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No shame Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Time for the final round! As you’ve hopefully heard by now, we’ve changed things for this year’s Best of Northern Nevada contest. The air was getting stale, so we opened a window. One major change: We added a primary round, which is now over, and the finalists have advanced.

The number of finalists varies in categories from two to five. Don’t try to read too much into the number of finalists for each category or the order in which they’re listed. We randomized the order, and the number of finalists were determined by a bunch of different factors. If, in whatever hypothetical category, the leading nominee scored 100 votes, the second place scored 80 votes, and then there was a fourway tie at third with three votes apiece, we just advanced the top two. And, really, that was the same approach we took if first place got 100, second got 99, and there was a four-way tie at 98.

This is probably bad news for folks with dial-up connections who thought that they’d already finished their civic duty. Guess what? Time to vote again! But great news for folks who forgot to vote or postponed voting or whatever—get in there and vote!

And if you’ve got some sort of personal grudge against a local business, now’s your chance to vote against them.

Congrats to all who advanced to the final round! Good job on being among the five best at whatever it is. That might sound like a backhanded compliment, but it very well might not be (maybe).

And tell your friends, family, customers and social media followers to vote for you. Don’t let any yuppie scumbags shame you for your get-out-the-vote efforts.

For more information—or, at the very least, the same information presented in a more visually compelling manner—check out the promo on page 16. Or just head straight on over to bestofnorthernnevada.com.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsrev i ew . com

Brothel prohibition

Re “Rural and urban” (news, June 7): So the brains in Lyon County want to outlaw legal brothels. Do they actually believe that this will make prostitution go away? Nay, nay, kiddies. Instead it will go underground—look for more pimps, more STDs, more sex crimes, more drugs, more people you will be paying for in jail, more work for our police, more women being abused and even killed, greater risk of child prostitution and kidnapping, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, et cetera, ad nauseum.

Of course, if you don’t like brothels, then don’t patronize them. Duh. Trying to control others’ morals seems far more sinister to me than a “safe” cathouse.

Craig Bergland Reno

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Re “Specifics, please” (letters, June 14): A letter from John Bogle asks, “please share” in regards to the citations for the various legal offenses attributed to Hillary Clinton. Try these: On her handling of classified material, section (a) of 18 USC §1924 reads, “Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.”

In regards to the donations to the Clinton Foundation from foreign sources while she was secretary of state, she also likely violated Article 1, Section 9 (last paragraph) of the U.S. Constitution which reads, “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of Leslie, Josie Glassberg, Eric Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Luka Starmer, Bruce Van Dyke, Ashley Warren, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare.

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any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

In addition, her acknowledgment that about 30,000 emails were deleted after she knew, or should have known, Congress wanted her e-mails likely constituted obstruction of justice, also a potential criminal act.

From my 20-plus years of service on active duty with the U.S. Air Force and DoD, I know that if I had done what Clinton did, I would have been rightly prosecuted and convicted of violation of 18 USC §1924, as was General David Petraeus.

Richard C. Simmonds Reno

It’s OK—Obama did it, too

Re “Dinosaurs in and out of office” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, June 14) and “Learning from walking” (Left Foot Forward, June 4): Dear ITTS (Ignorant, Trump-bashing, Trump-hating, Socialist) Bruce Van Dyke: Our great president Trump is no “Dum Dum.” His IQ is 156. (I did fact-check this.)

Bruce, name-calling is so juvenile, but that’s what you ITTS do.

Sheila Leslie should check her facts, too. Obama encouraged the insane flow of adults and children across our border knowing it was illegal, according to our Constitution. She referred to children kept in holding cells at an immigration center.

That first occurred under the Obama administration in 2016.

If you choose not to print this letter, as you did my previous letter, that’s OK. But at least forward them to your ITTS on your writing staff.

Carol Hoover Reno and Bradenton, Florida Editor’s note: The Snopes fact-checking page reports that there is no reliable information on what Donald Trump’s IQ is—whether high or low—and that the 156 figure is unsupported by normal data. That figure originated in an article at beforeitsnews.com, Advertising Consultant Myranda Keeley Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Bob Christensen Distribution Drivers Alex Barskyy, Corey Sigafoos, Gary White, Joe Wilson, O.C. Gillham, Marty Troye, Timothy Fisher, Vicki Jewell, Olga Barska, Rosie Martinez President/CEO Jeff VonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Project Coordinator Natasha VonKaenel Director of People & Culture David Stogner Director of Dollars & Sense Debbie Mantoan Nuts & Bolts Ninja Norma Huerta Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Hansen Accounts Receivable Specialist

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an article Snopes described as “chock-full of logical missteps and factual inaccucies.” See www.snopes.com/fact-check/ donald-trumps-intelligence-quotient/

Bruce fan

Re “Knights and Eagles” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, June 7): I see Ol’ Babble On is still completely outta touch with things when it comes to politics. But, if there is one thing we don’t have enough of, it is unfunny, shit-talking cartoons with a seriously questionable level of intelligence to give their one-sided opinion as they run our president down in the ground.

One too many doobs on the playa, I suppose.

It’s amazing RN&R keeps you around.

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By JERI CHADWELL

Fave song with river in title? aSKed at recycled recordS, 822 S. Virginia St

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CCR’s “Green River,” even just as a song of summer. There’s a really good Townes Van Zandt song. What is it? Oh, it’s “Texas River Song.”

K yle Howell Record store guy

I’m going to go “River Deep, Mountain High.” I love that track. I think it’s the only track I really like by those two [Ike and Tina Turner]. It’s not the only track I like.

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Sessions In thanking the protesters who picketed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Reno this week, we thought it was a good time to revisit some comments Sessions addressed to Nevadans 11 months ago.

The attorney general was in Las Vegas to speak to a group of law enforcement officials on July 12, 2017.

As the Los Angeles Times later reported, “Sessions sprinkled his speech with horror stories of gangs like MS-13, which originated in Los Angeles and has ‘tentacles stretching from the Salvadoran prison system across the United States’ … He brought up the story of Kathryn Steinle, who was killed while walking on a pier in San Francisco with her father. Authorities charged a Mexican national who had served three federal prison terms for felony reentry into the country.”

“Removing criminals like these from our streets makes Nevada safer,” Sessions said. “It would make Los Angeles and San Francisco safer—if they would do it.”

The story ran under the headline, “Jeff Sessions has a message for Nevada: Don’t be California.”

Is there no end to the ways Republicans find to pit our people against each other?

It should be noted that outside the building in which Sessions spoke on that occasion, there were Nevadans chanting “Sessions, Sessions, you can’t hide. We can see your racist side.” It should also be noted that Sessions was finding fault with Californians for the handling of a federal court case. And it should be noted finally that of all the crimes available for Sessions to cite, he chose examples of people of color.

Sessions deserves the sympathy of all of us for enduring the attacks he has from our bumbling “president” for doing his job ethically. He gave up a seat in the U.S. Senate to serve an ungrateful, tantrum-throwing child. As the New York Times has described Sessions’ predicament, “Mr. Sessions has taken more abuse from President Trump than any other member of his high-churn cabinet because he recused himself from the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Over 14 months in office, Mr. Sessions has gone from, in Mr. Trump’s words, ‘a great protector of the people’ to ‘weak,’ ‘disgraceful’ and an ‘idiot’.”

Trump is our national expert on idiocy, so he knows whereof he speaks. A less ethical AG than Sessions might have stayed on the Russia case to cover it up for Trump.

It has not been easy for Sessions to do his job, knowing he can be undercut at any moment by the mercurial figure in the White House. Sunland Park, N.M. police chief Javier Guerra told the Times, “When you’re walking around with an ax in back of your neck, you have to be careful.”

Yet Sessions seems to feel he must imitate Trump in order to serve him, and that is not so. Neither Sessions nor Trump need to divide our country in order to lead it, and the Nevadans in Las Vegas a year ago and in Reno this week have done a terrific service to show that we and Californians are fellow citizens, that Sessions’ attempt to demonize Californians is as bad as demonizing Nevadans—of whatever ethnicity. We are all in this society together—well, except for those few like Sessions and Trump who try to separate themselves from the rest of us.Ω

Oh, Creedence Clearwater Revival, what is it? “Rollin’ on the River” or something, “Proud Mary?”

Br andon ManSur Receptionist

“River Euphrates” by Pixies. I think it’s a great song.

K yndr a ValceScHini Record store girl

“Down by the River”—I love that song. But I liked when Norah Jones did it—but not the Neil Young version. Don’t print that. I hate Neil Young.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Suicide: a collective concern The recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain shocked many of us.

Successful, wealthy and famous people surrounded by family and friends who love them are supposed to be happy. They’re not the ones we expect to choose death during middle age.

I was aware of both celebrities but didn’t follow them closely, although now I wish I had paid more attention.

Spade was very humble, yet inspired legions of aspiring designers. Bourdain was authentically committed to lifting up those who toiled in hot kitchens at low wages. Their fans are understandably confused and upset—they had no idea of the suffering both endured despite apparently “having it all.”

Severe depression can be debilitating but not necessarily visible to those outside a person’s inner circle. It’s difficult to comprehend the all-encompassing darkness and understand how people can choose to end their lives, inflicting deep pain and sorrow on their families.

How can they believe that even those they love the most would be better off without them?

Suicide rates in the United States have increased by 25 percent since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nevada is the only state where suicides have actually decreased during this time period, if only by one percent, an anomaly given our unenviable history of consistent high rankings since these statistics have been recorded, often as the worst or second-worst state. But things started to change in 1999 when Assemblymember Dawn Gibbons disclosed her father’s suicide and convinced Gov. Kenny Guinn to add $200,000 to the budget for a statewide suicide hotline. The Office of Suicide Prevention was created, and its small but dedicated staff have worked diligently to create community partnerships, including one with gun shops, to prevent more people from taking their own lives.

In 2015, for the very first time, Nevada made it out of the top 10 states with the

highest suicide rates, but by 2016, we tied with Colorado at number five.

Western states have higher rates of suicide affecting all demographic groups, especially veterans. Middle-aged adults have the highest increase in suicide, a trend that experts say are “deaths of despair” about relationships, a recent crisis, substance abuse and the aging process. Nearly half of the suicides were people who had not been diagnosed with a mental health problem.

Nevada leads the nation in senior suicides, double the national average.

And it’s not Clark County skewing the statistics. In 2017, Washoe County experienced 20 elderly suicides, a rate of 29.5 per 100,000. If you go back four years, the 2013-2017 rates are even more heartbreaking. Washoe County’s rate was 40.3 per 100,000 while Clark’s was 28.4. Social isolation, substance abuse, economic concerns, illness and easy access to firearms are all contributing factors.

Preventing suicide is a collective responsibility. We shouldn’t wait for someone

who is struggling to reach out for help. We can be there for each other. We need to talk about depression, acknowledge the pain, and remind ourselves of our own humanity. And we need to listen more than we talk.

We must debunk the mythology that talking about suicide can trigger someone to take his or her life. You’re not placing the idea in their head by asking if they’re thinking about it. Put 1-800-273-TALK (8255), the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in your phone. Don’t hesitate to call it.

The stigma surrounding mental health concerns is real. Getting help needs to be seen as a viable option and not an indicator of failure. And, of course, we must advocate for affordable, accessible mental health care for everyone.

You can be hope and help for someone on the brink of tragedy. Be a friend and ask the hard questions. Ω Answers to some questions about suicide: tinyurl.com/ybd49vmp

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by Dennis Myers

Online sales tO be taxed The share prices of firms like Etsy, Ebay, Overstock and Amazon—which has Nevada facilities—dropped like a rock on June 21 following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota vs. Wayfair.

That decision overturned a 1992 ruling by the court and widened the reach of sales taxes for online sales.

The older ruling said firms needed to collect sales taxes only in states where they had a physical presence— warehouses, stores or a corporate headquarters.

Some analysts said Amazon is likely to be hurt less than other websites because it already collects sales taxes in all states. Not surprisingly, one of those who gets this wrong is Donald Trump, who has attacked Amazon on the matter: “Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt—many jobs being lost!” read one inaccurate Trump tweet.

Ebay sent messages to its regular customers urging them to sign a petition saying “these new Internet tax burdens could permanently damage U.S. small businesses.” In 2017, Ebay had revenues of $9.7 billion.

Wayfair, Inc., previously called CSN Stores, began as a two-person operation in Boston selling home furnishings. It now operates in four more countries. Wayfair and two other retailers were sued by the South Dakota state government for not collecting a 4.5-percent sales tax required of companies that reach a certain threshold of sales or revenues in the state.

The ruling also reversed a 1960s Supreme Court decision involving mail order catalogs that said states cannot require businesses elsewhere to collect on their behalf. Legal scholars said the new ruling recognizes changing times and the evolution of the economy.

The lineup of justices was unusual. The five-justice majority is composed of Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, leaving John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen in the minority.

laxalt lOses endOrsement The nomination of Republican brothel owner Dennis Hof to the Nevada Legislature has prompted several GOP leaders to withhold their support from him and raised the possibility that Hof will be excluded from the Republican legislative caucus in February.

As a result, one local official has withdrawn her support from Republican nominee for governor Adam Laxalt to give it to Ryan Bundy, of the Bunkerville ranching family, who is running as an independent.

At a joint meeting with Bundy in Pahrump, Nye County Commissioner Donna Cox said she switched sides because “Laxalt came out and said he would not value the vote of the people.”

Describing Hof’s win as “the vote of the people” is a bit of a reach. He received 42.82 percent of the 6,821 votes cast—a plurality, not a majority—to incumbent James Oscarson’s 36.49 percent and 20.69 percent for candidate Joseph Bradley. Nevada law does not allow for runoffs when no candidate has a majority. Hof must now face Democrat Lesia Romanov in the heavily GOP district.

Paradoxically, Laxalt—by sparking this action—has lifted Bundy’s candidacy for a few moments above the radar, giving him some publicity with voters who didn’t even know he was running.

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At a vendor’s table, delegates at the Nevada Democratic Convention shopped for T-shirts and tote bags bearing various party messages, plus shirts touting Jacky Rosen for U.S. Senate.

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Conventions Silver State gets glimpse of possible 2020 matchup two years ago, the nevada democratic Party Convention was a tense affair, at which rank-and-file members believed party leaders were using their control of the proceedings to undermine their chosen presidential candidate. The in-fighting was so fierce party leaders called it a “riot” (“The riot that never was,” RN&R, May 26, 2016).

Little had changed by this past weekend, as Democrats convened again, with supporters of defeated candidate for governor Chris Giunchigliani angry that party leaders—specifically, former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and U.S. Rep. Dina Titus—threw their support to moneyed conservative Steve Sisolak, who then trashed Giunchigliani without protest from Reid or Titus.

Two days before the convention began, Giunchigliani sent out a thankyou message to her supporters. It did not endorse Sisolak, but did close with this paragraph:

“Our fight is not done yet.

[Republican nominee] Adam Laxalt can never become the governor of Nevada, or anywhere else he might decide to move to run for office. And we have some terrific women running this year that need our help. Like Jacky Rosen, Kate Marshall and Susie Lee. And we will strive to achieve veto-proof majorities in the legislature, so in the worst case scenario, Adam Laxalt’s dangerous agenda is blocked.”

Not all of her supporters got the message. “There are worse things than a Republican as governor,” said one at the convention. “One of them is an unprincipled Democrat.” No one we spoke with except one teacher talked of actually voting for Laxalt, but some did say they will skip the governor’s race on the ballot.

In the 2016 election, so many voters found the Trump/Clinton choice unpalatable that 1.7 million voters in 33 states went to the polls but skipped

voting in the presidential race, an unusual number of “undervotes,” as they are called. There were actually more undervotes than that in the nation, but some states do not provide the numbers needed to know the total.

Both surviving major party candidates for governor remain little known.

In the north, Sisolak faces an electorate that voted for his opponent in the primary. He spent so little time in the north that its voters generally know two things about him—how he conducted himself in the primary election and that he supported the Raiders corporate welfare, neither of which is likely to incline voters to his candidacy.

A southern delegate at the convention said, “I’m going to vote for Dina, but I’m not going to work for her again after the way she repaid Chris.” This was a reference to the fact that in 2011, when Titus announced her comeback race for the U.S. House after losing the governorship, Giunchigliani endorsed her before the day was out.

A beneficiary of the enduring ill feeling is Jacky Rosen, the party’s U.S. Senate nominee. Reluctant to aid Sisolak, Giunchigliani’s supporters find helping Rosen more congenial.

If there was a remedy for the demoralized delegates, it was on the program—U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who spoke and brought the Democrats to their feet more than once telling them about how, as a young girl, she had laid awake nights listening to her mother crying from the financial strains imposed by unemployment—until the day she got a minimum wage job at Sears. In those days, Warren said, minimum wage could support an entire family. Today, “it won’t keep a mother and a baby out of poverty. … You bet it’s personal.”

Warren, once a law professor specializing in commercial law, left the Republican Party when she believed it was tilting the economic system against everyday citizens.

She and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi are the authors of The Two Income Trap (2002) which deals with how middle class families can no longer get by on one income. Before her Senate election, Warren was recruited by Sen. Reid to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel on the 2008 economic meltdown.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s message was one Nevada Democrats wanted to hear.

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Warren said after Trump is gone, it will likely fall to the Democratic Party to clean up the deregulated mess he leaves behind.

After a litany of things for which she said Democrats need to keep fighting, Warren tantalized the crowd with her close: “I’m going up that hill, and I need you with me every step of the way.”

Optimism If there was a second factor that could get That fit in well with Warren’s recent effort to Democrats to move beyond their ire at party portray the Trump administration as deeply leaders, it is the unwitting unifier Trump has corrupt, akin to Gary Hart’s 1984 “sleaze become to the Democratic Party. factor” description of the myriad Reagan With the entire nation talking about sepaadministration scandals. ration of children from parents on the border, The current edition of the New Yorker Trump in Nevada ignored the issue and magazine carries an article on Warren instead fired insults at Warren, Rosen and describing the way federal regulation saves John McCain, giving the New York Times lives while lobbyist pressure to reduce reason to run the headline “Elizabeth Warren regulations threatens “the parts of the Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in government that keep lead out of toys, Las Vegas With a Slur.” insecticide out of medicine, and bad brakes When Trump referred to Rosen as out of cars.” The administration, with little “Wacky Jacky,” she issued a statement news coverage, has been revoking saying in part, “Is that the best numerous federal regulations. It you’ve got?” is reminiscent of the financial The border separations deregulation that took place have reduced the risk migrant under President Clinton and issues pose to Democrats Sen. Warren a Republican Congress, by making migrants more leading to the 2008 meltwarned of the sympathetic and increasdown that brought Warren ing the chances of good aftermath of Trump into public life. It has Latino voter turnout. even been happening at the deregulation.

Previously, party workers relatively new Consumer feared the threat from issues Financial Protection Bureau, like sanctuary cities and the which Warren helped create possibility of a sanctuary-related to protect investors from the ballot measure in Nevada. Migrantfinancial institutions that grew too big bashing by figures like GOP lieutenant to be allowed to fall in 2008, and which are governor candidate Michael Roberson do not now still bigger—banks, investment houses, now carry the same punch that it did a month lenders. ago—particularly since Roberson’s planned In her Reno remarks, the Massachusetts ballot measure hit legal roadblocks. senator condemned Donald Trump, who High or low turnout in the Latino was also in Nevada on this day, at the community has often played a role in Nevada Republican convention in Las Democratic Party fortunes, as with Vegas. This section of her speech seemed to Reid’s final reelection (high), a statewide resonate with delegates, particularly young Republican sweep in 2014 (low), and Hillary ones. Trump, Warren said, has a policy of Clinton’s presidential victory in the state “inflicting pain … hatefulness, ugliness and (high). Trump has done more to motivate cruelty.”

Latino turnout than any politician since “Everything about him is pessimistic,” former California governor Pete Wilson, said one young Democrat. “He never offers whose anti-migrant Proposition 187 on that hope. His leadership is entirely negative. state’s 1994 ballot bequeathed to the GOP a It’s nice to hear someone talk about us as a generation of Latino hostility. Ω community.”

Warren recalled to the Democrats in Reno that Nevada had the worst home foreclosure rate in the nation in the Great Recession. Bank of America and other megacorporations, she said, “brought this state to its knees with their lying and cheating.”

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The Reno Collective building had a former life as a recording studio Story and photoS by Jeri Chadwell • jeric@newsreview.com

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he house at 1515 Plumas St. has never been a casino, but many people have placed bets there— most of them on their careers.

Today, the building is home to the Reno Collective, a co-working space that opened in 2009. Its members—freelancers, startups and telecommuters—are the kind of people who are familiar with the notion of gambling on success.

The Collective moved from its previous location to the house on Plumas Street a year ago. According to co-founder Colin Loretz, one of the members saw the house as a chance for the Collective to have a “forever home” and purchased it to lease to the organization. Now, writers, programmers, podcasters, software developers and others put the building’s 6,000 square feet to a variety of uses. Spread over three floors, it contains quiet rooms used for telephone calls; café-style work spaces with large, communal tables; rooms for storing extra computer hardware; office spaces for small businesses; a maker space with a 3D printer on loan from one of the members for use in prototyping; and a full kitchen stocked with at least a half-dozen means for making coffee, from percolators to French presses.

From the outside, it’s easy to imagine a time when the house would have been filled with a family, children playing in the front yard—but that’s nowhere near the truth.

Its Victorian-style façade belies the fact that this house was never intended to be a home. Inside—where the building hums with the quiet energy of Collective members working and placing their bets on new products and ideas—there are clues pointing to

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a time when people gathered there to wager on new ventures of a more specific, much noisier variety.

Home sweet sound studio When late musician Robert Forman and his wife Linda, together with other business partners, had the mansion on Plumas Street constructed in 1985, they envisioned it as a sophisticated recording studio melded with a bed-and-breakfast—and Reno as a place where big-name acts would come to escape urban pressures and make albums in peace.

Granny’s House Recording Studio was a big dream, and one that seemed poised to come true. It was built with huge, state-of-the-art recording spaces and topof-the-line equipment. Within months of it opening, artists had begun taking chances on recording in Reno. On April 26, 1986, Billboard Magazine ran a photo of Motown artist Rockwell—best known for his hit “Somebody’s Watching Me”—with Forman in studio. The photo was headlined “Better than chicken soup,” and its caption said the artist had been well taken care of while recording his latest album there and made mention of the new studio’s high-end “SSL 6000 Series E console.”

As record producer and engineer Tom Gordon remembers it, unlike with the musicians, it was the studio that took a chance on him—in part thanks to that console. Gordon, a drummer, had started out as a drum major at the University of Southern California but switched paths when the school started a new recording

The Reno Collective keeps a copy of an original brochure from Granny’s House Recording Studio, with photos of the living and recording spaces and a list of the famous artists who recorded there.

arts program. He was the 13th person to enroll in it. And shortly before graduating from the USC in 1991, the Reno native was given some advice by famed A&M Records chief engineer and vice president Shelly Yakus.

“On a tour of that studio, he told the students, ‘If you’re not from L.A., you may want to go back to your hometown,’” Gordon recalled.

According to Yakus, for engineers, it might be easier to be a big fish in a small pond.

“I knew about Granny’s House,” Gordon said. “And I was like, ‘Well, let’s see if I can go back to Reno and see if I can land a gig at Granny’s House.’”

He did, about five months after graduation.

“They needed some help, and, amazingly enough, we had the same recording console and tape machine at USC that they had at Granny’s House,” Gordon said.

At the time, the studio was in the middle of recording an album for disgraced Milli Vanilli members Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, whose lip-syncing on their previous album had sunk their careers. The album, called Rob & Fab, took up the first 10 months of Gordon’s time at the studio but was ultimately unsuccessful. According to a 1998 VH1 Behind the Music special, only 2,000 to 3,000 copies were ever pressed.

But by then, Gordon said, the studio had already recorded stars like Ronnie James Dio and Whitesnake. And more were to come.

“The people who owned the vast majority of the business took it over sometime around 1992, and those were Jerry Roth Junior and Senior—who own Bulbman, the light bulb shop, over on Sunshine Lane,” Gordon said.

Around that time, he recalled, the studio and its equipment got an upgrade.

Contemporary furniture replaced stuffy Victorian pieces in the bedrooms and living areas. And more big artists came through the doors, including Ozzy Osbourne, Merle Haggard and Collective Soul—whose 1995 self-titled album was recorded at Granny’s.

But even for big-name bands, recording could be a gamble, and Gordon recalls several times when songs and albums recorded at Granny’s were unsuccessful—or sometimes never even saw the light of day.

“Right after Milli Vanilli, actually, there was a group named Nelson—the two twin sons of Ricky Nelson,” Gordon said. “They were two twin boys with platinum blond, long hair who had a massive hit. So we did their sophomore record at Granny’s—but the label thought it was too progressive. So they shot it down and redid the whole thing.”

On another occasion, country music legends Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Johnny Rodriguez came together to record a song for the Special Olympics called “Everyone Has a Chance to Win.” It was written by Freddy Powers. But it only ever got a limited release on cassette.

“I heard later there were disputes with Willie’s management over the release of it,” Gordon said.

However, successes and failures are both natural in the recording business, according to Gordon, who stayed at the studio even after it changed ownership and names in 1995.

any of this. It’s, ‘I want to be a successful songwriter.’”

Tucker was supposed to send a third demo to the record company but ended up getting a job in Reno selling computers. Later, he owned a mail-order wildlife photography gallery. And in the late 1980s, he caught a break that led him into a career as a land developer and, eventually, into enough money to pursue his musical ambitions with new gusto.

“My brother Scott and I bought 1,200 acres in Spanish Springs, from the savings and loan bailout of 1989,” Tucker said. “So we bought it from the federal government. And it was unbelievable.

My brother and I were not wealthy. We bought it for a nickel on the dollar. ... I knew when I bought the property, I was a multimillionaire.

Now, I thought, ‘I’ve just got to hang in there and do the right thing.’ I learned how to become a land developer.”

When Granny’s came up for sale in the mid-90s, Tucker had built enough wealth to consider buying it. He was already familiar with some of the people at Granny’s and had at one point worked on an ultimately unsuccessful deal with the studio’s in-house label.

“The studio, we knew, was up for sale,” Tucker said. “And I went in with Bjorn [Thorsrud, a long-time Granny’s engineer], and I talked to Jerry Roth Jr. We went in and we talked to Jerry Roth, and he wanted 2 million dollars for the studio. I left the meeting, and I just said, ‘There’s no way I can afford it.’ And number two, I really didn’t have the time, right at that time. But I couldn’t afford that. I couldn’t pay that.”

But, eventually, a deal was struck—for a lower amount that Tucker said he did not want to disclose. And on Sept. 15, 1995, Granny’s House became Sierra Sonics Recording Mansion. For the next two decades, the studio’s fortunes were tied to Tucker and his to it.

Striking a deal

UpS and downS

Like Gordon, Tim Tucker is another Reno native. Local newspapers clippings he keeps from the late ’70s and early ’80s document his record as a champion high school and college swimmer with Olympic aspirations.

For Tucker, however, there had always been a personal debate—whether to wager his future success on his swimming career or go all-in on his lifelong passion for songwriting.

“I almost got signed to Polygram Records in the early ’80s,” Tucker said.

In fact, he explained, it came down to a choice between attempting to make the 1980 Olympic swimming team and making additional demos to send to the record label. He chose the demos. He made the first one in Tucson where he’d studied computers and been a swimmer for the University of Arizona team. The second, he made back at home in Reno.

“I kept sending the vice president my music, and he’d call me back and say, ‘Send me another one, I really like your stuff,’” Tucker recalled. “So, finally, I’m like 24 and I’ve got a degree in computers, and everyone’s going, ‘What do you think you are? Some rock star?’ I just want to be a songwriter. There’s nothing about being a rock star involved in

The last half of the 1990s and the early 2000s were good times for the studio. It brought in big names, from Michael Martin Murphy to P-Funk All Stars—and, perhaps most notably, Dr. Dre. Both Tucker and Gordon have fond memories of the rapper and the 16-person entourage he’d bring to Reno with him any time he recorded.

But phases of good fortune for the studio were often punctuated by rough spells. Among the first, Tucker said, was the period following the death of his brother, Scott, in 1997.

“That was my god,” Tucker said. “I idolized that man to no extent. He was an all-state football player. He was a doctor. He taught me how to play a guitar. … I was in such sorry shape. And I remember, we were in the middle of developing—putting lots in—out in Spanish Springs. We were partners. … All hell broke loose. And it took forever to get it fixed.”

Back then, Tucker and Gordon were in a band together called the Desert Dudes. The record they were working on featured Mike Tramp of White Lion, whom Tucker explained had seen the band at the Blue Lamp on Sierra Street and wanted to join. Tramp’s backup

vocals appear on several tracks from the album, which was never released.

The Desert Dudes quit playing together sometime during 1998 or ’99, and both Gordon and fellow engineer Thorsrud departed from the studio around the same time.

“At the beginning, when, you know, Bjorn [Thorsrud] and Tom [Gordon] and some real talented engineers were there—it had a chance in hell to make it, but once the talent split, it was never going to make it,” Tucker said.

And business continued to flag in the years to follow—with fewer big names coming to record.

“And the local bands—most of the musicians—just didn’t have very much of a budget to record,” Tucker said. “And so it was really a heartbreak. I had this—it’s a big aircraft carrier.”

On Jan. 1, 2015, Tucker announced on the Sierra Sonics Facebook page that the studio was closing. In 2017, he sold the building.

“After owning it for 22 years, I’d never go back to that—ever,” he said. “I would have

A&M Records vice president Shelly Yakus told the students, “If you’re not from L.A., you may want to go back to your hometown.”

Thorsrud, according to Tucker, “split with Whitesnake.” And Gordon left to try his hand at freelancing.

“So many of my college friends were going that route and getting attached to some great stuff,” Gordon said. “I Tom Gordon certainly had worked great Record producer and sound engineer stuff at Granny’s and Sierra Sonics, thanks to the likes of Robert Forman, Jerry Roth and Tim Tucker, but it was a good time to spread my wings a bit more.” stayed more focused on my music and kept it For Tucker, it wouldn’t be long before right there.” selling the studio became a consideration. odeS to the paSt “When was my first deal? I think it was 2003,” Tucker said. “The partners got in a The days when the Plumas Street mansion big financial fight, and it never closed. … was filled with recording artists, producWhat they wanted to do was get paid by the ers and engineers are gone. Now, for the state—troubled teens would live there and most part, music plays through Collective be trained as recording engineers.” members’ headphones—and the old studio Tucker said he liked this idea, in particular spaces are filled with the quiet clacking because the deal would have included a of keyboards. But according to Loretz, the promise that he could record there any time.

Collective has found ways to honor the And—in the end—he said, becoming a studio building’s history—and, to some degree, owner was something he’d done in the hopes keep it alive. of having a space from which to launch his own musical career. “dream hoUSe” When the recession hit, Tucker still owned continued on page 12 the studio and was in no position to sell it.

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The speakers and banks of lights that run high along the walls in the old control room are there to stay, he explained—as are other reminders of the past, like a gramophone that was cut in half and affixed to the wall in what was once Studio-A, now a café-style workspace.

“We don’t need to come in and completely erase what was here before,” Loretz said. “We have a lot of musicians and artists in the Collective as it is.”

And according to Loretz, some of the recording spaces in the building are actually still used as such. In particular, there’s a podcasting room—a serious boon for Collective members like Chris Webster, a historical resource management specialist and founder of the Archaeology Podcast Network. In the Collective’s last home—the large, glass-fronted space on the ground floor of Arlington Towers—there was no space for him to record quality audio.

“I tried in both conference rooms we had,” Webster said. “Neither was conducive to recording, for various reasons. …

But then we moved into this space, which is a former, world-class recording studio.

Talking to Colin and one of the managers, we decided to basically carve off one of the isolation booths around the main studio and dedicate it to podcasting.”

Now, Webster uses the space to produce his podcasts and teach others,

including clients and Collective members, to do the same.

Looking to the future, Loretz sees no reason to worry about the Collective’s sustainability in the Plumas Street mansion.

For the last several years, he explained, the Collective has maintained equilibrium at around 100 members.

Like the artists who recorded there in the past, some of the people who use the space now will succeed and keep coming back, some will fail and not return, and some will move on to new spaces and different projects. And like the studio before it, the Collective will occasionally draw in new people. It already has.

When entrepreneur and Collective member Phil Dhingra moved to Reno from Austin, Texas, he was drawn by a similar dream to the one that fueled Granny’s—a place to escape the urban grind and focus on work. Reno, he said, is smaller and more affordable than many other thriving startup hubs with co-working spaces.

He said he moved here specifically for the Collective.

“For me, living in casual, creative environments, like Austin 10 years ago and Reno today, gives me the necessary space to explore ideas for years without having to worry about a return on

We don’t need to come in and completely erase what was here before. We have a lot of musicians and artists in the collective as it is.

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investment,” Dhingra said. “It’s enabled me to work on a multi-year book project and to spend years hacking on iOS apps.

For other creatives, high-pressure environments are better, because they force them to generate revenue or fundraise quickly.

Bay Area entrepreneurs have to make their ideas work, whether or not they have a perfect one, whereas I like to take my time daydreaming until the right idea comes along, and then go all-in.” Ω

uly means one thing ….Artown! After 11 months of building and creating a vibrant and rich month of arts and culture, we find ourselves ready to explore our city and region through an artistic lens. Celebrate the arts in Reno

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Opening weekend (June 30-July 1) will be spectacular. Downtown Reno will come alive with Art Fest, Fire Fest, Bass Camp, art galleries, theater. Don’t miss vertical dancers BANDALOOP as they rappel along City Hall. Los Lobos performs July 1 in Wingfield Park.

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Family Series in Wingfield Park July 2 at 7PM. Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards. Join us at 6PM for free facepainting, chalk art, food vendors, picnic in the park and more.

WE BANJO 3, part of the Monday Night Music Series at The Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater. A lively evening with this Celtic Bluegrass band from Ireland.

Celebrate The Reno Phil’s 50th anniversary with an amazing performance led by Conductor Laura Jackson. July 4th 7:30 PM at Wingfield Park

The Anat Cohen Tentet – July 5. Talented jazz clarinet tentet celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch Park, www.renoisartown.com for a complete schedule

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Meet the high school rifle team that made it to nationals

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A different kind of group sport

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ne at a time, three high school juniors, guns in hand, take the “prone” position. They stealthily lie on their stomachs with one knee bent, resting on their elbows as both hands grip an air rifle.

Their bodies are strong and still as they hold their aim. With one eye closed and the other peering at the target, each shooter locks in the shot and pulls the trigger. Relatively quiet shots burst out. Pellets whiz through the air and thump onto paper targets about 10 meters away in the indoor range at Reno High School.

The Reno High School Rifle Team is small, just four athletes—Kevin Behan, Bryn Preston, MaKayla Poggione and Alex Haiki. This scrappy squad bested most other Nevada teams and went to regionals in Salt Lake City earlier this year, where they ranked 11th in the nation. Their scores there propelled them to the nationals, June 21-23 in Ohio.

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A rifle competition consists of each student shooting in three different positions—lying down, standing and kneeling. From each position, the athletes aim at the target and take 20 shots. Unlike targets with one big bull’s-eye, these targets have many smaller marks all over the board. When these students compete, they’re going against themselves, aiming for a personal high score. Their team goal is to garner a collective score high enough to beat out other teams.

“You’re bettering yourself while you’re shooting for the team,” Behan said. “It gives you a motive to work on yourself much more. Like, on soccer teams and football teams, they might not feel as motivated to push themselves because they’re not getting an individual score as a team. Now that we have individual and team score, it makes you motivated because you’re going to stand out.”

Reno High School Rifle Team members Kevin Behan, MaKayla Poggione and Bryn Preston demonstrate the positions they practiced for the National Three-Position Air Rifle Championship in Ohio. RHS was the only Nevada team to qualify.

The team also includes Alex Haiki, who is not pictured.

Unlike other sports where teammates rely on one another to execute plays and assist one another on the field, this team plays an individual game.

They have varied backgrounds and interests.

But they band together in their love of “rifle,” as they call it, where their goals are the same and they work in unison.

“I would say we all come from pretty different friend groups,” Poggione said. “We’re all really different individuals, but we all sort of come together with this one thing that we all have in common. We all really enjoy and have fun with it. Off the line, we’re all really sarcastic with each other and always messing around, but as soon as it comes time to shoot, we just stop.”

The individual nature of this sport was an adjustment for Bryn Preston, who used to dance competitively through her freshman year.

“Being on this team is different,” she said. “I quit dancing freshman year and started shooting.

The switch was weird. Dance team was all about the team and being synchronized, but here it’s individual. You have to improve individually.”

Improvements are the name of the game on the rifle team. Even if the changes the students make are tiny, they can still make a significant difference. The points the athletes score with each

things mAny high-schoolers do regulArly could spell disAster for these Athletes’ scores.

shot have to land with pinpoint accuracy. Off a little, and they’re docked a lot. The difference between being ranked first and being eighth could be just one or two points. So, they do everything they can to fine-tune their bodies to make the shots make the mark.

Things many high-schoolers do regularly could spell disaster for these athletes’ scores. Drinking that Mountain Dew at lunch can accelerate their heart rates just enough to make them miss by a hair. Haven’t had enough water to drink?

Their eyes can dry out slightly and affect their precision. Even looking at their phones can mess with their brains enough to make their shots less than stellar.

So, they monitor all the things, all the time.

“We try to cut out all caffeine and all sugar as much as you possibly can for the entire season, so it won’t affect how shaky you are, how anxious you can get,” Poggione said.

The team members keep journals of their daily behaviors and nutrition, as well as every shot they take in practice, with details of how it went. The students review the journals prior to every competition, which helps them dissect their previous shots and analyze where they went wrong.

The other thing that can throw their scores off is stress. Team members say it’s hard to maintain their cool when the pressure to perform is so high, but they push themselves to focus.

For Kevin Behan, all that honing in and eliminating distractions provides him a sort of forced relaxation. He and his teammates strive to leave all emotion behind when they step up to the line.

“When we’re focusing on our shooting, we just focus on that,” Behan said. “It’s great because I don’t have to think about anything that’s happened during the day. It lets me relax. You’re forced to relax, or you won’t shoot well.”

Talk about “relaxing” while shooting a gun might sound unusual to many readers at this political moment. While polarizing national conversations about gun control continue, these students discuss shooting in terms that other athletes use to discuss, say, archery or golf.

To the members of the Reno High School Rifle Team, target shooting is purely a sport, not a political endeavor. When interviewed, they considered questions about gun violence and gun control thoughtfully but struggled to articulate any policy recommendations. Collectively, these students agreed that discussions and solutions are in order, but they gave the impression that they felt ill-equipped to help provide them.

But they were, it turned out, prepared to compete in nationals. The team finished the Junior Olympics competition on June 22, 10th out of 49, with a total team score of 2,137 points and 57 bull’seyes. Poggione was the team’s highest shooter that day, ranking 23rd out of the 243 participants, with 19 bull’s-eyes.

The second day, during the Civilian Marksmanship Program tournament, the team dropped in rank to 17th, with a total of 2,111 points and 60 bull’s-eyes. Preston shot the team’s best with an individual score of 537 points and 17 bull’s-eyes.

The team members were excited they had made it to nationals but had hoped for higher scores. They’re glad to have another chance next year, as seniors, to show what they can do. Ω

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All in the mind “It’s not as much of a physical sport as it is mental,” Poggione said. “You’re just always focusing on what you can do better and little improvements to your position. All your attention has to be down the line to what you’re shooting.

You can’t get emotional about what you just shot.”

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Charlotte Frye sews each bead on individually to the accessories and houseware items she makes or decorates. She’ll be among 23 craft vendors at the Nevada Musuem of Art on July 14.

Center stage Reawakening the Great Basin “This is size 11s—that’s as low as I go,” said Charlotte Frye, referring to the thousands of tiny colored beads on the work tray on her kitchen table in Hungry Valley. A size 11 is a 2.3 millimeter bead, and—though Frye is a long-retired Washoe elder who wears thick glasses and leans in to see her work—she seems undaunted by the prospect of handling such tiny materials.

Frye held up a three-inch piece of dowel topped with a swatch of buckskin and covered entirely in zigzags of color made of what must have been a thousand or more beads. She had a few hundred more to go, then she’d have a fringed key chain.

The works piling up on an adjacent table include ordinary objects—hairbands, decorated plastic pill bottles, salt and pepper shakers—rendered out of the ordinary by the care and craftsmanship she applies to them, stringing on one size 11 bead at a time with a long, thin needle.

“My mother used to bead,” said Frye. “My mother’s Washoe. She taught me how to bead.” She grew up in Nixon and on the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, where her dad built his own house. To her, craft is a part of everyday life, and beading is the natural way to spend her time.

She regularly sells out her wares at holiday fairs, and she expects a crowd on July 14, when she’ll be among 23 vendors at Reawakening the Great Basin, a day-long festival featuring Washoe and Paiute crafts, music, dancing, stories, hands-on workshops and Indian tacos.

The event has been held for the last two years at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. Now, it’s moving to a venue with a brighter limelight, the Nevada Museum of Art. The venue shift is part of what NMA curator

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Ann Wolfe called an ongoing effort to cultivate relationships with the region’s Native American artists and craftspeople.

“The Great Basin as a region has been historically one of the most neglected regions in terms of understanding native visual art,” said Wolfe. She mentioned that Native artwork of the Southwest and the Great Plains, for example, is more widely known, and she attributes the lack of visibility here to the fact that Nevada is such a rural state.

The museum has been working to help make Native artwork more visible for years. In 2012, curators commissioned new work by the region’s Native artists for a survey exhibition. For that show, Wolfe visited the studio of every Native artist she could find.

The project yielded some momentum. Wolfe formed relationships with a lot of artists—and, after the exhibition, Melissa Melero, a local artist who is Northern Paiute, along with a few colleagues, formed a group called Great Basin Native Artists.

Native artwork has also appeared in some of the NMA’s major exhibitions over the last few years.

In 2015, the Tahoe exhibition presented the largest collection anywhere of Washoe baskets, and the Unsettled exhibition of 2017 showcased artwork from what the musuem deemed “The Greater West,” which could be loosely defined as regions of the world that have been colonized in somewhat recent memory, where the visibility of indigenous people and artwork is still under negotiation in some way or another.

“We try to put it into a broader context,” said Wolfe. “We’re interested in indigenous voices”— whether they’re from internationally known Aboriginal artists in Australia or grandmas from Hungry Valley. Ω

Reawakening the Great Basin: A Native American Arts and Cultural Gathering, presented by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and the Nevada Museum of Art, takes place July 14 at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St., from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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“Hey, little guy. Want a Beggin’ Strip?”

Tyrannosaurus wreck Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a big dummy dino joke of a movie. It’s nothing but a brainless, sloppy rehash of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World, with a lame militaristic angle thrown in (again!).

Yes, the dinosaurs look cool, and things get off to an awesome start with an underwater visit to the skeleton of the genetically engineered dinosaur, Indominus Rex, that died hard at the end of Jurassic World. The prologue is scary, looks great, is well directed, and seems to be setting the tone for a film that recalls the grim tone of Michael Crichton’s original, excellent novel that spawned the film franchise. Sadly, things degenerate badly after the title credits pop up.

When a volcanic eruption on the isle of dinosaurs threatens their genetically engineered lives, Congress holds hearings on whether or not to save them. These hearings involve the return of the one and only Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm. Rather than having Goldblum around for his trademark psycho rambling and dark wit, his character just groans a couple of lines about how we shouldn’t have made the dinosaurs because it goes against nature and they have really big teeth and might bite you. Then he goes away.

Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island to save Blue, the adorable velociraptor who wants you to pet him. Eventually, the action winds up in a large mansion in the states, where a nefarious businessman is keeping dinosaurs in the basement in order to auction them off in what amounts to a dinosaur fashion show for evil countries who want to weaponize them.

A rehash of a familiar plot is fine if done with skill and nuance (see Star Wars: The Force Awakens for a fine example). Fallen Kingdom goes the campy route, and it’s dull, dull, dull. Everybody in this film appears to be going through the motions. (“I hit my green screen mark! Where’s craft services?”)

How many times do we have to see a T-Rex inadvertently save the day? That was fine once, but the T-Rex is supposed to be scary, not our accidental hero. While I’m at it, knock it off with the goodnatured velociraptor, too. Velociraptors should be ripping faces off, not playing fetch.

How many times do we have to see a billionaire old guy with an amber mosquito cane be presented in a sympathetic light, even though his genetic engineering blunder has put the world in terrible peril? Sweet and cuddly James Cromwell plays the former business partner of John Hammond (Richard Attenborough in the original trilogy), and he’s just a nice guy whose mistakes have sent some nice people through dinosaur digestive systems. In the original novel, Hammond was a monster. Spielberg turned him into Santa Claus, and that trend continues with Cromwell.

Knock it off with the “dinosaurs as military weapons” crap. This was a bad, laughable idea when Spielberg considered it decades ago, a bad idea that tainted the original, somewhat fun Jurassic World, and now takes the forefront in this one.

Usually excellent director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible) is saddled with a dopey screenplay co-written by Colin Trevorrow, one that wants to be family friendly with just a hint of menace. Why not go the James Cameron’s Aliens route with one of these sequels, get a hard R-rating, and give us a real dinosaur apocalypse? I don’t want dinosaurs that can be controlled with clickers so we can all go “Awwww!”

I want them to tear people’s faces off! Characters should be shitting pants when they see a T-Rex, not breathing a sigh of relief because the T-Rex just took out another, meaner dinosaur before it ate them.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the second part of a trilogy. Its ending hints at something cool for the next chapter. If it includes a T-Rex saving the world after joining the Marines, I’m finished. Ω

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American Animals

Here’s a heist movie based on a true story with an original twist. Writerdirector Bart Layton has made a narrative film based on a real-life robbery of some treasured collectibles by four young men. Layton casts the four with the great talents of Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan and Jared Abrahamson for an exciting and funny retelling of the heist, which had some normal guys dressing like old men to steal paintings and Darwin books from a kindly librarian (Ann Dowd). The twist here is that Layton also gets the real-life people to tell their accounts of what actually happened, so he mixes in a true documentary element. But rather than playing like some campy criminal reenactment TV show, the film comes together in a way where the real guys are right at home in the proceedings. It’s a genius move that gives the movie some real-life heft without taking away from the drama and craziness of the crime. In fact, their presence truly enhances everything, making this one of the more unique crime films in memory.

Peters is terrific as Warren Lipka, the bad boy mastermind of the group (and Lipka himself makes for an entertaining counterpart in his interview segments). Jenner continues to be a great up-and-coming actor, while Keoghan impressively adds to a resume that includes Dunkirk and The Killing of the Sacred Deer. One of the movie’s great elements is the differences between the storytelling and the actual interviews, something that Layton comically exploits on more than one occasion.

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Avengers: Infinity War

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.

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Deadpool 2

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.

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Hereditary

A family gets their proverbial ass viciously, horrifically kicked in Hereditary, writerdirector 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. Toni Collette plays a woman dealing with the recent death of her mom, and that mom’s strange obsession with the supernatural.

The sins of that mom eventually take their toll on her daughter and, consequently, her family.

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.”

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Incredibles 2

After a 14-year hiatus, the Parr family returns for more superhero shenanigans in Pixar’s Incredibles 2, a sequel that continues the zippy, funny spirit of the original. It’s not as good as the first, but it still finds a ranking near the top of Pixar’s best and is the company’s best sequel since Toy Story 3. The film picks up where the last one left off, with a criminal named Underminer (ever-present Pixar voice John Ratzenberger) looking to cause some early movie trouble and teen Violet Parr (Sarah Vowell, reprising her role, even though she’s well past her teens) meeting a boy. Superheroes remain somewhat in hiding, but rich tycoon Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) is looking to change that. Winston hatches a plan to get superheroes back in the limelight, and that plan involves Elastigirl/Helen (Holly Hunter) on a crazy new motorbike fighting crime and gaining publicity. While she’s out getting her superhero groove back, Mr. Incredible/Bob (Craig T. Nelson) must stay at home and take care of the kids, including Violet, Dash (Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile).

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Solo

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. 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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Liberty Food & Wine Exchange extolls the use of local “farm to table” ingredients, with an artisanal bakery and butcher shop in-house. They produce a pretty impressive selection of salumi, charcuterie and cheese plates, accompanied by a wide variety of condiments and carbs that are hard to pass up. I recommend trying the chef’s choice combo ($24) for a selection of all three.

On my dinner visit with friends, the local beef burger sounded great, but I decided to start with an order of beef sliders to share ($10 for two) with caramelized onion and cheddar. The meat was medium rare, and the overall result was above par. The side of house pickle was pretty complex, like a mix of vinegar with Chinese five spice.

A pot of mussels ($18) cooked in tomato, garlic, chile flake, cream and herbs was served with bread.

The mussels were plentiful, and the bread was necessary because the sauce was the best part. Equally good was a sausage platter ($18) with housemade chorizo, beer bratwurst and the “Big Vinnie” Italian sausage, served with housemade sauerkraut, roasted potato and mustard. Everything about this was great, with a nice contrast between sweet, spicy and herby notes.

The nightly steak special was broccoli and beef ($28), grilled Korean skirt steak with local morel, broccoli, heirloom carrot, celeriac puree, celery root chips and basil oil. The sauce was sweet, smoky and spicy, and the rest of the components worked well to provide contrasts of flavor and texture. It was difficult to decide which item was best.

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squash; Pappardelle ($14) coated in bolognese and parmigiano reggiano; and Black Spaghetti ($20) with mussels, shrimp and calamari, doused in a spicy white wine broth.

The long, broad pappardelle noodles were al dente, but a knife was required to break them up to share, and there could have been more of the tasty, meaty sauce. Though the rigatoni was very good, this lobster dish was seriously outshone by the wonder of squid ink spaghetti and the best gnocchi I’ve had in a long time. The briny, black pasta was loaded with shellfish and little squid rings, and the lightly spicy broth brought it all together. It was even great reheated as leftovers. But those pillows of dumpling goodness were something else. The creamy, cheesy sauce was perfection, the fungi a delight, and the finishing touch of truly truffled cheese sent it over the top. This is a dish not to be missed. It easily my favorite part of our experience.

We shared desserts, including a PB and chocolate brownie ($7), a plate-sized brownie topped with peanut butter ganache, and crumbles of Butterfinger crisp beneath a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The brownie was more fudgy than cakey, but the kids seemed to enjoy it just fine. A Budino ($8) of salted caramel pudding with chocolate cookie crumbs on the bottom, salted caramel drizzle, and whipped cream on top was my favorite—smooth, creamy, and just sweet enough. I should have paired it with espresso, but I was in a bit of pleasant daze from all of the food by that point. Next time. Ω

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Ian Hopper, left, Danny Hopper, Paul Diflo and Ed Longmore watch the World Cup at Ole Bridge Pub.

Have a ball While I wouldn’t consider myself an avid sports fan, even I’m disappointed the U.S. didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year. Much like during the Olympics, it’s always fun to cheer for America when we’re competing on a global scale, and the camaraderie is nowhere more apparent than in our nation’s bars and pubs. Still, to diehard footy fans the tournament presses on, so I stopped by Ole Bridge Pub over the weekend, the only official soccer bar I know of in Reno, to find some of that World Cup spirit.

“We’re actually the Reno chapter for the American Outlaws, which is the support group for the U.S. team,” said bartender Aaron Workman. “They made it official during the world cup four years ago, and then once Reno 1868 came in to play, they came to us for sponsorship and stuff.”

Workman has been a bartender at Ole Bridge for five years now and remembers serving a packed house during the U.S. Team’s matches in the 2014 World Cup. With the international time-change setting the game schedule, sometimes he would arrive at 8 a.m. to open the bar to an eager crowd. Things have been a little quieter this year, but teams with large followings still draw supporters.

Last Saturday at 11 a.m., for instance, I joined a modest but enthusiastic contingency of local Team Germany fans taking advantage of the drink specials offered during every World Cup match.

“We do two dollars off Tahoe cans,” Workman said. “They’re normally four bucks so that’s half off.

We get two dollars off of Carlsberg and Outlaw Milk Stout from Great Basin Brewing Co., so that makes those a little cheaper as well.”

Carlsberg is an imported lager and a traditional football favorite for many European fans, and the Outlaw Milk Stout is offered for its eponymous

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association to the American Outlaws. I went with the Tahoe blonde, a golden-yellow ale to which I added a lemon wedge in the spirit of summer morning drinking.

Across the bar, I spotted a group of men—one wearing a German jersey—watching the match with rapt attention, erupting with cheers as Germany tied Sweden one-to-one at the half. The man in the jersey, Danny Hopper, told me Ole Bridge’s special considerations make it an ideal place to really get into the game.

“Last World Cup we came here,” Hopper said.

“This is one of the few bars that actually plays it on the audio too. A lot of places, they don’t care about the actual audio.”

Both Hopper and his younger brother Ian keep up with the German and international leagues as much as they can and are looking forward to the prospect of America hosting the cup in 2026.

Paul Diflo, another member of their group, told me he was happy to be there supporting Germany but didn’t have much of an interest in soccer beyond the watch parties.

“I have baseball, basketball, running, bowling, darts—and soccer would be way down at the bottom,” said Diflo about his hierarchy of sports fandom.

We all cheered Germany’s goal attempts and lamented their misses together, with people like the Hoppers cheering for their heritage, and people like Diflo and myself cheering more for the beer. That’s the thing about the World Cup—there’s something in it for everyone. Ω

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Andrew Moore, otherwise known as Kryoman, has been in the music business for 17 years, producing house music and DJing all over the world.

Moore discovered house music growing up on the Spanish island of Ibiza, where there was a heavy house presence. From there, he has gone on countless tours and performed at some of the biggest EDM festivals in the world, like Ultra in Miami.

In 2017, Moore moved to Incline Village. That same year, he realized something wasn’t right. He was struggling with a drinking addiction.

He rejected the idea of traditional rehab.

Instead, he visited his brother and formulated a plan to try ayahuasca—a plant mixture from South America that is capable of inducing altered states of consciousness.

“I’ve known people who’ve done one ayahuasca ceremony and never drank again, or have been able to drink with control and not necessarily binging,” said Moore.

He trained mentally and physically for the ayahuasca ceremony by reading spiritual books and climbing to Mt. Everest’s base camp. Moore said he almost died a few times while ascending to such a high altitude, but he felt accomplished after the climb and felt ready to confront his demons through the use of ayahuasca in Peru.

“The ayahuasca ceremonies were hard,” said Moore. “It was very hard learning. Facing your own fears, facing your own death, you know? It’s hard, but then afterwards, when it got to the endpoint where I really couldn’t take any more, it gave me the purpose for the album.”

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Moore said the ceremony inspired him to use his platform as a musician to raise awareness about women’s rights issues around the world. His project, titled “The Things I Know,” will include an album—set to be released next year on International Women’s Day—a series of music videos and possibly a documentary.

“I thought of two ways to really make a difference with the album, the music videos and everything,” he said, “There’s raising awareness, which is a good thing, and it’s important, and it’s a strong message.”

Moore attended the United State of Women Summit.

He began working with groups such as UN Women to come up with concepts for music videos that promote equality, self-love and self-worth. One of the concepts shows people in a music video wearing orange on the 25th day of the month to commemorate “orange day,” which was designated by the United Nations to raise awareness and take action to end violence against women and girls.

The second way he thought to help is to channel part of his proceeds to humanitarian lobbying groups and causes.

On the musical side of things, the album is upbeat and uplifting. It incorporates the traditional sound of Kryoman, which is a combination of future house, trap and EDM, featuring powerful female vocalists like Deb’s Daughter and almost tribal sounding rhythms. Moore also said that he’s looking to get some features on the album from artists like Alicia Keys because of her affiliation with women’s rights.

Moore pointed out that, if some read his plans to disseminate the messages of women’s rights groups as a PR maneuver, he doesn’t see it that way. To him, promoting their message is just the right thing to do. Ω Kryoman will perform at Bass Camp In the Park on June 30 at Wingfield Park. the all-ages electronica festival runs from 3-9 p.m. tickets are $50 for adults or $10 for kids 12 and under. Visit basscampfest.com.

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

Margaret Cho June 30, 8 p.m.

MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (775) 588-3515

Karaoke Farah & Sons, 1446 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 499-5799: Karaoke, Sat, 9pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Fri, 9pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

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1627 US Highway 395 N, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) TJ’s Corral 2) Cabaret

THURSDAY 6/28

FRIDAY 6/29

2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm, no cover

2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm, no cover 2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm, no cover 2) Swinging Chads, 8pm, no cover Swinging Chads, 10pm, no cover Swinging Chads, 10pm, no cover

2) Brother Dan, 6pm, no cover

2) The Starliters, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) The Starliters, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) Nash Brothers, 7pm, no cover

2) Nash Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Nash Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Darren Senn, 10pm, no cover

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

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

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

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2) DJ Mo Ayala, 7pm, no cover 3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, no cover

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

1) Chris Isaak, 8pm, $30-$75 2) E5quire, 10pm, $20

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

3) Michael Franti & Spearhead, Dustin Thomas, Victoria Canal, 7:30pm, $39.27

1) Simply the Best—A Tribute to the Music of Tina Turner, 7:30pm, $27-$37 Tease, 9:30pm, $30

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219 N. Center St., (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge 3) Plaza

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

1) Ted Nugent, 8pm, W, $59-$79 2) Whiskey Maiden, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Adam Donald, 6pm, no cover

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Race & Sports Book

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FOR THE WEEK OF junE 28, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

CONTROLLED BURN’S FIRE FEST: Controlled Burn, Reno’s fire art performance troupe, joins Reno Art Fest and the Mural Marathon as part of a three-day event.

Compression will be renamed Controlled Burn’s Fire Fest. The event will be held from June 29 to July 1, with the Fire Fest on Saturday, June 30. The event will be held on Virginia Street, between Fourth and Sixth Streets. The Fire Fest will be held at the Playa Park on Virginia Street across from Circus Circus. The festival brings together music, mutant vehicles and fire art in celebration of creative expression. Sat, 6/30, 10am10pm. Free. Playa Park, Virginia Street, controlledburnreno.dreamhosters.com.

COWBOY CRAWL 2018: The seventh annual

jun/30:

TIPSYLAND BAR CRAWL

Dress up as your favorite Disney character for an adults-only party in downtown Reno.

Purchase a $5 crawl cup and map to receive free admission to more than 20 participating venues offering beer and drink specials, free giveaways, costume contests and specially themed live entertainment. The crawl starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 30, at Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St. Call 800-1020 or visit crawlreno.com/event/tipsyland.

EVEnTS

AN EVENING WITH BELOVED POETS: Squaw Valley Community of Writers presents readings by poets Kazim Ali, Mónica de la Torre, Robert Hass. Sharon Olds, Evie Shockley and Dean Young. Thu, 6/28, 7:30pm. $8-$20. Bar One, Olympic House, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (530) 583-5200, communityofwriters.org.

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, 6/28, 4pm. Free. Victorian Avenue and 10th Street, Sparks, (775) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.

ARTOWN: The annual summer arts festival features 500 events, more than 100 workshops and over 30 ongoing programs. The festivities kick off on June 30 and conclude on July 31. Most events are free. Sat 6/30-Wed, 7/4. Wingfield Park and other locations across RenoSparks, renoisartown.com.

4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION: Virginia City celebrates Independence Day with its annual parade at noon, live music, including the Comstock Cowboys Second Amendment Concert, Old West shootouts, train rides and a fireworks display at dark. Wed, 7/4, 10am-11pm. Free. Various locations in Virginia City, (775) 847-7500, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

BEN’S PET PARTY IN SUPPORT OF ART PAWS: The fundraiser includes tastings of more than 30 different wines, beers and spirits, appetizers, live music and a silent auction. Fri, 6/29, 4:30pm. $15.

Ben’s Fine Wine & Spirits, 3480 Lakeside Drive, www.facebook.com/ArtPawsReno.

4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION AND CARNIVAL: Nevada Rural Counties Retired and Senior Volunteer Program will host its 26th annual carnival and Fourth of July celebration featuring live music, food and craft vendors and carnival rides and games designed for all ages. This event begins on Saturday, June 30, and runs through Wednesday, July 4. All-day carnival wristbands are $30 at the park. $5 discount coupons are available at the RSVP Beer booth. A fireworks display will take place at 9:30pm on July 4. Sat, 6/30-Wed, 7/4. Free. Mills Park, 1111 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 687-4680, nevadaruralrsvp.org.

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the Nevada State Museum can watch the museum’s historic Coin Press No. 1 mint medallions. Two-person teams of volunteers will work the press and talks about its history with museum visitors.

The demonstrations will take place from 9am to noon and from 1-4pm. Fri, 6/29. $8 adults, free admission for children age 17 and younger. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-4810.

Western-themed block party will start at the Night in the County Corral Stop located on the corner of Victorian Avenue and 10th Street. The festivities include an outdoor party area with country music and line dancing.

Participating venues include Cantina Los Tres Hombres, Victorian Saloon, Paddy & Irene’s Irish Bar, Mummers, O’Skis Pub & Grille, Great Basin Brewing Company and the Nugget Casino Resort, all located along Victorian Avenue. The Night in the Country Corral Stop will feature live music by DJ Colt Ainsworth, line dancing and Night in the County ticket giveaways. A portion of the proceeds will benefit United Cerebral Palsy of Nevada. The ticket price includes a Cowboy Crawl wristband, cup, map and a free beer (while supplies last). Sat, 6/30, 4pm. $5-$10. Various venues along Victorian Avenue, downtown Sparks, www.facebook.com/cowboycrawl.

DISCOVER YOUR WAY: This monthly program provides children on the autism spectrum and with sensory processing disorders an opportunity to enjoy sensory-friendly time at the museum and allows parents to network. Sun, 7/1, 10am. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

DRAGON LIGHTS: The Reno skyline will light up with 39 larger-than-life illuminated displays crafted by Chinese artisans from Zigong, Sichuan, China’s cultural capital for the ancient art of lantern-making. In addition to the lantern displays, there will be nightly performances, crafts and a variety of Chinese and traditional food and beverage. Free nightly guided tours are included in festival admission. The attractions open June 30 and runs through Aug. 5. Festival hours are 7-10pm, Sunday-Thursday, and 7-11pm Friday-Saturday. Sat, 6/30, 7pm-Tue, 7/3, 7pm. $12-$17, free for children age 5 and younger. Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (888) 484-2698, dragonlightsreno.com.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: Reno Street Food features 30 food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday. Local bands and artists are featured each week. Fri, 6/29, 5pm. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1800 Idlewild Drive, facebook.com/renostreetfood.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Learn how to build

your family tree. Fri, 6/29, 11:30am. Free.

Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 674-7600.

JULY 3RD FIREWORKS & BEACH PARTY: Start your Independence Day celebration a day early at the 39th annual event. The beach party features food for sale and a beer/wine garden, as well as periodic live performances by the San Diego Marines Double-Time Brass Band. There will be fireworks shot from barges in Lake Tahoe staring at 9:30pm. Tue, 7/3, 7pm. Free admisison, $25 for preferred seats. Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, (530) 546-9000, northtahoebusiness.org/ july-3rd-fireworks-beach-party.

KEEP MEMORY ALIVE’S SHAKESPEARE SUMMER SOCIAL & RODEO: The fun begins with a rodeo on June 29 and ends with a gourmet dinner on June 30. The rodeo features bull riding, bronco riding, ribbon roping and barrel racing. In addition, there are carnival games, a face painter and a watermelon-eating contest for kids, a Western-style barbecue and a silent auction. The festivities continue with world-renowned restaurateur Emeril Lagasse preparing dinner at Shakespeare Ranch on Saturday. Rocker Sammy Hagar will perform later that evening. Proceeds from the weekend support the work of Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Fri, 6/29, 3:30pm; Sat, 6/30, 7pm. $75-$3,000.

Shakespeare Ranch, 1949 Glenbrook Road, Glenbrook, keepmemoryalive.org/ events/summer-social-and-rodeo.

LAST FRIDAY: The City of Sparks teams up with the Sparks Heritage Museum for this event taking place on the last Friday of each month through September. Visit the museum and tour the steam train and the Glendale Schoolhouse for free from 4-7pm and stay late for a free movie for the family in the amphitheater.

Other highlights include art booths featuring local artists and live music and entertainment. Fri, 6/29, 4-10pm. Free.

Downtown Victorian Square, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 353-2370.

LIGHTS ON THE LAKE: The Fourth of July fireworks show is synchronized to rock and pop hits and patriotic favorites.

The fireworks are visible from all over town, but some of the best viewing spots include Nevada Beach located on Elk Point Road, Timber Cove Marina at the Tahoe Beach Retreat & Lodge, Tallac Historic Site off Emerald Bay Road, Edgewood-Tahoe and Lakeview Commons/El Dorado Beach at the corner of Highway 50 and Lakeview Avenue, Wed, 7/4, 9:45pm. Various locations in South Lake Tahoe, tahoesouth.com/events/ lights-on-the-lake-fireworks.

MEET AND GREET PROJECT BANDALOOP: Meet the aerialists and dancers at a rehearsal and Q & A session. Sat, 6/30, 6pm. Free. City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., renoisartown.com.

MEET YOUR MAKER: Every week a small local farmer or producer will offer samples of their small-batch food items at the Tahoe Food Hub Farm Shop. The goal is to connect consumers back to where their food comes from. Fri. 6/29, 1pm. Free. 150 Alpine Meadows Road, Alpine Meadows, www.tahoefoodhub.org.

THE MOST ANCIENT STARS IN OUR MILKY WAY: Mike Hopper of the Astronomical Society of Nevada will talk about stars that were created billions of years ago and where to find them in the night sky. After the presentation, visitors will go outside to view them with telescopes. Sat, 6/30, 8:30pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

RENO ART FEST 2018: The kick-off event for Artown will feature numerous artist tents with a full spectrum of the arts, including oils and watercolors paintings, photography, ceramics, glass, stone and metal sculptures and wood and clay pieces. Artists will be on site to discuss their works available for purchase. The three-day festival includes an artists’ reception on June 29, the 24-Hour Mural Marathon, Controlled Burn’s Fire Fest, Cre8tiv Zone for kids and a celebration on June 30 with food trucks, beer gardens and dancing. Fri, 6/29-Sun 7/1, 10am. Free. Downtown Reno, Virginia Street between Fourth and Sixth streets, artechreno.org/reno-art-fest-2018.

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, 6/29, 3pm. Free. 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, 7/4, 9am. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org .

SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE: This program aims to get children excited about science, with a particular focus on the science of sound. Kids will get tuned in to learning with exciting demonstrations and experiments including the surprisingly loud dinosaur-in-a-can, the glowing electric pickle, and a kid-created thunderstorm. Fri, 6/29, 3pm. Free. Verdi Community Library & Nature Center, 270 Bridge St., Verdi, (775) 345-8104.

TAHOE CITY 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS SHOW: Celebrate the nation’s birthday at the 74th annual show. Wed, 7/4, 9pm. Free.

Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-3348, www.visittahoecity. org/event/tahoe-city-4th-julyfireworks-show.

TAHOE CITY FARMER’S MARKET: Enjoy fresh, local produce, food and scenic lake views at the Tahoe City Farmers’ Market every Thursday through Oct. 11. Thu, 6/28, 8am. Free. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-3348, tahoecityfarmersmarket.com.

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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 and s’mores.

Thu, 6/28-Sat, 6/30, 7pm. $40. Northstar California’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium, 148 Northstar Drive, Truckee, northstarcalifornia.com.

TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FARMERS MARKET: The event showcases locally grown and artisan-quality foods. A collaboration between Slow Food Lake Tahoe and Sierra Valley Farms, the mission of the market is to support local farms and producers within 125 miles of the Town of Truckee. The market is open on Sunday through Sept. 30. Sun, 7/1, 9am. Free.

12047 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, truckeefarmersmarket.org.

Artown, the Reno Phil Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Laura Jackson, will perform patriotic and classical favorites. The concert will end with a firework finale. Wed, 7/4, 5-9pm. Free.

Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., renophil.com.

ART ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Rockin’ Out Art Show. More than 150 artists are participating in this benefit show for the Nevada Rock Art Foundation. Twenty percent of proceeds will be donated to the foundation. The Artown event runs through July 31. There will be an artist reception on July 1, noon-4pm. Sun, 7/1Wed, 7/4, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-Op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, 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. Thu, 6/28-Fri, 6/29. Free. Carson City Community Center, 815 E. William St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH MIDTOWN RENO: Meet the artist of the month. Thu, 6/28, 6pm. Free.

Fountain of Youth Midtown Reno, 724 S. Virginia St., (775) 964-4888.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: There is No Right Time. Mikayla Whitmore’s art exhibition is the culmination of several years photographing the depths of the southern Nevada and California desert.

Whitmore’s interest lies in documenting relics of the American values of a bygone era, of a time when the American West was shrouded in romanticism. Although that time has passed, what remains true is an enduring spirit of freedom and isolation in fading desert towns. There Is No Right Time is on view through July 6. Thu, 6/28-Fri, 6/29, Tue, 7/3-Wed, 7/4, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., www.hollandreno.org.

WE BANJO 3: The Celtigrass group kicks

THE ANGRY BRIANS: The Celtic rock group performs as part of the Levitt AMP

Carson City summer concert series. Sat, 6/30, 7pm. Free. Minnesota Street Stage,

off the Artown’s Monday Night Music Series. Mon, 7/2, 7:30pm. Free. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 322-1538, renoisartown.com.

Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

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BASS CAMP IN THE PARK: The all-ages event

STAR SPANGLED SPARKS

The Nugget Casino Resort will host the area’s largest Independence Day party and fireworks celebration.

Festivities begin at 4 p.m. on Victorian Square with food and craft vendor booths and live music. There will be a ticketed VIP viewing area available for purchase that includes seating and a food and beverage buffet of picnic-style choices from 7-10 p.m. VIP tickets are $50. But Victorian Square in downtown Sparks is still open to the public for free viewing. Bring a picnic chair but leave dogs, glass bottles and portable barbecues at home.

Fireworks are expected to begin about 9:30-9:45 p.m., depending on wind conditions. Call 356-3300 or visit www.nuggetcasinoresort.com.

TRUCKEE HISTORIC WALKING TOUR: Historic Downtown Truckee comes alive during this colorful tour, which includes stories of railroad barons, lumber mills, ice harvesting, movie stars and other interesting characters. Fri, 6/29, 4pm. Free, donations welcome.

10065 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, mountaintowntours.wordpress.com.

are family-friendly and open to all. Lawn space is available on a first-come, firstserved basis. Shows are every Tuesday through Sept. 5. Tue, 7/3, 5:30pm. Free.

PJ’s at Gray’s Crossing, 11406 Henness Road, Truckee, tahoemountainclub.com.

AMERICAN SALUTE: In celebration with

TRUCKEE 4TH OF JULY PARADE: The parade starts at the Truckee High School and winds along Donner Pass Road to Historical Downtown Truckee and ends at the corner of Bridge and Church streets. Free shuttle service will be provided between 8am and 1:30pm. Wed, 7/4, 10am. Free. Donner Pass Road to Bridge Street, Truckee, chamber.truckee. com/events/details/truckee-4th-of-julyparade-1058.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES AT GRAY’S CROSSING: These free outdoor concerts

THE MIDTOWN DISTRICT: Midtown Art Walk.

The 10th annual event commemorates a milestone within its history and the eccentric, vibrant culture of the Midtown District in Reno. The stand-alone event will showcase more than 75 businesses turned pop-up art galleries featuring local talent, as well as five main stages of music and live performances all within a one-mile span. The Firework Finale and Concert will feature guest performances from Cirque Paris, part of THE ROW and a Reno-based band starting at 8:45pm on Cheney Street. Thu, 6/28, 4pm. Free. The Midtown District, Virginia and Center streets, (775) 240-3220, renomidtownartwalk.com.

THE POTENTIALIST WORKSHOP: Waving In The Wind. Local veterans take visual art using combat paper embossed with the United States flag. They share their stories of freedom, war and military service in the gallery show. Sun, 7/1-Wed, 7/4. Free. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., potentialistworkshop.com.

RENO PLAYA PARK: Reno Playa Art. On Tuesday nights through July 24, Artech will transform the Reno Playa Park, located on Virginia Street between 5th and 6th Streets, into a temporary interactive art installation, performance venue and community gathering spot.

Tue, 7/3, 6-10pm. Free. Downtown Reno, Virginia Street between Fourth and Sixth streets, renoisartown.com.

SUNDANCE BOOKS AND MUSIC: Midtown Art Walk with the Potentialist Workshop.

Local artists from the Potentialist Workshop and Black Rock Press Artist in Residence Lauren Cardenas will display their work in the store. Thu, 6/28, 4pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

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 Triptych. Thu, 6/28-Sun, 7/1, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): Curiosity Carnival. 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. The exhibition runs through Aug. 18. Museum hours are 10am-5pm on MondayTuesday, Thursday-Saturday, 10am to 8pm on Wednesday and noon to 5pm on Sunday. Thu, 6/28-Tue, 7/3. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 7861000, nvdm.org.

FILM THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: The Carson City Classic Cinema Club presents a screening of the 1962 suspense thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury. Tue, 7/3, 6pm. $3-$5. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 315-8495, ccclassiccinema.org.

includes performances by DJs Thomas Jack, Hotel Garuda and Kryoman.

There will be live art creations and installations, a vendor village, food and beer trucks and more. Sat, 6/30, 3-10pm. $10-$50. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., www.basscampfest.com.

BLUESDAYS: Blues vocalist Curtis Salgado

ARTOWN OPENING NIGHT: BANDALOOP seamlessly weaves dynamic physicality, intricate choreography and the art of climbing to turn the dance floor on its side. Sun, 7/1, 5pm, 6:30pm & 9:30pm. Free. City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., renoisartown.com.

LAURA AND RICK HALL: Laura Hall is best

performs as part of the outdoor music series. Tue, 7/3, 6pm. Free. The Village at Squaw Valley, 1750 Village East Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

known as the improvisational pianist and musical director on the hit TV show, Whose Line is it Anyway? Rick Hall was a founding member of Chicago’s Improv Institute. Sun, 7/1, 6pm. $10. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, breweyarts.org.

CIANA: The Celtic music group combines fiery instrumentals and musical tales of life, death and love. Sun, 7/1, 1pm. Free. Grand Lawn, Tallac Historic Site, 1 Heritage Way, South Lake Tahoe, valhallatahoe.com.

TAHOE IMPROV PLAYERS: Celebrating their

JAZZY ASH AND THE LEAPING LIZARDS: The Artown Family Series opens with a performance by the New Orleans-style jazz band. There will be children’s art activities at 6pm, followed by the concert at 7pm. Mon, 7/2, 6-8pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, renoisartown.com.

LAZY 5 SUMMER SERIES: Washoe County Regional Parks and Open Space’s 14th annual summer concert series continues with a performance of patriotic music

by Air Force Band of the Golden West “Mobility.” Bring blankets or low-back chairs. No pets or glass containers. Wed, 7/4, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Highway, Sparks, (775) 4241866, www.washoecounty.us/parks.

MUSIC ON THE BEACH: The Sextones kicks

off the summer concert series. Fri, 6/29, 6pm. Free. Kings Beach State Recreation

Area, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, northtahoebusiness.org.

25th anniversary, the Tahoe Improv Players presents an evening of improv comedy. Sat, 6/30, 7:30pm. $14. Valhalla Grand Hall, Tallac Historic Site, 1 Heritage Way, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, valhallatahoe.com.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: Merry War Theatre Group performs Shakespeare’s comedy for its fifth annual Summer Shakespeare Show. Thu, 6/28-Sat, 6/30, 7:30pm. Free. The Lear Theater, 528 W. First St., www.merrywar.com.

SPORTS & FITNESS RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer

team plays the Portland Timbers 2. Sat, 6/30, 7:15pm. $15-$75. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.reno1868fc.com.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball

team plays the Salt Lake Bees. Thu, 6/28, 7:05pm. $10-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

LOS LOBOS: Artown’s opening weekend festivities continue with a performance by the Grammy-winning band whose music blends Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican styles. Sun, 7/1, 7:30pm. Free.

Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., renoisartown.com.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball team plays the Sacramento River Cats. Wed, 7/4, 6:35pm. $12-$37. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 3347000, www.milb.com/reno.

U.S. OPEN OF WATERCROSS: The Pro

SINATRA II—THE BEST IS YET TO COME: Sierra Music Society presents the music of Frank Sinatra performed by baritone Rick Cornell, soprano Rebecca Schembri and bass Jean-Paul DeChambeau accompanied by Carol House. Sat, 6/30, 8pm. $15-$20. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 780 Del Monte Lane, poperanv.org.

Watercross Tour is the country’s premier racing circuit and showcases some of the best professional and amateur athletes in the sport of personal watercraft racing. Competitors vie for the title of US Open of Watercross Champion. Sat, 6/30-Sun, 7/1, 8am. Free.

Sparks Marina Park, 300 Howard Drive, Sparks, www.prowatercross.com/ sparks.

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by AMY ALKON

The last stare fighter I’m a 28-year-old woman who has been single for over five years.

I’m steering clear of dating sites right now because of how so many guys portray themselves in ways that are very different from how they are in person. But then, in day-to-day life, when I smile at a guy I like, he’ll usually smile back but he still won’t come over and talk to me. Call me traditional, but I want a guy who has the courage to approach me. Guys are meant to do the pursuing.

Well, OK, but forgive the poor dears if they’d like some sign from you about what’s likely to be in store for them if they hit on you—a hot time in bed or years of painful skin grafts from a 300-degree pumpkin latte you throw in their face.

Oh, right—you say you smile at the guys you like. Consider that from a guy’s perspective: Maybe you were smiling at him—or maybe at some CrossFit Adonis standing right behind him.

A single, ambiguous signal isn’t a reliable message—that is, a reliably actionable message—especially when there’s risk involved in taking action. In hitting on you, there’s the possibility of public humiliation—maybe even of the “Whoa, the YouTube video is going viral!” kind. It also doesn’t help that a smile requires very little investment from you—in effort or risk.

Amotz Zahavi, an Israeli zoologist who studies signaling— behavioral communication between individuals or critters—points out that signals that are more “costly” to the sender are read as more trustworthy (and usually are). Your talking to a guy would be an example of a stronger indication of interest from you—particularly if you initiate the conversation.

You send an even stronger message that you’re interested by giving several signals at once. For example, you could touch a guy’s arm while you’re talking and make and hold eye contact.

You should also consider that men, more than ever, want to err on the side of seeing that their advances are wanted—which is to say they’re all terrified that they’ll wake up one day and find their name tweeted with #MeToo. I have written previously about how overt pursuit by a woman—direct, explicit expressions

of interest, like asking a guy out—is a risky strategy, as it tends to lead men to subconsciously devalue her.

If she’s chasing them instead of snubbing them like so many other women do, she must be desperate and/or have her sanity up on blocks in the front yard.

However, it turns out that you can probably go really, really big in being flirtatious—like way over what you’re seriously sure is the top.

This comes out of the fascinating psychological effect of “indirect speech”—speech that implies what the speaker means rather than explicitly stating it.

The indirectness allows us an essential “out,” according to psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker. Basically, as long as we can’t be 100 percent certain of what a person really means, there’s “plausible deniability.” This allows us to just ignore something that would have been offensive if it had been said in a flat-out way.

So, for example, if something is said euphemistically—à la the ol’ “Wanna come up and see my etchings?”—both parties can act as if it didn’t mean what it pretty obviously does mean: something along the lines of “It’s getting a little loud in here in Café Pretentious. Wanna go somewhere quiet and have sex?”

However, flirting big, on its own, may not be enough. There are men who will realize—after you walk out of the drugstore or cafe and out of their lives forever—that they should have asked you out. Put them in a position to have a second chance by going to the same place over and over—like by showing up at the same coffeehouse every Saturday.

In doing this, you’ll also get the benefit of observing men in a naturalistic habitat, allowing you to see potentially disturbing things about them that aren’t evident online.

This can end up being a lifesaving measure—perhaps literally (in rare cases) and at least figuratively, when you discover that five minutes talking with a guy flies right by—like seven hours spent gagged and ziptied to a chair. Ω

ERIK HOLLAND

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

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For the week oF June 28, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your best ideas and

soundest decisions will materialize as if by magic while you’re lounging around doing nothing in a worry-free environment. So please make sure you have an abundance of relaxed slack and unhurried grace. Treat yourself to record-setting levels of comfort and self-care.

Do whatever’s necessary for you to feel as safe as you have ever felt. I realize these prescriptions might ostensibly clash with your fiery Aries nature. But if you meditate on them for even two minutes, I bet you’ll agree they’re exquisitely appropriate for you right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “It is always what

is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment—that explodes in poetry.” Taurus poet Adrienne Rich wrote that in an essay about the poet Emily Dickinson.

She was describing the process of tapping into potent but buried feelings so as to create beautiful works of literature. I’m hoping to persuade you to take a comparable approach: to give voice to what’s under pressure inside you, but in a graceful and constructive way that has positive results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Introductory offers are

expiring. The bracing thrills of novelty must ripen into the cool enjoyments of maturity.

It’s time to finish the dress rehearsals so the actual show can begin. You’ve got to start turning big, bright fantasies into crisp, no-nonsense realities. In light of these shifting conditions, I suspect you can no longer use your good intentions as leverage, but must deliver more tangible signs of commitment. Please don’t take this as a criticism, but the cosmic machinery in your vicinity needs some actual oil, not just your witty stories about the oil and the cosmic machinery.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the coming weeks,

you will have an excellent chance to dramatically decrease your Wimp Quotient. As the perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off-limits or invisible to you. To ensure you remain in top shape for this delightful development, I think you should avoid entertainment that stimulates fear and pessimism. Instead of watching the latest flurry of demoralizing stories on Netflix, spend quality time summoning memories of the times in your life when you were unbeatable.

For extra credit, pump your fist ten times each day as you growl, “Victory is mine!”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s not so bad to tempo-

rarily lose your bearings. What’s bad is not capitalizing on the disruption that caused you to lose your bearings. So I propose that you regard the fresh commotion as a blessing. Use it as motivation to initiate radical changes. For example, escape the illusions and deceptions that caused you to lose your bearings. Explore unruly emotions that may be at the root of the superpowers you will fully develop in the future. Transform yourself into a brave self-healer who is newly receptive to a host of medicinal clues that were not previously accessible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s my list of

demands: 1. Avoid hanging out with people who are unreceptive to your influence. 2. Avoid hanging out with people whose influence on you is mediocre or dispiriting. 3. Hang out with people who are receptive to your influence and whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating. 4. Influence the hell out of the people who are receptive to your influence. Be a generous catalyst for them. Nudge them to surpass the limits they would benefit from surpassing. 5. Allow yourself to be deeply moved by people whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating.

only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): André René Rous-

simoff, also known as André the Giant, was a French actor and professional wrestler.

He was 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds. As you might imagine, he ate and drank extravagantly. On one festive occasion, he quaffed 119 bottles of beer in six hours.

Judging from your current astrological indicators, Scorpio, I suspect you may be ready for a binge like that. JUST KIDDING! I sincerely hope you won’t indulge in such wasteful forms of “pleasure.” The coming days should be a time when you engage in a focused pursuit of uplifting and healthy modes of bliss. The point is to seek gusto and amusement that enhance your body, mind and soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On her 90th birthday, my Great-Aunt Zosia told me, “The best gift you can give your ego is to make it see it’s both totally insignificant and totally important in the cosmic scheme of things.” Jenna, my girlfriend when I was 19, was perhaps touting a similar principle when, after teasing and tormenting me for two hours, she scrawled on my bathroom mirror in lipstick, “Sometimes you enjoy life better if you don’t understand it.”

Then there’s my Zen punk friend Arturo, who says that life’s goodies are more likely to flow your way if you “hope for nothing and are open to everything.” According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, these messages will help you make the most of the bewildering but succulent opportunities that are now arriving in your vicinity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In accordance with

the astrological beacons, I have selected two pieces of advice to serve as your guiding meditations during the next seven weeks. You might want to write them on a piece of paper that you will carry in your wallet or pocket. Here’s the first, from businessman Alan Cohen: “Only those who ask for more can get more, and only those who know there is more, ask.” Here’s the second, from writer G. K. Chesterton: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Ecologists in Mexico

City investigated why certain sparrows and finches use humans’ discarded cigarette butts in building their nests. They found that cellulose acetate, a chemical in the butts, protects the nests by repelling parasitic mites. Is there a metaphorical lesson you might draw from the birds’ ingenious adaptation, Aquarius? Could you find good use for what might seem to be dross or debris? My analysis of the astrological omens says that this possibility is worth meditating on.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I suspect that some-

time soon you will come into possession of an enchanted potion or pixie dust or a pouch full of magic beans—or the equivalent. If and when that occurs, consider the following protocols: 1. Before you use your new treasure, say a prayer to your higher self, requesting that you will be guided to use it in such a way as to make yourself wiser and kinder. 2. When you use it, be sure it harms no one. 3. Express gratitude for it before and during and after using it. 4.

Use it in such a way that it benefits at least one other person or creature in addition to you. 5.

See if you can use it to generate the arrival or more pixie dust or magical beans or enchanted potion in the future. 6. When you use it, focus on wielding it to get exactly what you want, not what you sort of want or temporarily want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If I didn’t define

myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” Activist author Audre Lorde said that, and now, in accordance with your current astrological and psychological needs, I’m offering it to you. I realize it’s a flamboyant, even extreme, declaration, but in my opinion, that’s what is most likely to motivate you to do the right thing. Here’s another splashy prompt, courtesy of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “We

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by BRAD BYNUm

Comeback kid Daniel de Visé Maryland-based journalist and author Daniel de Visé’s new book is The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France, a biography of the champion cyclist, who grew up in Northern Nevada. The author will present readings from the book at Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., on July 5 at 6:30 p.m.

Why write a book about Greg LeMond?

Well, it occurred to me that he’s not nearly so well known—either his name or his feats—as he should be, considering that he’s one of our all-time great athletes. You know, he’s a winner of Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. He is the only American to have won the Tour [de France], which a lot of people think is the most grueling athletic event of all.

Can you describe his Northern Nevada connection?

It’s absolutely essential to his story. …

They moved to Nevada when Greg was a little boy,. ... They lived for a while in Incline Village, and then they moved to ...

Washoe Lake. So, Greg … grew up there, basically, and went from fishing and hiking and horseback riding to skiing, and he was thinking about becoming a hotdog

skier. But then one winter there in Reno, it didn’t snow—I think that was the winter of ’75-’76—and because it didn’t snow, Greg and his father, Bob, fell back on their cross-training sport, which was cycling, and Greg just fell in love with it and never looked back.

There was a lot of local legend about him when I was kid but it seems like that fell off the radar.

There just ought to be a Greg LeMond Boulevard there. If there’s not, there should be. Or a Greg LeMond Highway or something—or for god’s sake, a bike path! He is the top dog in American bicycle racing in the modern era. There’s nobody, no one else, and it all started there. And he remained there through high school.

It was a great place to train as a cyclist.

You’ve got your grades. You’ve got your

climbs. You’ve got your wind. You’ve got your weather. All the stuff you get in Europe, you get in the Washoe Valley, so it was an ideal place to be based as a cyclist. ... This is a biography of Greg, but it’s also a work of narrative nonfiction, like Seabiscuit or The Boys in the Boat. … I wrote it to read like a novel, and it centers on the 1989 Tour de France, which a lot of people think is the greatest bicycle race in history. That was the one that Greg won by 8 seconds, which is the closest finish in the history of the tour, over a Frenchman named Laurent Fignon. That achievement is all the more stunning because Greg had almost died two years earlier of an accidental shooting in California. So the book pivots on that race. And it’s also a biography of Greg and it’s also, to a lesser extent, a biography of Fignon, because you have to know the guy he beat. … As far as interviews and access, I spent a lot of time on the phone to Bob LeMond in Reno, and Greg’s sisters, Kathy and Karen, who I think both still live in the Reno area. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Roland Della Santa, the great bicycle craftsman who lives in Reno. I spent a lot of time also on the phone with Cliff Young, a local attorney there, who was kind of Greg’s first training partner, and one of his mentors who led him into the cycling scene. I did a lot of research on the Reno Wheelmen, a legendary cycle group. … A lot of telephone calls to 775. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Keep that pie handy After reading my column last week, I’d like to say to female readers that I humbly beg your pardon for dropping that nasty little C-bomb.

When I saw it in print, it struck me as a tad bit much. It’s just one of those hand grenade visceral words, one of two in our current vernacular, and it really should be used cautiously. So I won’t do that again anytime soon. OK? That said, I also must confess that I was a bit pissed that I wasn’t able to include Melania in last week’s roster of “Feckless Bitches,” due to deadline. ’Cuz I’m tellin’ ya, the FBOTUS earned herself a slot on that squad for that nasty little jacket episode on her quickie to Texas.

All kinds of pundits were wondering what could possibly have been the intended message, because we know for damn sure Melania didn’t just grab that jacket and run out the door. “I Don’t Re-

ally Care. Do U?” What exactly was she trying to say?

Hey, let’s not overthink this!

Occam’s Razor (remember him?) says, basically, “When in doubt, roll with the simplest and most obvious solution.” And obviously, this was exactly what it seemed to be—a nasty little Valentine sent to the precious base.

Dum Dum enlisted his wife to send this pissy message to his beloved cult of Deplorables, to let them know that he did indeed hate it to high holy hell that he was forced to sign that exec order to keep families together. He positively can’t stand it when he’s forced to do something for political expediency. Just loathes it. And Mel’s jacket was a super fun way of winking to da fokes while driving the media batshit at the same time (and once again, we see that Mr. DeNiro’s recent assessment was spot on).

This evil shit wouldn’t be happening at the border if Hillary was president. You know that’s true. No way a woman rolls with this kind of deep, dark prickitude.

Such ghastly prickitude is alien to the female, maternal sisterly essence. It can only come from the heart and mind of a deeply corroded, fucked up man. It’s a vivid reminder that we really, really, really would benefit greatly from a female POTUS in ’20.

I was disappointed to see that no one took the opportunity to smoosh a coconut cream pie in Twitler’s face during his trip to Vegas to doom Deano Heller. Ah, well. Just remember that we all have the chance to do exactly that, figuratively speaking, on November 6. Ω

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