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Leakfast Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Last week, in this space, I made a crack about “If only there was a word that combined ‘lunch’ and ‘breakfast.’ … I vote for ‘leakfast.’ ” So, sure enough, come Thursday when the paper hit the racks, the emails started pouring in, shocked and appalled readers absolutely aghast that, in all my years, I’d somehow managed to avoid ever encountering the word “brunch.”

And OK, maybe it wasn’t my best joke ever, but— y’all really think I could live in the United States of America in 2019 and somehow have never heard of brunch? While editing a weekly newspaper for a city with a “midtown”? Seriously, in the same column, I mentioned that I used to write restaurant reviews. And you think I thought “leakfast” was a good suggestion for what to call the meal between breakfast and lunch? I mean, it sounds like the world’s worst diaper.

So, let me set the record straight: Not only have I heard of brunch, I’ve even eaten it. More than twice.

I didn’t write that line intending to troll those hater-readers who love to write in and point out every typo or error in the paper, but man, did it work out that way. Or maybe y’all are trolling me, trying to get me to write some treatise all about how I’m very familiar with American dining rituals. Who’s trolling whom? I don’t even know anymore.

Fun fact: did y’all know we’re on Instagram? Yep. Have been for a year or so. We’ve got a slew of social media accounts, but if you’re only going to follow one right now, I’d say go with the Instagram account, @renonewsreview. We’ve got some fun things planned. And Instagram is a great platform. It’s almost like you can send a telegram but, like, instantly. If only there was a word that combined “instant” and “telegram” ... “teletant,” maybe?

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Re “Out with the old” (cover story, May 23): A perfect spot to relocate the Virginia Street Antique Mall would be the empty Smith’s grocery store building on South Virginia between the Atlantis and Peppermill casinos. Great for locals and tourists alike.

Also, the Antique Mall could keep their full original name.

Mary Pedersen Reno

So he’s that way at golf, too For anyone who likes both the game of golf and presidential politics, a highly entertaining book just arrived which is really fun reading.

Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly, who has written about golf for years, decided to investigate rumors that El Presidente DJT is a master cheater at his favorite pastime. All I can think of to describe Reilly’s book is wow! Turns out Trump is no ordinary cheater.

He is world class! His cheating—at a game in which each player is on the honor system to keep score and obey the rules—is so crooked it is actually funny. Trump’s approach is to not merely cheat on his own score. Reilly documents how Trump also cheats his fellow players by such acts as to pick up their balls and throw them away! His conduct in the realm of golf is equivalent to Mother Teresa performing an abortion in the Sistine Chapel.

After you read Commander-In-Cheat, drop it off at a golf pro shop near you. The Republican golfers will really appreciate it!

Peter C Neumann Reno

One more Bruce fan Re “What’s your problem?” (Notes From the Neon Babylon, May 2): Regarding that increasingly funny cartoon on the back page—oh, and all the staunch Democrats/never Trump characters out there: Sooo, Comey says Hillary and all the felonious shit she did, or had done, isn’t worth time going further, and that’s good

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enough for y’all, good enough to drop everything about it in mainstream media, regardless of the proof. And Mueller, the man of the hour, couldn’t find proof of anything on the President, yet it continues. And, Barr released everything within the law to everyone, and he’s flogged and slandered. The tactics of a whooped Democrat would be hilarious if not so disgusting.

Babble On questions the credibility of the Trump supporters, when there is none at all to question from the haters. Almost 30 million tax payer dollars, numerous agents, 22 months, and unlimited resources, on something that was made up, still isn’t enough.

But that’s OK, now the real investigations start. Time to find out just how bad it really got during 2016, and who really colluded, obstructed, lied and tried to influence the election. Who in the hell gives two shades of crap less if there is respect from the left?

All I see is a bunch of idiots that’s so blinded from hate that they don’t even make sense anymore. So keep pandering to the illiterate, illegal, uneducated, wet-behind-the-ears, or just plain stupid people, it doesn’t really matter, cause Dems don’t stand a chance in 2020! And whoever does that Babble On cartoon—funny stuff.

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One more Trump fan Now that the whitewashing of the Mueller report has been completed by the minions of the so-called President, We the People can be assured that Donald Trump is above the law.

The temple eunuchs have hissed their allegiance, and this matter is now supposed to be brushed under the sordid rug of corruption along with all the other Trumpian refuse over the past two dreadful years. Yes, We the People of the United States, in order to destroy the Union, have granted absolute power to a “stable genius,” i.e. the National Dunce who can’t even spell elementary school words.

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acceptable? Or would one wonder why he is an accountant, and how strange the organization must be to employ him as such? We the People have a tyrant who assassinates characters via Twitter, and refuses absolutely to assuage the rightful concerns of the public by demonstrating fully that he’s not a crook. He decries fake news as he stirs the pot of political intrigue, maligns reporters who displease him, and violates the Constitution every day he is allowed by Congress to disgrace his office. It’s not rocket political science!

If Richard Nixon had, instead of resigning, been given the keys to the Watergate office building, what would you have thought?

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Give the legislature a grade. askeD at Comma CoFFee, 312 s CarsoN st., CarsoN City

Neil Crowle y Retiree

C, C-plus, maybe. I think they skated disaster when Sisolak vetoed the popular vote bill, so I’m marking them down to a C even for putting that through. I left California, and I don’t want to see Nevada become California East.

Del aNe y Frusteri Student

I don’t have much of an opinion.

I haven’t really been following it. I probably should learn more about it now that I’m at voting age. I think there was some talk that by 2050, Nevada’s supposed to be on renewable energy, and I’m all for that.

DoNNis thr aN Equine physical therapist

Only faith offers certainty We believe in letting people have their say, and last week we published a letter by Joe Bialek in which he wrote, among other things, “Life begins at the point of conception.” It’s an assertion we hear often, usually as an expression of faith.

“Life does begin at conception,” Tufts University Muslim chaplain Celene Ibrahim told Public Radio International last month.

That is couched as an assertion of fact.

“I do believe that life begins at conception,” said Kirsten Powers, a Catholic who co-hosts a faith podcast.

Powers was more honest than Ibrahim, making her statement an expression of opinion.

Less candid is the website Liberty Counsel, which earlier this year asserted, “The fact that human life begins at conception has also been confirmed by medical professionals for years.” Its substantiation was a “2014 research brief on the scientific view of when life begins, published by the Charlotte Lozier Institute.” It gave the main name of the institute, but not the rest of the name—“Science & Statistics for Life.” The Lozier Institute is an anti-abortion outfit.

The truth is, science does not know where life begins.

Many scientists say it is at fertilization. But not only is there no unanimity, there is no consensus on what the question is. Does life begin when a fetus can survive on its own or when thought becomes possible? What make a human being human?

Merely writing an article with a lot of medical jargon and the trappings of research does not settle the question.

Nor does the enactment of a law that declares by fiat when life begins—a technique that voters in states like North Dakota, Colorado and Mississippi have rejected when it was on their ballots.

As the BBC reports, “Unfortunately there’s no agreement in medicine, philosophy or theology as to what stage of fetal development should be associated with the right to life. That isn’t surprising, because the idea that there is a precise moment when a fetus gets the right to live, which it didn’t have a few moments earlier, feels very strange. And when you look closely at each of the suggested dates, they do seem either arbitrary or not precise enough to decide whether the unborn should have the right to live.”

We need science. What we get too often is doctrine.

And in the United States of America, doctrine has no place in law. When the governor of Alabama signs a bill as an expression “that every life is a sacred gift from God,” that is no way to make law. Catholics, Mormons and Muslims have no business trying to use the power of the state to enforce their doctrines on Lutherans, Presbyterians, Jews and Methodists, which have different abortion stances.

A better example is the Nevada Legislature’s enactment of Senate Bill 179, the patronizingly named “Trust Women” measure which removes government from roles that it should never have filled in the first place, such as prosecuting abortions and forcing physicians to lecture women seeking abortions.

Life is not easy, and using law to harass women who try to find their way by their own lights is way, way outside what is right, moral—and workable. Ω

I’d say a B-plus, they’ve really done some excellent work this year. I like the approach they’re taking to the green energy programs we’re facing. And women’s issues—I like that they’re expanding access to abortion and women’s health care.

Dr ake riDge Legislative advocate

I would say an A. I worked on Governor Sisolak’s campaign, and I had the privilege of being a lobbyist for a few different unions and helping out on some union issues. I’m happy with the progress they made.

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I’d give them a B-plus. I think there’s always going to be kinks that need to be worked out and time restraints, kind of, play into that. But I think that they’re doing a lot of really great work for Nevada, and we’re going in a forward direction instead of moving back.

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.by SHEILA LESLIE

Nevada Democrats festina lente The 2019 legislative session is history now, with its first-in-the-nation female majority and the highly unusual loss of three legislators, two by scandalous resignation and one by tragic sudden death. Democrats did a better job of moving policy priorities than Republicans did when they hit the trifecta in 2015— controlling the governor’s office, the Assembly and the Senate—managing to keep their intra-party feuds mostly behind closed doors. Alhough a Democratic majority is vastly preferable to Republicans obsessed with diminishing women’s rights as, currently, in red states like Alabama, Georgia and Missouri, our Democrats in Nevada were fairly timid in advancing progressive policies when compared to other Democratic Western states.

Nevada did enact some good health care policies this year, becoming the fifth state in the country to incorporate protections for pre-existing conditions into state law as a hedge against the Republicans’ continual quest to undo the Affordable Care

Act. And after a 15-year battle between hospitals and health insurance companies, a compromise was finally reached on “surprise billing,” removing the risk of insurmountable hospital bills for patients unlucky enough to encounter an out-ofnetwork doctor in the emergency room.

But in Washington, a newly Democratic trifecta state like Nevada, state legislators took a much larger progressive step this year, becoming the first state to provide residents with a public option for health insurance. These plans are expected to be at least 10 percent cheaper than private insurance plans and will be available to all residents, regardless of income, by 2021. Washington also removed the personal/philosophical exemption to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine while Nevada legislators couldn’t pass a bill to allow schools to quickly identify non-vaccinated kids during an outbreak of disease.

Washington legislators also passed a $280 million plan to enhance its mental

health system, with funding for new types of treatment centers, new facilities, and workforce development. In Nevada, where we’ve been ranked 51st in the nation for the last three years in the annual Mental Health America report, the legislative focus was more on policy development with some of the best legislation emerging from the new Regional Behavioral Health Policy Boards, particularly the creation of a crisis stabilization framework which should save millions while diverting patients to treatment instead of jail.

Much waving of the green flag occurred when Nevada passed a bill to require that 50 percent of our electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, with a non-binding goal of 100 percent clean energy by 2050, on unanimous votes no less. I remember well the early battles over Renewable Portfolio Standards when energy officials and Republicans predicted clean energy requirements would doom Nevadans to exorbitant pricing and economic ruin. How times have changed.

But the rainy state of Washington joined Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Puerto Rico to commit to 100 percent clean energy by 2045, instead of the aspirational goal featured in Nevada’s bill.

Nevada’s current minimum wage is an embarrassment, but there was no serious fight for $15 an hour here. Instead, our legislators settled for the “more palatable” gradual increase from $7.25 to $12 an hour in 2024. Washington’s minimum wage is already $12, rising to $16 an hour for large employers in Seattle and Tacoma this year.

Nevada’s Democrats did return voting rights to people released from prison, enacted modest criminal justice reform, and passed moderate gun safety laws, but backed down from the stronger measures many expected after the horror of the October 1 tragedy. Let’s hope for a bolder agenda in 2021 to protect tenants from rapacious landlords, rein in payday lenders, get us out of last place in class sizes, and figure out more affordable health care.

Because clearly we can do better. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Abused veterAns speAk In the 1950s, some United States citizens forced to become soldiers or sailors, and numbering in the hundreds of thousands, were then forced to expose themselves to atomic tests in Nevada and the Pacific and remain afterward while the lethal residue floated down onto them, forced to sign confidentiality pledges promising not to talk about the experience, and were threatened with prosecution for treason if they broke that forcibly elicited pledge.

This form of abuse was part of the years-long cover-up of the lethality of fallout, the danger of which was known at the time to the Atomic Energy Commission that conducted the tests. AEC is now part of the U.S. Energy Department.

As a result, the dangers of the tests were further concealed.

The gag requirement was lifted by Congress in 1996, but the Clinton administration did nothing to publicize it and the atomic veterans, as they’re called, did not know they could open up about what had happened to them. More recently, they have learned about the change—in part because of a new documentary—and they are at last being heard, in places like Northumberland, New York; Hillsdale, Oklahoma; Pike County, Pennsylvania; and Burlington, Vermont.

In Vermont, Hank Bolden (Nevada): “I did not volunteer to go there. They volunteered me to go there.”

In Pennsylvania, Andrew Lyons (site unknown): “The atomic bomb went off and we could feel the heat from the blast and also the sound.”

In Oklahoma, Richard Simpson nevada Proving Ground, november 1, 1951 (Nevada): “What PHOTO/U.S. D.T.R.A. do you know when you’re a damn kid? ... You just did what you were told.”

In New York, Ken Brownell (Enewetak Atoll): “We lived, breathed, drank, did everything in contaminated materials.”

All four men later developed cancers. Journalists were also exposed at the sites, but their attendance was not compelled by the power of the state.

One common recollection among many atomic veterans is the experience of seeing bones and blood vessels in their hands when the detonation came.

Atomic veterans are eligible for compensation, but the U.S. government’s record-keeping and records-protection have been so poor that officials do not know who served where and require the veterans to prove they were at bomb test sites. Lyons was forced to take a lie detector test to qualify.

The documentary is The Atomic Soldiers by Morgan Knibbe. Atomic veterans can obtain more information at www.naav.com.

This report includes information drawn from the Glen Falls [New York] Post Star, Muskogee [Oklahoma] Phoenix, Hawley [Pennsylvania] News Eagle, and WCAX News in Vermont.

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Candidate Bernie Sanders stirred the crowd he drew in downtown Reno.

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Sanders redux Nevadans turn out for candidate democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders drew a large crowd in downtown Reno on June 29, a repeat of his previous visits to the city.

Since his first campaign appearance in the city in August 2015, Sanders’ political position has changed substantially. Back then, he was regarded by the party organization as something of an intruder whose policy positions were not the Democratic leadership’s view of how to win elections.

In the ensuing four years, the party rank and file has—to the consternation of Democratic strategists—moved closer to his policy positions. During the Trump years, Sanders has consistently polled as the most popular figure with Democratic

voters, and Democratic candidates like Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto jumped at the chance to appear with him in Nevada.

In last week’s appearance, Sanders gave the audience what it was expecting, and also touched on matters that he is trying to pull into the mainstream.

“A woman’s body belongs to a woman, not politicians. …This is not a women’s issue, this is an issue for all of us,” he said amid a flurry of state legislative actions on abortion around the nation.

In a city suffering from the effects of manufacturing growth and rising rents, Sanders spoke at length about the need for affordable housing. It’s an

issue he has emphasized, tweeting on May 7: “[In] cities all over the country, people can no longer afford to live in the communities where they were born and raised, created memories and built families. We will attack the problem of gentrification and rising rents in America.” In Reno, he linked the housing crunch to the gap between rich and poor.

“The Waltons are the wealthiest family in this country,” he said. “And this family, worth 175 billion, pays its employees wages so low that many are forced to go on food stamps, Medicaid and public housing. And do you know who’s paying for [it]? ... Let us put people to work at good wages to build the affordable housing this country needs.”

Sanders also said something unusual for a presidential candidate these days.

He talked about Vietnam: “I will never forget what that war did to our generation. … Some [Vietnam veterans] are sleeping out on the streets today.”

Since Vietnam, the United States has been involved in at least 28 wars, and

members of Congress have sometimes learned about presidential military adventures literally by reading about them in the newspapers. It has become known as the “endless war” issue.

During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised to cut military involvements and “little wars” but his policies have been described by This Week magazine as “pretty much exactly the same thing as Bush and Obama” and he is reportedly now considering war against Iran.

To make the point further, Sanders referred in Reno to “the horrific war in Yemen.” In April, Sanders led a successful Senate War Powers Act resolution directing an end to “hostilities” abroad in the absence of a “declaration of war or specific statutory authorization,” an effort that would have halted U.S. support for the Saudi-led Yemen war. The White House and the Republican leadership tried to stop it, but it passed with seven GOP senators in support. Trump then vetoed the measure.

For authority for their wars of the past 18 years, presidents have relied on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force enacted three days after the September 11 tragedies.

Several speakers preceded Sanders.

Churchill County Shoshone Marissa Weaselboy, who is a University of Nevada, Reno student, said, “I am not simply an anthropologist, I am an indigenous anthropologist who is redefining how anthropology can work for indigenous peoples. This is why the free tuition is so important, so others from marginalized groups can do similar work that works to undo damage inflicted on our communities

party accused Sanders The Democratic National Committee has delegates of violence at encouraged the discontinuance of caucuses in Sanders greeted Renoite Kasey the state party conventhe nominating process, a course that some Catherine as he worked the crowd. tion, a claim adjudged Sanders supporters consider another “rigging” PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS false by press fact of the race because he did so well in those checkers. states. But the party also stripped unelected While many national convention delegates—known as everyday Democrats may like Sanders, his superdelegates—of their votes on the first popularity still rattles many party leaders, who ballot. Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory over lured former vice president Joe Biden into Sanders at the 2016 convention was provided the race. Biden began his race with by the superdelegates. a 32-point lead over Sanders, Nevada’s caucuses have been but started the race with a streamlined, so that they are being mere tie against Sanders in compared to a party-run primary “I will never the first 2020 nominating election instead of the town forget what contest in Iowa. So far, meeting-style caucuses of the that war did to our Biden’s national lead past. has fallen to 19 points, But Sanders’ situation in generation.” and he is expected to be 2020 is very different from the Bernie Sanders under attack by all of the one-on-one race with Clinton.

Presidential candidate Democratic candidates as In 2020, he will face younger 2020 draws closer, which is versions of himself at a time when likely to trim his margin further.

Gallup reports than more than a In any event, Sanders always third of voters of all types—Democrats, seems more comfortable as an insurgent.

Republicans and independents—do not Sanders advisor Jeff Weaver, in Reno to want a president older than 70. Much of his advance the candidate’s trip, told the Atlantic platform has been preempted by other candiMonthly, “He always runs like he’s behind, dates except Biden. At least six Democratic and he is, because no matter how well he’s presidential candidates support some version by academics and the institutions of power that doing in the polls, the powers against him are of his Medicare-for-all bill. A slightly differbacks them.” so impressive and have so many resources that ent cohort of six is supporting taxing the one In recent weeks, Reno resident Brooke he’s always behind.” percent. Ω Noble threw a spotlight on actions by some landlords or rental agents when she went public with a 44 percent rent hike she received for her Reno apartment. The flurry of publicity she generated as she made the rounds of television and newspapers (“At this rate,” RN&R, May 9) came after Democratic presidential candidates, hearing complaints in early caucus and primary states, had already begun talking about landlord/tenant laws and affordable housing.

On April 23, the issue—not normally a topic of presidential candidates—was elevated by an article in the New York Times (“Renters Are Mad. Presidential Candidates Have Noticed.), whose stories are often picked up and advanced by other media entities. The Sanders campaign contacted Noble to add her to the bill of speakers in Reno. There had been a report that she would talk about renters rights, but she spoke mostly about affordable housing. Her remarks faulted people who treat their houses as investments instead of homes, driving unfavorable trends, including “gentrification and displacement.”

Ben & Jerry’s founder Ben Cohen introduced Sanders, saying, “Before Bernie, I used to be the most famous guy from Vermont.”

No surveys are available of Nevada, but Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in the state caucuses in 2016. Since then, a considerable In downtown Sparks, an amphitheater on the former site of the Silver Club has started looking like an amphitheater. portion of his organization has remained loyal Completion of the $6.2 million project of the Sparks Nugget is planned for this month, with Toby Keith scheduled as to him and are reportedly now influential in the first show on June 15. Hank Williams, Jr. follows on Aug. 15. The structure has occasioned considerable comment because it faces into the afternoon sun. the state party structure. If true, it’s a sharp PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS difference from four years ago when the state

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by OlivER GUinAn

Brant Allen, boat captain for the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, lowers a Secchi disk into the lake during a clarity test in 2007.

seeking clarity 2019 State of the Lake Living so close to Lake Tahoe, it can be easy to take its emerald blue water, rugged terrain and stunning beauty for granted, and forget that the lake is part of a delicate ecosystem whose health relies on conservation and diligence on the part of naturalists and an informed public. Data collected over the past five decades by the University of California, Davis presents a quantified look at whether we are effective curators by providing comprehensive research on the Tahoe Basin.

UC Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center, or TERC, annually compiles their research into one accessible brief: the State of the Lake Report (SOTL).

Since 2007, the report has used an array of technologies across numerous data collection sites to inform researchers about different factors affecting the lake’s health, including its biology, chemistry and clarity.

Clarity findings published by UC Davis on May 23 indicate that the upcoming State of the Lake Report, scheduled for release in late July, will contain more promising data than in 2017, when researchers documented a record low clarity of 59.7 feet. The report measures the depth at which a 10-inch white plate, called a Secchi disk, can be seen from the surface of the water. In 2018, the clarity of the lake increased by more than 10 feet, bringing the depth at which the Secchi disk could be observed to 70.9 feet.

“What the improvement in 2018 shows is that in literally one year the lake can recover from an extreme set of circumstances, and that is really encouraging,” said Dr. Geoffrey Schladow, the founding

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director of TERC and a UC Davis engineering professor.

However, clarity is only one aspect of ecosystem health, and the Secchi depth findings are not always indicative of the broader conditions of the watershed, which is what the SOTL is designed to monitor.

“A lot of last year’s improvement is a reflection of the fact that the previous year was so bad,” Dr. Schladow explained. “The previous year was bad for two reasons: One, it was a very extreme winter. A lot of snow, a lot of runoff, possibly one of the wettest winters ever recorded. Second, it came at the end of one of the most severe droughts that California and Nevada have experienced. A lot of material that hadn’t been washed out for four or five years suddenly got washed out and eroded and deposited in the Lake.”

For the first time this year, data taken from comparative studies being conducted

by TERC researchers at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, as well as Lakes Panguipulli and Villarrica in Chile, will be included in the SOTL Report, demonstrating that an increased understanding of Lake Tahoe can assist researchers around the world in better understanding their respective watersheds.

“Very often, it’s easier to learn about your own system by looking to a similar system and starting to see where the similarities and differences are,” said Schladow. “Lake Tahoe is a unique and iconic treasure. Not just for California or Nevada, but for the whole world. What we learn at Lake Tahoe can be applied literally everywhere.”

As the long-term effects of Climate Change are realized in ecosystems around the planet, the State of the Lake Report, and its conclusions concerning Tahoe’s elasticity following record-breaking weather events, is vital not just to keeping Tahoe blue, but to helping policymakers, scientists and individuals around the globe understand and attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of our rapidly changing climate. Ω

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Meanwhile, in Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia, there were corresponding efforts to protect abortion.

It took some people who watch politics by surprise.

“I did not see it coming,” said Nevada political scientist Fred Lokken. “No, but Trump has delivered on these federal judges. It’s being pushed by the Trump base, evangelicals and those in the South.”

But it wasn’t just the South.

Ohio is a big urban state where

surveys show a tie between pro-abortion and anti-abortion sentiment, yet the legislature chose the anti-abortion side.

As all this was happening, something interesting has been going on. The public nationally reacted to the new threats to legal abortion by becoming more militant on the issue, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released May 26. It showed support for abortion rising from 50 percent in a similar survey last July to 58 percent last month. That rises to 80 percent support for abortion availability in cases of rape or incest.

“They MIsseD A reAl OppOrTUNITy.” Fred Lokken Political scientist

It’s easy enough to see why anti-abortion sentiment is strong in Southern states like Georgia or Northern rural states like North Dakota. But why Ohio?

In all likelihood, it’s because of a situation that once prevailed in Nevada— politicians believed that the politically safe default position in the state was opposition to abortion.

This was because they observed both sides, and

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the opponents of abortion were more active and more outspoken, which translated to politicians as more likely to turn out to vote. Supporters of abortion were less visible, less active. Only when there appeared to be a real threat to abortion rights were they heard. Opponents were always vocal, not just when their side needed to speak out. Putting it simply, opponents scared the politicians more.

As a result, the Nevada Legislature regularly enacted anti-abortion bills—parental consent, limits on late term, a state legislative call for a national constitutional convention. Pro-abortion bills were rarely, if ever, introduced. Indeed, the abortion support side was essentially defensive. Abortion supporters would not even say the word “abortion” if it could be avoided.

One of the consequences of the politicians’ practical political calculation is that over time, their political judgment was assigned to everyday Nevadans as their sentiment. Nevada was widely regarded as an anti-abortion state.

There was little evidence for the notion. Polls were rare in Nevada, but there had been a Rocky Mountain Poll in the 1970s that found Nevada was the most pro-abortion state in the

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intermountain West, but it received very little attention in Nevada. Conventional wisdom, once formed, is very difficult to sweep away.

In Nevada and elsewhere, anti-abortion legislation became a staple of politics. In 1989, several Nevada women’s rights leaders started talking about a remedy—taking the issue to the ballot in 1990.

It was a stroke of genius. After the Roe v.

Wade ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court decision made abortion rights a reality, Nevada legislators had rewritten the state abortion law to bring it into compliance with the ruling.

What the women’s leaders were considering was not an initiative petition but a referendum petition. An initiative proposes new law, thus asking voters to make changes. But a referendum puts an already existing law up for a vote of approval or disapproval, thus asking merely for ratification of the status quo. And by 1990, Roe had been the status quo for 18 years and the republic still stood. Politicians might consider the anti-abortion stance the safe position, but the voters might well find the existing state law the comfortable vote.

One night a couple of years before the vote, I got a sense of how strong the status quo might be as a ballot line. Washoe County Sen. William Raggio, the Republican floor leader of the Nevada Senate and a Catholic, was the guest on a taping of my Sunday interview show on KTVN, Face the State. Afterward, he, his wife Lucille and I went to dinner at Rapscallion in Reno. I don’t know how we got onto the topic of abortion, but he said casually that he was satisfied with the state of the law in Nevada.

I was uncertain I had heard him accurately and followed up. He made clear that I had heard him correctly, although he had no interest in publicizing that stance.

A g A m b l i n g s tAt e The referendum was a gamble, and there were those who did not want the leaders to take it. The National Organization for Women, recalling that Nevadans in 1978 had voted down the Equal Rights Amendment in a landslide, had no interest in supporting the referendum.

Planned Parenthood was similarly scared of the risk. But the Nevada women leaders moved ahead with their plan.

Once the signatures were gathered to gain ballot status, there was another way—besides the status quo angle—that the leaders were in a strong position. This was their public posture.

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a vote of the public. It was not difficult for voters to figure out which side had confidence in their ability to win. The supporters were perceived as weak.

But in 1990, the referendum was launched by abortion supporters. They raised the money for a signature drive to qualify for the ballot, and they campaigned confidently once it was on the ballot. Opponents were lethargic. It was not difficult for voters to see that one side was in a commanding stance, and perceptions in a campaign are important.

Nearly everything went right for supporters during the campaign. One hit opponents scored was in getting inexperienced reporters to regularly repeat as fact their claim that Nevada had “the most liberal abortion law in the nation.”

Actually, it was nonsense. State legislators had brought state law into line with Roe, and—this being Nevada—had stopped there. It was the same thing most states had done.

But that tactic didn’t matter. Nearly two decades of legal abortion in the state had not brought forth much evidence of whatever a “most liberal” law was supposed to produce that might alarm voters, who went to the polls and voted to retain the law in a 63 to 37 percent landslide. Even a last minute flap over a dead newborn in a Las Vegas hospital that was drummed up by a Las Vegas columnist to hurt the referendum did not defeat it. (The incident was later investigated by a grand jury which found no reason for action.)

The vote did more than just uphold the statute. It shook the confidence of politicians in their view of what Nevadans believe, shifting influence to abortion supporters. It gave new stature to those who had led the campaign and drew many women into activism. And, under a provision of Nevada referendum law, the state abortion law could no longer be changed by the legislature.

Any changes lawmakers wanted would have to go on the ballot for another public vote. Abortion rights in Nevada were as strong as the state could make them, and if the U.S Supreme Court ever overturned Roe, empowering state legislatures to enact new laws, Nevada would be shielded from those who wanted to outlaw abortion.

FlAshbAck There has always been a group within abortion supporters who feel that Roe v. Wade was a mistake. At the time the ruling came down, the nation’s legislatures were in a multi-year process of moving toward change in their abortion laws. Some, such as New York in 1970, had already changed their laws. This process was certainly underway in Nevada.

In 1967, the Nevada Medical Association endorsed reducing abortion restrictions to make the procedure more available.

In 1968, the Nevada Committee for the Rights of Women sponsored a conference on abortion in Carson City.

In 1969, physicians Stanley Ames and Louis Tyrer spoke on the medical features of abortion before an audience of ministers at the Clergy Counseling Center, a Las Vegas association created to counsel women on alternatives to illegal abortions or, when unable to dissuade them, to aid them to obtain safe abortions.

In 1969 and 1971, the Nevada Legislature processed abortion bills. They did not pass but they were seriously heard and served to further educate the public—and a bill was expected to return in 1973.

In a speech at New York University in 1993, civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave voice to the view that Roe went too far.

“The 7-2 judgment in Roe v. Wade declared ‘violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment’ a Texas criminal abortion statue that ‘[excepted] from criminality only a life-saving procedure on behalf of the [pregnant woman].’ Suppose the court had stopped there, thus declaring unconstitutional the most extreme brand of law in the nation, and had not gone on, as the court did in Roe, to fashion a regime blanketing the subject, a set of rules that displaced virtually every state law then in force? Would there have been the 20-year controversy we have witnessed[?] … In most of the post-1970 gender-classification cases, unlike Roe, the court functioned in just that way. It approved the direction of change through a temperate brand of decision-making, one that was not extravagant or divisive. Roe v. Wade, on the other hand, halted a political process that was moving in a reform direction and thereby, I believe, prolonged divisiveness and deferred stable settlement of the issue.”

A change that comes from the public’s elected representatives is always more likely to be accepted than one that is handed down as an edict from an unelected judiciary. There is a place for such sweeping rulings, but there is also a place for judicial restraint. One of the effects of Roe is that abortion supporters did not continue their efforts at changing state laws, to secure their victory against future court rulings.

They mostly turned to other issues.

From time to time, women would become alarmed and re-enlist in the issue, but it was usually temporary. In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania v. Casey allowed abortion restrictions—in the immediate case, “informed consent” and a 24-hour waiting period—which, coming 20 years after Roe, seemed to younger women to signal a new and unaccustomed official hostility to abortion rights, inspiring a new wave of activism that waned after a year or two.

As good As A mile Elsewhere in that same 1993 speech, Ginsburg made reference to recent events, which likely included the 1990 Nevada referendum when Nevada women got out in front of the problem.

She said: “The most recent [Casey] decision, although a retreat from Roe, appears to have prompted renewed dialogue, a revival of the political movement in progress in the early 1970s. That renewed dialogue, one may hope, will, within a relatively short span, yield an enduring resolution of this vital matter.”

What had happened in Nevada certainly suggested a course of action for other states, where politicians similarly took the safe, anti-abortion stance and assumed the public approved. Sue Wagner, elected Nevada lieutenant governor in the same election when Nevadans voted for legal abortion and a principal in the refeendum, did some missionary work among officials of other states, to make sure they knew what happened with the referendum and its value in removing abortion as

an issue from election campaigns. At meetings of groups like the National Conference of State Legislatures, she raised the matter as something that could work in their states.

Just over half the states have referendum laws. Not all those states were fertile ground for ballot measures on abortion, but some states were. And politicians weary of the abortion issue would likely have seen what was in it for them. Had women in several states launched referendums, it would have sent a powerful message, revitalized the listless abortion movement and gotten a whole new generation involved.

But no such thing happened. There was always resistance, and the national organizations never changed their reluctance to trust in popular support. Meanwhile, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court kept retiring and kept being replaced, moving the court closer and closer to an anti-Roe majority.

Political scientist Lokken said of the abortion issue: “In a lot of those states, they would have taken it off the table. They missed a real opportunity.” Ω

Nevada’s Sue Wagner could not interest other states in using referendum laws to protect abortion.

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ake Tahoe Yoga owner and instructor Janay Aiksnoras has been teaching paddle yoga since 2010. The idea started when someone brought her an article about people practicing yoga on paddle boards, and she decided to bring the concept to Lake Tahoe. Since then, Lake Tahoe Yoga has offered students the opportunity to practice yoga on paddle boards and on the beach every summer when the weather warms up.

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Paddle yoga classes are a combination of paddling out from the shore, a physical yoga practice on the board, and a restful meditation under the sun.

According to Aiksnoras, you don’t need any experience paddle boarding or doing yoga to take her class. She said yoga is for everyone, and she’s had people from toddlers to grandmas take the class. All you need is to feel comfortable enough around the water that if you fall in, you can simply laugh at yourself and hop back on.

Classes take place at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe, which is near the South Tahoe Standup Paddle boat house, providing easy access to paddle boards and unparalleled views of the lake.

Before the start of class, Aiksnoras checks the weather on the beach to make sure wind conditions and temperatures are safe. She’s learned how to identify risky conditions and wave patterns from the Coast Guard to ensure classes are as safe as possible.

“There’s more to yoga than just poses.”

Then it’s a One of the brief lesson on primary goals how to properly of yoga is reduchold a paddle and ing distractions how to use it in the and eliminating Janay Aiksnoras water. Aiksnoras the things that Lake Tahoe Yoga measures everyone’s draw us outside of paddles according to ourselves, according to height and shows everyone how Aiksnoras. With paddle yoga, to stand up on their board and there’s extra focus required to how to drop their board’s anchor. get on the board, extra balance needed Once everyone feels comfortable and has to move your body into certain positions, an understanding of how to use their boards, and extra attention needed to stay in your the class paddles out on the lake together. space. All of this requires the practitioner to focus on what’s important and eliminate interruptions.

Aiksnoras said the word “yoga” itself translates to union, and one of the most Depending on how quickly a class paddles important aspects of practicing yoga is out on the lake and the skill level of students connecting. When students get an opporthat day, Aiksnoras will then begin teaching tunity to connect with nature and the space the asana portion of the class for 45 minutes around them, it elevates their practice, and to an hour. Aiksnoras said the Sanskrit word when you’re out on a paddle board with asana translates to posture. “When we’re the sun shining on your face, surrounded out there on the water, we’re doing a variety by crystal clear water, it’s difficult not to of physical postures that are challenging connect. you to remain focused, remain balanced and According to Aiksnoras, yoga can be a also to push beyond your limits,” she said. therapeutic practice when done accurately.

Again, the difficulty of the class and the “Everything that I’m doing as a yoga postures depends on who’s joining her that teacher is to teach my practitioners, day and their balance, body awareness and whether I see them daily or I see them comfort level on their board. just once, and I get just one moment with She said the asana portion of yoga is a them, that there’s more to yoga than just great workout, but practicing asana alone poses,” she said. isn’t a complete yoga practice which is She said there are other physical benefits why she always leaves plenty of time at the of doing paddle yoga long-term including end of each class for her students to enjoy developing core strength, balance, body a savasana. This yoga pose is a peaceful awareness and upper body strength from meditation that takes place by lying on your carrying paddle boards, but Aiksnoras back with your eyes closed. “Savasana is said that it’s more than just feeling the of the utmost importance in making sure improvements of your physical body. To you have that time to physically relax and her, paddle yoga gives practitioners a shift let your whole body quiet down and let the in perspective. chatter in your mind quiet down, so that you “This is an opportunity to enjoy time can let go,” said Aiksnoras. with people you know, with strangers,” she Obi Felton, a paddle board yoga student said. “To be doing something where you’re of three years, said that savasana is by looking around beyond your phone and far her favorite aspect of the paddle yoga really just experience this little piece of the practice. “You hear the sounds of the birds, world, and Tahoe is one of the most magical and when [savasana] is over, you look up places.” Ω at the mountains, and it’s an out-of-body experience,” she said.

Stretching it

The 2019 paddle yoga season begins in June. Classes are daily from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

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Lay of the land Jack Malotte Jack Malotte eased into a lawn chair in a thin strip of shade on Monday as the morning sun grew higher and hotter. He’d been working on his mural behind the Nevada Museum of Art all morning.

“I mostly paint landscapes,” he said.

“They’re mostly patterned after places I’ve lived at.” Malotte, who is Western Shoshone and Paiute, grew up in Reno and graduated from Wooster High in 1971. He went to California College of the Arts in Oakland, lived all over Northern Nevada and taught high school art in Nixon.

“A lot of this looks like Duckwater,” he said about the mural. That’s a town in eastern Nevada, headquarters of the Duckwater Indian Reservation—hundreds of miles from any city and not far from the nation’s largest nuclear test site. Twenty years ago, Malotte became one of the town’s 200-ish residents, and he still lives there.

Three assistants were adding details to the already underpainted mural, and some muted purple shapes were already recognizable as the peaks of a mountain range as seen from across a wide desert valley. With narrow brushes, local artist Ben Aleck, Kevin Jones from Woodfords, California, and Theda New Breast from Montana, carefully painted eagle feathers and lightning bolts. Next, Malotte planned to stencil on geometric designs from Washoe baskets and paint a large, round moon, with as much texture as he can see in the rural night sky. “In Duckwater, we see it so clear,” he said.

While Malotte’s acrylics, watercolors, pen drawings, screenprints and posters pay homage to Nevada’s ranges and valleys, the landscape serves another purpose in his work, too. It’s both a subject and a backdrop for satire, critique and protest.

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Jack Malotte works on a mural on the south side of the Nevada Museum of Art with the help of a few assistants, including Theda New Breast from Montana.

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His vistas are wide, wonderful and dotted with oceans of sagebrush, but you’re not likely to see the state tourism board publishing the Jack Malotte calendar any time soon. These same vistas also feature real-world uses of the land—open-pit gold mining, nuclear testing and Air Force surveillance, for starters. The artist also makes paintings about specific actions, such as the Western Shoshone Sacred Lands Association challenging the federal government to return the tribe members’ ancestral land in the 1970s. He’s worked with activists such as longtime indigenous rights defenders Carrie and Mary Dann, and Reno activist Bob Fulkerson, making posters for their causes and even logging one arrest during an anti-nuclear protest at the Nevada Test Site. (According to an essay by the NMA’s Ann Wolfe, the artist considers this a feather in his cap: “As Malotte often likes to say, ‘Remember, you’re not an activist until you’ve been arrested.’”)

Malotte delves into every subtlety he can find, resisting any simplistic “us-versus-them” setup. He paints a deep, complex picture of indigenous culture that’s not likely to end up in the Nevada Indian Commission’s calendar either. While he depicts people like the Dann sisters with reverence and love, he sometimes satirizes aspects of Native American life, for example, when he holds up a mirror to alcoholism in indigenous communities.

If this all sounds like a lot of subject matter to sort out, Malotte’s retrospective is probably the best place to take it all in.

While he is well known in Nevada, and excerpts of his work have been exhibited all over the West, there hasn’t yet been a show that spans his entire career, and it’s marvelous to look at decades worth of work by an artist who’s taken such a close, honest look at Nevada. Ω the art of Jack Malotte opens June 6 at the nevada Museum of art, 160 W. Liberty st. related events include “sagebrush heathen: Jack Malotte in Conversation with ann M. Wolfe” at 11 a.m. on June 8. event tickets are $10 for members, free for nMa members and tribal iD card holders.

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“The humans say i’m a threat to Earth, but at least my carbon footprint is small.”

Monster mush Somehow, Legendary Pictures found a way to totally muck up the greatest Godzilla premise ever with Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a movie that is all things great and terrible at the same time.

This movie has some terrific monster battles in it, and the special effects are mind-bogglingly good.

Godzilla squares off against such legendary foes as multiheaded Monster Zero and Rodan, while getting some much needed assistance from the great Mothra.

All of these monsters, including the title character, are wonders to behold when on screen. As for the internet bitching about the movie’s appearance being dark and murky, I think the darkness was fitting, made things scarier, and didn’t diminish the effects.

But, and this is a big but, I cannot endorse this movie overall. The human stuff in between and during the fighting is dreadful. Homo sapiens get too much screen time. The writing and staging for that screen time is so bad that the film derails every time it goes to military types in a war room.

The plot has the world in a state of disarray after the 2014 attacks on San Francisco and Las Vegas depicted in the last Godzilla movie. OK, that’s kind of cool. How do we dust ourselves off and find a way to coexist with the likes of Godzilla and big monster moth things after the decimation of the Bay Area?

Apparently, according to writer-director Michael Dougherty (Krampus), we deliver inane dialogue real slow-like, and inexplicably play with a sonar gadget that supposedly calls out to the monsters in a manner that either chills them out or fires them up.

That gadget is created by Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), who lost a child in the San Francisco attack and is attempting to talk to the monsters with her daughter (Millie Bobby Brown), while Dr. Russell’s husband, Mark (Kyle Chandler), is off taking pictures on safari.

Once the gadget thing sends out a call that basically kicks off the monster apocalypse, the action goes from nicely staged monster battles featuring beautiful

close ups and battered landscapes, to a bunch of lost actors sitting around in a situation room observing and commenting.

Bradley Whitford basically gets the Jake Johnsonin-Jurassic World role. That is, he’s the nerdy guy cracking wise from afar while monsters eat people and military folks scratch their heads. While Johnson had crack line delivery and some honestly funny moments, Whitford looks like the victim of a director who said, “Hey, Bradley, say some funny shit about monsters!” and Whitford had nothing.

Brown is OK here, but there’s not much one can do with material so bad. She has the movie’s dopiest moment. When fleeing Monster Zero as it’s destroying Fenway Park, Godzilla comes up behind her, and she turns and posts a calm, satisfied smile. No paralyzing fear, no screaming in terror at being in between two massive charging monsters. Just one, calm, movie star smile, because Godzilla might be her friend or some shit like that. Give me a break.

Brown has already completed her shots for Godzilla vs. Kong, due out next year, so she’s not escaping this franchise. Dougherty, who messed this movie up, had low grade, OK horror films (Krampus, Trick ’r Treat) on his resume. The next film’s director, Adam Wingard, is also a director of horror films (You’re Next and the awful Blair Witch reboot). Also, Dougherty, who co-wrote this messy movie, contributes on the next film as well. Not good signs.

Perhaps Legendary should stop putting large blockbusters such as this into the hands of relatively new and mediocre horror film directors. They got it right with Gareth Edwards on Godzilla (2014). They blew it with Dougherty, and I fear for the future. Ω

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Avengers: Endgame

The Marvel universe gets its most grandiose chapter with Avengers: Endgame, a fitting successor to last year’s Infinity War and a generous gift to those of us who like our movies with superheroes in them. When last we saw Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), he was a survivor of the dreaded Thanos (Josh Brolin) finger snap, a universe altering occurrence that took out half its living creatures and provided for that tear-jerking moment when Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and many others turned to dust. Endgame picks up where that action left off, with Stark floating in space and keeping a video journal of his inevitable demise having run out of food and water. Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Rocket (Bradley Cooper) are among the other survivors, dealing with the repercussions of so much death on Earth, just like Justin Theroux in The Leftovers.

Oh, there are tons of questions this movie needs to answer in its three-hour-plus running time. Where’s Thanos? Where’s Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner)? Is Tony permanently marooned in space? What’s been going on with Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) during all of this Thanos hullabaloo? Is everybody really dead? Does Star Lord (Chris Pratt) still have his Walkman in the Great Beyond? Good news: the movie answers many of your questions and more thanks to another well-balanced screenplay and a crack directorial job from the team of Anthony and Joe Russo. When you leave Endgame, your belly will be happily full of cinematic satisfaction.

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Will Smith’s strange, big, blue Genie turns out to be the surprising highlight of the fair-to-middling Aladdin, the live-action remake of the Disney animated classic that was big for Robin Williams. Smith does just fine in the role Williams voiced in 1992, and the character gets fleshed out in a manner that is genuinely moving at times, even if his blueness is perhaps a bit creepy from some angles. (And it looks like he’s pushing a big poop out of the top of his head thanks to that hairstyle.) In fact, if they decided to make a horror spinoff where the blue genie starts biting people’s heads off, that would be kind of awesome. He’s scary already. Director Guy Ritchie goes the full musical route, and while he has a reasonably talented cast on hand, the whole enterprise feels a bit on the unnecessary side. It’s overlong, and one cast member in particular ultimately pulls the picture into the unfortunate zone. Mena Massoud makes for a halfway decent Aladdin, while Naomi Scott provides a luminous Jasmine. Both do good jobs singing the famous songs, and they most certainly look the parts. Their magic carpet ride while belting “A Whole New World” is charming, and they make for a cute couple. It’s a shame that it’s all in the service of something that, no matter how much money is being thrown at the screen, feels hollow.

Booksmart

Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein deliver star-making performances as Amy and Molly, two super smart high school students looking to get crazy on graduation eve after years of hitting the books and missing all of the fun. Olivia Wilde makes a smart and funny directorial debut, with a film that feels like a relative of Superbad, which makes sense considering Feldstein is Jonah Hill’s little sister. Besides this dynamic duo, the film is blessed with the presence of Skyler Gisondo (of Santa Clarita Diet) as Jared, the super sweet and dorky rich kid, Jason Sudeikis (Wilde’s husband) as the school principal, and Lisa Kudrow and Will Forte as Amy’s parents. Best of the supporting cast is Billie Lourd, daughter of Carrie Fisher, as the oddball student who keeps magically showing up at every party Amy and Molly visit. The film is consistently funny, and just a little dark and nasty, with Wilde and cast navigating nicely from very funny to very awkward moments. Feldstein has comic chops equal to—and perhaps even better than—her brother’s.

Mary Harron, director of American Psycho, helms this movie about real life psycho Charles Manson (Matt Smith) and three major female members of his “family,” those being Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Susan Atkins (Marianne Redding) and Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon). Harron and longtime screenwriting partner Guinevere Turner try to make an insightful look at the three women in their early prison life while using flashbacks to show a buildup to the crimes that got them there. The film makes the mistake of trying to portray the three women as brainwashed victims, with their every line delivery accompanied by that patented Manson Family smile. The film works fairly well when showing life on the ranch with Manson and the ways he manipulated those around him. It’s brief depiction of the murders is chilling. As for the prison scenes where the three women are going through a form of therapy, those scenes alternate between pretty good and very bad.

Harron is a gifted director, and a full-fledged movie about Manson and his followers might’ve been something else from the likes of her. A semi-sympathetic depiction of his “family victims” leaves a slightly bad taste in the mouth.

(Available for streaming and rental during a limited theatrical release.)

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John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum

The gun opera that is the John Wick franchise keeps on rolling and shooting with gory gusto, and some great dogs to boot. When we last saw Keanu Reeves as John Wick, he had himself a little time before getting excommunicated from the assassination club The High Table and all its perks. His killing a fellow assassin within the walls of the Continental Hotel means no more room service or dog sitting. He’s got a multimillion dollar bounty on his head and no place to kick his feet up. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum picks up right where the last one left off, with a battle-weary Wick running in the streets, putting distance between himself and the hotel and trying to figure out his next big move. Credit Reeves for playing this part perfectly, on a level where we can believe that this dude who keeps getting stabbed and shot can turn on his power afterburners and keep shooting people in the face. Wick basically runs from one action set piece to another, with returning director and former stunt coordinator Chad Stahelski making each of those set pieces a thing to behold.

A gun battle inside a weapons museum counts as a franchise highlight, as does Wick’s gunfight atop a motorcycle. And, yes, dogs play a major role in the shenanigans, which makes this dog person very happy.

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Pokemon Detective Pikachu

Walking into Pokémon Detective Pikachu, there’s an established mythology. It’s not an origin-of-the-Pokémon movie. It’s a, “If you don’t know anything about Pokémon, none of this is going to make a lick of sense” movie. Ryan Reynolds voices the title character, so that could be fun, right? It’s fun for about the first 15 minutes that Reynolds spends on the screen as the little yellow furball with a Sherlock Holmes hat. Then, Reynolds and the rest of them get lost in a haze of sloppy action and convoluted plotlines. No doubt, they got some good performers to participate in this moneymaker. Along with Reynolds, you get Bill Nighy as the creator of the Pokémon world, or something like that. (Still not sure what he really did.) Justice Smith plays Tim, the main protagonist, a young adult who has lost his father and befriends Pikachu. And then there’s the very talented Kathryn Newton, under-used as TV reporter wannabe Lucy Stevens. Heck, even Ken Watanabe shows up in this mess, doing pretty much what he did in Godzilla (looking up to the sky in awe). By the time this thing wrapped, I honestly had no idea what had really happened, nor did I really care. The movie didn’t pique my interest in the Pokémon enterprise. It solidified my indifference. Let’s just say I’m not going to be downloading any of that shit to my phone.

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thai and mighty Though I knew of its existence on South Lakeside Drive, I’d never visited A Taste of Thai. With its recent move to a West Moana Lane location, I figured it was time I rounded up the ladies—and my favorite young foodie twins—to check it out.

Fusion ($17) is an appetizer sampler of five favorites, served with cucumber salad, peanut sauce and sweet and sour sauce. The salad was a good mix of cucumber, celery and purple onion, dressed with seasoned rice vinegar and herbs; the small serving left us wanting more. The bright red sweet and sour was pretty standard, but the spicy peanut sauce was exceptional. Marinated skewers of chicken satay were lightly grilled, with a texture much softer than expected. Perhaps the marinade worked overtime.

Gari paab is reminiscent of empanada, a deep-fried wrapper filled with mashed potato, onion, and curry powder. It was crunchy, a little sweet and really good with the peanut sauce.

Two of each item were included, save for a khanom bueang that overtook one corner of the plate. This crispy crepe made with rice and mung bean flour was filled with shrimp, chicken, coconut, tofu, bean sprout, scallion and ground peanut. It was sort of like a large, delicious Thai taco. Deep-fried spring rolls ($8) of noodles, cabbage, celery, taro and carrot were crunchy and fresh, and the seafood Rangoon cream cheese puffs ($9) were filled with perceptible amounts of shrimp and imitation crab.

The boys enjoyed the last two enough that we ordered additional plates of both.

Entrees are served with a bowl of rice. Big meaty chunks of roasted ginger duck ($18) were tossed in

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Photo/Allison Young

seasoned oil with fresh ginger, bell pepper, onion, carrot and mushroom. Though the skin wasn’t the crispy sort I love, the meat itself would satisfy any waterfowl fan. Next, a plate of spicy green bean salmon ($18), chunks of filet fried in an interesting ground chicken crust, with green bean and carrot sauteed in chili paste. The veggies were very fresh, and though swimming in a fair amount of seasoned oil, the spicy flavor was solid.

One boy said he wanted pad Thai with shrimp—a favorite of mine—then made a last minute switch and ordered tofu instead ($12). The mix of slightly broad rice noodle, egg, browned bean curd, bean sprout, scallion and tamarind sauce—with julienned carrot and ground peanut on the side—was a bit sweeter than my preference, but absolutely the real deal. Fortunate, since the kid didn’t love it, and I took it home for a pretty nice lunch.

Green curry avocado ($14) was a first for me, but the sweet/spicy sauce was perfect spooned over rice, along with plenty of chunky ripe avocado, zucchini, green bean, pea, carrot, bell pepper and chicken. The meat had the “velveted” texture common with Chinese cooking, and the big pieces of avocado really made the dish. We rounded out the meal with “Beef Flame” ($15), a sauteed combination of marinated beef in red wine sauce with onion, mushroom, bell pepper and fresh cilantro. It was dramatically delivered—sizzling and bubbling on cast iron—akin to fajitas. The flavors and veg were great, though the beef was slightly overcooked. Overall the quality of our experience made obvious the reason for the restaurant’s longevity. Ω

A Taste of Thai 915 W. Moana Lane 775-828-6400

A taste of thai is open Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., saturday from noon to 9 p.m., and sunday from noon to 8 p.m. learn more at atasteofthaireno.com.

by Mark EarnESt

Vatican City Fight Club relaxes between rounds.

From left, Cameron Sax, Greg Lewis, Sean Collins and David Strawn.

Feel the vibes Vatican City Fight Club The vibraphone isn’t an instrument you usually see with a rock band. But that’s just one of the striking features of Vatican City Fight Club, and the man who controls this unlikely, unwieldily instrument said it jelled with the rest of the band right away.

“I’m lucky in that all the guys in the band are extremely dynamic and talented and sensitive musicians, so it’s easy to play with them,” said Sean Collins. “Everyone keeps track of their sound level so they’re not hitting so hard that you can’t hear it.”

The vibraphone gives VCFC a clear distinction over other Reno bands, not that the band needs any help. Everything about this intriguing band just screams, “We’re different,” in an endearing way. Besides Collins, the band includes David Strawn on bass, Greg Lewis on drums, and Cameron Sax on guitar. Lewis is a busy guy. He and Sax are also in Rob Ford Explorer, while he and Strawn are part of Redfield Clipper.

Those two bands have some similarities with VCFC, but the quartet is its own animal. It resides somewhere between the time-change mayhem of ’90s math rock and more melodic indie rock, with vocals that are spoken softly as much as they are screamed in a punky shout. It can be delicate or disconcerting. A fearlessness to experiment clearly comes from VCFC’s roots in the Jazz and Improvisational Music program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

They got together in 2016.

“Dave and Sean are great friends and we all loved each other’s music, and Sean had so much music ready to go, and Cameron and I were already in a band, so it kind of made sense to join forces,” Lewis said.

Photo/courtesy Vatican city Fight club

When it was time to add vocals, the band’s experimental instincts went into action.

“When we first started, it was almost intentionally bad in a way,” Strawn said.

“We knew that we weren’t the strongest singers, but we gave it our best.”

“But, if we all sing together in unison really loudly, then maybe ...” Lewis added.

“And that’s the kind of thing we found works for us. Sometimes the music will drop out and Sean will do some spokenword poetry, which really draws you in.”

All four members contribute musically, while Collins provides most of the lyrics.

He said he likes to use simple words to describe more complex feelings, such as misunderstandings between people or his own struggles with mental health.

“On certain ones, we do have a bit of an absurdist quality to us,” Collins said.

“I’ve seen people laugh and people cry sometimes. But, a lot of it plays on that simplicity, that childlike questioning, that I think reveals a deeper question.”

Despite the fact that Collins now lives in San Luis Obispo, VCFC plans to carry on. The group just finished recording nine songs in SLO at the home of Josh Collins, Sean’s brother and an experienced studio engineer. He also plays guitar and sings on the tracks, as does flautist Talia Ortega. The band is still working out whether the new material will be released as singles or as one full album. Either way, the Fight Club is in session for the foreseeable future.

“We could have easily just not continued after Sean moved, but the music was so important to all of us that we didn’t want to say goodbye to it,” Lewis said. “So, we decided to record this album and now we’re slowly booking shows, and it’s still alive.” Ω

Vatican city Fight club plays with los angeles band Fell runner and locals redfield clipper at 8 p.m. June 11 at the holland Project, 140 Vesta st. For more information, visit facebook.com/vaticancityfightclubnote

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THURSDAY 6/6

FRIDAY 6/7

SATURDAY 6/8

1up

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

5 Star Saloon

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

RuPaul’s Drag Race viewing party, 9pm, no cover

Bar oF aMErICa

The Blues Monsters, 9pm, no cover Autograf, The Schmidt, Roger That!, 10pm, $15-$25

CarGo ConCErt Hall

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

Avatar, Devin Townsend, Dance with the Dead, ’68, 7pm, $25

CEol IrISH puB

Krystal McMullen, 9pm, no cover

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

CottonWooD rEStaurant

Carson Comedy Club, Carson City Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 882-1626: Oscar Ovies, Fri-Sat, 8pm, $15 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Rob Little, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Lowell Sanders, Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Jessica Michelle Singleton, Fri, 6:30pm, $10 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: Jessica Michelle Singleton, Thu, 7:30pm, $10-$15; Fri, 9pm, $15-$20; Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15-$20; Comedy Collective, Fri, 6:30pm, $10-$15

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

DaVIDSon’S DIStIllErY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

Guitar Town, 6:30pm, no cover

Sean McAlindin, 6:30pm, no cover

Karaoke with Nightsong Productions, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

DEaD rInGEr analoG Bar FaCES nV

RuPaul’s Drag Race viewing party, Drag Queen Trivia & Show, 8pm, no cover

GrEat BaSIn BrEWInG Co.

The Hopback Sessions with Outlaw Kindred, 7pm, no cover

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

HEllFIrE Saloon

3372 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-1988

Wunderlust, 8pm, no cover

Post shows online by registerin g at www.newsr eview. com/reno. D eadline is the Frida y before public ation.

Mash Confusion, 9pm, no cover

Whiskey Preachers, 9pm, no cover

Blue October, Mona, 8pm, W, $28 Traditional Irish session, 7pm, Tu, Wed. Night Showcase, 7pm, no cover

Display of Decay, 8pm, no cover Long Hallways, Darabello, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Rubles Plunge, 8pm, no cover Skew Ring, Werewolf Club, Pink Awful, Common Mishap, 7pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 448-6500

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

The Blues Monsters, 9pm, no cover

Brother Dan Palmer, 7pm, no cover

tHE HollanD projECt jIMMY B’S

Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Phat Mark, 9pm, no cover

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

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

MON-WED 6/10-6/12

Open Mic Night, 7:30pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 7pm, W, no cover

tHE BluEBIrD

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549

Comedy

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Supermule, 9pm, no cover

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

June 7, 10 p.m.

The BlueBird 555 E. Fourth St. 499-5549

Dance party, 10pm, $5

alIBI alE WorKS

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

Autograf

SUNDAY 6/9

DJ Zahn’s Birthday/The Biggest Little Tribe Rodeo, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

Saturday Night Karaoke, 9:30pm, no cover

Pile, State Champion, 8pm, M, $5 Fell Runner, 8pm, Tu, $5 Silk & Steel, 8pm, no cover

One membership. So many options.

Come play with us.

Visit our website or give us a call for more details.

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THURSDAY 6/6 JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room

FRIDAY 6/7

SATURDAY 6/8

1) Dizzy Wright, Demrick, Reezy, 7:30pm, $20-$25

2) Birdwell Island, Mechanical Roots, 8pm, $5

2) Cut Both Ways, Lock Down, Pressure Drop, 8pm, M, $5

Schools Out For Summer Party, 8:30pm, no cover

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

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE NIGHTCLUB

1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663

THE LOFT

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

Acid Tongue June 8, 9 p.m.

The Loving Cup 188 California Ave. 322-2480

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

THE LOVING CUP

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

MIDTOwN wINE BAR

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

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

MILLNENNIUM

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $22-$47

Magic Fusion, 7pm, M, Tu, W, $22-$47

Acid Tongue, 9pm, $TBA

Motown on Monday, 9pm, M, no cover

Dominator & Friends, 8pm, no cover

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

235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

LAF: Cave Clove, John Garrett, Jade Brodie, 8pm, $5 donation

MagNicoSynth! First Friday Funk Fest, 9pm, no cover

New Spell, LimboState, DJ Tigerbunny, 8pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, M, 7:30pm, no cover

THE POLO LOUNGE

T-N-Keys, 8pm, no cover

Ladies ’80s Night with DJ Bobby G, 8:30pm, no cover

DJ Bobby G, 8:30pm, no cover

Karaoke Night, 8pm, M, no cover DG Kicks, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Fryed Brothers Band, 5pm, no cover

Fryed Brothers Band, 1pm, no cover Randy & The G Men, 7pm, no cover

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

RED DOG SALOON

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

RUE BOURBON

1401 S. Virginia St., (775) 384-6526

Christopher Sexton, 6pm, no cover

THE SAINT June 11, 8 p.m.

Virginia Street Brewhouse 211 N. Virginia St. 433-1090

Spur Crazy, 8:30pm, no cover

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

MON-WED 6/10-6/12

Aldo Trujillo, La Décima Banda, 10pm, no cover for women before 11pm

2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 507-1626

PIGNIC PUB & PATIO

Chromeo

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

SUNDAY 6/9

761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451

SHEA’S TAVERN

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

Coffin Raid, Deathblow, Impurities, 9pm, $5-$6

TEMPO, 8pm, no cover Greg Golden Band, 7pm, $10

Hoedown in Midtown, 8pm, no cover

Hangtown, Sad Giants, 9:30pm, $6

Year of the Fist, Uncle Angry, Red Devil Lie, 9:30pm, 6-$8

SPLASH RENO

340 Kietzke Lane, (775) 686-6681

VIRGINIA STREET BREwHOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 433-1090

wHISkEy DICkS SALOON

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425

P.O.D., Nonpoint, Islander, Nine Shrines, 6:30pm, $22

DJ Trivia, 1pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 8pm, W, no cover

Trivia Night hosted by Aubrey Forston, 8pm, no cover

Noisem, Call of the Void, Dissidence, Gravity Lord, 8pm, Tu, $5

Silky N. Ganache, 10pm, $10-$20

Karaoke hosted by Tabitha, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

Buckcherry, The Electric, 8pm, $25

Tintabulations, 7pm, M, no cover Chromeo, 8pm, Tu, $36

Wily Savage, Vague Choir, Ummm Jr., 9pm, no cover

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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) TJ’s Corral 2) Cabaret

Lil Jon

THURSDAY 6/6

FRIDAY 6/7

SATURDAY 6/8

SUNDAY 6/9

MON-WED 6/10-6/12

2) Platinum, 8pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Rebekah Chase Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, M, Tu, W, 8pm, no cover

2) Stephen Lord, 6pm, no cover

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

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

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Krystal Paul Duo, 6pm, Tu, no cover Gary Douglas, 6pm, W, no cover

2) The Vegas Roadshow, 7pm, no cover

2) The Vegas Roadshow, 8pm, no cover

1) Kenny G, 8pm, $59, $69 2) The Vegas Roadshow, 8pm, no cover

2) Denver Saunders, 6pm, no cover

2) Denver Saunders, 6pm, M, no cover Chris Twomey, Tu, W, no cover

1) DJ MoFunk, 10pm, no cover 2) Gotcha Covered, 9pm, no cover

1) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover 2) Gotcha Covered, 9pm, no cover

1) BoomBox, Bazooka Zac, 9pm, $25-$30

2) The Golden Cadillacs, 10pm, no cover

1) The Illusionists Experience, 8:30pm, $39.95

1) The Illusionists Experience, 5:30pm, 8:30pm, $39.95

1) The Illusionists Experience, 5pm, $39.95

1) The Illusionists Experience, 7pm, Tu, 7:30pm, W, $39.95

2) DJ Impakt, 10pm, $20 3) All In, 7pm, no cover

2) Reno Rodeo Kick-off Party, 5:30pm, no cover DJ Los, 10pm, $20

4) Infinity Sundays, 11am, $20 no cover for locals before noon

2) DJ set, 7pm, no cover

1) LGBTQ & Neon Glow Party with Drop Dead Red, 9pm, $5-$10 2) DJ set, 7pm, no cover

CIrCUS CIrCUS reNO

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

June 7, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (775) 588-3515

CrySTAL BAy CASINO

14 Highway 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room

eLDOrADO reSOrT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 8786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers

1) The Illusionists Experience, 7pm, $39.95

GrAND SIerrA reSOrT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Crystal Lounge 4) Pool

Karaoke

HArD rOCK LAKe TAHOe

Fat Cat Bar & Grill (Midtown District), 1401 S. Virginia St., (775) 453-2223: Karaoke with Chapin, Tu, 9pm, no cover Pizza Baron, 1155 W. Fourth St., Ste. 113, (775) 329-4481: Wacky Wednesday Karaoke with Steve Starr & DJ Hustler, 9pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

50 Highway 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

HArrAH’S reNO

219 N. Center St., (775) 786-3232 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) Plaza

1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27-$37 1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27-$37 1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27-$37

MONTBLeU reSOrT

NUGGeT CASINO reSOrT

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300 1) Showroom 2) Ballroom 3) Event Center

PePPerMILL reSOrT SPA CASINO 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) Silver Baron Lounge

2) Tuesday Night Blues with Buddy Emmer and guests, 8pm, Tu, no cover

3) Lil Jon, DJ David Aaron, 9pm, $70

55 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515 1) Showroom 2) Blu 3) Opal

1) Caughlin Dance Company Fifth Annual Recital, 2pm, $15-$20

1) Caughlin Dance Company Fifth Annual Recital, 2pm, $15-$20

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

1) Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 8pm, no cover 2) Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20

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

1) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

2) DJ R3volver, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ MoFunk, 9pm, no cover

2) Thunder Cover, 9pm, no cover 3) Atomika, 9pm, no cover

2) Thunder Cover, 9pm, no cover 3) Atomika, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ MoFunk, 9pm, no cover

1) Kyle Williams, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 6, 2019 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

DEMONSTRATION OF COIN PRESS NO. 1: Nevada State Museum presents a demonstration of Coin Press No. 1 in the Historic Carson City Mint building, pressing Transcontinental Railroad Medallions. Fri 6/7, 10am. $8, free for youth age 17 and younger. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-4810 ext. 245.

FREE FISHING DAY: During the annual event, anglers of all ages may fish in any public fishing water in the state without needing a fishing license or trout stamp.

All limits and other regulations apply.

Sat, 6/8. Free. Various locations, www.ndow.org/fish/free_fishing_day.

FREE SHREDDING SERVICE: On site shredding provided by Puliz Records Management Services. Donations welcome. Fri, 6/7, 11am-3pm. Free. Tahoe City Post Office, 950 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, visittahoecity.org/event/freeshredding-service-2.

JUN/06

: NEVADA STATE FAIR

Held in Nevada’s state capital, the fair features four days of fun, entertainment, carnival rides, live music, vendor booths, a home and garden show and more. Vote for your favorite artwork or baking entries at the “Contests” booth or check out exhibits from across the state. Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday-Sunday, June 6-9, at Mills Park, 1111 E. William St., Carson City.

Admission is free. Discount ride coupons are available. Call (877) 916-3247 or visit www.nevadastatefair.org.

EVENTS 14TH ANNUAL TRUCKEE BREW FEST: Truckee Optimist’s annual event features more than 40 beers, a silent auction and live music by Lost Whiskey Engine and Coburn Station. Sat, 6/8, 1-5pm. $35$40. Truckee River Regional Park, 10500 Brockway Road, Truckee, truckeeoptimist.publishpath.com.

20TH ANNIVERSARY FOR NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: Stop by the library throughout the day for memories and refreshments celebrating its 20 years in the community. There will be refreshments and bulletin boards decorated with pictures and newspaper clippings about the branch from throughout the years.

Wed, 6/12, 10am. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

A TOAST & TASTE OF SUMMER: The 12th annual event features wine and microbrews from more than 30 vendors, gourmet food from some the area’s top restaurants, a display of photography

by Keoki Flagg and a silent auction. The event benefits the Reno Initiative For Shelter & Equality. Thu, 6/6, 6pm. $60$75. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., www.renoinitiative.org/ toastofsummer.

ART AFTERNOON—WORKSHOP AND SOCIAL FOR SENIORS: Seniors are invited to spend the afternoon at the Nevada Museum of Art. Enjoy a guided tour and a studio art class along with light refreshments.

Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience. Advance registration is recommended. Fri, 6/7, 1pm. $6-$10.

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

ART ON THE ROCKS—PREHISTORIC ROCK ART OF THE MASSACRE BENCH, NORTHERN NEVADA: This talk explores the rock art of the Massacre Bench area in Northern Nevada, describing its styles and associated archaeological contexts. Sat, 6/8, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

BIGGEST LITTLE INVITATIONAL: The craft beer festival showcases the best of the best in the brewery world and includes live entertainment, local food vendors and lawn games. Sat, 6/8, noon. $20-$80. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, thebiggestlittleinvitational.com.

CARSON VALLEY DAYS CELEBRATION: Celebrate Carson Valley with carnival rides, food and craft vendors, foodeating contest, bounce house and free evening concerts and a parade at the 109th annual event. Thu, 6/6-Sun 6/9. Lampe Park, 1324 Waterloo Lane, Gardnerville, visitcarsonvalley.org.

HANDS ON! SECOND SATURDAYS: Bring the whole family to celebrate the art of Jack Malotte at Hands ON! on Second Saturday. Meet the artist, enjoy interactive musical presentations with the Cody Blackbird Band, listen to stories, make screen and block prints and more. Sat, 6/8, 10am-6pm. Free.

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

INCLINE VILLAGE FARMERS MARKET: Incline Village Farmers’ Market takes place on Thursdays through Aug. 29 at a new location. Thu, 6/6, 3pm. Free. Farmers Market, 845 Alder Drive, Incline Village., nevadagrown.com.

JACK MALOTTE OPENING CELEBRATION AT FIRST THURSDAY: Kick off the opening weekend of The Art of Jack Malotte with live music, festivities and extended First Thursday hours. Meet the artist Jack Malotte. Listen to live music by the Cody Blackbird Band, 2017 Native American Music Awards “Group of the Year” and participate in hands-on screen printing based on Malotte’s designs. Drinks and small plates available for purchase at chez louie. Thu, 6/6, 5pm. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., www.nevadaart.org.

LAVENDER GALA 2019: Brüka Theatre’s fundraiser features the musical stylings of The Embers, a full cocktail bar and lavender lemonade, hors d’oeuvres, a photo booth, a Victor/Victoria and Brüka Season 27 preview, followed by a live auction with Brüka celebrity auction hosts. Dress up in funky lavender attire and accessories. Proceeds benefit Brüka Theatre programs and operations. Sat, 6/8, 4:30pm. $70-$130. EDGE Nightclub, Peppermill Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

LOCAL AUTHOR DAY: Meet local authors Stephen Finlay Archer, April Kempler, Monique Rebelle and S.J. Slagle, who will sign copies of their books. Sat, 6/8, 1pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

MYSTERY SLEUTHS: If you love mystery

SMALL WONDER WEDNESDAY: The Discovery

books, join this group and solve some popular mysteries. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month.

Call the North Valleys Library for this month’s title. Pick up a copy at the library and come to discuss it. Wed, 6/12, 5:45pm. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 N. Hills Blvd., (775) 972-0281, events.washoecountylibrary.us.

NEVADA WRITERS HALL OF FAME BOOK CLUB WITH TERRI FARLEY: University Libraries

opens early every Wednesday for families with children ages 5 and younger. Hear stories, create art and enjoy the entire museum for a full hour before it opens to everyone. Wed, 6/12, 9am. $10-$12, free for babies under age 1. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org.

STREET VIBRATIONS SPRING RALLY: The 10th annual event condenses the excitement of the Street Vibrations Fall Rally into one weekend in downtown Reno. The motorcycle celebration features live entertainment, slow bike races, ride-in shows, poker runs, scavenger hunts, more than 80 vendors, VIP parties for participants and more. Fri, 6/7-Sun, 6/9. Free admission. Downtown Reno and other locations in Sparks, Lake Tahoe, Carson and Virginia City, (775) 329-7469, roadshowsreno.com.

will present a book club-style event featuring Nevada Writers Hall of Fame author Terri Farley, who will read from her book Wild at Heart. To RSVP for this event, call or email Robin Monteith at the University Libraries. Wed, 6/12, 6pm. Free. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 604 W. Moana Lane, (775) 6825656, atrobinmonteith@unr.edu.

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, 6/6, 3pm. Free.

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

RED, WHITE & BARBECUE!: WashoeDEMS and its Veterans Committee host a barbecue to commemorate Memorial Day and the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. The event will feature food, drinks, appearances by elected officials, live music and games. Sat, 6/8, noon-4pm. $10, free for veterans. Village Green Park, 4549 Village Green Parkway, washoedems.org.

RENO STREET FOOD—FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY: The summertime event features more than 30 rotating gourmet food, craft desserts, beer, wine and mixed drink vendors. Enjoy live music, grass and shade, plenty of free parking, a large playground for the kids and train rides at Idlewild Park. Reno Street Food will be held every Friday through Sept. 28 Fri, 6/7, 4-9pm. Free. Free. Idlewild Park, 2055 Idlewild Drive, www.facebook.com/ RenoStreetFood.

SAGEBRUSH HEATHEN—JACK MALOTTE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANN M. WOLFE: Jack

SUMMER VIBES: Explore cannabis culture during this summer-long event.

Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with some of Nevada’s most well-respected product manufacturers, state licensed cultivators and master growers with over 60 vendors rotating throughout the series. Programming will vary each week with different areas of focus. Attendees will also hear from speakers and enjoy an eclectic lineup of music and entertainment. Consumption of cannabis is prohibited on event grounds. Sat, 6/8, 4pm. Festival grounds next to Sierra Well, 1605 E. Second St., www.summervibesreno.com.

SUPERCRAWL—ROCK CRAWLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Thirty-five pro drivers will battle challenging obstacles for the right to be crowned the SuperCrawl champion. The action takes place on the natural terrain overlooking the race track at the Wild West Motorsports Park. Sat, 6/8-Sun, 6/9, 10am. $0-$25 plus $10 for on-site parking. Wild West Motorsports Park, 12005 Interstate 80, Sparks, supercrawl.rocks.

TAHOE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Enjoy fresh local produce, live music and more at his morning farmers’ market every Thursday through Oct. 10. Thu, 6/6, 8am. Free.

Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, www.tahoecityfarmersmarket.com.

TAHOE CITY SOLSTICE FESTIVAL: Celebrate

Malotte’s artworks celebrates the landscapes of the Great Basin, with a unique focus on contemporary political issues faced by Native American people seeking to protect and preserve access to their lands. Nevada Museum of Art hosts a conversation between Malotte and Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Family senior curator and deputy director. A book signing follows the talk. Sat, 6/8, 11am. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., www.nevadaart.org.

SHIRLEY’S FARMERS’ MARKET: The weekly farmers’ market returns with fresh produce, specialty foods, arts and crafts and more every Saturday through Sept. 28. Sat, 6/8, 9am. Free. Tamarack Junction Casino, 13101 S. Virginia St., (775) 746-5024, shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

the beginning of summer with a variety events and activities, including a farmers market, Solstice Classic Car Stroll, Tahoe City Food & Wine Classic, a kick-off concert at Commons Beach and more. Sat, 6/8-Wed, 6/12. Downtown Tahoe City along North Lake Boulevard, Tahoe City, visittahoecity.org/event/ tahoe-city-solstice-festival.

TANJA HESTER READING AND SIGNING: Hester, author of Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way, read from and sign her book. Thu, 6/6, 6:30pm. Free.

Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

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FILM WILDER THAN WILD COMMUNITY VIEWING: Homewood Mountain Resort will host a screening of Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests and the Future, a one-hour documentary that reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed Western landscapes to large, high-intensity wildfires. The film goes on to explore strategies that are being developed to help mitigate the impact of California’s changing wildfires. A panel featuring speakers from North Tahoe Fire, Meeks Bay Fire, Cal Fire, United States Forest Service, Placer County Office of Emergency Services, Placer County Sheriff’s Office, Liberty Utilities and the Tahoe Network of Fire Adapted Communities will follow the screening. Thu, 6/6, 6pm. Free.

Homewood Mountain Resort, 5145 Westlake Blvd., Homewood, www.skihomewood.com.

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Get out of the house and explore the many things the Silver State has to offer. One of the best ways to do this is to visit one of Nevada’s many state parks. On Saturday, June 8, Nevada residents and park visitors will receive free day-use admission at all of state parks. Visit www.parks.nv.gov or www.facebook.com/ NVStateParks..

TRUCKEE DIRT FONDO CYCLING EVENT & FESTIVAL: Watch or ride in this off-road

MOUNTAIN WORKSPACE: Joan Davis: Blue Skies. Mountain Workspace, a new co-working space in Incline Village, will host a series of month-long, local artistin-residence, art exhibits in its 5,500 square-foot facility. Artist Joan Davis will kick off the series with her new work Blue Skies. The current show at Incline’s Mountain Workspace features abstract paintings inspired by a reading that said “Blue skies, clear skies ahead” and how it affected the artist’s work upon learning her husband was dying of cancer. Thu,

cycling race designed for all-levels of inspiring athletes. Enjoy live music, beer, local food and a vendor expo. The event kicks off with a fundraising gala on June 6. The race and festival take place on June 8. Thu, 6/6-Sat, 6/8. $0-$135.

Hangar N-01, Truckee-Tahoe Airport, 10356 Truckee Airport Road, Truckee, www.truckeedirtfondo.com.

VILLAGE GREEN BIRD WALKS: The Tahoe

6/6-Fri 6/7, Mon, 6/10-Wed, 6/12, 9am5pm. Free. Mountain Workspace, 885

Institute for Natural Science hosts a morning bird walk. Thu, 6/6, 7:30am. Free.

Village Green, 960 Lakeshore Blvd., Incline Village, www.tinsweb.org.

Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 379-1124, mountainworkspace.com.

NEVADA LEGISLATURE BUILDING: Bits and Pieces of the Silver State. As a fine art painter for 30 years, Patricia Wallis has worked on canvas, board and copper.

Over the past decade though, she has worked exclusively on copper which gives the image a unique luminescence not found when working with canvas or board. Bits and Pieces of the Silver State features the various elements of nature and provide conceptual basis in Wallis’ paintings. Thu, 6/6-Fri, 6/7, 8:30am. Free.

Nevada Legislature Building, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-6680, nvculture.org.

ART ARTIST CO-OP GALLERY OF RENO: Different Strokes. This exhibition and sale highlights eight co-op artists. The show runs through June 30. Thu, 6/6-Wed, 6/12, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-Op Gallery of Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Volcanoes. The Holland Project Gallery presents a venue-wide group exhibition curated

by Wendy Kveck of Settlers + Nomads, based out of Las Vegas. Volcanoes explores contemporary feminism and the power, force and agency of individual and collective voices and bodies through image, storytelling, biography and language. The show runs through June 15 in the Main Holland Project Gallery and Serva Pool Gallery. A closing reception will be held on Friday, June 7, 5-9pm, with a brief discussion followed by artist performances throughout the evening. Thu, 6/6-Fri, 6/7, Mon, 6/10-Wed, 6/12. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 448-6500, www.hollandreno.org.

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Opening. Enjoy the soulful sounds of DJ Eli while watching a live paint pour.

Observe what happens when three artists leave their brushes behind and create art using gravity and fire. See their individual styles come together in one piece. Sat, 6/8, 2-7pm. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, www.facebook.com/RenoArtWorks.

MUSIC 35TH ANNUAL POPS PARTY CONCERT: Carson City Symphony and Chorus with guest soloist Tom Miller perform a free concert on the lawn between the Capitol and Legislature buildings. Bring a picnic or visit the food truck. There will be some seating available, but you are encouraged to bring folding chairs. Free parking is available in the parking garage east of the Legislature Building, off of Stewart Street. Sun, 6/9, 6pm. Free.

Capital Amphitheater, 395 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 883-4154.

EVERY TIME A BELL RINGS: Tintabulations’ concert presentation features stories about mythology, superstitions and traditions. Mon, 6/10, 7pm. Free; donations welcome. Virginia Street Brewhouse, 211 N. Virginia St., renobrewhouse.com.

BRYAN MCALLISTER’S HONK SHOE: Pianist, composer, performance artist and bandleader Bryan McAllister plays in various groups around the Reno area and is the touring keyboardist for indie rock band The Tragic Thrills. He will perform with Shai Golan and David Gervais. Sun, 6/9, 7pm. Pay-what-youcan admission. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., www.renojazz.org.

GENOA CONCERTS ON THE GREEN: Gather in Genoa Park with picnic dinners and free concerts on June 9, July 7, Aug. 11 and Sept. 8. The series kicks off with a performance by Ike & Martin. Sun, 6/9, 5pm. Free. Genoa Park, 2285 Genoa St., www.genoanevada.org.

LAKE’S CROSSING ROCK AND POP FESTIVAL: A collection of some of Reno’s best bands, including Fall Silent, Elephant Rifle, sCHIZoPOLITANs, Stirr Lightly and Pry, perform at this benefit concert open to all ages. In lieu of a cover charge, donations are requested to help a local family going through a tough time. The event will also feature food from Nom Eats and beer from Piñon Bottle. All proceeds from beer sales will be donated to the Margot Beats Cancer Fund (www. gofundme.com/margot-beats-cancerfund). Sun, 6/9, 2pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., www.facebook.com/ events/wingfield-park/lakes-crossingrock-pop-festival/630063264133147/.

BLUESDAYS: Squaw Valley’s 10th annual outdoor concert series features acclaimed blues musicians, food offerings from Village restaurants and a blues bar with beer, wine and spirits available for purchase in the Events Plaza. The series kicks off with The Blues Monsters. Tue, 6/11, 6pm. Free. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine. com/events-things-do/bluesdays.

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: The 15th

CLASSY CLASSICS: Rising star Yirong “Echo”

PROGRAMS ON THE PORCH: Listen to live

Wang joins TOCCATA-Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. Soloist Bruce Kanzelmeyer plays Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3 while Joy Strotz and Owen McIntosh perform Mozart arias and duets. The full orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. Fri, 6/7, 7pm. $0-$40.

St. Theresa Catholic Church, 1041 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe; Sun, 6/9, 4pm. $0-$40. South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 De Spain Lane, (775) 2986989, www.toccatatahoe.org.

CHEERS FOR 50 YEARS: The Sierra High Notes celebrates its anniversary with a concert featuring favorite selections from the past 50 years, as well as few sing-along numbers. Sat, 6/8, 7pm; Sun, 6/9, 2pm. Free; donations welcome.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 324-1940, sierrahighnotes.org.

DANI JOY’S SPEAKEASY SERIES ACT 2: An evening of jazz music harkening back to Prohibition days featuring singer/ ukulele player Dani Joy, Perry Stauffer on upright bass and ukulele and Giorgi Khokhobashvili on violin. Sat, 6/8, 8pm. $24. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500, mountainmusicparlor.com.

annual music series kicks off with a performance by New Wave Crave.

Concerts will be held every Wednesday through Aug. 14. No glass or pets allowed. Bring low-back chairs. Wed, 6/12, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Way, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1866, www.washoecounty.us/parks/ parks_and_trails/calendar.php.

music by Honky Tonk Bums and enjoy a visit from Mark Twain in front of the historic Bowers Mansion. Events will be held on Fridays through June 14. Fri, 6/7, 7pm. Free; donations welcome. Bowers Mansion Regional Park, 4005 Bowers Mansion Road, New Washoe City, (775) 849-1825, www.washoecounty.us/parks/ parks_and_trails/calendar.php.

SQUAW ALPINE SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Enjoy live music at High Camp this summer season. Fri, 6/7, noon-3pm. Free. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road Olympic Valley, (800) 4030206, squawalpine.com.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Enjoy free music on the main stage every Friday and Saturday through Labor Day. Fri, 6/7-Sat, 6/8, 6pm. Free. The Shops at Heavenly Village, 1001 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe, www.theshopsatheavenly.com

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Chez Louie hosts live music by Carolyn Dolan and brunch from 10am to 2pm. Reservations encouraged. Sun, 6/9, 10am. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921, www.nevadaart.org.

ONSTAGE CONSERVATORY OF MOVEMENT SPRING RECITAL: Students from The Conservatory of Movement will perform their annual show. Sat, 6/8, 2pm & 6:30pm. $0-$17.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, www.conservatoryofmovement.com.

FOR LOVE OF A COMSTOCK GIRL: Pipers Opera House Players presents its romantic comedy. After a hard day, four miners all decide they’re going to embrace life and spend the night with the beautiful Julia Bulette. Unfortunately she has plans to attend an opera that night. All might be lost for those poor men, but Mark Twain has a plan. He comes up with the idea of a competition—whoever can prove to Julia they love opera the best will be her date for the show, and her company for later. Due to the sexual innuendos used, the rating for this show is PG-13. Fri, 6/7, 7pm. $50 dinner and show, $20 show only. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433, www.facebook.com/ PipersOperaHousePlayers.

THE FOREIGNER: Reno Little Theater presents Larry Shue’s two-act comedy.

The play demonstrates what can happen when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) doesn’t understand English. Thu, 6/6-Sat, 6/8, 7:30pm; Sun, 6/9, 2pm. $15$25. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.or.

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD: Black Ice Theatre Co. presents Tom Stoppard’s modern dramatic masterpiece. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern is the inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. Thu, 6/6-Sat, 6/8, 7:30pm; Sun, 6/9, 2:30pm. $15-$20. Duke Theater, Lake Tahoe Community College, 1 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, blackicetheatreco.webnode.com.

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

Bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 6/8, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball team plays the Nashville Sounds. Thu, 6/6, 7:05pm. $10-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.milb.com/reno.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball

team plays the Memphis Redbirds. Fri, 6/7-Sat, 6/8, 7:05pm; Sun, 6/9, 1:05pm; Mon, 6/10, 7:05pm. $10-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.milb.com/reno.

by AMY ALKON

Sotally tober I spent years on and off drugs and alcohol, but I’ve been sober for six years. I’m just not the same selfcentered immature brat I was.

Last week, I reached out to my best friend’s brother to apologize for things I did about seven years ago. He still hasn’t responded to my text (requesting time to talk to make amends). He told my friend he was having a hard time believing I’m any different. But I am, and I want to prove to him I have changed. How can I do that?

This view he has of you is likely to have some serious staying power.

That’s because our brain is big on automatic processes—forming and storing what I call “thinkpacks” so we don’t have to put cognitive energy into things we’ve already figured out. For example, say you do something for the first time, like opening a weird latch on a cupboard.

Each time you do it again, the more automatic—that is, the more unthinking—opening it becomes.

Believing works similarly. Once we form a belief, we tend to just go with it—automatically. Questioning a belief, on the other hand, takes mental effort—yanking out our reasoning ability and forcing it to do a bunch of cognitive chores.

Not surprisingly, research by social psychologist Lee Ross, among others, finds that we’re prone to taking the mentally easy way out, succumbing to “confirmation bias”—clinging to what we already believe and ignoring info that says, “Hey, there just might be a new and improved truth in town.”

There’s another problem: Our ego is bound up in our clinging to our beliefs—that is, believing that we were right all along. And though it sounds like you’ve changed your value system—which probably bodes well for your staying sober— if he goes with the idea that you’re on the wagon for good, he risks being proved wrong.

The error that you, like many people, make is in thinking, “I’ll just change somebody’s mind!” and it’ll happen pronto. However, consider your goal: apologizing. You can do that by writing a letter. A letter of apology takes an investment of effort that a phoned or texted apology does not—which makes it more likely to be seen as sincere.

And frankly, if you follow through with the steps for a

meaningful apology— detailing how you wronged him, expressing remorse, and explaining the new values you are now living by—you lay the best foundation for him to... possibly...someday...believe that you truly have changed.

Sure, it’s possible you’ll black out again, but maybe just if somebody clocks you for going overboard with the sobervangelizing. It won’t be like that time when you were drunk and handcuffed and yelling, “Occifers, I’ll have you know that my nickname in middle school was Houdini!”

A body at rust I’ve been married to a wonderful woman for two years. We have a 2-year-old child. Unfortunately, we stopped having sex when she got pregnant and haven’t started again since. She loves me, but she just doesn’t want sex like she used to. (And no, I’m not some sexist dude leaving all the baby care to her.) How can we jump-start our sex life?

Chances are your wife’s libido didn’t get broken in the delivery room or carried off by a raccoon.

In women, desire seems to work differently than how it does in men, according to sex researcher Rosemary Basson. Once women are comfortably ensconced in a relationship, Basson finds that they no longer have the “spontaneous sexual hunger” they did in the early days of dating. Instead, their desire is “responsive,” meaning it is “triggerable”—simply by starting to fool around.

Yes, miraculously, revving up your sex life will probably just take some makeout sessions. Tell your wife about Basson’s research and start scheduling regular romantic evenings. Make them early enough that nobody’s too tired and keep your expectations on medium.

When possible, drop the baby off at Grandma’s and have a sex weekend at a hotel. This may sound like a lot of effort and expense, but it sure beats the alternative. Ω

ERIK HOLLAND

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I don’t think we were

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If there’s any behavior in your own past that you regret, the coming weeks will be a good time to follow Benchley’s lead: Correct for your mistakes; make up for your ignorance; do good deeds to balance a time when you acted unconsciously.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some birds can fly for

days without coming down to earth. Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it help inspire you to take maximum advantage of the opportunities life will be offering you. You will have extraordinary power to soar over the maddening crowd, gaze at the big picture of your life and enjoy exceptional amounts of freedom.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is the Loch Ness monster

real? Is there a giant sea serpent that inhabits the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland? Tantalizing hints arise now and then, but no definitive evidence has ever emerged. In 1975, enterprising investigators got the idea to build a realistic-looking papiermâché companion for Nessie and place it in Loch Ness. They hoped that this “honey trap” would draw the reclusive monster into more public view. Alas, the scheme went awry. (Lady Nessie got damaged when she ran into a jetty.) But it did have some merit. Is there an equivalent approach you might employ to generate more evidence and insight about one of your big mysteries? What strategies might you experiment with? The time is right to hatch a plan.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Earlier in your life, you

sometimes wrestled with dilemmas that didn’t deserve so much of your time and energy. They weren’t sufficiently essential to invoke the best use of your intelligence. But over the years, you have ripened in your ability to attract more useful and interesting problems. Almost imperceptibly, you have been growing smarter about recognizing which riddles are worth exploring and which are better left alone. Here’s the really good news: The questions and challenges you face now are among the finest you’ve ever had. You are being afforded prime opportunities to grow in wisdom and effectiveness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How many languages are

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you fluent it? One? Two? More? I’m sure you already know that gaining the ability to speak more than one tongue makes you smarter and more empathetic. It expands your capacity to express yourself vividly and gives you access to many

interesting people who think differently from you.

I mention this because you’re in a phase of your cycle when learning a new language might be easier than usual, as is improving your mastery of a second or third language. If none of that’s feasible for you, I urge you to at least formulate an intention to speak your main language with greater candor and precision—and find other ways to expand your ability to express yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s Uruguayan writer

Eduardo Galeano from The Book of Embraces: “In the River Plate basin we call the heart a ‘bobo,’ a fool. And not because it falls in love. We call it a fool because it works so hard.” I bring this to your attention because I hope that in the coming weeks, your heart will indeed be a hard-working, wisely foolish bobo. The astrological omens suggest that you will learn what you need to learn and attract the experiences you need to attract if you do just that. Life is giving you a mandate to express daring and diligent actions in behalf of love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 20

years old, a German student named Max Planck decided he wanted to study physics. His professor at the University of Munich dissuaded him, telling Planck, “In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes.” Planck ignored the bad advice and in 1918 won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in formulating quantum theory. Most of us have had a similar experience: people who’ve tried to convince us to reject our highest calling and strongest dreams. In my view, the coming weeks will be a potent time for you to recover and heal from those deterrents and discouragements in your own past.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not all, but many

horoscope columns address your ego rather than your soul. They provide useful information for your surface self, but little help for your deep self. If you’ve read my oracles for a while, you know that I aspire to be in the latter category.

In that light, you won’t be surprised when I say that the most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is to seek closer communion with your soul; to explore your core truths; to focus on delight, fulfillment and spiritual meaning far more than on status, power and wealth. As you attend to your playful work, meditate on this counsel from Capricorn author John O’Donohue: “The geography of your destiny is always clearer to the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian biochemist

Gertrude Belle Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988. She was instrumental in devising new drugs to treat AIDS and herpes, as well as a medication to facilitate organ transplants. And yet she accomplished all this without ever earning a Ph.D or M.D., a highly unusual feat. I suspect you may pull off a similar, if slightly less spectacular feat in the coming weeks: getting a reward or blessing despite a lack of formal credentials or official credibility.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today, Mumbai is a

megacity with 12.5 million people on 233 square miles. But as late as the 18th century, it consisted of seven sparsely populated islands. Over many decades, reclamation projects turned them into a single land mass. I foresee you undertaking a metaphorically comparable project during the coming months. You could knit fragments together into a whole. You have the power to transform separate and dispersed influences into a single, coordinated influence. You could inspire unconnected things to unite in common cause.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785.

And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at realastrology.com.

by MAtt BiEKER

Accidental beekeeper

about five years ago, we had an incident where one of our employees was allergic to bees and they wanted to remove that hive. And it became pretty political, and it actually went to the commissioners, and they said, “No, the beehive is going to stay right where it’s at.” It’s still there today.

Duke Renslow

So, how long have you worked at the courthouse?

I moved to Reno in 1967 and lived at Pyramid Lake for 25 years, and I’ve been with Washoe County for 20 years. I’ve been there this past time for five years.

What’s the story with the hive on the front of the building?

I was assigned to the courthouse originally almost 20 years ago. It was all intact. It was a really thriving beehive at the time. ... You can see a big chunk of it missing, and that happened probably about four years, five years ago. And when that big part came missing, that’s when I started noticing that the bees

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For years now, the historic Washoe County courthouse, 117 S. Virginia St., has hosted thousands of live-in residents on the building’s roof. A large beehive hangs off the courthouse’s southeastern cornice— where hives have been located since the building’s construction—but its health is in visible decline. Less known is the thriving second hive, located on the roof proper, which has been monitored by Facility Maintenance Technician Duke Renslow for the last five years.

kind of relocated to the back side of the courthouse, up on the roof. … It started out just a few little bees, and then every year, it just grows more and more. It has more members, it looks like, than the one in the front of the courthouse now.

Not many people know about the second hive. How big would you say it is?

I don’t know off the top of my head right now. I’d say at least three feet tall, maybe three feet wide.

How have the bees been received by the courthouse staff?

They’ve always been a welcome addition to the courthouse. However,

You probably have the most interaction with the hive. How do they respond to you being there?

Well, I’m allergic to bees also, but as noted when we took the picture, I’m two feet away from them, and I do all the maintenance and set the equipment right by them. I’m not deathly allergic. When I’m working on all the equipment and stuff, they just leave me alone. I leave them alone. They leave me alone.

I didn’t know you were allergic.

Maybe I wouldn’t have asked you to stand so close for the photo.

Oh no, I’ve never been bothered by them.

Is a giant beehive the craziest thing you’ve seen in your years at the courthouse?

Oh, I’ve seen some crazy things at the courthouse besides the bees there, but I don’t want to discuss that. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Dondoo ron ron Looking back, I gotta say, one of the most significant quotes I’ve heard in my time on This Rock came out of the mouth of a man who had literally gotten the shit kicked out of him by a crazed pack of racist L.A. cops. When St. Rodney asked the eternally powerful, if somewhat naive, question, “Can’t we all just get along?” I have to acknowledge that he boiled it down quite nicely.

• More reality about Humans Humans Humans Babies Makin’ Babies. In 1970, the number of people living on this beautiful planet numbered 3.7 billion. In 2020, that number will reach 7.6 billion, a very tidy doubling that will occur in a mere 50 freaking’ years. Where oh where will it all stop, if ever? Best guess—Gaia is expected, sometime this century, to take charge of the situation. Expect her response to be significant.

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Well, here we are, mired in the most corrupt political swamp since Nero was blowing Caligula, and we’ve grown absolutely numb to its overall total horror. Scandals that would’ve been administrationthreatening in the Obama years are now run-of-the-mill in Trump Bizarro World, occurring on a weekly, if not daily, basis. This blizzard of Outrageous Nonstop Dondoo has, predictably enough, bludgeoned many into a comfortably numb stupor. Trump told Congress to piss up a rope? Yawn.

Trump was the shittiest businessman in the History of Money? Yawn.

Trump is doing to subpoenas what he did to that bed in the Moscow Ritz? Crickets. Trump used Barr to get his pedophile pals (Nader, Epstein) into a country club prison?

Zzzzzzz.

The good news is that there’s plenty of time to shake off this numbness. We’re just sorta rest-

ing right now. Want more good news? Well, as long-time conservative David Brooks of the New York Times wrote recently about Republicans, “Young adults hate them.” Dave, you sweet talker you!

Do go on.

He cited the voting realities of the past November, when the under 30’s voted for Dems over Repubs by “an astounding 67 to 32 percent,” and that in a 2018 Pew survey, “57 percent of millenials called themselves liberal, while only 12 percent called themselves conservative. This is the most important statistic in American politics right now.”

• Finally, where are the hell are the leakers? The people in the Justice and Treasury Departments who, in the mischievous spirit of the great Daniel Ellsberg, just flat out leak the unredacted Mueller Report and Trump’s taxes to the NYT/Wapo? Ω

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