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Check out the winners of our annual

95-word fiction contest serving northern nevada, tahoe and truckee

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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of overdogs. I like to root against the Goliaths of the world. Speak truth to power.

Support the little guys.

That said, Laura Newman is the Tom Brady of our 95-word fiction contest. Year after year, she just keeps winning— even when you don’t expect it.

And I love it. I love that someone has mastered the least glamorous literary form this side of the limerick: the RN&R 95-word story. Even though our contest attracts a couple of hundred entrants every year, she’s won or placed in the contest dozens of times.

Here’s the thing: The contest is judged by the RN&R editorial team, but when we read the stories, the authors’ names have been removed. (And props to RN&R office manager Lisa Ryan for compiling the stories and redacting the names for us.) We vote on our favorite stories without any idea who wrote them. And we all have different tastes—and, of course, the team itself has changed a lot over the years.

And yet somehow Laura Newman’s stories always rise to the top. I was genuinely surprised when Lisa gave me the names of this year’s winning authors. In the past, Newman’s stories have usually been eloquent and poignant, so I was surprised to see her name attached to such a laugh-out-loud entry.

But a little twist of surprise is a hallmark of a lot of great fiction.

Overall, it’s a great crop of stories this year. Hope y’all enjoy reading them as much as we did. And big thanks to everyone who submitted stories! We appreciate the newcomers, even if our own tiny fiction giant can’t be beat.

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Governments repeat over and over again the famous old history about the “welfare state” up to the point that many people have believed it and had a great disappointment. This is what happened to my colleague who works in an office of the state administration. About five years ago, she told me that she wished to retire to enjoy the welfare state and now, next to the retirement, she has terminal cancer.

We can think it’s just a case of bad luck, but it has made me thinking. If we look at what makes us happy, we realize that happiness is very fleeting and normal life goes in a different way, and we find that every day we have to face unpleasant and many times painful things with which we live together and we accept them, or become the most unhappy people.

The welfare state is like assuming that we are going to achieve heaven on Earth, and this is impossible. Pleasures are always very momentary, and sometimes leave us a taste quite unpleasant, such as another friend who went on a Mediterranean cruise thinking it would be the best and spent almost all the days vomiting from the seasickness provoked by the rolling of the transatlantic.

In addition, the welfare state for whom?

It will be for those who can work and earn a decent salary, because for the millions of unemployed that sounds like a joke, because they know well that the politicians that proclaim it have big salaries.

Isabel Costa Fraga, Spain

Welcome, Guv. Get to work.

Being neither a Democrat nor a Republican, I still hope for great success from our new governor and his transition team: Being blessed with abundant sunshine, we in Nevada also have many areas of agricultural potential, a certain creativity that is not seen in other states, and an amazing climate.

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In a time of declining fossil fuels I hope that you will look toward disentangling us from exotic inefficient transportation and supply systems. In other words, it may be time for us in Nevada to do things in Nevada rather than rely on external imports.

I would love to see a task force on using industrial hemp here for many purposes other than getting high. A nice pair of hemp Levi’s that would last 15 years would be delightful.

A fast rail system, unlike expensive high speed rail, could connect Reno, Elko, Las Vegas and other places.

A new look at housing requirements could provide smaller, more efficient houses at less cost for many people.

Free or low-cost municipal transportation in cities could help wean us off fossil fuels, and in the long run perhaps save the consumer a lot of money and grief.

Please rescind the unnecessary burdensome Department of Motor Vehicles requirements on low powered scooters and E bikes for our cities so we can have more sane transportation options.

I could go on, and I do go on, but I wish the best for you and us all.

Craig Bergland Reno

Get back to where you once belonged Re “Sales pitch” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Jan. 3): I read with great interest Bruce Van Dyke’s column reminiscing about kids’ television programs with a good, positive, entertaining format.

I had the pleasure of meeting a helmetless, barefoot Bruce on his motorized skateboard in the year 1980. I found him sponteneous, upbeat and fun to talk to. I have a sneaky suspicion somewhere between then and the present, Bruce has

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taken a nasty header on the sidewalk of life. “Cranial road rash,” so to speak.

Bruce, it is sad, for the weekly vile and contempt you spread far and wide does nothing to benefit any of us. There are countless thousands of us who enjoyed your stories of Death Valley in the spring or the time you had to outrun the dog in Spanish Springs, etc. Very funny. You are an excellent story teller, our Herb Caen replacement. Get to telling! Pleeeeeease!

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What’s the last book you read? askeD aT sunDance Books, 121 california ave.

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In Cold Blood by—god, what is that guy’s name? I can’t even remember, but it’s one of the best crime-thriller novels ever written.

I just finished it. I saw his name and I was like, “Oh, he’s super famous.” Truman Capote. It was an amazing book, I was on edge the whole time. r achel re zaeT Student

Queen of Errant Darkness by Cassandra Clare. It’s a young adult book in a series about the same world. She has probably 13 out right now. I started in this series back when I was in high school or middle school, so it’s carried throughout. I always want to know what happens next.

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Government’s value is demonstrated The Roman historian Suetonius claimed that Emperor Caligula made his horse Incitatus a priest and considered appointing the animal a Roman consul. It’s good to know that our presidential electors were not alone in their misjudgments, although it should be noted that horses have many good qualities that Donald Trump lacks. For one thing, most horses do not paint themselves into corners.

We need a dealmaker to settle the shutdown, which lets out Trump. He is the wrong man for making deals. It’s hard to think of anyone who has committed not just such an unforced error against himself but against his whole team—the United States—except perhaps Roy Riegels, who ran the wrong way in the 1929 Rose Bowl.

We are told that Trump’s original decision to avoid a shutdown was reversed after he saw himself being castigated by Fox & Friends and by Rush Limbaugh for not being willing to demand the wall above all other considerations, such as wisdom or prudence. That is wholly unsurprising. One of the features of Trump’s personality that makes it difficult for him to put together a deal is that when someone baits him, he cannot resist taking the bait, even when it’s waved under his nose by a pack of blowhards with no political savvy and no skin in the game. It’s easy for them to stand off at a safe distance and egg on the players, but Trump did not have to listen to them.

“I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. … I will take the mantle,” Trump told Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer. “I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.”

That lasted just long enough for the potato to get hot, then Trump started looking around for someone to hand it off to, tweeting things like, “If enough Dems don’t vote, it will be a Democrat Shutdown!” and “Nancy and Cryin’ Chuck can end the Shutdown in 15 minutes. At this point it has become their, and the Democrats, fault!” He has a lot of exclamation points in his desk tray.

Only Trump made the wall an issue as big as it is, not his fellow Republicans in Congress, who have been blamed for past shutdowns and wanted no part of this one, nor the Democrats, who actually care about whether government functions, nor his own administrators. Only Donald Trump.

And where does he get off? It’s the job of Congress to set the nation’s spending priorities. Presidents merely recommend. And no president previously has sat down on a sidewalk, beat his fists on the pavement and refused to move unless he gets his way.

What has the wall got to do with alternative energy, prisons or agriculture? Nothing that we can see, but the Department of Energy, Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Agriculture are all shut down.

Security aid to the Palestinian Authority, food safety money to the Food and Drug Administration, affordable housing money for low-income families in the U.S., airport safety funds are all faltering. The federal flood insurance program is out of commission, so homeowners are turning to more expensive commercial firms.

And as always happens, to the dismay of Republicans, the public is discovering why it needs government. Thanks, Don. Ω

Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny. It’s number 12 in a whole series, and she is fabulous. … If it’s possible for a mystery writer to be thoughtful, she is really a thoughtful writer.

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Probably The Lucifer Effect, by—I don’t remember his name.

It’s a book about the Stanford Prison Experiment. It talks about, essentially, how people in power, their minds are altered.

Their minds are changed in a way to where they give themselves more power over time. sTeven Pe acock Snowmobile guide

My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent. It’s about a girl that grows up on the Mendocino Coast, and it’s a lot to do with the whole Mendocino natural scene and what happens over there. … I was going to visit over there and what’s really important to me is having a book that apropos to where I am.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

The pieces come together Nevadans are eager to see if an election really does make a difference. It sure seemed that way last week as Gov. Steve Sisolak gave his first State of the State address. It’s been 20 years since Nevada last had a Democratic governor, and this year he’ll be working with a Democratic super-majority in the Assembly and a majority in the Senate. When combined, the two houses boast a majority of representatives who are women, presumably more interested in the health and welfare of Nevada’s residents and more willing to collaborate than their majority male colleagues from sessions past.

We shall see. Republicans rejoiced when they were in the same position of majority control in 2015, with a Republican governor across the courtyard, and that session ended in acrimony. Governor Sandoval succeeded in several of his initiatives by courting Democrats who agreed with his emphasis on education and taxing corporate Nevada, tiny as the new tax was. For

much of the Republican base, however, the red wave that brought them governing power was wasted.

Democrats are much more unified in 2019. There will be battles between the progressive and the conservative wings of the party, of course, and new legislators will have to learn that you rarely get everything you want, even when your party is in control. But it was refreshing to hear Sisolak endorse many policies that are near and dear to the Democratic base. The starting line for policy debate on issues such as collective bargaining for state workers, renewable energy, voter registration and gun safety measures was moved considerably forward.

The devil’s in the details, though, and the next few months will demonstrate just how progressive the new legislature and governor are. For example, Sisolak endorsed an increase in the minimum wage in his speech last week but offered no details regarding the amount he would accept. Presumably he will work with the

legislature to come up with something, though, in contrast to the vetoes of the Sandoval era.

Struggling to remain relevant, Republicans will hang their hat on a battle over the sunsetting of previous payroll tax rates, which Sisolak needs to fund his budget priorities, arguing that a two/thirds vote is necessary to renew the existing tax rate. If they provoke a stalemate over the issue, they may find themselves sinking further into oblivion in Nevada, as a new poll shows that 70 percent of Generation Z (those born after 1996) will join the 64 percent of Millennials in their views that government should do more to solve the nation’s problems.

These young people realize they will be the ones to grapple with the ravages of climate change. Sisolak’s statement that he won’t “spend a single second debating the reality of climate change” sends a clear message that the anti-science Republicans are no longer in charge and reason can

return to the public dialogue of how best to mitigate its worst effects.

There were also small-ticket items included in the new budget that will be tremendously important to affected Nevadans who have felt left behind in prior years. Wages will be increased for home health aides who work with people with disabilities and the number of seniors served through the Meals on Wheels program will increase. Additional funding was set aside for family planning and kids with autism. And providing positions in Parole and Probation to work specifically on the mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of people exiting the criminal justice system could potentially do more good than anything else proposed in the expanded mental health budget.

As Democrats take the helm in Carson City, they need to deliver a budget and policy priorities that will help average Nevadans instead of subsidizing the corporate sector with tax breaks and other gifts. We’ll be watching. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

KaepernicK lauded At Harvard, University of Nevada, Reno graduate Colin Kaepernick received the W.E.B. DuBois Medal for “contributions to African and African American culture and the life of the mind.”

At the ceremony where he received the award, Kaepernick talked about the first time he knelt during flag ceremonies: “That following week, a whole high school football team—Castlemont High School, Oakland, California— their whole football team took a knee in support of what I was doing. So I went to go visit these young brothers and spend game day with them, and I’m in the locker room with them. They’re getting ready.

They’re getting prepped, and I hear them talking back and forth, getting hyped up, and I hear one of the young brothers say, ‘We don’t get to eat at home, so we’re going to eat on this field.’ That moment has never left me, and I’ve carried that everywhere I went. And I think that’s the reality of what I’ve fought for, what so many of us have fought for.

People live with this every single day, and we expect them to thrive in situations where they’re just trying to survive. And I feel like it’s not only my responsibility, but all our responsibilities … to continue to fight for them and uplift them, empower them. Because if we don’t, we become complicit in the problem.”

lahren does it again University of Nevada, Las Vegas graduate Tomi Lahren’s new year is not starting out much better than 2018.

Just eight days into 2019, the Fox News contributor was described by the fact-checking website Snopes as making an accusation against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren “in bad faith and without evidence in an attempt to smear the Massachusetts politician.”

The claim at issue, which Snopes found to be false, is that Warren has a piece of racist memorabilia—a ceramic figure of an African American child with large red lips eating a slice of watermelon—on a shelf in her kitchen. The claim was initially circulated by “users on the Internet forum 4Chan and the r/ The_Donald section of Reddit,” Snopes reported. Lahren circulated the false claim further with a tweet containing photos of Warren and a sample figurine in which she wrote, “Am I seeing this correctly?” She was not.

After the claim was discredited, Lahren’s tweet was deleted, but she has been faulted on social media for not correcting it or apologizing to Warren.

During 2018, Lahren called Sen. John McCain a RINO (Republican in name only) on the same day he discontinued his medical treatment and the day before he died.

In addition, in various “news” stories and tweets, Lahren wrote that U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III is a “nasty little ginger,” “that little limp dick,” and “a helluva lot like pre-Caitlyn Bruce Jenner.”

She also threw an on-air fit when a genealogist’s research showed that one of Lahren’s ancestors from Europe still spoke German after living in the U.S. for several decades and another ancestor was tried and acquitted for forging naturalizations.

Lahren took a degree from UNLV in 2014.

—Dennis Myers

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Four late arrivals head to the Reno arch to join the Woman’s March.

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women on the Nevada Supreme Court and both Nevada U.S. senators who are now women. One marcher carried a poster reading, “NEVADA 1st Female Majority LEGISLATURE in U.S. HISTORY!!”

Of public administrators in Nevada’s state government—agency directors, deputy directors, division administrators, deputy administrators—64 percent are women. Every member of the Nevada Public Utilities Commission is a woman.

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Going local National woes sap the energy of Women’s March the third reno Women’s March happened in what should have been an optimistic climate.

Donald Trump, whose appointment to be president prompted the first march, seemed to be inching closer to a date with prosecutorial destiny.

Since his appointment, the Women’s March and #MeToo movements have changed U.S. politics, elevating the priority given to issues with which women are identified.

But this year’s march took place after events that injured the credibility of the March, and the mood was more subdued than in previous years.

March national co-president Tamika Mallory, who was widowed and left a single mother when the father of her son was murdered, found support within the Nation of Islam and, as a result, has praised NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, who is a prominent anti-Semite. In addition, she has questioned the reliability of accusers of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who has been accused of sexual harassment, assault or rape by 12 women. Mallory has condemned racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia, but not in the language desired by her detractors. In addition, she has been accused of anti-Semitic statements, and a co-founder of the March

has said she was forced out of the organization because she is Jewish.

Among those who stayed away from the Reno March this year was Patty Dickens, who told us, “After I attended—and thoroughly enjoyed—the first March, I saw a longtime friend, Ginnie Kersey, at Josef’s Bakery, and I asked her if she went. She said that she had wanted to go, but the organizers said pro-lifers were not welcome. I thought that was ridiculous. Then, last year, I read that some organizers were anti-Semitic.

Some men I talked to said they didn’t feel welcome either.”

There were feminists who oppose abortion across the country who said they sought to oppose Trump through the March movement and felt excluded, too. Megan McCain gave voice to that complaint on The View.

Dickens said she saw a Facebook post by a friend that read “Reno includes all.” Nevertheless, the number of Reno marchers plainly was down from previous years, and the crowd on the plaza between city hall and the river was less densely packed than earlier.

Some marchers said they tried to tune out the difficulties of the national organization by focusing on local advances, such as a majority of

There is only one elective state office in Nevada that has never been held by a woman—governor. That is thanks in part to the new incumbent, Steve Sisolak, who ran a brutal primary campaign against opponent Chris Giunghigliani, his colleague on the Clark County Commission. At one point in the primary, Sisolak called her—a former teacher—soft on child sexual predators.

In his first message to the Nevada Legislature three days before the March, Sisolak seemed to go out of his way to try to mend fences with women, introducing new women members of the legislature and presenting women who had achieved high office in the state—though he erred in introducing Sue Wagner as the state’s first woman lieutenant governor, an honor that actually went to Maude Frazier in 1962.

Sisolak also said, “As Governor, I am committed to adequately funding women’s health care. Currently, Nevada ranks last in the nation in the number of women who have a dedicated health care provider. We don’t fare much better when it comes to cervical cancer screenings or other forms of family planning.

That’s going to change. And that’s why we’ll be allocating $3 million per year to provide more of these lifesaving services statewide—like the life of Reno-native Ann Mackey, who in her early 20s started to have health complications. So she scheduled an appointment at Planned Parenthood. During that visit, they found early signs of cervical cancer that had gone undetected. Today, 20 years later, Ann is doing well and is certain that Planned Parenthood saved her life.”

Paradoxically, one woman reader told us she was unhappy with Sisolak

setting women’s health apart from health policy generally, which prompted us to check it out, and what we found was demonstrative of the deep-seated bias women face. We found that studies have shown that women’s health is treated differently by the medical community, and our use of treated here does not refer to medical treatment. Rather, we found reports that physicians are more likely to dismiss the health problems of women than men. For instance, women suffer chronic pain at double the rate of men, yet studies indicate their pain complaints are less likely to be taken seriously.

As for actual treatment, that is different, too.

“Young women were more likely to be told to lose weight, where the young men who were actually more overweight were more likely to be put on effective preventive therapy,” Streisand Women’s Heart Center medical director Dr. Noel Bairey Merz told NBC last year. “People are always sort of judging women according to their weight.”

Nor is it just physicians who approach women’s health that way. It is also the public. A report by the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said 39 percent of women who have a cardiac arrest in a public setting were given CPR, versus 45 percent of men, with the result that men were 23 percent more likely to survive.

The bias also affects medical research.

Recently NIH-funded clinical trials gained a requirement to include female subjects.

But clinical trials funded by commercial companies have no such requirement.

In laboratory research, male animals are usually used, so some drugs are not evaluated for their impact on women. A 2003 NIH report read in part, “[W]hile little is known about the effects of aspirin on heart disease in women, postmenopausal women, like men, have been encouraged to take aspirin daily. The effects of other widely used drugs, such as Valium, were never tested in randomized clinical trials with female subjects, although 2 million women per year consume this drug to control conditions such as anxiety, epilepsy, muscle spasms, and alcohol addiction.”

Planned Parenthood issued a statement on Sisolak’s message: “According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2014, Nevada only met 10 percent of the need for publicly funded family planning services.

The Governor’s commitment to investing in family planning will go a long way in improving that.”

Assemblymember Ellen Spiegel has submitted a bill drafting request for a measure dealing with women’s health, but there are no details on what it would do. Ω

Amid women’s advances, troubles for the march

A happy marcher touts the state’s new benchmark.

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Inside story The warm room Internet photos of glorious powder days and sunny skiing on the edges of legendary Lake Tahoe motivate droves of tourists to make the trek to South Lake Tahoe hoping to make their own alpine memories. They may carry on with frivolity and lavishness without noticing some of the most vulnerable people living in this extreme mountain climate.

“Housing is tentative for a lot of people,” said Nicole Zaborsky of the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless. The organization operates a nightly “warm room” for people needing a safe, clean bed during the coldest months in the Sierras.

Zaborsky said homelessness is not just an urban problem. In South Lake Tahoe, homelessness might result from lack of employment during the slow season. Any number of factors may be at play, and both younger and older residents can struggle in the expensive housing market that’s inundated with luxury rental platforms.

Spending the night outside at 6,200 feet above sea-level can be life-threatening.

The “warm room” is open every night from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m., December to April.

Anyone over 18 years old is welcome, as are service animals. There are 26 foldable mattresses and bunk beds. Light food and beverages are stocked. Though they do not offer full meals, the coalition can point their guests toward other local services, including food services, showers and health care.

According to Zaborsky, the warm room typically helps over 150 individuals in a given year.

“Typically folks stay 30 days. That’s our median number,” she said. “That could mean that they need to save up money for first and last to get into long-term housing.

It could mean they connect with family in another community, and we help them

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The Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless runs the only overnight shelter in the Tahoe Basin. It’s open every night from December through April.

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get transportation hooked up to get to that location. And it could mean, in a few cases, getting into rehab. Sometimes it’s students who need to work out a roommate situation or a family situation.”

Beyond simply giving people a place to stay, the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless can also help people understand the steps they’ll need to take to get into long-term housing. Zaborsky said staff and volunteer social workers discuss every individual’s goals. They may address substance abuse or health care needs. They’re also happy to help with rental applications.

After talking with a social worker upon intake, guests often socialize together— playing games, sharing food and chatting.

Over time, Saborsky said, close bonds develop among the staff, volunteers and guests. Everyone participates in chores like vacuuming, toilet cleaning, and taking out the garbage so there’s a sense of community and ownership.

“Most of our guest are locals,” said Zaborsky, “I think there’s a myth out there that the shelter in Tahoe will be somehow different [from other shelters]. The fear of some is that ‘if you build it, they will come’—that a shelter will somehow attract more homeless, and we’ve found that not to be true. We’ve found that 86 percent of our guests were living in this zipcode when they became homeless.”

The coalition hosts an open house on Feb. 7 at its location at 1201 Emerald Bay Road. The community is invited to bring donations of blankets and light snacks and tour the warm room between 3 to 6 p.m. A reception will be held next door at Ernie’s Coffee Shop with refreshments.

“It’s a way to thank the community for their support, and this year we’ll be thanking the first responders in the community,” Zaborsky said. “They’re the eyes and ears.” Ω Learn more about the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless and its warm room open house event here: https://bit. ly/2RF5Das.

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First place That Didn’t go as

to mud. I opened the leg of my suit and pulled out globs of ash, like wet cement. Shook it loose.

Hunks splat onto the rocks.

Good God. Jordan was going to end up looking like bird poop.

Planned

I poured my ex-husband’s ashes down the front of my one-piece bathing suit. Jumped into Lake Tahoe. The idea was as I swam the ashes would dissipate, drift into water. Little pieces of Jordan, floating away.

I climbed an outcropping of rocks, expecting my suit to be empty. But the bulk of the ashes remained and had turned

Second place

Misunderstand ‘Lucky’ and you Don’t Get It

Check out the winners of our annual

95-word fiction contest

He eyed my stack of tickets. I nursed my cosmopolitan, waiting for my number.

“It doesn’t matter how many entries you have—my buddy had only two entries, and he won $2,000.”

Of course it matters. It’s probabilities, you statistical mis-calculator.

“And when we’re playing poker, he wins every time.”

Can’t win every time, you selective rememberer.

—Laura Newman

Laura Newman is a several time RN&R 95-Word Fiction winner, including one story that resulted in the Catholic League calling for a boycott of the RN&R. She’s the author of Parallel to Paradise and the forthcoming Franklin Avenue Rookery for Wayward Babies.

“When he goes to bars, he always posts photos with the sexiest lady.”

You don’t understand social media, you observer of highlight reels.

“Do you think we could make something magical here?”

Probably not. You’d need more entries.

—andrew Wise

Andrew Wise and wife Johanna moved to Reno after 30 years in the Bay Area. Following his mother’s advice to get a degree that would put food on the table (business instead of English), he’s excited to rekindle his fiction career.

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ere are the results of our annual contest in which we ask readers to write a micro story— exactly 95 words long. We get hundreds of entries for this contest every year. But every year is a little different. This was a year of extremes. Some of the stories were exuberant and uplifting—but at least one of the other stories was so downcast and disturbed that one of the younger, more impressionable members of our editorial staff felt compelled to ask, in a hushed and concerned whisper, “Do we need to worry about this person?”

This year had some of the funniest stories we’ve ever read. And some of the saddest. Some of the sharpest.

And some of the most confusing. Some of the very best and some of the very worst. (And don’t worry—even if your story didn’t get published, we’re not referring to you. Your story was one of the very last ones we cut— mostly just because of space limitations. Don’t worry about it. You’re fine. Doing great work, actually. Keep it up. It was somebody else’s story that was so bad that we needed to rip it to shreds with our bare hands in a frenzy of rage. You’re cool.)

The bad stories have been banished to the recycling bin of history. The best stories are right here.

Third place apparent

We sat on our son’s Cruce Street porch in Norman, Oklahoma, bemoaning the summer’s humidity, sipping Jack and Cherry Coke slushies, and counting fireflies playing tag in twilit forget-me-nots. I turned to my wife, smiled and softly, sappily said, “Sweetheart, I watched you during our recent Route 66 road trip and realized you are smarter than me.”

She immediately doubled over, and with eyes glistening,

snorked slushie. Covering mouth and nose, she blindly found my knee and gently, if not condescendingly, squeezed it twice.

Well, Boy Howdy! It was quite apparent she already knew this.

—Keith Froslie

Keith Froslie was raised in Reno and graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He’s a retiree of the U.S. Air Force and the Washoe County School District.

Froslie finds happiness in writing, midnight revisions and showers with his wife.

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Honorable mentions The Jimmy Choos

He tripped over her shoes. For the third time.

He picked up the right Jimmy Choo and threw it against the wall. The other he heaved in the opposite direction.

The phone rang and he picked up, annoyed. “What,” he barked gruffly.

“It’s me. What’s the matter? You sound upset.”

“Why would I be upset, Lonnie? You disappear for three days and then let me know, via text message, that ‘we’ve grown apart.’ What’s upsetting about that?”

Silence.

“What do you want?”

“I was just wondering if I left my shoes there. The Jimmy Choos?”

—David R. Lee

American Fuckup Supreme He leaned over and wretched, thought of how close his face was to the rim of the toilet, and wretched again. He spit away the awful taste and stood, faced the mirror and adjusted his tie. Pockets of late night tequila were still burning through his system so he ate an unhealthy combination of antacids and aspirin and opened the door. The echo of cheers sounded like thunder below him, but before he could shut the door again, a firm hand grabbed his arm and pushed him into the open air to accept the nomination.

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I dial the numbers slowly, my heart beating faster and faster.

“Hello, is this Susan Kauttz?”

“Yes, it is.”

I realize that I should’ve thought about the words.

How do you tell a woman her deceased husband possibly fathered an illegitimate child and never told a soul?

“My name is Ramona, but I was born in Vietnam, and my mother gave me the name Bich-Ly.” I wait for a response, and then she says something I did not expect.

“OK … I think I know where you’re going, but I want to hear you say it.”

“Two months, maybe three. It’s inoperable. I’m sorry, John.”

“Jesus. Two months.”

“Yes, I suggest you get your affairs together, spend time with your children.”

“I don’t have any, anyone else, for that matter.”

“Well, do you have any questions?”

“No, not really.”

“OK, please stop out front and settle up with Christine.”

“Thanks. Goodbye, doctor.”

“Ah, the doctor asked me to speak to you.”

“Yes, how do you want to settle your bill? After insurance, your responsibility is $42,000.”

“How long can I stretch out the payments?”

“Only six months, I’m afraid.”

“That’ll work.”

—Romona McGinnis

Rescue A Reno ditch-fed pond will always be at risk. Dry years leave it smelling, well, funky.

But Lake Park is named because of the lake. It can’t be filled in.

On a hot July day, we meet to #SaveLakePark. Walking home, something’s moving yards out in the murky water.

Instinctively I call, “Come here, birdy.”

Well, damn, if it doesn’t start swimming—toward us.

Cupping my hands, I lift it out.

The neighbor helpfully, “I’ll get a box. I think it’s hurt.”

But, no.

Phelps, the parakeet, is a thank you gift from the pond.

—Bill W. Morgan

—Catherine Schmidt

Goodwill

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At Saint Vincent’s, she lifted the box out of her car.

A voice came from the street. “Got any men’s clothes?”

“No, sorry.” She barely looked up.

After dropping the donation, she parked, and headed inside.

Time to shop!

She nabbed a cribbage board, a skirt, and flannel pajamas, then hesitated.

Rifling through, she spotted it—thick, gray, V-neck, nearly new.

At the register, she had to borrow a dollar when the sign read cash only.

Once outside, she searched for him.

“Here, take this. It’ll be warm.”

“Lady, I’ve never owned anything cashmere before.”

The surgeon stood at the sink, washing his hands.

“Joe? You OK?” “I’m fine, Bob.” “Your hands are shaking?

Joe looked down. “My first big case.”

“You got this Joe. You’re good.”

“I hope you’re right.”

Bob turned toward him from the next sink.

“The team thinks you’re great. You have to think the same way.”

Joe nodded and walked toward the operating room.

Joe now walked down the hallway toward the waiting room. “Jackson family?

They turned. Upon seeing the smile on Joe’s face, they were relieved. Joe felt good. He would be OK.

—Jerry Wager

The Furniture Makers Sadness spilled out of Mohamed’s eyes, as they drove near his family’s old wood shop on the edge of Mogadishu. “We made furniture there when I was a kid,” he pointed, “but the clans destroyed everything.”

Worst thing to ever happen in Muldoon’s high school shop class was a classmate that cut off his own fingertip using the band saw. “I made my mom a table,” Muldoon said, “cut the drawer dovetails by hand, with a chisel and a mallet.” Ali Ga ’al nodded. Muldoon felt grateful and angry, all in the same powerless breath.

—Carl Moulton

Untitled “What! They got away? How?” She said, nursing her swollen cheek.

“They had a car outside, and with the hoodies and masks, we got nothin’ to identify ’em,” the cop answered, shrugging.

“Take me to the hospital right now,” she said, handing him a small baggie.

“I blew one of them,” nodding toward the baggie, “and fucked the other one. Two shots of semen.”

“Jesus!” he said looking at the baggie.

“I’m a hooker—it’s what I do.”

“Son of a bitch. If they’re in the system, we’ll get ’em.

Promise.”

Turns out they were.

—Catherine Schmidt

—Arnold Klein

—Jerry Wager

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Jason Morris Sells the World

Does no one else hear that sound? It’s so subtle, yet pervasive.

It’s the sound of fifth grade in the ’70s. The sound of a boy named George trying to sneak up behind me to put gum in my hair. The sound of the group of popular girls walking the hallway making fun of me for budding pimples and greasy hair. It’s the school cafeteria line waiting for fake cheese pizza.

The sound makes adult me both uncomfortable and nostalgic.

Swish swish. Swish swish. All day past my office door.

Corduroy is back in style.

“Hi, neighbors! I must have been asleep when you came in overnight. We usually have the whole playa to ourselves this time of year, just us in our Winnebago. That’s quite a rig you’ve got there. You guys must be Burners. You’re a couple months early. Burning Man’s not until August.

Where are you fellas from?”

“We’re researchers from Central Galactic University, here to collect specimens.”

“Uh, huh. Well, nice to meet you. I hear the missus waking up. ... Gotta go. ... Honey, there’s a couple of Burners out here. Their rig looks like a spaceship.”

Had the strange looking fellow not stopped him at the door, Jason would have used his last dollar on a cheap quart of beer.

“Sell me the world and I’ll buy you the best beer, cases of beer.”

“Shit yeah!” Jason said with a handshake.

The next day, Jason saw the same man on TV. He was yelling and pointing to the odd collection of spaceships in the sky. He was claiming ownership of the world, like in some cheap Hollywood movie.

Jason watched with a fresh beer, excited to see what would happen next.

—L.M. Staton

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—Steve Recchia

—Bill W. Morgan

College Reunions by Anonymous

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“AA is soooo American,” quipped her old college roommate, an X-pat, married to a corporate “Mad Man,” fingers wrapped around her wineglass like a gun pointed to her clavicle.

“So is jazz, baby, so’s jazz. And look how that changed the world,” she replied.

“Touché … but … you’ll be back.”

They laughed, thick as old thieves reunited.

“What goes on in AA meetings anyway?”

“We run around naked on hot coals.”

More laughter.

But to herself she says: “I pray I never go back. And call me if that loaded wine gun ever goes off on you.”

She was climbing my neighbor’s door. That encounter would not go well, so to collect her— Quart jar, said some inner voice.

A jar? I asked.

And that folded newspaper.

She ducked her head and prayed. I held the jar, brushed the paper toward her side, and she ... climbed right in. She pressed her spines against the glass, looking at me with wide eyes.

I carried her outside to the stars and crickets, listening to her clinking steps inside the glass. Delivered safe, she turned her long body, squaring up to me. Pray tell, mantoptera.

—Eileen Driscoll

All the Fashionable Girls

—Jenny Pickerell

The Package Deal

The air was soft, gently brushing her bare skin. She waited, grateful for the husband who drove home for a sundress and, unprompted, her pocket angel of hope, her lip balm.

“If I’m ever in a coma,” she would half-joke, “make sure someone applies it every hour.”

A carload of teenagers stared at her. Or possibly at the catheter hose that looped below her dress, a new temporary reality. Oh, boy, she breathed, then called to them: “It’s what all the fashionable girls are wearing these days.” And turned so they couldn’t see her smile.

Why did it always go like this?

She wanting more ... so much more … and sooner. And the guy just coolly offering his services to the next in line like she didn’t even matter.

It hurt that she didn’t matter. Oh, but she would matter.

He’d look at her and see her like he’d never seen her before: NOT all sweet, and so ready to receive his handsome half smile and rehearsed comments, like he really cared about her day ... and her life?

She swore right then that she would never, ever patronize this P.O. branch again.

—Darlynne Vrechek

—Sharon Colley

Roughin’ It

My aunt got bilked out of all her credit cards and life savings by a con man who told her she inherited a bunch of money from Sweden. So it got me thinking when I’m really old I’m going to bilk myself out of a fortune by staying in posh hotels and getting daily room service and massages and tattoos. I’m saving the best part, though. I’m finding a really big RV parked at a scenic overlook, getting in and driving the piggish monstrosity off the edge. Because that’s not camping and everyone knows it.

—Jane Addington

How to Hold the Rope She had to show the old man how to hold the rope, hard when you won’t speak, but he understood and she smiled.

Before she turned back to the chair at the center of the crowd, she made sure, with a shake of her forefinger and a playful look of warning that he knew to hold on.

She climbed the chair and mocked putting the rope around her neck, tightening it until an involuntary choke escaped. The man felt the imaginary rope shift in his hand and before anyone could argue, the mime stepped off.

—Bill W. Morgan Ω

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shape Practitioners of “Bro-Ga” don’t have to be experts—or bros. story and Photos By Matt Bieker ma t t b @ne w s re vie w . com

“Bro-ga” starts every Wednesday at 7 p.m. and is open to people of all genders.

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s I strained to complete a standing forward fold, my previously steady breathing grew ragged as I tried to pull my forehead ever closer to my knees while keeping my legs straight. My back and hamstrings protested while a boppy ’60s rock song played over the speakers at the back of the room. Ellie Girdis, founder of Midtown Community Yoga and practitioner of nearly 10 years, called out, “Hold it here for one more breath before releasing. Now, let’s come down to our mats.”

I, like many others, chose January to set my fitness goals for the new year.

I injured my back at the gym over six months ago, causing tightness and pain in my right leg. After months of inactivity, I decided to ease myself back into a regular workout routine with a class at Midtown Community Yoga called “BroGa.” Ostensibly, yoga for bros.

“That was our main thing, was to have a noncompetitive, extremely welcoming, like, all levels [class],” Girdis said. “It really doesn’t matter if you’ve done yoga or not, and Bro-Ga was in particular for dudes because for the most part, you know, guys were the minority in yoga classes. … We just wanted it to feel a little more welcoming to a group of people that might not necessarily be brave enough to walk into this gang of girls who can do the splits and whatever.”

Girdis said it’s a common misconception that Bro-Ga is exclusively for men, and that the class is instead geared toward making any and all yoga newcomers feel comfortable. It features a rotating schedule of instructors who each specialize in one of yoga’s many different disciplines, and a playlist full of rock, rap and other upbeat music to make the setting less formal. Girdis said there also used to be a cooler full of beer afterward, but they’ve since given up the brews as part of a New Year’s resolution.

“It was just like a sampling of yoga, you know?” said Girdis. “Like, our catchphrase was, light yoga, heavy jams—and you don’t even have to be able to touch your toes.”

While the class usually averages around a dozen people, Girdis said, inclement weather on the night I attended meant that I shared the room with just three other participants. The large studio space was heated by a few industrial-sized heaters bearing the brand name Reznor. I wondered if Nine Inch Nails would be featured on the playlist.

Katie Brouner was one of the other attendees that night. She started

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practicing yoga around three years ago and said Midtown Community Yoga, and Bro-Ga specifically, helped her overcome her initial skepticism about yoga’s enigmatic reputation.

“So, my motivations at first were strictly weight loss, and I had a lot of animosity towards—not yoga, the workout, but yoga, the mindset,” Brouner said. “I had my mind set on, ‘People who do yoga are a certain way, and it’s so silly, and this is not me,’ to actually realizing that ... it’s a mindset, and I had the wrong mindset, and now I’m willing to change it because yoga makes me happy.”

Brouner said her desire to lose weight and get more active was hindered by her perception of the spiritual aspects of yoga. Bro-Ga, she said, was a helpful introduction to an unfamiliar setting, and she was encouraged to see the diversity of the attendees.

“Bro-Ga’s the best one to go to for a first-time person, and it definitely shows you that it isn’t about people who can do headstands and splits and wear their Lululemon and, you know, just, ‘I’m above you because I’m spiritually awakened,’” Brouner said. “It was nice seeing all age ranges, all abilities working together and just not feeling intimidated at all by where we were when we started.”

As Brouner works a 9-to-5 job, she said the Wednesday night, 7 p.m. start time fits her schedule. And while she started yoga for the practical benefits, the meditative aspect has become part of her midweek routine.

“I don’t go to church, and I’m not religious, [but] going to yoga is where I can check in with my life, check in with my mindset, check in with my body,” Brouden said. “The cliché is set my intentions and my priorities, what I’m planning to do—just making my life better instead of being miserable with my life and not doing anything to change it. Yoga has given me that inspiration.”

Final stretch I spent a lot of effort at Bro-Ga attempting to clear my mind of obvious thoughts like, “This hurts,” or “No way I can bend like that.” As we progressed through the hour-long session, though, my busy mind settled. In between the gentle stretches, twists and folds, the tightness in my lower back began to release—a feeling that was months overdue.

In the class with me for similar reasons was Lucas Feger, who has been coming to Bro-Ga on and off for the past two years. He uses yoga to regain

Beginners can sign up for Bro-Ga and other classes at Midtown Community Yoga’s website: www.midtowncommunity.yoga/classes/

From left: Lucas Feger, Katie Brouner and Ellie Girdis practice a chair pose.

lost mobility from previous injuries—although (“Corpse Pose”), Girdis told me that Bro-Ga he was originally inspired to take up practicing has changed slightly since it’s inception after a couple he met at a music festival told him in 2015. Many of the original practitioners it was the key to their impressive dancing. have had to leave for various reasons, and “I separated my shoulder, and I’ve had ankle some newcomers are unsure of the class’ surgery so I can’t really move it the way that I accessibility. would like,” Feger said. “Certain positions hurt, “As we get more and more new clientele, we so I’m just trying to get past that and get it back want them to know they’re welcome,” Girdis to normal. I have really bad back pain, too. I said. “And so, it’s one of those things where have really bad scoliosis. I don’t take painkillers we’re like, ‘We’ve got to change the name or anything like that.” because everyone thinks it’s for bros.’”

He also said the eclectic playlAs this was my first class at ist—which includes the likes of Midtown Community Yoga, the Metallica, Pink Floyd and the usual $10 drop-in fee was waved Wu-Tang Clan—is a welcome as per their policy—also “our distraction for his often overhelpful for newcomers who catchphrase active mind. might see cost as a barrier was, light “It’s really helpful to entry. I may return to because I have a hard Midtown Community yoga, heavy time shutting my brain Yoga in the future, but jams—and off,” Feger said. “So, regardless of whether the music helps me not it’s for Bro-Ga or a you don’t think of the shit that I am different class, Girdis even have to always thinking of and said it’s more important just be able to disconnect to approach yoga at your be able to for a little bit.” own pace. touch your It just so happened “You don’t need to toes.” that the speakers shorted have any, you know, rigid out during our class (“Just ideas about what your body ellie girdis one of those nights,” Girdis should be able to do, which founder, midtown community yoga laughed from the front of we all have,” she said. “It’s the room) and so we had to just better to be like, ‘OK, I’m go without for the last half hour. going to do what my body can do I didn’t mind, though, as I found it right here.’ And maybe that’s different easier to focus on my breath. Individual than yesterday. Maybe it’s more than yestermotions are synchronized with inhalations day, or less, and that’s fine. Like, whatever, and exhalations in yoga, meaning breath you know. Nothing’s permanent.” control is important to maintaining rhythm— Not even Bro-Ga. Ω something I lack naturally.

After we finished the class lying flat on our backs in the traditional shovasana

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by JESSICA SAnTInA

Reno Little Theater pays homage to Neil Simon in its first production of 2019, Simon’s play Barefoot in the Park.

Park it The dramas of marriage aren’t usually big and monumental. Rather, they’re small and subtle—the cup too often left sitting out, the repeatedly late arrival at scheduled activities, the failure to notice a new hairstyle—accumulating tension drop by drop.

By the same token, romance comes not from grand gestures, but tiny ones—washing the dishes or picking up milk without prompting.

Perhaps no one in modern American theater understood the delicate intricacies of modern relationships better or could capture them as well as Neil Simon. The playwright whose name is synonymous with romantic comedies—having virtually created the genre—passed away in August.

Reno Little Theater now pays homage to the master in its first production of 2019, Simon’s third play and first critical hit, Barefoot in the Park.

Set in early ’60s New York, it’s the story of newlyweds Paul and Corie Bratter as they begin married life in a crumbling, fifthfloor walkup apartment. Following their six-day honeymoon rolling in the sheets at the Plaza Hotel, Corie’s now making the place home while newbie attorney Paul is back at work on his first case.

Romantic Corie (played by Emilie Meyer) sees the place through a bride’s rose-colored glasses—its miniscule size ideal for cuddlers, its many quirks offering character and charm. But practical Paul (Aaron Foster) sees the five flights of stairs (six if you count the front stoop), the closetsized bedroom, the hole in the skylight and the kooky neighbors.

One of these is Victor Velasco (Bob Ives), an eccentric older gentleman with unusual taste in cuisine who lives in the attic apartment—only reachable through the Bratters’ bedroom window.

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with those around her, Corie tries to fix up her staid single mother, Ethel (Michelle Calhoun), with the lively Mr. Velasco. After an evening involving bizarre hors d’oeuvres, too much ouzo and Albanian dancing, unexpected tensions between the Bratters bubble to the surface, calling attention to immense, previously ignored differences—a gap perhaps too wide to bridge.

A master of the one-liner, Simon’s dialogue crackles, and no one in this RLT cast falters. Meyers’ Corie sparkles; she’s magnetic and adorable, impossible not to watch, and she delivers her lines with impeccable timing. As Paul, Foster manages to be the more grounded and reasonable of the two without coming off as stiff or cold. And as Ethel, Calhoun is brilliant—set in her ways yet not stubborn, a refreshingly loving, non-cliché of a protofeminist mother.

Even the scene changes are entertaining, thanks to the directorial choice to provide entertainment courtesy of telephone repair man Scott Sarni and the “Barefoot Movers,” a.k.a. the Around the Stage Modern Dance Company.

Of course, Simon’s work always elicits laughs, but it has such capacity to touch your heart as well. I was moved to tears, reminded to love the one I’m with and find joy in the smallest of things. Ω

Barefoot in the Park

12345 Barefoot in the Park, written by neil Simon and directed by Alexandra Frankel and Scott Hernandez, will be at Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., through Feb. 3. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors/military, $15 for students and $12 for kids ages 12 and under. During the government shutdown, federal government employees or contractors can get two free tickets (pending availability) with a valid government ID or check stub. See dates and get tickets here: https://bit.ly/2FFIBdh.

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“i know what you’re thinking, ‘Where exactly did he get that monogrammed cravat?’”

Twisted Mister Just when you think M. Night Shyamalan might be getting on a hot streak, he unleashes something like Glass to show us he’s still a stylish yet sloppy, selfindulgent kook.

Following one bomb after another during a 15-year stretch, Shyamalan showed us he was still capable of good cinematic things with Split in 2017—a showcase for James McAvoy’s multi-persona performance and a creepy little thriller thanks to Shyamalan’s surprisingly deft direction. An after-credits scene showed us Bruce Willis as David Dunn, his superhumanly strong Unbreakable character, and the possibilities became very intriguing.

The director announced his intention to make Glass and that Split was, in fact, the second part of what would be a trilogy. Glass would bring back the brittle-boned character of that name played by Samuel L. Jackson in Unbreakable, along with Willis and the newly introduced McAvoy character(s). OK, sounds good. Let’s go!

Well… shit. 2019 has its first legitimate clunker.

Shyamalan is up to his old tricks again, the kind of loopy, half-assed filmmaking that made the world scratch its collective head with The Happening, The Village, The Last Airbender, After Earth and Lady in the Water—all wretched stink bombs.

He has a remarkable ability to employ both lazy and overambitious writing simultaneously. He puts a lot in play with Glass but doesn’t seem to have a distinct idea of where to take it. Plot holes abound like wolf spider offspring jumping from their momma’s back when you slam a shoe down on her. There are so many, it’s hard to keep track of them.

First, he finds a way—an incredibly stupid and inane way—to get the gang together in some sort of mental institution where they are being studied by a too-nice-to-be-trusted doctor (Sarah Paulson).

Then, McAvoy gets a chance to do his switching personality shtick for a good chunk of the movie while Willis virtually disappears for a stretch and Jackson’s Glass sits in a catatonic state.

Near the end of the movie, the Shyamalan script starts rambling about the origins of comic books.

What do they really mean? He fixates on this like anybody really gives a crap, and the action in the film dwindles away, replaced by the dopiest dialogue this side of a Fifty Shades movie. Shyamalan shamelessly teases a big showdown atop Philadelphia skyscrapers between McAvoy’s the Beast and Willis’s strong guy. It’s as if he’s saying “I know you are bored right now, but there’s a Kong vs. Godzilla type showdown coming! Sit tight you fidgety little buggers!”

Alas, all we get is a fist fight on the hospital lawn, and a very drawn-out and uninteresting one at that.

I am understating things when I tell you the fates of these characters are handled in a flippant, underwhelming, downright awful way. Shyamalan takes his chance to do something worthwhile in the universe he created and instead opts for blathering idiocy and preachy nonsense.

Anya Taylor-Joy, so good in Split, is reduced to a role that has her, for some nutty reasons, having sympathetic, huggy conversations with the dude who almost ate her. Spencer Treat Clark returns as Joseph Dunn, David’s now grown son, and he’s actually grown into a fairly competent actor—a fairly competent actor given next to nothing worthwhile to do.

Nothing makes sense in this mess, and Shyamalan takes all of the blame. Yes, it has the standard Shyamalan big twists in it, and they do nothing to substantiate the story or shock you in that good, Sixth Sense sort of way. He springs the so-called surprise on you, and you are left wondering, “Oh, wait… really?

That’s, like, stupid.”

I distinctly remember that “WTF?” feeling that hit me when Unbreakable abruptly ended with that dopey freeze frame. It felt like Shyamalan had completely betrayed his audience with a lame stunt. That’s how I felt during most of the running time for Glass. Ω

Glass

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Aquaman

The latest DC effort, Aquaman, is middling fun for about 20 minutes before it becomes one of the worst films of 2018. It’s the typical DC garbage can of a film and proof that Warner Brothers has learned next to nothing when it comes to making a good comic book movie since Christian Bale took off the cowl (Yes, Wonder Woman was good—the lone exception.) Jason Momoa returns as big, tattooed, beefy Arthur, the dreamy son of a Lost City of Atlantis queen (Nicole Kidman) and Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison), a lowly lighthouse keeper. Fett finds the queen washed up on the rocks and takes her home, where she promptly eats his goldfish. (What a laugh riot! She ate his pet fish!) She gives birth to Arthur, and the origin story part of the movie is well on its way. We see a few more moments in the fish man’s young life. Momoa eventually shows up in full party mode, and it looks like we could be on our way to some goofy fun. Alas, like Zack Snyder before him, director James Wan doesn’t know how to keep a leash on his epic, and this things goes bonkers in a bad way. The undeniable charms—and admittedly glorious hair—of Momoa can only go so far in this unholy mess.

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Bird Box

Sandra Bullock puts her supreme talents in a Netflix sensation movie that is only half good with Bird Box, a film that feels like a bunch of overused horror gimmicks mashed into one messy entity.

Malorie (Bullock) is a gloomy painter. The film shows Bullock painting black backgrounds to make her look authentic. She’s dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. Sister Jessica (Sarah Paulson) tells her to get out of the dumpy-dumps, and takes her to the doctor for a checkup, shortly after seeing a strange report on TV about people killing themselves in Russia. While visiting with the doc (Parminder Nagra), all hell starts to break loose in the hospital and, even more so, on the streets. It appears as if people are seeing some sort of entity and deciding it’s far too much for them to handle, so they kill themselves in creative ways (stepping in front of buses, bashing heads into windows, walking into fire, etc.). Malorie manages to navigate through a hellish urban landscape, and winds up trapped in a house with a few others. The street suicides scene is genuinely scary, and flash forward scenes show Malorie trying to find some sort of safe haven with two children, all wearing blindfolds to avoid seeing the killer vision.

The movie hits a total dead end once Malorie goes in that house. It’s pretty much the same scenario as that remake of Dawn of the Dead, right down to the pregnant women and shopping scenes. (Avaliable for streaming on Netflix now.)

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If Beale Street Could Talk

Director Barry Jenkins follows up his Oscar winning Moonlight with a beautiful, heartbreakingly great movie.

The film is full of moving performances from all, including Regina King as a steel nerved mother and Stephan James as a jailed man proclaiming his innocence. It’s a stirring family drama focused on a young black couple Alonzo—”Fonny”—and Tish (Stephan James and KiKi Layne) in the 1970s.

Within the first few minutes of the film, we learn that Tish is pregnant, and Alonzo is incarcerated. He’s jailed for a sexual assault against a woman, something he vehemently denies. While he awaits trial, Tish remains loyal and must inform her family of her pregnancy. The extended scene when Tish tells her parents and, subsequently, Fonny’s family that she is pregnant, hits all kind of notes. It runs the virtual gamut of emotions, setting the pulse for the rest of the movie.

It’s also where Regina King begins to shine as Sharon, Tish’s beautifully, uncondition-

ally supportive mother. It’s the beginning of a performance that is gathering much deserved awards. King isn’t alone in the magic department. Colman Domingo is terrific as Tish’s good-natured dad, as is Teyonah Parris as Tish’s strong sister, Ernestine.

The pregnancy revelation scene is capped with a sudden turn of emotions as Fonny’s family has a much different reaction, led by their religious mom, Mrs. Hunt (Aunjanue Ellis). Jenkins and company take us from a place that is very comfortable to extremely raw in a flash, and it feels genuine. In fact, Beale Street doesn’t contain a moment that doesn’t feel genuine.

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Mary Poppins Returns

Casting Emily Blunt as the iconic title character in Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel 54 years in the making, proves to be a stroke of genius. Casting Lin-Manuel Miranda in the role of Jack, a copycat character modeled after Dick Van Dyke’s Bert in the original classic, well, not so much. Blunt plays the role with her own sensible spin, not by any means copying what the great Julie Andrews did over half a century ago, but nonetheless giving us a practically perfect variation on the infamous nanny. Miranda sports the same cockney accent—not nearly as gloriously, wonderfully bad as Van Dyke’s—and plays a lamp lighter in London instead of a chimney sweep. His part of the film feels like a giant missed opportunity because, while he can sing and dance up a storm, he isn’t funny. Van Dyke was funny. The result is a movie that has a lot of charm and some amazingly good sequences—with Blunt powering us through.

But while I might’ve been sitting on the fence as the film headed into the final turn, my attitude went full positive when none other than Dick Van Dyke shows up as a helpful banker. He not only shows up but gets on top of a desk and dances better than anyone else in the movie. It’s only a few seconds but, I’m telling you now, they are some of the best seconds any 2018 film has to offer—pure nostalgia heaven.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

While Tom Holland’s live action Spider-Man remains in limbo due to that infamous Thanos finger snap, Sony Pictures ups the ante on the Spidey franchise with the eye-popping, all around ingenious Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, one of 2018’s greatest cinematic surprises. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is trying to adjust to a new, upscale school after winning a scholarship. He’s away from his big city friends and getting some guff from his well-meaning police officer dad (Brian Tyree Henry), who wants him to appreciate the chance he’s been given.

Miles’s uncle (the ever busy Mahershala Ali) keeps him grounded, encouraging him to continue as a graffiti artist. On one of their painting excursions, Miles is bitten by a strange spider and then—well, you know. He eventually crosses paths with the original Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Chris Pine). And, as the plot would have it, parallel universe portals open and allow in a whole fleet of different SpiderMen, Spider-Women, Spider-Pigs and Spider-Robots. That group is comprised of Peter B. Parker (the invaluable Jake Johnson), Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Ham (a mishmash of Spidey and Porky Pig voiced by John Mulaney), Peni Parker and her robot (Kimiko Glenn) and, best of all, Nicolas Cage as the blackand-white Spider-Man Noir. So Miles is one of many Spider entities on hand to go up against Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), whose corporation is responsible for the time hole rip allowing all of his adversaries into his corner of the universe. Like any good comic book, the movie is stacked with action, plot threads and many twists and turns.

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The Vietnamese hot and sour soup is cooked tableside and served here with the restaurant’s appetizer sampler.

Genuine article Ăn-Asian Kitchen & Bar is unfortunately prone to a “lost in translation” issue. In Vietnamese, Ăn means “eat.” To those who don’t recognize this, it will likely be known as “An Asian Kitchen.” Regardless, the restaurant’s tasty fusion of Vietnamese and other Asian favorites is a welcome addition to the Reno scene.

My group arrived in the early evening when the place was fairly empty. Nu Metal music was cranking pretty hard on the house system, which lent a weird, uncomfortable vibe. As more diners filtered in, the tunes thankfully shifted to more chill melodies.

We got things started with crispy calamari ($10) stir-fried with jalapeño, bell pepper, scallion and garlic and served with a light sweet and sour sauce. It was perfect. This was followed by a towering appetizer sampler ($15) of egg roll, fried prawns, chicken teriyaki skewers, spare ribs, pot stickers and crab rangoon served with sweet and sour, hot mustard and house shoyu sauce. This was also spot-on, with the super meaty skewers being a stand-out.

A final appetizer ($10) of little neck clams with lemongrass and white onion finished with fresh basil and chopped peanut and served with shrimp chips was my favorite. I piled-up little clam tostadas with the crispy, three-inch, shrimp-flavored wafers.

A large serving of chicken broth-based wor wonton soup ($12) was heartily filled with pork and shrimp dumplings, chicken, barbecue pork, broccoli, bok choy, head cabbage and carrot. However, my pho bac diet ($11) of rare beef, brisket, tendon, meatball, tripe, beef broth, vermicelli, onion, scallion, cilantro, bean sprout, basil,

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jalapeño and lime was a little lackluster.

The broth was solid, and the ingredients were great, but there was hardly any tripe or tendon to be found. When I order “the whole cow” soup, I want it all.

We also ordered stir-fried servings of combo chow mein ($13) with chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, carrot, onion, scallion and celery; beef ho fun ($13) with deep-fried egg noodle, onion, scallion and bean sprout; and barbecue pork ($13) with tofu, broccoli, mushroom, bamboo shoot, bok choy, baby corn, carrot, celery, water chestnut and brown sauce. All of these were pretty good.

The beef in the egg noodle dish was a little dry, likely due to being twice-cooked The seafood sizzling platter ($16) with scallop, shrimp, squid and fragrant white sauce was very similar in flavor to the bubbling seafood clay pot ($15) of shrimp, squid, scallop, bok choy, broccoli and carrot. The seafood was perfectly done on the platter, but for some reason a little overcooked and chewy in the clay pot rendition.

A grilled pork and eggroll cold noodle bowl rounded things out ($9), with a truly enjoyable combination of barbecue pork, vermicelli, chopped eggroll, lettuce, bean sprout, cilantro, daikon, carrot and crushed peanut. This rendition was completely on par with any previous example of this favorite dish I’ve had.

Jasmine tea ($3 per pot) and a sake bomb of Sapporo beer with a shot of hot sake ($5) helped take the chill off the winter night, and my friend’s la basil cocktail ($9) of gin, lemon, simple syrup and fresh basil was a refreshing enhancement to an enjoyable dining experience. Ω

Ăn-Asian Kitchen & Bar

7499 Longley Lane, 852-6320

The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Learn more at an-asiankitchen.com.

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je r ic @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Kyle Campbell has been organizing Drink-182 “emo nights” in Reno for three years now.

Get down Drink-182 When Kyle Campbell organized his first “emo night” in early 2016, he envisioned an event to bring together the region’s community of emo music fans.

“It was basically just a bunch of buddies and me hanging out, and we were talking about emo night in, like, L.A. and all of that,” Campbell said. “I wanted to do something similar to that, but you can’t really call it ‘emo night’ now because it’s actually coined by the Emo Nite guys.”

The well-known group that began organizing emo music nights in L.A. several years ago actually spells its name Emo Nite, but Campbell thought better of copying it and dubbed his event “Drink-182.”

“It just started out as something small, and Drink-182 sounds catchy,” he said.

“It sounds fun. And everyone knows who Blink-182 is.”

Not everyone will agree that Blink-182 is an emo band, but the music Campbell brings to Drink-182 delves deep enough into the genre to please fans of all sorts.

“I’ll throw in some Sunny Day Real Estate,” Campbell said. “I’ll put on some Get Up Kids, but, you know, you also need some Fall Out Boy.” For Campbell, it’s important to appeal to emo fans of different generations.

“It gets kind of hard sometimes because there’s not a lot of market for those bands,” Campbell said. “It’s a very tight niche, the people who know who Get Up Kids are.

That’s kind of the point, though. I’m trying to market to each demographic, and emo music goes back decades.”

Campbell doesn’t just spin records on Drink-182 nights. The event also features live music from local and regional emo bands performing a mix of covers and originals.

“Every time I do it, I always try to bring in one of the new local bands,” he said.

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“There’s always someone popping up in the scene. I used to be in that scene in a band— so I’m still kind of connected to it.”

Campbell’s former band, Newbound, actually played the first Drink-182 night.

“We played the very, very first one— and the next day we broke up,” he said.

Campbell said the breakup served as catalyst for him to make the event a recurring one.

“That’s what inspired me to do it,” he said. “I wanted to stay connected to the scene somehow.”

For the last three years, Drink-182 has happened about once every six weeks. It’s been held at several different bars in town, including 1up, Monolith Bar and Headquarters—the latter two now shuttered.

“It’s like every time I do it, it ends up being at a bigger place, which means more opportunity to book bigger bands,” Campbell said.

He’s booked three bands for the next Drink-182 event, which is scheduled to happen at the BlueBird, 555 E. Fourth St., on Jan. 25, featuring Sacramento bands the Seafloor Cinema and Hi, Mom! They’ll be joined by Reno band All Hype, No Heart—and all three bands will play a mix of originals and covers. If things go well in the new, larger space, Campbell said he may wrangle a local band into doing a Drink-182 live band karaoke event. It’s something he did once before with backing from the Reno outfit Mourning Eyes—and, according to Campbell, it’s a good time for even the shyest emo fans.

“Even if you forget, like, two verses, the guys from the band are going to sing with you, and the crowd is going to sing with you,” he said. “It’s just one loved time, and everyone is together. It’s great. It’s why I love this music.” Ω

Learn more about the next Drink-182 event on Jan. 25 here: bit.ly/2CHWN1k.

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Dance party, 10pm, $5

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DJ Chango, 9pm, no cover

The Nomads, 9pm, no cover

Bar oF aMErICa

Jo Mama, 9pm, no cover

Jo Mama, 9pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

10069 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 536-5029

Sage the Gemini

10040 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-2626

Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m. tHE BluEBIrD Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor 555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549 71 S. Wells Ave. CarGo ConCErt Hall 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 384-1652

Comedy

Winter Whiteout 5: Borgore, Drezo, Howker, Apollo, 8pm, $25-$35 Doyle Stewart, 9pm, no cover

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

Carson Comedy Club, Carson City Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 882-1626: Susan Jones, Fri-Sat, 8pm, $20 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Dante, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Greg Morton, Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Will C, Fri, 6:30pm, $15-$20 The Library, 134 W. Second St., (775) 683-3308: Open Mic Comedy, Wed, 9:30pm, no cover Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Will C, Thu, 7:30pm, $10-$15; Fri, 8:30pm, $12-$18; Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$18

Drink-182: The Seafloor Cinema, All Hype, No Heart, 8pm, no cover

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CottonWooD rEStaurant

Sean McAlindin, 6:30pm, no cover

James Wilsey Jr., 9pm, no cover

Emily Tessmer, 6pm, no cover

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Open Mic Night, 6pm, M, no cover

Traditional Irish session, 7pm, Tu, Wed. Night Showcase, 7pm, no cover

Asia O’Hara, 10pm, $5-$30

239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590

HEllFIrE Saloon

Apothic, 8pm, no cover

3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

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Fresh Meat: The Waterbeds, Anapathic, Matching Jackets, 10pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

Funkraiser: Blues Monsters, Rambo, Funksalive, Mojo Green, noon, $15-$20

And Then Came Humans, 8pm, W, $5-$10

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Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Analog House Party: Roger That!, Jimmy Dirt, Chuck Tyler, 10pm, $5

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 409-4431

180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737

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Canyon White, 9pm, no cover

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

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Habstrakt, Daen-O, Be:Razz, Atlas, Awon, 10pm, $10-$20

214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 813-6689

5 Star Saloon

SATURDAY 1/26

Thursday Night Trivia, 7pm, no cover

Friday Night Karaoke, 9:30pm, no cover

Erik Clark, 9:30pm, no cover

Sage the Gemini, 7;30pm, $20

PROJECTflow #18, 8:30pm, $15

Stratocastors, Okay Urge, Steakfry, 7pm, $5

Failure Machine, Balms, Of Lyle, 8pm, W, $5

Pro jam session/open mic with Karin Denise, 8pm, no cover

Open mic with Monsterbug Productions, 9pm, W, no cover Amigo the Devil, 8:30pm, Tu, $15 Vic Ruggiero, Lauren Napier, 9pm, W, $6

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FRIDAY 1/25

SATURDAY 1/26

SUNDAY 1/27

LAUGHING PLANET CAFE

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LIVING THE GOOD LIFE NIGHTCLUB

Live Jazz Jam Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633 1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663

THE LOFT

1021 Heavenly Village Way, S. L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $22-$47

Magic Fusion, 7pm, $22-$47 Magic After Dark, 9pm, $32-$47

MIDTOwN wINE BAr

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

Musicole, 8pm, no cover

Open Mic Jam, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke with R&B Productions, 9pm, no cover

PIGNIC PUB & PATIO

Golden Gardens, Stirr Lightly, Bentbleu, 9pm, $TBA

235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

THE POLO LOUNGE

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

Bingo with T-N-Keys, 6:30pm, no cover Live music, 9pm, no cover

PONDErOsA sALOON

106 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7210

DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

Vamp, DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke, 7pm, M, no cover DG Kicks Band, 8pm, Tu, no cover

rED DOG sALOON

Beats Antique

Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474

Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m.

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Benefit show w/The 4th Street Rippers, Defected Drones, The Afraid, The Grimtones, Just-In Beaver, 8pm, $10 The Pawns, Lost Idea, 8pm, $5-$6

715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

VIrGINIA sTrEET BrEwHOUsE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 433-1090

Back to School! Glow in the Dark Slumber Party, 9pm, no cover

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Bingo w/T-N-Keys, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover No Drama, 7pm, W, no cover

Nigel St. Hubbins, 8pm, no cover

Lorenzo Mendez, 10pm, $25

2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 378-1643 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 359-1594

Magic Fusion, 7pm, M, Tu, W, $22-$47 B.E. Chicken Bingo with DJ Finger Lickin’, 9pm, W, no cover

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Borgore

MON-WED 1/28-1/30

Trivia Night with Aubrey Forston, 8pm, no cover Country Western Night, 9pm, W, no cover

ATLANTIS CASINO reSOrT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Ballroom 2) Cabaret

BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTeL

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

CArSON VALLey INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret

Trombone Shorty Jan. 26, 8 p.m.

MontBleu 55 Highway 50 Stateline (775) 588-3515

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500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711 1) El Jefe’s Cantina 2) Cabaret

CrySTAL BAy CASINO

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SATURDAY 1/26

SUNDAY 1/27

MON-WED 1/28-1/30

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2) Atomika, 4pm, no cover Bridget Marie Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 4pm, no cover Bridget Marie Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Bridget Marie Band, 8pm, no cover

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

2) Stephen Lord, 6pm, no cover

2) The Starlighters, 5pm, no cover Velvet Duo, 9pm, no cover

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

2) Stephen Lord, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Mike Furlong, 6pm, Tu, no cover Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Nathan Owens Motown & Soul, 9pm, no cover

1) DJ MoFunk, 10pm, no cover 2) Nathan Owens Motown & Soul, 9pm, no cover

1) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover 2) Nathan Owens Motown & Soul, 9pm, no cover

1) JJ Grey & Mofro, The Commonheart, 8pm, $30-$35

2) New Wave Crave, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Lucky, DJ Bacy, Fancy Puma, 9pm, $25-$30

1) Big Head Todd & The Monsters, The Main Squeeze, 8pm, $30-$33

3) DJ Bob Richards, DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

3) DJ Dustin, DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

2) Karaoke with Rock U Ent., 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Mike Fusion, 6pm, no cover 3) Two Way Street, 6pm, no cover

2) Ying Yang Twins, 10pm, $20 3) Two Way Street, 6pm, no cover

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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) 322-3001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Crystal Lounge

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MONTBLeU reSOrT CASINO & SPA

1) Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, 8pm, $45-$55

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515 1) Showroom 2) Blu 2) Opal

2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 2) Edge 3) Capri Ballroom

SILVer LeGACy reSOrT CASINO

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) GEH 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura 4) Silver Baron

1) Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 7pm, no cover

1) Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 8pm, no cover

1) Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 8pm, no cover 2) Greg Lopez, 10pm, $20

1) Milton Merlos, 6pm, no cover

2) DJ R3volver, 9pm, no cover 4) DJ MoFunk, 9pm, no cover

2) Fresh Makers, 9pm, no cover 4) Fast Lane, 9pm, no cover

1) Million Dollar Quartet, 8pm, $49.50-$59.50 4) Fast Lane, 9pm, no cover

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professor of art history at the University of Nevada, Reno, will focus on the work of four women artists featured in the exhibition Laid Bare in the Landscape. Fri, 1/25, noon. $10 general admission, free for NMA members.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

2019 BENEFIT GALA: Sierra Junior Tennis Association’s fundraiser features a raffle, live auction and DJ/dancing. The theme is 1950s rock ’n’ roll. Costumes encouraged. Sat, 1/26, 5:30pm. $80-$700.

National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., sierrajuniortennis.org.

COFFEE WITH CASA: Learn about the Washoe CASA Foundation and how you can become a volunteer or a Friend of CASA. Tue, 1/29, 5pm. Free. Swill Coffee & Wine, 3366 Lakeside Court, washoecasafoundation.com.

Dungeons & Dragons with a group of teens who know the rules and can guide you through the learning curve. Open to youth ages 13-18. Wed, 1/30, 3pm. Free.

North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Blvd., (775) 972-0281.

The Reno Coin Club and Nevada State Museum will run the old 1869 coin press.

All the new U.S. coins will be available, as well as a new club medal featuring Eva Adams, United States Mint director from 1961-1969, and a coin commemorating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in 1969. Fri, 1/25, 10am. $8 adults, free for youth age 17 and younger. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, www.renocoinclub.org.

QUAD MAKERSPACE: The Quad contains equipment and tools that the public can use free of charge to create, learn new skills and new technology and practice artistic expression. It is open on Thursday afternoons from 3-6pm.

Quad staff will lead instruction sessions on different tools or equipment each week. Project time ends at 5:45pm so everything can be put away and cleaned up by 6pm. Thu, 1/24, 3pm. Free.

Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8300.

RENO BEER CRAWL: Attendees can sample domestic, nationally recognized and locally distributed craft beers at 15 or more different bars and restaurants.

For $5, you get a commemorative Reno Beer Crawl glass, wristband and map to use throughout this self-guided event. For only $1 you can enjoy 6-ounce samples at each of the participating downtown Reno locations. Sat, 1/26, 2pm. $5. The Library, 134 W. Second St., renobeercrawl.com.

FRANCES HUMPHREY LECTURE SERIES— BONANZA KING: Author Gregory Crouch explores Virginia City silver baron John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West.

Crouch will be available to sign copies of his book after the lecture. Reserve your seat on the Nevada State Museum website. Fri, 1/25, 1pm. $8 adults, free for youth age 17 and younger. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-4810, nvculture.org/ nevadastatemuseumcarsoncity.

RIVERSIDE FARMERS MARKET: Find organic veggies, fruits, eggs, meats, honey and flowers from our region’s sustainable growers, along with drinks and eats from Thali’s Food Truck. Sat, 1/26, 9amnoon. Free. Riverside Farmers Market at McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/ Premafarms.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Beginner, intermediate and advanced family researchers are all welcome to attend this open lab. Learn how to build your family tree and discover your ancestors.

Fri, 1/25, 11:30am-2pm. Free. Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 674-7600, www.tmcc.edu.

SMOKE GODDESS: Join artist and icon Judy

GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist.

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. If there’s enough snow, this will be a snowshoe hike. A few pairs of snowshoes at the visitor center are available for rent. Sat, 1/26, 10am. Free.

Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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EAGLES & AGRICULTURE: The 17th annual celebration features a variety of tours and events highlighting the seasonal arrival of bald and golden eagles and other raptors in the Carson Valley and the role that the ranching community plays in providing habitat for wildlife.

Thu, 1/24-Sun, 1/27. Prices vary. Various locations in the Carson Valley, (775) 7828144, www.carsonvalleynv.org.

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition featuring photography and paintings by artists Eugene Rolfe and Gig Depio. The images reflect both artists’ interest in the interweaving of Asian and American cultures and America’s strong impact on the social, political and economic life of other countries. The show runs through Feb. 28. Thu, 1/24-Fri, 1/25, Mon, 1/28-Wed, 1/30, 8am-5pm. Free.

Sierra Room at Carson City Community Center, 850 E. William St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org

month’s selection is The Cameraman, a 1928 silent film featuring Buster Keaton playing a hapless photographer in a series of slapstick misadventures. Sat, 1/26, 1:30pm. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Blvd., (775) 972-0281.

DISCO TUBING: Families can spin, slide and speed down the snow tubing lanes to vibrant DJ tunes as the night is illuminated with colorful lights and lasers splashed on the mountainside.

Must be 40 inches tall to ride and able to independently get in and out of the tube. Sat, 1/26, 5pm. $51 for 55 minutes.

SnowVentures Activity Zone, 1651 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 4030206, squawalpine.com.

CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Korea ’76.

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Chicago in conversation with curator Philipp Kaiser as they discuss Chicago’s work from the early 1970s and her response to the male-dominated Land Art scene. Chicago’s Atmospheres were pyrotechnic performances with the goal of feminizing the environment and reclaiming the landscape. Chicago’s work is featured in the exhibition Laid Bare in the Landscape. A book signing will follow the conversation. Thu, 1/24, 6pm. $17-$20. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

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Sierra Art Foundation’s 24th annual fundraiser features beer tastings, raffle prizes and live music by Left of Centre. A general admission ticket includes tastings of more than 100 types of beer, including many seasonal and microbrew varieties. A VIP ticket to Brew HaHa allows event-goers access to the event an hour early at 7 p.m. along with appetizers and a pre-event opportunity to speak with the brewers. Both VIP and general admission tickets include a commemorative beer pint tumbler.

Tickets are $50 for general admission and $70 for VIP. Prices will increase by $10 at the door on the day of the event. The party starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, in the Nugget Ballroom at the Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks.

Visit sierra-arts.org or www.nuggetcasinoresort.com.

WEEKEND NATURE WALKS: The May Arboretum’s Weekend Nature Walks are designed for families with children 10 years and younger who want to learn more about different aspects of the environment. The walks are led by Alexis Tarantino, an environmental studies student at the University of Nevada, Reno. Registration is not required. Sat, 1/26, 10am. Free. Wilbur D. May Center, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4153.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center Gallery East presents a collection of works created by local veterans. The David J. Drakulich Foundation for Freedom of Expression works with veterans, active duty service men and women and their families to provide arts education. Thu.

1/24-Fri, 1/25, Mon, 1/28-Wed, 1/30, 8am-

5PM. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 3346264, renoculture.com.

GALLERY WEST: Combat Paper Nevada. The McKinley Arts & Culture Center Gallery West presents works from the David J. Drakulich Foundation’s Combat Paper Nevada. Combat Paper is made from retired military uniforms. They are then used to create pieces of art. Each artist featured has a connection with the military, either through personal service or through family. The art tells each person’s story of that connection. Thu,

1/24-Fri, 1/25, Mon, 1/28-Wed, 1/30, 8am5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 3346264, renoculture.com.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Work in Progress. This exhibition features work by artists who are part of Teen Open Studio, a partnership program between the Nevada Museum of Art and the Holland Project. The show runs through Feb. 15. Thu, 1/24-Fri, 1/25, Tue, 1/29-Wed, 1/30, 3-6pm. Free. Holland Project Gallery, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: The Celestials: Chinese of the Old West. In this project, artist Joan Giannechi attempts to re-animate some of the emotions, thoughts, ideas and longings of departed Chinese immigrants, using photographs of real people whose existence is only remembered now in museum archives.

The exhibit runs through Feb. 28. Thu,

1/24-Sat, 1/26, Mon, 1/28-Wed, 1/30, 10am. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

RENO CITY HALL METRO GALLERY: Nevadan Basques. The Reno City Hall Metro Gallery presents portraits by Zoe Bray featuring Nevadans of Basque descent. Thu, 1/24-Fri, 1/25, Mon, 1/28-Wed, 1/30, 8am-5pm. Free. Reno City Hall Metro Gallery, 1 E. First St., (775) 3346264, renoculture.com.

ONSTAGE THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE: Restless Artists Theatre Company presents Charles Ludlam’s suspense thriller. Thu, 1/24-Sat, 1/26, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/27, 2pm. $8-$20.

Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, rattheatre.org.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK: Reno Little Theater presents Neil Simon’s romantic comedy. Thu, 1/24-Sat, 1/26, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/27, 2pm. $12-$25. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

BILL FRISELL: The guitarist performs with Petra Haden on vocals, Thomas Morgan on acoustic bass and Rudy Royston on drums. There will be a free conversation with the artist at 3pm before the concert. Sat, 1/26, 8pm. $17-$20. Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

COME IN FROM THE COLD: The 2019 season continues with a performance by Chris Wessel’s Jazz-Dixie Review. Sat, 1/26, 7pm. $3 suggested donation per person.

Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

DRAMATICA: An evening of operatic singing by dramatic sopranos Kimberly Harris, Nicole Dzadek and mezzo-soprano Stacy Russell. Sat, 1/26, 6pm. $10. St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 1070 Plumb Lane, (775) 233-5105, poperanv.org.

THE DRESSER: Brüka Theatre presents Ronald Harwood’s drama based on the author’s experiences as dresser to an English Shakespearean actor. The actor, called Sir, is a vainglorious actor, the last of the great breed of English performers. The play begins with Sir in a “bad way,” as his dresser Norman tries valiantly to prepare him to go on stage as King Lear. Unsure of his lines as well as who and where he is supposed to be, Sir is adamantly determined to roar his last. Thu, 1/24-Sat, 1/26, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/27, 2pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., www.bruka.org.

GET BENT—REFLECTIONS: Produced by Sisters Three Productions, this musical revue features songs from some of your favorite Broadway musicals, but with a twist—everything is sung by the opposite gender. Tue, 1/29, 7:30pm. $10$20. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Chez Louie hosts

brunch and live music by The Socks. Sun, 1/27, 10am-2pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921.

TROMBONES DE COSTA RICA: The University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Music and School of the Arts present the Costa Rican chamber music ensemble performing selections from a wide range of musical genres. Mon, 1/28, 7:30pm. $10 general admission, free for students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, events.unr.edu.

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Areola 51 A lot of women are posting pics of themselves on Instagram in very skimpy attire. I don’t feel comfortable doing that (though I’m in great shape), because I’m single and I’m afraid men would think I’m “easy.” Am I right in thinking men don’t take you seriously as relationship material if you post this type of pics? Or am I prudish and out of touch?

Evolutionary psychologist Cari Goetz and her colleagues note—not surprisingly—that men see skimpy attire on a woman as a signal that they can manipulate her into casual sex. Women in their research also understood that men perceive skimpy attire this way. But who actually ends up manipulating whom?

Just like in the advertising world, in the natural world, there are many, shall we say, less-than-truthful messages—from humans, animals, and even some nasty little con artists of the plant world. Take the flower Ophrys apifera, a.k.a the bee orchid.

The bee orchid puts out fake female bee scent, and it’s got markings and a slight coating of “fur” like female bees. The poor little sex-mad male bees try to hump the bee orchids and, in the process, pick up orchid pollen that they end up transferring when they try their luck with the next orchid in a lady bee suit.

Goetz and her team speculate that some women—especially those who perceive themselves to be “low in mate value”—use revealing attire to advertise what seems to be their hookupability and other “exploitability cues.” However, these seemingly poor, defenseless sex bunnies may actually be looking to “advance their own mating and relationship goals.” As for how this might work, if a man likes the casual sex and keeps coming back for more, maybe, just maybe, she can draw him into a relationship.

However, this approach is a risky strategy because, as Goetz and her colleagues point out, “men found women displaying cues to sexual exploitability to be attractive as short-term mates, but, importantly, not attractive as long-term mates.”

As for what you might make of all this, it’s best to avoid clothes with coverage just this side of G-strings and nipple tassels, as well as overtly sexual poses. However, you can take advantage of evolutionary psychology research that finds that men are

drawn to women with an hourglass figure (as well as women who use deceptive undergarments to fake having one). In short, your best bet is posting shots of yourself looking classysexual. This means wearing clothes that reveal your curves to a man—but not your medical history: “I don’t know her name yet, dude, but I can tell you that she had her gallbladder removed.”

A czar is born I love my girlfriend, but she has some weird rules about her place: no shoes inside, cabinets can’t be left open, etc. We’ve gotten in fights when I’ve forgotten to do this stuff and then mentioned how ridiculous I find it. Should I have to do things I think are stupid?

You, like many people in relationships, have the expectation that your partner’s requests should make sense. This is where you go wrong. To be human is to be kind of an idiot. We’re all idiots on some level—meaning that we all say and do things that make sense to us but that others would reasonably find utterly idiotic.

That said, our idiocy is not without benefits. Economist Robert H. Frank observes that we evolved to sometimes behave in “seemingly irrational” ways that actually serve our interests. An example would be acting out in ways that test others’ commitment to us (though, typically, we don’t see it that way and may not even intend to do that).

So, though your girlfriend would probably list reasons for each of her rules—reasons you might find silly—what isn’t silly is her caring about your following them or at least caring enough to try. In short, you don’t have to endorse her ideas to try to act in accordance with them and to treat her kindly when she gets upset that you’ve forgotten. (For example, you could say: “I’m sorry.

I know it’s important to you that I do this.”) This would be a signal that you care deeply about her—that you love her enough to do ridiculous things just to make her happy. Ω

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But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money for a charity that supports people with cancer. In any case, the coming weeks would be a favorable time for you, too, to engage in extravagant, extreme or even outlandish behavior on behalf of a good or holy cause.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Taurus guitar wizard known as Buckethead is surely among the most imaginative and prolific musicians who has ever lived. Since producing his first album in late 2005, he has released 306 other albums that span a wide variety of musical genres—an average of 23 per year. I propose that we make him your patron saint for the next six weeks. While it’s unlikely you can achieve such a gaudy level of creative self-expression, you could very well exceed your previous personal best in your own sphere.

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In the coming weeks, I believe it’ll be a highly useful skill. Your knack for holding paradoxical views and expressing seemingly contradictory powers will attract and generate good fortune.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2006, a 176-year-old

tortoise named Harriet died in an Australian zoo owned by “Crocodile Hunter” TV personality Steve Irwin. Harriet was far from her original home in the Galapagos Islands. By some accounts, evolutionary superstar Charles Darwin picked her up and carried her away during his visit there in 1835. I propose that you choose the long-lived tortoise as your power creature for the coming weeks. With her as inspiration, meditate on questions like these: 1. “What would I do differently if I knew I’d live to a very old age?” 2.

“What influence that was important to me when I was young do I want to be important to me when I’m old?” 3. “In what specific ways can my future benefit from my past?” 4. “Is there a blessing or gift from an ancestor I have not yet claimed?” 5.

“Is there anything I can do that I am not yet doing to remain in good health into my old age?”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): John Lennon claimed that he generated the Beatles song “Because” by rendering Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Even if that’s true, I don’t think it detracts from the beauty of “Because.” May I suggest you adopt a comparable strategy for your own use in the coming weeks, Leo? What could you do in reverse so as to create an interesting novelty? What approach might you invert in order to instigate fresh ways of doing things?

Is there an idea you could turn upside-down or inside-out, thereby awakening yourself to a new perspective?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tsonga language is spoken by more than 15 million people in southern Africa. The literal meaning of the Tsonga phrase I malebvu ya nghala is “It’s a lion’s beard,” and its meaning is “something that’s not as scary as it looks.” According to my astrological analysis, this will be a useful concept for you to be alert for in the coming weeks. Don’t necessarily trust first impressions or initial apprehensions.

Be open to probing deeper than your instincts might influence you to do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The old Latin verb crescere meant “to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength.”

We see its presence in the modern English, French and Italian word “crescendo.” In accordance with astrological omens, I have selected crescere and its present participle crescentum to be your words of power for the next four weeks. May they help mobilize you to seize all emerging opportunities to come forth, spring

up, grow, thrive, swell and increase in numbers or strength.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When animals hibernate, their metabolism slows down. They may grow more underfur or feathers, and some add extra fat. To conserve heat, they may huddle together.

In the coming weeks, I don’t think you’ll have to do what they do. But I do suspect it will be a good time to engage in behaviors that have a resemblance to hibernation: slowing down your mind and body; thinking deep thoughts and feeling deep feelings; seeking extra hugs and cuddles; getting lots of rich, warm, satisfying food and sleep. What else might appeal to your need to drop out of your fast-paced rhythm and supercharge your psychic batteries?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When people tell me they don’t have time to read the books I’ve written, I advise them to place the books under their pillows and soak up my words in their dreams. I don’t suggest that they actually eat the pages, although there is historical precedent for that. The Bible describes the prophet Ezekiel as literally chewing and swallowing a book. And there are accounts of 16th century Austrian soldiers devouring books they acquired during their conquests, hoping to absorb the contents.

But in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest that in the next four weeks you acquire the wisdom stored in books by actually reading them or listening to them on audio recordings. In my astrological opinion, you really do need, for the sake of your psychospiritual health, to absorb writing that requires extended concentration.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Among the top “how to” search inquiries on Google are “how to buy Bitcoin,” “how to lose belly fat fast,” “how to cook spaghetti in a microwave” and “how to make slime.” While I do think that the coming weeks will be prime time for you to formulate and launch many “how to” investigations, I will encourage you to put more important questions at the top of your priority list. “How to get richer quicker” would be a good one, as would “how to follow through on good beginnings” and “how to enhance your value” and “how to identify what resources and allies will be most important in 2019.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A motivational speaker and author named Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn’t stop him from getting married, raising four children and writing eight books. One book is entitled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life.

He’s a positive guy who has faith in the possibility of miracles. In fact, he says he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet just in case God decides to bless him with a marvelous surprise. In accordance with current astrological omens, Aquarius, I suggest you make a similar gesture. Create or acquire a symbol of an amazing transformation you would love to attract into your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): About 11 percent of the Philippines’ population is comprised of Muslims who call themselves the Bangsamoro. Many of them resist being part of the Philippines and want their own sovereign nation. They have a lot of experience struggling for independence, as they’ve spent 400 years rebelling against occupation by foreign powers, including Spain, the United States and Japan. I admire their tenacity in seeking total freedom to be themselves and rule themselves.

May they inspire your efforts to do the same on a personal level in the coming year.

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passport program that visitors can come in, pick up a passport, and it’s kind of like a scavenger hunt. You go to all these different places, learn the history—from Donner Summit all the way down to Truckee, and you get a stamp, a unique stamp for you to put in your passport.

We’re also trying to do a concert on China Wall. … We also have the Old Jail Museum open and the railroad caboose.

Judy DePuy Truckee, California, is a lumber town and a railroad stop. It plans to hold an array of events marking the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad this year, and volunteer Judy DePuy is involved in promoting it. More information and a link to a Facebook page on the commemoration can be found at goldspike.org.

What’s China Wall?

Why is Truckee celebrating this anniversary?

Truckee is celebrating because the town wouldn’t be here nor would we have opened up this area if it wasn’t for the railroad. The railroad was so important, and Truckee was so important to Nevada in that they needed the lumber for the Comstock Lode, you know, for the mines over there. And then they also needed Truckee because they needed the ice—which is another another industry that Truckee had—because as they went deeper and deeper in the mines … it got hotter and hotter, up to 140 degrees. So, the miners would take buckets of ice down with them into the mines. … When the Comstock Lode petered out, [Truckee] changed it so that it was a destination location. So Truckee was important. And the other thing that was important was, there were a lot of options as to how to do the transcontinental railroad [route]. But what happened at the same time was the

Civil War. And President Abraham Lincoln realized that he needed to unite the country. So what the Southern senators wanted was a Southern route, but they seceded from the union so the only people voting were the Northern senators and they felt, let’s go North. It was Theodore Judah who surveyed and mapped the route to get through the Sierras, down to Truckee that then went into the Reno area.

How will Truckee celebrate it?

We’re starting on May 10 with a ribboncutting. May 10, 1869 was the date that the golden spike was [driven]. The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met at Promontory, Utah. Then, from May 10 all the way through Labor Day, we’re having a speeches series at either Donner Memorial State Park or the airport or other venues in town. We have walks, where we walk and talk. We also have a

Between [railroad] tunnels seven and eight, there’s a 150-foot wall just off of old Highway 40 that the Chinese built, and it’s made with no mortar. It is perfectly pieced together and it is spectacular. … But it has great acoustics because it’s in a bowl, and we’re trying to have a concert up there and get people to come to that. … They’ve actually done a concert there before, but that was like 15 or 20 years ago.

Do you know if other communities along the route are doing what Truckee is doing?

We are going up to Roseville next week, and they’re only having that weekend—May 10. They’re doing something that weekend. We haven’t heard what Carson City [site of the Nevada Railroad Museum] is doing, but … we’re also communicating with them and trying to coordinate. We’ve been in touch with Verdi, their historical society. They aren’t doing anything that we are aware of.

They’re just probably going to piggyback with us. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

What is past is prologue OK, at this stage of the game, denying the reality of climate change, a.k.a. global warming, is exactly like a guy who smokes four packs of Marlboros a day but “denies” the threat of lung cancer. He can say he doesn’t “believe” in lung cancer all he wants. He can say he doesn’t believe that smoking 80 cigarettes a day poses a threat to his longevity. Fine. But when that big black blob shows up on the chest X-ray—well ...

It’s become slightly fashionable to opine that it’s already too late.

That the massive machinery of human-fueled climate mischief is now in place and, since we’re reluctant to do a damn thing about it, we are, ultimately, doomed to feel Gaia’s weather-rockin’ wrath more and more as the 21st century marches on. I confess to having a soft spot for these types of apocalyptic conversations—oh, you betcha. But maybe it’s time to pump the brakes

just a tad on OID (our inevitable doom) by recalling acid rain and the ozone layer. Remember those?

Acid rain was detected in the lakes of the industrial northeast in the late ’70s, and the causes were quickly discovered. Yes, geologic activity was a trouble-maker, but humanity was as well, especially since we were belching a lot of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.

Many lakes and streams were found to have harmful acidic pH levels, and the effects on overall ecology were negative. So you know what happened? We actually did something about it! You know, like, in a scientific, bipartisan way? I know, weird, right?

We studied the situation through the ’80s, and by 1990, Congress was ready to do something. No, really!

It passed amendments to the Clean Air Act that reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide, and, as a result of us acting with actual intelligence, lev-

els of acid rain have since dropped 40-60 percent. Gee, waddyaknow.

We really … did something.

Also in the ’70s, scientists discovered that our use of CFCs (choloroflurocarbons) in aerosol sprays was mangling Earth’s ozone layer, which has the very important job of protecting us from the sun’s vicious UV radiation. So again, the governments of industrial nations actually took action (no shit!) and capped the use of CFCs, and by 2003, well, waddyaknow again.

Measurements confirmed that ozone depletion was being reduced.

No, man-caused problems with the ozone and acid rain weren’t eliminated, but they were mitigated and controlled. See, back then, we didn’t suspect science, we respected it. And then used it. What a concept. So maybe, just maybe— it’s not too late with climate change? Ω

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