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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Hello there, People of the Future! Greetings from the past. I’m writing you from another time, another place, back here midafternoon on Jan. 30. Y’all are seeing this on Feb. 1 or sometime thereafter, and you’re privy to things that have yet to reach me back here on sad, remote Tuesday Afternoon Island—namely, you have seen— or at least read brief excerpts or thumbed past social media descriptions—Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Were hackles raised? Were shoes thrown? Boos unfurled at great length? Did Elena Kagan mumble “not true” under her breath? Did Donald Trump continue to impress us with his incredible limbo abilities—able, as he is, to shimmy beneath the bar no matter how low it might sink? Overall, I’m not a fan of the reality TV silliness of the televised State of the Union address, what with all the ringers in the audience, and the smiling faces drawn on all the bad news. (Check out our editorial on page 5.) However, it’s hard not to fixate on what the guy might say or do. There’s so much storming around him—the Russian investigation, and the incredible fact that he’s refusing to impose sanctions against Russia despite both houses of Congress voting in favor of the sanctions with veto-proof majorities. There’s also the recent reports that EPA chief Scott Pruitt said in 2016 that Trump would be “abusive to the Constitution,” which is of course totally accurate, but not what you’d expect to hear from a member of his cabinet, but these are unpredictable times. That’s why I feel so much distance between us, dear Thursday dwellers. All I know is that Trump has been selling off airtime so that donors can see their names during the speech. The bar has been lowered again. I’m half expecting him to deliver the speech adorned in corporate logos, all decked out like a NASCAR driver.

To Senator Heller: Why have I not heard your voice loudly and clearly calling for a stop to any further deportation of people whose only crime is being brought to America as a child or those who are here because their home country is currently a well-defined risk to their lives? You can argue principle about how immigration law should be done all you want, but these are real people who will suffer great harm if our government, a.k.a. you, doesn’t do something now to stop these blanket deportations. Using these people as some kind of bargaining chip or as examples for other people who might consider seeking asylum here represents the most heinous of evils that need to be purged from government at all levels. Don’t be part of the problem. Do something now to stop the inhumanity. A spectrum of solutions exist, and if you’re not willing or able to stand up and do what’s right for these people, then you need to be replaced, plain and simple. Michel Rottmann Virginia Highlands

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The Bundy case Re “Cockamamie legal theories” (Let Freedom Ring, Jan. 23): Cliven Bundy was illegally grazing cattle on public land for decades. That is a fact. He refused to pay the grazing fees that all ranchers must pay to run their cattle on federallymanaged land. That the federal prosecutors’ incompetence led to the dismissal of the case against Bundy does not mean he was not guilty, nor does it change the fact that he was illegally running his cattle on federal land. On guns, the excessive weaponization of law enforcement officers—federal, state, and local—is a response to the flood of guns in the United States. We can blame the NRA (the gun manufacturers’ lobby) for pushing for guns, guns, everywhere, and Republican politicians for allowing this to happen.

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Finally, Roy Finecum is dead because, after jumping out of the vehicle at a police roadblock, he started to reach into his coat for a pistol. That’s never a good idea when you’re surrounded by cops. Michael Powell Reno

One thumb down, One thumb up Re “The trail is cold” (Let Freedom Ring, Jan 11) and “The no frontier” (Art of the State, Jan 11): To Brendan Trainor’s opinion that “Continued wealth creation for adaptability and infrastructure development is a superior strategy to sustainable austerity,” can we consider not superior or inferior, but what modern times is really offering is ever more potential lifestyle choices depending on the needs of the individual? That kind of freedom sure sounds good to me. To Josie Glassberg’s coverage of art and its beautiful purpose—when I read her articles, resistance is futile. One must go have a look. Becky Jessee Reno

Unsafe passage Re “Safe passage” (cover story, Jan. 18) SO PROUD OF YOUR ABILITY TO DEAL WITH ALL YOU HAD TO ENDURE. Thank you for your honesty in telling us all how someone is affected by such an accident. I feel your story will ring loud and clear for us all to please be alert and conscious every moment, that we could be the cause of changing someone’s life forever. Gwen Davis Murphys, California Jaquelyn Davis’s narrative is wellwritten and touching, but she leaves out the crucial fact: Reno drivers do not know that other humans exist. Stand beside

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any street and look at the faces of people driving cars. Their eyes are blank. They purposely avert their gaze from other people. Those drivers are talking on their phones, texting, changing radio stations, applying lipstick and mascara, smoking, and eating McDonald’s burgers and fries. They drive 20 to 60 mph over the posted speed limit. The Police Department is probably under-funded. Therefore, murderous drivers are free to go. Valerie P. Cohen Reno

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On Jan. 12, 2018, a headline on the front page of the inappropriate position in defending someone who has Reno Gazette-Journal read, “City of Reno: Women demonstrated such appalling behavior and blaming Concocted Sexual Harassment Complaint to get those who suffered from it. Clinger Fired.” The headline read like an official “Sexual harassment” does not just refer to reporting of the outcome of this case, but the blatant instances of unwelcome physical contact or lawsuit is still in progress with new public docusexually inappropriate language. An office culture ments filed as recently as Jan. 25. That misleading in which management openly engages in flirtatious headline was merely a reference to the filing of behavior and relationship-based favoritism creates court documents by the Deputy City Attorney to an unprofessional dynamic that has impacts on confirm the City Attorney’s position in the sexual the people who engage in it, on those who feel harassment case involving former City Manager pressured to engage in it, and on those who refuse Andrew Clinger. to engage in it—as well as on those hardworking City Attorney Karl Hall, acing on behalf of the people who have to stand by and watch it happen. City of Reno, stands behind Mr. Clinger in this lawsuit That kind of culture should never have been tolerand not behind the women who have accused Clinger ated, and it certainly shouldn’t be defended by the of sexual harassment. city attorney now. The women’s attorney has filed a motion for Andrew Clinger has been accused of sexual Karl Hall to recuse himself from the case due to his harassment and retaliation by multiple well-respected repeated displays of bias in favor of Mr. Clinger. and high-ranking women employed by both the State According to this filing, Mr. Hall referred of Nevada and City of Reno. Our elected city to the sexual harassment allegations attorney, Karl Hall, still defends him as a “witch hunt” to Councilman while his accusers, and those who Paul McKenzie, who found his merely encouraged them to report comment to be inappropritheir harassment, have been We’re still paying for ate. Mr. Hall also breached forced to resign from their jobs this run of embarrassing the City’s anti-retaliation or have been deemed liars and protocol by revealing the conspirators. leadership that destroyed identity of one of the accusAt an August 2016 City morale, caused talented and ers to Mr. Clinger. Now Mr. Council meeting, former dedicated City staff to resign, Hall is claiming to represent State Controller Kim Wallin the City’s position in this recounted her experience with and wasted countless lawsuit. Clinger’s retaliatory behavior taxpayer dollars. An independent investigatoward her and another state tion at City Hall led by Judge employee, Mary Keating, when David Wall in 2016 found that Mr. Clinger worked for the State of Clinger did not “technically” commit Nevada as Budget Director. Clinger sexual harassment, but it did identify some settled with Ms. Keating for $75,000. This of Mr. Clinger’s flagrantly inappropriate behaviors incident somehow did not impact his ability to be that fostered an unprofessional work environment and hired by the City of Reno in 2011. Clinger resigned ultimately led to the complaints being filed. Numerous as Reno City Manager in September 2016 with a city staff members interviewed by Judge Wall reported hefty $228,000 taxpayer-funded severance package that Clinger oversaw a gender-biased dynamic at City while an internal investigation was still underway. Hall, rife with female favoritism. Even Mayor Hillary Somehow, after all of this, Andrew Clinger walked Schieve stated that Clinger “played the women off back into a state job at the governor’s office early in of each other.” This work environment proved to be 2017, with a taxpayer-funded salary, again. dysfunctional, distracting and unproductive for men We’re still paying for this run of embarrassing and women alike. leadership that destroyed morale, caused talented and Mr. Clinger, by his own admission, directed the use dedicated City staff to resign, and wasted countless of a text-destroying app in his communications with taxpayer dollars. The train wreck Andrew Clinger certain staff members. This eliminated the possibilhas left in his path is an episode right out of Reno 911!, a comedy show that depicts Reno as a bungling, ity of any of the texts appearing in a public records mismanaged city. Reno has worked hard to distance request. Nearly everyone interviewed by Judge Wall itself from association with that image. After Andrew agreed that the use of this app was unacceptable for a Clinger, we may have to start all over again. Ω city manager who should be promoting a transparent government. Other public filings describe even more instances of inappropriate and gender-biased conduct. City Attorney Karl Hall has taken a dangerous and Barrie Lynn is a local Realtor and an engaged Reno citizen.

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A favorite road trip memory? asked at bIbo Coffee Company, 945 reCord st. Ilya arbatman Freelance electronics repairman

We broke down at James Dean’s last stop, which is in central California—like, the last place he got gas before he died, you know, before the car accident. We broke down, and it was, like, midnight, and the gas station was closed. We had to sleep in the van.

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I was still in high school. And I went on a road trip with my dad. We rented a van, went down the coast. We went surfing. We started in Santa Cruz and went all the way down to the border of Mexico. We met up with a couple of his old surf buddies. It was a fun, coupleweeks trip. JulIo Chave z Student

A non-verbal State of the Union There are a few people who would normally be expected to attend the State of the Union speech who will be passing up the chance out of disgust with “President” Donald Trump. We have a better idea. Let’s get rid of the speech altogether. George Washington and John Adams read their messages to Congress in person. Thomas Jefferson simply sent a written report. His example held all through the 1800s into the 20th century when Woodrow Wilson went to Congress in person. So did Calvin Coolidge. Then Herbert Hoover sent his message in writing. Franklin Roosevelt spoke to Congress in person and it has been that way ever since. Getting rid of a spoken message would help reform the State of the Union, which has become a mess in recent years under modern public relations techniques. Academy Award presentations are sometimes more dignified. First of all, presidents have become too cowardly to tell the public hard and unhappy truths. We are a long way from John Kennedy’s “I feel I must inform the Congress that our analyses over the last 10 days make it clear that— in each of the principal areas of crisis—the tide of events has been running out and time has not been our friend.” A good example was Bill Clinton’s first State of the Union message. He and the country faced very difficult problems. He had inherited the largest deficit to that

time, and yet he did not call on the public to share sacrifice or even understand the magnitude of the challenge facing government. Instead, he sugarcoated everything. Another reason to get rid of the personal appearances before Congress of presidents is to put a stop to the “guests” in the balcony sitting with the presidential spouse. The State of the Union is supposed to be a business occasion, not an awards ceremony. Getting the public to focus on what they need to deal with, and possibly pay for, needs to be front and center with no distractions. The guests in the balcony are one more way to distract the public from hard truths. Then there are the members of Congress who want to be famous overnight. “You lie,” yelled a South Carolina congressmember at President Obama, later apologizing and being censured by the House. Members of the congressional houses should not invite chief executives to Congress. Instead, rely on the language in the Constitution: “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” A written message will force all players to focus on the words, the message, the meaning, not on the bells, whistles and circus the event has become. It will also give the chief executive less of an ability to avoid the issues and the problems the country faces. It was the method Lincoln used. Let’s return to it. Ω

I was staying at this little spot called Boyle Heights. It’s right across the bridge from downtown L.A. … There was a venue that stood out to me. It’s called Programme Skate & Sound. I made the drive over there. … It’s a skate shop, and they let bands play shows there. Celso olIvIr a Graduate student

We went as far south as the Grand Canyon—the North Rim. From there, we visited some parks in Utah and as far east as Yellowstone. From there, we went up to Glacier National Park. And then we went to Washington, Olympic National Park, then down to Oregon, Crater Lake. Wolfgang hendrIx Musician

I had to really use the bathroom, and there’s not a lot of gas stations out in southern Wyoming. … Pulled over on the side of the highway. I relieved myself, in the number two manner. Get back in the van. My bassist is like, “Yeah, dude. What’s that smell?” I forgot to wipe.

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by Sheila leSlie

Out of sight The photos of the moldy food, the filthy walls and the broken furniture were disgusting, but it was the picture of the bed made up with a blue tarp instead of a sheet that broke my heart. I imagined a tortured soul, lost in a confused mind, crawling into bed every night, trying to find a few hours of rest on that hard crackling fabric when a church or charity thrift store would have gladly donated a set of clean sheets if they had just been asked. I was overcome with sadness that anyone would run a group home for severely mentally ill people without making sure there were sheets for the beds, decent food in a functioning refrigerator, and more than a candle on the floor for lighting regardless of what they were being paid to provide meals and shelter, if not comfort and companionship. The Nevada Legislature received the first of three reports on the state’s Community-Based Living Arrangement homes for people living Project1 5/11/10 3:02with PM severe Page 1 mental illness from the Audit Division

last month. The audit’s findings were devastating, even for Nevada, where we’re currently ranked dead last at 51st in the country for mental health care. Auditors inspected 37 of the 105 homes providing care to this vulnerable population and found “serious, deficient conditions” at every one, including 10 homes located in Northern Nevada. The deficiencies, backed up by 2000 photographs, included unsanitary conditions such as excessively dirty floors and walls, mold and mildew, human waste, and rodent and insect infestations. The inspections turned up spoiled food, broken doors, missing smoke detectors and inaccessible fire extinguishers. Medications were not properly stored and sometimes co-mingled and unsecured. All of those serious problems were then compounded by the bleak living conditions the auditors documented—insufficient quantities of food, insufficient bedding, inadequate lighting, and non-functioning or damaged appliances.

Unbelievably, at one location, auditors found a three-year-old child running around a filthy home, being supervised by the mentally ill clients while the mother, a live-in caretaker, was working a second job away from the home. The for-profit providers were paid an average of $1,450 each month for every client they housed and supposedly assisted with activities of daily living. Clients also contributed their own meager incomes from social security or disability, a financial system future audits will cover. How have we come to this place where people living with a severe mental illness live in such squalor? Nevada’s dark history of providing care for the mentally ill goes back decades as the state budget is often balanced by reducing services for people who don’t or can’t complain. The public has long turned a blind eye to the hidden suffering of people we’d rather not think about at all. The Legislature and the governor would do well to focus on practical

solutions for those who can’t care for themselves. To start, the responsibility for oversight of the homes must be removed from case workers who are desperate to find placements for their clients, some of whom display difficult behaviors and habits. A full continuum of housing options is needed, preferably run by the non-profit sector or through public/private partnerships No one should have to live in these deplorable conditions, but it’s going to take some work to develop more suitable housing options in this time of decidedly unaffordable housing. But the only housing choice cannot be a filthy, substandard home focused on profit instead of people. Non-profit agencies, churches and advocacy groups must also step up to share the responsibility and find solutions. Legislators must do more than express outrage and blame; they must find the money needed to make the change happen. This one is on all of us to solve. Ω

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Is this really warranted? On. Jan 19, President Trump a signed sixyear renewal for Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The new authorization, which some congressmembers claimed carried privacy safeguards for U.S. citizens, actually expands the warrantless surveillance powers of the National Security Agency and the FBI. Section 702 gives the feds the power to listen in on foreign nationals. The NSA gobbles up meta data and can record calls in entire countries for up to 30 days. Civil libertarians object that it allows the FBI to obtain information on American citizens without a warrant. The Fourth Amendment states that the government must get a warrant to spy on people in the U.S, naming the particular place and items to be searched. This was to prevent the “general warrants” used to authorized blanket searches by British troops. The fly in the web that raises concerns is a U.S. citizen who is involved in a conversation with a foreign target. Then

the conversation can be retained, but the American must be “masked.” Any data on a U.S. citizen can only be accessed after obtaining a warrant. Republicans claim senior Obama officials abused their authority to unmask former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for political purposes. Nevertheless, the majority of Republican congressfolk were content to vote for 702, because the Constitution, after all, is not a suicide pact. Or something. Their support for warrantless spying on Americans preserved the power of the Deep State to continue to spy for political “opposition research.” Section 702 has also been used by federal law enforcement to provide evidence obtained without a warrant to state-level law enforcement, who then pretend they obtained the evidence on their own. This is called “parallel construction” and is an end run past the Fourth Amendment warrant requirements. The new 702 authorization codifies this practice as legal. The 702 reauthorization passed overwhelmingly in the House, but there

the battle was over an amendment by Michigan Representative Justin Amash and the House Freedom Caucus, with some Democratic support, to require a warrant before spying on Americans. Amash’s amendment came close, but was killed largely by the opposition of the #TheResistance and #MeToo female Democratic senators who have spent the last year denouncing President Trump as Putin’s Puppet and extremely boorish. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was instrumental in forming the opposition to Amash’s Amendment. Republicans who voted against the amendment voted along with former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie WassermanSchultz, who is personally tied to the Fusion GPS Dossier that alleged Putin gave Trump prostitutes in Moscow. U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen of Nevada also voted no to the Fourth Amendment. She is a reliable Nevada neocon. The issue in the Senate was a promised filibuster to stop 702 by Freedom Caucus

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Oregon civil liberties Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden. A cloture vote requiring a 60-vote supermajority was introduced to stop the filibuster. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-MilitaryIndustrial Complex) gave an impassioned speech about the need for warrants, but then voted for cloture. Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill actually cast the deciding 60th vote. Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto voted for cloture as well. Then the 702 bill itself passed 65-34, without meaningful debate. Democrats, especially #TheResistance Democratic women, helped Republicans vote to give Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump more power. White male GOP Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, part of the Patriarchy, voted to allow debate. That is why I believe it is not what is between your legs, but rather what’s between your ears, that counts. Ω

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re you a woman looking for love, romance, happiness, and security? Are you looking for that last loving relationship in your life? Are you uncomfortable or had a negative experience with online dating? I, too, have had similar online experiences and decided to communicate directly to you through this media. I am a non-smoking gentleman, a social drinker, not addicted to drugs, alcohol or gambling, very romantic, who is always trying to find the humor in life and try to not take life too seriously. I am a genuine, easy going man, who tries to take one day at a time, while aiming to live life to its fullest potential. I have been a successful entrepreneur, fortunate enough to be financially secure and want to share my success with that special woman. Some, but certainly not all my interests include hiking, travel, dancing, fine dining, writing, cooking, trying to find a way to make the world a better place to live and intellectual discussions about most anything. My ideal companion would be an attractive, slender to average woman around 65-70 whose integrity is beyond approach. She should be kind, compassionate,

romantic, with a good sense of humor, knowing open honest communication is one of the most important things in a relationship. Two intelligent individuals cannot realistically agree on everything, but I do think it is possible and important to disagree in a way that is respectful and open to the others perspective. I believe in a partnership, working and supporting each other, yet allowing each their own independence. I am a man in my late 70’s yet can pass for being in my 60’s, having good genes as both my parents lived to be over 90. My name is Fred and I am 5’11” tall and weigh 195 lbs. If you are that special woman, I would love to hear from you, please email me with some information and photos of yourself. You will not be disappointed, and if things work out, we could travel, dance, cook, laugh and enjoy the rest of our lives together. I am non-religious and progressive in my political beliefs. If you hold extreme views on either side of the political spectrum, we probably would not be compatible. You can contact me at fredspoerl@yahoo.com.

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by Dennis Myers

Nevada casiNo figure accused

Pot sparks controversy even—or especially—when it’s legal.

The value of Wynn Resorts Ltd. shares fell by more than 10 percent after the Wall Street Journal published an article in which dozens of women accused Steve Wynn of sexual misconduct. The Jan. 27 report also prompted Wynn to resign as finance director of the Republican National Committee, and the Republican Governors Association to cut its ties to the Las Vegas figure. After sexual misconduct disclosures against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in October, the GOP’s national committee called on the Democratic Party and its candidates to return all Weinstein money to him. Both Wynn and the corporation denied the accusations, with Wynn claiming they originated with his ex-wife Elaine. “The idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous,” Wynn said. The Journal reported Wynn paid $7.5 million to a manicurist to keep out of court a claim that he raped her.

a thiN greeN liNe Though the Great Recession may be well past, the recovery is not robust enough for governments to return to pre-recession levels for reserve funds. A report by the Pew Charitable Trusts says that “At the close of fiscal year 2017, total balances in states’ general fund budgets—including rainy day funds—could run government operations for a median of 29.3 days, still less than the median of 41.3 days in fiscal 2007.” At the time Pew concluded its report, Nevada had $326 million in reserve. “Pennsylvania had so little stowed away that it could fund operations for less than a tenth of a day,” the report said. “Seven other states also held less than a week’s worth of operating costs: Wisconsin (6.0 days), Oklahoma (5.9), North Dakota (5.4), Kentucky (4.9), Connecticut (4.4), Nevada (3.6), and Illinois (0.1).”

—Dennis Myers

chaiN thiNkers meet Three law and government affairs firms have organized an invitation-only conference on Feb. 6 to discuss blockchain—the technology upon which cryptocurrencies like bitcoin rely. Blockchain, put very simply, is a decentralized, encrypted ledger that maintains continuously updated transaction records on many different computers simultaneously. The conference, which is being held at the Nevada Museum of Art, will bring together blockchain experts, state officials, businesspeople and lobbyists to discuss the technology’s possible applications in Nevada. A limited number of tickets were made available to the members of the public through an online application form. According to a press release, “The event is focused on creating a braintrust that will eventually create a principle-based policy and regulatory system that provides protections for users while fostering legal certainty and a stable environment for developers and industry.” The organizers are Clift & Co., a Reno-based government affairs firm; McDonald Carano LLP, a Reno/ Las Vegas law firm, and Reno-based Cafferata & Co.

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Play or pay Some Nevada jurisdictions opt out of legal pot imagine if lyon county banned the sale of soft drinks or cold medicines. The loss of revenue to the state would be substantial on such popular products. But Lyon County’s share of the state sales tax on those products generated in other counties would continue to flow to Yerington. That’s essentially the situation that prevails today in Lyon and other places whose local officials continue marijuana prohibition after the Nevada public voted first for medical use and then for full legality. And in jurisdictions in and out of Nevada, there are discussions of changing the system so that those who don’t play don’t get paid. Oregon has already revoked marijuana tax distribution to counties that do not contribute to the tax. So has California, and Massachusetts is considering it. Eight states, including Nevada, have legal marijuana under state law. Clark County Sen. Richard Segerblom, a leader in ending marijuana

prohibition, said he wants the same thing in Nevada. “I agree 100 percent,” he said. “My proposal is to change the 10 percent excise tax so that the money raised from that tax stays in the county where its raised. Why should Douglas County benefit from pot tax raised in Las Vegas?” Lyon County does not just bar marijuana sales, but medical marijuana sales as well. Medical sales, approved by voters, were banned after then-Lyon Sheriff Allen Veil said, “This is not about medical marijuana use. It’s about preventing the use of the system by organized crime and related violence in Lyon County.” Veil did not explain his theory of an economic system that did not see mobsters enter a county when there was full-fledged marijuana prohibition but would appear if prohibition was watered down to allow medical use. But county commissioners took his advice anyway.

In Massachusetts, some officials say there would be difficult administrative problems associated with excluding some jurisdictions from distribution of state revenues. “[M]unicipalities receive state funds through numerous channels, including local aid from lottery proceeds and grants for specific projects,” the Boston Globe reported. “Which stream of money to target, and by how much, would need to be determined. Similarly, parsing pot taxes, a portion of which will be mingled in the same state fund that receives other sales tax collections, would be extremely difficult, according to Massachusetts financial officials.” Nevada taxation director Deonne Contine was ill and unavailable for comment, and assistant director Shellie Hughes could not be reached for comment on whether similar administrative problems exist in Nevada. One supporter of legal marijuana in Massachusetts, Jim Boghesani, conceded the administrative problems but said, “Why should towns that vote to keep criminals in control of marijuana commerce and keep unsafe, untested products on the streets not experience repercussions?” Some communities which voted against legal marijuana, such as Marshfield and Brewster, are now switching sides after seeing the revenue sales can produce. Withdrawing their share of funds from communities that ban legal sales penalizes local control, said Massachusetts Muncipal Association head Geoff Beckwith: “The idea that funding for public schools would be negatively impacted by a community’s decision not to allow pot shops is in itself a laughable solution.” It is not just a matter of state but also of local taxes. In Colorado, localities that ban legal sales lose the local marijuana taxes they would create if they allowed sales. More than 200 communities have barred sales, including Colorado Springs, the second largest city in the state. “It’s also particularly hard for the city to see these major improvements in neighborhoods knowing that many of the customers who are buying marijuana are Colorado Springs residents,” reported alternative news site Civilized Life. “Colorado Springs

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star wars: the music Live at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts

Feb. 11th 4:00 pm | Feb. 13th 7:30 pm WILLIAMS Suite from Star Wars COSMA Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra HOLST The Planets, op. 32 Take a trip across the universe with Maestro Laura Jackson, Davidson Institute Fellow Joe Broom, and the Reno Phil. Close your eyes and picture Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia during John Williams’ rousing, iconic score from Star Wars. Rocket across the solar system with The Planets, Gustav Holst’s monumental work that inspired Williams and influenced generations of others.

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City Council President Richard Skorman After Nevada sales began last year, the calls it ‘sales tax leakage.’” magazine asked, “Are Nevada officials actually A University of Denver report found trying to preserve the state’s marijuana black Colorado Springs losing about $20 million market?” annually with the ban. In addition, the numerCalling the state’s legalization “halfous local bans have helped keep a black market hearted,” it ran the numbers. alive. “In the first four days that Nevada In California, Fresno has been taking a residents could legally purchase marijuana different route from most of the state for years. for recreational uses, state retailers made It once allowed medical marijuana but $3 million in sales—and lined the eight years ago prohibited even that state government’s coffers to use. Now, as the state has gone the tune of a cool $500,000 “Why full legal, Fresno is reconin tax revenues, according should Douglas sidering whether to allow to the Las Vegas Sun. County benefit from medical use—and even that Actually, that can’t be use would be months off. right. Allowing for roundpot tax raised in Las In Oregon, cities and ing, that only accounts Vegas?” counties were initially cut for about 15 percent of in for substantial portions sales—which is the state Sen. Richard “Tick” of the state marijuana tax, excise tax on the first Segerblom whether they allowed sales or wholesale sale. Nevada also Clark County not. But, last July, that free ride imposes a 10 percent retail Democrat ended, though the hit was softexcise tax on recreational sales, ened because 40 percent of payments and then adds in sales tax, which still go directly to local schools. varies from just under 7 percent to over 8 We have been unable to locate a list of percent according to where you are. Let’s Nevada jurisdictions that ban marijuana call the total tax take about 32 percent of sales, but besides Lyon and Douglas counlegal recreational marijuana sales. That’s ties, they include Boulder City. There have a REALLY high tax rate to impose on any industry—especially one that was thriving also been administrative snags that have (albeit illegally) and entirely untaxed less delayed legal sales in West Wendover and than two weeks ago.” Elko County. And high prices foster a black market, as On another aspect of pot, the libertarian state officials have found with cigarettes. Ω magazine Reason argues that Nevada has another feature to its legal sales.

What’s the buzz?

Peter Hazel’s sculpture of a stained glass and ceramic tile dragonfly resting on steel cattails was installed in Virginia Lake on Jan. 26. The tiles were made with help from Anderson Elementary School students. Photo/KRIS VAGNER

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by Kris Vagner /

k risv@ne wsreview.com

Does

Seven Magic Mountains live up to the hype?

PHOTO/kRIS VAGNER

(Spoiler alert: yes.)

Clark Griswold would have killed for this moment. By day six of a week-long camping trip with my husband and the teenagers, we’d braved long drives in close quarters, rain-soaked sleeping bags and four-way playlist negotiations. Maybe once or twice, I had channeled Griswold, the embattled dad from National Lampoon’s Vacation, but we were pretty much all still speaking to each other. And that, you may know, if you’ve ever been on a family camping trip, is a win. We were standing on the Hoover Dam on a warm, clear day in January. No one was snarky, snappy or surly—and no one was disagreeing about the playlist, or, for that matter, anything. Great, harmonious family moments like this are to be cherished, dragged out for as long as possible. The kids and husband deserved to linger in the sunshine, ogle at this marvel of engineering, stump the tour guide with policy questions, text more selfies, and make as many dad jokes with the words “dam” and “damn” as their hearts desired. But that’s not what happened. “Sorry guys, we gotta go,” I said abruptly. (Remember the scene where Griswold enjoys the view of the Grand Canyon—for about three seconds? That was me right then.) My apology was genuine, but by insistence was militant. Journalists, even when we’re pretending to be on vacation, are never really all the way off duty. On family vacations, I confess, I do research and keep appointments. Actually, this entire trip was a week-long excuse to keep an appointment. We had to get to Seven Magic Mountains before sundown. At the south end of Las Vegas, right where an ocean of big strip malls abruptly gives way to the desert, we pulled into a mini-mart on St. Rose Parkway. I bought one teen a 12-ounce can of Red Bull and the other a pre-dinner ice cream sandwich, hoping in return for about two more hours of stellar attitude and some modicum of receptiveness to the big stacks of painted rocks—even if they thought it was the most boring thing they’d ever seen.

Being there Seven Magic Mountains is a piece of land art made up of massive, day-glo cairns. It was commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art, along with Art Production Fund, a New York-based group that helps fund and produce particularly ambitious projects. (If you’re into art, this group is worth any time spent in a Google hole checking them out.) The piece is located south of Las Vegas, north of Jean and a little to the west of Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. Reno friends and readers had been asking what I thought of it since it was installed in April 2016. I knew from media reports that it was big and bright and cost $3.5 million to install. I knew from art school that big and bright and expensive may or may not work for aesthetic or cerebral satisfaction. And I knew from experience that trying to get a sense of land art through pictures was a fool’s errand. So was assuming that it would even necessarily make sense to discuss a piece of land art in terms of aesthetic or cerebral satisfaction when, often, part of its job is more along the lines of overwhelming you in just the right way. In 2005, I’d walked along the sharp rocks of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” then partially submerged in the Great Salt Lake. Strong whiffs of ocean and decaying brine shrimp eclipsed the reams of scholarship I’d read about the piece. The feeling of salty water soaking my hiking boots and scratching my skin replaced the image that had long been lodged in my memory—that of a neat, graphically sound, iconic little swirl—with a weird and inspiring combination of gut reactions. I felt an intense humility from walking on something so remote, huge and difficult to make—and an equally strong sense of power, which came from the fact that mere humans had managed to move mountains in the name of artistic assertion. Those two forces together amounted to a sense of being connected to all people from all time periods, struggling against various forces to survive, to be relevant, to grapple with whatever we each may grapple with.

The piece has earned a few playfully dismissive nicknames.

People asked, “You’re going to see the Bristle Blocks?” “The giant chunks of Play-Doh?”

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“Human Nature” was a temporary installation by Ugo Rondinone in New York’s Rockefeller Center in 2013. PHOTO/COURTESY OF NEVADA MUSUEM OF ART

As for “Seven Magic Mountains,” it was easier to reach than land art pieces traditionally have been, and it was developing a reputation all over Instagram as a fun place for photo shoots with models, free family outings, and the occasional celebrity sighting. Recent NMA social media stats place is as “one of the Top 10 most Instagrammed artworks in the world.” But would that be a reasonable framework in which to consider it as a piece of artwork? Sculpture as gathering place does have a point. But I held off on really thinking about that until I saw it. The piece has earned a few playfully dismissive nicknames. People asked, “You’re going to see the Bristle Blocks?” “The giant chunks of Play-Doh?” Those critiquing the childlike simplicity of the design have a point, too. Sometimes that works in sculpture. Sometimes it doesn’t. There’s always a danger of a very large, playful piece coming off as misplaced majesty or as some awkward gimmick. And, seriously, those colors are hard to pull off.

Stone man Play-Doh jokes aside, there are a few different lenses through which an armchair art-historian could contemplate this piece— namely the rest of the artist’s oeuvre and the reasons that the NMA got itself into the business of getting a piece of giant art made outside of Las Vegas. But let’s start with the rocks. Seven Magic Mountains consists of 33 limestone boulders, each up to 25 tons, stacked into cairns as

An ordinary weekday afternoon at the sculpture site outside of Las Vegas was marked by a buoyant atmosphere and dozens of selfie takers. PHOTO/kRIS VAGNER

high as 35 feet. Cairns have been used just about everywhere, for as long as anyone can remember, to transform an easily available material into an easy-to-read message. They’ve been used universally to mark trails, graves or goods buried in the ground. (And, by the time we visited the artwork, one enterprising visitor had stacked a small cairn to use as a camera tripod.) The artist behind this piece, Ugo Rondinone, a Swiss-born New Yorker, has his own connection to stone, and that dates back to ancient history, too. It’s one of the many materials that he’s used as part of a career-long interplay of natural and synthetic materials. He applies a perfectionist’s touch and uses playful games of tromp l’oeil that make it fun to think about what’s real and what’s not. He’s made, for example, candle stubs out of painted cast bronze, so realistic they could easily be taken as the real thing. Works for which he’s used stone include day-glo cairns sized to fit on gallery pedestals and towering, primitive human figures for the 2013 installation “Human Nature” in Rockefeller Center. Those figures bring to mind prehistoric works such as Stonehenge or the heads on Easter Island. “Human Nature” was nicknamed “Ugohenge” by New Yorkers. But these ancient references aren’t the artist’s only link between stone and the distant past. He has a more personal one. Rondinone has often been seen wearing a flat, rounded chunk of limestone as a pendant. According to a New York Times article from 2013, his father, who’d immigrated to Switzerland from Italy, gave him the stone, a memento of generations spent living in poverty and working in stone quarries under conditions that reportedly weren’t much better than slavery. For years, Rondinone was embarrassed by his family’s history but later began to wear the stone proudly. While Rondinone is not at all new to masonry or to ambitious public projects, he is new to Western land art installations. But Central Casting could not have found a more apt artist for the job. He has a killer resume. He’s been in countless exhibitions, including the 2017 Venice Biennale. And he has two super powers as an artist that make him the right guy for this strange job. One: he uses things that would be garish—rainbows, lifelike sculptures of clowns—in ways that can be taken at face value, without kitsch or irony. He can make them purposefully disarming, but not in a way that’s mocking or sardonic, more in a way that makes you want to let down your guard. Two: Rondinone gets how to make a series of things function as a place. He once told an Australian film crew about an indoor piece he’d made involving colored mirrors, “The work itself is passive, and what activates it is the public, who stands in front—or moves in front—of it.” It’s true. In static photographs that piece is colorful and pretty. In videos of people interacting with it, it’s more like a theatrical set, something to play in, and people do just that, even in a museum.

Growth spurt Another way to frame “Seven Magic Mountains” is in terms of what it means for the NMA, an institution that started in 1931 but transitioned into being a contemporary art venue far too late to compete with major museums—at least when it comes to amassing an art collection—but still aims to stake a claim on the international scene. 12 | RN&R | 02.01.18

Its strategy is to try to be the foremost center for land art studies. It has a broad collection of landscape photography, both old and new. It’s home to the Center for Art + Environment, started in 2008, which is among the largest archives anywhere of documents on landscape artists and land-based artworks, and it hosts an annual Art and Environment conference, which drew about 500 people in 2017. Now that the NMA is an established center for land art studies, the next phase of its reputation-building effort is to actually bring pieces of land art to fruition. “Seven Magic Mountains” is the first large-scale outdoor project that the NMA has produced. There are two more in the works, Trevor Paglen’s “Orbital Reflector,” a room-sized Mylar sculpture that will be launched into space this year, and Jonathon Keats’ 5,000-year calendar (“Long view,” Art of the State, Oct. 12, 2017), which does not yet have an opening date. “I feel like if this is the next chapter of land art, we’re going to give it our best shot to make it happen,” said NMA curator JoAnne Northrup. The road to becoming custodians of a land art piece—one that’s much easier to visit than “Spiral Jetty,” Michael Heizer’s “The City,” or others in the region—was full of surprises. There were the countless negotiations with the Bureau of Land Management, which did not have among its protocols one for considering the placing of a massive artwork. Getting one in place took three years. There was the slow process of trying to win over the neighbors. Citizens of nearby Goodsprings, population around 200, voiced concerns about traffic and safety. At least one resident feared an increase in serious auto accidents. (None have occurred so far.) There was the left-hand turn lane that had to be installed on Las Vegas Boulevard. That cost a third of a million, said Northrup. There’s been some “policing.” Early on, the piece was tagged with obscenities. More recently, NMA reps have admonished a taco truck operator for hosting an event at the site—which does not have trash receptacles, restroom facilities or any other amenities. Then there have been the unusual phone calls museum communications director Amanda Horn said she’s fielded, like the ones about the lost keys, the lost jackets, the lost dog, and the one from E! News wanting a comment about a possible sighting of Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Despite the additional job duties, Northrup and Horn both said their conclusion is that expanding into the land art production business is going well. “When we finally succeeded in mounting ‘Seven Magic Mountains,’ we were in love with the project,” said Northrup. “We wanted to see if everyone else was in the same frame of mind.”

Bold colors and imagery factor into Rondinone’s work often, such as in his current exhibit in Florida, “good evening beautiful blue.”

So, when we passed the sign that said “Seven Magic Mountains” and saw a block-shaped haze of color in the distance, it did not seem incongruous or PHOTO/COURTESY OF THE BASS CONTEMPORARY abrupt in the least. ART MUSEUM, MIAMI BEACH “Seven Magic Mountains” is on a wide, low basin between hazy mountain ranges that were washed in light gray and periwinkle by the sinking sun. The ground is thick with creosote bushes and dotted with yucca and stumpy Joshua trees. We parked in a dirt lot. From there, the cairns looked a lot like they do in pictures. We entered a gateway that interrupts a barbed-wire fence and scattered. The mood was celebratory, a little electric even. Several dozen people, speaking in at least half a dozen accents and languages, were moving continuously—to the sculpture, from the sculpture, over to the side a ways to see the sculpture from a different angle—and it seemed like an event. Apparently, this steady stream of visitors is the norm. The NMA reports about 1,000 per day. Closer to the boulders, the mental image I’d formed of this piece from pictures completely disappeared. The experience of strolling among them was, at first, all about the sheer weight of their presence, then about the process—the Las Vegas, as you might already know, is bigger and brighter BLM permits, the graffiti-proof coating, the feats of engineering than Reno. Las Vegas puts bursts of light and strokes of dazzle in that the crew from Las Vegas Paving had executed to stack places where no other city would think to. Even miles away from them there. the Strip, my family saw things that struck our Northern Nevada And the colors! I’d been asking myself how and why the sensibilities as wonderfully surreal: a giant, hunting-lodge-type gaudiness might work. But here, in what already seemed like chandelier inside a convenience store, the light of the Luxor visible the sculpture’s natural habitat, the colors were not garish in the from our campsite in Red Rock Canyon, yellow Corvettes—yes, least, not even extreme, really. Nothing less bright could have Corvettes, plural—weaving through freeway traffic. held its own against the wide Southern Nevada sky. Electric The brightness and blinkiness of things started to seem pink and chrome-like silver looked as comfortable in this envinormal very quickly. ronment as the yellow Corvettes had on the city freeways.

Facetime value

All my notions about Rondinone’s ongoing interplay between artifice and history melted into one big “yes.” Small groups and families—including mine—laughed and gawked. People found whatever ways they could to be playful. A few folks scaled the lower boulders to pose for photos. Others posed for romantic couple shots. Families with kids and grandmas crammed into smartphone screens. The entire place was a big, huge selfie magnet. Between the three of my family members carrying cameras, I’m sure we shot hundreds of photos. Both kids and both grownups found “Seven Magic Mountains” an extremely inviting and successful piece, whether you want to think of it as a universalizing gesture that goes back to prehistoric Italy, a culmination of Rondinone’s already smart and appealing work, or a selfie stage with just the right orange to go with your white dress. It’s marvelous. And you had to be there. None of this can be translated in pictures or words. My advice: get there. The piece was originally slated to be installed through April, but the museum is trying to extend the exhibition window, perhaps even indefinitely. Last week, when I sorted through my photos to decide which to publish, I asked my son, “Which ones best convey the experience of having been there?” He gave me his best what-are-you-even-talking-about look and said, “I hope you’re not insulted, but your pictures are boring.” “You’re right,” I said. “They are boring.” Ω

“Seven Magic Mountains” is free to visit and open to the public. It’s located on Las Vegas Boulevard approximately 10 miles south of St. Rose Parkway. For more information, visit sevenmagicmountains.com. An exhibit on the project is on view at Nevada Musuem of Art. 160 W. Liberty St. Visit www.nevadaart.org.

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for In the count by Matt Bieker

Three groups collaborate annually to identify homeless youth and determine their needs

Mark Joseph Williams entered the foster system in Merced County, California at age six. He was given an Adderall prescription and adopted at age seven. He was placed in a group home at 13 with his twin brother and their sister. He moved to Reno a few years ago to reconnect with his birth mother and father. He lost his extended foster care funding at age 20. Now 23, he spends most days at the Eddy House, a drop-in services center for homeless youth. “Every single thing I own, the Eddy House has provided for me,” he said. “Eddy House is my main source of food. Medicaid, they hooked it up with Medicaid—I actually got it today. Food stamps, I just got something in the mail saying that my food stamps is good until May-something.” Williams said he’s grateful that he’s connected with Eddy House. But the facility can’t meet all of his needs. It closes at 5 p.m. “I’m still on the street,” he said. “It’s my mom—she doesn’t want me to always go to her when I need something. She’s not always going to be there for me.” He and a friend spend their nights at a hidden area outside where they sleep and store their things. When possible, he shares a “momo”—a nightly hotel room—with as many as seven other people. “[In] Breakfast Club, there was the homeless guy who’s going to school,” said Williams. “He was always looked down on—why? He probably smelled, first of all. He was reckless. He was homeless. If you go to a job looking like that, smelling like that, you’re not going to get a job.” Williams is working on getting a job. Recently, he met with a job placement counselor and was able to access a computer at Eddy House to write a resume. These services were offered to Williams and his peers during the annual Homeless Youth Point in Time Count on Jan. 25. Williams also received new clothing and toiletries that day—small items that could help him get a job, he said, and that he wouldn’t be able to get otherwise without stealing them.

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Supplemental cenSuS

“We do a specialized youth count because the numbers that were being reported previously were very, very low and not accurate,” said Meredith Tanzer, organizer of the annual count. “We try to get a handle on young people 18 to 24 who are literally living on the streets or at risk of homelessness.” The count began seven years ago as a supplement to the annual homeless population census required of all Continuum of Care services by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development. It is organized through combined effort by the Nevada Youth Empowerment Program (NYEP), the Eddy House and Our Center. (Tanzer is employed by the first two and vice president of the latter.) In 2016, the Reno Area Homeless Alliance identified 132 individuals living on the streets. In the 18-24 age group, they counted 40. In the same year, the people running the homeless youth count found 99 in that age group. Tanzer said that the actual number of homeless youth in Washoe County goes chronically underreported. One reason, she said, is that many young people decline to self-identify as homeless. “We’re looking for any person that doesn’t have a fixed address,” Tanzer said. “And sometimes people don’t realize, that could be a bunch of dudes in a band that travel around and are couchsurfing and don’t have a permanent address. They actually qualify under HUD’s guidelines.” Identifying youth in the 18 to 24 age range is important, said Tanzer, because people officially age out of the foster care system when they turn 18. Tanzer said they stand a significantly greater chance of experiencing chronic, lifelong homelessness if they don’t receive counseling before age 25. “Realistically, most youth under the age of 24 only experience one to two bouts of homelessness and then go on to lead a rich and full life,” she said. “None of us are interested in

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feeding these kids and aging them out of our system and just moving them on to a lifetime of homelessness.” In previous years, the homeless youth count has taken place at the plaza near the Century Riverside Theater downtown—a place known to many on the streets as “The Circle”—but this year it was held at the Eddy House. Participants answered questions about their living, education and employment situations and were given food, clothing, toiletries, blankets, tents and flashlights from the Eddy House’s storeroom of donated goods. Participants could also get help with job-seeking, tutoring, mental health counseling, physicals, legal services and bus passes.

Alumni Aid The homeless youth count leads to more homeless young people learning about organizations like the Eddy House and NYEP and increases the chances that they’ll return for continuing care. Peer outreach increases the overall number of participants who arrive to be counted, some of whom then go on to take an active role in these organizations. One of them is Liliana Ledezma, who stayed in the NYEP boarding house for a year when she turned 18 before starting her degree at University of Nevada, Reno. “It sucks to see someone who is just like me, just struggling,” Ledezma said. “A lot of the residents either know people who are on the streets or were homeless themselves, so it kind of hits home for us.” Ledezma acknowledged there are different levels of homelessness, and she found NYEP before her living situation required her to sleep on the streets. She was encouraged to volunteer for the Homeless Youth Count when she left NYEP and has worked the event for the past three years. She now studies community health science at UNR and hopes to find a job serving impoverished communities. “I think Reno in general has a lot of issues, and I would like to help those that are in poverty or coming out of poverty, like lower income people,” Ledezma said. “I would love to use my skills with Spanish and reach that population.” Ω

tj Blocker, meredith tanzer and liliana ledezma are among those who conducted this year’s homeless youth point in time Count.

PHOTO/MATT BIEKER

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by Brad Bynum

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Marti Bein and Joan Arrizabalaga curated the City of Trembling Leaves exhibition. Here, they stand in front of a Robert Caples painting, “Leaves.” Photo/Brad Bynum

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Branch out City of Trembling Leaves On a recent trip to Istanbul, Turkey, Joan Arrizabalaga visited the Museum of Innocence, an actual museum filled with exhibits based on author Orhan Pamuk’s 2008 novel also called The Museum of Innocence. “It’s great to see how the words have been transformed into an art piece,” Arrizabalaga said. She’s a Reno-based artist whose own work often exudes a strong sense of place, and she felt inspired to create something similar. She and fellow artist Marti Bein, both members of Wedge Outside the Box, a group of artists centered around Wedge Ceramics Studio on Dickerson Road, decided to curate an exhibition based on the iconic Reno novel City of Trembling Leaves by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. The 1945 novel is a love story that doubles as a portrait of the city and the region as it appeared in those days. Bein was childhood friends with the daughters of another renowned Nevada author, Robert Laxalt. “He told me when I was a kid that you should read Walter van Tilburg Clark and Steinbeck because there are no words to throw away.” An exhibition with the same name as Van Tilburg Clark’s book is on display at the University of Nevada, Reno. It features a variety of media by contemporary Nevada artists, including Ahren Hertel and Frances Melhop, as well as works by local legacy

artists like Craig Sheppard and Robert Caples, borrowed from the university’s Special Collections and the University Galleries’ Permanent Collection. Some of the artists used excerpts from the novel for inspiration. Some pieces, like Candace Garlock’s “Homage to City of Trembling Leaves” and Katrina Lasko’s “Rachel and Mary,” incorporated excerpts of text. Garlock’s acrylic-on-wood painting intersperses words among gorgeous, brightly colored geometric patterns. Lasko used text as a background for illustrations of characters from the book. “We wanted them to take a phrase out and see where it led, and it went in all kinds of really strange directions, which was a great,” said Arrizabalaga. All of the pieces are accompanied by excerpts cut directly from the book. And the cut-up copy of the out-of-print book—decimated for quotes hung within the show—is also part of the exhibition. “We had to put it in because people were upset by it,” said Arrizabalaga. Rather than following the course of the novel, the exhibition is grouped thematically. Some sections focus on characters from the book. Others on its geography— places like Reno and Pyramid Lake. Bein has a piece in the Pyramid Lake section, an acrylic painting depicting a girl at the lake. The title, “Pyramid Has Long Since Ceased to Keep Even Its Millenniums Straight,” comes from the book, as does the accompanying excerpt: “But to understand the world of the children, you must imagine Pyramid also in its childhood.” In Caples’s oil painting “Leaves,” from UNR’s collection, the titular subjects indeed seem to tremble. It’s the first piece visitors will see upon entering the gallery. With its connections from contemporary artists back to Northern Nevada authors, like Clark and Laxalt, and earlier generations of artists like Caples and Sheppard, the show doubles as a cultural history of Reno, connecting back to an earlier era. “It’s that period of time in Reno that’s great—when there used to be a racetrack here and all that kind of thing,” said Arrizabalaga. “There were way more trees.” Ω

City of trembling Leaves, a tribute to the Walter Van tilburg Clark book of the same name in the form of a group art exhibition, is on view through Feb. 5 in unr’s Jot travis Building. to schedule a viewing, call 784-6658.

by BoB Grimm

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SHORT TAKES

“Spaghetti Western? mmmm, spaghetti.”

True West Director Scott Cooper’s Hostiles is an uncompromising, brutal Western. It makes Clint Eastwood’s classic, somber Western Unforgiven look like Mary Poppins. Christian Bale turns in another spellbinder as Capt. Joseph J. Blocker. Joe, a quiet, tired, jaded soldier, is spending the closing days of his military career in 1892 capturing and imprisoning Native Americans. He has fought many battles, seen many atrocities and committed many of his own. When aging and terminally ill Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) is granted freedom by the President of the United States, somebody who knows his dialect must be chosen to escort him and his family back to Montana. Joe is the best candidate for the job, but it’s a job he doesn’t want. Joe fought against Yellow Hawk and witnessed him murdering his friend many years ago. The idea of leading a man he sees as the worst of murderers to a graceful death in Montana doesn’t appeal to him, and in as tense a scene as any filmed last year, he says so to his colonel (Stephen Lang) and a stuffy bureaucrat (Bill Camp, who portrays one of the few characters in the film that qualifies as cartoonish). It’s in this scene that Bale establishes that Joe is going to rank among his best performances. And the movie has barely begun. Actually, Cooper establishes the unrelenting darkness of this project before the title credit. Rosalie (Rosamund Pike) is seen teaching her young children about adverbs as her husband tends to their farm. In an instant, Rosalie’s family life is decimated by an attack by Comanche bandits, who kill her husband and all of her children. Joe, having no real career choice but to lead Yellow Hawk to his homeland (his colonel threatens his pension), has reluctantly set out on the journey with the dying elder, his family (which includes the terrific Adam Beach and Q’orianka Kilcher) and a handful of soldiers. He stumbles upon a destroyed Rosalie and her dead family at their burned-out homestead. He takes her into their traveling party, a gesture

that starts to awaken a possibly decent human being within himself. Cooper, who also wrote the screenplay, avoids sermonizing, and opts for a film that takes its sweet time delivering its message. The movie is far from predictable, and nobody in the cast is safe. That cast includes soldiers played by Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird), Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad) and impressive, relative unknown Jonathan Majors. Rory Cochrane (Dazed and Confused) is a true standout as a longtime fellow soldier of Joe’s battling “the melancholia.” Adding to what really amounts to one of 2017’s greatest and most underrated acting ensembles is Ben Foster, who shows up late in the film as Charles, an imprisoned soldier handed off to Joe mid-journey. It’s Joe’s job to lead the murderous Charles to the gallows and, in an undeniable way, Charles represents the horrors of Joe’s past ways. It’s no surprise that this results in more than one tensely acted scene between Foster and Bale. Pike, who hasn’t been around much since her bravura performance in Gone Girl, provides devastating grace and beauty as the mother who loses everything. She makes Rosalie a true symbol of human resilience during harrowing times. Studi is pure brilliance as Yellow Hawk, saying everything with his majestic, chiseled face. He has a moment with Bale near film’s end that is heartbreaking and beautiful. How Max Richter’s haunting soundtrack failed to garner an Oscar nomination is beyond me. Also delivering top notch work is cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi, who has lensed one of 2017’s better-looking films. Bale deserved an Oscar nomination for his work in this film. Joe is the sort of complicated, wounded character Mr. Bale excels at, and Bale’s partnership with Cooper—they collaborated on Out of the Furnace—continues to be one of cinema’s more compelling ones. Ω

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One of 2017’s better love stories, this sumptuously filmed romance set in Italy is a thing of beauty to look at. Lush settings, stunning locations, and two admittedly quite adorable leads in Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet contribute to a sweet and heartbreaking story by Andre Aciman, who wrote the novel, with a screenplay by James Ivory. Chalamet plays Elio, an American living in Italy with his professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg). When father takes an assistant in the form of Oliver (Hammer), Elio is smitten, and so is the older Oliver. They wind up having a fling that carries deep meaning for them, and for those who know them. Chalamet, who was also terrific in 2017’s Lady Bird, makes Elio so much more than a confused teen in love; this guy is really in love in a way that will affect his entire life, and the viewer feels it. Hammer continues to evolve as an actor, and this is his best work yet. He also gets high scores for his stellar dance moves whenever somebody play the Psychedelic Furs. As good as the two leads are, my vote for best scene in the film goes to the underrated Stuhlbarg, who has a speech relating to his son that is an absolute showstopper.

Phantom Thread

It seems the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson finally did in actor Daniel Day-Lewis. One does get the sense that Day-Lewis tends to kick his own ass when he plays roles. A notorious method actor, he stayed in the role of Abe Lincoln for the Spielberg biopic when cameras weren’t rolling, and he researched heavily for his role as a 1950s dressmaker and fashion maverick in Phantom Thread. That crazy attention to detail most assuredly contributes to Day-Lewis’s tendency to inhabit a role like no other. I maintain that the greatest single performance by any actor anywhere ever is his portrayal of Daniel Plainview for There Will Be Blood, Day-Lewis’s first and best collaboration with Anderson. Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis, amazing yet again) runs a tight ship when it comes to his dressmaking business. He works and lives alongside his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville), along with the occasional muse. When his latest muse starts interrupting too much during breakfast, she’s dismissed, and Woodcock goes on the hunt. He finds a new muse in Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress he quickly asks out to dinner, and then back to his place. Rather than pouring some wine and getting to know her better, Woodcock immediately—and literally—puts Alma up on a pedestal and starts building a dress on her. Alma goes from enchanted to mildly bewildered by Woodcock’s actions, but she sticks around and eventually moves in. Alma is not the standard Woodcock muse in that she wants more of his time and wants him to slow down. A scene where Alma hatches a plan for a romantic dinner for two proves to be the best in the film and a turning point in the movie. In the dinner scene’s aftermath, Alma does something that carries the film into the sort of weird, bizarre territory we’ve come to expect in an Anderson film (not quite as wacky as frogs falling from the sky in Magnolia, but still ...).

The Post

Perhaps the most important journalistic battle in American history gets the Spielberg treatment in The Post, starring a stellar cast that includes Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. The film explores the Washington Post’s decision to print the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam in 1971, a move that raised the ire of then President Richard Nixon and put the careers of people like paper owner Kay Graham (Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) in major jeopardy. Hanks isn’t the first movie star to play Bradlee. Jason Robards also played him in All the President’s Men, the classic film that covered the Watergate scandal. Bradlee, who died in 2014, was a journalism giant. The movie starts in 1966 with Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys), a member of the State Department doing a study for Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood), in South Vietnam. Embedded with American troops, Ellsberg sees all sorts of atrocities and is a firsthand witness to the growing failure of

American participation in the Vietnam War. His forecast about the war’s outcome is bleak, but McNamara and President Johnson—and two presidents before him—share a rosier, false version with the American public where America is finding great success overseas. The supporting cast includes Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, the legendary TV comedians of Mr. Show. It’s a trip to see them on screen together in a Spielberg production. Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon and Sarah Paulson round out the cast. The Post is the best Spielberg offering since Munich, bringing to end one of the weaker stretches in his career that included the lackluster Lincoln, Bridge of Spies and The BFG.

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Leave it to Guillermo del Toro to direct 2017’s weirdest mainstream movie. The Shape of Water, for which he also co-wrote the screenplay, reminds us that this guy is a genius. He’s sick and twisted, but a genius nonetheless. The story, set in the 1960s, is—in some strange, backwards way—as close to a Disney movie as del Toro has gotten. It has a lot of violence, inter-species sex, nudity and cuss words in it, and yet it has a Disney kind of vibe to it. That del Toro—he’s a nut. Sally Hawkins plays mute cleaning woman Elisa Esposito. She lives in an old movie theater next to eccentric artist Giles (Richard Jenkins) and mostly keeps to herself. Elisa and Zelda (Octavia Spencer) clean for a freaky research facility that gets a new arrival—an Amphibian Man (Doug Jones, wonderfully obscured in practical and CGI makeup) to be housed in a water tank. The Amphibian Man, who looks an awfully lot like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, is accompanied by his keeper, Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon), a menacing man brandishing a cattle prod. Shannon is his usual incredible self as the film’s baddie, a freaky narcissist who gets off on torturing his prisoner. The film goes into romance territory after Elisa facilitates the Amphibian Man’s escape. OK, I know there’s a good faction of you readers who draw the line at human characters getting down with alien/god-like/Creature from the Black Lagoon characters, so this is your warning. It all happens off screen but, still, this goes against the grain for more than a few religions, so there you go. Overall, this is one of 2017’s great visual wonders, and a terrific showcase for Hawkins, Spencer, Jenkins and Shannon.

In this film, we get our older Luke and Leia movie. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher get to do what Harrison Ford did in The Force Awakens by spending a little more time—in the case of Hamill, a lot more time—in their iconic roles. Both stars shine in their frankly incredible opportunity to play in the Star Wars sandbox 40 years after the original’s release. When this film focuses on the saga of Luke and Rey (Daisy Ridley), it is nothing short of epic. When the camera is fixed on the late Carrie Fisher, who gets more quality screen time than her glorified cameo in Force Awakens, it’s heartwarming and, yes, sad. The Leia stuff gets a little kooky at times, but I’m trying to make this a spoiler-free zone. When writer-director Rian Johnson takes the action to the characters of Poe (Oscar Isaac), Finn (John Boyega) and a new character named Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), the film falters. Poe, so engaging in Force Awakens, seems underdeveloped here. While the Resistance fights an oddly prolonged and bizarre space battle against the First Order, Poe just whines a lot—to the point where you are actually happy when Leia smacks him across his head. So, in short, this movie is part really good and part kind of bad. Johnson (Looper) seems determined to mess with the Star Wars formula —basically the opposite of what J.J. Abrams did when he rebooted the franchise with The Force Awakens. While some of his attempts at comedy are actually quite successful, his constant attempts to pull the rug out from under our expectations start to grate. The movie is still enjoyable overall, but it lacks a consistent tone.

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Reno is arguably the bastion of all-youcan-eat sushi. It is ubiquitous, beloved and infamous for producing a “sushi coma” of overindulgence. But the newest kid on the block, Cove Sushi, has a different idea in mind. The menu is presented as à la carte, but with a “meal deal” twist. All meals are available with an appetizer and dessert: a one roll meal ($13.99), two roll meal ($16.99) or three roll meal ($19.99). You can substitute the long rolls for either three hand rolls or eight pieces of nigiri, and substitute the appetizer and dessert as well. Mix and match combinations are welcome. It seems a little confusing at first, but it turned out to be fairly simple. My daughter and I ordered three long rolls, a hand roll, five orders of nigiri—two pieces each—and four appetizers, sans dessert. We began with miso soup, yakiton, wakame and baked mussels. The soup was hot, with plenty of tofu and scallion—just the thing for a chilly evening. The deepfried cheese and seafood egg rolls were my hungry college student’s favorite, so I just had a bite and let her devour the rest. The seaweed salad comes with the optional inclusion of octopus or salmon skin. I went with salmon skin. It was crispy, with a fair amount of meat still attached. This was easily one of the most enjoyable examples of this appetizer. Finally, the mussels were just damn perfect—large, tender and doused in a great sauce with a touch of heat. For nigiri, I chose sake (salmon), hamachi (yellowtail), hokkigai (surf clam), tai (snapper), tako (octopus) and unagi (freshwater eel). The fish-to-rice ratio was exceptionally good, with nice big cuts that

The Chameleon roll features a mix of crystal shrimp and spicy crab, topped with avocado and cooked scallop. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG

were still bite-sized, at least for my ample maw. Cove Sushi’s surf clam and octupus were very fresh with lots of flavor. Both can tend to be chewy, but these folks know what they’re doing. My daughter’s selection of long rolls began with the “Chameleon,” a mix of crystal shrimp and spicy crab, topped with avocado and cooked scallop. Next was the “Godzilla,” a deep-fried tempura roll of salmon, yellowtail and albacore, topped with sriracha. The last—the “Spider”—had soft shell crab and cucumber, topped with avocado and tobiko. Though I’m not a tremendous fan of hot sushi rolls, the crunch of the Godzilla was a nice textural counterpoint to the fresh fish flavors, spiked with a bit of spice. The Spider was good, with plenty of crunch and flavor from the crab, which blended well with the fresh ingredients. Best of all was the Chameleon. It won me over for taste and presentation. Each piece was crowned with a small, cooked scallop, and our server mentioned that everything is cooked to order. I do appreciate attention to detail. I ordered the spicy scallop hand roll, almost as an afterthought, and I’m certainly glad I did. The little bay scallops really got their chance to shine, assisted by a fantastic spicy sauce, scallion and other tasty bits I didn’t pause to identify. The nori was softened a bit—making it a little tough to bite through—but that didn’t slow me down. Probably the best thing I tasted during the meal, I’d definitely order two or three of them the next time around. Even with the couple extra items ordered, we still left satisfied for less than we’d have paid for a traditional Reno AYCE meal. That’s a bonus. Ω

Cove Sushi

2080 Mill St., 432-2244

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by Marc Tiar

Wine server courtney Judd poses with a glass of Schnaitmann 2015 Pinot Noir.

Wine not? Sunday night popped up, and my wife and I decided to go have a drink before dinner. As soon as we turned onto Second Street, we could see police lights in both directions. We drove into downtown, through this gritty urban corridor, past motels and the Greyhound station only to find our bar of choice was closed. The neighborhood has plenty of watering holes within a stone’s throw, so we walked over to try West Street Wine Bar instead. West Street Market, where the Wine Bar sits facing the street for which it’s named, seemed so wonderful and full of potential when it started. A hip urban marketplace— like Pike Place in Seattle, they said—in historical brick buildings downtown, with cool shops, bars and restaurants around an open courtyard for music in the summer. It seemed like such a cosmopolitan thing for Reno. For various reasons, the Market has merely clung to life, hanging on while midtown and elsewhere thrive. Tenants have come and gone with varying degrees of success. West Street Wine Bar appears to buck the trend, occupying the Market for the better part of a decade. We ducked into the front door and were immediately greeted by the aromas of neighboring Thali’s Indian cuisine wafting in from next door. Despite the temptation, dinner awaited at home, so we settled in at a table looking onto the sidewalk. During warmer months, I’m sure the glass garage door forming the front wall would have been rolled up, allowing us to spill out like Parisian bistro diners. Loyal readers know my connoisseurship lies in beer, and I’ll be the first to admit my wine palate only has two categories: like and don’t like. I struggle to find the words to describe the flavors and aromas of wine. Faced with this menu full of

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choices like Pinot, Malbec and Sancerre, I was out of my league. At least they’re in obvious categories like reds, whites and bubbly. There’s even a unique-sounding amber wine—resulting from “extended skin contact,” with the grapes, I’ve gathered. The handful of acceptable craft and import beers offered an easy out, but, no, this is a wine bar, so wine it would be. Rather than struggle with choices we weren’t qualified to make, we ordered one curated flight of whites and another of reds. Three-ounce pours of three “tap reds” and three French whites were available. I later learned the themes and selections rotate fairly regularly. More knowledgeable drinkers could create their own flight from any available choices or ask for help in creating one. The science nerd in me was impressed by the wine preservation system that allows opened bottles to remain fresh even when divided into multiple pours over time. One reason I think wine intimidates me is price. Although I’ll confidently spend too much on a bottle of fancy beer, even mid-tier wine feels like a gamble at $12-$14 a glass, given my lack of refined taste. Still, with the range of options from tolerably priced glasses to carafes and bottles I could never believe are worth the cost, it seemed like there was something for everyone at West Street. Even non-drinkers have coffee or Pellegrino available. There were people happily dining in the common seating through the back door and wines from around the globe—from Mexico and Greece to New York and, obviously, France and California. It all felt very metropolitan and, dare I say, chic? Ω

West Street Wine Bar 148 West St., 336-3560

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Graham Dickinson, Arlis Meyer and Luke Fuller are members of The Happy Trails, a three-piece rock band with a hint of blues and a dash of reggae.

Shotgun jams The Happy Trails Bassist and vocalist Graham Dickinson, guitar player and vocalist Luke Fuller, and drummer Arlis Meyer have been friends for almost six years now. They wanted to establish a new group after being in several other bands in Reno, so they formed The Happy Trails last year. At a Jan. 26 performance at Studio on 4th, along with La Safari and Spencer Kilpatrick from Failure Machine, you could hear Meyer’s heavy John Bonham influences in his powerful drumming. The music had an overall classic rock feel to it, but the tempo and vocals became bluesy as Dickinson and Fuller alternated on vocals throughout the night. Dickinson’s raspy voice alongside Fuller’s hypnotic guitar playing were captivating. The three bandmates were each influenced heavily by music growing up. Fuller played in the middle school jazz band and always wondered why the school never had a rock band. Meyer’s dad played classic rock at home and frequently made his own guitar amps—one of which he later gave to Fuller. Dickinson remembers his older cousin being in a band and wanted to be like him. Years later, after Meyer and Dickinson moved to Reno from Northern California to attend the University of Nevada, Reno, the group all met through a mutual friend and eventually formed a band they could call their own. The three share a love of the same musical influences, one of the reasons why they think they get along so well. They pull inspiration anywhere from Blink 182, The Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, and Red Hot Chili Peppers to Highly Suspect, Shotgun Sawyer, 20 | RN&R | 02.01.18

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FIDLAR and Royal Blood. Classic rock influences like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin also play a huge role in their sound, along with reggae influences like Northern California’s own Truckee Tribe. “We’ve actually been playing so long together that once we started this thing it was pretty easy to get going,” said Fuller. When it comes to songwriting, Fuller, Dickinson and Meyer sit down and try to collectively write songs acoustically first. Fuller will bring a guitar riff or another idea to the table, and the group adds in their electric guitar, bass and drums until they’re jamming the way they want to—which, for them, is really loud. Soon after, lyrics are added into the instrumental composition to complete the song. “We’ve done that a few times, and those ones turn out really good,” said Fuller. Some song lyrics have unexpected meanings. “Post Shotgun Blues” isn’t about guns, said Fuller. It’s about a friend shotgunning a beer on Snapchat. “You always feel like shit afterwards,” said Meyer. Even the band’s name stems from an old joke. Fuller said that when he was forming his first rock band in high school, the name “The Happy Trails” was laughable to all of his old bandmates even though he genuinely liked it. “Now, finally, I got a chance to form a band called The Happy Trails,” said Fuller. “These guys were down because they thought it was hilarious.” Their upbeat music is easy to jump up and down to. Fast-paced songs break down into slower rhythms, and Fuller’s guitar riffs stay with you long after they reverberate through the air. He admires groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who really get their audiences dancing passionately. “We want your neck to hurt,” Dickinson said with a laugh. Ω

The Happy Trails perform on Feb. 5 with Basha and Bear Call at St. James Infirmary, 445 California Ave.

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3rd Street Bar

Frank Perry Jazz Combo, 8pm, no cover

Foureyed Jimmy and The Squad, 9pm, $5

Running With Ravens, The Electric, 9pm, no cover

5 Star SaLOON

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Under the Radar, 9:30pm, no cover

Ritual (goth, industrial) w/DJs David Draven, Dusty, Pelikan, 9pm, $3-$5

John Moon’s Birthday Bash with DJ Dan, Donald Glaude, 10pm, $12-$21

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005 132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Feb. 3, 9 p.m. Crystal Bay Casino 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

Comedy 3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition with host Sam Corbin, Wed, 9:30pm, no cover The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Eddie Ifft, Dana Eagle, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25; Sat, 9pm, $30; Bobby Collins, Michael Blaustein, Wed, 9pm, $25-$30 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: John Caponera, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Rondell Sheridan, Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Luz Pazos, Thu, 8pm, $10-$15; First Fridays with Comedy Collective, Fri, 6:30pm, $10-$15; Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, Fri, 9pm, $14-$19; Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $14-$19

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SUNDAY 2/4

MON-WED 2/5-2/7

Revitalize featuring Casey Jones, 10pm, no cover

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

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe

SATURDAY 2/3

Sonic Mass with DJ Tigerbunny, 9pm, no cover

Bar Of aMerIca

10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-2626

the BLueBIrd NIghtcLuB 555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549

DG Kicks Big Band Jazz Orchestra, 8pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

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Sean McAlindin, 7pm, no cover

Lex White, 9pm, no cover

Roger Scime, 9pm, no cover

Mark Sexton, 7pm, no cover

Peter and Dan, 7pm, no cover

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VooDooDogz, 9:30pm, no cover

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

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Karaoke Night, 9pm, no cover

PANDA, 9pm, no cover

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Be Parker, 7pm, no cover

Erika Paul, 7pm, no cover

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180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737

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

Open Mic, 7pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke Night, 7pm, W, no cover Champagne Sunday Brunch with John Shipley, 10am, no cover

Be:Razz, 10pm, no cover

219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020 3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, 8pm, W, no cover Open Mic Night with Lucas Arizu, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Jack Di Carlo, 5:30pm, no cover

1540 S. Main St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0111

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Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover Verbal Kint Benefit for Rohingya Natal, 6:30pm, donations

Athena McIntyre, 7pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, 7pm, W, no cover RD$, Richmen, Yung J, 8pm, $5 Greg Austin Band, 9:30pm, no cover

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SUNDAY 2/4

MON-WED 2/5-2/7

Crooked I, Liquid Assassin, Statik G, Guilty One, 8pm, $TBA

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

The Hazytones, Kanawha, 9pm, W, $5

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE NIGHTCLUB

Canyon Jam/Open Mic, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover

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

THE LOFT

Magic Fusion, 6:30pm, $21-$46

Magic Fusion, 7pm, $21-$46 Magic After Dark, 9pm, $31-$46

MIDTOwN wINE BAR

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

Arizona Jones, 8:30pm, no cover

1021 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024

Donald Glaude Feb. 3, 10 p.m. The BlueBird 555 E. Fourth St. 499-5549

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

MILLENNIUM NIGHTCLUB

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

Live music, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

MUMMERS

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

PIGNIC PUB & PATIO 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

Third Seven, Justin McMahon, Dave Berry, Mel & Gia, 9pm, no cover

MagNicoSynth’s First Friday Funk Fest, 9pm, no cover

THE POLO LOUNGE

’90s Night, 8pm, no cover

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

Big Heart, 8pm, no cover

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

Hippie Sabotage Feb. 6, 8 p.m. Cargo Concert Hall 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

Wednesday Night Jam, 8pm, W, no cover

Whiskey Preachers Jam Night, 8pm, M, Corkie Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

RED DOG SALOON THE SAINT

Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

Melissa Cothard Medical Fundraiser w/John Dawson Band, 7pm, donations

906 Victorian Ave., Ste. B, Sparks, (775) 409-3754 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-5484

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

Regulo Caro, Lenin Ramirez, 10pm, $40

2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 378-1643

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Live blues, 7pm, W, no cover Void Vator, Final Drive, Rooftop Becky, RRL, 8pm, $7

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

SPARkS LOUNGE

The Heidi Incident, 9pm, no cover

Fate Awaits, 9pm, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Guest DJs, 9pm, no cover

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

TONIC LOUNGE

231 W. Second St., (775) 337-6868

Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

Coastwest Unrest, People with Bodies, , 7pm, no cover

SHEA’S TAVERN

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

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $21-$46

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46

Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 1, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. CHARITY COFFEE CRAWL: This event is an opportunity to share and experience what the baristas, specialty coffee shops and roasters in Reno are doing. The coffee crawl will offer tastings, tours, demonstrations and live music, provided by The Music Therapy Club of the University of Nevada, Reno, all throughout the morning. Check in at The Basement for an entry wrist band and a map of participating coffeehouses. There will also be a raffle prize for those who make it through all the houses on the map. Proceeds will go to the Eddy House and A Little Juice Project. Sat, 2/3, 10am. $20-$25. The Basement, 50 S. Virginia St., (775) 544-9798.

CROCHET CONNECTION: Crochet enthusiasts of all levels are invited join this group, which meets every Thursday. Bring your own project or start a new one. Thu, 2/1, 3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a drink, listen to live music by Arizona Jones and check out the galleries. Thu, 2/1, 5pm. $10 general admission, free for NMA members. Nevada of Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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The University of Nevada, Reno’s Performing Arts Series continues with a performance by the New York-based ensemble fronted by bandleader Evan Palazzo and lead singer Elizabeth Bougerol. Fueled by the belief that classic jazz feeds the heart and soul, the Hot Sardines are on a mission to make old sounds new again and prove that joyful music can bring people together in a disconnected world. On the band’s new album French Fries & Champagne, the jazz collective broadens its palette, combining covers and originals as they channel New York speakeasies, Parisian cabarets and New Orleans jazz halls. The Hot Sardines perform at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $5-$35. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr. edu/pas.

HIGH SIERRA WRITERS: Bring your written work to share with published and unpublished writers. Wed, 2/7, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5555 S. Virginia St., www.highsierrawriters.org.

SCIENCE OF COCKTAILS: More than 10 cocktail stations will double as learning hubs with activities and demonstrations for adults. Tickets are $30 for appetizers and two drinks. Proceeds directly support the UC Davis Tahoe Science Center and its science education programs. Fri, 2/2, 5:30pm. $30. UC Davis Tahoe Science Center, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560, tahoe.ucdavis.edu.

ULLRFEST TORCHLIGHT PARADE : The ninth annual fundraiser for the Diamond Peak Ski Team kicks off Friday night with a torchlight parade, bonfire, party and live music and continues with a gala dinner and auction at The Chateau on Saturday. Fri, 2/2, 5pm. $100-$190 for gala dinner. Diamond Peak Ski Resort, 1210 Ski Way, Incline Village, www.dpsef.org.

ART ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Things We Love. A walk in the park, glittering earrings, a favorite coffee cup, puppies, kittens, wildlife, a scarf for winter chill, paintings of your favorite places. See many of your favorite things at this multi-artist show. The artists’ reception is on Sunday, Feb. 4, noon-4pm. Thu, 2/1Wed, 2/7, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-Op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

EVENTS ABWA MONTHLY LUNCHEON MEETING: Reno Tahoe Express Network, a league of the American Business Women’s Association, holds its monthly event featuring a guest speaker, a raffle drawing and businesswomen from many different types of businesses. Thu, 2/1, 11:30am. $20-$25. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., www.abwa.org/ chapter/reno-tahoe-express-network.

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Contemporary West. Paintings of the new American West by Kevin Bell. Thu, 2/1Wed, 2/7. Free. E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Scholastic Art Exhibit. In partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art for the seventh year, the Holland Project Gallery hosts the 2018 Scholastic Art Exhibit, showcasing Northern Nevada’s up-and-coming teen artists and Scholastic Art Gold-Key recipients. The opening reception is Friday, Feb. 2, from 6-8pm. There will be music from a local DJ. Refreshments will be provided by students from the Hug High Culinary Arts program. The Scholastic Art Exhibit will be on display from Feb. 2-March 4 with gallery hours from 3-6pm, Tuesday-Friday, or by appointment. Fri, 2/2, Tue, 2/6-Wed, 2/7, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., www.hollandreno.org.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl. On view through Dec. 31; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector. On view through Sept. 30; View from the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger. The show runs through Feb. 18. Fri, 2/2-Sun, 2/4, Wed, 2/7, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

OXS GALLERY: Mementi Mori. This art exhibition seeks to inform how people think about important current events and provoke conversations about the conventions of photography, photographic images and objects and the ways in which photographs function as memory tools. Photographer Paul Baker Prindle began this series about 10 years ago, and the images are set upon the everyday landscape of the United States. The banal documentary look of these representations belies the horrific events that have taken place at sites he visited from California to New York. These photographs are of locations where gay men, lesbians and transgender individuals have been murdered. His images reference objects that engage memory and feelings of loss. The exhibition runs Monday-Friday through March 9. There will be a reception and artist’s talk on Feb. 20, 5:30-7:30pm. Thu, 2/1-Fri, 2/2, Mon, 2/5-Wed, 2/7. Free. OXS Gallery, 716 N. Carson St., Suite A, Carson City, (775) 6876680, nvculture.org/nevadaartscouncil.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Joan Arrizabalaga— Reflexions. See new work by University of Nevada, Reno alumna Joan Arrizabalaga and treasures from Sheppard Contemporary and University Galleries’ permanent collection. The show runs through Feb. 23. Gallery hours are noon-4pm, Tuesday-Wednesday; noon8pm Thursday-Friday; and 10am-8pm Saturday. Thu, 2/1-Sat, 2/3, Tue, 2/6-Wed 2/7. Free. Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

WEST ST. MARKET: Art Walk Reno. The evening will highlight public art, murals and stop at several of the galleries and alternative venues along the way, including Sierra Arts Gallery, Art Indeed Gallery and La Terre Verte. Tickets are available at the door. Proceeds from the evening will benefit a local nonprofit. Thu, 2/1, 6pm. $10. West St. Market, 148 West St., (415) 596-4987, artspotreno.com.

MUSEUMS THE TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): A T. rex Named Sue. At 42 feet long and 12 feet high at the hips, Sue is the largest, most complete, and best-preserved T. rex ever discovered. A dramatic, life-sized skeleton cast of Sue is the centerpiece of this exhibition that also features digital and hands-on interactive exhibits that help you uncover Sue’s past and explore the field of paleontology. A T. rex Named Sue will be on exhibit at The Discovery through May 13. Thu, 2/1-Wed, 2/7. $10$12. The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

WILBUR D. MAY CENTER, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Hall of Heroes. Learn about the history of superheroes with props and memorabilia from comics, movies and television. See a recreation of the iconic 1960s Batmobile and Batcave, a life-size replica of the TARDIS from Dr. Who, life-size statues of the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Batman, Superman and more. Discover your own super abilities at interactive challenge stations that test agility, memory, reflexes, endurance, strength, speed and mental power. Thu, 2/1-Sun, 2/4, Wed, 2/7. $8-$9. Wilbur D. May Center, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

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COWBOYS IN CONCERT: The evening includes a barbecue dinner and entertainment by cowboy musicians and poets Brenn Hill and Andy Nelson. Thu, 2/1, 6pm. $15. Jeanne Dini Cultural Center, 120 N. California St., Yerington, (775) 463-1783, www.yeringtonarts.org.

RAHIM ALHAJ TRIO: The virtuoso oud musician and composer performs as part of Arts for Schools 2017-2018 season. Fri, 2/2, 7pm. $5-$30. Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Truckee, (530) 582-8278, www.artsfortheschools.org.

ONSTAGE ASYULM SIDESHOW REVUE: A “dysfunctional circus of heavy metal, sideshow acts, circus stunts and stripper butts.” Featuring new, deadly acts, a comedic cast and highly skilled professionals to amaze you and keep you on the edge of your seat. Fri, 2/2, 8:30pm. $20-$25. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, www.asylumsideshow.com.

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FILM ALI CAST SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: Join Ali as she explores the last moments of consciousness, before she slips into the eternal dream. The newest Potentialist Workshop Production by filmmaker Pan Pantoja and the Potentialist Workshop has already won awards and is competing across the film festival circuit. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Pan Pantoja, Deb Girard and Mac Esposito. All proceeds benefit Ali and its entrance in national film competitions. Black tie attire is encouraged. Sat, 2/3, 5pm. $20-$25. Nevada of Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

FEBRUARY FILM SERIES—ALAN RUDOLPH THE 1980s: The film series kicks off with Alan Rudolph’s 1984 film Choose Me, a conscious throwback to noir of the 1940 starring Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine and Lesley Ann Warren. Fri, 2/2, 7pm. $10-$12. Barkley Theater, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

MUSIC BRAD PAISLEY: The country music star makes a stop in Reno as part of his Weekend Warrior World Tour. He will be joined by Dustin Lynch, Chase Bryant and Lindsay Ell. Sat, 2/3, 7pm. $55-$119. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8815.

COME IN FROM THE COLD FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES: The winter entertainment program continues with

will tickle your funny bone as they present an improv performance. Fri, 2/2, 7pm. Free, donations welcome. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

THE LION IN WINTER: Brüka Theatre presents its production of the 1966 play by James Goldman, depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and their guests during Christmas, 1183. All tickets are $10 on Artists Night, Wednesday, Feb. 7. Thu, 2/1-Sat, 2/3, Wed, 2/7, 8pm. $10-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

THE ROYALE: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company’s presents this drama by Marco Ramirez. Jay “The Sport” Jackson dreams of being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. But it’s 1905, and in the racially segregated world of boxing, his chances are as good as knocked out. When a crooked boxing promoter hatches a plan for the fight of the century, “The Sport” just might land a place in the ring with the reigning white heavyweight champion. Performances are Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 2-24. Fri, 2/2-Sat, 2/3, 7:30pm. $18-$20. Good Luck Macbeth, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: Reno Little Theater presents Robert Harling’s play about the bond a group of women share in a small-town Southern community, and how they cope with the death of one of their own. Thu, 2/1-Sat, 2/3, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/4, 2pm. $15-$25. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

by AMY ALKON

Totally flawsome I’m a single 33-year-old woman. Suddenly, after years of outdoor sports, I have a dime-sized dark brown sunspot on my face. It’s not cancerous, and I’m having it lasered off. This will take a while. Though I cover it with makeup, I’m terribly self-conscious about it, and I don’t want to date till it’s removed. I know how visual men are, and I don’t want a man to find out I have this thing and see me as unattractive. My friends say I’m being ridiculous. Your intuition that a clear, even complexion is important isn’t off base. Anthropologist Bernhard Fink and his colleagues did some pretty cool research on how skin tone uniformity affects perceptions of a woman’s attractiveness. This isn’t a new area of study, but almost all of the research has been on Western populations. Social science findings are more likely to be representative of human nature when the subject pool goes beyond the usual WEIRD participants (from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic countries—and, more often than not, 19-year-old college undergrads fighting a wicked hangover to answer survey questions for class credit). So Fink and his team sought out 172 men and women, ages 17 to 80, from two remote tribes—the cattle-raising Maasai in Tanzania and the forager-farmer Tsimane tribe in Bolivia—each “unfamiliar with lighter-colored skin.” The researchers explain that these tribes have no electricity and “little or no access” to magazines or newspapers from the West. They also live far from any tourist destinations. Tribe members were asked to assess “age, health and attractiveness” from photographs of skin— squares of white-lady skin cropped from photos of faces of British girls and women ages 11 to 76. Echoing findings from Western populations, women with “homogenous skin color”—meaning even in tone overall, with little or no “skin discoloration” (blotches or spots)—“were judged to be younger and healthier” and more attractive. Research finds that humans, in general, prefer faces with clear, uniform skin, which is associated with being parasite- and diseasefree. There’s also strong support from cross-cultural studies for the

notion by evolutionary psychologists that men evolved to be drawn to female features that suggest a woman is young and healthy—and thus more likely to be fertile. Because women coevolved with men, women anticipate this male preference for flawless skin—leading them to feel, uh, undersparkly when their facial landscape is less than pristine. This brings us to you. The thing is, you aren’t just a skin dot with a person attached. A guy will look at the whole. Also, we accept that people use products and technology to hide or fix flaws in their appearance—or to enhance the features they have. Accordingly, a guy is not defrauding you by using Rogaine, and no man with an IQ that exceeds your bra size believes you were born wearing eye shadow. Ultimately, you have more control than you probably realize over how much any imperfections affect your total attractiveness. A woman I know is a living example of this. She’s got two fewer legs than most of us. But she understands— and shows it in the way she carries herself—that she’s vastly more than the sum of her (missing) parts. In other words, your real problem is you—your feeling that this spot is some kind of boulder-sized diminisher of your worth. Chances are this comes from putting too much weight on your looks as the source of your value. Though you may not be where you want in your career, doing regular meaningful work to help other people—like volunteer work—might be the quickest way for you to feel bigger than that dot on your face. There’s nothing wrong with getting it lasered off, but as long as it’s still with you, try something: Revel in having it instead of going into hiding over it. I’m serious. After all, it’s basically a sign that you went outdoors and seized life—not that you got drunk and joined one of those racist Tiki torch marches and now have to hit up some tattoo artist to turn the swastikas into butterflies. Ω

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For the week oF February 1, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In all of history, humans have mined about 182,000 tons of gold. Best estimates suggest there are still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we’ve already gotten. We need better technology. If I had to say who would be the entrepreneurs and inventors best qualified to lead the quest, my choice would be members of the Aries tribe. For the foreseeable future, you people will have extra skill at excavating hidden treasure and gathering resources that are hard to access.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stories have the

power to either dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts of your soul. And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Anaïs Nin said,

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” For two reasons, Anaïs’s formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted, or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt, or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you more inclined

right now to favor temporary involvements and short-term promises? Or would you consider making brave commitments that lead you deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological omens, I vote for the latter. Here’s another pair of questions for you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collaborations? I’m hoping you’ll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In March 1996, a man

burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a recording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many varieties of the

nettle plant will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain, and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Knullrufs is a Swedish

word that refers to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your atti-

tudes as well as your coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his “Crazy Lake

Experiment” documented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness? Your tolerance? Your insight into human nature?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1989, a man

spent four dollars on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you imagined it would be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the 1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo ultimately became the second-most-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was in my

early twenties, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to

shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or bad ideas, have you done things you’re ashamed of? I’m not saying you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just that now is your special time to seek redemption.

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by DENNis MYERs

PHOT0/DENNIS MYERS

Book man

Once, Joe Chiappetto owned the Book Gallery, a used book store in Sparks. He sold it 10 years ago, then traveled the world. Eventually he returned to Nevada and operated other enterprises, such as a boat rental business in the Sparks Marina. Then he bought back the Book Gallery, 1203 Rock Blvd., and now has made some changes to the interior to add an art gallery.

Why did you buy back the store? I missed it. I am comfortable in this line of work.

What did you get from traveling?

Do you still have the other stores?

Oh, I got a wealth of knowledge.

No, all the other stores are gone. Carson City, I sold that one, and I sold the one in Sun Valley.

What made you stop traveling? I’d seen it all, at least all I’d wanted to.

And when you came back, you had some other enterprises. I did.

What made you come back to this valley? You could have lived anywhere. Oh, that’s true. But the business—the book business—was here, and I always did want to stay in it, even when I didn’t own it, I was a part of it. I worked for the new owner [Phil Davis].

And you had a comic book store. On Prater. It’s gone, too.

You’ve made other changes, new shelving and reconfigured the north room. We’ve expanded. There’s a new bestseller section as well as a new art gallery section we’re going to use for consignment art. We’ll be open Sundays eventually to have new artists show their work. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

If he fires Mueller What people need to get clear right now is an appreciation of the difference between 1974 and 2018 in terms of Watergate versus Dum Dumgate. There is one gigantically important fact to keep in mind. The House and the Senate in 1974 were both controlled by Democrats. Let’s remember that. Yes, there were a handful of Republicans (Sen. Howard Baker, for one) who placed country over party back then, and now look pretty good, with the helping hindsight of history. But the truth is, without Democratic control of both houses of Congress, the ending to the Watergate saga would likely have been much different. Well, things ain’t like that here in 2018. I’m guessing you’ve noticed. The ReTrumplicans control both houses of Congress and can call the shots to where they’re now willing to do battle with nothing less than the freak-

ing FBI in order to preserve the phony presidency of their Gangster-in-Chief. Not one member of the GOP caucus has so far showed even the tiniest inclination to stand up to Dum Dum and tell him to quit fucking around with the special prosecutor and FBI execs like Rosenstein and McCabe. Not one. Which gets us to where we are today, with an illegitimate president all set to shake down the country for a cool 25 billion dollars to build a moronic wall that his delighted and totally base base will be ecstatic to pay for, because it will piss off the liberals and drive them absolutely crazy. That’s now the main reason for The Wall. A 25 billion dollar agitant, a 25 billion dollar Fuck You to the 65 percent of the country that absolutely hates it and what it stands for (and The Wall will stop the flow of drugs

in pretty much the same way that Prohibition stopped beer drinking). The fact that Trumplodytes got played for suckers (“And who’s gonna pay for The Wall?”) by a completely brazen con man makes no difference at this point. He may be a moron, but he’s our moron, they say with pride and gusto, and he can damn well castrate any federal agency he wants. And hell yes, we’ll pay for it! Hail Trump! Hail Trump! Hail Trump! But—but—her emails! So if Dipshit fires Mueller (although with a hand-picked stooge to oversee Mueller after he fires Rosenstein, he probably won’t have to, but—?), hundreds of thousands of Americans are ready to hit the street. Yes, there’s a plan for Reno. You’re invited. MarchforTruth.info is the site. Ω

02.01.18

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