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A series of unfortunate teams Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m writing this on Tuesday, Oct. 15, just a few hours before the first pitch of Game 1 of this year’s World Series. I’ve got to admit I feel conflicted about which team to root for this year.

On the one hand, I love Jose Altuve, the Houston Astros’ charismatic 5-foot-6-inch power hitting MVP second baseman. And I had fun rooting for the Astros against the Dodgers a couple of years ago. (As an SF Giants fan, I’m obliged to root against the Dodgers whenever possible.)

On the other hand, the Washington Nationals feel like the scrappy underdogs, and they’ve never been to the World Series before. Plus, I generally prefer National League baseball.

I don’t have any geographic loyalty either way, but I really don’t want to root for a team that shares a zip code with the most racist team in all of sports. Besides, I also hate Walgreens and don’t want to root for a team with the same fucking logo.

Seriously, both the Walgreens pharmacy chain and the Nationals have a stylized red-and-white “W” as their logo. If you were to hold both logos up next to each other, I couldn’t even tell you which was which. And I probably don’t want to spend any time with anyone who could explain the difference.

(My hatred of Walgreens, by the way, stems from back when our office was on Center Street.

There was a Walgreens across the corner—you know, the one over the freeway—so I’d inevitably end up going over there once a week or so for desk snacks or batteries or whatever—and the customer service was always a nightmare.)

But then again, I don’t want to root for a team that would hire a shithead like relief pitcher Roberto Osuna, who allegedly assaulted the mother of his 3-year-old son.

Domestic violence is, of course, a much more serious problem than possibly infringing on the copyright of a century-old pharmacy chain.

Still, I guess it’d be nice if somehow they could both lose.

—BRAD BYNUM bradb@ ne ws r ev i ew . com

Left behind There are consequences for a president creating foreign policy by the seat of his pants.

First, we abandon the one group of fighters who stood with us when we asked and who provided the most important successes in the battles against ISIS. But because of the justifiable outcry by everyone who knows anything about this stuff, our commander in chief now says he’s going to leave a small contingent behind to guard oil fields. I really feel for those brave souls who are left behind to try and accomplish this new mission.

They’re now working in an environment where they’re seen as betrayers who cannot be trusted. And they’re now more outnumbered than before with more hostility aimed at them than just a few weeks ago. This was completely created by the incompetency of Donald J. Trump. There are minimum qualifications for a commander in chief. The current occupier of the Oval Office has none of them.

Elections matter. So do other constitutional options. Lives are at stake.

Michel Rottmann Virginia City Highlands

Our correspondent Re “From the driver’s seat” (Letters, Oct. 17): Dear MG Krebs, You should know that often I write two or three letters to RN&R, depending on how deranged I feel. Since they only print a small fraction, you should be thankful they are protecting you from these objectionable opinions, contrary ideas, and weird writing styles.

And, yes, I will still share my food with you after Collapse.

Craig Bergland Reno Some of us learned a few things from the short California black-outs last week.

One is that our grid-tied PV systems won’t work when the power’s out. So instead of using solar-powered electric clothes dryers, many had to hang out laundry on actual clotheslines. Gasp!

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Freezers full of food defrost and rot in a few short days. Generator-powered freezers require a whole lot of gas to operate for any length of time, and most gas stations don’t pump fuel without power.

Therefore, clotheslines are cool, melting freezers of food are a great excuse to put on a huge feed for all the neighbors, and true food security is best served by stocking up inexpensive nonperishable items rather than relying on costly grid-dependent machines that fail miserably at the worst times.

MRE’s anyone? Rice and beans to fill that empty belly? Sprouts?

Craig Bergland Reno

Motor running Re “Joy ride” (Arts&Culture, Oct. 10): Just want to let you know that Robin Gouty, a.k.a. Giggles, had her Leather and Lace Motorcycle Club chapter OK’d by the Confederation of Clubs quite a few years ago.

She moved to Florida but is truly missed.

P.S. Been meaning to give y’all a hard time about the inserts printed on shiny paper … c’mon!

Shelly Mcfarlane Reno

Therapists out of work There have already been negative impacts to some of our Skilled Nursing Facilities due to corporate greed and recent Medicare payment changes. It’s also anticipated that upcoming changes to Home Health will also have effects on reducing the number of therapies provided to Americans with Medicare. It turns out that an increasing number of large and medium-sized companies have let go 15-25 percent of their therapist workforce in order to increase their profits at the expense of retired Americans. Yes, you read that correctly. The unemployment rate for therapists just took a hit recently.

Retired Americans—our parents, neighbors, friends, and family—that rely on Medicare will now receive less rehabilitative Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Bob Christensen Distribution Drivers Alex Barskyy, Corey Sigafoos, Gary White, Joe Wilson, Marty Troye, Timothy Fisher, Vicki Jewell, Olga Barska, Rosie Martinez, Adam Martinez, Duane Johnson, Linda Berlemann President/CEO Jeff VonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Director of People & Culture David Stogner Director of Dollars & Sense Debbie Mantoan Nuts & Bolts Ninja Norma Huerta Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Hansen Account Jedi Jessica Kislanka Sweetdeals Coordinator Trish Marche Developer John Bisignano

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therapy while these skilled nursing companies get richer. How beneficial is Medicare or Medicare for All when it becomes a weakened shell of the promise made to our retired Americans that just want to get stronger and return home? Why are we not protecting our educated, service industry but instead let the quality of health care decrease across the nation?

I would love to see our representatives roll back a portion of the recent changes that have begun and will continue to decrease the amount of rehabilitative therapy provided to our Medicare recipients. And I would love to see that increasing number of recently unemployed therapists put back to work.

It’s disappointing to allow our retirement health care to regress for Americans that have worked so hard during their lives. Thank you for your time and God bless.

Christopher Lanski Reno

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Ever called 911? asKed aT WesT sTreeT Plaza, 220 W. FirsT sT. Tr avis Windle Bartender

It was in downtown Reno, so, obviously, there were a lot of, kind of, sketchy individuals that come by. I was working at a coffee shop. This one lady decided to come behind the counter. We had to remove her, called the cops, had to get a trespassing charge—all that.

Kevin Bryan Retiree

Yeah, it was in San Francisco.

There was a street mugging going on, and I called 911, and they came down. The response was very fast. One guy was bleeding.

They called an ambulance, but they got the people who did it.

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Boss ladies It was the “year of the woman” at 74th annual Freedom Fund Awards banquet hosted by the Reno-Sparks branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Oct. 19—and it was a great thing to behold.

This year, the NAACP gave its Eddie Scott/Bertha Woodard Human Rights Advocacy Award to two female policy makers—Democratic State Senator Julia Ratti and Reno City Councilmember Jenny Brekhus. Both women have long track records of dedicated work toward solving Northern Nevada’s housing crisis.

But established female professionals were not the only ones recognized this year. Before introducing two of the evening’s speakers, branch First Vice-President Andrew Barbano said that this was “the year of the students.” The students to which he was referring are tenacious, poised, teenagers Emily Hernandez Medina, 19, and Taylissa Marriott, 16.

Marriott took the stage first. Last year, she and her family received the Scott/Woodard Human Rights Advocacy Award for standing up the racial hatred and intimidation and death threats they’d been subjected to in Yerington. She and her sister, Jayla Tolliver, both high school students, found themselves in the center of a community and media storm in 2017 but chose to stay on at Yerington High School to finish their educations. Sadly, according to Marriott, the stress of the circumstances has since led Tolliver to move to Hawthorne to finish school.

In her speech, Marriott thanked the NAACP before explaining, “It has been quite different without her here with me, by my side in school—but, still, things are

getting better. This year, our high school principal has been replaced with an African American principal. I’m not saying that our case was the main factor, but, if you think of it entirely, it was.”

Hernandez Medina, now a freshman electrical engineering student at the University of Nevada, Reno, was the evening’s keynote speaker. According to Barbano, she was the first Latina and youngest person to have filled this role. She came to deliver the graduation address she’d been forbidden from giving as the valedictorian for the 2019 class at North Valleys High School.

“I have never seen such a group of disdainful, condescending people like the North Valleys administration,” she said. “When telling my school registrar about my goals of being valedictorian, the registrar laughed in my face and told me sooner or later I’d realize I couldn’t be valedictorian.”

But she was, having earned the title with a 5.3 GPA and a slew of extracurricular activities under her belt—only to be told by the school’s principal that her commencement address was too negative and wouldn’t be allowed. In truth, the address—titled “To say the least”—mostly celebrated high school underdogs, as this snippet illustrates: “Here’s to all of the fine arts kids, STEM students and those in chess, robotics, Academic Olympics, Latino Club and Key Club—because we are only as good as the sum of our parts. While it seems like athletes are the face of this school, you’re the ones who add so much personality and depth to this community. You’re not invisible.” □

I was feeling ill, and being homeless, I don’t have a phone, so the nearest place I could go was the police station. … They immediately took me in, asked what was going on, and they called emergency services for me. … I went to Renown. They took care of me.

I was there for two weeks. shannon Gallimore City of Reno employee

There was a performance downtown a couple years ago, and there was a guy who had a seizure. One of my performance friends was a nurse, but she wasn’t there, so we held the situation down ourselves.

The ambulance was there in less than 10 minutes. One of my teammates called 911. amanda Perry Sales associate

No, I haven’t, but my husband rolled his truck, so he had to call.

Luckily, he was close to home, so I was able to get right there.

His dumb ass called me first, and I was like, “You need to call 911. They’re going to be able to help you before I can!” He was totally OK.

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BY SHEILA LESLIE

No place like home As winter approaches, Reno continues to struggle with an expanding and inexorable homeless population camping out in city parks and along the river, hidden away in culverts, abandoned buildings or any available nook and cranny. When a local group recently threatened to attempt citizen’s arrests of homeless residents at Pickett Park, a potential confrontation was defused by Reno Police Officer Keith Pleich, who strongly encouraged the movement of people and their possessions to other places and then organized a clean-up of discarded items left behind, as many volunteers who were appalled at the situation distributed food and clothing resources.

It was a short-term response to an intractable and complicated problem.

There’s no one reason people are living in the park. Some are there because their fixed income isn’t enough to afford housing now that many “last-resort” motels have been razed or gentrified for higher-income uses. Others are chronically

homeless due to substance use or mental illness. Still others living in Pickett Park were discharged from Renown Hospital, directly across the street from the park, with no realistic housing plan.

Solutions to the problem are also complicated. Local homeless shelters can be crowded and dangerous places for vulnerable people who are often preyed upon. Many cannot tolerate the noise and close quarters or the druginduced violent behavior and unbending rules. Social workers do the best they can to work on an exit plan for clients with little money and nowhere to go.

But they can’t conjure housing out of thin air. Even new housing resources such as the Sage Street dorms are out of reach financially for those who get about $800 a month in disability payments, since that program requires applicants to have at least $1,320 in monthly income.

Pause for a moment and think about where you would live on a monthly income of $800.

Criminalizing the homeless won’t work either, and it’ll cost the taxpayers far more in police, court and jail costs than actually providing housing. And what will you do with homeless people unable to pay their fines or fees? Punish them by putting them back in jail and pay for their housing there? It makes no moral or financial sense.

Reno isn’t the only city struggling with this issue. In Las Vegas, the homeless are pushed to one part of downtown, which looks like a scene out of a dystopian novel. People live in shabby tents on the sidewalk, and water trucks come in regularly to wash urine and feces out of the gutters. Now Mayor Carolyn Goodman wants to move the mentally ill homeless to the state prison’s Conservation Camp at Jean, 30 miles south of Las Vegas—out of sight, out of mind.

The key to ending homelessness isn’t more camps. We must provide access to homes along with the resources needed to be successful. We could start by targeting

the severely mentally ill and addicted populations and providing meaningful housing resources to help them get off the streets. We need long-term housing arrangements that provide quality supportive housing, not the hovels run by for-profit schemers interested only in snatching disability checks.

That means our community is going to have to step up. We’re going to need a substantial investment from state and local governments and leaders willing to stop pointing fingers of blame and shame. We need a commitment to provide a variety of housing options, such as group homes with wrap-around services and apartments with social workers who drop by regularly to check up on people’s medication and treatment. We’ll also need landlords and neighbors who are willing to embrace this clientele and tolerate the occasional misstep on the road to recovery.

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HOUSING ADVOCATES At this year’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Freedom Fund Awards Banquet—in its 74th year—two female policy makers received the group’s Eddie Scott/Bertha Woodard Human Rights Advocacy Award, Democratic state senator Julia Ratti and Reno City Councilmember Jenny Brekhus.

Sen. Ratti was given the award in response to her introduction of an affordable housing measure during the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature. She introduced Senate Bill 398 without any co-sponsors.

The measure was designed to clarify that local governments have the authority to come up with their own solutions—like rent control—to the region’s affordability crisis. It passed the state senate with bi-partisan support but was tabled in the lower house before the end of the session.

In his press release concerning the awards banquet, NAACP First Vice-President Andrew Barbano said Ratti had “won by losing.”

“Las Vegas lawmakers asserted that the bill was unnecessary because current law grants municipalities all the power they need to regulate rentals,” Barbano wrote, saying the result of Ratti’s bill was “a legislative finding that all local governments need is courage.”

But it’s a matter of statutes are interpreted, Ratti said.

“When you’ve got a whole bunch of different attorneys looking at the same law and coming to different conclusions—then what I was trying to do with SB 398 was clarify that,” Ratti said. “So, I think if we don’t see local governments moving forward and testing the authorities that we believe they have, then clarifying that law would make sense.

Reno City Councilmember Jenny Brekhus also received the award this year, in part because she put forth a resolution to create a tenants issues and concerns board as a measure to accompany Mayor Hillary Schieve’s recently announced “1,000 homes in 120 Days” pilot initiative—which has been approved.

The council is seeking proposals for 1,000 housing units in developments of 30 units or more in the coming months. Any developers who receive approval for their projects will receive deferred sewer and infrastructure impact fees until later—at as-yet undetermined dates—in their building efforts.

‘I applaud the mayor for bringing it forward, but, at the same point, I wanted to bring a companion effort,” Brekhus said.

As of press time, the city council was scheduled to review Brekhus’ resolution at its Oct. 23 meeting. If approved, the tenants issues and concerns board would include two members appointed by the mayor, as well as two by each council member. It would, Brekhus said, investigate Reno’s housing needs and challenges before suggesting regulations and policies to adopt and/ or powers to request from the legislature.

“I don’t want to prejudge anything, but the one issue that is of concern to me is rent gouging,” Brekhus said.

Ratti also mentioned concerns over price gouging, adding that it’s not just officials in local, state and federal government who should be considering their role in solving—or perpetuating—the housing crisis.

“It’s each of us,” she said. “If you have an Airbnb right now, and you’re keeping it as an Airbnb instead of allowing somebody in Northern Nevada to have housing, you’re contributing to it.”

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Recent years have seen several lawsuits against the Washoe County School District.

Extracurricular activity School District plays hardball in wake of lawsuits The Washoe County School District continues to go after its critics in ways that some say are vindictive and possibly illegal. Lawsuits against the district reveal WCSD crafting what critics say are self-affirming narratives.

HUNT’S CASE Fired administrator Jenny Hunt, who alleges discrimination by district administrators, had her gynecological records subpoenaed by the school district as part of her case.

“The School District has issued approximately two dozen subpoenas to various third parties, such as Hunt’s prior and subsequent employers, medical providers, cell phone provider and educational institutions,” wrote attorney Anthony Hall, who was hired by WCSD to defend itself against Hunt’s claims.

Attorneys on both sides subsequently moved to declare lawsuit documents confidential. A filing in July noted that oral testimony and legal documents would be marked as confidential and, within 45 days of the suit’s conclusion, should be destroyed.

Hunt’s attorney has not responded to requests for comments. Hunt has also refused to comment on the case. Likewise, WCSD officials did not respond to a question as to how Hunt’s medical records are relevant to her lawsuit.

OLSEN’S CASE A more recent lawsuit revealed that district officials gave to the news media documents it initially declared confidential. That suit was filed by an assistant principal, Trina Olsen, who has had a multi-year fight against WCSD. It is predicated on WCSD’s illegal firing of Olsen, according to Olsen’s attorney.

The district, however, paid for its own investigation into what it claimed were Olsen’s allegations. WCSD used the same attorney, Hall, that it has hired to defend itself against Hunt.

Hall told Olsen in July that the results of his investigation he conducted into her claims were confidential. “This is a confidential report and should not be shared except with your counsel or union representative,” he wrote.

Olsen said that after she filed her lawsuit against the school district in October, she received a call from a Reno Gazette Journal reporter who said she had a copy of Hall’s investigation and said it cleared the district of any wrongdoing.

Olsen contacted Hall. His response: “There was no confidentiality agreement that was used as part of the investigation.”

Giving a previously declared confidential document to the news media could breach personnel statutes, one legal expert said. David Broomfield is a

professor of Education Leadership, Law & Policy Brooklyn College and The CUNY Graduate Center. He is also the former general legal counsel for the New York City school district.

“Assuming the district’s attorney’s representation to the assistant principal was correct and indeed confidential, then the district breached its legal duty by releasing it to the press unless the assistant principal first waived the right by releasing it to you, even if you didn’t initially publish it,” he said.

A caveat: “If the investigation report was a matter of general public concern, not specifically a personnel matter, it might not be subject to personnel confidentiality and be treated as a public document under state sunshine laws or other legal theory,” he continued. “On the other hand, if indeed the release was illegal, the assistant principal can sue for additional damages even if the conclusions were true.”

Olsen’s attorney, Luke Busby, said the investigation and its release to the news media miss the mark as to what Olsen’s case is about—specifically, that she was found by an outside arbitrator to have been illegally fired by the school district.

Arbitration is mandated in state law, but WCSD officials said the district does not have to be held by arbitrator decisions in employee disputes. The district is currently appealing a completely different arbitrator’s decision in district court. That arbitrator, in a case separate from Olsen’s, ordered an employee reinstated because it found WCSD fired the employee without cause.

Full back pay and benefits were ordered by the arbitrator, but due to WCSD’s appeal, the employee is now looking at another six to 12 months of potential unemployment.

The district’s responses to such matters are drawing heightened criticism.

“The RGJ’s article focused on Mr. Hall’s investigation and ignored the arbitrator’s key findings that: WCSD violated [state law] when Traci Davis terminated Ms. Olsen on July 5, 2018, without waiting for the final report from the arbitrator,” Busby explained.

In his investigation, Hall found that Olsen was “dishonest,” “disingenuous,” and her complaints did not rise to the level of “protected activity.”

He investigated whether Olsen was bullied on several fronts. When Olsen requested an investigation into her situation, however, she asked the

WCSD administration to “fulfill their obligation to properly investigate my Hostile Work Environment and Retaliation claim, avoiding unnecessary litigation and media attention.”

That was in 2018. It wasn’t until March of this year that the school district’s attorney, Neil Rombardo, in concert with then-Superintendent Traci Davis, approved an investigation. What was investigated is disputed.

“WCSD did not meet their burden of proof that the alleged actions of Ms. Olsen constituted misconduct, as alleged. WCSD took disciplinary measures against Ms. Olsen [that] were retaliatory, and WCSD’s dismissal of Ms. Olsen was arbitrary and capricious,” Busby explained. “Unfortunately, the District chose to respond to Olsen’s lawsuit with the public release of its ‘confidential investigation,’ to the RGJ, which was conducted months after the arbitrator’s decision.”

Olsen maintained that she reported in good faith what she viewed as serious issues at WCSD, including a teacher who gave marijuana back to a student. The district moved to fire her in part by saying that she made “false claims” about her supervisor, then Hug High School Principal Lauren Baxter Ford. The arbitrator disagreed with the district’s position and ordered Olsen reinstated.

Hall’s later investigation into Olsen’s claims, Busby said, was far from objective.

“The District did not achieve the result it wanted in the arbitration conducted by a fair and impartial third party neutral between itself and Ms. Olsen, so it hired its own lawyer to

conduct an investigation of itself to get the result it wanted,” he said.

Davis’ case Former Superintendent Davis, who is named as a defendant in Olsen’s case, has also filed a lawsuit against WCSD over her firing earlier this year. Davis, through her attorney, alleged that her firing was conducted in violation of state law and district policies.

Ironically, a claim by the district as part of her termination, is that Davis leaked confidential documents to those involved with Hunt’s lawsuit—two former district administrators who were fired just before Davis.

“No evidence was provided that Superintendent Davis was the source of any confidential information allegedly possessed or passed on by [an employee],” Davis’ attorney, William Peterson said.

“Notwithstanding the lack of evidence, the [school board of trustees] came to its predetermined conclusion, voting to terminate [Davis] for cause...”

School District officials have denied any wrongdoing, and the district has vowed to defend itself against what it is calling baseless allegations. It did not respond to a number of questions for this story. □

This story was published in collaboration with the news website ThisIsReno.com.

Top of her class

Emily Hernandez Medina was valedictorian of the 2019 North Valleys High School class but was not allowed to give her commencement speech. She gave it on Oct. 19 at the 74th Annual Freedom Fund awards banquet hosted by the Reno-Sparks NAACP. This is how it ended: “I was told I couldn’t be valedictorian. I was criticized for being an art dork. I was disparaged constantly for being a first-generation Latina. Being valedictorian means nothing, but what I’ve done as an individual shines through. I’m more than a 5.3 GPA. I’m more than nine AP classes. I’m more than the number only recognizes me for—and so are you, class of 2019.”

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People line up to ride the lift at Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe on opening day 2018.

Get snowed Ski season opens Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe will be the first of the region’s ski resorts to open this season.

Friday, Oct. 25, is opening day at the resort. It’s something the resort has been planning on all summer, said Siani Nau, Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe community relations manager.

“We aim for a six-month season, so that’s always our goal,” she said.

To achieve it, the resort relies on snow-making early in the season.

“We’re always snow-making as early as possible,” Nau said. “We aim to make snow as early as Oct. 1, and we actually were able to do it early this year, on Sept. 28.”

Last year, the resort installed 17 new snow-making towers—and, over the summer—they added an additional nine. These were part of $1.5 million in on-mountain improvements made. Others include the resort’s new ticketing and lift gate system, designed to give skiers and snowboarders simplified lift access.

Opening day is Friday, Oct. 25, but the resort will be open all weekend.

“All tickets will be $20 this weekend,” Nau said. “It’s going to be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday. … We’ll have DJs and live music out there on Friday morning. … It always gets our passholders excited. People just can’t wait to get back on the snow, so it’s always just a good, fun party.”

In addition to patrons, the resort is also seeking employees for the season and has already hosted hiring events for seasonal jobs at Sierra Nevada College, Truckee Meadows Community College and the University of Nevada, Reno.

“We hosted an open-house and a hiring mixer last Saturday here at the main lodge,”

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Nau said. “People were able to get information and on-site interviews. … But they can still go online to apply at skirose.com.

We’re still looking for all kinds of positions, including ski patrol, lift operations, ski team and ski and snowboard instructors. And there are ‘inside’ jobs available as well, so it’s not like you have to be a skier or snowboarder, but it’s pretty fun—because one of the perks includes a free season pass.”

Other ski resorts are seeking seasonal employees as well as they prepare for opening dates in November.

Sierra-at-Tahoe Boreal Mountain Resort is set to open Nov. 8. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows resort plans to open Nov. 15. Both Heavenly Lake Tahoe and Northstar California are set to open Nov. 22—and Kirkwood Mountain Resort is set for Nov. 27.

Sugar Bowl is set to be the last resort to open before December, on Nov. 29.

Many who are anxious to hit the slopes this season will be looking for information on snow forecasting websites run by professional and selftaught, amateur meteorologists in resort regions around the nation. In the Tahoe region, they’re likely to turn to Bryan Allegretto of opensnow.com, a website that’s been forecasting snow for the region since 2011. But they might not get much information—yet.

On Oct. 21, Allegretto published a daily snow report saying that he was “watching a cold trough that may” push into our area from the east on Sunday and into early next week.

“Right now it looks like just colder air and maybe a few scattered snow showers if any,” he wrote, adding, “We are not big fans of seasonal forecasts since they are very hard to predict. We know that the forecast models lose a lot of accuracy over a two-week period, so how can they predict anything beyond that?” Ω

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Derek Reid, a captain with the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District agrees.

“For years, there’s always been CISM,” Reid said. “The issue with that is it’s more reactive. If there’s an incident, they usually will call a critical incident stress debriefing. And Critical Incident Stress Management is usually after the fact. … So, we’ve never been in front of it. We’ve always been on the tail end of it, which is, ‘Oh, man, we were exposed to this massive amount of trauma on this call, and now we’re trying to pick up the pieces rather than hit it on the front end.’”

Both men have taken part in the CISM process during their careers and both are a part of their agencies’ respective peer support teams, which are working to change the way local emergency responders care for their own mental health by being resources for those dealing with work-related and even personal problems.

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nyone who’s had to call for emergency responders—be it the result of a car accident, a fire, a home burglary or an assault—knows that it can take a while to recover from the stress and the toll it can take on one’s mental health. But what about those people on the other side of that 911 call? How do the people whose job is it to help regular citizens through the toughest days of their lives keep themselves mentally healthy?

How do emergency responders look after their own mental health?

The answer to that question lies in a decades-old stress management procedure, and the ways that first responding agencies like police and fire departments are adapting, rethinking and supplementing it to create environments where mental health is more than an afterthought in the wake of frequent trauma.

CRITICAL THINKING Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) has been in practice for decades. It’s a system that was designed to help emergency responders deal with the trauma to which they’re regularly exposed.

CISM was developed in the 1970s

by Jeffrey Mitchell, a clinical professor of Emergency Health Services and former firefighter and paramedic. Today,

PEER-TO-PEER Mitchell and others in his field run the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF), which offers training courses in CISM to first responders from thousands of agencies across the country and the globe.

CISM, according to materials on the ICISF website, has seven core components. These include (1) pre-crisis preparation through stress management education and mitigation training; (2) disaster and community support programs like “town hall meetings;” (3) defusings, which are three-phase group discussions for first responders that happen within hours of a traumatic event; (4) critical incident stress debriefings (CISD), which are seven-phase group discussions for first responders that usually happen several days after a traumatic event; and—when necessary—(5) one-on-one crisis intervention and counseling; (6) family crisis intervention; and (7) follow-up and referral procedures for those who may still need additional help.

Number four on that list is the one with which some civilians may be familiar. Stress debriefings have long been a standard practice for local police and fire departments.

But, increasingly over the last several years, local agencies have been incorporating new tactics in response to what they see as the shortcomings of CISM and debriefings.

“There was much more that needed to be addressed—the day-to-day stuff that needed to be addressed, which CISM does not address,” said Randy Vawters, a sergeant with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office.

Reid, whose career in public safety includes five years as a medic and 20 as a firefighter, is the leader of TMFPD’s peer support team. The newest among the local agencies, it was started less than a year ago. Reid said his interest in the team was spurred in part by poor past experiences with CISM. “A long time ago, the defusings didn’t help me,” Reid said. “They actually made me more angry. One of the reasons is because the people that were facilitating the debriefings weren’t public safety people. We’ve done better on that side, where the people who make up the team are first responders. And they have an understanding. They’ve done the job.

They’ve had the calls. So there’s more trust built into that model.”

Building a trusting environment is one of the biggest goals of the peer support teams at all of the local agencies. In fact, leaders at local agencies say its the first step to even getting a peer support team off the ground.

At the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Darin Balaam said the first step to ensuring the success of peer support efforts to remove officers’ fears of reprisal should they seek help.

“There is this barrier and fear within law enforcement that if they come out and people find out in the organization, ‘I’m going to lose my job,’ or, ‘Others are going to think I’m crazy,’” Balaam said. “The big push for us … is that we’ve been trying to break those barriers within the organization and change the culture. We’re not here to take anybody’s job. We know we’re all human. We all put our pants on the same way. But we also

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“FIRST TO MIND” continued from page 13 know that we lead the nation in suicides.

And it’s time to stop that.”

Vawters pointed out that confidentiality laws passed in the past several years have helped lessen these concerns.

“All of the conversations we have on our peer team are bound by law to be confidential,” he said. “We can’t talk about it, nor can we be mandated to talk about it.”

But, according to Balaam, “Traditionally, we’ve never talked about any of this. It’s been taboo”—and he wants to see that change.

“It’s always been, at least in my perception of my career, you take that case; we don’t show emotions, and then onto the next case,” he said. “For me it’s kids. And when I had kids, it made it sensitive. And, so, you go to that dead baby call, you take the report, give it to the detectives and on to the next call—and that’s kind of the expectation.

What I’ve tried to do is talk about it and say, ‘We know it affects you. It affects me. It affects everybody, and it’s OK to cry.’ … It’s trying to create that encouraging environment where it’s OK to cry. … If you find yourself overwhelmed, it’s OK. That’s part of the human recovery process.”

TEAMING UP At the Reno Police Department, there had been an unofficial peer support team for years that’s manifested in one form or another since the first official support effort fell by the wayside during the Great Recession. Last December, the department officially restarted the team, and, in early August, they appointed a uniquely qualified officer as team leader.

Brandon Cassinelli has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. He’s the RPD’s new embedded resource officer for its peer support team, which he said he’s working to ensure is comprised of officers and employees of every rank.

“I think we have four at the dispatch level, 12 at the officer level, and at least two supervisors now,” he said. “It helps to have a good spread, demographic-wise—because somebody at your tenure you might feel more normalized speaking with, or your age group or gender. It may go along a whole bunch of lines, as far as trust goes.”

Tasheeka Clairborne, a patrol officer on the peer support team, agrees with him.

“From a lower tenure perspective, and being on patrol, I think actually instituting it and having supervisors that have a lot of tenure on the team—it’s normalizing it,” she said. “It’s to where, even when we’re on patrol … if something happens, and I happen to be on the call with [another officer], and we’ll be sitting car by car, and they’ll tell me how they were feeling or what they thought while the scene happened. It’s kind of like an emotional debriefing, without it being so formal. And I think just having the title we have here, ‘peer support,’ makes it way easier for officers to feel even OK talking about it in the first place.”

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She also believes the department’s Mobile Outreach Safety Team, which pairs clinicians with police officers to respond to mental health crises in the community, is beneficial—because it gives officers the opportunity to be around a mental health professional and talk in an informal environment. Both Cassinelli and Clairborne agree that peer support is normalizing discussions about mental health issues among their ranks. Cassinelli believes a culture change is happening outside of RPD, too.

“At least in the valley, I know it’s changing,” Cassinelli said. “I can speak directly to that. Sheriff Balaam and Chief [Jason] Soto are very vocal about wanting to take care of their people, so that their people are able to take care of other people and take care of the community they’re in.”

For Reno Fire Department Captain John Mandell, who’s that agency’s peer support team coordinator. Understanding emergency responders are a part of the community—and getting them to do the same for themselves— has been critical.

“We serve our community,” Mandell said. “In responding to emergencies, we serve our community directly. By taking home the trauma from helping the community, it hurts our families—and that, in turn, hurts our community. So it’s kind of a cycle, like, if we can’t be present and helpful and positive “We are normal people, but we are massively exposed to trauma,” said Derek Reid of Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District.

“It’s trying to create that encouraging environment where it’s OK to cry. … If you find yourself overwhelmed, it’s OK. That’s part of the human recovery process.”

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in our family lives, that has a negative affect on our families, which are also a part of the community. So we’re kind of taking this community approach to it.”

As a part of this approach, Mandell said, an important aspect of the RFD’s 21-person peer support team’s work is to provide similar services to firefighters’ families. While many firefighters or other first responders will shield their families from what they experience—and while the team isn’t there to “spill the beans,” he said—talking to the families as well let’s them “know what the firefighter is going through and what to expect, just to kind of keep them clued in on the process so that they don’t feel so abandoned or left out.”

“Our mission statement is to provide emotional health and well being for firefighters and their families,” Mandell said. “So,

really, it’s hard to describe what it looks like, but it could be anything—any type of support a firefighter needs, whether it’s work-related stress or home-related stress, dealing with a critical incident, dealing with disappointment from not getting promoted, just dealing with the burnout from working. … Or we can help them with their personal life—marriage, financial, children issues.”

Mandell also sees the culture surrounding emergency response work changing.

“I know people are reaching out for help, and that’ s another indicator,” he said.

“We’ve had 41—what we call contacts— we’ve had 41 contacts since April of this year from Reno firefighters reaching out to our team for some form of assistance. So the team is getting used. … And, just this morning, we were talking about counseling and talking about counselors. And that’s something you just didn’t talk about. If you went to marriage counseling, maybe you’d tell one or two people that you’re real close with and felt secure with. But, now, four of us were sitting around talking about counseling and our experiences with counseling this morning. Conversations like that didn’t used to happen.”

Still, people like Mandell, and his counterparts on other peer support teams around the valley, say there’s more work to be done to protect the psyches of first responders—from finding the right counselors to talk with them to making sure their out-of-pocket costs for care aren’t astronomical.

FINDING SOLUTIONS According to both fire and police peer support team members, finding clinicians who are willing and prepared to talk with first responders can be a challenge.

“What we do is we go and seek out counselors that are willing to understand the fire culture and even be willing to do ride-alongs,” said TMFPD’s Reid. “That way they can understand the job. They can understand the camaraderie that goes on within the station.

We are normal people, but we are massively exposed to trauma. Every day we come to work, it could be a dead elderly person or a baby. It could be a heinous car accident.

It could be a fire where people get burned, or just the fire in itself can be traumatic because our own lives are on the line when we go into a house and we can’t see anything. We feel heat, and all we have is the senses of being able to feel where we are. … We’re a unique group, but we are normal people.”

At the sheriff’s office, they also vet clinicians to see who should be talking with their officers.

“We started a few years ago, we would look at the ones that like [Employee Assistance Program] and our insurance uses and refers us to,” Vawters explained. “We had a set of questions we would ask, and that became very time consuming—because there’s a significant list. So, then we started going off referrals from people who had utilized EAP or various insurance services for mental health, and saying, ‘Hey, this person really worked for me.

This person really didn’t work for me.’ So, it’s really been word of mouth. And we do a lot of collaboration with other teams to see who’ve they’ve vetted.”

At RFD, Mandell said he’s pleased with the list of “six or seven clinicians that are trauma trained, trauma experienced and can handle that stuff and handle talking to a firefighter” that his department has put together.

Something the agencies have also been working on is ensuring insurance or worker’s compensation payments when emergency

“‘Peer support,’ makes it way easier for officers to feel even OK talking about it,” said Reno Police Department Officer Tasheeka Clairborne, seen here with public information officer Travis Warren.

responders need care after a traumatic event— which hasn’t been entirely easy.

“They’re used to seeing injuries—broken legs, broken arms,” Balaam said. “This was mental health, and so we had to pull in the county because [officers] had to start paying for some of those sessions by themselves. And so that’s a learning curve for peer support. We’re having to say to the county, ‘When we come to you with individuals who don’t have obvious physical injuries, it’s because it’s mental … And just like if you broke your arm, we’re going to provide those services to you.’ So, the county has been very good, and peer support has been awesome at creating that environment where, ‘I know if I come forward it’s not coming out of my pocket.’”

On Oct. 15, agencies across the valley— including the sheriff’s office, RPD, RFD, TMFPD, the coroner’s office and others—met to share some of their insights during a four-hour peer support workshop. Going forward, Balaam wants to see this type of cross-agency cooperation continue.

“This is a critical need,” he said. “And it’s not just the sheriff’s office. It’s all of us pooling together, and that’s something we’re dedicated to—changing the culture.” □

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Field day Picking through the Truckee Meadow’s local harvest festivals

BY NICOLE SZANTO

Almost overnight, leaves have transformed from spring-green to warm shades of red, yellow and orange. Cozy sweaters came out of storage, and coffee shops started adding pumpkin-themed beverages to their menus. Alongside the cooler temperatures and comforting meals comes more than a few autumninspired festivities. The area is bustling with harvest festivals, where locals and visitors alike can enjoy classic seasonal activities, like picking the perfect pumpkin in the patch and getting lost in a corn maze.

Close to downtown Reno, Ferrari Farms is hosting its 22nd annual harvest festival on Mill St. “My father started the farm here in 1971, and I got the idea to start the patch,” said owner Frank Ferrari, Jr. “It started as a small patch on the side of the road, and every year we started adding something new. We added a corn maze and a bounce house, and every year we’re still adding something new.”

The pumpkin patch at Ferrari Farms charges by size, with little pumpkins costing just $1. Among the standard Halloween-orange pumpkins, there’s also white, green and heirloom varietals in funky shapes.

One of the most popular activities is the corn maze, which anyone you catch coming out will tell you is “bigger than it looks.” The staff says there is about a 50/50 success rate if you attempt to navigate it without getting any clues. Chances go up if you ask for a hint from a staff member.

Best friends Aliyah Velasquez, age 7, and Zoey Olguyn, age 8, felt excited and confident they’d be able to find their way through. They chanted “Corn maze! Corn maze!” at the entrance.

“I love seeing the kids and the families,” said real estate agent Michelle Duhamel, who decided to work at the Ferrari Farms Harvest Festival after a busy summer season, “I’ve never seen anyone cry on their way out, that’s for sure.”

Friday through Sunday, the crowds at Ferrari Farms double, as festival-goers gear up for the Zombie Hunt ($20), where participants climb on a trailer loaded with paintball guns and get to shoot at staff dressed up as zombies. If safety is a your concerns, don’t worry, the team wears padded uniforms to protect from the impact of the paintballs, but

“I love seeing the kids and families. I’ve never seen anyone cry on their way out, that’s for sure.”

Michelle Duhamel, Ferrari Farms Harvest Festival staff

Many local festivals add scary twists to traditional corn mazes.

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guests should take care to not point their barrels at anyone else.

The Zombie Invasion continues north, in Sparks, at Andelin Family Farm. Andelin Family Farm hosts two Zombie Paintball events per night ($15 per person, $5 for an additional 100 paintballs) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. For even more scary good times, visitors can experience the Corn Creepers Haunt ($13), where actors in their best Halloween costumes lurk around corners and foliage, ready to surprise visitors as they walk through a haunted cornfield.

If scary isn’t your thing, Andelin Family Farms continues the action with Scarecrow Paintball Safari ($10 per person, $5 when added to the pumpkin patch) on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., where guests ride on a hay wagon and shoot paintballs at scarecrows.

Another reason people love harvest festivals is all of the animals they’ll get to meet at the farms.

Ferrari Farms is home to curious llamas, adorable baby goats (who sometimes hang out at the barn’s yoga classes), timid sheep, and Sweetheart, a gentle cow whose been bottle-fed on the farm her whole life. At Andelin Family Farms, kids can enjoy rides on ponies and horses ($5).

At Corley Ranch’s Harvest Festival in Gardnerville, the pig races take center stage, where pigs Wilbur, Charlotte, Bacon and Pumpkin race three times a day on weekends.

“The races are different every time” said Festival Coordinator John Rapher. “You never know which one is going to win. It’s always exciting—we’ve had them jump and clear the four-foot fence.”

After the pig races, champion gymnasts Mason Parodi and Malik Depasquale perform an aerial acrobatics show, carrying out flips and maneuvers up to 40 feet in the air.

The $8 entrance fee gives you access to the pig races, hay slide, straw maze, farm animals, mini-golf, wagon rides, Huck and Schuck and a corn maze.

Train rides and the giant apple sling shot cost extra. Local food vendors are on-site on weekends when the event draws crowds of up to 300 people a day.

PHOTOS BY LOGAN VEITH

A young festival goer examines the heavy farming equipment.

Ranch Owner Paul Corley hopes that the festival gives kids an opportunity to learn and grow.

“It’s a wonderful thing for the kids,” said Corley. “We teach them about pumpkins and about how to take care of things—because a lot of children see the pumpkin, they carve it and then they throw it in the garbage, but there’s more to a pumpkin than that. Maybe they would like to take the seeds out and dry them and grow their own pumpkin patch.”

In Fallon, Lattin Farms hosts a Fall Festival with Scarecrow Making Factory ($6) and a Wizard of Oz-themed corn maze.

If guests plan on heading to one of the farm-based harvest festivals, they can also grab some fall-themed decorations, fresh produce and locally raised meats.

Ferrari Farms sells decoration corn, dried corn stalks and colorful squash and gourds, which you can use for either cooking or decorating. Andelin Family Farms sells farm-raised beef and pork products, fresh eggs and sugar and spiced baked goods.

Weekends at the Harvest Festivals are more crowded than the weekdays and generally offer more activities, but weekdays tend to be calmer.

“Normally we come mid-week, and pick out pumpkins, but it’s fun to come on the weekends because there’s more stuff going on,” said Corley Ranch attendee Samantha Deputy.

There’s really something for everyone at the area’s colorful harvest festivals. Kids smile ear to ear as they scour the patches for pumpkins, young couples hold hands on wholesome dates, and the occasional selfie-obsessed teens pose for the perfect Instagram post. □

Andelin Family Farms

8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks 530-8032 www.andelinfamilyfarm.com Dates: Tuesday – Saturday until Oct. 31.

Activities: Pumpkin Patch | Pony Rides | Hay Rides| Barrel Train Rides | Farm Animals | Face Painting | Corn Cannon | 5 Acre corn maze | Scarecrow Paintball | Zombie Paintball

Ferrari Farms

4701 Mill St. 997-3276 www.ferrarifarms.org Dates: Daily until October 31.

Activities: Pumpkin Patch | Corn Maze | Corn Walk | Zombie Paintball | Bounce House | Farm Animals | Face Painting | Hayrides

Corley Ranch 859 U.S. Hwy. 395, Gardnerville 790-1705 www.corleyranch.org Dates: Tuesday – Sunday until Oct. 31 Activities: Pumpkin Patch | Hay Rides | Pig Races | Hay Slide | Kiddie Land | Mini Golf | Corn Maze | Giant Apple Sling Shot

Lattin Farms 1955 McLean Road, Fallon 867-3750 www.lattingfarms.com Dates: Saturdays until Oct. 26 Activities: Pumpkin Patch | Wizard of Oz Corn Maze | Scarecrow Factory | Crafter’s Market | Pumpkin Tower

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by MARK EARNEST

Several Moderngram dancers work through a sequence in “Mirrors,” which premieres this weekend at the Potentialist Workshop.

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Three dancers move inside an enclosed linen sheet, with fluorescents inside as a light source.

You can’t see their features, but occasionally a hand or head will poke through the structure as the dancers move along the floor at the Potentialist Workshop. While they try to figure out individual movements, Erica French gives them loose instructions. There’s some struggle, but also a lot of laughter.

This expressive dance piece is part of Moderngram Dance’s newest show, “Mirrors,” which takes place this week. French and the troupe she founded and performs with has the workshop for 72 hours to make their work come to life, and while French said it has been “chaos,” it’s also exactly what she wants.

“We’re a lot more open to the dancers being expressive in the way they are personally,” French said. “That’s partly why modern dance is a rebellion against the uniformity of ballet. If I give someone a movement, it’s not exactly what I ask for. It morphs into something else, and I’m so down with that.”

That freedom of expression is something fellow Moderngram dancers and choreographers like Maggie Stack also appreciate. Stack moved to Reno from the Bay Area, where she worked as a professional dancer, and the theme of how you see yourself and how others see you is part of most pieces in “Mirrors,” including the one Stack choreographed.

“As a performer, I found it very shitty to be asked to put things on constantly,” Stack said. “‘Maggie do this. Maggie do it this way. Maggie be this size, go this high, do it at this musicality for this song—and now I’m like, ‘Cool, I really don’t want to do that anymore.’” |

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“Mirrors” is Moderngram’s second show after the eight-dancer troupe was founded by French in 2017.

“I wanted a way to explore dance that was more on video, which is its own niche art form,” French said. “In lieu of finding dancers who wanted to work on a certain video project we were doing, I ended up finding ones who also wanted to dance onstage, so we had our first show, ‘Boxes.’”

That show took place in 2018 at the Bluebird Nightclub, 555 E. 4th St., and French said it has been challenging but rewarding to move Moderngram around to different venues. “We kind of created a theater in-the-round for ‘Boxes,’ so there were a lot of variables that went with that, but the Bluebird were very generous to us on pricing the space, and for starving artists like us that was really awesome. And then we were able to pay for [the Potentialist] space via fundraising.”

What Moderngram is doing is not far removed from the DIY ethos of a punk show, just in a different medium. Stack finds the approach liberating.

“We’re all from very different backgrounds and walks of life, and have very different movement styles, but everyone has the has same idea: to just dance and create,” she said. “To walk into that was very refreshing.”

With local videographers, production designers and musicians also helping the group realize its projects, Moderngram is truly creativity in motion.

Both women, though, laughed heartily when asked if they were already working on the next project.

“Right now, we are focusing on this show only,” Stack said. “It really does take an army to do this, so after this show our army needs a nice hiatus.

But, we will hit the refresh button and do it all over again at some point.” Ω

“Mirrors” takes place at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 25 and 26; and 6:30 p.m., Oct. 27, at the Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St. See Moderngram’s videos and learn more about the dance company at moderngramdance.com

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Back to life Since the release of the first Zombieland back in 2009, much has happened in the entertainment land of the undead. A little show called The Walking Dead premiered a year later and, sadly, the zombie maestro himself, George Romero, passed away.

A decade later, Emma Stone has an Oscar for La La Land, Woody Harrelson got his third nomination in that stretch, and Jesse Eisenberg was nominated for The Social Network. Abigail Breslin also had an Oscar nom before the first film for Little Miss Sunshine. With all of this Oscar business, might this crew of performers opt for more snobby fare rather than blowing up ghoul skulls for laughs?

Nope, director Ruben Fleischer returns with the whole crew—shockingly—intact for Zombieland: Double Tap, a film that does little to reinvigorate the genre, but still delivers plenty of laughs and zombie gore to merit a look. It’s basically the same as the first movie, with a little less originality punch, but some more laughs thanks to a new costar.

The zombie killers have taken up residence in the White House, with Wichita (Stone) and Columbus (Eisenberg) in a relationship that requires them to cover up the eyes on the Lincoln portrait when they bed down at night. Columbus has his sights set on marriage, while Wichita still has some commitment issues. Tallahassee (Harrelson) is still searching for Twinkies with a new goal to visit Graceland while leaving shredded zombies in his wake, while Little Rock (Breslin) wouldn’t mind having her first boyfriend ever at the age of 22.

Situations arise so it all becomes a roadtrip again, one that eventually leads to Graceland—sort of—and a commune called Babylon that looks like one of the towers that was on the cover of Wilco’s classic album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Columbus and Tallahassee ride Segways at a decimated mall—an ode to Romero’s Dawn of the Dead—and run into Madison (Zoey Deutch), a valley girl who has survived all these years living inside a

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freezer at the food court’s frozen yogurt shop. Deutch is a total crackup here, mining laughs in every scene she occupies. When the film threatens to go a bit stale, Madison swoops in donning her pink leisure suit with fake fur—she’s also a vegan—and livens things up.

Another joke that works out just fine is the late-inthe-movie entrance of Albuquerque (Luke Wilson) and Flagstaff (Thomas Middleditch), two zombie hunters who look and sound an awful lot like Columbus and Tallahassee. In rehashing this movie, I’m realizing that Albuquerque’s monster truck, and the worn-down White House, remind of Wilson’s turn in Idiocracy.

Don’t you love how Idiocracy has become a classic after the studio dumped it because they thought it sucked? OK … I’ve gone off track.

Of the returning big stars, Harrelson appears to have the most fun, even going so far as to provide a decent cover of “Burning Love” over the closing credits. (Stay all the way through the credits, people.)

Eisenberg basically does his usual shtick, but it’s a shtick that works, while Stone being in this movie at all is still shocking to me. I mean, she’s fine in it, but it’s weird that she’s returned for this, right? She was in The Favourite last year!

As far as bringing new ideas to the zombie genre, I do like how Columbus designates dumb zombies as Homers and smart ones as Hawkings.

There are also the “T-800” zombies, who don’t go down after the double tap and keep on coming.

Otherwise, the film is pretty standard issue when it comes to zombie carnage.

Will there be another Zombieland 10 years from now? This one strikes me as a last hurrah, and an OK/fun one at that. Say, do you remember there was supposed to be a Zombieland TV show back in 2013, but the pilot didn’t get picked up? You don’t remember? That’s because it really sucked. Ω

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This movie is a mess, although it’s the sort of mess a true fan might be willing to tolerate. Director Michael Engler seems to be working with enough subplots in this movie to fuel an entire season of the former TV show.

The big plot twist here is that King George V (Simon Jones) and Queen Mary (Geraldine James) are coming to Downton Abbey, a big estate with a reasonably sized staff, for a quick visit during one of their tours. So the staff, taken a bit by surprise, must prepare for a visit from the royal family. Much of this movie is staff running around trying to prepare for this visit.

In fact, the first half of this movie is almost entirely about preparing for the visit. They go to the store for eggs. They try to fix the boiler so the Queen will have hot water, and they endure some minor staff shake ups in anticipation of the big visit. Then the visit happens, and then the visit ends. That’s the main thrust of the movie. In the background, there are all sorts of little affairs and plot threads that even the most hardcore fans might have a hard time keeping track of. There’s even a blink-and-youwill-miss-it assassination plot involving King George that just sort of happens, without any attention to anything resembling details. Hey, a movie where King George V almost gets assassinated should be at least slightly exciting.

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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Breaking Bad, one of the greatest TV series of all time, ended six years ago. Since then, series creator Vince Gilligan has been serving up a nice extension of the Breaking Bad universe with Better Call Saul, soon to air its fifth season. If you’ve never seen Breaking Bad, and still plan to watch the show, do not read further into this review.

There are spoilers. Since Saul is a prequel, the Breaking Bad timeline came to a stop six years ago, and the universe has been playing around in the past. So, what happened to Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after Walter White (Bryan Cranston) liberated him from captivity at that American Nazi compound?

When last we saw Jesse, he was looking like John the Baptist and speeding off into the night, laugh-crying hysterically. Knowing full well that the fanbase is itching for more Jesse, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie has made its way to Netflix (and a select few big screens). The film picks up where the Breaking Bad series left off, with Jesse in a pinch as “a person of interest” after the White assault, and still very much in need of a shave and a shower. It’s a great thing to see Paul back in his wheelhouse as Pinkman, even if the character has become a bit dour after the hell of being held prisoner in a hole in the ground. Jesse’s screen time during his captivity on the TV show was limited as the story, logically, focused primarily on Walter White’s last days. We only really saw Jesse eating ice cream and failing in an escape attempt. He became a background character. El Camino gives Gilligan and Paul a chance to flashback and explore some strange adventures Jesse had with his captor, the quietly evil Todd (Jesse Plemons).

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Joker

This new take on DC’s Clown Prince of Crime will go down as one of the year’s big missed opportunities. Director Todd Phillips, mostly known for his Hangover movies, apparently got the green light to do whatever he wanted with the Joker mythos. He managed to get Joaquin Phoenix, pretty much perfect casting, to sign on for the title role. This was a chance to tell a dark origin story from the Joker’s point of view. Phillips blows this chance.

Phoenix is otherworldly good as Arthur Fleck, a severely troubled clown and standup comedy wannabe—and mama’s boy—with a condition that causes him to laugh uncontrollably at inappropriate moments. He physically and mentally disappears into the part, to the point where you may become concerned for the actor’s well-being. He accomplishes this in a film that has a major identity crisis. When we first see Fleck, he’s dressed as a clown, spinning a sign and generally having a good time. He promptly gets his ass kicked, and not for the

last time. We then see him in therapy and living in poverty with his quirky mother (Frances Conroy). Fleck slowly but surely starts to lose all sense of his humanity as he grows into a criminal monster. Phillips even casts a game Robert De Niro to play a talk show host that winds up being a nod to Miller’s David Letterman riff (David Endocrine) in The Dark Knight Returns. At its most derivative, the screenplay echoes A Beautiful Mind, filmed in a way that feels like a hackneyed Shyamalan twist. In the end, it’s an unoriginal film only partially buoyed by an incredible performance.

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Hustlers

Hustlers, starring Jennifer Lopez as a stripper who goes smooth criminal during the Great Recession, is getting some great reviews. I’m going against the grain on this one, for I find it derivative, boring and hampered by a shallow script. Why has the film been receiving Scorsese comparisons—hey, it has tracking shots!—and high scores on Rotten Tomatoes? I think it’s because of the powers of Jennifer Lopez’s multimillion dollar ass. No question, as talented an actress as Lopez has been in the past (Selena, Out of Sight, shit, I liked her in Maid in Manhattan), this is a movie in which Lopez bares and displays her crazily potent ass. I think that this has caused some sort of distraction—disruption if you will—in the movie critic ecosystem. People are so hypnotized by her backside that they fail to recognize the movie kind of blows.

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What starts off as a very funny movie about a loser musician (Alexander England) in Australia goes south fast when it switches to horror after a zombie attack.

England is very funny as Dave, who is having relationship problems and winds up living with his sister Tess (Kat Stewart) and nephew, Felix (Diesel La Torraca). The rapport between these three characters is actually really good, but then the action switches to a field trip Felix and Dave go on, one that is quickly besieged by zombies. Lupita Nyong’o is on hand as a music teacher chaperoning the kids as they face the zombie apocalypse, and she does all she can do to make the proceedings interesting. Josh Gad costars as a children’s show host taping an episode on the field trip, and his character is an annoying waste of time. Writer-director Abe Forsythe proves adept at filming straight comedy, but he’s completely lost when it comes to putting worthy zombie mayhem to film. It’s too bad, because England and Nyong’o are quite good together. Maybe they’ll get a chance to share the screen again in a better movie. (Streaming on Hulu.)

In this latest Netflix series, Miles (Paul Rudd), a bored-out-of-his-mind advertising executive, takes a cue from a chirpy coworker and stops by a spa for some sort of rejuvenation clinic. That night, when he returns home, he’s much peppier with a sunny outlook. Only problem is, the peppy, sunnier Miles is a clone, and the original version of Miles is still running around.

Creator Timothy Greenberg and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris deliver a fun, twisted eight-episode season that feels like a long movie, and Rudd gets a chance to show off both his dramatic and comedic chops. The chance to take a character and play two versions of him at the same time is a challenge that the actor is more than up to, and the results are thoroughly entertaining. Also terrific is Aisling Bea, as wife Kate, who has herself a real dilemma on her hands when she finds out her husband’s predicament. What do you do when your marriage has gone sour and a rejuvenated, charming version of your spouse shows up to party? This is being called a series, but it’s hard to imagine they’ll do more because this ends on such a perfect note. Still, if they choose to continue, with Rudd and Bea on board, worse things could happen. (Streaming on Netflix.)

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Following an afternoon Discovery Museum excursion with the kids on a blustery day, my family group decided to warm up with a visit to Pho Cali in the heart of downtown Reno. The menu is large, including plenty of Chinese and other Asian dishes alongside Vietnamese goodies.

Following a lengthy bit of menu consideration, we finally settled on a game plan.

Although there are plenty of appetizers to choose from, everyone always wants to start off with fresh spring rolls when eating Vietnamese or Thai. We chose the combo pork and shrimp rice paper rolls ($6.25), stuffed with plenty of mint, cilantro, vermicelli and lettuce, with a decent peanut sauce for dunking. My grandson loved the “peanut butter” on his “cold burrito.”

The rolls were followed by orders of grilled mussels ($12.25) and clams in black bean sauce ($13.95), both exceptionally good. The mussels were sprinkled with chopped peanut and minced, sautéed celery, carrot and scallion, garnished with lime wedges and sprigs of long-leaf Vietnamese coriander. The flavor of the meat was very present—with perhaps a hint of fish sauce—and not a bit dry.

Tossed with perfectly cooked celery, red bell pepper and onion in their sauce of garlic, ginger, scallion and fermented black soybean, there were plenty of clams to share around the table.

Often when I see banh mi on the appetizer menu, I expect something small enough you might enjoy it with soup.

That’s not the case with Pho Cali’s big-ass grilled beef sandwich ($6.25), featuring ample amounts of fresh veggies and tender meat in a rich sauce with a little kick. The housemade, crusty roll filled the plate. However, it was reminiscent of the “unfortunate burrito syndrome;” i.e., one

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bite is sour cream, another is guac, and—oh wait—there’s the cheese. The sandwich ingredients were added in succession from the seam of the roll outward—instead of layered atop each other—and you couldn’t really get all the goods into one bite.

A cold noodle bowl ($8.95) of vermicelli, grilled pork, shredded lettuce, mint leaf, bean sprout, pickled carrot and chopped peanut was lightly seasoned with sweet vinegar fish sauce. It was tasty, though the noodles were ice cold rather than the more usual room temperature. A plate of seafood fried rice ($10.50) with shrimp, shrimp patty, squid, peas, carrot, corn, green bean, scallion and cilantro was hot, satisfying and didn’t require additional seasoning. We had asked for another rice dish, but instead received two plates of the same thing. It was good enough we just shrugged and rolled with it.

Rice noodle chicken soup ($9.25, large) was simple, yet full of tender breast meat and al dente broccoli. My go-to pho dac biet ($9.25, small) didn’t disappoint, the vermicelli combined with medium rare steak, flank, brisket, tendon, tripe and meatball in a flavorful broth, to which I added plenty of bean sprout, Thai basil, lime and a bit of jalapeño.

As good as my beefy pho was, I suffered a bit of envy over a bowl of wonton soup ($11.25). Yeah, there were plenty of meaty dumplings, but they were overshadowed by a flurry of shrimp, squid, shrimp patty, chicken, grilled pork, zucchini, carrot, cabbage, broccoli, scallion, celery, mushroom and peapods. The broth was a little bland, but the meats and veggies were great. With the side items, it was just the thing for a chilly autumn evening. Ω

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The members of Silver are (from left) Adam Landis, Jeffrey Knight, Greg Gilmore, Brendon Lund and Josh Kisor.

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Silver Reno rock band Silver is named after Nevada’s historical primary export. However, according to frontman Greg Gilmore, the name also refers to the Lone Ranger’s horse. And—like the Western icon—the career musicians needed a ride to take them where they want to go. With the release of their new EP, Let’s Talk Tomorrow About Last Night, on Oct. 25, the band mates think they’ve found a project with legs.

“I tried to put together two other acts that [keyboardist Adam Landis] had been involved with, and both times he was like, ‘I dunno man. I dunno if I have time for this,’” Gilmore said. “And then he came and jammed with these guys, and he took me outside after and was like, ‘I think you finally put together a real band.’”

In 2016, vocalist and guitarist Gilmore, alongside Landis, recruited bassist Brendon Lund, guitarist Josh Kisor and drummer Jeffrey Knight. After the first practice, they were sold on the chemistry.

“It’s like any good conversation,’” said Lund.

“You have a conversation with someone, you either like it or you don’t. And if you do like it, it’ll take you to places you didn’t really think you’d go.”

Silver spent five months rehearsing its roots-rock sound before the band’s first show in October, 2016, and even longer recording and mixing its first EP, Rock ’n’ Roll is Dead, last year.

“We spent like a year riding ourselves so far into like the most minuscule, bullshit things that don’t even fucking matter to anyone but us,” Gilmore said.

For Let’s Talk Tomorrow, they decided to change tack. Over the course of five days at Pus Cavern Studios in Sacramento, they recorded five new tracks with engineer Joe Johnson, who worked with several of the Silver’s biggest influences like Cake,

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Silversun Pickups and the Cobra Skulls. Instead of unlimited time to tweak the tracks, the musicians slept in the studio, recording even after Johnson had left for the day.

“It’s a good thing because you can be immersed in that for like the entire time you’re there,” Knight said.

“You don’t have to break away from it.”

The album covers a lot of ground while still fitting Silver’s old-school Americana ethos. Tracks like “Wait” and “The Chase” are steady boot-scooters, featuring Knight’s rattling snare under Kisor’s twangy, alt-country guitar solos. “Go Home” is a Chuck Berrylike rocker, with its choppy piano keys and swinging bass line. The stand out single, though, is “Good Enough.” With Gilmore’s vocals backed by a gospel-y chorus, it’s a testament to imperfect love—for others and for one’s self.

“We worked on it all day, and we eventually had to give up because we couldn’t quite get the feel right,” Kisor said.

After an extended break at a bar in industrial Sacramento, they reconvened and gave it another shot.

After two takes, they knew they’d nailed it.

“That might be why that’s all of our favorite song, because it was just like a really endearing thing,” Gilmore said. “By loosening up, it really allowed it to be what it needed to be.”

Aside from touring, the members of Silver have spent most of their time working on music videos for each of the five tracks, and planning the debut show at the Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., on Oct. 25, starting at 7:30 p.m.

“The show is gonna be Buffalo Moses, we’re gonna have Travis Hayes, which is our friend from San Francisco … and then Spike [McGuire] is hosting the whole thing,” Gilmore said. “We’re going to have a special guest join us for a really special cover song, too.” Ω

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BOO-NANZA: Carson City Parks, Recreation & Open Space and the Carson City Library presents its safe and familyfriendly Halloween experience. The Community Center will have trick or treating, a haunted house and outdoor carnival. The library will host games, crafts and a costume contest. Sections of the Community Center parking lot will be opened to food trucks and fun Halloween-themed activities. Tue, 10/29, 4pm. Carson City Community Center, 850 E. William St., Carson City, visitcarsoncity.com/event/boo-nanza-2.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM SAFE HALLOWEEN: Enjoy an evening of trick or treating and safe Halloween fun. Sun, 10/27, 5pm. Free.

The Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, 813 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 884-2226.

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Nevada marks 155 years of statehood with a four-day celebration that kicks off on Thursday, Oct. 24, with the RSVP Nevada Day Carnival at Mills Park in Carson City. But the main event takes place on Saturday, Oct. 26, starting with the Nevada Day Parade through downtown Carson City and continuing all day with a variety of festivities, including the 46th Annual World Championship Single Jack Drilling Contest, the 35th Annual Chili Feed, the Nevada Day Beard Contest, a concert and other entertainment. The parade starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the intersection of William and North Carson streets in Carson City. Admission is free to the parade and to most events. For a schedule of Nevada Day activities, visit nevadaday.com.

EVENTS 2ND ANNUAL SAFE TRICK OR TREAT: Red Hawk Golf and Resort’s Halloween event features trick or treating from 5-7pm in the round-about outside the main entrance, costume contests for adults and kids, prizes, face painting and various holiday-themed activities. The evening wraps up with a showing of Goosebumps 2 on the green (weather permitting) or in the Event Center. Park in the main parking lot next to the Swim and Fitness Center. Fri, 10/25, 5pm. Free. Red Hawk Golf and Resort, 6600 N. Wingfield Parkway, Sparks, (775) 626-6000.

9TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT: Visit The Discovery in costume and trick or treat from gallery to gallery. For the safety of all visitors, costumes with weapons of any kind are not allowed. A number of trick-or-treat stations will offer non-food items for kids with food allergies and those for whom candy is not an option. Sat, 10/26, 3pm. $2$4. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

A TOUCH OF CLASS CRAFT SHOW: The 19th annual boutique-style craft show features various items all handmade by 30 crafters. Thu, 10/24-Sat, 10/26, 10am-8pm. Free. Carson Valley Inn, 1627 US Highway 395 north, Minden, (775) 3921040, www.atouchofclassnv.org.

ANDELIN FAMILY FARM PUMPKIN PATCH HARVEST FESTIVAL: The annual harvest celebration features a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, corn maze, hay rides and other attractions and activities.

The pumpkin patch is open TuesdaySaturday through Oct. 31. Pumpkins are not included in the admission and are priced by variety and weight. Thu, 10/24-

Sat, 10/26, 10am, Tue, 10/29-Wed, 10/30, 10am. $0-$7. Andelin Family Farm, 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 530-8032, www.andelinfamilyfarm.com.

ART ON TAP OPEN STUDIOS: Chat with resident artists and members about their works. Learn more about The Generator’s classes and opportunities.

October’s event will feature pumpkin carving and fun, adult Halloweeninspired crafts, as well as pumpkin cheesecake, bread and cookies. Free beer, wine and kombucha. Donations welcome. Thu, 10/24, 6pm. Free. The Generator Inc., 1240 Icehouse Ave., Sparks, (508) 246-3852, www.facebook. com/RenoGenerator.

train ride over the rugged mountains of Virginia City—pulled by the No. 1 blue engine, Thomas—and relive the area’s rich mining history. Create colorful memories in the Coloring Caboose and meet the controller of the railway, Sir Topham Hatt. This event also features motor car rides, miniature golf, storytelling and exclusive Thomas & Friends gift shop items. Fri, 10/25,

11am-2pm; Sat, 10/26, 10am-3pm; Sun, 10/27, 10am-2pm. $19. Virginia & Truckee Railroad Depot, 165 F St., Virginia City, www.virginiatruckee.com.

DIRTY WOOKIE 10K: The third annual event starts at the Brewer’s Cabinet Brewpub near downtown Reno and finishes at the Brewer’s Cabinet Production facility west of Reno. Run or walk and celebrate Halloween and all things Wookie, including the Dirty Wookie Brown Ale. Each participant will receive a finisher’s medal, T-shirt, free downloadable race photos and a free post-race beer from the Brewer’s Cabinet. Sun, 10/27, 9am. $30-$60. The Brewer’s Cabinet Taproom, 475 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 3428895, www.desertskyadventures.com/ dirtywookie.

FALL PHOTO HIKE—UPPER THOMAS CREEK TRAILHEAD: This series is meant to provide amateur photographers and hiking enthusiasts with the opportunity to capture their own fall photography while learning about what make these areas unique. Bring a jacket, a sturdy pair of hiking boots, a bottle of water, a snack and your favorite camera. The hikes are family friendly, but please leave pets at home. Email abrown@ washoecounty.us to RSVP. Sat, 10/26, 2pm. Free. Thomas Creek Trail, meet at the trailhead located at the end of Timberline Drive, north of the Thomas Creek crossing, (775) 849-2511.

FERRARI FARMS FALL FESTIVAL: The annual fall celebration features a pumpkin patch, hay rides, corn maze, corn walk, farm animals, mechanical bull, bounce house and other attractions. The festival runs through Nov. 2. Pumpkins are priced by variety and weight. Thu, 10/24-Wed, 10/30, 9:30am. Free. Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., www.facebook.com/ FerrariFarms.

THE FOLK & THE LORE LOCAL HAUNTS: Enjoy

SHOWS OF SEASONS PAST FALL FESTIVAL:

an evening of storytelling and films based on local haunts. Sat, 10/26, 6pm. $5-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

GHOST TOUR AT GOLD HILL: Search for spirits at various sites in and around the Gold Hill Hotel. Explore in small groups with several ghost hunters guiding the way. Thu, 10/24, 7pm. $25-$40.

Gold Hill Hotel, 1540 Main St., Gold Hill, comstockfoundation.org.

GHOST TOURS: Take a tour with a member of Nevada Student Ambassadors and learn about the spooky hot spots of the University of Nevada, Reno. Tours will begin and end in front of the Jot Travis Building. Guests of all ages are welcome. Entry is $3 or three canned goods. All proceeds will be donated to Pack Provisions. Thu, 10/24, 7:30pm. $3.

Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., events.unr. edu/event/ghost_tours_5554.

HALLOWEEKENDS AT HOMEWOOD: Take a stroll through the trick-or-treat village at South Base featuring free scary movie showings, face painting, pumpkin decorating and surprises from local vendors. For extra scares, try an evening chairlift ride on the Quail Chair as it whisks you through one adrenaline-pumping haunted scene after another—the only way out is back down the mountain. Fri, 10/25-Sun, 10/27, 3-9pm. Free admission, $10-$50 for chairlift rides. Homewood Mountain Resort, 5145 West Lake Blvd., Homewood, www.skihomewood.com.

HALLOWEEN MONSTER MASH: The Reno Blues Society hosts its third annual Halloween dance to benefit local veteran organizations. The event features a 50/50 raffle and live music by the Buddy Emmer Band, The Attic Ratz and headliner Chris Cain. Sat 10/26, 6:30pm. $30. Ramada Inn, 1000 E. Sixth St., www.renobluessociety.org.

TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada hosts two nights of fun for the whole family.

There will be trick or treating, carnival games, a cake walk, a raffle and a haunted house full of spooky recreations of some of the theater company’s past shows. Fri, 10/25-Sat, 10/26, 6pm. TWNN, 315 Spokane St., www.facebook.com/ TheatreWorksNV.

SPOOKY FILM CLASSICS SERIES: Watch the 1984 film Gremlins directed by Joe Dante.

A blockbuster horror comedy about a cute “mogwai” creature that turns destructive with his evil little pals on Christmas Eve. Sun, 10/27, 10am. Free.

Spanish Springs Library, 7100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

TRICK OR TREAT PARADE: Kids are invited to wear their cutest or scariest costumes and enjoy some trick or treating fun around the North Hills Shopping Center.

Wed, 10/30, 5:30-7:30pm. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 N. Hills Blvd., Golden Valley, (775) 972-0281.

TRUCKEE HALLOWEEN PARADE: Children of all ages are invited to trick or treat and participate in a parade through Historic Downtown Truckee, followed by more trick or treating in the Community Art Center. The parade leaves the Truckee Train Station at 6pm. Fri, 10/25, 4:30pm. Free. Truckee Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Truckee, (530) 582-7720, www.facebook.com/TDRPD.

ONSTAGE IRONBOUND: Martyna Majok’s play is a darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability—as she fights to survive in America. Thu, 10/24-Sat, 10/26, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/27, 2pm. $8-$20. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, rattheatre.org.

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HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN ART SHOW: Local artists compete to win cash by creating pumpkin art, all displayed inside a haunted house. There will be a costume party with cash prizes, DJ/dancing, food and beer trucks, a costume party, a silent disco afterparty and more.

Proceeds will be allocated to Innovations High School students and will be given to students whom seek to have a career in the trades. Sat, 10/26, 6pm. $20. CoAuto, 2155 Dickerson Road, www.facebook. com/CoAutoNV.

RENO FRIGHT FEST—SLAUGHTER HOUSE: The 14th annual haunted attraction returns with its Slaughter House featuring a fresh layout and brand new scares, as well as a frightening, 10-minute ride on the Terror Train. A train pass can be purchased at a discount by buying a combo ticket online or at the box office. A portion of the proceeds goes to Washoe County’s Children in Transition Program. The event will be open late during the Zombie Crawl on Oct. 26. Thu, 10/24-Sat, 10/26, Wed, 10/30, 7pm. $17-$24.

Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., renofrightfest.com.

Theatre presents Matthew Lopez’s comedy centering on a young Elvis Presley impersonator barely making a living who finds a path to prosperity by becoming a lip-syncing drag queen. Thu, 10/24-Sat, 10/26, 7:30pm. $22-$26. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: Good Luck Macbeth presents Jack Thorne’s enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film. Thu, 10/24-Sat, 10/26, 7:30pm. $18-$30. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716.

RENO WIND SYMPHONY WITCHES BROUHAHA: The symphony will perform the movie music of Danny Elfman, including selections from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman and Beetlejuice.

Other musical highlights will include the Overture to The Addams Family musical and selections from Wicked. Thu, 10/24, 7:30pm. $0-$10. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., www.renowindsymphony.com.

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The rid carpet I’m a 30-something gay guy. When I moved to a new city five years ago, I knew nobody except two female co-workers, who became my first friends. I have since met wonderful, talented, artistic people who are more my style. I no longer work with these ladies, and I’m just not interested in hanging out with them anymore. When they call to get together, I keep saying I’m busy, but they’re not getting the picture. How do I break up with them without being mean?

When you break up with a romantic partner, there are comforting cliches you can trot out, like “It’s not you; it’s me,” “You deserve better,” and “We can still be friends.” When you break up with a friend, where do you go with that?

It helps to understand the underpinnings of friendship. We like to think of ourselves as rational and discerning people with very good taste, and, naturally, we believe this shapes our choice of friends. In fact, personality psychologist Mitja Back and his colleagues find that a major driver of whom we’re friends with is “mere proximity”—living on the same block, working together, or, in Back’s study, being randomly assigned seats next to each other in a college class.

Location, location, location!

Really special, huh?

Still, maybe you feel a little guilty about exiling these ladies from your life, because you used them to have some somebodies around when you knew nobody.

The kindest approach, of course, is to keep distancing yourself and hope they get the message or just give up on trying to get together.

You do say that the “take the hint!” approach hasn’t been working. But are their calls and texts so screechingly bothersome that it’s worth it to go all rip-the-Band-Aid-off? If you decide it is, you could say, “You guys have been so kind to me, and I’ve enjoyed our times together, but I’ve gone through some personal changes, and I don’t think we’re such a great match anymore.”

Be prepared: They may press you to tell them more. For maximum kindness, stick to this sort of vague statement. Don’t go all truthful on them: They were human placeholders, the sidewalk furniture of friends, like curbside chairs you dragged home so you

wouldn’t have to ask your dates, “Hey, wanna stand in my living room and watch Netflix?”

Same mold, same mold I seem to keep getting together with the same messed-up guy over and over again. Basically, the men I’m attracted to all have the same issues (emotionally unavailable, fear of commitment, etc.).

Each time, I tell myself I can make things different. How do I stop doing this?

Your problem isn’t being attracted to guys who turn out to be messed up. It’s going forward with them after you discover that.

Research by psychologist Roy Baumeister on self-regulation— professorese for self-control—finds that it has four components: standards, motivation to meet those standards, self-monitoring to make sure you’re doing that, and the will to control urges to do what you know you shouldn’t be doing.

You probably believe you have standards, but chances are you haven’t thought them out to the point that you can tick off what they are. Not having a solid grasp on them means you can’t monitor whether you’re following them and take action if you aren’t. Now’s the time to change that. Write down a list of your standards: your must-haves for a guy you’re with, the qualities you can’t do without.

When you’re interested in a guy, don’t just hope he hits the marks. Ask questions that draw out the sort of man he is, and, also look at his behavior. If he falls short of your standards, make yourself move on. Yes, make yourself. This will be hardest the first time and if you really like a particular guy. Eventually, it’ll become easier to weed out the guys with issues, though you may need to work on your own before you’re comfortable with guys who’d make you happy. Ω

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mushrooms have spores,

not seeds. They’re tiny. If you could stack 2,500 of them, they’d be an inch high. On the other hand, they are numerous. A ripe mushroom may release up to 16 million spores. And each spore is so lightweight, the wind can pick it up and fling it long distances. I’ll encourage you to express your power and influence like a mushroom in the coming days: subtle and airy but abundant; light and fine, but relentless and bountiful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Sometimes the easiest

way to get something done is to be a little naive about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. I invite you to consider the value of that perspective, even though you’re the least likely sign in all the zodiac to do so. Being naive just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Maybe you’ll be more receptive to my suggestion if I reframe the task.

Are you familiar with the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind?” You wipe away your assumptions and see everything as if it were the first time you were in its presence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is it always a bad

thing to be lost? To wander in the unknown without a map? I’d like to propose a good version of being lost. It requires you to be willing to give up your certainties, to relinquish your grip on the comforting dogmas that have structured your world—but to do so gladly, with a spirit of cheerful expectancy and curiosity. It doesn’t require you to be a macho hero who feels no fear or confusion. Rather, you have faith that life will provide blessings that weren’t possible until you got lost.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Worrying is the most

natural and spontaneous of all human functions,” wrote science educator Lewis Thomas. “Let’s acknowledge this, perhaps even learn to do it better.” I agree with him! And I think it’s an ideal time for you to learn how to worry more effectively, more potently and with greater artistry. What might that look like? First, you wouldn’t feel shame or guilt about worrying. You wouldn’t regard it as a failing. Rather, you would raise your worrying to a higher power. You’d wield it as a savvy tool to discern which situations truly need your concerned energy and which don’t.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Some wounds go so

deep that you don’t even feel them until months, maybe years, later,” wrote Aquarian author Julius Lester. Pay attention to that thought. The bad news is that you are just now beginning to feel a wound that was inflicted some time ago. But that’s also the good news, because it means the wound will no longer be hidden and unknowable.

And because you’ll be fully aware of it, you’ll be empowered to launch the healing process. I suggest you follow your early intuitions about how best to proceed with the cure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’ve been having

dreams or fantasies that the roof is sinking or the walls are closing in, you should interpret it as a sign that you should consider moving into a more spacious situation. If you have been trapped within the narrow confines of limited possibilities, it’s time to break free and flee to a wide open frontier. In general, I urge you to insist on more expansiveness in everything you do, even if that requires you to demolish cute little mental blocks that have tricked you into thinking small.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a favorable time to re-

fresh your relationships with your basic sources and to make connections with new basic sources.

To spur your creative thought on these matters, I offer the following questions to meditate on. 1. If you weren’t living where you do now, what other place might you like to call home? 2. If you didn’t have the name you actually go by, what other name would you choose? 3. If you had an urge to expand the circle of allies who support and stimulate you, whom would you seek out? 4. If you

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.

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BY MATT BIEKER

Coffee shop owner

So there’s no plan to reopen somewhere else in Reno?

Thor Drake

Why are you shutting down?

It’s like a refocus within the business. I mean, we’ve been around for 10 years.

We’ve done all kinds of different things. We put on shows, motorcycle races—build motorcycles. We’ve always treated the company like an amoeba, so it just grows in the way that it grows. We had this pretty exciting dream to, like, start up more coffee shops in different areas, and, coming here over the years, racing motorcycles and stuff, we just fell in love with Reno. And so we came down just kind of scouting to see if it would be possible. We found this cool building. It was in serious

PHOTO/MATT BIEKER

Over the weekend, See See Motor Coffee Co., 131 Pine St., abruptly closed its doors, dismissed workers and left a note in the window from management announcing an inability to keep the business going.

Established in 2016, the coffee shop was part of a Portland-based chain, the first of several on Pine Street, which gave rise to the neighborhood’s nickname of “Little Portland.”

Thor Drake, founder and co-owner of See See, explained why See See Reno was untenable, and what might be next for the space.

need of some rebuilding and you know, we’d saved our pennies and borrowed a little bit of money to do it, which, in the long run, probably hurt us because the rent is a little bit higher than—I mean, it’s a fair range for sure. But, you know, with the improvements that we’ve done in the building, it’s just a little hard to sustain. … Really, what it comes down to was economics. I hate to say stuff like that, but, we just couldn’t make it work, and … we just decided that in the best interest of the company is to follow our hearts and refocus our brand a little bit and see what we learned out of this and how we can kind of keep it going forward. ... I’m also a family guy. I just had a baby and stuff.

So, it’s tough to focus your energy on Portland, the shows and Reno. And I guess the term, “took your eye off the ball” kind of applies here.

I don’t know. That’s kind of the restructure of the brand is to see, you know, where we sit and what we’re good at and how we can kind of bring that into a better place. I mean, if there’s one thing I know, it’s like you can plan and do everything that you think you can do, and then if something changes, you’re all of a sudden doing something completely different.

I might be adding grist to the rumor mill, but there was some talk on the literal street outside about potential theft or some people not doing their jobs?

No. As an owner, you always got to take responsibility. I mean, even if you’ve got that in a place, which we didn’t. We have great employees, like, everybody that’s ever worked for us is family. … It’s really the economics of it. You know, it’s like you’re paying $4,500 in rent here. You’re selling a certain amount of coffee. You’re doing the best you can. And, you know, we did a fairly good job.

There’s another rumor that the Hub Coffee Roasters might be buying the place?

No, that’s all I know, really. So we, kind of, brokered through the landlord to get out of our lease, and they have another tenant that I think they work closely with.

And I believe there’s a connection to Hub, and I don’t know what they’re going to do in here. □

BY BRUCE VAN DYKE

What’s the forecast The latest from the Ovaltine Office of President Fibface Pantsablaze reveals that reactions to his stable genius military move in Syria have not been particularly super. “A disaster,” said General Chaos. “A total disaster,” wrote General Confusion. “A complete disaster,” opined General Hysteria. “A catastrophic disaster,” chirped General Electric. “A disastrous catastrophe,” agreed General “Mad Dog” Von Mouthfoam. “What is the next level of disaster beyond total, complete and catastrophic?” asked General C.F. McCluster. “Truly a major fuckup,” wrote the ghost of John McCain on Lindsey Graham’s Ouija board.

This is what Government by Gut looks like when the Gut in question is spewing out impulsive decisions of booger-picking ignorance, resulting in nice allies running for their lives.

Dare we consider the Gut-inCharge? A steaming, sluggish, utterly foul abdominal region filled with

festering Quarter Pounders and ice cream sludge slicks? Let’s daren’t.

Oops, heads up! Incoming chicken nuggets! Helmets on!

• Remember—if its mouth is moving, it's lying. Pouty Pottyhead POTUS has now achieved zero credibility.

He had to work damn hard to get there. The corruption of the Trump Administration is exceeded only by its detestability. Or vice versa.

• All these comments about the difficulty of the Mueller Report, how it was just too dry, too complex, too challenging for the average American. Jesus F. Christ, how effing dumb are we? This stuff isn’t quantum physics, you know. Mueller laid out multiple cases of obstruction of justice, and did so thoroughly and professionally. For him to have his work dismissed because many Americans can’t read or comprehend a slam dunk legal case must

have blown Mueller’s mind. He must think he’s in the America of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, the POTUS from eerily prescient film Idiocracy.

• Last year, I predicted that Twitler would spend only two Christmases in the White House. It's a long shot, but I got a chance. For real. Especially if Moscow Mitch makes good on his vow to get Dum Dum tried by year's end. (Hey, MM! Go fuck yourself!)

Everybody assumes that the bloc of Republican invertebrates in the Senate is an impenetrable, unmovable mass of pure, blobbish evil. I'm not so sure. To get a conviction in the Senate, we need 20 Retrumplican lickspittles to bail on DimDon. Romney’s the first. Murkowski might well be second. Two down, 18 to go. Sure, it's unlikely. But if the dam cracks, shit happens. And the dam is under pressure right now—good, steady pressure. So, who knows? Ω

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