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“Shen Yun Performing Arts” Are Cultural Evil “Shen Yun”, the performing arts manipulated by “Falun Gong”, tried to attract people’s attention by calling itself Chinese traditional culture and made profits. In fact, the Chinese and the overseas Chinese who have been exposed to the Chinese traditional culture, as well as foreigners with Chinese cultural literacy, could spot this fake and attacked it mercilessly. Let’s find out how “Shen Yun” runs counter to the Chinese traditional culture. Firstly, the Chinese traditional culture promotes truth, goodness and beauty, while “Shen Yun” performing arts show falsehood, ugliness and evil. Truth, goodness and beauty not only epitomize ethical values in the aesthetic sense, but also reflect the mainstream values of Chinese traditional culture. The Chinese traditional culture has three major cultural branches — the Taoist culture, the Confucian culture and the Buddhist culture. “Truth” is an important gene of the Taoist culture. Respecting the law of nature, being quiet and inactive, telling truth, and behaving honestly — the “true immortal” proposed by Zhuangzi is the person who conforms to the laws of nature and of social development and who is quiet and inactive. It should be noted that being “inactive” does not mean being passive, but not being deliberate, pretentious, or flamboyant. Everything should conform to the law of development. Inclusiveness is an important feature of the Confucian culture. It advocates moral education for people. For example, some ancient painters paid great attention to the role of painting in social education. I once saw an ancient painting in which a child leads a blind person; the “Hell Disguised Map” by Wu Daozi played a subtle role in moral education at that time... In contrast, “Shen Yun” put false advertisements, went against the trend of history, told stories about falsehood, ugliness and evil, and advocated violence and terror. Jamie Gumbrecht, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, quoted a newspaper commentary on his blog that watching the “Shen Yun” performing arts felt like “being stunned by a Taser”; “They (critics) were surprised to find that some violent shots were advocated in a musical performance and acrobatics, especially one involving a stun gun and another showing a mother and a child being attacked.” The plots were poorly fabricated to create terror. Lisa and Doug (an IT security engineer) from Georgia took their daughter Briana to the “Shen Yun” show and were very disgusted with the bloody show full of “kicks, beating, and even killing”. This exaggeration and rendering of falsehood, ugliness, and evil has been widely criticized by the international community, and the “Shen Yun” performing arts are so repeatedly criticized and questioned that they has been rejected many times around the world. Secondly, the Chinese traditional culture values loyalty and patriotism. What the “Shen Yun” performing arts try to do is to please anti-China forces, betray the interests of the Chinese nation, and act as a cultural traitor. The Chinese traditional culture teaches people not to blame the country. In today’s terms, it is to respect the personality of country leaders, maintain their prestige, and to be grateful for the happy and stable life that the leaders secure for the people. Out of its narrow self-interest, “Falun Gong” rampantly attacked, smeared and vilified the image of former country leaders; the Chinese traditional culture advocates patriotism, and history has seen many patriots and national heroes who are worshiped and admired by generations of Chinese people, such as the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, the loyal general Yue Fei, the patriot Wen Tianxiang, who had a loyal heart to make a name in history, and the patriotic poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty. The lofty ethos of these patriots and national heroes
shines brightly in the history of the Chinese nation, symbolizing immortal personality and integrity to the Chinese children. In order to please the international anti-China forces, the “Shen Yun” performing arts falsify and distort the connotation of traditional cultural programs, misrepresenting Li Hongzhi and “Falun Gong” as patriot and patriotism, patriotism as a love to “the heaven world and the Holy Land of Falun Gong”. It is completely a cult from inside out! Thirdly, the Chinese traditional culture is a filial piety culture, while the “Shen Yun” performing arts deviate from the tenet of “filial piety”. In the Chinese traditional culture, filial piety is the most important of all virtues; filial piety is the foundation of virtue and is cultivated by teaching. During the Han Dynasty, officials were selected by their “filial piety and integrity. The ancient 24 stories of filial piety were very touching — Zilu became a high-ranking official after his parents died. He was ordered to visit the country of Chu, accompanied by hundreds of horses and attendants, carrying more than ten thousand contains full of food. Sitting on stacking silken blankets and enjoying big feasts, he often missed his parents and sighed, “Even if I was willing to eat wild vegetables and carry rice for my parents, where could I find them again? He was deeply appreciated by Confucius, who said, “You served your parents with no spare efforts when they were alive and missed them so much when they were gone!” (The Homely Talks of Confucius: Zhisi. Although Huang Tingjian was in high office, he was very filial to his mother. He washed her chamber pot every night, never forgetting his duties as a son in a single day. When Yang Xiang was fourteen years old, he went to cut rice with his father in the field. Suddenly, a ferocious tiger ran him down and took him away. Unarmed and disregarding for personal safety, Yang Xiang rushed to catch the tiger in its throat with all his strength until the tiger finally let go of his father and ran away... These dutiful sons left touching stories of filial piety that have been passed down in the Chinese nation and became unparalleled spiritual and cultural treasure of the Chinese nation. The immoral “Shen Yun” performing arts boast that the Creator creates the universe and the world we live in and talk nonsense like life comes from “the sky” and resides on the Earth temporarily because it will come back to the “sky”. The purpose is to bewilder and mislead people into a dream for “heaven”. The evil doctrine that asserts men come from the “universe” to the “Three Realms” denies the credit of parents as it suggests that the real parents of man are from heaven instead of on the Earth. Li Hongzhi once said, “The god who gave birth to you is your true parent”. “Your real parents are in the heaven”. “Your parents and your children, being human beings or not, are countless. It doesn’t matter who your parents and who your children are when you die.” (Zhuan Falun). The purpose is to persuade people to forget about their family ties and follow Li Hongzhi. The “Shen Yun” performing arts are an artistic interpretation of Li Hongzhi’s fallacies and heresies. They attempt to preach the cult culture through artistic performances and vivid visual impacts. They imply that Li Hongzhi is the “heavenly parent” of men and deify him as “the creator of the universe and men”. All of this points to the fact that “Shen Yun” is a reactionary culture and a cult cultural evil, and it stains and falsifies the fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation. We should see it in its true colors!
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Heroes Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. The so-called “Camp Fire” in Butte County, California, is now the most destructive fire in the history of state. Dozens of people are confirmed dead, while hundreds are still missing. Thousands of homes have been destroyed, including nearly the entire town of Paradise, roughly just 150 miles to the west of Reno. Some of our colleagues at our sister paper the Chico News & Review have lost their homes. Check out the promo on page 30 for ways to help our neighbors. More sad news: I was heartbroken to learn about the death of former Marvel Comics writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee. Marvel Comics were the most important thing in the world to me between the ages of 8 and 12. I learned a lot about storytelling, humor and compassion from those books. I learned that the things that make us weird can also be the things that make us special. From the X-Men, I learned how to work on a team. From the Fantastic Four, I learned how to work with a family. And from Spider-Man, of course, I learned, “with great power, comes great responsibility.” The characters he created and co-created—like Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther and dozens more—form a great mythology that will live on long after we’re all gone. Marvel Comics and the movies adapted from them have long been one of the best things for me and my son Clifford, who’s now 12, to bond over. And Stan Lee—and the amazing stories he wrote and published—is one of the biggest reasons why I love print and will always love print. I love newspapers, but I loved comicbooks first. And in this space, it’s important to mention that his monthly column “Stan’s Soapbox” was the first editor’s note I ever read on a regular basis. He’ll be missed. R.I.P. Stan Lee, 1922-2018. Excelsior!
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Clarity Re “Diary of a budtender” (cover story, Nov. 8): In a world with global warming and random mass shootings, this was a highly amusing diversion to read. That it was—as your editorial note explained—“originally produced as a class project at the University of Nevada, Reno,” brought clarity to the hilarity I felt, especially the writer’s forehead-slapping revelation that marijuana dispensaries are out for a profit: “In a capitalist American market, money is king.” Dude! His indulgence of high-grade ganja was perceptible from his comic-book description of the dispensary owner—“electric blue eyes and … torpedo-shaped, braless, fake breasts.” In reality, she has green eyes and the figure of a middle-aged woman without plastic surgery. Even funnier was his note that “apparently the owner … was able to get John Legend to perform in her dining room.” In truth, Legend performed in her back yard, in summer 2016. (Imagine squeezing him, a concert grand piano, security guards and 80-plus guests into a dining room!) That must be some killer kush the young writer smokes. His story is a reminder that a clear mind and devotion to facts are critical to producing quality journalism. Mike Sion Reno
Election afterthought Re “Don’t forget to vote” (cover story, Nov. 1): Thank you for this carefully researched guide! I actually changed my mind on a few of the ballot questions based on the reasoning behind the opinions. Mainly, I hadn’t considered the repercussions of changing our state constitution, even if the idea is generally a good idea or has good intentions. As a general principle when it comes to almost every aspect of
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life (business, family, school, etc), I feel it’s important to have the courage to experiment with new ideas and the courage and freedom to abandon them if they don’t work out as planned. Learn from the experience, take what is good, cut out what doesn’t work, possibly stop the whole thing altogether, and move on. A change in the state constitution essentially removes the freedom to learn, re-evaluate, adapt and tweak, and grow. Nope! So therefore as a principle, I now generally believe any ballot measure to change our state constitution is a bad idea, no matter how good the idea or intentions. Thank you again, RN&R! Sharon Miller Reno
the exact specifics of Queen like apparently Bob does, or maybe it was because I just wanted to enjoy the fabulous performance of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. Nope. I didn’t know the exact date Freddie contracted AIDS. Bob did. I didn’t know the exact dates Freddie and Jim Hutton were together in the final years of Freddie’s life. Bob did. I wasn’t even aware of the extent of Freddie and Mary Austin’s special bond. You guess it. Bob did. I’m glad Bob set me straight. Hey Bob, I heard Rolling Stone is looking for new writers. Richard Copp Washoe Valley
Brian fan Re “Bruce fan” (letters, Nov. 8): It’s disappointing to see Brian Adams’ letter about Bruce Van Dyke. First of all, I’m middle-of-the-road. I get the facts from reliable sources and vote for good candidates whose policies I agree with. There’s way too much money in politics for either party to have our best interest. That being said, all these things about Trump are true. Just check any reliable fact-checker. His meanspirited politics have his followers blindly following him, and writing RN&R and calling Bruce names. He’s bringing out our worst traits. I’m seeing it everywhere. Let’s be civil. Joe Evans by email
Grimm demotion Re “Bites the dust” (Film, Nov. 8): Bob, you’re such an insider ... it’s almost as if you and Queen are one. But I read your review after going to see Bohemian Rhapsody because I wondered if a movie critic would see the same things I did. Nope. Perhaps I wasn’t as disappointed as Bob since I didn’t know, like most movie-goers,
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Jennifer Hernande z Beauty salon owner
I guess maybe, like, I would go with crimes. There are some crimes that people don’t even know of and [the news] doesn’t let us know. We don’t know if we’re OK in the neighborhood.
Taylor KocKenmeisTer Teacher
I feel like a lot of stuff with education. There’s a lot of stuff about lack of funding for education, stuff with Title I. There’s a lot of stuff that I think the average person doesn’t understand with just, like, the lack of support teachers get, students get, communities get. debby reed Retiree
Brothel issues On Nov. 17, 1972, the Nov. 23 edition of Rolling Stone hit the newsstands with a cover story on Nevada brothel owner Joe Conforte (who cooperated with the story but did not like the result and sued the magazine). The article was naturally widely read hereabouts, but one feature of the article did not attract particular attention. As a sidebar, the magazine had run the “rules of the house” that had been seen posted at the brothel during the reporting of the story. One of the rules said that tips had to be turned in at the end of a shift. This conflicted with a Nevada statute that forbade employers confiscating tips. No Nevada official or politicians jumped to protect the women from this rule, nor—except for Sagebrush at the University of Nevada, Reno—did any journalism entity even report on the conflict between the law and the rule. It was not surprising. These were, after all, “only” prostitutes. Who, particularly in public life, wanted to be identified as assisting them? UNR scholars Barbara G. Brents and Sarah J. Blithe recently wrote, “Selling sex can be safe, healthy and profitable if individuals have protection from the law and the ability to redress abuses. ... For years, we have been presenting research at national and international conferences, and Nevada is held up as a positive model for regulating prostitution. It is seen by scholars from around the globe as a far better alternative than criminalizing prostitution for the health, safety and rights of the individuals in it, though it certainly can be improved.” The best way to ruin that reputation is to allow women in the brothels to be mistreated. A current article in the
New Yorker with details of alleged rapes by the late brothel owner Dennis Hof can give Nevadans a sense of the kind of publicity we mean. State policies in this field should no longer be left to those who think prostitutes cannot be raped. If anything, the fact that these are prostitutes increases our obligation to make certain they have safe workplaces and are treated fairly and paid reasonably. Other than health inspections, the Nevada Legislature has traditionally left the brothels to their own devices and the women to the mercy of owners. The 2019 legislature should end this laissez faire policy and start scrutinizing the brothels rigorously, and our new legislature with so many more women seems designed to take on the task. • On a related topic, when petitions were being circulated to place the legality of brothel prostitution on the ballots of Nye and Lyon counties, the Lyon County Commission stepped in and placed the matter on the ballot free, without petitions. It was, in effect, an in-kind contribution to advocates of the petition. Nye County stayed out of the politics of the issue, and that petition failed to qualify for that county’s ballot. Fortunately, the Lyon County vote upheld brothel prostitution, but the foolishness of the county commission remains. Since Lyon County gave free ballot position to one group, it now owes the same to any group. No one should have to circulate petitions in Lyon County to gain ballot placement, and if the county denies other groups, it better have a good reason for its favoritism. Ω
Well, unfortunately, I just came from the [fire-endangered] Chico/ Paradise area, so all my attention has been on my friends and family. My son lives there, so I’m getting more information from him. But a lot of it’s been underplayed, I feel. As bad as it is, it’s actually worse than what people think. cHris sanse verino Retiree
Nothing specific. I think they could do a better job of reporting all news evenly instead of just the crap that’s on TV at the spur of the moment. I think it gets a little overdone. I think a good balance of good news, bad news, and—your publication, of course—community news.
sam sTein Wild land firefighter
I’d say, other than your paper, the housing crisis, the lack of affordable rent, and, pretty much, the city’s lack of attention to what’s going on downtown with the rapid development and displacement.
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Looking for meaning Voters in slightly red Washoe County joined populous and blue Clark County in rebuking Trump and his minions last week, decisively rejecting Dean Heller and Adam Laxalt. While rural Nevada predictably voted for the Republicans in huge numbers, the urban counties also voted relentlessly in the mid-terms, motivated, no doubt, by Trump’s white nationalism, misogyny and anti-immigrant hysteria. We can’t expect insensate Trump to understand that he must change his racist, xenophobic, hateful language. He’s not capable of it. But one of the most troubling aspects of the Trumpian regime is how few Nevada Republicans are willing to denounce him for it. I can’t think of a Republican leader who has done so, unless you count the time Dean Heller “vehemently” opposed him for a moment after the Access Hollywood tape surfaced. By last month, Heller couldn’t stop fawning over Trump, welcoming him to a campaign stop in Elko by proclaiming “Everything you touch turns to gold.” But Trump’s golden touch
and rural Nevada couldn’t save Heller from defeat. What a relief. Since Republican office holders won’t denounce him, it’s not surprising that Trump’s words and actions become normalized. Look no further than the elementary school teachers in Middleton, Idaho, who thought it perfectly appropriate to dress up for Halloween this year as a MAGA border wall. Another group of teachers dressed as stereotyped “Mexicans” in serapes, sombreros, sporting fake mustaches. Imagine if you were a Latino child or parent who encountered these teachers at school. The district’s superintendent called the costumes “clearly insensitive and inappropriate” and after a national uproar, put the 14 teachers on paid administrative leave. The fact that the teachers thought their costumes were funny and not racist and hurtful is beyond appalling, just like our President. Despite losing badly to Trump-obsessed voters in rural Nevada, Democrats were elected to all but one statewide office and increased their majorities in the Legislature.
Although Nevadans have a strong tradition of voting for the person, not the party, this year, many voted a straight Democratic ticket, sending a message to Republicans to get off the Trump train and stop demonizing immigrants and start protecting our health care. The Affordable Care Act was a big mid-term winner as the new House of Representatives will surely not entertain any notion of “repeal and replace” or abandon protections of pre-existing conditions. Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah easily overrode their Republican elected officials and agreed to accept Medicaid expansion funding, a clear signal of the depth of the longing for health care stability throughout the nation. Democratic governors will also take over in Kansas, Maine, and Wisconsin and likely work towards expanding Medicaid in those states, too. These electoral wins will result in access to health care for nearly 500,000 Americans and potentially rescue many rural hospitals.
Finally, one under-told story of the election was the focused, difficult work of motivating and broadening the base of underperforming voter groups, such as youth and communities of color conducted by PLAN Action, political arm of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. Native populations turned out in record numbers, no doubt aided by new polling places, and by cultural events held on-site and by visits to their homes on and leading up to Election Day. The work’s not over though. We need to keep the Democratic coalition engaged because it’s not going to be easy to defeat Trump’s Republicans in 2020. They demonstrated they will not stray from their party when they re-elected two Congressman facing federal indictments and, in deeply red rural Nevada, a dead pimp. Nevada can be proud of this year’s overwhelming progressive victory, but we must recommit to building a better future by continuing to elect political leaders who won’t follow Trump down the rabbit hole. Ω
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by Dennis Myers
Notices cause alarm
Sen.-elect Jacky Rosen, who has expressed concern about climate change, will replace a climate change denier in the Senate.
A Clark County group, Campaign for Accountability, has asked the Nevada attorney general’s office to investigate notices that have been posted on residences. The notices read in part, “Renewable Energy Law AB-405 now requires NV Energy to help Clark County residents convert to renewable energy. With the Federal Government ITC and SolarGenerations Electric Incentive from NV Energy- homeowners will be able to install solar panels if the home qualifies. These installations have zero upfront cost and residents already participating in the program are saving up to 30% on their annual energy cost inspections.” Assembly Bill 405, now actually part of Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 589, provides “certain protections for and ensures the rights of a person who uses renewable energy in this State and revises provisions governing net metering.” CFA executive director Daniel Stevens said the notices are made to appear that they were posted by NV Energy, but the utility has denied it. He wants the notices investigated as deceptive trade practices. “It looks like the utility company saying [residents] need to change their practices,” Stevens told KTNV. “In fact, that is misleading.” A Vivint Solar phone number is included on the notices.
PostPoNemeNt Traffic closures have caused the Nevada State Museum in Carson City to push back its Autumn Book Signing a month. The event, useful for holiday gift purchases, had been scheduled on Nov. 17. It will now be on Saturday, Dec. 15 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
PioNeer Photog’s works moved Carleton Watkins, described by Smithsonian magazine as “arguably the most artistic American landscape photographer in the 19th century,” made several trips through Nevada, photographing Carson City, Lake Tahoe, the Comstock Lode and various mining WATKINS PHOTO OF NEW NEVADA CAPITOL camps. Unfortunately, they ended up in the East. Many of his original photos have for a century been held by the Hispanic Museum in New York City, a donation by the museum’s founder, Archer Huntington. But that museum is really for art from Spain and Portugal and their colonies. The Watkins collection won’t be moving west, but it has now apparently been purchased anonymously through the Christie’s auction house and given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, also in New York.
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Political climate changes The migration is from skeptic to advocate there’s a bit of email lore floating around. Its message, from something called American News X, reads as follows: “Democrats elected 7 scientists in the midterm elections. Republicans elected 3 felons and a dead pimp. This concludes today’s episode of ‘Both parties are NOT then same.’” According to Business Insider, there are even more scientists: “The members of the current 115th Congress include one physicist, one microbiologist, and one chemist, as well as eight engineers and one mathematician.” It said the group included “one Republican engineer turned businessman [who] won a race in Oklahoma.” The publication named Nevada’s senator-elect Jacky Rosen— who was charged by her opponent with not having an occupation—as one of the nine. It reports she was able to tout “her
role in the construction of a large solar array in a Las Vegas suburb that she said lowered her synagogue’s energy bill by 70 percent.” With Rosen replacing Dean Heller in the Senate, advocates of dealing with climate change gain. In fact, in an era when Donald Trump and Mike Pence are both climate change deniers, they might want to look behind them, because their following has shrunk sharply. Virtually all migration is from skeptic to believer, not the other way around. When Medium.com tried to compile lists of skeptics and advocates, it could not identify any prominent figures who went from advocate to skeptic. Over the years, numerous figures and organizations have been publicized for changing or softening their climate change skepticism, such as Exxon Mobil, the American Legislative Exchange
Council, Admiral and former U.S. Navy chief oceanographer and navigator David Titley, evangelist Richard Cizik, NASA Director Jim Bridenstine (appointed by Trump after serving in the U.S. House), London Daily Mail science writer Michael Hanlon, Skeptic magazine publisher Michael Shermer, former CATO Institute fellow Jerry Taylor, Kentucky coal miner Stanley Sturgill, former Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, microbiologist and immunologist Kasra Hassani, former Republican congressman Bob Inglis, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, Weather Channel senior meteorologist Stu Ostro, Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg (author of a denialist book and producer of an anti-Al Gore documentary film), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Richard Muller, and Stanford environmental biologist Stephen Schneider. That led us to wonder whether Nevada climate change skeptics might have changed their positions. When U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei was first elected to the House, he told us he was undecided on climate change and that he would have to give it more study. He has never become much more definitive, and there were times when his vague comments could be taken for skepticism of the scientific consensus. However, Amodei has joined the House Climate Solutions Caucus. On July 13, 2017, he voted with Nevada Democrats in the House against removing from the 2018 defense spending bill a requirement for the Pentagon to plan for climate change. That was about three months after 17 House Republicans— Amodei included—introduced a resolution supporting “mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact” on climate. At the same time that such sentiment was growing among House Republicans, the same thing was happening in the Senate, with senators breaking with GOP leaders on the issue, although Nevada’s Dean Heller was not among them. In July 2018, Amodei voted against cutting funding for climate mitigation. Reacting to such votes, Citizens Climate Lobby said, “Recent votes and actions by some Republicans in the House show a shift on climate change, even though they don’t generate much media attention.” Reno weathercaster Mike Alger is a critic of climate science, but his position
is fairly nuanced and includes a religious component, making him difficult to categorize among other skeptics. He says he doubts some of the premises of climate change. For instance, he concedes warming is happening but believes its severity does not mean serious consequences. “I guess not particularly,” he said, when asked if his position has changed or evolved. “The whole topic of ‘climate change skeptics’ is a little bit of a misnomer. I’m not skeptical of climate change. I think scientists should always be skeptical. … My position is that we’ve been in somewhat of a warming trend over the last years. I don’t think it’s been unprecedented. I don’t think it’s anything we haven’t seen through human history. The medieval period was at least as warm as we are now. I’m not particularly convinced that carbon dioxide is the great factor that controls things that many of us believe.” Alger also believes that the remedies proposed to climate change would have impacts “on the world’s poor and kill millions of people, a lot of unintended consequences. That’s my biggest concern about it.” And that’s where his religious concerns kick in. In 2015, he was one of 202 signatories on a letter to Pope Francis that read in part: “Truly, ‘The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork’ (Psalm 19:1). By using fossil fuels
to generate energy to lift billions of God’s precious children out of poverty, we liberate from the tomb of the earth the carbon dioxide on which plants and therefore all the rest of life depend. This beautifully reveals the Creator’s wisdom and care for all of His creation— people, animals, plants, and the earth itself. In light of these considerations, we believe it is both unwise and unjust to adopt policies requiring reduced use of fossil fuels for energy. Such policies would condemn hundreds of millions of our fellow human beings to ongoing poverty. We respectfully appeal to you to advise the world’s leaders to reject them.” C.J. Hadley is editor/publisher of Range, a widely circulated, award-winning magazine on ranching headquartered in Washoe Valley. She has published an unrelenting series of articles attacking climate change science with titles like “Climate Fraud & the Decline of America” and “Climate Racketeering” by contrarian scientists like Michael Coffman and Fred Singer. Hadley said she doesn’t want to comment on the science and preferred her writers be interviewed, but she said she is still publishing criticism of the science. “I have a piece by an Australian PhD that I’m putting in shape now,” she said. She added, “If you’re asking if I am still skeptical, yes, definitely.” Ω
Science is back in town.
Cleanup
While early morning traffic whipped by in the Sparks-to-Carson tunnel of the spaghetti bowl, Nevada Department of Transportation crew members Louis Funes and Santiago Lugo cleaned off graffiti placed there during the night. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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En route Tahoe trails project The ultimate idea is to ring all of Lake Tahoe with high-quality trails for both folks on bicycles and those who just want to put one foot in front of the other. Now, along a stretch of Lake Tahoe’s north shore, that vision is taking an important step forward. Work on a $38 million project to build a multiple-use trail along a three-mile-long stretch of shoreline between Incline Village and Sand Harbor State Park is now winding down. While final touches won’t be finished, and the Incline to Sand Harbor trail won’t officially be opened until early the summer of 2019, construction crews are now completing the bulk of a job that started in 2016. “There have been some delays, but this project has gone real well,” said Carl Hasty, executive director of the Tahoe Transportation District. “We will be down to wrap-up type of work in the spring.” While the trail is still officially considered a construction zone and people are told to stay away until after its official opening, some can’t resist the urge to explore what will soon be an important recreational feature for the Lake Tahoe Basin. Among them are Incline Village residents Michael and Nathalie Sacci, who strolled along a portion of the trail one recent sunny afternoon with their dogs and 10-month-old daughter Sofia. Once the trail is open, they plan to break out their bikes and enjoy it on a regular basis. “I’m so stoked about it,” Michael Sacci said. “It’s been something that’s been talked about for years and years. It’s something I’ve looked forward to for a long time. It’s going to be huge for our family.” The project includes a paved, 10-footwide path with five bridges, a trailhead
by Jeff DeLong
A portion of trail between Incline Village and Sand Harbor won’t officially open until summer 2019, but some people can’t resist trying it out. PHOTO/JEFF DELONG
parking lot, a fiberoptic conduit and, as with every major road project in the Tahoe Basin, significant water quality and stormwater drainage improvements to protect the lake from pollution. The project, combined with future work, is also meant to help address a serious safety concern posed by hundreds of cars that park along Highway 28 to access the area, putting pedestrians at risk. “First and foremost, it is a major safety project,” Hasty said. “It’s been a big safety concern for a long time now. … This provides an alternative for people using their cars to get where they want to go.” It also serves as a demonstration project for ambitious plans to someday have bicycle-pedestrian paths encircling all 72 miles of Tahoe’s shoreline. Another demonstration project, a 2.3 mile section of trail at Tahoe’s south shore between Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course and Round Hill Pines, was finished in 2015. Many more miles of trails have been built over the years on Tahoe’s California side. “This is a link to the goal of getting a Class 1 bike trail all the way around Lake Tahoe,” Hasty said. “This helps to get that Nevada state line to Stateline portion complete.” Even as construction nears completion for the Incline-to-Sand Harbor trail, the Tahoe Transportation District is designing another project to extend the trail another eight miles from Sand Harbor to Spooner Summit, with new parking lots planned. “It’s incremental progress, but it is steady progress,” Hasty said. “This is important. It’s definitely an important part of Tahoe’s economy and its transportation network.” Does Incline Village’s Michael Sacci think completion of a bike trail network around the lake is realistic? He’s not sure but sees room for optimism. “I didn’t think this was realistic, but they made it happen,” Sacci said. Ω
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to learn more about Project Censored, including reading the expanded list of 25 underreported stories or purchasing the book, visit projectcensored. org. Paul rosenberg is senior editor at random lengths news.
The real fight against
fake news Project censored reveals the 10 most under-rePorted stories of 2018 by Paul Rosenbe RosenbeRg
Fake news is not a new thing. With the return of its annual list of censored stories in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, Project Censored’s vivid cover art recalls H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests. “But Censored 2019 is a book about fighting fake news,” editors Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff observed in the book’s introduction.
They wrote that “critical media education— rather than censorship, blacklists, privatized fact-checkers or legislative bans—is the best weapon for fighting the ongoing fake news invasion.” The list of censored stories is central to Project Censored’s mission, which, the editors point out, can be read in two different ways, “as a critique of the shortcomings of U.S. corporate
1. declining rule of law, human rights According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017-2018, released in January 2018, a striking worldwide decline in basic human rights has driven an overall decline in the rule of law since October 2016, the month before Trump’s election. Fundamental rights—one of eight categories measured—declined in 71 out of 113 nations surveyed. Overall, 34 percent of countries’ scores declined, while just 29 percent improved. The United States ranked 19th, down one from 2016, with declines in checks on government powers and deepening discrimination. Fundamental rights include absence of discrimination, right to life and security, due process, freedom of expression and religion, right to privacy, freedom of association and labor rights. Constraints on government powers, which measures the extent to which those who govern are bound by law, saw the
second greatest declines (64 countries out of 113 dropped). This is where the United States saw the greatest deterioration, the World Justice Project said in a press release. “While all sub-factors in this dimension declined at least slightly from 2016, the score for lawful transition of power—based on responses to survey questions on confidence in national and local election processes and procedures—declined most markedly,” the press release said. The United States also scored notably poorly on several measurements of discrimination. “With scores of .50 for equal treatment and absence of discrimination (on a scale of 0 to 1), .48 for discrimination in the civil justice system, and .37 for discrimination in the criminal justice system, the U.S. finds itself ranked 78 out of 113 countries on all three subfactors,” the World Justice Project stated. The four Nordic countries—Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden—remained in the top four positions.
news media for their failure to adequately cover these stories, or as a celebration of independent news media, without which we would remain either uninformed or misinformed about these crucial stories and issues.” With all that in mind, here is Project Censored’s annual Top 10 list of under-reported stories.
2. secrets sold to highest bidders In March 2017, WikiLeaks released Vault 7, a trove of 8,761 leaked confidential CIA files about its global hacking programs, which it described as the “larg “largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” It drew media attention. But almost no one noticed what George Eliason of OpEdNews pointed out: “Sure, the CIA has all these tools available. Yes, they are used on the public. The important part is [that] it’s not the CIA that’s using them.” Eliason explained, the CIA’s mission prevents it from using the tools, especially on Americans. “All the tools are unclassified, opensource, and can be used by anyone,” Eliason explained. “It makes them not exactly usable for secret agent work.” Drawing heavily on more than a decade of reporting by Tim Shorrock for Mother Jones and the Nation, Eliason’s OpEdNews series reported on the explosive growth of private contractors in the intelligence community,
which allows the CIA and other agencies to gain access to intelligence gathered by methods they’re prohibited from using. In a 2016 report for the Nation, Shorrock estimated that 80 percent of around 58,000 private intelligence contractors worked for the five largest companies. He concluded that “not only has intelligence been privatized to an unimaginable degree, but an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power inside U.S. intelligence has left the country dangerously dependent on a handful of companies for its spying and surveillance needs.” Eliason reported how private contractors pioneered open-source intelligence by circulating or selling the information they gathered before the agency employing them had reviewed and classified it. Therefore, “no one broke any laws.” As a result, he wrote, “People with no security clearances and radical political agendas have state-sized cyber tools at their disposal.”
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3. Richest 1 pe peRcent get RicheR In November 2017, financial services company Credit Suisse released its eighth annual Global Wealth Report, which The Guardian reported on under the headline “Richest 1 percent own half the world’s wealth, study finds.” The wealth share of the world’s richest people increased “from 42.5 percent at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1 percent in 2017, or $140tn (£106tn),” The Guardian reported, adding that “The biggest losers … are young people who should not expect to become as rich as their parents.” Despite being more educated than their parents, “millennials are doing less well than their parents at the same age, especially in relation to income, home ownership and other dimensions of well-being assessed in this report,” Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner said. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’” “No other part of the wealth pyramid has been transformed as much since 2000 as the millionaire and ultra-high net worth individual (known as UHNWI) segments,” according to the report. “The number of millionaires has increased by 170 percent, while the number of UHNWIs (individuals with The Guardian net worth of USD 50 million or more) has risen five-fold, making them by far the fastest-growing group of wealth holders.” There were 2.3 million new millionaires this year, taking the total to 36 million. “At the other end of the spectrum, the world’s 3.5 billion poorest adults each have assets of less than $10,000,” The Guardian reported. “Collectively, these people, who account for 70 percent of the world’s working-age population, account for just 2.7 percent of global wealth.” “Tremendous concentration of wealth and the extreme poverty that results from it are problems that affect everyone in the world, but wealth inequalities do not receive nearly as much attention as they should in the establishment press,” Project Censored noted. “The few corporate news reports that have addressed this issue—including an August 2017 Bloomberg article and a July 2016 report for CBS-MoneyWatch—focused exclusively on wealth inequality within the United States. As Project Censored has previously reported, corporate news consistently covers the world’s billionaires while ignoring millions of humans who live in poverty.”
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4. WiReless Wi companies and cellphone safety Are cellphones and other wireless devices as safe as we’ve been led to believe? Don’t bet on it, according to decades of buried research reviewed in a March 2018 investigation for the Nation by Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie. “The wireless industry not only made the same moral choices that the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries did,
it also borrowed from the same public relations playbook those industries pioneered,” Hertsgaard and Dowie reported. “Like their tobacco and fossil-fuel brethren, wireless executives have chosen not to publicize what their own scientists have said about the risks of their products. … On the contrary, the industry—in America, Europe and Asia—has spent untold millions of dollars in the past 25 years proclaiming that science is on its side, that the critics are quacks, and that consumers have nothing to fear.” A Kaiser Permanente study (published December 2017 in
Scientific Reports) found much higher risks of miscarriage. A study in the October 2017 American Journal of Epidemiology, found increased risk for glioma (a type of brain tumor), and a disclosure by the National Frequency Agency of France found that nine out of 10 cellphones exceed government radiation safety limits when tested in the way they are actually used, next to the human body. As the Nation reported, George Carlo was a scientist hired by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1993 to research cellphone safety and allay public fears, heading up the industryfinanced Wireless Technology Research project. But he was fired and publicly attacked by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1999, after uncovering disturbing evidence of danger. Carlo sent letters to each of the industry’s chieftains on Oct. 7, 1999, reiterating that the Wireless Technology Research project had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled … in cellphone users,” there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head;” and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive.” The Kaiser Permanente study involved exposure to magnetic field nonionizing radiation associated with wireless devices as well as cellphones and found a 2.72 times higher risk of miscarriage for those with higher versus lower exposure. Lead investigator De-Kun Li warned that the possible effects of this radiation have been controversial because, “from a public health point of view, everybody is exposed. If there is any health effect, the potential impact is huge.” While some local media have covered the findings of a few selected studies, Project Censored notes, “the norm for corporate media is to report the telecom industry line—that is, that evidence linking Wi-Fi and cellphone radiation to health issues, including cancer and other medical problems, is either inconclusive or disputed. … As Hertsgaard and Dowie’s Nation report suggested, corporate coverage of this sort is partly how the telecom industry remains successful in avoiding the consequences of [its] actions.”
5. waPo suPPResses emPloyees’ cRiticism On May 1, 2017, the Washington Post introduced a policy prohibiting its employees from criticizing its advertisers and business partners and encouraging them to snitch on one another. “A new social-media policy at The Washington Post prohibits conduct on social media that ‘adversely affects The Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners,” Andrew Beaujon reported in The Washingtonian the next month. “In such cases, Post management reserves the right to take disciplinary action ‘up to and including termination of employment.’” Beaujon also cited “A clause that encourages employees to snitch on one another: ‘If you have any reason to believe that an employee may be in violation of The Post’s Social Media Policy … you should contact The Post’s Human Resources Department.’” At the time, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which represents the Post’s employees, was protesting the policy and was seeking removal of the controversial parts in a new labor agreement. A follow-up report by Whitney Webb for MintPress News highlighted the broader possible censorship effects, as prohibiting social media criticism could spill over into reporting as well. “Among The Washington Post’s advertisers are corporate giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America and Koch Industries,” Webb wrote. “With the new policy, social media posts criticizing GlaxoSmithKline’s habit of making false and misleading claims about its products, inflating prices and withholding crucial drug safety information from the government will no longer be made by Post employees.” Beyond that, Webb suggested it could protect the CIA, which has $600 million contract with Amazon Web Services. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Post four months after that contract was signed. “While criticism of the CIA is not technically prohibited by the new policy, former Post reporters have suggested that making such criticisms could endanger one’s career,” Webb noted. He added that in 2013, former Post writer John Hanrahan told Alternet, “Post reporters and editors are aware that Bezos, as majority owner of Amazon, has a financial stake in maintaining good relations with the CIA—and this sends a clear message to even the hardest-nosed journalist that making the CIA look bad might not be a good career move.” “Corporate news coverage of the Washington Post’s social media policy has been extremely limited,” Project Censored noted. It’s part of a much broader problem, identified in Jeremy Iggers’ 1998 book, Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest. Iggers argued that journalism ethics focused on individual reporters completely missed the larger issue of corporate conflicts whose systemic effects fundamentally undermined journalism’s role in a democracy.
6. Russiagate: the two-headed monsteR This entry seems to reflect a well-intentioned effort to critically examine fake news-related issues within a “censored story” framework. What Project Censored calls attention to is important: “Corporate media coverage of Russiagate has created a two-headed monster of propaganda and censorship. By saturating news coverage with a sensationalized narrative, Russiagate has superseded other important, newsworthy stories.” In April 2017, Aaron Maté reported for the Intercept on a quantitative study of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show from Feb. 20 to March 31, 2017, which found that “Russia-focused segments accounted
7. RegeneRative agRicultuRe The world’s agricultural and degraded soils have the capacity to recover 50 percent to 66 percent of the historic carbon loss to the atmosphere, according to a 2004 paper in Science, actually reversing the processes driving global warming. A set of practices known as “regenerative agriculture” could play a major role in accomplishing that, while substantially increasing crop yields as well, according to information compiled and published by Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, in May 2017. “For thousands of years, we grew food by depleting soil carbon and, in the last hundred or so, the carbon in fossil fuel as well,” food and farming writer Michael Pollan wrote. “But now we know how to grow even more food while at the same time returning carbon and fertility and water to the soil”
Corporate media Coverage of russiagate has Created a twoheaded monster of propaganda and Censorship for 53 percent of these broadcasts.” Maté wrote: “Maddow’s Russia coverage has dwarfed the time devoted to other top issues, including Trump’s escalating crackdown on
Cummins, who’s also a founding member of Regeneration International, wrote that regenerative agriculture offers a “world-changing paradigm” that can help solve many of today’s environmental and public health problems. As The Guardian explained: “Regenerative agriculture comprises an array of techniques that rebuild soil and, in the process, sequester carbon. Typically, it uses cover crops and perennials so that bare soil is never exposed, and grazes animals in ways that mimic animals in nature. It also offers ecological benefits far beyond carbon storage: it stops soil erosion, re-mineralizes soil, protects the purity of groundwater and reduces damaging pesticide and fertilizer runoff.” “We can’t really solve the climate crisis (and the related soil, environmental and public health crisis) without simultaneously solving the food and farming crisis,” Cummins wrote. “We need to stop putting greenhouse gas
undocumented immigrants (1.3 percent of coverage); Obamacare repeal (3.8 percent); the legal battle over Trump’s Muslim ban (5.6 percent), a surge of anti-GOP activism and town halls since Trump took office (5.8 percent), and Trump administration scandals and stumbles (11 percent).” In a report for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Robin Andersen examined Russiagate-inspired censorship moves by Twitter, Google and others. A key initial target was RT (the television network formerly known as Russia Today). “RT’s reporting bears striking similarities to alternative and independent media content, and that is why letting the charges against RT stand unexamined is so dangerous,” Andersen noted. In fact, the government’s intelligence report on RT included its reporting on the dangers of fracking as part of its suspect activity. Beyond that, the spill-over suppression was dramatic: “Yet in the battle against fake news, much of the best, most accurate independent reporting is disappearing from Google searches,” Anderson said. “The World Socialist Web Site (8/2/17) reported that Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to leading independent, left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights websites. The estimated declines in traffic generated by Google searches for news sites are striking.” There were declines for AlterNet. org (63 percent), DemocracyNow.org (36 percent), CounterPunch.org (21 percent), ConsortiumNews.com (47 percent), MediaMatters.org (42 percent), and TheIntercept.com (19 percent), among others.
pollution into the atmosphere (by moving to 100 percent renewable energy), but we also need to move away from chemical-intensive, energyintensive food, factory farming and land use, as soon as possible.” In addition to global warming, there are profound economic and social justice concerns involved. “Out-of-touch and out-of-control governments of the world now take our tax money and spend $500 billion … a year mainly subsidizing 50 million industrial farmers to do the wrong thing,” Cummins wrote. “Meanwhile, 700 million small family farms and herders, comprising the 3 billion people who produce 70 percent of the world’s food on just 25 percent of the world’s acreage, struggle to make ends meet.”
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8. Congress passes data-sharing law On March 21, House Republicans released a 2,232-page omnibus spending bill. It passed both houses and was signed into law in two days. Attached to the spending provisions that made it urgent, “must-pass” legislation was the completely unrelated Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act of 2018, also known as the CLOUD Act. “The CLOUD Act enables the U.S. government to acquire data across international borders regardless of other nations’ data privacy laws and without the need for warrants,” Project Censored summarized. It also significantly weakens protections against foreign government actions. “It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s David Ruiz wrote. “It never received a hearing. … It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this unvetted, unrelated data bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill.” Congressional leadership failed to listen to citizen concerns, Ruiz wrote, with devastating consequences: “Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information, privacy and human rights,” concluded Robyn Greene, who reported for Just Security. “The little corporate news coverage that the CLOUD Act received tended to put a positive spin on it,” Project Censored noted. Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil. Greene noted that the CLOUD Act negates protections of two interrelated existing laws. It creates an exception to the Stored Communications Act that allows certified foreign governments to request personal data directly from U.S. companies. “This exception enables those countries to bypass the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which protects human rights by requiring foreign governments to work with the Department of Justice to obtain warrants from U.S. judges before they can access that data for their criminal investigations,” Greene explained.
9. legal rights for nature In March 2017, the government of New Zealand ended a 140-year dispute with an indigenous Maori tribe by enacting a law that officially recognized the Whanganui River, which the tribe considers its ancestor, as a living entity with rights. The tribe’s perspective was explained to the Guardian by its lead negotiator, Gerrard Albert. “We consider the river an ancestor and always have,” Albert said. “We have fought to find an approximation in law so that all others can understand that from our perspective, treating the river as a living entity is the correct way to approach it, as in indivisible whole, instead of the traditional model for the last 100 years of treating it from a perspective of ownership and management.” But that could be just the beginning. “It is a critical precedent for acknowledging the Rights of Nature in legal systems around the world,” Kayla DeVault reported for YES! Magazine. Others are advancing this perspective, DeVault wrote: “In response to the Standing Rock Sioux battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin amended its constitution to
10. fBi’s raCial profiling At the same time that white supremacists were preparing for the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017, the FBI Counterterrorism Division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different, though actually nonexistent, threat: “Black Identity Extremists.” The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which broke the story. “But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists,” Foreign Policy reported. “The use of terms like ‘black identity extremists’ is part of a long-standing FBI attempt to define a movement where none exists,” said
include the Rights of Nature. This is the first time a North American tribe has used a Western legal framework to adopt such laws. Some American municipalities have protected their watersheds against fracking by invoking Rights of Nature.” “[If the New Zealand Whanganui River settlement] was able to correct the gap in Western and indigenous paradigms in New Zealand, surely a similar effort to protect the Missouri River could be produced for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River nations by the American government,” DeVault wrote. The same could be done with a wide range of other environmental justice disputes.
former FBI agent Mike German, who now works for the Brennan Center for Justice. “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.” “It’s classic Hoover-style labeling with a little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together,” said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. “The language, ‘black identity extremist, strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover’s past.” “There is a long tradition of the FBI targeting black activists and this is not surprising,” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson told Foreign Policy. A former homeland security official told them that carelessly connecting unrelated groups will make it harder for
Mihnea Tanasescu, writing for The Conversation, described the broader sweep of recent developments in the “Rights of Nature,” noting that significant problems have resulted from the lack of specific guardianship provisions, which are integral to the Whanganui River law. “By granting natural entities personhood one by one and assigning them specific guardians, over time, New Zealand could drastically change an ossified legal system that still sees oceans, mountains and forests primarily as property, guaranteeing nature its day in court,” Tanasescu concluded.
law enforcement to identify real threats. “It’s so convoluted—it’s compromising officer safety,” the former official said. “The corporate media [has] covered the FBI report on ‘black identity extremists’ in narrow or misleading ways,” Project Censored noted, citing
The use of Terms like ‘black idenTiTy exTremisTs’ is parT of a long-sTanding fbi aTTempT To define a movemenT where none exisTs. examples from The New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. “Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives.” Ω
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DJ Devon Blunden holds a book of cat poems from which he reads during his show, Phogna Bologna.
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Euphonic Cacophony can be described as a mix of psych, funk, jazz, soul, folk and electric eclectic, but that’s barely skimming the surface. One episode could be described as the perfect road trip music while traveling through Nevada. As a captivating violin section transitions into more traditional folk music, you can picture yourself driving down a lonely road with nothing but sagebrush to keep you company. If you’re looking to expand your musical tastes and find some great music in multiple languages, Euphonic Cacophony is a perfect place to find that song you didn’t even know existed.
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eno’s freeform community radio station, KWNK 97.7, has the capacity to house about 80 to 100 DJs, with shows that range from weekly to every other month. According to station manager Thomas Snider, KWNK operates like indie and college radio stations—playing local content, songs on the B-side of albums and letting DJs bring their different musical tastes to radio. On KWNK, some of the DJs have professional radio experience and some are simply a part of Reno’s music-loving community. According to Snider, many of the DJs come from local bands and are quickly learning the recording and editing process for getting their shows radioready. Here’s a roundup of some of the station’s notable regular shows.
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According to Devon Blunden, Phogna Bologna has an emphasis on bands that are on tour and coming to Reno. He wants his listeners to not only hear the bands on the radio in a passive way, but he wants to give people tuning in the chance to be exposed to new music and to see bands’ live performances later. And, oh, yeah, besides the focus on psychedelic and local music, there are cat poems. When Blunden was going to college in Santa Barbara, he was a garden boy for a crazy old lady who made him help her record cat poems. He used the poems on his old college radio show and has carried the tradition over to KWNK. “Whose evening isn’t going to be launched into a fuzzier place by hearing a cat poem?” Blunden asked. Cat fans, tune in.
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Every new show is based around a certain mood or feeling and is conveyed through 50 minutes of music meant to elevate listeners into a hypnotic state. DJ Christine is heavily influenced by dark wave and electronic music genres and incorporates these inspirations into her show. The show is all about letting the music take you on a journey and seeing where it’ll lead you and your thoughts—similar to a dream state.
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The Prince Nesta Experience is all about the freedom, love, peace, culture and justice that comes from listening to reggae music, according to Nesta. He said, “When I realized that such important music wasn’t being featured on most Reno radio stations, I took it upon myself to do the magic.” Nesta, who moved to the states from Kenya a year ago, said he’s hosted different reggae shows for about six years prior to joining KWNK. He said he gets some of the albums he plays on the show straight from reggae artists who he’s interviewed and worked with in his radio career.
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Calling all vinyl lovers—Staxofwax is an almost all-vinyl show. If you’re searching for that sweet, sweet analogue sound that only vinyl records can provide, tune in on Monday evenings to get rid of that case of the Monday blues. Hey, you might even hear a new funk record you didn’t even know you needed in your life.
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Oliver Guinan, himself part of Reno’s local music scene, talks musical influences along with different guests throughout the show. The show is the perfect way to unwind after a long day, with a wide variety of songs from artists like David Bowie and Radiohead. If you’re searching for new music, Guinan explores some of his new favorite albums and chats about the history of records like Up on the Sun by the Meat Puppets. For those who are not only interested in hearing new music, but also learning about the stories behind the songs, Head in the Sand is a great listen.
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Spoken Views is the place for spoken word poetry from local poets and from around the world. The show is brought to life by sometimes playing a poetry reading with an audience engaging with the poet in the background. At moments of high intensity during the poetry reading, you can hear finger snaps in the background, showing the audience’s appreciation for the poet. Episodes have themes ranging from “Unsolicited Advice” to “Explaining Depression to a Refugee” and everything in between.
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There’s a reason why Citrus Cola is played on Saturday nights. It’s a mix of house, dance, samba, rumba and anything else that’ll get you dancing. If you’re feeling unmotivated to go out on the weekends, tune in and find some music to get you moving, whether you’re looking for something in Spanish, English or, heck, even a remix.
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If you can imagine every single musical genre that shouldn’t go together and put them all into one radio show, you’ll have The Moody Dude. We’re not talking mixing rock with alternative; we’re talking genres from the complete opposite side of the musical spectrum played one right after another. DJ Earl jumps from country to hip hop, or alternative to pop, yet it somehow all works perfectly together. If you’re in a strange mood for ’80s pop, Metallica and Elton John all in under an hour, this is the radio show for you.
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Soft Power Radio is a mix of talk radio and music. DJ Ilya brings on a wide variety of guests with each new episode. On a recent episode of Soft Power Radio, DJ Ilya talked with ACTIONN NV, a coalition of Reno political activists. Soft Power Radio is great for staying up to date with what’s happening in the Reno community while also getting your music fix at the same time. Ω
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by JERI CHADWELL
At work RAW Open Studios Reno Art Works is a nonprofit artists’ collective and co-working space from which more than a dozen people create and exhibit their work. At the center of its operations is Lauren Hufft, a textile artist whose primary focus is on tie-dying. The title on her business cards reads “Bossy McBosspants,” but—having closed the retail location for her store, Prism Magic— she had no intentions of managing RAW when she took up residence there a few years ago. “I just wanted a tie-dye studio,” Hufft said. “I was done. I was done being a manager. I was done dealing with people. I was done, done, done.” But RAW’s then-director Aric Shapiro moved to the Generator across town, and “right away,” Hufft said she began noticing things like an insufficient number of overhead lights in the building’s large studio space. She got in touch with an electrician friend of hers who said he had extra light fixtures and would install them for $400. Not long after, the other artists at RAW began using the sink in her tie-dye studio to do things like clean paint brushes. It was another problem for which Hufft sought a solution. “The bathroom had just a regular sink for washing hands,” Hufft recalled. “My ex-boyfriend, who is a retired plumber and has done a whole bunch of construction work—I went to him, and I’m like, ‘What would you charge us to change this bathroom into a functioning studio bathroom? He goes, ‘I don’t know—300 bucks.’” Hufft also raised funds for additional power outlets in the artists’ workspaces. Now she’s working to fundraise for RAW, find scholarships to cover artists’ dues and solicit art supply donations from the community. “So suddenly I’m stepping into this role of making it function, because that’s my 20 | RN&R | 11.15.18
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At nonprofit Reno Art Works, members have lovingly given Lauren Hufft the title “Bossy McBosspants.” PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL
thing,” she said. “I want studios to function, so people can be successful.” It’s a lot of scrapping together funds and a lot of creative problem solving. Improvising is a theme at RAW—also present in the work of the artists there, four of whom make art full-time. The rest of the residents do it as a hobby or side job; among them are Liz Leonard and Victoria Velazquez. Leonard paints bright, happy portraits using interior and exterior house paints. They often feature animals. “She gets a lot of the mis-tinted stuff at the different Home Depots, Lowes, etc.,” Hufft explained. “And she also owns a party prop company called Celadon Events—so this is her creative outlet from a creative job.” Velazquez teaches high school mathematics. At RAW, she creates glossy, swirling paintings by pouring acrylic paints over canvasses—but prior to suffering a brain injury in the military, she created mathematically exacting fractals in her artwork. “She’s still an artist, and she’s had to find a way to get all of that out of her,” Hufft said. RAW is normally closed to the public, save for two monthly events—an artist’s exhibition and RAW Open Studios. “The way open studio works, is that people can come in and either watch the artists work—or they can actually come in and work,” Hufft said. “They can rent a table. I’ve had people show up and rent my studio.” Hufft said it’s also a chance for people to come in and see if they’d like to have a permanent studio space at RAW—or get involved in some other aspect of its operations, like fundraising. “We’re not like some other collectives that, you know, you may have to go through a proving process,” Hufft said. “For us, here, if you want to do art, come find your voice. Let’s see what we can do.” Ω Raw Open Studios is on Nov. 17. Learn more here: goo. gl/BAZhSV
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Weird war American soldiers get up close and personal with some mutant Nazi soldiers in Overlord, one of the weirder films to make it to the big screen in 2018. J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot company have come up with a peculiar one this time. While initial reports had this one as a Cloverfield movie, it is not. This is a standalone—A weird, bizarre and freaky standalone. U.S. World War II paratroopers, led by Kurt Russell’s look-and-sound-alike son Wyatt as demolition expert Ford, land in a Nazi-occupied French town intent upon destroying a Nazi communication tower. It’s the eve of D-Day, and the beginning of director Julius Avery’s flick is an effective war movie as those paratroopers, including Jovan Adepo as Boyce and John Magaro as Tibbet, must escape a crashing plane and then evade Nazis on the ground. Soon after linking up with local resident Chloe (Mathilde Ollivier), the soldiers find themselves in a safehouse. It’s your typical small French town house, excepting for the fact that Chloe’s aunt down the hall is ill, and we aren’t talking whooping cough. Wyatt remains focused on the tower mission, but Boyce inadvertently stumbles upon the root cause of that aunt’s bumpy condition. Nazi doctors are seriously screwing with dead people’s biochemistry in an effort to create a thousand-year army. This results in some messed up experiments like Chloe’s aunt, but also brings about superhuman Nazi soldier zombies with direct orders to tear people apart. Yikes! The whole Nazi zombie thing has been done before (various movies, Call of Duty video games) but never with such authentic style and gory aplomb. Credit Avery for a nice slowburn as his movie goes from army mission adventure to Sam Raimi-style crazed horror when Boyce discovers strange cocoons inside an old church. The first legitimate appearance of a full blown, roid-raging dead Nazi is a genuinely good and super scary time. There’s also an unfortunate incident with another guy that involves collar bones
shooting out of his skin due to massive contortions, and I must give high marks to the makeup effects team on that one. Avery made a concerted effort to actually use practical special effects rather than CGI, so much of the film’s gore and gross stuff is made from scratch—a good thing, because when the film does use CGI, it isn’t great. Pilou Asbæk makes for a memorable villain as a Nazi officer who winds up mutated without ever dying. He’s the ultimate Nazi/Zombie/Superhuman/ Dickweed, with a face that reminds me a bit of Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight. He apparently went through five hours of makeup for these scenes, and I must say that it was time well spent. He totally sucks in a good way. There’s talk of remaking Escape From New York. Please don’t do that, but if you should, quit screwing around with casting the likes of Gerard Butler as Snake Plissken and go ahead and give Wyatt Russell the job. He’s the son of Kurt and Goldie Hawn, and he’s got dad’s superior jawline and an identical speech cadence. His determined demolition expert is a nice balance of hero and total asshole, something his pop also does well. Adepo is actually the one with the most screen time, and he makes for a good, slightly unreliable and nervous central character. Ollivier has a nice moment with a flame thrower that reminds me of Ripley in Aliens. Magaro is so authentic as a New York native World War II soldier, you’d think he arrived on set every day via time machine. At a time when studios are starting to release their Oscar favorites, it’s interesting to see something like Overlord post-Halloween. The movie doesn’t score major points for originality, but it’s a good time nonetheless for those of us who enjoy seeing bad things done to Nazi types. Ω
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Rami Malek gives it his all as Freddie Mercury, the late lead singer of Queen, in the new biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. That, and a competent recreation of Queen’s Live Aid domination, are just about the only good things you can say about this mostly embarrassing effort to memorialize an incredible person and his sadly short life. The movie basically takes Mercury’s legacy, completely screws with his life’s timeline and makes up a bunch of unnecessary events to pad its 135-minute running time. So much of this film isn’t true, and the fact that they took this hard-living rock star’s life and homogenized it for a PG-13 film doesn’t help make it feel anything close to authentic. Mercury died from pneumonia while battling AIDS in 1991. He wasn’t diagnosed with the illness until 1987. This film, partially directed by Bryan Singer and then finished by Dexter Fletcher, has Mercury learning of his diagnosis before his incredible 1985 Live Aid performance, even telling the band of his illness shortly before they went on stage. This is complete bullshit and a total injustice to Mercury and his band’s legacy. Malek, acting through a big set of fake teeth made to capture the look of Mercury’s four extra incisors, is decent in the role. He actually sang on set, his voice blended with a Mercury soundalike to keep the movie from being a completely lip-synched affair. The musical sequences, including the Live Aid gig, are fun to watch. But, hey, if I want good Queen music, I can just watch the videos of Queen. There’s a movie happening between those musical sequences, and that movie is terrible, a messed-up bit of fakery that prompts a lot of unintentional laughter. There’s a great, truthful movie to be made about the life of Freddie Mercury. Bohemian Rhapsody doesn’t even come close to being that movie.
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Bad Times at the El Royale
Writer-Director Drew Goddard, in hiding as far as feature directing goes since his 2012 The Cabin in the Woods, assembles an all-star cast for one nutty, and sometimes a little too cute for its own good, movie. The star of this movie is the El Royale, a fictional hotel based on the actual Cal Neva Lodge, once owned by Frank Sinatra, in Lake Tahoe. It’s a solid piece of art direction, for sure, from its aged lobby straddling two states, to its creepy tunnels behind the rooms set up for criminal voyeurs. Jeff Bridges plays a mysterious priest who checks into the resort along with a singer (Cynthia Erivo), a vacuum salesman (Jon Hamm) and a hippie (Dakota Johnson). After the messed-up manager (Lewis Pullman) checks them in, each visitor has their own story in their own rooms. Goddard has flourishes of brilliance here, mixing thrills, mystery, humor and lots of blood into the intertwined plots, giving the film a Tarantinolike 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 Mansonlike cult leader (Chris Hemsworth).
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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.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.
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Jonah Hill makes his feature directing debut from his own script with Mid90s, the best movie ever made about skater culture and a powerful movie about familial dysfunction and the need for friendships. Sunny Suljic (The House with a Clock in Its Walls) gives a breakout performance as Stevie, a kid living in a single parent household with a headcase older brother, Ian (Lucas Hedges). Stevie suffers massive beatings at the hands of Ian and goes to a messed-up place where he causes himself further pain with self-inflicted strangulation, skin burns and simply pressing on the bruises Ian created. In short, the kid has some major issues. In search of some kind of identity, Stevie grabs himself a skateboard and starts hanging around some older kids at the skate shop. As Stevie’s social life takes off, his home life further withers, including increasing violence from Ian and some communication problems with his mother, Dabney (Katherine Waterston of Alien: Covenant). The director doesn’t shy away from the bad influence some of them provide—influences present in just about every high schooler’s life. Suljic, a solid young actor, proves to be the perfect pick for Stevie.
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 riseto-fame story, and it’s easily the best movie with that title ever made. 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.
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. This film has no Spidey. 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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Coast along With downtown brunch plans at a hot new spot dashed by an hour wait, I had to switch to “plan b” for a family meal. The Shore Room at the Renaissance Hotel was right around the corner and had been recommended, so off we went. My favorite pint-sized, seafood-loving twins were in tow, so we started with a prawn cocktail ($11) with “atomic horseradish sauce” and an order of crispy calamari ($11) with spicy marinara and lemon-mint aioli. The six large shrimp were pretty standard, boosted by a seriously potent cocktail sauce my New England motherin-law would have loved. It was like a punch in the nose, you want to do again and again. The modest portion of rings and tentacles was fine, the sauces so-so. One boy asked of the not-so-spicy red stuff, “Is this ketchup?” None of us thought much of the aioli, so we were happy to have plenty of atomic action. The boys ordered breakfast, one choosing a pair of over-easy eggs with home fries, thick cut bacon, and toast ($11), the other entranced by the promise of espressocaramel pancakes ($12). Everything on the egg plate was fine, though spuds were sparse—perhaps to make room for blood orange garnish. The espresso ChocoRocks from local confectioner Kimmie’s Candy entertained, but they were out of the caramel variety; chocolate chips were an odd substitution with maple syrup. The espresso whip was more a tasty mousse, and the short stack was oddly stretchy and difficult to cut with a fork. An order of chicken fried steak and eggs ($15) with country gravy, home fries and a biscuit looked pretty good, but wasn’t great. The home fries were more plentiful than on the other plate. The over-medium eggs were spot on, and the large biscuit fluffy. But the gravy was paste-like and bland. And, sadly,
The wild boar burger comes with fries. And the prawn cocktail is served with atomic horseradish sauce. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG
the meat was tasteless, over-breaded, overcooked and burned in spots. A knife and a fair amount of patience were required. My daughter arrived a bit later, and it took nearly 20 minutes to place her order in a not-busy room. Still, she received her single smoked salmon benedict ($8) with little delay when we finally caught someone’s attention. An overdone poached egg was perched atop an English muffin with arugula, tomato and a smattering of fish—slathered with pesto hollandaise. It took some digging to taste the smoke. I’d heard the place spotlights Mediterranean fare, so a lamb gyro ($15) with kalamata olive, bell pepper, tomato, red onion and house tzatziki was in order. The sauce was tart and chunky, but the meat was so bland, the rest of the ingredients had to pick up the slack. My friend got creative and chose corned beef hash for her side ($4 extra), with yukon gold potato and chopped arugula. It was really fantastic, with great flavor and texture. A plate of this with eggs might be the best thing on the menu. I ordered a wild boar burger ($15) with black garlic aioli, brie, mushroom, caramelized onion and arugula, substituting fries/ salad for a cup of tomato bisque ($3 extra). The soup hit the comfort mark. I was a little surprised by the diminutive size of the sandwich, and all those fancy ingredients would have been equally delicious without the pig. The burger was maybe a quarter of a pound, dry, unseasoned and the least interesting component. Maybe an hour wait would have been the better bet for our outing. I doubt I’ll be back to try the pricy dinner menu. Ω
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The Shore Room is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Learn more at shoreroom.com.
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by Joey Thyne
SavyBalboa says he makes “authentic music.” Photo Courtesy of PJ sagun
Coming up SavyBalboa SavyBalboa walked into Bibo Coffee shop, clutching half a blunt in his left hand, followed by two cameramen taking photos of him. “I do music,” he declared. Born Joshua DuPee, 27-year-old SavyBalboa fell in love with music at an early age. He started playing bass around age four and remembers how his parents filled the home with gospel music. One of his earliest memories is riding around in the car listening to Brown Sugar by D’Angelo. DuPee said he listens to more R&B than rap. Born and raised in Reno, he played football at Bishop Manogue. The first part of his stage name comes from his father referring to him as a savage on the football field. The latter part pays homage to a certain film icon. “I fuck with Rocky, heavy,” DuPee said. “Rocky go crazy. I fuck with the third one when he’s fighting the Russian homie. I think it’s the third one. … He was always getting whooped, and he came out on top.” In 2013, he went to Sierra College in Rocklin, California. After returning to Reno in 2015, he decided it was time to fully pursue his passion of hip-hop. This year, he has released eight songs to streaming services. A few of his songs, including “Lightweight” and “The Wayy,” have made it to the airwaves on local hip-hop station Swag 104.9. Producer DatBoyGood makes all of DuPee’s beats. “I make authentic music,” DuPee said. “If you hear a Savy song you can tell it’s from Savy. I’m not trying to sound like nobody else. You get me and every piece of me on that song. I talk about true shit, and that’s really how I feel at that point in time, how that beat make me feel.” Artists from Reno he enjoys include David James, Curl Gang, Lil Traffic and
INDYXHILL. “If you from Reno and you putting on and you for real about the music, I fuck with you,” DuPee said. On the song “Comma,” he collaborates with Reno’s notorious redneck rapper Feeki, who has garnered attention from the likes of Viceland and Worldstar. “Feeki is dope,” DuPee said. “He’s the coldest one out here right now. Feeki go crazy. Feeki doing his thing for real … He’s a super cool cat.” DuPee looks forward to releasing a full album in the future. He said he currently has enough material for two albums and an EP. “I’m really just stacking this ammunition for the war, trying to see what angle I’m trying to bomb they ass with,” DuPee said. “If I’m trying to send a missile or an atomic bomb. I’m just trying to see which way to market it best … The last time I released a project was August 18, 2017. I feel like they been thinking, ‘He’s been dropping slap, slap, slap. Now give me a whole meal.’” Recently, DuPee performed at SoL Dispensary in the Washoe Valley. He played another show with Generation Next. His headlining slot at local bar Press Start sold out. He is currently in talks with LEX Nightclub to open for YG. In the future, he wants to perform at the University of Nevada, Reno. He performed at the university’s Biggest Little Festival in 2016 and opened for Hopsin several years ago, but he’s itching to go back. “UNR got so many people here,” DuPee said. “So many different cities in one community. I would touch a whole lot of different places if I did that.” DuPee said he hopes to collaborate with such rappers as Nipsey Hussle and Lil Baby. When asked what he’s looking forward to, he simply said: “Music.” Ω
savybalboa’s songs are available to stream on apple Music and spotify.
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Girls Night Out, 8pm, $TBA
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The Gobble Wobble Pray for Snow Dance Party, 8pm, W, no cover
Keith Shannon, 9pm, no cover
Roger Scimé, 9pm, no cover
Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, Wed. Night Showcase, 7pm, W, no cover
Whiskey Preachers, 9pm, no cover
Comedy
239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590
RuPaul’s Drag Race rerun viewing party, drag show, 8:30pm, no cover
CoCo Montrese, Kehanna Montrese, 11:30pm, $10-$15
Carson Comedy Club, Carson City Nugget, 507 N. Carson St, Carson City, (775) 882-1626: Milt Abel, Fri-Sat, 8pm, $15 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Ms. Pat, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Walter Hong, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Steven Michael Quezada, 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: Steven Michael Quezada, Thu, 8pm, $10-$15, Fri, 8:30pm, Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15-$20
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2) Marty O’ Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra, 10pm, no cover
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500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711 1) El Jefe’s Cantina 2) Cabaret
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14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room
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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
1) The Unbelievables Christmas 1) The Unbelievables Christmas Spectacular, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$59.95 Spectacular, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$59.95 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover
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2) Throwback Thursdays: Trivia Night, 7pm, no cover
1) Easton Corbin, 9pm, $29.50-$59.50 2) Show Us Your Cans Food Drive, 10pm, $10
3) Fantasies in Chocolate: Reno Glam, 7:30pm, $85
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Help the victims of the Camp Fire in Paradise and Butte County thousands of acres and thousands of homes have been destroyed by the Camp fire in Butte County. it is now the most destructive fire in California’s history. many lives have been lost, and hundreds are still missing. at the news & review, we have friends, family and co-workers who have lost their homes in this devastating fire. there are many ways you can help.
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THe Following organizaTions are aCCepTing donaTions To assisT viCTims oF THe Camp Fire: unit ed Way of nort hern California Visit norcalunitedway.org/camp-fire to donate, or text “BUTTEFIRE” to 91999. The fund will provide emergency cash to victims and also aid the United Way in its response to the fire.
nort h Valley Communit y foundat ion To donate, go to https://bit.ly/2T1cZT1. The donations will help fund services for victims. If you’d like to donate to help schools impacted by the Camp Fire, visit https://bit.ly/2PYnMPb.
salV at ion arm y Visit gosalarmy.org.
enloe h osP it al foundat ion Enloe Hospital Foundation will use donations to help patients, families and caregivers who have lost their homes or have been displaced due to the fire: https://app.mobilecause. com/f/23ds/n or text “CampFireRelief” to 91999.
indiV idual CroW dfunding CamPaigns You can find individual crowdfunding campaigns here: https://www.gofundme.com/cause/ californiafires. Tri Counties Bank also has a fund to benefit victims that is linked on this page.
t he red C ross The Red Cross is accepting donations to help people affected by all California wildfires: https://www.redcross.org/donate/ donation.html.
a s h l e e ’ s to y C l o s e t reno Ashlee’s Toy Closet in Reno, NV is collecting new toys for children affected by the Camp Fire from now until November 20. You can donate new toys, books or clothes at dropoff points in Reno, Sparks or Carson City. See their facebook page for details or make financial donations here: https://www.facebook.com/ donate/351226489019537
s i e r r a neV a d a B r e We r y re l i e f fu n d Sierra Nevada Brewery has donated $100,000 to start a Relief Fund for Camp Fire victims. You can contribute to this fund here: https://bit.ly/2T8WvrI and click on Sierra Nevada Brewery.
FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 15, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com. MRD GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC. COAT DRIVE: Coats can be new or gently used. The donated coats will be handed out to local, vets, seniors, at-risk children and families. Thu, 11/15-Wed, 11/21, 8am. Free. MRD Global Foundation Inc. Office, 4790 Caughlin Parkway, Ste. 160, (775) 384-4324.
JINGLES FAMILY ART FESTIVAL: Art for All Nevada holds its annual holiday festival featuring eight creative art stations, a free book for each child attending, tours of the Lake Mansion, face painting and hand painting, a book-signing event with author Patty Cafferata and photo opportunities with Santa Claus. Families with children with special needs are invited to attend starting at 10am. Sat, 11/17, 10:30am. Free. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.
NEVADA HUMANITIES SALON—THE VALUE OF HISTORY IN THE ERA OF FAKE NEWS: The
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RENO ONESIE CRAWL
Don’t let the November chill keep you indoors this weekend. You’re encouraged to go out in your snuggliest onesie and join other pajama-clad partiers on Saturday, Nov. 17, for the second annual Reno Onesie Crawl. Billed as the “coziest night out, ever,” the crawl is expected to draw thousands of sleepwear-loving revelers to downtown Reno. With the advance purchase of a $5 commemorative cup and map, participants will get free admission to 14 venues offering drink specials, contests, giveaways and entertainment. The cup price will increase to $10 on crawl night. The crawl starts at 8 p.m. at Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St. Visit crawlreno.com.
EVENTS 4X4X48 MUSIC VIDEO CHALLENGE 2018: During this project, four (or five) film directors must produce a music video for four or five bands selected by The Holland Project within a 48-hour time limit. The films, once completed, screen at a special event at the Nevada Museum of Art. The event includes a Q&A with filmmakers and bands after the screening. Thu, 11/15, 6pm. $3-$5. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., www.hollandreno.org.
BOOTS AND BOWTIES FUNDRAISER: The biannual fundraiser features a buffet dinner, cash bar, raffle prizes, silent auction, an appearance by Miss Reno Rodeo 2019, special guest speakers and musician Tyler Stafford. Proceeds from this event will benefit Center for Adaptive Riding. Fri, 11/16, 5:30pm. $55-$100. The Club at ArrowCreek, 2905 Arrowcreek Parkway, www.adaptiveriding.org.
BRÜKA GAME NIGHT: The fundraising event includes a 60/40 raffle, a cribbage tournament and Brüka Bingo with a grand cash prize and other prizes. Sat, 11/17, 6pm. $10-$35. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.
CHEMISTRY OF THE COCKTAIL 2018: Sample intriguing cocktail creations prepared by expert mixologists, taste delicious fare from local culinary hot spots, bid to win in live and silent auctions and explore the entire museum. Fri, 11/16, 7-10pm. $110-$150. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org.
FRANCOPHONE FILM FESTIVAL—BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: The film festival, presented by Truckee Meadows Community College’s Humanities Department, continues with a screening of the 1946 French drama/ fantasy by director Jean Cocteau. The film will be shown in French with English subtitles. Thu, 11/15, 10:30am. Free. Red Mountain Building, Room 114, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 673-7269.
FRIDAY BIRD WALKS: Enjoy the vibrant hues of autumn trees, the soft rustling of leaves and the colorful view of the mountains in search of songbirds. The walks will be led by Katie Bird. There’s a limited supply of binoculars to share, so bring your own if you have them. Meet at the arboretum office. Fri, 11/16, 4pm. Free. Wilbur D. May Center, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.
event features historian Allyson Hobbs, author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life and the forthcoming Far From Sanctuary: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights. Hobbs will discuss the value of using history to provide perspective on contemporary issues and the importance of bearing witness to the realities of injustice in our nation. Fri, 11/16, 6pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue, (775) 7861188, www.sundancebookstore.com.
THE POLAR EXPRESS TRAIN RIDE: Characters, entertainers and Santa Claus bring the story to life with a souvenir silver sleigh bell to remember the journey. The rides depart at 5pm, 6:30pm and 8pm, Thursday-Sunday through Dec. 16 and Tuesday-Monday, Dec. 18-24. There will not be a 8pm ride on Dec. 24. Fri, 11/16Sun, 11/18. $27-$69, free for children age 2 and younger. Carson City Eastgate Depot, 4650 Eastgate Siding Road, Carson City, (877) 724-5007, vtrailway.com.
RIVER TALK: Learn how human impact has damaged the Truckee River watershed and what the Truckee River Watershed Council is doing to reverse this damage and protect the river for the future. Thu, 11/15, 8am. Free. Truckee River Watershed Council office, 10418 Donner Pass Road, Ste. B, Truckee, www.truckeeriverwc.org.
SIDEMEN—LONG ROAD TO GLORY: Artemisia MovieHouse presents a screening of the 2016 documentary film directed by Scott D. Rosenbaum. The film takes an intimate look at the lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf sidemen. The film captures some of the last interviews and their final live performances together. Sun, 11/18, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 6363386, www.artemisiamovies.weebly.com.
THANKSGIVING FAMILY DINNER NIGHT: Join Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe for a community Thanksgiving dinner complete with all the traditional sides provided by The Ritz Carlton and the club’s Chop Shop Kitchen. Thu, 11/15, 5pm. Free. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe, 8125 Steelhead Ave., Kings Beach, www.facebook.com/BGCNLT.
VAHALLA WINTERFEST AND HOLIDAY FAIRE: The annual fair features a variety of local and regional arts and crafts vendors, refreshments, a raffle, photos with Santa and the Grand Hall decked out in traditional holiday style. Fri, 11/16, 5-8pm;
Virginia City. Mr. John Baron, owner of the Chollar Mine, and his wife are hosting a dinner party where the famed medium Dr. Henry Slade will amuse the guests with his ability to contact ghosts across the veil of death. Everyone is excited, except those with secrets to hide. It’s a dramatic whodunit where the audience must be the investigator and find the culprit. This murder mystery will be performed by Piper’s Players. Thu, 11/15, 5:30-8:30pm. $40. Piper’s Opera House, 12 North B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433.
Sat, 11/17, 10am-7pm; Sun, 11/18, 10am-
4pm. Free admission to fair. Valhalla Grand Hall, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, valhallatahoe.com.
WINTER FILM SERIES—DAVE NETTLE: The 13th annual Alpenglow Sports Winter Film Series kicks off with a presentation by local professional climber and adventurer Dave Nettle. Thu, 11/15, 7pm. Olympic Village Lodge, 1901 Chamonix Place, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com.
RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: For the first time in RCO history, the orchestra will perform without a conductor. Among the highlights of the program are Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with RCO concertmaster Ruth Lenz as soloist. Sat, 11/17, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/18, 2pm. $5-$55. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413.
ONSTAGE BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW: Restless Artists Theater presents Bekah Brunstetter’s sad comedy about loss and longing. Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral—until her husband dies in a plane crash. Expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what’s the right way to grieve? Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow. Thu, 11/15-Sat, 11/17, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/18, 2pm. $8-$20. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, rattheatre.org.
TAMIR HENDELMAN TRIO: The award-winning jazz pianist performs with bassist Alex Frank and drummer Dean Koba. Sun, 11/18, 7:30pm. $5-$25. Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., renojazz.org.
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO FALL CHORAL CONCERT: The concert features performances by the chamber singers, symphonic choir and concert choir. Each of the ensembles will perform separately and then combined on Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Tue, 11/20, 7:30pm. Free. St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 1070 Plumb Lane, (775) 784-4278, events.unr.edu.
BRAVE NEW WORLD: Based on Aldous Huxley’s novel, the play takes place in a futuristic society where people are categorized and ranked based on their intelligence and separated based on their beliefs. Thu, 11/15-Fri, 11/16, 7pm; Sat, 11/17, 3pm & 7pm. $8-$10. Damonte Ranch High School, 10500 Rio Wrangler Parkway, (775) 851-5656
UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE FALL CONCERT: The group will present a concert featuring large and small ensemble compositions. Tue, 11/20, 7:30pm. $7. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
COOMLER CONDUCTS: Enjoy an evening of classic big band music with the Reno Jazz Orchestra directed by Doug Coomler, a faculty member at the University of Nevada Reno. Fri, 11/16-Sat, 11/17, 7:30pm. $30. Union Hall, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 372-6160, renojazzorchestra.org.
THE WEDDING SINGER: It’s 1985. Rock star
DUELING DIVAS—ARTISTS IN CONCERT: Sierra Music Society’s Artists In Concert series continues with an evening of music featuring soprano Jamie Wenner and mezzo-soprano Sara Stejskal accompanied by Andrea Lenz. The concert will feature arias and songs by Verdi, Bellini, Puccini, Wagner and Beethoven. Sat, 11/17, 4pm. $15. St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 1070 W. Plumb Lane, (775) 233-5105, poperanv.org.
FALL DANCE FESTIVAL: The festival showcases faculty choreography by Eve Allen Garza, Nate Hodges and Jennie Pitts Knipe and works by select student choreographers Saleema Berry, Breanna Gambini, Kirsten Magallanes, Jennifer Martin, Noelle Ruggieri, Jillian Spiegel and alumnae Leslie Balzar and Trisha French. Thu, 11/15-Fri, 11/16, 8pm; Sat, 11/17, 2pm & 8pm. $5-$15. Redfield Proscenium, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
MURDER AT THE BARON MANSION: It’s 1873 in
wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. She’s about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever. Thu, 11/15Sat, 11/17, 8pm; Sun, 11/18, 2pm. $10-$17. Nell J. Redfield Foundation Performing Arts Center, 505 Keystone Ave., (775) 789-5671, www.tmcc.edu.
WINTERFEST CONCERT: The Oakland Jazz Choir performs holiday tunes and other popular selections. Sat, 11/17, 7pm. $22$30. Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, valhallatahoe.com.
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by AMY ALKON
Best man for the sob I’m a 28-year-old guy with an amazing girlfriend. She gets upset and sometimes cries, and I never know how to soothe her. I’m afraid to say the wrong thing, so I don’t say anything at all. Of course, she then gets more upset, thinking I don’t care. But I do care, and I want her to know. When things get emotionally fraught in a relationship, it’s tempting to wish for a simpler existence—like being a dog so all that’s expected of you is 1. Don’t pee on the rug. 2. Sit still while the girlfriend dresses you up as a bee. In fact, if you’re like a lot of men, a female partner’s tears are liquid kryptonite, causing you to pretty much lose consciousness while appearing to be totally awake and ambulatory. Women may not entirely get this—or the extent of it—because of some sex differences in emotion processing. Putting it in collegiate terms, the female mind majors in psychology and the male mind majors in physics—though individual male and female minds vary, of course. Research by psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that women tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven from childhood on to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion.” Men, on the other hand, tend to be “systematizers”—driven to understand the inner workings of the blender. The good news is, there’s a secret—even for the most emotionally inarticulate man—for comforting an upset woman: You don’t have to be Shakespeare; just don’t go all shutupspeare. For example, last week, when I was bummed about something—to the point of tears—I was on the phone with my boyfriend, and he said the sweetest thing: “I’m bad at this”—meaning knowing what to say—“but I want to help you feel better.” This made me feel loved—and better. Also, it was kind of sexy. Showing vulnerability, contrary to what many believe, is a sign not of weakness but of strength— suggesting you have enough social and emotional capital not to act all superhero all the time. As an emergency measure—if even the words about not having the right words fail you—you can
communicate your desire to comfort her with a hug, hair stroking and other loving gestures. Again, just be sure to make some kind of effort to soothe her (lest she add feeling emotionally abandoned by her boyfriend to her boohoo list).
Denial of cervix My husband’s parents asked to be in the delivery room while I’m giving birth, and he said yes—without asking me. Now he doesn’t want to tell them otherwise, which is weird because he isn’t usually lacking in assertiveness. I get along fine with my in-laws, but I don’t want them in there with me. There are those men who understand what it’s like to give birth—those who’ve passed a kidney stone the size of a lawn boulder. You are not doing a one-woman show in the delivery room. You are the lead character in a medical procedure—one that can involve pooping while pushing, horror movie-esque blood spatter and impressive strings of screamed profanity, interspersed with tender, maternal utterances like “Get this demonspawn out of me!” Sociologist Erving Goffman pointed out that we all engage in constant “impression management,” editing our behavior to control how others see us. Choosing how much of our selves to make public is a big part of this. Goffman explains that losing control—not being able to present our desired image—is deeply disturbing to us, leading to feelings of shame and compensatory strategies to clean up the damage. (Never looking your father-in-law in the eye again sound good to you?) You say your husband generally isn’t lacking in assertiveness. Chances are, in the wake of his saying yes instead of “Gotta check with my wife,” he would feel bad about going back on it. Maybe part of his impression management is coming off as a man of his word. But back on his word he must go, because it’s your choice whether you make your private parts public parts. Ω
ERIK HOLLAND
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pitcher Satchel Paige had a colorful career characterized by creative showmanship. On some occasions, he commanded his infielders to sit down and loll on the grass behind him, whereupon he struck out three batters in a row—ensuring no balls were hit to the spots vacated by his teammates. Paige’s success came in part because of his wide variety of tricky pitches, described by author Buck O’Neil as “the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin’ ball.” I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because now is an excellent time for you to amp up your charisma and use all your tricky pitches.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Everyone tells a story
about themselves inside their own head,” writes fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss. “Always. All the time. We build ourselves out of that story.” So what’s your story, Leo? The imminent future will be an excellent time to get clear about the dramatic narrative you weave. Be especially alert for demoralizing elements in your tale that may not in fact be true, and that therefore you should purge. I think you’ll be able to draw on extra willpower and creative flair if you make an effort to reframe the story you tell yourself so that it’s more accurate and uplifting.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In describing a man she
fell in love with, author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that he was both “catnip and kryptonite to me.” If you’ve spent time around cats, you understand that catnip can be irresistible to them. As for kryptonite: It’s the one substance that weakens the fictional superhero Superman. Is there anything in your life that resembles Gilbert’s paramour? A place or situation or activity or person that’s both catnip and kryptonite? I suspect you now have more ability than usual to neutralize its obsessive and debilitating effects on you. That could empower you to make a good decision about the relationship you’ll have with it in the future.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I had to learn very
early not to limit myself due to others’ limited imaginations,” testifies Libran astronaut Mae Jemison. She adds, “I have learned these days never to limit anyone else due to my own limited imagination.” Are those projects on your radar, Libra? I hope so. You now have extra power to resist being shrunk or hobbled by others’ images of you. You also have extra power to help your friends and loved ones grow and thrive as you expand your images of them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The U.S. is the world’s
top exporter of food. In second place is the Netherlands, which has 0.4 percent as much land as the U.S. How do Dutch farmers accomplish this miraculous feat? In part because of their massive greenhouses, which occupy vast areas of non-urbanized space. Another key factor is their unprecedented productivity, which dovetails with a commitment to maximum sustainability. For instance, they produce 20 tons of potatoes per acre, compared with the global average of nine, and they do it using less water and pesticides. In my long-term outlook for you Scorpios, I see you as having a metaphorical similarity to Dutch farmers. During the next 12 months, you have the potential to make huge impacts with your focused and efficient efforts.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The world is like
a dropped pie most of the time,” writes author Elizabeth Gilbert. “Don’t kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.” From what I can tell about the state of your life, Sagittarius, the metaphorical pie has indeed fallen onto the metaphorical floor. But it hasn’t been there so long that it has spoiled. And the floor is fairly clean, so the pie won’t make you sick if you eat it. My advice is to sit down on the floor and eat as much as you want. Then carry on.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist Anita De-
sai writes, “Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forward in a kind of flood?” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect that the locks she refers to will soon open for you. Events may not exactly flow like a flood, but I’m guessing they will at least surge and billow and gush. That could turn out to be nerve-racking and strenuous, or else fun and interesting. Which way it goes will depend on your receptivity to transformation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Miracles come to
those who risk defeat in seeking them,” writes author Mark Helprin. “They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.” Those descriptions could fit you well in the coming weeks, but with one caveat. You’ll have no need to take on the melodramatic, almost desperate mood Helprin seems to imply is essential. Just the opposite, in fact. Yes, risk defeat and be willing to exhaust yourself in the struggle to accomplish the impossible; but do so in a spirit of exuberance, motivated by the urge to play.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Never invoke the
gods unless you really want them to appear,” warned author G. K. Chesterton. “It annoys them very much.” My teachers have offered me related advice. Don’t ask the gods to intervene, they say, until you have done all you can through your own efforts. Furthermore, don’t ask the gods for help unless you are prepared to accept their help if it’s different from what you thought it should be. I bring these considerations to your attention, Pisces, because you currently meet all these requirements. So I say go right ahead and seek the gods’ input and assistance.
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after my mom’s death that I felt really ready to dive into the hardest parts of the story and to fully commit to writing the book.
Gayle Brandeis wrote the book The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide. The book was published in hardcover in 2017 and in paperback on Oct. 16. Brandeis has been on tour for the book and took time to speak with the RN&R.
You’re brutally honest. You don’t brush over your own uncharitable thoughts about your mom, which I suppose would be tempting.
I just spoke at the [University of California, Los Angeles] Conference on Art, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, which was really fascinating. … I was able to be on a panel with the fellow who creates languages for Game of Thrones and other TV shows, as well as a neuroscientist who was talking about language in the brain, and a mystery writer who was talking about creating the minds of his characters. ... I’m speaking at Yale next week, which is kind of wild to me. I never imagined myself speaking at Yale. I feel like you took your time. It’s eight years since your mom’s death. Yes, I knew that I would have to write about her death to be able to process it. I’ve been writing since I was 4 years old. And writing has always been how I’ve made the most sense of the world and myself. So I knew writing was going to be an important part of my healing pro-
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cess—my grieving process. It took a while to be ready to write this story just because it was the most painful thing I ever experienced, plus my mom died one week after I gave birth. So I was dealing with all of the postpartum stuff—not sleeping, you know, deep in grief. It was hard to find time to write at all, much less about this traumatic experience. Did you wait years or begin writing and then take many years to finish? I started in bits and pieces early on, where I would write scenes as they came to me or as they were weighing heavily on my heart. I found that if I wrote those scenes down, I could release them. I would just jot a few things down here and there, but it wasn’t until about five years
It was so important to me to be honest, because I spent a lot of my early years holding so much inside and not being truthful about how I was feeling. I just felt ready. I just felt like I needed to lay it all out on the page. And I was given permission from a lot of other writers who are brutally honest on the page. ... I thought if I’m going to be asking questions of my mom and looking at her in a perhaps critical way, I need to do that to myself as well. I can’t gloss over my own darkness, my own pain, my own bad decisions. I had to face those head-on as well. I just gave myself that permission to be brutally honest. I told myself, as I was writing the first draft, that no one was ever going to read it. When I thought about readers … I would get nervous. I knew that I had to write it, just for my own process. Ω
by BRUCE VAN DYKE
This nation-saving event Hey, I’ve got a most important color correction to make. Last week, I claimed what happened on Election Night wasn’t a Blue Wave so much as a Pink Wave, which was a bit hasty on my part. I wanna tighten that up a bit, since we now see that a true Blue Wave did indeed happen, with us Cerulean Folk picking up 35-40 seats in Da House and winning a couple nice tasty races for Senate (Rosen and Sinema). But as for the precise color of this nation-saving event, well, if the Blue Wave was fueled by the Pink Wave of dynamic and righteous women candidates, that leaves us with—what? What do you get when you combine blue with pink? I’m rolling with lavender, baby. We just had us a very fragrant Lavender Wave, and it smells so nice. Even with Dum Dum trying to poop on our post-election party on the morning after with his bitchy little
move involving Sessions and “Mr. Clean” Whitaker, he still couldn’t mess with my rastaman vibration of beaming happiness. Every day since Election Night, it’s been so very pleasant to wake up and remember, “Oh, yeah, man, we got Da House.” The Lavender Wave—a most effective and organic antidepressant! • Florida. Again. Jesus. Fuck Florida. Again. The upside of climate change will be on that day when effing Florida is finally inundated by the rising sea. Give it back to the storks, gators and turtles. Apparently, people can’t live down there without turning into incurable kooks. • One of the great wins of this election was Harley Rouda edging out that evil wanker from Orange County, Dana Rohrabacher. Remember in ’16, when Trump ballwasher Kevin McCarthy said,
“There’s two people I think Putin pays—Rohrabacher and Trump.” So, yeah, it’s that Rohrabacher who just got told to hit the sidewalk. He was an out-and-out embarrassing comrade of the Kremlin, an open wound oozing all over Congress on behalf of Big Daddy Vlad, and it was astounding he had racked up a streak of 15 straight terms in Da House. Thank the Lavender Wave that this treasonous sack of traitor tripe just got rocked with a pointblank kick to the rubles. • Mr. Mueller? We’re ready for you on the set! I’m thinking now that the diligent Mueller and his team of pitbulls is ready to rock with some tasty perp walks, having laid properly low throughout the election season. Do I get to see Roger Stone, a.k.a. Zippy the Pinhead, in cuffs for Thanksgiving? Ω
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