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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before in these pages at some point over the years, my mom, Lois Bynum, is the executive director of a small local nonprofit organization, the Reno Cancer Foundation.

The organization helps Northern Nevada cancer patients pay their medical and living expenses. I’m intensely proud of my mom and the work she does.

The organization is housed within Renown Regional Medical Center, but it provides support to cancer patients throughout our community. The foundation’s budget isn’t huge, and it doesn’t always attract the kind of attention and financial support that larger nonprofit organizations get. My mom is the only full-time employee. She often relies on help from volunteers.

A dedicated volunteer named Sarah Herndon helped the RCF immensely the last couple of years. Sarah created a new website and a stronger social media presence for the organization. She created and managed fundraisers.

Sarah Herndon died on Jan. 31, after battling cancer for four years.

I never met her in person, but I admired her vivacious social media presence and the crucial support—professional and personal—she gave to my mom and the RCF. From what my mom has told me, she was an inspiration to everyone who met her. I was shocked by the news and wanted to take a minute to express my gratitude for what Sarah did and to express my condolences to her family and friends.

She was born in Reno, graduated from Galena High School and attended the University of Nevada, Reno. She was the mother of two young daughters. She was only 31.

My mom: “Sarah was an example to everyone how to face challenges with grace, perseverance and love.”

Re “That’s not all he’s not” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Jan. 18): Your recent column about our rudderless leader was excellent. It contained most of what I feel about him and our country. Thank you very much. Keep it up. Democracy dies in the darkness.

Evelyn Lindauer Reno

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsrev i ew . com

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Re “That’s not all he’s not” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Jan. 18): Wow! So, Barack wasn’t a liar. Really? A professional, non-racist, smartest man ever, reasonable, walk-on-water, lover of America, that, beyond all racial barriers set forth by the white man, rose to the calling of mankind to cleanse us of our sins. Uh huh, whew, what part would you like to argue first? Ya know, fact-based argument?

When it comes to name-calling, fingerpointing, bitching, and making fun, Babble On leads the rest of the second graders as he reaches out to what he thinks is the majority of people. I used to love the RN&R, for finding out the Reno vibe, the night life, and events. The promotion of local business owners, stories of our history, and the potpourri of the content was good. But after over a year of bashing our president while holding Barack, Hillary and Democratic antics on high pedestals, quite frankly, is disgusting. As we find out about what lengths Hillary abused her power and made a mockery of our country and its people, and the proven fact that she, Barack, and so many more elites lied, under oath, about their hand in trying to rig the election, let alone the incredible amounts of money spent to ruin Trump, to read the shit Babble On has to say, along with all the other children employed by RN&R, it becomes comical.

Sad, it’s money that inspires people, who in return, shop more, which in return, fuels economic growth, and the promotion of businesses advertising in your paper, though

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I feel LIKE the obvious bustle of life that keeps them open, are going to not be seen by me (and a host of others that are tired of the crap). I know, who cares, right? I’m just one of the few people, the minority, the (fill in the rest of the sentence with all the things we’ve been called). It was funny watching TV the night the actual majority spoke and elected Trump. The reaction of the media was great. Since then, it’s only gotten better.

And though a travesty to America to watch events unfold and unveil the sewage of the Dems, while knowing there are people that, no matter what, will only create clever li’l names instead of being pissed off at how bad we we’re all played by the Dems, well, they become the comics. ...

What’s even sadder is to think that someone so biased actually teaches our next generation at a community college. ... One good thing, as long as there are bird cages to line, or glasses to pack, the RN&R will have a purpose. Bummer to have to say. SEE YA. Larry Moody Sparks

Wogstead speaks Re “Safe passage” (cover story, Jan. 18): Your story chronicled events truly tragic and unfortunate. I would wish none of this on anyone. It is a great fear of mine to be involved in a pedestrian/vehicular accident on either side of the fender. I always attempt to scurry across streets as seven-decades-old legs allow me.

I was, however, puzzled that the article made but one reference to the most basic of pedestrian responsibility, that of looking both ways before crossing. I always make a mental note of the people actively scanning for traffic before and during street crossing, in a crosswalk or not. This is an activity that is sorely lacking. It appears to me less than a third of pedestrians, especially younger ones, do this. ... Are they looking for a lawsuit to solve financial woes? Are they aware of how hard and impenetrable to a human body a

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vehicle is? Is it suicide by car? This is senseless to me.

Please motorists, be careful. Your dangers are traffic tickets, vehicle damage, guilt over striking a pedestrian and resulting financial burdens. It all pales by comparison to the suffering of the person struck by your vehicle.

It all goes back to Mrs. Wogstead, my first grade teacher. “Look both ways before you cross the street.” Pretty basic. But is this still taught? One has to wonder.

PS. Todd South is the man. Give him a big raise.

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By JERI CHADWELL

Your feelings on Valentine’s Day? asked at royce, 115 ridge st.

Jack Fredericks Bartender

I’m fairly indifferent. It’s not something I give much thought to. I mean, in the past, when I’ve been in relationships, it’s been nice to do something special—especially after the holidays. Things kind of die down in January, and Valentine’s Day is sort of a nice reminder, after the holidays.

Joe shapiro Bar manager

I think it’s overplayed. I think it’s way too close to the holidays.

The holidays just got over. And I don’t think it should be just one day singled out for you show somebody that you love them by buying them something. I think it’s kind of cheesy, myself.

LesLie daLe y Bartender

The divine right of coaches “You’re black,” Wooster coach Ron Malcolm is alleged to have said to 15-year-old Hannah Chatfield during a volleyball practice. That’s a weird comment, and it’s anyone’s guess why Malcolm would have thrown out such an ambiguous comment and then left it to be interpreted by others. Part of teaching is to be clear with students, and Malcolm left it for Chatfield’s mother to ask, “The question for us is, is it a compliment or an insult? What is it?”

That’s a risky question. Neither answer reflects well on the coach. If it’s an insult, it’s a reprehensible one. If it’s a compliment, he seems to be saying that Hannah Chatfield is a good athlete because she is black, which is a stereotype few educators would want to traffic in.

What bothers us more is the long tradition that tolerates the behavior of coaches in ways that would not be allowed in other courses of study, often in the name of “motivating” athletes. Not long ago in this valley, we saw a university professor who, while supervising a student teacher, pinched a student’s earlobe to get him to pay attention—and was prosecuted for it. Yet the psychological warfare that goes on in gymnasiums and on athletic fields is tolerated because it somehow “builds character.”

Anyone who has known an athlete who was brutalized by a coach in high school and then had to deal with that student in adult life knows how little character is built by coaches’ extreme behavior. Reflecting on his time as a high school football player, University of Virginia professor Mark Edmundson writes: “The kind of intensity that sports—and especially kinetic sports like football—can provoke is necessary

for any society: Thymos [spiritedness] must have its moment. But that intensity is mortally dangerous for society and for individuals, too. Sports can lead people to brutal behavior—I see no way to avoid the conclusion.

To any dispassionate observer, it is clear that athletes find themselves in more brawls, more car wrecks, more spousal assaults, more drunk-driving episodes than the average run of the population.

“Sports can teach participants to modulate their passions—sports can help people be closer to Hector than to Achilles—but they can foment cruelty as well.

Athletes, as everyone who went to an American high school will tell you, can be courtly, dignified individuals.

But they’re often bullies; they often seek violence for its own sake. Some athletes take crude pleasure in dominating others; they like to humiliate their foes, off the field as well as on it. ... If having a good character means having a coherent, flexible internal structure, where the best part rules over the most dangerous, then sports may not always be conducive to true virtue.”

We would argue that the intensity sports produces has its moment at risk to the rest of society, that such extreme behavior is not tolerated in other fields.

Emotionally annihilating student athletes who, in most cases, are doing their best, is no way to motivate anyone. It is a way to send people off into the world angry and aggrieved.

It also fails to teach students a sense of the fitness of things. If emotionally brutalizing students to win a mere game is tolerable, what isn’t? Ω

I was in an eight-year relationship back East, and I’ve been single ever since then. These days, I just think it’s a good day to go out and get a good steak. It’s one of those things where you want to put on a nice shirt, put a comb through your hair, maybe. At the end of the day, I think it’s cool.

Jessie Beckham Nurse

I think it’s overrated—because you should appreciate your people every day. Also, it’s very commercialized. And I think guys get a real raw deal because they end up having to get something really big or extravagant. And girls are like, “Here’s this poem I wrote about the 52 reasons I love you.”

Justin BarBa EMT

I kind of feel like Valentine’s Day—it doesn’t matter who you love, just as long as you’re with the people you care about. That’s exactly how it should be portrayed. Yes, you can have it with your significant other there, but, I mean, love is not just concerned with one person.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Drug industry’s pot of gold As a former legislator, it gives me no joy when I encourage my university students to “follow the money” if they want to understand health care policy-making.

I wish it weren’t true, but our current system of forcing candidates to fund their campaigns by courting corporate contributions has so corrupted politics, it takes no particular genius to trace the money to the public policy, especially when it comes to health care.

One of the best examples comes from the influence exerted by the pharmaceutical industry group, Pharma, and their associated lobbying corps which has been so successful in getting policy-makers to do its bidding that Americans now pay 50 percent more for their prescription drugs than the rest of the world.

Our nation finds itself in the midst of an opioid crisis that is killing thousands of our family members every year while draining our emergency response and medical resources. Drug companies act like this problem emerged from nowhere

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but only New Zealand and the United States allow advertising for prescription drugs, driving a huge demand for their product in our society that believes a pill holds the answer to whatever malady we might have. And don’t get me started on the conflicts the industry generates by paying doctors to be their “experts” and flying them to exotic locales to “lecture” their colleagues on the next best drug.

Recently, the pharmaceutical industry has let greed overcome its political sensibility and privileged position at the top of the lobbying heap as companies gobble up each other, sometimes raising the cost of a needed drug to exorbitant, almost extortionist amounts. For example, the cost of a 40-year-old cancer drug, lomustine, recently rose 1,400 per cent, thanks to new ownership. People who previously paid about $50 for each pill must now pay $768. It’s no wonder why our health care costs continue to soar while other countries regulate drug pricing and pay much less.

A recent story in the Nevada Independent documented contributions from pharmaceutical companies to legislators last year after Democratic Senator Yvanna Cancela’s bill was passed to increase transparency in the pricing of critical diabetes drugs. Big Pharma was so incensed by Cancela’s legislation, it shifted 99 percent of its campaign funding to people more likely to do its bidding—Republicans and their affiliated political action committees. One of the PACs used the windfall to support the bogus recalls of three state senators whose votes they didn’t like, sending a clear message to elected officials.

Only one percent of the $1.4 million haul went to Democrats, a bad bet in the influence wars since Democrats are widely expected to hold both houses of the legislature next year and a Democrat could easily be governor as well. But maybe that bodes well for the public if Democrats become less beholden to Pharma and more interested in serving the needs of the people they represent.

Of course, legislators will tell you campaign donations buy nothing but the same open door every constituent can enter.

And industry lobbyists will say access is all they want, a few minutes to make their case and ensure a fair hearing of the facts. But in the rare times when a majority of legislators buck the industry, as they did when they approved Cancela’s bill, the industry viciously strikes back, reminding everyone of the peril of opposing it. Such may not be a quid pro quo bribe, but the corrupting influence of corporate-funded campaigns is not far from it.

Filing for legislative office begins next month and we need to be quizzing candidates about this issue and asking them why we can’t implement a system similar to Maine’s Clean Elections Act. It’s not impossible, but it’s going to take political will generated and enforced by voters. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

Demagogues and you The California legislature is considering a bill that would impose a thousand dollar fine and jail time for a waiter who offers a restaurant patron a plastic straw. For a state that is dramatically reducing its prison sentences, this seems like a terribly counterproductive law. But the worst thing about it might be that the only scientific study that purported to show how many straws there were in the vast California garbage stream was conducted by a 9 year old student on his home computer! Nevertheless, this preadolescent’s study got into the political echo chamber and became the source of a law that would criminalize an ordinary worker for doing his job. Before you laugh and say even California would not pass such a ridiculous law, two major California resort towns already have.

With all the talk of fake news, fake social science is just as pervasive. Once a study is published, politicians eager to glam votes assert its findings as completely true and its implementation

into law as without negative tradeoffs or unintended consequences.

The social sciences today suffer from a lack of replicable published experiments. The essence of the scientific method is the falsification principle: science progresses when a hypothesis can be shown to be false, which generates new studies to determine what is actually closer to the truth. A corollary of that is that if a scientific study can be replicated by other scientists its truth is at least temporarily vindicated.

Shockingly, it has been shown recently that only 39 of 100 psychology studies could be replicated, and pre-clinical cancer studies showed a dismal 11 percent replication rate.

Part of the problem is confirmation bias. The facts seem often fixed for a desired outcome that would please a donor or political constituency. The social scientists are 80 percent liberal, and conservatives feel discriminated against.

Conservatives themselves are also guilty of confirmation bias. One of the most dangerous examples of bias is the ready acceptance of the sex trafficking statistics published by the rescue industry to hype the number of underage and coerced women in sex work. Nevada Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt has uncritically linked the AG website to Polaris, a rescue industry non profit—but very profitable to its founders—organization whose statistics on sex trafficking have been successfully challenged by fact checkers like Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post.

One of the few branches of the social sciences that has been replicated in different countries are mega studies of sex workers. Recently, in England, a major study replicated findings in Canada of the working conditions of women, men and transsexuals involved in sex work.

The study confirms that very few women begin sex work under 18 years

of age. The vast majority begin the occupation between 18 and 29 years old.

Women over 30 constitute four times the number of novice sex workers as underage teens do.

The English study confirms that most sex workers are enthusiastic about their work, and sex workers are generally treated with respect by their clients. Most important of all, the study confirms that the internet has changed their lives for the better, enabling their work to be safer and more rewarding than it was before.

On Jan. 10, the New Hampshire House passed a bill to establish a commission to study decriminalizing sex work. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is opposed, saying the people aren’t ready.

The legislation was sponsored by Kathleen Edwards, a Democrat with ties to the libertarian Free State Project. She says even if Sununu vetoes the commission, it will be a first step to end the stigma surrounding sex work. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

RJ killed Wynn stoRy In a Feb. 5 report, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said it suppressed a 1998 story on sexual misconduct charges against casino figure Steve Wynn.

The 1998 story contained information alleging that a cocktail waitress was pressured into having sex with Wynn, “who said he wanted to experience sex with a grandmother, according to a court filing,” and that the Mirage Hotel—Wynn was board chair at the time—sent waitresses to sexually “accommodate” high rollers during the 1990s.

The article that failed to run was written by Carri Geer Thevenot, now metro editor, who “said she was ordered to delete the story she had written. But she saved a printout of the story, the court records from the case, the polygraph results and the $600 bill for the polygraph examinations.”

The polygraph results? The newspaper, in deciding whether to run the story, had two of Wynn’s accusers take lie detector tests, which are not scientifically valid but are often used by employers, certainly including Nevada casino corporations. The report this week did not say whether, in a meeting between Geer and RJ editors and Wynn and his lawyers, Wynn was asked to submit to lie tests.

What is especially remarkable about the RJ’s failure to run the 1998 story is that, at the time, it was shielded from liability. Eleven Mirage waitresses had sued the Mirage, and legal filings always confer legal protection on news coverage of such actions. Yet the RJ still killed the story. Last month, the Wall Street Journal finally ran such a story.

test site being WaRmed up For the demographic that believes Donald Trump should be trusted with nuclear weapons, which—according to the 2016 election returns—is a minority, there is this Feb. 1 report from Time Magazine: “Since 1993, the Department of Energy has had to be ready to conduct a nuclear test within two to three years if ordered by the President. Late last year, the Trump Administration ordered the department to be ready, for the first time, to conduct a short-notice nuclear test in as little as six months. … The point, this and other sources say, would be to show Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Iran’s Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and other adversaries what they are up against.

“The Trump Administration … is convinced that the best way to limit the spreading nuclear danger is to expand and advertise its ability to annihilate its enemies. In addition to putting the Nevada testing ground on notice, he has signed off on a $1.2 trillion plan to overhaul the entire nuclear-weapons complex. Trump has authorized a new nuclear warhead, the first in 34 years. He is funding research and development on a mobile medium-range missile. The new weapon, if tested or deployed, would be prohibited by a 30-year-old Cold War nuclear-forces agreement with Russia (which has already violated the agreement). And for the first time, the U.S. is expanding the scenarios under which the President would consider going nuclear to ‘significant non-nuclear strategic attacks,’ including major cyberattacks.”

The U.S. has not conducted a nuclear test in a quarter century.

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Employees at UNR are struggling to cope with a new finance system.

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Campus roiled by new system Paychecks raise a ruckus some university of nevada, Reno employees last week may have started believing the claims that the Republican tax plan would be good for the middle class. Many of them received pay in five figures instead of four.

“My check goes in direct deposit, but I always check on it at the bank,” said one faculty member. “I was shocked to find more than double the amount I should have had.”

After checking with the controller’s office, he was told it was a problem of Workday, a new office computer system that became operational at UNR on Oct. 2.

All through the winter, local journalists have heard complaints, particularly about the finance side of the new system. Last week’s pay glitches made the complaints reach a new level.

One campus source said that between 10 and 15 people are known to have resigned their jobs in exasperation over trying to work with Workday.

As it happened, last week a letter from UNR President Marc Johnson was posted online. Though dated Jan. 31, according to an editor’s note it was “originally sent to the campus earlier this month.” It read in part: “Paying our employees accurately and timely is an important responsibility. While the majority of payroll information has processed correctly, some unique situations continue to arise. As these are identified, Human Resources and Payroll will continue to correct these issues, determine the underlying cause and investigate to determine if other individuals were affected. The last few months have presented a significant learning curve

and challenges. The Workday staff will continue to provide support to help continue successful use of the system.”

UNR Controller Sheri Mendez had not heard about the paycheck problem.

After checking with payroll folks, she said, “I don’t want to blame the system until I find out what’s going on.

Sometimes people have to learn how to enter data properly. We’ve had some [Workday] problems, but I don’t know if this glitch is one of them.”

One source told us that Workday has two components—human resources (for which the company is best known) and finance. The first, he said, has a long history and tends to work without difficulty. The finance side, however, is relatively new and full of bugs that are being worked out at UNR. UNR describes Workday this way: “The University of Nevada, Reno, in addition to all Nevada System of Higher Education campuses, implemented Workday—an integrated financial and human resources system. Workday is a cloud-based, desktop, and mobile-friendly solution for all employees to simplify and automate administrative processes.”

A public relations article on the campus website says Workday is used for “faculty/staff data management systems.”

According to a statistical log on the campus website, 2,748 Workday “help desk tickets” have been opened since October, with 94.7 percent answered or completed (both terms are used).

Administrators have kept campus workers informed on the system with regular memos. They have been mostly instructional or have brought employees up to speed on matters that were not previously addressed (“Where to Find Your Payslip in Workday,” “Workday will now Require MultiFactor Authentication On and Off Campus”). They have had an upbeat tone of cheerleading and have not addressed the chronic problems that have bedeviled employees.

“People always are disgruntled when they have to adapt to a new system,” said one campus source experienced with UNR’s computer technology. “But we are now four months into this one, and the unhappiness with the finance stuff is not dying down. That’s unusual.”

Hiring freeze

company makes HR management software and is currently valued at about $24 billion.

Workday is used not just at UNR but It is gathering the information via weekly throughout the state’s higher education system. surveys it sends out to employees, CIO Locally, Workday is also used by AAA Diana McKenzie said at a tech conference on Northern California, Nevada & Utah.

Wednesday, adding that Workday wants to A month-long hiring freeze was instituted find out more about why workers are quitting at UNR on Sept. 1 as part of the changeover to the company, so it’s asked for data about Workday. At the time, associate vice president what’s sparking the attrition.” for human resources Tim McFarling Other assessments in the past month: told the Sagebrush, “It will greatly WallStEquities.com: “The streamline our work processes. company’s shares have advanced Currently we spend a lot of 11.71 percent in the last month “Paying time with paper copies, and 42.12 percent over the our employees carrying paper around last twelve months. The campus, shipping it from stock is trading above accurately and one office to the other, and its 50-day and 200-day timely is an important this [Workday] will enable moving averages by 7.93 responsibility.” us to do those same busipercent and 13.54 percent, ness functions online and respectively. Furthermore, Marc Johnson we’ll be able to track where shares of Workday, which UNR President that transaction is online.” provides enterprise cloud Workday Inc, is based in applications for finance and Pleasanton, California. Last month, human resources worldwide, have an BusinessChief called Workday number RSI of 62.72.”

10 on a list of the “Top 10 fastest growing Investors Business Daily: “Workday companies in the U.S.” (WDAY) is on the cusp of becoming a freeSan Francisco Business Times reported cash-flow machine, says Morgan Stanley, on Jan. 25, “East Bay human resources which upgraded the enterprise software maker company Workday has begun asking to overweight.” employees to provide weekly information Workday received some backing during about their managers, after noticing ‘disturbits history from the richest man in the world, ing trends’ when its workers decided to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and publisher leave the company. The Pleasanton-based of the Washington Post. Ω

in the neighborhood

A new mural was unveiled this week at Fire Station 2 on Sutro Street. The mural was created by artist Paige Gomez with assistance from supporting artist Lupe Reyes. The project was funded by City of Reno anti-blight money.

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by Jeri Chadwell

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picture of health How Has Nevada’s insurance marketplace fared under trump?

Despite an uncertain future for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—a.k.a. the ACA or Obamacare—more than 91,000 Nevadans enrolled in health insurance complaint with its provisions for 2018.

The ACA has been under threat since long before Donald Trump became president on Jan. 20, 2017.

Since it was enacted nearly eight years ago, there have been many dozens of attempts made in Congress to repeal, amend, delay and defund the ACA—all unsuccessful. Yet, when Trump came to power with the benefit of a Republican-controlled Congress, many thought it would only be a matter of time before the ACA was dismantled.

And concerted attempts to do so were made during 2017, beginning with a Jan. 12 vote in the Senate to pass a budget resolution containing language allowing repeal to happen through the budget reconciliation process—which, importantly, prohibits a filibuster in the Senate and allows for passage of legislation with only a simple majority, rather than the three-fifths majority otherwise needed.

Less than two months later, House Republicans revealed their replacement for the ACA—called the American Health Care Act. But it was withdrawn a few weeks later, on March 24, because it had not garnered enough support to pass. More than a month of Republican Party infighting followed before the bill was put to a vote and narrowly passed the House by a margin of 217 to 213. From there, it was sent to the Senate for deliberation.

The Senate quickly rejected the House’s measure, choosing instead to write its own bill—the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017—which was unveiled on June 22. After another month and several delays in voting, the bill failed in a vote of 43 to 57, with nine Republican senators voting against it. And, just two days later, on July 27, the Health Care Freedom Act, a.k.a. the “skinny repeal” bill, was introduced and quickly defeated in a 49 to 51 vote, when Republicans Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and John McCain of Arizona voted against it, alongside Democrats.

A final repeal attempt—an amendment to the House’s American Health Care Act, named the Graham-Cassidy bill after its sponsors, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana—was introduced in September but never brought to a vote.

The repeal attempts, while ultimately unsuccessful, were not without effect. The months-long debates surrounding them created massive uncertainty in insurance markets across the country—an issue that was exacerbated by very real blows dealt to the ACA by the executive branch.

Despite having criticized Obama for the frequency of his executive orders—which, in February 2016, Trump called “a basic disaster”—the new commander-in-chief signed his first one on the day he was sworn into office. It was an order designed, according to then Press Secretary Sean Spicer, to “ease the burden of Obamacare as we transition from repeal and replace.”

The order gave the heads of all executive departments with “authorities and responsibilities” related to the ACA the power to “exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision” of the ACA that they deemed to place a burden on states, individuals, insurers or health care providers. And it was only the first of many.

During 2017, the Trump administration also made decisions to stop paying costsharing subsidies (CSRs) that reimburse insurers for the discounts they’re required to give some ACA enrollees; gave states more control over Medicaid implementation, including allowing them to impose work requirements; encouraged states to submit waivers to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to make additional changes to their Medicaid programs, like charging recipients premiums, testing them for drugs and cutting them off from benefits if they fall behind on payments or paperwork; cut the open enrollment period for insurance sign-ups in half, from 90 to 45 days; and slashed federal funding for enrollment advertising and in-person enrollment support by 90 percent and 40 percent, respectively.

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As a result of all of this, some insurance carriers, like Humana, stopped offering ACA plans, counties in many states faced months of uncertainty about whether their residents would have any ACA plans available to them at all, and about a half a million fewer people signed up coverage in 2018 than did in 2017.

In Nevada, however, despite facing these challenges, 2018 enrollment numbers exceeded the previous year’s.

Silver lining Nevada Health Link, the state’s public health insurance marketplace, is one of five that are state-operated but rely on the federal government’s platform—healthcare.gov—to enroll people in ACA plans. These states—which also include Oregon, New Mexico, Kentucky and Arkansas—pay a fee to CMS for use of the platform. And, unlike states with fully federally operated marketplaces, they pay for and manage their own marketing and in-person enrollment assistance programs.

Heather Korbulic—the executive director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, the agency that operates Nevada Health Link— figured this arrangement might warrant greater flexibility for the state. So, when the Trump administration announced the truncated 2018 enrollment period, she asked for it.

“When we were told that there’d be a 45-day open enrollment period—it’d be cut from 90 days to 45 days—I sent a letter in response to those proposals and said, ‘That doesn’t give us enough time. We’ve already started planning and strategizing

our marketing and our outreach for the next year,’” she explained during a recent interview. “I asked specifically because we do pay them so much of our revenue to lease their system, and because we’re kind of—partners is what we call each other in this endeavor—if we could extend our open enrollment period for our state, because we believed that would be the right thing to do. And I was told that there was not going to be any flexibility for that.”

Around the same time, Korbulic was notified that not only would the enrollment period be shortened, but the healthcare. gov platform would be taken offline every Sunday night for maintenance—a different schedule than in years past and, she said, a dramatic one, “when you only have 45 days, and you live in a state that is 24-hours.”

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“So I sent a letter to the CMS and asked them if we could extend our open enrollment to allow for additional time as a result of those extreme maintenance schedules,” she said. “And I also pointed out that we’re paying the same amount, and [they] just totally changed the rules of the game. We agreed in a federal platform agreement that we were going to have a 90-day period. We were going to pay x-y-z monies for that. … I said, ‘Where is our discount?’ I don’t think I even got a response to the part where I asked about the changes to our agreement and where our discount would be. But that continues to be something I talk about.”

With no extension or discount and the open enrollment period looming, Korbulic’s agency turned its attention, in the spring, to developing new plans and rates for the state—a job that was complicated by the threat of ACA repeal.

“We have a congressional body dominated by a party that has kind of trotted out the ‘repeal and replace’ language for eight years, and finally we start to see what kind of legislative action they’re going to take,” Korbulic said.

In the end, of course, no legislation was passed, and the specter of an ACA repeal in 2017 faded when Congress turned its attention to tax reform. However, the months of uncertainty took a toll. In Nevada, two insurers—Prominence and Anthem—had announced their decisions to exit the state’s public insurance exchange in 2018, leaving 14 of Nevada’s 17 counties without on-exchange insurance options as a result. Nevada Health Plan, the only remaining insurer, said it would only cover residents in Nye, Washoe and Clark counties.

The problem remained unresolved until mid-August, when insurer SilverSummit announced it would enter Nevada’s market and offer coverage in all 17 counties.

According to research by the Kaiser Family Foundation, there were, at different points during the year, a total of 82 counties facing a similar predicament in states across the country. But, by late August, the last of these so-called “bare counties” had secured insurance options for their residents.

However, it came at a cost—literally.

Premiums in states across the country jumped dramatically. According to a report from NPR’s Marketplace, some Florida premiums jumped by as much as 45 percent. In Georgia, it was 57 percent. And in Nevada, the average rate increase was 36.8 percent.

Korbulic explained that this was not entirely due to the instability created by repeal rhetoric. Some of it was the result of executive action—and inaction.

“While we’re trying to develop rates and we’re trying to develop plans, we’re hearing ambiguity around whether or not cost-sharing reductions would be paid,” she said. “And it’s still a part of the ACA statute that insurers have to provide those, but whether or not they’d be paid was up in the air. This is in the middle of trying to develop rates.”

In October, the Trump administration moved forward with canceling cost-sharing reductions. But, according to Korbulic, it was a blow for which the Silver State had prepared, thanks to Division of Insurance Commissioner Barbara Richardson.

“She worked closely with commissioners across the country, and a lot of them made the same decision she did—which is, ‘We’re so unclear on what’s going to happen about this that we need to be proactive and make sure that companies and our consumers are protected from any potential wavering on CSRs.’ So we’d already loaded our rates. There was a special window for states that had not, but let’s just say I did not envy them in those last couple of weeks right before open enrollment started, trying to scramble and make that happen.”

And, thankfully, for the more than 87 percent of Nevada ACA enrollees who qualified for premium subsidies, the costs were offset, leaving little impact on consumers.

Another area in which Nevada was prepared was marketing for open enrollment. At the end of August, the Trump administration announced plans to slash the ACA enrollment advertising budget from $100 million to $10 million. According to Korbulic, despite Nevada having “always benefited from the fortification of [federal] ad campaigns in generating awareness,” the state’s own marketing efforts were robust enough to make up for it.

In addition to running its own ad campaign through television, social media and billboards, the exchange attended more than 200 community events during 2017.

“There were so many individuals and groups who really wanted to make sure that we continued the benefits that Nevada has had from having insured individuals,” she said. “I mean, it benefits our communities.

It benefits our economies. It benefits our job market. Most importantly, it benefits the health of our families and our friends and our neighbors, which can only be good in the long run. Public health is important. And we had a tremendous turnout. We had so many engagement events. One was called a prep rally, and that generated just an overwhelming outpouring of our communities’ support.”

In the end, the Nevada exchange enrolled just over 91,000 people in plans for 2018.

But Korbulic thinks the state can do better by cutting its ties to the healthcare.gov platform.

In fact, she said, it’s a necessary step to be taken if Nevada Health Link is to survive.

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iNsuraNce? You maY still be able to enroll The deadline to enroll in health insurance plans for 2018 closed on Dec. 15, but some Nevadans may qualify for a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) that enables them to get coverage outside the normal open enrollment window.

♥ Consumers who were on Anthem

or Prominence health plans that terminated on Dec. 31, when those carriers left Nevada, have a 60-day special enrollment period (until March 1) to enroll in individual health coverage and shop for a new plan in the marketplace.

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can change Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) once per month. You are not bound to the open enrollment dates.

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coverage, you may qualify for a special enrollment period.

♥ Changes in income and changes

in family size resulting from marriage, divorce or the birth of a child are also qualifiers for special enrollment.

♥ You may qualify for special

enrollment if technical errors occurred during your enrollment or if your eligibility for Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was improperly determined.

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Breaking ranks In 2017, the federal government began charging a fee to Nevada and the four other state-run exchanges that use the healthcare.gov platform.

In order to pay for this and operational costs, Nevada Health Link collects a percentage of the premiums charged by insurance carriers in the state.

Right now, the rate is 3.15 percent, .35 percent lower than the fee charged directly to carriers in federally operated marketplaces. However, two percent— nearly two-thirds of the money Nevada’s exchange collects—is used to pay the leasing fee for the federal platform. And, in 2019, that fee will increase to three percent, a figure that represents nearly all of the revenue Nevada currently collects.

It’s a problem that’s been on the exchange’s radar for more than a year now and one Korbulic had hoped to address earlier.

“That was another casualty of uncertainty last year—because [the state legislature was] in session—and the governor’s recommended budget included transition fees, so the monies that we would need to have authorized in our budget to transition away from healthcare.gov,” she said. “But, because of the uncertainty we were experiencing in February and March, when these decisions were being made about whether or not the ACA would even exist, the legislature wisely decided that this is probably

not the right time to be purchasing new technology to support something we’re not even sure will exist.”

So, for now, the exchange will remain on the federal platform.

But plans are being made for the transition. Using $1 million from its reserves, the exchange is planning to begin the process of implementing a new, private platform. Korbulic said she expects it will be in place by November 2019, just in time for the 2020 enrollment period.

Korbulic has estimated the annual cost of maintaining a private platform at around $6 million— which would be built into the agency’s biannual budget. If Nevada continues using healthcare.gov for enrollment in 2020 plans, it will pay an estimated $12 million for use of the platform.

While that figure is only an estimate, Korbulic said she’s confident a private platform will cost “significantly less than healthcare.gov, half of it, likely, maybe even less, depending on what we negotiate. But I’m confident that there will be a cost savings for Nevadans, or at least for the exchange, and if we have cost savings, then we can

theoretically bring down the fee that we charge carriers. Maybe more carriers would likely come in, but, mostly likely, that cut would benefit the consumer in terms of their premium cost—because the carriers build our fee into their rates.”

And there are other benefits Korbulic said the exchange expects—including greater access to real-time information about Nevada consumers during open enrollment periods, and the ability to provide them with customer assistance directly.

“Right now, because we don’t have access to the back end of healthcare.gov, if a consumer calls our call center, we can answer questions, but if they have something that needs to be changed in their application, what we have to do is make a three-way call to healthcare.gov’s assistance center,” she said. “We stay with that person on the phone until they get their complaint resolved, because sometimes that’s not the best customer service experience with healthcare. gov, so we really want Nevadans to get the answers that they need. And we’ll make sure that they get resolutions to their issues. I think having just a more simple way to manage that will be great.” Ω

The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange will hold an information session on Feb. 27 regarding its upcoming request for proposals for a new online health insurance exchange platform and consumer assistance center. The session starts at 1:30 p.m. at the exchange’s Carson City office, 2310 S. Carson Street. It will also be video conferenced to the Las Vegas office, 150 N. Stephanie Street, Henderson. The session will be viewable on the nevadahealthlink.com website, and a telephone option will be available on the exchange’s conference line, 1-877-402-9757, using the access code 6909983#.

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smartphones Researchers ask the community to help collect snowflake data

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ome smartphone apps request access to a user’s location. Or they ask for personal data like an email address. Information like this fills giant databases programmed to analyze customer habits and demographics. Out of convenience, it’s easy to simply grant access to personal information, hoping the app companies have our best interests in mind, assuming we’re simply just miniscule dots in the enormous scatter plots of “big data.”

But when the Desert Research Institute’s app requests information, its designers don’t see their users as consumers. They see them as scientists. It’s a project called “Stories in the Snow.” App users are encouraged to upload photos of snowflakes in the Citizen Science App. DRI uses the photos to understand more about atmospheric conditions throughout the Truckee Meadows and the Lake Tahoe Basin. This method of collecting data is considered “citizen science.”

To become a citizen scientist, people in the area can order DRI’s “Snow Kit.” The kit is comprised of a macro lens, a snow crystal card and a thermometer. The macro lens is a magnifying glass attached to a rubber band that fits around a smartphone positioned over the camera sensor.

Photos are enlarged to four times their original zoom, allowing close-up images of the crystalline structure of freshly fallen snowflakes. Photos are tagged with location time and other observations before being uploaded to the Citizen Science application. Participants are also encouraged to share their photos on other

social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

“They’re trying to recruit a bunch of people to basically take photos of snow where they are, and I’m one of those people,” said Jesse Ward-Karet, who lives on Kingsbury Grade near South Lake Tahoe. Ward-Karet is an avid skier who heard about the project on Facebook.

Whenever snow is in the forecast, the network of Stories in the Snow users get email notifications prompting them to prepare to catch snowflakes and photograph them for the database.

“The shape of a snow crystal is determined by temperature and humidity,” said Meghan Collins, the project’s education lead. “The reason we want people to photograph snowflakes is because they contain a little bit of a history of what happened to that flake between its formation and falling to the ground.” So far, Collins’s team has

the Snow kit contains a macro lens for a smartphone, a thermometer, a “snow capture card” to use as a background, and instructions for photographing snowflakes to upload to a database.

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Sage Ridge Middle School students practiced with salt crystals so they’ll be ready to photograph snowflakes when the next storm hits.

Collins also said that scientists are also hoping to use the snowflake photos to identify correlations between snow crystal types and avalanche frequency.

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“the reason we want people to photograph snowflakes is because they contain a little bit of a history of what happened to that flake between its formation and falling to the ground.”

Meghan Collins, Desert Research Institute received a few dozen submissions to their database, mostly from the storm cycle that hit the Lake Tahoe area the week of Jan. 22.

She said that meteorologists monitor weather stations located at the top of Mount Rose, Donner Summit and throughout the region. They’re also collecting weather data through satellites. By triangulating snow crystal picture data submitted by citizen scientists, the meteorologists are able to advance their understanding of what’s going on in the evolution of a snowstorm.

Collins said that one application of the research is to validate the use of cloud seeding.

DRI heads a project that disperses ice-forming silver iodide particles into clouds from cloudseeding generators to boost the amount of snow produced by a storm. According a 2009 press release from DRI, cloud seeding has boosted water in the snowpack by an average of 18,000 acre-feet per year.

Although Stories in the Snow is open for anyone with a smartphone, the majority of the participants are students in the Reno/Tahoe area.

“I had a general sense that we both could turn this into an educational program for schools as well as run it as something for public interest,” said Collins.

Last year, Collins and her team piloted the program at four schools in the area, loaning the Snow Kits to science classrooms and giving demonstrations on how to take photos of the snowflakes. This year, with funding from the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium and the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, Stories in the Snow is reaching 15 classrooms in Reno, Truckee and in Douglas County, primarily at middle schools and high schools.

“In seventh grade, we do a lot with scientific method and investigation, so I figured this would be good practice,” said Michelle Gallivan-Wallace, who teaches seventh and eighth grade science at Sage Ridge Middle School in South Reno.

While explaining the Stories in the Snow project to the seventh graders, Collins gave a short lesson on the science of snow. Then she let the students practice using the snow kits. With a lack of fresh snowflakes, the students went out to the schoolyard to photograph evidence of wildlife, plant life and minerals.

“We’ll keep an eye on the forecast, and I can send the kits home with them,” said Gallivan-Wallace. If it snows during school, the students will be allowed to collect data during class. She said that in addition to submitting the photos and data to DRI, they will be analyzing their findings in the classroom. She praised DRI for having reached out to schools and for showing her students how science is applied in the real world.

“I like when you learn stuff, but you get to go outside and do something with it,” said Sarah Bruce, a 13-year-old seventh grader. “I personally want to see the symmetry of the snow.” Ω

Members of the community can add photos to the Stories in the Snow database, a citizen science project run by Desert Research Institute. A Snow Kit can be purchased for $15 at www.dri.edu/stories-in-the-snow.

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Larry Williamson’s wall sculpture “G.B. Angel, Cupid Helper on a Heart with a Little Moon” is among the 70 or so artworks that will be up for auction this weekend.

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Be mine Valentine Auction No one seems to recall exactly when the University of Nevada, Reno’s art department held its first Valentine Auction—but Professor Howard Rosenberg, who arrived at UNR in 1967, remembers why.

“It started as a fundraiser for the gallery—and a way of getting local artists and people who liked to dabble in art together,” Rosenberg said.

“Years ago, it was a silent auction kind of a thing,” Rosenberg said. But the silence only lasted until bidding closed, then things got a little raucous. “I would stand up on a ladder and ring bells and announce the winners,” he said. “I’ve got a big voice, and we didn’t have microphones.”

“It’s our way of giving back to the art department,” said artist Joan Arrizabalaga.

She graduated from the department in the 1960s and still donates pieces to the auction.

This year she’s contributed some ceramic pigeons with hearts on them.

Arrizabalaga sees the event as an incubator for community spirit.

“There’s that whole camaraderie when you’re going to school, doing new things, doing things you love,” she said. That dynamic has sparked a lot of long-term loyalty to the art department, and many art department graduates have contributed their work to the event over the years.

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bring,” Arrizabalaga recalled. “There were other times when things sold for less than we thought they would.”

A few things about the Valentine Auction have changed over the years.

Rosenberg no longer stands on a ladder.

The event moved from the Sheppard Gallery to Student Galleries South, which can accommodate a larger crowd. And when curator Paul Baker Prindle took the helm of University Galleries in 2013, the valentine theme became optional.

Professional artists get asked to donate artwork to various fundraising causes fairly often, he said, so he wanted them to be able to contribute work that already existed, as opposed to obligating them to make a specific kind of work just for this event—though some artists do have nostalgia for the days when hearts and lace were required, and several continue to take on the challenge of meshing their own styles with the holiday theme.

Amid the changes, many things about the auction have remained the same. It’s still anyone’s guess how much a piece will sell for. In recent years, prices have ranged from about $40 to $3,000. But you never know.

“There are auction estimates, but really, sometimes a price comes down to—you have two fervent bidders,” said Parker Stremmel from Stremmel Gallery, which has donated works by several artists including Tuscarora’s Ron Arthaud and late Reno artists Ingrid Evans and Jim McCormick.

The event is still seen as an important fundraiser. Last year’s auction grossed about $45,000, according to Baker Prindle, and a windfall like that helps seed additional fundraising efforts. The department depends heavily on government grants, which require that non-government matching funds also be raised.

Many in the art community still see the auction as an opportunity for artists from different backgrounds and different generations to mingle. This year’s event features work by art-world veterans such as Larry Williamson and Edw Martinez; instructors such as Ahren Hertel and Richard Jackson; and several current students. Ω

University Galleries’ biennial Valentine Auction will be held on Feb. 9 from 6-8 p.m. in Student Galleries South in the Jot Travis Building, 1164 N. Virginia St. Artists and Nevada Museum of Art members are invited to an early preview at 5 p.m.

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Call Me by Your Name

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 plays the Psychedelic Furs.

At least they don’t turn this haunted house into a Christmasthemed attraction every Halloween.

No fear Toward the end of Winchester, the new haunted house movie starring Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke, a character has a moment where she says the words “I am not afraid” repeatedly.

My sentiments, exactly.

Mirren and Clarke head a decent cast in what proves to be a ghost movie totally devoid of any real scares, personality or any real reason to sit down and watch it. The acting is terrible. The editing is sloppy, and the special effects are third rate. It’s all very surprising considering it was directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, brothers who put together the inventive science fiction thriller Predestination.

Clarke plays Eric Price, a doctor addicted to drugs and alcohol. His wife died due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound via a Winchester rifle, a rifle he also took a bullet from but survived. (The script alludes to the notion that he was dead for three minutes before being brought back to life, so he might be able to see dead people.) Members of “the board” at the Winchester firearms company want Eric to evaluate the mental health of company owner Sarah Winchester (Mirren), hoping that the disgraced doctor will basically take their bribe, declare Sarah unfit to run her company, and strip her of company control.

Eric has nothing better to do, so he takes the gig and travels to the infamous house, an admittedly coollooking, giant abode that makes an actual appearance in the film. Upon seeing the real-life haunted house on screen, I was hoping for a haunted house spectacle like Kubrick’s The Shining, which featured the labyrinthine Overlook Hotel.

What we get is a ghost movie that trots out the same old tricks from countless ghost movies before it. Ghosts suddenly appearing accompanied by loud soundtrack sting? Check. Ghosts appearing in a mirror after its user adjusts it? Check. Little possessed kids singing a well-known song in that oh-so-creepy, possessed-kid kind of way? Check.

The actual Winchester house has an impressive ghost story to go with it. The real Sarah Winchester, after inheriting the Winchester Repeating Arms

Company, actually did believe the house was inhabited by the spirits of those who fell victim to Winchester rifles. One would think that could make for a snappy movie, but there’s just a bunch of nonsense involving Mirren’s Sarah nailing all the rooms shut and trying to avoid getting killed by her possessed, super annoying grandson. There’s also the spectacle of Clarke doing some embarrassingly bad drunk-stoned-guy acting.

The special effects ghosts are laughable but even worse are the ghosts played by people wearing practical makeup. Doctor Price has a scene with his deceased wife where she looks more like somebody who tried to put her makeup on with the lights off rather than a ghost. I know it would just make the movie even more cliché, but ghosts should be see-through, right? When it’s just an actor or actress standing around in bad makeup, it looks like somebody from the local junior high production of Jeepers, I Got Spooked By Ghosts in My Mom’s Basement crashed the film set.

There’s a ghost in this movie that poses as a servant on the Winchester staff. This got me to thinking: Where did the ghost get his Winchester employee uniform to pull off his afterlife employee impersonation scheme? Is there a special costume warehouse in the afterlife where mischievous ghosts can go rent them? When we die, are we empowered with massive seamstress and tailoring abilities to go with our powers to pass through walls and shit, making it possible for this ghost to make the uniform himself? Or do ghosts looking to start trouble simply grab previously worn uniforms off the rack at Savers?

Do they consult with Beetlejuice?

See, this is the kind of crap that crowded my mind while watching this thing. The movie is one long scene after another of Mirren and Clarke trying to make sense out of the mess. I suspect we’ll be talking about this one again in about 10 months when we are compiling our year’s-worst lists. Ω

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The Cloverfield Paradox

Originally planned for an April theatrical release date, the third Cloverfield movie got itself a surprise release on Netflix immediately following the Super Bowl. While I’m a big fan of the first two installments in the Cloverfield series, J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company have got to be kidding trying to call this a legitimate chapter in the Cloverfield universe. The Cloverfield Paradox was originally a project called God Particle, a standalone science fiction film directed by Julius Onah. Somewhere during production, Bad Robot decided to make it a Cloverfield film. How is it a Cloverfield film? A few short, badly constructed scenes shoehorned into the narrative, including a 10-second final shot that feels like a total cheat. They did this sort of last-minute tinkering when they made 10 Cloverfield Lane, and that resulted in a good movie. This one results in a muddled mess. The plot involves a space station trying to create a free power source to revitalize a struggling Earth. The crew (which includes Daniel Bruhl, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ziyi Zhang and David Oyelowo) accidentally zap themselves into another dimension. While they struggle in the other dimension to find their way home, the dimension they left behind is dealing with a new problem. The events happening back on Earth might’ve made for a better movie, but the one we get in space is an Event Horizon rip-off. It’s no mystery why Bad Robot avoided a theatrical run for this. It stinks. (Available on Netflix.)

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Phantom Thread

Director Scott Cooper’s Hostiles is an uncompromising, brutal Western.

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. 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.” Rosamund Pike is excellent as a woman they pick up along the way, a devastated mother who has lost her entire family.

It seems the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson finally did in actor Daniel Day-Lewis. One does get the sense that DayLewis tends to kick his own ass when he plays roles. A notorious method actor, he researched

heavily for his role as a 1950s dressmaker and fashion maverick in Phantom Thread. 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 ...).

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3 Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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 put the careers of people like paper owner Kay Graham (Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) in major jeopardy. 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.

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. 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.

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owner dewey Grande prepares a Sweet Tooth crepe with Nutella, banana and strawberries.

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Kaffe Crepe is open Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Kaffe Crepe has a simple menu with some unexpected twists. With coffee drinks and loose leaf teas, the small shop and its staff are are as inviting as the promise of thin pancakes filled with a variety of either sweet or savory goodies.

My group began with a bacon and egg crepe ($7.95). The bacon was almost paper thin, making it easy to cut through with knife and fork. Winning on presentation, the Madame crepe ($7.95) included a cheese blend of mozzarella, provolone, romano, and parmesan, thin-sliced deli ham and a sunny-side up egg. The edges of the crepe were folded in to form a square, with the unbroken yolk proudly in the center.

The Aloha ($7.95) with its cheese blend, ham and fresh pineapple was perfectly fine if—like my kids—you’re a fan of that combination. For a more intriguing mix of savory and sweet, try the Cowgirl ($6.95)— featuring brie, fig jam and arugula. The earthy cheese with fruity sweetness was balanced, but the peppery greens added something special.

Housemade hummus, feta, artichoke pesto, diced tomato and thin-sliced cucumber completed the Mediterranean crepe ($7.95). The hummus had a perfect lemon note, and the overall combination was really satisfying. A turkey pesto crepe ($7.95) with cheese blend, plenty of sliced deli turkey, diced tomato and pesto was pretty good. I enjoyed it more than the Buffalo chicken crepe ($8.95), with cheese blend, grilled chicken, Buffalo sauce, scallion and blue cheese. I’m a huge fan of Buffalo wings, but the cubes of chicken seemed more processed than grilled. The flavors were fair, but the texture was a little lacking.

The French Riviera ($8.95) was a bit of a surprise. The cheese blend, grilled

chicken, artichoke heart, diced tomato and basil were great together, and the chicken in this crepe had better texture. I’m not sure how to explain that. It had an excellent blend of classic flavors, but then I’m a sucker for anything with cheese, basil and artichoke.

From the sweet side of the menu, we tried a classic crepe ($3.95) with vanilla sugar, butter and a touch of lemon. With a healthy dollop of fresh-whipped cream on top, this was my kind of pancake. Each bite was a creamy, sweet, slightly tart pleasure.

The Sweet Tooth ($3.95) features Nutella, vanilla sugar and choice of sliced banana or strawberries. We chose the latter.

As can be expected, the hazelnut/chocolate spread paired perfectly with the berries, and the overall effect was something not nearly as sweet as I’d expect. For that, I’d recommend the cookie butter crepe ($6.95) stuffed with Biscoff cookie spread and crumbs, banana and vanilla sugar. Biscoff is a spiced Belgian shortcrust cookie that is apparently a European favorite with coffee drinks. At some point, they created a spreadable version of the same ingredients; this, plus cookie crumbs, lends itself to a dessert crepe that’s a little crunchy, a bit creamy and a whole lot of sweet.

We ended with an apple pie crepe ($6.95) of graham cracker, apple filling, caramel and vanilla sugar. The fruit still had some bite, and the spices were classic apple pie. The cracker bits provided texture, and a heavy dose of that fresh whipped cream made it seem like pie ala mode—a pretty decadent way to cap an overall enjoyable experience. Ω

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Like a trauma victim, I can trace my disdain for karaoke to the memory of a single negative experience. Not long after I turned 21, some friends and I spent a muggy Saturday night hitting every downtown bar we hadn’t yet (legally) patronized.

On the main floor of the Club Cal Neva, we witnessed a particularly grim spectacle—an empty, liquor-stained dance floor wreathed in cigarette smoke and lit by a single disco ball, a small huddle of patrons enthralled by the omnipresent rattle of the slots, and a dazed, heavy-set older woman shuffling arrhythmically to the most sullen dirge of a country song she could croak out.

The vision shook me, and I’ve shied away from most opportunities to potentially emulate her performance. But at West 2nd Street Bar, I often see crowds of bar-goers screaming along to their favorite songs, like the spirit of karaoke didn’t die on the floor of the Cal Neva all those years ago. I decided I could learn something from them.

Daniel Vaughn is the MC, and he told me I chose the right time—midnight on a Friday—to stop by for karaoke. “During the weekday it’s hit and miss,” he said. “But Friday and Saturday it’s always good.”

As I inquired about the crowd that night, almost as if in answer, he rushed back to his podium to stop a college-aged woman from commandeering his unattended microphone.

“It’s a liquid courage thing sometimes,” he replied. “People have got to take their shots or drink their beers or whatever they’ve got to do to get that courage to get up and sing.”

The liquid courage was flowing.

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cocktails for a sturdy looking collection of domestic drafts and cheap well drinks to fuel its patrons’ dreams of stardom. Vaughn pointed me in the direction of a regular named Peter Watkins who was performing sober tonight.

Watkins has been coming to West 2nd Street for 11 years. He said the sound system there is unrivaled, and that during Street Vibrations one year, his performance earned him a round of free drinks from the visiting Sacramento Police Department.

“I like to keep my chops up,” he said.

“I’m always searching for that next high note. If you can emote a little bit as you’re moving around, it’s great. But if you love the song, it’s probably going to come out pretty well.”

Suddenly, I heard the opening chords of Santana’s “Smooth” and turned to see a young man oozing sweat and vocal talent in equal measure. He later told me his name is Nate Parker and that was his first time ever performing at West 2nd Street—and karaoke in general.

“I’ve always wanted to do karaoke,” Parker said. “I feel like I’m a good singer, and it’s something I’ve always talked to my friends about, but I never felt like I’ve been with the right crowd.”

I asked Parker how someone like me can overcome my pessimistic attitude about singing in front of strangers.

“Don’t care what anybody thinks,” he said. “Everybody’s here to have a good time, so they’re going to dance and sing along whether or not you’re doing a good job.”

As I left that night, I thought about the woman at the Cal Neva and realized she was braver than me. I didn’t sing after all— and, even if she bombed her performance, I’m likely the only one who remembers. Ω

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Hard times If good art is born from struggle, then the members of garage-punk band Corner Store have found fuel for the fuzzy, fastpaced noise in their debut EP Shorn to Bop. The six-track EP mainly draws from guitarist and singer-songwriter Oliver Hull’s experiences with drug addiction and homelessness. With drummer Derek Todd and bassist Antonn Satellite shoring up the sound, the local three-piece finds a release through the power of punk.

“It’s struggle, man—it’s passion,” said Hull. “If things were just so easy and everything was so easy, I know for me, personally, I wouldn’t be able to write that type of music.”

Hull moved to Reno in 2013 after spending several years in the music scenes of Los Angeles and Portland.

In 2014, while addicted to heroin, he suffered a car accident on his way to see Dr. Robert Rand—who was recently sentenced to a decade in prison for his role in a pain pill distribution ring.

Hull broke his neck, incurring what’s referred to as a “hangman’s fracture.”

He faced uncertainty about his chances of survival—and later, of ever walking again. The band was formed in 2015, when Todd answered Hull’s advertisement for a drummer, but Hull’s stints with homelessness and incarceration at times stressed the band’s dynamics.

“I joined the band right after his accident,” Todd said. “I knew him during those tough times, and I kind of stuck around through that. [But] everything’s going right. He worked so hard on this album, and I don’t think any studio could have done it better, actually.”

Hull has been clean for eight months now. He attributes his newfound creativity to a mental clarity he never

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felt while on drugs. He recorded and produced Shorn to Bop, originally meaning for it to be a demo. The other band members liked the sound so much they decided to release it as a full EP on Jan. 15.

“I have tons of influences,” Hull said.

“I love pop music. R.E.M. is maybe my favorite band ever. And I love a lot of noisy music like Jesus Lizard [and] the Butthole Surfers. Especially on this EP, the sound on that was kind of a love letter to early ’90s grunge.”

At first listen, it might be hard to discern any R.E.M.-like qualities through the thick layer of distortion that saturates everything from the bass to the vocals on Shorn to Bop. But the emphasis on bouncy, catchy melodies on tracks like “Intimately Distant (Nevada)” and “The Virgo Mary” are way more Ramones than Rancid.

Satellite said he appreciates working with a band that pays attention to technicalities. “Even when we’re playing something like, I don’t know, primal, we’re all just laying out this anger, just still being in time and have everything flowing through and stuff,” he said.

Still, the noise is not to be ignored.

Even if the lyrics came from Hull’s own experiences, the rest of the bandmates find a kind of raucous catharsis in their smashing sound.

“This is a release of emotions that are built up,” said Todd. “I think drums are kind of like therapy for me.”

While the past year has had its trials and triumphs, and the new one may hold the same, Corner Store plans to just keep bringing the noise.

“Just focus on the music and everything will be great,” Hull said. Ω

Corner Store plays on Feb. 10 at the Punk Rock Flea Market at the Generator, 1240 Icehouse Ave., Sparks, and on Feb. 14 at Shea’s Tavern, 715 S. Virginia St.

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SNAKES AND SPIDERS OF THE WORLD: Presenter Noah Peitz will talk about snakes and spiders from all over the world. Sat, 2/10, 2pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

SNOWBALL’S CHANCE—THE STORY OF THE 1960 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES: In 1960, the eyes of the world focused on Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe as the Winter Olympics played out on the world stage.

In author David Antonucci’s illustrated presentation, you will hear about and see vignettes that describe the individual stories of enigma and invention. Sun, 2/11, 2pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

THE WINTER CIRCLE STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS: Explore the stars of

2/10:

Reno Mardi Crawl

So, downtown Reno may not boast the romantic charm of the French Quarter in New Orleans, but that’s no reason you can’t celebrate Mardi Gras. This weekend, grab a mask and some beads and join thousands of other revelers as they let the good times roll. Purchase a $5 Mardi Crawl cup and map to 15 different bars, clubs and taverns to collect beads, enjoy themed live entertainment, go-go dancers and DJs, enter costume contests and take part in a foot parade featuring stilt walkers, musicians and performers. The crawl begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10, at Headquarters, 219 W. Second St. Call 624-8320 or visit crawlreno.com.

EVENTS 2ND ANNUAL WINTER WONDERLAND: The Nevada Diabetes Association hosts the fundraising event, featuring local restaurants, breweries and distilleries offering samples from winter-inspired menus. Thu, 2/8, 6pm. $45-$60. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-2977, diabetesnv.org.

CONTRA DANCE: Sierra Contra Dance Society holds its monthly event featuring live music and a caller. Arrive at 7:15pm for a beginner’s walk-through. No partner necessary. Sat, 2/10, 7:30pm. $8-$10.

Southside Cultural Center, 190 E. Liberty St., www.sierracontra.org.

HANDS ON! SECOND SATURDAYS: Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly program offers free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docent-guided tour, live performances and community collaborations. Sat, 2/14, 10am-6pm. Free.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

HAVE A LITTLE HEART—MAKING VALENTINES FOR ALL AGES: Make a valentine for a special someone at this drop-in session.

Materials will be provided, including paper, stamps and stickers. Tue, 2/13, 3pm. $5 suggested donation. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

NOTHING BUT LOVE VENDOR EVENT: The weekend event offers goods for sale from local businesses and artists, face painting, chair massages, wine tasting and a charity raffle benefiting Casa de Vida, Sat, 2/10-Sun, 2/11, 10am-5pm. Free.

Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, (775) 203-2790.

RENO PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET: The inaugural event offers two days of art, music and mayhem for all ages.

There will be vendors, live music, aerial performances and workshops by Reno Aerial Co-Op, food trucks and beer. All proceeds from this event will be used to fund a scholarship program where The Generator will give away 30 percent of its artist space and memberships to those in need. Sat, 2/10, noon-9pm; Sun, 2/11, noon-6pm. $5-$10. The Generator Inc., 1240 Icehouse Ave, Sparks, (508) 246-3852, www.therenogenerator.com.

SIREN SONG MASQUERADE: Note-Able Music Therapy’s 14th annual fundraiser offers an evening of fun and whimsy with music by the Reno Jazz Orchestra and The Note-Ables, desserts and champagne, auctions and surprise performances.

Sat, 2/10, 8pm. $65. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-5521, note-ables.org/sirensong.

the Winter Circle with members of the Astronomical Society of Nevada. The presenters will discuss these stars and their corresponding constellations, followed by a telescope viewing.

The event is dependent on weather conditions. Please call ahead to confirm.

Sat, 2/10, 6:30pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

aRT ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY OF 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 place, See many of your favorite things at this multi-artist show. Thu, 2/8-Wed, 2/14, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-Op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

BLUE WHALE COFFEE COMPANY: Midtown Mural Tour. A docent-led tour of more than 40 of the 70 murals in Reno’s midtown district. Sat, 2/10, 11am. $10. Blue Whale Coffee Company, 32 Cheney St., (415) 596-4987, artspotreno.com.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Scholastic Art Exhibit. In partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art, 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.

Artwork will be on display through March 4 with gallery hours TuesdayFriday, 3-6pm. Thu, 2/8-Fri, 2/9, Tue, 2/13-Wed, 2/14, 3pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

RENO ART WORKS: Beyond Boss (part 2): An Art Divertissment. Thomas Vincent Chapel’s exhibition continues on the artist’s brutal narrative of hard truths and hard times. Iconic American imagery is used to bring the viewer out of the minutiae and into the fold of the patriotic underbelly. Thu, 2/8, 6pm. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, (775) 3910278, renoartworks.org.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel:

STAR WARS—THE MUSIC: Reno Philharmonic’s

Wallsprawl. On view through Dec. 31, 2018; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector.

On view through Sept. 30; View from the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger.

The show runs through Feb. 18; History of Transportation: A Mural Study by Helen Lundeberg. On view through Jan. 6, 2019; The Nuclear Landscape. On view through Jan. 6, 2019; Art of the Greater West. On view through Jan. 6, 2019. Thu, 2/8-Sun, 2/11, Wed, 2/14, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

Classix concert series continues with a program featuring the theme from Star Wars written by John Williams, as well as Cosma’s Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra and Holst’s The Planets, op.

32. Sun, 2/11, 4pm; Tue, 2/13, 7:30pm. $29$89. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

ONSTaGE THE LION IN WINTER: Brüka Theatre presents

FILM ALAN RUDOLPH—THE 1980s: The Churchill Arts Council’s February Film Series continues with Alan Rudolph’s 1985 film Trouble In Mind, starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Geneviève Bujold, Lori Singer and Divine. Fri, 2/9, 7pm. $10-$12. Barkley Theater, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

HELLZAPOPPIN’: Artemisia MovieHouse presents a free screening of the 1941 comedy/musical directed by H.C. Potter.

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way. Sun, 2/11, 6pm. Free. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 636-3386.

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. The show runs weekly Thursday through Sunday through Feb. 17. There will be a matinee show on Feb. 11, followed by a talk back with the company and the audience. The play is suggested for ages 12 and older. Thu, 2/8-Sat, 2/10, 8pm; Sun, 2/11, 2pm. $20-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

THE OPEN HOUSE: Restless Artists Theatre presents Will Eno’s award-winning play about family dysfunction. Fri, 2/9-Sat, 2/10, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/11, 2pm. $12-$20.

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

POETS OF THE CARIBBEAN—LOVE LETTERS:

MuSIC COME IN FROM THE COLD: The winter entertainment series continues with a performance by the Sierra Silverstrings.

Sat, 2/10, 7pm. $3 suggested donation.

Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

Poetical musings on the various incantations, inspirations and losses of love. Come hear the next installment in Spoken Views Collective’s Special Event Series. All proceeds will support sending adult and youth teams to the National Poetry Slam Finals and Brave New Voices competitions in Chicago this year. Wed. 2/14. 7pm. $8. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., www.facebook.com/ poetsofthecaribbean.

THE ROYALE: Good Luck Macbeth Theater

LOVE NOTES—A VALENTINE’S DAY CONCERT AND CHOCOLATE RECEPTION: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with violinist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio in a program of romantic gems by Elgar, Kreisler, Beach, Chausson, Pärt, Prokofiev, Vaughan Williams and others. Sant’Ambrogio will be joined by Bulgarian pianist Viktor Valkov, Israeli harpist Marina Roznitovsky and the Nightingale String Quartet. Wed, 2/14, 7:30pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/music.

BOBBY SHEW AND THE RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Over 300 middle and high school musicians will perform during the 18th annual Jazz in the Schools program. The festival includes a live performance by the Reno Jazz Orchestra and acclaimed trumpet artist and music educator Bobby Shew at 2pm. Jazz in the Schools is free to the public from 9am-5pm.

Tickets for the Bobby Shew concert are $15-$35. Sun, 2/11, 9am-5pm. $0-$35.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 372-6160, renojazzorchestra.org/gigs.html.

Company presents Marco Ramirez’s drama. 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. The play runs through Feb. 24. Fri, 2/9-Sat, 2/10, 7:30pm. $18-$20. Good Luck Macbeth, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: Reno Little Theater presents Robert Harling’s drama, which centers on 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, 2/8-Sat, 2/10, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/11, 2pm. $15-$25.

Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

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I’m dating again now and annoyed by how texting’s become the way you get to know somebody you might want to go out with. I type all day at work. The last thing I want to do when I’m off is type text messages.

Texting can be a great way to get to know somebody—somebody who can’t talk on the phone because they’re hiding in a closet from kidnappers in a Liam Neeson movie.

However, assuming neither of you is in immediate danger of being sold into sex slavery by the standard swarthy Hollywood terrorists, you should hold off on any text-athons until after you put in some solid face-to-face time.

Sure, in texting, it seems like all sorts of information is getting “bloop!”ed back and forth.

However, you end up missing some vital elements—tone of voice, emotion, body language—that you’d have in person or even FaceTiming on your phone.

People shrug that off: “No biggie. I’ll just see all that stuff when we meet.” Well, there’s a problem with that. Research by neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests that when people lack information, their brain helps them by making up a narrative that seems to make sense. So there’s a good chance your brain is going to be your helpful little servant and fill in the missing bits—with ideas about a person that may not correspond all that closely with reality.

In other words, you’re accidentally onto something with your dislike of text-athons. That said, the telephone isn’t the best way to get to know somebody, either—not even via FaceTime, which only gives you a partial picture. That’s why I think you and anyone you’re considering dating should communicate minimally online or by phone and get together in person ASAP. Ideally, your first date should be three things: cheap, short and local.

Tell guys your preference, and don’t be swayed by texting aficionados who insist that you simply must engage in marathon text sessions before meeting somebody—because safety! Sure, meet your dates in public places (rather than have them pop by your place so they can ziptie you and stuff you in their trunk).

The reality is, texting somebody till your fingers bleed is not the

equivalent of an FBI report on their trustworthiness—though it will leave you well-prepared to testify at The Hague on their war crimes against the apostrophe.

Kinking outside the box My wife and I have our differences in bed. Let’s say that I like A, and she likes B. So we alternate—A one time and B the next—meaning we’re each only satisfied half the time. Is this a smart compromise?.

Relationships do take compromise— especially when one of you is in the mood for foreplay with whipped cream and strawberries and then a glance at the calendar reveals: “Oh. It’s Medieval Torture Device Monday.”

As for whether your sex compromise is “smart,” it depends.

Research by social psychologist Shelly Gable finds that in a relationship, you can do the exact same activity on your partner’s behalf— say, picking up their thumbscrews from the welder—and have it be good or bad for the relationship, depending on your motivation.

Couples in Gable’s studies were happiest when partners’ efforts for each other were driven by “approach” rather than “avoidance” goals. “Approach” involves moving in a positive direction, making an effort for positive reasons—such as barking like a gibbon in bed because you love your partner and want them to be happy. “Avoidance” involves doing it to prevent rejection or conflict—like being exiled to the couch for three days.

An “approach” approach to sex, especially, appears to pay off. Social psychologist Amy Muise found that partners who took pleasure in giving their partner sexual pleasure “felt more satisfied and committed both at the … time and three weeks later.” The message in all of this?

A smart sex compromise runs on enthusiasm for rocking each other’s world in bed. Ω

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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For the week oF February 8, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): British athlete Liam

Collins is an accomplished hurdler. In 2017, he won two medals at the World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in South Korea. Collins is also a stuntman and street performer who does shows in which he hurdles over barriers made of chainsaws and leaps blindfolded through flaming hoops. For the foreseeable future, you may have a dual capacity with some resemblances to his. You could reach a high point in expressing your skills in your chosen field, and also branch out into extraordinary or flamboyant variations on your specialty.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When he was 32, the

man who would later be known as Dr. Seuss wrote his first kid’s book And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His efforts to find a readership went badly at first. Twenty-seven publishers rejected his manuscript. On the verge of abandoning his quest, he ran into an old college classmate on the street. The friend, who had recently begun working at Vanguard Press, expressed interest in the book. Voila!

Mulberry Street got published. Dr. Seuss later said that if, on that lucky day, he had been strolling on the other side of the street, his career as an author of children’s books might never have happened. I’m telling you this tale, Taurus, because I suspect your chances at experiencing a comparable stroke of luck in the coming weeks will be extra high. Be alert!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A survey of British

Christians found that most are loyal to just six of the Ten Commandments. While they still think it’s bad to, say, steal and kill and lie, they don’t regard it as a sin to revere idols, work on the Sabbath, worship other gods, or use the Lord’s name in a curse. In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be inspired by their rebellion. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to re-evaluate your old traditions and belief systems, and then discard anything that no longer suits the new person you’ve become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): While serving in the

U.S. Navy during World War II, Don Karkos lost the sight in his right eye after being hit by shrapnel. Sixty-four years later, he regained his vision when he got butted in the head by a horse he was grooming. Based on the upcoming astrological omens, I’m wondering if you’ll soon experience a metaphorically comparable restoration. My analysis suggests that you’ll undergo a healing in which something you lost will return or be returned.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The candy cap mushroom,

whose scientific name is Lactarius rubidus, is a burnt orange color. It’s small to medium-sized and has a convex cap. But there its resemblance to other mushrooms ends. When dried out, it tastes and smells like maple syrup. You can grind it into a powder and use it to sweeten cakes and cookies and custards. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this unusual member of the fungus family can serve as an apt metaphor for you right now. You, too, have access to a resource or influence that is deceptive, but in a good way: offering a charm and good flavor different from what its outer appearance might indicate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A grandfather from

New Jersey decided to check the pockets of an old shirt he didn’t wear very often. There, Jimmie Smith found a lottery ticket he had stashed away months previously. When he realized it had a winning number, he cashed it in for $24.1 million—just two days before it was set to expire. I suspect there may be a comparable development in your near future, although the reward would be more modest. Is there any potential valuable that you have forgotten about or neglected? It’s not too late to claim it.

resources you have available. I bet you will also discover that you’re more fertile than you have imagined.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1939, Scorpio comic

book writer Bob Kane co-created the fictional science-fiction superhero Batman. The “Caped Crusader” eventually went on to become an icon, appearing in blockbuster movies as well as TV shows and comic books. Kane said one of his inspirations for Batman was a flying machine envisioned by Leonard da Vinci in the early 16th century. The Italian artist and inventor drew an image of a winged glider that he proposed to build for a human being to wear. I bring this up, Scorpio, because I think you’re in a phase when you, like Kane, can draw inspiration from the past. Go scavenging through history for good ideas!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I was watching

a four-player poker game on TV. The folksy commentator said that the assortment of cards belonging to the player named Mike was “like Anna Kournikova,” because “it looks great but it never wins.” He was referring to the fact that during her career as a professional tennis player, Anna Kournikova was feted for her physical beauty but never actually won a singles title. This remark happens to be a useful admonishment for you Sagittarians in the coming weeks. You should avoid relying on anything that looks good but never wins. Put your trust in influences that are a bit homely or unassuming but far more apt to contribute to your success.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A Chinese man

named Wang Kaiyu bought two black-furred puppies from a stranger and took them home to his farm. As the months passed by, Wang noticed that his pets seemed unusually hungry and aggressive. They would sometimes eat his chickens. When they were two years old, he finally figured out that they weren’t dogs, but rather Asian black bears. He turned them over to a local animal rescue center. I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect it may have a resemblance to your experience. A case of mistaken identity? A surprise revealed in the course of a ripening process? A misunderstanding about what you’re taking care of?

Now is a good time to make adjustments and corrections.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Charles Nelson

Reilly was a famous American actor, director, and drama teacher. He appeared in or directed numerous films, plays and TV shows. But in the 1970s, when he was in his 40s, he also spent quality time impersonating a banana in a series of commercials for Bic Banana Ink Crayons. So apparently, he wasn’t overly attached to his dignity. Pride didn’t interfere with his ability to experiment.

In his pursuit of creative expression, he valued the arts of playing and having fun. I encourage you to be inspired by his example during the coming weeks, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to

ancient Greek writer Herodotus, Persians didn’t hesitate to deliberate about important matters while drunk. However, they wouldn’t finalize any intoxicated decision until they had a chance to re-evaluate it while sober. The reverse was also true. Choices they made while sober had to be reassessed while they were under the influence of alcohol. I bring this to your attention not because I think you should adhere to similar guidelines in the coming weeks. I would never give you an oracle that required you to be buzzed. But I do think you’ll be wise to consider key decisions from not just a coolly rational mindset, but also from a frisky intuitive perspective.

To arrive at a wise verdict, you need both.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The U.S. Geological

Survey recently announced that it had come up with improved maps of the planet’s agricultural regions. Better satellite imagery helped, as did more thorough analysis of the imagery.

The new data show that the Earth is covered with 618 million more acres of croplands than had previously been thought. That’s 15 percent higher than earlier assessments! In the coming months, Libra, I’m predicting a comparable expansion in your awareness of how many

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

by BRAD BYNUm

Kink Michelle McHardy Michelle McHardy is, among many other things, the proprietrix of Explore Kinky, a Reno-based online store selling BDSM equipment and accoutrements. She also offers consultations, coaching and more.

For more information, visit www. explorekinky.com.

Tell me about Explore Kinky.

I started Explore Kinky in 2012, primarily as a response to the 50 Shades of Grey books, as providing education as to what not to do if you want to have a really good time playing with BDSM. I’ve been in the lifestyle for more than 12 years personally and professionally. Basically, what I do is teach primarily what we in the scene call “vanilla people” to add a little kink into your lifestyle and into your bedroom. Not necessarily in a huge way.

It may be little baby steps at a time or it may be you might want to come do a full scene in my dungeon.

You’re running a Valentine special.

The Valentine’s Day special is our Explore Kinky starter kit. So, the starter kit is normally valued at $175—we’ve got it at $125 for Valentine’s Day. It has basically everything you need to get started. We’ve got some ropes. We have cuffs—both ankle and wrist. We’ve got a blindfold. And a little spaghetti

flogger for some sensation play. You can start your play with just that kit, and it all goes in a nice little nondescript bag that you can hide away when you don’t want anyone to be looking at it. The additional part to that is a reduced consultation with myself in my studio, going over what your needs are—how do I talk to my partner about this? How do I broach it? Or, you know, we’ve started playing, but we want to do more exciting things—where do we go from here? ...

What we offer is consultations, which are talk-based, and a lot of times people just want to know, is this normal? I do have a degree in psychology, and I’ve done a lot of research on the normalcy of BDSM play, and yes, in fact, you are quite normal, if you want to be that.

What else do people ask?

People just want to know, how do I talk

about this? Sex is difficult to talk about in general. It’s even more difficult to talk about when you’re talking about kinky sex. And in order to have really good kinky sex, you’re required to have very, very, very good communication.

It’s all based on trust, respect and communication. Those are the three basic tenets, in my opinion. The second level I offer is coaching, which is talk and hands-on based. It’s difficult for somebody to go, I really want to learn how to flog somebody—tell me about it.

Well, I can tell you how to flog someone, but it’s really difficult if you don’t have someone actually showing you how to do this. ... I’m not a therapist, and I do know and refer to kink-friendly therapists. ...

I do mostly work with couples in that arena, but I have had a lot of particularly single women who are interested in getting into that type of relationship, but also want to be safe, and need help keeping themselves safe. … One of the main reasons that people play with BDSM play is as a stress reliever—or, as I like to call it, grownup play. Adults don’t play enough. … We don’t get to play pretend like we did when we were children. I see it as a very healthy outlet for creativity and stress relief. I think people should explore. … It’s a very good way to increase the intimacy and connection in a relationship. I’ve been in a BDSM-based relationship for more than 12 years ... We have a very unique, very intense, very in-depth connection because of our BDSM play. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

The Russian front Interesting to note that Dum Dum’s lawyers have been paying enough attention to their client’s act that they have now put him on the No Way list. As in NFW he gets to chat with Mr. Mueller, baby, NFW. The Dowd/Cobb team sees very well that The Donster has a tendency to lie, and lie frequently, especially when talking to, you know, another human being. On occasion, he enters a TLZ (Trump Lying Zone) where he’s been known to get extremely comfortable in peeling off some double-take super whoppers.

So the POTUS’s legal team has put the prez on the bench in this situation because of a total certainty that he’ll start lying his ass off, which will quickly lead to some very inconvenient felony charges. In order to properly do their job, the legal team strategy has one main goal—make goddamn sure Mueller is gonna have to work really really hard to talk to the Twitler.

The optics of this defense plan aren’t all that peachy. Because once again, Trump doesn’t just look guilty, he reeks guilty. And this whole reality show is playing out on some fairly thin ice, where the ole boy might just blow a gasket and/or a fuse at any minute and go completely haywire. So we got that goin’ for us.

• The world’s problems shall now be explained very briefly yet accurately, and on a deep, dark, fundamental level. Too many people fucking. Too many fucking people.

Again. Too many people fucking. Too many fucking people. Got it? Once more. Too many people fucking. Too many fucking people. Questions?

Kindly consult Sly and The Family Stone’s “Babies Makin’ Babies.”

• One thing you can take to the bank—right now, right this very second, Russian cyberterrorist

hacker bot manipulator computer creeps are working on ways to mangle our election in November and keep Putin-licking Retrumplicans in office. Sure as air. And the current administration, headed by a guy who gets closer and closer to just flat out drooling on his MAGA lapel pin, will do absolutely nothing about it. No way. NFW. • Would one reporter in The Pool, just one, ask Sarah Suckadee Sanders, “Why won’t you tell us when Trump/Tillerson/Anybody is meeting/calling/fellating the Russians? Why do we always have to find this shit out from the goddamn Russians?” This consistent bizarre, submissive secrecy with the accursed Russians is no longer curious, odd or peculiar, but is now clearly villainous, insidious and sinister. And again, the optics look downright dog-doo-esque. As in WTF is up? Ω

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