r-2018-05-03

CGamblinG h ColleCtibles i p i show n See Arts&Culture, page 16

M M i r g B o Br movie season

y u g e Movi the owar t s n u r

RENo’S

NEwS

&

ENtERtAiNmENt

wEEkly

summe

d |

VolumE

24,

iSSuE

12

|

mAy

3-9,

2018

PITBULL

FRIDAY, JULY 13

AMY SCHUMER & FRIENDS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 ON SALE FRIDAY, MAY 4

EVENING WITH

JANET JACKSON

SCORPIONS WITH QUEENSRŸCHE

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10

FOR COMPLETE LINEUP AND TO PURCHASE TICKETS VISIT TICKETMASTER.COM OR APECONCERTS.COM

HarveysTahoe.com

#TahoeConcerts

Shows subject to change or cancellation. Must be 21 or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start. ®Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700. ©2018, Caesars License Company, LLC.

2 | RN&R | 05.03.18 12593_STA_10x10.5_PrintAd_V1.indd 1

4/27/18 8:21 AM

EMail lEttERs to RENolEttERs@NEWsREviEW.CoM.

Ramble on

Public message

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Living where we do, here in the high desert, along the edge of a sizable mountain range, spring can feel like a colossal thaw. Some of us might feel like bears still shaking off hibernation, or glaciers ready to carve into the land. Either way, we want to get the blood flowing and the body moving. In other words, ’tis a season for travel.

The fellas and I loaded up the van and headed south last weekend. Our little singin’ group had a gig in Bishop, California, at the Mountain Rambler Brewery. It’s a cozy little spot with a Reno connection. The proprietor, Joe Lane, went to high school and college in Reno, and he’s got family here. He’s an old friend, and I was pleased he was willing to host our noisy rock band down there. The brewery serves up good grub and delicious beer—we especially liked the Bardini Berliner Weisse.

And the folks were welcoming and tolerant of our music—a nice change of pace from the hippie jams that permeate the air in every California mountain town. Nice sense of community in Bishop with all the insanely fit people who live there—they take advantage of all the skiing, mountain biking, hiking and rock climbing that the area has to offer.

All that fun outdoor stuff can leave a body wanting a nice meal and a cold beer, and Joe was smart enough to recognize that the community needed a good brewery. Check it out next time you’re driving that way.

And geezus, what a drive. U.S. 395 is a familiar road for many Northern Nevadans, but the area from Carson Valley to Bishop is too beautiful to take for granted—the gorgeous, rushing West Walker River; the eerie, otherworldly Mono Lake; and some of the most picturesque peaks of the Sierra Nevada.

Imagine our shock and outrage when we learned that we have a sexual exploiter in our midst, hiding in plain sight and getting away with it! An investigation of Virginia City Sheriff Gerald Antinoro concluded that the Sheriff violated the county’s sexual harassment policy. Yet, he remains in office with no penalties for his actions.

The recent release of Sheriff Antinoro’s deposition taken as part of a sexual harassment lawsuit, describes behavior abhorrent for any individual, let alone the chief law enforcement official of a county. Indeed, the Sheriff apparently admits to this vile behavior in his own deposition. It also brings to light several instances of inappropriate sexual situations and even a prior rape charge that could not be pursued because the statute of limitations had expired.

Why is this man still in office? A recent recall effort in Storey County failed by some 200 votes. Sheriff Antinoro stated in his deposition, “My understanding of the legal aspects of it all is the county has no legal recourse. ... They can’t censure me as an official censure of the government. The law doesn’t allow for it. They can’t fire me because they didn’t hire me.”

The Nevada Women’s Lobby is committed to bringing legislation forward in the 2019 legislature to enact a remedy for this type of situation. Women everywhere are heartened by the #MeToo movement and the recent progress women are making in exposing sexual assault and harassment that has been imbedded in our society for far too long. We cannot tolerate a man so morally corrupt to be in a position of authority.

Sheriff Antinoro has brought shame to Storey County and the State of Nevada. He should resign immediately.

Pam Roberts Nevada Women’s Lobby Jan Browne League of Women Voters Nevada

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsrev i ew . com

Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare.

To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

Editor Brad Bynum News Editor Dennis Myers Special Projects Editor Jeri Chadwell Arts Editor Kris Vagner Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Contributors Amy Alkon, Matt Bieker, Bob Grimm, Andrea Heerdt, Shaun Hunter, Holly

Hutchings, Kent Irwin, Shelia Leslie, Josie Glassberg, Eric Marks, Bailey Mecey, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Marc Tiar, Brendan Trainor, Bruce Van Dyke, Ashley Warren, Allison Young Creative Services Manager Christopher Terrazas Creative Director Serene Lusano Editorial Designers Maria Ratinova, Sarah Hansel Publications Designer Mike Bravo Web Design & Strategist Elisabeth Bayard Arthur Ad Designer Catalina Munevar Sales Manager Emily Litt Office Manager Lisa Ryan RN&R Rainmaker Gina Odegard

MAY

3,

Doris Dowden Nevada Coalition for Women’s Equity Bonnie Barber AAUW Erika Washington Make It Work Nevada Caroline Mello NARAL–Pro-Choice Nevada Patricia Y. Gallimore Reno-Sparks NAACP Janice Flanigan Women of Washoe Bob Fulkerson PLAN Action

Wars and rumors of wars What do insecure presidents do? They go to war, and I am inclined to think Trump will get us into a war soon. He and the Republicans care nothing about the cost or results of such an action. Look at the consequences of the Bush wars, nearly 7,000 young American men and women gone, tens of thousands permanently injured, trillions added to the debt, and we are still there. Huge profits for defense contractors. But Republicans get outraged

by Democrats trying—very poorly—to provide health care to Americans or send kids to school who are not hungry.

So, we have lots of choices to attack: North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Syria (oops, we did that), and I am sure there are others on the list. Remember we have huge oceans on the east and west, allies to the north and south. (Yup, Mexico is an ally.) Why are we so afraid?

It is in conservatives’ DNA; cut taxes and regulations, then go to war. So let’s send young people off to war and put the bill on these youngsters. Like the Bush bunch did.

Don McKechnie Sparks

Advertising Consultant Myranda Keeley Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Bob Christensen Distribution Drivers Alex Barskyy, Brittany Alas, Corey Sigafoos, Gary White, Joe Wilson, O.C. Gillham, Marty Troye, Patrick L’Angelle, Timothy Fisher, Vicki Jewell, Olga Barska, Rosie Martinez President/CEO Jeff VonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Project Coordinator Natasha VonKaenel Director of People & Culture David Stogner Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Hansen Accounts Receivable Specialist Analie Foland

Sweetdeals Coordinator Skyler Morris Developer John Bisignano System Support Specialist Kalin Jenkins N&R Publications Editor Michelle Carl N&R Publications Associate Editor Laura Hillen N&R Publications Writer Anne Stokes, Rodney Orosco Marketing & Publications Consultants Steve Caruso, Joseph Engle, Elizabeth Morabito, Traci Hukill, Celeste Worden Cover design: Maria Ratinova Cover art: Michael Grimm

2018

|

VoL.

24,

ISSUE

12

Grim cartoon Re “Apoca Clips” (comics, April 26): Extremely tacky to make light of the Waffle House shootings.

The phrase “and funny?” was inexcusable, regardless of context, as was the flippant observation, “It’s like they got shot inside an old-timey idiom.”

Grimm’s cartoon bombed big time.

Consider this letter the written equivalent of throwing rotten tomatoes.

Don Manning Reno

CoNtENtS

05 09 10 13 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 29 30 31 31

oPiNioN/stREEtalK shEila lEsliE NEWs FEatURE aRts&CUltURE aRt oF thE statE FilM FooD DRiNK MUsiCBEat NiGhtClUBs/CasiNos this WEEK aDviCE GoDDEss FREE Will astRoloGY 15 MiNUtEs BRUCE vaN DYKE

760 Margrave Drive, Reno, NV 89502 Phone (775) 324-4440 Fax (775) 324-2515 Website www.newsreview.com Got a News Tip? Fax (775) 324-2515 or pressrelease@newsreview.com Calendar Events www.newsreview.com/calendar Want to Advertise?

Fax (775) 324-2515 or rnradinfo@newsreview.com Classified Fax (916) 498-7910 or classifieds@newsreview.com Job Opportunities jobs@newsreview.com Want to Subscribe to RN&R? renosubs@newsreview.com

05.03.18

Editorial Policies: Opinions expressed in rn&r are those of the authors and not of Chico Community Publishing, Inc. Contact the editor for permissions to reprint articles, cartoons, or other portions of the paper. rn&r is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or review materials. Email letters to renoletters@ newsreview.com. all letters received become the property of the publisher. We reserve the right to print letters in condensed form and to edit them for libel.

Advertising Policies: all advertising is subject to the newspaper’s Standards of acceptance. The advertiser and not the newspaper assumes the responsibility for the truthful content of their advertising message. rn&r is printed at Sierra nevada media on recycled newsprint.

Circulation of rn&r is verified by the Circulation Verification Council. rn&r is a member of CnPa, aan and aWn.

|

RN&R

|

3

ON-STAGE CHAMPAGNE SEATING

50

%

OFF DINING WITH SHOW

Receive half off entrée at any of the Eldorado’s award-winning restaurants with the purchase of a full price show ticket

775-786-5700 • ELDORADORENO.COM 4 | RN&R | 05.03.18

By JERI CHADWELL

Your favorite movie theater snack? asKed aT The JungLe, 246 w. firsT sT.

Megan Lewis Field director

I will buy it, but I get ice cream.

I like ice cream. I know, how weird.

Josh Mccoy Canvasser

Mine is popcorn. Yeah, because I just pop it—sneak in a bag, just so I’m not paying eight bucks for it. Plus, I have seasonings at home, so I have more flavorful popcorn than the movies, usually.

chris KepLe y

Party whining should be ignored It’s that time of year, when voters need to be warned about the political parties and their incessant, indiscriminate use of official complaints. In federal campaigns, they file complaints with congressional ethics committees or the Federal Elections Commission. In state campaigns, they file complaints with the Nevada Ethics Commission, a body that was set up specifically to service incumbent legislators with faster service than the public gets.

There may, since this fad began, have been hundreds of complaints filed with official agencies by the political parties. And nearly all of them came to nothing.

When dealing with campaign complaints was added to the state Ethic Commission’s duties, Clark County Sen. Ann O’Connell was asked why politicians do not use the same remedies as other citizens—going to court.

O’Connell said that would not provide herself and other legislators and candidates a rapid enough response for the needs of candidates, that they need public findings before the election. How onerous that candidates would need to labor under the burden of the same court backlog as citizens. And political parties serve as fronts so that candidates don’t look like whiners.

The additional duties had the effect of turning the Ethics Commission into a Fair Campaign Practices Commission—something Nevada had been spared until then. Such bodies exist in some other states, putting the state in the position of deciding what constitutes truth in an election campaign. The founding generation went to a good deal of trouble to prevent the state from having this power.

The state decides what is truth in campaigns, such as they

are, in Iran and China and such societies, but in political campaigns in the United States, the state should not interfere with decisions that should be left to voters. Many of the exchanges in campaign dialogue are subjective, and deciding who is right is for the voters.

A news release from the Nevada Democratic Party reads in part, “The state party has filed at least three other ethics complaints against Heller in the preceding six months.” “At least” three complaints?! Doesn’t the party know exactly how many complaints it has filed? At any rate, the promiscuous use of this totally political mechanism created by politicians to help politicians needs to be put into some kind of perspective by voters.

In addition, the Nevada Democratic Party seems to be striving to set some kind of record for picayune complaints. The latest was a complaint that Heller used on his campaign website a photograph taken by a Veterans Administration photographer and posted on Flickr for the use of all 300 million citizens of the United States. Photos taken by tax-paid photographers cannot be copyrighted and are in the public domain. We use them all the time, as do other citizens and entities. But the Nevada Democratic Party sees something sinister in their use by the senior senator from Nevada.

It would be good if Democrats reel in their party operatives who are making the party look silly and shift their activities back to stuffing envelopes and publicizing imaginary convention riots.

Filing of official complaints during all campaigns should be treated with many grains of salt. Ω

General manager

Peanut butter M&Ms, for sure— for absolute sure. I sneak them in, for sure.

Tiffany ross Stay-at-home mother

Popcorn. I buy it there. No, no butter on it. Oh, and Red Vines.

Jay coLLins Barista/floater

Pistachios. Everybody loves it when I pull out pistachios.

05.03.18 | RN&R | 5

it's on! ’18

Vote

for your favorite people, places and things throughout Northern Nevada.

2018 New

for 2018:

1

We heard you! In response to feedback from readers after last year’s contest,

is an open-ballot primary where readers can write in and vote for whatever businesses, personalities, animals, minerals and abstract concepts you like.

Voting for the first round begins

2

for the second round Voting, voters will select the winners from a small group of finalists. The final round will begin June

end July

26.

!

28 and

Go to bestofnorthernnevada.com 6 | RN&R | 05.03.18

are

now

two rouNds of voting.

we’re changing the rules:

the first round Voting

May 3 and ends June 7.

there

only one ballot per email address. In order to qualify, a ballot must contain votes in a minimum of 10 categories.

Casinos are only eligible in the “Casinos & Gambling” section. In cases where a business has more than one location, an address must be specified.

vote!

T IME TO

GET THE BAND BAC K TO G E T H E R

SEASON OF SOUND LINEUP

Go to

bestofnorthernnevada.com The RN&R’s annual reader survey is the region’s largest, longest-running, most definitive popularity contest.

3 LATINOS AND A NAVE COMEDY NIGHT Saturday, May 5 | Vinyl Showroom

HOST HOTEL: AMERICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BIKE RIDE June 1 - 3 | Outdoor Event

SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA RACING EVENT: FREE May 12 - 13 | Outdoor Event

HOST HOTEL: 4TH ANNUAL ROCK TAHOE ½ MARATHON June 15 - 17 | Outdoor Event

50 STATES IN 50 DAYS Saturday, May 19 | Vinyl Showroom

COMEDY CAGE MATCH June 22 - 23 I Vinyl Showroom

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND GUITAR PLAZA FESTIVAL May 26 - 27 | Outdoor Event

GUITAR PLAZA MUSIC & ART FAIR June 29 - July 1 | Outdoor Event

PURCHASE TICKETS AT HARDROCKCASINOLAKETAHOE.COM

This year’s caTegories include:

• Casinos & Gambling

• Nightlife

• Culture

• Outdoors

• Food & Drink

• Personalities

• Goods & Services

… and Old Reno

DJ’S EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY

VOTED BEST CASINO TO SEE A CONCERT

BY CASINO PLAYER MAGAZINE! Live entertainment tax of 9% not included in ticket price. Check website for details. Dates & events subject to change.

• Kids & Family 50 HIGHWAY 50 STATELINE, NV 89449

844.588.ROCK #MADEFORMUSIC @HRHCLAKETAHOE

HardRockCasinoLakeTahoe.com

05.03.18 | RN&R | 7 JOB #: HRT-11816 AD TITLE: SPRING ENTERTAINMEN

8 | RN&R | 05.03.18

by SHEILA LESLIE

GOP’s decay revives party line votes I’m not voting for any Republicans this year. I imagine many readers are sarcastically thinking that’s hardly news given my obvious political tendencies, but most years I do vote for a few Republicans, especially in non-partisan races. I won’t do it in 2018.

There are some decent people who are still with the GOP who normally would earn my vote. One is Chris Hicks, our District Attorney, who is light years more progressive than his predecessor who was also a Republican, Dick Gammick, someone I never voted for. Hicks is running unopposed this year so he’s already won, but I’ll leave my ballot empty on that race as a protest against a party that has gone so far off the rails it’s likely never to recover.

No one is even pretending any more to change the Republican Party from within. There will be no coup by moderate Republicans, determined to oust the racist, misogynistic, anti-science people from power. There is not even a meaningful

movement to denounce or criticize a president who is gleefully destroying our civil culture along with environmental protections and our right to quality, affordable health care. It doesn’t make sense for a rational, intelligent, modern person to be a Republican.

In Nevada, registering as a non-partisan means you give up your right to vote in the partisan primary races, which is the reason some people choose to stay and rebel against the far-right anti-everything candidates. Unfortunately, previously moderate Republican candidates are now pandering to the GOP base, becoming ever more extreme in their rhetoric, leaving their supporters to wonder if they’ve been hiding their extremism all these years and only now are revealing their true selves.

Even worse are the so-called moderate Republicans who are silent about their party’s transgressions, with no clearer example in Nevada than the defeated Republican State Senate effort to recall three female senators for the “crime” of voting

against the Republican agenda in the last legislative session. Washoe County Senators Heidi Gansert and Ben Kieckhefer were complicit in the effort, led by their floor leader, Michael Roberson, never condemning the affront to voters, not even when Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison made money on the doomed plan by using his law firm to represent the recalls in court. Gansert and Kieckhefer have forever stained their political reputations by quietly endorsing the manipulation of the recall process to give their caucus better odds of controlling the state senate. It was a despicable and shameful political tactic that the courts rightly rejected.

Republicans across the nation are leaving their party in droves, choosing non-partisan status to rebuke the GOP and stake out a more rational political position. In Washoe County, non-partisan voter registration continues to rise, making campaigns less predictable, especially in light of the constantly changing national political landscape.

One former Republican who left the party back in 2000, Purdue Professor Sheila Kennedy, said her students “have overwhelming animus for today’s GOP and its priorities,” finding it “hard to believe that the party wasn’t always a refuge for anti-woman, anti-minority, antiimmigrant, anti-science, anti-government know-nothings.” She reflects that “Right now, the GOP is dominated by a relatively small group of white, elderly political and religious fundamentalists. If it weren’t for highly successful gerrymandering and the Electoral College, the GOP would already have been consigned to permanent minority status.”

Those are strong words from a former member of the Grand Old Party who left with her integrity intact. Time is running out for other Republicans of good character to escape the racist, xenophobic, authoritarianism of today’s GOP. We can encourage them by refusing to vote for any candidate with an R after their name. Ω

05.03.18 | RN&R | 9

by Dennis Myers

Larry Harvey 1948-2018 Burning Man founder Larry Harvey died on April 28 in San Francisco, after having suffered a stroke on April 4, according to an announcement from Burning Man. Harvey, along with a few friends, hosted a bonfire on San Francisco’s Baker Beach on the summer solstice in 1986 with a few dozen attendees. The event was repeated annually, moved to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in 1991, and, in recent years, has attracted around 70,000 participants.

Burning Man co-founder Michael Mikel, a Reno resident, told the RN&R, “Larry had a rare clarity of vision and a sense of purpose that enabled Burning Man to become what it was. He could see things that other people couldn’t see. ... I remember in the early days of Burning Man, on Sundays, I would bring donuts and he would bring dark coffee, and we would sit at the kitchen table and brainstorm ideas.”

Many people helped make the event what it is today, Mikel said, and he credited Harvey as being the one with a particular knack for getting people together and drawing people in.

Stuart Mangrum wrote on the Burning Man Journal blog, “A humanist at heart, Larry did not believe in any sort of existence after death. Now that he’s gone, let’s take the liberty of contradicting him, and keep his memory alive in our hearts, our thoughts and our actions.”

At least two such efforts are already underway.

Cheryl Edison, Harvey’s girlfriend, announced on KRON-4 on April 30 that an initiative has been launched to raise funds to complete an interactive robot that Harvey had been planning for this year’s festival. In Reno, a candlelight vigil in memory of Harvey is planned for Sunday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Believe sculpture in Reno City Plaza.

—Kris Vagner

renters rigHts group forming An organization to represent renters is being put together by activist Andrew Barbano.

“Renters in Nevada have never had any rights to speak of,” he wrote in an email message to community leaders. “Those that exist are as weak as Kleenex in a hurricane.”

Barbano, the Democratic nominee for the Northern U.S. House seat in 1984, was instrumental in the initiative petition drive that created Nevada’s Consumer Advocate’s Office to represent ratepayers in utility rate hearings. He said some of the things renters and possible renters are being subjected to are outrageous. “I thought it couldn’t get worse than ’78. Dead wrong. Landlords are now charging people hundreds of dollars just to apply for a rental. The going rate is $50 per person. That’s $200 upfront for a family of four with no guarantee.”

The late Barbara Bennett also began a renters’ rights group, and she ended up being elected mayor of Reno on a controlled growth platform. Brent Tyler, late father of former state senator Stephanie Tyler, similarly advocated for renters.

Barbano said he does not want a group for people “who just want someone to help them bitch about their landlords,” but an action group. Interested citizens can contact him at barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

—Dennis Myers

10

|

RN&R

|

05.03.18

It’s not easy to vote a straight party ballot in Nevada, but some voters plan to do it.

PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

Party line votes?

Trump is driving voters to it if there is a single author of today’s polarized political system, it is probably Newt Gingrich. When he became U.S. House speaker in 1995—the first Republican to hold the job in four decades—he set out to change Congress.

And he did, intentionally making it less workable and cooperative.

Bipartisanship fell out of fashion. Party loyalty on votes was rigidly enforced.

And slowly, the same poison seeped into the Senate.

“His first move was to get rid of the Democratic Study Group, which analyzed bills, and which was so trusted that Republicans as well as Democrats relied on it,” Tennessee Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper recalled to the New York Times. “This was his way of preventing us from knowing what we were voting on. Today, the ignorance around here is staggering. Nobody has any idea what they’re voting on.”

Gingrich scheduled things so members did little work in D.C. and could spend more time in their districts.

This prevented them from developing

working relationships with members of the opposite party in the capital.

The seniority system was eliminated, and committee chairs and ranking members were designated according to their party loyalty. Partnerships like Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, or even same-state alliances like Harry Reid and John Ensign, became less common.

Dean Heller never developed a working relationship with Reid, which would have come in handy to him this year in giving him a less partisan image.

As a result, while the nation was becoming less partisan, Congress became more so.

But a quarter of a century later, the GOP may be paying a price for that polarization. All over the country, people are talking about doing what Congress does—voting a straight party ticket.

Nevada is not one of the states that makes a straight party ticket vote easy, so voters will have to do it line by line.

Straight ticket voting was already becoming more common when Donald Trump came along. As Congress became

more polarized, split-ticket voting became less common. While a lot of people say, “I vote for the candidate, not the party,” in fact most people’s votes are determined by party. Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz says that in 1972, when Richard Nixon won reelection by a landslide, split tickets reached an all-time high of people voting one party for president and the other party for U.S. Senate. But even then split tickets accounted for only 28 percent of ballots. By 2012 that figure was down to 10 percent.

But Donald Trump appears to be accelerating that trend with a roar.

In North Carolina, the Greenville Daily Reflector advises, “If you are antagonized by this regime, get out there and vote a straight Democratic ticket these next few times.”

In Radnor, Pennsylvania, when the local school board in a November 2017 election switched from a Republican to a Democratic majority, the Mainline reported, “Many observers said that voters were pulling the lever for the straight Democratic ticket as a protest against President Trump.”

Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, the West Chester Daily Local News reported “a stunning sweep of county row office races on Election Day, as well as victories in a plethora of down-ballot local contests from mayor to district court judge to township supervisor. … A full 26,717 county residents voted a straight Democratic ticket, almost 2,000 more than Republican party line ballots.”

In Virginia, which also has oddnumbered-year elections, one woman told the Washington Post she had voted “a straight Democratic ticket to ‘send a message to Trump’—even though that meant voting against her brother-in-law.”

John Jessuph told the Newport News Daily Press, “I don’t like what Trump is trying to do.” So he voted a straight Democratic ticket.

Another Virginian sent a letter to the editor of the New York Times: “I generally vote for any and all Republicans, except Donald Trump. However, on Tuesday I voted a straight Democratic ticket in Virginia.”

In River Falls, Wisconsin, Robert Lillo wrote a letter to the editor of the Journal: “A host of conservative Republicans like me will vote a straight Democratic ticket for a Democratic majority in Congress.”

In a New Jersey Gannett newspaper, In New Mexico, Secretary of State husband and wife Peter and Leticia Clough Maggie Toulouse Oliver said in an told an interviewer they voted a straight Albuquerque Journal essay she will try Democratic ticket. Peter: “How do you vote to accommodate straight ticket voters by for a party that’s anti-government? What’s the reviving a quick method for doing so. point of that?” Leticia: “The more Democrats Republicans have sworn to stop her. in the government, the more likely we’ll finally In the March Atlantic Monthly, editor get some gun control.”

Jonathan Rauch and contributor Benjamin “I used to vote Republican for local Wittes urged, “Boycott the Republican candidates and Democratic for national Party. … We have both spent our candidates, but not anymore,” Peter professional careers strenuously said. “I’m tired of dysfunctional avoiding partisanship in our In one government. Now I vote writing and thinking. We straight Democratic.” have both done work that Pennslvania On page 9 of this is, in different ways, county, 2,000 more edition, columnist Sheila ideologically eclectic, Democrats than Leslie urges straight and that has—over a long Democratic Party votes in period of time—cast us Republicans voted Nevada. as not merely nonparstraight party Nine states make it tisans but antipartisans. tickets. possible for voters to cast a Temperamentally, we agree straight party ticket vote with a with the late Christopher single action—a touch or punch or Hitchens: Partisanship makes you stroke. It was 10 states until last year. stupid. We are the kind of voters who In Texas, where straight party ticket political scientists say barely exist—true voting has kept Republicans in power for independents who scour candidates’ records 22 years, the GOP was so freaked out by in order to base our votes on individual Democrats doing the same thing that they merit, not party brand. This, then, is the repealed that option last year. The bill to article we thought we would never write: make the change was referred in the Texas a frank statement that a certain form of Legislature to the Business Committee. partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Why? Because the son of the Republican Republican Party, as an institution, has chair of the Business Committee lost his become a danger to the rule of law and the elected judgeship when Hillary Clinton won integrity of our democracy.” Ω the district with a lot of straight party votes.

Scholar

Benes Aldana, the president of the National Judicial College (left), escorted University of California Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky as he departed UNR after speaking in Nightingale Auditorium. Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading legal scholars, is the author of 10 books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court, Closing the Courthouse Doors/How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable, and Free Speech on Campus.

PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

05.03.18 | RN&R | 11

MORE ENTERTAINMENT

AS THE CROW FLIES WITH CHRIS ROBINSON

LOU GRAMM FOUNDING MEMBER OF FOREIGNER

May 12, 2018

May 19, 2018

FEMMES OF ROCK STARRING BELLA ELECTRIC STRINGS

LAKE STREET DIVE

May 26, 2018

June 2, 2018

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES WITH SPECIAL GUEST: DEER TICK

MELISSA ETHERIDGE

June 21, 2018

July 20, 2018

VOTED TAHOE’S BEST PLACE TO STAY

MORE FUN. MORE VALUE. MORE VARIETY. 1-800-BE-LUCKY | MONTBLEURESORT.COM 55 HIGHWAY 50, STATELINE, NV 89449

Tickets may be purchased at Montbleu Box Office, at all Ticketmaster outlets, or by calling Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000. Must be 21 or older to gamble. MontBleu reserves all rights.

12 | RN&R | 05.03.18

26187 MBR RN & R - 4.27 AD 4.9x10.5 V2 FINAL.indd 1

4/26/18 4:36 PM

May Tully (May 4): Charlize Theron is getting some good reviews as a stressed-out mom who becomes pals with her nanny. From the writer-director team that brought you Juno.

Should we be excited? I think so!

OverbOard (May 4): Because the world just wouldn’t be right if they didn’t remake that lousy ’80s movie starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Anna Faris stars in the dumbest kind of movie of all: the amnesia movie. Are there evil twins and villains with twirling mustaches in here, too? life Of The ParTy (May 11): Melissa McCarthy stars as a jilted wife who goes back to college and gets her freak on.

Not a high concept premise by any means, but McCarthy involvement usually brings a good laugh or two. Unless she’s wearing a proton pack, in which case, the movie is shit.

m b y B o B G r i.cmom

Terminal (May 11): I’ve watched the preview for this movie starring Margot Robbie numerous times. I still can’t really tell what it’s all about, but Robbie looks to be in Harley Quinn psycho mode in it, so this could be fun.

sr ev ie w bg ri m m @ ne w

ILLustratIon/MIke GrIMM

y u g e i Mov

M M i r g B Bo e

ard th ason w o t e runs ovie s m r e summ

L

ook, folks, I know Netflix, Apple TV, Hulu, BooHoo and Flim-Flam are all great ways to stay home and watch movies rather than going out for a change and experiencing film in a nice, living, breathing theater this summer movie season.

Hey, big screens in stinky multiplexes are still the best. A trip to the theater comes with the added value of $197 popcorn and drinks, and the opportunity to catch bedbugs, head lice and strep throat while somebody threatens to beat you up for texting during the flick or mug you in the parking lot afterward.

Hmm … not making a good argument for going out to the movies, am I? Here’s what’s coming this summer movie season. Well, not every movie, but a choice selection. Lots of superheroes, sharks, The Rock—Jesus, is there a movie the guy isn’t in?—animation and dinosaurs along with some Chekhov thrown in for good measure. I give you this, our Summer Movie Preview!

The Seagull (May 11): Here’s that Chekhov movie I mentioned before. Saoirse Ronan and Annette Bening costar in the movie you will say you are going to see in order to look all smart and cool to passersby. Go to your local wine bar, order up a red that is at least 15 years old, do that stupid spin-your-goblet-and-sniff-it thing, then proclaim “I’m going to see The Seagull when it comes out!” like the pretentious chump you aspire to be. People will think you are so … damned … cool. deadPOOl 2 (May 18): On the encouraging side, the guy who directed John Wick is helming this sequel. On the not-soencouraging side, Ryan Reynolds’ shtick is getting a little tired in all of the previews. Deadpool is getting to be like a movie reviewer who is a little too impressed with his own not-so-clever clever jokes. bOOk Club (May 18): If you thought the horrors of the 50 Shades of Grey series had come to an end earlier this year, here comes a movie about the likes of Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Candice Bergen getting off reading the novels.

It’s called Book Club but, to me, it should be called Future Unyielding, Unrelenting Pain. hOw TO Talk TO girlS aT ParTieS (May 18): In preparing for this article—that’s a fancy way for saying slacking off during the writing of it and surfing the web—I watched the preview for this. It’s an early contender for one of the year’s weirdest movies. Elle Fanning stars as an alien living in London, and it’s directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). It costars Nicole Kidman in full punk regalia.

SOlO: a STar warS STOry (May 25): Ron Howard, the guy who directed Willow and those shitty Da Vinci Code movies, stepped in to take over directing chores after the guys who directed The Lego Movie got kicked off the set for being dicks to Kathleen Kennedy. Alden Ehrenreich, a name I will never spell correctly without triple-checking, steps into the role of Han Solo—a Han Solo long before he got all unfortunately huggy with his lightsaber-wielding son.

Why didn’t they release this on May 4?

“ hot

action ”

continued on page 14

05.03.18 | RN&R | 13

“ hot

action ”

continued from page 13

June Action Point (June 1): When I was a teen, I used to spend parts of my summers at a crazy amusement park called Action Park in New Jersey. The notorious park had a death toll from people cashing out violently on their water slides, their jacked-up rides, and drowning in their Tidal Wave pool. (I almost died in that sucker.)

How appropriate that Johnny Knoxville and parts of his Jackass crew mount a movie loosely based on Action Park. I’m thinking this thing will bring back pleasant memories of second degree sunburns, sprained ankles and excessive water in my lungs.

Adrift (June 1): Shailene Woodley stars as a woman who, along with her boyfriend, winds up adrift at sea after boating through a hurricane. Whenever I see a movie like this or Cast Away, I can’t help but think about how bad everybody must smell due to the lack of showering and deodorant. Like that show Surivivor … that set must stink! oceAn’s 8 (June 8): Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, sister to George Clooney’s Danny, and equally big-minded when it comes to pulling a heist. Anne Hathaway and Cate Blanchett costar, with an appearance by Matt Damon. I couldn’t be less excited about this particular thing.

HereditAry (June 8): Brace yourselves, folks.

This horror movie, the directorial debut of a dude named Ari Aster, is getting some major buzz as a film that will chill your bones so much that the muscles around them will get pissed off and expel themselves out your asshole. Toni Collette stars in what looks to be this year’s scary classic.

Won’t you Be My neigHBor (June 8): A documentary on Fred Rogers. I know Mister Rogers was a beloved children’s TV figure and a good man, but his show gave my young self the

willies. I was always put off by his sanguine tones, and those puppets freaked me out. The Lady Elaine Fairchilde puppet looked like a red-nosed alcoholic demon, the sort that would perhaps hide under my bed and steal my underwear off my butt while I was sleeping. Don’t get me started on Captain Kangaroo.

Hotel ArteMis (June 8): A futuristic crime drama with Jodie Foster playing a nurse running a hospital for criminals in her hotel.

Foster hasn’t really been doing much as an actress lately, but this one looks like a true departure for her. It also has Jeff Goldblum and Dave Bautista, so maybe it will be an under-the-radar surprise. incrediBles 2 (June 15): The original Incredibles was my favorite Pixar movie until Up came along and made me cry. This one looks like it will be well worth the long wait. (The original came out 14 years ago.)

Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) gets a new gig with the government while Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) has to stay home with the kids, one of them being an infant with budding, mysterious powers. tAg (June 15): A cross-country game of tag played by the likes of Jeremy Renner and Jon Hamm. This reminds me of that Monty Python “Olympic Hide and Seek” sketch. You’ve never seen that? Oh, my. Well, stop down and check it out on YouTube. You’ll laugh. It’s a regular riot. suPerfly (June 15): A remake of the ’70s Blaxploitation classic starring Trevor Jackson and Jason Mitchell. If they jettison the original Superfly theme song by Curtis Mayfield, I will throw my unwrapped Starburst Minis at the screen as a show of extreme protest. gotti (June 15): Somebody who recently met me said he could tell I grew up in New York, which I did, because my hair makes me look like John Gotti. Seriously considering a new stylist.

John Travolta plays the dapper prick in this longdelayed look at the life of a total bastard.

JurAssic World: fAllen KingdoM (June 22): I was having doubts about this one based on the trailer, but the second trailer has me happy.

The movie’s first half deals with Chris Pratt trying to get dinosaurs off an island that’s about to erupt. That part looks a little goofy, but the second part deals with dinosaurs invading residential homes. That’s following the basic blueprint of Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and that’s fine by me. Movie dinosaurs belong in living rooms scaring the shit out of people.

under tHe silver lAKe (June 22): From the writer/director of It Follows … that’s all you have to say to me to get my curiosity up for this one starring Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough. dAMsel (June 22): Robert Pattinson has been picking them well in his post-Twilight career. This one is from the Zellner brothers directing team. sicArio: dAy of tHe sAldAdo (June 29): Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro are back for this sequel, but Emily Blunt is not because she’s off piloting her umbrella for the new Mary Poppins movie. My first thought was this would be lame, like when Harrison Ford didn’t show up for The Fugitive sequel. But, I have to admit, that scene where del Toro goes ape shit on a drug cartel guy with that nasty little herky-jerky gun has me thinking it might deliver the goods. tHe Hustle (June 29): This is actually a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels—which, in

t ocean’s 8.

ss excited abou

le Bob couldn’t be

14 | RN&R | 05.03.18

ng wait.

l worth the lo

e it will be wel

looks lik incredibles 2

turn was a remake of the Marlon Brando film Bedtime Story—starring Anne Hathaway in the role previously inhabited by the late Glenne Headly. It’s weird to type the words “the late Glenne Headly.”

uncle dreW (June 29): This is an online series sponsored by Pepsi starring the likes of Kyrie Irving and Shaquille O’Neal playing tournament basketball in old-age makeup. Seriously, what the hell is this?

July tHe first Purge (July 4): Marisa Tomei is in this. THE Marisa Tomei! This is disheartening news.

Ant-MAn And tHe WAsP (July 6): In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the Marvel universe is in full swing this summer. sorry to BotHer you (July 6): This is in my Top 10 movies I’m looking forward to. Starring Lakeith Stanfield—the party screamer in last year’s Get Out—and directed

by Boots Riley. (You just have to root for a guy with the name Boots Riley.) Stanfield stars as a guy who employs a “white voice” (the voice of David Cross) to make it big as a telemarketer. This looks like fantasy satire to be reckoned with.

Hotel trAnsylvAniA 3: A Monster vAcAtion (July 13): I’ll say this in advance: you should feel just a little guilty for dumping your kids off for this animated kiddie crap while you go have your margaritas on a Saturday. My dad used to drop me off for shit like Star Wars and Indiana Jones when he went out for his bourbon-and-hooker full tilt boogie. There was an attention to quality even when he was blowing me off. sKyscrAPer (July 13): While it’s not called The Towering Inferno, this looks a lot like Irwin Allen could sue, even though Irwin Allen is so, so dead. Dwayne Johnson stars as a security guy who must rescue his family from a skyscraper that’s on fire, while also being besieged by bad guys. This is the 589th movie Dwayne Johnson has headlined in the last year.

Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (July 13): Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill star for Gus Van Sant in the true story of cartoonist John Callahan. I have nothing clever or snarky to say about this.

MaMMa Mia! Here We Go aGain (July 20): Is Meryl Streep really in this, or are they just using her in flashbacks? Look, I love ABBA, but the first movie kind of sucked, and this one will obviously be using the second tier of ABBA hits unused in the original film.

And … Pierce Brosnan is back and singing again. There are a lot of horror movies coming out this summer, but there are no cinematic prospects as horrifying as the possibility of Brosnan warbling “Super Trouper.” tHe equalizer 2 (July 20): Denzel Washington goes on a revenge spree after his friend is murdered. He’s gonna kill ya. Doesn’t matter if you have a bazooka in his face, explosives set to go off in his pants, and a nuclear bomb ready to kill him and everybody around him if he moves. He’s gonna kill ya. Don’t even try to protect yourself. He’s … gonna … kill … ya.

Mission: iMpossible-Fallout (July 27): Tom Cruise, who notoriously does many of his own stunts, broke parts of his body filming a scene for this, and I think that footage makes it into the movie. I’m buying a ticket just for that. Tom Cruise is a freaking nut, but he’s still a badass.

August CHristopHer robin (August 3): Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) grows up to work a regular Joe job and gets visited by old pal Winnie the Pooh. Could be cute. Could also be Hook revisited. tHe spy WHo DuMpeD Me (August 3): Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon and Justin Theroux star in a spy comedy that has to be good because of those three names I just typed. tHe MeG (August 10): A big shark movie. A really big shark movie. A really, really, really, god damned, holy crap big shark movie. Oh, yeah! Starring Jason Statham. Oh, well. tHe Guernsey literary potato peel pie soCiety (August 10): Yes, there is a movie with this title coming out this summer. tHe HappytiMe MurDers (August 17): Humans and puppets share the screen in this Jim Henson Company production. No Muppets are in the cast, but Elizabeth Banks, Joel McHale and Melissa McCarthy show up.

DoG Days (August 24): A drama about people in Los Angeles meeting via their dogs. I wasn’t excited about this until I noticed it’s directed by Ken Marino (Wet Hot American Summer) and I saw a Boston Terrier in one of the publicity stills. Boston Terrier sighting!

repliCas (August 24): Keanu Reeves stars as a scientist who doesn’t know how to say goodbye to his wife (Alice Eve) and kids after they die in an auto accident. Prepare yourselves in advance for somber, brainy Keanu as opposed to vapid, joyous Keanu. It’s a very different strain of Keanu. Psychological adjustments and preparations are required for the beholding of somber, brainy Keanu. Don’t be caught off guard by somber, brainy Keanu.

This is a PSA brought to you by the fans of vapid, joyous Keanu. papillon (August 24): One of my all-time favorites is the original Papillon starring Steve McQueen as an escape artist trying to get off a prison island with Dustin Hoffman in tow.

Charlie Hunnam steps into the McQueen role and Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) steps in for Hoffman. I don’t know about this.

september alpHa (September 14): I love my dog. This one is about a cave kid lost in the wilderness becoming the world’s first dog owner. I’m hoping it plays at a drive-in nearby so I can take my dog with me, and we can experience it together. I’ll shed some tears and feel uncompromising love for my furry companion. She’ll probably just fart a lot.

NortherN

New for 2018:

we heard you!

In response to feedback from readers after last year’s contest,

we’re changing the rules:

The firsT round voTing is an open-ballot primary where readers can write in and vote for whatever businesses, personalities, animals, minerals and abstract concepts you like.

Voting for the first round begins May 3 and ends June

tHe preDator (September 14): As the summer winds down, someone takes another shot at making a worthwhile Predator movie, something that hasn’t happened since the original Arnie installment over 30 years ago. So, they’ve cooked up a new story for you, and they are dropping you into a rebooted meat grind-uh!

By the time you’ve watched the Schwarzenegger-less Predator, it will be three months until Christmas. That’s messed up.

So, if you read these capsules in chronological order as you were seeing the movies in real time—sort of like a cinematic Advent Calendar—and you are reading this part in late September, Santa is coming soon! Hooray! Ω

2018

There

are

’18

now

two rounds of voting. for The second round voTing,

7.

voters will select the winners from a small group of finalists. The final round will begin June 28 and end July 26.

Go to bestofnorthernnevada.com 05.03.18 | RN&R | 15

Tokens history

of

Collectors will gather to buy, sell and trade gambling memorabilia at the nevada historical society

howard herz is the coordinator of the american Gaming archives.

16 | RN&R | 05.03.18

Story and photos by Jeri Chadwell jeric@newsreview.com

Steve Blust has been collecting casino chips for about two decades now. Blust, who worked for many years as an editor for the Sacramento Bee, said his interest in history and Sacramento’s close proximity to Lake Tahoe and Reno led him to the hobby.

“The history was the big pull for me, and that’s still the main attraction for me,” Blust said. “I love learning about where places used to be. As an example, the Crystal Bay Club on the north shore of Lake Tahoe started out in the late 1930s as a place called the Ta-Neba-Ho. … I have some chips from the Ta-Neba-Ho from the late ’30s in my collections.”

Blust hesitated to estimate how large his chip collection grew. But it’s smaller now.

“I used to collect from Canada and Australia, the Caribbean,” he explained.

“When I first got into the hobby—and this is what a lot of people do—I started collecting everything. And then you realize pretty quickly that you can’t collect everything unless you win the lottery.”

Over the years, Blust began to focus his collecting on Northern Nevada and Lake Tahoe casinos and sold many of the unrelated chips in his collection, both online and at chip digs—events where collectors come together to buy, sell and trade gambling memorabilia. He’ll be selling more of them during a chip dig at the Nevada Historical Society on May 12.

“I’m at a point now where I’m selling most of what I have,” Blust said. “I’m getting a little older. My kids are in their late 30s. They don’t have any interest in this, and so I made the decision a while back to start gradually selling off parts of my collection.”

He’ll keep most of his Lake Tahoe collection, which he estimates at 200 chips.

At the NHS, where Blust and other collectors will convene for the chip dig, there is already a large collection of gambling memorabilia. And it goes far beyond chips.

AmAssing An Archive An exhibition in the NHS featuring slot machines, casino chips, gambling manufacturers’ sales catalogs and cheating devices like marked cards and loaded dice provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of gambling in Nevada and elsewhere in the U.S. And according to NHS Director Catherine Magee, what’s on display represents a tiny fraction of the materials in a collection called the American Gaming Archives. The archives, she explained, are the product of five decades of work by the man who amassed much of them.

Howard Herz is the coordinator of the American Gaming Archives.

He explained that his own interest in gambling history emerged in the mid1960s. But, at first, it was a part of his job. Herz’s maternal aunt was married to Harvey’s Hotel and Casino owner Harvey Gross. And Herz worked as the curator of the Harvey’s coin collections.

“And starting around 1965, Harvey’s began a collection of gaming chips,” he said. “And as we continued to accumulate more and more gaming chips and gaming tokens, I became interested in some of their history and where they were from.”

Within a few decades, the chip collection had swelled to around 25,000.

Harvey Gross died in 1983. In the years to follow, Herz explained, inventorying the chip collection became a necessity.

“We had certain obligations with the Gaming Commission to inventory what we had—and to account for what we had, with regard to the estate matters,” he said. “That led into a lot of research regarding what we had, where it came from, what were the distinctions to be made if it was going to be catalogued.”

As a part of this undertaking, Herz started making trips to visit gambling manufacturers, many of which were based in places like Chicago. But getting information from them wasn’t always easy.

“I visited one called Mason & Company and was literally thrown out because they said they had nothing of interest for me,” Herz said. “But, as it turned out, five years later, after the owner of the company had died, I purchased the company’s records. And I continued to be able to obtain and purchase records during the ’90s when a lot of the Chicago companies were closing or turning over.

And those records, today, are here in the American Gaming Archives.”

Loaded dice like these contain a weighted mechanism that can be shifted to favor certain numbers.

Eventually, most of the chips in the Harvey’s collection were sold to private collectors. But, as the ’90s progressed, Herz developed a new motivation—to preserve what he refers to as the “fabric of gaming”—a thing, he said, “which goes everywhere from loaded dice to fair dice to entertainment to looking at the term ‘gaming,’ instead of ‘gambling.’”

Herz had begun gathering sales catalogs and artifacts like chips and fair and loaded dice. And as manufacturing companies closed, he felt a need to continue collecting their records.

“The history of what they produced, of what types of materials they produced, was vanishing,” he said. “It was going into dumpsters in Chicago and New York, even in Reno, Nevada.”

Herz’s interest in preserving gambling history went beyond tangible artifacts.

Along the way, he also felt the need to accumulate stories.

“It was obvious to me that people who had started the gaming, who knew how gaming progressed and what its problems had been and what they’d overcome—these were all people who were getting into their 70s, 80s and, in some cases, their 90s by then,” Herz said.

By the early 2000s, he’d interviewed many people involved in gambling—from casino workers to the heads of manufacturing companies—and amassed a sizeable collection of artifacts and archival materials telling pieces of gambling history from across the U.S. and even the Caribbean.

“And I felt it was important to look back at the history that I had begun to see and accumulate,” Herz said. “And I thought it was very important that some institution should have and preserve these records.

And, obviously, because of Nevada’s historic position in gaming, I wanted them to be in Nevada.”

Herz set his sights on the NHS as a repository for his archives, and the American Gaming Archives were established there in 2006—the year that marked the 75th anniversary of legal gambling in Nevada.

A full house Over the last decade, the archives have continued growing, often through donations from private gambling collectors. But casual visitors to the NHS museum likely wouldn’t know it. Magee, who took up the director’s post at the society in 2016, estimates less than one percent of the archive’s materials are currently on display. However, she’d like to see that change. The first step, though, would be for the NHS to move from its current facilities constructed on the University of Nevada, Reno campus in 1968.

Magee said the NHS has been looking at options for buildings closer to downtown Reno but that funding for a move is an unresolved issue.

“It helps if we have some partners in this,” she said. “I hate to say it, but it’s one of those ‘chicken or the egg?’ things— because we have some supporters who want us to have a new facility, but they want us to have a new facility before they feel like they can put their full support behind us. So we’re in that Catch-22 situation.”

But Magee said she thinks there’s a strong interest in Reno to have a more centrally located history museum.

“If I had my fantasy, which—this is not going to happen—I would love to be in the old Ponderosa Hotel Casino,” she said. “I would love to be in an old hotel casino, but particularly there, because I could see it creating a museum corridor really close to the Nevada Museum of Art, the Discovery Museum and the Automobile Museum. So that’s my fantasy.” Ω This die, with numbers 1 through 9, is called a “bank clearing” or “stock exchange” die.

The Chip Dig and Gaming Collectibles Show will take place at the Nevada Historical Society, 1650 N. Virginia St., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 12. Admission is free.

05.03.18 | RN&R | 17

Speak Youth To Power

Candidate Forums Here’s an opportunity for young people— and everyone else—to ask the important questions to local candidates.

All three events start at 6 p.m. at the Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St.

May 3: Washoe County Commission May 10: Reno City Council May 31: Mayor of Reno

Presented by the Reno News & Review, the Holland Project, ThisisReno.com, the Washoe County Library System, and KWNK Community Radio, the Speak Youth to Power Forum will center around issues affecting young voters. While these events are youth-centered, all members of the public are encouraged to attend. These are not debates, but forums for candidates to address issues. Audience members will also have the opportunity to ask questions. These non-partisan forums are open to all candidates.

18 | RN&R | 05.03.18

by JEssica santina

Joe Atack slays as Hedwig.

Photo/Eric Marks

Queer magic I might have been the only audience member during the special sneak preview performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch who knew almost nothing about this cult classic rock musical about a “slip of a girly boy” who endures a botched sex change operation and becomes a tortured musical genius. But everyone in the room, including me, was blown away.

I expected pain and heartache, and I certainly got my share. I did not expect comedic genius, kick-ass music or to absolutely fall in love with this strange, pissed-off, freakishly made-up, genderqueer singer.

Hedwig is a first-time joint production of Brüka Theatre and Goodluck Macbeth Theatre Company, appearing at GLM’s brand-new midtown space. The sleek new digs have been completely transformed; upon sliding through the curtain dividing lobby from theater, you are transported to a seedy nightclub. A dilapidated ’80s sedan sits ominously center stage. As you take your seat at a table down front or on one of the risers, band members warm up, and what appears to be a stagehand—a slim, feminine-looking man with a wispy moustache—checks microphones.

The band is The Angry Inch (local band Stabby Unicorn). That stagehand is Yitzhak (Amy Ginder)—backup singer (and backup everything else) to Hedwig, the band’s front (wo)man, who emerges from the hood of that car to kick off the show. In a blond wig, an unbelievably short denim minidress and legs up to here, the magnetic Joe Atack embodies the essence of Hedwig, making pre-show banter with the audience, casually sucking beer through a straw and thanking Brüka and Goodluck Macbeth for bringing the show to Reno. You’ll start to wonder when the play will begin. It already has.

And so Hedwig sneakily begins her tragic tale, worming her way into your heart.

Written by John Cameron Mitchell (who performed the lead role Off Broadway in 1998 and in the film in 2001) and composer Steven Trask, it’s a story told with razor wit by Hedwig, through an impassioned concert of her songs that trace the misery of her life. As a boy named Hansel Schmidt, he meets an American G.I. named Luther, who convinces Hansel to have a sex change, marry him and escape Communist East Germany.

Snip snip and Hansel is Hedwig, not a man nor a woman but somewhere in between, brutally left with nothing but a one-inch mound of flesh, the angry inch, that henceforward dominates Hedwig’s existence.

Meanwhile, the occasional peek out the back door reveals her ex-lover, rock superstar Tommy Gnosis, is just next door playing the songs he plagiarized from Hedwig to a packed house.

Atack—who, in addition to his theatrical talents, is a musician with local band Weapons of Mass Creation—and Stabby Unicorn blow the roof off the place with punk-inspired tunes and gorgeous ballads I still can’t get out of my head days later.

Atack is brilliant—all at once charming, seductive and pitiful—and as the bitter and abused Yitzhak, Ginder chimes in with the occasional “boop” or “yeah,” but when she’s finally allowed to join Hedwig, her own pipes prove to be a powerhouse.

Together they make magic. Ω

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

12345 Brüka theatre and Goodluck Macbeth theatre company present hedwig and the angry inch through May 12 at GoodLuck Macbeth’s new space, 124 W. taylor st. For tickets and information, call the Brüka box office, 3233221 or visit www.brownpapertickets.com.

by BoB Grimm

b g ri m m @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

“Everybody ... rock your body! Everybody ... rock your body right! Backstreet’s back, all right!”

Action packed The Avengers team takes a swift kick to their remarkably muscular collective ass via a super baddie named Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, likely the best big blockbuster time you will have at the cinemas this summer movie season.

While Marvel movies have been on a nice roll lately (Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain America: Civil War), the last “Avengers” movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, was a misguided, boring dud. This third installment—the first of a two-parter, with the second to be released next summer—lets it all hang out with a massive collection of characters and a scary sense of impending doom.

There are many, many storylines at play servicing many superheroes and villains. Infinity War feels like the Magnolia of Marvel movies in that it takes all of those storylines and balances them in a cohesive, vastly entertaining manner. It’s over two-and-a-half hours long, but it’s never even close to boring.

The balancing act is performed by directors Anthony and Joe Russo, the team that made Captain America: Civil War such a winner. The magic of that film carries over into this one, which picks up directly after the end of Thor: Ragnarok. That film ended with Thor and his fellow Asgardians feeling somewhat triumphant after losing their planet after defeating emo Cate Blanchett. A mid-credits scene saw their ship coming face to face with one owned by the mighty Thanos (Josh Brolin).

In one of the great performance-capture achievements, Brolin is the best of monsters, one who manages just enough of a sensitive side that he falls well short of stereotype. At one turn, when he’s obliterating planets and torturing horrified people under his large feet, he’s one holy terror. Then, he’ll shed a tear that shows there’s a big, obviously misguided heart pumping in his Infinity Stone-seeking chest.

He’s much more complicated than your average CGI character.

I won’t go into the whole Infinity Stone thing, other than they’ve played a part in many past Marvel films, and they all come together and show their

meaning and purpose in this movie as Thanos adds them, one by one, to his “Infinity Gauntlet.” Each time he gets another one, a palpable sense of dread builds.

The gang is all here. You know them well, so it almost makes sense to just tell you who doesn’t show up in this installment: Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) are nowhere to be seen, but Hawkeye, Ant-Man and a newish Marvel superhero play into the next chapter.

Robert Downey, Jr., continues his magnificent trek as Tony Stark/Iron Man, trying to arrange a wedding and babies with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) when yet another apocalypse begins. Bruce Banner/The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) continue their streak of weird humor after Ragnarok while Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) continues to smolder after the events of Civil War. Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) provides the sensible guy arc, sharing some of the movie’s best scenes with Stark.

Tom Holland continues his joyful portrayal of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and the Guardians of the Galaxy join the fray with a welcomed and substantial contribution, especially from Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan), estranged daughters of Thanos. Some of the best banter in the film happens whenever Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) encounters an Avenger trying to out-cool him.

There’s a lot at stake in this movie—perhaps too much for one film. That’s not so much a complaint, but there’s a slight sense of overload and loose ends.

That, along with knowing it’s essentially a part one, keeps Avengers: Infinity War from being classified as a masterpiece. Hey, maybe it’ll get an upgrade to “part of masterpiece” next summer, when the final chapter in the current Avengers arc plays out.

For now, get thee to a big screen and be prepared to have your face melted with superhero/bad guy greatness. It’s dark. It’s funny. It’s thrilling. It’s actionpacked. It’s fantastically performed. Ω

Avengers: infinity War

12345

SHORT TAKES

4

Blockers

4

Isle of Dogs

A trio of deranged parents (Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike Barinholtz) discovers a pact by their three daughters to lose their virginity on prom night, so they stalk them on their special evening. This sounds like the basis for a crap movie but, as things turn out, it results in what will surely stand as one of the year’s funniest movies. Directed by Kay Cannon, the movie pushes the boundaries, for sure, pouring it on thick with the profanity—very funny profanity—and frank talk about high school seniors treading into sexual activity (not to mention drug experimentation and drinking). It handles its subjects in a surprisingly mature and even sweet way in the end, with the teenaged daughters (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan and Gideon Adlon) having their acts together far more than their bumbling parents. The always reliable Mann gets a chance to really shine here; she is one of the best comic actresses in the game. Barinholtz gets a lot of laughs as the movie’s most messed-up character, while Cena continues to prove that he has the comic chops to hold his own with some of the best. This is one of those rare comedies that gets consistent laughter from the opening scene until its ending.

This is one of the strangest—and coolest—experiences you will have in a theater this year. Wes Anderson’s second foray into stop-motion animation (after 2009’s excellent Fantastic Mr. Fox) is another visual masterpiece. While the story itself goes a little flat for stretches, it’s a nonstop visual splendor for its entire running time.

Two decades in the future, Megasaki, a fictional Japanese city, is ruled by the evil Mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura). Kobayashi is a cat person, and after the nation’s dogs come down with a strange strain of dog flu, all canines are banned to Trash Island to live out their days scavenging through garbage and rumbling in the junkyards. Kobayashi’s nephew, Atari (Koyu Rankin), misses his dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber), and sets out to find his beloved pet on Trash Island. The island is occupied by various dog gangs, one of them consisting of Chief (Bryan Cranston), Rex (Edward Norton), King (Bob Balaban), Boss (Bill Murray) and Duke (Jeff Goldblum).

Whether it’s live action or stop-motion, you can count on Anderson’s usual gang of performers to show up. (Welcome to the Wes Anderson party, Bryan Cranston!) There’s some dog gang squabbling for leadership honors, with Rex often calling for votes that the rebel Chief always loses. When Atari shows up on the island, Chief winds up spending the most time with him, and he learns a little bit about bonding with a boy, as dogs do. There’s a very sweet “love your dogs” message at the center of Anderson’s story, which he wrote with story contributions from Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Nomura.

3

Kodachrome

A dying photographer (Ed Harris) coaxes his estranged son (Jason Sudeikis) into going on a road trip with him and his nurse (Elizabeth Olsen) to get some Kodachrome film developed before the world stops developing the brand. Yes, it’s yet another road movie, and yes, it has the “somebody’s dying” gimmick to go with it, but don’t write this one off based on the synopsis. The trio of stars are pretty good here, with Harris especially decent as a miserable man trying, in a very strange and peculiar way, to make nice with his son before checking out. Sudeikis is one of the more underrated actors out there right now, and he does a lot with a fairly stereotypical role. Olsen, one of my favorite actresses, puts the whole thing over the top as more than just an extra passenger calling shotgun. The movie falls into some of the typical trope potholes, but Harris and company consistently pull it out of the muck. There’s a music business subplot involving the Sudeikis character that is actually pretty good, too.

Not a great movie, but definitely worth a shot.

(Streaming on Netflix.)

4

A Quiet Place

2

Ready Player One

2

The Week Of

Noise-intolerant neighbors are taken to all new levels in A Quiet Place, a new horror film from director John Krasinski.

Krasinski also stars as Lee, a father trying to protect his family in a post-apocalyptic world besieged by horrific aliens who will tear you apart if you make so much as a peep. The aliens are blind, so they hunt by sound. Not, say, the sound of a river running or a bird chirping, but sounds that are more “interruptive,” like fireworks, a person screaming after stepping on a nail, or really loud farts. The gimmick lends itself to some faulty logic at times, but it does provide an overall interesting premise: Speak audibly in relatively quiet surroundings, and you will get your head bitten off. Krasinski’s film gives you no real back story about the aliens.

A few glimpses of newspaper front pages let you know that the world has been wiped out by the species. One look at them—they are a cross between Ridley Scott’s Alien and the Cloverfield monster—and you know that just a few days with these things running around would decimate the world population. Blunt gives the film’s standout performance as somebody forced to keep quiet after not only a painful injury but, on top of that, having to give birth in a bathtub while an alien clicks and claws nearby.

Steven Spielberg goes for broke but leaves you bleary-eyed in a bad way with Ready Player One, based on the very popular Ernest Cline novel. The film is so full of pop culture references that it doesn’t so much deliver them as visually vomit them into your face. Rather than relishing the opportunity for ’80s nostalgia, Spielberg opts for whiplash pacing and miscasting, squandering the chance to allow any of the fun elements to really sink in. The futuristic storyline involves something called the OASIS, a virtual reality world that is not only a pastime, but a total escape from real-world poverty and pollution. Wade (Tye Sheridan) lives in a place called the Stacks, basically manufactured homes piled on top of each other, and he whiles away many hours in the OASIS as his alter ego/avatar Parzival.

There’s a plethora of pop culture cameos inside the OASIS, including King Kong, Freddy Krueger and the Iron Giant, but there’s very little substance. The whole thing amounts to a lot of imagery, occasionally interesting but mostly dull, flying by with little impact.

After a strong and sweetly funny start, Adam Sandler’s latest falls apart in its second half, a stretch of film time that sorely needed some fine tuning. Sandler plays Kenny, a dad whose daughter (Allison Strong) is getting married in a week. He sees it as his last chance to do something for her, so he tries his best to put together an impressive spread for the two families coming together. Chris Rock plays the father of the groom, a wealthy heart surgeon who isn’t impressed with the hotel Kenny has picked. Others on hand include Rachel Dratch—good to see her—as Kenny’s wife, and Steve Buscemi as a sleazy family member with amazing climbing abilities. Directed by Robert Smigel, the film goes on long enough for the jokes to start dying from old age. A joke involving a legless uncle starts funny, gets funnier, almost gets really funny, then goes stale. As a Howard Stern fan, I was happy to finally see the culmination of all of Ronnie the Limo Driver’s hard work; he’s a bad actor, but he was better than I thought he would be. (He’s a convincing sleeper.) Having grown up on Long Island, I can say that the movie did a good job capturing the region, from the accents to the undying loyalty to Billy Joel. You have to have some respect for a comedy that kills a legless man by throwing him into a bounce pit in the middle of a strip club, but that’s not enough to make it a winner.

That’s a shame, because Sandler is actually pretty endearing in it, and some of the performers bring at least their B-game. It needed to be about 25 minutes shorter, and 35 percent funnier. (Streaming on Netflix.)

05.03.18

|

RN&R

|

19

Best Wings MENTION

THIS AD & GET

in Reno

1/2 OFF

PRETZEL BITES OR MINI CORN DOGS

6015

S. VIRGINIA

#J

20 | RN&R | 05.03.18

Happy Hour 7 days a week +All day Monday

FOLLOW US ON

These tariffs are already being collected. Local newspapers, printers, and book publishers cannot absorb these costs. This will lead to fewer jobs and less access to local news in our community.

Mezcal Fridays!

Homestyle Mexican food 4 Shots of Mezcal for $12 ALL DAY! 2144 Greenbrae Dr. Sidekick Saturdays!

Sparks, NV 89431 2 Meals, 2 Drinks*, $24.99!

775-870-1177 *house ma rga r ita s or bo t t led b eer Open everyday 11am-10pm ( does not include speci al f lav or s )

Go to: stopnewsprinttariffs.orG

Thirsty Thursdays!

$5 House Margaritas ALL DAY!

tell congress that news matters. ask them to end the newsprint tariff.

any beer $3 ALL DAY!

threaten local news.

5th May 4th &

Beer Soup Tuesdays!

Trump’s Tariffs

CinCo de Mayo speCials

The Department of Commerce has assessed preliminary newsprint tariffs, which range as high as 32%.

by ToDD SouTh

In the city As a musician, I’ve had some of my most memorial experiences in Virginia City—and some really decent meals, too.

Every small tourist town has its off season, making it extra necessary for an eatery to keep the locals sated in order to thrive.

Despite only accepting cash and being open just three days a week, Cafe del Rio was the one restaurant mentioned as a “must try” by every Virginia City local I asked.

The place is definitely popular, and reservations are recommended. I wasn’t that smart, but I did plan on an early pre-gig meal with bandmates—and my cohort and I were able to squeak in right before the dinner rush on a Saturday evening.

Crispy and colorful tortilla chips were served with a fire roasted salsa that was tasty though mild, with plenty of fresh cilantro. The house “Del Rita” margarita ($7) was served on ice in a pint glass with salt and a mixture of silver tequila, agave and plenty of fresh lime juice. Service was very friendly and efficient. It seemed like we’d barely tucked into chips and drinks when our order arrived.

The cuisine is essentially “Tex Mex,” with a fair amount of creative flair and a whole lot of flavor. Our plates included sides of rice and beans. The rice was surprisingly fluffy, and the frijoles were somewhere between ranch-style and refried.

Both were very good. The chef’s take on a pair of tacos ($16) includes lightly grilled flour tortillas stuffed with goodies that you can mix and match. My beef taco of hanger steak—grilled West Texas style—was combined with smoked cheddar, pico de gallo, lettuce and chipotle sour cream, while the other featured marinated grilled mahi mahi topped with avocado salsa and garlic slaw. While I love the simplicity of an authentic street taco, these huge beauties

The chile relleno features a roasted and battered Anaheim chile stuffed with melted jack cheese and topped with a morita chile sauce.

PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG

were anything but and in a league of their own. Every bite was full of flavor, and the only downside was a need to keep up the pace lest the bottom get a bit soggy from all the juicy goodness. A hand towel would have been handy, but I didn’t mind a bit.

My friend’s barbecue chicken quesadilla ($14) with jack cheese, fresh corn and poblano pesto was equally as impressive. The flour tortilla was just as nicely crisped as the tacos, holding the contents well enough for the quesadilla to be successfully dipped in the provided chipotle sour cream. I thought the presentation of all our dishes was above average, though my buddy seemed a bit nonplussed by an intactwith-leaves whole garnish he dubbed “Mister Radish Head.” I thought it was kind of cute.

A plate of carnitas ($16) was piled high with Yucatan-inspired, spiced and braised pork bites, served with avocado salsa, pickled onion, sour cream and warm flour tortillas. The dish had fantastic flavor—not a bit dry—and was more than enough food to share. But a beautifully dressed chile relleno ($12) was a true show stopper. The roasted and battered Anaheim chile was full of melted jack cheese and topped with a morita chile sauce and a healthy drizzle of chipotle sour cream. The seasonings were unlike any relleno I’ve had—complex yet comforting—with a rich smokiness that belied the pepper’s trial by fire before being stuffed and fried. Over the years I’ve tasted a lot of disappointing chiles relleno, with occasional moments of satisfaction.

This sexy pepper had me at hello—and may have ruined me for all others. Ω

Cafe Del Rio

394 S. C St., Virginia City, 847-5151

Cafe Del Dio is open Friday and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

For more information, visit cafedelriovc.com.

by MaTT BieKeR

new bar on 4th st join thE advEnturE &

experience reno’s history

Karen Bates chats with customers at The Reno Homebrewer’s location on Fourth Street.

At home I started brewing beer six years ago under the tutelage of my neighbor, Jon Anderson. A veteran home brewer, he’d invite me over to his workshopturned-brewery and explain the science behind fermentation. After some pretty horrendous early attempts, my brewing improved, and my appreciation for new beer styles increased as well.

Brewing served as my introduction to the world of quality drink, but Jon also introduced me to the place where I would source my ingredients and equipment for every batch I’d make: The Reno Homebrewer.

The shop moved to its current location on East Fourth Street in August of last year, but before that it inhabited a quiet corner of Dickerson Road for 23 years. If you’re a Renoite who makes your own alcohol, chances are you’ve heard of—or visited with—owner Rob Bates and his daughter, Karen Bates, at the Reno Homebrewer.

“We opened our first shop on South McCarran across from Meadowood Mall in 1986,” Rob said.

Rob opened his shop under a very different beer climate than we see in Reno and the rest of the country today. Originally, he said, he operated under the premise of providing cheap alternatives to the ubiquitous Bud and Miller. For many, the only way to try the niche styles so readily accessible today was to make them by hand, and the shop established the early reputation as a hub for knowledge.

The craft beer movement of the past decade has been transformative time for the shop and Reno’s homebrewing community. A second local home brewing store, Brew Chatter, opened in Sparks in 2014.

“It has morphed into something completely different,” Rob said. “We are transforming from a knowledge-based business into more of commoditybased business, because there’s so much information available outside here.”

PHOTO/MATT BIEKER

Rob and Karen—who began working with her father in 2014—have spent the last few years serving new regulars who’ve been asking for new products.

“The craft beer movement is not about having cheap beer—it’s about having really good beer,” Rob said. “The quality and availability of stuff—we didn’t have [that] 30 years ago. You couldn’t get good yeast, couldn’t get fresh hops, couldn’t get the kinds of grains and extracts that you can today.”

The Reno Homebrewer’s East Fourth Street location is its fourth. Now, it shares the sidewalk with some of the same breweries whose founders got their start making beer with Rob’s products and knowledge.

I’ve been buying my grain and yeast from the Bates since 2012, and I still prefer asking Rob or Karen about any issues with my brew over browsing the beer forums online. I’m not alone.

Local home brewers often gather at The Reno Homebrewer to talk technique and share recipes.

And now, with the Bates’ alcohol vending license and bar, they can do it over a beer.

“You know how people are, now that we can serve beer and wine, you get people down talking over a beer,” Karen said. “They’ll talk to a stranger because they both share the same hobby.”

If you’ve ever thought about picking up brewing as hobby, I’ll share the same encouraging words Rob gave me: “You can’t make anything that can hurt you,” he said. “You can drink your mistakes.” Ω

The Reno Homebrewer

535 E. Fourth St., 329-2537

Learn more by visiting renohomebrewer.com.

1114 E. 4th St. 775-324-7827

exclusive deals right to your inbox. sign up for the newsletter at rnrsweetdeals.newsreview.com

rnrsweetdeals.newsreview.com

1545 S Virginia St, Reno NV • 775/322-7777 w w w. s p a o f t h e w e s t . c o m

Spa of the West (Right Next to Sports West)

It Pays to be LOCAL!

Special May Offer!

Bring Your Local ID and get $10 Off Any Service or Product

(excluding monthly spa specials)

Book Your Appointment Today! Call

775.322.7777 www.spaofthewest.com

Or, Book Online at

Offer good Through May 31stt, 2018

05.03.18 | RN&R | 21

by KEnT IRwIn

join the

team!

For the members of Late For Rent—Elleanor Burke, Travis Rubio and Michael Maxwell—sometimes the living-expenses budget gets diverted for equipment.

rn&r is hiring

Fountains of youth

• distribution driver For more inFormation and to apply, go to www.newsreview.com/reno/jobs

Late For Rent Reno riffslingers Late For Rent are very damn heavy. The power trio—made up of vocalist/guitarist Elleanor Burke, drummer Michael Maxwell and bassist Travis Rubio—began with them recording a self-titled EP in November 2017. The tracks, which were recorded live, have the fresh, young energy of a new band.

“We prefer to record together live,” said Maxwell. “If not, it loses a ton of energy.

Things don’t sync up as well.”

Late For Rent is foremost a live band.

The music is a sonic assault of virtuosic intensity best enjoyed through a good pair of earplugs, with atmospheric shifts from noisy and chaotic, to groovy and spacey, or heavy and sludgy. Interwoven throughout are pretty and melodic moments.

Burke attributes the ambitious sound to the sheer number of different styles that influence her, from shoegaze to stoner rock to black metal. Additionally, the rest of the band agrees the leaps are a good buffer for boredom.

“If we do something more than four times, we have to change it,” said Maxwell.

Burke also cites an old jazz trick as the mother of invention for many of the band’s more eclectic twists and turns: she makes mistakes. “I just make the mistake more than once, so it seems like I did it on purpose,” she said.

It’s in the imperfection that Late For Rent finds thematic unity. Burke’s lyrics focus on things that scare her, that isolate her, and ultimately strengthen her resolve.

They’re inexorably tied to a life story with many frightening moments.

“As an artist and trans woman living in northern Idaho, I just found it

Chico Community Publishing, dba the Reno News & Review, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

304334_4.9_x_5.4.indd 22 | RN&R 1 | 05.03.18

4/26/18 12:44 PM

Photo/Kent IrwIn

wasn’t the best environment,” she said.

“Everyone was telling me that Reno was gross. It was sketchy. They were warning me not to move here. But ever since I did, I’m so much better off.”

Maxwell, who met Burke online by discovering Burke’s interpretations of Legend of Zelda music, agrees that life has improved since the relocation.

“I just remember lying in the back of your van listening to [King Gizzard & the Infinity Lizard’s] Nonagon Infinity and felt so young. I thought, ‘Life is beautiful now,’” said Maxwell.

In many ways, the bandmates face their challenges head on, and their adventurous sound provides its own challenges. Burke, in pursuit of the ideal guitar sound, admits she goes for broke, spending money on the right gear, when the funds can be hard to come by. It’s this hardscrabble mentality that partially inspired the band name.

“It’s a product of being young and poor,” said Burke. “Gear comes first.”

Maxwell’s total war on his drum set has caused many casualties. Band-Aid wrappers litter the floor of the band’s practice space. The Band-Aids are used to patch up a crack in the bass drum, as well as cracks in Maxwell’s skin, when he strikes a rim of the drums and draws blood, as he did during the interview.

“You break the drums, and the drums break you,” said Burke.

It’s clear that the challenges galvanize the band’s sound. One song may take the listener through a chaotic punk beat, to the foggy terrain of doom metal, to soaring through the clouds on a cloud of reverb and delay. With such unpredictable and ambitious concepts, it’s no surprise the band members find fulfillment in the pursuit of the challenge.

“Being 20, this is just something we all need in our lives—to be crazy, young and loud,” said Burke. Ω

Find Late For rent’s music at lateforrent.bandcamp.com.

THURSDAY 5/3 1up

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

Two Owls, Kayoh, FreeFall, 10pm, $10 Dance party, 10pm, $5

Dance party, 10pm, $5

ALIBI ALE WORKS

The Sun Rays, 8pm, no cover

The Coffis Brothers, The Mountain Men, 8:30pm, no cover

BAR Of AmERIcA

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

May 4, 10 p.m.

THE BLuEBIRD 1up 555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549 214 W. Commercial Row cARgO cONcERT HALL 813-6689

The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611: Thomas Dale, Michael Blaustein, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25, Sat, 9pm, $30; Amir K, Ron Morey, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401: Harry Basil, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sun, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Angelo Tsarouchas, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX Lounge, Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Justin Rivera, Thu, 8pm, Fri, 6:30pm, $15 Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Taylor Thomlinson, Thu, 8pm, $10-$15; Fri, 9:30pm, $15-$20, Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15-$20; Comedy Collective, Fri, 6:30pm, $10-$15; Justin Rivera (all-ages show), 3pm, Sat, $12-$15

Cut Snake, 10pm, $5-$20 Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

10069 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 536-5029

Comedy

SATURDAY 5/5

5 STAR SALOON

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Cut Snake

FRIDAY 5/4

Zaytoven, 9pm, $10-$50

Ritual (gothic, industrial, EBM) w/DJs David Draven, Rusty, 9pm, $3-$5

Stööki Sound, Game Genie, JARS, IMF Dred, 9pm, $10-$20

cEOL IRISH puB

Chris Talbot, 9pm, no cover

cOTTONWOOD RESTAuRANT

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee, (530) 587-5711

Tom MacDonald & Tony Unger, 7pm, no cover

DAVIDSONS DISTILLERY

Rats in the Attic, 9pm, no cover

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

fAcES NV

RuPaul’s Drag Race viewing party, drag show, karaoke, 8pm, no cover

Intensity Pre-Party w/DJ John Joseph, 10pm, $TBA

fINE VINES

Reno Classical Music Open Mic, 7pm, no cover

Erika Paul, 7pm, no cover

239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590 6300 Mae Anne Ave., (775) 787-6300

HEADQuARTERS

3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

Adapter, 9pm, no cover

Post shows online by registerin g at www.newsrev iew.com/ren o.

Deadline is th e Friday before public ation.

Karaoke with Gina G, 9pm, Tu, no cover Gabe Plank, Dashel Milligan, Marshall Johnson, 7pm, no cover

Open mic, 7pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke Night, 7pm, W, no cover

Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover

Hellfire Saloon anniversary party with John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover Opossum Sun Trail, 8pm, Tu, $5 Half Waif, Hovvdy, 7pm, W, $7

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

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

Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Reno We Have a Problem, Donkey Jaw, Infecto Skeletons, 9pm, no cover

THE HOLLAND pROjEcT juB juB’S THIRST pARLOR

Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 6pm, M, no cover

Cinco de Mayo Latin Night w/DJ Be:Razz, 10pm, no cover

219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020

HELLfIRE SALOON

Tahoe School of Honk, 4pm, no cover The Deckheads, 9:30pm, no cover

Claptone, Justin Jay, Dateless, 8pm, $25-$30

MON-WED 5/7-5/9

Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Picked Over, 9:30pm, no cover

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

SUNDAY 5/6

PROF, Mac Irv, Cashinova, 8:30pm, $15 Pound, Blinded Youth, 9pm, $5

Blackwater, Niviane, Gürschach, Fire vs. Fire, 8pm, $5

Headphone, Jason Steady, 8pm, $TBA

05.03.18

|

RN&R

|

23

THE JUNGLE

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

THURSDAY 5/3

FRIDAY 5/4

SATURDAY 5/5

Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

SUNDAY 5/6

MON-WED 5/7-5/9 Open mic, 7pm, M, no cover Comedy Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover

LAUGHING PLANET CAFE—UNR

Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE NIGHTCLUB

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

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

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

THE LIBRARY

Open Mic Comedy with host Jim Flemming, 8:30pm, no cover

Acoustic Night, 9:30pm, no cover

134 W. Second St., (775) 683-3308

THE LOFT

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

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

MIDTOwN wINE BAR

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

Jake’s Garage 5.0, 8:30pm, no cover

1021 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions, 8pm, no cover

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

Wolf Creek Boys, Mason Frey, Delani White, 8pm, no cover

MagNicoSynth’s May the Funk Be with You, 10pm, no cover

THE POLO LOUNGE

DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

Adrian D & Chili Sauce vs. DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-5484

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

PONDEROSA SALOON

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $21-$46

Monique Jade Band, 8:30pm, no cover

Magic Fusion, 7pm, M, Tu, W, $21-$46 T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover Krystal & Paul Duo, 7pm, W, no cover

I’d Hit That DOS! Cinco de Mayo Celebration, 4pm, no cover

Grilling & Chilling Spring Season Opener w/DJ Ethik, noon, no cover Chris Costa, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke, 7pm, Tu, no cover Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

Trippin’ King Snakes, 7pm, no cover

RED DOG SALOON

Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474

THE SAINT

Coastlands, Kanawha, Blacklisted, 8pm, no cover

761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451

SHEA’S TAVERN

American Pinup, 7-Out, Chaki, Prince Robot, 8pm, $5-$6

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

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Guest DJs, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

TONIC LOUNGE

Origin, Dreaming Dead, Hate Storm Annihilation, Ostracized, 8:30pm, $15

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover Symmetry w/DJs Vic Crulich, 5657, Erik Lobe, 10pm, no cover

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

exclusive deals right to your inbox.

rnrsweetdeals.newsreview.com

sign up for the newsletter at rnrsweetdeals.newsreview.com 24

|

RN&R

May 4, 8 p.m.

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

Wednesday Night Jam, 8pm, W, no cover

Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

106 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7210

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

Claptone

|

05.03.18

Stööki Sound May 5, 9 p.m.

The BlueBird 555 E. Fourth St. 499-5549

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

Boomtown CAsino

2100 Garson Rd., Verdi, (775) 345-6000 1) Convention Center 2) Guitar Bar

CARson VAlleY inn

Vaud and the Villains May 4, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Casino 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

Karaoke Fourth Street BAR, 1114 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-7827: Karaoke with Chapin, W, 8pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Sat, 9:30pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

1627 Hwy. 395 North, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) Convention Center 2) Guitar Bar

THURSDAY 5/3

FRIDAY 5/4

SATURDAY 5/5

SUNDAY 5/6

MON-WED 5/7-5/9

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover Shane Dwight Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover Shane Dwight Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Shane Dwight Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

2) The Look, 5pm, no cover New Wave Crave, 9pm, no cover

1) WAR, 8pm, $5-$90 2) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover Ebony not Quite Ivory, 9pm, no cover

2) Soul Kiss, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Stephen Lord, 6pm, Tu, no cover Peter Pacyao, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Full Blast, 7pm, no cover

2) Full Blast, 8pm, no cover

2) Full Blast, 8pm, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, M, no cover Chris Twomey, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) Vaud and the Villains, 9pm, $15-$17

1) Hot Buttered Rum, Kyle Hollingsworth Band, 9pm, $20-$23

1) Cirque Paris, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover

CRYstAl BAY CAsino

14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room

eldoRAdo ResoRt CAsino

1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, W, $19.95-$49.95 1) Cirque Paris, 2pm, 5pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover 10pm, M, no cover

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95

GRAnd sieRRA ResoRt

3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ delaChappelle, 10pm, $20 3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, no cover

2) Cinco de Mayo Latin Night, 10pm, $20 3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, no cover

1) Simply the Best—A Tribute to the Music of Tina Turner, 7:30pm, $27-$37

2) Simply the Best, 7:30pm, $27-$37 Tease, 9:30pm, $30

2) Simply the Best, 7:30pm, $27-$37 Tease, 9:30pm, $30

1) Cody Jinks, Red Shahan, 7:30pm, $28

1) Sammy Hagar & The Hagar Family, 7:30pm, $114

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Race & Sports Bar

HARRAH’s Reno

219 N. Center St, (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge

HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (800) 427-7247 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage

montBleu ResoRt

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

55 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515 1) Showroom 2) Blu 3) Opal Ultra Lounge

2) Viva Santana, 9pm, $10

nuGGet CAsino ResoRt

Selena: The Premier Tribute, 8pm, $15 - $25

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300

peppeRmill CAsino

2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 2) EDGE Nightclub

silVeR leGACY ResoRt CAsino

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

2) Michael Powers, 7pm, no cover 3) Edge Thursday Ladies Night with DJs Enfo & Twyman, 10pm, $0-$20

2) Miss Tess & The Talkbacks, 8pm, no cover 3) Latin Dance Social, 7pm, $10-$20

2) Miss Tess & The Talkbacks, 8pm, no cover 2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover 3) Revenge of the Fifth: Four Color Zack, 10pm, $20

2) DJ R3volver, 9pm, no cover 4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover

2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 9pm, no cover 4) Just Us, 9pm, no cover

1) Collective Soul, 8pm, $45-$55 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Just Us, 9pm, no cover

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

4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover

Grand OpeninG! SPRING 2018 STRAWBERRY MUSIC FESTIVAL . . . and Cats Too!

May 24th - 28th | Nevada CouNty FairgrouNds, grass valley Ca todd sNider the suitCase JuNKet luKas NelsoN & ProMise oF the real dave alviN & JiMMie dale gilMore taJ Mahal aNders osBorNe & JaCKie greeNe FraZey Ford go to straWBerryMusiC.CoM For Full liNeuP! music ∙ camping ∙ food

TO BUY TICKETS OR FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.straWBerryMusiC.CoM or M-F, 9-5 Call (209) 984-8630

Wicked Rustic Custom furniture

Win a custom barn door Come join us

Train with a Champion

Shop for furniture / Succulent Bar / Local Craft Brews Wine / Coffee by Wicked Roast / Food / Raffle / Local Art Charity / Custom Orders / Rustic Designs & Decor

Open Day Invitation

Food / Beverages by The Tap Wagon & Stephon’s Mobile Bistro

Friday May 4 6PM-8PM th

Body by Hector Sanchez -2018 NPC ChampionSpecial Workout Presentation

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE:

www.nfsreno.com

$20 per session special

Get ready for summer!

2975 El Rancho Dr. Sparks, NV

(775) 636-2425

MAY

12

$5

2-10

PM

RAFFLE TICKETS

307 KIETZKE LN, RENO, NV 05.03.18

|

RN&R

|

25

FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 3, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

COMSTOCK ARABIAN ASSOCIATION SPRING FIESTA HORSE SHOW: Arabian and halfArabian horses and their riders will be judged as they perform in a variety of disciplines and compete to qualify for future regional and national Arabian horse shows. Fri, 5/4-Sun, 5/6, 8am. Free.

Main Arena, Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave, (775) 5600612, comstockarabianassociation.com.

DAY AT THE MUSEUM: Tour nine museums on and around the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Each museum will feature a different activity and giveaway. Sat, 5/5, 10am-4pm. Free. University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-1110, events.unr.edu.

DERBY DAY 2018: Dress up in fashionable

MAY/5:

CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL

The 19th annual Hispanic heritage celebration features two days of live music, dancing, food and more. Saturday’s headliners include Banda Salvaje, Vicente Arreola, Omar Lizarraga and Los Shakas de la Banda. On Sunday, Los Plebes del Norte, Grupo Venus and El As de la Sierra, among others, will perform. More than 100 vendors will offer a variety of food, art, crafts, community services and information. There will also be free face painting, games and prizes for children, Mexican dancing horse performances from 2-4 p.m., live amateur boxing bouts from noon to 4 p.m. and carnival rides until 10 p.m. The festival takes place from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 5-6, at the southeast parking lot of Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12 and seniors over 65. Call 691-2648 (English) or 291-3651 (Spanish) or visit bigdaddysbarbeque.biz/ cincodemayoreno.

attire, enjoy a luncheon, wine and mint juleps and watch the Kentucky Derby on big-screen televisions at the Reno Chamber Orchestra’s annual fundraiser. The event includes live and silent auctions, a wine raffle, a chance to sponsor a RCO musician and a hat contest. Sat, 5/5, 12:30pm. $75.

Renaissance Reno Downtown Hotel, 1 S. Lake St., (775) 348-9413.

FIXIT CLINIC: A group of local experts will give tips on how to repair, disassemble and assess their broken items. Mon, 5/7, 3pm. Free. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

GREAT COMMUNITY CLEANUP: Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful holds its annual event focusing on the cleanup of illegal dump sites in the open spaces surrounding the Truckee Meadows, as well as the removal of noxious weeds before they bloom and spread. Items removed from the open spaces include appliances, furniture, yard waste, hazardous waste, vehicles and more. Sat, 5/5, 8am. Free.

Various open spaces within the Truckee Meadows, (775) 851-5185, www.ktmb.org.

MAKE AND TAKE: Children in kindergarten

EVENTS

BUILDING A SCHOLASTIC HERITAGE, BASH 2018: Bishop Manogue High School celebrates 2018 BMCHS Hall of Fame inductees Nicholas and Debra Rossi, Chuck and Caroline Messineo Burr and Brother Philip Napolitano. The scholarship fundraiser includes cocktails, dinner and live and silent auctions. Sat, 5/5, 5:30pm. Free. Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 360-6101.

ANIMAL ARK’S PIÑATAS AND PREDATORS: Watch Animal Ark’s resident predators open their treat-filled piñatas. Bring your cameras and watch them stalk, growl, pounce and attack the piñatas to reveal their mystery treats. Sat, 5/5, 10am. $0-$15. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary, 1265 Deerlodge Road, (775) 970-3111, www.animalark.org.

ANIMAL HAUS ART SHOW OPENING RECEPTION:

BURNING INQUIRY—EVOLUTION OF A BURNING MAN VILLAGE: University Libraries

This is a collaborative show, featuring many artists who have created animalrelated artwork in different types of media. Part of the proceeds of all sales will go to benefit the Nevada Humane Society. Sat, 5/5, 5pm. Free. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

BASIC BOTANY—PLANT IDENTIFICATION: Botanist Emma Wynn will cover the key characteristics used to identify plants and the most common plant genera in Nevada. Sat, 5/5, 2pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

26

|

RN&R

|

05.03.18

present a discussion with Aimee Adams Frugoli and her father Dan Adams as they discuss how the iconic Martini Village came to be, where it is today and how the village has evolved over the years.

The father-and-daughter team will share lessons learned from the playa, discuss the role of family and describe how their own Burning Man family has grown over the years. Thu, 5/3, 6pm. Free.

Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

through fifth grade are invited to make their own DIY craft. The library will provide all the materials and direction to create your crafts. Wed, 5/9, 4pm. Free.

Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

MOBILE MONDAY: Mobile Monday is an initiative created to provide a monthly farmers’ market-style event to the University of Nevada, Reno campus, allowing students to receive fresh produce for free. Mon, 5/7, noon. Free.

University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N Virginia St., (775) 784-1110.

MOMS CAFE: New mothers can get help with proper breast-feeding techniques, postpartum concerns, infant nutrition and infant care. Groups are facilitated in English and Spanish. Obtenga apoyo con técnicas de lactancia materna, asuntos del posparto, nutrición infantil, y cuidado infantil. El grupo se facilita en inglés y español. Tue, 5/8, 10:30am. Free.

North Tahoe Family Resource Center, 265 Bear St., Kings Beach, (530) 546-0952.

MOONLIGHT JAZZ CLUB: Dress up as a flapper or a gangster for an evening of dinner and dancing to live music by Incline High School and Middle School jazz bands. There will be a raffle with many prizes valued at over $500 and a costume contest. The event benefits the Cymbal Music Boosters. Fri, 5/4, 6pm. $55. The Chateau at Incline Village, 955 Fairway Boulevard, Incline Village, cymbalincline.org.

RENO SPACE FEST: The event features four days of space-themed activities, including a May the Fourth Celebration the Sci-On! Science + Fiction film festival and a keynote presentation by Marianne Dyson, one of NASA’s first female flight controllers and author of many awardwinning science and science fiction books. Thu, 5/3, 7pm; Fri 5/4, 9:30am; Sat, 5/5, 10am; Sun 5/6, 3:30pm. $0-$15.

National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., Davidson Mathematics & Science Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 110 1055 Evans Ave., www.sci-on.org.

RENO’S 150TH BIRTHDAY PARTY: Arts for All Nevada celebrates Reno’s 150th birthday with guided tours of the historical Lake Mansion, a Myron Lake impersonator, birthday cake and lemonade, a free book for each child and a Reno 150-themed art station. Wed, 5/9, 11am. Free. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100, www.artsforallnevada.org.

SPEAK YOUTH TO POWER CANDIDATE FORUMS: Presented by the Reno News & Review, the Holland Project, ThisisReno.com, the Washoe County Library System and KWNK Community Radio, the Speak Youth to Power Forum will center around issues affecting young voters. While these events are youth-centered, all members of the public are encouraged to attend. These are not debates, but forums for candidates to address issues.

Audience members will also have the opportunity to ask questions. These non-partisan forums are open to all candidates. Candidates for Washoe County Commission will speak on May 3, candidates for Reno City Council will speak on May 10, and candidates for Reno Mayor will speak on May 31. Thu, 5/3, 6pm. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8300, www. hollandreno.org/event/candidateforum-1/.

ART ARTIST CO-OP GALLERY OF RENO: Majestic Nevada Benefit for Veterans’ Voluntary Services. The Artists Co-op of Reno supports the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System for the month of May. Members and many guests artists will participate with 20 percent of sale proceeds going to this organization. Thu, 5/3-Wed, 5/9, 11am4pm. Free. Artist Co-op Gallery of Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: Writing from Mars: An Exhibition. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition by artist Rick Parsons at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. Parsons’ current work explores automatic writing, jazz thinking and three-dimensional forms, while also addressing the environment. The show runs through May 23. Thu, 5/3-Fri, 5/4, Mon, 5/7-Wed, 5/9, 8am-5pm. Free. CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY, CHURCH FINE ARTS: Faig Ahmed. Well-known for his conceptual works that use the traditional decorative craft and the visual language of carpets into contemporary sculptural works of art, Ahmed has lent his work for be exhibited alongside historical examples for traditional central and West Asian weaving from the University Galleries collection; Mwangi Hutter: Time Zone and Equinox. Working with video, sound, photography, installation, sculpture, painting and performance, Mwangi Hutter reflect on changing societal realities, creating an aesthetic of self-knowledge and interrelationship; Only Light Can Do That Remembering MLK, Jr. Including work from a halfdozen contemporary artists and also new additions to the collection by artists Elizabeth Catlett and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Only Light Can Do That explores the visual cultures of Black America inspired by the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Thu, 5/3-Sat 5/5, Tue, 5/8-Wed, 5/9. Free. Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/art.

ST. MARY’S ART CENTER: Mountain Picassos—Basque Arborglyphs of the Great Basin. Basque tree carvings, or “arborglyphs” have long been of interest to historians, Basque scholars, foresters and hikers. The exhibit features comprises 26 of these rubbings from the collection of Phillip and Jean Earl. Fri, 5/4-Sun, 5/6, 11am. $3-$5. St. Mary’s Art Center, 55 North R St., Virginia City, (775) 440-0992, www.stmarysartcenter.org.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH, JOT TRAVIS BUILDING: MFA Thesis Exhibition. A thesis exhibition by current master of fine arts candidate Cullen Wegman. The show runs through May 10. Thu, 5/3 , Mon-Wed, 5/9, noon. Free. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: 44th Annual Student Art & Design Exhibition and Artist Reception. TMCC presents its annual student art show.

Juror Kate O’Hara will give a presentation at 5:30pm, followed by the awards ceremony, presented by TMCC and Nevada Fine Art. Thu, 5/3, 5pm. Free.

Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 673-7233.

WEST ST. MARKET: Art Walk Reno. The event highlights public art and murals and stop at several of the galleries and alternative venues along the way, including Sierra Arts Gallery, Art Indeed Gallery and La Terre Verte. Thu, 5/3, 6pm. $10. West St. Market, 148 West St., (415) 596-4987, artspotreno.com/art-walk-reno.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM: Bouquets for Reno’s 150th Birthday. Sierra Watercolor Society’s newest exhibit of original watercolor paintings by local artists honors both Reno’s 150th birthday and the vibrant plants and flowers of spring. Thu, 5/3-Sat, 5/5, 10am; Sun, 5/6, noon; Wed, 5/9, 10am. Free. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 750-4636, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

OLD TIME JAM: Banjo player Ryan Sharrar

leads this jam session. Wed, 5/9, 6pm. Free. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500.

OLÉ: P’Opera presents an evening of Spanish music, Mexican songs and other

Latin-American rhythms. Sun, 5/6, 5pm & 7:30pm. $35. Napa Sonoma Grocery Company, 7671 S. Virginia St., (775) 2335105, poperanv.org.

RENO UKULELE FESTIVAL: The 10th annual

FILM WHERE DANGER LIVES: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of John Farrow’s 1950 crime/film noir/thriller. In San Francisco, a distressed woman is brought under the care of Dr. Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum). In no time at all the doctor falls for his patient, the patient’s husband is dead and everyone’s off to Mexico in grand noir fashion. Sun, 5/6, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

MUSIC ANDY HEDGES: The cowboy poet and

songster performs. Sat, 5/5, 7:30pm. $17$24. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500.

A RUSSIAN SOUVENIR: Apex Concerts concludes its seventh season with a program featuring the String Quintet

by Glazunov and Souvenir de Florence

by Tchaikovsky. The concert will also feature performances by Tchaikovsky Competition winner Itamar Zorman, two-time Grammy nominee and Emmywinning violist Richard O’Neil, Bella Hristova, Yura Lee, Mihai Marica and Dmitri Atapine. Thu, 5/3, 7:30pm. $5-$30.

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

COMPOSERS’ CONCERT: The evening features premiere performances of University of Nevada, Reno student compositions. Sun, 5/6, 7:30pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

DMITRI ATAPINE AND HYEYEON PARK IN RECITAL: The musicians join forces for an evening of cello/piano virtuosity, including works by Beethoven, Chopin, Boccherini, Piatti and Davidoff. Wed, 5/9, 7pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

NEVADA WIND ENSEMBLE AND NEVADA CONCERT WINDS SEASON FINALE: The wind ensembles will perform their final concert of the semester. Fri, 5/4, 7:30pm. $0-$5. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

NEW WAVE CRAVE—CINCO DE ’80s: The high-energy ’80s band plays popular songs by The Cure, U2, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, David Bowie and more. Sat, 5/5, 7pm. $15-$25. Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

gathering celebrates the music and camaraderie of the ukulele community.

The festival offers mini-lessons and workshops for all levels of players, presentations, a marketplace and live performances, including a headlining concert by Daniel Ho & The Ukulele All-Stars. Thu, 5/3- Sat, 5/5. $0-$120.

Peppermill Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 220-0995, ukulele.cafe.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Enjoy live music and brunch presented by chez louie. The menu features creative cuisine, mimosas and a Bloody Mary bar. Reservations recommended. Sun, 5/6, 10am-2pm.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921, www.nevadaart.org.

ONSTAGE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A.V.A. Ballet Theatre presents the classic ballet with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra performing the score. Sat, 5/5, 8pm; Sun, 5/6, 2pm. $27$54. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 762-5165, www.pioneercenter.com.

THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE: Reno Little Theater presents this play written by Madeleine George. Watson. Confidant of Holmes.

Engineer with Bell. Supercomputer Jeopardy winner. Modern companion?

It’s a journey through time that tells the tales of the people and machines that we depend on. Performances are ThursdaySunday through May 20. Fri, 5/4, 7:30pm; Sat, 5/5, 2pm & 7:30pm; Sun, 5/6, 2pm. $15$25. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH: Brüka Theatre and Good Luck Macbeth collaborate for this production of John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask’s rock musical that tells the story of Hansel Schmidt, a slip of a girlyboy from communist East Berlin who becomes Hedwig Robinson, “the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you.” Her journey to find true love, and her other half, takes her across the world and from man to woman. The show runs through May 12. The play is suggested for people ages 16 and older. Thu, 5/3-Sat, 5/5, 8pm; Wed, 5/9, 8pm. $20-$30. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 323-3221, (775) 322-3716.

IMPROV: Come see the BAC Blowhards tickle your funny bone as they present an evening of improv. All ages welcome (PG13 humor). Fri, 5/4, 7pm. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN: Restless Artists Theatre presents Craig Pospisil’s episodic comedy. Jasper has feelings of isolation, fears of the dark, and really everyday life has overwhelmed him, but he is determined to live. He gets stuck between floors on an elevator with a claustrophobic man. A sleazy coworker gives him farcical advice on how to pick up women. He strikes out with the girl he wants, but is picked up by another woman, who takes him home—where she lives with her boyfriend. A chance encounter with a homeless man gives Jasper perspective on his life. He loses his cool, kicks a chair, breaks his foot and gets fired. And then he meets Holly.

It might be love, or it might be he’s dying. Thu, 5/3-Sat, 5/5, 7:30pm; Sun, 5/6, 2pm. $12-$20. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.

don’t miss out on advertising

to rn&r readers in these upcoming issues! f a m i ly g u i d e

•

m ay 2 0 1 7

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

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 5/5, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

THE MAIN EVENT: Live action boxing featuring local favorite Oscar “Chapito” Vasquez and University of Nevada, Reno boxer Ricardo Lucio-Galvan. Fri, 5/4, 7pm. $35-$100. Reno-Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., (775) 827-7747.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team

plays the Albuquerque Isotopes. Tue, 5/8Wed, 5/9, 6:35pm. $9-$30. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

RN&R presents a guide to civic engagement for the whole family

family guide / may 10

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays the Tacoma Rainiers. Fri, 5/4-Sat,

5/5, 6:35pm; Sun, 5/6, 1:05pm; Mon, 5/7, 11:35pm. $9-$30. Greater Nevada Field,

This magic momenT20

250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

HaRRy PottER tuRNs see arts&Culture, page 20

LIFESTYLE CROCHET CONNECTION: Crochet enthusiasts of all levels are invited join this group, which meets every Thursday. Bring your own project or start a new one. Thu, 5/3, 3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Genealogy Open Lab is open to beginner, intermediate and advanced family researchers. Learn how to build your family tree, discover your ancestors and amaze your family with your research skills. Discover who you are by finding out where you came from. Fri, 5/4, 11:30am. Free. Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 674-7600, www.tmcc.edu.

HIGH SIERRA WRITERS: Bring your written work to share and critique with published and unpublished writers. Wed, 5/9, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882, www.highsierrawriters.org.

RENO SWINGS!: Learn 1940s-style swing dancing every week at the American Legion Hall. No partner or experience necessary. Wed, 5/9, 7pm. $5-$10.

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

Su

Summer

Guide 2017

RENo’s

NEws

&

ENtERtai NmENt

wEEkly

|

Do summer

VolumE

23,

issuE

17

|

like a supe

JuNE

8-14,

rhero

2017

summer guide / may 31 i f you’r e i n t e r e st e d i n a dv e rt i s i n g,

call (775) 324-4440 05.03.18

|

RN&R

|

27

LocaLLy roasted good to the last drop

• Essential Oils • Supplements • Bulk Herbs & Teas • Special Ordering • Herbal Extracts • Medical Bottles • Homeopathics Knowledgeable Staff Serving You Since 1982

1715 s. WeLLs | magpieroasters.com

Are you A wAitress being sexuAlly hArAssed At work?

You do not have to tolerate sexual harassment.

CALL MARK MAUSERT

An experienced Nevada Attorney, who has successfully litigated more than 300 sexual and racial work place harassment cases. 34 years of experience.

Contingent Fee Cases Accepted

Mark Mausert

| 930 Evans avE, REno | 775-786-5477

28 | RN&R | 05.03.18

if you’re Still Smokin, we’re Still open LocaL art New gLass f r i e N d Ly s ta f f

new location oN south V ir giNi a Next to duds N’ suds

Still Smokin’ 5 8 9 0 s . V i r g i N i a s t. | 7 7 5 - 8 5 2 - 2 9 4 4 M e N t i o N t h i s a d t o r e c e i V e 10 % o f f !

by AMY ALKON

Putting the removes on someone I recently had my addiction recovery memoir published. I’m very honest and vulnerable in it, and readers feel super-connected to me because of it. Most just briefly thank me for how it changed their life, etc. However, a few have really latched on to me via social media. I respond to their first message, and then they write back with pretty much a whole novel and message me constantly.

I don’t want to be mean, but this is time-consuming and draining.

In writing your book, you probably wanted to help others get the monkey off their back—not point them to the open space on yours so they could line up to take its place.

The interaction these fans have with you is a “parasocial” relationship, a psych term describing a strong one-sided emotional bond a person develops with a fictional character, celebrity or media figure.

We’re driven by psychological adaptations that are sometimes poorly matched with our modern world, as they evolved to solve mating and survival problems in an ancestral (hunter-gatherer) environment.

Though it still pays for us to try to get close to high-status people— so we might learn the ropes, get status by association and get some trickle-down benefits—the adaptation pushing us to do this evolved when we gathered around fires, not flat-screens. This makes our poor little Stone Age minds ill-equipped to differentiate between people we know and people we know from books, movies and TV. Psychologist David C. Giles and others who study parasocial relationships were used to these interactions remaining one-sided, as until recently, it was challenging to even find a celeb’s agent’s mailing address to send them a letter.

However, as you’ve experienced, that’s changed thanks to social media, which is to say, Beyonce’s on Twitter.

But the fact that you can be reached doesn’t mean you owe anyone your time. As soon as you see someone trying to hop the fence from fan to friend, write something brief but kind, such as: “It means a lot to me that you connected with

my book. However, I’m swamped with writing deadlines, so I can’t carry on an email exchange, much as I’d like to. Hope you understand!”

This message establishes a boundary, but without violating your fan’s dignity. Dignity, explains international conflict resolution specialist Donna Hicks, is an “internal state of peace” a person feels when they’re treated as if they have value and their feelings matter. Preserving a person’s dignity can actually make the difference between their hating you and their accepting your need to have a life.

The cook of love I’m a single woman in my mid-30s, and I can’t cook. My parents are old-school, and this worries them.

They keep telling me that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Is that really still true?

A man does not stay with a woman simply because she makes a mean pot roast.

However, what really matters for a lot of men is that you’re loving as you pry the plastic lid off their dinner. Being loving is not just a state of mind, it is something you do—a habit of being responsive to what marriage researcher John Gottman calls “bids” from your partner for your attention, affection or support.

Being responsive involves listening to and engaging with your partner, even in the mundane little moments of life. So when your man grumbles that his hairline is retreating like the Germans at Kursk, you say something sweet or even funny back—as opposed to treating his remark like background noise.

Sure, some men will find it a deal breaker. But there are a number of ways to a man’s heart, from the obvious—a surgical saw through the sternum—to a more indirect but far more popular route: showing him you can tie a cherry stem into a knot with your tongue. Ω

ERIK HOLLAND

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

05.03.18 | RN&R | 29

chat CHAT

Free will astrology

Online ads are

STILL

WHERE REAL GAY MEN MEET for UNCENSORED fun! Browse and Reply for FREE 775-473-7609 www.megamates.com 18+

FREE!

All advertising is subject to the newspaper’s * Standards of Acceptance. Further, the News & Review specifically reserves the right to edit, decline or properly classify any ad. Errors will be rectified by re-publication upon notification. The N&R is not responsible for error after the first publication. The N&R assumes no financial liability for errors or omission of copy. In any event, liability shall not exceed the cost of the space occupied by such an error or omission. The advertiser and not the newspaper assumes full responsibility for the truthful content of their advertising message. *Nominal fee for some upgrades.

Feel The Sensation & Relaxation Of Massage Swedish, Deep Tissue Call David 762-7796 Office $55 Outcall $85 Lic #NVMT1086

NEWLY RENOVATED Fully furnished 1 bedroom & studios WITH kitchenettes in heart of DOWNTOWN Reno. FREE utilities and FREE cable. Low rates and low deposit. Flexible payment options. No credit check. No long term lease required. Move in TODAY 775476-5652

Denied Credit?? Work to Repair Your Credit Report With The Trusted Leader in Credit Repair.

Call Lexington Law for a FREE credit report summary & credit repair consultation. 855620-9426. John C. Heath, Attorney at Law, PLLC, dba Lexington Law Firm. (AAN CAN)

DOWNTOWN HIGHRISE APARTMENTS. Fully furnished, FREE utilities, Cable with premium channels included. Move in TODAY! (775) 298-8858.

Lung Cancer? And Age 60+?

You And Your Family May Be Entitled To Significant Cash Award. Call 844-898-7142 for Information. No Risk. No Money Out Of Pocket. (AAN CAN)

FREE RENT!!! Newly Remodeled, FULLY FURNISHED Studios. PET FRIENDLY, Move in today! Bad Credit OK! CALL NOW 775298-6558.

DOWNTOWN STUDIOS FOR RENT. Low rates! Fully furnished, FREE utilities, FREE cable TV. WiFi Included. Low short term and long term rates.

No credit check, move in TODAY! 775-298-6944.

PENIS ENLARGEMENT PUMP. Get Stronger & Harder Erections Immediately. Gain 1-3 Inches Permanently & Safely.

Guarenteed Results. FDA Licensed. Free Brochure: 1-800354-3944 www.DrJoelKaplan. com (AAN CAN) HughesNet Satellite Internet 25mbps starting at $49.99/mo!

FAST download speeds. WiFi built in! FREE Standard Installation for lease customers!

Limited Time, Call 1-800-4904140 (AAN CAN)

more services online

www.newsreview.com

issues.

reno’s news and enTerTainmen enTerTainmenT T Tainmen T weekly. on sTands TTands every Thursday. if you have a business and would like To carry The paper for free, call 775.324.4440

n e w s r e v i e w.c o m

30 | rN&r | 05.03.18

Donate to

We’ve got

Show your support at www.independentjournalismfund.org

PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 a Week Mailing Brochures From Home!No Experience Required.

Helping Home Workers Since 2001! Genuine Opportunity.

Start Immediately! www.

IncomeStation.net (AAN CAN)

FURNISHED STUDIO APARTMENTS!!! Utilities included & high speed wifi available. Newly Renovated.

Located in the heart of downtown. NO CREDIT CHECK! Weekly rates starting at $240.05. Sorry, no pets.

CALL TODAY (775) 434-0073.

’s Independent Journalism Fund

AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Mainetenance. (800) 725-1563 (AAN CAN)

DISH TV $59.99 For 190 Channels + $14.95 High Speed Internet. Free Installation, Smart HD DVR Included, Free Voice Remote. Some restrictions apply. Call Now: 1-800-3736508 (AAN CAN)

rnrsweetdeals.newsreview.com

Phone hours: M-F 9am-5pm.

Deadlines for print: Line ad deadline: Monday 4pm Display ad deadline: Friday 2pm

Livelinks - Chat Lines Flirt, chat and date! Talk to sexy real singles in your area. Call now!

(877) 609-2935 (AAN CAN)

exclusive deals right to your inbox.

Print ads start at $6/wk.

(775) 324-4440 ext. 2

sign up for the newsletter at rnrsweetdeals.newsreview.com

v

by ROb bRezsny

For the week oF May 3, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hate rampant

consumerism almost as much as I hate hatred, so I don’t offer the following advice lightly: Buy an experience that could help liberate you from the suffering you’ve had trouble outgrowing.

Or buy a toy that can thaw the frozen joy that’s trapped within your out-of-date sadness. Or buy a connection that might inspire you to express a desire you need help in expressing. Or buy an influence that will motivate you to shed a belief or theory that has been cramping your lust for life. Or all of the above! (And if buying these things isn’t possible, consider renting.)

did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell.” In de Kooning’s view, these “destructive” artists performed a noble service. They demolished entrenched ideas about the nature of painting, thus liberating their colleagues and descendants from stale constraints. Judging from the current astrological omens, Libra, I surmise the near future will be a good time for you to wreak creative destruction in your own field or sphere. What progress and breakthroughs might be possible when you dismantle comfortable limitations?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): These days you have

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mayflies are aquatic

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I bet that a healing influ-

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When a critic at

an enhanced ability to arouse the appreciation and generosity of your allies, friends, and loved ones. The magnetic influence you’re emanating could even start to evoke the interest and inquiries of mere acquaintances and random strangers. Be discerning about how you wield that potent stuff! On the other hand, don’t be shy about using it to attract all the benefits it can bring you. It’s OK to be a bit greedier for goodies than usual as long as you’re also a bit more compassionate than usual. ence will arrive from an unexpected direction and begin to work its subtle but intense magic before anyone realizes what’s happening. I predict that the bridge you’re building will lead to a place that’s less flashy but more useful than you imagined. And I’m guessing that although you may initially feel jumbled by unforeseen outcomes, those outcomes will ultimately be redemptive. Hooray for lucky flukes and weird switcheroos!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Born under the

astrological sign of Cancer, Franz Kafka is regarded as one of the 20th century’s major literary talents. Alas, he made little money from his writing. Among the day jobs he did to earn a living were stints as a bureaucrat at insurance companies. His superiors there praised his efforts. “Superb administrative talent,” they said about him. Let’s use this as a take-off point to meditate on your destiny, Cancerian. Are you good at skills you’re not passionate about? Are you admired and acknowledged for having qualities that aren’t of central importance to you? If so, the coming weeks and months will be a favorable time to explore this apparent discrepancy. I believe you will have the power to get closer to doing more of what you love to do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you really wanted to,

you could probably break the world’s record for most words typed per minute with the nose (103 characters in 47 seconds). I bet you could also shatter a host of other marks, as well, like eating the most hot chiles in two minutes, or weaving the biggest garland using defunct iPhones, or dancing the longest on a tabletop while listening to a continuous loop of Nirvana’s song “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” But I hope you won’t waste your soaring capacity for excellence on meaningless stunts like those.

I’d rather see you break your own personal records for accomplishments like effective communications, high-quality communitybuilding, and smart career moves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Isaac Newton

(1643-1727) was among history’s three most influential scientists. Immanuel Kant (17241804) has been described as central figure in modern philosophy. Henry James (1843-1916) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a prominent art critic and social thinker.

What did these four men have in common?

They never had sex with anyone. They were virgins when they died. I view this fact with alarm. What does it mean that Western culture is so influenced by the ideas of men who lacked this fundamental initiation? With that as our context, I make this assertion: If you hope to make good decisions in the coming weeks, you must draw on the wisdom you have gained from being sexually entwined with other humans.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Every so often, a

painter has to destroy painting,” said 20th century abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. “Cézanne did it. Picasso

insects with short life spans. Many species live fewer than 24 hours, even though the eggs they lay may take three years to hatch.

I suspect this may be somewhat of an apt metaphor for your future, Scorpio. A transitory or short-duration experience could leave a legacy that will ripen for a long time before it hatches. But that’s where the metaphor breaks down. When your legacy has fully ripened—when it becomes available as a living presence —I bet it will last a long time.

Rolling Stone magazine reviewed the Beatles’ Abbey Road in 1969, he said some of the songs were “so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to.” He added, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this.” Years later, however, Rolling Stone altered its opinion, naming Abbey Road the fourteenth best album of all time. I suspect, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase with metaphorical resemblances to the earlier assessment. But I’m reasonably sure that this will ultimately evolve into being more like the later valuation—and it won’t take years.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to my

analysis of the astrological omens, love should be in full bloom. You should be awash in worthy influences that animate your beautiful passion.

So how about it? Are you swooning and twirling and uncoiling? Are you overflowing with a lush longing to celebrate the miracle of being alive?

If your answer is yes, congratulations. May your natural intoxication levels continue to rise. But if my description doesn’t match your current experience, you may be out of sync with cosmic rhythms. And if that’s the case, please take emergency measures. Escape to a sanctuary where you can shed your worries and inhibitions and maybe even your clothes. Get drunk on undulating music as you dance yourself into a dreamy love revelry.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Life never gives

you anything that’s all bad or all good.” So proclaimed the smartest Aquarian six-year-old girl I know as we kicked a big orange ball around a playground. I agreed with her! “Twenty years from now,” I told her, “I’m going to remind you that you told me this heartful truth.” I didn’t tell her the corollary that I’d add to her axiom, but I’ll share it with you: If anything or anyone or seems to be all bad or all good, you’re probably not seeing the big picture. There are exceptions, however! For example, I bet you will soon experience or are already experiencing a graceful stroke of fate that’s very close to being all good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Enodation” is an

old, nearly obsolete English word that refers to the act of untying a knot or solving a knotty problem. “Enodous” means “free of knots.”

Let’s make these your celebratory words of power for the month of May, Pisces. Speak them out loud every now and then. Invoke them as holy chants and potent prayers leading you to discover the precise magic that will untangle the kinks and snarls you most need to untangle.

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

by KRis VAgNER

Choreographer Rosie Trump, a dance professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, is among the faculty choreographers whose work will be performed in the Spring Dance Concert May 3-5 at the Redfield Proscenium Theatre, 1664 N. Virginia St. The featured guest is San Francisco’s Robert Moses’ Kin dance company. For tickets and information, visit mynevadatickets.com

Do you see the piece having a life after the Spring Dance Concert?

Tell me about your piece that’ll be in the concert.

There’s three faculty works. Our ballet faculty member, Eve Allen Garza, she’s making a piece actually looking back in history. She’s making a piece about women’s suffrage at the turn of the 20th century. … We have Cari Cunningham, who’s also a faculty member, and she’s actually re-set a work from 2016. It’s called Intervertebral. This is a piece that really showcases the spine and the movement of the spine. And then we also had Robert Moses’ Kin set a piece of his repertory on our student dancers. That work is called The Supplicants. It’s this great, large cast piece, where we see a female soloist, and she is the supplicant, so she’s going through a sort of difficult experience, and she’s pleading to the higher power to help her. And then we see this trio of dancers who are stepping in to block her along her journey. … The whole second part of the program is professional company work by Robert Moses’ Kin. … People can just expect beautiful, virtuosic, powerful movement. Ω

My piece is a new work. It’s titled Pantsuited. … The piece originated with this idea of the pantsuit imagery that really was prevalent in the last presidential election. … I have a cast of eight student dancers, all women, and they’re all clad in these red pantsuits. ... The beginning of the piece actually starts with a funeral march with the dancers sort of traversing through this experience that gives you this idea that maybe the battle or war is over. …

Some of the themes that emerge are female competition. So we literally see the dancers trying to push each other out of one another’s way. We see them running and racing against one another.

And the piece is meant to be a bit witty.

It’s sort of an ironic humor. … For me, it was really a journey of processing what happened in the last election.

Did you start putting this piece together during the presidential campaign?

I hope so. I think this is the beginning of a larger inquiry. I would love the opportunity to set this work on another set of dancers or maybe continue it with a Part Two at UNR.

How about the rest of the spring concert? What kinds of themes are other dancers exploring?

Not during. I think, like many of us, we’re still sort of processing what happened and what is still happening. I know there was just a piece in the New York Times. … The main journalist who was covering the election, she just came out with a story processing her experience. So I think, for many of us, it’s like, now that the dust has settled, how do we move forward? How do we take that information that we have and take experiences that are personal and more general, and make art about it? … The piece ends in a kind of light, party way. The dancers have a lot of fun dancing to the Talking Heads song “Girlfriend is Better.” It’s still meant to be a little ironic because the lyrics are just so wonderful. It’s the Talking Heads, you know? And what’s great about the Talking Heads is the lyrics are nonsensical but so wonderful in that way. We end up with—we’re going to choose optimism going forward.

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

The Man’s man Anybody who visits my place knows, especially if one visits at night—this guy is a Burner. The yard shows definite signs of playatization. In fact, it’s kinda drenched in it. I call it Classic Playa Slam-eye, incorporating a brazen decorating strategy of “If one is good, two is better, and 47 is just about right.”

The festival of the Burning Man has been a convenient cultural phenomenon that I easily gravitated toward. A few friends and I went out early on, in ’93, and we had no idea what the hell we were doing. We just wanted to spy upon these wacky Friscans who were coming out and reportedly making some very creative merriment out on the Black Rock. And burning all kinds of shit! Imagine that early Burn, with about 300 people, no streets, no cops, just a cluster of chaotic camping out in the Deep

Playa. Back then, you had to drive around all over the playa before you finally found The Action. You got off the road north of Gerlach, hit the playa, and off you went. Very Mad Maxy. Of course there were no directions. None. Good luck!

The memories, over the years, have accumulated into a gigantic glowing Burntasm of the bodacious, hilarious and memorable.

One thing about B-Man—every year, you’d be assured of something or somebody crackin’ your cranium, and indeed, that’s probably why the recidivism rate among Burners is so high, because it’s pretty neat to go live in a city that gobsmacks the shit out of you on a daily—and nightly—basis. Whether it’s the surprisingly interesting conversation you have with a guy wearing a neon blue tutu while waiting for a Sani-Hut,

or the mind-boggling Agogitude of The Burn Itself—where else does this happen? Ibiza? Mardi Gras?

Coachella? Homey, puhleez.

Larry Harvey and his pals took a match to an eight-foot Man on a beach in SF in ’86, and man, oh man, did this thing catch a buzz.

As in a BUZZ. And, of course, it hasn’t sold out. I mean, yes, it sells out these days, but it hasn’t “sold out.” Anybody tries to tell you that, it’s a cinch they’ve never been.

Larry and the board knew that the essence of this wingding was Community. They always knew that was the sacred beating heart of Black Rock City.

Whatever problems Burning Man has now all stem from the reality that too many people wanna go.

What does that tell you? And it’d be nice this year if The Man can somehow—wear a Hat! Ω

05.03.18

|

RN&R

|

31