and in the afternoon, water began to trickle from the ceiling vent. It started out slow, so we caught the water in plastic cups. With each gust of wind, the leak grew worse.

Eventually, water was spraying from the ceiling in bursts that actually hurt when they hit my face.

We were both drenched, so Markus ripped the shower curtain off the rod and we covered ourselves with it in an attempt to stay dry. We held each other under the hot, sticky plastic curtain, curled up on a soaked sofa cushion. Simon squeezed in between us while Fiona hid under the cabinet to get away from the chaos.

I worried about the chickens in the downstairs bathroom. If the shutters ripped off the windows, they would never survive this storm. This thought kept tormenting me.

Then the bathroom door started to rattle violently followed by a massive crashing sound that shook the whole house. That was when I began to feel real terror. Markus was prepared for this.

Before the hurricane, he had dragged in wooden boards, a hammer and framing nails in case we needed to keep the door from flying off the hinges.

It seemed pretty excessive at the time, but now I was grateful that we had this. He jumped up and nailed a crossbeam over the door—reminiscent of those zombie apocalypse films. This curbed the rattling and calmed me down—for about five minutes.

In my mind, we were now in the Titanic, and our ship was sinking fast. I was starting to worry that the roof could actually be ripped off the house, but Markus assured me not to worry and that we would see the other side of the storm. He started repeating the same calming sentences: “We’ll get through this. This is a cement house. We will be fine.”

In the evening, the wind began to finally slow down a little, and that was such a relief. We even heard some coqui frogs.

It feels like The Wizard of Oz but in reverse. We went from Oz in Technicolor to black-and-white Kansas wrecked by the tornado.

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after the storm

after the hurricane hit, fresh water, food, gas for vehicles and cell phone service all became scarce—and for many in Puerto Rico, they still are.

Something out there was alive, somehow. Finally, we felt like we could get some sleep.

I woke up to more raging and the bathtub was shaking at 2 a.m. Somehow, Markus was sleeping, and despite my terror, I let him rest. It sounded like a tornado, and water was pouring in angry gusts from the ceiling again. I was just praying for it to all be over at this point. I was exhausted. Naturally, we had no service on our phones. We had no idea where the hurricane was going, no window through which to see what was going on.

For all I knew, the hurricane might be turning back toward us to finish the job. Eventually, numb to the chaos that raged around me, I fell back to sleep and woke at 8:30 a.m. to total calm.

Markus awoke, and we nodded at each other in relief at the silence. He then pried the nails out of the door frame, removing the boards from the bathroom doors. It felt like opening a coffin from the inside. We had been locked up in this tiny space for over 24 hours at that point.

We stepped out and found water everywhere. Both floors of our home had flooded. With the windows nailed shut, the house was eerily dark. Daylight that struggled through the tight cracks was the only indication that the night had already passed.

We tried the front door, but it would not open. Markus threw his body against it to dislodge it. We sloshed through the inches of rain and mud to the back door, but the lock would not turn, no matter how much force we used. Markus found the sledge hammer and considered. He did not want to break the door, as in the days ahead, it seemed crucial to be able to lock the house.

We tried the front door again, since it at least unlocked, and shoved our bodies against it with all of our might until it finally came open with a cracking groan.

Once we opened the door, we were confronted with the sheer devastation this storm caused. A massive jobo tree had fallen across our driveway, smashing the fence and retaining wall and blocking our access to the street. It took the power line with it as well. All about us were broken trees strewn about like matches spilled from their box. We looked out at the jungle and found it reduced to sticks. Every leaf was blown from every beautiful tree.

It was a surreal, heartbreaking sight.

At that moment, our neighbors came out of their home and cheered “You’re alive! We are all alive!

Thank God! We are all “afTer The sTOrm” so blessed!” That put continued on page 12

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his machete and joined the neighborhood cleanup crew. He was gone for many hours, and I started feeling a little anxious as the sun was setting.

That’s when Markus returned, drenched in sweat, covered in dirt, with cuts all over his hands and arms. He was smiling from ear to ear. “That was the most amazing experience! We cleared the road together all the way down to 115! Everyone came out to help. We moved huge logs, weighing tons, with nothing but muscle and rope! I love this neighborhood, and I love this incredible island!”

After that, the neighbors drove by our house waving cheerfully and honking. They now felt like family. It was awesome to see the people coming together as a community after this disaster and all helping each other. This is what makes Puerto Rico so special, and these aren’t the stories you’ll hear on the news.

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The author and her husband, pictured here, are still without power, running water, or a clear sense of when life will return to normal.

things in perspective. I started crying, because I was so happy to see they were OK. Then I remembered the little ladies. I ran downstairs and opened the bathroom door. It was a complete mess, but there were our five sweet chickens lined up in a row, safe and sound.

I was grateful that our little family weathered this catastrophic storm. Our home was flooded, doors broken, shutters damaged but intact—minimal damage considering the sheer strength of Maria. We are so thankful to still have a roof over our heads.

friday, s e p t . 2 2 Yesterday we experienced a beautiful outpouring of support and love from our neighbors. It moved me to tears. A gigantic tree had smashed down on our driveway during Hurricane Maria, taking down the power lines and our fence with it. It was so massive that it blocked our access to the road. We were trapped.

We couldn’t move our car out of the driveway or even climb over it to reach the street. The branches were too thick for a machete, and we didn’t have a chainsaw.

I stood there on the balcony feeling helpless.

That’s when I noticed the man I had only known as “my plumber” smiling over the gate on the other side of the tree. A large group of neighbors from further down the hill, all carrying machetes and one with a chainsaw, suddenly appeared behind him.

I knew most of them spoke little to no English and were as shy as myself when it came to communicating in a second language.

The tallest of them, wearing a red windbreaker, yelled, “We help you now!” I felt a rush of intense gratitude, and my eyes welled up with tears. Markus cheered, and the group responded with a chorus of “Wepa!”

They started cutting a path under the tree for us to get out. It took over an hour, and they worked tirelessly without stopping.

I offered them water and eggs. They were so kind, warmhearted and had great senses of humor. They saw I was distressed and tried to lift my spirits. They cracked jokes that had me laughing, and in these moments I felt like everything was going to be OK. They cleared enough for us to drive our car under the tree and out of the driveway. They asked for nothing in return.

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Now at Day 4, I feel post-hurricane exhaustion. I want to talk to my mom again so badly. I actually started having dreams about communicating with family and friends just to let them know we are alive. I’m really worried for my family in Aguadilla and Isabela, where our neighbor said that the eye of the storm hit. All of our news comes from a single AM radio station that cuts in and out.

We are also physically exhausted. Every part of our bodies hurts right now. We were mopping up so much smelly water and muck from the flooding in our home for days. Everything is still a mess. Our neighbors told us it could be months before any power or water will be restored. The heat wave after the hurricane was overwhelming. We didn’t realize how much shade from the sun the jungle around our house used to give us. Now it was just fallen trees and sticks, like a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Most of the homes along the water have been destroyed, the rubble and debris sliding into the sea. The devastation breaks my heart, and I can only imagine what the rest of the island looks like right now. Sometimes I just want to curl up in a ball and escape it all by sleeping. I want to wake up to a different reality for Puerto Rico.

monday, s e p t . 2 5 Still no power, water, cell service or internet. We drove around helping out friends here in town again today. One friend had the contents of her downstairs marquesina blown by the hurricane into the surrounding jungle. Others are in need of medications that have been held up in the mail. Our friend’s father is in need of a triple bypass surgery and is trying to find an emergency flight back to the mainland.

We are running low on gas in our car, and I know that if we can’t refill soon, we will run into troubles. Gas tankers are escorted into town by police cars, and the line of people goes on for almost a mile outside of every gas station. Some people waited for hours in the hot sun only to be turned away because all of the gas in town sold out by noon.

Water is sold out in all stores, too.

We have a 7 p.m. curfew in town now and a new dry law. No alcohol sold anywhere. Apparently this is for our safety, and it makes me wonder what is going on in other parts of the island.

We are hearing frightening rumors that make us want to board up our doors and hide in our home for our safety. I don’t know what’s true. It’s not like we have cable or internet to look up the news. That’s what makes it scary.

A lot of people we meet on the street are talking about evacuating the island. We don’t want to leave our home, but honestly we couldn’t leave even if we wanted to. No internet to book a ticket, no cell phone service to call the airport and not enough gas to even drive to Aguadilla.

I’m grateful that Markus filled up empty bottles with filtered tap water before the hurricane, but now, five days after the storm,

our drinking water reserves are beginning to dwindle. Access to safe drinking water is going to be a major problem for all of us on the island if relief doesn’t arrive soon.

tuesday, s e p t . 2 6 We’ve been using duct tape to fill in the gaps in our doors broken by the hurricane, but we’re still experiencing an influx of creepy crawlers: bees, mosquitoes, wasps, cockroaches, fire ants, spiders, larger-than-usual reptiles and mice. We have both been stung by the bees. They get caught between our fingers and in the nooks below our knees. They are swarming every window, flying into every crack. They are everywhere, not just our home, but all over Rincon. I know the bees are struggling desperately for food. This is not a good situation.

We are covered in mosquito and fire ant bites. Our friends are all dealing with the same. So much nature has been destroyed, so everything is entering the homes.

Our neighbors drove into town this morning and returned with gloomy news. Still no water in the supermarkets. The shelves in are basically cleared out, just rice left. The closest gas station has a line that stretches for miles. Looks like we will be staying in today to conserve the little gas we have left in our car.

A good number of helicopters flying overhead today. I think that’s a good sign? Not many cars drive by our house now.

Those that do seem to be running on fumes and look to be in a rush. It must be a madhouse at the airports. I wonder if FEMA arrived in Rincon yet. I wonder what’s going on in the rest of the world. I wonder about my family and friends. It’s so weird to be completely disconnected like this. Writing helps.

Wednesday, s e p t . 2 7 It’s been a week now since Hurricane Maria. Feel like my optimism is slipping a little into despair for everyone on this island.

Is anyone going to come help Puerto Rico?

I’m definitely coming down with something, and I have no energy. It feels like a stomach virus. Markus said I have a fever, and he’s making me rest in bed. He’s taking good care of me.

I hope today brings good news. I know it’s too early for electric or water to be restored, but if we could regain some internet reception or cell phone service, just to communicate with the outside world.

We ran out of bottled water, so we are now filtering water from our cistern reserve to drink. We’re running it through two filters, so we hope it is safe to consume. It’s not like we have any other option right now. When that runs out, we will boil rain water on the camping stove.

Markus built a rain water collection unit. It goes down the water spout into a barrel. I’ll use that to wash our clothes today, wring them out and hang them to dry over the balcony.

Markus is still in good spirits, and he’s constantly making me laugh, which snaps me out of my depressing thoughts. He’s using his machete to cut a path through the fallen trees in our backyard right now. It’s going to take months to clear all the fallen trees and debris, but you have to start somewhere.

Our chickens are doing fine. The hurricane broke our fence, so I don’t want them to wander into our neighbors’ property. I’ve been keeping them in their palace and collecting their eggs every morning. We feel so much love and gratitude for our chickens.

They require food and fresh water too. We want keep them safe, alive and healthy through the aftermath of this hurricane.

Our neighbors are amazing! We share our fresh eggs, and they come over with plates of warm root vegetables, rice and beans. They offer advice and encouragement. I’m so thankful for them. I don’t know what’s going on in San Juan or other parts of the island or anywhere in the world right now, for that matter. But it’s kind of like a Puerto Rican version of Little House on the Prairie here. No break-ins, theft, looting or crime

here yet. Everyone takes care of each other. I try not to speculate too much about what bad things could happen next.

Thursday, s e p T . 2 8 Still no water.

Yesterday we found out that we can get limited cell phone reception in parts of the town of Anasco, which borders Rincon. I was able to successfully text my Mom and send messages for some friends for a short while before it cut out. The only problem is that it takes gas to reach these locations, and if we don’t find gas soon, we will no longer be able to connect with the outside world.

There are long lines at every gas station, but no one is moving. They are just waiting in the scorching heat for gas to hopefully arrive.

This is a surreal new reality. It’s difficult to wrap my mind around how much our lives have changed in one week. It feels like The Wizard of Oz but in reverse. We went from Oz in Technicolor to black-and-white Kansas wrecked by the tornado.

Friday, s e p T . 2 9 Still no gas in the stations, no water on the supermarket shelves, no electricity or water anywhere around our home. I don’t know what is going on outside of our town because we no longer have enough gas in our tank to travel very far.

I don’t want to be all doom and gloom in this journal entry.

On the bright side, our neighbors gave us an entire bushel of bananas, so we have food! There was a beautiful rainfall today. It filled up our rainwater collection system, and we had a really long, refreshing, invigorating shower in the rain.

We have a lot of rain water now that we can boil on the gas camping stove and use as drinking water. I know everyone in Rincon is celebrating this and enjoying all the rain today. I see

all of our neighbors filling up their buckets. We have so much to be grateful for because we are alive. Things will get better for Puerto Rico soon. I know they will.

Tuesday, O c T . 3 I stopped keeping a journal for a few days because I was feeling depressed, heartbroken and devastated. My grandma passed away in Aguadilla. I still can’t believe she is really gone. I’ve been trying to process this tragic news in combination with the devastation everywhere and trying not to sink into despair. Everything in life felt like it was turned upside down, and everywhere I turned I saw and heard tragedy. Whenever I wrote anything, it was just really sad, and writing was no longer a form of therapy. I couldn’t convince myself that anything was going to get better. I was losing hope. How many people need to die before help starts arriving?

I heard that our U.S. President landed on the island. He threw paper towels at a crowd of Puerto Ricans and said our death count was low compared to Hurricane Katrina. He thinks we are doing great. This is disheartening and seems unreal, but I have no access to the news.

Thursday, O c T . 1 2 Very little has changed. Most of the island still does not have access to clean drinking water. Now we are worried about disease—namely leptospirosis—and mosquitoes. More people have died. The death toll is rising, but it’s hard to get accurate numbers with so many communication channels destroyed.

Tuesday, O c T . 1 7 Rincon is going on an entire month now without electricity.

It’s becoming this surreal new normal. When the night falls,

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we pull out our candles, headlamps and flashlights. We now gaze up at the stars every night, and they never looked so bright. Tonight they were especially beautiful. We listened to the coqui frogs sing and felt the damp grass between our toes.

Puerto Rico is still a beautiful Caribbean island, and things will get better.

Thursday, O c T . 2 6 Old habits die hard. Thirty-six days after the hurricane, I still stumble into the bathroom half awake every morning.

I turn the knob on the bathroom sink and place my cupped hand beneath the faucet anticipating water. When I’m in the dark, I still run my hands along the wall, searching for the light switch. I still try to simply flush the toilet, momentarily forgetting that I have to grab one of the buckets of rain water to pour into the tank first. Today, I even threw some clothes absentmindedly into our washing machine, which is now filled with spider webs. There are so many things I still just do instinctively because I was so accustomed to these modern conveniences that I used to take for granted.

Now I’m getting a very small glimpse of how my greatgrandparents here used to live. Markus and I have our health, so we are OK. I can’t imagine going through this aftermath of Hurricane Maria if I was sick, disabled or elderly. Which is the reality for so many. Seventy-four percent of the island is still without power. One in four Puerto Ricans still lack access to reliable clean water. I’m trying to remain positive ... but this is not OK. Ω

C. Faust moved to Puerto Rico three years ago to be closer to her extended family.

Many of these posts originally appeared on the author’s Facebook page.

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Culinary Claims Restaurants preserve the dining traditions of the Comstock

by Jeri Chadwell | j er ic @news r ev iew. c o m

S

ummer is gone, and so too is the warm spell that languished through October. Winter has yet to really arrive in the Truckee Meadows, but, just to the southeast, the communities of Virginia City and Gold Hill on the historic Comstock Lode are already experiencing the onset of the season.

Winter is often hard in these little towns that cling to the side of Mount Davidson, where once a rich body of silver ore drew thousands to work and live. Historical accounts tell of snows that delayed food and supplies for weeks and winters when the ground froze so hard that the dead had to be stored for burial in the spring.

These days, winter still presents challenges, albeit different ones.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Comstock underwent several boom and bust cycles before mining interests largely petered out. The towns, however, never fully died. Nor did their booms and busts cease. Today, though, the cycle is annual, driven by the seasonal ebb and flow of the district’s current economic motherlode—tourism.

Virginia City became a national historic district in 1961. The success of the television show Bonanza—which aired from 1959 to 1973 and was set in a fictitious Virginia City—ensured a steady stream of visitors in the decades to come.

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A host of long-running, annual events stills draw visitors, sometimes by the thousands. They arrive to find steep, narrow streets lined with historical buildings from which many of the Comstock’s remaining residents run their businesses—peddling standard tourist-town fare like costumed photography sessions, trinkets, antiques and, of course, food.

Restaurants are a staple of successful tourist towns, and the Comstock is no exception. With fewer than 1,000 permanent residents, it’s still home to more than a dozen dining establishments. They include the expected—everything from familyfriendly stopovers for burgers and fries to intimate venues for fine dining.

But the restaurants in Virginia City and Gold Hill represent more than just the trappings of a tourist town worth its salt. In fact, current chefs on the Comstock know they’re keeping alive a tradition as old and rich in regional history as mining.

By the Book At its peak after the largest bonanza discovery there, Virginia City had an estimated 25,000 residents and was often called the richest city in America.

And the wealth of some of its residents was indeed prodigious.

“People forget that back then, the people up here had a lot of money,” said Richard Oates, chef and owner at Canvas Café. “The dining establishments up here, they weren’t cheap. If you were to bring those into the modern era, they’d be ranked up there with the best restaurants in the country, at least—if not the world.”

He’s right. The Washoe Club was once compared to its famed 19th-century contemporary, the Lower Manhattan restaurant Delmonico’s. It’s a historical tidbit most visitors might never learn—one of many contained in a 1953 cookbook compiled by thenComstock residents.

The Virginia City Cook Book: A compendious collection of hundreds of receipts in all branches of domestic cookery, contributed by the residents, past and present, of Virginia City, Nevada is full of anecdotes as well as recipes. Compiled from newspaper clippings, journals and recollections, it’s a time capsule in writing, with stories and recipes that recall the history of the Comstock from the bonanza days through the years following World War II. The cookbook is fairly well known among residents still and was reprinted in 2009 in honor of the town’s sesquicentennial. Some local chefs have even made use of it on occasion. Among them is Brian Shaw, chef and owner at Cafe Del Rio.

“As a matter of fact, I think there’s one in there for pasties, which are those meat pies,” he said. “It was by Virginia Nevins. We kind of ripped that off and used it a couple of times. And then, I’m not sure if this one’s in there, but, when you say receipt, the funny thing is, our rellenos—the recipe we have—came from a lady who gave it to us, who had been given the recipe on a receipt from a dentist up here.”

The cookbook is literally full of stories like these. Recipes for simple, comfort foods—like Matilda Pollard’s lasagna, printed alongside a commendation of her work as the town’s justice of the peace—share pages with recipes for delicacies like pâté de foie gras and tales of grand parties hosted by silver barons long dead.

Though he hasn’t used any of its recipes, Chef Oates said he and wife Alexia Sober Oates received a copy of the cookbook when they opened their first Virginia City restaurant, Core at the Cider Factor, in 2013.

“It was interesting from a chef’s perspective, just to see the types of things that people were cooking back then,” Oates said. “Because, you know, most cookbooks are based around what society is in the process of eating. That’s why these days you have all of these vegan, gluten-free—all the healthy stuff. There’s always the

timeless classics, you know, but, in general, cookbooks reflect society.”

Oates is right about this as well, and The Virginia City Cook Book bears it out. Some recipes, like ceviche and marrow toast, reflect the region’s history of ethnic diversity. Others recall its boom and bust times.

And the echo of these epicurean traditions remains in restaurants on the Comstock today. At Cafe Del Rio, Chef Shaw serves up Southwestern cuisine and honors local tradition with the occasional adaption of an old recipe. At Canvas Café, the presence of Chef Oates—a native of Scotland and a veteran of kitchens across Europe—represents a continuation of the cosmopolitan contributions that have influenced food in Virginia City for more than a century.

And just a few miles away in Gold Hill, owner of the Crown Point Restaurant and Gold Hill Hotel Pat McNamee is also doing his part to keep

tradition alive. Since taking ownership of the historic property earlier this year, McNamee has been focused on finding ways to honor the Crown Point’s established fine dining reputation while also adapting it to the current realities of life on the Comstock.

A part of his plan for doing this is to appeal to locals with another longtime Comstock tradition.

“It’s called a miners’ dinner,” McNamee said. “You know, for like a low-priced thing—$7.99, $8.99—I’m not sure how much we will charge, but something like that, and just cater to the locals. They take a night of off cooking and can come in and have a nice dinner but not break the bank.”

The dinners are planned for Sunday evenings this winter. They’re one of many regular special events McNamee has in the works—like ghost tours and historical lectures—to drum up business in the slow months. Ω

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If there’s a spoken word event in town, Elisa Garcia is probably either in the audience, at the mic or behind the scenes.

Speak easy Lit @ Nite “I used to be one of the shyest people on the planet,” said Elisa Garcia.

Sipping a coffee at a bookstore café, in winged eyeliner and Bettie Page bangs, she explained how that changed. At age 19, she went to a poetry open mic night at the Java Jungle.

“I saw a girl—she had a shaved head, she was really young, and she had this poem—it was about sexual assault,” Garcia said. “I remember standing there in line ordering a drink and just crying because what this girl had said had just moved me so much.”

Garcia thanked the poet, who advised her, “You should do poetry some time.”

She took the advice to heart.

“One day I wrote a poem, and I did it at the open mic,” she said. “And I was terrible. I had my paper in my hand.

I didn’t have it memorized. I dropped my paper halfway through the poem. I couldn’t enunciate. It was bad. It was real bad. But I did it.”

She befriended people in the performance poetry scene and joined Spoken Views, a youth poetry collective. Eight years in, she coaches teen poets, organizes events, and travels to compete in slams.

These days, she said, “Basically, if it’s poetry-related, chances are I’m at it or running it.”

In July, Garcia attended the inaugural Lit @ Nite, a performance poetry event with a burlesque bent for a 21-and-over audience. The event included experiments such as “audience limericks” and poets writing onstage, using words chosen by the audience. Garcia was particularly taken with one performer, Isabel Fagoaga, who experimented with notions of body image and vulnerability.

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As event organizer Tee Iseminger explained, “She stood blindfolded in the audience holding some colored markers, and throughout the show, audience members came up and wrote messages or poems or verse from literary works on her body.”

Afterward, there was an open mic.

Garcia felt nervous about signing up, but, she was used to pushing through jitters. She recited a poem she’d written about beauty.

“It was about the stresses society puts on humans, in general, not just men or just women, just everyone,” she said. Then, she read a piece by Portland poet Brenna Twohy, “Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them.”

“It starts off very humorous—then it gets very serious,” Garcia said. “She mentions things that women have to face because of their looks. She talks crap about the porn industry, and she mentions sexual assault and how she will not be put into that category.”

After the July event, Garcia, a meticulous planner, and Iseminger, who’s more spontaneous, met for coffee. They decided they were natural collaborators, and now Garcia is co-organizer of Lit @ Nite, which they hope will become a quarterly event.

The next installment will be mostly open-mic based. Garcia expects topics like body image and objectification will surface again, and she’ll welcome both lighthearted and serious explorations of these themes— plus whatever else comes up.

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be poetry,” she said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be burlesque. It could be storytelling. ... The only thing that we aren’t allowed to do is be naked on stage. That gives artists a lot to work with right there.” Ω Sierra Literary Cooperative presents Lit @ Nite, a burlesque poetry open mic event, 8 p.m., Nov. 24 at Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St. Admission is free, with a suggested $3 donation to SLC.

by BoB Grimm

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“How does something so small cause such big problems?”

Gross and stupid Last week, I received a message saying Louis C.K. was available for interviews along with a link to watch his latest film, I Love You, Daddy. I also got a form asking for, among other things, my reaction to the movie.

I was a little peeved that my reaction to the film was needed before granting an interview, but no big deal. As a long-standing, rabid Louis C.K. fan, I figured the movie would be great, right?

This is easily the worst movie or show C.K. has made since Pootie Tang. Not only is it a bad movie on a purely technical level, but its subject matter is, as you may already know, a bit suspect.

For the past couple of years, I’d been reading those disturbing “rumors” of C.K.’s demented sexual proclivities. This weird-as-all-fuck movie seems to be a sort of strange confessional about that alleged, messed-up mistreatment of female colleagues and fans.

It also seems to be giving the finger to people who take issue with artists who do stupid, arguably criminal things, as if those people are being shallow for not separating art from a person’s bad behavior.

It has a real creepy, odd vibe to it. And, as I’ve already stated, it’s just not very good.

After watching, I sent a note saying I did not like the movie, and I withdrew myself from consideration to interview Louis C.K. A few hours later, the New York Times story dropped, followed shortly thereafter by C.K.’s halfassed apology. Those mistreatments are no longer “alleged,” and now nobody will be interviewing Louis C.K., or see what is now a really, really shitty movie considering what has transpired regarding his lewd sexual deeds. The film is garbage in so many ways, and its release has been canceled.

C.K. self-funded and directed the movie in secret so nobody could tell him what he could and could not put into it. Man, does that ever show.

One of those pesky studios would’ve told him the movie looked like crap and was about questionable subject matter, all things considered. He shot it on black-and-white 35mm film quickly and cheaply. It looks washed-out and poorly constructed.

This black-and-white “art” film is, in part, an homage to Woody Allen’s Manhattan, so that’s troubling. It features an older director, played by John Malkovich—and clearly modeled after Allen—who is notorious for sleeping with underaged girls. C.K. plays a famous TV producer, a character who deeply admires the director’s work, but his fandom is called into question when said director takes an interest in his 17 year-old daughter, China, played by Chloe Grace Moretz.

The movie actually features a character, played

by Charlie Day, mimicking vigorous masturbation while C.K. talks to a woman on speaker phone. So, included in this insane movie, is a slapstick depiction of one of the vile things C.K. is accused of doing.

This is also supposed to be C.K.’s modern statement on feminism but plays more like straight-up misogyny. It’s sad to see the likes of Moretz, Edie Falco and Rose Byrne virtually humiliated. As for Woody Allen, the movie clearly wants you to knock it off when it comes to denouncing C.K.’s pervert idol and former Blue Jasmine boss.

On what was supposed to be the film’s premiere day, C.K. wound up issuing a public apology to the women in the Times story. Hard to take that apology seriously after seeing the contents of this film, which he was studiously trying to release up until the moment he issued that statement.

I Love You, Daddy plays like a career suicide note, as if its maker knew his day of reckoning was coming. David Bowie made his last album knowing he was going to die, and it was beautiful. C.K. made what might be his last film perhaps knowing he was doomed or, even worse, bulletproof. It’s totally gross and stupid, and it will not be playing at a theater near you. 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.

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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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Only the Brave

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. 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.

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Thor: Ragnarok

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. (Streaming on Netflix.)

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. 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.

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by Todd SouTh

Go west Sabrina’s West Street Kitchen is a small, cozy spot, with a “south of the border” inspired menu that enticed my crew to sample as much as we could in one sitting.

Beverages were served in Mason jars— perhaps to match the lighting fixtures—and the housemade ginger ale ($3) was pleasant, with half a squeezed lime at the bottom of the glass. My friends and wished we’d smuggled in a mini or two of vodka to complete the cocktail.

Cuban black bean soup ($4 per cup) is available daily—a smooth puree of beans, seasonings and cilantro, with swirls of pesto and chipotle crema on top. It’s served with tostada chips on the side. Just as good was the chicken soup ($5 per cup) with egg noodles, celery, green bean, bell pepper, carrot and corn. It was the soup of the day and was savory and satisfying.

Next was a giant goblet of Mexican gazpacho shrimp cocktail ($11) with pink bay shrimp, cucumber, tomato, avocado, sweet onion and cilantro, swimming in a picante lime gazpacho and served with housemade tostada chips dusted in a mildly spicy blend of seasonings. I’m glad we shared this, because it was big enough to be a meal on its own.

Several items are available as bowls with greens included, or as paninis or wraps served with side salads of mixed greens, onion, carrot and a vinaigrette with plenty of oregano. A luau kalua bowl ($10) of roasted pork with teriyaki glaze, sweet onion, grilled pineapple, cilantro and cheese was paired with a side of spiced Asian slaw. The meat was excellent, the sauce not too sweet, and the veggies were nice and crisp. The lightly grilled pineapple perfectly complemented the dish. Similarly, a Thai noodle salad ($10) with rice noodles, red bell pepper, daikon radish, cucumber, 18 | RN&R | 11.16.17

The southern melt at Sabrina’s West Street Kitchen is paired with coleslaw and a side salad.

All panini sandwiches are $10.

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carrot, bean sprout, fresh jalapeno, chopped peanut, Thai basil, cilantro and sriracha lime dressing packed plenty of crunch and flavor. We added sliced chicken breast to this dish for an additional $3.

We also sampled a few panini sandwiches ($10), starting with the Southern melt—a toasty roll filled with tender pulled pork, barbecue sauce, spicy dill pickles and cheddar cheese and served with a side of slaw. Next was a torta Mexicana stuffed with pork carnitas, black bean spread, avocado, tomato, fresh onion, queso blend, pickled jalapeno, romaine lettuce and chipotle crema. Last, we tried a nacho Cuban with roasted pork, ham, pickled jalapeno, mustard sauce and queso blend.

The southern was a balance of savory and sweet. The torta was on point, but that Cuban really hit the spot.

A plate of tres tacos ($10) was probably second in flavor only to the soup offerings.

Three large corn tortillas were filled with carnitas, shaved lettuce, queso blend and chipotle crema, with pico de gallo on side.

The pork was juicy and flavorful, and the folded tacos were just lightly crisped. I would return for this dish alone, paired with some of that Cuban black bean soup.

I’m not generally one to order dessert, but the offering of housemade pumpkin cheesecake ($6) was too hard to pass up.

We shared a large slice, drizzled in caramel sauce and topped with whipped cream— lightly sweet, very fluffy and quite reminiscent of pumpkin pie. It was a welcome end to a completely enjoyable meal. Ω

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by MaRc TiaR

Uncorked I remember a few years ago hearing that the owners of Old Granite Street Eatery were opening a little wine bar called Royce behind that restaurant.

With my preference for grain over grape and the explosion in craft beer available and brewed locally, a wine bar hasn’t been high on my list of priorities. I’ve tried to go before but found the bar closed on Sundays, a night I often go for drinks. It took an invitation to a coworker’s birthday celebration for my wife and me to finally give Royce a try on a recent Saturday evening.

Also, word is that Royce has an amazing burger. This struck me as an odd highlight for a wine bar, but as it turns out, it’s not really much of a wine bar these days. One of the celebrating coworkers—a frequenter of Royce—told me the wine bar idea didn’t quite take off, so the owners tweaked things a little and added some flat-screen TVs, and now it’s more or less just a bar.

The burger definitely gets some limelight, with its own hashtag (#royceburger) and everything. The Royce Facebook page would have you think burgers, beer and sports is the theme, but, aesthetically, it felt less sports bar and more cozy, historical urban.

(A movie played on cable while I was there.) And while the food isn’t entirely the focus—aside from the burger, it’s all semi-gourmet small plates—it did kind of feel like an extension of the restaurant next door, and orders are in fact shuttled over from the kitchen there. We shared and quite enjoyed several of them during our little celebration.

Since wine is no longer the emphasis, I was a little disappointed that beer

Bartenders Joey Parazo (left) and Joey Hoxie toast patrons Gabrielle Marangi and austin Ovard at Royce.

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didn’t get just a tiny bit more love.

There were just two taps, one of them empty, and the other pouring Revision Double IPA. It’s a great beer, to be sure, but a little more intense than I was in the mood for, so I ordered a tall can of Pigeon Head IPL followed by Brasserie St. James’ Santiago Mexican Lager.

There was actually a variety of good quality craft beer, local and otherwise.

I think I just expected more on draft to choose from. I did learn a new beer term from the specials board: “pony.” It’s a cute, little seven-ounce bottle of Miller High Life. Handcrafted cocktails are, of course, another option.

Like I said, the place is cozy. It’s actually a 1930s vintage modular steel “El Reno Apartments” home. I struggled to envision how it was laid out as a living space decades ago. The current furniture arrangement encourages small group gatherings on sofas and comfy chairs around tables, and, fortunately, it wasn’t too busy during our visit; otherwise, I could see crowding becoming an issue.

I really liked the look of the outdoor patio seating as a place to enjoy a cocktail, but, sadly, the temperatures of a fall evening in Reno discourage me far too easily.

While we celebrated one birthday, our daughter celebrated hers with a slumber party at home, so we couldn’t stay as long as we might have. I’d certainly like to revisit Royce for a #royceburger and a pony someday soon. Ω

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It took time for Erin Miller, who writes and performs under the name Surly, to find her voice.

“I didn’t write music until I was 17,” she said. “I had a really hard time finding the right combination of good things.”

Miller started playing guitar at 12, when her dad taught her how to form three chords—C, E minor and G. Everything else—including guitar, voice and recording—she taught herself, beginning in the summer following elementary school.

“I would start playing guitar at three in the afternoon and wouldn’t stop until three in the morning,” said Miller.

Miller’s bathroom became a makeshift studio that would play home to a growing obsession with self-recording.

“It was mostly through trial and error, and internet research, and not doing my schoolwork,” she said.

Approaching the end of high school, Miller started using the bedrock of skills she had developed to express herself. On a trip to Ann Arbor, Michigan, she realized there was a song stuck in her head. It was one of her own.

“I think it ended up being called ‘I Hate College Apps,’” said Miller. “People really responded to it, which was very wild.”

When she returned home after that trip, many things had changed. An influential teacher and mentor to Miller was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, which soon claimed her life. On top of that, Miller’s family relocated from a trailer park to the suburbs, further causing her to feel alienated from her surroundings.

“It was all very overwhelming,” she said. The changes were galvanizing for Miller, who was just beginning to see how her own written material had the potential to connect her to people around

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her. That’s when she wrote her first Surly song, “Nothing But An Idealistic Chump” inspired by Carmen, her teacher who died.

“Since then, I’ve been practicing honing in on whatever it was that allowed that potential to be realized in the first place,” said Miller.

Surly, who began performing under the name Sundries, came to be after another series of trials and errors, this time with Miller’s first forays into live performance.

The Holland Project provided a stage for Surly to come into her own.

“It took me a really long time to be able to play a show without crying afterwards,” said Miller. “Holland was really important for imagining a future with live music that wasn’t like ‘fuck this!’”

She self-recorded her first EP, About That, in the summer of 2016. In four songs, she explores themes of friendship, love, uncertainty about the past and future, longing and self-doubt. The EP’s final track, “Summer Song” opens with the lyrics “Keep having dreams of my teeth falling out / I am rotting from the inside.” It’s one of the EP’s most memorable songs, capturing Miller’s often painful introspective pull, as well as her ability to break through to creative catharsis.

Currently, Miller is recording a followup to About That. Though there have been some difficult setbacks, she feels hopeful that the EP, which focuses on the love she feels for the people around her, will come together. It’s in perseverance, doubt and battling embarrassment that a Surly release comes to fruition. It’s a process Miller identified upon recently revisiting her first EP. “When I put it out, I listened to it obsessively, then I stopped listening to it because I was really embarrassed of it. I didn’t want anyone to hear it—I wanted to take it down,” said Miller. “But I actually re-listened to it a few days ago. It’s OK!” Ω

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Karaoke 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

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FOR THE WEEK OF nOvEmbER 16, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. Sat, 11/18, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

THE VISUAL HISTORY OF ATOMIC TESTING IN NEVADA: Part of Nevada Humanities’ Salon series, the evening will feature several expert voices on the history of the Cold War and the legacy of atomic testing in Nevada. Moderated by Alison Gaulden, internship coordinator and lecturer at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, the discussion will center around Andrew Kirk’s book, Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing, which chronicles this history in graphic novel form. Panelists will include Andrew Kirk, chair of the department of history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Meredith Oda, assistant professor of history at UNR, and Peter Goin, photographer and art professor at UNR. Audience members will be invited to participate in a question and answer session followed by a reception. Fri, 11/17, 6pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

RENO ONESIE CRAWL

11/18:

Formerly the Pajama Crawl, the Onesie Crawl allows you to ditch the fancy outfit and get comfy for a night on the town. Wear your coziest or silliest one-piece pajamas and purchase a $5 crawl cup and map to get free admission to 24 participating venues, drink specials, specially themed live entertainment, a photo booth to capture your costume and access to costume contests. The crawl begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, at Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., and the mezzanine level of Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St. Call 624-8320 or visit crawlreno.com/event/onesie.

YARN TIME: All levels of knitters are invited to join this group on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Wed, 11/22, 2pm. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Boulevard, (775) 972-0281.

ART ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Holiday

EvEnTs

FANTASIES IN CHOCOLATE—SPLASH OF COLOR: The black-tie, costumed wine tasting and chocolate sampling event returns.

Taste chocolate confections and savory creations presented by some of the region’s top chefs as you watch live art and entertainment. The event is a fundraiser for the RGJ Foundation, which benefits local nonprofit organizations, individuals and schools through scholarships and grants. Sat, 11/18, 5:30pm. $95-$225. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, fantasiesinchocolate.com.

AN EVENING WITH DANILO JOHN THOMAS: Sundance Books and Music presents a reading and book signing with Danilo John Thomas, author of The Hand Implements. Thu, 11/16, 7pm. Free.

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

COYOTE GOES TO BURNING MAN: Michael Mikel, a.k.a. “Danger Ranger,” presents Burning Man’s historical roots, including tricksters, pranksters and the surrealistic influences of the San Francisco Cacophony Society. Sat, 1/19, 2-3pm. $12 general admission, $8 NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

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DOOM TOWNS EXHIBIT GUIDED TOUR: The book Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing is the basis of an exhibit on display through Dec. 22. Author Andrew Kirk will provide guided tours of the exhibit, sharing his knowledge of an important aspect of Nevada history. Fri, 11/17, 12:30pm & 1:30pm. Free. Whittemore Gallery, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 682-5665.

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an event organized by The Center: Every Student, Every Story hosted at the University of Nevada, Reno. The purpose of the event is to strengthen the communication between the Muslim community and the community at large. The evening will begin with an introduction from Araceli Martinez, interim director of The Center, followed by a recitation of the Quran. Guests are encouraged to bring a vegetarian dish to share with the community. Following the dinner, guests can visit multiple information/resources stations. Tue, 11/21, 5pm. Free. Joe Crowley Student Union, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4936.

REMSA FREE CAR SEAT CHECKPOINTS: The Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority offers a free car seat installation and inspection check point as part of its Point of Impact community outreach program. When visiting the checkpoint, parents should bring their children and car seats and schedule about 30-45 minutes or longer for more than one seat. Staff and volunteers will check for obvious defects and determine whether the car seat appears on a national recall list. In addition, they will check the installation, correct any problems and provide education on the proper use and installation of the car seat. Thu, 11/16, 9am; Sat, 11/18, 9:30am; Mon, 11/20, 1pm; Tue, 11/21, 9am. Free.

REMSA, 400 Edison Way, Reno, (775) 8585437, remsaeducation.enrollware.com/ schedule.

RENO SWINGS: Learn 1940s-style swing dancing every week at the American Legion Hall. No partner or experience necessary. Wed, 11/22, 7pm. $5-$10.

American Legion Hall, 877 Ralston St., (707) 843-0895, www.renoswings.com.

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. The show runs through Dec. 28. Thu, 11/16-Wed 11/22, 11am-4pm. Free.

Artists Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Hallowed Absurdities. Mixed-media works by Theodore Waddell. Thu, 11/16 -Sat, 11/18. Free. Classroom Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: American Landscapes.

Multi-media installation by Willem Volkersz. Thu, 11/16-Sat, 11/18. Free. E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

GALLERY EAST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Angles and Eaves Deconstructing Architecture. The art exhibition features hard-edge acrylic paintings reflecting the architectural styles of California before the turn of the 20th Century. Karen Anable-Nichols creates colorful abstractions based off the angles and geometry of buildings using arbitrary colors to create an exciting juxtaposition between color and form.

The show will be on exhibit MondayFriday through Dec. 1. Thu, 11/16-Fri, 11/17, Mon, 11/20-Wed, 11/22, 8am-5pm. Free.

Gallery East, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 3346264, renoculture.com.

GALLERY WEST, MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Preserved Limb, timber and tree-spirit. The art exhibition features paintings of serene, color-drenched environments exploring themes of nature. Artist Jennifer Kapnek uses layers of acrylic paint on recycled wood while incorporating natural elements to reflect concepts of history, endurance and preservation. The show is on view Monday-Friday through Dec. 1. Thu,

11/16-Fri, 11/17, Mon, 11/20-Wed, 11/22, 8am5pm. Free. Gallery West, McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, renoculture.com.

GARAGE DOOR GALLERY: Cabin-Time E. Sierras. Cabin-Time is a roaming creative residency to remote places. Through work and play that is both off-the-grid and on-the-land, Cabin-Time provides an opportunity for creative experimentation, adventures in landscape, and forever friendships. Cabin-Time: E. Sierras took 14 artists from around the United States to the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains for nine days in April 2017. Thu, 11/16-Fri, 11/17, 9am. Free.

Sierra Nevada College, 1008 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, www.sierranevada.edu.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Multicolored Reflections of Self.

Photographer Marjorie Williams is taking over the hallway gallery space at Holland to showcase a new series of self portraits. In her exhibit Multicolored Reflections of Self, Williams uses mirrors and colored lighting while turning the camera on her self as a way of examining the mysteries that lie within. The artwork will be on view Tuesday-Friday through Dec. 1, with an opening reception on Nov. 17, 5-7pm; 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. Her exhibit Body Worship includes sensual, abstracted bodily forms that invite viewers to recognize their own physicality within the synthetic everyday materials. The artwork is on view Tuesday-Friday through Dec. 1 with a reception on Nov. 17, from 5-7pm. Thu, 11/16-Fri, 11/17, Tue, 11/2-Wed, 11/22, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project Gallery, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

SERVA POOL SPACE AT THE HOLLAND PROJECT: In a Broken World. Reno-based artists Ashley Westwood and Omar Pierce’s audio/visual installation illustrates the hazy realms between their own recollections and experienced realities. This installation incorporates a full mixtape-soundtrack of home recordings contributed by Lauren Baker, Alex Crowe, Justin Craperi, Chris Monzon, Robbie Racine and Ian Yount. The exhibit will be up Tuesday-Friday through Dec. 1 with a closing reception on Thursday, Nov. 30, 6-8pm. Thu, 11/16-Fri, 11/17, Tue, 11/21-Wed, 11/22, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Shoulder Lines Sinking Artist Reception. Sarah Lillegard’s art exhibition explores descending forms and shapes of exhaustion through soft sculpture and fiber installations. The exhibition will be accompanied by a limited edition catalogue featuring an essay by Julia Schwadron. Thu, 11/16, 5pm. Free. Sierra Arts Gallery, 17 S. Virginia St., Ste 120, (775) 329-2787.

SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: Laid Me Out. Speaking with a strong and distinct material vernacular, Blair Saxon-Hill paints, sculpts, carves and gathers the detritus of the world around us, projecting a register of reality all the more visceral when read in relation to our socalled “post-truth” moment. The show runs Monday-Friday through Dec. 1. Thu,

11/16-Fri, 11/17, Mon, 11/20-Wed, 11/22, 9am5pm. Free. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 881-7525, www.sierranevada.edu.

STREMMEL GALLERY: John Salminen—City Life. The show features the watercolor paintings of the award-winning American painter, Nov. 16-Dec. 16. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-3pm. Thu, 11/16-Sat, 11/18, Mon, 11/20-Wed, 11/22. Free. Stremmel Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, stremmelgallery.com.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH, JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: MFA Midway Exhibition. The show features current work by second-year master of fine arts students in the visual arts program. Featured artists include Mark Combs and Mahedi Anjuman. Thu.

11/16-Fri, 11/17, Mon, 11/20-Wed, 11/22, noon4pm. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis

Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

FILM CITY OF GOLD: Artemisia MovieHouse presents a showing of Laura Gabbart’s documentary portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold. Gold reveals a Los Angeles where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America. As piping-hot platters are served up, so are stories of immigrants whose secret family recipes are like sacred offerings pledged for the opportunity to build their American Dream. With eternal curiosity, razorsharp intellect, and existential longing, Gold is a culinary geographer taking us where no critic has gone before. Sun, 11/19, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

MUSIC ALLISON AU QUARTET: The jazz group led

by Juno-award winning saxophonist, composer and arranger Allison Au performs. Fri, 11/17, 7:30pm. Free.

Laughing Planet Cafe, 941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633.

FALL FUSION: McQueen High School

Orchestra performs its fall concert. Sat, 11/18, 2pm. $8-$23. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

FOR THE LOVE OF LYRICS: Nevada Chamber Opera’s program will feature opera and musical theater selections ranging from Mozart to Bernstein. Fri, 11/17-Sat, 11/18, 7:30pm. $10 general, $5 for UNR students.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4278.

THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE: The folk-Americana duo perform. Sat, 11/18, 7:30pm. $15-$20.

Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500.

THE SEXTONES: The soul/funk group

performs. Fri, 11/17, 7:30pm. $13-$20.

Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

SUNDAY BRUNCH: Enjoy live music by Colin Ross and brunch presented by chez louie. The menu features artful dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary bar.

Reservations recommended. Sun, 11/19, 10am-2pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921.

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY FALL CONCERT NO. 2: The symphony’s second concert of the season features Olga Perez Flora, assistant professor of voice, in Gustav Mahler’s Four Songs based on the poems of Friedrich Ruckert. Tue, 11/21, 7:30pm. $5, free for UNR students.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4278.

ONSTAGE FALL DANCE FESTIVAL: A showcase of choreography by University of Nevada, Reno dance faculty Eve Allen and Cari Cunningham and selected student choreography with performances by UNR students. Thu, 11/16-Fri, 11/17, 8pm; Sat, 11/18, 2pm & 8pm; Sun, 11/19, 8pm. $5$15. Redfield Proscenium Theatre, Church Fine Arts, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

FUNTIME THEATER—DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Funtime Theater holds its monthly dinner murder mysteries. The doors open at 5pm. with a no host bar.

The show starts at 6:30pm with dinner service starting at 7pm. Ages 10 and older are welcome to attend. Visit the website for dinner selections. Sat, 11/18, 5pm. $50. Lili’s Family Restaurant, 2325 Kietzke Lane, www.funtimetheater.com.

GABRIEL IGLESIAS: The comedian brings his

FluffyMania World Tour to Reno. Sat, 11/18, 8pm. $50-$80. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8815.

11/16

: 4X4X48 SCREENING In Holland Project’s 48-hour Music Video Challenge, local directors were tasked with making a music video from start to finish for local bands in just two days. Filmmakers also had to incorporate five elements into their films (as chosen by last year’s filmmakers) that they only learned about after they punched the clock to start their journey. This year’s directors include Todd Hayes, DeAngelo Bren Adams, People with Bodies, Alina Vergunova, Hunter Moranville and Brianna Wollard, directing for bands and musical acts Surly, Josh Alexander, Team Francis, Fine Motor, Teen Creature and Dancing Plague. These music videos will premiere at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. The directors and bands will also participate in a Q&A session following the screening. Admission is $3-$5. Call 742-1858 or visit www.hollandproject.org

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

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. If there’s enough snow, this will be a snowshoe hike. There will be a few pairs of snowshoes at the visitor center available for rent. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 11/18, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

IDLEWILD HEALTH WALKS: These interpretative walks are a safe and supportive environment designed to offer people in all stages of Alzheimer’s and their care-partners an opportunity to get outdoors, get some exercise and socialize with their peers. Tue, 11/21, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.

RENO BIGHORNS: The development league basketball team plays the Agua Caliente Clippers. Fri, 11/17, 7pm. $10-$380. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 853-8220, reno.gleague.nba.com.

RENO ICE RINK: The outdoor ice skating rink is open from Nov. 22 through Feb. 18.

Call for ticket info. Wed, 11/22. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, (775) 3347000, greaternevadafield.com.

SENIOR HEALTHY WALKING PROGRAM: Center for Healthy Aging offers a free senior walking program for people 50 years of age and older. Snacks and water will be provided at the walk. Wed, 11/22, 9am. Free. Meadowood Mall, 5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, (775) 384-4324.

RENO BIGHORNS: The development league basketball team plays Long Island Nets. Sun, 11/19, 7pm. $10-$380. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 853-8220, reno.gleague.nba.com.

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I eventually want her to sleep in bed with me. However, she’s not toilet-trained yet, so I “crate” her at night in the laundry room in a small dog cage. She cries all night.

It’s heartbreaking. Please help!

Crate training, recommended by vets, breeders and the American Kennel Club, involves confining a dog to a “den”—a cage or gated-off area—with her bed and her favorite toys to dismember. However, the crate is not supposed to be used for punishment but, say, for times you can’t watch her to keep her from using the $3,000 leather couch as a chew toy or the antique Persian rug as an opulently colored handknotted toilet.

The problem you’re experiencing in crating your dog at night comes out of doggy-human coevolution. Anthrozoologist John W.S. Bradshaw explains that over generations, we humans bred dogs to be emotionally dependent on us. Not surprisingly, dogs miss their owners, sometimes desperately, when they are separated from them—and other dogs don’t seem to fill the emotional void. In one of Bradshaw’s studies— of 40 Labrador retrievers and border collies—“well over 50 percent of the Labs and almost half of the collies showed some kind of separation distress” when left alone.

Fortunately, puppies can be trained to understand that your picking up your car keys isn’t human-ese for “Goodbye forever!” Bradshaw’s advice in Dog Sense: “Pick up keys, go to door, praise dog.” Next: Pick up keys. Go out door. Come right back in. Praise dog. Next: Go out for increasingly longer intervals—and “go back a stage” (timewise) if the dog shows anxiety.

And good news for you: You probably don’t have to spoon with your dog to keep her from feeling separation distress at night. My tiny Chinese crested now sleeps on my pillow, resting her tiny snout on my neck. However, back before she had her bathroom business under control, I went through the cryingat-night-in-the-crate thing (actually a gated alcove by my office).

I felt like the second coming of Cruella de Vil. Then I remembered

something about dogs: They have a sense of smell on the level of superhero powers. Maybe my dog didn’t have to be in bed—maybe near bed would do. I snagged a big see-through plastic container that my neighbors were tossing out. At bedtime, I put it next to my bed and put my dog in it with her bed and a pee pad. She turned around three times, curled up and went to sleep—after giving me a look I’m pretty sure said, “Hey, next time you’re gonna throw me in ‘the hole,’ gimme some notice, and I’ll menace the mailman and chase the neighbors’ bratty children with a sharpened Nylabone.”

Fur wheelin’ I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do. What’s going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I’d hope my family would have me committed.

Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man purses.

However, you’re right—dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing.

As for why this is, think Field of Dreams: “If you build it…” and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won’t have to leave their old, tired and/or disabled doggy home alone.

As for what pushing a doggybuggy says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a “costly signal.”

This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price—which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real. An example of this is conspicuous waste—signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners. Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, “We want sensitive men!— though not, ‘put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller’ sensitive.” Ω

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From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict that during

the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy.

Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever. ing an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon -- but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend? Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide!

I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to story-

teller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there.

Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish?

Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival.

You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most

miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days.

Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

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approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that can

be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899.

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.” — 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky.

“Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.”

— filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in

the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

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

basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius

rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison was a

prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career.

Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

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When people fail to acknowledge that, it shocks me.

No kidding, especially since the Natives were trying to help them. That’s so disgusting. They were trying to help them. And that was their pay in return.

In 2004, the news was the dig at Alder Creek didn’t turn up signs of cannibalism. Was that wrong?

The talk is related to the book An Archaeology of Desperation, right? What else can you tell me?

Well, I was visiting the museum this summer with some friends. Anyone who comes to Reno, I always take to the Alder Creek site and the Donner Museum. And I just mentioned to someone behind the desk that I was involved in the 2004 excavation and if they ever wanted me to give a talk about that, I would be glad to do it. … I will put Donner Party cannibalism into a larger world context as well.

I don’t immediately think of the Donner Party when I think cannibalism. I jump to, like, shipwrecks.

There are all kinds of circumstances where you find cannibalism. In some cultures, it’s institutionalized and perfectly acceptable behavior. Of course, in Europe it wasn’t so much.

There was a little bit of kind of symbolic cannibalism, where they might eat just a little bit of a deceased relative—but nothing like we see in Mesoamerica or

the South Pacific, where the consumption of human flesh was done on a rather significant scale.

With the Donner Party, I guess they call it survival cannibalism, but I have my reservations considering they killed two Native Americans. But they also ate, like, their boots and stuff, right?

They ate everything. They had bison hides that they used on the lean-tos. And they boiled those hides and basically got some kind of pasty mass that they would consume. ... A lot of the authors ... have said it was really more for filling their gut than for nutrition. Insofar as the two Native Americans are concerned, Jeri, you’re absolutely right. It was survival cannibalism—except for that instance.

You know what? That was like a mid-19th

OK. Now, this is the thing about the cannibalism of the Donner Party. We were definitely looking for direct evidence. And we did not find the smoking gun. What we found were thousands of bone fragments. ... Basically, they’re breaking bone up—they’re boiling it so long that it would break up into small fragments. And the reason they were boiling it is that bone is one-third collagen, which is a consumable protein. Of course, the marrow would go fairly quickly. [Researcher] Gwen Robbins ... was able to identify horse, bear, oxen and, really sadly, dog. There was a dog, and apparently the dog was one of the last things to go. They probably killed the dog. This is my theory as to why we didn’t find any bones of humans. ... When we were doing the excavation, Lochie Donner [Paige] came by and was elated, “You found no evidence for cannibalism.”

In a literal sense, that’s true. We didn’t find any bone that was human. From the historical narratives, there’s hardly any question that cannibalism took place. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Grand slam Somewhere on some road in August, the cranial voice spoke up: “So when was the last time we were at the Grand Canyon?” I was mildly embarrassed to admit— a pretty long time ago. “Yeah, I thought so,” the voice said.

So a few weeks later, your correspondent, in truck and trailer, pulled into the G.C. Visitor Center (South Rim), ready to take in some of the most wondrously spectacular scenery available to us Earthlings. I had taken a super leisurely 200-mile-a-day approach in getting from Reno to The Great Gash, which resulted in me going to Tonopah, then Tecopa Hot Springs, then Temple Bar Marina (Lake Mead), and finally Tusayan, the bustling gas lodging food burg just south of The Park. (Yes, these four “T” towns do indeed work pretty good in the context of Little Feat’s “Willin.”) And like most pleasant journeys, this one reminded

me that the ride itself can be as important as the arrival. So don’t get too sideways on the wild coffee, but just kinda cruise on down and get some kicks, because after all, part of this trip would be on good ole Route 66 (from Kingman to Williams).

If it’s been a few years since you last visited The Crown Jewel of America’s National Parks, I’m happy to report that, yes, there are still lots and lots and lots of people there, even in late September, and you know what? That’s just fine. Because it’s also still true that the three-mile walk from Pipe Creek Vista to the El Tovar Lodge along the astounding rim of this eyeball-buckling Wonderland is one of the most spectacular strolls you will ever enjoy as a mobile, upright biped. There’s nothing subtle or understated about it. You’re walking in Wow City. Constantly stupendous.

After three nights of very nice trailer camping in the park, I decided to celebrate my excellent G.C. experience with a room in Tusayan. Everything about the park had seemed to be under control and running nicely—the shuttles, the stores, the cafes, the rentals.

There was a grand competency on display, resulting in an overall feelgood about this fantastic place. America as it used to be— functional, friendly, fabulous.

So I’m lying in bed, nodding off to a barrage of NFL highlights, and feeling all nice and swell about my country, which was refreshing. And wouldn’t ya know it, just as I was zoning out, 200 miles to the north a madman was busting out the window of his Vegas hotel suite, all set to blow my nice nostalgic little Pollyanna moment to smithereens. Ω

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