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Road warriors Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Construction is underway on Virginia Street through midtown Reno. I think most folks in town will agree that the street is in need of an overhaul—especially those damn narrow sidewalks. Pretty strange that arguably the biggest annual local pedestrian event, the Midtown Art Walk, is centered on a street with sidewalks that are only a notch or two above unusable. Still, Virginia Street is probably Reno’s most famous drag (even though Tom Waits got the name wrong in his 1973 song “Virginia Avenue”). So, it’s a little weird for the street to be mostly inaccessible—down to one lane southbound through midtown, which, during busy times, has traffic slowed to a crawl. So, of course, people are driving alternative routes, which means that seasoned local drivers are suddenly finding their favorite scenic routes and short cuts much more heavily populated. It’s pretty odd to see a full flotilla of traffic on, say, Forest Street, even with all that concentrated population growth in midtown. Anyway. Please forgive the Andy Rooney-style gripe about traffic. We’ll have more in-depth reporting about this redevelopment project and its local impact soon. But, for now, do you know for whom that construction project really sucks? Midtown business owners. So, do what you can to get down there to support Recycled Records, Black Hole Body Piercing, Bad Apple Vntg., Under the Rose Brewing Company and all the rest of the great businesses down there on Reno’s main drag. It probably won’t be convenient. And remember that Virginia Street isn’t the only local street with construction. And anywhere there’s street construction, there are businesses that have lost customers. Just think of all that unending construction on Fourth Street.
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Inoperative Does the truth matter? My mother thought so and she let me know. I tried to teach my kids to be truthful and honest. I thought it was important. But our Republican leaders have another view. Kellyanne Conway said there were “alternative facts,” Rudy Giuliani said “Truth isn’t truth,” and President Trump says, “Don’t believe what you see or read,” and he thinks the news media is the “enemy of the people.” Holy crap! These people are leading the country and trying to make fools of us all. We can change that with the coming election. You can vote for Dean Heller and continue the insanity and the fall of America into a cesspool of corruption, or you can vote for Jacky Rosen and return America to the people. Don McKechnie Sparks
Middowntown Another fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Ollie, with the latest plans to shut down Virginia Street until 2020. So, all that traffic can clog up Plumas, and Keitzke Lane and Wells—which are all pretty much busy now as it is—and with a net loss of parking spaces in midtown; but at least it will look “pretty.” It’s gonna be a nightmare. God save us from pretty, please? Craig Bergland Reno
A letter with a signature For 25 years during the cold war, the BBC aired a radio program called “Letters without Signatures” presented by a gentleman named Austin Harrison. It was a reading of letters penned by east German citizens from all walks of life that were smuggled across the wall in various ingenious ways. A quote from a letter written by a teenager said, “We’re being educated in lies. I can’t tell truth and lies apart any more. The whole world is
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dishonest. Politics is just a lying contest. What’s the point of life?” Sound familiar? We live in a world of corporate/governmental-sponsored lies that would make Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels proud and Niccolo Machiavelli blush. Luckily, we still have a relatively free press where the truth can be known. We must keep in mind a quote of Edward R. Murrow, in regards to editorializing: “Bias is OK as long as you don’t try to hide it.” I believe this thought includes the fact that any words written by man will have at least some small amount of bias and can only represent the point of view of the author, even if it’s only in the subject matter chosen. Although your editorial staff seems to lean a bit to the left, thank you, RN&R, for allowing free speech to be presented from so many points of view remaining basically uncensored. John Bogle Fernley
Nevadan I have lived and worked in Reno since 2001. I came from Southern California. I loved it not the first few years. I hated the spaghetti bowl, the smoked-filled restaurants, the lack of diversity, the stores always out of goods, shoes, clothing, no internet to order online like today—and yet I remained. I love the growth I see, the smokeless restaurants and bars, the spaghetti bowl has been redone—twice, I think—and diversity is still not here. However, I found better work, no income tax, beautiful homes I could afford, friendly people, and shopping came to us via Summit Mall. As I look around, I love the growth of Reno. I lived for a short time in Las Vegas. I found it was like L.A., crowded, lots of tourists, all for the casino trade. Reno will never be a Las Vegas, nor should it be, and no matter how many California folks show up here, it never will be. Las Vegas can go for miles and miles, so it may, but why
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be concerned, it will grow and progress like other desert cities in Arizona and New Mexico. The “West is the best” and neighboring states will have their relocations for various reasons. Some come in, some will go, and pass away. My family was four, now only one (me) here in Nevada. I do hope to move my daughter out of L.A. and move to Las Vegas. So all in all, my friends, we are far from overpopulated, and adding our education and money and diversity here to Nevada. This is a good thing. Nevada has improved already, which I will take full responsibility and credit for. If you think you would not have grown without us Cali Folk moving here—LOL. Romona Eggenberger Reno
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The world we live in Since 2014, a centennial has been slowly elapsing with World War I’s centennial, however, has been a failure little notice. Here’s a hint: In Sarajevo, there is a sign as a learning experience. There was a burst of attention that wraps around the corner of Muzej Museum: “THE in 1914, a few publications and other media efforts. The STREET CORNER THAT STARTED THE 20TH Atlantic is the only publication we know of that released a CENTURY 2014-2018.” special issue, compiling its articles by figures like Winston We bring this up because, in proofing the pages for our Churchill, H.G. Wells and H.L. Mencken, plus new mateThis Week calendar section, we read a notice of a lecture rial by more modern authors like Christopher Hitchens, to be given the evening of the day this edition comes out, Arnold Toynbee and Barbara Tuchman. Sept. 20 at 6:30 at the Nevada State Museum in This is very unfortunate. The world we live Carson City. Prof. Jennifer Keene of Chapman in, and many of the troubles we now experiUniversity will speak on “American During ence on the world scene, were created in As a the Great War.” Dr. Keene, the author the years of the war and its immediate learning of Doughboys, the Great War and the aftermath. The dismantling of the experience, Remaking of America, according to Ottoman Empire and the invention by a news release, speak on “home-front Britain of new nations in the region; the the World War I mobilization and the experiences of division of the Austro-Hungarian Empire centennial has soldiers on the battlefield, while also into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia been a failure. considering how the war affected women, and Yugoslavia; Russia’s renunciation of immigrants and African Americans. In the claims to Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, inter-war period, Americans tried to ‘learn Ukraine and the territory of Congress Poland, lessons’ from the Great War, revealing unexpected leaving to Germany and Austria-Hungary “the ways that the war continued to impact American society.” future status of these territories,” are decisions that created During the first half of the 1960s, the centennial of the hostilities and conflicts that still haunt our world—and U.S. Civil War was substantive and widespread. There lessons that are still unlearned. were new books, magazines, movies, television specials. This centennial could have been, should have been a Publications like Life magazine threw themselves into learning experience for us all. A few weeks still remain the commemoration and local communities recalled their until the centennial of Armistice Day, November 11, 2018, participation. There can be debate over how much of a the day the war ended. We encourage our readers to use learning experience those years were—many Civil War those weeks well. We’ll even suggest a place to start: myths survived—but it was not for lack of effort. www.si.edu/spotlight/wwi100. Ω
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by SHEILA LESLIE
Toxic mix: job seekers, housing shortage It’s obvious that there are more homeless people wandering Reno’s streets this year, reaching beyond the downtown core into neighborhoods that border the Truckee River and even into south Reno’s storm culverts and parks. Environmental advocates worry about the river’s water quality and safety issues, as needles proliferate from heroin addicts, and aggressive behavior by Truckee River denizens drives families away from bike paths and traditional recreation spots. Neighbors in West Reno encounter people sleeping in their yards or in nearby undergrowth, while others quietly doze in their cars for weeks on end, parked as inconspicuously as possible on residential streets. There are also reports of increasing numbers of people living in the foothills and desert lands surrounding Reno in makeshift, semi-permanent camps that aren’t likely to provide much shelter come winter. Many residents want government to do something about the problem, even if it means sweeping the homeless into
the jail on trespassing or other minor charges to teach them a lesson. When Anderson Dairy, a local business in Las Vegas, complained about sanitary conditions of makeshift homeless camps near their cows, the Las Vegas City Council considered passing a special ordinance to outlaw sitting, lying down, or camping on a sidewalk within 1,000 feet of a food processing facility. The ACLU threatened to sue on the constitutionality of the measure, and the council backed down, perhaps warned by a recent U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision stating that cities cannot criminalize homelessness by arresting people for sleeping in public. While Reno isn’t the only city confronting a growing homeless population, the soaring cost of housing caused by economic development giveaways to wealthy corporations creating jobs for outof-towners is exacerbating the problem. Landlords want to cash in on the booming rents, casting aside long-term tenants who
struggle to find alternative housing they can afford. The hardest hit are the elderly or disabled living on a fixed income, and those with virtually no income at all. In early September, community leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of a new 200-bed facility, the Village on Sage Street, to provide an affordable, although bare-bones, option to sleep indoors for those making no more than $3,000 per month. Residents will be charged $400 each month for a dorm-style room with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities down the hall. To be eligible, a monthly minimum income of $1,300 must be in hand along with a $400 security deposit, unfortunately leaving many people who live on social security or disability payments of $750-$850 a month out in the cold. Still, one has to applaud the efforts of the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada and the City of Reno to actually create more housing instead of funding yet another study to establish that more affordable housing is needed in our community.
The $8.3 million Village of dorm rooms should be open by Thanksgiving, offering shelter in time for the winter months. But even if the income requirements are relaxed or partnerships are formed with agencies providing case management and other services for the chronically homeless, the 200 dorm rooms won’t make much of a dent in the need, especially as more motels are demolished and turned into a sea of empty lots that sit vacant with no published plan for development. The City of Oakland, California, has taken on land speculators by floating the idea of a new tax on vacant property, hoping to force owners to build on their property instead of holding on to it while they wait for the value to increase. It’s a controversial idea, but Oakland, like Reno, is desperate for affordable housing, or at least more property taxes to provide services to the poor. As Reno’s neighborhoods west of downtown are transformed into blocks of empty lots, it’s an idea worth watching. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
Nevada workers pay cut A court ruling against a federal rule, adopted during the Obama administration to update a 40-year-old threshold for overtime pay, has cost more than 104,0000 Nevada workers a lot, a new study finds. The report by the New York City-based National Employment Law Project—released last week— found 16,994 workers in Washoe County, 9,043 in the small counties, and 78,106 in Clark County were adversely affected when the rule was overturned by a Texas judge at the initiative of Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt. Laxalt recruited 20 state attorneys general to sue the U.S. Labor Department over the rule that would have doubled to $47,500 the maximum salary a worker can earn and still be eligible for mandatory overtime pay. That threshold had not been changed in four decades, and the Obama action provided for it to be updated automatically every five years. Nevada Current reported on Sept. 14, “In 1975, 62 percent of middle-class workers were automatically eligible for overtime after working more than 40 hours in a week. Today that number has dwindled to 7 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Under the 2016 rule change, 35 to 40 percent of workers would have been eligible for overtime, according to the report and other sources.” In the case State of Nevada vs. U.S. Department of Labor, a federal judge in Texas, Amos Mazzant, issued a temporary injunction against the rule on Nov. 22, 2016 and then later—on Aug. 31 2017—issued a permanent ruling that found the rule invalid, saying, “Congress intended for employees who perform ‘bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity’ duties to be exempt from overtime pay.” The threshold was set too high, Mazzant found, to the point that it could pull in some management employees who are exempt from overtime protections. In addition, he found the Labor Department lacked authority to use a salary test to set the threshold. At the time of the Mazzant ruling, Laxalt told NBC News, “Businesses and state and local governments across the country can breathe a sigh of relief now that this rule has been halted.” The National Restaurant Association and U.S. Chamber of Commerce were among groups who supported the suit. Workers were less thrilled, and the Trump administration sent mixed signals on it. The lost income presumably substantially reduced consumer spending in Nevada, sapping the state’s economy. The Labor Department, which spent two years developing the rule and received 300,000 public comments on it, issued a statement: “The department’s overtime rule is the result of a comprehensive, inclusive rule-making process, and we remain confident in the legality of all aspects of the rule.” Although Donald Trump has overturned many Obama-era actions, the Labor Department rule was expected to stand or be modified by Congress— until Laxalt’s intervention. The New York Times reported, “Some business lobbyists had anticipated a legislative compromise that phased in the new limit over a longer period of time and eliminated an automatic increase in the limit every three years.”
—Dennis Myers
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At a Reno workshop on clean energy homes, Caroline Lowman checked out a literature table.
Health and power Election will tee up issue candidates for the Nevada Legislature, if elected, will have to come to grips with a Trump decision to abandon the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, and decide whether to continue complying with it anyway. The lawmakers go into session in February, and depending on who is elected governor, they will have to either respond to executive branch proposals or draft their own. The CPP was launched by President Obama on Aug. 3, 2015, acting under the U.S. Clean Air Act. The CPP called for cutting carbon pollution from power plants that threaten health and causes risks to the economy. Nevada then already had a considerable policy investment in reducing power plant pollution, and some Nevadans now want legislative candidates to say whether they will support implementing the CPP in the next legislative session, whether it remains in legal force or not. “The Clean Power Plan would facilitate the creation of thousands of additonal jobs in energy efficiency and renewable energy in Nevada,” said Southwest Energy Efficiency Project rep Tom Polikalas. On Oct. 10, 2017, the Trump administration announced plans to repeal the plan, a process taking possibly two years. After eight months study, two Harvard scientists reported in a Washington Post article that cancellation
of the plan would increase particulate matter in the atmosphere, causing an estimated 36,000 deaths over the ensuing 10 years plus an estimated 630,000 respiratory ailments in children during that decade. Without any study of the scientists’ work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—then headed by Scott Pruitt— immediately issued a statement: “This is not a scientific article, it’s a political article. The science is clear. Under President Trump, greenhouse gas emissions are down.” The statement was false. Greenhouse emissions did not fall after Trump took office. They rose. In Nevada, Attorney General Adam Laxalt—now the GOP nominee for governor—said on Feb. 24, 2016 that he was filing a brief to support a court challenge to the CPP. In a written statement, he said, “We are repeatedly seeing more federal regulation that is less tied to the actual text of the laws that federal agencies claim is the basis for their rules. With the Plan’s sweeping impact on our nation’s economy and costs estimated to be in the billions, it is important for Nevadans to continue to push back on unaccountable federal agencies that impose their own rules beyond the text of the laws passed by Congress.” Democratic nominee for governor Steve Sisolak issued a statement on
March 2: “Especially in light of the Trump Administration’s cuts to public lands, repeal of the Clean Power Plan and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, it’s more important than ever to elect a governor who will protect our natural resources and invest in a clean energy future. The next generation deserves to breathe unpolluted air, drink clean water, and enjoy our natural treasures—and I’m committed to delivering that future.” The Trump effort against the CPP angered many businesses. An array of corporations calling themselves Tech Amici filed a brief supporting the CPP against the court challenge Laxalt joined. They include Amazon and Apple, large corporate presences in Nevada. Their brief reads in part: “Tech Amici have developed business practices to limit their environmental impact, including by ensuring that an ever-increasing portion of their electricity consumption comes from renewable sources. This commitment reflects Tech Amici’s belief that delaying action on climate change will be costly in economic and human terms, while accelerating the transition to a lowcarbon economy will produce multiple benefits with regard to sustainable economic growth. … Renewable energy is less subject to price volatility than non-renewable energy; provides greater long-term cost certainty to its purchasers; and, in many parts of the United States, is available at prices comparable to or better than the current prices for other electricity options.” Among businesspeople who do oppose the CPP are corporate polluters Charles and David Koch, who have long been supporters of Adam Laxalt’s political career. When Laxalt ran for attorney general in 2014, the Kochs provided money funneled through the Republican Attorney Generals Association, a campaign group then run by Scott Pruitt, later the scandal plagued-director of the U.S. Environmental Association who set in motion repeal of the Clean Power Plan for Donald Trump. In November, Freedom Partners Action Fund, supported by the Kochs, began a $1 million TV and digital advertising campaign supporting Laxalt for governor. In June, the Kochs’ fund piled on another $1.5 million. An environmental group, the Nevada Conservation League, responded by
running ads critical of Laxalt’s environmental record, but with a lesser buy—$1.15 million. In an unusual action, the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 9, 2016 put the CPP on hold while the court fight plays out, an action one science website said “shocked all legal observers.” (Some news entities reported the court’s action repealed the plan, which is incorrect.) The action caused concern at the appeals court level, where one judge in June said he was concerned that the Supreme Court stay was allowing the EPA to avoid regulating emissions. Many state governments still moved forward with compliance with the CPP. In Nevada, plans for compliance were held in abeyance until the CPP goes back into legal effect, though state efforts that were in line with the CPP continued. Gov. Brian Sandoval, who had distanced himself from Laxalt’s intervention in the court challenge, said Nevada would likely meet CPP’s deadlines or even exceed them. “Nevada was well on its way to exceeding the expectations outlined in the Clean Power Plan prior to its inception and will remain on that path,” he said in a written statement. “Today’s announcement will not change the state’s approach to ensuring our energy future includes abundant clean and renewable energy choices for Nevada consumers.” But Sandoval also avoided binding his administration to any timetable. The governor, who was once quoted calling renewable energy an “irresistible force,” found Assembly
Bill 206 eminently resistible. It would have provided for Nevada to increase by 25 percent the electricity it gets from renewable sources by 2025, 40 percent by 2030. It would also have provided new incentives for energy storage solutions. Sandoval also vetoed Senate Bill 392, providing for a 200 megawatt solar project to go on line by 2023. He vetoed 206 in spite of a letter from geothermal, solar and wind-power industry trade organizations asking him to sign it. By the time Trump was appointed president, Nevada and other Western states were far along on renewable energy research and development and in reducing power plantrelated emissions. In Nevada during Harry Reid’s senatorship, Reid worked against coal with considerable zeal. Coal is a factor in asthma attacks, chronic bronchitis, heart attacks, hospital admissions, premature deaths and lost work days. Reid blocked two coal-fired power plants in eastern Nevada, angering elected officials in the small counties who wanted the jobs, population growth and economic activity they offered. Reid also helped facilitate the shutdown of most of the notoriously dirty Reid-Gardner plant in Moapa, which had an emission rate of more than 3,500 pounds per megawatt-hour of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury. The consequences of power plant pollutants could be seen in the fact that at the time of the shutdown a $4.3 million settlement was paid to the nearby Moapa Band of Paiutes for health problems. Ω
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While waiting for shots at the Humane Society’s Saturday morning shot clinic, some dogs who have apparently lived sheltered lives were bewitched by the creature in a small carrier—a cat. Their reaction was not unfriendly, just curious. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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Martin Mendoza, co-owner of lakeview Thrift Store, rings up a customer’s purchase.
Lake finds Tahoe antiquing Fall is a sort of unofficial antiquing season. As summer wanes, yard sales and flea markets become fewer and farther between, and people head indoors to satisfy their collecting and bargain-hunting urges. One of the joys of secondhand shopping anywhere is the chance to see—and maybe purchase—pieces of regional history. (Academics have written about antique stores as sources to aid in writing local histories.) At Tahoe, road construction on Elks Club Drive cut short this year’s season of the popular South Lake Tahoe Flea Market, which normally runs through the month of September. Of course, last year, the first snowfall at the lake came on Sept. 21—and temperatures this year are already getting nippy. But regardless of the weather, there are still opportunities for antiquing and bargain-hunting in Tahoe’s towns, north and south. A careful eye—or a conversation with a shop owner—can reveal pieces of local history for sale. In King’s Beach, Julie Whitney Wainscoat runs Brockway Art and Culinary Antiques with her husband, John. The gallery and shop is located in what was Brockway Bakery, originally opened in 1948 and first run by John’s parents and then by he and Julie until his recent retirement from baking. According to Wainscoat, the building itself is actually a bit older than the bakery and, interestingly enough, was moved to Lake Tahoe. “The building was actually moved here from Camp Beale, which is now Beale Air Force Base,” Wainscoat said during a recent interview. Julie Wainscoat is a painter and photographer—a graduate from the fine
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arts program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Much of her work features boats from the famous Lake Tahoe Concours, but the shop is full of photos—framed and on cards—of historical buildings and locales Wainscoat has photographed during her 45 years in Tahoe. In addition to her artwork, Wainscoat stocks the store with antiques, including many from the old bakery. She’s also happy to point out regionally specific pieces that come through, including old skis, decoys and even sports memorabilia. “I have these hockey sticks,” she said. “They’re from … the 1960 Olympics.” The sticks have accompanying documentation that explains their significance. One set comes with newspaper clippings and other documents to show it belonged to Jozef Golonka, a member of Czechoslovakia’s 1960s Olympic hockey team. On the opposite side of the lake from Wainscoat’s King’s Beach gallery, Martin Mendoza—co-owner of South Lake’s Lakeview Thrift Store—also usually has sports memorabilia for sale, though his is often not regionally significant. On a recent visit, he had autographed memorabilia from the Oakland (for now) Raiders. Celebrityrelated goods in general are something he said he and his business partner enjoy buying through estate sales and selling in the shop. “You know Pat Buttram—Mr. Haney on Green Acres?” he asked during a recent interview at his shop. “We have some of his stuff—some of his clothes.” Lakeview Thrift Store also ends up with pieces of regional history, though. Mendoza and his business partner keep the shop stocked with vintage clothes, knick knacks and the like they purchase at yard sales and estate sales. Recent finds on the store’s shelves have included things like vintage ’60s tin cup coffee mugs from the TV show Bonanza and old sleds from the ’40s and ’50s. Ω
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s ’ t i Reno’s fall theater lineup is all about the fun by Jessica santina
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ell, folks, it’s curtains for summer, and I admit I’m going kicking and screaming into fall this year. Though I dread the gray days, too-soon sunsets and loss of my beloved tomato season, it helps that area stages are there to ease my pain with a playful lineup of shows promising all the laughs and lighthearted fun I need to weather the coming storms. Here’s what you should watch this fall.
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Cold weather also makes a perfect time to tuck in for a cozy thriller—especially as an alternative to the saccharine-sweet holiday chestnuts on offer everywhere else. The 39 Steps (Dec. 6-23) is the salty counterbalance, a spoofy, sidesplitting sendup of all those old Hitchcock and film-noir whodunits of the ’30s, with a little Monty Python mixed in for good measure. A cast of three carries this story featuring a couple hundred ridiculous characters, often at a breathless pace. Just check your brain at the door. Watch for another silly winter whodunit to kick off the new year: Charles Ludlam’s The Artificial Jungle (Jan. 11) features a couple who own a second-rate pet shop, a plot to kill a husband and a bunch of piranhas. Tickets and information: www.rattheatre.org
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If you had to say RAT had a niche, it would be the upbeat, sweet, romantic comedy about faulty, fragile people. This fall, its Sparksbased black box theater will host several shows designed to warm your heart on cold nights. First comes Maytag Virgin (Sept. 28-Oct. 14) by Southern playwright Audrey Cefaly. It’s the story of a busted dryer, but more than that, it’s about two badly damaged people—recently widowed Alabama school teacher Lizzy and her lonely new neighbor, Jack—as they struggle to overcome the inertia that has settled over their lives and learn to move forward. Fall also seems to mean an examination of the recently widowed at RAT. Be a Good Little Widow (Nov. 2-18) is playwright Bekah Brunstetter’s funny-sad story about Melody, who’s new to this whole widow thing after her husband dies in a plane crash. Not knowing what appropriate widow behavior might be, she turns to her mother-in-law, who has plenty of experience, and the two learn together how to negotiate a generation clash and the pain of loss. Like Maytag Virgin, this one promises clever, witty dialogue that ultimately lifts the heart.
Silly spoofs reign supreme this fall, and Goodluck Macbeth’s got madcap master Mel Brooks on tap. In GLM’s tradition of staging Halloween cult-classic musicals, it’s bringing Brooks’ Broadway musical Young Frankenstein (Oct. 5-Nov. 3) to life. The company’s newish space on Taylor Street in midtown will be transformed into a Transylvanian Goodluck Macbeth castle, where a cast of 20 and a presents the musical 10-person band will put on this Young Frankenstein between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3. extravagant production jamPhoto/Eric Marks packed with musical numbers that tell the tale of Dr. Frankenstein (“Fronk-en-steen”), his hunchbacked sidekick Igor (“Eye-gor”) and the monster they make together in the attic. GLM’s season wraps up with another homage to a classic, this one a guilty pleasure from the ’80s that seems to be enjoying a nostalgic resurgence. The Golden Girls Live Holiday Special (Nov. 30-Dec. 22) is a drag parody of all the sitcom’s holiday episodes, complete with kitchy sets, commercial breaks and the witty barbs we loved from our four favorite Florida seniors, including Blanche Devereaux, who will be played by one of
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Reno’s favorite drag artists, Christopher Daniels, as well as Bill Ware as Dorothy Zbornak. GLM goes dark after the holidays before launching its 2019 season in February with the stage adaptation of the film Shakespeare in Love. Tickets and information: www.goodluckmacbeth.org
W h i t e W ed d i n g: TMCC Performing Arts
Speaking of cheesy ’80s stuff, Truckee Meadows Community College Performing Arts presents that monument to the decade of big hair and boom boxes, The Wedding Singer (Nov. 2-18), on the stage. Based closely on the 1998 film, this musical with a cast of 27 features—in typically grand TMCC fashion—15 or more impressive set changes, as well as plenty of musical numbers and a hilarious storyline about a wedding singer who, ironically, gets dumped at the altar and winds up meeting the girl of his dreams. The college wraps its 2018 performance schedule with a band concert (Dec. 4) and a choir concert (Dec. 12) to show off its students’ multitude of musical talents. Tickets and information: www.tmcc.edu/visual-performing-arts/ performance-schedule
Restless Artists Theatre presents Maytag Virgin between Sept. 28 and Oct. 14. Photo/Eric Marks
Fa n c y F o ot Wo r k: UNR Department of Theatre & Dance
Also from the halls of academia, the University of Nevada, Reno’s fall roster of Theatre & Dance productions push the performers’ physical and mental strengths. The season kicks off with a free performance by Surabhi Bharadwaj, classical Indian dance artist (Oct. 5). Then gears shift rapidly when All in the Timing, an evening of one-act comedies by David Ives (Oct. 12-14), takes the stage the following weekend. The show features six diverse but equally hysterical one-acts by the man called “the maestro of the short form.” The stories run the gamut from romantic to existentially minded or flat-out absurd, and all explore with blatant schtick the day-to-day challenges we all face as we rub shoulders with our fellow man (or, in one case, chimpanzees). The department wraps up 2018 with its annual Fall Dance Festival (Nov. 15-17), featuring student performers showing off their fabulous footwork. Tickets and information: www.unr.edu/cla/theatredance
So m e t h i n g o l d, So m e t h i n g n e W: Brüka Theatre
Now in its 26th season, Brüka is mounting “a classic revolution,” a season themed around classic theater at its best. The new season’s lineup features entertaining and timeless works, though fall in particular is marked by some original pieces thrown in to keep us on our toes. It is Brüka, after all.
In October, settle in for a supernatural cinematic classic from 1957, Bell, Book & Candle (Oct. 12-28), which you may recognize as a Jimmy Stewart film you’ve caught once or twice on TCM. This charming precursor to Bewitched tells the story of Gillian, a beguiling and beautiful witch, who casts a spell on Shepherd, an attractive bachelor, setting off a troublesome romance between the two. The show will be produced in cinematic style, complete with background music and a live cat (every witch needs a cat!), a foster kitty on loan from the Nevada Humane Society as part of a mutually beneficial partnership for this production. Next comes the sixth-annual Biggest Little Theatre & New Works Festival (Nov. 8-11), which blends Brüka’s own sort of classic, a six-year festival tradition that has been committed to highlighting local artists, with brand-spanking-new works. Rather than selecting a batch of locally created pieces to fully produce and run throughout the festival, this year’s event will offer up-and-coming artists an opportunity to have their plays done as live readings, followed by conversations with the performers, rather than having them all mount full productions. Producing artistic director Mary Bennett calls it “more of a ground floor for people who want to write and premiere it as a reading.” However, the festival will also include a few full productions as well as a playwriting workshop. New works—of an hour or less in length—may be submitted for consideration until Oct. 1. Also beneficial and all new is Brüka Game Night (Nov. 17), the company’s fall fundraiser, which will include, for a small buy-in, such game night classics as cribbage and bingo, as well as door prizes. If you can’t remember a holiday season without Buttcracker, you may need the break as much as the Brüka gang does. This year, the company’s tackling something completely different: The Mousehole Family Christmas Extravaganza (Dec. 7-22). Bennett herself is writing this hilarious romp in which the Mousehole family is dragged into some questionable holiday cheer, in Dickensian fashion, over a ridiculous 12 days of Christmas. Tickets and information: www.bruka.org
r e t el l i n g ta l e S: Reno Little Theater
This weekend is the last chance to catch David Mamet’s Oleanna (through Sept. 23), an intense, two-character, “he said-she-said” story directed by Sandra Brunell Neace about a university professor and a female student who accuses him of sexual harassment. Things get decidedly lighter after that—first with RLT’s Theater for Young Audiences show, A Murder of Crows (Oct. 12-21), an eerie retelling of the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel, told from the perspective of a group of noisy crows, in which two poverty-stricken, abandoned children who are lost in the woods encounter a witch who promises treats while playing tricks. RLT’s ongoing Latino theater series, El Teatro del Pueblo, presents a bilingual version of 14 | RN&R | 09.20.18
Frida (Oct. 25-28), a production that was wellreceived in Spanish only and is coming back by popular demand so that English speakers may also enjoy it. Next comes another of the season’s twisted holiday tales, Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!) (Nov. 23-Dec. 16), in which a small group of actors do just what the title would suggest. This funny and family-friendly romp moves at breathtaking pace, in the style of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), as the characters, tired of performing Dickens for the umpteenth time, decide to try their hand at performing every Christmas tale ever told from around the world, from ancient works to pop culture favorites like Rudolph and Frosty. The theater darkens after that as the company prepares to launch its biggest show of the season, Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park (Jan. 19-Feb. 3), about a young newlywed couple struggling to adjust to married life in New York City. Also, keep your eye out for monthly jazz shows at RLT, as well as theater camps for kids during Washoe County School District breaks. Tickets and information: www.renolittletheater.org
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Ageless Repertory Theater A longtime partner resident at Reno Little Theater’s space, Ageless Repertory Theater offers audiences a rare opportunity to enjoy reader’s theater, a dramatic style in which actors do dramatic readings from scripts. Attendees can see how a play and its characters develop, using their imaginations to construct the sets, costumes and other production aspects. Each month, the seasoned troupe of senior actors with ART presents a short run of free, staged readings (donations are welcome) of a wide variety of plays. There’s still time to catch the last performance of The Clean House (Sept. 21), a romantic comedy about Matilde, a Brazilian cleaning woman, who aspires to be a comedian. Next month, catch the award-winning I’m Not Rappaport (Oct. 16 and 19), in which two elderly men sit on a park bench telling tall tales and delving into the issues of growing old. November brings New Kid on the Block (Nov. 6 and 9), the story of three older gentlemen sharing a house who are looking to rent out their fourth bedroom—only there are some skeletons in their closets. ART wraps up 2018 with Over the River and Through the Woods (Dec. 11 and 14), a play about a New Jersey bachelor whose frequent visits to see his Italian grandparents lead to some attempted matchmaking. Tickets and information: www.renolittletheater.org/ART-at_RLT
h er e W e go ag a i n: Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company
On the heels of the film sequel, WNMTC, Carson City’s premier musical theater company, presents the stage version of Mamma Mia!
(Nov. 2-18) to the Carson City Community Center. Set to the beloved soundtrack of Abba hits from the ’70s, it’s a comedy about a young bride to be who discovers from her mother’s diary that there are three men who could possibly be her father—so she invites all three to the wedding, hoping to smoke out the real one in time for him to walk her down the aisle. Parental discretion is advised.
who may not otherwise, can get the chance to see a live theater performance. Families with aspiring actors in your home, take note: In January, Wild Horse holds auditions for its spring shows, Winnie the Pooh Kids and Disney’s Newsies.
Tickets and information: www.wnmtc.com
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Dedicated to inspiring young people to enjoy and take part in theater, as well as celebrating theatrical talent in the community, Sierra School of Performing Arts presents two productions each year, in summer and fall. This holiday season, join the Grinch and his friends in Seussical the Musical (Dec. 7-8), a Tony-winning Broadway musical drawn from Dr. Seuss’ characters and famous stories, from Horton to the Cat in the Hat, who presides as master of ceremonies in this story about the magic of your imagination. A 30-plus-person cast of youth actors ages 7 to 18 performs three shows at Damonte Ranch High School, and the entire community is welcome. Also, watch for SSPA classes held all year in acting, voice and dance.
Wild Horse Theatre
When it comes to beloved musicals, this one is timed perfectly to coincide with Disney’s upcoming holiday film release of a yearsin-the-making sequel. Wild Horse Theatre, Carson City’s resident youth theater company, presents the Northern Nevada premiere of Disney’s Mary Poppins, Jr. (Nov. 30-Dec. 9). With a whopping 90-actor cast (leads are double cast, thanks to an overwhelming turnout in auditions), Wild Horse presents this magical production that mirrors the 1964 film, only somewhat shortened in content and music for the enjoyment of younger audiences. Audiences of all ages can expect to see Mary fly and hear all the classic songs they love. A midweek, school-audiences-only performance follows the run, so that area schoolchildren,
Tickets and information: www.wildhorsetheater.com
Sierra School of Performing Arts
Tickets and information: www.sierraschoolofperformingarts.org
a n i c e va r i e t y: Eldorado Resort Casino
Remember those old TV holiday variety show spectaculars from the ’70s? The ones where you have skits performed by celebrity actors, singers, dancers, musicians, comedians, even ventriloquists, all wearing gorgeous costumes and entertaining the hell out of you for two hours? Crank that up to an 11 and add some contemporary music and performances, and you’ll have The Unbelievables (Nov. 16-Jan. 6), returning for a second holiday season in a row to The Row—the Eldorado Showroom, to be precise. This year’s production features local children’s choirs, 15-year-old singing sensation Evie Clair from America’s Got Talent and lots more family-friendly fun, performed in the round with champagne—or mocktail—seating. Tickets and information: www.eldoradoreno.com/index.php/entertainment
t h e k i ds a r e a l l r i g ht: TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada
With a host of activities and performances that welcome kids of all ages and experience levels, TWNN launches into fall with a story that proves learning can be fun. The Phantom Tollbooth (Sept. 28-Oct. 7), based
on the book by Norton Juster, tells the story of Milo, a kid who’s bored with life until one day he comes home to find a tollbooth in his room. It takes him to the Land of Wisdom, where he meets King Azaz, the Mathemagician and some new friends, and he is forced to rescue a princess from the Land of Ignorance. It’s a story about seeing learning in new ways and approaching it with a positive attitude. Students in TWNN’s new tech training program for youth will run sound and lights on this show. Then, good grief, it’s our favorite blockhead in TWNN’s third-annual Charlie Brown Christmas Family Gala Fundraiser (Nov. 4). This family-friendly fundraising dinner and show will feature Showtime comedian Oscar Ovies as MC, vocal performances by Jakki Ford, a silent auction, a choosewhat-you-want raffle, dinner provided by the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, milk and cookies and Christmas crafts and photos with Santa. Tickets go on sale Oct. 1. Following the fundraiser, TWNN will present public performances (Dec. 7-9) at a location to be determined and another show at Carson City’s Brewery Arts Center (Dec. 22). Watch for fall and winter camps from TWNN during WCSD school breaks and classes held year round. Tickets and information: www.twnn.org
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n January of this year, Andy Clayman took his dog, Gertie, for a walk around his neighborhood near the Riverwalk district as he did almost every night. He was aware that some of his neighbors had signs posted with warnings about the dogs they usually kept fenced on their property, but this night was different. “That particular time we came around the curb, they were messing with their cars and everything, and the dogs were out.” Clayman said. “I got down and protected my dog and yelled out, ‘Your dogs are off leash!’ Both of them made a beeline to my dog.” The owner called the dogs back, but only one of them listened. The larger of the two sank its teeth into Gertie’s right haunch. To stop the attack, the owner resorted to kicking his dog, which only exacerbated Gertie’s wounds.
Andy Clayman stands near a sign reminding dog owners to leash their pets on the Riverwalk.
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“When I got up and said, ‘You know we have effing leash laws in this town?’ he said, ‘Oh you’re going to cuss at me? I don’t deal with people who disrespect me. Go fuck yourself.’ So I was just left there to deal with the tragedy on my own,” Clayman said. After an emergency surgery to save Gertie, Clayman began the process of pursuing citations against the owners of the aggressive dogs. While he appreciated the quick response that came from Washoe County Animal Services, he said, he quickly became frustrated by the legal recourse available to him. “I had three choices,” he said. “I could have the dog taken and then sequestered and possibly put down. I could have them fined, or I could do nothing at all.” Opting to have the owners fined for what he considers their
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possession of the blame, he sent multiple letters to city officials to start the process, which came to a halt almost immediately when the owners refused to accept the official notice. A few months later, they moved away with no resolution to his case. Clayman said he was used to encountering off-leash dogs at the Riverwalk even before the attack, but the scope of the problem ranges far wider than just downtown. “Probably the most frequent citation we would give out is for someone that had an off-leash animal in a park that was not designated as an off-leash park,” said Shyanne Schull, director of Regional Animal Services. Washoe County Animal Services maintains jurisdiction over Reno’s and Sparks’ six designated off-leash dog parks—Rancho San Rafael, Virginia Lake, Link Piazzo Dog Park at Hidden Valley, Whitaker Dog Park, Sparks Marina Dog Park and Wedekind Regional Park. But Schull’s department handles any and all calls about aggressive animals. “If you have aggressive animals that bite someone or attack another animal, those are typically things that we could address and deal with whether it’s at a dog park or not a dog park,” Schull said. Even with the designated off-leash areas in the city, 11,183 of the 35,719 calls received by WCAS in the last year were about unrestrained dogs—the majority in public areas or parks with no designated off-leash zones. The sheer volume of calls prompted WCAS to create their Park Patrol initiative last year to educate and eventually fine negligent dog owners, but it’s gotten off to a slow start.
“What I had hoped was that by this point in time this year we would be in the enforcement phase,” Schull said. “And so we would start out with the educational component of talking to the community, kind of building rapport, and then transitioning it over into an enforcement phase where we hit the parks heavy with enforcement. However, we’re kind of behind in that schedule, so I’m hoping that by the end of this calendar year we’re able to do that.”
Personnel Problem Amanda Schultz, who works outreach for WCAS, is one of the staff members responsible for going on Park Patrol. She and at least one animal control officer attempt to visit as many parks as they can to educate the public on Reno’s leash laws—the violation of which can result in a fine of up to $400 and a criminal citation for repeat offenders. But what she found was disheartening. “What we started to find more and more, in most of these parks is that these people—the owners already know that their dogs are not to be off leash,” Schultz said. Schultz found that many of these owners let their dogs roam free in public areas out of convenience instead of driving to their nearest dog park. The problem with issuing fines for such behavior, she said, comes down to being in the right place at the right time to catch offenders. “The struggle that we’re having with a lot of the parks is that as soon as they even see our vehicles, they leash their dogs and leave,” Schultz said. “We only have 13 officers to patrol all of Washoe County. I actually went through an entire list of all the parks and, even hitting multiple parks in a day, we weren’t even able to hit a quarter of them.” This puts a lot of the onus on the public to deal with irresponsible dog owners. Both Schultz and Schull said that the best course of action in these situations is to gather a complete description of both the owner and the dog, including any accompanying vehicles, and to make a report to WCAS.
Pamela “PJ” Wangsness, owner and lead trainer of Dog Training by PJ, said that many people can also refuse to leash their dogs out of a misplaced sense of security in their dog’s behavior. “Just because your dog might be social, it’s quite possible that the dog it’s running up on isn’t social,” Wangness said. “Everybody always thinks it’s the aggressive dog that’s in trouble. Well, the aggressive dog, per se, was on-leash. So in essence the person who’s at fault is the person that allowed their dog off leash.” And confronting such dog owners can escalate an already tense situation. “It really becomes one of those interactive conversations you want to have with that person, but, unfortunately, they’re already on the defensive for their dog,” Wangsness said. “It erupts into this name-calling situation, when in reality as much as we want to try to educate that other owner, it’s not taken well by the other individual.” To Andy Clayman, this is also a familiar situation. Three months after Gertie was mauled initially, he reacted to another off-leash dog at the Riverwalk that began to approach his dog yet again. “The animal control officer, when she had her incident at the emergency vet, told me never to put your hand out, to always kick the dog,” Clayman said. “I kicked the dog, and there was a guy walking behind the [owner] and he ran up to me and said, ‘You don’t fucking kick a dog,’ and knocked me down into the snow.” In the months after that second incident, Clayman has considered taking matters into his own hands to call attention to the problems posed by not following the city’s leash laws. Last month, due to her advanced age and her injuries, Clayman had to put Gertie down. “I was going to just set up a table and try to raise consciousness so other people jump in and say, ‘Yeah, it’s enough already,’” Clayman said. “The injustice is, like many things in our society right now, the people who are doing the right things are being ignored.” Ω
A dog owner violates the leash law at one of Reno’s public parks.
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Growth spurt Young Blood Young Blood is a one-night-only pop-up exhibit put on twice a year at the Holland Project, a nonprofit all-ages arts organization. The exhibit showcases the work of Reno’s younger artists under 21 years old. Since it started in 2013, Young Blood has grown with every show, and according to Holland’s gallery director, Alisha Funkhouser, the organizers plan to expand into the building’s Serva Pool Gallery to accommodate more artists. To be part of Young Blood, artists don’t need any prior experience. This makes the show an opportunity for exposure, according to Funkhouser. In addition to artists having their work showcased in a professional gallery space, they’ll learn skills they can use throughout their careers—like learning to display their work for a possible solo show or how to properly price their artwork. The day before the show, artists come to the gallery to learn how to hang their pieces using the proper tools. Volunteers also teach them about wall spacing and what pieces will work well together in the gallery. Funkhouser said she hopes to create a zine in the future with instructions on how to hang artwork to further assist young artists. Funkhouser wants to teach artists not to undervalue their work. If Young Blood artists plan to sell their work at the show, she wants to make sure they price it based on the materials they’ve used, how much time they’ve spent making it, and how much money they’d want to part with the piece. 18 | RN&R | 09.20.18
Trinity Johnson poses with her painting “Together” that she’ll display at the Holland Project on Sept. 28. Photo/AndreA heerdt
Funkhouser, who’s been the gallery director since 2014, said she’s seen a definite change in the level of confidence artists have from their first show to their third or fourth. She said it’s been enjoyable to see how a young person’s work evolves over time and to see a growth in the professionalism of their art. “The first time they’re shy, nervous and intimidated, but then they come in and know what to do, what height to hang [their art] at and how to use tools without even needing the help from us,” said Funkhouser. Trinity Johnson, a first-time Young Blood participant, said she’s most excited to see the work of other artists. Johnson’s style is influenced by cubism, and she said she wants to be part of the exhibit for the experience of being in an art show, and to gain exposure for her artwork. Three-time Young Blood artist Paige Oberholtzer has continued to show her work in the exhibition, not only for exposure, but also to sharpen her artistic instincts. “It’s helped me identify what I like and what I can do [as an artist] by looking at other people’s work,” she said. Oberholtzer, who’s interested in making comics, said she’s learned how to promote herself and meet deadlines through Young Blood. Funkhouser hopes that, in the future, Young Blood is in a larger setting, so artists can bring more than one piece to display. She also wants to see young people further their interests by attending art school, pursuing an art career or organizing a show of their own. Ω
Young Blood is on Sept. 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the holland Project, 140 Vesta St. the last day to sign up is Wednesday, Sept. 26. For more information, visit www.hollandreno.org.
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“Come on! Kill me! Do it now!”
One ugly movie Well, that does it. After decades of trying, it’s become definitively evident: Nobody seems to know how to make a decent Predator sequel. It’s not like the first film was a masterpiece. It was a goofy adventure pic featuring a superstar on the rise, a superstar who has been mysteriously absent from the sequels. Schwarzenegger, in fact, turned down a cameo in the latest franchise installment. The Predator, a movie that simply needed to be just OK to keep pace with the 1987 original, blows its chance. As for the Alien vs. Predator attempts? Let’s not go there. Let’s all go to our happy place where unicorns barf money and favorite candies into our face, a place where those films never happened. The Predator, technically the fourth Predator film—not including those other films we just wished away from memory—certainly had its reasons for getting us excited. Shane Black, who actually played the first character killed in this franchise 31 years ago, is its director. This is the man responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys and Iron Man 3. That Iron Man 3 credit is the main reason to think Black would be a good pick to lead a beloved genre favorite back to greatness. Nope. In fact, The Predator actually represents a step backward from the extremely mediocre Predators (2010), the prior installment that squandered a decent idea with a cheap-looking film. The Predator is a lumbering stink bomb through and through. Boyd Holbrook heads a low-rate ensemble cast as Quinn McKenna, a special ops guy in the middle of an assassination attempt when a spaceship crashes nearby and spoils his fun. After a confrontation with the dreadlocked, reptilian-faced alien pilot, McKenna scoops up some evidence—a Predator arm gun, a Predator helmet—and sends them to his P.O. box back home so he has proof when the upper-level folks label him wacko. Because he didn’t pay the bill on said P.O. box, the nasty package is forwarded to his home and into the hands of his young, autistic son, Rory (Jacob Tremblay). Naturally, the boy thinks it’s some kind
of video game from his pop (and a Halloween mask). He dicks around with the intergalactic toys and gets himself involved in an interplanetary war. If ever there was a film that declared the dangerous perils of video game addiction, it’s this one. Here’s something that really bothered me. In an establishing scene, Rory displays a major sensitivity to sound. He actually crumples to the ground at the mild sound of an alarm which, of course, makes him the taunting target of elementary school meanies. Yet, when Rory is involved in alien battles later in the film, with bombs and guns going off next to his head, he seems perfectly fine. Did he don ear plugs? Is his sound sensitivity specific to classroom settings? Is the screenplay for this movie a colossal mess? I’m going with the latter. McKenna winds up in league with other misfit soldiers on a bus, including Thomas Jane trying to provide comic relief as the silly soldier with Tourette syndrome. Others jockeying for screen time include Keegan-Michael Key, Alfie Allen and Augusto Aguilera. Olivia Munn, the best thing about the movie, is also on hand as a wily scientist, along with Sterling K. Brown as the maybe-he’s-badbut-maybe-he’s-not guy. They all run around in a haphazard, cheap-looking CGI shitstorm stew that turns up the gore factor to go with its inane dialogue, many plot holes and stupid-looking alien dogs. More than once, characters disappeared when I wasn’t 100 percent sure of their fate, a harbinger of bad editing. There was a lot of confusion during production, including reshoots for a woefully tacked-on ending, and the movie looks like it was shot as a potential 3D offering. Alas, no 3D, which is good news because this movie is not worth the extra two dollars for admission. It’s not worth any of your time. It’s predatory garbage. Ω
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Alpha
This story of man’s first interaction with a dog turns out to be a winner if 1) you’re a dog person, and 2) you can watch a movie set 20,000 years ago and believe that the inhabitants could have such stylish leather jackets. No way somebody without a sewing machine could’ve put these things together way back then. If so, they were the Versace of their day. Directed by Albert Hughes (From Hell, Menace II Society), this is a sweet hypothetical story about a long-ago boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), lost in the wilderness after a hunting trip gone awry, befriending a wolf. It’s not a syrupy sweet story; the two go through a sort of hell trying to find the boy’s homeland during the onset of winter. But if you are a dog person, and I am, the gradual warming of their relationship as they rely on one another to survive is nothing short of adorable and powerful. Hughes doesn’t simply rely on his sweet story to score a win with this one. His movie is often gorgeous, featuring majestic landscapes, excellent CGI work, and a damn fine dog as the title character. Smit-McPhee—the boy who cried “Poppa!” in The Road—is on screen for most every scene, relegated to a fake caveman language for his dialogue. All said, he delivers some career best work here and carries the human half of Alpha’s story. Cavemen movies usually suck. So it’s refreshing to see a film set in prehistoric times that actually engages, provides some thrills and warms the heart.
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The great Spike Lee has returned with what amounts to his best film since Malcolm X 26 years ago. Based on a true story, with some significant tweaking, it centers on Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, son of Denzel), a black police officer in Colorado who, on a whim, decided to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan by posing as a redneck. It wound up being a two-man sting, with Stallworth pretending to be a white man on the phone while sending in a white partner (depicted here by Adam Driver) to do the face-to-face work. Stallworth’s investigation eventually leads to him being named head of a local chapter of the KKK, and direct dealings with David Duke (Topher Grace), Grand Wizard of the KKK and all-time major asshole. The movie is as crazy as the story was, with Spike balancing intense drama and humor perfectly. Washington is as good as his old man in this movie, and Driver continues to show he’s always a cast MVP. Lee, shooting on celluloid again, makes a fantastic-looking movie; he’s a master of period pieces, with this one set in the ’70s. The film’s conclusion uses current events news footage—including Charlottesville—showing the unfortunate and all too real racism parallels between the events in this film and the current state of America. The movie is a great watch, but it is also a loud, absolutely necessary wakeup call.
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Mandy
It’s been a good year for gonzo Nicolas Cage. He got to go all psycho in Mom and Dad and now, courtesy of director Panos Cosmatos, he gets his best role in half a decade for this psychedelic ’80s horror throwback. Cage plays Red Miller, a lumberjack living a good life in the northwest with his wife, Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough). Their world is overturned by a Manson-like religious sect led by crazed prophet, Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache). Jeremiah wants to recruit Mandy for his cult, but when she has an unfavorable reaction to the folk album he recorded, things get really bad. Enter Cage in crazed/ pissed mode, as the second half of the movie goes super crazy and super gory. This movie actually contains what will go down as one of the all-time great Cage moments: a bathroom tantrum that involves a Leaving Las Vegas-like vodka chug and crazed weeping on the toilet. It’s one of those movies where he’s allowed to do or say whatever pops into his head, and we get some great, weird lines out of him. We also get one of his most fiercely honest performances. His craziness and oddness are fueled by pure emotional destruction, and as “out there” as the movie gets, Cage somehow
remains grounded in a consistent, flawless performance. He’s not going to win any Oscars for this, but his cult film cred just took a major uptick. Extra kudos to Roache, who does evil cowardice well, and Riseborough, who makes quite the impression in her abbreviated screen time. This contains the final score from the late Johann Johannsson, and it’s a doozy. It’s safe to say you have never really seen anything like this, and won’t again. (Available for digital download and rental during a limited theatrical release.)
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The Meg
It’s been over two decades since author Steve Alten released his big shark story Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, the first of many Meg books. From the moment the first book hit stands, producers have been attempting to make a movie out of it. Many directors have flirted with making the movie, including Jan de Bont, Guillermo del Toro and, as recently as 2015, Eli Roth. The property eventually ended up under the directorial guidance of one Jon Turtletaub, the guy who made Cool Runnings, the National Treasure movies and, wait for it, 3 Ninjas. The result? A movie as misguided, sloppy and boring as you would expect from the guy who directed 3 Ninjas. Let’s just get the obvious problem out of the way good and early in this review. The Meg is rated PG-13, and probably could’ve pulled a PG. This is not a horror film. It’s an undersea adventure with a big, messy CGI shark and sci-fi twist. Roth left the project because they wouldn’t let him gore it up, and they wouldn’t let him star as deep-sea diver/adventurer Jonas Taylor. Instead, we get Jason Statham as Jonas, and hardly any need for makeup artists on the set due to a supreme lack of bloodletting.
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The Wife
The hunt for Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann is chronicled, albeit blandly, in director Chris Weitz’s lost movie starring Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley and Melanie Laurent. When Eichmann (Kingsley) is discovered in Buenos Aires living a modest life working at an automobile plant, secret agents led by Peter Malkin (Isaac) and Hannah Elian (Laurent) set up shop where he resides. They hatch a plot to grab Eichmann and return him to Israel to stand trial for his war crimes. Up until the moment where they grab Eichmann, the movie is pretty good. But when the movie becomes about Malkin and Eichmann chatting in a dark bedroom, it loses its sting. Too much of this film is spent showing Eichmann trying to persuade Malkin that he was just a normal guy taking orders. Hey, maybe that happened, but cover it in five minutes and stay focused on what a monster this guy was. We already know he’s despicable, and I’m pretty sure the folks who risked their lives to grab him weren’t conflicted about whether or not he was really a nice guy forced to do a bad job. Yes, the movie shows a little bit of his trial, but this is one time where I found myself wishing that more of a movie took place in a courtroom.
This is one of those OK movies that strikes me as something that would’ve worked better as a play. I enjoyed it on some levels, and I think some of the performances are quite good, especially Glenn Close as the title character. Other performances come off as if they’re for a live audience rather than a camera. I’ve read that members of the cast rehearsed for weeks before cameras rolled. The Wife displays proof that sometimes you can be a little too polished and consequently come off as too melodramatic for a movie. That melodrama could play well for an Off-Broadway play, but for a movie like this? A little too forced. Close plays Joan Castleman, wife of newly christened Nobel Prize for Literature winner Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce or, as I like to call him, Sam Lowry). The first evidence of what kind of golden work Close will do in this movie is presented during an early moment when she picks up a phone to listen in as her husband is informed of his prize. Close makes an expression that’s a master class in how to act with your face for a camera. It’s breathtaking. As for the movie as a whole, it’s not as good as her, but good enough that the performance isn’t wasted.
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Take a break Maggie’s Breakfast & Lunch is nothing if not cozy, with seating for perhaps 16 inside and another eight on the patio. The menu is similarly small, with fewer than 30 items, including bagels, oatmeal, omelettes, pancakes, sandwiches, burritos, wraps, salads and a daily soup. A half-inch thick slice of strawberry almond layer cake was included with each order, a friendly touch from a very welcoming brunch spot. Pancakes ($7.99) are offered in banana, chocolate or plain varieties, with syrup, margarine, and apricot or strawberry jam on the side. Our pair of plain cakes were each a bit more than an inch thick and six inches across. They were crazy fluffy, lightly browned and great with the chunky apricot jam. These—and every dish we ordered—were accompanied by a fresh fruit cup of diced melon, blueberries and grapes. There was a little bit of confusion when my friend thought he’d ordered a breakfast sandwich but instead received a sausage omelette ($10.99) with homefries, toasted “house bread” and pico de gallo. The herbed not-quite-crispy diced spuds were fine, the mild veggie relish a nice touch, and the folded eggs were loaded with meat and cheddar cheese. A chorizo cheddar omelette ($10.99) included plenty of spicy Mexican sausage both inside and out. We also ordered a Philly cheese steak sandwich ($11.99, also available in omelette form). It featured a large, nicely toasted sandwich roll stuffed with chopped ribeye, grilled vegetables (onion, bell pepper, mushroom), special spread and a combo of Swiss and provolone cheeses. There appeared to be an entire sliced orange bell pepper in the mix, so much so you could call it pepper steak à la accoutrements. Having said that, it was a fantastically
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Play games Reno Video Game Symphony The Reno Video Game Symphony began as a few friends jamming in an apartment and arranging video game songs for a three-piece ensemble comprised of percussion, guitar and clarinet. It’s grown into a nonprofit organization with a symphonic and incidental orchestra, several smaller ensembles, and a focus on music education. This season, the organization’s leaders hope the RVGS will be 50 musicians strong. The RVGS started as the Reno Video Game Orchestra in 2011 and grew to include several dozen members quickly. They liked the name but were late to the relatively new game of playing video game music and soon faced trouble. “We actually did get cease-and-desisted from Video Game Orchestra from Berklee [College of Music] in Massachusetts,” said founding member, conductor and clarinetist Symberly Schuler. “They sent us an email and said that they didn’t want to get their lawyers involved. We were stealing internet traffic.” Interestingly, while Berklee’s and Reno’s video game orchestras are now among at least a dozen such organizations that all specialize in arranging and playing copyrighted video game scores, this newspaper’s research revealed only one associated trademark. The name “Video Game Orchestra and Choir” was registered to Maria Lepire, who founded the Video Game Orchestra and Choir at the University of California, Los Angeles while a student there, and her trademark is listed as abandoned. Even so, faced with the threat of a trademark dispute from another group, Schuler and the other members changed their organization’s name.
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Conductor and clarinet player Symberly Schuler leads the Reno Video Game Symphony during a performance.
Today, Schuler said, the term symphony fits better with the organization’s mission, anyway, which includes giving musicians opportunities to arrange video game scores for the orchestra to play. The group’s experienced arrangers run a thorough review of all the pieces members submit. “We break it down,” Schuler said. “We explain, ‘Here are the things that are technically incorrect, that have to be changed. And here are suggestions.’” The goal is to get members’ arrangements to a “playable” stage and then work to improve them further. “It’s something that I’m really happy we provide for people,” Schuler said. “There’s a lot of video game music out there … that’s never been written. … So much of it is composed entirely on the computer and not using standard score software.” Rehearsals start on Saturday Sept. 22, but Schuler said she wanted people to know that it’s not too late to join the RVGS. “We do open rehearsals all the way up until just a couple of weeks before the concerts,” she said. “So people are allowed to come in and try us out and play with us.” It’s also a social occasion. RVGS members have a potluck and play games after each rehearsal. “We play video games, or a lot of people play Magic: The Gathering,” said oboist and board vice president Jessica Anzalone. For a while, they tried watching video game movies. “They’re awful,” Anzalone said. “We watched the Super Mario movie. It’s so bad.” According to Anzalone and Schuler, non-musicians are welcome—and needed—to help with things like fundraising and social media management. “We want to fill the room with people who want to help us,” Schuler said. Ω
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THURSDAY 9/20
FRIDAY 9/21
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132 West St., (775) 329-2878
40 MILE SALOON
1495 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-1877
Russian Circles Sept. 21, 8 p.m. Cargo Concert Hall 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400
Comedy The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Alycia Cooper, Ron Morey, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25, Sat, 9pm, $30; Allan Havey, Nika Williams, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Jeremy Hotz, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sun, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Patrick Garrity, Ricky Reyes, Fri, 6:30pm, $15-$20 The Library, 134 W. Second St., (775) 683-3308: Open Mic Comedy with host Jim Flemming, Sun, 9:30pm, no cover Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Patrick Garrity, Ricky Reyes, Thu, 8pm, $10-$15; Fri, 9pm, $15-$20; Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15-$20
SUNDAY 9/23
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover
Dance party, 10pm, $5
Dance party, 10pm, $5
Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover
Sonic Mass with DJ Tigerbunny, 9pm, no cover
ALIBI ALE WORKS
Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover Brew Ha-Ha Stand Up Comedy, 8pm, $5
10069 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 536-5029
BAR Of AMERIcA
Under the Radar, 9pm, no cover
10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-2626
ThE BLuEBIRd
555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549
Panda Eyes, Ego Death, Anthony Sceam, The Beat, 10pm, no cover Skudd, 10pm, $10-$20
cARgO cONcERT hALL
255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400
Russian Circles, Elephant Rifle, Seas & Centuries, 8pm, $18
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Cole Adams, 9pm, no cover
538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558
cOTTONWOOd RESTAuRANT
10142 Rue Hilltop Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-5711
Jacob Westfall, 6pm, no cover
Under the Radar, 9pm, no cover Sumthin Sumthin, Adiidas, Trvpkiitty, Be:razz, Skudd, OGS, 10pm, $15-$20
HIVEMIND, 9pm, W, no cover
The Trainwrecks, 9pm, no cover
Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover
Peter & Dan, 6pm, no cover
dAVIdSON’S dISTILLERY
Whiskey Preachers, 9pm, no cover
275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917
fAcES NV
239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590
RuPaul’s Drag Race Rerun Viewing Party, drag show, 8:30pm, no cover
fAT cAT BAR & gRILL
Karaoke Night, 9pm, no cover
An Evening with Google Mountain Resort, 9:30pm, no cover
Local Anthology, 10pm, no cover
fINE VINES
Karaoke with Heidi, 7pm, no cover
Fireside, 7pm, no cover
The Boom Cats, 7pm, no cover
599 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-3355 6300 Mae Anne Ave., (775) 787-6300
hEAdQuARTERS
219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020
The Wind Down with DJ Vic Crulich, Steve In-Real-Life, 10pm, no cover
Michael Russell Trio, 8:30pm, no cover Drum and Bass Night, 10pm, no cover Color T.V., Night Rooms, Carpool Tunnel, Spiteful Mourning, 8pm, $7
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Chris Webby, 7:30pm, $20-$70 From the Ruins, Mudface, 8:30pm, $5
140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858
71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652
246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484
Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover
Live music, 9pm, no cover
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Rock and Blues Jam, 7pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover Ladies Night with DJ Heidalicious and guests, 9pm, W, no cover
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MON-WED 9/24-9/26
Sage Armstrong, Bob the Barber, ObiWan Solo, Zahn, J. Pike, 10pm, $10-$20
214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 813-6689
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Curse League, Common Mishap, Nubbins, Venom, 8pm, W, $5 Sol Horizon, 9pm, $5
Square Shapes, Bad Idols, 8pm, M, $5 Set It Off, Chapel, 7pm, W, $16 Open mic, 7pm, M, no cover Comedy Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover
THURSDAY 9/20
FRIDAY 9/21
SATURDAY 9/22
SUNDAY 9/23
MON-WED 9/24-9/26
LAUGHING PLANET CAFE
Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover
LIvING THE Good LIFE
Canyon Jam/Open Mic, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover
941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633 1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663
THE LoFT
1021 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024
Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46
THE LovING CUP
1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960
DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover
MILLENNIUM
Musicole, 8:30pm, no cover Tierra Cali, Los Dueto Armadillos, 10pm, $20
2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 378-1643
PAddY & IrENE’S IrISH PUB
Acoustic Wonderland Sessions, 8pm, no cover
THE PoLo LoUNGE
Bingo Night with T-N-Keys, 7pm, no cover DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover
906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-5484 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864
Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46
The Soft White Sixties, King Dream, 9pm, $5
188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480
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Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46 Magic After Dark, 9pm, $31-$46
PoNdEroSA SALooN
Natalie Wattre, 8pm, no cover
Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $21-$46
Post shows online by registerin g at www.newsrev iew.com/ren o. Deadline is th e Friday before public ation.
Vamp, DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover
Goldiehawn CD release This Patch of Sky, Seas & Centuries, w/Nothing To Lose, Lysol Toast, 8pm, $5 Weight of the Tide, 8pm, $7-$10
Santos de la Salsa, 8:30pm, $5
SHEA’S TAvErN
Deschamp, The Drag Spokane, The Grimtones, 8pm, $5-$6
Pirate Rum Party with DJ Bassjunkie, 10pm, no cover
SPArkS LoUNGE
Tony G’s Thursday Night Blues Jam, 9pm, no cover
Kindred Souls Party, 9pm, no cover
Sinicle, Doug Sandall, 9pm, no cover
ST. JAMES INFIrMArY
Guest DJs, 9pm, no cover
Saturday Dance Party with DJ Tigerbunny, 10pm, no cover
wASHoE CAMP SALooN
Brother Dan Palmer, 7pm, no cover
1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 409-3340 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484 3155 Eastlake Blvd., New Washoe City, (775) 470-8128
The Real McKenzies Open Mic Night, 6pm, Tu, no cover Sensamotio, Ital Vibes, 9pm, $10
2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S. L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425 17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455
Eric Andersen, 6pm, no cover
Colin Ross, 6pm, no cover
Saints and Sinners Wednesday Night Blues Syndicate, 8pm, W, no cover The Real McKenzies, Deadly Gallows, United Defiance, 8pm, Tu, $18-$20
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Sept. 22, 10 p.m. The BlueBird 555 E. Fourth St. 499-5549
Open mic with Canyon White, 7pm, W, no cover
76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474
715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774
Wednesday Night Jam, 8pm, W, no cover
Sumthin Sumthin
DG Kicks Band, 7pm, Tu, no cover
rEd doG SALooN
761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451
Bingo Tuesdays with T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover
Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, 8pm, no cover
106 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7210
THE SAINT
Magic Fusion, 7pm, M, Tu, W, $21-$46 The Kinsey Sicks, 9:15pm, W, $35-$45
Alex “Muddy” Smith, 6pm, no cover
Open mic, 9pm, M, no cover
Sept. 25, 8 p.m. Shea’s Tavern 715 S. Virginia St. 786-4774
Colin Ross, 2pm, no cover
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Boomtown CAsino
2100 Garson Road, Verdi, (775) 345-6000 1) Events Center 2) Guitar Bar
THURSDAY 9/20
FRIDAY 9/21
SATURDAY 9/22
SUNDAY 9/23
MON-WED 9/24-9/26
2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover
2) Atomika, 4pm, no cover Reckless Envy, 10pm, no cover
2) Atomika, 4pm, no cover Reckless Envy, 10pm, no cover
2) Reckless Envy, 10pm, no cover
2) Escalade, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
2) Mike Furlong, 6pm, no cover
2) The Look, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 9pm, no cover
2) The Look, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 9pm, no cover
2) Gary Douglas, 6pm, no cover
2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Jason King, 6pm, Tu, no cover The Robeys, 6pm, W, no cover
Keith Nelson, 8pm, $15
Keith Nelson, 8pm, $15
2) Arizona Jones, 7pm, no cover
2) Arizona Jones, 8pm, no cover
2) Arizona Jones, 8pm, no cover
2) Rayland Baxter, Skyway Man, 9pm, no cover
1) Lettuce, Wil Blades, Scott Amendola, 9pm, $36
2) Sneaky Creatures, 10pm, no cover
2) KBong, 9pm, no cover
1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) DJ Rizzo, 10pm, no cover
1) Cirque Paris, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Ashley Red, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover
1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Ashley Red, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover
1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, $19.95-$49.95
2) Trivia Night, 7pm, no cover Throwback Thursdays w/DJ Mo Ayala, 9pm, no cover
2) Wellman, 10pm, $20 3) All In, 6pm, no cover
1) Rodrigo y Gabriela, 9pm, $35-$105 2) DJ Earwaxx, 10pm, $20 3) All In, 6pm, no cover
1) Thunder From Down Under, 7:30pm, $28.89
1) Thunder From Down Under, 7:30pm, $28.89
1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37
1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37
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1627 Hwy. 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge
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14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room 3) Patio
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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) 3223001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover
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2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Crystal Lounge
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15 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Center Stage Lounge
HARRAH’s Reno
219 N. Center St., (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge
1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37
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2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge
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407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) GEH 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura 4) Silver Baron
2) Buddy Emmer and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 7pm, no cover
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) Latin Dance Social, 7pm, $10-$20
2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Scene, 10pm, $20
2) The Contraptionists, 6pm, no cover
4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover
2) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover 4) Halie O’ Ryan Band, 9pm, no cover
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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. COUNTRY BARN DANCE FUNDRAISER: Local country acts Spur Crazy, Greg Austin, Southern Cut and Jen Grant come together for a concert benefiting a local 5-year-old boy who is a candidate for cochlear implants. There will also be raffles, food and drink. Bring bring lawn chairs. Sun, 9/23, 3pm. $10 donation requested. Ferarri Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 997-3276, ferrarifarms.org.
DOCENTS IN THE GALLERY —ART OF THE GREATER WEST: Join Nevada Museum of Art docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the Art of the Greater West exhibition. Fri, 9/21, noon. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.
EMMA’S REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE CONCERT: The award-winning
activist duo perform. Fri, 9/21, 7pm. $20$25. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, 780 Del Monte Lane, (775) 851-7100, www.facebook.com/ events/258478314934114/.
EMPTY BOWLS RENO/SPARKS 2018: The
SEP/22:
OKTOBERFEST
Mark the autumnal equinox with The Village at Squaw Valley’s 17th annual celebration of German beer, food and music. The day’s festivities kick off with the Tahoe Trail Running Lederhosen 5k at 11 a.m. The fun continues with live music and entertainment performed by Joe Smeill and his 20-piece Bavarian Band with the Amenrausch Schuhplattler Bavarian Folk Dancers in the Events Plaza and The Alpentanz Kapelle Band with the Alpentanzer Schuhplattler Bavarian and Austrian Folk Dancers in the Funitel Plaza Area. Quench your thirst with a variety of beers, including Bitburger Premium Pilsner, Kostritzer Black Lager, Kostritzer Pale Ale, Benediktener Oktoberfest Lager, Benedicktener Weissbeir, as well as traditional craft Oktoberfest brands. A half-liter Squaw Valley stein will be available for purchase for $20 with two beers included in the price. Additional beers are available for $5 each. All beer sales from Squaw Valley’s Oktoberfest will benefit the High Sierra Lacrosse Foundation. Bratwurst sausages, schnitzels, pretzels and non-alcoholic root beer floats will be available from local restaurants and vendors. While you must be age 21 and older to enjoy the beer, guests of all ages are encouraged to participate in the Oktoberfest Games featuring a keg-rolling race, a brat toss and a stein-holding competition. The festival takes place from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Village at Squaw Valley, 1750 Village East Road, Olympic Valley. Admission is free. Visit squawalpine.com.
EVENTS A VERY POTTER CRAWL: Wear your Harry Potter-themed costume, purchase a commemorative cup and receive free admission to more than 15 participating downtown bars, nightclubs and restaurants offering beer and drink specials, giveaways and specially themed live entertainment. Sat, 9/22, 8pm. $5. Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., crawlreno.com/event/potter.
BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB: The 1980s pop group bring The Life Tour to Reno featuring co-headliners The B-52s and special guest Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins. Sat, 9/22, 7pm. $55$137. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8815.
CARSON CITY GHOST WALK: Hear paranormal stories and gossip from the past. This is a guided walking tour of the downtown district’s west side historic homes and businesses. Tours leave rain or shine. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the walk begins. Sat, 9/22, 6pm. $15$20. McFadden Plaza, Third & Curry streets, Carson City, (775) 348-6279, carsoncityghostwalk.com.
Community Food Pantry hosts the event to raise funds to support the fight against hunger. Bowls are painted by members of the community. The bowls are then auctioned at the event where a simple soup and salad dinner is served by local dignitaries and celebrities. Wed, 9/26, 6pm. $35. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., emptybowlsrenosparks.com.
EXPERIENCING WORLD WAR I AMERICA DURING THE GREAT WAR: Jennifer Keene, a professor of history and chair of the history department at Chapman University, examines home-front mobilization and the experiences of soldiers on the battlefield, while also considering how the war affected women, immigrants and African Americans. Thu, 9/20, 6:30pm. $8 for adults; free for museum members and children ages 17 and younger. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-4810.
DISCOVER SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES: Astronomer, planetary scientist and interplanetary travel guide Jim Bell presents “The Ultimate Interplanetary Travel Guide: A Futuristic Journey Through the Cosmos.” The talk will take the audience on a tour of what the solar system has to offer as of 2018. Thu, 9/20, 7pm. Free. Davidson Math and Science Center, Room 110, 1055 Evans Ave., events.unr.edu.
GUEST SPEAKER TONY WHITE: Truckee Meadows Community College’s Graphic Communications/Graphic Arts and Media Technology Program hosts a presentation by the British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. He is the founder of DRAWASSIC, a digital animation movement that seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Fri, 9/21, 5:30pm. Free. Sierra Building, Room 108, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 673-8223.
RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Reno Coin Club
IDLEWILD INVASIVE REMOVAL: Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation will host an invasive species removal event in Idlewild Park along the Truckee River. TMPF will provide tools, such as loppers and hand saws. Volunteers will learn how to identify the specific invasive plants to be removed and get training on the tools and best practices for removing these plants. Sat, 9/22, 9am. Free. Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, tmparksfoundation.org.
presents Stan Pehr’s slide show titled “Northern Nevada History in Pictures and Photographs.” Long an explorer of ghost towns, he will offer unique views of Nevada history. The meeting will also feature the new Georgia egret quarter and the Jim Thorpe dollar. Early bird prizes, quarter pot, raffle, bid board, and more. All ages welcome. Tue, 9/25, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, renocoinclub.org.
RIVER TALK: Learn about past and present
IN A BROKEN WORLD: The Art History Visual Culture Studies Forum at the University of Nevada, Reno hosts a guest lecture and discussion by visiting artists Omar Pierce and Ashley Westwood on their collaborative exhibition, film and book project titled In a Broken World. Wed, 9/26, 5:30pm. Free. Wells Fargo Auditorium, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
LAS CAFETERAS: Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments like the jarana, requinto, quijada (donkey jawbone) and tarima (a wooden platform), Las Cafeteras sing in English, Spanish and Spanglish and add a remix of sounds from rock to hip-hop to rancheras. There will be a free conversation with the artists at 3pm. The concert follows at 8pm. Sat, 9/22, 8pm. $17-$20. Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.
threats to the Truckee River and what’s being done to help restore and protect it. Thu, 9/20, 8am. Free. Truckee River Watershed Council office, 10418 Donner Pass Road. Ste. B, Truckee, truckeeriverwc.org.
ROLLER DERBY DOUBLE HEADER: Carson Victory Rollers vs. Outlaws and Carson Jr. Victory Rollers vs. Sierra Sparks. Sat, 9/22, 4pm. $5-$10, free for kids age 10 and younger. Carson City Community Center Gym, 851 E. William St., Carson City, www.facebook.com/ CarsonVictoryRollers.
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MEET THE CANDIDATES HEIDI HOWE AND STEVE WOLGAST: Meet and chat with Heidi Howe, candidate for Washoe County Sheriff, and Steve Wolgast, candidate for Washoe County Commission, District 2. Sat, 9/22, 7am. Free. Postal Cafe, 3115 Eastlake Blvd., New Washoe City; Sat, 9/22, 11am. Free. Good-to-Go Deli, 3237 Eastlake Blvd, New Washoe City, (408) 677-7714.
NEVADA WIND ENSEMBLE—LONDON CALLING: The University of Nevada, Reno Nevada Wind Ensemble kicks off its 2018-2019 season with English favorites for wind band, including the works of Holst and Vaughn Williams. Fri, 9/21, 7:30pm. $7, for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, UNR, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
happens when that one article or op-ed you write sends fireworks across the internet? Join Nevada Humanities to explore this subject and related topics with a few writers who can speak first-hand about what happens when your article is suddenly everywhere. The event will be moderated by Christopher Coake, associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Fri, 9/21, 6pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.
STREET VIBRATIONS FALL RALLY: The annual celebration of music, metal and motorcycles features poker runs, live entertainment, ride-in shows, stunt and bike shows and more at venues in Reno, Sparks, Carson City and Virginia City. The event is open to all motorcycles. Wed, 9/26. Free. Downtown Reno and other locations, (775) 329-7469, roadshowsreno.com.
WOODEN BOAT CHALLENGE 2018: Arts for
OKTOBERFEST AT THE DEPOT: The Depot gathers a variety of local and regional breweries to pour their best Oktoberfest brews. Tickets include a commemorative stein, raffle tickets, all-you-can eat schnitzel, brats, pretzels and other fare. Fri, 9/21, 5pm. $60. The Depot Craft Brewery and Distillery, 325 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-4330, thedepotreno.com.
PETER GOIN READING AND BOOK SIGNING: The author of Emerald Bay and Desolation Wilderness will read and sign his book. Thu, 9/20, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 7861188, www.sundancebookstore.com.
RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer
team plays Las Vegas Lights. Sat, 9/22, 6:45pm. $15-$75. Greater Nevada Field,
250 Evans Ave.; the team takes on Rio Grande Valley FC. Wed, 9/26, 6:45pm. $15$75. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-700, www.reno1868fc.com.
the School’s third annual fundraiser features food, drinks, live music, kids’ activities and a competition that requires teams to build and race their own wooden boat built by hand—no power tools allowed. Bring the whole family for a fun day on the beach. Sat, 9/22, 11am. Free. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 582-8278, www.artsfortheschools.org/wbc.
WRITING RENO: To celebrate the longawaited reissue of Ben Rogers’ The Flamer, Sundance Book and Music presents Writing Reno, a community book talk with Rogers and Reno historian Alicia Barber. The two will discuss what makes Reno such an interesting setting for a novel, and what makes it so worthy of our interest and inquiry, from both an artistic and historical perspective. Community members will gain deeper insight into how setting impacts the novel. Fri, 9/21, 6pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.
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by AMY ALKON
Codger and me I’m a 22-year-old guy, but I look 14. Boomer co-workers often use me as an example of a bad millennial, attacking me for Dread Smartphone Overuse. Older co-workers often launch into unsolicited 40-minute lectures on the “college path” I should take. (Already graduated, thanks!) How can I gracefully deal with this demeaning treatment? It’s no surprise some of your older co-workers smear you as a “bad millennial.” You’re younger and cheaper to keep around, and the hair on your head isn’t there thanks to a Groupon for Dr. Hair Plugs. So, yes, some of them probably do want to stick it to you. But for a little perspective on their annoying college-splainings—these unsolicited lectures on the value of the higher education you’ve already gotten—consider my critical take on what’s come to be called “mansplaining.” Merriam-Webster defines this as a man’s explaining “something to a woman in a condescending way that assumes she has no knowledge about the topic.” As I see it, there’s a problem with this interpretation, and it’s the rather victim-thinky assumption that a man’s tone and line of blather are driven by his having little respect for a woman simply because she’s a woman. Sure, that could be the case. However, I’m with my evolutionary psychologist friend Diana Fleischman who tweeted: “There’s already a word for mansplaining. It’s called being patronizing. And I’m as good at it as any man.” Say some dude in a bar starts instructifying me on evolutionary psychology research—work by a researcher I know and whose papers I have been reading for going on 20 years. Chances are, Mr. Bar Dude isn’t thinking, “Ha, you big redheaded moron … I read one news story, and I already know way more than you!” He’s probably just trying to sound knowledgeable and interesting to a chick in a bar. Well, the same probably goes for your colleagues launching into these higher-ed-splainings. This doesn’t mean you have to go all ear slave for them. Put your hand up— the international sign for “would you kindly shut your big trap for a second?”—and say, “Thanks … appreciate your wanting to help.”
Next, add some polite form of “Been there! Graduated that!” You might also give some consideration to your look. I’m not saying you should wear a monocle and carry a cane, but maybe grow a little facial hair and dress and accessorize like an adult. This means avoiding T-shirts, Spider-Man backpacks and anything else that makes you look like a 14-year-old with a beard. Finally, there’s a little secret to getting treated as somebody’s equal, and it’s acting the part. If some graying co-worker makes agerelated cracks about your tech usage, don’t go all woundypants. Laugh and tease ’em right back—telling them they should cut the hints and just ask you directly when they want your tech-savvy millennial help with texting nudies from their side-entry bathtub.
Can’t bi me love I’m a bisexual, 29-year-old woman. I just started dating an awesome guy and ultimately see myself in a longterm hetero relationship. However, I am extremely aroused by women, and now I’m struggling to get turned on with my new partner. Sexual orientation, as explained by Kinsey Institute research fellow Justin Lehmiller in Tell Me What You Want, is “the degree to which we are biologically predisposed to desiring men, women, both or neither.” There’s another factor in play—“sexual flexibility”—which Lehmiller describes as “a willingness to deviate not only from our sexual orientation but also from what our culture and society have told us we should want when it comes to sex.” Figure out the physical characteristics that need to be present for you to be attracted to another person. Be honest with yourself about that. For a relationship to be viable, the thing you say to your boyfriend in bed should not be: “Hey … know what would really turn me on? If you left the room and sent Felicia in here in your place.” Ω
ERIK HOLLAND
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For the week oF September 20, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The flower doesn’t
dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” So says poet and philosopher Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening. Now I’m transmitting his observation to you. I hope it will motivate you to expend less energy fantasizing about what you want and devote more energy to becoming the beautiful, useful, irresistible presence that will attract what you want. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make plans to produce very specific blossoms.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Budi Waseso, the
former head of the Indonesian government’s anti-narcotics division, had a radical plan to prevent escapes by people convicted of drug-related crimes. He sought to build detention centers that would be surrounded by moats filled with crocodiles and piranhas. But his replacement, Heru Winarko, has a different approach. He wants addicts and dealers to receive counseling in comfortable rehabilitation centers. I hope that in the coming weeks, as you deal with weaknesses, flaws, and sins—both your own and others’—you’ll opt for an approach more like Winarko’s than Waseso’s.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In one sense, a
“patron saint” is a Catholic saint who is a heavenly advocate for a person, group, activity, thing or place. St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, for instance. St. Francis of Assisi is the guardian of animal welfare and St. Kentigern is the protector against verbal abusers. “Patron saint” may also be invoked poetically to refer to a person who serves as a special guide or influence. For example, in one of his short stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to a veteran nurse as “the patron saint of young physicians.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to fantasize about persons, groups, activities, things or places for whom you might be the patron saint. To spur your imagination, here are some appropriate possibilities. You could be the patron saint of the breeze at dawn; of freshly picked figs; of singing humorous love songs in the sunlight; of unpredictable romantic adventures; of life-changing epiphanies while hiking in nature; of soul-stirring music.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In August 1933, author
Virginia Woolf wrote a critical note to her friend, the composer Ethel Smyth, lamenting her lack of emotional subtlety. “For you,” Woolf told Smyth, “either things are black, or they’re white; either they’re sobs or shouts—whereas, I always glide from semi-tone to semi-tone.” In the coming weeks, fellow Cancerian, you may encounter people who act like Smyth. But it will be your sacred duty, both to yourself and to life, to remain loyal and faithful to the rich complexity of your feelings.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “People think of educa-
tion as something they can finish,” said writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited over 500 books. His point was that we’re wise to be excited about learning new lessons as long as we’re on this earth. To cultivate maximum vitality, we should always be engaged in the processes of absorbing new knowledge and mastering new skills and deepening our understanding. Does that sound appealing to you, Leo? I hope so, especially in the coming weeks, when you will have an enhanced ability to see the big picture of your future needs for education.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo businessman
Warren Buffet is among the top five wealthiest people on the planet. In an average year, his company Berkshire Hathaway adds $36 billion to its already swollen coffers. But in 2017, thanks to the revision of the U.S. tax code by President Trump and his buddies, Buffet earned $65 billion—an increase of 83 percent over his usual haul. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re entering a year-long phase when your financial chances could have a mild resemblance to Buffet’s 2017. I’m not predicting your earnings will increase by 83 percent. But 15 percent isn’t unreasonable. So start planning how you’ll do it!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As he stepped up to
use an ATM in a supermarket, a Scottish man named Colin Banks found £30 (about $40 U.S.)
that the person who used the machine before him had inadvertently neglected to take. But rather than pocketing it, Banks turned it in to a staff member, and eventually the cash was reunited with its proper owner. Shortly after performing his good deed, Bank won £50,000 (about $64,500 U.S.) in a game of chance. It was instant karma in dramatic action—the positive kind! My analysis of the astrological omens reveals that you’re more likely than usual to benefit from expeditious cosmic justice like that. That’s why I suggest you intensify your commitment to doing good deeds.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As you dive down into
your soul’s depths in quest for renewal, remember this testimony from poet Scherezade Siobhan: “I want to dig out what is ancient in me, the mistaken-for-monster … and let it teach me how to be unafraid again.” Are you brave and brazen enough to do that yourself? It’s an excellent time to douse your fear by drawing wild power from the primal sources of your life. To earn the right to soar through the heights in November and December, delve as deep as you can in the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to
author Elizabeth Gilbert, here’s “the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” When I read that thought, my first response was, “Why are the treasures hidden? Shouldn’t they be completely obvious?” My second response was, “Why do you need courage to bring forth the treasures? Shouldn’t that be the easiest and most enjoyable task imaginable?” Everything you just read is a perfect riddle for you to contemplate during the next 14 months, Sagittarius.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A blogger named
Sage Grace offers her readers a list of “cool things to call me besides cute.” They include dazzling, alluring, sublime, magnificent and exquisite. Is it OK if I apply those same adjectives to you, Capricorn? I’d like to add a few more, as well: resplendent, delightful, intriguing, magnetic and incandescent. I hope that in response you don’t flinch with humility or protest that you’re not worthy of such glorification. According to my astrological analysis, now is one of those times when you deserve extra appreciation for your idiosyncratic appeal and intelligence. Tell your allies and loved ones that I said so. Inform them, too, that giving you this treatment could help mobilize one of your half-asleep potentials.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many educated
Americans and Europeans think of reincarnation as a loony delusion, even though it’s a cornerstone of spiritual belief for over 1.5 billion Earthlings. I myself regard it as a hypothesis worthy of intelligent consideration, although I’d need hundreds of pages to explain my version of it. However you imagine it, Aquarius, you now have extra access to knowledge and skills and proclivities you possessed in what we might refer to as your “past lives”—especially in those past lives in which you were an explorer, maverick, outlaw or pioneer. I bet you’ll feel freer and more experimental than usual during the next four weeks.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “When the winds
of change blow,” says a Chinese proverb, “some people build walls while others build windmills.” Since the light breezes of change may soon evolve into brisk gusts of change in your vicinity, I wanted to bring this thought to your attention. Will you be more inclined to respond by constructing walls or windmills? I don’t think it would be foolish for you to favor the walls, but in the long run I suspect that windmills would serve you better.
You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.
by JERi ChADwEll
Driver
What are the liability issues for a business like this?
PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL
Devin Kahl and partner Tristan Houston recently opened a business called Don’tDrive. It provides drivers to take intoxicated people and their vehicles home. The cost is a flat $25 for anything within five miles, and $1 for each additional mile. Learn more at dontdrive.life.
Is this your first business? Yes, it’s the first one we’ve actually brought into fruition. Tristan and I have worked on other businesses together. Don’tDrive was really the one we saw that we could go out and do it ourselves without anyone’s help. We saw the ability to give people sober rides home in their own cars, and we just started doing it last October. We gave around 20 rides, and then, you know, we talked to a few lawyers, and they said, “Hey, you can’t really do that without a few things lined up.’ So the past seven months we’ve been lining those up to make sure we’re a fully legitimate company for our customers.
If you don’t mind my asking, how old are you and Tristan? Yes, no, I’m 22 years old. And Tristan is 21.
I wonder, what does it look like when it scales? It’s not going to be on the scale of, like, a city’s Uber program? You’re asking what our plan is to expand it to areas we’ve said we’re wanting to expand to? We actually really appreciate all of the bartenders, bar owners and bar
managers we’ve been involved with. We’ve really seen that our ability to expand has everything to do with the community. A large corporation going into all of these different areas really isn’t feasible. So we’re looking toward a franchise-type of model, with people who are active members of the community. … When we do a franchise model, we hope that whoever’s bringing it to the area has the connections in the community.
So there are thoughts to branch out into other cities. I want know how large the program, the business, will get here locally. How many drivers will there be? On a nightly basis? Right now we have 10 drivers. We have four in Carson City and then 10 in Reno, including Tristan and I. Realistically, we want at least 20 available drivers throughout the week—not saying there’s going to be 20 on one night.
That was probably the biggest headache for us and also, I guess, deterrent. Everyone we talked to was talking to us about the legality of it, the liability of it, the insane insurance policy behind our company. But we talked to the attorneys that work directly with the Nevada Transportation Authority, and they told us there wasn’t any necessary insurance policy due to the nature of our business. Uber and Lyft and taxis have to have an insane insurance policy. … We, since we’re doing it on a consensual basis, and we’re not driving anyone in our own cars—that is the huge difference in actual liability. We’re getting consent to drive their cars, which is like you telling a friend to drive your car. So there is no insurance policy that needs to be covered in that, because the NTA doesn’t regulate that type of thing.
I seem to recall it used to be an ordeal to even rent a car if you were under 25, but you could drive someone else’s with their permission. This seems similar. It’s the same type of law. But it’s our duty as business owners to cover you. You’re our client [or] an employee. So we worked on our own custom insurance policy with Aflac. And one of our attorneys right now is working on that. That just will cover the premiums. If any accident happens, we cover the premiums and the deductibles. We also cover any injuries. … We covered our bases. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
Loser, dud, Edsel, flop—Trump? One thing I will give Agent Orange honest credit for isbringing my family closer together. For real. Here’s how it works. About once a month, I get on the phone with my brother, Tommy, and we positively roast Trump’s nuts for at least an hour, usually an hour and a half. We gleefully and wickedly laugh and rant and hoot and rage at all of his latest flaps, faux pas and fuckups, and by doing so, we’re staying in touch with each other on a pleasurable and regular basis. So thank you, King of Deplorables! Tom’s most recent pronouncement: A case of incurable, testicle-eating syphilis isn’t quite nasty enough for the BCOTUS (batshit chowderhead of the United States). One of the guys I love on Twitter is Donald J. Drumpf, who’s pretty funny with his non-stop lampooning of President Bonespur. If you want to read a guy who knows how
to roast Twitler and his tweets, Drumpf is the dude. He’s been busting Trump’s nuts for years, and here’s the tasty, spot-on tweet he posted after Manafort’s guilty plea deal: “Witch Hunt! There is absolutely no connection between the Trump campaign manager, Trump national security advisor, Trump personal lawyer, Trump Organization CFO, and Donald J. Trump!” Which does bring to mind the image of Dum Dum, bobbing up and down in that proverbial pot of water and now noticing that. “Hey, this sucker is getting a tad toasty.” Just think about the various investigations. We can barely keep track of them! There’s Mueller (who just keeps on keepin’ on piling up the charges), there’s the Southern District of New York (more nasty feds), there’s the super badass attorney general of NY Barbara Underwood (who’s eager to get way up Trump’s ass), there’s the CREW
crew (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) and their pesky emoluments lawsuit, there’s Team Porn Playmate featuring Avenatti Stormy Karen Shera, there’s all these books devoted to Trumponian curtain pulls by Omarosa, Bob Woodward, Rick Wilson, Queen Stormy (yeti pubes!), and Craig Unger (the sleeper, the one that gets deep into Trump being the money launderer of choice for Russian mafia thugs going back decades), and of course there are plenty more more more coming to contribute to Orange’s everburning sensation of oncoming madness, humiliation and doom. The irony is palpable. The one development that will cause Trump to seize up and vapor lock is the one he truly fears, one that’s now feeling downright inevitable. Because sometime in the near future, the name Trump will become synonymous with the word “LOSER.” Ω
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