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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Condolences to the families and friends of the 17 students and teachers murdered last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. I’m so sick of this shit. This pattern of disturbed shooters murdering people in public spaces needs to end. (See “Break the pattern,” editorial, page 5). One beacon of hope: the passionate, well-spoken group of students who survived the attack and are now emerging as leaders, speaking truth to power, rejecting empty promises of “thoughts and prayers,” challenging cowardly elected officials to debates, and calling on congress to enact the gun control reform favored by a majority of Americans. “The people in the government who are voted into power are lying to us ... and us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call B.S.,” said Emma González, one of the students, in a fiery speech following the attack. The students have organized a gun-control advocacy organization, Never Again MSD, and are planning events like the “March for Our Lives,” a nationwide demonstration including a march in Washington, D.C., on March 24. I’ve read and seen interviews with several MSD students over the last week—González, as well as Cameron Kasky and David Hogg—and I’ve been impressed with how well informed and brave these students are. I get the sense that it’s a good school, with at least one teacher in the mix who empowered these students toward fearless expression and clarity of mind. For now, it’s important to acknowledge that these young people have survived something unspeakably horrific. They’ve seen their friends and teachers die needless deaths. They have passion, righteous anger, and they’re clear about what they think needs to happen. We all need to listen.

Re “Demagogues and YOU” (Let Freedom Ring, Feb. 8): This guy [columnist Brendan Trainor] is seriously “slanted.” Besides errors (like Salazar/Honduras previously), he fails to keep track of his premise, then drifts into libertarian rants and as usual, sex workers. The California Legislature isn’t “considering” criminalizing plastic straws (Brendan be graspin’ at). A bill was introduced—and withdrawn within a week—that would ban said straws.The penalty was merely part of the awkward process of ensuring some compliance, and doubtless would have been reconfigured into something reasonable. But never mind, because industry lobbyists killed the notion outright. Dismissing real issues via alt-right “logic” isn’t an opinion, it’s just bias. Kent Callahan Sun Valley

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Definition is everything A fundamental problem with banning assault weapons is defining the line. It seems easy to know one when you see one, but defining the line in a legally-binding way is not trivial. Several of the National Rifle Association’s more successful arguments against regulations are based on fuzzy definitions for what types of weapons are involved. Differentiating based on single action and double action could be a starting point. Single action allows for high rates of fire as well as potential for large capacity magazines. Single action reduces fire rates as well as the amount of ammunition that can be discharged before having to stop and reload. A key concept to keep in mind is that single action is very, very deadly for both hunting and typical self-defense when in the hands of a properly-trained citizen—the key words being “properly-trained.”

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For those who might insist on a need for semi-automatic capability, perhaps that could be managed with a universal set of very high hurdles and very tight hoops to navigate that are particular to those types of weapons. The rules must also include a very quick-to-implement process for revoking that privilege. (Yes, semi-automatic capability can be defined as a privilege.) The key concept here is that it is better to temporarily inconvenience a potential gun owner than it is to bury children. Banning guns outright ain’t gonna happen without a Gort (ref: The Day the Earth Stood Still), but I’m not yet seeing a need for good people to have the maximum firepower that single action weapons provide. Michel Rottmann Virginia Highlands

Cancer and robbery? Re “The Russian front” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Feb. 8): Dear Bruce: It’s been a while since I’ve picked up an RN&R and your trashy juvenile “Note” brought back the reason WHY! You have no literary talent, your vocabulary is atrocious, and since you are clearly an over-emotional, rapacious, immature “man,” you should probably see your shrink and increase your medications or get off the bottle! You apparently don’t have the ability to research and analyze the truth but are a one-sided, destructive, irresponsible, cretinous, inaccurate, chauvinistic bully who takes the initiative to insult the President and Sarah Sanders who is doing her job. Why? Because some liberal rag thinks you can write? Ha! Do you call that journalism? You and your four-letter, perverted, illiterate vocabulary should be banned from ever putting an article in a public paper again for decent humans, especially women, to read.

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It’s this one-sided, malicious rhetoric that has divided this country, and people like you should do a little meditation and get a grip on reality before you spew these lies and hatred. You might want to reflect on this quote: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer: “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” Or can you read, think or comprehend the English language? There are always—two sides! Dianne Glass Reno

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By JERI CHADWELL

Last time you heard poetry? aSKed at GRaSSRootS BooKS, 660 e. GRove St. Kelli Goatle y-Se alS Health educator

The one that I remember is that we traveled out to Carson—they had a literature something-orother and they had kind of like a poetry slam out there. I went out there with my son. He was pretty impressed. He’d never seen poetry read that way.

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Over the summer, I worked with Tahoe Star Tours, and we’d take people out at Northstar and set up telescopes and do a presentation. The guy who does the presentations is also an astro-poet. So he would recite his poems about the cosmos.

Jeff BRooKS EMT

Break the pattern There’s a pattern in this country that needs to end. simple, meant to murder many people quickly. They have Every three or four months, some deranged man walks no other function. There is absolutely no reason that an into a concert, a nightclub or a school and starts shooting emotionally disturbed teenager in Florida should be able to people with an automatic or semi-automatic weapon. buy one of these things. Between each of these big incidents are smaller incidents We’re not calling for an all-out gun ban. This is not where only a person or two are killed. These stories don’t all-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking, which is lousy always even garner headlines anymore. thinking. The Second Amendment itself—held up Meanwhile, the official responses are as a sacred document by gun advocates—calls worthless “thoughts and prayers” followed for the right to “bear arms” in service of a Gun by a “debate,” which in this case is just a “well regulated Militia.” The words “well regulation euphemism for “Congressional Republicans regulated” are right there in the holy ignore the obvious solutions so they can screed. (And that screed was written by could work continue to accept big campaign donations human beings as fallible as the rest of us. like vehicle from gun lobbyists.” They’re a bit like Among other flaws, they owned slaves. We registration those rented “scientists” who deny that shouldn’t hold up their every utterance as climate change is real, or the doctors who holy scripture.) Gun regulation could work take kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies like automobile regulation—licensing, with to prescribe their addictive drugs. written and practical exams, ownership registration, So, what are the obvious solutions? First of all, students basic health requirements, annual renewals, and so forth. need better access to mental health care. Second, schools, This is a sensible solution, and according to recent polls teachers and other educational professionals need to be conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, somebetter taken care of. (A teacher who’s stressed because she thing favored by the majority of Americans. Those same doesn’t know how she’s going to pay her rent is going to polls found that most Americans feel that Congress has not be less attentive to her students’ needs.) And third, there done enough to prevent school shootings. They haven’t. needs to be sensible reform of the gun laws in this country. Will gun regulations prevent every murder? Of Weapons like the AR-15 used by the murderer in course not. They will prevent some. And the bottom line Parkland aren’t like a rifle you might use to shoot rabbits is this: The lives of children off at school, or revelers at so they don’t raid your vegetable garden down on the farm. a concert, or any people anywhere are more important They’re not even like a handgun you might use to chase a than the misinterpretation of a legal document written burglar out of your house. They are killing tools, pure and more than 200 years ago. Ω

I guess it’s not really poetry. Do you know what Tassajara is? It’s a Buddhist monastery down in Big Sur, and I used to live down there. And I remember that we would read a lot of quotes from old zen masters. That’s basically the last time I can remember hearing something related to poetry.

Janice Goatle y Entrepreneur

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Something was just recited to me. I think it happens a lot, and we don’t realize it when people are quoting poetry. Are you talking about one-on-one or just hearing it? Yeah, I think it happens all the time.

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I was at a comedy show ... at the Pioneer Underground, and there’s this one comic and he is hilarious. He takes on this persona of a British guy, and he’s written these funny poetry things, and they’re just hilarious. I haven’t been to an official poetry reading in a while, though.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

A new climate Even Steve Bannon says women are angry and ready to vote for change, and it’s hard to argue he’s wrong. In a new edition of Joshua Green’s book Devil’s Bargain, released last week, the bombastic Bannon says women are evolving into a political force that will “undo ten thousand years of recorded history.” Elaborating on his views in an interview on Bloomberg, he said he believes that women’s anger is “going to unfold like the Tea Party, only bigger. It’s not Me Too. It’s not just sexual harassment. It’s an anti-patriarchy movement.” Right again, Mr. Bannon. Every week seems to bring more high-profile cases of domestic violence, sexual harassment and behavior that goes far beyond the boorish “boys will be boys” attitude that our society has quietly condoned for decades. Powerful men who have bullied and intimidated and, in some cases, sexually assaulted women in pursuit of their demented need to prove their power are now

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experiencing mighty consequences, from public humiliation to a sudden loss of employment, status and wealth. It’s deeply satisfying to watch these powerful men be confronted with their past actions, even though their stock response is to deny and project blame onto the women involved. But few seem to be buying their obfuscation and lies anymore. It’s unbelievably refreshing. But it’s frustrating but not surprising that our very own liar-in-chief, President Trump, is still in denial about men behaving badly, especially because he has not been held accountable for his own actions despite plenty of evidence of wrong-doing. After Rob Porter—a Harvard-educated lawyer working in a high-level White House staff job despite his inability to pass the required FBI background check due to credible accusations of domestic abuse by not one, but two ex-wives—was forced out of his job by the scandal, President Trump defended him because Porter said he didn’t do it. Trump told

reporters, “It’s obviously a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the White House, and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. He says he’s innocent, and I think you have to remember that.” Trump’s Chief-of-Staff, John Kelly, initially called Porter a “man of integrity and honor” but after photos of the physical abuse surfaced, he suddenly declared he was “shocked.” After another White House employee, David Sorensen, also resigned when domestic abuse allegations by his wife were revealed, which of course he denied, Trump tweeted, “Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. … There is no recovery for someone falsely accused—life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?” The irony of his statement is completely lost on the president, who has made quiet payments to aggrieved women to cover up his transgressions. Trump’s denial of responsibility runs so deep in his

pathology, he has suggested the famous tape of his obscene and vulgar commentary in the mini-bus with Billy Bush wasn’t really him, even though his image and corresponding voice were easily validated by the most casual viewer. And, indeed, we all saw and heard the appalling tape, over and over and over. We know that domestic violence is rooted in power and control, and in this political climate, women have had more than enough. Even the grandiose Bannon understands that the tipping point has been reached, commenting “Time’s up on 10,000 years of recorded history. This is coming. This is real.” Trump and the GOP will know it’s real when women vote their indignation and outrage in November, elevating record numbers of women to elected office. Trump will never admit his own misogyny, but women can still punish him for it. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

Let’s have a parade! Our Dear Leader, President Trump, wants a huge military parade such as the world has never seen in Washington, D.C. this Fourth of July! Hooray for U.S.! We’re number one! Everyone loves a parade! We’ll have marching bands, marching soldiers (perhaps doing the goose-step with all faces toward the presidential podium, so well appreciated in Pyongyang)! Of course, the Blue Angels will dazzle us with their jet-propelled choreography, but the American people want to see more of what they pay for! The F-35 float sounds appropriate. It features an F-35 trying to take off. The engines would noisily huff and puff, only to finally give up and sink back to the float. Then a huge backfire would send hundred dollar bills flying out the exhaust for all to pick up. Another generous tax break from the Donald! Always giving back to the workers! Speaking of taxes, we should have a Pentagon Pokemon Go game to add

to the fun. Kids of all ages could look on their smart phones for the Pokemons hidden around the country to find some of the trillions of dollars that somehow disappears from the Department of Defense books. Those who collect the most Pentagon Pokemons will win valuable prizes, like a day of boot camp at Camp Lejeune. Major controversies have erupted over the White House decision to include our proxy armies in the parade. The Democrats don’t want the neoNazi Azov Brigade their Ukrainian donors created interviewed on CNN. And the Republicans are embarrassed because our NATO partner Turkey is using the Turkmen in the Free Syrian Army to attack the Kurds in the Syrian Democratic Forces. It’s getting harder to keep our proxies in line! Not to mention the LGBTQIA denouncement of the decision allowing the Afghan warlords to march with their preteen boy sex slaves in the Gays in the Military

contingent as a return to tired old stereotypes. Hopefully, we’ll know soon which proxy armies can join the MAGA Military Parade. Most of the killing abroad Americans do these days is done by our drone forces. The video game warriors at our Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas will have a float, portraying our brave troops sitting at their consoles, fingering their joysticks to maneuver to the target, zooming in on the video screen to see the figures moving below, going to a meeting, getting in vehicles, then POW! Just a heroic click on a mouse and they are gone! Then more fun as they wait a few minutes for the first responders and do a double tap! We need to have floats in the parade that show Americans the effects of the wars we have fought on our wounded warriors. The Veterans Administration should definitely have a float. In fact, they should have a new memorial, wherein is written the names of all our

veterans who died waiting to see a V.A. doctor. Since marijuana is now legal in Washington, D.C., veterans on the V.A. float can smoke medical marijuana to relieve their physical and mental pain. After a week of drone duty, it’s usually off to Las Vegas for some heavy drinking to try to stave off the cognitive dissonance caused by wiping out defenseless brown people a globe away. The White House is undecided on how to portray PTSD and the climbing military suicide rates due to redeployment. Maybe Ivanka can help with some ideas. A flower float, filled with heroinproducing poppies whose acreage has grown over the 16 years of our military presence in Afghanistan will bring a lovely end to the March! See ya there July 4th! Ω

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by Dennis Myers

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A Nevada state court judge has overruled other Nevada state court judges, teeing up a fight over press freedoms. Clark County coroner John Fudenberg withheld the results of the autopsies of victims of the Oct. 1 mass concert shooting after District Judge Jim Crockett ruled they were public records and could not be withheld from the public. Crockett—on Jan 11—ordered Fudenberg to pay $32,000 to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in legal costs the newspaper incurred going to court to obtain the records. On Jan. 30, District Judge Timothy Williams ordered that the autopsy results of Stephen Paddock—assumed killer in the concert killings that left 58 people dead—be released, followed by the autopsy results of all victims, with their names removed from the autopsy reports. On Feb. 1, the coroner started releasing the autopsy reports on the victims after information was redacted that would allow the reports to be matched to individual victims. On Feb. 9 Paddock’s report, showing he was on anti-anxiety medication at the time of the attack, was finally released. Then, later that day, responding to a request from the widow of one of the victims, District Judge Richard Scotti ordered the Las Vegas ReviewJournal and the Associated Press to destroy the autopsy report of victim Charleston Hartfield and not report on Hartfield. The order was issued in the interest of Veronica Hartfield. Since identifying information in the released autopsy reports had been redacted, the only way to comply with the court order was to destroy all the victim autopsy reports. The unusual judicial order attracted wide attention. The Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press in D.C. and the Nevada Press Association joined the Review-Journal in fighting Scotti’s order in the Nevada Supreme Court. The order not to produce news coverage of Hartfield was regarded as relatively easy to overturn, since prior restraint in the United States carries a heavy burden in court and is seldom attempted. The other part of the order—the destruction of the autopsy reports—was defeated in part when the Huffington Post reported the autopsy information from every victim’s report. It is not known when the state Supreme Court will act. Autopsy reports, from Marilyn Monroe to everyday deaths, have normally been treated as public records and used for a variety of reasons, including changes in public policy. In a separate but related dispute, District Judge Elissa Cadish refused a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police request that she penalize the Review-Journal for publishing the name of Douglas Haig after Metro released it. Haig is reportedly a “person of interest” who could face federal charges in connection with the mass concert shooting. After Metro released the name, the RJ checked with Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who signed off on the newspaper publishing the name. Cadish rejected the Metro request.

—Dennis Myers

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Infrastructure Fed money comes in low donald trump’s first budget recommendations help pay for a bigger military with lower expenditures for other promised programs. His recommendations for infrastructure disappointed local officials across the nation, and his plan to revive Nevada’s Yucca Mountain also received limited funds. Trump’s plan calls for $1.5 trillion in infrastructure projects, with just $200 billion supplied by the federal government. It was widely assumed, including in conservative circles, that the program would force local governments to raise taxes. In the Unification Church publication Washington Times, economist Peter Morici wrote, President Trump’s infrastructure plan puts a heavy burden on the states and will require both private participation and new local taxes to succeed. At Breitbart News, author James Pinkerton penned an article under the headline “Fossil Fuels Can Pay for Trump’s Infrastructure Agenda without a Tax Increase.” However, it never says

how—in fact, it says Trump has hinted he may support a gas tax hike. Hopes that highway projects like a widening of Interstate 15 in Southern Nevada and the extension of a highway for the Tahoe Regional Industrial Center in Storey County could be undercut by the limited funds Trump proposes, unless Congress provides more. It could also make the Reno City Council’s approval of StoneGate, a community 15 miles north of Reno over the aging U.S. 395, look less promising. Legislators say there is little appetite in the Nevada Legislature for a tax hike after major hikes in 2003 and 2017. The Trump plan calls for partnerships between the public and private sector, and the Storey County TRIC highway project would likely be a prime candidate for the private sector to step in. TRIC hosts major corporations like Walmart, Barrick Goldstrike, PetsMart, Panasonic, Federal Express and Tesla. After the Associated Press sent out a photograph of construction in Southern Nevada of the Mexico-to-Canada

highway Interstate 11, Nevada appeared to be a symbol of infrastructure repair under what the AP caption claimed was Trump’s “sweeping plan to rebuild the nation’s depleted roads and bridges,” a description with which few local officials agreed. The photo appeared in dozens of newspapers. Last month, Gov. Brian Sandoval said Trump “has an incredible opportunity to invigorate not just our approach to infrastructure spending, but also to the funding stream state and local governments rely on most: the Highway Trust Fund.” When Trump signaled that he would probably propose a $200 billion federal contribution to infrastructure, the Center for American Progress responded, “President Trump’s vision for infrastructure involves deep cuts to core programs. The biggest and most harmful cut would be to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), which provides funding for thousands of highway and public transportation projects each year. This money is the foundation upon which states and regions build their infrastructure programs.” The Center predicted that the trust fund “will become insolvent at the end of FY 2020” and that Nevada would suffer job losses in five figures. Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who signed a letter with other senators calling for infrastructure funding for broadband for rural areas, got her wish. Trump’s proposal included, “Eligible asset classes under the Rural Infrastructure Program would include … broadband (and other high speed data and communication conduits).” Whether he has in mind the funding level the senators want is not yet known.

Yucca Mountain Trump’s proposal for Yucca Mountain has generated wide confusion. Many Nevada media entities reported Trump’s recommended $120 million allocation to bring the proposed dump for high level nuclear wastes back to life. But World Nuclear News reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed only $50 million for the Nevada project. It is entirely possible that Congress will find the NRC more credible on the topic than Trump. Relying on the $120 million figure, in Nye County, whose officials mostly support the dump, County Commissioner Dan Schinhofen told the Pahrump Valley

Times, “It has now been 20 years since the In Hanford, Washington, which was one federal government was mandated by law to of three candidate sites for the dump until start accepting nuclear waste for safe longCongress ended the competitive suitability term storage in a deep geological repository. studies and designated Nevada as the sole Not only is the repository not complete, study site, the Columbian editorialized, but we haven’t been allowed to see if the “Considering that more than 160 million proposed site, at Yucca Mountain, is even Americans reside within 75 miles of a nuclear safe for its construction. All the president’s waste site, a repository in a remote part of budget does is allow for the science to be Nevada is a preferable alternative.” heard on the safety of Yucca Mountain. In UNR’s Sagebrush, an editorial It also follows the law.” headlined “With new proposed The Obama administration killed Trump budget, Nevada can no Private the Yucca dump by depriving it of longer ignore Yucca Mountain” sector may funding. was accompanied by a photo of “It’s criminal neglect that the 50-gallon metal drums scattered need to kick last administration broke the law by in a field and painted with yellow in not funding this project,” U.S. Rep. radiation symbols. The art is John Shimkus said to the Illinois News misleading. The kind of wastes that Network. “Now, our local communities would be stored at Yucca Mountain like Zion are paying that price.” are stored in on-site spent fuel pools at Illinois has six nuclear power plants— the plants that generate them. As for the Nevada has none—and 11 functioning reactors headline, the state never ignored Yucca and gets 48 percent of its power from nuclear. Mountain. It succeeded in slowing the Most Nevada political figures oppose the project down to a crawl, prevented it from Yucca Mountain dump. Energy Secretary Rick opening on time in 1998 and just renewed Perry of Texas (four nuclear power plants) its $5 million contract with the legal team opposed the Nevada dump when he wanted that represents the state on the issue. Nevada’s support for his presidential campaign Trump has also suggested he may renew but now supports it. nuclear testing in Nevada to rattle North Korea, In Las Vegas, Judy Treichel of the Nevada prompting Treichel to respond, “To reopen the Nuclear Waste Task Force wrote in the Las Nevada Test Site, as we still call it, for a rushed Vegas Sun, “Nailing Nevada with a Yucca bomb blast for political purposes is beyond Mountain dump simply because it was the wrong and, worst of all, would launch a new only site that was selected for study is unsafe, and far more dangerous international nuclear unscientific and wrong.” arms race.” Ω

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Searching for the WeSt at the 34 th annual national coWboy Poetry gathering

very year, my friend Christina Barr disappears for four days in Elko. She has one of those jobs that makes you wonder if she is actually employed—something called a folklorist. When we first met, I imagined she spent her time reciting Aesop’s Fables to small crowds in public libraries. I was wrong. Being a folklorist, as well as the executive director of Nevada Humanities, requires a lot of listening to other people’s stories. Enter Elko. Enter a population influx of 6,500 travelers, over a hundred poets, and a seemingly endless supply of cowboy stories. It’s the 34th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and this year, I’ve disappeared too. Also missing from regular life: Christina’s husband, Alan, their daughter, Sophie, and my daughter, Coco. Both daughters are five years old. Right now we’re sitting in the Mercantile Hall, grudgingly admiring the way the staff of the Western Folklife Center—the ones running the show—have put extra seating near the booth that sells stuff for kids. In a moment of weakness, we have given in to our girls’ requests for clip-on animal ears and are now watching a baby fox and a baby wolf take turns pawing at each others’ “wild rag” capes. “Wild rags are bandanas,” Christina laughs. (She is often laughing.) “There was a whole lesson on tying them before you got here.” I love the term “wild rag,” and I think I love whatever cowboy poetry is, too. Although I haven’t heard any yet, I’ve seen a dozen other notable things on my way in—full rodeo dress, full mustaches, the fiddler Brigid Reedy, a rose-embroidered Western shirt made of thousands of sparkling seed beads, scuffed boots, shiny boots, bolo ties, accents so thick you can see them, plaid, more animal ears, the one person of color from Cowboy Poetry promotional materials, and soooo many hats. It is not a platonic love that I have for this Gathering, but it’s not true love either. It probably falls

somewhere along the lines of fullblown infatuation. This may seem premature, but for someone who spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about the West—what it is, what it means, whether it’s real—this place is Shangri-la. Christina, on the other hand, is in a deep and committed relationship with cowboy poetry and has been for some time now. As a part of a collective effort to develop an oral history of the West back in the early 2000s—pre-silver hair and post-signature glasses— Christina spent three weeks on a National Endowment for the Arts grant visiting the “northern central west and midwest” region of the country, interviewing cowboy poets in five states. During a particularly memorable interview with Wally McRae and self-proclaimed Polish-hobo-rodeopoet, Paul Zarzyski (both of whom are in attendance at the Gathering), Christina recalls the moment that she questioned them about “where the West begins.” She laughs, “The answer I got was, ‘You have to discover that on your trip. You are going to have to find out where the West begins. That is your charge.’ So it became the whole backdrop for the entire trip.”

Performing

At this point in the day, Christina rushes off to host a presentation by Vince Juaristi on Basque immigration. As for me, I’m ready to hear some actual cowboy poems, so I gather my things and head to the Lamoille Room for “Tracing Our Roots and Our Routes”—a lineup of all-female poets. The poets are Yvonne Hollenbeck, Betty Lynn McCarthy and scholarship recipient Annie Mackenzie. Hollenbeck has been

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on the cowboy poetry circuit for three decades now. She is 72 and elicits the kind of crowd reaction that a headliner comic might receive in her hometown—lots of eager laughter, applause and nodding recognition for her familiar and often cheeky poems. McCarthy reads from a big leather-bound book with a brand on the front—ostensibly her ranch’s own—as she recounts poems about particular horses and specific landforms on her property. But it is newcomer Mackenzie who really holds the room with her understated rhymer, “Love—I Learned it From This Land.”

“Love—I Learned it From This Land.” Annie Mackenzie It’d been a dry summer, and it was dry all spring through. Waiting on the rain, I learned a thing or two. Given enough time things will get better, Love is patient; I learned it from the weather. I’ve got this old mare, just as sweet as she can be, She takes good care, of the kids in the family. Puts up with them, even when they’re raising hell, Climbing on her neck and pulling on her tail. I’m sure there’s no better than her of course, Love is kind; I learned it from a horse. My friend down the way has got a nicer rig than me, Brand new pickup and trailer that’s still shiny. But I look around at what’s mine, and what I’m thankful for, Love does not envy; I learned it from a neighbor. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as pretty, As the sun sinking down over the valley. But if it sings its own praise, I ain’t heard it yet, Love does not boast; I learned it from a sunset. Through all my toil and strife, Love has been a guiding hand On how to live a good life; I learned it from this land.

Resisting

Next stop on the cowboy poetry lovefest is “Jousting in Verse”—a musical call-and-response performance by men and women known as bertsolari, Basque poet-singers who improvise songs on the spot. Alan has brought Coco and Sophie to dance in the back of the hall while we watch the singers take their places on stage. “That’s Maialen Lujabio,” says Alan as he points to the woman on the far left. “She’s the first female Basque national champion.” Although bertsolari have been competing nationally for almost a century, Lujabio became the first woman to win the title in 2009 and then again last December after a 74-year male-dominated run. To the right of Lujabio, two more women sit next to their male counterparts as Basque historian Joxe Mallea walks up to the mic and sets the scene that the first two singers—Oihana Iguaran and Martin Goicoechea—must complete. Here’s how the story begins: The two singers were once engaged to be married in Basque country. They broke it off, and Goicoechea migrated to the United States. Fifty years later, they met again, here, today, at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The following two stanzas are from their six verse poem (special thanks to Inaki Arrieta Baro for translating):

Martin Goicoechea: Nik ere oso ederki dakit ez daukat sasoi berdina berrogeita hamar urteko ametsa beti nun lortu ezina honera etorri nintzan eta ni hainbeste maite mina gaur hemen ikusten zaitut dut sentimendu berdina

I know that I am not so strong as I was my fifty years dream was always unattainable I came to this place with so much pain of love I see you here today and still feel the same way

My guess is that there are maybe eight people in the audience who understand these words as they are being sung. For the rest of us, it may or may not sound like lilting Spanish sung by glottal Italians using too many vowels, k’s, and z’s. But we understand enough. Two people have angelic voices, are in love, and are creating poetry in real time. A pair of 5-year-olds in the back of the auditorium are throwing their small bodies wildly into leaps and twirls in an effort to interpret the beauty of the song. It’s a one-dimensional appreciation that grows when I learn a little more about the place behind the tradition. “So, the Basque country is on either side of the border of France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains along the ocean,” explains Alan, who is currently taking a Basque course at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also works. “That this very small region in the mountains developed and maintained its own unique language separate from all the great linguistic cultural currents of Europe, that’s kind of amazing. And it survived despite decades of

Oihana Iguaran: Berrogeita hamar urtez urruti hor sorpresan arrazoia sumatzen dizut geroztik nola ondua dezun sasoia lehen mutiko ta orain gizon bat nibeletan joa goia lehen baserritar bat soilik zinen ta orain berriz cowboy

Far away for fifty years that is the reason for my surprise I can see that since then you look much better then you were a boy, now you are a man then you were a farmer, now you are a cowboy

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But on how to be a strong woman, How to hold my head up high, To always have a smile on my face, And never tell a lie. How to work from dawn till dusk, And in God we trust. To give life all I’ve got, I learned from my Aunt Dot.

It isn’t just Mackenzie’s words that are lovely here, it’s also her delivery. I’m starting to learn that with cowboy poetry, performance is an integral part of the experience. While Hollenbeck delivers her lines with a wink and a smile, Mackenzie is all sincerity. Even when her hands shake to the point where she’s unable read her own paper, her voice is so unwavering that you know it must be the truth that she’s telling up on that stage. Her simple, first-person account of good horses and love for family members is bolstered by her smooth, eastern Oregon accent and confidence in her subject matter. I leave the room after shaking Mackenzie’s hand—which is no longer shaking—and am suddenly stricken with a pang of “place envy”—the condition of suspecting that this 20-something knows every acre of her land better than I’ve known any inch of any place I’ve ever lived.

Cowboy poets D. W. Groethe, left, and Paul Zarzyski at this year’s National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

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everyone has a horse story, a land story and a love story to tell. oppression under the Franco regime, which was really hostile towards Basque language and culture.” In addition to weathering political persecution, Basque language and the bertsolari tradition have also survived the continuing exodus of younger generations out of the countryside—a phenomenon that is also familiar in Western, rural America. For a culture without a country, speaking the language is also a form of patriotism for a place that— while it’s not officially recognized as a nation—still exists. Like Alan said, it’s there. It’s on either side of the border of France and Spain ... but it’s also an archetypal place, just like the American West. Somewhere that has deep, spiritual truths embedded in big sky, curved earth, and deep waters that people need to grapple with or grab onto. Maybe that’s why all the poets here—Basque or otherwise—keep repeating themselves. Everyone has a horse story, a land story and a love story to tell.

Belonging

Two days later, Christina, myself and our girls—still a fox and a wolf, respectively—are walking in the desert 30 miles outside of Elko looking for signs of coyotes, finding rocks and bones. We are hugged by sagebrush on three sides and backed by the Ruby Mountains to the east. Everything is a muted shade of Middle Earth—not exactly dazzling, but breathtaking. Christina is breathless. “God, I just love this place so much,” I hear her say softly. This is her archetypal place, known by locals as The Old Forbes Place. This is where she lived for the seven years following the cowboy poetry roadtrip and her divorce from her first husband. Her former home, a small ranch house with two out-buildings, is a blip on the otherwise untouched landscape, the one sign of human activity—even now. For her, the big sky is not an abstraction, it’s a light shade of cerulean blue; the curved earth is obscured by the Ruby Mountains; and the deep waters are really just creeks that run seasonally. Old Forbes Place is an entrypoint for both struggle and healing—where Christina’s West begins. “When I lived [here], all I did was explore,” she says, “That’s all I did. I just walked around and looked at the ground and the sky and the horizon and the sunset. I got to know it so well. ... And then it becomes not about you anymore, right? And you really know that you are completely incidental. And that can be humbling and that can also be kind of a relief.”

As we head back to the car, I do the thing where you squint and sort of blur your eyes so the colors all run together. I could be anywhere. I could be incidental, too. I blink and the Rubies come back into focus. My daughter is carrying a cow shoulder blade. What happens if we forget the real places that draw us inward? Back in Reno, during our weekly dinner at Christina and Alan’s house, I stare at a print on the wall, a woodcut of a Western landscape with Paul Zarzyski’s poem “Grace” printed down the middle:

“Grace” Paul Zarzyski In the soft low light up high where love has always thrived and will forever yearn for the colorful hover—a brush stroke of words out of the West—we still want free life, we still want fresh air. And as millenniums meander by like birthdays to the earth, what thrill a saffron blade of grass, blue sage, scrub oak still brings us on our daily jaunt across the land, our daily poem, our prayer.

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Willy Vlautin— former Renoite, novelist and founder of the band Richmond Fontaine—is coming home for a visit

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eno native Willy Vlautin has written five novels, including The Motel Life and Lean on Pete, both of which were made into films. His newest novel, Don’t Skip Out on Me, released this month, is about a young man named Horace Hopper who’s half-Irish, half-Paiute, and doesn’t feel like he fits in anywhere. Horace lives on a sheep ranch in Monitor Valley, near Tonopah, where a kind, elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Reece, took him in as a teen. He’s a well-loved and reliable worker, but he’s compelled to prove his worth, so he sets out for Tucson to claim a new identity as Mexican and become a champion boxer. Vlautin talked with the RN&R from Oregon, where he now lives. What’s your connection to central Nevada? Have you lived there? No, I just grew up camping, like in the Belmont/Manhattan area, north of Tonopah. And every summer I’d go to that area.

How did you get to know the lifestyle and the job of sheep herding in so much detail? You know, part of the sheep herding was a nod to Robert Laxalt. As a kid, I grew up reading him. I was feeling pretty ragged in my mind when I started the book. And I wanted to go someplace that felt comfortable. And I thought of him. … In a way he was a saint of mine that I got comfort from when working on the book. His books, as a kid, were important to me, his and Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s, because they were the only Nevada writers I knew about. I knew a rancher, an Oregon rancher, and he put me in touch with some sheep ranches in case I had questions. But, what made me really choose that story, especially the early 14 | RN&R | 02.22.18

parts, was that I was on a horseback riding trip in eastern Oregon, which is very similar to central Nevada, just on a day ride, and came across a Peruvian sheep herder whose boss never sent food. He was just this guy who didn’t even speak Spanish. He spoke an Indian dialect, Quechua, and he was just sleeping on a blue tarp, all by himself. And it just stopped me in my tracks how isolated he was. We were 20 miles from a mini mart, and then we were 80 miles from a real town. … So that was always in the back of my mind. I guess that’s why a lot of the central Nevada stuff that takes place is because of that trip—and because of growing up camping around the Monitors and down north of Tonopah.

Does the Peruvian sheep herder know that he’s a character in your book now? Haha. Of course not. ’Cause I couldn’t understand him. You know, it’s interesting who becomes a character and who doesn’t. It’s oftentimes not the guys you would think. But he sure inspired it, that’s for sure. How about Horace? Is he based on you? Yeah, I mean, there’s a lot of me in the kid, that’s for sure. As I kid, I was always looking. There had to be an answer for why

I was the way I was. … I always thought there was, you know, a simple thing I could do to fix me. Or, I always thought maybe I really have an uncle in Florida who runs a fishing guide service, and I’ll be happy there, and I’ll go live with him. Or maybe I have an Irish grandfather, and I could go live with him in Ireland, and I’ll be happy. Instead of, like, looking within, always thinking there was a reason for the way I was, like I didn’t fit right. It didn’t seem like I ever fit right anywhere. And I think Horace is like that. What I was interested in with Horace was the idea of, number one, he’s so dented, and he has such a fear of abandonment, and he was raised to be ashamed of himself, that even the love of this old ranching couple, a couple that want to give him everything—it makes him uneasy to get love from them. And so he feels that he has to be this great man in order to have their love, and in a way it’s their love that causes him to do what he

does, which is a failed plan but the only plan he can come up with. And Horace doesn’t see that a lot of other people in the world feel that way, too. Yeah, that’s the other thing about being isolated, which I was interested in. In isolation, say you’re camping in the middle of Nevada, and you’re under the stars, and it’s so beautiful—from Tonopah north, to me, is the most beautiful area, eastern Oregon as well. When I’m camping out there, I think I’m going to be a better person when I get back. I’m going to work out more. I’m going to call the people I need to call. I’m going to drink less. I’m going to take care of my bills, all that stuff. When I’m out there, I always feel like I’m going to be better than I was when I was in the city. And then as soon as I hit the city limits, it all fades away, and

I’m back to being me. And I think Horace—in the safety of isolation, in the safety of the ranch—he thinks it’s a good plan to become a Mexican boxer.

That being said, right when those guys get used to not having to hear my voice, I called ’em. The one thing I’d always wanted to do was make an instrumental record, and instrumental records are a hard sell to a working band, because not a lot of people like instrumental records. So the band was never crazy about the idea, but once we called it quits, there was no pressure. We still had money in the bank, and it just became a fun thing to do, just a project. We’re not going to be doing any more shows or really be a band anymore, but I’m going to hopefully get the guys to record some kind of weird art record or weird instrumental record now and then.

You wrote a soundtrack for the book, and in the notes to the soundtrack, you wrote that as soon as you start developing characters and setting, it’s just like writing music to you. How does that work in your mind? I’ve been writing songs since I was a little kid, so if I’m working on a novel—a novel takes three years; this one took almost four years—I’ll end up writing a lot of songs about it, through the phases. All my novels start as songs. … And the idea of the song How long have you been gone wouldn’t let go of me, and from Reno? so I started writing it out in I think I was 26, 27 when a novel. I left. I was a failed musiBut certain novels of cian and kind of bumming mine feel like songs. I wrote a around Reno, and I knew I novel called Northline that’s had to move to a bigger city set half in Vegas and half in to be in the kind of band I Reno—and it felt like music. wanted to be in. But I went It felt like a sad, melancholy kicking and screaming. My song. So I wrote dozens and first novel was set in Reno, dozens of instrumental songs because I was so homesick W illy for it. With this new one, it that I wanted to come back, was the same thing. By page V l aut i n but I couldn’t make a go of 5, Mr. Reese and Horace playing music in Reno. And Hopper felt like music to me. Portland is such a great music … And I think the location, the desert, it always town. I met the guys in Richmond Fontaine sounds like music to me—or feels like it. So the within a year of living in Portland. And so, I combination of the sorrow and the melancholy just stuck it out here. ... In a way, Reno is like and the loneliness in the novel, mixed with the an old girlfriend you never get over. In a way setting—I just started writing instrumental songs it just breaks my heart, and I get all depressed for it. After three years, I had maybe 25, 30 of and weird. I used to come back all the time, for them, little instrumentals. And then, once I had the maybe the first 10 years of living in Portland. book in working shape, I gave the manuscript to I used to stay at the Fitzgerald’s Casino for each of the guys in my band [Richmond Fontaine], like five nights at a time. … Writing novels and then I showed ’em the songs. And the way I takes so long that you kind of have to write write the instrumentals, they’re pretty rough, just them everywhere. You can’t be precious about the melody and the structure is there, but the guys where you are. It just takes so long that you always put a nice suit on them and give them a can’t wait for the perfect time and the perfect haircut and a shave and make them look good, and place. You have to just do it. I used to write so that’s what they did. a lot at Harrah’s—used to have a really cool

“All mY novels stARt As songs. … And tHe ideA oF tHe song Wouldn’t let go oF me, And so i stARted WRiting it out in A novel.”

What’s the status of Richmond Fontaine? You had a farewell tour in 2016, but you made this soundtrack album more recently. We retired, more or less. We’ve been together 23 years, and I always felt like each guy sacrificed so much to get in the band. We’re a mom-and-pop band. We’re small. We’re a ducttape band, and I was always surprised that each guy would get in the van each time. So, we just decided to stop when we were doing good. We put out a record we liked, and we kind of just pulled over on the side of the road and said, “All right, we’ve had enough.”

off-track betting parlor. It’s gone now, but I used to come back and write there, or in the downtown library in Reno. I used to write there for a couple weeks at a time. If I was a really rich guy, I’d buy that place and leave it exactly the way it is. I think that’s one of the coolest places that’s ever existed. It makes you feel better about yourself. A good library always makes you feel better about yourself. Ω

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Paul Baker Prindle photographs locations where gay, lesbian and transgender people have been murdered.

Haunting sets Paul Baker Prindle Photographer Paul Baker Prindle was on a bus one day in Philadelphia when a woman asked what he was doing. He said he was out taking pictures. The woman looked at him and said he was going to get killed in the process. Concerned for his safety, the woman escorted him to his destination, where he took photos, and then safely brought him back to the bus. Baker Prindle said he didn’t care if death had been a possibility. He’d almost died once after a large motorcycle struck him in Rome when he was 21. To him, it was plain and simple—somebody had to go out to dangerous neighborhoods across the country and take pictures of where gay, lesbian and transgender people had been murdered. “I think trauma and loss has really defined what it means to be gay,” said Baker Prindle, who came into his own identity during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. For 10 years, he’s documented these locations across the country—places where people have been gruesomely murdered because of their sexual orientations. He’s captured each scene exactly the way he saw it. When you look at these images, the photos are rather plain. There are no people, no memorials, and no signs that a death even occurred. They just look like average houses and neighborhoods. “I don’t change anything,” said Baker Prindle. “If there’s garbage, I leave it. … It should feel like it does if you were to stumble upon it at anytime. You see this boring, everyday object, then you read the title and go, ‘Woah.’ It feels dissonant.” 16 | RN&R | 02.22.18

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He said he’s not only addressing the epidemic of the tens of thousands of LGBT people who have been assaulted or murdered, but he’s also looking at the viewers’ relationship to photos. “That’s kind of what photographs are—it is so much of what you bring to them,” he said. Several of his large-scale photos are on exhibit at the OXS Gallery in Carson City this month. Baker Prindle said that the reason he printed them large is so that viewers become a part of the scene, in a way. “The viewer brings their biases, their perspectives, their prejudices, their ideas of how this went down, and they have to imagine it,” he said. “I think that’s just the critical thing, is that the viewer is, I think, even more important than the image, in that what they’re doing with it tells us so much about our relationship to this phenomenon and also our relationship to photographs.” He also likes to look at how photographs work and how they serve as devices to help us remember certain moments. On one hand, he said, photos are just pixels on a piece of paper. On another hand, what we do with photos is important to us—we associate them with our stories and histories. “To me, every photograph is a reminder of death because it’s a record of a moment that will never live again,” said Baker Prindle. His current challenge, he said, is that he doesn’t know if he should continue this project, and, if so, for how long—or if he wants to be known as the guy who spent his career doing this. But he knows that, one way or another, he wants to see to it that people stay engaged in conversations about how powerful images can be. Ω

Mementi Mori will be on display at the OXS Gallery, 716 N. Carson St., Carson City, through March 9. For more information, visit www.paulbakerprindle.com.

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SHORT TAKES

When people say, “Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.”

Claw and order Scoring director Ryan Coogler to helm Black Panther proves to be a major triumph. His entry into the Marvel universe is a majestic, full-bodied, exhilarating treatment of the African king title character with the crazy cool suit (Chadwick Boseman). Marvel has yet another big win with a grand future. Coogler has three films to his credit now, one masterpiece (Fruitvale Station) and two very good ones (Black Panther and Creed). He’s officially one of the best directors currently calling the shots. This is also his third collaboration with actor Michael B. Jordan, who brings a fully fleshed, complicated villain to the screen in Erik Killmonger. Man, you just have to be bad with that last name. The pre-opening credit scene involves Black Panther’s predecessor father having a confrontation in 1992 Oakland, California. A major event takes place as some kids playing basketball look on. It turns out to be one of the more brilliant and heart-wrenching setups for a Marvel movie character yet. The action cuts to present day, where Black Panther/T’Challa is dealing with the passing of his father due to an event that took place in Captain America: Civil War (massive credit to the producers and screenwriters who interlink these films together so well). He’s to become king but must pass through a ritual with some risk involved. He overcomes the obstacles, gets his throne and prepares for his rule. His kingdom doesn’t get a moment to breathe before trouble ensues. In London, Killmonger comes across an ancient weapon forged in Wakanda, Black Panther’s homeland. It’s made from Vibranium, a precious resource that fuels much of Wakanda’s advanced technology, including the Black Panther suits. With the help of Wakanda enemy Klaue (Andy Serkis acting with his real face as opposed to a motioncapture suit), Killmonger obtains the weapon, threatening world stability.

The story is told with a stunning level of social relevance for a superhero film, especially when it comes to Killmonger’s motives. He’s not just some guy looking to forward himself for selfish purposes. He’s got some big reasons for having gone bad, and they make him a far more sympathetic character than, say, Loki from Thor. As good as Boseman is, and he’s really good, Black Panther goes over the top thanks very much to the cast around him. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o plays the “maybe she’s a love interest” in Nakia, getting her finest post-Oscar role yet. The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira makes a confident graduation to big-screen action hero, while Letitia Wright gets a lot of laughs as T’Challa’s mischievous and extremely smart sister, Shuri. There are so many great performers in this movie, there isn’t enough room to give them just praise in this review, but here’s a few more: Angela Bassett, Martin Freeman, Forest Whitaker, Winston Duke, Daniel Kaluuya and Sterling K. Brown all play formidable roles. It’s early in the year, but this will surely stand as one of 2018’s most packed casts. Coogler proves he can handle a big action blockbuster with only a few scenes that miss the mark. His action scenes mostly snap with precise energy and efficiency, but some of them are a bit jumbled and hard to follow due to low light or ill-advised camera angles. I saw the film in IMAX 2-D, so perhaps some of what I was seeing played better in 3-D. Black Panther is a superhero saga rich with culture and gravitas, without skimping on the good humor and action thrills we’ve come to expect from Marvel. Many of the latest DC offerings (Justice League, Suicide Squad) make everyone involved look like goofballs in comparison. (Wonder Woman is the lone recent exception.) Black Panther and Marvel show us that big-screen superhero entertainment can be about much more than the suits and explosions. 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. (Available on Netflix.)

Fifty Shades Freed

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan return for a third and final torturous turn as bondage fiends Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. While there is supposed to be a plot, Fifty Shades Freed is really just an assemblage of asinine, soul-decimating moments that leave a bad taste in your entire body. Here’s a quick starter list of some of the things Fifty Shades Freed totally ruined for me: Seattle, Audis, Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” (Dornan sits down at a piano to sing this in a true WTF moment.), David Bowie’s “Young Americans” (I heard it playing while Anastasia and Christian were eating steak.), steak, butt plugs (actually, kind of OK having this one ruined for me), Dodge Durangos, women, men, Mickey Mouse (He’s on my watch face, which I was constantly checking.), and the list goes on. The movie is set in Seattle. I wanted Mount Rainier—that gigantic, nasty-looking, longdormant volcano—to erupt. This franchise is selling a gazillion dollars in tickets. Surely, they could’ve spent an extra hundred million for a volcanic eruption sequence where Christian and Anastasia get buried in molten lava while playing with vibrators in their torture room. I would’ve upgraded my popcorn rating to a fair for that. The movie is directed by James Foley, who helmed such classics as At Close Range and, for Christ’s sake, Glengarry Glen Ross. Let’s put this in perspective, the guy directed the Alec Baldwin “Brass Balls” speech. Now, he’s directing Seattle-based butt plug mayhem.

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Annette Bening is an amazing actress. Somehow, she failed to get an Oscar nomination for her bravura turn in 20th Century Women, and now she has been snubbed again for her beautiful, heartbreaking work as movie star Gloria Grahame in this moving film from director Paul McGuigan. Grahame’s later career was plagued with scandal, but you may know her from her roles in It’s a Wonderful Life and Oklahoma. Married four times and notorious for dating younger men, one of her last affairs involved actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell), a man 30 years her junior, whose memoir this film is based upon. Grahame saw Turner in the final years of her life, when she was trying to keep her career alive doing theater in England. Diagnosed with cancer, her final years were confusing, tragic and sad, something the film does an effective job of depicting. Bening is convincing as Graham despite not looking much like her. She does just enough with her voice and mannerisms to convince you she’s Grahame without flat out impersonating her. Depicting the actress both before and after she’s sick, the movie basically calls for two kinds of performances, and she rocks both of

them. Bell is terrific as the befuddled lover who must defy his lover’s wishes and call her family about the illness.

Hostiles

The Post

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 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 devastated mother who has lost her entire family.

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.

Winchester

Helen Mirren and Jason 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 cool-looking, giant abode that makes an actual appearance in the film. What we get is a ghost movie that trots out the same old tricks from countless ghost movies before it.

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Flavors of India in Carson City opened a few weeks ago and offers a buffet on weekdays and weekends.

A fine line I love spicy food, and Indian cuisine is at the top of the list. I particularly love the notion of an Indian buffet line, where I can just load up the plate with a bit of everything and descend into blissful, curried gluttony. Flavors of India—no relation to the similarly named Reno eatery—is so close to my office, I made a beeline for the lunch buffet ($9.99) the first chance I got. The restaurant is fairly large with a full bar and covered patio dining adjacent to the main dining room. Despite it having been open only a few weeks, there were plenty of folks in for lunch. The buffet line begins with a big pot of basmati rice followed by a pile of warm naan—thin and crispy leavened flatbread with a bit of pillowy chew. I think good naan is likely the gateway drug to Indian food appreciation. Tandoori chicken—bone-in poultry marinated in yogurt and masala spices, then cooked in a tandoor oven—was moist and full of fall-off-the-bone flavor. Butter chicken—boneless chunks of meat marinated in spices then cooked in garlic, ginger, cream and tomato sauce—had the right gravy consistency, but was very mild and the meat a bit dry. The vegetarian fare was all pretty enjoyable, starting with a mixed vegetable dish of cauliflower, potato, broccoli, onion and yellow squash, cooked in tomato sauce and spices—not too hot and quite tender. This was followed by palak paneer. A favorite of mine, it has spinach and onion cooked in ginger, garlic and a garam masala spice blend, with cubes of fresh, housemade cheese. I was once a non-fan of cooked greens until I met up with good Southern collards and this Indian concoction. This particular rendition was very satisfying. Aloo tikki—small croquettes of potato, onion and spices—went nicely with a

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dollop of fresh raita. The crispy, spicy bites were fine on their own, but the slightly sour yogurt-cucumber-onion condiment made for a nice contrast. For something completely different, I tried a scoop of dal makhani—black lentil sauteed in onion, garlic and tomato and finished with butter and cream. It was spicy, smooth and delicious over rice. Cabbage masala and bharwan baingan—stuffed eggplant—were items new to me, and both were a welcome addition to my experience. The cabbage and pea mixture was really satisfying, although just a bit on the oily side thanks to a liberal dose of ghee (clarified butter). The tiny eggplants were stuffed with onion masala and some other veg I couldn’t identify, not that it mattered. Eggplant dishes have to work extra hard to gain my favor, and this one hit the mark. Indian desserts are not generally my favorite part of the meal, but the kheer—rice pudding with nuts—and gulab jamun—honeyed dough balls—were not too bad. Kheer can be kind of soupy, but this was a bit thicker and closer to what I think of as rice pudding. Similarly, the honey balls were a bit denser, less squishy and more like honey soaked doughnut holes than renditions of this dessert I’ve previously tasted. There is a “dry salad” of chopped veggies at the end of the row, along with a sharp and sour hot pickle of mango, lime, green pepper, carrot and chili—typical of the cuisine and perhaps not for first timers—and good examples of tamarind and mint chutneys. I actually dipped some naan into the mint goo as a digestif. Ω

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by Matt Bieker

tom adams, distiller, toasts assistent distiller Nick Bietz.

Shine a light When I first started making beer as a minor six years ago, I likened making my own alcohol to digging up coal from my backyard: regardless of the volume, I was producing a usable commodity. I’ve never sold my beer because even goods like my basement brew are usually subject to taxes, and while my small operation is unlikely to attract any attention from law enforcement, this is a well-known plight of a more clandestine sect of Reno home brewers—moonshiners. I wanted to know more about how locals make their hard stuff and if the tradition was faring as well as beer-making. I couldn’t find a source to admit to a felony for my column, however, so I went to see how “legal moonshine” is handled. “The real definition of moonshine is untaxed liquor,” said Tom Adams, owner and head distiller of Seven Troughs Distillery. “It was something that was done to avoid taxes and so you did it by the light of the moon.” Adams has wanted to own a distillery since he was a child and saw the impromptu gin still rigged by Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H. And he perfected his craft on some equally shoddy equipment until legislation legalized his hobby—legislation he helped write. “In 2012, we figured out that the state of Nevada couldn’t tell us ‘No, we can’t give you a permit’ because there was a void of law,” Adams said. Since the federal repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1934, Nevada lacked any laws to properly license a distillery, meaning that all liquor production in Nevada was technically moonshine. The law resulted in Seven Troughs being granted one of the first distillery licenses issued in the state.

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Adams invited me to Seven Troughs to see how he makes Old Commissary Whiskey, based on a recipe used in eastern Nevada’s Fort Ruby in 1862. The recipe, he assured me, is authentic down to his heat source—a flame fired still. On his shop floor are two 450-gallon vats for fermenting 500 pounds of raw barley. After a few days, wild yeast from the air yields a tart, citrusy tasting mash. I sampled the Old Commissary and about four other whiskeys. Some of the sweetness of the original mash came through, despite the characteristic burn of young whiskey. We talked about moonshine culture, and Adams told me he used to buy equipment from homebrew stores with the unspoken acknowledgment of what he was actually making. “There was this respectful thing that they’re not going to get in our business and we’re not going to advertise what we’re doing,” Adams said. “That still exists. There’s a huge and very vibrant underground culture of booze-makers, and they’re everywhere, man. They walk among us.” He alluded to certain circles where one could inquire about “a gallon of West Seventh’s Finest,” or families in Ely that never quite gave up their prohibitionera enterprises. While the moonshine tradition in town is alive and flourishing, there are some risks involved, including blindness from toxic alcohol byproducts and explosions in the form of condensed alcohol vapors. So, Adams has some advice for aspiring moonshiners: “There’s a legal way [to learn] and that’s give us a call, give any one of us distillers a call,” he said. The internet, Adams said, is “full of crap” when it comes to information about distilling. Ω

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The Funk Exchange is an eight-piece band with a sound that blends funk, jazz, rock and hip hop.

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At 7 p.m. on a Tuesday, Blue Note B’s Horn Shop was closing for the day, but the front door to the little store tucked in a shopping center off Fourth Street and Keystone Avenue remained unlocked. “I’m having technical difficulties with this horn,” said Brandon Dolph, the store’s owner, looking over a trumpet in his hands. Luckily, his shop is a good place to address such problems. Opened in 2014, it specializes in instrument repair, rentals and music lessons. Dolph—a multi-instrumentalist who’s played since childhood—staffs the shop with repair specialists and keeps it stocked with accessories for everything from keyboards to clarinets. After attending to his horn, Dolph put it aside on a small stage set against the shop’s wall and turned his attention to greeting the handful of people who’d trickled in. The members of The Funk Exchange meet after hours at Blue Note B’s on Tuesdays for practice. There are eight of them in all, Dolph included. On this evening, they were rehearsing for a Feb. 24 show at the Saint in midtown. By a quarter after the hour, all of the bandmates had assembled. At Dolph’s direction, they’d arranged themselves on the shop’s stage in basically the same placement they’ll use at the Saint. As practice commenced, the muffled sound of music lessons coming from insulated rooms at the back of the shop was drowned out, though the sound coming from the Funk Exchange remained somewhat muted, too. Using a smartphone app and headphones, the band members had plugged into a digital mixer. It lets them control their own monitor mixes individually. “It allows us to keep our stage volume down, so we can play tricky venues with eight players,” Dolph explained. 20 | RN&R | 02.22.18

It also keeps their volume down during practice, when private music lessons are also underway. The Funk Exchange has two horn players—Dolph on trumpet and saxophonist Kaleb Berg, who plays both baritone and tenor sax. Dolph also sings, and the band has a second vocalist, Sally Welch. Forest Platt plays bass. Tom Appelbaum is the band’s drummer. JC Britto and Tanner Jones play rhythm and lead guitar, respectively. And Robert Cancro plays keys and organ. Just accommodating for space on a stage can be a challenge, but the bandmates take it in stride. Of the 1958 Hammond B3 organ he transports to shows, Cancro said, “Yeah, I move furniture around with me.” And space is only one consideration. As Dolph pointed out, the band’s sound is big, too. It’s a mix of funk-informed rock, hip hop and jazz, over which Welch and Dolph layer their vocals—Welch’s, sweet and clear; and Dolph’s, an emphatic blitz akin to rapping. The resulting music calls to mind bands like Blood Sweat & Tears—but The Funk Exchange’s sound is decidedly more modern, and the band doesn’t deal much in covers. In fact, plans to release new originals are in works now. It’s another reason the bandmates have been rehearsing with earphones plugged in. They’re preparing to record and release a series of live takes of their songs online. “We’ve got one song that’s basically mixed right now, and then we’re sending it to our audio engineer for mastering here probably in the next week,” Dolph said. “We’re going to release them one at a time and then put them all together.” It’s a measured approach, and one that reflects band’s modus operandi—from accommodating for stage space to keeping rehearsal decibels down. And it seems fitting. The key to an exchange, after all, is a bit of give and take. Ω The Funk Exchange will play the Saint, 761 S. Virginia St., on Feb. 24. For more information visit http://bit.ly/2stBDlP.

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 22, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. BOOK READING AND SIGNING WITH ROGER ARTHUR SMITH: Sundance Books and Music celebrates the launch of Smith’s debut novel Echoes. Wed, 2/28, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave, (775) 786-1188.

CAPPY HOUR: Communities In Schools of Western Nevada’s second annual fundraiser features a gourmet dinner prepared by Butter + Salt Gatherings, unlimited craft beer from Revision Brewing Company, regional wine from Ayrael Vieux Winery, live music by Running with Ravens and a silent auction. All proceeds from the evening will benefit the 3,500 at-risk Washoe County District School students served by CIS of Western Nevada and help 2018 graduates offset costs associated with graduation. Thu, 2/22, 6pm. $60. Revision Brewing Company, 380 S. Rock Blvd., Sparks, (775) 686-0758, www.cisnevada.org.

2/24:

COME IN FROM THE COLD: The winter family

Skate Jam 2018

Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor presents the all-day, all-ages event featuring skate ramps, contests, bands, food trucks, drinks and more. The event is both a tribute to Reno’s vibrant skateboarding scene of the past and a rallying point for the future of Reno’s underground and independent culture. Fourteen bands will play throughout the day, including Dead To Me, The Bombpops, Western Settings, Sciatic Nerve, Viqueen, The Latter Day Skanks, Boss’ Daughter, Black Crosses, The Heroine, Knocked Down, The Juvinals, Prince Robot and Fate Awaits. La Favorita Food Truck and The Fix Falafel will provide food. The event starts at noon on Saturday, Feb. 24, at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave. Admission is $15. All skateboarders under age 18 are required to wear a helmet and pads and must have a parent sign a waiver. Call 384-1652 or visit www.facebook.com/ events/130848740924358.

entertainment series continues with a performance by cowboy poet Larry Maurice. Sat, 2/24, 7pm. Free. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

FATHER-DAUGHTER DANCE: This special event for dads and daughters includes lunch, hot chocolate, fudge, a corsage and oldtime photos. End the day with a dance at Piper’s Opera House. Sat 2/24, 11am4pm. $30-$95, $20-$25 for dance only. Various locations in Virginia City, (775) 847-7500, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

HEALING HEARTS: Express emotions and relax through painting. Find solace and enjoy the company of other caregivers, family members and loved ones with memory loss. No artistic skills required and all supplies provided. Open to people age 12 and older. Tue, 2/27, 1:30pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650-A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

LIFESCAPES: In this program, seniors are given an opportunity to write and share their memoirs. New members are always welcome. Thu, 2/22, 1pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

RADON AWARENESS: The Nevada Radon Education Program of the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension will give an informational presentation and free radon test kits. Sat, 2/24, 2pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

RENO CHINATOWN: Edan Strekal, project archivist with Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno, will discuss the history of Reno’s Chinatown. Sun, 2/25, 1:30pm. Free. Sierra View Library, 4001 South Virginia St., (775) 827-3232.

EVENTS ALPENGLOW WINTER FILM SERIES: The

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Doug Larson

series concludes with a presentation by professional alpine climber Barry Blanchard. Thu, 2/22, 7pm. Free. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Tahoe City, (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com.

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presents “Something Presidential” in celebration of Presidents’ Day. The event will also feature the Pictured Rock quarter and Jim Thorpe dollar and all 2017 coins, early bird prizes, quarter pot, a raffle and more. Tue, 2/27, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.

SCRAPBOOKING SUNDAY: Bring your photos and basic supplies to this open scrap. Learn tips and tricks from fellow scrappers. Sun, 2/25, 10am-5pm. Spanish Springs Library, 7100-A Pyramid Highway, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

WASHOE DEMS PRECINCT CAUCUS: All registered Democrats in Washoe County are invited. Seventeen-year-old teens who will be age 18 by Nov. 6, 2018, can participate as long as they have pre-registered as Democrats. Anyone who registers to vote the day of the precinct caucus can also participate. In non-presidential election years, precinct caucuses are held solely to elect delegates to the county convention, nominate new central committee members and submit planks for the county and state platforms. Visit website to RSVP. Sat, 2/24, 9am. Free. Wooster High School, 1313 Plumb Lane, (775) 3238683, www.washoedems.org.

WF ACADEMY POLITICAL EDUCATION TRAINING: Working Families Academy presents a series of day-long training sessions. Participants will have a chance to engage in an entry-level election simulation exercise that aims to strengthen their strategic thinking and campaign planning skills. Sat, 2/24, 9am. Free. Carson City First United Methodist Church, 412 W. Musser St., Carson City, (206) 218-9435, www.facebook.com/ events/1765884243463940.

ART ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Things We Love. A walk in the park, glittering earrings, a favorite coffee cup, puppies, kittens, wildlife, a scarf for winter chill, paintings of your favorite places. See many of your favorite things at this multi-artist show. Thu, 2/22-Wed, 2/28, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-Op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: Rick Parsons— Writing from Mars: An Exhibition. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents an exhibition by artist Rick Parsons. His current work explores automatic writing, jazz thinking and three-dimensional forms, while also addressing the environment. The exhibition will be in the gallery Monday-Friday through May 23. Thu,

2/22-Fri, 2/23, Mon, 2/26-Wed, 2/28, 8am5pm. Free. CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Inside and Outside the Lines. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents work by artists Jonathan Farber and Susan Kotler through March 1. Thu, 2/22, Mon, 2/26Wed, 2/28, noon. Carson City Community Center, 815 E. William St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH MIDTOWN RENO: Artist Showing and Wine Tasting. Meet the artist of the month and learn what inspires them. Thu, 2/22, 6pm. Free. Fountain of Youth Midtown Reno, 724 S. Virginia St., (775) 964-4888.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Scholastic Art Exhibit. In partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art for the seventh year, the Holland Project Gallery hosts the 2018 Scholastic Art Exhibit, showcasing Northern Nevada’s up-and-coming teen artists and Scholastic Art Gold-Key recipients. The artwork will be on display from through March 4 with gallery hours Tuesday-Friday, 3-6pm or by appointment. Thu, 2/22-Fri, 2/23, Tue, 2/27-Wed, 2/28. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY, BIBO COFFEE CO.: Sandwich Meat Not Obsolete. Local photographer Chris Carnel’s show features both color and black and white film photographs made exclusively with inexpensive plastic cameras and includes some of his work alongside work by Antonius “Toad” Dintcho and Liz Peto. There will be an artist’s reception on Thursday, Feb. 22, 6-8pm. Thu, 2/22-Wed, 2/28. Free. The Holland Project Micro Gallery, Bibo Coffee Co., 945 Record St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: Cowboys. Photographer Deon Reynolds captures the stark landscape of the Great Basin, where ranching still happens the oldfashioned way. Sat, 2/24, noon. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

THE POTENTIALIST WORKSHOP: Living As Counterparts Artist Reception. The Potentialist Workshop’s February gallery exhibition is a solo show featuring new paintings by artist Jake Gills. His new collection of work is centered on the exploration of human expression, non-verbal communication and the emotional connection of coexisting. Thu, 2/22, 5pm. Free. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., www.facebook.com/PPPWS.

SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE, TAHOE GALLERY: Basin and Range. Curated by Checko Salgado and Jerry Schefcik, Basin and Range is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative—Traveling Exhibition Program. The show features 18 Southern Nevada artists who were invited to create as a response to and in honor of a tract of Nevada land covering 700,000 acres, now identified as the Basin and Range National Monument. Thu, 2/22-Fri, 2/23, Mon, 2/26-Wed, 2/28. Free. Sierra Nevada College, Tahoe Gallery, 999 Tahoe Blvd, Incline Village, (775) 831-1314.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH, JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: BFA Midway Exhibition. An annual review exhibition by current bachelor of fine arts students at the halfway point in their studies. Thu, 2/22, Mon, 2/26-Wed, 2/28, noon. Free. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/art.

MUSIC U.S. NAVY BAND IN CONCERT: The military concert band presents a mixture of patriotic favorites and other pieces. Free tickets are available at the Lawlor Events Center ticket office, Absolute Music or JamPro Music Factory. Fri, 2/23, 7:30pm. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

ONSTAGE THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE: Sisters Three Productions presents an original production featuring scenes and monologues gathered from a variety of sources, including blogs, poems, books, local authors and personal lives of the cast. This play contains mature content. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Safe Embrace. Thu, 2/22-Sun, 2/25, 7:30pm. $15-$20. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 391-6234.

LOVE LETTERS: Proscenium Players, Inc

present A. R. Gurney’s classic. Fri, 2/23Sat, 2/24, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/25, 2pm. $13-$18. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 440-1170.

OLD TIME MELODRAMA: Grandma’s Gold Mine or The Lady With the Silver Dollar Hair, an outrageous old time melodrama that’s neither politically, historically nor chronologically correct. Fri, 2/23Sun, 2/25, 6pm. $25-$30. Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 1477 US Highway 395 North, Gardnerville, (775) 782-2555, www.historicnv.org.

THE OPEN HOUSE: Restless Artists Theatre presents Will Eno’s award-winning play about family dysfunction. Thu, 2/22-Sat, 2/24, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/25, 2pm. $12-$20. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, rattheatre.org.

THE ROYALE : Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company presents this drama by Marco Ramirez. Jay “The Sport” Jackson dreams of being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. But its 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. Thu, 2/22Sat, 2/24, 7:30pm. $18-$20. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716.

STOMP: The eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments—matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps—to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. Fri, 2/23, 8pm; Sat, 2/24, 2pm & 8pm. $44. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

by AMY ALKON

Haunting accident What do dreams mean? I was dumped 10 months ago. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. Now I barely do, but last night, I dreamed I broke in to his apartment, found him in bed with this gorgeous girl and punched her in the face. Does this mean I’m not over him? Psychologist G. William Domhoff has done decades of rigorous research on dreaming. He finds there’s really no good scientific evidence that dreams have any importance for guiding our lives— no evidence that they have any function or useful meaning for us. Domhoff explains dreaming as “intensified mind-wandering” that leads to “imaginative but largely realistic simulations of waking life.” Brain imaging of people in REM sleep—a sleep stage often accompanied by vivid dreams—suggests our capacity to dream is “an accidental byproduct of our waking cognitive abilities” and may be a “subsystem” of the “default mode network” of the brain. This is simply the network of neurons the brain “defaults” to when you aren’t doing targeted thinking, like trying to solve some complicated equation or remember some word in French. Your brain doesn’t just shut down between these targeted thinking jags. It does what I think of as “background processing,” gnawing at problems you were previously focused on—but it does it beneath your conscious awareness while you’re, oh, washing a dish or having sex. So, in a way, dream time seems to be a kind of cognitive autopilot. In brain scans of people in REM sleep, neurobiologist Yuval Nir sees decreased self-awareness, attention and memory. There’s also reduced “voluntary control” of action and thought—which is why, when dreaming, we cannot control “the content of the dream,” like by changing the channel from HesWithSomeHussy!TV. Nir also finds that there’s often—surprise, surprise—greater emotionality when dreaming. However, Domhoff says that in many instances, dreams “dramatize ongoing emotional preoccupations.” These are sometimes unhealthy or at least unhelpful. You’d think you could just try to avoid thinking those thoughts during your waking hours.

Unfortunately, research by the late social psychologist Daniel Wegner suggests otherwise. Wegner, famously, instructed research participants, “Try not to think of a white bear.” This is a failed proposition from the start, because your mind sweeps around to check whether you’re avoiding bear-pondering—thus leading you to think about the bear. In short, Wegner found that trying to suppress thoughts made them come back with a vengeance. The same was true when he later had subjects try to suppress thoughts just before going to sleep. These subjects were much more likely to have those thoughts be all “We’re baaaack!” in their dreams. But—good news—there is a way to outsmart your brain’s yanking you back into the same old abyss. Psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman found that you can probably keep yourself from endlessly revisiting a thought if you simply admit that not thinking of it is hard. As I explain in my new book, Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence, their solution “probably sounds too simple to be real, but it makes sense. Removing the need to patrol your thoughts also removes the mental sticky note that tells you to keep going back into Thoughtland … to see how well you’re doing.” In general, you should try to avoid ruminating—pointlessly rechewing the past, like your mind’s a sadistic TV station always showing the same disturbing rerun. Moving forward takes thinking about the past in “forward” ways— basically, by making meaning out of it. So when you find yourself reflecting on this relationship, remind yourself to put the right spin on it—looking at it from the standpoint of what you’ve learned [and] what you’ll apply to make your relationships work better in the future. Before long, you could be on a date again—and I don’t mean one of his, with binoculars from a car across the street. Ω

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For the week oF February 22, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you’re playing

poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else. That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you gorge on 10

pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever had

a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is no such

thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II, Brit-

ish code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating—thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972, three

American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to

grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British

philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four

weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing and sex. The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Paleontologist Jack

Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus—a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird. Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Be stubborn about

your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s T-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel The

Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

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by KRis VAgNER

Revival tour

as far as the stories I’m telling. [The track] “Beasts of Burgundy” came out Tuesday. Burgundy is a street in New Orleans.

Jimbo Mathus

Are there any New Orleans stories that you allude to on the record that Western audiences might not recognize? What should we listen for?

Squirrel Nut Zippers guitarist and vocalist Jimbo Mathus talked with the RN&R about the band’s new album, Beasts of Burgundy, from his home in Taylor, Mississippi, population around 400, 90 miles from Memphis and a half day’s drive from New Orleans. Squirrel Nut Zippers play the Miner’s Foundry in Nevada City on March 7 and the Saint in Reno on March 8. The album comes out March 23, and the single “Karnival Joe (From Kokomo)” has been released on Soundcloud.

This is your first album in 18 years, so the story behind it must be a long one—but tell me the short version. The last one was 18 years ago, so the short story is pretty simple. Some old business acquaintances and bandmates approached me about reviving the band for the 20th anniversary of the Hot album. They asked me if I’d want to do a reunion tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary. I started thinking, “It’s going to be a lot of work to get the band together.” I thought, “Why don’t we revive the band, to start a new chapter?” Over the last year, I just got in the mindset of writing for the Zippers. I’ve been writing a lot of blues, country, gospel, other stuff. Once I got back with the band, it became apparent there was

a lot more left to do. There’s an incredibly talented bunch of people.

Where did you recruit the new musicians from? Mostly New Orleans, but I’ve been very active in the music scene. I’ve got a great reputation. People trusted me to embark on this with me. It could have gone good or bad. It went great.

Who’s Karnival Joe? Is he a real person? It’s my fascination with history. Karnival Joe is just someone I made up. Kokomo is just such a funny sounding word. I did a lot of research on Cayetano’s Circus. It was in New Orleans. It was a longrunning circus there, and quite wild. A lot of the record is New Orleans-centric,

The entire record is based on that. There’s a song called “Axeman Jazz.” Axeman was a serial murderer. He was around during the time jazz was being invented in New Orleans. He would write letters to the Times-Picayune newspaper and announce his crimes. He wrote and said any houses where there was jazz music would be spared. If there were any type of a cabaret or hall or brothel or business, they had a jazz band that night—to keep the axeman away. He mostly appears in there, as sort of a spirit guide. He’s there throughout. The album is dedicated to a poet named Ron Cuccia. He’s in his 70s now. He grew up in old New Orleans. He’s been a poet his whole life. I’ve finally been able to track him down and meet him. The whole record is dedicated to him.

You’re playing in Reno March 8, and the album release date is March 23. Will you have copies with you on the tour? Two things going on. You can pre-order the album now on the pledgemusic link on Facebook and Instagram. By that time, we’ll have physical copies. The LPs look gorgeous. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Seeing is motivating When the story broke about football player Ray Rice punching his girlfriend out in an elevator, people generally condemned him, sure, but there really wasn’t much you could describe as outrage. Ho-hum, just another juiced-up jock hitting his girl. Punish him and let’s move on. But then, the video of the actual deed was leaked. Then, we saw what that cold-cock knockout looked like. And the story blew up into a raging national scandal. Pretty much the same thing with the Rob Foster story. The pic of wifey’s shiner ignited a national outrage that put a glaring spotlight on yet another example of appalling White House incompetence. Same with all the stories of white cops killing unarmed black males. Back in the day, when nobody had a cell phone with a camera, nobody really got all that worked up about white cops killing unfortunate black

boys/teens/men. But now we have pics and videos from phones of these insane acts of racial hatred, and now, black lives matter. The point being that one picture is still worth a thousand words. Damn right. So maybe it’s time for some brave insider in the Parkland Florida police department to leak the crime scene photos of 17 freshly slaughtered students and teachers to CNN and Buzzfeed and the Washington Post. Let us have a look at what an AR-15 does when unleashed in a crowded school. Let’s suck it up, gird our loins, and dare to actually view the sheer horror of what all those dozens of blazing bullets did in the hallways of Parkland and Sandy Hook and Columbine. Maybe we should have a look at what madness looks like when combined with assault weapons. We hide from its ugly

reality. We turn away. We can’t bring ourselves to look. And then, we forget. Then, we do nothing. Well, maybe if we saw, we would actually do something. Something besides pray. Because that approach ain’t working too good. Remember when many fought like hell to keep marriage between a man and a woman? Then, the courts spoke, and same-gender couples could freely couple, and now—who gives a damn? Who cares? Who even thinks about it? A new ban on assault weapons would be exactly the same. Who would suffer if you couldn’t go to the local Gun Mart and pick up an AR-15? What would be the hardship? Hey pal, you can have 74 shotguns and 62 Glocks for all I care. Knock yourself out. But goddammit, these war guns. This is insane. This is nuts. We’re out of our fucking minds. Ω

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