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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I have mixed feelings about early voting. On the one hand, I’m all for anything that makes voting easy and convenient. The more people who vote, the better. So, vote, vote, vote. Vote early, mail it in, do it however works for you. (And a big F.U. to all those forces who try to suppress voter turnout with strict ID laws, misinformation and dumb myths about voter fraud.) But on the other hand, personally, I like to wait ’til Election Day. Of course, that’s partly because I’m an inveterate … procrastinator. But I also like to wait ’til I have as much information as possible before casting my votes. Call me old-fashioned. So, yeah, we haven’t published our election endorsements yet this year. But don’t worry—they’ll be here soon. Before Election Day. So, next week. Your call what to do with that information. You want to get after it with the early voting—go for it. I can respect that. And, OK, you want to vote early but still want some recommendations from your ol’ pals here at the RN&R? OK, here are a few freebies: Just say no to Dean Heller. No to Adam Laxalt. No on Question 3. Yes to Heidi Howe. More to come next week. I also think Election Day should be a national holiday. It’s infuriating to me that bullshit like Columbus Day is a federal holiday—although thankfully not observed in Nevada—but most people have to work on Election Day. Of course, I’d probably still end up here at the office, watching the returns roll in like it’s goddamn Game 7 of the World Series.
Re “Policy drawn from fact, not fiction” (Left Foot Forward, Oct. 11): I agree with Sheila Leslie and would add the term “bullying” to the list. I have yet to see evidence of a parent or teacher physically disciplining a child or student who is bigger and stronger than they are. I would warn those teachers and parents who choose to physically discipline a child or student that what goes around, comes around. Kelly Hardiman Reno
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Bergland threat If y’all don’t vote, I will hunt you down to chastise, belittle, berate, insult and condemn you personally. No, seriously—! The ultraconservatives now hold all three branches of government. We need a non-GOP Senate and House, or we’re lost. We need a blue-green bigass tsunami to stop this shit in its tracks. Do it, or I’ll be a door-knockin’. You don’t want that. Craig Bergland Reno
Question 3 Having read my sample ballot, I’m totally pissed because a lot of inside and outside money has been spent on the message that Question 3 is about deregulating our power industry. And it’s all pure bullshit, and the people spending huge money disseminating that message know it. Read your sample ballot, which includes arguments for and against Question 3 with rebuttals and rebuttals of rebuttals. The key thing you’ll notice is that the arguments for passage clearly state that the amendment does nothing to define what the free market for energy would look like, but it clearly includes a requirement for regulation of whatever solution our legislators come up
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with. But the rebuttals keep going back to “deregulation is bad/scary/evil,” etc., which illustrates either an inability to understand basic language or an attempt to subvert honest debate on a critical subject. If you’re concerned about the ability of our elected officials to get it right, remember that it’s our responsibility as voters to make sure the right people are given the opportunity to get it right. The existing debate on Question 3 is exactly what disgusts me with our current politic, and that’s why I’m voting and convincing as many people I can to vote. This has to change. Michel Rottman Virginia City Highlands
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research before making such an inane statement, since in reality nunchakus are two round pieces of wood (like dowels) held together with either chain or some type of string/cord with the handles wrapped or unwrapped. (They also are nunchakus not nunchucks.) So maybe to the reporter and now to Andy, four guys stabbing someone to death to rob them of drug money is just a “juvenile misunderstanding,” but to some of us it is murder, and they damn sure deserve what they got, but for some hasn’t been taken to the end. Benjamin Africa Sun Valley
The Hoff case Re “The killing of a cop” (cover story, Oct. 11): For some reason, I get the feeling that we should feel sorry for the guys that killed Jimmy Hoff. Maybe it was the way the story flowed, all about the poor guys getting terrible representation during the trial and having such a hard life leading up to the murder. MURDER! That was what happened, and they were given a trial and proven guilty. Having worked with both Jimmy and Andy Boles, I found the guilty verdicts were warranted, and I do believe that Andy Boles felt that way prior to becoming an attorney. There was more to this case that should have been brought out in this story. Why, when contact with Jimmy was lost, did the sergeant in charge allow it to go on? I know that at least one of the officers that was involved was not happy with what went down, but he has since passed away. And then in the story there is a reference to nunchakus. The reporter says that the nunchakus found in the car were “in reality” merely wooden dowels connected with a chain and wrapped electrical tape. The reporter should have done some
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Have you voted yet? asked at U.s. Post office, 1674 n. viRginia st.
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I have not voted yet. It’ll likely be my first time voting in Nevada. I just moved from California.
Peggy MilleR Fitness studio manager
Not yet. I’m planning on voting on the day. This time around it’s just because I haven’t had time to look into it to do the early voting.
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Grain of salt The debate between mayoral candidates was revealing, particularly on the homeless issue. Incumbent Hillary Schieve has been criticized for being insensitive to homeless needs, but her opponent made her look kindly. “You move them on the outskirts in the county,” Eddie Lorton said. “Give them bus passes so then they’re more likely to get into programs so they can get back into life and get on their feet.” He said he would close the downtown homeless shelter and move its residents to the city’s outskirts where they will be away from the temptations of downtown, whatever that means. He did not explain how he would enforce this movement of the homeless. It would be nice to have a little historical perspective here. Reno went through years of searching for a site for a homeless shelter. A site would be announced, then canceled, time after time. On one occasion, a news conference was held at the city industrial yard behind Fisherman’s Park, where it was explained that this would be the site. Among those in reluctant attendance was Mayor Bruce Breslow of Sparks, who explained his reticence. Sparks does not have a homeless problem, he said. Sparks police simply drive homeless people to Reno. That was his approach to the problem, akin to Lorton driving them to the county line. But homeless people are like any others. They decide where they congregate. It’s why some of the sites that were announced and then canceled didn’t work. Homeless people need to be where it is easiest to get to job interviews, which means downtown where the city bus depot
is, and, indeed, that was where the homeless shelter was finally built. One of Lorton’s temptations of downtown, after all, is central public transportation to many parts of the community. And that long-ago Fisherman’s Park location was right across the street from the state mental hospital where the state recently offered buildings for homeless use, so no one should get excited about it too quickly, since it would move people away from public transportation. Of course, to those who do not see homeless people as job seekers, it doesn’t matter where they are shuttled. It’s easier to disparage homeless than to propose solutions, and it’s particularly hard for municipal candidates to propose remedies to what is a national problem. But many of today’s working poor are yesterday’s homeless, and local officials need to do what they can. Lorton was not wrong when he said Schieve bulldozed residential motels. The problem was that she was determined to move ahead with those demolitions without knowing what would happen to the displaced residents. All of this is by way of saying that the homeless problem is nearly unsolvable in communities where there is a tradition of helping the poor. It is even more difficult where there is not, or even resistance to it, as in Nevada. For Lorton to say he has the magic answer to the problem after several city councils and mayors in the last 40 years have broken their picks on it should be taken with a grain of salt. When a candidate starts talking about making hard sacrifices and unpopular decisions on the homeless, then will be the time to start listening seriously. Ω
Yes. I’ve made use of early voting for years. I used to work at a grocery store, and they had it there. And then I’m a student, so I did it at the university, just now.
anthony Uy Bicycle mechanic
I actually just registered recently. I actually just got my citizenship this year so this is my first time to vote. I’m excited about it. … People say, “One vote doesn’t matter,” but if everyone believes that then only a small percentage of people actually vote.
Michele dondanville Research program manager
I just didn’t know that it had started yet. But I just got my voter thing in the mail today, so I was going to look and see, like, “How do I do early voting?” I’ll probably go on the day because of the tradition of it. Just the whole thing of voting on voting day.
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Shen Yun Performing Arts Are Nothing But A Fraud In May 2018, the Shen Yun Performaning Arts came back to Buffalo from its tour around the North America, and this most brazen religious heretic became even more bizarre than before.
and urban landscapes. Against that rough and ugly digital background, a series of dances and stories were unfolded, each allegedly drawn from a Chinese cultural religion or national story.
The Falun Gong group planned to put on two performances at the Shea’s Performing Arts Center. To this end, they had organized a marketing blitz — numerous window posters, print ads, outdoor billboards and door-hanging tags, all of which were misleading commercial advertisements that found every possible way to penetrate people’s lives.
The dance group, as one of the five “Falun Gong” companies that toured around the country, was made up of dancers who were somewhat skilled but not excellent. As the two passionate Chinese and English bilingual anchors explained, the cultural significance of those dances would appeal to Westerners irresistibly. After two and a half hours, however, the dances began to repeat. Instead of being designed to tell stories, they simply showed the actors’ gorgeous costumes.
Shun Yun was ridiculous, and it is difficult to describe this feeling to those who have never noticed it. Think of it as a combination of TV shopping show at QVC, Mormon talent show in the Hill Cumorah (the legendary origin of golden plates of Mormonism), and a show of the “700 Club” (a program of CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network), or a mixture of the Church of Scientology and Mario Kart (a funky racing game of “The Mario” series of Nintendo). But still they are not accurate descriptions of Shen Yun. Although the performance arts claimed that they showed the 5,000year “Chinese classical dance”, it was undoubtedly an awkward attempt to promote the “Falun Gong” movement to unintentional ticket buyers. Believers of this hooligan ideological movement claim that humanity is “destroyed” by “modern thoughts and values” such as homosexuality and intermarriage. This message was conveyed from the short dramas that made fun of sissies. The religious songs on the show also warned imminent wrath of heaven and accused China of its brutal violence against the “Falun Gong”. The last time I watched this show was in 2010, and it has changed little since then. It still covered its intentions and provided unsatisfactory theater experience. The shoddy image background shown in 2009 became a history, replaced by a slightly complex projection of Chinese natural landscapes
The new version of Shen Yun contained more humor elements (or an attempt to show humor) by inserting campus misconduct and a failed robbery in a modern temple in a new short drama. The anchors’ explanations to most of the shows were disturbing and were poles apart from the comedy that the American audience understood. Even brisk music hardly softened the core purpose of Shen Yun: a chain of information about “Falun Gong” (also known as “Falun Dafa”) was embedded in exaggerated short dramas and songs, although the shows still felt arrogant and embarrassing. From the song of soprano Tian Li and Information, a show with piano accompaniment by Jingya Mahlen, we could capture the true intention of “Falun Gong”: Human is heading for destruction. “Don’t go astray with modern thoughts. Don’t forget the God’s way,” sang Tian Li. Completely fraud. What followed were more and more shows describing how “Falun Gong” believers were beaten and tortured with ox goads and had their eyes removed by the Communists. The audience quickly realized: the Shen Yun performing arts were associated with Chinese classical dance as much as Jonestown was associated with basket weaving (alluding that the real purpose of the cult “People’s Temple” in Jonestown was not to organize believers to weave baskets, and the real purpose of the cult “Falun Gong” was not to promote Chinese classical dance in such performing arts).
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by SHEILA LESLIE
When in doubt, vote for a woman Even though Nevada has never elected a female governor, women are steadily gaining political power from the U.S. Senate— where our senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, will hopefully soon be joined by Rep. Jacky Rosen—to Reno’s mayoral seat where Hillary Schieve is a lock for re-election. Nevada’s women instinctively understand the political maxim, “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” Nevada currently has a high percentage of women in state legislative office, ranking third in the nation at 38.1 percent, and we could become the first state to have a majority female Legislature in 2019. More Democratic women are running in legislative districts this year, motivated by the #MeToo movement and a president who demeans women by calling them derogatory names like “Horseface.” They want an ethical and effective state government focused more on supporting healthy families than subsidizing corporations. One is Tina Davis-Hersey, running for the state Senate in district 16 against
incumbent Republican Ben Kieckhefer. Davis-Hersey is a mother, a natural resources professional and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. She’s concerned about Nevada’s tax giveaways to businesses as the state “struggles to fund education and deal with homelessness, new infrastructure issues, housing affordability and accessibility to health care.” She’s tired of Kieckhefer’s many conflicts of interest associated with his job at a law firm that represents clients who depend on the Legislature’s largess, and his tendency to avoid abstaining from voting for their concerns. If you’re ready for fresh leadership in district 16, Davis-Hersey is your candidate. In Assembly district 26, June Joseph is running against incumbent Lisa Krasner, known for casting the lone “no” vote in the Assembly against assisting poor families in accessing diapers. She also voted against women’s equality. Joseph has lived in the district since 1994 and is an advocate to end domestic and sexual violence, volunteering her time as a board member for Tahoe Safe
Alliance. She wants to improve education and work on health care access, especially for mental health and addiction services. Northern Nevada rural legislative districts also have progressive women running this cycle. Assembly district 32 voters can choose Democrat Patty Povilaitis over Republican Alexis Hansen. In district 40, Democratic activist Autumn Zemke would bring energy and enthusiasm to her advocacy for thousands of state workers living in the district, representing them much more effectively than incumbent Republican Al Kramer. Senior and retiree activist Wendy Boszak is running in Senate district 14, logging a ton of campaign miles in rural Nevada, introducing herself as a progressive alternative to Assemblyman Ira Hansen. In Washoe County, Sen. Julia Ratti is the clear choice in Senate district 13, effectively representing inner city residents in Reno and Sparks. Ratti opposed the Raiders Stadium boondoggle and has spearheaded initiatives to address affordable housing and increased access to women’s health care.
Washoe County Commission races offer two smart, committed candidates. The re-election of Commissioner Kitty Jung will ensure a continued strong voice for working families and health and human services, while Lindsy Judd is poised to greatly improve representation of the north valleys should she prevail in commission district 5. In county-wide races, Kalie Work deserves a chance to show us what she can do as county recorder. Verita Black Prothro will make a fine public administrator, emphasizing the protection of seniors and other vulnerable populations from exploitation. She has already demonstrated uncommon grace in rising above the vile and racist defacement of her campaign signs. Progressive voters should choose Judge Dixie Grossman for Family Court judge, and Justice Lidia Stiglich and Judge Elissa Cadish for the two competitive Supreme Court seats. Each has an impressive track record as a judicial leader and can be counted on to work hard and judge fairly. After all, they’re women. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
Survey of u.S. voter enthuSiaSm pollS
Democratic nominee for governor Steve Sisolak in Reno with supporters Kevan (center) and Monique Laxalt. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
African American voters UP Young African American voters UP MORE Asian Americans UP Swing state voters UP Democratic women TURBOCHARGED (Politico’s term) Gain from Kavanaugh dispute: Republicans UP Democrats UP MORE Young voters DOWN This could be the rare midterm when turnout rises. In the last midterm election, Nevada turnout was 29 percent of eligible voters.
Q3 goeS negative With environmentalists now pushing hard for the defeat of the deregulating ballot Question 3, supporters of the measure have gone heavily negative with attacks on NV Energy, the regulated monopoly that supplies most of Nevada with power. Journalists around the state get lots of news releases with titles like “NV Energy’s Campaign Tells Biggest Lies Yet.” A wraparound in the Oct. 21 Reno Gazette Journal carried this quote, allegedly from the Clark County Education Association: “NV Energy has leveraged their monopoly power to overcharge the Clark County School District by millions of dollars every year.” NV Energy did not comment on the charge, but the Washoe County School District and Nevada State Education Association oppose Question 3.
heller’S Switch getS noticed The Wall Street Journal this week carried a story headlined “Nevada’s GOP Senator Bets on His Conversion to Trumpism.” It began: “No Republicans on the ballot in 2018 have shifted their Trump-era political allegiances more than Nevada Sen. Dean Heller. Mr. Heller never endorsed President Trump’s 2016 campaign and declared himself ‘99 percent against Trump.’ During Mr. Trump’s first months in office, Mr. Heller called a press conference to announce his opposition to the Republican health care overhaul Mr. Trump promised. “Then ...”
nevada duckS ag Search Thirty-five states have entered a competition for 700 jobs the U.S. Agriculture Department wants to export from D.C. Nevada is not among them. An Oct. 22 USDA statement said the department “has received 136 expressions of interest from parties in 35 states interested in becoming the new homes of the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). … The entities expressing interest in hosting EFS and NIFA include educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, state development agencies, county development agencies, municipalities, and for-profit entities.”
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Growth Candidates don’t talk much about coping in 1978, in a spectacularly bad example of local planning, six casinos opened in Reno within weeks of each other. These included the massive MGM Grand Hotel—now Grand Sierra Resort—which became a symbol of the resulting deterioration of Reno’s quality of life. Publicity of the hotel boom across the nation brought numerous job seekers into Reno. The newcomers could work as many jobs as they wanted, but soon there was no place to live. People were living in their cars or at roadside rests on Interstate 80 or on dirt roads outside the city proper. If they were able to find housing, the rents were sky high. A bond issue had to be rushed through to expand the suddenly strained sewage treatment plant. Traffic overwhelmed existing configurations. Developers bought up laundromats to get the water connections. As it happened, 1978 was also the year of a governor’s race in Nevada, and both Democrat Robert Rose and Republican Robert List addressed the difficulties the Truckee Meadows faced during the campaign. When the election was over and winning Republican Robert List took office, he established a Commission on
the Future of Nevada to address some of the problems raised by the negative effects of growth. In 2018, however, the candidates have barely mentioned the failings of the state’s economic development efforts and the unfavorable impact of Tesla and other sudden large workforces on Washoe County’s quality of life. Neither Democrat Steve Sisolak nor Republican Adam Laxalt have offered much about how they would deal with high rents and the unavailability of housing in Washoe. The National Association of Realtors in February ranked Reno second only to San Jose in the rate of home price increases. After Laxalt issued a paper on economic development, the Republican Governors’ Association—which is trying to get Laxalt elected in Nevada— put out a news release that quoted the Nevada Independent: “Sisolak, his general election opponent, has not released a similarly detailed economic development plan.” Perhaps the best response to that is, “Neither has Laxalt.” What the Republican nominee has called his economic development plan is not a bit
detailed. It is 737 words long, about as long as a high school essay. The section on housing is 42 words long, if the heading is included, and reads, in its entirety: “Reduce barriers that limit Nevadans’ access to affordable houeing. Nevada’s housing market has seen marked volatility in recent years, but the state is again growing, and housing prices have soared to the point that affordability has been strained, particularly in Northern Nevada.” If the barriers referenced are volatility and housing prices, the 42 words do not contain a hint of how Laxalt would deal with them. His paper describes the problem, not solutions. And while education is mentioned more often (six times) in the plan, it never gets around to answering one of the principal questions that has been repeatedly raised during this campaign: How will Laxalt both repeal the commerce tax and keep education spending at the same level, both of which he has promised to do? Nor have either Sisolak or Laxalt offered any sense of what guidelines they will follow when handling demands for corporate welfare to lure business. Sisolak seems to have a comfort level with the concept, given his support of the Raiders stadium, but Laxalt has not provided even that much information on his stance.
neighborS Lance Gilman, owner of Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) where Tesla is based and a GOP Storey county commissioner, has endorsed Sisolak, which may send a message all its own. Gilman was involved in luring Tesla to TRIC in Storey County without showing much anxiety over the impact it would have on housing, traffic, sewage, water and other factors in neighboring counties, which are bedroom communities for Tesla workers. Gilman told Ray Hagar in the Fernley Reporter that he considered Sisolak the logical successor to Gov. Brian Sandoval: “I can’t say enough about Sandoval and his support for us. Tesla is here because of Sandoval and his efforts, and supporting us … with Switch and even Google. And there is only one candidate in our opinion that has the appetite, commitment, capabilities and background to continue that financial investment and vision for economic diversification and
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Far from it. Perry Di Loreto of Di Loreto growth. … Gov. Sandoval wanted a spokesman Homes said, “I don’t believe we can build to bring in for the stadium in Las Vegas and the 5,000 homes each year.” football team, the Raiders. So when that issue Reno City Councilmember Jenny Brekhus became an opportunity, it was Steve Sisolak said earlier this year, “That is a critique I have that the governor selected to lead that commitof [Gov. Brian] Sandoval—he did economic tee to capture that opportunity.” development on steroids to get the state out of Sandoval and the Nevada Legislature the recession but ignored local government and were so desperate for the jobs Tesla would school districts’ ability to accommodate growth bring that they offered more corporate propelled by his policies.” welfare than the corporation wanted She said she thought that growth while failing to insist on provisions impacts would be a major issue in for housing and other quality this year’s governor’s race. They of life factors. It was much Candidates for have not been. the way the 1970s Reno City List recalls that during his Council asked only that the governor are campaign for governor, he city animal shelter be moved close-mouthed on was asked about the impact of and that public access to the growth impacts. growth frequently enough that river be preserved as the price he cut a television commercial of building the MGM. devoted to “growth and the impact No one could say the it was having.” It was filmed at his Truckee Meadows was not warned family’s ranch in Washoe Valley, and at the what was coming with Tesla. In 2015, end of the commercial he was leaning against a study commissioned by the Economic a fence post and said, as he slammed the gate Planning Indicator Committee looked at the closed, “We’re going to close the gate on reckimplications of projected local population less development.” growth by 2019 from 42,400 to 64,700. “Growth and expansion of the community, Economic Development Authority of demands for infrastructure was a big part of the Western Nevada president and CEO Mike campaign,” List said last week. Ω Kazmierski told the Reno Gazette Journal, “I actually think some of those numbers are conservative. We’re going to need 5,000 new homes each year and have to build new schools to support this growth.” The Laxalt economic development plan can be read at https:// But local builders did not have the homes tinyurl.com/y8y8fpv3 ready when the Tesla plant began operating.
Four claims RenoElections.com and its platform RenoElections.org, a website that has generated a lot of comment during the general election campaign, has used a decidedly old-style method of getting its message out—a postcard measuring 6-by-11 inches mailed to local households. The postcard calls the RenoElections group “nonpartisan,” which is a little like calling the Republican National Convention nonpartisan. RenoElections has a hard right point-of-view.
The postcard sent out by RenoElections. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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At a banquet marking the 125th anniversary of the student newspaper sagebrush at the University of nevada, reno, former editors Tom Wixon (left, 1969-70), Buddy Frank (center, 1972-73) and Michael Graham (1971-72) reminisced. The newspaper began publication on Oct. 19, 1893 as the student record, and since 1910 its name has taken various configurations that all included the word sagebrush. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
The four claims the postcard makes under the heading “Reno’s Report Card” are as follows: “Reno’s national crime rating is a ‘F.’ ” This rating is attributed—in very small type—to a website called AreaVibes. com. That site does indeed give Reno an F, but it provides no substantiation at all. No sources are given for figures cited. AreaVibes also gives Reno a B-minus for housing at a time when housing is extremely difficult to find and rents are out of sight, and Reno employment gets a D at a time when joblessness is at only 4.5 percent and at a time when Reno is gaining jobs faster than the state as a whole. AreaVibes is not a credible source. “Our public schools are rated the worst in the U.S.” This is false and is not supported by the citation listed, again, in very small type—a Reno Gazette Journal news story by Sam Gross, which did not even mention Reno. His story reported on the standing of state, not city schools. Washoe County schools, which include Reno, have for many
years posted better results than the rest of the state. Washoe high schools are normally listed in the U.S. News and World Report survey of the state’s top high schools, and last December the Las Vegas Review Journal reported that, as usual, “In Washoe County, for example, 42 percent of the county’s 19 middle schools will receive four- or five-star ratings, compared with only 26 percent of Clark County’s 66 middle schools.” “Reno’s homeless problem is out of control.” This finding by RenoElections is attributed in small type to a cozy source—an essay written by Paul White, who manages the website RenoElections.org. In other words, this website is its own source for this assertion. But let’s assume it is accurate. The homeless problem in most cities in the United States is out of control and has been since the early 1980s when President Reagan and a bipartisan group in Congress—Republicans and blue dog Democrats—removed the safety net of social services that had existed since the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, from mental health to nutrition. Until the 1980s, the U.S. did not have a large homeless class, and a small Salvation Army shelter in Reno handled the problem. The postcard does not propose any way for local municipalities to solve this national problem. “Reno’s city debt is over 700 million.” OK. Now what? Every city has debt, as does nearly every family. Bought a car or have a mortgage? RenoElections does not allege that there is anything wrong with this, such as the city not having the assets to meet its debt or that its pension and retiree healthcare costs are too great to cover the debt. Rather, it throws out a big figure and lets it rest there. Thanks for the info, folks. In fact, the city has at least twice done what amounted to a refinancing of its debt from the train trench, a practice which is less than financially healthy, and RenoElections could have made an issue of that. But it did not do that kind of homework. It just grabbed alarmist figures and threw them into the public bloodstream without providing any scrutiny or context for those figures. Ω
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Near beer Tahoe breweries The Reno-Tahoe region has a history with beer. Saloons and small breweries sprung up alongside the region’s towns, but by the latter part of the 19th century, residents eagerly awaited large shipments of beer from companies like Anheuser-Busch, especially during the winter months when delivery could be slow. In fact, when shipments from Anheuser-Busch arrived, they were announced in the newspapers. Local breweries also sent barrels of beer to mining and logging camps in the Virginia Range and Sierra. One of them was the Boca Brewery near Truckee.A Reno Evening Gazette story from Oct. 3, 1879, noted that, at the time, the brewery was producing “five lots a week, making 450 barrels of 30 gallons each.” The Boca Brewery burned to the ground in 1893, but other producers, local and national, supplied the region with beer until the start of prohibition. But after that dark period ended in 1933, small breweries in California and Nevada still had a fight on their hands. The owners of many of today’s breweries were among those who lobbied legislators in their two states for the legalization of brewpubs—which occurred in California in 1982, and in Nevada in 1993. Chris Smith is co-owner and head brewer at South Lake Tahoe Brewing Company. The brewery distributes its beer on the California side of Lake Tahoe as well as Sacramento, Placerville and the East Bay. California breweries have to establish a relationship with a distribution company to bring their products to Nevada—a process many consider onerous. But Smith said his brewery hopes to get it done in 2019. In the meantime, he’s preparing to release several seasonal beers.
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“We’ll have our Helles Dee, and that’s our light, drinking lager,” Smith said. “That will come out in the next couple of weeks. And then right after that, we’ll have our pilsner. We call it Pilsner of Society.” Around Thanskgiving, they’ll release one called Hall and Oatesmeal, a “strong oatmeal stout.” The brewery just released an Irish red beer called “Rippers” and is planning to release an Irish stout called “Dublin Down” and a new double IPA called “Measure D” in the next few weeks. “That’s a little bit of a political joke there for the Measure T people in town,” said Sidell, referring toa ballot measure to reduce vacation home permits South Lake will vote on next month. Over on the Nevada side of the lake, Alibi Ale Works founding brewer and co-owner Kevin Drake knows Truckee Meadows residents are accustomed to regular new releases from his brewery. “We have new beers coming out literally every week—at minimum four beers a month,” he said. Alibi released a new IPA called “Chance of Clouds” and its 2018 holiday beer—part of a rotating line of sour beers called “Mr. Tartacular’s”—on Oct. 22. “‘It’s called ‘Mr. Tartacular’s Awkward Family Dinner’—and it’s a sour ale with tangerines, cherries and cranberries—so very much … those holiday, fall flavors. … This one, we kind of took it to the ‘home for the holidays’ kind of vibe. It’s got really funny art on the front—a totally crazy, rowdy, awkward family dinner.” Tahoe residents can get their hands on cans of it as of press time, but valley residents will have to wait a week or so. But Drake said his brewery has plans for some rapid-fire releases in conjunction with the brewery’s fourth anniversary on Dec. 13. “We’ll be releasing a bunch of one-off, specialty beers for that as well,” he said. Ω
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WelcoMe to a brand neW contest froM the reno neWs & revieW. In part, we devised “Stories, period.” as a means to further normalize menstruation as a topic of discussion. It’s something 51 percent of the population will experience throughout the majority of their lives. And what an experience it is. When things go well, your period arrives on a fairly regular schedule every month, give or take, and lasts a predictable number of days. But when things with your period go wrong, it can be really, really scary—whether it’s missing in action or appearing at random. Despite some universal themes, the journey from when each woman’s period first arrives to when it departs is an individual one. For women who are encountering female hormones for the first time after making their transitions, the experience is an even more singular one, shared only by a brave few. As any woman will tell you, a menstrual cycle is way more than just a few days of bleeding and hormonal flux. It’s a weekslong span of time during which three key hormones—estrogen, testosterone and progesterone—rise and fall in a pattern. And the balance of those hormones can affect you in a variety of ways—your sleep quality, appetite, energy levels, mood and love life, to name a few. And this, of course, spawns stories. In our promo for this contest, we joked about the “Red Badge of Courage sort” and the ones “that are funny—now.” But we also invited you to share your poignant stories about menstruation. I’m very pleased to say we got all of that and more in the entries. Give them a read, and, if you’re interested, come to the Holland Project on Nov. 4, from 7 to 10 p.m. for an event we’re calling “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” People will have a chance to read their period stories in front of an audience and listen to music by Reno bands, including Pink Awful, Fine Motor, Our Small Talk and Caitlin Thomas. We’re hosting the event in conjunction with Planned Parenthood and, obviously, the Holland Project. Also, there’s a question on this year’s ballot—Question 2—and if it passes, feminine hygiene products in Nevada would be exempted from local and state sales taxes. We’re not taking a position on this question yet, but if you want to read about it, we recommend you go here: https:// bit.ly/2LJWhGV. Enjoy these stories. I hope we’ll see you Nov. 4 at the Holland Project. And, please, don’t forget to get out on Nov. 6 and VOTE! regards! Jeri chadwell, associate editor
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period. “Missed” Month one
I don’t miss it at first. Being ghosted by my period feels like the start of summer. It is freedom from disruption, from reevaluating outfits, activities and appropriate underwear. Freedom from supply rationing and strategy—the art of tampon smuggling from purse, to sleeve or pocket, to bathroom. It is the luxury of sleep. It is the relief of leaving my designated “period” blanket and the anxiety of soiled nightwear and sheets in the closet. I am used to these vacations. My period is Beyonce. Since I was 11, it has always done what it wants, when it wants. I could worry that I’m pregnant but trust my body enough to believe I am not. Month three
All the tests are negative. Within four weeks, I have peed on three different sticks, two different brands. Still, I am barren of babies and blood. I bingeread articles about false negatives, crazy stories about women dropping surprise babies in taxis or toilets, and
scarier stories about miscarriage and infertility. I gain weight, but don’t know if it is from pregnancy or cheeseburgers. The stress of a phantom period, of three years of teaching, of 180 students, of balancing a career, a relationship, and parents who can’t let go is making me over eat and under sleep. I look for hope. Other than tighter clothes, nothing else about me feels pregnant, but I still imagine the possibility. I eat French fries and start planning for a nursery and how I’ll tell my boyfriend once I know. Month seven
I miss buying tampons. There is a sale at CVS for Tampax Pearls, but I have no use for them or the box of Huggies beside them. I don’t know what’s wrong with me and am too afraid to ask a doctor, or Google or my boyfriend. I learn the shame of getting your period is nothing like the shame of losing it. I imagine blood tests, cancer and never getting to name a daughter after my grandmother. At the checkout line, Snickers are also on sale.
Month ten
My body is no longer mine. Before a party, I cry in the bathroom because nothing fits me. My hair blankets the bathtub and my brush. I start getting migraines. I miss the cycle, the rhythm of knowing what and when. I miss my blood and what it meant. Month one
I pull down my pants and stare at spots of red seeping through new underwear. I am disappointed. Almost a year before, at month thirteen, a friend tells me she couldn’t get pregnant until she lost weight. “I hit 135 and bam!” I try not to focus on numbers but on actions. A new school, a new home, and a kickboxing studio helps. I learn about hormones, contraception and self-care. Slowly, my body becomes familiar. Last week, I took two pregnancy tests. They were negative, but I am fine. In my blood, I have all the hope I need. —MJ Ubando
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A DAy to RemembeR
WhAt’S A hymeN? WhAt’S A VIRGINIty?
Friday, 1:17pm, 11/22/1963, Williamsville, N.y.
In 7th grade gym class, I asked the teacher if I could try jumping the hurdles set up on the outdoor track. She said, “No. That’s only for the boys. Jumping hurdles will break your hymen!” At home that night, I had to look up “hymen” in the encyclopedia, but the definition was unclear. When I was in high school, my mother said, “You’ll only use Kotex pads for your period, because Tampax will ruin your virginity.” Among other embarrassments, my mother’s rule meant that when I was invited to a pool party at the wrong time of month, I had to wear a
Gina Rhodes, the usually even-keeled seventh grader, is in an unexplainably foul mood. “It’s Friday! Why am I not happy, and why do I feel so much like punching Eddie Rizzo in the face?” she ponders. Eddie, really cute, but really disgusting with his preoccupation with farting, belching and staring at boobies is her chosen target to loathe today. “OK, only one more class to go! I can do this!” she thinks. “Yes, I can do this!” Math teacher Mr. Brinkerhoff drones on and on about the likes of equations, decimals and integers, as the little voice in Gina’s head shrieks, “Oh God, please make him stop! I’m slipping into a coma! Let this afternoon end right now, Lord! Pleeeeaaassseee!” A light sweat covers her forehead as she closes her eyes, and firmly presses both hands against her lower abdomen. A steady, dull ache emanates from the area. “Something is wrong!” she fears. “Something is very wrong!” Mr. Brinkerhoff’s monotonal voice is faintly heard coming from the front of the classroom. “Miss Rhodes, would you be so kind to tell us what a negative integer is?” Sobbing as she runs down the long hallway towards the restroom, Gina feels the slightest trickle of moisture running down her inner thigh. In the bathroom stall, it is realized what just occurred as she awkwardly takes care of the matter with the pad her mother put in her bookbag nearly two months earlier. Suddenly, just outside the lavatory door, there is yelling, screaming and certain pandemonium. Something about President Kennedy. Something bad has happened to President Kennedy. “The President was what?” she queries among the commotion, but no clear answer is given. “The President was what?” Still no answer. The little voice in her head abruptly returns to its loathing mode. “I am so going to punch Eddie Rizzo in the face today!” —mark murray
shirt, shorts, thigh-high nylon stockings, garter belt, and pretend that I didn’t know how to swim. I never dared ask my mother what “virginity” was. In 1964, my freshman year at UCLA, I went to Mexico with three men from the university’s mountaineering club, to climb the southern volcanoes. I knew that my period would come near the end of the expedition. I couldn’t face packing a big package of Kotex into the van for my teammates to see. Disposing of used pads in a strange country could be a nightmare. I brought a box of Tampax. We climbed Iztaccihuatl (17,342’) and Popocatepetl
“In 7th grade gym class, I asked the teacher if I could try jumping the hurdles set up on the outdoor track. She said, ‘No. that’s only for the boys. Jumping hurdles will break your hymen!’” VAleRIe P. CoheN
(17,802’). The guys got very altitude-sick. I didn’t. On the way back north, it arrived. I said that I needed to use a bathroom, so the guy driving pulled over to the left and stopped at a lonely gas station. The bathroom was in a rickety dark shed behind the building. The toilet consisted of one hole dug into a dirt floor. No seat. A brown burro was tied up next to the hole. I pulled down my pants, squatted, studied the directions at great length, and after a long battle inserted the tampon. The burro watched it all with his huge brown eyes. —Valerie P. Cohen
to CelebRAte the blooD (for my daughter)
For two days after you were born, a bit of blood stained your diaper— a mini-period, the midwife said. My hormones still coursed through your new body, making your breasts hard, filled with milk, making you bleed like a woman. My baby woman, when your own hormones ask you to bleed, I want to share the moment with you—light a candle, howl at the moon, celebrate your always perfect, always changing, body—
out FoR blooD My Mom likes to relay this story from her early teen years. She had arrived home from a family outing to discover unfurled tissue and the pads they had concealed, strewn all over the house. The dog had gotten into the trash and scattered the napkins. Everyone else saw it too. She was mortified. —name withheld by request
I, who hid my blood from my own mother for two years, scared of being a woman like her, I, who fed quarters to the machine at school to put safety-pinned pillows between my legs, I, who stuffed wads of Kleenex in my underpants at home to avoid the evidence of a box of pads under the sink, I, who flushed those wads down the toilet, once stopping up the pipes, clogging our house with my bloody lies, I want us to celebrate the blood together, our wild, creative, female bodies blooming rose red velvet plush power. —Gayle brandeis
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iMMediAte ContingenCy PlAnning “Take off your pants. Take ’em off now and don’t look down.” I was 15 years old when I barked that order, all clear, blue-eyed seriousness, to my boyfriend at the time. And, at that moment, I became a leader. That split second decision when, while sitting on my boyfriend Pete’s lap watching TV at his house, I looked down and noticed a bright red ooze all over his white jeans. Pete looked me in the eyes, smiled at my demand, and complied. He scurried upstairs and, presto chango, put on some clean pants. I had the white jeans cleaned and returned the next day. If it is true, as F. Scott Fitzgerald pondered in The Great Gatsby, that “personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures,” then, that split second decision was a defining moment of my life. Also, I learned the difference between boys and girls. Boys can just sit and watch TV when they are sitting and watching TV. Girls, on the other hand, while watching TV, must always, always have a contingency plan. —eileen driscoll
Untitled I started my periods at the age of 11, and they were awful, heavy and nightmares! I would have such heavy flows—sometimes I would receive them twice a month, and they would never have a specific time to come. I would go through packages and packages of Kotex, and one time—I had run out of money—and using socks would not do the job, so I had no other choice than to sell a ring that meant the world to me so I could buy more Kotex. I did not
Untitled She had always been elusive. I never complained. The pain was just a reminder that I was now a Woman. The date escapes me, but I remember—my first shot. I hoped that She wouldn’t return for final goodbyes. Since I was 11 we had always been fighting over the same body. Visiting time was over.
receive the value of the ring—however, that didn’t matter. I had to let it go, and that is what hurt the most. My doctor wanted to schedule me a hysterectomy since my periods were so hard and heavy, and I had it all scheduled until one night I dreamed of my aunt, who passed away, and she warned me not to do this operation. I canceled my operation and bared through a few more years of my heavy periods. Every period would last at least eight days, and I would 90 percent be living in my shower because as soon as I would exit the shower and try
My yearning of family stayed. A bittersweet goodbye to the children I never loved. She was now a reminder of a life I could have survived in. I did not want to survive—I chose life. Though she had begun my life as a Woman, her death sprung a new beginning as a Man.
to get dressed, there would be so much blood on the floor, I had to jump back in the shower. One night, I was awakened as usual to get out of bed and shower, and this one night it went on for hours. I was getting weak, and I forced myself some soup to get some strength back, and I just prayed. That following birthday, I received the most appreciated gift, on my 50th birthday it was my last visit from the period world. For four years, I have not had my periods, and I know at my age it is gone forever. —Sharon Urrabazo
The Sunday Bloody Sunday event is at the Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. $5.
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red light, green light
A repurposed toy car runs on a tiny model of McCarran Boulevard in Dr. Wong Tian’s lab.
meet dr. wong tian, timer of local traffic signals Story and photoS by Jeri Chadwell j eric@n ewsr ev i ew.c om
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ave you ever sat at a traffic light and wondered who set the timing that determines when it’s your turn to go? Dr. Wong Tian is one of those people. Originally from China, Tian is a traffic engineer, and he’s been working with government agencies to help time some of the Truckee Meadows’ traffic signals since moving here to teach at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004. Recently, Tian developed a new teaching tool. The Physical Arterial Signal Simulator—PASS for short—is a system that uses computer simulations, real traffic timing equipment and a tiny model of a busy stretch of McCarran Boulevard to teach traffic engineering students how to time signals. “You can play here—‘OK, let me try this and this. How is it going to affect the traffic?’—and then once you feel comfortable, and you go to the field and see exactly the same thing, then you feel a lot more comfortable,” Tian said during a recent interview in his lab on the UNR campus.
phaSed in Tian didn’t get his start in signal timing until years after coming to the United States for graduate studies. In China, he studied railroad engineering. “When I got here, there are no railroads, really,” Tian said. “Railroads are not major here. But I wanted to study, to continue with transportation. I enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Idaho. When I was working on my first research project, it was not about traffic signals.” 14 | RN&R | 10.18.18
It was about stop signs. In fact, Tian didn’t begin working on traffic signal timing projects until he’d completed his master’s and got his first job at a consulting company. “I just fell and fell in love,” he said. “I thought, ‘This is something I want to do. I know it has theory. It has models. It has electronics. It’s a combination of different things.’ That’s when I started to get interested in traffic signal timing.” He went to Texas A&M University for a PhD before making a move to Reno to take up a professorship at UNR. “When I came to Reno, the first thing that I saw was the signals near UNR,” Tian said. “I said, ‘These signals, I think, can be better controlled—better operated.’ I wrote a proposal to NDOT, and they supported me. They gave me a grant.” It was more than a decade ago when Tian retimed the traffic signals near UNR on Center, Virginia, Sierra, Eighth and Maple Streets. And today, he and a small team of graduate students do the same for traffic lights around the Truckee Meadows. “That’s the work actually we are helping with,” he said. “We are the main player to help the local agencies to time those signals. Before, they used to hire companies from outside, like California. And they’d come here for a day. They’re not really familiar
with the locations or the situation. The signals never really worked.” Tian said he and his students work with the RTC and the cities of Sparks and Reno. His students spend time in the field, gathering data about intersections and crosswalks before developing and implementing timing plans. A few months ago, they began doing this with the aid of Tian’s new PASS system.
timing iS everything Traffic signal timing is a pretty complex task—and a person lacking the engineering background could get bogged down in information while trying to understand Tian’s PASS system. A database runs simulations, transmitted between a computer and real traffic timing equipment—called controllers—in the lab. It allows Tian and his students to manipulate a host of variables at work on the intersections along any stretch of road. They control for things like phase—how long and in what order lanes get a green light—and cycle length, the amount of time it takes for all of the lanes at an intersection to get a green. Demonstrating his system, Tian reiterated that it’s designed as a teaching tool to
introduce the principles of traffic engineering. “For people like you—who don’t have any traffic engineering background—I can show, ‘Here is a good timing. Let’s watch it. Here’s a bad timing. Let’s watch it,’” he said. “And you’ll see how the cars go.” But it gets a lot more complicated than that. Tian’s PASS system is also meant to teach students about pedestrian signal systems and sensors—cameras and electrically conductive loops embedded in the pavement—that detect cars at intersections. These things are all built into the tiny model that’s part of the PASS system. It’s a model of McCarran Boulevard between Clear Acre and Northtowne Lanes and includes those intersections plus the two for north- and southbound 395 between. A repurposed toy car runs along the roadway while the traffic signals change based upon a timing sequence transmitted from the computer to the traffic controllers attached to the model. But the model isn’t functioning properly. Not all of the tiny pedestrian signals send out a call when pressed. The toy car with its cabin stuffed full of electrical components goes too fast. And sometimes it doesn’t stop. Tian intends to get it fixed but said that’s going to be a bit of a process.
“Actually, I built this in China,” he said. “It’s just impossible to build this here. It’s too expensive. You think about it—‘Here’s my idea. Build something for me.’ I don’t even know where to find this kind of company.” Tian had a friend in China who also works in the transportation field but has a background in electrical engineering. He asked for her help getting the PASS system built and shipped to the U.S. “The ship from China took a month, but apparently something got damaged,” he said. “We’ve tried to fix everything, but, still, some things are not working.” He’s waiting for someone from the Chinese company that built the model to travel to Reno to fix it. He expects that to happen before the end of the year. In the meantime, he and his team of grad students are continuing to retime lights around the valley—including, recently, at the intersection at Interstate-80 and Keystone Avenue. “We just retimed that,” he said. “You should drive there to see it, to see what you think.” If you want to see what you think and report back on it, the RTC has a number you can call: 335-7623. According to the RTC website, “When a report is called in, the appropriate local government that operates and maintains the specific signal will be contacted.” Ω
“I thought, ‘This is something I want to do. I know it has theory. It has models. It has electronics. It’s a combination of different things.’” -Dr. Wong Tian
Dr. Wong Tian inputs information into a traffic signal controller, part of his PASS system.
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by KrIs Vagner
Maria Partridge recently became the gallery curator at Sierra Arts. Wall sculptures in the gallery are part of the exhibition Dimensions 3.
Indoor Burner Maria Partridge Maria Partridge, who became the new curator at Sierra Arts this past summer, has long been a champion of Reno arts, but back in 1998, when she first moved here from Mill Valley, California, it wasn’t love at first sight. “It took me about five years to actually really fall in love with it,” she said of her adopted city. “I felt like it was a cultural wasteland.” Soon after the move, she started reading Encore, a newspaper for artists that Sierra Arts used to publish. “I was really impressed with that,” Partridge said. “I thought, ‘Wow, there is something happening here culturally.’” She soon made connections all over town. She joined the Nevada Museum of Art as a member, worked for the Peppermill as a graphic designer, and taught drawing and design at Truckee Meadows Community College. “I felt like there was an easy entrée into the arts here,” she said. “It wasn’t that competitive. I liked that.” In 2006, a chance encounter led to what has been, so far, her most prominent arts administration job. She met Burning Man co-founder Crimson Rose at an NMA event. Partridge was interested in Burning Man but had never attended. “I felt there should be more of a presence of the art here in Reno for people like me, who didn’t want to go,” she said. She told Rose, “If you can helicopter me in and helicopter me out, I might go.’” Rose said no to the helicopter, but Partridge went anyway, making the often trafficimpeded trip up Highway 447 to the Black Rock Desert. 16 | RN&R | 10.25.18
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She decided she’d play a part in bringing some of the festival’s artwork to Reno. Partridge and Rose set about learning how to get artwork placed outdoors in Reno, enlisting the help of experienced administrators such as Stacey Spain and Christine Fey, learning how to present to the Public Art Committee, the Arts & Culture Commission and the City Council. In 2007, their efforts yielded an outdoor exhibit in what was then an empty lot behind Sierra Arts, now the Eddy container park and beer garden. The installation was called “The Mangrove.” It was made up of 11 tree-like sculptures, and the site soon became an event venue, complete with weekly music programming. Eleven years and a few public art installations later, Partridge is still a committed Burner. She’s employed by Burning Man as an on-playa art project manager, and she’s been instrumental in running the Playa Art Park, a hub for temporary sculptures and events that opened in 2016 on a vacant block on North Virginia Street that used to house a motel and will likely be developed some day. Now, Partridge is also the gallery curator at Sierra Arts. She won’t get a chance to really flex her muscles as a curator for a while, as exhibitions are already scheduled through the end of 2019, but she’s already making plans based on the kind of community collaboration that she’s come to favor. She’s thinking about how to fit more exhibitions into each season, and she wants to group together artists based on their existing ties in other contexts—for example, maybe one day there will be a Sierra Arts show of all of the artists who are instructors at the NMA. Her first call for artists is scheduled to go out in January 2019 for exhibitions coming up in 2020. Ω
For more information, visit sierraarts.org.
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“Public restrooms can be scary places.”
A bigger slash Forty years after she first “dropped the knife,” Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) tangles, yet again, with the unstoppable killer Michael Myers, and this time she’s got an arsenal and a panic room. The original Halloween was an art film. John Carpenter put together a perfect little horror movie with an auteur’s eye, full of beautifully mapped shots, expert use of lighting, that unforgettable score, and that extremely photogenic, painted-up William Shatner mask. It set the high watermark for slasher films, a mark that has never been surpassed. The new Halloween comes to us courtesy of writer-director David Gordon Green and writers Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley. Green is no slouch, responsible for a few highly regarded indies (George Washington, All the Real Girls) and classic comedies (Pineapple Express and banner episodes of TV’s Eastbound & Down). When it was first announced that he and McBride were working on a new Halloween, the initial “What? Huh?” was quickly followed by “Say … this could work!” Thankfully, it works quite well. This is the 11th film in the franchise, and the 10th to feature Myers. (Halloween III: Season of the Witch jettisoned the character.) It’s easily the second-best Halloween movie after the Carpenter original, mostly because it takes many of its cues from the 1978 offering. Also, it doesn’t hurt that the maestro himself, Carpenter, returns to rework his iconic theme and provide the film’s eerily effective score. Forget about all those chapters that have unspooled in the four decades since the original. Green even disregards the hospital-based Halloween II, which Carpenter wrote with writing partner Debra Hill. Nope, according to the new Halloween, Michael got apprehended shortly after Donald Pleasance’s Loomis emptied his revolver into him, and he’s been percolating in an insane asylum ever since. A prologue scene features a couple of podcasters gaining access to Michael in his asylum’s courtyard, where they show him his original killing mask. This proves to be a rather bad idea, with Michael busting
out of a prison transfer and returning to Haddonfield where reclusive, bitter and ready-to-rumble Laurie still resides. Michael promptly resumes his murderous spree, totally messing up candy day for everybody all over again. A Halloween movie won’t work if the mask looks wonky. Green and his crew come with a good look this time out. The mask, now four decades old, has rotted out a bit, but maintains its contours and fine hair. It even has a puncture wound on the side from when ’78 Laurie put a sewing needle in Michael’s neck. Green ups the gore quotient from the original, with some nasty head stomping and brain splatters. It’s not easy to scare audiences who have seen it all before but, I assure you, Green and company will make you squirm and jump. The film’s best scene, a restroom slaughter, is reminiscent of Ridley Scott’s Alien, when an exquisitely crying, cowering Veronica Cartwright was cornered, eventually meeting a merciless doom. It’s not for the faint of heart and is defining proof that Green knows his way around a slasher movie. Curtis is clearly having a blast, her hairstyle identical to her ’80s heyday, but her weapons of choice most definitely upgraded. Judy Greer plays her skeptical daughter, with Andi Matichak present as the third generation of Strode girls. Danny McBride’s writing is clearly evident in key scenes where humor sweetens the mood and creates endearing characters so we can feel extra bad about them when they get dispatched. A scene where a young boy driving with his dad explains that weekend camping trips are fine, but dancing is his focus now, has McBride all over it. Huge credit to both Green and McBride for keeping the comic moments genuine. I, for one, would be totally OK if this was the last Halloween movie. It finishes on a satisfying note with a perfect final shot. But with a near $80 million domestic take on its opening weekend, something tells me we haven’t seen the last of Michael Myers. Ω
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First Man
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.
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 (Ryan Gosling in top form), 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 that Armstrong 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.
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Hell Fest
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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A Star is Born
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The Sisters Brothers
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Venom
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.
John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix join forces as the title characters, guns for hire, contracted to find a prospector (Riz Ahmed) with a scientific trick for finding gold in rivers. Reilly plays Eli, the nicer of the two brothers, who is starting to consider life after riding and killing. Phoenix plays Charlie, perfectly content to be a bounty hunter of sorts, as long as the mission includes hookers and lots of booze. When another man (Jake Gyllenhaal) intercepts the prospector with intent of turning him over to the brothers, he has a change of heart, and the hunt takes on a new dimension. Reilly and Phoenix are great together, creating a palpable fraternal bond. This is a dark period Western speckled with some funny moments, but don’t be tricked by the commercials for the film. It’s a mostly dark affair, acted well by all involved. Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) has made a moving, absorbing, appropriately nasty Western that gives the impression everybody on screen smells really bad. Phoenix, having a banner year, turns out to be perfectly cast as a gunslinger, something I wouldn’t have believed going in. He and Reilly give this film a ton of soul, and it doesn’t hurt having the likes of Gyllenhaal and Ahmed in their supporting roles. They are all equally good.
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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by Todd SouTh
The Seafood Treasure and Parrillada Argentina platters feature a variety of meats and veggies for sharing.
Mix it up El Tumi—for several years Reno’s lone Peruvian restaurant—has recently transformed into Sabor Latin Cuisine, mixing flavors from the Andes with Argentinian and Mexican favorites, and a couple of burgers for good measure. After reviewing the new menu, a few friends and I knew we had to check it out. We started with beverages native to Peru. Chicha morada ($3.50) is a deep purple soft drink made by boiling purple corn with pineapple peels, quince, cinnamon, clove and a little additional sugar. Invented in the early 20th century, the pisco sour ($10) is a mix of brandy, lime juice, simple syrup, egg white and angostura bitters. We also tried a maracuya sour ($10), the same thing plus passion fruit juice. Aji amarillo is a bright orange, fruity, hot pepper native to the Andean foothills, as are over 3,000 varieties of potato. Our first taste of both was papa a la huancaina ($7)—boiled yellow potato slices in a creamy sauce of aji amarillo, queso fresco and evaporated milk thickened with crushed crackers—served cold over lettuce leaves with boiled egg and black olive garnish. The chile flavor was subtle, and, with its light sweetness, this dish would be great as breakfast or dessert. Empanadas followed ($8)—three crispy, shredded beef pastries we doused in a very flavorful chimichurri. Anticuchos ($12) was a dish of three grilled brochettes of sliced beef heart, marinated in garlic, vinegar and aji panca—the mild, red cousin to amarillo—served with sliced, lightly grilled peel-on brown potatoes and giant kernels of boiled Peruvian white corn. The organ meat was surprisingly tender and the seasoning bold. The corn was chewy and bland, yet we couldn’t stop munching it between beefy bites.
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Causa is a traditional Peruvian cold potato layer cake, though the Sabor Causa ($14) was a step above, featuring two thick layers of mashed yellow potato mixed with aji amarillo and lemon juice, sandwiching a center layer of avocado, shrimp and mayonnaise. Three separate seafood dishes comprised the Seafood Treasure ($20) starting with ceviche, raw fish cubes marinated in lemon juice, aji rocoto (a spicy Peruvian red chile), garlic, ginger and other seasonings, garnished with red onion in a large cup atop a thick slice of boiled sweet potato. The next was Jalea, lightly battered white fish, shrimp and squid with fried yuca, white corn kernels, and sides of salsa criolla and aji amarillo. Choritos rounded it out—steamed mussels topped with marinated tomato, onion, cilantro and lime juice. If that all sounds great, you’re right. A trio of moist, breaded chicken milanesas ($16) were topped three ways: pico de gallo guacamole, ham and melted cheddar, and lettuce-tomato-onion-radish. They were served with potato fries and sides of hot salsa verde and salsa criolla—a mix of pickled onion, beet, aji rocoto and cilantro. The guac one was was my favorite, with the deconstructed cordon bleu right behind. Our Parrillada Argentina ($40) well represented the popular Argentinian mixed grill, with skirt steak, red sausage, pork chop, chicken, orange and red bell pepper, yellow squash, zucchini, onion and asparagus, all grilled to perfection and served with fries. The split sausage was basically a very long bratwurst. The steak had a ton of caramelized garlic, and the pork and chicken had plenty of herbs and black pepper. It was an awesome finale to a fabulous meal. Ω
Sabor Latin Cuisine 585 E. Moana Lane, 433-1308
Sabor Latin Cuisine is open Wednesday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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by JoeY THYNe
Rapper INDYXHILL makes music college students can relate to.
Campus alert INDYXHILL After taking a semester off to focus on studio sessions and live performances back home in Southern California, local rapper INDYXHILL has returned to the University of Nevada, Reno. This experience inspired his new tape Back 2 College, released in September. INDYXHILL, born Xavier Ze’Jour Wilson, only started taking music seriously last year, becoming a part of L.A. rap collective Black Hoody Family. He took cues from gangster rappers like Drakeo and Blueface. “I was trying to be YG, make something girls would shake their ass to,” Wilson said. “Then I started playing with my voice a little better.” Although he enjoys the new wave of SoundCloud rap, he doesn’t identify with that genre. “If you actually take the time and listen to my shit, I’m not mumbling,” he said. “I actually have real bars. … I respect mumble rap because I like the sound, and I love how they’re trying to do something different. … I respect the old shit, too. That’s why I try to place myself right in the middle.” Indy recorded Back 2 College in studios throughout North Hollywood, including Neighborhood Watch, Red Rooms and The Spot—where popular artists like Post Malone record. EQ of Atlantic Records engineered the tape. Glossy trap beats came from producers such as Cormell, Captain Crunch Beats and Adam22. “I just go in there and have fun with it,” he said. “Now that I’m more comfortable, the music is sounding way better. I’ve never received so much love.” 20 | RN&R | 10.25.18
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The tape features songs college students might find relatable, with titles like “Sorority Girl” and “Fell in Love with My Professor.” The latter, a banger with a Bay Area bounce, is an autobiographical tale about a professor he liked. “She was so bad, bruh,” Wilson said. “Halfway through the semester she came to class and announced that she was pregnant. And I was like, ‘Damn, if she only knew.’ I mean, I’ll still hit her up later sometime.” A couple of songs take a more serious turn. “Blxck” discusses drugs as a coping mechanism for depression or an “escape plan.” “Sadder Days (Rip)” laments the passing of two friends. Indy has visuals dropping for these two tracks, on which he collaborated with fellow UNR student Conner Young. Currently pursuing a business marketing degree, Indy thinks of everything on a marketing level. “Heartbreaker” features fellow Reno rapper Lil Traffic. The pair performed together at the Holland Project on Sept. 7, at Racktoberfest on Oct. 12, and they opened for Skizzy Mars at Jub Jub’s on Oct. 19, and played a show in Boise on Oct. 21. They currently have a collaborative EP in the works. “Indy, deadass, my brother,” Lil Traffic said. “He’s a great guy and easily one of the most talented musicians I know. I feel like him and I can do so much for the city. We really locked in like that.” In the future, INDYXHILL wants to work with artists like Yung Bans, Lil Baby, Rich the Kid and Famous Dex. Although he misses home in L.A., he’s glad he came back to school in the Biggest Little City. “Over the summer I was having fun doing all these shows, but I honestly missed school,” Wilson said. “Because it’s fun down there, but it’s a different type of fun. It’s boujee fun. Up here it’s more college sloppy—everyone’s just having a great time.”
For more information, visit soundcloud.com/indyxhill.
THURSDAY 10/25
FRIDAY 10/26
SATURDAY 10/27
214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 813-6689
BAILO, Nandez, Apollo, Rework, Howker, 10pm,$0-$15
Will Clarke, Nandez, Bob the Barber, Chango, Dio, 10pm, $10-$20
ALIBI ALE WORKS
DJ Paul, 9pm, no cover
Blizzard of Aahhh’s 30th Anniversary Afterparty, 8pm, no cover
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover
Night of 1000 Xtinas Drag Show with DemenCha, 10pm, $5
DemenCha’s Dungeon: 5th Annual Halloween Edition, 10pm, $5
Reno/Tahoe Producers Social, 6pm, no cover
EPROM, Jars, Boof Daddy, Motorhome Music, 9pm, $20-$25
1up
10069 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 536-5029
5 STAR SALOON
132 West St., (775) 329-2878
The Alarm
ThE BLuEBIRd
555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549
Oct. 26, 7 p.m. CARgO CONCERT hALL Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 71 S. Wells Ave. CEOL IRISh puB 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 384-1652
Comedy The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Amir K, Jason Lawhead, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25, Sat, 9pm, $30; TBA, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Mike Marino, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sun, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Bill Dawes, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Leif Skyving, Fri, 6:30pm, $15-$20 The Library, 134 W. Second St., (775) 683-3308: Open Mic Comedy with host Jim Flemming, Sun, 9:30pm, no cover Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Comedy Competition, Thu, 8pm, $7-$10
Billion Dollar Nightmare, Greg Golden Band, 8pm, $20-$25
Halloween Bass Ball: Bro Safari, Dirty Audio, 8pm, $30-$40
Krystal McMullen, 9pm, no cover
Matt Bushman, 9pm, no cover
COTTONWOOd RESTAuRANT & BAR dAVIdSONS dISTILLERY
Akasha, Qarin, Ghost Lives Matter, 9pm, no cover
275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917 RuPaul’s Drag Race rerun viewing party, drag show, 8pm, no cover
FINE VINES
Karaoke with Heidi, 7pm, no cover
Marshall Johnson, Gabe Plank, Dashel Milligan, 7pm, no cover
Halloween party with Atomic Highway, 7pm, $5
Gold Steps, Till I Fall, 8pm, $TBA Dubstep’s not Dead, 11:30pm, no cover
Mayhem & Masquerade, 7:30pm, $5, Monsters & Thieves, 9pm, $TBA
Drink-182: Halloween, 8pm, no cover
Damaged Goods, 8pm, no cover
Halloween party with Rick Hayes, 8pm, no cover
hEAdQuARTERS
219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020
hELLFIRE SALOON
3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988
ThE hOLLANd pROjECT 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858
Rip Room, Plastic Caves, Tresed, 8pm, $5
71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652
246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484
Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover
Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover
Yuhua Hamasaki, 6pm, $TBA The Wind Down, 10pm, no cover
Double Scoop launch party and ice cream social, 5:30pm, no cover Recycled Records’ 40th anniversary party w/The Alarm, Kevin Seconds, 7pm, free with ticket
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Halloween Erotic Party with Blood Zombie, 9pm, no cover
239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590 6300 Mae Anne Ave., (775) 787-6300
MON-WED 10/29-10/31
From the Streets of Truckee with Richard Blair, 6pm, $45
10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee, (530) 587-5711
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SUNDAY 10/28
Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover
Live music, 9pm, no cover
Sepiatonic, 9pm, $10
Karaoke with Matthew Ray, 9pm, Tu, no cover Rock and Blues Jam, 7pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover
Sunday Services with Thee Reverend Rory Dowd, 7pm, $5 donation
Uchi Gang, 8pm, M, no cover DJ Heidalicious, 9pm, W, no cover
Sugar Candy Mountain, Hardly Mediocre, 7pm, $8-$10
Family and Friends, Animal Years, John White, 7pm, Tu, $12-$15 Midnight Track, 11pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 7pm, M, no cover Comedy Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover
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THURSDAY 10/25
FRIDAY 10/26
SATURDAY 10/27
SUNDAY 10/28
LAUGHING PLANET CAFE
Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover
941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633
LIvING THE Good LIFE NIGHTCLUb
Greg Austin, 7pm, no cover
James Wilsey, 6pm, Halloween party w/DJs Bebop, Rick O, 9:30pm, no cover
Athena McIntyre, 8pm, no cover
THE LoFT
Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46
Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46
Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46
1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663 1021 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024
THE LovING CUP
1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960
DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover
MILLENNIUM
Acoustic Wonderland Sessions, 8pm, no cover
PIGNIC PUb & PATIo
Steve & Raena, 8pm, no cover
High & Tight, Friday Night, 9pm, no cover
Spencer Kilpatrick, DJ Camz, 8pm, no cover
THE PoLo LoUNGE
Bingo with T-N-Keys, 7pm, no cover
DJ Billy St. Germaine, 9pm, no cover
Halloween party with Alias Smith Band, DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover
Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, 8pm, no cover
Halloween party with Lady an the Tramps, 8pm, no cover
1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864
PoNdEroSA SALooN
106 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7210
Steve Aoki Bingo with T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover
Spaghetti Western II with Gina Rose Waller, 6pm, no cover, $5 for dinner Karaoke, 7pm, M, no cover DG Kicks Band, 8pm, Tu, no cover
Red Dog Open Mic, 7pm, M, no cover
76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474
THE SAINT
The Sam Chase & The Untraditional, Next Wave: Savvy Balboa, Lil Traffic, Willy Tea Taylor, Greg Gilmore, 8pm, $TBA Indyxhill, YungSilk77, 7pm, $13.44
SHEA’S TAvErN
Gus Clark & The Least of His Problems, Jack Elope & The Sagebrush Boys, 9pm, $5
SPArkS LoUNGE
Tony G’s Thursday Night Blues Jam, 9pm, no cover
715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 409-3340
Oct. 26, 10 p.m. Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000
Wednesday Night Jam, 8pm, W, no cover
rEd doG SALooN
761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451
Halloween Bash with Ardalan, 10pm, W, $20-$30
Halloween party, 10pm, $TBA
906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-5484 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948
Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $21-$46
Halloween Costume Party with Musicole, Andi Kilgore Band, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no coer Los Morros del Norte, Las Voces del Rancho, 11pm, $20
2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 378-1643
PAddY & IrENE’S IrISH PUb
Canyon Jam/Open Mic, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover
Heidi’s House of Horror Vol. II, 8pm, $10
188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480
MIdTowN wINE bAr
MON-WED 10/29-10/31
wHISkEY dICk’S SALooN
2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S. L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425
Halloween party: Shanda & The Howlers, Straight Through, Heterphobia, 8pm, $6-$8
Haunted Honky Tonk: The Easy Leaves, Karl Blau, 8pm, $10-$12 Halloween party: Sheastie Boys, Candy Apples & The Razor Blades, 9pm, $6
Halloween Night: Fall Silent, Out For War, Scuzzard, 8pm, W, $7-$10
Soul Kiss Halloween Costume Party, 9pm, no cover Punk Halloween w/Machine Gun Vendetta, Knocked Down, 9pm, no cover
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Saints and Sinners Wednesday Night Blues Syndicate, 8pm, W, no cover
Open Mic, 9pm, M, Halloween Party w/DJ R-Styles, 9pm, W, no cover
Sugar Candy Mountain Oct. 28, 7 p.m. The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858
THURSDAY 10/25
FRIDAY 10/26
SATURDAY 10/27
SUNDAY 10/28
MON-WED 10/29-10/31
3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom 2) Cabaret
2) Kick, 8pm, no cover
1) The Ultimate Queen Celebration starring Marc Martel, 8pm, $45-$55 2) Soul Persuaders, 10pm, no cover
2) Kick, 4pm, no cover Soul Persuaders, 10pm, no cover
2) Soul Persuaders, 8pm, no cover
2) American Made Band, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
Boomtown CAsino
1) Blue Oyster Cult, 7pm, $50-$90 2) New Wave Crave, 5pm, no cover Ebony not Quite Ivory, 9pm, no cover
1) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover 2) Velvet Duo, 9pm, no cover
2) Tynan Phillips & Mick Valentino, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 9pm, no cover
2) The Robeys, 6pm, no cover
2) Stephen Lord, 6pm, M, no cover Brother Dan, 6pm, Tu, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 6pm, W, no cover
2) Voodoo Cowboys, 7pm, no cover
2) Voodoo Cowboys, 8pm, no cover
2) Voodoo Cowboys, 8pm, no cover
2) Cliff and Dave, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover
2) Guidance & IJV, 10pm, no cover
1) The Creepers Ball with Tainted Love, 9pm, $25
1) Collie Buddz, Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, 8pm, Tu, $25-$30
1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95
1) Cirque Paris, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Garage Boys, 9pm, no cover
2) Pet Sematary: Garage Boys, 9pm, $5 with costume, $10 without
2) Throwback Thursdays: Trivia Night, 7pm, no cover
2) Steve Aoki, 10pm, $50 3) Take Two, 6pm, no cover
1) Kip Moore, 8pm, $25-$65 1) Danzig, Venom Inc, Powertrip, 2) Freak Show Halloween Party, 10pm, $30 Mutoid Man, 7pm, 7:30pm, $27-$76
1) Stampede Country Music & Dancing, 8pm, no cover
2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover
1) Zombie Cabaret Theatre, 9pm, $25 2) Grand Finale Costume Contest, DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover
AtlAntis CAsino ResoRt spA
2100 Garson Road, Verdi, (775) 345-6000 1) Events Center 2) Guitar Bar
CARson VAlley inn
Tainted Love Oct. 27, 9 p.m. Crystal Bay Casino 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333
1627 Hwy. 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge
CRystAl BAy CAsino
14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room
eldoRAdo ResoRt CAsino 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi
GRAnd sieRRA ResoRt
Karaoke Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Fri, 9pm, no cover Pizza Baron, 1155 W. Fourth St., Ste. 113, (775) 329-4481: Wacky Wednesday Karaoke with Steve Starr & DJ Hustler, 9pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover
2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Crystal Lounge
HARd RoCk Hotel And CAsino 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar
HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe
montBleu ResoRt CAsino & spA nuGGet CAsino ResoRt
1) Gary Allan, 8pm, $55-$90
1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300
silVeR leGACy ResoRt CAsino
407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) GEH 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura 4) Silver Baron
1) Michael Jackson—A THRILLING Tribute, 7pm, Tu, $25-$55
1-2) The 40th Annual Freakers Ball, 9pm, $30-$40
55 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (800) 648-3353 1) Showroom 2) Opal Ultra-Lounge 3) BLU
2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 2) Edge
1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95-$49.95 2) DJ Chris English, 9pm, W, no cover
2) Buddy Emmer and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover
1) Night Ranger, 7:30pm, $54.58
15 Highway 50, Stateline, (800) 427-7247 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage
peppeRmill ResoRt spA CAsino
1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, $19.95-$49.95
1) Keyser Soze, 7pm, no cover 2) Spin Thursdays, 10pm, no cover
1) Keyser Soze, 8pm, no cover 2) Latin Dance Social, 7pm, $10-$20
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FOR THE WEEK OF OcTObER 25, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. BOWERS MANSION NEVADA DAY WALK: The tour will begin with an exploration of the park surrounding the mansion. Afterward, visitors can go inside Bowers Mansion and learn the history behind this Washoe County landmark. Fri, 10/26, 4:30pm. $4-$10. Bowers Mansion, 4005 US Highway 395 North, New Washoe City, www.tmparksfoundation.org.
CARSON CITY BOO-NANZA: Celebrate Halloween with trick or treating, a haunted house, a costume contest, games, crafts and more. Tue, 10/30, 4pm. Free. Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, visitcarsoncity.com.
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Latino Arte, Brown Teatro and Reno Little Theater present this bilingual production about Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico’s most influential and famous artists whose folk art explored identity, postcolonialism, gender, class and race in Mexican society. This play explores the life of Frida and the influence she had on Latin culture. Performances are at 7 p.m. on Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 25-27, and 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, at Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St. Tickets are $20$25. Latino Arte will also present a Day of the Dead or Día de los Muertos celebration featuring live music, food, puppets and traditional costumes at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28, at the RLT. Admission is $5. Call 813-8900 (English) or 378-1779 (en español) or visit renolittletheater.org.
Kids and their families can take a 25-minute train ride with Thomas the Tank Engine and meet Sir Topham Hatt. Fri, 10/26, 11am-2pm; Sat, 10/27, 10am-3pm; Sun 10/28, 10am-2pm. $19. V & T Railroad Depot, 166 F St., Virginia City, www.virginiatruckee.com.
DEATH—AN EXISTENTIAL MURDER MYSTERY: Three essential pieces of our humanity have died. Join The Alchemists on this dark and artistic spiritual journey to find out who did it and how we heal. This Halloween event explores these ideas and more through prayer, meditation, music, sermon and visual art. Wed, 10/31, 7:30pm. $15-$25. Center for Spiritual Living, 4685 Lakeside Drive, alchemistmovement.org.
DIABOLIQUE: Artemisia Moviehouse presents
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ANNIE MONTAGUE ALEXANDER AND THE RISE OF SCIENCE IN THE AMERICAN WEST: Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer and founder of two natural history museums at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley. Barbara R. Stein offers a portrait of this pioneer who helped shape the world of science, yet whose name has been little known until now. Thu, 10/25, 6pm. $8-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., nevadaart.org.
8TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT: Kids in costume can trick or treat from gallery to gallery. There will be spooky science demos and treats for all who attend. The Discovery will be open to members only from 3-5pm. The museum will open to general admission from 5-8pm. Sat, 10/27, 3-8pm. $2-$4. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org.
A CONVERSATION WITH LINDA RONSTADT: A big screen, multi-media journey through the life of Linda Ronstadt, featuring the iconic singer’s personal recounting of her four-decade career, assisted by videos, rare personal photos and music, including a look at some of the behindthe-scenes events that shaped her musical style. A highlight of the evening is a question-and-answer session with Linda. Thu, 10/25, 7:30pm. $38.15-$92.65. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600.
BELL, BOOK & CANDLE: Brüka Theatre presents 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 matinee on Oct. 28 will be followed by a talkback with the company. Thu, 10/25-Sat, 10/27, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/28, 2pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.
ANDELIN FARM FALL FESTIVAL PUMPKIN PATCH & CORN MAZE: The pumpkin patch features a variety of pick-your-own pumpkins priced according to variety and weight. Admission includes a variety of activities and attractions, including hayrides, a hay bale maze and kids’ corn maze. Thu, 10/25-Sat, 10/27, Tue, 10/30Wed, 10/31, 10am. $7-$12. Andelin Farm, 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 530-8032, www.andelinfamilyfarm.com.
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a screening of the 1955 crime/drama/ horror film directed by H.G. Clouzot. The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot and carry out the murder of their tormentor. But the corpse disappears, and subsequent sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his “killers” up the wall with almost unbearable suspense. In French with English subtitles. Sun, 10/28, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 636-3386, www.artemisiamovies.weebly.com.
DIRTY WOOKIE 10K: The 2nd annual 10K starts at the Brewer’s Cabinet Brewpub near downtown Reno and finishes at the Brewer’s Cabinet Production facility, 8565 White Fir St. Run or walk and celebrate Halloween and all things Wookie. Each participant will receive swag, a bus ride to the start line, postrace party, including complimentary Dirty Wookie Ale, snacks and awards. Awards will be given to age group winners as well as Best Wookie Costume, Best Halloween Costume and Best Couples Costume. Register online. Sun, 10/28, 9:30am. $55-$65. Brewers Cabinet, 475 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 342-8895, www.desertskyadventures.com/ dirtywookie.
FERRARI FARMS FALL FESTIVAL: The seasonal event features a variety of pumpkins and decorations for sale, a five-acre corn maze, hayrides, farm animals and other attractions. There is no entrance fee. Activities are individually priced. Pumpkins are all priced according to size. Thu, 10/25-Wed, 10/31, 9:30am. Free. Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 9973276, ferrarifarms.org/fall-festival.
GOBLIN PARADE: Bring your little goblin in costume to participate in the Halloween parade. Check in begins at 4pm at the Virginia City Jerky Co., 204 South C St. The parade begins at 5pm. Wed, 10/31, 4pm. Free. C Street, Virginia City, (775) 847-7500, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.
HALLOWEEEN HALLOW: Guys, ghouls and ghosts will scare up some wicked fun in downtown Reno’s Riverwalk District during the eighth annual Halloweenthemed event for the whole family. Download the “treasure map” to merchant candy stations on the website. Maps will be available at the main Riverwalk booth the day of the event. Sat, 10/27, 5pm. Free. Riverwalk District, between Virginia Street and Arlington Avenue, www.renoriver.org.
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR: The Reno Wind Symphony performs spooky musical selections featuring the compositions of Danny Elfman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others. Fri, 10/26, 7:30pm. $10, free for children, students. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., renowindsymphony.com.
HOOTCHY KOOTCHY GIRLS AMATEUR FALL-TASTIC SHOW: Channeling the old cabaret shows of the 1940s and 1950s, the Hootchy Kootchy Girls present an evening of dance, music and comedy. Guest artists include The Retro Radio Dolls, Chad Sweet and the dancers of the Hootchy Kootchy Girls Vintage Cabaret class. There will be an after-show party on Oct. 27. Fri, 10/26-Sat, 10/27, 8:30pm. $20-$25. Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233.
HOWL-O-WEEN SAFE TRICK OR TREATING: Bring the family to Nevada Humane Society for safe trick-or-treating with lots of free treats for kids in costume, spooky music and décor and pets and people in Halloween costumes. Visitors are encouraged to adopt a homeless pet. Wed, 10/31, 4pm. Free. Nevada Humane Society, 2825 Longley Lane, Suite B, (775) 856-2000.
NEVADA DAY CELEBRATION: The threeday event commemorates the 154th anniversary of Nevada’s admission to statehood and culminates with the Nevada Day Parade and a full day of events and activities on Oct. 27. The parade starts at 10am on Oct. 27 Thu, 10/25-Sat 10/27. Free. Various locations in downtown Carson City, (775) 882-2600, nevadaday.visitcarsoncity.com.
NO-BRAINER ZOMBIE BASH: The Halloween party features headliner Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. Proceeds from the show will benefit Community Chest, Inc. Fri, 10/26, 8pm. $35. Piper’s Opera House, 12 North B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-9311.
PARANORMAN IN THE PARK: Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation presents a night of trick or treating, costume contests, raffles and a showing of the 2012 stop motion hit ParaNorman. RSVP online. Sat, 10/27, 5pm. Free; donations welcome. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, www.tmparksfoundation.org.
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. Thu, 10/25-Wed, 10/31. $10-$30. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, www.renofrightfest.com.
SUPER HEROES: The Reno Pops presents a concert of music from Batman, Spiderman, The Incredibles, Hercules and other superhero films. Children and the young at heart are invited to join in the costume parade. Sat, 10/27, 7pm. Free. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., www.renopops.org.
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. Admission is free. Tickets for rides and attractions are $1-$20. Thu, 10/25-Wed, 10/31, 9am. Free. Tollhouse Pumpkins Pumpkin Patch, 12725 S. Virginia St., www.tollhousepumpkins.com.
TRICK OR TREAT AND A MOVIE: Red Hawk Golf and Resort present a family-friendly event offering free candy for trick or treaters, live music and a showing of Disney’s Hocus Pocus in the Red Hawk Event Center. Fri, 10/26, 5pm. Free. Red Hawk Golf and Resort, 6600 N. Wingfield Parkway, Sparks, (775) 626-6000.
TRICK OR TREAT IN THE STREETS: The Halloween event features indoor trick or treating at 16 candy stations, Halloweenthemed games, a car scavenger hunt and a chance to view to the museum’s collection of more than 200 cars. Wed 10/31, 4:30-7:30pm. $2. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., www.automuseum.org.
TRUNK-OR-TREAT: Bring your kids dressed in costume and travel from trunk to trunk to get all the candy their bags can handle. Each car trunk will be decorated and/or have a game for kids to play. Sun, 10/28, 4pm. Free. The Rock Church, 4950 Vista Blvd., Sparks, (775) 355-7888.
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, brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather’s. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity abounds. Thu, 10/25-Sat, 10/27, Wed, 10/31, 7:30pm. $20-$30. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., www.goodluckmacbeth.org.
by AMY ALKON
Here we glow again My friends tease me, saying that I’m such an obnoxious jerk, but amazingly, everybody seems to love me. Somebody said it’s because I have charisma—like a rock star/movie star quality. Honestly, I don’t think that highly of myself. I’m interesting-looking, outgoing, funny and relatively talented in what I do. What is charisma exactly, and can people create it? Charisma is the Pied Piper of personality traits—a mix of personal magnetism, likability and powerful presence that leads people to flock to and follow a person who has it. This can have creepy and even deadly results when the charismatic person is a cult leader, but evolutionary researchers Allen Grabo and Mark van Vugt believe that charisma evolved to be a cooperation booster. Their research suggests it is a “credible signal of a person’s ability” to inspire a group of people to unite behind him or her so they can collectively solve some problem that would stump them individually. Looks are an element of charisma. Being tall, good-looking and physically stronger than your peers, as well as appearing healthy, are correlated with charisma, note Grabo and van Vugt. That said, though it’s helpful to be a ringer for Gisele Bündchen, you can more closely resemble a hamburger bun in a bikini and still be mad charismatic. Accordingly, the researchers observe that “anecdotal evidence” suggests that having “particularly unique” features—“such as Abraham Lincoln’s elongated face or Rasputin’s piercing eyes”—may amp up charisma “as a result of their attention-grabbing ability.” The good news is that how a person acts appears to be the main driver of charisma. And though some people are naturally—that is, genetically—equipped to be more charismatic through their set of personality traits, there are charismatic behaviors that anybody can learn and practice. The behaviors that drive charisma are those that reflect a combination of “high power and high warmth,” explains business coach Olivia Fox Cabane in her research-based book The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism.
Most people probably believe that charisma comes simply out of speaking powerfully. Actually, listening powerfully—tapping into how somebody’s feeling, engaging with it emotionally and empathizing—is essential to having charisma. Connecting in this way drives what people experience as warmth—the sense that another person cares about them and their well-being. And sorry, but you can’t just fake the look of someone who’s listening (nod, nod, nod, eye contact, eye contact) while you’re all up in your to-do list or formulating the brilliant thing you’re going to say next. You’ll think you’re hiding your inattentiveness, but little bits of your body language will always sell you out. Charismatic body language comes out of the antithesis of nervousness—being comfortable in your skin, having a sort of highpowered calm. That’s reflected in slower speech, the confidence to take pauses while speaking and breathing from your diaphragm instead of taking shallow gulps of air. Slower, expansive body movements are another mark of the charismatic, in contrast with the herky-jerkyness of the perpetually uneasy—those who always seem on the verge of making a run for it. However, there’s a caveat to all of this walking and talking advice: If you’re insecure and self-loathing, you can’t just plaster some alpha-girl body language on top of that. Not credibly, anyway. You’ve got to put in the work to fix your foundation. Finally, consider that it takes a strong person to be open about their weaknesses and failures. Counterintuitive, I know. But people don’t relate to greatness. They relate to other people who show how human and imperfect they are. Cabane explains that “drawing attention to your vulnerabilities” ultimately enhances your power. In other words, instead of always working hard to look good, you’ll amp up your charisma by making intermittent efforts to look bad. Ω
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filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was a Cancerian like you and me. One of the factors contributing to his success was that he put his demons to good use, “by harnessing them to his chariot.” He also testified that he gained control over his demons by taking long walks after breakfast. “Demons don’t like fresh air,” he said. “They prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet.” I suspect that now would be an excellent time to adopt his advice. Halloween costume suggestion: Walk your demon on a leash, or make it into a puppet, or harness it to your chariot.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Throughout the Hal-
loween season, I encourage you to fantasize extensively about what your dream home would look like and feel like if you had all the money necessary to create it. What colors would you paint the walls? Would you have carpets or hardwood floors? What would be your perfect lighting, furniture and decor? As you gazed out your windows, what views would you see? Would there be nature nearby or urban hotspots? Have fun imagining the sanctuary that would bring out the best in you. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate homebody.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Extraordinary things
are always hiding in places people never think to look,” writes novelist Jodi Picoult. That’s crucial for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. Why? Because your superpower is going to be the ability to find extraordinary things that are hiding in places where people have almost never thought to look. Halloween costume suggestions: sleuth, treasure hunter, private eye, Sherlock Holmes.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is a season for
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wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.” Author Shauna Niequist wrote that. In accordance with the astrological omens, I endorse her perspective as true and useful for you. You’ve zipped through your time of fertile chaos, conjuring up fresh possibilities. When January arrives, you’ll be ready to
work on stability and security. But for now, your assignment is to blossom. Halloween costume suggestions: beautiful creature hatching from an egg; strong sprout cracking out of a seed.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “He believed in mag-
ic,” writes author Michael Chabon about a character in his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. “Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings,” nor “dowsing rods, séances, weeping statues, werewolves, wonders, or miracles.” Then what kind? Chabon says it’s the “impersonal magic of life,” like coincidences and portents that reveal their meanings in retrospect. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because now is a favorable time to call on the specific kind of magic that you regard as real and helpful. What kind of magic is that? Halloween costume suggestion: magician, witch, wizard.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If adventures
will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” Sagittarian author Jane Austen wrote that in her novel Northanger Abbey, and now I’m passing her message on to you, slightly altered. My version is, “If adventures will not befall Sagittarian people of any age or gender in their own neighborhood, they must seek them abroad.” And where exactly is “abroad”? The dictionary says it might mean a foreign country, or it could simply mean outside or in another place. Halloween costume suggestion: traveler on a pilgrimage or explorer on a holy quest.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): PR executives at
a beer company offered to pay me a lot of money if I would sneak a product placement ad into your horoscope. They asked me to pretend there was a viable astrological reason to recommend that you imbibe their product in abundance. But the truth is, the actual planetary omens suggest the opposite. You should not in fact be lounging around in a haze of intoxication. You should instead be working hard to drum up support for your labor of love or your favorite cause. Halloween costume suggestion: the Ultimate Fundraiser, Networker of the Year, Chief Hobnobber.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What kind of idea
are you?” asks author Salmon Rushdie. “Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloodyminded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?” I pose this question to you, Aquarius, because I think you could be an effective version of either idea in the coming weeks. If you’re the latter—the cussed, damnfool notion—you may change your world in dramatic ways. Halloween costume suggestions: revolutionary, crusader, agitator, rabble-rouser.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is no beauty
without some strangeness,” wrote Edgar Allen Poe. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ventured further, declaring, “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” She also added another nuance to her definition: “For something to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be pretty.” I’ll offer you one more seed for thought: wabi-sabi. It’s a Japanese term that refers to a kind of beauty that’s imperfect, transitory, and incomplete. I bring these clues to your attention, Pisces, because now is an excellent time to refine and clarify your own notion of beauty—and re-commit yourself to embodying it. Halloween costume suggestion: the embodiment of your definition of beauty.
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by DENNis MYERs
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They can’t even conceive of such a thing. How did we get here?
Jeff Merkley
Are there Western issues that are particularly engaged in this election? Oh, absolutely. You think about the fact that we’re in a fight for the success of families, and that’s a Western issue. Certainly our success on housing and health care and education and living wage jobs—but we also have those issues that are relevant to us out here with our common values of our public spaces and our public lands and the importance of preserving them, protecting them and our ability to enjoy this beautiful God-given terrain that we’re so fortunate to live in the middle of. … And, of course, we’re facing a huge threat with the climate chaos, the carbon pollution that’s overheating our planet and doing such damage to our
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The only U.S. senator to support his colleague Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential race was Democrat Jeff Merkley of Oregon. Last year, he filibustered against the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch. This year, he was refused entry when he tried to visit a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that was being used as a holding facility for migrant children taken from their parents. He is now campaigning for other Democrats around the country, including Jacky Rosen of Nevada.
water resources. And, of course, we’ve seen some smoke here in Nevada, and the smoke is part of the set of forest fires that are occurring also as a result of climate chaos.
What kind of a grade would you give the Trump administration on public lands? Well, it’s pretty close to an F. The interior secretary [Ryan Zinke] said when he was under his [confirmation] process for nomination that he was going to be Teddy Roosevelt, that he was going to be a champion for our public lands, but we’ve seen—actually, I don’t think of a single thing that he’s done that’s designed to improve our public lands or our access to them.
I sometimes tell high school students about how Republicans and Democrats worked together to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
There are moments of cooperation that we should remember. In 2013, we passed the Employment Nondiscrimination Act on a bipartisan basis. Teddy Kennedy had asked me to champion that in the U.S. Senate, and I did, because he was sick. … And we would have passed that in the House if it had been put on the floor of the house, but the Republican leadership blocked it. ... To your broader question, we now have a split news media. We have a world in which many people hear one version of the world from news outlets that are kind of sharing the conservative approach and others that are serving the progressive, or putting forth the progressive approach, which means we have to work a lot harder to—it’s a bigger divide, we have to try to bridge that divide.
Tell me why Nevadans who are concerned about Yucca Mountain would reject Heller’s seniority for Rosen? What you have is a champion who is going to be so effective in Jacky Rosen. You have right now an incumbent who hasn’t delivered on health care or housing or education or living wage jobs, certainly hasn’t delivered on the environment which is so important to those of us in the West. So she would be a powerful force, following on with the tradition of Harry Reid, who really laid out the map for how to protect Nevada. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
His vulgarity, his ignorance OK, OK, I give up. I admit it. It’s true. Us Democratic libs are behind this zombie apocalypse of scary brown people heading towards the border! It will be the end of all that is good about America! Trump’s got us figured out, completely and totally. We liberals and our evil plans have been exposed by this stable genius! Curses! Foiled again! We do want open borders, completely free and open, so vicious gangs of bloodthirsty Mexicans and savage Arabs can flow into the country and go on frightful sprees of stabbing, hacking, machete death! Totally true! And, yes, we eagerly await the arrival of sinister drug dealers, driving here with truckloads of meth and coke and heroin. We admit it, we want free Oxycontin for all! Everybody high and stupid and fucked up all the time! America nods out! And yes, of
course we want to make it illegal to say, “Merry Christmas.” In fact, we want to not only outlaw Christmas, we want to kill Santa Claus. Yes! We want to kill Kris Kringle Saudi style! Cut off his fingers! Chop off his head! We’re busted! Trump knows! OK, well, we now can see that Fuckface McPantychewer has spent the last two years lying his ass off just warming up for this Blizzard of Bullshit National Tour, where EVERY STINKING WORD OUT OF HIS SPITTLE-FLECKED CAKE HOLE IS A BRAZEN LIE. This perfect tweet sums it up nicely. “I’m sick of his lying. His bullying. His name calling. His vulgarity. His hate. His hypocrisy. His ignorance. His sneer. His voice. His ego. His disdain for the law. His treason. I can’t wait for all this to be over!” Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States—“I
did try and fuck her. I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her—she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look. I’ve gotta use some Tic Tacs—just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” ReTrumplican strategy is now very simple. Lie about everything. Well, screw Trump. Screw McConnell. Screw Heller. Each one of these villainous pukes will lie in your face about health care. May each be attacked by the incurable and mercilessly itchy Albanian Taint Fungus. Ω
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