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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. We’ve got a great cover story this week—Arts Editor Kris Vagner wrote an excellent profile of Karen Gedney, a retired doctor who worked for decades in the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City. Gedney recently published a memoir about her experiences doing a tough, often terrifying job. Prisons are violent, horrific places built with taxpayer dollars. I’m glad that we don’t have private prisons in Nevada, but the fact that they exist anywhere in this country is revolting. The nonprofit Sentencing Project puts the number of people detained in private prisons as of 2015 at 126,272. Considering that Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed Obama-era policies meant to phase out private prisons, that number has likely increased dramatically. There are certain things, like umbrellas and pizza, that benefit from a free-market economy. Human incarceration is not one of them. And a disproportionate number of prisoners are African Americans or other persons of color. As great as it is that cannabis is now legal in this state, there are still thousands serving prison sentences here for the ridiculous crime of possessing a plant. Antidrug laws are often used to prosecute “undesirable” people—even while privileged people indulge in the same activities undeterred. Another example of this kind of thing was the application of the anti-prostitution Mann Act, which was often used to prosecute black men who consorted with white women. Perhaps the most famous example of such a prosecution was boxer Jack Johnson, who fought here in Reno in 1910. Trump pardoned Johnson on May 24, which is great. But, in light of Trump’s comments about the NFL, it seems like a ruse. It seems he’s only willing to pardon outspoken black athletes for convictions from 100 years ago.

I read with dismay about the cancelling of the new Rosanne Barr show. Although I didn’t get a chance to watch her show (it aired very successfully for only two months), I always appreciated her sarcastic wit. I can’t say I always agreed with her but still could enjoy her comedy for what it was. Evidently the cancellation was due to a personal tweet and not the content of the show. Shame on you, ABC, for not allowing a large percentage of the U.S. population to enjoy comedy the way they like it. What happened to that corporate greed you are so famous for? And what about your legal obligation to your stockholders? I don’t consider myself a conservative or a liberal but rather a pragmatist. Come on, folks. This is comedy, which should be allowed to be insulting, derisive and anything it wants to be. It’s called artistic license. If people don’t want to watch, they can tune out (most did not). I always wanted to start a legally sheltered, tax free church for comedians called Our Lady Of Sarcastic Cynicism where nothing is sacred. John Bogle Fernley

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and Senate would have gone after him? After all, they did block his constitutional right to appoint a Supreme Court justice, which was unheard of. I’m sure you would have been outraged if the parties and situations were reversed. Facts matter. Here’s some for you. The “witch hunt” has produced 17 indictments and five guilty pleas. Facts are facts, whether you choose to believe them or not. I’m sure if Hillary had met with Russians to get dirt on Trump, then lied about it, you’d be OK with that too. You should turn the channel from Fox News every now and then. Not suggesting you tune into MSNBC or any other cable network. Try ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, or any newspaper in the country. And if you can’t bring yourself to read “real news,” then check out Shepard Smith every now and then. He’s the only one over there at Fox that’s not a propagandist. It’s people like you that make me fear for our country. Joel Edwards Reno

NFL vs. liberty The United States sends young people to war, with the rallying cry “fighting for freedom.” We may have to change that. As the National Football League becomes more jingoistic and profit-driven, it seems they could give a damn about freedom. They will fine teams if the players kneel (it’s done in church) while the national anthem is playing. There is significant racism in the third verse of that song. Seems to me like kneeling is simply a form of expression covered by the First Amendment. Perhaps the owners have forgotten the First Amendment. Have we become so simple minded and mean we can’t sympathize with players showing respect for American citizens brutalized for the last 300 years? Don McKechnie Sparks

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Healthy article Re “Tangled up in red” (cover story, May 17): This should be on local TV news stations, not just in the RN&R. What a shame, too, for the Health Dept. to to be doing great harm to the growth of our wonderful city, which is finally beginning to grow in a positive manner. Way to go, RN&R, for publishing this informative article. Rhonda Fritz Reno

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Then and now Donald Trump keeps whining about the Mueller investigation, and his supporters keep calling for it to end. We thought it would be useful to compare the Watergate investigation to this one. It’s using up Trump’s precious time. You don’t drop in a quarter and get out the results of an investigation. Investigations of Nixon and Watergate began with a probe by the House Banking Committee in 1972. Republicans shut it down, but it laid groundwork that paid off later. Sen. Edward Kennedy launched another 1972 investigation through a Judiciary subcommittee and turned its evidence over to the full committee. In October, Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said there would be a full-fledged Senate investigation, which was set up in February 1973 as the Senate Watergate Committee. In May, Attorney General Elliott Richardson appointed a special prosecutor. In October, the House Judiciary Committee began an impeachment investigation. That’s five investigations. Trump has put up with just one. (Congressional Republicans have refused to investigate.) It’s taking too long. The Watergate burglary was in June 1972. The case was not resolved until August 1974 when Nixon resigned. Mueller was only supposed to investigate Russia collusion. Jeanine Pirro: “Mueller is there to show collusion between Russia and Trump, and there’s none so far, so why not end it?” All investigations turn up information that leads them out of the original concern, and it is simply not true that Mueller was appointed only to investigate the Russia matter. The various Watergate investigations led

to all kinds of what were called White House horrors—a private White House burglary team, Nixon campaign spying and sabotage, fund-raising conduct that ensnared cabinet members, use of public funds on Nixon’s private residences, on and on. The scandal even brought down some of the investigators—two members of the Senate Watergate Committee were implicated in alleged wrongdoing. Mueller was not appointed just to examine Russia matters but also “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.” His charter also allows him to seek additional authority under 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a), if he finds other things that need investigating. It’s what Ken Starr did when he wanted to expand his probe to include the Monica Lewinsky matter. Something to hide? Even the Nixon administration and campaign knew the wisdom of at least looking like they were cooperating with investigations. In fact, Nixon’s campaign manager fired counsel Gordon Liddy for refusing to cooperate with the FBI—just what Trump does regularly. He constantly acts like he has something to hide. Otherwise, why does he keep threatening to shut the probe down—as Nixon tried to do? Witch hunt? Trump-supporting Republicans regularly use this term. So did House GOP leader Gerald Ford about Patman’s investigation, calling it a “political witch hunt.” Nixon staffer and former Washington Post reporter Ken Clawson called the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation a “witch hunt.” Nixon was guilty. And Mueller has achieved six convictions so far. Ω

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Learning from walking Successful primary candidates are now regrouping for the long campaign months leading up to Nov. 6. The field is set and strategies change, especially in the races that had large numbers of primary candidates. Many will move toward the middle in their policy pronouncements, hoping to attract cross-over and non-partisan voters without alienating their bases. But canvassing door to door is still the best way to learn what’s currently on voters’ minds. It’s especially important that candidates for Reno’s mayor and city council listen more than they talk. While walking precincts for state candidates this spring, I got an earful from people who were primarily concerned about Reno’s metamorphosis from an affordable, friendly community to a place where housing is ridiculously expensive, freeways are choked during commuter hours, and the working and retired classes are being shoved aside to make room for the employees of companies lured here by tax incentives.

I heard these complaints consistently throughout my walks in west and southwest Reno, stable communities filled with long-term families who have a lot invested in their city. They aren’t against progress, but they worry about the seniors priced out of their apartments and young families paying exorbitant rents. More than once, people pointed out to me they wouldn’t be able to live in their neighborhood if they were trying to buy their house now, as the price would be far beyond their means. They aren’t very happy with the Reno City Council right now either. One elderly woman expressed it to me this way: “They aren’t focused on the right things. The beached whale art is nice, but that shouldn’t be the priority when people can’t afford to live here anymore. Why aren’t they doing more to take care of us?” Indeed. People seem especially mad at the council for approving the huge new development north of Reno. The lack of water and infrastructure stoke a

simmering anger. Candidates must engage these voters and listen carefully to their concerns. Primary voters also lamented their meager knowledge of the candidates for sheriff. Several voters told me they didn’t know where candidate forums were being held or how they could get the information they needed, especially given the volume of flyers in their mailboxes from the highprofile governor’s race. As Nevada gears up for the U.S. Senate feature contest, it’s likely the deluge of mail pieces will only get worse. People get overwhelmed by all the mail that arrives in the last few weeks of the campaign, and a lot of the expensive flyers go straight to the recycle bin. Voters are already sick of TV commercials and complain bitterly about the negative attack ads with grainy pictures portraying opponents in awkward and unflattering images. And yet, I was questioned often about the substance of such ads, showing they do raise questions that linger. People want candidates to talk

about their own policy intentions, but it’s clear they also listen to their opponents’ attacks. Although national political themes will continue to play an outsize role in this era of polarization fueled by the xenophobic and outrageous actions of President Trump, Nevadans still want to see and talk to their politicians. Knocking on doors is a time-honored tradition here as are numerous public appearances where citizens get to ask their questions and be heard. I can’t resist a few parting words for Adam Laxalt, though. If he were walking door-to-door, he’d know that no one is worried about Nevada becoming California or cancer warnings on our coffee. And the tiny tax on the big-box stores is hardly impeding Nevada’s booming economy. Better respect our intelligence and start talking about real issues, or you’ll risk alienating large groups of voters well before Election Day. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Mugged A March 21 Reno Gazette Journal report was the source of a major controversy in the Democratic primary for governor. Candidate Steve Sisolak used the report as his only basis for claiming the widowed Chris Giunchigliani in 2006 bought a house using campaign money paid to her late husband, campaign consultant Gary Gray. Gray was a consultant to numerous Democratic candidates. The only place that linkage of campaign money-tohome purchase appeared was in the Reno Gazette Journal. There, RGJ reporter James DeHaven—a former RN&R freelancer—wrote, “Giunchigliani’s most generous payments to Gray came the same year the couple bought a $435,000 home in downtown Las Vegas.” That sentence was not followed by any substantiation that campaign money went to the purchase of the home. There were a lot of figures cited but no evidence connecting the figures to the home purchase, which occurred months before the payments to Gray. But the RGJ story was missing one very, very important sentence—DeHaven neglected to tell readers that this increase in Gray’s fees happened the same year Giunchigliani went from running for an Assembly race in Clark County to a far more expensive county commission race. In her Nevada Assembly race, her district—District 9, when it was most recently apportioned— contained a population of 47,616. When she ran for the Clark County Commission—District E, when it was most recently apportioned— the district contained 129,500 people, a 171 percent increase in the number of voters. In addition, while her Assembly district was relatively compact, her commission district sprawled across much of the Las Vegas Valley. Thus, Gray’s fees went up because Guinchigliani’s campaign costs went up—sharply. When she ran for reelection as commissioner, her campaign costs dropped back down. Withholding this information from readers is why KLAS News in Las Vegas said the RGJ report “may be deceptive.” But that finding did not discourage Sisolak, who still made comments like, “I donated to her campaign and didn’t know that she was using it to buy a house,” while running ads attacking Giunchigliani using the RGJ article as his only source. (Nor did the RGJ revisit the issue after KLAS’s report was broadcast.) The Nevada Independent said Sisolak’s attacks “have almost entirely cited the newspaper story.”

Musk tales Elon Musk survived a June 5 shareholder effort to remove him as Tesla board chair during the company’s annual meeting in Mountain View, California. Removing Musk was proposed by shareholder Jing Zhao, who said Musk is spread too thin while leading several companies at once. After the vote, the website KnowTechie observed, “Sure, he’s had some Twitter meltdowns bordering on paranoid lunacy, but he’s still the creative brain genius that brought electric cars to market and freaking made a rocket that lands itself.”

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Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Kate Marshall and her husband, economist Elliott Parker, kept watch on returns and texts on primary election night. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

The primary Democrats split, Republicans trumped Chris giunchigliani is soft on child sexual predators, is “out for herself,” voted to raise her own pay, and “funneled” cash to her late husband. Or so said Steve Sisolak on his way to beating her for the Democratic nomination for governor. Thus, the Democratic Party is now burdened with a major split. “They always do this,” said a longtime Democratic woman activist. “They take the base for granted and run conservatives to peel off Republicans. Well, I have somewhere to go—straight from U.S. Senate to lieutenant governor [on the ballot].” That option—skipping the governor’s race in November—is one that was used heavily in 2016. The Trump/Clinton choice was so unpopular that 1.7 million people in 33 states cast a ballot but skipped the presidential race, an unheardof development. Women have been the most active grassroots organizers since Trump was appointed president, and many Nevada women leaders wanted Giunchigliani at the top of the Democratic ticket so the party could ride the Women’s March movement this year. They believed any credible Democrat could beat Republican

Adam Laxalt, who carries a lot of political baggage, but that Giunchigliani was ideally suited to excite turnout. A woman organizer who is more interested in the U.S. Senate race than the governor’s race said, “We needed turnout for Jacky [Rosen]. Giunchigliani’s charisma would have provided it.” While women in the Democratic Party are upset with Sisolak, they are deeply angry at another Democrat. “We had an exciting candidate who knew state government inside-out and could have brought Democrats to the polls in droves, and Harry saddled us with a lump of clay,” said a woman who attended a recent Nevada Women’s Lobby meeting. Former U.S. senator Harry Reid endorsed Sisolak over Giunchigliani early on. Reid and fellow Sisolak endorser Dina Titus are also receiving heavy criticism for remaining silent while Sisolak savaged Giunchigliani. The damage to Giunchigliani’s reputation by Sisolak’s attacks concerns many of her friends, who believe it will undercut her effectiveness in public life. “I hurt all over,” a Giunchigliani supporter in a Washoe unincorporated precinct said on primary night.

Some Democrats at an election night party at Cathexes expressed concern that Nevadans now have a 2016-style choice—two unpopular candidates, Sisolak because of his primary election tactics, Laxalt as a result of his blunders in office. Sisolak’s unrestrained attacks also landed on others not even in the race. In two mailings sent out statewide, Sisolak claimed Giunchigliani “voted to allow unreported gifts from lobbyists,” and the mailings displayed the 1999 legislation at issue so readers could see Giunchigliani’s name as co-sponsor highlighted in yellow—along with the names of 28 other co-sponsors, many of them popular, even beloved figures: Dawn Gibbons, David Parks, Bonnie Parnell, Bob Price, plus the now-deceased Bernie Anderson, John Carpenter, Marcia de Braga, Harry Mortenson, Roy Neighbors, and chief sponsor Gene Wines Segerblom. Columnist Andrew Barbano said Sisolak’s nomination means “Nevada will, as always, be ill-positioned for the looming recession. Taxes will remain low while corporate welfare will only grow. Like the 2017 legislature, organized labor will remain on the outside looking in, even as politicians expect and receive worker support this year.” Amid talk of glass ceilings, an African American Democratic activist at the Dolores Feemster memorial service last weekend pointed out that Reid also declined to support Clark County Sen. Joe Neal when Neal was the state’s first black nominee for governor. Women have won or are virtually assured of winning several nominations for governor this year, including in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island and South Dakota. The Georgia nominee is an African American woman, and the New Mexico nominee is a Native American woman. While Nevada Democrats licked self-inflicted wounds, Republicans faced a different but just as rough general election challenge. In an election in which turnout is expected to be a determinant, an NBC/Wall Street Journal survey taken June 1-4 showed 63 percent of Democrats but only 47 percent of Republicans looking forward to voting in November. The way Donald Trump is dragging Republicans down was shown in another part of the survey. After months of Republicans trying to attach themselves

to Trump’s alleged appeal, the poll found that 48 percent of voters are more likely to support congressional candidates who pledge to curb Trump, with only 23 percent saying they would be less willing to support such a candidate. And a flat majority of 53 percent say they are less likely to vote for candidates who support Trump on most issues. A Nevada candidate who may have difficulty on this basis is Danny Tarkanian, running for the U.S. House seat currently held by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen. He now faces a general election with Trump round his neck. Tarkanian began this election year with five unsuccessful races behind him. Now, before a vote had been cast, it is six unsuccessful races. Tarkanian first filed for the U.S. Senate primary against fellow Republican Dean Heller. While he was in that race, he kept saying he was a stronger Trump supporter than Heller. Then on the final day of filing, he switched races to the third U.S. House district. Tarkanian didn’t even get credit for making that decision himself. For some reason, he (1) requested that Trump ask him to switch races before he would make the change, prompting Trump (2) to issue one of his tweets saying “it would be great” for Tarkanian to get out of the race, whereupon (3) Tarkanian obediently switched to the House race, (4) making himself appear a Trump puppet. A reader comment on a story at the Nevada Independent about the switch read, “Danny’s a real independent thinker, isn’t he?”

Tarkanian will face Democrat Susie Lee, who has been single-mindedly running for the House—and only the House. Speaking of Trump and Nevada, in the middle of the afternoon on primary election day, Trump sent out a tweet saying he endorsed Adam Laxalt for governor. It was a little like someone stopping at a gas station to buy a gift on the way to a birthday party. Laxalt has been the de facto GOP candidate for governor for months. The late-in-the-day endorsement just drew attention to the fact that Trump had not endorsed Laxalt earlier. In one race watched more by national news entities than inside the state, incumbent Republican state legislator James Oscarson was challenged by brothel owner Dennis Hof, who calls himself “the Trump from Pahrump.” In Nye County, print advertising is a bigger factor than in the urban areas, and Hof has been running full-page attack ads against Oscarson week after week. In the last pre-primary issue of the Pahrump Valley Times, the two candidates ran five full-page ads—three positive ads for Oscarson and one positive ad and one negative ad for Hof. Hof won. In the northern House district, normally a safe GOP seat, incumbent Republican Mark Amodei will face Democrat Clint Koble. Amodei chaired Trump’s Nevada campaign in 2016, but said he cast only a reluctant vote for Trump after the release of the Billy Bush tape. Oh, and a prosecutor named Mueller lost the GOP primary for state attorney general. Ω

Not forgotten

Members of the Feemster family filed into a memorial service for community leader Dolores Feemster at the Reno Sparks Convention Center on June 9. Among the songs used in the service by local singers were “Every Praise,” “Because You Love Me,” “Grateful,” and “What is This?” The service was followed by a reception at Hug High School where Ms. Feemster was a counselor. An interview with Lonnie Feemster can be read on page 35. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

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Dr. Karen gedney wrote her memoir with the goal of shining a new light on “individuals and systems that are broken.”

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aren gedney drove up to the northern nevada Correctional Center, a compound of gray buildings, chain-link fences and guard towers in Carson City. Her heart pounded. Her mouth went dry. She summoned her courage and walked across the parking lot to the gatehouse. She announced that she was there to start her new job as prison doctor. Several years earlier, she’d accepted a full scholarship to med school in return for a four-year appointment in an underserved area. But there was nothing on the gate officer’s clipboard to confirm that he should have been expecting her. “Why the hell don’t they tell me anything?” he muttered. His question would turn out to be a reasonable summary of one of the main themes of Gedney’s next few years.

The new doctor struggled to find her bearings during her first weeks and months treating prisoners. Her staff was comprised of a nurse who showed no warmth to anyone, a physician’s assistant who seemed immune to Gedney’s authority, and a competent, cooperative x-ray technician who turned out to be one of the few people willing to answer the doctor’s questions directly. Gedney soon learned that he was an inmate. Then, she learned he was a “cho-mo”—convicted as a child molester, therefore low on the inmate pecking order. The prison’s medical director was on leave, and no one seemed to want to say where he was or when he might return. When he did return, he was wheelchair-ridden, disoriented and weakened by cancer. The medical director soon died, leaving Gedney in charge—with a list of questions: How do the politics work here? Why do some higher-ups seem to resent my presence? Who can I trust? When her four-year commitment was up, she considered her other options and decided that being a prison doctor was her calling. She stayed until she retired in 2016. “All through those years, I had been telling people little stories, and people would go, ‘Oh my god, you should write a book,’” Gedney said during a recent interview in a coffeehouse. So, she kept a journal. Now, she’s self-published her memoir, 30 Years Behind Bars—Trials of a Prison Doctor.

Humble beginnings Gedney, who retired in 2016, has the build of an athlete—she’s a skier and hiker—dresses like a model, and accessorizes like an art collector. She speaks with a knowing tone, a deep, genuine warmth, and, after decades in Northern Nevada, a mostly intact East Coast accent.

After A long cAreer of tough decisions,

a prison doctor tells Her story She grew up in the town of Saugerties, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, not far from Woodstock. She likes to joke that she was born with a wooden spoon in her mouth—as opposed to the silver spoon that signifies a privileged childhood. “My mother was a German immigrant, coming in after the second World War to the United States with a seventh-grade education and nothing else,” Gedney said. “My father was a product of a Dutch sea captain and an illegitimate German countess. He had a miserable upbringing and, at 17, joined the Merchant Marines and experienced the world.” Gedney further described her mother, who is now in her late 80s: “She’s very, very tough. It’s very much that German mindset—‘You fall out of a tree and break your leg? Who cares? Get up and go back to work.’ And I didn’t know any different, because we were so isolated.” As a child, Gedney had poor vision, and the problem went undiagnosed. She could not see clearly something that was more than an arm’s length away. “So, what did I do?” she said. “I read books.” Her fourth-grade teacher assigned a book report. She doesn’t remember which book she reported on, but she remembers having been entranced. “I couldn’t really see people,” she said. But, reading a book, she could pick up everything that was going on. At around age 9, she became a voracious reader and discovered the work of Frank G. Slaughter, a prolific and best-selling novelist who was also a physician. “It was all about doctors who were, in historical times, taking care of people, where they were protecting against abuses of power,” Gedney recalled. “And they had “walled in” romance and intrigue continued on page 14

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an answer, so she called Marla to discuss the issue. Their conversation that day reveals worlds about the situations and decisions they each contended with: and danger.” Slaughter’s books also talked about current medical research and technology. “I decided when I was 9 years old I was going to have to be a doctor—solely based on books,” Gedney said. “And I decided that was the sort of life I wanted, where it was danger, intrigue, adventure, protecting people, and then finding all these neat things out about science. And then I never changed.”

Settling in In 2018, about a third of practicing doctors are women, according to data from the Henry. J Kaiser Family Foundation. And in 2017, women made up slightly over 50 percent of med school applicants in the U.S., according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges. In the 1970s, when Gedney started med school, the percentage of female doctors was closer to 15—and had only risen that high recently. “Fortunately for me, I liked to study,” she said. “And when I graduated high school, I had a number of scholarships.” She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Clark University in Massachusetts, which now calls itself a “private research university,” and which Gedney called “sort of a pre-med-type university.” Despite the honors, she did not get into med school on the first try. “It was very difficult to get into med school, especially if you’re a female and you absolutely don’t know anybody to give you a recommendation in the medical world,” she said. “I did some master’s work, became a bacteriology supervisor, and then applied the next year.” She was admitted to the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. “And then, the best thing happened,” Gedney said. “I got the National Health Service Corps scholarship. They paid my medical school for four years. Even back in 1980, that was a hundred-thousand-dollar scholarship. And they gave me room, board, books and medical school. And that’s where I made the agreement.” She didn’t know at the time exactly what she was agreeing to. After med school in Cincinnati, she was required to do a three-year residency in order to become a full-fledged physician, which she did at the University of Nevada, Reno. After the residency, she was offered two choices—the Northern Nevada Correctional 14 | RN&R | 06.14.18

“what i wanted to do was write a book to share the inside of the prison from the eyes of someone who is a healer—not a guard, not an inmate.” Karen gedney

Author, 30 Years Behind Bars— Trials of a Prison Doctor. Center or Cabrini-Green, a public housing complex in Chicago. “I had interviewed there, and, the day before, they killed a woman right on the doorstep of the place,” she recalled. “And I thought, maybe I’ll be safer in the prison.” Plus, her husband was pleased that they wouldn’t have to relocate. Throughout the book’s first chapters, as Gedney was getting the hang of her role as prison doctor, she treated several fresh injuries. In one example, a “cho-mo” arrived in her office, beaten by fellow inmates with a sock filled with combination locks. In another, a prisoner had been on the ground in handcuffs and leg restraints, angry and yelling threats. Guards had brought in a dog. They’d lost control over the dog, and it had bitten the prisoner in the leg. Gedney treated each inmate who came to the infirmary not as an offender of

one kind of another, but as a patient whose ailments it was her job to help heal. She treated murderers and white supremacists, and she asked herself, “Instead of hating and fearing these groups, wouldn’t it make more sense to try to understand why they had chosen to live their life in that way?” That position sometimes put her at odds with the custody officers. “It’s always the suspicion,” Gedney said during the interview. “They always looked at me like, ‘Why do you give ’em good care?’ which was hard to deal with, where, in the outside world I would be recognized as a compassionate doctor, who went more than the mile. And in prison, no, I was like a target.” She could see the custody officers’ point of view, though. If one of them showed compassion for an inmate, they’d be branded an “inmate lover,” and their authority would suffer, which could lead to more violence. “They have a world where they have to sit hours and hours sort of waiting for something bad to happen,” Gedney said of custody officers. She summarized the findings of an article she read recently: “Correctional officers have the highest rates of PTSD, depression and suicide, per capita, of any profession.”

A lifelong cAlling Back in 1973, a Texas prisoner named J.W. Gamble was unloading bales of cotton from a truck as part of a work assignment. A bale fell on him, injuring his back. He was not treated promptly. The incident led to a 1976 Supreme Court case, Estelle v. Gamble, which established that inmates have a right to health care. A similar suit, Taylor v. Wolf, led Nevada’s then-governor Richard Bryan to petition the federal government for two prison doctors, who would be installed in 1980. Gedney was one of them. The other was a woman she calls “Marla,” in the book, who worked at the maximum security prison nearby. One day—after an inmate who was an IV drug user died and two others came in with hepatitis B, possibly from sharing needles— Gedney wondered about patient confidentiality. In the outside world, and according to her medical training, confidentiality was paramount. In the prison, was she obligated to report the drug use? She couldn’t find

“Marla, how’s the weather at Max today?” She laughed. She knew I wasn’t talking about the temperature, seeing as the two prisons were only a few miles apart. “Well, it’s a lot cooler here today than yesterday, when a couple of inmates went at it at the weight pile.” “Anyone really hurt?” “Nah. Fortunately, the officers didn’t hit anybody when they fired off warning shots. So how are you doing over at your place?” “Surviving,” I said. But for how much longer? “Marla, did anyone over there talk to you about the subject of medical confidentiality and how the prison looks at it?” “Hmph, I bet they think about it differently than we do. But as far as I’m concerned, I’m the doctor and that license means more to me than any job. If they don’t like it, I expect they can take it up with the Feds who put us here.” She laughed. “I’d love to see them do that.” “So you don’t feel any pressure to break confidentiality because we’re in a prison instead of a clinic?” “The only reason we’re both sitting in prison right now is that they’re under that big lawsuit. You know, I saw the inmate in that suit for pneumonia last week. He’s this skinny schizophrenic with scary eyes. When I looked at his X-ray and other films done on him in the past, you wouldn’t believe the amount of buckshot in his body. He’s probably carrying around a half-pound of lead in him. Rudy told me that when he acted up in the past—before they had any provider to give him an anti-psychotic—the officers would just shoot him in order to control him.” I didn’t like lawsuits, but I knew that sometimes it was the only way something could be brought to attention that needed to be done. The lawsuit against the prison had enabled the system to be given two federal doctors for four years: myself and Marla. “Yeah, I heard about that lawsuit. Taking care of the mentally ill, especially violent paranoid schizophrenics, would be difficult for a mental institution with a psychiatrist, let alone a prison with no real doctors. I never knew there were so many mentally ill patients in prison. For some reason I thought they would be in mental institutions.” “Wake up, honey! When Reagan was president, he gutted those mental health clinics and asylums. Why do you think we have so many more homeless people now?” “I knew about that, but seeing it up close is different. It’s not only the mentally ill, it’s all the addicts. I don’t see how sticking a guy in a cage and making his life miserable is going to address the things that caused him to be an addict in the first place.” Maybe I was being made to feel that I was not wanted because I really wasn’t. Maybe the prison administration did not want things to change.

Gedney’s stories of injured prisoners and political chess from early in the book are just the tip of the iceberg. Things get even more intense from there, and her long career is also punctuated with moments of humor and hope. The story remains a page-turner throughout. Reading it, it’s easy to wonder, over and over, how she dealt with the pressures of prison and kept returning to work day after day. She has three answers. One is the support of her husband, Clifton Maclin. Gedney’s joke for him is that he was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth. He’s an African American man who’d grown up privileged, and who’d seen atrocities and was almost killed in the Vietnam War. After work—he was a financial adviser—over dinner or a foot rub, Maclin would patiently listen and sometimes advise when Gedney wanted to discuss a problem or decision she faced. Maclin also soon became a respected speaker and teacher at the prison. “Without a spouse like Clifton, it’d be very hard,” she said. Another thing that shaped her views on prison work early on was what Gedney called “naivete.” Looking back, she speaks now as if it were largely as a blessing. “I wasn’t familiar with prisons,” she said. “There are some people who go into a prison with all these preconceived

notions. Like, these are horrible people. They are bad people. They’re scum. They should be punished. When I went in, I didn’t have that. I sort of lacked that judgmental gene.” If a smoker had advanced lung disease, for example, she said she was unlikely to admonish him for smoking and more likely to probe into what drove his addiction. Yet another source of strength was her mother’s stories from World War II. When prison staffers would say, “I’m just following orders,” she’d think of the destruction that a “just following orders” mindset had led to during that war. She wrote in the book that she’d concluded, “To not think … to not question … to not wonder if something could be done in a better way… it scared me.” “Over the last 30 or 40 years, the prison has swung back and forth on the pendulum of repressive to rehabilitative, depending on the prison directors and the wardens,” she said. “I lived through, I think eight or nine different prison directors and eight or nine different wardens.” Near the end of director Greg Cox’s tenure, in 2015, Gedney decided it was time to retire, which she did in 2016. Shortly before her retirement, James Dzurenda was hired as director of prisons. Dzurenda has implemented reforms that swing toward rehabilitation. In February

2017, Nevada’s ACLU’s told the Nevada Independent that it was “cautiously optimistic” about Dzurenda’s policies. In August 2017, the civil liberties organization was dissatisfied with the prison’s new policy on transgender inmates. After retiring, Gedney got to work on her book. “What I wanted to do was write a book to share the inside of the prison from the eyes of someone who is a healer—not a

Former inmate Ismael Santillanes illustrated the memoir. He’s also the author of a book of poetry, Indelicate Angels.

guard, not an inmate,” she said. Her book was published in February. Now, she’s working on marketing it and scheduling talks and presentations. As to her prediction for the near future of prison policies, she said, “It takes a long time to change a culture.” Ω

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by Brad Bynum b r a d b @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

in good taste

A Reno chef and musician recently published a book exploring the intersections of food and music

nthony Scott Ashworth is a local chef who has worked in some of the most acclaimed kitchens in the valley—like Campo, Liberty Food and Wine Exchange, and La Strada in the Eldorado. He helped design and launch the menus at Shawarmageddon and The Depot. He’s been a caterer and a culinary consultant. He currently works at Washoe Public House.

Spinning plates Early in the book, Ashworth writes, “As a child, I was always trying to perform in some way for my family. It isn’t much of a surprise that I became a chef and a musician—two very similar ways to perform.” Now, for most folks, who 16 | RN&R | 06.14.18

has adventurous taste and there’s a smattering of great hip-hop, R&B and post-rock in the mix as well. The theme song from Ghostbusters accompanies an early chapter about his childhood. Ashworth grew up in West Virginia. His family was very large—his dad was one of 10, and his mother was one of six. He was the oldest grandchild on both sides. “I’m the oldest of a ton of fucking kids on both sides of my family, so all the holiday meals—that’s when I got to see my favorite people in the world,” he said. “And it always happened over food.”

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He’s also a musician—a guitarist who’s played in some of the better heavy music bands to come out of Reno in the last couple of decades—Young Goodman Brown, Dirt Communion, The Harvest and the Hunt, Sai’i, and his current band, Kanawha. And now he’s an author. He recently self-published Riff Eater: The Sonic Recipe of my Life, a book that’s a combination of episodic memoir and a collection of conversational essays on various topics related to food and music—like ethical hunting and social media restaurant reviews, and Rage Against the Machine and the Lost Highway soundtrack. It also provides some behind-the-scenes peeks into some of the kitchens and rehearsal spaces of Reno.

likely struggle to succeed at just one of those arts, that similarity might not be obvious. But Ashworth spends the bulk of the book forging that connection. For him, whether making a meal or writing a song, the goal is the same: to create something that challenges and rewards the palate. He often describes food with musical terms, and music in culinary terms: “Each ingredient (guitar, bass, drums, vocals) has to fuse into an interweavement of a singular thing. If one ingredient is being used too heavily or too sparingly, the recipe for the song will be reworked until the song … sounds right.” “When I’m training people in the kitchen, I tell them to think of it like a dance,” he said during a recent interview. This approach depends on careful setup. “Your beets are always going to be here. Your greens are always going to be here. Your bowls are always going to be here, so when you read ‘beet salad,’ you know that it’s a movement forward, a movement to your right and then a swing back—so it’s a dance. … You train yourself to do motions over and over and over every night.” The book begins with a list of songs that Ashworth suggests as a soundtrack to accompany the book. There’s one song for each chapter. The songs are also listed again before each chapter they’re meant to accompany. Many of the songs are what you might expect from a heavy metal guitarist—Slayer, Mötorhead and Black Sabbath all make welcome appearances. But Ashworth

His maternal grandfather was a baker, and his paternal grandmother would always cook for the big family. In the book, he calls her “a maharishi of cuisine”: “Each meal was usually some sprawling buffet of perfectly executed culinary prowess. Looking back on it now, she is the best catering chef I have ever worked under. As the family grew each year, so did the size of the meal. This meal was never out of a box or out of a can—fresh shucked beans, potatoes from the bin, or waffles made completely from scratch. ... It would be an all-day ordeal to make one giant dinner. While she was

next band, Dirt Communion, achieved a fair amount of success in the local scene. And Ashworth credits a lot of that to guitar-teacherturned-bandmate Eric Stangeland. “I’ll never forget it,” Ashworth said. “He said, ‘In order to be whatever guitar player you want to be, you have to learn everything in order to throw any of it out the window. You have to know why you’re not doing it.’” That band was followed by The Harvest and the Hunt, a band with a name that also sounds like a trendy restaurant, and Sai’i, a band named in reference to a Paiute legend. Kanawha, Ashworth’s current project, is named after the West Virginia county where he grew up (see “Deep roots,” Musicbeat, Oct. 12, 2017). He’s a professional chef but a proudly “amateur” musician: “When you do something as an amateur, there is still love there,” he said. “You still have passion. When it becomes your profession, it can erode your soul and distort your mind. Therefore, I like to say I am an amateur musician.” But just as his current musical project returns to his roots, so too does his current culinary interest. “When I was in my mid-20s, dreaming about opening a restaurant, what I really wanted to do was Asia … mixed with regional South American food, because it’s a lot of the same ingredients—a lot of cilantro, a lot of cumin—just one has a lot more sugar. But it matches really well.” But in recent years, his interests have turned back toward Appalachian food. “When you’re a young cook, you always want to run away from your roots,” he said. “Dudes that were born in Texas hate barbecue. You get a guy who grew up in California, and he won’t want to cook with avocado.” He now wants to eat meals that connect back to his childhood and remind him of his grandmother’s kitchen. “If you think you can cook better than your grandmother, you’re an idiot,” he said. Ω

“ If you think you can cook better than your grandmother, you’re an idiot .” Anthony Scott Ashworth chef and musician preparing everything for that meal, she would usually pump out a large breakfast, a small lunch, and a mid-afternoon snack she referred to as supper. Then the big meal would be dinner. This was always with an attendance of well over 30 people.” One formative early experience was hearing a man sing opera tunes at an ice cream parlor in Myrtle Beach. Ashworth describes both the ice cream and the singing in detail— and the various reactions from members of his family. His mother, for example, referred to the man as “a loon,” but Ashworth himself was entranced. And he also took careful note of the different reactions to the singing. And for Ashworth, that sets up an important distinction: Food was a way for him to connect to his large family, but music was a way for him to differentiate himself in that same large family.

All the dirt He graduated high school in 2001, attended culinary school in Philadelphia, lived in New York for a brief spell, and then moved out to Reno in 2003, because he’d heard that the casinos were a good place for ambitious young chefs to work. He started performing music seriously after he moved to Reno. His first band here, Young Goodman Brown, was a metal band named after a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story. His

A “Book Release BBQ” for Anthony Scott Ashworth’s book Riff Eater will be held at The Saint, 761 S. Virginia St., at 9 p.m. on Friday, June 15. The event will feature Ashworth’s band Kanawha as well as Weight of the Tide and Blinded Youth. There will also be food prepared by Ashworth and Ritual Baking Co. baker Emily Litt (full disclosure: she also works at the RN&R). Tickets are $5.

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by JEssica sanTina

It looks like Grease, but it’s really Shakespeare, Merry-War-Theatre-style.

Time warp Roller skates, Elvis Presley, leather jackets and malt shops. No, it’s not that other summer event celebrating the 1950s. It’s Shakespeare, obviously. Merry War Theatre Group returns to the steps of the Lear Theater for another summer of the Bard under the stars, this time with one of his best known and least politically correct comedies, The Taming of the Shrew. Director, lead actress and company founder Chase McKenna set this story about gender wars squarely in 1950s Santa Cruz—a choice that certainly fits in with the downtown sounds of bicycle bells and motorcycle engines. For this play about men conspiring to dominate and control women for personal gain—one that actually ends with a monologue from a woman about the pleasure of serving your man—it also makes sense to set it during a period of conformity in which women’s discontent with the status quo was only beginning to emerge. In this age of #MeToo, it may be the only way to pull that off. As to the premise, I’ll keep it simple. Wealthy diner proprietor Baptista (Michael Peters) has two daughters: Katherine, or Kate (McKenna), the abrasive, hardheaded elder, and Bianca (Lili Grajeda), the good-natured, lovely and sweet younger one. All the boys love Bianca, but Kate’s tendency to knee them in the groins and call them names makes her vastly unpopular. Unfortunately, Baptista won’t let anyone marry Bianca until some fellow consents to take Kate off his hands. Two mischievous suitors of Bianca’s— Gremio (Chadaeos Clarno), a dead ringer for Thurston Howell III, and Hortensio (Owen Bryant), who resembles a slick used-car salesman—cook up a plot to marry Kate off so they can get to Bianca. With promises of Baptista’s money, they’ll lure their fortune-seeking pal Petruchio 18 | RN&R | 06.14.18

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(Cameron Shirey) into turning on the charm and taming that willful shrew into submission. Of course, good ol’ Will also built in some requisite, needlessly complex subplots involving switched identities, just to add some length and confusion to the story. Billed as a family-friendly show, its actors bend over backward to make Shakespeare accessible to the masses, and, for the most part, it works. I brought my husband and 9-year-old daughter and found the show consistently funny and, even for my daughter, understandable—an impressive feat indeed. Shirey and McKenna are especially skilled at physical comedy, voice projection, and the strategic use of gesture and facial expressions to convey meaning, which is crucial not only for Shakespeare but also for any show performed outside without microphones. Though Shakespeare’s original writing is, for all intents and purposes, retained, the Merry War crew has taken a few liberties, including impromptu singalongs to wellknown ’50s tunes. The costuming and elaborate set design—featuring motel and diner facades that completely nail the time period and feature original art by Killbuck Norman— help to keep the story fresh and fun, even with the weighty, hard-to-follow language. Despite a few off-key and way-too-quiet performers, this Merry War production is definitely a fun way to spend a midsummer’s night. Ω

The Taming of the Shrew

12345 Merry War Theatre Group presents The Taming of the shrew on the steps of the Lear Theater, 528 W. First st., June 14-17, 21-24 and 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. admission is free, though a $5 donation is requested. call (775) 997-4702 or visit merrywar.com.

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SHORT TAKES

“Asked mom if we could go to the haunted house. She said, ‘What’s wrong with the one we live in?’”

Family monsters A family gets their proverbial ass viciously, horrifically kicked in Hereditary, writer-director Ari Aster’s more-than-impressive feature debut. This is a horror movie that will bruise your brain, make your blood run cold and stay in your system well after you’ve left the theater. Annie (an incredible Toni Collette) has just lost her controlling, creepy mother. Annie has some control issues of her own, which sometimes manifest in her professional creation of miniature models—models often depicting her own home life with husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne, doing his best work in years), son Peter (an impressive Alex Wolff) and daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro, who will break your heart). While every member of the family seems to be earnest and decent, they are also dysfunctional with a capital “D.” The loss of her mom, pressure for an upcoming show for her miniatures and the demands of parenthood have Annie on edge, to the point where she seeks counseling. At a support group for people mourning the recent loss of loved ones, Annie meets Joan (the remarkable Ann Dowd), a cheery woman who, nonetheless, has recently lost her son. When tragedy strikes, Annie finds herself leaning on Joan a little more, to the point where she accepts teachings on how to do a séance and communicate with the recently departed. Annie does a couple of rituals at her house, and it all seems innocent enough until creepy apparitions start appearing in the corner and malevolent spirits start messing things up for Peter, who responds by hitting the bong hard. The movie is a ghost story, a demon story and a witch story rolled into one, with elements of The Witch, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist and, yes, The Sixth Sense (that vibe owes a lot to the presence of Collette). It’s also one of the more powerful depictions of a family falling apart in recent years, making it an excursion into horror with an extra layer of depth.

The creeping dread factor starts early in Hereditary and never lets up. Aster proves to be a master of atmospheric scares, relying less upon jolts and gore, and more upon lingering shots in dark corners where you can sort of make out a ghost staring at you. Everything works up to a frightening puzzler of a finale that might have you initially asking, “WTF?” but eventually thinking, “Oh … that’s some messed-up shit right there.” Collette tears your face off as Annie, a seemingly decent person who reveals a lot of mommy issues— regarding her own mom and her current role as a matriarch—as things unfold. Annie isn’t an openly bad person, but as the demons start to manifest and her mother’s crimes boil to the surface, she becomes a seriously, epically bad mom. Collette mixes a quiet, withdrawn demeanor with moments of visceral, outward nastiness that make Annie an unreliable sort at best. Collette makes every step of this tormented mom’s unfortunate journey mesmerizing. Wolff, who is building up a great career with solid turns in Patriots Day, My Friend Dahmer and Jumanji: Welcome to Jungle, gives an incredibly raw, emotionally jarring performance as the son who doubts his mom and craves stability. The destruction of his home life coincides with his transition to manhood, and puberty supremely sucks for this guy. Wolff has moments in this movie when he seems so realistically disturbed that you might mistake this movie for a documentary. With Hereditary, Aster gives the horror genre the kind of film that will be around for years. It has some images—does anything suck more than a smiling ghost?—that will haunt your dreams, for sure. It also has a sort of enveloping darkness that will leave you perhaps a bit unsettled and on edge. It’s as unpleasant as they come, and, as a horror movie fan, I say amen to that. Ω

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Action Point

So, something has happened in Jackass land since Bad Grandpa. While Bad Grandpa wasn’t technically a Jackass movie, it was a “Jackass Presents” movie, and it had the usual Jackass movie director, Jeff Tremaine, calling the shots. The results were the kind of fun we expect from a Jackass movie, with a little more narrative plot, but the emphasis remaining on the killer stunts. Action Point is a stinky pile-of-shit movie. The Jackass label and director are gone, with only stars Johnny Knoxville and Chris Pontius representing the former crew. The slant goes much more toward the narrative—a bad and boring narrative—with only a few OK stunts thrown in for good measure. It’s an uneven, embarrassing, unfunny mess. That’s a shame, because Knoxville proves he’s certainly still game to get his ass kicked for the glory of cinema—although he’s looking a little beat-up these days—and the “true” story at the center of the movie is one ripe for Jackass-type fun. The formula simply doesn’t work this time. The story is based upon a real, now mostly defunct amusement park—Action Park in New Jersey—that had an actual death count (six deaths). I grew up on Long Island and would go to this park in the ’80s. It’s now legendary for its danger factor—a place where safety just wasn’t really on the top of everybody’s list of concerns. The park was crazy and cool; the movie is lame and lumbering.

Life of the Party

The great Melissa McCarthy suffers the Ben Falcone curse yet again in Life of the Party, a shitty Back to School rip-off, which makes it double shitty because Back to School sucked. Falcone is McCarthy’s husband, and he has now directed her in three movies, all bad. The duo worked together on Tammy, one of McCarthy’s worst films, and The Boss, the best of their work together but still pretty bad. McCarthy plays Deanna, a frumpy, middle-aged mom with a daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon), going into her last year in college. Within minutes of dropping their daughter off at school, her husband (Matt Walsh) dumps her for a real estate agent played by the actress from Modern Family (Julie Bowen). A dejected Deanna decides to enroll in school—a shockingly easy process in this film—and finds herself not only attending college alongside her daughter but hanging out with her and her sorority sisters. She’s considered a square at first, but a quick makeover during a party in the bathroom has her emerge as the coolest new girl on campus with awesome hair. What follows are a bunch of predictable gags involving college life and McCarthy struggling to make material well beneath her talents go somewhere.

Solo

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. The last “Avengers” movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, was a misguided, boring dud. This third installment—the first of a two-parter—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.

After one of the more tumultuous productions in recent film history, Solo: A Star Wars Story makes it to screens, completed by a different director than the ones who started the gig. About a year ago, director Ron Howard took over for directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street) after executive producer Kathleen Kennedy showed them the door. Howard took over when principal photography was near completion, but then wound up reshooting 70 percent of the movie. The finished film definitely feels like more than one director had their hands in the pot. It’s sloppy and tonally challenged, and scenes crash into each other at times, killing an otherwise brisk and fun pace. There are moments in this movie that feel like they were shoehorned into the plot to fix a story problem. OK, so there are some definite negatives at play here, but there are plenty of positives. The positives aren’t enough to keep Solo from being one of the weaker Star Wars films, but they are enough to keep it recommendable and a relatively good time at the movies. Diehard Star Wars fans, years from now, will probably shrug and say “Eh, it was OK” when asked to reexamine their feelings. In the end, Solo will probably fall somewhere in between The Star Wars Holiday Special and Revenge of the Sith on the favorite Star Wars film scale. Alden Ehrenreich, a likeable actor, steps into the role of Han Solo, a sacred role thanks to Harrison Ford. While Ehrenreich puts an OK spin on the character, he’s far from remarkable. Donald Glover, however, is perfection as a young Lando Calrissian. He needs his own movie.

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The happily profane superhero party continues with Deadpool 2, a sequel that brings the anarchic spirit of the original without necessarily blazing any new trails. Ryan Reynolds, who has experienced a career explosion thanks to this franchise—and, of course, his undeniable talents—continues to break the fourth wall, Ferris Bueller style. While the gimmick definitely leads to some good laughs, it does get to a point that feels a little too cute and repetitive. He winks at the audience so much, he must have some severe eyelid muscle strains. He’s gonna have an eyeball pop out. The film starts with Deadpool dejectedly blowing himself up, complete with a severed arm giving the finger. Then it goes into flashback mode as Wade Wilson cleverly and smarmily tells us why he did such a thing. We also get a repeat of the “Wiseass Opening Credits” gag that got the original off to such a good start. This time, instead of Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning,” the credits roll to a brand new ballad from Celine Dion, so the stakes have definitely been raised. Directed by David Leitch, one of the guys who directed John Wick, the film definitely ups the ante on the action front, with gun and swordfights that have some major zip to them.

Some well-choreographed action scenes can’t help this low budget sci-fi thriller make the grade. Logan Marshall-Green stars as Grey, a muscle car-loving geek who fixes classic autos for rich people in the future. After he and his girlfriend (Betty Gabriel) have an accident in her self-driving car (I just don’t know how I will ever be able to get into one of those things), Grey is left paralyzed and hungry for revenge. One of Grey’s clients, a tech giant named Eron (Harrison Gilbertson) has a solution: an implant called Stem that will bridge the gap between his brain and severed spinal cord. What he doesn’t tell Grey is that Stem will internally speak to him with a voice like Hal’s from 2001: A Space Odyssey and that when Stem takes over his body, he will have ninja skills. This sounds like it would be fun, but many of the performers in this movie seem like they’ve never been in front of a camera before. It also lacks a much needed sense of humor. Now, if they made an Upgrade sizzle reel, a 15-minute summary of all the cool fight scenes and chases in the movie, that would be worth a viewing on YouTube. Unfortunately, this movie is a lot longer than that, and most of it is melodramatic and tough on the ears.

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Completing the course was a big plate of five spice pork ($11) with large, thin cuts of meat crusted with cinnamon, clove, fennel, anise, pepper and salt, and tossed with jalapeño, garlic and scallion. It was just a tad dry until we added its side of sauce, but was easily cut with a fork and disappeared quickly. I really wanted to try something from the chef’s special menu of dishes with ingredients like pig stomach, blood curd and intestines. I opted for something that sounded relatively familiar, a clay pot dish of halibut collar, roast pork belly and fried tofu cake ($13). Served hot and bubbling, the pot’s contents were something else indeed. The bean curd rectangles were very smooth inside, with a wrinkly not-quite crisped exterior, and the pork was wonderful. The fish was buttery and light, though it was a bit daunting getting around all the bony bits. The seasoned, fried skin added a lot of flavor. It’s no wonder fish collar is so prized. The last dish I ordered was congee—a type of rice porridge—with pork and century egg—a type of preserved egg ($10). The rice porridge itself didn’t have a lot of flavor other than salt and rice starch, and the pork bites were similar to what you’d find in stir-fry. But that preserved egg—wow. Yes, it was gelatinous, and, yes, it did have a bit of a cheesy funk to it. But the deep, richly flavored yolk was amazingly smooth and pleasing, completely elevating the dish in ways I hadn’t expected. I can see why this quicklimecured item is treasured, though it’s pretty bizarre at first glance. Ω

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Knowlton told me he’s been tending bar at Death and Taxes for more than five years, and Negronis inspire him to be creative. I asked for his recommendation for enjoying Negronis at home, where some of the more exotic additions I saw at his bar might be less accessible. “Just use good spirits,” said Knowlton. “Use good gin, use good sweet vermouth, or try it with bourbon—it’s called a boulevardier.” After two Negronis at two bars in one hour, I made the brief walk—mostly steadily—down Virginia Street to Rum Sugar Lime, where I decided to simply inquire about the Black Pool’s Revenge, instead of sampling it. “It’s Lemon Hart Blackpool Spiced Rum, vermouth, Campari, Montenegro and some coconut liqueur,” said bartender Mark Nesbitt. He said that while he loves Negronis, he didn’t really start drinking them until after he started bartending, and he believes they’re most popular with other bartenders and older patrons, who are more familiar with classic cocktails. Negroni Week itself, Nesbitt said, has been largely an industry event for the past few years, but more and more patrons are catching on. “It’s a way for bars to showcase what they can do with this very classic, perfect blank slate of a cocktail,” Nesbitt said. Ω

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Red Hoop Over Father’s Day weekend, the Stewart Indian School in Carson City is home to the annual Father’s Day Powwow. A highlight of every powwow is traditional competition dancing. Men, women, children and elders will don colorful regalia, dancing in various styles. Leading all of these dances are the drum groups. “You can’t have a powwow without the drum,” said Martin Montgomery, lead singer of the Red Hoop drum group. “They’re more than just an instrument or a tool. We believe they have a life.” Montgomery explained that respect is shown to the buffalo, elk, horse or moose that gave its hide for the drumhead. Red Hoop is the host drum of this year’s Father’s Day Powwow. The group of 14 men sits around one drum, beating down in unison with a drumstick each. They set the tempo for the hundreds of songs they sing together with uninhibited energy, giving the dancers tempo and dynamism. The lyrics are in the Cree or Sioux languages, or sometimes a style called “straight songs” that don’t have discernable lyrics at all. The melodies of the voices carry these songs without words. Montgomery’s father and uncle started Red Hoop in 1993 in their hometown of Gardnerville. They group consisted of brothers and cousins practicing every Monday and Wednesday for a year before playing at their first powwow at the Stewart Indian School. They decided to name themselves after a horse that was recognized by a red ring around its eye. “[My father and uncle] were not only about the singing, but the teaching behind it,” said Montgomery. Many of the songs contain prayers or stories that are

centuries old. For example, a song played for the Grass Dance tells the story of how grass is leveled under the dancers’ feet before setting up a campsite. Dancers glide and step in a way to represent the flattening of the terrain. According to Montgomery, Red Hoop is nationally recognized. The members hail from Northern Nevada, Sacramento and Oregon. They travel in Montgomery’s van to powwows, performances and events across North America, including Mexico and Canada. They’ve played on the baseball diamond before a San Francisco Giants game in AT&T Park. The group performs more than 32 weekends every year. “My dad always told us, ‘If you take care of the drum, it will always take of you,’” said Montgomery. He said despite some hardships, including a short period of homelessness, the connections he made through the drum always gave him friends, family and a place to go. Once, as a young man, Montgomery was left at the Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco without enough gas money to make it home. He asked to borrow a microphone from a street performer busking for money. He hoped playing a couple of songs with the drum would earn him a few dollars. “I just closed my eyes, and I kept singing and singing, and I finally stopped,” he said. “And before I opened my eyes, there were people clapping their hands.” After a few songs, the audience had completely filled a shoebox with money. He had enough to share with the other musicians and artists around him before heading back home. Montgomery said he will always heed his father’s advice—to take care of the drum. Ω

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FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 14, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: The food truck gathering features 30 food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday. Local bands and artists are featured each week. Fri, 6/15, 5pm. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1800 Idlewild Drive, facebook.com/renostreetfood.

HIGH-ALTITUDE GROWING: The UCCE Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe and Slow Food Lake Tahoe present “High Altitude Food Growing” workshops at the Demonstration Garden. Wed, 6/20, 5:30pm. Free. Truckee Regional Park, 10500 Brockway Road, Truckee, slowfoodlaketahoe.org.

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: GREAT ELDORADO BBQ, BREWS & BLUES

The summer events season is well underway in downtown Reno. Next up is the Eldorado Resort Casino’s 23rd annual barbecue block party and microbrew-tasting event featuring beers from 50 microbreweries. The festival also features a variety of rock and blues acts on two stages, including headliners Vanilla Ice, best known for his 1990 hit “Ice, Ice Baby,” who will perform at 7:45 p.m. on Friday, June 15, and 1990s mellow rockers The Spin Doctors, who will perform at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 16. The festival takes place outside the Eldorado, 345 N. Virginia St. Festival hours are 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on June 15, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on June 16. Admission is free. Tasting packages can be purchased for $40-$75. Call 786-5700 or visit eldoradoreno.com.

and Music for Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The afternoon will feature a presentation by Daniel Morse, a Joyce scholar and assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, as well as a reading from Ulysses. Marshall Johnson of the UNR English department will moderate the event and help field questions from the audience. Sat, 6/16, 2pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

MARK TWAIN & SARAH WINNEMUCCA TOGETHER AT TUNNEL CREEK LODGE: An evening of wine, wisdom, hors d’oeuvres and living history with McAvoy Layne as The Ghost of Mark Twain and Dianna Maria de Borges as Sarah Winnemucca. Sat, 6/16, 7pm. $45. Tunnel Creek Lodge, 1200 Tunnel Creek Road, Incline Village, (775) 833-1835, ghostoftwain.com.

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THE COWGIRL SALOON CRAWL & LINE DANCING: Sample a variety of themed specialty drinks offered at participating saloons in Virginia City and receive discounts on full specialty drink orders. All samples are included with the crawl cup purchase. Amplified Entertainment DJs will keep the music going during the free line dancing competition. Sat, 6/16, 11am. $20 for cup. Various locations in Virginia City, (775) 847-7500.

39 NORTH MARKETPLACE: This familyfriendly street fair features fresh produce from local and regional farmers, arts and crafts, live cooking demos by local celebrity chefs, seminars, live music and creative and educational activities for kids. Thu, 6/14, 4pm. Free. Downtown Sparks, Victorian Avenue and 10th Street, Sparks, (775) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.

DAY IN THE PARADISE: The South Lake Tahoe Optimist Club holds its 14th annual event, which starts off with a pancake breakfast, followed by duck races, kids’ games with prizes, a car and truck show ’n’ shine, a luau with roasted pig, beer and wine garden, live music and a silent auction. Sat, 6/16, 8am. Free admission. Tahoe Paradise Park, 1011 E. San Bernardino Ave., Meyers, California, www.tahoeparadisepark.com.

ALPENGLOW MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL: The sixth annual North Lake Tahoe mountainlifestyle festival is a celebration of human-powered events, clinics, presentations and more geared toward beginner and intermediate mountain sports enthusiasts. The festival includes trail running, hiking, backpacking, lakeshore yoga, standup paddleboarding, rock climbing and natural history events. Sat, 6/16-Wed, 6/20, 8am. Free for most events. Various locations, alpenglowsports.com.

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CARSON VALLEY MUSIC, FOOD & BREW FEST: Part of the Mike Tice 8th Annual Charity Weekend, the event features live music by The Blues Monsters, Buddy Emmer, Nancy Wright, Mighty Mike and Chris Cain, as well as beer and wine tastings, food, cocktails and raffle tickets to win sports memorabilia. Fri, 6/15, 4pm. $25. Carson Valley Inn, 1627 Highway 395, Minden, (775) 882-8820.

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convene under the Keystone Bridge, serving unique specialties along with local beer. The event takes place every Wednesday from through Aug. 29. Wed, 6/20, 5pm. Free admission. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/Feed-TheCamel-256832417824677/.

reading to friendly therapy dogs and receive a free book. All ages welcome. Thu, 6/14, 4pm. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

PEACE MEDITATION: Rosicrucians worldwide come together around the fourth Sunday in June each year to promote and contribute to peace. The Peace Meditation ritual reflects on the causes of war and other violence and on how people can individually help to bring about peace. The ritual ends with a group meditation that uses visualization to create a more peaceful world. A potluck will follow the meditation. Sun, 6/17, 10am. Free. Crissie Caughlin Park, 3415 Idlewild Drive, (775) 443-6695.

RENO RODEO: The 99th annual event features more than 750 professional athletes, two world-class team-roping events, Xtreme bull riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing and bronco riding. The event also features a cattle drive, parade, carnival rides and Double R Marketplace. Thu, 6/14-Wed, 6/20. Prices vary. Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave., (775) 329-3877, renorodeo.com.

SIERRA SPEAKER SERIES—150TH TRUCKEE RAILROAD ANNIVERSARY: Jerry Blackwill of the Truckee Donner Railroad Society will tell the story of the first passenger train arriving in Truckee from Sacramento and the transcontinental railroad’s construction over the Sierra Nevada. Sat, 6/16, 5pm. $5 donation. Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center, 12593 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, (530) 583-9911.

SKI RUN FARMERS MARKET: The market features over 35 vendors offering organic, farm fresh produce, local eats, a bounce house for kids, live music and locally made arts and crafts. Fri, 6/15, 3pm. Free admission. Ski Run Farmers Market, along Ski Run Boulevard, South Lake Tahoe, skirunfarmersmarket.com.

SMALL WONDER WEDNESDAYS: Tots ages 5 and younger can participate in story time and explore the museum for a full hour before it opens to the public. Wed, 6/20, 9am. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org.

STEWART FATHER’S DAY POW WOW: Experience American Indian heritage, history and pride at the annual powwow featuring over 200 dancers, 30 arts and crafts vendors and Indian tacos for sale. The Stewart Father’s Day Powwow benefits the preservation of the historic Stewart Indian School. Fri, 6/15, 7pm; Sat, 6/16, 1pm & 7pm; Sun, 6/17, noon. Free. Stewart Indian School, 5500 Snyder Ave., Carson City, stewartindianschool.com.

SUMMER GALA 2018—WILD WEST WORLD: Sierra Nevada College’s Westernthemed, black-tie event features a reception, dinner and dancing. Fri, 6/15, 5:30pm. $350. Lakeside Ballroom, Hyatt Lake Tahoe, 111 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, www.sierranevada.edu.

SWING NEVADA GREEN WITH MICHAEL BRUNE: Join Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune for an evening of food, drinks and bold ideas. Mon, 6/18, 5pm. Free, donations welcome. University of Nevada- Reno Innevation Center, 450 Sinclair St., (775) 432-5651.

TAHOE CITY FARMER’S MARKET: Enjoy fresh local produce, food and scenic lake views every Thursday through Oct. 11. Thu, 6/14, 8am. Free. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-3348, www.tahoecityfarmersmarket.com.

TAHOE CITY SOLSTICE FESTIVAL: The 13th annual festival features the farmers’ market, guided tours, Classic Car Stroll, live music at different venues, Tahoe City wine walk, the Trunk Show Sip ’ n’ Shop, Solstice Paddle and a kickoff to the summer concerts at Commons Beach. Sat, 6/16-Wed, 6/20. Prices vary. Various locations in Tahoe City, visittahoecity.org.

TAHOE STAR TOURS: Star guides Tony and Ryan Berendsen lead this tour of the evening sky every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening through Sept. 1. Enjoy comfortable seating, blankets, outdoor heaters, hot chocolate, s’mores and more. Thu, 6/14-Sat, 6/16, 7pm. $20$40. Northstar California’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium, 148 Northstar Drive, Truckee, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

TEA WITH MRS. TEVIS: Join Mrs. Tevis, the second owner of the Pope Estate, on the front porch to hear about her life, her family and the estate while enjoying light refreshments. Explore the arboretum and learn about how it came to be. Thu, 6/14, 2pm. $15. Tallac Historic Site, 1 Heritage Way, South Lake Tahoe, tahoeheritage.org.

TERRY SHAMES AND JAMES W. ZISKIN: Sundance Books and Music hosts a reading and book-signing event featuring Terry Shames, author of A Reckoning in the Back Country, and James W. Ziskin, author of A Stone’s Throw. Fri, 6/15, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

TIME TRAVEL—REVISITING LAKE TAHOE: Peter Goin, an art professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, presents a photographic comparison of the changing landscape of Lake Tahoe from 19th century imagery to modern photography. Thu, 6/14, 5:30pm. Free. UC Davis Environmental Research Center, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560.

TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FARMERS MARKET: The event showcases locally grown and artisan-quality foods. The market is open on Sunday through Sept. 30. Sun, 6/17, 9am. Free. 12047 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, truckeefarmersmarket.org.

TRUCKEE HISTORIC WALKING TOUR: The walking tour includes stories of railroad barons, lumber mills, ice harvesting, movie stars and other interesting characters. Mon, 6/18, 4pm. Free. 10065 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, mountaintowntours.wordpress.com.

ART ARTIST CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Abstract Edge. The gallery’s June exhibition features works by local abstract artists. Thu, 6/14-Wed, 6/20, 11am-4pm. Free. Artist Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER, SIERRA ROOM: Works: Some Water Some Welded. The Capital City Arts Initiative’s exhibition features mixed media art by Susan Glaser Church and Stephen Reid. The show runs through June 30. Thu, 6/14-Fri, 6/15, Mon, 6/18-Wed, 6/20. Free. Carson City Community Center, 815 E. William St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

CITY HALL: Tahoe Arts Alliance. The City of South Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Arts Alliance hosts an art gallery reception. The Tahoe Arts Alliance connects artists, businesses and organizations on the South Shore and the city hall’s lobby serves as a blank canvas to display local artists. The reception will include a meet and greet with displaying artists and city officials. Mon, 6/18, 6pm. City Hall, 1901 Airport Road, South Lake Tahoe, tahoeartsalliance.org.

LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOYER GALLERY: Fundamental Freedoms. The exhibit features large-scale portraits by local artist Shelley Zentner. She has created the seven major works in this show since the presidential election. Each painting explores a different aspect of freedom: to vote, to learn, to explore the natural world, to escape violence and enslavement. Thu, 6/14-Wed, 6/20. Free. Lake Tahoe Community College, 1 College Drive, Tahoe City, ltcc.edu.

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NORTH TAHOE ARTS: North Tahoe Arts Plein Air Open Reception. This exhibition showcases the works of participants in the 2018 Plein Air Open. Fri, 6/15, 5-7pm. Free. North Tahoe Arts, 380 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787.

Diana Forbes McKaye is kidnapped, but this ruthless magnate proves more resourceful than her clumsy abductors in this play by Dario Fo. Thu, 6/14-Sat, 6/16, Wed, 6/20, 8pm. $20-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

the artists and explore the studios. Sat, 6/16, noon. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, www.renoartworks.org.

ELEMENTS: Our Region. Hosted by the Truckee Public Arts Commission, the exhibit will feature art in a variety of mediums, 2D and 3D paintings, drawings, sculptures and photography. The theme of the exhibit draws on the rivers, mountains, snows and winds and even the road signs and grocery store lines that define the Truckee-Tahoe region. Thu, 6/14-Wed, 6/20. Free. Truckee Community Recreation Center, 8924 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, facebook. com/truckeepublicartscommission.

WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE BRISTLECONE GALLERY: True Grit. An exhibition challenging artists to create works from a deck of canceled cards from Carson City casinos: Casino Fandango, Max Casino, The Carson Nugget, Gold Dust West. Part of Carson City’s NEA Big Read grant celebration which creates 30 days of public programming based on themes found in Charles Portis’ novel True Grit. The gallery is open 9am-7pm, Monday-Friday, and 1-4pm on Saturday. Thu, 6/14-Sat, 6/16, Mon, 6/18-Wed, 6/20. Free. Western Nevada College, 2201 W. College Parkway, Carson City, (775) 887-2100.

MUSEUMS NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl; Art of the Greater West; BLOOM: Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg; Celebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary: Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat; Enrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World; Hans Meyer-Kassel: Artist of Nevada; History of Transportation: A Mural Study by Helen Lundeberg; James Turrell: Roden Crater; Maya Lin: Pin River—Tahoe Watershed; The Nuclear Landscape; Randolph Sims: On the Spur of the Moment; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector; Manet to Maya Lin; Judith Belzer: The Panama Project; The Lasting World: Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptycht. Thu, 6/14-Sun, 6/17, Wed, 6/20, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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plays Omaha Storm Chasers. Sat, 6/16, 7:05pm; Sun, 6/17, 1:05pm; Mon, 6/18, 7:05pm; Tue, 6/19, 1:05pm. $11-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

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team plays the Iowa Cubs. Thu, 6/14, 7:05pm. $10-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

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and Honey. Holland Project Galleries announce the launch of the Summer Serva Pool Installation Series. The series kicks off with new work by Reno-based artist Häsler R. Gómez. A closing reception will be held on Thursday, June 21, 6-8pm. The artist will lead a panel discussion at 6:30pm in the Serva Pool Gallery, located at The Holland Project. Thu, 6/14Sat, 6/16, Tue, 6/19-Wed, 6/20, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

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JUN/16

: WATER & RAILS POND & GARDEN RAILROAD TOUR

The 13th annual event offers self-guided tours of serene gardens, koi-filled ponds and model trains that travel more than 1,000 feet of track under tunnels, over bridges and through miniature towns. Tickets are $25-$85 and can be purchased at Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierly Way, Sparks. Admission is free for children ages 12 and younger. Proceeds from the tour benefit ALS Association Nevada Chapter. The event takes place on Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17. Call 329-3041 or visit waterandrails.org.

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performance features class choreography in ballet, jazz, hip hop, Broadway, contemporary and lyrical styles. Competitive teams showcase award-winning dances with highlights from top high score winners from 2018. Sun, 6/17, 3pm. $18-$20. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Learn how to build your family tree, discover your ancestors and impress your family with your research skills. Fri, 6/15, 11:30am. Free. Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 674-7600.

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FUNTIME THEATER—DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Enjoy a meal and help solve a murder mystery. Call or email info@ FunTimeTheater.com to make your dinner selection. Dinner choices are available a week to 10 days before a scheduled show. Sat, 6/16, 5:30pm. $40-$50. Sure Stay Plus Hotel by Best Western, 1981 Terminal Way, (866) 449-7630, funtimetheater.com.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: Merry War TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): Curiosity Carnival. Come one, come all, and explore Curiosity Carnival—a summer full of exhibits and activities designed to help you delve into the science, technology, engineering, art, math and history of carnival games. Get ready to try your hand at your favorite carnival games while exploring probability, physics, motor skills and other surprising concepts. In addition to the Curiosity Carnival exhibition, visit Spark!Lab Smithsonian to explore the history of the American carnival. Check out The Shop where you can design and build your own carnival games. And in Art Alcove, you can create you own carnival-inspired works of art. The exhibitions run through Aug. 18. Museum hours are 10am-5pm on Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday, 10am to 8pm on Wednesday and noon to 5pm on Sunday. Fri, 6/15-Sun, 6/17, Tue, 6/19-Wed, 6/20. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

FILM PEGGY GUGGENHEIM—ART ADDICT: Artemisia MovieHouse presents a screening of the 2015 documentary film directed by Lisa Vreeland. In a time of cultural upheavals, Peggy Guggenheim fought through personal tragedy and stuck to her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art. The film is a tribute to the wild and iconoclastic life of the heiress who collected not just art but also artists, and who made herself one of the most prominent figures in the 20th century art world. Sun, 6/17, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

LEANING INTO THE WIND: Thomas Riedelsheimer’s film illuminates artist Andy Goldsworthy’s mind as it reveals his art. Thu, 6/14, 6pm. $5-$7. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

MUSIC CELTIC MUSIC SLOW SESSION: Your chance to experience Celtic music making slow and easy. Bring your Irish fiddle, Irish whistles, banjos, guitars and bodhrans or use the instruments available. All ages welcome. Thu, 6/14, 6pm. $5. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 8435500, mountainmusicparlor.com.

CONCERTS AT COMMONS BEACH: The free summer concert series features acts ranging from bluegrass and southern rock to Afro-samba-funk and alternative rock. Sun, 6/17, 4pm. Free. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, www.visittahoecity.org.

NAVY BAND SOUTHWEST WIND ENSEMBLE: The largest element of Navy Band Southwest is the 35-member wind ensemble. In addition to the standard repertoire associated with military bands and wind ensembles, the ensemble’s concerts often feature pops selections ranging from patriotic favorites to the sounds of the big band era to hits by current pop and country artists. Wed, 6/20, 7:30pm. Free. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500.

LAZY 5 SUMMER SERIES: Washoe County Regional Parks and Open Space presents its 14th annual summer concert series. Bring blankets or low back chairs. No pets or glass containers. Wed, 6/20, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Highway, Sparks, (775) 424-1866, www.washoecounty.us/parks.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH : Enjoy live music by Colin Ross and brunch presented by chez louie. The menu features creative cuisine, mimosas and a Bloody Mary bar. Reservations encouraged. Sun, 6/17, 10am. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921.

Theatre Group performs Shakespeare’s comedy for its fifth annual Summer Shakespeare Show. Performances are on Thursday-Sunday through June 30. Thu, 6/14-Sun, 6/17, 7:30pm. Free. The Lear Theater, 528 W. First St., (775) 997-4702, www.merrywar.com.

work to review with published and unpublished writers. Wed, 6/20, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5555 S. Virginia St., highsierrawriters.org.

WORD WRANGLERS WRITERS GROUP: Bring copies of your latest project to share and receive insightful feedback. Tue, 6/19, 2pm. Free. Lyon County Library, 20 Nevin Way, Yerington, (775)463-6645.

YOUNG ADULT WRITERS’ MEETUP: Meet with fellow writers for discussion and writing. Laptops available. Snacks provided. Sat, 6/16, 3pm. Free. South Lake Tahoe Library, 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, (530) 573-3185.

TCT IMPROV TROUPE: The troupe will perform several short scenes and plays based on a suggestion from the audience. Sat, 6/16, 7pm. $12. Art Truckee, 10072 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, truckeecommuitytheater.com.

SPORTS & FITNESS ADVENTURE SPORTS WEEK: Enjoy 10 days of human-powered sports, music, film and fun. The event hosts eight competitive events during the day along with entertainment at night. Trail running, triathlon, mountain biking, paddleboarding and other competitive events will be offered. There will also be demos, clinics and activities for every adventure enthusiast in the family. Fri, 6/15-Wed, 6/20. Prices vary. Various locations across Lake Tahoe, adventuresportsweektahoe.com.

CLASSES DRINK & DRAW: An avant-garde figure drawing class with limited formal instruction and maximum visual stimulation from an assortment of the following: nude models, dancers, performers, musicians, staged still lifes, running films and projected images. Please bring materials as you like. Wed, 6/20, 7pm. $10. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., potentialistworkshop.com.

FLYING COMPANION SEMINAR: The seminar is for non-pilots who would like to be more comfortable as a passenger in the cockpit of a small airplane. Topics covered include navigation, aircraft basics, radio procedures, weather wisdom and aeromedical information. Sat, 6/16, 8:30am. $75. Stead Airport, 4895 Texas Ave., (530) 587-7281, www.renohighsierra99s.org.

THE BROKEN ARROW SKYRACE: The three-day event consists of four distances, each showcasing the beauty of Lake Tahoe. The Broken Arrow Skyrace features four distances: a 52k, 26k, 10k and Vertical Kilometer. After each race elite and recreational participants celebrate together with food, craft beer, music, films and fun activities for the entire family. New for 2018 is a kids’ fun race so that all family members can participate. Fri, 6/15-Sun, 6/17. Prices vary. Squaw Valley, Olympic Valley, brokenarrowskyrace.com.

MONDAY ART MAKERS: Arts for All Nevada offers 90-minute workshops for people with intellectual disabilities every Monday evening. Art supplies are provided. Aides/caregivers are welcome to attend the workshops as needed. Mon, 6/18, 3:30pm. Free. Arts for All Nevada, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 6/15, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist. Bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 6/16, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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by AMY ALKON

Paint and suffering I’m doing some work on my landlady’s house. She just cannot figure out what color to paint it. Now, when a man paints his house, he goes to Home Depot, grabs a few cans of paint and starts right in. Not so with a woman. She’ll agonize endlessly over a bunch of paint chips. She’ll finally make a decision, but even then, it’s subject to change without notice. Has anyone analyzed this phenomenon and found a connection with a woman’s “time of the month”? Women’s house paint preferences have not been a prolific area of scientific study. However, there was a bunch of research suggesting that women’s mate preferences shift with their hormone levels during the menstrual cycle—for example, findings that women went for more masculine faces in the fertile phase of their cycle. But there was a problem. These studies had too-small sample sizes and other methodological shortcomings, which can lead to false positives. When psychologist Benedict Jones and his colleagues ran a big, long-term study to check these findings—using more rigorous methodology—they found “no compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status.” However, there do seem to be sex differences in decision-making. These differences emerge before the menstruation years, note neurobiologist Ruud van den Bos and his colleagues (referencing others’ research on 7-to-9-year-old children). Their own research finds that men and women show “small but consistent differences in decision-making” that appear related to sex differences in the brain—in information-processing and emotion regulation. Women appear to be “more sensitive” to potential losses—which, in turn, might make an individual woman more hesitant to settle on a choice. The truth is, there are times when we all have difficulty making a choice. Psychologist Barry Schwartz explains that we are driven to protect ourselves from regret—the pain of blaming ourselves for making the wrong choice. Fear of regret makes choosing especially challenging when we have a bunch of options without meaningful differences— like eight slightly different shades of off-white house paint.

As for your observation about the chop-chop way men choose a paint color, consider that maybe the average dude—one who isn’t an architect, a decorator or a design connoisseur—might not be so picky about the color of his house. If you want to help your landlady, get some techie friend of yours to Photoshop each color onto the house so the final result is less abstract. Suggest she invite friends over for cocktails to help her choose. This isn’t just a social occasion; it’s a regret-minimization tactic—allowing her to disperse the blame for any grim post-painting epiphanies, such as “Ugh. ‘Tuscan Yellow’—or, as we call it in the States, ‘3-Day-Old Urine Sample.’”

When the going gets tufted I’m not a very hairy guy—except in the armpit area. I’ve seen articles recently saying men should shave their armpit hair. Do women go for this? Body hair removal for men has actually gone pretty mainstream. Psychologist Gareth Terry, in a 2016 paper exploring attitudes about male body hair removal, found that gay, straight and bisexual men and women saw male body hair as masculine and “natural”… to a point—the point at which they found it “excessive” and thus disgusting. As one bisexual dude, 24, put it: If you have a rug on your torso or back, then try not to display it in public.” In the armpit hair arena, when psychologist Michael S. Boroughs surveyed 18-to-44-year-old American men, he found that 40 percent did some manscaping. Of these men, 62 percent just “reduced” the hair and 38 percent removed it. Some women might be into the Mr. Gorilla Pits thing. But trimmed hair grows back. Disgust is hard to reverse. So grab an electric beard clipper. Prune the hair down to an inch or half-inch or so—making it look short and neat but not like you went to some armpit coiffure place.Ω

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For the week oF June 14, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): My Aries acquaintance Tatiana decided to eliminate sugar from her diet. She drew up a plan to avoid it completely for 30 days, hoping to permanently break its hold over her. I was surprised to learn that she began the project by making a Dessert Altar in her bedroom, where she placed a chocolate cake and five kinds of candy. She testified that it compelled her willpower to work even harder and become even stronger than if she had excluded all sweet treats from her sight. Do you think this strenuous trick might work for you as you battle your own personal equivalent of a sugar addiction? If not, devise an equally potent strategy. You’re on the verge of forever escaping a temptation that’s no good for you. Or you’re close to vanquishing an influence that has undermined you. Or both.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have caressed

and finessed The Problem. You have tickled and teased and tinkered with it. Now I suggest you let it alone for a while. Give it breathing room. Allow it to evolve under the influence of the tweaks you have instigated. Although you may need to return and do further work in a few weeks, my guess is that The Problem’s knots are now destined to metamorphose into seeds. The awkwardness you massaged with your love and care will eventually yield a useful magic.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Whether you love

what you love or live in divided ceaseless revolt against it, what you love is your fate.” Gemini poet Frank Bidart wrote that in his poem “Guilty of Dust,” and now I offer it to you. Why? Because it’s an excellent time to be honest with yourself as you identify whom and what you love. It’s also a favorable phase to assess whether you are in any sense at odds with whom and what you love; and if you find you are, to figure out how to be in more harmonic alignment with whom and what you love. Finally, dear Gemini, now is a key moment to vividly register the fact that the story of your life in the coming years will pivot around your relationship with whom and what you love.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Congratulations on

the work you’ve done to cleanse the psychic toxins from your soul, Cancerian. I love how brave you’ve been as you’ve jettisoned outworn shticks, inadequate theories, and irrelevant worries. It makes my heart sing to have seen you summon the self-respect necessary to stick up for your dreams in the face of so many confusing signals. I do feel a tinge of sadness that your heroism hasn’t been better appreciated by those around you. Is there anything you can do to compensate? Like maybe intensify the appreciation you give yourself?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope you’re reaching the

final stages of your year-long project to make yourself as solid and steady as possible. I trust you have been building a stable foundation that will serve you well for at least the next five years. I pray you have been creating a rich sense of community and establishing vital new traditions and surrounding yourself with environments that bring out the best in you. If there’s any more work to be done in these sacred tasks, intensify your efforts in the coming weeks. If you’re behind schedule, please make up for lost time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Necessity is the

mother of invention,” says an old proverb. In other words, when your need for some correction or improvement becomes overwhelming, you may be driven to get creative. Engineer Allen Dale put a different spin on the issue. He said that “if necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness is the father.” Sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein agreed, asserting that “progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” I’m not sure if necessity or laziness will be your motivation, Virgo, but I suspect that the coming weeks could be a golden age of invention for you. What practical innovations might you launch? What useful improvements can you finagle? (P.S. Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead attributed the primary drive for innovative ideas and gizmos to “pleasurable intellectual curiosity.”)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Would you have turned

out wiser and wealthier if you had dropped out of school in third grade? Would it have been better to apprentice yourself to a family of wolves or coyotes rather than trusting your educational fate to institutions whose job it was to acclimate you to society’s madness? I’m happy to let you know that you’re entering a phase when you’ll find it easier than usual to unlearn any old conditioning that might be suppressing your ability to fulfill your rich potentials. I urge you to seek out opportunities to unleash your skills and enhance your intelligence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The temptation to

overdramatize is strong. Going through with a splashy but messy conclusion may have a perverse appeal. But why not wrap things up with an elegant whisper instead of a garish bang? Rather than impressing everyone with how amazingly complicated your crazy life is, why not quietly lay the foundations for a low-key resolution that will set the stage for a productive sequel? Taking the latter route will be much easier on your karma, and in my opinion will make for just as interesting a story.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Each of us

harbors rough, vulnerable, controversial, or unhoned facets of our identity. And every one of us periodically reaches turning points when it becomes problematic to keep those qualities buried or immature. We need to make them more visible and develop their potential. I suspect you have arrived at such a turning point. So on behalf of the cosmos, I hereby invite you to enjoy a period of ripening and self-revelation. And I do mean “enjoy.” Find a way to have fun.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the next two-

plus weeks, an unusual rule will be in effect: The more you lose, the more you gain. That means you will have an aptitude for eliminating hassles, banishing stress, and shedding defense mechanisms. You’ll be able to purge emotional congestion that has been preventing clarity. You’ll have good intuitions about how to separate yourself from influences that have made you weak or angry. I’m excited for you, Capricorn! A load of old, moldy karma could dissolve and disperse in what seems like a twinkling. If all goes well, you’ll be traveling much lighter by July 1.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suggest you avoid

starting a flirtatious correspondence with a convict who’ll be in jail for another 28 years. OK? And don’t snack on fugu, the Japanese delicacy that can poison you if the cook isn’t careful about preparing it. Please? And don’t participate in a séance where the medium summons the spirits of psychotic ancestors or diabolical celebrities with whom you imagine it might be interesting to converse. Got that? I understand you might be in the mood for high adventure and out-of-the-ordinary escapades. And that will be fine and healthy as long as you also exert a modicum of caution and discernment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I suggest that you pat

yourself on the back with both hands as you sing your own praises and admire your own willful beauty in three mirrors simultaneously. You have won stirring victories over not just your own personal version of the devil, but also over your own inertia and sadness. From what I can determine, you have corralled what remains of the forces of darkness into a comfy holding cell, sealing off those forces from your future. They won’t bother you for a very long time, maybe never again. Right now you would benefit from a sabbatical—a vacation from all this high-powered character-building. May I suggest you pay a restorative visit to the Land of Sweet Nonsense?

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by DENNis MYERs

Growing up Feemster

the deeds of Westfield Village, across the street from Reno High—a lady called me years later when I was a president of NAACP. She said, “I looked at my deed, and it says all of the blacks have to be out of the neighborhood by dark.” Well, I didn’t know that at the time.

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Lonnie Feemster is one of late community leader Dolores Feemster’s 12 children, who are part of her legacy. He is a past president of the local branch of the NAACP.

What was it like growing up Feemster? That was just what I was thinking about before you [arrived]. When I was 4 or 5 years old, living on Montello Street, walking half a block to Sally Maldonado’s little grocery store to get something or other. … It was a good neighborhood, mainly Italian and African American families. There was segregation. We kind of lived in the low income area. There were well-to-do Italians, but a lot of them were just average working class folks—and that was where African Americans and Italians lived, over in that area. A lot of the homes had stills and wine vats and wine cellars where they’d make bootleg liquor. My grandfather was involved with the trade, from what my mother told me. … We moved into several houses. One time we lived right across the river, which is kind of like the Mason/Dixon line of Reno. There weren’t many blacks allowed on the other side of the river in the south part of town or the west part of town. … We made up names for the houses. … One [house] was called the Paper House because we

temporarily lived in a little one-room tool shed or garage—no, it wasn’t a garage, it was more or less a storage shed or something out behind the back of a house on Elko [Street]. And it had newspapers on the wall, which I thought was fascinating. It had comics up there and things. I still hadn’t started school yet. It didn’t have a kitchen or a bathroom. … You’ve go to keep the wind from blowing through the cracks in the boards or the wall. Then we moved to the Rat House.

Your adolescence was in the 1960s. I graduated from Reno High in 1967. … We moved to East Tenth Street when I first attended high school ... and they zoned the low-income area that most Africa Americans lived in for Reno High, which was one of the highest-rated, most influential schools. If you look at

Your mother was involved with the NAACP in the 1960s. What was that like for you? Were you excited? Scared? I wasn’t scared too much. We had a few run-ins at Reno High—the white kids and the black kids—and each side would choose champions, and there would be fist fights. … Fortunately, I had four brothers, so I was used to rassling all of them that were able to rassle at one time, so I was pretty good. I could get you tied up so you couldn’t move. Nobody would win the thing until you agreed to a peace treaty. … Most of my memories were of fun. It was the Motown period.

Everything we hear is that your mother’s house was a welcoming place for kids outside the family. Did that deprive you of time with your mother? Always, there were many kids in the neighborhood. Kids would come over and go to sleep. Like, it didn’t matter, there were so many kids we didn’t know what to do, so we’d just play. … It was like a family exchange bureau. And then as I got older, my mother would have college students on the holidays. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Dinosaurs in and out of office Sometimes I’m proud of the mainstream media. Sometimes not. And for this zany “Summit in Singapore,” the MSM hyperventilated quite nicely. All this breathless bullshit from the Singapore Sheraton, and for what? To give us the latest “Trump has just popped open a new soda!” updates on this jiveass Clown Off starring Bozo and Krusty? I’d love to be the MC for this confab, where the very first words would be—“Bozo. Krusty. Krusty. Bozo.” I will give Twitler credit on his Historic Handshake. At least he didn’t grab Kim’s hand and subject him to his infamous and potentially injurious “starting a lawn mower” move. Excellent restraint from Dum Dum. • So I’m guessing that in this new Jurassic flick, the security system on Dinosaur Island will, once again, fuck up. Just a wild hunch! Hey,

builders of the Reptile Ramada, can’t you install a security system for these killer lizards, that, you know, actually works? These doggone dinosaurs are always getting out, and, boy, do they cause problems! And surfing tyrannosauruses? Who knew? • Robert DeNiro is showing real potential as a political analyst. His quote at the Tony Awards Show this past week was brief, sweet and spot on—“Fuck Trump. It used to be down with Trump, but now it’s Fuck Trump.” Nailed it! The next day, in Toronto, DeNiro showed little or no regret for his tidy Tony Awards comments. “This guy is just a jerk.” Tell it, brotha Bob! • I know many of you are tired of it. Weary of the daily bummers from President Sadisto and his Cabinet of Creeps. It’s enough to give a politically reasonable guy/gal a head-

ache. And gas. And an urge to move to Panama. But goddammit—suck it up! You can’t get tired, you can’t give in, you can’t bail out. If you aren’t going to be a solid sender, who is? You thought getting rid of this human chancre, this orange tumor was going to be easy? In the words of Republican strategist David Frum, “If your child is feverishly ill, it can be very fatiguing to take care of her. But it’s what you do, because that’s your duty. And if your country is ill, you have the same responsibility.” • This just in to the newsroom. New Triple Crown winner Justify became the latest champion to turn down an invitation to the White House. The swift steed released a statement that reads, “I must decline the kind invitation made by President Spanky. Because if I wanted to see a horse’s ass, I would have finished second.” Rimshot! Ω

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