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After party Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Well, that was fun. Big thanks to everyone who made it out to our Best of Northern Nevada winners’ party last weekend. The property at the Elm Estate is gorgeous, the food by Chef Mark Estee and his team at Liberty Food & Wine Exchange was delicious, and the tunes by my friend DJ Andrew were bangin’. But, of course, the real reason to attend the BONN party, like any worthwhile clambake, is for the people. It’s always a treat to see so many of Reno’s best and brightest movers and shakers hobnobing at our event. I think some folks like to win just so they can go to the party, which, in all honesty, is as good a reason as any. Props to my colleagues over on our sales staff for doing 99 percent of the hard work putting the shindig together, although I was more than happy to take credit from revelers who talked to me during the event. The sales team did all the calling and wrangling to set up the event and to get all the invites out to all the winners. However, if by some fluke or missed connection, you didn’t hear from them, but you would still like to pick up your winner’s plaque—featuring some of Jaxon Northon’s amazing artwork— feel free to stop by our office, 760 Margrave Drive, during usual business hours. Nothing makes an already established business seem even more successful than a handsome BONN plaque. And beware of any shady operators who call you up and want you to buy a plaque. Those people aren’t with us. You’ve already earned your laurels as far as we’re concerned. Oh, and here’s a quick crystal ball prediction: Next month, there will be a whole slew of national media stories about how Nevada elected a dead pimp to the state assembly.
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Deregulation issue Re “Question mark” (cover story, Sept. 27): Thank you for your informative article about Question 3. However, I’d like to correct one commonly-believed fallacy repeated in your article. Your article states that airline deregulation in 1978 was a failure because the promised competition among airlines never happened and because the quality of service declined. In fact, airline deregulation was a huge success for the traveling public. Perhaps you don’t remember how expensive air travel was before 1978. Before deregulation, airline passengers were typically made up of the wealthy and upper middle classes. Now, after deregulation, it is often cheaper to fly than to take the bus. According to a well-researched Sept. 28, 2013 Atlantic article, the average cost per mile, in constant dollars, to fly in the U.S. dropped about half in the 30 years following deregulation. Low airfares opened up the convenience of flying to nearly everyone. That has to be considered a huge success. Your article claims that airline deregulation was a failure because it bankrupted the airline industry. Well, of course it did! Before deregulation, the federal government regulated nearly every aspect of airline travel, which allowed horrible inefficiencies to exist. Ticket prices were fixed by the government at high prices, and airlines became lazy and inefficient. The high prices allowed them to still make a profit in spite of it. High ticket prices that passengers were forced to pay was subsidizing inefficient operations. Deregulation allowed airlines to compete with each other, driving ticket prices down. The inefficient companies, and the ones too slow or unwilling to adapt, went bankrupt, replaced by new, efficient airlines that could still make a profit selling low-cost tickets. Your article also states that another sign of the failure of airline deregulation is the decline in customer service. Yes, the quality of service has declined, but that is because people prefer lower ticket prices in exchange for less customer service. Because there is Jessica Santina, Todd South, Luka Starmer, Bruce Van Dyke, Ashley Warren, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live. Editor Brad Bynum Associate Editor Jeri Chadwell News Editor Dennis Myers Special Projects Editor Matt Bieker Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Contributors Amy Alkon, Kris Vagner, Bob Grimm, Andrea Heerdt, Holly Hutchings, Shelia Leslie, Josie Glassberg, Eric Marks,
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R&D We often hear there is no difference between the major political parties. That’s baloney. There are huge differences. Democrats support people. The Republicans support their mega-rich donors. Democrats will preserve Medicare, Social Security, our schools, roads, public health, police and fire, children and families, wild life and the planet. Republicans support prosperity for the prosperous, the one percent. Republicans’ only campaign promises are to reduce regulation, so they can poison us all, and reduced taxes on the wealthy. They just did a massive transfer of wealth from working people to the kleptocrats and got away with it. One example will be when the Republicans eliminate Medicare and Medicaid which will be the end of rural and small urban hospitals. They voted over 50 times to end the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and are still working on it. If you are a citizen, you need to vote. Don McKechnie Sparks
More Kavanaugh Many talking heads are claiming that Democrats based their objections to Kavanaugh on presumed guilt. Nothing could be further from the truth. The argument made by the Democrats was that based on credible testimony, an investigation should be done. No guilt was
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presumed. The Republicans, for whatever reasons, limited the investigation, which made it meaningless in terms of determining anything new. That being the reality, the Democrats then made the argument that— barring a real investigation—all they could do was use the information available to them, which included all the waffling, outright lying, etc., exhibited by Kavanaugh during his part of the hearing. This is completely reasonable to me. Claiming that Democrats automatically believe women so that lives and careers of men are at unreasonable risk is a lie that simplifies the narrative in a way that works for the talking head programs but completely ignores/distorts/alters the reality. Don’t buy it. Michel Rottman Virginia City Highlands
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By matt bieker
Last earthquake you remember? aSkeD aT THe BaSemenT, 50 S. Virginia ST.
Henry SancHe z Machinery assembler
About a year ago. I was in bed. I think I was already awake. It wasn’t intense enough to where I felt like I had to get up.
Tim zecHer Account manager
Probably like three or four years ago. ... I don’t remember exactly what I was doing, but it was just one of those experiences of, you’re there and you feel movement, and you’re like, “I’m not in a place that should move. Was that an earthquake?”
L auren DeVaLk Occupational therapist
By Janice blue
Golden boys tarnish the badge When I began my law enforcement career at age 21, women had to wear skirts and token females were placed on each shift in patrol. I won a promotional exam only to have test results nullified because several male deputies cheated. The cure proved worse than the disease. Subsequent executive staff manipulation forced female candidates to the bottom of the advancement list. When Sheriff Dick Kirkland was elected, he ensured a fair and transparent process, providing equal opportunity. This allowed me to become a lieutenant, then captain. During my career, I became this region’s first female narcotics officer. When Dennis Balaam succeeded Kirkland, the department returned to the dark ages. Sexual harassment, favoritism and nepotism were rampant. When Darin Balaam, Dennis Balaam’s son, failed the patrol training program, his father intervened and forced staff to “audit” the program. Darin then passed. Sheriff Balaam continued the practice of blocking women from leading in patrol and subjected me to screaming matches when I dared to challenge the culture. I filed a complaint and won. The next administration wasn’t any better. When Darin worked under me as a lieutenant, it was party time. He took two-hour breakfasts with my boss, two-hour lunches with staffers and missed meetings to visit with his wife across town. To my knowledge, Mrs. Balaam was the only deputy allowed to work from home while pregnant. All others had to take sick leave or work at the office.
When I questioned this behavior, my life was over. I became a target. I was sabotaged by Darin and his cronies. Previously suffering from cancer, I ended my career early due to the rampant hostility, nepotism and unhealthy environment started under the Balaam regime that was allowed to continue into the next. I question Darin’s judgment. He wanted to experiment with K9 dogs deploying from the department’s helicopter, which lead to expensive damage that took the helicopter out of action (Reno Gazette-Journal May 1, 2008). As his superior, I had denied his request. Training should come after fire season. He went over my head. There was no news coverage that Darin Balaam pushed for the excursion at a cost approaching $170,000. People lost their homes without the helicopter’s firefighting capacity. I was there, kicking in doors, evacuating people and animals. Later, following a wildfire that burned six homes in Reno, Fire division chief Marty Scheuerman told the county commission, “I wish I would have had it [the helicopter] yesterday” (Reno Gazette-Journal Oct. 20, 2008). This behavior will not change if Darin Balaam is elected to his dad’s old job. It will be all about his buddies and what he can do for them. Change is needed, and you won’t get that by voting for an entitled golden boy. Ω
Washoe County resident Janice Blue is a retired Washoe County Sheriff’s Office captain and a former police chief. If Darin Balaam wishes to respond, we will provide space for his reply next week.
I didn’t experience an earthquake because I didn’t think they were real, because I’m from the Midwest. ... Then I came here. I work at a school, and they said, “We have to do the Great ShakeOut.” And I was like, “Why would we do that?” I didn’t believe in earthquakes ... until I moved out here.
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I’ve never been in an earthquake. I’m from the East Coast—hurricanes.
nancy Dixon Cocktail server
I remember hearing about earthquakes since I moved here, but the last earthquake I remember feeling was in the Bay Area. I want to say I was around seven or eight—maybe 9. It wasn’t a lot. It wasn’t scary.
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by SHEILA LESLIE
Turnout will decide the election I can’t wait until this Saturday when I’m able to cast my vote against Nevada’s U.S. Senator Dean Heller, choosing to replace our Trumpian senator with Rep. Jacky Rosen, someone I’m confident will represent us with integrity and compassion. I usually vote on election day, as I enjoy seeing my neighbors engage in their civic duty, and I like to make sure our local polling place is running smoothly, especially after one year when I found confusing signage and closed gates confounding voters in our neighborhood. But this year, I want to get on record against Heller at the first opportunity. I’ll continue down the ballot on Saturday, refusing to vote for anyone who is a Republican, even in nonpartisan races. I can no longer lend my support to any person who is still a member of a party so lacking in values and honor, even if I believe she or he is the best candidate. Belonging to the Republican Party is now an automatic disqualifier for my vote.
Unfortunately, that leads me to races I may have to skip if both candidates are Republican. And it means I’ll have to hold my nose and vote for a few Democrats whom I would normally reject due to their incompetence or lack of ethics, essentially voting for the lesser of two evils, which I’m well aware is still evil. But anyone who remains complicit with today’s Republican Party, through their silence and acquiescence, is not worthy of elected office. After all, no one is even pretending to “take back” the Republican Party anymore. There’s no hope of turning back. Senators Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins have now proven that beyond any doubt. Like many women, I have been enraged these past several weeks at the treatment of the courageous Dr. Blasey Ford by Republicans who call angry women a “mob” and the #MeToo movement a crusade of victimization. The President mocks survivors at his partisan rallies while his allies in Congress
basically tell women to go back to the 1950s and keep our men happy and our concerns to ourselves. They’ve made it clear that they are in charge and that our hysterical claim to equal rights or reproductive freedom won’t be tolerated. It’s been a depressing and jolting experience. Political pundits contend that the Kavanaugh fiasco is energizing Republicans to turn out this mid-term and will thus ensure GOP control of the Senate. I am less confident of that theory in Nevada, where Republicans reliably turn out in higher numbers than Democrats and hardly need an extra incentive to do what they always have done. I believe outrage-driven motivation is on the Democratic side where voters often tend to let a mid-term slide but may find the inspiration to show up this year in the Kavanaugh/Ford hearing and Republican attempts to destroy our health care. Heller’s fate depends upon them. Many of these inveterate voters are younger people, low-income and/or
minorities, groups with less power and influence. Young women in particular should be paying attention to the underlying reason Kavanaugh’s nomination was bulldozed through the Senate. Parkersburg City Councilman Eric Barber from West Virginia made it crystal clear in a social media post after the confirmation vote when he told “liberals” to get their “coathangers ready,” an apparent and appalling reference to the perceived anti-choice vote of the newly minted Supreme Court Justice to overturn Roe v. Wade. Don’t think it can’t happen. Early voting is available from Saturday, Oct. 20 through Friday, Nov. 2. You can find the polling locations and times at www.washoecounty.us/voters/ files/18_election_files/18_new_ev_schedule.pdf or go to the Voter Registrar’s office at the Washoe County Complex at Ninth Street and Wells Avenue during business hours. Let’s show them the power of the “angry left-wing mob.” Go vote. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
Gender issue i
Barbara Cegavske testifying as a state legislator, when she sponsored a measure to require voters to show identification at polling places.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America have filed a rulemaking request with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs asking the VA to change its motto. The current motto is “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.” An IAVA statement reads, “This motto is gendered and fails to recognize the sacrifice and service of the over two million women veterans and their survivors, relegating them to the fringes of the veteran community. Many of the systemic issues confronting women veterans—inadequate healthcare facilities, mental illness, suicide—relate to a VA culture that does not adequately acknowledge their service and sacrifice.” IAVA has a “She Who Borne the Battle Campaign” to deal with a VA in which women veterans seeking care and benefits “do so in a culture that often does not accept them or fully recognize them as veterans.”
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Gender issue ii As it happens, this year Nevada’s ballot Question Two contains gendered language, too. In the 1970s and 1980s, women’s rights leaders like Mary Gojack and Sue Wagner had gender-specific language removed from the statutes in favor of genderneutral language. Now, Question Two would lift the sales tax from “feminine hygiene products” instead of “hygiene products,” believed to be the first gender specific statute since the state’s laws were cleansed.
sisolak walks a tiGhtrop Democratic nominee for governor Steve Sisolak, on record as opposing the eastern Nevada water grab, nevertheless voted as a Clark County commissioner to appeal the state water engineer’s veto of the project. The Southern Nevada Water Authority for three decades has planned to transfer water from western Utah and eastern Nevada to feed growth in Clark County. In a vote on whether to appeal water engineer Jason King’s Aug. 17 denial of water rights applications that the SNWA wanted to move rural groundwater to Las Vegas, Sisolak—a member of the SNWA board— voted to appeal. The project is opposed by environmental groups, small county communities, ranchers, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In a recent commentary in the Elko Free Press, Sisolak wrote, “My opinion is that this project is not a smart or effective way to spend what is projected to cost more than $15 billion. This plan is nothing more than a 20th-century band-aid to a 21st-century problem. And despite recent actions taken by the Southern Nevada Water Authority Board to remain at the table for conversations about the future of this project, my opinion has not changed.” After the SNWA vote, KSNV News quoted Sisolak explaining his vote: “I think that the south should know that I’m well concerned about our long-term water supply, and the north should know that I’m well concerned about our long-term water supply, and the rurals should feel the same way.” Republican nominee for governor Adam Laxalt has yet to take a position on the water transfer. Three Republican state legislators published an essay in the Free Press purporting to speak for Laxalt, but they did not commit him to oppose the water grab.
—Dennis Myers
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Voters’ trial Dispute over voter registrations the palast investigative Fund, a journalism organization, has released a list of 90,000 Nevada voters who were designated “inactive” by Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske. That is slightly over six percent of the total 1,742,007 registered voters announced by Cegavske on Oct. 1. Greg Palast has posted the list of inactive voters online so each Nevada voter can check to see if her or his name has been purged. Voters will have until Oct. 18—the date this story hits print—to re-register. Daily media entities have ignored the Cegavske/Palast dispute and so have not provided news coverage that would have let voters know to check their registrations. Palast said in a prepared statement that he has posted only the names from Clark and Washoe counties “because, frankly, we are running out of the cash needed to process and post the lists from every county in Nevada.” He obtained the names in a court fight after Cegavske withheld the names for more than a year, until a week before the close of voter registration. “Lawyers for the Palast Investigative Fund filed a 90-day notice that Cegavske
would face a lawsuit on grounds of Nevada’s violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 for failing to make public the names of voters whose registration the state canceled and full reason for the cancellation,” Palast said. After that notice was filed, Cegavske turned over the list. Palast has had a long history of policing voter suppression techniques. A report by Palast and Vincent Bugliosi, Florida Fights Back!, was broadcast on the BBC in 2003. He is the author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, published in 2006 and updated in 2016, and of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Meanwhile, Cegavske has an equally long history of efforts to reduce the number of voters. As a state legislator at the 2007 Nevada Legislature, she introduced Senate Bill 385, which would have required voters to present identification at the polling place, although county officials said it was unnecessary. Dan Burk, then Washoe voter registrar, said that during his 10-year tenure, there had never been a prosecution for voter fraud. “The underlying truth is we don’t have people sneaking in and trying to
vote, whether they’re citizens or not citizens,” he said. “And the last thing that a person who is not a bona fide citizen of our country wants to do is possibly get themselves in a felony situation” (“A solution without a problem,” RN&R, March 29, 2007). The Cegavske bill failed to pass. Voters were—and are—already required to provide identification when they register to vote. During her campaign for secretary of state, Republican Cegavske said she opposed same-day voter registration and same-day voting. Cegavske said in April 2017 that her office knew of three Nevadans who voted illegally. She faulted the Department of Motor Vehicles for poor handling of voter registrations in the state’s “motor voter” program. This year, the Clark County voter registrar reported that about 40 people voted in the June 2018 primary twice— both in early voting and on election day. The bulk of them said they forgot voting the first time. Cegavske said an investigation had been opened of six of the 40 who were suspected of doing so deliberately. Then the next day, she said the probe had been dropped after it was determined the six had not deliberately voted twice. The 90,000 voters Cegavske moved off the active list of voters from the voter rolls this year were supposedly “inactive” voters. But whether someone is inactive is not determined by a failure to vote in previous elections, but by whether they return postcards sent to them by Cegavske’s office. Inactive voters are still allowed to vote if they return the postcards. They are purged entirely if they don’t return the postcard and fail to vote in two general elections. Previously, the same thing resulted from the failure to vote in two general elections. (We assume the number of voters designated inactive was not exactly 90,000, but we have not been able to learn the exact figure.) “Cegavske used the same notorious ‘purge by postcard’ and ‘Crosscheck’ methods of cleansing voter rolls as GOP Secretaries of State Brian Kemp of Georgia and Kris Kobach of Kansas,” Palast said. “Our experts, reviewing these lists, have found that the overwhelming majority of voters who have supposedly moved out of state or out of their home counties have, in fact, not moved an
inch—most remain at their original registration address.” However, Cegavske says she is not purging voters, just moving them to inactive status. Last week, a release was sent out warning voters against organizations interested in voter registration. “Nevadans are advised that the information provided by these organizations does not necessarily reflect their official and current voter registration status,” the release said. “The Secretary of State’s office is aware of at least one organization that is sending blank voter registration applications in the mail to individuals the organization claims ‘may not be registered to vote’ based on public records. We are also aware of an organization that is sending text messages from various phone numbers with a 702 prefix informing individuals that ‘public records indicate you’re not registered to vote.’ ” It’s not clear why Cegavske, as secretary of state, is involved in deciding the status of voters. Voter registration under Nevada statutes is decentralized, with county officials handling the matter, though the secretary of state is empowered to prescribe duties for those county officers. The United States did not have voter registration for most of its history. It was finally
developed to keep low income blacks and whites from voting. “Full voter registration originated in the early 19th century,” according to Independent Voter Network. “State governments, dominated by wealthy white men, were concerned with the growing participation of foreignborn people voting in local elections. As a result, they instituted voter registration to ensure that non-citizens did not vote. This stopped foreign transients from voting but also disenfranchised many poor citizens. Local politics played a big role in who was registered. Elected officials of the Democratic Party rejected the system. They felt the system targeted the poor, immigrants, and others who could have voted for them.” That helped hold down voting in the U.S. through the 1920s. But then turnout began rising in the 1930s, and healthy turnout was common until the 1960s, when it began falling. This decline was commonly attributed to disenchantment of voters who did not believe that voting did much to affect their lives. Ω
Faced with a court fight, Cegavske released the names.
To find out if your name has been designated inactive on voter registration rolls, go to www.gregpalast.com/las-vegas-andreno-voter-purge-list-2018/
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Workers on the Sparks city parking garage at Tenth and C Streets are silhouetted against the sky. In December, the Sparks City Council turned the property over to a company that is building an art deco apartment building on top of it and will also keep the public parking available for 50 years. It is the first deco building construction downtown since the former Sparks City Hall was demolished. That structure was streamline moderne, a subtype of art deco. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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Poor Reviews of “Shen Yun Performing Arts” on World’s Famous Review Sites The author browsed the ratings and reviews of “Shen Yun Performing Arts” on Yelp and tripadvisor, two famous review sites in the western world, and found that the average ratings from the two sites are 2 and 2.5 out 5 (with some users complaining there is no way to rate “0”). Over 70% of total ratings are below 3 stars. And the criticism is mainly from the following aspects: The ads misled and cheated the audience “The show has nothing to do with their promotion. It’s nothing about China’s 5,000-year history, no acrobatic performance and no crafted dance”, “There is barely any Chinese in the audience because they know the show is not reflecting China’s traditional culture”, “The show is not traditional Chinese dance as advertised, but a poor mixture of western dance and Ballet”, “Misleading promotion, this is not a cultural dance for entertainment, but a propaganda and promotion of Falun Gong ideology”, “I was shocked to find this is a promotion of Falun Gong when I finally watched the show live after seeing their promotion”, “Their advertisement never mentioned 1/3 of the show is about promotion of an organization”, “I feel cheated because their ad is promoted as a cultural tour of China’s 5,000-year history through dance and music and it’s never mentioned it’s a religious promotion”, etc.
It’s a poor show “The show is a second-rate high school talent show”, “Repeated basic skills, boring dances, annoying music and poor dresses”, “I’ve seen better shows in my local high school”, “What I saw was a third class visual effect and outdated works by singers rejected by America’s Got Talent”, “It’s more like paying to support a neighborhood daughter’s show”, “The show is not amazing and of course not worth the ticket”, “In
general, the show is lack of consistency and disappointing”, “The music and dances are not well connected. The essence of the dance is nowhere to find and the Erhu solo is outperformed by the street artists near the New York Metro Station”, “Poor band, way too outdated projection technique and the artistry is not particularly notable.”
The show is filled with “religious and political” propaganda “I was shocked to realize that the complete show is performed around the tenet of Falun Gong”, “The show repeatedly propagates Falun Gong to the audience”, “The whole show is all about cult ‘Falun Gong’”, “It’s a base for the crazy cult to propagate their message. Shame on the theater and music hall”, “The show has nothing to say with China’s history and tradition, but a promotion of Falun Gong”, “The organizer of the show is a religious organization that’s involved with anti-homosexuality, anti-revolution, anti-atheism and anti-Chinese government, and the show is filled with propagation”, “Expensive ticket, and fundraiser for a weird heresy from China”, “I think I’ll file a complaint against them for that they didn’t ‘preach their religion’ in advance”, “Kept singing for atheism and stood for the devils, destroy the world, evolution is a lie from Satan”, “It’s an insult on China’s great and rich heritage”.
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Snowcaster Bryan Allegretto lives in northwest Reno with his wife and children.
Cast a drift Bryan Allegretto “There’s a humongous area of low pressure set up in the Gulf of Alaska at the end of October, just spinning storms into the Pacific Northwest,” said Tahoe snow forecaster Bryan Allegretto. “The jet stream is just right on the border of Northern California, so that’s why every other model run it pushes the jet stream down to Tahoe, and it nails us.” But Allegretto isn’t ready to call it just yet. As of press time, he said, “It’s still 50/50, but it’d be so easy for us to get a couple of good storms at the end of the month.” This will be Allegretto’s 13th season forecasting Lake Tahoe snowfall. And he’s accurate. Media sources ranging from ski resort PR magazines to the Sacramento Bee quote his analyses of weather models regularly in their storm coverage. “I’ve had the National Weather Service reach out to me in the past, in Reno, and say, ‘Hey, we would love to bring you in. Why don’t you consider coming onboard with us?’” he said. “I say, ‘Well, I never finished my degree.’ … They’re like, ‘Well, how do you know all of this stuff?’ And I say, ‘I read about it.’” Allegretto said he’s long been a snowboarder and has been fascinated with weather since he was a school child. Initially, he went to school for meteorology
but switched majors and earned a degree in business. As an accountant for a company that worked with Tahoe ski resorts, he began writing “snowcasts” in 2006 to aid in marketing and business decisions. According to Allegretto, while his meteorology classes may have given him an edge, “It doesn’t matter how much training you have in meteorology.” “You can teach yourself anything,” he said. “You don’t have to go to school. All of the material you’re going to learn in college is available to read.” Allegretto said he’s gained most of his meteorological knowledge through reading “research papers and … other meteorologists’ columns and blogs”—adding that learning about a specific region’s climate is something any meteorologist, degreed or otherwise, must do before forecasting there. “If you go to Penn State for meteorology, they’ll teach you the basic … course load of how the atmosphere works,” Allegretto said. “They’re not going to get specifically into microclimates and how to forecast snow at elevations levels for individual ski resorts in Tahoe.” Learning to forecast Lake Tahoe snow was partially a process of trial and error, Allegretto said, but historical resources can be a big help. “A lot of my method involves me looking back at data from the [Central Sierra] Snow Lab for the last hundred years and just seeing what kinds of seasons or weather patterns produced what,” he said. “I do a ton of analysis on it, and then say, ‘When we saw these conditions, we averaged this much snowfall.” In 2011, Allegretto and business partner Joel Gratz started Open Snow, a website featuring blogs from snowcasters in mountain resort regions around the nation. He said the goal is to provide reliable snow forecasting sans the media hype he often perceives. “A lot of media, as you know, is all about big headlines—and we try not to do that,” he said. “I try to do the opposite. I try to say, ‘Hey, keep an eye on the end of the month’—without saying that it’s because I’m seeing every other model run shows an onslaught of storms. It’s just not coming through consistently, and it’s beyond 10 days—so it’s not just time to get people excited yet.” Ω
You can read Bryan Allegretto’s Tahoe snow forecasts here: opensnow.com/dailysnow/tahoe.
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he Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno was new and garnering media attention the last time the Silver State was rocked by a large earthquake, more than half a century ago. In 1965, the Sacramento Bee ran a story featuring the laboratory’s staff and its mission of “predicting earthquakes.” Headlined, “Can Destructive Quakes Be Predicted? Nevada Scientists Probe for Answer,” the piece quoted seismologist Dr. Alan Ryall and geologist Dr. David B. Slemmons, the heads of staff for the then three-year-old laboratory discussing their ultimate goal of finding “the key to the prediction of earthquakes”—something the reporter noted as “obviously desired before the settlement of future cities and communities.” When a large quake struck the following year, Reno’s population was around 51,000. The quake occurred between Reno and Truckee on Sept. 12, 1966. It was the topic of that day’s Reno Evening Gazette front page stories. One stated that “singing star Leslie Uggams” had slept through the quake “on the penthouse floor while her matron, in a nearby room, was thrown out of bed.” A report from a UNR student who was in the gymnasium when the quake struck reported “a sudden silence” that hit the gym as “several hundred students, registering for the new semester, realized the whole building was rolling.” The story in the center of the spread recounted the experiences of crane operator R. B. Rick, who was working “atop the 22-story Arlington Towers apartment building” and was thrown out of the window of his crane during the quake but survived by grabbing the crane’s windowsill and scrambling down the gantry “40 feet to the top of the building under construction.” The quake was reported at an estimated magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter Scale.
Scaling up Dr. Annie Kell is the Nevada Seismological Lab’s education and outreach seismologist. These days, she said, earthquakes are commonly measured on the Moment Magnitude Scale. This newer measurement
paradigm takes into account more than the maximum amplitude (the largest wave as measured on a seismograph) that’s created by a quake. It quantifies the amount of energy released by an earthquake, and whereas quakes increase in size by a factor of 10 on the Richter Scale, it’s 31 for Moment Magnitude. “So what that means is if a magnitude 3 earthquake releases a certain amount of energy, it would take 31 to equal the same amount of energy of a magnitude 4. It would take 900-something to equal the same amount of energy as a magnitude 5—30,000-something to be a 6.” But many of Nevada’s big earthquakes happened before either the Richter or Moment magnitude scales were in place, including one in Pershing County’s Pleasant Valley, south of Winnemucca that is—according to Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology reports—thought to be the largest documented in the state’s history. Measuring an estimated magnitude of 7.3, it ruptured the ground surface for about 37 miles and woke people as far away as San Francisco, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Back then, researchers at the university had only rudimentary seismological equipment. The first seismograph purchased by the school is still kept inside the Keck Museum at the Mackay School of Mines building on campus. According to Keck Museum Curator Garrett Barmore, delivery of the seismograph, which was ordered from the German Wiechert Scientific Instruments Company after the 1915 quake, was waylaid when the British Navy captured and scuttled the ship transporting it. “It was in Britain for a year,” he said. “It took a year for the State Department to get it, so it didn’t arrive here until 1916. … The British thought it was spy equipment, or something like that. Seismographs would have been new at the time.” After its arrival, the seismograph was in use at the university until the 1960s. In fact, it documented the series of earthquakes that current Nevada Seismology Laboratory Director Dr. Graham Kent credits as the catalyst for the lab’s formation. “I think in spirit, the lab started the day after the Dixie Valley, Fairview Peak earthquakes,” Kent said. The earthquakes to which he referred took place east of Fallon on Dec. 16, 1954—the first, a magnitude 7.1 near Fairview Peak around 3 o’clock in the
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morning, and the second, a 6.9 that occurred four minutes and 20 seconds later in Dixie Valley. After this, Kent said, Dr. Slemmons, one of the lab’s aforementioned founders, turned his attention away from his specialization in petrology and began studying earthquakes in effort to learn more about them before the next big one struck.
Shifting focuS According to current associate director Ken Smith, the genesis of the seismo lab was also spurred by technological advancements of the era. “Things changed when people realized that we could actually record quakes remotely with telemetry systems,” he said. Charles Richter, creator of the Richter Scale did some of this early telemetry work, as did researches in the Hoover Dam area, where Smith said, “was a bunch of earthquakes triggered by the filling of” the dam. The lab’s staff over the years has been comprised of people who took part in this early research. 12
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“There’s a real legacy between the people who have been here and the whole development of seismology,” Smith said. One thing that drove the advancements in seismology—and helped establish Nevada’s lab as an entity independent from the university and its departments—was nuclear blast verification work conducted in conjunction with the U.S. military. “You had earth sciences dramatically changing and then observation seismology dramatically changing,” Kent said. “But the reality of this lab is for most of its existence it relied on, basically, nuclear blast recording or verification for survival.” Above ground nuclear testing was banned in 1963, but underground nuclear testing continued and became an important source of funding for the lab. “Back in the old days, they’d blow anything up, right?” said Smith. “They’d set things up in Fallon. … The idea was that you could set off an earthquake in a tectonic environment, trigger an earthquake, and nobody would know it was a nuke you were getting away with. It was spy versus spy stuff back in those days.” But this espionage activity, he said, propelled advancements in earth sciences and seismology—most importantly the validation of the theory of plate tectonics. “What drove all of the technology, all of the modern technology, was nuclear monitoring, nuclear blast monitoring,” Smith said. “It drove observational seismology. The benefit to that was all of this tectonic information.” According to Kent, the lab later became involved in nuclear research pertaining to the Yucca Mountain Project until its cessation in 2010 and, after that,
the U.S. Department of Energy’s Source Physics Experiments—a series of underground chemical high-explosive detonations. Involvement in such projects, he said, has helped fund the seismo lab’s earthquake monitoring network. “Our lab here in Nevada is very poorly funded by the state for doing monitoring, so it’s always been incumbent upon whoever’s been in [charge] to go out and find money,” he said. These days, the lab uses its network of seismic stations across the state to monitor for more than just earthquakes. It also does extreme weather and early fire detection monitoring. Kent said, over time, this has turned the lab into a sort of “internet service provider for remote monitoring.” “As technologies changed, there was an ability to bring more things back and paying customers who want things brought back,” he said. “We call it the internet of wild things—but it’s kind of an internet of things. Here’s it’s a seismometer. Here it’s a fire camera. Here it’s an anemometer to get wind speed.” Recently, the lab has begun using its network to test earthquake early warning monitoring systems—something Kell said is worthwhile, because “there will be another large earthquake” in our region.
PuShing forward “California, Washington and Oregon are actually rolling out their earthquake early warning system this month,” Kell said. It’s called ShakeAlert—an experimental system that will issue automated public alerts in an attempt to give
people time to take prepare in the event of a quake. Nevada isn’t rolling out a public alert system yet, but when it does, it will be based upon the same science behind ShakeAlert, which Kell explained is dependent upon the detection of the first in a set of waves that are always associated with earthquakes. “There are P-waves and S-waves, primary waves and secondary waves,” Kell said. “The primary wave moves quite a bit faster than the secondary wave. The secondary wave is what causes the strong shaking.” The idea behind earthquake early warning systems is that once a primary wave has been detected an alert can be sent to the public prior the arrival of damaging secondary waves. Depending on the distance at which an earthquake occurs, Kell explained, this could give people time on the order of seconds up to potentially a minute or so to prepare for the onset of shaking. “People are like, ‘Oh, my gosh, what are you going to do with that?’” Kell said. “I could do a lot in even three seconds.” What’s more is that early warning systems are the closest seismologists have come to the seismo lab founders’ goal of predicting earthquakes. According to Kell, while seismologists have discovered that earthquake faults have a recurrence interval, “a span of time that faults have historically gone between ruptures,” there’s as yet no way to determine when an earthquake will occur. “We can say things like that we know a particular fault is at its recurrence interval,” Kell said. “But that doesn’t
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mean it’s going to rupture tomorrow or it’s going to rupture in a hundred years—or a thousand years for that matter.” According to Kent, working out the bugs in the lab’s established network of cameras and seismic and weather equipment keeps the staff on its toes—and while labs like Nevada’s have been busy beta testing early earthquake warning systems for years, it may take years more for them to become
functional in the way that ordinary users would like. But playing a role in their magnitude development falls in line with the lab’s recent, more publicfacing projects. “A lot of This quake struck what we’re doing somewhere now, whether it’s between Reno weather, fire or and Truckee, the earthquakes, is region’s last real trying to have even reminder of the a greater role interpower of large secting people and earthquakes. their dumb phones,” Kent said. Branching out into early warning research and weather and fire monitoring may be the cost the lab pays to keep its earthquake monitoring activities funded, but Kent said he sees advantages to it. “Here’s a tangible benefit,” he said. “We, with fire monitoring, have to intersect a group of people like firemen—big surprise, right?—and that whole emergency structure. But those are the same people who, when we have our next big
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Finding Faults Now in its 10th year, the Great ShakeOut is an annual earthquake preparedness drill organized by government agencies and seismology labs in states around the country. “Basically, it’s an education campaign to teach people what to do when there’s an earthquake—and then, additionally, how to prepare in advance,” Kell said. Unless you’re reading this prior to 10:18 a.m. on Oct. 18, the 2018 Great ShakeOut drill has already occurred. Many adults will have failed to hear about it. According to Kell, since 2009, the drill’s main participants have been school systems that teach earthquake lessons and have their kids practice getting beneath sturdy objects and holding on in the event of a quake. While she’d like to see more adults at businesses go through practicing the physical motions, she said, “What we really need to do as a community is prepare now before we have the next really large earthquake in our region.”
“The ShakeOut is a time to revisit your emergency kit, to revisit your earthquake plan and to look at your home and make sure that things that are obvious sources of injury in earthquakes are secured properly,” Kell said. “There are a lot of really standard things like that, that you can look at—hot water heaters, tall bookshelves, things like that are notoriously hazardous during an earthquake events.” When updating emergency kits, Kell said, it’s important to consider the potentially changing needs of your household, like if you’ve had a child who’ll need diapers or one who’s begun eating solids. “And then think about your emergency plan, your family plan,” she said. “After an earthquake, the idea that you’re just going to be able to pick up your phone and call your loved ones, that’s not a reliable idea. For a family plan, you need to know what you’re going to do and where you’re going to meet and things like that, in advance.” Ω
This article’s associated timeline was created using the following NBMG report, which contains additional information on the history of earthquakes in Nevada: bit.ly/2CctQvN.
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These and other associations of the image of the black swan are at the root of dancer L. Martina Young’s newest work, Black Swans: An Opera Poem, commemorating not only Young’s 64th birthday, but also her 30th anniversary as a Nevada resident and her 18th year living and working at the Riverside Artist Lofts, where the show will take place Oct. 18 and 19. It’s the fifth installation of a body of work that Young calls her “life project,” SWAN: a poetical inquiry in dance, text & memoir. 14 | RN&R | 10.18.18
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onsider the swan. Associated with grace and beauty, it’s also thought of—thanks to Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Ugly Duckling”—as that which at first is ugly but transforms into something unexpectedly beautiful. In particular, the black swan has associations with unpredictability, the unknown or the outlier. In the financial world, the black swan shows up without warning and has catastrophic impacts. It’s often seen as a harbinger of disaster, an ominous symbol or a mysterious stranger. It was once believed not to exist, that all swans were white, until the rare black swan of lore was discovered in the 16th century in Western Australia, and it shook people’s expectations and long-held beliefs.
“For me, it has its roots in the first time I saw the Bolshoi Ballet perform The Dying Swan, a very short, modern classical work,” Young recalled. “It made such a burning, indelible mark on my sense of being, because it addressed the divide between life and death. … So you could say—and I have said this to myself—the swan image has been dogging me all my life. Because from that first time seeing that work, when the Bolshoi came to the U.S. when I was 8 years old, from that point on, I have revisited it, or it has come to me more frequently, so that I could not deny making an inquiry into this image.”
Hope is the thing with feathers Young embarked upon this inquiry five years ago, traveling the world and exploring various cultural associations with swans. When her travels took her to Italy, an audience member relayed to Young that the black swan originated in Western Australia. She travelled there earlier this year, where she finally encountered the black swan, an icon found on that region’s flag and a totem of the Nyoongar aboriginal people of Perth. As she has spoken to people about the black swan’s connotations—both in Australia and around the world in places where people had never laid eyes on it and for whom it existed only as myth and metaphor—she
found it inevitably would bring up deeply “Like most of us, I’ve worked with entrenched memories and strong associations Martina for a long time,” David said. “We’ve with fear, pain, regret, loss and personal had a personal and artistic collaboration that transformation. goes back 30 years, so a lot of these images “We’ve unpacked the metaphors of the have been discussed with me and everybody. black swan, each of us, to help us develop So when it came to my part, writing a collaboratively the libretto for this opera scenario, I could understand the transformapoem,” Young explained. tion and apply a lot of the iconic, mythic The work is comprised of pieces from an parts of it to something very real—painfully array of local artists, including spoken word, real at times—from my own memory and music, song, visual art and, of course, dance background. And that was the assignment, by Young herself. Abbey Shock is a graduate more or less, that was given to us—to take our of Damonte Ranch High School, where her backgrounds and transform them, in terms of performance as a Butoh dancer in the school’s iconic and mythological work.” theater production of Hiroshima: Crucible He says the experience has been difficult, of Light introduced her to Young, who was a but also liberating. “I bring everything I consultant with the production. Shock plays the have to this,” he said. “It affects me strongly. role of today’s youth in Black Swans. Sometimes even in rehearsal I have to catch “The first time I watched, I think it blew my my breath.” mind—the music from the saxophone player, Rugg also has found healing through the he’s fabulous, and the stories that [the spoken experience of sharing a shameful memory that word artists] have written, they blow had long been buried. “[T]he first time I read my mind,” Shock said. “The it, when I had written it in story form, I way they’re delivered, couldn’t read it. I was so emotional. you’d think no one So this has given me the opporcould have gone tunity to sit with that memory through these and heal it, to tell myself, things, and the ‘You’re OK.’ … It’s a fact that they beautiful thing.” deliver them David, Rugg and so poignantly Oliver X also fulfill is very the function of a powerful. It’s Greek-style chorus, almost as if commenting on the [the players] action and egging it on. are addressing An art installation by the work to me. Nick Ramirez and musiI’m the youth, the cal numbers—including generation that will well-known and original dancer and choreographer pieces—by saxophonist Jammal see what comes next. They’re all so different Tarkington and vocalist Albert Lee, from each other and from me, as well as an original dance piece by and I take in what they’re saying, Young, round out the performances. and learn and pass it on and “We all have something to bring grow from it.” from very personal places, through She says the show has the stories, songs and dances,” Young prompted her to think about said. “We don’t have the black swan all she can learn from those as a bird in front of us, but the image who are older and wiser. “I exists in human culture, so each of worry that my generation us has come to it through our own doesn’t listen to the older particular and personal relationships and generations sometimes, but they have ideas … our own personal heartbreaks that a lot to say, so maybe we should,” she said. need communal healing. That’s the function, The players addressing her are spoken and that’s what I am moved by.” word artists Oliver X, editor/publisher of Reno Young says that this Reno production Tahoe Tonight; Martin A. David, author and is only the first imagining of it. It’s been former journalist with the Los Angeles Times; designed as a modular piece that can travel and Diane Rugg, a dance artist and educator. around the country and across the globe. In They share individual stories they have written fact, from here, it travels to Australia, where themselves, which are drawn from somewhat it will be reimagined with new stories, music, painful personal memories that were called up vocals and dances, by both aboriginal and by their associations with black swans. Their non-aboriginal artists. Ω stories are real, raw and imbued with powerful emotions such as anger, shame and empathy, To reserve seats at this week’s limited performances, and have been pared down to their essence for reservations must be made online at APoeticBody.com. a sparser, poetic delivery.
“Each of us has come to it through our own particular and personal relationships and ideas … our own personal heartbreaks that need communal healing.”
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Marki Ho’s Gillian Holroyd and her cat, Pyewacket, during a scene from Bell, Book & Candle.
Relax a spell There’s something so comforting and lovely about a classic 1950s film—like a warm sweater, predictably soft and easy, lovely to look at and not too challenging. I’ve just described Bell, Book & Candle, Brüka Theatre’s newest production, which kicks off the company’s 26th season—the Classic Revolution season, featuring works that offer a classic theatrical feeling. As you take a seat on one of the low couches in its main stage seating area, the effectively chosen set design and music create the illusion of a cozy night on your own couch in front of Turner Classic Movies for a black-and-white romantic comedy straight outta 1958. No matter that John Van Druten’s stage version preceded the film starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon. It’s the film folks know best, a classic that’s dusted off every fall. True to its word, Brüka has captured the spirit of the film and its time period, complete with black-and-white film montages and interstitial video projections during scene changes, as well as music reminiscent of an episode of Bewitched (a descendant of this film and others like it). As the story begins, Gillian Holroyd (Marki Ho) and her cat, Pyewacket (an adorable, real cat courtesy of the Nevada Humane Society), are keeping an eye out for their neighbor, Shepherd “Shep” Henderson (Jason Wesley Shutt), a bookish publisher. Gillian, Shep’s landlord, is attracted to him, but he seems to barely notice her, until today, when he finds a fellow resident, Gillian’s eccentric Aunt Queenie (Michelle Calhoun), rooting around in his belongings. He arrives at Gillian’s door, demanding that she address the situation. Little does he know, Gillian is a bona fide witch, and so is Queenie. Through a hex, Queenie and Gillian’s flamboyant brother, Nicky (Ryan Costello), 16 | RN&R | 10.18.18
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put on Shep’s phone, they discover that the object of Gillian’s affection just happens to be engaged to one Merle Kittredge, a former school rival of Gillian’s. Witches can’t fall in love, and Gillian knows this. Still, it just doesn’t seem right that such an awful person as Merle could be engaged to the lovely Shep—so Gillian casts an itty-bitty love spell on Shep to ruin things for Merle. It all seems like harmless fun until Shep gets serious, Gillian unwittingly develops real feelings for Shep and her secret supernatural powers threaten to ruin everything. Like many stories from the 1950s, the pacing in this one is slow—which is tough in a three-hour show—with a lot of the action having taken place off stage and only described later. It resulted in a constant feeling that there was something I missed. The interactions among characters rely heavily on nuance and subtlety, and in several places it was subtle enough to be nonexistent and missed altogether. For example, what’s supposed to be a marked change in Gillian’s character, through her relationship with Shep, really isn’t. Though James Stewart managed to make Shep’s obtuseness charming, this Shep is just obtuse. When paired with Ho’s big personality, the chemistry doesn’t quite work. On the other hand, Costello’s Nicky is magnetic; I could watch him for days. Ultimately, Bell, Book & Candle isn’t provocative or deep. It’s a soothing balm on a cold autumn night that casts a spell with its laughs and nostalgia. Ω
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“if i wanted to see a fake movie about the moon landing, i’d watch the 1969 original.”
Other worldly Space exploration movies and TV events based upon real missions, not surprisingly, have often made “the mission” the thrust of the plot. First Man goes a different route. It dares to focus on Neil Armstrong, the man at the center of the Apollo 11 mission, and what made him tick. It shows the familial struggles the man dealt with leading up to the mission and, most strikingly, his viewpoint, through his visor, as a bunch of workers clad in white packed him into a sardine can and blasted him off into space. It’s an amazingly intimate movie, considering the subject matter. Director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) doesn’t ignore the details of NASA’s build up to eventually planting Armstrong’s feet on the lunar surface. In fact, the film is one of the most scientifically intriguing I’ve seen when it comes to what astronauts go through and the mechanics of a space launch. What it also manages to be is a moving, often haunting study of the sacrifices and enormous pain Armstrong went through to beat the Russians to the moon landing punch. I confess to not knowing Armstrong (Ryan Gosling in top form) lost his young daughter to cancer in 1962, seven years before his legendary flight. Appropriately, that event is as central an occurrence as the moon landing in this movie. This film is about Armstrong’s sacrifices, hardships and the enormous psychological and physiological tortures he went through in that decade leading up to Apollo 11. In turn, it’s a testament to every man and woman who risked their lives and left families and histories behind on the big blue marble in the name of the space race. Claire Foy is the epitome of patience as Janet Armstrong, who must tend to her mischievous son as the sound from a NASA intercom drifts through her house, a sound letting her know that her husband is currently surviving his latest mission. While the film does contain some sequences showing the exterior view of rocket launches, Chazelle brilliantly stages many of the launches from
Armstrong’s point of view. The camera violently shakes, with the view outside of a small window being the only thing we see during much of the liftoffs, as if we are seeing the action from inside Armstrong’s helmet. The final moon landing has Armstrong immersed in total silence as he watches Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll) hop away from the lunar module. The film, in all, cost about $60 million to make, and that’s like an indie budget nowadays. It’s to Chazelle and his crew’s credit that it looks like it cost at least twice as much. To be honest, you might find yourself justifiably bummed out for much of its running time. Besides the death of his daughter, Armstrong lost some good friends at NASA, including Gus Grissom (Shea Whigham), Edward Higgins White (Jason Clarke) and Roger Chaffee (Cory Michael Smith), who all died horrific deaths during an Apollo 1 test. There was also Elliott See (Patrick Fugit), who died in a test flight crash preparing for Gemini 9. Armstrong was notorious for his quiet and stoic demeanor. Gosling, working with a script by Josh Singer, shows us a calm, quiet and, most importantly, focused man who kept looking forward no matter what forces tried to drag him back. The film depicts a trio of near-death experiences, including the film’s opening sequence involving a test flight in space, that almost took Armstrong out. No matter how many times he had to crash or eject, Armstrong endured with an almost impossible strength and reserve that Gosling depicts perfectly. First Man is not a “Rah! Rah!” movie. It forgoes much of the obvious patriotism and international competition that marked the space race in favor of simply showing us what a dude had to endure to get into one of those crazy suits and get lunar dust on his boots. Going to the moon was a messed-up, crazily dangerous, mind-messing endurance test, and this movie succeeds in making that abundantly clear. Ω
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Bad Times at the El Royale
Writer-Director Drew Goddard, in hiding as far as feature directing goes since his 2012 The Cabin in the Woods, assembles an all-star cast for one nutty, and sometimes a little too cute for its own good, movie. The star of this movie is the El Royale, a fictional hotel based on the actual Cal Neva Lodge, once owned by Frank Sinatra, in Lake Tahoe. It’s a solid piece of art direction, for sure, from its aged lobby straddling two states, to its creepy tunnels behind the rooms set up for criminal voyeurs. Jeff Bridges plays a mysterious priest who checks into the resort along with a singer (Cynthia Erivo), a vacuum salesman (Jon Hamm) and a hippie (Dakota Johnson). After the messed-up manager (Lewis Pullman) checks them in, each visitor has their own story in their own rooms. Goddard has flourishes of brilliance here, mixing thrills, mystery, humor and lots of blood into the intertwined plots, giving the film a Tarantino-like feel. (I know that’s a cliché these days, but it’s true.) The film is set in 1969, paying homage to the time through its soundtrack, set design and subplot involving a Manson-like cult leader (Chris Hemsworth). At nearly two-and-a-half hours, it’s a little bit much; a half hour could easily be excised from the film. Still, the stuff that works makes it a worthwhile movie.
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Hell Fest is in the spirit of I Know What You Did Last Summer in that it rips off a lot of countless horror films that came before it, and it also sucks hard. Natalie (Amy Forsyth) joins some friends for an evening of terror as they attend an amusement park full of haunted houses, death mazes and masked cast members running around the park with a mandate to scare the shit out of them. Walking among the paid crew, wearing a mask and hoodie similar to many other characters in the park, is an anonymous man who isn’t going for makebelieve. He actually likes to really kill people with ice picks, mallets, guillotines, syringes and knives. Much of the action takes place in the dark, with flashing strobe lights and shades of red and backed by stock horror sound effects. There’s a pretty good reason why none of this is scary. Director Gregory Plotkin films in a way that renders the locales flat, cheap-looking and stagey, just like your average amusement park haunted house. Maybe this stuff is a little scary in real life, but is sitting in a movie theater watching folks enter into these themed rooms scary? No, not really.
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This feels like a mishmash of many kidfriendly Halloween tales, and a messy mishmash at that. It wants to be Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket and Goosebumps all rolled up into one wacky movie. It’s all a little too much, and it falls apart in its final act. Granted, it’s based upon a novel published in 1973 so, really, the entities mentioned above maybe got inspired by author John Bellairs and his ways of spooking kids with words on paper. As for the cinematic punch, Bellairs and his tome were beaten to it, and this movie adaptation pulls a lot of style choices from films that came before it. If your kids go to this one and then request permission to watch other films by its director, beware, for it’s directed by Eli Roth, frequent purveyor of gross-out torture porn like Cabin Fever, Hostel and The Green Inferno. Roth can conjure some enjoyable elements within the realm of a PG movie, but he can’t quite wrangle all of the story elements together to deliver something that makes sense. While it does contain some genuinely creepy stuff, many of its attempts at frights with living dolls and scary pumpkins feel recycled. Jack Black and Cate Blanchett deliver fun performances as a warlock and semi-retired witch, but much of the film rests upon the young shoulders of Owen Vaccaro as Lewis, an orphan sent to live with his uncle Jonathan (Black) in a creepy house. Jonathan and his neighbor Mrs. Zimmermann (Blanchett) eventually start coaching the misfit Lewis in the powers of witchcraft, an offense that would get child services on their asses, even back in the ’50s when this film is set.
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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. 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. 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.)
It’s movie magic at its most beautiful when Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga share the screen in A Star is Born. It’s a rousing remake of the old warhorse rise-to-fame story, and it’s easily the best movie with that title ever made. Considering it’s the fourth, it’s amazing how original the film feels. Cooper makes his feature directorial debut and stars as Jackson Maine, a Southern rocker barely getting through his gigs thanks to too much alcohol, too many pills and a nasty case of tinnitus. The film opens with Cooper live on stage belting out “Black Eyes,” a song that clearly states this movie means business on the musical front. He brings a lot of legitimate musical soul to the role. And he damned well better, because his counterpart in this story is played by none other than Lady Gaga in her fierce feature lead debut. (She had bit parts in Sin City and Muppet movies.) As Ally, a waitress who sings occasionally at the local drag bar, Gaga delivers so well beyond expectations it seems impossible. She’s so good it hurts, especially in the film’s dramatic moments, of which there are many. So, see this one knowing that the goosebumps will rise, the smiles will stretch your face muscles and the tears will flow. A Star is Born is one of the year’s best movies; Cooper and Gaga are one of the all-time great screen pairings. You’ll do yourself a disservice if you miss this one.
This is a sometimes entertaining mess, but it’s still a mess. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: you shouldn’t have a Venom movie without Spider-Man playing into the comic villain’s backstory, somehow. Venom looks like Spider-Man in the comic because the symbiote fused with Peter Parker first, resulting in the “Spider-Man on steroids” look. This film has no Spidey. Now it’s a space alien that passes through an evil scientist’s lab, a space alien that still manages to look a little like Spider-Man, having never met the guy. Tom Hardy labors hard at playing Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter who’s infected by the symbiote and starts biting off people’s heads in PG-13 fashion. Brock winds up with Venom’s voice in his head and an ability to make Venom sort of a good/bad guy. It’s all kind of stupid, playing things mostly for laughs and squandering a chance for a real horror show. Hardy gives it his all, but the film feels like a botch job pretty much from the start. Michelle Williams gets what might be the worst role of her career as Brock’s girlfriend, and Riz Ahmed plays the stereotypical villain. There are hints of something cool, but they are buried under a pile of muck.
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The Foghorn Leghorn conceals chicken in a waffle, served with a side of country gravy and Buffalo ranch dressing.
silver medal Silver State Eatery has a menu touting organic and locally sourced ingredients, and a decor mashup of Grandma’s kitchen— rough-hewn wood and burlap coffee sack upholstery. Sadly, our experience was a bit like having seen a movie trailer that is far better than the actual flick. Service was friendly, and the coffee was good, though less than hot. Apologies were made for the kitchen prepping a catering gig. The tepid coffee was harbinger to an hour-long wait for room-temperature food. A Belgian waffle ($7) with fresh fruit and whipped cream was ordered with toasted coconut on the side, arriving completely undercooked, with a smattering of fruit, cream and the coconut tossed on top. I’ve had oatmeal that was crispier. The Foghorn Leghorn waffle ($12)—chicken breast and bacon ironed into scratch-made waffle batter—fared better. It was actually crispy, served as four triangles with Buffalo ranch dressing and maple syrup on the side. We added a side of country gravy for an extra $2 and an overmedium egg for another $1.50. The egg was fine, and the gravy was actually warm and loaded with sausage. However, the chicken was pounded flat and very dry. We ordered a pair of omelets ($8 each) with bacon, spinach, scallion, tri-color pepper, mushroom, Monterey Jack cheese and sliced avocado on top, one with sourdough and the other with wheat toast. Neither bread was remotely toasted. One omelet was nicely folded—though bland— and the sauteed ingredients were quite good. The other was a lopsided scramble. A Rabbit’s Dream salad ($9) contained romaine and red leaf lettuce, spinach, bell pepper, radish, cucumber, cherry tomato, carrot, artichoke heart, black olive and house ranch dressing. It did indeed have all
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those ingredients, though in a serving size I would call an overdressed side salad— perfect for a rabbit with modest aspirations. The large flour tortilla of Da’Shroominator wrap ($9) included a chef’s mix of sauteed mushrooms with chipotle spice, jalapeño, pepper jack cheese, scallion, avocado and cilantro cream, with the addition of tri-tip for another $5 and pretzel bites on the side. The bites were warm and sprinkled with shredded Parmesan. The filling was quite tasty, though spartan in presence. We had to hunt for a lone, thin-sliced bit of tri-tip, re-grilled to the point of jerky. The tortilla was heavily folded in on itself—a tortilla wrap stuffed with tortilla, lightly seasoned with goodies. The sauce was drizzled on top, a messy way to serve handheld food. We picked at the good bits and left behind the excess carbs. Finally, His Mistress’ grilled cheese ($11), was a sandwich on garden herb toast with melted havarti, Monterey Jack and Parmesan, supposedly topped with balsamic roasted Brussels sprouts and thin-sliced tomato. I may have missed the vegetation in the small sandwich, which was served absolutely stone cold. The chef must really have it in for his “mistress.” The side of creamed cucumbers—a cereal bowl of sliced cukes swimming in dairy with plenty of dill weed—was dramatically larger than the sandwich, and not half bad. The menu sounds great, and they’ve only been open a few weeks. Perhaps, given time, they’ll learn how to deliver on their promise and decide whether they’re a caterer or a restaurant. They don’t seem capable of being both. Ω
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Ashley and Andrew Warren were married on the Charles Bridge in Prague on Thanksgiving.
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It started about 15 or 20 years ago—no one’s counting. A transplant from back East, I was single at the time and had few relatives nearby. My second cousin and her family own a sprawling home with a huge deck nestled in the desert in a remote stretch of the North Valleys. It’s accessible by dirt road and far enough away that I only see them once or twice a year. At the time, her husband, who annually purchased a chukar license, liked to hunt the birds over Thanksgiving break. Like most people, my only morning plans on Thanksgiving involved the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and waiting around for dinner. So when I received an invitation to Thanksgiving breakfast that year, it seemed perfect. But this was not the quiet, intimate family breakfast I expected. A crowd of people spilled out of the kitchen, through the French doors and onto the sunlit deck, where my cousin’s husband and his nephews cooked up the most delicious bacon I’ve ever eaten, along with ginormous pancakes, scrambled or fried eggs and ham slices, all atop the grill’s griddle surface or in pans right on the grates. A line of people swathed in fleece, eagerly holding paper plates and plastic forks, wrapped around the side of the house. Inside the kitchen were huge canisters full of juice, carafes of hot coffee, and a pot of real hot chocolate simmering on the stove. A Bloody Mary bar took up one corner, and bottles of Champagne for mimosas, and Kahlua for coffees sat half empty on the counter. As the years have passed, the breakfast has evolved. Neighbors now contribute dishes, and many of us, myself included, have added spouses and children to the mix. The event is one we look forward to each year, a meaningful tradition that is as much a part of the day for us as the turkey to come—which, to be honest, is now an afterthought. —By JessicA sAntinA
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Many families go to church every Christmas. Other, more secular families go to the ballet every year to see The Nutcracker. Some families go caroling. Some families stay home and watch Christmas classics like It’s a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Other families watch newer entries in the Christmas canon, like A Christmas Story or Love Actually. Some less traditional families watch more outlandish movies with only tenuous connections to the holiday—like Die Hard or Gremlins. But in my family, we watch Clue. Clue is a 1985 comedy based on the board game of the same name. It is not set in December. Nobody learns a valuable lesson about kindness and charity. Santa Claus does not appear. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas. So why do we watch it every year? Because it’s just about the only movie we all agree on. The plot is the old chestnut about a group of strangers gathering for a party at a posh mansion, a murder occurs, and hilarity ensues. It’s a spoof of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries, but I don’t think any of us kids knew that growing up. It was a box office bomb during its theatrical release—partly because of a dumb gimmick where the movie had alternate endings, and it was a roulette game which version theatergoers would see. But watching it at home on TV, VHS, DVD and streaming over the course of the last 30 years, you see all three endings. Here’s the thing—it’s really funny. And funny in a variety of ways, from broad slapstick to clever wordplay, with fantastic, hammy performances from all-time comedy greats like Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn and Michael McKean. And it’s endlessly quotable. Conversations among my family almost always contain a quote or two—“flames on the side of my face” or “communism was just a red herring.” My brother and sister can recite the whole movie, beginning to end. And somehow the jokes don’t get old. So, whenever we’re all together—which happens less and less often as the years go by—at some point, we end up watching Clue, and like the best family holiday, we all laugh. —By BrAd Bynum
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For most of my childhood, I felt adrift in my own culture. My parents fostered holiday traditions for my little brother and me that I remember fondly—carving pumpkins, putting up an advent calendar, baking holiday cookies—but they were rooted in us as Americans, not as Italian-Americans or Russian-Americans, the two pillars that are now intrinsic to my identity. As a teenager, I vowed to fill in the gaps. I learned about genealogy. I traveled to Italy in high school, and I learned about Italian food specific to the region where my ancestors lived. I was invited to a Friendsgiving party in college and offered to bring tiramisu instead of my assigned cake. After that, Italian food became a part of my Thanksgiving menu—a menu that continues to change and shift. I married my husband, Andrew, three years ago on Thanksgiving, on the medieval Charles Bridge in Prague. Our wedding date meant that we would always celebrate our anniversary on or around Thanksgiving, so it seemed only natural to incorporate our favorite treats from our wedding and honeymoon into our Thanksgiving menu. It’s become our tradition to have trdelníks, chlebíčky and kolaches. Andrew also brings his own culture to the table: he is Mexican and, as he learned this year when he unexpectedly found his biological father on 23andMe, half Polish. Still, his taste for Mexican cuisine often wins out, and you can expect to find spices and peppers in most of our Thanksgiving dishes. In this way, Andrew and I join our lives and our cultures, and forge new traditions. Food culture is complex—like Thanksgiving itself, much of what we celebrate about food is rooted in colonization—but it’s also simple. I feel the same about my own identity as I continue to explore and uncover it, bite by bite. —By Ashley WArren
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The 80th annual Nevada day Parade is one way Nevadans celebrate the state
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Spectators line the street during last year’s Nevada Day Parade.
on the last Friday in October. Then the parade is the following day. That created a three-day weekend and that gave people more time, especially in the rural parts of Nevada, to be able to come over and be involved in the parade.” Hamilton has lived in Carson City since his family moved there in 1972, and he has attended every single parade in the years since. He’s been involved with the parade’s governing body, an official nonprofit, since 2009. Now, as the executive director, he is in charge of organizing the parade itself—and the day’s extensive calendar of events. “A lot of events take place on Nevada Day, but there’s only certain events that we actually sanction, which is the World Championship Jack Drilling Contest, and the beard contest, and the balloon launch— weather pending,” Hamilton said. The jack drilling championship pits contestants against each other to see
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o the rest of the country, the only holiday that matters at the end of October is Halloween, which is celebrated much the same in every state. Yawn. Nevadans, however, know that October 31 is special for other reasons—the commemoration of our state’s admission into the Union, which we celebrate as Nevada Day. Along with West Virginia and Hawaii, Nevada is one of only three states that mark its anniversary of statehood, and we tend to go big in our state with local traditions. Perhaps no single tradition is better known or more celebrated than the annual Nevada Day Parade in Carson City, and its accompanying state holiday. The parade has happened almost every October 31 since 1936, but the official day of observance changed in the year 2000. “Nevada Day used to fall on October 31, 1864—that was when Nevada was admitted into the union as the 36th state,” said Ken Hamilton, executive director of the parade. “In the year 2000, they passed a law to have Nevada Day, the holiday, fall
who can drill the farthest through a solid Each year, the parade has a different boulder with only hand tools (in homage theme that participants can style their to the state’s mining heritage), while the floats or exhibitions after, and a ceremobeard contest judges the entrants’ facial nial grand marshal to lead the day’s hair in length, fullness and color. festivities. This year’s theme is “the state Before the parade itself, attendees of economic diversity.” will also find the yearly pancake break“This year we have our very own fast at the governor’s mansion, Governor Sandoval as the Grand the hot air balloon launch Marshal,” Hamilton said. “We and a flyover by military picked him just because I Nevada aircraft from Fallon to felt, as far as the theme of is one of only signal the start of the economic diversity, he’s parade. That’s a lot of seen us through some tough three states Nevada culture to pack times. And I think he’s been to mark its into one day. an outstanding governor, and anniversary. “[We’re planning] the board and I felt he was the from January 1 until pretty perfect fit.” much the parade is over,” With a usual crowd size of over Hamilton said. “And then we’re 15,000, Hamilton said it’s best to find a already thinking about the next year, as place to sit along Carson’s Main Street far as what’s our theme going to be, our before 7 a.m. And with over 200 entries grand marshal, what went right, what in the parade, viewers can expect to stay went wrong.” until around 2 p.m. to see them all.
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The floats and entries include equestrian teams, local businesses, political figures, fraternal organizations, volunteer groups and dance troups. But members of another Nevadan tradition always make their presence felt, and they’re already used to large, whimsical vehicles. “We have a large Burning Man participation, and their floats could represent a house, a boat, art cars,” Hamilton said. “I mean they always have the most interesting parade entries of them all, I would say.” One such entry is the USS Nevada, a large art car modeled after a pirate ship that has served as the official mutant vehicle of the Burning Man Camp Gallavant since 2001 and has sailed in the Nevada Day Parade since 2008. “Most of the Burners are typically located near the end of the parade, so it’s kind of like the grand finale I’d say,” said Troy Morgan, who’s been involved with Camp Gallavant since 2005. Morgan moved to Carson City 15 9739_NVHL_RenoNews_PrintAd_OCT.pdf years ago from New Orleans, and has 1
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that I’ve been doing for probably five years now.” The parade receives the most (literal) fanfare in the course of Nevada Day’s celebration, but local traditions like the annual La Ke Lel Be Pow Wow also find ways to celebrate the breadth of Nevada’s history before statehood. Another tradition that takes place in the weeks preceding Nevada Day itself, the annual Nevada Day Treasure Hunt, focuses more on celebrating the state’s natural heritage by encouraging citizens to get out and explore the Sierra wilderness. Since 2000, the Nevada Appeal has posted riddle-like clues to the whereabouts of a small, engraved medallion hidden somewhere in Northern Nevada. Hunters who find its location are entitled to a $1,000 prize courtesy of the Mahe family, who took over organizing the hunt in 2014 after the family who originally created the event decided to step down. “We hunted for years when the Olsens were running it, which we enjoyed greatly, and so when they said they were going to stop, we stepped in and said we would continue it,” said Jennifer Mahe, whose family hides the medallion, writes the clues, and funds the prize every year.
“The manner in which clues get you to where you’re going could change year to year and has, historically,” Mahe said. “The idea is to focus somewhat on Nevada history—they’re all Nevada- related, but they don’t all involve history. Some will involve something current that’s happened. Some might be a geological formation or talking about the place itself.” The Nevada Appeal and the Nevada Day Treasure Hunt website publish 16 clues—once a day, Monday through Friday for the first three weeks of October—and the game doesn’t finish until the medallion is found. And while the medallion has always been found before Nevada Day, Mahe said the treasure hunt and the holiday have similar goals: to encourage its participants to take pride in their state. “I think certainly what we hope people are getting out of it is that they’re having a good time, and they’re enjoying it either by themselves or in groups—that families are going out and they’re learning” she said. “They’re not just learning about each clue, but you learn a bunch of history in order to solve a clue. So you’re learning about the state, and then you’re getting the opportunity to go out and see it.” Ω
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very university has its own long-standing traditions. At the University of Nevada, Reno, the school’s well-known traditions include running around in your underwear, getting drunk before graduation, firing a cannon at football games, and placing hundreds of empty liquor bottles in front of the school’s beloved John Mackay statue.
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The 545-pound Fremont Cannon is a replica of the howitzer that accompanied captain John C. Fremont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California from 1843-1844. It is now the prize for the annual UNR versus University of Nevada, Las Vegas football game. Former UNLV football coach Bill Ireland came up with the idea to create the gigantic trophy. Although the University of Nevada, Reno, won the first football game between the two schools in 1969, the cannon was not completed until the year after. It made its first appearance in 1970 when the Rebels beat the Wolf Pack and claimed the trophy. When UNR has the cannon, it’s kept on campus under a sign that reads: “The Fremont Cannon: The Largest ‘Rival’ Trophy in America.” It is so large that it requires either school’s ROTC to disassemble it before transporting it. Depending on which team wins the cannon each year, it’s then painted either Nevada blue or Rebel red. During the annual UNLV versus UNR football game, the cannon is brought onto the field for fans to see. The cannon has remained blue in favor of UNR since Nov. 26, 2016 but will be fought for once again on Nov. 24 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.
undie Run
This revealing tradition put on by the Associated Students of the University of Nevada happens every fall, usually during the school’s homecoming week, in front of the Joe Crowley Student Union. The tradition, which is said to have started in the early 2000s, begins by students stripping down to their underwear and collecting their clothes. Different campus organizations, sororities, fraternities and even different dorms compete with each other to see who can collect the most clothing, which is then donated to local charities. Regardless of the competitive aspect, the event is a way to raise school spirit and awkwardly bond with friends. After students strip down and donate their clothes, they partake in about a one-mile run across campus in their underwear. Cold weather or not, hundreds of students show up for the Undie Run every year to enjoy dancing and music before running through campus with friends and classmates, laughing through the embarassment along the way.
Students bring their decorated graduation caps to the Little Waldorf before commencement.
mimosas at the LittLe WaLdoRF
According to Toby Tamangi, general manager of the Little Waldorf, the tradition of students drinking mimosas before commencement started in the winter of 2006. He said three of his student employees wanted a place to hang out and drink early in the morning before their graduation. Tamangi said he opened up the bar at 6 a.m., made his employees pancakes and brought in bottles of champagne for them to enjoy before their ceremony began at 8 a.m. The following semester, there were about 15 students who showed up for the mimosas and pancakes. At the following winter ceremony, close to 50 people showed up, and by the next spring graduation, Tamangi said hundreds of soon-to-be graduates began rolling in through the doors of The Little Waldorf. Caroline Ackerman, a recent UNR graduate, remembers hearing about the tradition when she was a freshman in college and wanted to partake with her friends when she graduated in May of this year. When she arrived at the Little Waldorf shortly after 6 a.m., she said the entire place was packed. Every corner of the bar was filled with students wearing graduation garb and passing around pitchers of champagne and orange juice.
sacRiFices to mackay
This tradition was officially started in 2007 and has continued every fall and spring semester thereafter. The night before final exams begin, university students head to the large grass field on the south end of campus, known as the quad, to place empty bottles of alcohol under the John Mackay statue. Students place handles, beer bottles and other containers under the statue, hoping the sacrifice brings them good luck on their finals—like an offering to the finals gods. When heading down to the quad, dozens of students pose in front of the statue, proudly showing off gigantic handles they’ve consumed throughout the semester as their friends take pictures to post on Snapchat. It’s a way to not only reflect on all of the hard work they have done throughout the semester, but all of the partying they’ve done as well. Early the next morning, the campus facilities department recycles the hundreds of bottles. By dusk, the whole process begins again. Throughout finals week, empty bottles are placed under John Mackay until the very last day of tests is over. Ω
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peace a veteran laments veterans Day
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n the autumn day of Nov. 11, 1918, the armistice in the first World War took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Acting Governor Maurice Sullivan of Nevada declared a public holiday, and hundreds gathered in the streets of Reno to celebrate and burn Kaiser Wilhelm in effigy. The relief of peace after a terrible, drawn out war that had nearly been lost was palpable. That was armistice. A year later came Armistice Day. A few decades later, when another Nevada soldier and I were in D.C. protesting—along with numerous other soldiers— in the aftermath of the attack on Cambodia and the killings at Kent State, we were passing the Army Navy Club at 17th and I streets, and we saw people drinking atop the 12-story building. I heard a protester yell up to them, “The army’s come over to our side.” One of the things I really hated about my service years was the way politicians and other war supporters constantly assumed to speak for “our troops.” So the large number of antiwar soldiers was a source of comfort to me when I was in the service. A few years later, when I was out, a woman who was an American Legion “auxiliary” official asked me why Vietnam veterans seemed reluctant to join the established veterans’ organizations. I wasn’t a Vietnam vet. I was a Vietnam era vet who was spared duty in that unfortunate country, spending my overseas time in Europe. But I told her servicepeople had been split by the war, some traditionalists following what the government wanted without question, others deeply troubled by what our government
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did. The latter group wanted no part of those veterans’ groups that always seemed to be calling for more war. (Just 37 days after the Korean war armistice, the American Legion had called for another Korean war if those poor people did not toe our line.) James Michener once wrote that he was surprised the nation got through Korea without the kind of disruption Vietnam saw. But Vietnam was a bridge too far for many of us. That split we saw in our own generation kept showing up, with PR people like Merrie Spaeth exploiting it by creating the Swift Boat Veterans for “Truth” and pitting them against the rest of us. Spaeth and others created a climate in which veterans who opposed the war were mistreated when they came home, along with other protesters who were not veterans. In Greeley, Colorado, Vietnam veterans were barred from a Veteran’s Day parade in 1972. In Reno, pro-war veterans prevented antiwar veterans from riding on a Harold’s Club float, and the club let it happen.
Forever wars
If Vietnam was a bridge too far, it is difficult to know what today is. Today’s wars have become known among vets as the forever wars (see Harper’s, “Combat high,” June 2018), and keeping track of them is impossible for citizens. When a squad of U.S. soldiers was killed in Niger, U.S. senators like Bob Casey, Lindsey Graham and Charles Schumer said they didn’t know there were troops there. So how can citizens be expected to know? The Pentagon says it keeps Congress informed, and it no doubt does, the same way it keeps the public informed—using incomprehensible jargon and putting the information where it’s not easily located. Hedrick Smith, for his book Who Stole the American Dream? found the information in a document with the unilluminating title of Base Structure Report. It tells the number of servicepeople, the number of bases (more than 1,100), the facilities on those bases (there are 172 golf courses). I looked at that document for a story earlier this year, and it took me weeks to decipher what I was seeing. And it was difficult not to recall that saying, “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” There are now so many small wars that they now have their own publication, Small Wars Journal, where Erik Goepner of the Cato Institute recently wrote, “America’s war on terror has now entered its seventeenth year. The U.S. has invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and conducted military operations in Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and the Philippines. More recently, four military members died in
Niger during an ambush, suggesting the war on terror continues to widen. The war has cost the lives of nearly 7,000 service members and between $1.8 and $4 trillion. Despite the heavy toll in blood and treasure, most Americans seem content for the war to continue.” It may be a reach to classify this war as small. Not only do we not know how many wars we are now fighting, none of them are declared. If we’re ever to get our warmaking machine back under control, we could start by using the language more honestly. Armistice Day was changed to Veteran’s Day by Congress in 1954, the same Congress that shoehorned “under God” into Francis Bellamy’s pledge of allegiance. (Imagine Congress using legislation to alter the language of “Amazing Grace.”) Thus, warriors were elevated over peace. The 1949 Congress shut down the War Department and created the Defense Department, an entity that has become accomplished in fighting non-defensive wars. Reversing both those changes would start the process of honesty. Army Ranger Rory Fanning, who served two deployments in Afghanistan and walked across the United States raising funds for the Pat Tillman Foundation, wrote: “In place of what had been a celebration of peace, Congress instituted an annual veneration of those who fought in war. America would ever after celebrate not the beauty of peace, but its purveyors of state violence in World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Kosovo, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more. Governments had meant to do the opposite in 1919: if you go back and read the newspapers of the time closely enough, you can almost hear the collective sigh of relief and jubilation on the first Armistice Day. Millions celebrated peace and renounced war on that November day, a year after the violence in Europe had ended: after the mustard gas stopped burning off soldiers’ skin; after Gatling guns stopped mowing down young boys from mostly poor and working class families; after fighter planes stopped streaking the sky; and after bloody bayonets were wiped clean. In the wake of so much carnage, it was then clear to millions of people that wars were not about valour or romantic ideals, but about empire, which benefits a few at the expense of many.” I love autumn, but Nov. 11 is always melancholy. Each year, a few communities around the country mark Armistice Day instead of Veterans Day. Silver City, Nevada, is one of them, and I occasionally attend there. Ω
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Catherine Matovich, Olga Archdekin, Zak Brown, Victoria Randlett and Julia Auzmendi are organizing a milonga.
Sway to go Red Tango milonga “If I go to New York, if I go to San Francisco—in May I went to Paris—the first thing I do, the first night I’m there, I’m dancing tango,” said Julia Auzmendi. “Especially for me, that I’m from Buenos Aires, even if I’m in Rome, Paris … Reno—I dance tango, and it’s like I’m at home.” After moving to Reno two years ago, she started an organization called Reno Tango Collective. “It’s mostly for organizing milongas— that is the typical tango evening dance event of Buenos Aires,” Auzmendi said. “And then we are also trying to teach, not dance, but everything else that’s related to tango.” The Reno Tango Collective isn’t a registered nonprofit, at least not yet, but its four members’ outreach goals fit the bill for one. “Through our group, we try to show and share with people what we know as tango and what we love about tango,” Auzmendi said. “That is not only the dance, but it’s also the history of the music style that is from Buenos Aires—and with that comes the history of a city, the history of immigration … graphic arts, cinema.” The Reno Tango Collective’s teaching goals are geared toward introducing people to tango, but monthly milongas the group hosts at Craft Wine and Beer, 22 Martin St., often attract a crowd of regulars. Tango instructors and spouses Victoria Randlett and Zak Brown are among them. They say the community of regulars at Craft milongas and others in town is natural to tango. “It’s a very intense dance form, and it requires you to really be personally present and intensely involved in it while it’s happening,” Randlett said. “I think that attracts a certain kind of person, but it also fosters that kind of connection and
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communication among people who dance it. … When you get there through the dance, you find that you make those kinds of connections to the people you dance with on some level you don’t with most people in your life.” Randlett and Brown have been teaching lessons at the Reno Ballroom and private lessons for seven years now. They met on a dance floor in Sacramento more than a decade ago and kept up a long-distance relationship for a time, during which Randlett lived in Reno and Brown travelled often for work. During his travels, he discovered there are few places around the nation, or the world, without milongas. “In Lincoln, Nebraska, you could dance four nights a week,” he said. What’s rarer, especially in small communities, said Brown, is the chance to attend a milonga featuring live music. The Red Tango has performed locally as a string quartet for about four years. It’s comprised of members of the Reno Philharmonic, including violist Catherine Matovich and violinist Olga Archdekin. The pair recalls the first time dancers appeared during one of their performances. “We played it for ourselves,” Matovich said. “Basically, we wanted a great excuse to drink wine—and it felt like the sexiest music to play. And then we went and played a concert somewhere … and the dancers showed up, and we were like, ‘What?’” They have since played a few milongas, to which they’ve incorporated a stand-up bass. Now, they’ve joined Brown, Randlett and Auzmendi in organizing another at the Saint, 761 S. Virginia St., on Oct. 21. They’re hoping the midtown location might bring in a crowd and some tango newbies. “You dance. We’ll play,” said Archdekin. Ω
Red Tango will play a live milonga at the Saint, 761 S. Virginia St., on Oct. 21. Learn more at bit.ly/2Emcq2x.
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Get in the spirit of the season during the seventh annual event. Named a “Top Fall Event” in 2017 by Food Network Magazine, this family-friendly celebration of all things pumpkin features a variety of fun activities and attractions. Attendees can build and race a pumpkin in the Pumpkin Derby, participate in the family costume parade, play carnival-style games, hear stories in the “haunted schoolhouse,” compete in pieeating, marshmallow-shooting and mummywrapping contests, decorate a pumpkin, enjoy live entertainment and more. The festival benefits the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living. The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Victorian Square, 764-794 Victorian Ave., in downtown Sparks. Admission is free. Call 3533599 or visit www.pumpkinpalooza.org.
A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN: The Tony Award-
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Reno’s Theatre Department’s production of David Ives’ All in the Timing explores uncertainty, randomness, relativity and the limits and limitlessness of the tools of human communication. Thu, 10/18-Sat, 10/20, 7:30pm. $5-$15. Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building, UNR, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
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chamber music series continues with a program featuring works by Schubert and Prokofiev. Thu, 10/18, 7:30pm. $5-$35, free for youth ages 17 and younger. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 7844278, unrmusic.org/apex.
Brüka Theatre kicks off its 26th season with John Van Druten’s bewitching comedy. Set in 1957, Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over her upstairs neighbor Shepherd Henderson, and the chaos of love ensues. Unfortunately, witches cannot fall in love, and this small challenge leads to a number of difficulties. Gillian must choose between her life as a witch or the life of a human in love. The show runs Thursday-Sunday through Oct. 28. Thu,
EVENTS nominated Broadway musical celebrates Janis Joplin and the genesis of her musical genius through encounters with her seminal musical influences—Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Odetta, Nina Simone and Bessie Smith. Thu, 10/18, 7:30pm. $45$85. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600.
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CARSON CITY SYMPHONY HARMONICA GALA: The Carson City Symphony, directed by David Bugli, opens its 35th season with a gala concert featuring guest harmonica soloists Jiayi He and Tom Stryker. The program features music by Verdi, Smetana, Arthur Benjamin, John Barnes Chance and others. Sun, 10/21, 4pm. $12-$15, free for youth ages 18 and younger. Bob Boldrick Theatre, Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City., ccsymphony.com.
COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET—BACH TO BOWIE: The contemporary dance company performs dance pieces set to the classical sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach and the experimental rock music of David Bowie. Sun, 10/21, 7pm. $25-$55. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., pioneercenter.com.
DAY OUT WITH THOMAS ON THE V&T RAILROAD: Kids and their families can take a 25-minute train ride with Thomas the Tank Engine and meet Sir Topham Hatt. Have fun with plenty of Thomas activities, including motor car rides and putt putt golf at Sodor Island and jump in a Thomas bounce house. Children can collect a Thomas tattoo, an engineer license and have their passport stamped. Listen to storytellers and watch the latest Thomas videos in the V&T’s 1870 Depot waiting room. Fri, 10/19, 11am-2pm; Sat, 10/20, 10am-3pm; Sun, 10/21, 10am-2pm. $19. V & T Railroad Depot, 166 F St., Virginia City, virginiatruckee.com.
FERRARI FARMS FALL FESTIVAL: The seasonal event features a variety of pumpkins, squash, gourds and decorations for sale, a five-acre corn maze, hayrides, farm animals and other attractions. The pumpkin patch will be open 9:30am8pm, Sunday through Thursday, and 9:30am-10pm, Friday and Saturday, through Oct. 31. There is no entrance fee, but activities are individually priced. Pumpkins are all priced according to size. Thu, 10/18-Wed, 10/24, 9:30am. Free. Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 9973276, ferrarifarms.org.
THE FOLK & THE LORE—WILD WOMAN: This multimedia project aims to collect, archive and tell stories from Reno and throughout the region through photography, short films and live storytelling events. This month’s event is an evening of storytelling and films based on the Wild Woman. Sat, 10/20, 6pm. $8-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.
FREE RADICALS FALL CONCERT: The University of Nevada, Reno Lab I Jazz ensemble will perform its fall concert. Tue, 10/23, 7:30pm. $7, free for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
THE GOOD DOG BOOK RELEASE: Laika Press releases its first Laika Edition—a letterpress printed and silk-screened publication, featuring original illustrations from founding members. DJ Atey Ate will spins tunes. Dog costumes are encouraged. $5 suggested donation at the door gets you a drink ticket. Sat, 10/20, 5:30pm. Free. Laika Press, 1717 S. Wells Ave., www.laikapress.org.
GRAND SIERRA BEER AND CHILI FESTIVAL: The festival features the 52nd anniversary of the World’s Championship Chili Cook-off coupled with local and regional craft beer favorites. The event includes chili tastings, live music and vendors. Sat, 10/20-Sun, 10/21, noon. Free admission, $37-$79 for tasting tickets. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 7892000, gsrbeerandchili.com.
LATIN HARVEST COMMUNITY DINNER: Moon Rabbit Cafe and On Common Ground celebrate community with a fundraiser and three-course dinner. Pay what you can. Sat, 10/20, 4pm. Free. Moon Rabbit Cafe, ground floor of Reno Buddhist Center, 225 3/4 W. Taylor St., (775) 3455227, www.ocgreno.org.
LEND ME A TENOR: Sage Ridge School Theater Arts presents Ken Ludwig’s musical comedy. Fri, 10/19-Sat, 10/20, 7pm. $8-$18. Sage Ridge School, 2515 Crossbow Court, www.sageridge.org.
MURDER OF CROWS: Reno Little Theater’s Theater For Young Audiences presents a retelling of the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. A chorus of actors takes the audience on a dark journey where two children are navigating fear and abandonment. The tale is spun by the squawking murder of crows observing the events that unfold in the dark forest. Thu, 10/18-Sat, 10/20, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/21, 2pm. $10-$15. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900.
RBS’ HALLOWEEN MONSTER MASH: The Reno Blues Society holds its 25th annual veterans’ benefit dance. There will be costume contests, raffle and music by Snakeboy Johnson Band, the Whiskey Preachers and the Whiskey Haulers. All proceeds will benefit local veterans’ organizations. Sat, 10/20, 7pm. $15-$20. Hidden Valley Country Club, 3575 E. Hidden Valley Drive, (775) 848-2590, www.renobluessociety.org.
RENO BITES RESTAURANT WEEK: Revel in Reno’s distinctive culinary culture during the seventh annual celebration filled with dining specials at dozens of local restaurants and experiential, food-focused events, including the Chef Showdown, which pits the area’s top chefs in a cooking competition for bragging rights and prizes. Thu, 10/18Sun, 10/21. $0-$60. renobitesweek.com.
RENO ELECTIONS RALLY & DEBATE: RenoElections.Org holds a rally and candidate debate featuring candidates for Reno mayor and City Council seats and Washoe County School Board positions. The Run Up will perform a show at noon. Sat, 10/20, 2pm. Free. Reno City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., renoelections.org.
RENO ZOMBIE CRAWL: Dress up in your best zombie costume, purchase a commemorative crawl cup and map and enjoy drink specials, themed entertainment, costume contests and free access to more than 50 different bars and nightclubs in downtown Reno during the 10th annual event. Before the crawl begins, head to the Reno Arch for the annual Thriller dance mob at 6pm. Sat, 10/20, 8pm. $5-$10. Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., crawlreno.com.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE: Reno Fright Fest’s haunted house returns for its 13th year with new scares and a new attraction, the Terror Train, a 10-minute, frightening train ride through the interior of Greater Nevada Field. Slaughter House is open Thursday-Sunday, through Oct. 28, and Tuesday-Wednesday, Oct. 30-31. If you are looking for a less frightening experience for the kids, head to the Laughter House, which includes a narrated, trick-or-treat train ride, an inflatable Halloween maze in front of the stadium and pictures with holiday characters. Laughter House is open on 3-7pm on Sundays through Oct. 28, and on Monday, Oct. 29. Fri, 10/19-Sun 10/21, 7-11pm. $10-$30. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, www.renofrightfest.com.
TEENAGE ANGST FROM JOHN HUGHES: Churchill Arts Council concludes its John Hughes film series with a screening of the 1986 teen movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara and Alan Ruck. Fri, 10/19, 7pm. $7 CAC members, $10 non-members. Barkley Theatre, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.
TOLLHOUSE PUMPKINS FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL: The seasonal event features pumpkins for sale, a variety of inflatable attractions and bounce houses, kiddie train, farm animals, petting zoo, pony rides and more. Festival hours are 9am8pm, Sunday-Thursday, and 9am-9pm, Friday and Saturday, through Oct. 31. Admission is free, but you must purchase tickets for rides and attractions. A book of 22 tickets is $20. Individual tickets are $1. Thu, 10/18-Wed 10/24, 9am. Free. Tollhouse Pumpkins Pumpkin Patch, 12725 S. Virginia St., (503) 883-1841, tollhousepumpkins.com.
ULTRA4 NITTO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: The course combines technical rock obstacles with short course racing, showcasing the 4 wheel-drive capabilities of all the Ultra4 classes. Fri, 10/19-Sat, 10/20, 8am. $25, free for kids ages 12 and younger. Wild West Motorsports Park, 12005 East Interstate 80, Sparks, wildwestmotorsportspark.com.
WILD WOMEN ARTISTS AT PLAY: The event features storytelling, painting, jewelry, ceramics, prints, sculptural objects and other works by art by Wild Women members Marti Bein, Katherine Case, Susan Church, Kathleen Durham, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, Gail Rappa and Pat Wallis. Fri, 10/19, 4pm; Sat, 10/20, 10am. Free. University of Nevada Reno Student Gallery, 1164 N. Virginia St., www.wildwomenartists.com.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company presents Mel Brooks’ musical comedy adapted from his classic film. Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick and a leggy lab assistant, he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather’s. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity abounds. Thu, 10/18-Sat, 10/20, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/21, 2pm. $18-$20. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., www.goodluckmacbeth.org.
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Jenny from the flock I hit it off with this guy I met on Match.com. We’ve been dating for a month and slept together twice. He said he’d delete his Match profile because things were going so well, so I deleted mine. Recently, a mutual friend told me he’d just gone on Tinder. I’m super upset, and though we didn’t have the exclusivity talk, it seemed implied. It seems he didn’t quite get around to mailing out the formal invitations to the funeral for his freedom. Now, the guy may be an out-andout lying cad, cooing commitment-y things to you that he never intended to follow through on. However, it’s also possible that he was legit enthusiastic in that moment when he offered to delete Match—confusing the buzzy high of a love-thing that’s brand-new with a love-thing that’s really right. Neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz discovered that things that are new to us—people, relationships, pleasureproducing substances—activate our brain’s reward circuitry and its chemical messenger boy, dopamine, in a way things we’re used to do not. In fact, Schultz’s research suggests that “novel rewards” may be two to three times more dopamine-elevating than delishy stuff we’ve previously experienced. Basically, once we’ve tried something, even if we really, really enjoyed it the first time, it becomes less motivating to us. This motivational downshift comes out of how dopamine neurons are, in a sense, fortuneteller cells— they predict how rewarding things or situations will be. Dopamine, contrary to what countless books and articles contend, is not a “pleasure chemical.” It does not generate a heroin rush-type euphoria. It’s stimulating. It drives us to explore new stuff that might enhance our ability to pass on our genes. After dopamine calculates the difference between the initial high a thing gave us when it was new and its current level of more meh rewardingness, it can push us to go out and chase the initial high—seek some new provider, and then another and another. This is not an excuse for this guy’s lack of forthcomingness but a possible explanation for why he said he’d delete Match and then signed right up for Tinder. It’s also possible the powerful human fear of regret
is at play. Going exclusive with you would mean waving bye-bye to the rest of womankind. The problem from your end is that your wanting to go exclusive with him is the dating version of the impulse purchase. A month in, you don’t have enough information to judge his character and see whether there’s, uh, brand loyalty. You should be just starting to see who he is and reserving judgment.
Girl loves oy I’m a woman who wants a serious relationship, and a happily married friend is urging me to go on Jdate. I’m not Jewish and not interested in converting. Wouldn’t people be mad I’m on there? This site is called Jdate, not JewsOnly. Sure, some will be annoyed to find a nice, non-Jewish girl like you there, but there are others—like atheists from Jewish backgrounds and not-very-observant Jews—who might not find it a dealbreaker. That is, until they register the reality of inviting mom, dad and bubbe over for Christmakkah. Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga estimates that 98 percent of our brain’s activity is subconscious—including some of our decision-making. A man seeking a relationship can have his shortterm mating standards triggered without his knowing it while going through women’s profiles online. Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt find men in short-term mode are prone to lowering the bar on “their mate preference standards ... across an array of mate qualities, including personality, intelligence and even attractiveness.” Religion is surely one of these. Recognize this risk from being on Jdate as a non-J. If you do end up dating a Jewish guy, do your best, as early as possible, to suss out whether questions like “But what religion will the children be?” would lead to his ultimately following the advice of poet Dylan, uh, Thomasenstein: “Do not go gentile into that good night.” Ω
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the stockpilers and hoarders of the zodiac. The world’s largest collections of antique door knobs and Chinese restaurant menus and beer cans from the 1960s belong to Cancerian accumulators. But in alignment with possibilities hinted at by current astrological omens, I recommend that you redirect this inclination so it serves you better. How? One way would be to gather supplies of precious stuff that’s really useful to you. Another way would be to assemble a batch of blessings to bestow on people and animals who provide you with support.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Chinese mythology tells us
there used to be ten suns, all born from the mother goddess Xi He. Every 24 hours, she bathed her brood in the lake and placed them in a giant mulberry tree. From there, one sun glided out into the sky to begin the day while the other nine remained behind. It was a good arrangement. The week had 10 days back then, and each sun got its turn to shine. But the siblings eventually grew restless with the staid rhythm. On one fateful morning, with a playful flourish, they all soared into the heavens at once. It was fun for them, but the earth grew so hot that nothing would grow. To the rescue came the archer Hou Yi. With his flawless aim, he used his arrows to shoot down nine of the suns, leaving one to provide just the right amount of light and warmth. The old tales don’t tell us, but I speculate that Hou Yi was a Leo.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You now have maxi-
mum command of a capacity that’s a great strength but also a potential liability: your piercing brainpower. To help ensure that you wield this asset in ways that empower you and don’t sabotage you, here’s advice from four wise Virgos. 1: “Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.” —psychotherapist Anthony de Mello. 2: “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” —poet Mary Oliver. 3: “I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.” —actor and writer Stephen Fry. 4: “I wanted space to watch things grow.” — singer Florence Welch.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There are works
which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” wrote Libran author Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a long time after the answer.” That’s the weird news, Libra. You have been waiting and waiting to understand a project that you set in motion many moons ago. It has been frustrating to give so much energy to a goal that has sometimes confused you. But here’s the good news: Soon you will finally formulate the question your project has been the answer to. And so at last you will understand it. You’ll feel vindicated, illuminated and resolved.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many seekers who
read horoscope columns want common-sense advice about love, career, money and power. So I hope I don’t disappoint you by predicting that you will soon have a mystical experience or spiritual epiphany. Let me add, however, that this delightful surprise won’t merely be an entertaining diversion with no useful application. In fact, I suspect it will have the potential of inspiring good ideas about love, career, money or power. If I had to give the next chapter of your life story a title, it might be “A Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Practical Magic.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1962, when
she was 31 years old, Sagittarian actress Rita Moreno won an Academy Award for her role in the film West Side Story. In 2018, she attended the Oscars again, sporting the same dress she’d worn for the ceremony 56 years before. I think the coming weeks will be a great time for you, too, to reprise a splashy event or two from the past. You’ll generate soul power by reconnecting with your roots. You’ll tonify and harmonize your mental health by establishing a symbolic link with your earlier self.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Commit-
tee to Reward Unsung Good Deeds hereby acknowledges your meritorious service in the trenches of the daily routine. We praise your tireless efforts to make life less chaotic and more coherent for everyone around you. We’re grateful for the patience and poise you demonstrate as you babysit adults who act like children. And we are gratified by your capacity to keep long-term projects on track in the face of trivial diversions and petty complaints. I know it’s a lot to ask, but could you please intensify your vigilance in the next three weeks? We need your steadiness more than ever.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You need a special
pep talk that’s best provided by Aquarian poet Audre Lorde. Please meditate on these four quotes by her. 1: “Caring for myself is not selfindulgence, it is self-preservation.” 2: “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.” 3: “You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. To do that, you must first be willing to believe you have it.” 4: “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.” 5: “The learning process is something you can literally incite, like a riot.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Warning: My horo-
scopes may interfere with your ability to rationalize your delusions; they could extinguish your enthusiasm for clichés; they might cause you to stop repressing urges that you really should express; and they may influence you to cultivate the state of awareness known as “playful wisdom.” Do you really want to risk being exposed to such lavish amounts of inner freedom? If not, you should stop reading now. But if you’re as ripe for emancipating adventures as I think you are, then get started on shedding any attitudes and influences that might dampen your urge to romp and cavort and carouse.
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by JERi ChADwEll
A true bud
How did the idea for WeEdu come about? Back when we were actually budtending, they called us lead budtenders. … The idea is basically automating the process of being the best budtender you could be. That’s something we took upon ourselves when we were budtending. There’s training programs in place, but it’s really a lot. And if you do fall in love with it, it’s a lot learning on your own. … Back when it was all still medical, so we called people “patients.” So it was
Online it starts with 100- and 200-level courses that cover using cannabis, but then the 300-level is “What is THC?” You’re intercepting current users, so is that why it addresses teaching use before the science basics? PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL
Eric Johnson has worked in Nevada’s cannabis industry as a budtender and now works for the marijuana delivery service BlackbirdGo. He and co-worker Joey Johnson (no relation) are starting a new business called WeEdu. Their end goal is to develop a point-of-sale system that allows budtenders to teach their clients about the cannabis products they have available and the different effects of each. For now, the pair is producing a series of online blog posts labeled like college courses that cover cannabis basics from “WeEdu 110: What To Expect In A Dispensary” to “WeEdu 207: Sublinguals and Suppositories.” They’re available on the BlackbirdGo website: www.blackbirdgo.com/ discover.
from, and b) using a few more inputs like, “something to sleep” … would also help you look for things you want.
“patient recognition.” So, you know, if you have a little old lady who walks through the door who’s never seen cannabis before, you have to figure out what she does know and what she doesn’t know and try to lead her, eventually, to what product is going to be best for her. That’s where the idea came from—taking that experience and getting all of those resources in one place … and creating, basically, a search engine to help the budtenders.
So you’re teaching them what they want. Would, say, someone with anxiety use this to arrive at what she wants? Yeah, you and your budtender could just type “anxiety” in there, and it will pop up with all of the products that a) you maybe would want to stay away
We’re trying to go more into the top-ofthe-line science that’s coming out and trying to gather all of that and putting it on the frontlines. That was kind of the first one, so we’re going to go into CBD. There’s also CBG, which not a lot of people know about … and CBN and then all of the terpenes, too. … But we’re all learning together. We’re not saying we have all of the answers. We can’t say that yet because no one does. That’s the way that all came down, with pot as a Schedule I drug—and so there hasn’t been all of these legitimate studies done.
Seems like there are a lot of goals here. Yeah, it’s kind of a “what, how, why” thing. So what we do is educate. How we do it is with the build-in to the pointof-sale system. Why we do it, basically, is … anger at how it’s been held down throughout all of these years. I really see the medicinal value in it. I saw it every day working as a budtender. I’ve seen people that it really, really increased their quality of life. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
The latest victim Fall is a season of easy beauty. Days of gleaming perfection occur here in autumn, where the light is richly golden, the air is azure spotless, the temperatures usually agreeable and the plants all yellow, green and tan. It’s one of the great seasons, for sure. Maybe the greatest. But in even-numbered years, autumn is unfortunately marred by The Madness. Political madness. Election madness. Citizen United madness. Sheldon Fucking Adelson madness. “The candidate with the most ads wins” madness. It’s dreary. It’s tiresome, and, for those of us who have known for quite some time that we wouldn’t vote for no stinking ReTrumplican no way no how, quite over the freakin’ top. (So why the hell isn’t Jacky up by 20 points?) A good way to minimize the scar tissue inflicted by the Great Onslaught in even-numbered au-
tumns is to hook up the trailer and head for the hills. On the Thursday afternoon of Sept. 26, I pulled into a campground tucked into what are possibly the finest hills in the state of Nevada—the Ruby Mountains, 30 miles south of Elko. I wandered up the road into wondrous Lamoille Canyon, a glacially carved marvel that’s without a doubt one of the prettiest places in the West. My timing was excellent. The hills were aflame with a glorious display that rivals those of Colorado, highlighted by blazing Cheeto-dust aspens. The air temperature was about 77. It was going to be an absolutely perfect happy hour in the excellent campground in the middle of this stunning place. Space 12 was waiting for me, that day’s refuge from The Madness. It didn’t occur to me for even one nanosecond that afternoon that I was witnessing the next-tolast sunset of Lamoille’s stupen-
dous beauty. But, I’m crestfallen to report, that’s exactly the case. The Spring Creek shooting range is in the flats below the canyon, and on Sunday morning, Sept. 29, a fire broke out behind that range, kindled, one might reasonably assume, by a spark from a stray shot. (Authorities now agree.) Very quickly, the wind pushed the blaze straight up into the canyon, and there, a truly heartbreaking disaster took place. Nine thousand acres of superb scenic natural splendor were mercilessly roasted, charred and blackened. So when we tally this year’s gun victims, don’t forget Lamoille Canyon. I’m sure it was innocent. I’m sure it was an accident. I’m sure there was no malicious intent. But make no mistake, Lamoille Canyon got killed by a gunshot. And that sucks on a scale that is truly beyond words. Ω
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