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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m back from my little musical sojourn around the Western states. The gang put out a great issue last week without much help from me, which makes me feel real unnecessary, but, like, in a good way.

A couple of quick items of RN&R business: First, don’t forget to vote in our Best of Northern Nevada readers’ poll. Visit vote.newsreview. com/best-of-reno-2016 and get after it.

Secondly, Friday, July 1, is the kick-off of the RN&R’s 21st annual Rollin’ on the River concert series. The Artownaffiliated series takes place every Friday evening in July starting at 5:30 p.m. in Wingfield Park in downtown Reno.

This Friday features music from the Sextones, formerly known as the Mark Sexton Band, a local pop soul group that has played the event in previous years and is beloved by music fans throughout the community.

I’m also pleased to introduce opening act the Umpires to a larger audience. That’s a relatively new local group that specializes in jazzy, instrumental takes on reggae and ska. I was originally turned on to the project by my good friend—and creative collaborator—Mike Mayhall, who plays bass in the group. But it’s an ensemble consisting of some of the best musicians in the valley, including guitar virtuoso Ryan Hall and funky drummer Dan Weiss, who also plays with the Sextones.

I’m going to be co-MCing the concert with my colleague Emily Litt, so you can also come watch me struggle to remember not to cuss onstage in front of a family audience.

One last item: Our cover story this week is the case for Donald Trump by a lefty. If there’s a Republican out there who wants to make the case for Clinton, we’ll be happy to run it as well.

To Reno Gazette-Journal publisher John Maher: Dear Mr. Maher, last Wednesday, a member of our community and well-liked member of and hiking leader with the local chapter of the Sierra Club died in a rafting accident in Alaska. Her body was found downstream on Thursday.

Through her volunteering and showing us the great outdoors, Karen Todd touched many lives in this community. A search of the internet last Friday showed that thanks to the Associated Press, newspapers all over the country either printed on paper and/or online the details and updates of the accident. On Friday, even the newspaper serving the community of another person on the rafting trip who was also confirmed dead only the day before, the Sacramento Bee, reported the details of the accident, the deaths, and named both persons and their home towns.

At this moment as I write, a search of the internet for ‘“karen todd’ Alaska raft” returns 1,470 hits.

Do any of them pertain to Karen’s hometown newspaper? No. A search at the RG-J subscription website returns zero results too. It is not as if it was difficult for whomever under you is responsible for monitoring AP wire blasts last Thursday to know the story touched us locally, for clearly within it are the words “Sparks, Nevada.” The AP updated the story frequently and appears to still be doing so.

Your newspaper’s failings in this matter are shameful, disrespectful and unforgivable. Do we have a local, hometown newspaper here in this valley? I am beginning to think we do not. I am beginning to think we do not because, when opening the newspaper to a section sometimes labeled as “Local News,” the news therein directly under that title pertains to the cities of South Lake Tahoe, Pollock Pines and Placerville. All in California.

All—out of the area. Stories printed

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The enormous financial advantage for pro-pot advertising in Colorado overcame opposition to legalization from most all public officials—across the political spectrum from liberal Democrats, like Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, to Republicans, like Attorney General John Suthers and U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Tea Party favorite. The two leading newspapers in Colorado, the Denver Post and Colorado Springs Gazette, opposed legalization, as did the Colorado Education Association and the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce.

Big Marijuana will repeat its Colorado advertising falsehoods in Nevada—that “regulation” of marijuana means the end of black markets and that marijuana taxes will be used for education. The Colorado Attorney General and the Governor’s “Weed Czar” refute both claims as myths.

Jim Hartman Genoa

Corrections Re “Out of harm’s way” (Feature, June 23): We reported that the heroin overdose antidote naloxone is available through Change Point. The drug is not available directly through Change Point. That organization can provide referrals to Northern Nevada HOPES’ pharmacy or to Northern Nevada Outreach Team, either of which can distribute the drug. We regret the error.

Re “Pointed abstraction” (Musicbeat, June 23): We reported that Convolve & Reflect is Pinnacles’ first album and that Robbie Landsberg recently became a father. Convolve & Reflect is the band’s second album, band members Justin Hunt and Jesse Kinseth are fathers, and Landsberg is not. We regret the errors.

Erik Holland

Nevada voters should brace for millions of dollars from out-of-state “Big Marijuana” interests supporting legalization of recreational pot on the November ballot. These corporate pot promoters will try to repeat what worked for them in legalizing marijuana in Colorado in 2012. There, they financially overwhelmed opponents by five to one, spending $3.4 million (90 percent from outside Colorado) in passing legalization.

Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Brendan Trainor, Bruce Van Dyke, Allison Young

Editor Brad Bynum News Editor Dennis Myers Special Projects Editor Jeri Chadwell-Singley Arts Editor Kris Vagner Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Contributors Amy Alkon, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Bob Grimm, Ashley Hennefer, Shelia Leslie, Eric

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in the newspaper delivered to my doorstep right here in Reno and again, represented as local news. Since we do not have a local newspaper, Mr. Maher, how about we quit subsidizing your operating budget through the purchasing of Public Notices and payments to print the property tax rolls and tax delinquencies? This is a practice that goes back to the origins of newspapers in communities, to when there was a promise made—that in return for those all important lifegiving sums of taxpayers’ money, the new and struggling local newspaper would print obituary notices of our dearly departed at a reasonable rate.

This is something this so-called local newspaper no longer does at a reasonable rate, but at full display ad rates.

You have broken that longstanding promise to local government and its backers, the taxpayers. Our so-called local newspaper is now old enough and strong enough to stand on its own two feet and to support itself. It’s time for the subsidies to end.

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Asked at Walden’s Coffeehouse, 3940 Mayberry Drive Greyson Boydstun Musician

I’m so clueless and uninformed that I don’t even have an opinion on that. I haven’t even followed, read about it, or anything. I know it happened. That’s about it. It makes me feel like a bad citizen, for not knowing what’s going on with the world. It makes me feel like a clueless young person that fits the stereotypes.

Corrie Hallam Student

I’m so uniformed that it’s an embarrassment. So, there’s so much in the world going on that’s just very negative, and so it’s hard to pay attention to it. But isn’t that all the more reason to pay attention and have a voice? Because don’t you want to try and stop the negativity? So it’s like that’s why—because shouldn’t I want to?

Nadia Noel Community outreach specialist

I’m concerned that it’s going to be chaos for them because the number of votes that they got for it wasn’t much larger than against it. It was like 52 to 48 percent, so I’m sure a lot of people are going to be angry.

The meaning of holidays We never know what will get people worked up. This week it’s the Fourth of July. The Sparks Nugget is planning its Independence Day fireworks for the third of July.

“The Fourth of July is different, or should be different,” wrote Sparks resident Richard Birdsong in a June 28 letter to the editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal. “Before we get to the point of it becoming more important for the business aspect than it is for the actual celebration of the Declaration of Independence, all Americans should insist on celebrating it on the Fourth.”

The first thing that jumps into our mind is that the Nugget comes one day closer to celebrating Independence Day than those who celebrate the Fourth of July. After all, independence was declared on the second.

“Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together,” was the language of the actual declaration of independence introduced in Congress by Richard Lee and voted upon July 2. It was approved. That was the day that members of Congress put their lives on the line. If the revolution had failed, they would have known a life similar to the members of Parliament who condemned Charles I to death and executed him. After the royal restoration, they were hunted and many killed, several of them fleeing to North America and hiding in New England.

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“This day the Continental Congress declared the United Colonies Free and Independent States,” the Philadelphia Evening Post reported on July 2.

John Adams wrote to Abigail Adams, “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

Holidays are funny things. They tend to become more important than the reason for which they were originally designated. Before there was a King Day in Nevada, it was a state day of observance, during which school children were taught the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, we can already see the erosion of that holiday as a reason for learning. In a hundred years, will the public have much of an understanding of the holiday?

We once commemorated Armistice Day, celebrating the arrival of peace on Nov. 11 at the end of what was then called the Great War, which we now call World War One. Armistice Day has been changed to Veterans Day. Both are worthy of remembrance, but they hardly mean the same thing. In 1971, the date was moved from Nov. 11 to the fourth Monday of October to create three day weekends. Veterans groups convinced Congress to change it back, a rare instance of the meaning of the day prevailing over its use as a mere day off. Ω |

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Angus MacLeod Immortal New World Order vampire slayer

I support the Brexit vote wholeheartedly, down to my marrow. Will there be hell to pay? Yes, indeed. History has proven, and the future will underscore, that national sovereignty remains far more sacred than any globalist scheme for control.

Renee Strom Agent for professional speakers

I’m doing some business in the UK right now, and clients that I’ve been talking to are really more than upset about the whole thing and have said that … a lot of the people who voted for this, wish they had not and that it was a mistake….

I think it’s obviously got consequences for the entire world. … I think the next few weeks are going to tell the story.

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Always try to come in 49th Nevada celebrated moving up to 49th place in public school education last week.

We were 50th last year. That qualifies as good news in Nevada, a state more accustomed to a race to the bottom, usually with Mississippi or, in this case, New Mexico.

The ranking comes from the by newest edition of the annual Kids Sheila Leslie Count study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Nevada consistently ranks low in the report’s categories.

In 2015’s rankings, we were 47th in children’s overall well-being (which is separate from the public school education category mentioned in the first paragraph), 44th for family/ community environment, and 40th in the country for economic well-being and children’s health within the public school system.

It takes a lot of progress to move even a little bit up the ladder of success when there is such a gap between Nevada’s performance and the next worst state. The new educational programs funded last year through the small Corporate Tax should help, but there’s such

a huge amount of ground to make up, it may be years before we see demonstrably higher rankings. Still, not being last is certainly a plus.

The same day the news broke about our movement forward in education metrics, another trend was confirmed that doesn’t bode well for the working class in the years ahead. Last week, Nevada’s median housing cost reached an all-time high of $326,000, a whopping seven percent increase over last month and an 11 percent increase over this time last year. As any working class Nevadan knows, incomes have not risen accordingly. In fact, one third of households in Reno make less than $35,000 a year.

But these trends don’t trouble Mike Kazmierski, the CEO of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada. Writing in the Reno Gazette-Journal, Kazmierski once again expressed his dismay at the skeptics of unbridled growth and their fears that Reno is facing more troubles than Kazmierski’s imagined “blessings.”

Kazmierski wrote that growth will bring us opportunity fueled by “increased tax revenue to address the challenges we face.” If only that were true. Has he forgotten the billion dollar tax subsidy the governor and state legislators gave to Tesla to relocate its plant and workers to Northern Nevada or all the other millions of dollars in taxes we gave away to film companies, phone companies and Apple? That is precisely the problem—we don’t have the increased tax revenue to pay for our growing pains of schools and roads. Instead, Kazmierski and other corporate lobbyists are leading the charge to raise the sales tax on everyone else to pay for school repairs, even the poor and those living on fixed incomes.

Kazmierski goes on to say growth will bring us action and a special “deadline” motivation to address affordable housing, school infrastructure and downtown revitalization. But where he sees action, others see a lack of planning or a lot of talk, but not much concrete

change. In other words, leadership that is “all hat, no cattle.”

Kazmierski thinks we will all share a much better quality of life because of his work attracting outof-town corporations with a thirst for our tax subsidies if we can just stop with the “petty complaints” about traffic and restaurant lines and refocus our thinking on the vitality growth brings with more events and entertainment, more shopping and more talented people.

He ends his column with the tired cliche of a glass that is 80 percent full and a wish that local residents would “embrace the many blessings associated with growth” instead of all that whining. He says “The only thing we should really fear is that without continued economic development efforts, community support and business friendly government, the growth—with all its blessings— will end.”

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Ramadan is the Muslim Lent. Muslims fast from June 6 to July 5 marking revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad. Christians end their Lent in April with the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

The Islamic State urged Muslims to jihad this Ramadan. by Brendan Trainor One Muslim in Orlando, Florida, took them up on it. He went to a gay bar, and opened fire with a semi-auto rifle and pistol on the patrons undulating to strobe lights and dance music. Most of them never knew what happened, but some were forced to lie in a bathroom, in the blood of the dead and dying, for hours before rescue by police.

The shooter was flagged from childhood for his violent actions. He worked for a large, multinational armed security firm, which gave him a license to carry weapons. He beat his first wife, but somehow that was not flagged or not enough to keep him from buying the weapons he killed with.

He had a child with his second

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wife, but his hunger kept him going to gay bars, hooking up with gays in chat rooms, going out with a drag queen. His father, an expatriate Afghan politician, never knew about that side of him.

He believed his son was straight, a trained marksman who went to mosque. His father supported the Taliban.

The Taliban now controls as much territory in Afghanistan as it did in 2002, when Bush 43 sent the U.S. military to knock it from the capitol and capture Osama Bin Laden. Members of the Taliban are Pashtun, one of many third world ethnic groups living in separate countries whose boundaries were drawn by the British a century ago.

British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli invaded Afghanistan to probe the soft underbelly of the Russian bear. The British called harassing Russia the Great Game. Disraeli soon discovered Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. America is learning the same thing, as our 15-year war

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in that wasteland has produced nothing but dead and wounded warriors.

The Pashtun Taliban send young pubescent boys to seduce non-Pashtun police chiefs, warlords and generals, and lead them to their deaths. Under Sharia law, it is not easy for even a rich man to find a mistress. The powerful keep young boys hostage, often by parents’ permission, as sex slaves. They call it Bacha Bazi.

The practice makes American troops sick, but they tolerate it, because we pretend to police the country for them.

The director of the FBI says his agency talked to the shooter twice and tried to seduce him with paid informants. An FBI informant can earn $100,000 for turning a Muslim into a jihadi. He wouldn’t turn for them, so they closed the book.

Instead, the Florida bureau prosecuted a homeless man as a jihadi terrorist after filling his jumbled mind with dreams of killing crusaders. The score: FBI 1, real Jihadi, 102.

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When they brought a prostitute to Jesus to be stoned, he said, “He who is without sin, cast the first stone.” When they brought prostitutes to Muhammad, tradition says he had them stoned. In Christian America, prostitutes are not stoned. Instead they are arrested and sometimes raped by police, and then cast out into the streets to work. Oakland and Richmond, California, are rocked by scandals involving police sex with underage prostitutes. In Sacramento and San Diego, websites that provided some safety for prostitutes to hook up with clients were shut down.

That will force more to work the streets where violence by cops or johns is a greater danger.

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When prospective firearms buyers visit a federally licensed dealer, like Joe Compilli, who owns Silver State Arms, they must fill out a form called an ATF 4473 and undergo a background check before they can purchase a gun.

Alternatives keep gaining Last week we reported the shutdown of two nuclear power plants in Illinois, relieving pressure for the proposed Yucca Mountain dump for nuclear wastes.

Then, on June 21, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced the 2025 shutdown of the massive Diablo Canyon reactors in California. The lost power will be made up by renewable energy. PG&E later withdrew its license renewal application for the facility.

The shutdown made headlines around the world because of the prominent role the Diablo plant has played in the history of nuclear power. Environmental journalist Harvey Wasserman, who has tracked the industry for more than four decades, wrote last week, “On a global scale, in many important ways, this marks the highest profile step yet towards the death of U.S. nuclear power and a national transition to a Solartopian green-powered planet.”

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers came away with retraining guarantees. There were reports that the environmental groups Friends of the Earth and Natural Resources Defense Council had roles in negotiating the shutdown arrangements.

All this happened shortly after the Wall Street Journal claimed there was growing support among greens for nuclear power.

Reid’s candidates For reasons unknown, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic floor leader, has been deeply involved in the Florida Democratic U.S. Senate primary. He has been promoting U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy over U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, issuing a statement in February claiming that Grayson has “no moral compass” and “used his status as a congressman to unethically promote his Cayman Islands hedge funds.”

Grayson responded to that statement by confronting Reid at a meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, asking in a room full of people if the Nevadan even knew him: “Say my name, senator.

Say my name.” Whether Reid knew who he was initially or not, he did figure it out and told Grayson, “I want you to lose. It’s true.”

Grayson later said, “I have a low opinion of Reid’s low opinion.”

It’s just as well that Grayson stayed in the race. The campaign of Murphy, the supposedly safe choice, has been imploding in the wake of a report by WFOR News in Miami: “Portraying himself as an experienced CPA and small business owner has always been critical to the political persona created for his [Murphy’s] campaigns. They conveyed a sense of seriousness and stability which he otherwise lacked. A CBS4 News investigation into Murphy’s history as both a CPA and a self-described small business owner, however, shows Murphy ... has never worked a day in his life as a certified public accountant. And he was never a small business owner.”

There were previous reports that Murphy exaggerated his education and made false claims about his role in the BP oil spill cleanup. He is also facing a major complaint before the Federal Elections Commission.

An opinion survey taken just before the WFOR report showed Grayson leading Murphy 30 to 27 with a whopping 38 percent undecided.

In 2009, during wide criticism of Reid’s failure to do anything about the “silent filibuster” requiring supermajorities in the Senate without senators actually having to filibuster, Grayson posted an online petition calling for an end to the practice (“Florida lawmaker wants filibuster reform,” RN&R, Dec. 10, 2009).

Other primaries Reid has involved himself in: • In 2006, Reid helped force Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett out of the Ohio U.S. Senate primary race in favor of competing Democrat Sherrod Brown, who won (“Friendly fire,” RN&R, Feb. 23, 2006).

• In 2012 Reid forced Democrat Byron Georgiou out of the Nevada Democratic primary for U.S. Senate to protect the candidacy of Shelley Berkley, who went on to lose.

• In this year’s Nevada U.S. Senate race, Reid cleared the way for Catherine Cortez Masto, effectively warning off other Democrats like Dina Titus. Republican Joe Heck now calls Cortez Masto “Harry Reid’s candidate” in campaign advertising.

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Aim for the truth Parsing the details of the background check initiative In November, Nevadans will vote on whether or not to implement new background check requirements for certain types by of firearm transfers. At its most Jeri Chadwell-Singley basic level, Question 1—the Nevada background check initiative—will determine whether or not an individual without a federal firearms license (FFL) must undergo a background check when receiving a gun from another unlicensed person.

It’s a good idea to read the actual initiative, not rely on the advocates and opponents Read the initiative for yourself: nvsos.gov/ Modules/ShowDocument. aspx?documentid=3440 Nevadans for State Gun Rights: nevadansforstategunrights. org Safe Nevada: safenevada. org

The exchange of a gun between unlicensed people is commonly referred to as a “private party transfer” and currently does not require a background check when conducted between two Nevada residents. But the ballot initiative is not as simple as voting “yea” or “nay” on requiring background checks on private transfers. That’s because the definition of a transfer covers more than just the sale of a gun. It also includes gifts, inheritances and the temporary lending of firearms for purposes such as self-defense, hunting and trapping, target-shooting, and organized firearms competitions and performances.

Question 1 would apply the background check rule differently to

the various types of transfers based on several factors like a familial relationship between two unlicensed people.

Before delving into the ways groups on each side of the debate are presenting the details of the initiative in an effort to win support, it helps to first become acquainted with—or refreshed on—how the initiative landed on the ballot for a vote by the general electorate.

This particular gun control proposal has been in and out of the news and plastered across pro- and anti-gun websites for more than three years. What is now Question 1 on the 2016 ballot was first Senate Bill 221 of the 2013 session of the Nevada Legislature. The bill passed through both houses by narrow margins late in the session and was delivered to the Gov. Brian Sandoval for approval on June 6, 2013.

Five days later, the Las Vegas Sun reported that in one day alone there had been “44,000 calls—33,000 of them against the bill” made to the governor’s office. Sandoval vetoed the bill on June 13, 2013, citing in his veto letter a number of the bill’s components as imposing “unreasonable burdens and harsh penalties upon law-abiding Nevadans.”

However, a 2014 petition drive led by the group Nevadans for Background Checks collected enough signatures to place the measure back before the Legislature during the 2015 session, this time as a citizens’ initiative. In the interim, the Legislature

had flipped to a Republican majority in the 2014 election. The legislature’s decision not to approve the petition (in this case by ignoring it entirely) within 40 days immediately qualified the measure for a popular vote in the 2016 general election.

Media coverage concerning the initiative slowed for a time after the March 13, 2015 announcement that it would appear as a ballot question in 2016. Now, coverage surrounding the initiative is picking up again as candidates for local and state offices voice their stances on the matter and groups on both sides of the background check debate attempt to sway voters to their respective sides in the lead-up to November’s election.

There are two political action committees registered with the Nevada Secretary of State’s office in regards to Question 1—Safe Nevada in support of the initiative, and Nevadans for State Gun Rights in opposition to it. By comparing the information presented on the PACs’ respective campaign websites to the wording of the actual initiative petition, it’s clear that each group has presented at least some information that doesn’t portray the initiative’s intentions accurately.

To demonstrate this, one statement was chosen from each PAC website for comparison to the actual text of the initiative.

Background checks conducted by FFLs in Nevada are done by calling the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s Records Bureau. The Records Bureau checks state criminal records and also the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Nevada FFLs don’t contact NICS directly because the FBI and the state developed a Point of Contact Firearms Program, which according to the Department of Public Safety’s website “has access to Nevada criminal records unavailable to agencies outside of the state, as well as the national records.” Nevada is one of 13 states that are full participants in the POC program.

The text of the initiative petition that concerns how a licensed dealer would conduct a background check for a transfer or sale between two unlicensed individuals states that the dealer would “comply with all requirements of federal and state law as though … selling or transferring the firearm from his or her own inventory,” except for one key difference.

The dealer would have to contact NICS directly instead of the state POC program.

Safe Nevada reiterates this difference on its website but makes

no mention of an issue arising from this change. According to Records Bureau Chief Mindy McKay, the state’s designation as a POC for the NICS program means that FFLs cannot contact NICS directly. McKay explained that before FFLs would be allowed to contact NICS directly, the state would have to work with the FBI to change the existing protocol. This would mean Nevada would no longer be a full participant in the FBI’s POC program, and that background checks for private party transfers would not include any Nevada criminal records not available to agencies outside of the state.

An example of an inaccurate assertion on the Nevadans for State Gun Rights’ website concerns the process unlicensed individuals would have to go through when transferring a firearm through a federally licensed firearm dealer.

The website states: “This proposed bill requires you to surrender your firearm to a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), who is regulated by federal bureaucrats. You must pay them a fee to sell your gun. If your firearm does not transfer, you must pay the federal fee to have the background check run on you before you get your gun back.”

Again, looking at the wording of the actual petition shows that this information is incorrect. The wording of the initiative that covers

background checks by FFLs clearly states that “the seller or transferor may remove the firearm from the business premises while the background check is being conducted, provided that” the seller and the buyer both return to the licensed dealer before completing the sale or transfer. The federal regulations covering private transfers also allow the seller to keep the gun in his or her possession but do stipulate that if the gun is left in an FFL’s possession, a background check would be required to retrieve it.

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Each of the PACs has misrepresented at least one of the facts behind Question 1. Luckily, with more than four months until the election, Nevada voters still have time to learn for themselves exactly what the background check initiative would and wouldn’t do. Both PAC websites and the Nevada Secretary of State’s website provide links to the text of the initiative petition for those willing to take a closer look. Ω

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El Santo, the jaguar, was taking a little nap on June 18 while visitors to the Animal Ark wildlife sanctuary hustled past his enclosure on their way to watch animal keepers feed Gracie the bear. Jaguars are the largest cat in the Americas. El Santo was donated to Animal Ark by Project Survival’s Cat Haven to help raise awareness about this endangered species.

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Kevin Burls and Cynthia Scholl at Nevada Bugs & Butterflies in Lemmon Valley

House of bugs Reno’s best insect house is in Lemmon Valley How many people in Reno are uniquely qualified to run a bug and butterfly house in their free time?

Kevin Burls and Cynthia Scholl are among the wild ones who, after by Josie Luciano finishing their graduate work in evolutionary biology (Kevin) and insect ecology (Cynthia), took a chance to bring their love of bugs to the public.

The idea came while the couple was in Bishop, California, for their last season of fieldwork as University of Nevada, Reno graduate students in 2011. They were collecting caterpillars.

“We had our heads in a licorice plant in an abandoned lot,” said Scholl. “There were all these different insects and interactions going on in this plant and I thought, ‘This is a way, in a relatively small space, that you could share some of the fascinating questions we ask ourselves as ecologists.’ ” Five years later—and four years after its incorporation as a nonprofit —Nevada Bugs and Butterflies has thousands of visitors under its belt and is looking forward to a big summer.

“We expect to have over 2,000 people here this year,” said Burls. “If we do things right.”

To prepare for the three months out of a year that they are open, Burls and Scholl start collecting native butterfly eggs in mid-May. The eggs are then “reared” in UNR biology labs until the chrysalises hatch, at which point they are trucked out to the bug house. There, the adult females lay a new generation of eggs that will be brought back to the lab to begin the cycle once again.

In addition to raising its own butterflies, the nonprofit spends a good Nevada Bugs and Butterflies is open deal of time educating its visitors about the connection between insect every Thursday, Friday population health and habitat. It’s a detail that’s hard to miss given their and Saturday between location—Neil Bertrando’s Steppe One Farm in Lemmon Valley. Dotted June 16 and Sept. 24 with interpretive text and spaces for gathering, the 1.3 acre permaculture (except Saturday, July property is home to 400 plant species, a dozen types of butterflies, and 2). Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more “really, really amazing bee and wasp diversity,” according to Scholl. information, visit www.

All in all, running the bug and butterfly house is a lot of work for an nevadabugs.org. organization that doesn’t charge its visitors, and—so far—has been built solely on volunteer hours. But that will be changing soon—the part about volunteers, at least. Though admission will always be free at their current location, Burls is gearing up to be Nevada Bugs and Butterflies’ executive director, its first employee.

It’s a development that will allow the organization to spend more time hosting schools and families, more time launching citizen science initiatives, and more time helping visitors develop an eye for observing very small interactions.

“It’s not at the scale of things where we’re normally looking for,” said Burls. “We hear the comments of people that come back to us and say, ‘Oh, well, I see butterflies everywhere now!’ So I think a lot of that is just a search image. It’s just knowing what to look for out there, what things are looking like.” Ω

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A University of Nevada, Reno professor presents a leftist case in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton ILLUSTRATION/JONATHAN BUCK

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he choice for president of the United States is easy for a Man of the Left: Bernie Sanders.

Sanders won most of the Democratic primaries but his opponent, Hillary Clinton, reaped the majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Her big win in the California primary clinched the nomination.

But even before the California vote, Clinton had a lock on the superdelegates, those numerous Establishment figures who cling to the past rather than look to the future.

And—she has powerful allies on the rules and platform committees to swing things her way.

Sanders, a democratic socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, made a valiant effort but could not wrest the nomination from Clinton, former secretary of state. This is sad because Sanders is a progressive and Clinton a conservative, promising the same-old dreary presidency.

The Sanders election platform called for a modern-day revolution, the most progressive since Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s.

Sanders demanded universal health care, a single-payer plan that would cover everyone, including 28 million Americans without any health coverage.

It’s absurd that the richest country in the world doesn’t have national health while smaller and poorer nations do.

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Product, issue 35 percent of mortgages and two-thirds of credit cards,” Sanders declared.

“The big corporations earn billions in profits, stash the money in tax havens abroad and pay nothing in income taxes.

Billionaire hedge fund managers pay a lower tax rate than teachers or nurses.”

Sanders proposed free college education for all who qualify to enter. Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and many other nations have free university education. The University of California System used to offer free college education but 30 years ago began to charge tuition.

Since then, college students all over the country have been shackled with debt, taking decades and even lifetimes to pay it off.

Sanders sought to wipe out that terrible burden.

As is so often the case, the federal government fails to provide things that are essential.

College education means more pay and better jobs for individuals and stimulates the national economy.

As Michelle Obama chants, “To rise in society, go to college.”

Sanders urged “bold action on climate control so the planet will be habitable for future generations.” The scientific community is nearly unanimous that climate change, caused by human beings, is already damaging Earth.

He lamented the fact that “Congress refuses to appropriate sufficient funds for the nation’s infrastructure. Our crumbling roads, bridges, railroads, airports, water systems, wastewater plants, dams and levees are in desperate need of refurbishing.”

In short, Sanders made a powerful case to be the next president.

Clinton certainly is qualified to serve in the White House and lead the nation. But she will bring nothing new to the static and stale presidency. Donald Trump will. He is a hugely successful businessman, a real estate tycoon who made a billion dollars in business. Remember, too, Congress can rein in Trump as it does every president.

The country absolutely needs a woman president—but not Clinton.

A far, far better first woman to become president of the United States is Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She is a genuine progressive. I hope she runs for president in 2020—unless the worst happens and Clinton is elected in November, making it

difficult for anyone to beat her except Jesus Christ.

My voting for Trump will astonish those who know my leftish politics. I have never voted for a Republican since I began voting as long ago as 1956. (I voted for the excellent Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson, against his Republican rival, the sainted Ike Eisenhower.)

But rather Trump than Clinton. Americans are bloody sick and tired of choosing “the lesser of two evils.” That way leads to ever more mediocrity.

Trump, who will be nominated at the GOP convention in Cleveland in July, promises real change. He’ll bring excitement to the White House. Clinton promises the politics of yesteryear.

No presidential candidate in history has hauled so much political baggage as Donald Trump.

Yet Clinton, too, carries a great deal of baggage.

Endless tales of Trump Several of Trump’s positions are indefensible—proposed restrictions on Muslims entering America, not allowing illegal immigrants from Latin America to stay in this country, and elimination of the Affordable Care Act. Muslims are not the problem, but some Muslims are. Namely, the Taliban. Its followers kill, throw bombs, terrorize civilians, pillage and destroy historic sites. Immigrants take jobs Americans won’t—low-paying positions with long and irregular hours. Obamacare, while not nearly as good as universal health coverage, insures many citizens who wouldn’t be covered without it.

Trump University is a fraud, relying on high-pressure sales tactics, employing unqualified

Be wary of gender politics Liberal voters this fall should be wary of playing gender politics, of voting for Clinton only because she is a woman. The nation has never had a woman president, and now feminists argue that this year provides the chance to make the women’s liberation dream come true.

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Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle columnist, observed that Trump “channels the anxieties felt by scores of people who are not billionaires. He soothes their fears by telling them he’ll take care of their problems. He comes across as authentic.”

Moreover, Garofoli added, Trump “addresses those fears in bursts of plainspoken, incomplete sentences, the way most people talk.”

One California military mother, whose daughter serves in Japan, told an interviewer that she is delighted to hear Trump pledge “to take care of our vets.”

They deserve it. The Pentagon today is not taking decent care of veterans.

Republican U.S. House member Chris Collins, who represents a district in western New York state, makes a powerful case for Trump. In a column in the New York Times, Collins wrote that Trump’s “lack of political correctness shows that he is independent.”

“For too long the political class has denied everyday Americans a real voice in government,” Collins declared.

“In the election this fall voters are finding a leader who is listening to them over the clamor of Washington’s special interests. Voters are speaking loud and clear that they want a leader like Trump. They want a chief executive, not a chief politician.”

May 3, 2016: Donald Trump delivered a victory speech at Trump Tower after winning the Indiana Republican primary.

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Women at Walmart are paid less than men. They advance to management positions at lower rates than men even though their performance reviews are higher.

Clinton made no effort to combat this sexism when she was on the Walmart board. Neither did she object that Walmart is violently anti-union while women make up the majority of workers. This is a women’s inequality issue that demands an outraged cry.

Clinton rakes in $200,000 for many speaking engagements.

She earned $11 million in 2014 for 51 speeches to banks and industries. She took in $675,000 for speeches for Goldman-Sachs.

The New York Times editorialized, “‘Everybody does it,’ is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton’s latest defense for making closed-door, richly paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts ... [giving] a terrible answer, saying that she would release transcripts ‘if everybody does it, and that includes the Republicans.’”

Clinton is called a liberal but she is a centrist, as nearly all presidents are, including President Obama. She is a middle-of-theroader like her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

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instructors, and exploiting vulnerable students paying $35,000 to enroll in a real estate class.

Ronald Schnackenberg, former sales manager of Trump U., told the New York Times, “Trump University is a fraudulent scheme. It preys on the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their money. He trades on his reputation to sell everything from water and steaks to neckties and education.”

USA Today reports that Trumpery has been involved in 3,500 litigations in state and federal courts in the past three decades. “They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation suits.”

No wonder the hot-headed Trump reacts angrily when judges rule against him.

Nevertheless, his racist and ethnic slurs are shameful.

Ah, the endless tales of Trump. But some of his proposals are superb.

Violating GOP orthodoxy, Trump would raise taxes on billionaires like himself. He cites the fact that corporations get away with tax murder. He would simplify the tax code, noting that taxpayers spend too much time and money for tax preparers like H&R Block.

He deplores outsourcing. He particularly blasts hedge-fund managers who use the carriedinterest loophole to pay a fraction of the taxes they should. He would make Ford and other auto firms “pay a price” for shifting their production abroad.

Trump promises to pull American troops out of South Korea unless Seoul pays more for its bogus “protection.”

America should yank the troops now with no ifs, ands or buts. Its involvement in the Korean War was wrong from the beginning.

Rep. Collins said, in defense of Trump, “I see the failures of career politicians in the experiences of the hardworking men and women in Western New York whom I represent in Congress. The safe manufacturer SentrySafe, which once employed hundreds in the Rochester area, will close its doors this June and shift much of its operation to Mexico. That means the loss of good-paying jobs because our state and national leaders do not know how to encourage businesses to stay and grow in the United

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February 16 2016: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at Shomburg Center in Harlem.

States. … America cannot afford another professional politician residing in the White House.

We need a leader who has faced tough real-life situations before, and won. As Republicans prepare to vote in the New York primary on Tuesday, I hope they will send a resounding message that they believe Donald J. Trump is that type of leader. ...

“One of the many reasons Americans are rallying behind him is his record of success and commitment to taking the lessons he’s learned to the White House. When he talks about being a president who would create jobs, win negotiations and stand up to enemies, people believe him because he has done it before. ... His lack of political correctness shows that he is independent and understands the things people care about.”

A close observer of Trump, someone who took the time to

Clinton’s hawkish record

read one of his many books, came to admire him, saying, “For all the faults of the Boss, he has the techniques of negotiation nailed!”

One thing Sanders, Trump and Clinton agreed on—they all opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Rightly so.

That and other U.S. trade deals have been a disaster. The 12-country accord does nothing for U.S. workers but enhances the fortunes of multinational corporations at home and abroad.

As Sanders pointed out, “Since 2001, we have lost 60,000 factories and five million decentpaying manufacturing jobs.

Congress should not pass a trade bill like TPP that sends jobs out of the country so companies can break unions, force down wages and benefit already wealthy Wall Street executives and investors.”

Columnist Jim Hightower, a true populist in an era when

every politician claims the mantle of populism, is blunt about TPP: “A cabal of global corporations and their friends in the Obama Administration are waging a wholesale assault on our jobs, environment, health, and even our people’s sovereignty.”

No presidential candidate in history has hauled so much political baggage as Donald Trump. Yet Clinton, too, carries a great deal of baggage.

Clinton triumph bodes ill Clinton has served the wealthy and powerful like lawyers and hightech specialists. Raise wages? Yes, she would, but she never says how much. She is beholden to corporate power.

After all, she served on the corporate board of Walmart.

Clinton is an unabashed hawk.

She supported the invasion of Iraq, the long occupation and counter-insurgency in that country. As secretary of state, she backed escalation of the Afghanistan War, pressed President Obama to arm Syrian rebels and endorsed airstrikes against the ruling Syrian regime.

She supported intervention in Libya with drone strikes.

As Democratic U.S. senator from New York for eight years, her record was doubly hawkish.

She was the only Democratic senator who made false claims that Saddam Hussein gave sanctuary to Al-Qaeda.

Clinton has a dark legacy in the Mexican drug war, according to Jesse Franzblau in a foreign policy analysis for Truthout: “U.S. laws explicitly prohibit the delivery of aid to foreign individuals and units implicated in systematic human rights violations. But files released by WikiLeaks revealed that Clinton’s State Department

regularly received information on widespread ‘official corruption’ in Mexico, even as they were bolstering the flow of equipment, assistance, and training that ended up in the hands of abusive and compromised security forces.”

Clinton opposes the singlepayer health care that Canada and most European nations are blessed with.

Writer Carl Bernstein noted that Clinton waged a lengthy battle to discredit Gennifer Flowers, an actress who had a long affair with Bill Clinton.

Hillary “dished” her as “trailer trash.” Lisa Featherstone wrote in a Truthout op-ed piece, “Clinton’s feminism is not only elite, but also white and often explicitly racist. ...And if feminism only concerns itself with the women at the very top of our society, condoning horrific abuse of those without power, it’s not feminism at all. It’s just elitism.”

As president, Bill Clinton pushed his punitive crime bill of 1994. His First Lady supported it with an ugly remark—“Young criminals are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are superpredators.”

In 1996, President Clinton’s penal budget was twice the

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Numerous observers argue the inspector general’s report shows that practically everything Clinton has said about her use of a private server is false. amount allocated to food stamps.

He wanted “to end welfare as we know it.” He railed against “welfare queens” and “big government.” As Governor of Arkansas for 11 years, Clinton was most vulnerable on tax inequity. He raised taxes in a poor state regressively, hurting low-income people. He was weak on social issues and the environment—mere nods of agreement from the First Lady.

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While serving as secretary of state, she used her family’s private email server for official emails rather than use proper State Department channels.

She destroyed 32,000 of those emails she deemed private, a clear violation of State Department rules and federal laws governing official recordkeeping. She destroyed them with the incredible declaration that the emails were personal and not work-related.

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Still another Clinton gambit while secretary of state that should bar her from being president—she made weapons transfers to the Saudis a top priority while the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars in donations from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the weapons manufacturer Boeing.

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The decade from 2000 to 2010 constitutes the most enormous military sale in history. Weapons valued at 100 billion dollars included F-15 bombers, Apache and Blackhawk helicopters, missile defense systems, bombs and armored vehicles.

To sum up, the Clintons will use political influence, money and connections to extend their dynasty for another tenure in the White House—Bill Clinton, the man from Hope, Arkansas, and Hillary Clinton who hopes to become the first woman president. Her record makes plain she does not deserve it. Ω

Jake Highton is an emeritus journalism professor from the University of Nevada, Reno.

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A fortuitous find Fortunate Eagle pulled a white, cardboard bankers box out from underneath a side table in his living room. The words “Bronze Bowls” were written on the lid in chunky capital letters in red magic marker. Inside the box, there are eight bronze bowls stacked together and wrapped in a beige bath towel.

The bowls are each about the size of a cereal bowl. The rims are jagged and primitive looking, and most of them have a worn, red patina on the outside. Fortunate Eagle wonders if it’s a Chinese lacquer.

“So, the provenance,” he said. “It was in East Oakland, in the base of the Oakland Hills, above Foothill Boulevard, in 1955. I’m a licensed termite inspector, an amateur prospector and a rock hound. I finished making the inspection of this home, at the base of this hill, and after I finished that I looked up the hillside. There’s a ravine. ... As a rock hound, I’m looking for all kinds of stuff. I hadn’t gone 100 feet up that ravine, and two feet under the dirt I saw something metallic. Eight bronze bowls clustered, stacked together.” He said he took the bowls home and didn’t think much about them.

“I knew I had something strange and different,” he said. “I’ve saved those bowls for 61 years. I collected stuff and sold stuff, but I kept them for all these years because I didn’t know what to do with them.”

Just last year, he came across a book titled 1421, The Year China Discovered America. It was written in 2002 by a British author named Gavin Menzies, who put forth a theory that the Chinese had explored America all the way back in the year 1421, 70 years before Columbus made his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Menzies concluded that the Chinese must have visited the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay. That’s right where Oakland is, where Fortunate Eagle said he’d dug up the bowls.

When he needs to reach someone by email or save something from a website, he does so through his grandson, Jesse Windriver, who lives next door. Windriver prints out email correspondence with historians and photos that might hold some clues to the artifacts’ origins, and Fortunate Eagle keeps them in manila file folders. He pulled a black and white printout from a file and described the picture.

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in a gray doublewide on the Fallon Indian Reservation a few miles east of Fallon. This community is spread over miles of flat, highdesert farmland that looks a lot like any other rural valley in Northern Nevada: a dairy farm, fields, acres of open space, mountains in the distance, neighbors a few miles apart from each other.

Fortunate Eagle’s yard, alive with chirping songbirds and the crow of a rooster, is a hub of creative industry—larger-than-life bears and Indian chiefs chiseled from logs, stone carvings, a swing set for the great grandkids, and a 12-sided roundhouse with a wood-shingled roof, based on a design popular with the Pomo Indians of California. Inside, it looks like a long-lost museum. The corners are thick with cobwebs. Pedestals hold dozens of bronze sculptures and stone carvings he’s made over the years. There are necklaces made of beads, headdresses made of feathers, rugs, furniture, and paintings made by Fortunate Eagle’s wife, Bobbie, of Indian warriors on horseback, dressed for battle.

Fortunate Eagle will turn 87 in July, and his inventory of artwork isn’t the only thing that’s eclectic.

“Have you Googled me yet?” he asked. He doesn’t use Google himself, or any communications technology newer than a fax machine.

But his life has been a long road of hardships, triumphs, adventures and honors, many of which are detailed online, in print and in film. He was born in 1929 in Minnesota to a Chippewa mother and a Swedish father.

When he was 5, his father died. Soon after, he went to an Indian boarding school. He spent much of his childhood there and later wrote a book about the experience. In 1969, he led the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island. He wrote a book about that too.

He’s put a curse on the city of Livermore, California’s sewer system. He’s met Pope John Paul II. “I refused to kiss his ring,” Fortunate Eagle said with a grin, “And he refused to kiss mine.”

He’s the subject of a documentary film, Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle, and he starred in another documentary, playing the voice of Sitting Bull. His latest project? Trying to clear up an archaeological mystery that he thinks might contribute to rewriting a chapter of world history.

Activist/author/prospector Adam Fortunate Eagle might have found a missing link in New-World history, but the puzzle of verification is missing some pieces

Adam Fortunate Eagle said he dug up eight bronze bowls as an amateur prospector in the 1950s. Now he’s trying to determine whether they came to the New World before Columbus did.

“Here is the ancient Chinese bowl,” he said.

“It’s very similar. It’s so darn close,” he added, comparing the photo with the bowls he’d unpacked from the bankers box. “And do you think they could be almost 600 years old?”

Uncovering the mystery Soon after reading the book 1421, Fortunate Eagle wrote an email to Gavin Menzies.

Actually, he wrote a letter in long-hand on

a yellow legal pad. Windriver typed it and emailed it. Menzies’ assistant wrote back to say he was excited about the potential find, and he offered to put a photo of the bowls on his research team’s website, where there’s a public forum for readers to weigh in on identifying ancient artifacts.

While Fortunate Eagle and Menzies’ team can easily picture the bowls being Chinese artifacts from the early 1400s, other experts aren’t so sure. Many scholars disagree with Menzies about the Chinese having arrived in the New World so early on.

Veronica Sese, a representative from the Chinese American Historical Society in San Francisco, said that according to her organization, Chinese contact with California in 1421 is “a myth.” According to CAHS documents, the Chinese never set foot in California until the late 1700s, about 350 years after Fortunate Eagle’s ancient Chinese bowls would have been left in the ravine.

Fortunate Eagle said he’s eager to submit the bowls to metallurgical testing. However, Carl Nesbitt, a professor of metallurgical engineering at the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, said there is not a dependable metallurgical test that could verify the origin of the bowls. The only clue Nesbitt had to offer was that bronze and brass don’t tend to hold up to the elements very well.

He said, “Bronze does tend to get pretty patina’ed.” Also, some metals and alloys could suffer from corrosion or oxidation.

While the bowls in question have a matte black patina on the inside and the worn, red coating on the outside, they don’t appear compromised by either.

So what’s next for Fortunate Eagle and his bronze bowls? Are they the “historic scoop” that he hopes they are? He said he will gladly submit the bowls to any kind of additional testing or verification. Ω

PHOTO/KRIS VAGNER

The bowls appear to age gracefully. They’re patina’ed with a red coating that Fortunate Eagle surmises might be Chinese lacquer.

Author’s note: If you have a suggestion for Adam Fortunate Eagle about how to verify the origin of his bowls, email krisv@newsreview.com, and I’ll pass it along to him—by snail mail. —KV

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Sculptor’s intuition Robert Brady “I like to shoot first and ask questions later,” said Robert Brady over the phone by from Berkeley, California. He was Kris Vagner talking about making artwork based on intuition, the very idea of which k ri s v @ has kind of a bad rap in the academic ne w s re v i e w . c o m art world.

Robert Brady’s sculpture “Surveyor” stands on one leg, demonstrating one of the artist’s favorite qualities of wood as a material: You can make it do tricky balancing acts.

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“People see it like you’re not really taking ownership in the results,” he said. But Brady, who’s spent a long career in that world, thinks that bad rap is not deserved.

He was a member of Wooster High School’s first graduating class in 1964. He has art degrees from two California colleges, and he taught ceramics for over 30 years at California State University, Sacramento. These days, he’s still making sculptures.

“I really believe in trusting these intuitive responses and doing it and making it,” he said, “and then I look at it, and I make a decision about whether I was totally deluded.” He doesn’t mind that the process leads to a few bad drafts here and there.

“We all have an intelligence that’s more than we can tap into or grasp,” Brady added. “It has a way of expressing itself even when we don’t know it’s there. It has great

potential.” He appreciates artists who “know how to dig down and find richness and surprise.”

Brady has found that richness and surprise in a lifetime of refining his techniques. He works with clay, metal and, most often, jelutong, a Malaysian wood that’s smooth in grain and just soft enough to carve easily. He’d worked primarily with ceramics until his mid-40s, when his wife asked him to make a cabinet.

“I couldn’t just make a simple cabinet,” he said. “I had to carve a figure out of the door or something.” He fell in love with wood as a material right then and there.

“That was about 30 years ago now,” he said. “I found that the wood allowed me to do things that I wish I could with clay. I could make tenuous connections that would be ridiculous in clay, or outright impossible. There’s an angel in there that’s over six feet tall,” he said, referring to a piece in his current exhibit at Stremmel Gallery, where he has a solo show approximately every two years. The elongated angel is connected to the base with just one leg, an example of a type of construction that would be next to impossible to achieve using clay.

Brady’s subject matter is mostly humans and animals, exaggerated or abstracted. His imagery has hints of cultural influences from many places and many times. Some of his faces could be from Japanese comic books. A few figures have the totem-like stature of some Native American work. A carved head in front of a painted wood panel contains hints of forests and castles, redolent of Brothers Grimm-era European fairy tales.

“In real general terms, the art or the stuff out there that has really fed me on a spiritual level was from non-Western sources,” he said. He likes the energy and the spirit of artwork that’s made for the sake of religion or that “comes from the heart.”

“I’m very aware of contemporary art, modernism or whatever,” he said. “I don’t overlook that kind of thing. I’m able to fold in aspects of that.”

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Papa G’s 1560 S. Stanford Way, Sparks, 331-3557 Papa G’s opened with what seemed to be an odd business model. Depending on your perspective, it’s either a pizza joint by Todd South that serves breakfast, or a brunch spot that serves pizza. Either way, they offer a sizeable selection of pizzas, chicken wings, deep-fried appetizers, burgers, sandwiches, prepared salads, a salad bar and a full breakfast menu. The part I found odd is their hours. They close at 3 p.m. on weekdays, but I was told the hours will be extended to 7 p.m. in the near future.

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Papa G’s owner Ron Tipton eats a beef melt, and employee Russell Panken digs into Papa G’s Breakfast platter.

To learn more, visit www.papags restaurant.com. Papa G’s is open Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a lunch buffet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The restaurant is also open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

On our lunchtime visit, we ordered mac and cheese bites ($3.99 for 12) and hot wings ($9.99 for 10).

The wings were of average size and very crispy—unsurprising as they were just a tad overcooked and a little dry. A few minutes less in the fryer, and they’d be perfect. But having learned from my own home fryer experiences, I gave this a pass.

The Buffalo sauce was spot-on, and we scarfed ’em down nonetheless.

Our other appetizer answered the question, “How do you improve an American classic full of fat and carbs?” Answer—with more fat and carbs! The bites were small, batterfried cakes of macaroni and cheese reminiscent of that classic, boxed “dinner” a lot of American kids grew up with. I know these perfectly uniform triangles had to have come from a factory, but—damn it—they were really good. We enjoyed them despite ourselves.

Next up, a shared pair of mini pizzas ($7.59 each). The crust on both was quite good, very crispy and not too bready. Unfortunately, the red sauce on our margherita pie was on the sweet side without

much in the way of herbs, garlic or seasoning—more an average marinara than a zesty pizza sauce. The toppings were adequate but lacked the aromatic punch of fresh tomato and basil I look for in a margherita.

The chicken garlic pie had tons of chicken and veg, but—again—the sauce didn’t wow me. If garlic was present I couldn’t swear to it, but my wife said she really liked this pie. Both included a copious amount of mozzarella, so perhaps the best choice is a cheese pizza that showcases the crust.

And now for something completely different. Though they have eggy burritos, omelets, Benedicts, hash and waffles, my wife ordered the signature Papa G’s breakfast ($9.35). Three eggs were cooked perfectly over medium, joined by nicely browned home fries, a fluffy biscuit smothered in sausage gravy, and ham steak on the side. While it was full of sausage, the gravy was a bit bland and required a shake (or three) of salt and pepper. The “steak” was actually a slice of pressed-andformed quasi-ham that had the look and texture of bologna. With great eggs, good taters and a gravy that just needed a touch of seasoning, I’d recommend ordering either bacon or sausage with this plate.

Burgers, sandwiches, and salads round out the menu, so I split the difference and ordered a beef melt sandwich with a trip through the salad bar ($9.75). This turned out to be the most successful thing ordered, second only to those deviously delicious, deep-fried mac and cheese bites. The grilled sourdough remained crispy throughout—stuffed with fresh tomato, grilled roast beef, onion and green pepper, then topped with melted American cheese and thousand island dressing. It was absolutely fabulous.

The salad bar was about average, with plenty of veg and protein to choose from and a nice selection of dressings, including honey mustard, thousand island, bleu cheese, French, low-calorie Italian, raspberry vinaigrette and three levels of ranch that were something of a revelation: standard, mild and hot.

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Two decades after the original, Independence Day: Resurgence finally arrives, without by Smith, who probably didn’t think the check Bob Grimm was big enough, and Quaid, who has gone more bonkers than his deeply disturbed b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m Independence Day character. Quaid’s character actually died in the original after flying a plane up an alien ship’s bunghole.

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Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Brent Spiner return for alien nonsense that is fast paced yet dull, and utterly void of laughs.

It’s evident in the first 10 minutes that the movie will somehow manage to be lethargic even though the editing is frantic, and lots of things are exploding. Returning director Roland Emmerich is clearly not on his disaster-epic game.

In the wake of that late 1990s invasion, Earth has stolen some alien technology and built a weapons defense system on the moon.

The Queen Alien, an entity basically stolen from James Cameron’s Aliens, sees Pullman’s President Whitmore rallying the troops during the original invasion on her Universe DirecTV, and gets pissed off. She sets her controls for Earth, where its residents and now President Langford (Sela Ward) are going to pay dearly for the time Will Smith sucker punched an alien in the face.

Pullman’s Whitmore, now adorned with a David Letterman retirement beard, is having visions of the next invasion in his sleep.

Goldblum’s David Levinson is traveling the Earth as some sort of watchdog for peace.

Actually, I didn’t really know what Goldblum’s character was doing, other than acting all Jeff Goldblum-y when the alien shit hit the fan.

Smith’s character has been killed off, replaced in the franchise by his character’s son, Dylan (Jessie T. Usher), from the original.

Liam Hemsworth, a.k.a. King Dullard, shows up as a reckless pilot designated to moon duty, while Maika Monroe of It Follows fame plays his Earthbound fighter pilot fiancée, who is also the daughter of former President Whitmore. So, you see, everybody ties together, in a lame, unoriginal, inexpensive sort of way. Good thing they saved all that Will Smith money. They got themselves three real powerhouses for that rescinded paycheck.

Turns out Spiner’s Dr. Brakish Okun didn’t die after all in the first flick. He just wound up in a coma, which he wakes from 20 years later. He’s supposed to provide the film’s comic relief, but he just runs around yelling and smiling a lot. He provides not a chuckle in this affair and probably would’ve done the movie a favor by staying asleep.

Judd Hirsch tries to pick up the comedic slack by reprising his role as Goldblum’s dad, this time saddled with a bunch of ragtag kids who seem like a subplot from another movie. Or perhaps a failed pilot on the Syfy Channel? Judd and the Apocalypse Kids: A kooky grandpa takes a bunch of orphaned kids on a school bus trip, where they learn about life, love and evading aliens.

Taking over as president, Sela Ward’s sole purpose in this movie is to order useless military strikes with dramatically overacted conviction. (Her last line is a howler.)

Pullman’s Whitmore eventually snaps out of his mad stupor to get a shave, throw aside his cane—apparently, that beard was really slowing him down—and fly a plane into an alien ship’s butthole, like everybody does in Independence Day movies.

Let it be said that Randy Quaid managed to fly a fighter plane into an alien ship’s butthole with far more aplomb than Pullman.

If anybody can make flying into an alien ship’s butthole a lackluster, rote affair, it’s Bill Pullman.

The film delivers a big “We’re gonna have a sequel!” type line at the end, but let’s all join hands and go to the movie with the bikini girl and shark instead, and slaughter that particular prophecy. No more fighter jet excursions up alien ship rectums required.

Over and done with! Ω

While it doesn’t boast much along the lines of originality, this winds up being an above average action/comedy buddy movie thanks to its stars, Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. The guys belong together. The plot feels like a bunch of parts from other movies cobbled together to make a whole. It has elements of Lethal Weapon, Grosse Pointe Blank, Just Friends and even a little Sixteen Candles, all stitched together, albeit capably, by director Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers).

It’s a well-oiled movie Frankenstein. Johnson and Hart are a strong screen duo, with Johnson actually scoring most of the laughs. Hart, who certainly chips in on the laughs front, actually delivers one of the more well rounded, warm performances of his career. He plays Calvin, the most popular guy in high school who grows up to be humdrum. Johnson plays Bob, a former obese guy who Calvin took pity on. Bob grows up to be a rogue CIA agent who looks like the Rock. The two wind up on an adventure that, of course, eventually leads to their high school reunion. I actually watched it at a drivein, and the movie perfectly suited the drive-in experience.

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As he did with The Conjuring, writerdirector James Wan uses the story of a supposedly real poltergeist in The Conjuring 2. The first film involved a haunting here in the U.S., while the sequel draws upon the infamous Enfield Poltergeist that allegedly occurred in England in the late ’70s. Wan has tapped into something interesting with this franchise. Two films in, it shows some decent durability and originality. It’s also pretty scary. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return as the Warrens, paranormal investigators who’ve visited many legendary haunted spaces, including Amityville and Enfield. Wan, of course, blows up their involvement in each of these cases to deliver a platform for fictional circumstances and scares. While not quite as good as The Conjuring, this is a sequel that mostly does its predecessor proud.

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This sequel to Finding Nemo goes a little darker than its predecessor. Ellen DeGeneres returns as Dory, the lovable fish with short-term memory loss. An event triggers a memory of family in her little brain, and she sets off on a journey to find her mom and dad (voiced by Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy). Pals Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) join Dory on her quest, which culminates in an aquarium amusement park graced with voice announcements by the actual Sigourney Weaver. Dory winds up in a touch pond, in a bucket of dead fish, and swimming around in a lot of dark pipe work. In some ways, this is to Finding Nemo what The Empire Strikes Back was to Star Wars. It’s a darker, slightly scarier chapter, that still delivers on the heartwarming elements and laughs. DeGeneres still rules as the voice of Dory.

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After the misstep that was Only God Forgives, director Nicolas Winding Refn gets things back on track with this, perhaps the most toxic and nasty film ever made about the modeling industry. Jesse (Elle Fanning)

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After seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, 12 year-old Eric Zala got the idea to remake the movie, shot for shot, as an experiment with his buddies. Over the next six years, they did just that, doing a remarkable job of recreating the legendary Spielberg film note for note. This film captures the creative team as they set out to film the one shot they never got: the massive airplane explosion after the fight with the big, bald Nazi. There’s a lot of fun stuff about the making of the movie, including the time the boys almost burned a house down. They also almost burned one of the actors, suffocated another with a plaster mold on his face, and used a little puppy instead of a monkey for the infamous Nazi salute monkey scene. The film includes interviews with director Eli Roth and Ain’t it Cool News founder Harry Knowles, major champions of the project.

Blake Lively, whose best role until now was the secretary in that SNL “Potato Chip” sketch, is terrific as Nancy, a medical school dropout who goes to a secret beach in Mexico in the wake of her mother’s death. She sets out for a day of surfing and reflection in what she thinks is a completely solitary setting (with the exception of a couple of other friendly surfers). Turns out, there’s a big-assed Great White shark, and this is its territory, and no trespassers are allowed, even if they are as pretty as Blake Lively. As shark movies go, this is a good one, with decent CGI effects, a couple of tense shark attacks, and a constant level of terror that never lets up. The only thing really keeping this from being “very good” rather than “nice and good” is the ending, which made me laugh a laugh I shouldn’t have laughed. Even with the big flaw, this is one of the summer movie season’s more fun offerings, certainly a lot more fun than that one with aliens and Jeff Goldblum in it. Note to producers: Please don’t make a sequel where the shark’s offspring follows Blake Lively to a vacation resort, Jaws: The Revenge style. You’ve made an all time top 10 shark movie; quit while you are ahead.

After scoring a huge critical and box office success with X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer’s triumphant return to the franchise, 20th Century Fox wisely brought the director back for this one. However, in a move that induces head scratching, Fox cut the budget for the current installment, while padding the cast and upping the action quotient.

Actually, this is the studio that screwed up Fantastic Four, so maybe the shortchanging of a reliable franchise isn’t all that surprising.

There are portions of the movie that are sloppier than the usual Singer offerings, and quite a few moments have cut-rate CGI. The flaws eventually pile up, and while there are some nice, enjoyable stretches, it’s a bit of a mess in the end—despite powerful work from Michael Fassbender as Magneto and new-to-thefranchise Oscar Isaac as the menacing villain Apocalypse. Before the opening credits, which look like shit, we get a quick back story for Apocalypse. En Sabah Nur (Isaac), an ancient Egyptian, merges with some sort of ancient mystical being, thus becoming the world’s first mutant, or something like that. He’s then buried under a crushed pyramid for centuries. What follows are too many characters demanding subplots and, ultimately, the worst chapter in the X-Men franchise.

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This is as brutal a satire you will ever see. Writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos gives us a world where being single is so frowned upon, you will be transformed into the animal of your choice if you don’t find a partner in an allotted time. Colin Farrell stars as David, a recently dumped man who must stay at a hotel with his brother, who is also his dog, and find a new mate, or become a lobster. He eventually finds himself living in the woods with the leftover single people, who must dodge daily hunting expeditions by people looking to extend their time before animal transformation (they earn extra days for every single person they bag). David eventually meets Short Sighted Woman (Rachel Weisz) among the singles, and he finds himself needing to make some big decisions on how to start a relationship with her. The film is intentionally drab in its look, with all of the actors delivering their lines with nearly no emotion. The effect is just plain nasty, a scathing indictment on a society that puts too much pressure on individuals to become couples. It’s often extremely funny, with an equal amount of necessary unpleasantness.

moves to L.A. to become a model. She’s underage, naïve and lost, but finds a helping hand in Ruby (Jena Malone), a makeup artist who knows what it’s like to be the new girl in town.

As her career begins to take off, Jesse begins to gain confidence to a fault, and a couple of other models (Bella Heathcote and Abbey Lee) develop sinister intentions to go with their envy of Jesse’s spectacular looks. Refn mesmerizes yet again—his Drive remains one of the best films of the past decade—combining stunning visuals and an excellent soundtrack to go with the outstanding performances from Fanning, Malone, Heathcote and Lee. Keanu Reeves has a small but memorable role as a sleazy hotel manager, while Alessandro Nivola is most memorable as a fashion designer who must have Jesse for his show. Refn is working in very dark, cynical satire here, with elements of horror mixed in for good measure. This establishes Fanning as one of her generation’s best actresses.

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Latin mix DeeJay Mario B Music is the ultimate globetrotter. Even if it originates in one specific place, it evolves and changes, learning from by Matt Bieker different cultures and languages until it finds a form that is new yet relatable. In the digital age, where online music is endlessly broken down and mashed up into new, eccentric forms, DeeJay Mario B works to find the newest combination that speaks to everyone listening.

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he found himself in a familiar setting when he was asked to help with the music at a friend’s party.

“I was like, ‘This is cool.

This is what I wanted to do back in my country,’” said Figueroa.

“I brought all my CDs from my country, and I started getting some new music—buying CDs, trying to download some new tracks and everything.”

In the time he spent DJing for his friends, Figueroa acquired the beginnings of his own sound system—including his first computer, turntables and a vinyl collection from his brother. He also invested in a projector for adding a visual component to his sets.

Before long, his knowledge of dance music and commitment to putting on a good show landed him a guest spot on “Brazilian night” at a local club and, in 2006, his first residency at the now-closed CocoBoom.

“I think that was one of the real Latino nightclubs,” said Figueroa.

“They were playing salsa, merengue, Latin beats‚ a little bit of everything.”

“A little bit of everything” remains an accurate description of DeeJay Mario B’s style. He spent the last few years as a resident DJ at Latin nightclub Mambo’s, experimenting with whatever musical style it took to reach his end goal: keep people dancing.

“When I started DJing here, I started playing reggaeton, merengue and hip-hop, and that was heaven for me,” said Figueroa.

“Those rhythms were really good to me. You can make people dance really easy. I noticed how Latinos like hip-hop and R&B. If you mix it with something different, like Latin flavor, or anything that can catch your attention, they like it.”

Mambo’s has closed its doors indefinitely. DeeJay Mario B will begin his new residency at Club Millennium in Sparks July 2.

Listeners can expect to hear more of his genre-defying sets, and perhaps even a few originals as well. “[I’m] trying to do my own music,” he said. “I play a lot of music from my record pools, a lot of tracks that are remade by other DJs. Maybe spend a little more time in the studio and see what I can become with making my own beats.” Ω

A Salvadoran raised on Spanish rock, European house, American hip-hop and everything in between, Mario Figueroa came to Reno when he was 19. In El Salvador, he initially planned to attend medical school, but his passion for music— sparked by his brother—put him on a different path.

“I was into music since I was 12,” Figueroa said. His brother brought over a couple of speakers, a mixer and some CD players.

That was in the ’90s.

“Seeing a CD player for us was a big deal,” he said. “It was, like, the beginning of CDs. We were listening to tapes.”

He learned the basics of mixing and wiring a sound system by volunteering at his school’s dances.

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DeeJay Mario B, a.k.a. Mario Figueroa, keeps his fans dancing with a reggaeton-merenguehip-hop-R&B melange.

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Lose Your Illusions, 8pm, $15-$35

211 N. Virginia St., (669) 255-7960

Gary Hoey, 8pm, $18-$40

Project N-fidelikah, 8pm, $20-$55

THE SAINT

Ned and the Dirt, The Voxes, 9pm, no cover

SHEA’S TAVERN

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

Disinfect Afterparty w/Witch-Lord, 11pm, $TBA

Disinfect 2 w/Countress, Lost Lands, Dissidence, others, 8pm, $7

SHELTER

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

Step Back Saturday, 10pm, no cover

SPARKS LOUNGE

Spur Crazy, 9pm, no cover

Band Fan Summer Fest, 3pm, donations

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

111 N. Virginia St., (775) 329-2909 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 409-3340

SPECTRE RECORDS

St. Christopher Project, 6pm, no cover

Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover

Disinfect Day 3 w/Gehenna, Deathgrave, INVDRS, others, 8pm, $7

David Liebe Hart July 6, 8 p.m.

Studio on 4th 432 E. Fourth St. 737-9776

Disinfect Day 1 w/Fall Silent, Gehenna, Countress, 8pm, $5

1336 S. Wells Ave., (775) 409-4085

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

The Doctors of Feel Good, 9pm, no cover

STUDIO ON 4TH

Bryan McPherson, 8pm, $6

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON

Cash Only Band, 9pm, no cover

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Even Gods Can Die, The Institution, Reptile Roots League, 8pm, $6

Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Ritual: Goth Prom w/DJs David Darkness, CJ Boyd, 7pm, $7 Rusty, 9pm, $3-$5

David Liebe Hart, Stabby Unicorn, 8pm, W, $10-$12

The Roemers featuring Beth Tchantre, 9pm, no cover

Mystic Roots, Stay Positive Sound, 9pm, no cover

Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

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2) Soul Experience, 4pm, no cover Just Us, 10pm, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover

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

1) Rex Meredith, 8:30pm, $14-$17

1) Naive Melodies, 10pm, no cover

1) Zepparella, 9pm, $15-$18

2) Ripe, 10pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live country bands, 9pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Rock of Ages, 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover

2) Borgore, 10pm, $10 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) Lex Saturdays, 10pm, $15 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) Brit Floyd, 9pm, $25

2) Dance Bootcamp with Eric & Corrie, 6pm, Tu, $15

2) Lex Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover

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1) Slightly Stoopid, SOJA, The Grouch & Eligh, Zion I, 6pm, $37.50

18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) Outdoor Arena 2) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge

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1) Petty vs. Eagles: A Musical Shootout, 8pm, $27-$37 3) The Vegas Road Show, 9pm, no cover 4) Fortunate Sons, 6pm, no cover

1) Petty vs. Eagles, 8pm, $27-$37 3) The Vegas Road Show, 9pm, no cover 4) Mister Wonderful, noon, no cover Fandango, 7pm, no cover

1) Nick Swardson, 8pm, $27.50-$45 4) The Killer Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

2) Mark Mackay, 8pm, no cover

1) Decadence: Come Away to the Cabaret, 8pm, $20-$30

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom Sandy Nuyts, 9pm, no cover 3) Gilley’s

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Sandy Nuyts, 9pm, no cover

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2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 8pm, no cover 3) The Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10 before 10pm

2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 8pm, no cover 3) Fashen, 10pm, $20

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1) Rock River Duo, 8pm, no cover

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4) Live Jazz Sundays by the Pool, 5pm, no cover

4) Wednesday Blues Jam Pool Party, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover

1) Foreigner, 8pm, $65-$85 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover

2) Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover

1) Petty vs. Eagles: A Musical Shootout, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 8pm, $27-$37 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

CBQ, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, 359-1109: Karaoke w/Larry Williams, Th, 6pm, no cover Corkscroo Bar & Pizzeria, 10 E. Ninth St., 284-7270: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques, W, 6pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 772-2475: College Nite/Karaoke, F, 7pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, H&T Mobile Productions, F, 10pm, no cover

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The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., 322-3001: Karaoke, Th-Sa, 8:30pm; Su, 6pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

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Events

GENOA AMERICANA CELEBRATION: The Fourth of July event will feature five traditional music groups and will conclude with an Independence Day tribute performance by the Carson Symphony Orchestra at 4:30 p.m. The celebration kicks off at 10am with traditional American music followed by the Children’s Parade at 11am. M, 7/4, 10am-6pm. Free. Mormon Station State Park, 2303 Main St., Genoa, http://genoaamericana.org.

39 NORTH MARKETPLACE: The marketplace showcases the best in arts and crafts and highlights produce and specialty food from the Truckee Meadows. Th, 4-9pm through 8/4. Victorian Square, 14th Street and Pyramid Way along Victorian Avenue, Sparks, (775) 6902581, www.39northdowntown.com.

ARTOWN: The 21st annual arts festival kicks off with the Opening Night Jubilee on June 30 and continues with hundreds of events taking place across town through July. Highlights include the Monday Night Family Series, Summer Soiree Under The Stars, Cultural Connections series and Midtown on Martin Street. The festival concludes with the 21st Anniversary Closing Night Celebration featuring Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. on July 31. Events will take place at Wingfield Park in downtown Reno, Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, the University of Nevada, Reno, among other locations. M-Su through 7/31. Opens 6/30. Free for most events. Call or visit website for details, (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

BARRACUDA CHAMPIONSHIP, PGA TOUR GOLF TOURNAMENT: Watch the world’s best golfers up-close and personal as they compete for a $3.2 million purse and 300 FedExCup points. M-Su through 7/3. $25-$85. Montreux Golf & Country Club, 16475 Bordeaux Drive, http://barracudachampionship.com.

GOLD HILL GHOST TOUR: Enjoy a meal at the Crown Point restaurant and then join a guided ghost tour through the Gold Hill Hotel sharing stories of ghostly legends. Dining begins at 4pm.

The tour starts at 8pm. M, 4 & 8pm. $40 for dinner and tour, $20 for tour only. Gold Hill Hotel, 1540 S. Main St., Gold Hill, (775) 847-0111.

I FLUNKED ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN …: Speaker Donna Hartley talks about her three near-death experiences and the three things she was gifted with when she returned to earth. Th, 6/30, 7-8:30pm. Donation. Center for Spiritual Living, Reno, 4685 Lakeside Drive, www.cslreno.org.

MOANA FOOD TRUCK ROUNDUP: The food trunk gathering features familyfriendly activities, entertainment and more. Th, 5-9pm through 9/29. Free admission. Rounds Bakery, 294 E. Moana Lane, Ste. 10, (775) 329-0800.

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. Guests are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and use the observation deck to view the evening sky. First Sa of every month, 7pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240.

THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY WING FEST: Up to 25 wing cookers will set up shop in Downtown Reno and compete for Reno’s tastiest honors with their most creative sauces during the fourth annual event. This year’s Wing Fest will feature a free concert by country music artist Jon Pardi, who will perform on the outdoor stage on Sunday, July 3, at 6:30pm. Sa, 7/2, noon-8pm; Su, 7/3, noon-8pm; M, 7/4, noon-6pm. Free admission. Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401.

THE RENO FASHION SHOW 2016: The Artown event features men’s and women’s fashions by more than 20 local and international designers, including some from Project Runway.

Sa, 7/2, 7:30pm. $25 presale. $30 day of show. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., www.renovanity.com.

CULTURAL CROSSROADS: This walking tour includes a visit to the Lear Theater and the historic Bethel AME Church. Reservations required online.

Sa, 7/2, 9-11am. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members.

West Street Market, 148 West St., www.historicreno.org.

RENO STREET FOOD—PARTY IN THE PARK: The gourmet street food event features more than 20 gourmet food, craft dessert, beer, wine and mixed drink vendors. Local musicians provide free live entertainment each week. F, 5-9pm through 9/30. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665.

EVENINGS ON THE RANCH: This familyfriendly program series celebrates the ranching heritage of Northern Nevada. W, 7-8pm through 7/27. Opens 7/6. $3 donation. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

Shirley’s Farmers Markets and the Sands Regency host the weekly farmers’ market. Local vendors will converge under the large tent in the Sands parking lot located south of Third Street in Reno. The weekly event includes free live classic rock concerts, food trucks, a beer garden and weekly summer games. Th, 4-9pm through 8/25.

Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2295.

truck event and arts bazaar takes place under the Keystone Bridge. W, 5-8pm through 9/28. Free admission.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 450-0062.

FREEDOM FESTIVAL: Baldini’s Casino

VALHALLA ART, MUSIC AND THEATRE FESTIVAL: The 34th annual celebration of music, theater and the visual arts offers events and activities through August. Events take place in the Boathouse Theater, the Valhalla Grand Hall and the Grand Lawn.

M-Su through 8/31. Prices vary.

Tallac Historic Site, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, http://valhallatahoe.com

A GALAXY OF ROSES: The Reno Rose Society, along with the city of Reno and Artown, presents its annual rose and flower show. The event will feature arrangements, demonstrations, a photo competition and live rose competition. This year’s theme “A Galaxy of Roses” celebrates the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space.

Sa, 7/2, noon-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, http://renorosesociety.org.

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show following the Reno Aces vs. Tacoma Rainiers game on July 4. Visit www.renoaces.com. Artown will also have several Independence Day-related events, including the Sounds of Freedom concert featuring the MasterWorks Chorale & Reno Municipal Band. The free show starts at 7 p.m. on July 3 at Wingfield Park, 300 N. Arlington Ave. The fun continues the next day with the Family Series: Celebrate America event starting with family-friendly activities at 5 p.m., a concert by the Reno Philharmonic at 7 p.m., and fireworks at dusk at Wingfield Park. Admission is free. Visit www.renoisartown.com. The Nugget Casino Resort will host its annual Star-Spangled Sparks celebration featuring a patriotic bike parade, live entertainment, vendors and a fireworks show starting about 9:45 p.m. The festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on July 3 along Victorian Square in downtown Sparks. Visit www.nuggetcasinoresort.com. Virginia City’s free 4th of July Celebration offers a parade, the Comstock Cowboys Second Amendment Concert and a fireworks show on July 4. Visit www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

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THURSDAY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET:

FEED THE CAMEL: The Hump Day food

holds its annual celebration featuring a motocross demo on July 1-2, roller derby on July 2 and a concert by country singer Mark Chesnutt on July 1. Sa, 7/2, 8am-10pm; Su, 7/3, 8am-10pm.

Free. Baldini’s Sports Casino, 865 S. Rock Blvd., Sparks, (775) 358-0116.

If you’re willing to venture out this holiday weekend, here are some of the Independence Day events going on in the area. Incline Village will present its 10th annual Red, White and Tahoe Blue featuring more than 45 events over the holiday weekend, July 1-4. Admission is free for most events. http://redwhitetahoeblue. org. South Lake Tahoe will hold its Lights on the Lake fireworks show starting about 9:45 p.m. on July 4. Top viewing locations include Nevada Beach, Timber Cove Marina, Tallac Historic Site, Edgewood-Tahoe and Lakeview Views/El Dorado Beach. Visit http://tahoesouth.com. The July 3rd Fireworks & Beach Party (pictured above) features food trucks, free watermelon eating, sand castle building and patriotic costume contests, games, music and more. The event begins at 4 p.m. at the North Lake Tahoe Event Center, 8318 N. Lake Tahoe Blvd., Kings Beach. Visit www.northtahoebusiness.org. Carson City will have the RSVP Fourth of July Fair with a carnival on July 1-4 and a fireworks show on July 4 at Mills Park, 1111 E. William St. Visit www.nevadaruralrsvp.org. Reno will host several Fourth of July events, including a fireworks

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DISCOVER STRING INSTRUMENTS: Learn from Sierra Silverstrings about the fiddle, then participate in an art project. W, 7/6, 9:30-11:30am. Free.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 322-1538.

DOWNTOWN LIBRARY STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 10:30am. Free.

Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

HANDS-ON WEEKEND SCIENCE: Families can participate in science activities on Saturdays and Sundays during HandsOn Weekend Science. Planetarium staff will host demonstrations and activities at the Science Station mobile lab in the lobby of the Exhibit Hall. HOW Science will explore themes of astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology, physics and space exploration. Sa, Su, 10am2pm through 9/4. Free. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812.

INCLINE VILLAGE STORY TIME: Stories and crafts for all children. W, 4pm. Free.

Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

INSIDE OUT: AN ANATOMY EXPERIENCE: This exhibition will take you on a journey into the curiosities of human

anatomy. Through digital and handson exhibits, you’ll learn how our bodies work, grow, age and heal. Tu-Su. $10 general admission, $9 veterans and active duty military. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000.

ROCKSPORT SUMMER CLIMBING CAMPS 2016: Kids can learn and expand their climbing, rappelling, safety skills, selfresponsibility and self-confidence. The curriculum is focused on each camper learning team building skills and gaining self-confidence. Each session includes bouldering, roped climbing, indoor and outdoor exercises, games and skillbuilding. Through 7/15, 9am-5pm; Through

7/22, 9am-1pm; Through 7/29, 9am-5pm.

$150-$300. RockSport Indoor Climbing Center, 1901 Silverada Blvd., Ste. 10, (775) 352-7673.

stay after story time and play with toys, dance to music or visit with new friends they’ve made at the library.

M, 10:30am-noon. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

SPARKS STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child.

W, 10:15am. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINIC: The Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist low-income families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. First come, first served. Th, 10am-noon.

Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

SOUTH VALLEYS STORY TIME: Stories and activities for the preschool child. Tu, 11:15am. Free. South Valleys Library,

15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

SPANISH SPRINGS STORY TIME: Stories, songs and fun geared toward preschool children ages 3-6. Children can

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WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: ARTful Women.

ARTful Women make their Nevada debut in a new exhibition. Their diverse styles are represented in works of fiber and mixed media that are stitched, dyed, painted, printed, stamped, waxed, fused and embellished. W-Su through 7/17. Free.

1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

Museums FOURTH WARD SCHOOL MUSEUM: The Comstock Through Time. This exhibit highlights some of the history of the Comstock through photographs and personal accounts. Then-and-now photographs help to emphasize the changes in the community and surrounding area.

Books, journal entries and oral histories will give the visitor a first-hand account of daily life. M-Su, 10am-5pm through 10/31. $5 adults, $3 for children ages 6-16, free for children age 5 and younger.

537 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0975.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31; American Impressionism, W-Su through 8/14; Anna McKee: 68,000 Years of Ice, W-Su through 9/18; Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, W-Su through 5/11; Don Dondero: A Photographic Legacy, W-Su through 7/10; Horses in the American West, W-Su through 7/3; The Horse, W-Su through 7/3; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

Malibu Sparks Pro Some of the world’s best professional wakeboarders and wakesurfers compete for the Sparks Pro title during the third stop of the Wakeboard World Series tour. The event also features food trucks, vendors, giveaways and fun in the sun. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, July 1, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July

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based artist. M-F through 11/11. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

ARTE ITALIA: Italian-American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas. This documentary exhibit curated by the Museo Italo Americano at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco features written and photographic panel displays, videos, memorabilia and graphic art. The themes upon which Italian-American filmmakers have concentrated include family, community, immigration, assimilation. Their films explore the American Dream in all its ramifications and contradictions. Th-Su, noon-5pm through 9/18. Free. 442 Flint St., (775) 333-0310.

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Metal Magic. Artists Co-op of Reno presents a collection of metal sculptures by Larry Hunt. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 6/30. Free.

627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Great Basin Native Artists. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents a group show featuring art by Ben Aleck, Phil Buckheart, Louinda Garity, Topaz Jones, Jack Malotte, Melissa Melero-Moose and Steve Nighthawk. The Great Basin Native Artists group began in 2014 and shows their art throughout northern Nevada and northern California. M-F, 9am-5pm through 7/6. Free. 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 887-2290.

CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE GALLERY: New Crop 2016. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents artwork by five Sierra Nevada College and University of Nevada, Reno master of fine arts candidates. M-F, 8am5pm through 9/29. Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Brett Flanigan. The first show in University Galleries’ new mural series features mural art by the Oakland-

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2, and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, at Sparks Marina, 300 Howard Drive. Qualifying rounds are free to the public on July 1. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children at the gate on July 2-3. Visit www.thewwa.com/ sparkspro.

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HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Fresh Flash. David Hall’s exhibition includes drawings, watercolor paintings and painted skateboards that reflect heavy influences from American traditional tattoos, skateboarding, rock ’n’ roll music, lowbrow art and Kustom Kulture aesthetics. M-Su, 3-6pm through 7/22. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087, www.hollandreno.org.

LAKE MANSION: From the Walls of the Riverside Artists Lofts to the Lake Mansion. The Lake Mansion gallery, Arts for All Nevada, presents artists of the Riverside Artists Lofts. The featured art is photography by Megan Berner and the paintings by Martin Holmes. The Artist Lofts show also includes novels, jewelry, clothing, accessories, knickknacks and cards. Artists include Holly English, Erik Holland, Patricia Sherer, Dianna Sion, Catherine Sweet, Damien Cole, Maggy Anthony, Gene Anthony, Jay Fisher and Marilyn Fisher. 7/1-8/26. Free. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Media Technology: Past & Present. A visual display of media technological leaps.

Th, 6/30; Upstart Crow: Shakespeare in Northern Nevada. This exhibit coincides with Shakespeare 400, the national commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The display examines the impact of Shakespeare, both past and present, in Northern Nevada. Materials on display range from the flourishing 1800s Virginia City Shakespearean theater scene to the modern Lake Tahoe Shakespeare festival. Through 7/15, 9am-5pm. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: In the Open: RenoTahoe Plein Air Painters.

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Edwards, Bontia Paulis, Trina Gold, Carolyn Jean Thompson, Carol Grigus, Brent Logan, Sue Perry, Heidi Reeves, Lynn Schmidt, Linda Rosenblum, Nan Lathrop and Sarah Wharton-Riggle. Through 7/29, 9am-5pm.

Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Jack Pierson. Pierson’s photographs explore the emotional undercurrents of everyday life from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the distant idolization of others. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour.

Tu-Sa, noon-4pm through 7/1. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

SIERRA ARTS: Stewart Easton. Drawing upon and using folk song, story and social history as a starting point, Easton works with the space and weight of story to create large scale wall-based pieces emphasizing the passage of time, within a single panel. Easton’s stitch work blurs the lines between craft, illustration and fine art.

Artist reception is on July 21. M-Su through 7/31. Opens 7/1; Th, 7/21, 5-7pm. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787.

ST. MARY’S ART AND RETREAT CENTER: Summer Arts Exhibition. Artists Pete Paulos and Richard Wells are the featured artists exhibiting on all four floors of the historical building. The new Artisan Gallery features works of glass, metals, wood, fiber arts, paper and more. . F-Su, 11am-4pm through 8/22. 55 N. R St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7774.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF NORTHERN NEVADA (UUFNN): Looking Out— Seeing Within. Twenty artists show their rendition of Nevada two ways: one realistic/impressionist paired with an abstract work of the same location. Opening reception is at noon on July 10. M-F, Su,

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: From Steam to Steampunk. The Great Basin Costume Society explores the historical roots of the fantasy subgenre steampunk from the Industrial Revolution into present time in the museum’s changing gallery.

Tu-Sa through 8/13; Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground, The exhibit features 16 artists who were asked to explore the geographical and cultural differences in Nevada, if such differences truly exist. The assembly of printmakers—eight from the north, eight from the south—produced two prints from each collaboration. Tu-Sa through 8/13. $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, free for children 12 and younger. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

Film MOVIES IN THE PARK: BIG: The Artown series kicks off with a showing of the 1988 film starring Tom Hanks. There will be a special tribute to Artown co-founder Tim Jones, who recently passed away and had produced this film series for the last 20 years. F, 7/1, 9-11:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

UNBRANDED FILM SCREENING: The Audience Award winner at Telluride Mountainfilm and Hot Docs Film Festival, Unbranded is a soaring tale of danger and resilience, an emotionally charged odyssey that shines a bright light on the complex plight of our country’s wild horses. Th, 6/30, 6pm. $7 general admission, $5 NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

Poetry/ Literature STEERING WITH MY KNEES: Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski performs an evening

of poetry, lyrics and prose. Su, 7/3, 6-7:30pm. $15-$20. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333. .

Music 26TH ANNUAL HIGH SIERRA MUSIC FESTIVAL: The music festival lineup includes Ben

Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Thievery Corporation, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Dr. Dog, The Del McCoury Band, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Greensky Bluegrass, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, JJ Grey & Mofro, Xavier Rudd, Leftover Salmon, Lettuce, North Mississippi Allstars, ALO, among many others. Th-Su, 6/30-7/3. $60 and up.

Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds, 204 Fairground Road, Quincy, (530) 283-6272, www.highsierramusic.com.

AIR NATIONAL GUARD BAND OF THE WEST COAST: Under the command of Captain Vu Nguyen, the Air National Guard Band of the West Coast is composed of citizen-airmen whose civilian occupations range from professional musicians and music educators to computer programmers, accountants, engineers, and law enforcement officers. F, 7/1, 7:30-9:30pm.

Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: AFRICAN CHILDREN’S CHOIR: The Artown music series kick off with a concert by this choir comprised of children ages 7-10 from across Africa.

The program features well-loved children’s songs, hand clapping, traditional spirituals and contemporary tunes. W, 7/6, 7:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown. com.MIDTOWN ON MARTIN STREET: KEYSER SOZE: The Artown music series features the homegrown band combining Jammal Tarkington’s saxophone and Rodney Teague’s trombone with inspirational vocals and hip-swaying percussions.

Su, 7/3, 7:30-8:30pm. Free. Craft Wine & Beer, 22 Martin St., (775) 322-1538, www. renoisartown.com.

MUSIC ON THE BEACH 2016 SUMMER CONCERTS: Free live music performances featuring a variety of genres on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe. F, 6:30-9pm through 9/2. Free. Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, (530) 546-9000.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon. Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER: RN&R’s summer music series kicks off with music by the R&B band The Sextones. F, 7/1, 5:30-8pm.

Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 324-4440.

SOUTHWESTERN PILGRIMAGE: The group takes its original material and combines it with songs from some of the best songwriters in the Southwest, embellishing them with tight vocal harmonies and unique instrumental interpretations. Sa, 7/2, 6-9pm. Free. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 8831976, www.breweryarts.org.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: JILL COHN: Enjoy live music and brunch presented by chez louie. Su, 7/3, 10am-2pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SWEET VIBRATIONS: RED TANGO QUARTET: The Artown music series features the Reno/ Tahoe-based ensemble of classically trained string players. Tu, 7/5, 7-8pm. $5 donation. First United Methodist Church, 209 W. First St., (775) 322-4564.

TOCCATA BOPS: TOCCATA continues its 21-concert Summer MusicFest with this program featuring the best of Broadway, opera hits, pops and patriotic selections.

This first concert of the series is part of Red, White and Tahoe Blue. Su, 7/3, 7pm.

Free. Village Green, 960 Lakeshore Blvd., Incline Village; Tu, 7/5, 7pm. Free on lawn and in upper gallery, $40 in lower gallery.

Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, www.toccatatahoe.com.

VINTAGE ROSE—A TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN OF ROCK: The five-piece live band tribute honoring the vision, passion and power of the women of classic rock, including Janis Joplin, Blondie, Ann Wilson of Heart, Joan Jett and Pat Benetar. Sa, 7/2,

7-9pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., www.renoisartown.com.

WEEKLY DRUM CIRCLE: Bring your drum, your didgeridoo, poi, hoops and silk or just yourself and enjoy the soothing sounds of the Morris Drum Circle. All are encouraged to participate, dance and play. M, 8:30pm through 7/25. Free. Morris Burner Hotel, 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171.

WINN/LENZ/BUDISH/BROWNELL QUARTET: University of Nevada Reno faculty pianist James Winn, Reno Philharmonic Concertmaster Ruth Lenz, Reno Chamber Orchestra Principal Violist Dustin Budish and Tahoe Chamber Music Society Artistic Director cellist Eileen Brownell will collaborate on a recital of piano quartet music

by Brahms and Mozart. Su, 7/3, 2:30pm.

Free. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 341 Village Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0075.

3RD ANNUAL FREEDOM RUN TO BENEFIT VETS: The annual run/walk and fundraiser supports veterans programs at the Ridge House. Live music by Beatles Flashback.

Sa, 7/2, 7am. $10 for fun run; $20 for 5k; $25 for 10k. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 322-8941 ext. 20.

GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a naturalist along one of the Galena Park trails and learn about the area. Bring water, sunscreen and hiking boots. Sa, 10am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team

plays the Tacoma Rainiers. M, 7/4, 6:35pm; Tu, 7/5, 7:05pm; W, 7/6, 7:05pm. $8-$9.

Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.renoaces.com.

DANCING IN THE PARK: ODC AND COMMUNITY DANCERS UNPLUGGED: The Artown series features a performance by the contemporary dance company. Tu, 7/5, 8-9:30pm.

Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., www.renoisartown.com.

DISNEY’S ALADDIN, JR.: Wild Horse Children’s Theater presents this musical adventure based on the Disney animated film about a resourceful young hero and a wisecracking genie. F, 7/1, 7pm; Sa, 7/2, 2 &

7pm; Su, 7/3, 2pm; F, 7/8, 7pm; Sa, 7/9, 2 & 7pm; Su, 7/10, 2pm. $12 general admission, $10 students, seniors, $8 kids ages 4-12.

Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 887-0438, www.wildhorsetheater.com.

IMPROV AT THE BAC: Everyone is invited to participate in the skits—set-ups often featured on the TV show Whose Line is it Anyway?. First F of every month, 7-9pm through 11/4. Free. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, www.breweryarts.org.

Classes PAINT & SIP GAUGUIN’S TAHITIAN LANDSCAPE: Transform a master painting into your own 16” x 20” acrylic painting masterpiece. Bring your own beverage/snacks.

W, 7/6, 5:30-8:30pm. $30 (supplies included in cost). Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2.

WATERCOLOR SUBJECT PORTRAITURE: Explore a loose approach to watercolors and how to achieve depth. This workshop is designed to make watercolor painting fun and easy. You will leave with at least one finished 8” x 8” painting and a travel watercolor set. Sa, 7/2, 11am-2pm. $90.

Atelier Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, www.ateliertruckee.com.

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patients and families facing cancer and is facilitated by an oncology social worker who is skilled in the emotional aspects of cancer. Participants can share experiences and express feelings and concerns.

The support group meets weekly in the Orthopedic Conference Room on the third floor of the Roseview Tower. Th, 11:30am1pm. Free. Renown Regional Medical Center, 1155 Mill St., (775) 982-6831.

CLICKETS KNITTING GROUP: Jean Peters guides this class for knitters of all ages and levels. Yarn and needles are available. First and third Su of every month, 1:30-3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800. share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Renown Hospice Care offers a grief support group facilitated

by Fr. Karry Crites. First W of every month, 6:30-8pm. Free. Washoe County Senior Center, 1155 E. Ninth St., (775) 982-2817, http://bit.ly/GriefSupportGroup.

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KNITTING GROUP: The group is open to all knitters, crocheters, loom artists and people who enjoy the company of other yarn artists. Bring your project or start a new one. Tu, 4-6pm through 7/26. Free.

Atelier Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, (530) 386-2700.

My girlfriend tells her mother and her friends pretty much everything. Literally four of her friends and her mom were weighing in on her recent urinary tract infection. I just don’t get why she feels the need to let everybody know her business, and it’s the opposite of what I do. I’m very private, and I’d like us to have some things that stay between us—especially stuff that goes on in the bedroom. How would I set boundaries like this?

Does this mean that we are ultimately incompatible?

Being compatible with somebody doesn’t mean you’re like them in all ways. I’m an extrovert, which is to say I see a dead car battery as an opportunity to learn about some tow truck driver’s childhood in Guatemala. Contrast that with my introvert boyfriend, who recently turned down an invitation he got to this really cool event, telling me, “I already said hello to somebody this week.”

Beyond individual human differences, there are some male-female differences, like in feelings and informationsharing. Sex differences researcher Joyce Benenson explains that men evolved to be the physical defenders of the species, and it would have put a man at a deadly disadvantage to show the enemy his emotions—like if he went all scaredypants from fear: “Oh my God, is that the enemy? I’m gonna throw up.”

Women, on the other hand, evolved to build support networks and avoid social exclusion by convincing other women that they aren’t a threat. A woman does this not by hiding her vulnerabilities but by putting her problems and weaknesses on parade—à la “My ladyparts have been declared an EPA cleanup zone!”

In other words, your privacy nightmare is your girlfriend’s emotional comfort zone. But this isn’t necessarily a sign that your relationship is toast. For a relationship to make it, you and your partner don’t have to be the same.

You just have to have enough in common and be loving in dealing with each other’s differing weirdass needs.

If there were such a thing as psychological catnip for humans, it would probably be feeling understood. So, tell your girlfriend that you understand it helps her to hash things out with her mom and the ladypeeps and that you think that’s great. You’re just wired differently. Explain how, and then, sweetly, make your request: You’d feel most comfortable if what happens between you stays between you—given that your idea of openness involves making people sign a 30-page nondisclosure agreement before viewing the heavily encrypted photos of Steve, your dog.

LIFESCAPES: The writing program provides seniors an opportunity to write and share their memoirs. First and third W of every month, 1-3pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive (775) 787-4100.

MAN TO MAN PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Facilitated by a prostate cancer

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survivor, this support group is designed to help men cope with prostate cancer by offering education and support for patients during their cancer journey.

The group meets in the Orthopedic Conference Room on the third floor in the Roseview Tower. First and third M of every month, 5:30-7pm. Free. Renown Regional Medical Center, 1155 Mill St., (775) 9826831, www.renown.org.

NEWCOMERS CLUB: Newcomers Club of RenoSparks is an organization welcoming all Northern Nevadans with recent lifealtering events such as a move, retirement or death of a loved one. The group hosts an informational coffee at 9:30am on the first Tuesday of each month. First Tu of every month, 9:30am. Best Western Airport Plaza Hotel, 1981 Terminal Way, www.newcomersclubofreno-sparks.com.

THE SILVER DOLLAR CHORUS: The men’s a cappella chorus is open to males of all ages who love to sing. W, 7-9:30pm through 3/31. Reno High School, 395 Booth St., (775) 387-0308, http://silverdollarchorus.org.

SOUTH VALLEYS BRIDGE GROUP: Join Jill and meet new friends. Basic bridge knowledge preferred. F, 1-4pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 8515190, www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

SPARKS LIBRARY KNITTING AND CROCHETING CIRCLE: Learn the techniques to start your masterpiece. Th, 4-6pm. Free.

Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

THE TUESDAY NIGHT YARN CREW: All skill levels and yarn-crafts are welcome. Bring your project to this “sit and knit” gathering. Tu, 5:30-7pm. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190, www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

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Last year’s shaggage I’m a woman who’s had a casual hookup thing with a guy for almost two years. I want a serious relationship, and I really like him and would like it to be with him.

When we’re together, we have a great time, but he can go a week or two without contacting me. Last week, he showed up late to my birthday, with no present and not even a card. I know I should cut him off, but the sex is great and there’s nobody else on the horizon. Any chance he’ll finally realize I’m a catch and come around?

The guy didn’t even give you a birthday card. Even the car wash gives you a birthday card.

Any guy with an IQ exceeding the highway speed limit gets that birthdays are a big deal to most women. And if you care about birthdays and a guy cares about you, he’ll step up—at the very least by running into a drugstore, grabbing a card and checking that the pre-printed heartfelt message inside isn’t “To my very special grandson! On his very special day!”

In a hookup situation, it actually isn’t crazy to hope for an upgrade from sexfriend to girlfriend. In a survey by Kinsey Institute researcher Justin Garcia, 51 percent of the people who had hookups went into them hoping to kickstart a romantic relationship. In another survey, 9.8 percent of hookups led to committed relationships. However, there’s a progression that takes place in going from lust to emotional attachment. It has a hormonal profile and a general timetable, and, well, two years into a sex thing, the attachment train is probably well out of the station.

In other words, it’s time to take this relationship to the next level—“the end.” On a positive note, it’s possible that removing yourself from this guy’s life will make him realize that he loves you and needs you in it—leading him to start showing boyfriend-type attentiveness. Either way, you’re setting yourself up to have a man you can count on to be there for you—and not just naked and at the ready whenever his Wi-Fi goes down. Ω

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

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Dr. Brezsny: A psychic predicted that sometime this year I will fall in love with a convenience store clerk who’s secretly a down-on-his-luck prince of a small African country. She said that he and I have a unique destiny. Together we will break the world’s record for dancing without getting bitten in a pit of cobras while drunk on absinthe on our honeymoon. But there’s a problem. I didn’t have time to ask the psychic how I’ll meet my soul mate, and I can’t afford to pay $250 for another reading. Can you help? —Mopey Taurus.”

Dear Mopey: The psychic lied. Neither she nor anyone else can see what the future will bring you. Why? Because what happens will be largely determined by your own actions. I suggest you celebrate this fact. It’s the perfect time to do so: July is Feed Your Willpower Month.

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It’s the clear choice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Of all the

concert pianos in the world, 80 percent of them are made by Steinway. A former president of the company once remarked that in each piano, “243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame.”

He said it was “proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.” That will be a potential talent of yours in the coming weeks, Gemini. Like a Steinway piano, you will have the power to turn tension into beauty. But will you actually accomplish this noble goal, or will your efforts be less melodious? It all depends on how much poised self-discipline you summon.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Once upon

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In accordance with

a time, weren’t you the master builder who never finished building your castle?

Weren’t you the exile who wandered aimlessly while fantasizing about the perfect sanctuary of the past or the sweet safety zone of the future? Didn’t you perversely nurture the ache that arose from your sense of not feeling at home in the world?

I hope that by now you have renounced all of those kinky inclinations. If you haven’t, now would be an excellent time to do so.

How might you reinvest the mojo that will be liberated by the demise of those bad habits? the astrological omens, I have selected three aphorisms by poet James Richardson to guide you. Aphorism No. 1: “The worst helplessness is forgetting there is help.” My commentary: You have the power to avoid that fate. Start by identifying the sources of healing and assistance that are available to you. Aphorism No. 2: “You do not have to be a fire to keep one burning.” My commentary: Generate all the heat and light you can, yes, but don’t torch yourself. Aphorism No. 3: “Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.” My commentary: But it may not take a whole lot longer.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may not

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know this, but I am the founder and CEO of Proud To Be Humble, an acclaimed organization devoted to minimizing vanity. It is my sworn duty to protest any ego that exceeds the acceptable limits as defined by the Geneva Convention on Narcissism.

However, I now find myself conflicted. Because of the lyrical beauty and bighearted charisma that are currently emanating from your ego, I am unable, in good conscience, to ask you to tone yourself down. In fact, I hereby grant you a license to expand your self-love to unprecedented proportions. You may also feel free to unleash a series of lovely brags.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next 28

days will not be a favorable period to sit around passively wishing to be noticed.

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Nor will it be a good time to wait to be rescued or to trust in others to instigate desirable actions. On the other hand, it will be an excellent phase to be an initiator: to decide what needs to be done, to state your intentions concisely and to carry out your master plan with alacrity and efficiency. To help ensure your success during the next 28 days, make this declaration each morning before breakfast: “I don’t want to observe the show. I want to be the show.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “In life, as

in bicycling, pedal when you have to, coast when you can.” So says author James Lough, and now I’m passing on his advice to you—just in time for your transition from the heavy-pedaling season to the coasting-is-fun phase. I suspect that at this juncture in your life story you may be a bit addicted to the heavy pedaling. You could be so accustomed to the intensity that you’re inclined to be suspicious of an opportunity to enjoy ease and grace. Don’t be like that. Accept the gift with innocent gratitude.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“When a jet flies low overhead, every glass in the cupboard sings,” writes aphorist James Richardson. “Feelings are like that: choral, not single; mixed, never pure.”

That’s always true, but it will be intensely true for you in the coming weeks. I hope you can find a way to tolerate, even thrive on, the flood of ambiguous complexity.

I hope you won’t chicken out and try to pretend that your feelings are onedimensional and easily understandable.

In my opinion, you are ripe to receive rich lessons in the beauty and power of mysterious emotions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Pop artist Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His idea had a resonance with the phrase “nine days’ wonder,” which as far back as Elizabethan times referred to a person or event that captured the public’s fascination for a while. You Capricorns are entering a phase when you’re far more likely than usual to bask in the spotlight.

Between now and September 2017, I bet you’ll garner at least a short burst of glory, acclaim, or stardom—perhaps much more. Are you ready for your close-up?

Have you prepped for the influx of attention that may be coming your way?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One of

my readers, Jay O’Dell, told me this story: “After my cancer surgery, a nurse said to me, ‘You may as well try magical thinking.

Regular thinking hasn’t helped.’ I said to the nurse, ‘Well, why the hell not?’ That was seven years ago.” In bringing O’Dell’s testimony to your attention, I don’t mean to suggest you will have any health problems that warrant a strong dose of magical thinking. Not at all. But you may get wrapped up in a psychological twist or a spiritual riddle that would benefit from magical thinking. And what exactly is magical thinking? Here’s one definition: The stories that unfold in your imagination have important effects on what actually happens to you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Let’s

talk about X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors. By their very nature, they are unpredictable and ephemeral, even when they offer benevolent breakthroughs. So you may not even notice their arrival if you’re entranced by your expectations and stuck in your habitual ways.

But here’s the good news, Pisces: Right now you are not unduly entranced by your expectations or stuck in your habits. Odds are high that you will spy the sweet twists of fate—the X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors—as they float into view. You will pounce on them and put them to work while they’re still fresh. And then they will help you hike your ratings or get the funding you need or animate the kind of love that heals.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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Skydiver

wanted to do, to be honest with you. I thought it was terrifying and I couldn’t understand why people did it until I went and was hanging out at a drop zone because my boyfriend was there, and I saw what an amazing time everybody was having, and had a major fear of missing out. And that’s kind of what got me started, but then I got hooked. And now I have just over 1,000 jumps—which compared to 20,000 is not that much, but I did my instructor rating, and jumped on a few fun competitive teams, and worked at a bunch of skydiving centers around the country in various different capacities. I’ve run a drop zone in a management position. I’ve worked in restaurants. I’ve packed parachutes for a living. I’ve instructed and coached—all different aspects of skydiving.

Jules Drew Skydive Truckee Tahoe is a new skydiving company based out of the Truckee airport. Jules Drew co-owns the business with her sister, Jennifer Drew, and brother-in-law, Mike Swanson.

Tandem jumps usually cost $250, but they’re currently running a special for local folks—including Reno—at $215. For more information, visit www. skydivetruckeetahoe.com.

So this is a new business?

It is a new business. We opened this year in May. It is the first time that there has been a skydiving center in Truckee. It took a couple of years. … We went through all the application procedures with the airport. We had some safety evaluations done. There was a lot of ground work that went into getting it started.

Why Truckee?

I’ve been in the states for almost 20 years now in various different parts of the states, mostly working at different skydiving centers, different drop zones, which is why I’d moved around so much, and then my sister and brother-in-law moved to Truckee about eight years ago or so, and I moved subsequently about a year after. So we’ve been here, myself since 2009, and they probably moved here in 2008. We came here just because it’s beautiful, the skiing, all the other amazing things that this place has to offer.

And all three of us have a pretty extensive background in skydiving. It basically came to

the point where we were like, why is there not a skydiving center here? And why don’t we open one?

He’s one of the Red Bull athletes. He’s on what’s called the Red Bull Air Force. He has over 20,000 jumps. He’s a multiple time world champion. … He gets to do skydiving stunts for commercials or movies. He just did the stunts for Point Break—the second Point Break. … That was predominantly all stunt work. I don’t know how much CGI there was—I think very, very little. So all those wing suiting, base jumping, skydiving scenes are him and his team. He just did that. He’s done the Transformers. ...

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Yes, first and foremost, the scenery. …

The views of the lake and the mountains are pretty spectacular. Mike, who has jumped all over the world, still maintains that this is one of the most beautiful places he has ever jumped. He said the other day, “If people want to jump somewhere else this beautiful, with this kind of scenery, they’d have to go to Switzerland.” It’s so beautiful. And it really does make a difference for the skydiving experience.

We’re geared toward doing tandems at our center, so your tandem jump—you first jump or second jump—is going to be thrilling and exciting no matter where you do it—it’s amazing. But it’s so amazing to see the scenery that you see here. It just makes it that much more a special experience to be in a beautiful place. Ω

What got you into skydiving?

I started skydiving just very briefly after I left South Africa, after I finished my degree.

My boyfriend at the time and I left and went to England for a year and then came to America. So what got me into it was probably him—a boy. It was something I never really

Grasping this year Well, the Brexit vote pretty much sealed the deal—2016 is The Year of The Yahoo! Usually, us semi-sane types can write off the gun-licking Yahoos of Yo-Yo City with the smug consolation that, OK, there’s some pretty dumb fuckin’ maroons out there in the Fruited Plain, but their numbers aren’t big enough to do any real damage. But now, after the rise of El Donaldo (really? This is as good as you got?), and the surprising masochistic dipshittedness of the Brexit vote, everybody’s wondering just how big this deranged demographic has become. And who’s been teaching these kooks how to vote?

• I keep seeing polls showing 15-20 percent of Bernie supporters would rather vote for Don than Hill. OK, whoa, whoa, whoa there, little dogie.

Bernie people, I feel your pain and disappointment. Hell, I’m with you.

I honestly can say that Bernie may have been the best candidate ever, and his timing was excellent. If ever a country was desperate for a Yankee Socialist, it’s US. I again remind you of

What’s the appeal of skydiving in the Tahoe region? Obviously the scenery is beautiful ...

And your brother-in-law is a professional stuntman?

∫y Bruce Van Dye magazines and beer bottles to clear-cutting a virgin forest of old growth redwoods to print up programs for the Miss Universe Wet T-Shirt contest. By being so totally pissy about Bernie losing to Hillary that you’re gonna express that pissiness by voting for a pussyhound real estate developer, you’re pretty much telling the world OK, I’m trading in my Prius for a giant Winnebago bus. That I’m gonna take my feverish, enthusiastic support for the man who was going to create national Medicare, fight for the middle class, and rain green hellfire upon the execrable plutocrats who now own Congress, and instead throw that thoughtful and idealistic support to the most shameless, shallow, self-shucking con artist plutocrat imaginable.

In other words, it’s about as disingenuous as it gets. I’m expecting greatly improved poll numbers surrounding this strange bullshit by the end of July. Ω

the horribly gross statistic that corrodes our socio-economo foundation these days—that the one percent control 40 percent of the country’s wealth. Conversely, the lower 80 percent control a mere seven percent of the assets of America. It can be safely assumed that most, if not all, of our economic problems, especially those dealing with stagnant wages, stem directly from this obscene reality. And it became very obvious to millions of Americans in the last months that Bernie was the guy to deal with this mutation and get this insane greedhogging top-heavy reality corrected in a more egalitarian and middle class-friendly direction.

It’s now clear Bernie ain’t gonna be the nominee. OK, bummer. I get the disappointment in the Sanders camp.

But to say that you can’t stand Hillary to the point of actually VOTING FOR FUCKING TRUMP IS WAY TOO WEIRD FOR ME TO PROCESS! DOES NOT COMPUTE!!! TILT! TILT! TILT! I mean, come on. You do realize that switching from Sanders to Trump is like switching from recycling

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