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Party time Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

As I write this, on Tuesday, July 26, most of the conversations around the office and on social media are all about the political parties’ big national conventions. The Republicans’ convention last week in Cleveland seemed to me, from afar, like a total disaster—what with Melania Trump’s plagiarism and Ted Cruz igniting boos—but somehow Donald Trump got the usual five or six point postconvention bump in the polls, pulling him even or a little ahead of Hillary Clinton.

We’ll see if she gets the same kind of results after the Democrats’ convention in Philadelphia. It seems like there’s a lot of work to be done for the Dems to “unify” their party, as they like to say. Bernie Sanders supporters are still pissed, and the continued leaks of conspiratorial emails among Democratic Party insiders is not helping. But Sanders, Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Warren all made good speeches.

Back here in the Truckee Meadows, if you’re getting burnt out on politics, and you want to just change the channel, I suggest flipping it to The Reno Sessions. My friends Ford Corl, David Ware and Shawn Sariti have been putting together this video series for a few years. It was originally an online series featuring live performances of local bands performing at unique locations around town. It’s a chance to see and hear up-close-and-personal performances from some of the best local bands, like Moondog Matinee, Jelly Bread, Bazooka Zoo, the Sextones and more.

Now the series is also on KNPB, the local PBS affiliate, with episodes that include performances plus conversations with local musicians hosted by Corl and Ware. As I said, these dudes are friends of mine, and I’m honored that they’ve had me on the show a couple of times.

They’ve put a lot of work into this series and it’s one of those small but immeasurable things that make it seem like Reno is a real music town.

Check it out on KNPB every Saturday night at midnight or online at www. therenosessions.com.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne ws r ev i ew . com

More Highton feedback Re “The Trump card” (cover story, June 30): I wish this article had come out sooner, because Jake Highton said what I already knew about Clinton—a servitor of the same corporations that are shipping jobs overseas while demanding tax breaks to keep 10 percent or less here. Look at her donor lists, including the ones from energy bigwigs, military, etc. Add it up with the bonehead calls she’s already made, and you have someone who’ll keep us moving towards a scary future we’ve already seen in too many movies.

The Don may not be the most P.C. guy around, but hey, I lived in both L.A. and El Paso. Guess who most of the meth and heroin dealers were making downtown such an ugly place? Illegals from down south. Deporting them’s no good—they just come back with more community-wrecking drugs. And even if Trump got his wish for tougher policies, there will still be lots of chances for those who want to be here legally. Then if you see his ideas for taking America back from the P.C. Nazis and corporate thugs on his webpage, combined with the fact no one owns him, makes him the best chance this country’s got to be economically strong again. And you’ll be surprised how much bigotry and racism shows it’s ugly face when everyone’s got a little more $ in their pocket, and small business are the majority.

Zzoe Little Reno

Citations, please Re “Aim for the truth” (news, June 30): The article about the background check initiative failed to mention one minor detail. The law doesn’t apply to the criminals that it supposedly targets. In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court found [Haynes vs.

United States] that requiring felons and other prohibited possessors to file applications regarding guns—which they’re not permitted to have—is a violation of their 5th Amendment right to avoid selfincrimination. So, who does it affect?

Background checks were created by the KKK, along with poll taxes and voters’ literacy tests, to prevent blacks, the poor and their political opponents (such as members of the National Rifle Association) from having the means of defense or political power. The KKK also gave us the law banning so-called “Saturday Night Specials” (as well as that phrase itself, which is rooted in racism), because they knew that the poor and minorities couldn’t afford guns costing hundreds of dollars.

Consider that the same people who tell us that every gun buyer must show identification also tell us that requiring voters to show identification “disenfranchises” minorities. If one right is denied by identification requirements, all rights are denied.

It is known that members of the minority community are more likely to be prosecuted and convicted of minor offenses which now will keep them from passing a background check. They are less likely to Eric Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Brendan Trainor, Bruce Van Dyke, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare.

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be able to afford the private attorney which would make such charges evaporate for a middle-class white person.

The fees can prevent a young mother from buying the gun she needs to protect her children and herself from the guy who intends to make good his threats. When he breaks down her door, who will be there to defend her? You can bet that the wealthy white guy behind this scheme won’t be, nor will any of his personal (gun-toting) bodyguards. Her blood will be on his hands, and the hands of those who support him.

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Before fall, I want to go to the hot springs. I’ve been to the one out in Sierraville, and I want to try the one in Carson City and the one in Genoa. Am I pronouncing that right? I’m not from Ne-vadduh. I want to do the hot springs. … And then, because I’m new—I just moved here in January—I want to go to Lake Tahoe.

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I definitely would love to read more books. I’m trying to get into the classics as much as I can. And I definitely want to listen to more great music on 100.1 the X. Is that too much?

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Their masters’ voices We have an observation about the Republican National Convention. Ted Cruz is taking a lot of grief for withholding his support from Donald Trump. Why haven’t a lot of Republican “leaders,” like Joe Heck, done the same? Where were their principles and good judgment?

Now, on to the Democratic National Convention.

This week is likely to give the party a rise in the polls, momentum for the campaign, and enthusiasm in the ranks.

So it seems like a good time to remind everyone that this is not the Democratic Party of their grandparents—the party that championed the working poor and called the big boys to account. Rather, it is a corporate-funded party, and that funding has changed its ways.

To be specific, while its presidential candidates were out on the campaign trail, with Bernie Sanders trying to return the party to its historic agenda, and Hillary Clinton trying to act like an economic populist, guess what was going on back in D.C.?

Democrats like Charles Schumer—Harry Reid’s handpicked successor as party floor leader—and alleged liberal Barbara Boxer—who in May said she feared for her safety when Nevadans shouted at her—have been cooking up a scheme for the biggest corporate giveaway since the spectrum giveaway (“The great HDTV swindle,” RN&R, July 10, 2008).

In one of those marvelous loopholes that come from nowhere, multinationals do not have to pay their U.S. taxes on foreign profits until they bring the money back home.

As a result, a handful of corporations have “parked” their profits outside the country until they can extort a tax cut

from Congress. We are not making this up. More than $2 trillion in untaxed profits await “forgiveness” of taxes, and the party that has turned caving in to corporations into an art form is working hard to see that they get it.

This was a chance for political reporters to illustrate the real-life consequences of the economic issues Sanders and Clinton were discussing, but that would have meant passing up stories on polls and campaign war chests, so you never heard about it. Thus, Schumer, Boxer and other Democrats were able to work in relative secrecy.

To most folks, the logical remedy might have been to close the loophole to require prompt payment of foreign taxes. Boxer and Republican Rand Paul have proposed a one-time giveaway that would reduce the 35 percent tax rate—which is not actually paid at that level by many corporations—to 6.5 percent. President Obama wants to hold that down to 14 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls it a “giant wet kiss for the tax dodgers.”

Who would benefit? Just a handful, including Apple, Cisco, Citigroup, Bank of America, Gilead Sciences, Google, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm, Goldman Sachs. Wonder who would make up the loss?

Work on the measure has now stopped. Ron Eckstein of Americans for Tax Justice told us, “Negotiations have continued, but there clearly will not be any legislation considered by Congress ... before the election.”

The irresponsibility of Republicans in nominating Donald Trump should not give Hillary Trump and the Democrats a free ride. They need to be held accountable on this sellout before the election. Ω

I want to enjoy this beautiful weather with my family. Oh, we do stuff every week—take the kids swimming, golfing, tennis.

Otherwise, I mean, it’s home duty over here. I do two things.

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I want three days off in a row.

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I want to hike the Hunter Creek hiking trail—the waterfall. I want to pass my CPA exam. It’s on Monday—well, the first of four parts.

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by Sheila leSlie

A GOP convention minus GOP principles That smirk. That air kiss to Pence. That inability to focus on anyone or anything other than himself. That man whose narcissism, underpinned by pathological insecurity, leads him to relentless boasting as if he has no self control at all.

Donald Trump’s speech introducing his choice of a running mate reflected a man so impressed by himself and the spotlight of the presidential campaign, he was rendered incapable of even the smallest crumb of self-doubt. As Ezra Klein of Vox put it, “There is no other way to say this than to say it: it was the single most bizarre, impulsive, narcissistic performance I have ever seen from a major politician.”

If this were a high school student council president contest, we’d be amused.

If it were a state legislative race, we’d be appalled but reassured that one person can’t cause that much damage in a legislative body. But this rambling, strange, riff after riff of a speech—more suited to a late-night partisan drink fest than

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a campaign for the highest office in the nation—revealed once again that Trump is the most unqualified and ill-suited candidate for president we’ve ever seen.

And then there was Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, newly minted vice presidential candidate. “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican in that order,” he proudly declared. Although 75 percent of the nation has never heard of him or has no opinion, they’re soon to find out he’s a relic from another time who thinks women should never be allowed to control their reproductive health and businesses should freely discriminate against gays according to the dictates of their faith. He’s not a fan of immigrants either.

The Republican ticket seems designed to repel women, every ethnic and racial minority, the LGBT community, and the young.

And that was before the Republican convention.

The platform offends just about everyone except white, middle-class

evangelicals. The Log Cabin Republicans, a gay advocacy interest group trying to force the Republican party to be more gay-friendly, called it “the most antiLGBT platform in the party’s 162-year history,” citing “opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms [and] the endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of ‘pray the gay away.’”

But never mind. Trump appeared at the convention on its first evening ostensibly to introduce his wife, but really to grasp the opportunity to majestically enter the stage silhouetted mystically in a machinecreated mist, like the charlatan he is.

There were other fun convention moments, such as the head of the Nevada delegation declaring on national television that the capital of Nevada is Las Vegas, or the somersaults by the Trump campaign trying to explain away Melania Trump’s plagiarized remarks from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech by invoking My Little Pony. And we won’t soon forget Ted Cruz enjoying

the limelight of boos when he refused to endorse Trump in his vetted prime time speech.

Trump’s much-anticipated and muchtoo-long acceptance speech was dark and incoherent as he jumped from topic to topic with a message of doom and gloom, but not to worry, he will make it all right.

Soon, very soon. Believe me.

When asked by the New York Times what he hoped people would take away from the convention, Trump replied, “The fact that I’m very well liked.”

As Pence noted in his remarks to the press after being chosen for the ticket, “Elections are about choices…and the choice could not be more clear, and the stakes could not be higher.” I was nodding in agreement until he continued, saying, “Republican principles work every time you put them into practice.” But I’m not even sure Trump has any. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

On the Trump train Diana Orrock of Las Vegas is a two-term Nevada representative on the Republican National Committee (RNC). She was on the convention Rules Committee that met Thursday, July 14. Her goal was to help quash the NeverTrump movement’s last ditch attempt to derail the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican Party presidential nominee.

Juanita Cox from Storey County has been active in Republican Party politics for decades. This year, her long-time activism was rewarded with several positions at the national convention. One was as a representative on the Platform Committee. Her goal was to write the issues of rural Nevada into the platform.

Her language regarding the sage grouse is now in the platform.

Diana and Juanita went to Cleveland to make sure no one was able to stop the Trump nomination. Diana spent hours that day, as she put it, grinding down the proponents of the “Conscience Clause” rules amendment, the NeverTrump

attempt to unbind delegates from the primary votes so they would not have to vote for Trump on the first ballot.

Diana’s hard work helped kill the Conscience Clause.

There was also a movement, led by Ted Cruz supporters, to remove Nevada from its status as a “carve out” state— that is, one of the first states to hold a presidential nominating event. Orrock believes carve-out status following only Iowa and New Hampshire in primary order is the only thing that keeps candidates coming here to learn our issues.

Cruz wanted Utah to take Nevada’s place, because Utah is a true red state, and also pro-Cruz. If he runs for President in 2020, an early Utah primary win could give him momentum. Nevada is purple, not consistently red, which is why Nevada is a swing state. The Trump campaign killed that rule, and so Nevada will keep its early primary status. After all, Trump has a hotel casino in Las Vegas, not Salt Lake City!

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Orrock wrote on Facebook, “I am, to date, the only RNC member to publicly endorse Donald Trump for President back in September 2015. I want the man who puts America first, who isn’t a member of the [Council on Foreign Relations] or the Skull and Bones Secret Society, who never apologizes for America, who didn’t take funding from superPACs and [New World Order] globalist manipulators, who I want representing me. I want the man who is rarely, if ever, politically correct and who is right on the issues of illegal immigration and the refugees. I want the man who was voted for by over 14 million voters in their caucuses and primaries against 16 other candidates.

I want Donald J. Trump as my next president and I will never apologize for supporting him.”

Trump supporters speak a language you do not hear in Washington or on CNN or even Fox. Did you ever hear Dana Bash talk about the CFR like that?

Does Anderson Cooper think much about Skull and Bones? Does Wolf Blitzer ever mention the NWO? People like Orrock and Cox do not even trust Cruz, because his wife works for Goldman Sachs. Their beliefs may be received via an Alex Jones radio conspiracy filter, but the language is translatable to more mainstream political speech. It means they are tired of Bushism. They are tired of global financial meltdown, of corporate bailout, of the “invade the world, invite the world” neocon mindset.

I don’t know if Donald J. Trump is the Hercules who can clean the Augean Stables of Washington DC, but Orrock and Cox and most Nevada Republicans believe he is. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Fact checker BackS reid

In 2014, Safe Embrace held an open house to mark its 20th year providing domestic abuse services.

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When U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada was misrepresenting Mitt Romney’s taxes in 2012, he was called on it by Politifact, the factchecking site. He denounced the site.

What goes around, and all that—Politifact last week mostly upheld one of Reid’s attacks on the Koch brothers. Reid said, “Koch Industries churns out more climate-changing greenhouse gases than oil giants Chevron, Shell and Valero.”

Politifact’s Riley Snyder found: “Reid’s claim accurately calls on facts established in a well-respected study of corporate pollution. Koch Industries does produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the oil companies listed by Reid. But it’s a somewhat misleading, apples-to-oranges comparison, because there are more Koch facilities that cover more industries compared to the oil companies. The statement is accurate but needs additional information. That meets our definition of Mostly True.”

Politifact, established by the St. Augustine Times in 2007, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for its work on the 2008 campaign. Politifact has recently been growing like other corporate entities. To see how Reid has done on Politifact over the years, go to www.politifact.com/personalities/harry-reid.

nothing. Excuse me—nothing to support non-profits specifically.”

It has not always been that way.

Joni Kaiser, founder and longtime director of the Committee to Aid Abused Women—and now a United Way official in Pennsylvania— recalled the situation: “All three governmental agencies gave funding to CAAW for decades through their Community Development Block Grant-Housing and Urban Development funding and even CSG funding and some State HUD money.

This [was] a competitive process with other non-profit agencies.”

Since 1975, abuse agencies have received a portion of marriage license fees in the state as a result of legislation sponsored by Washoe County Sen. Sue Wagner in 1975. That gave the abuse agencies a funding floor but does not provide full financial support.

Pot tale oF the week In a letter to the Reno Gazette-Journal, Genoa prohibitionist Jim Hartman wrote, “Teen and adolescent marijuana use is now 74 percent higher in Colorado than the national average. Teen and adolescent alcohol use has also gone up since legalization.

In fact, alcohol sales across the board have increased since marijuana legalization.”

According to the latest annual “Healthy Kids” study released last month by the Colorado Department of Health, marijuana has stayed at the same level since legalization. The last prelegalization year in Colorado, teen pot smoking was at 22 percent. It dropped after legalization to 19.7 percent, and is now at 21.2 percent. This reflects the number who said they had used marijuana in the past month.

Two federal surveys in 2014 also found a decline in teen marijuana use after legalization in Colorado and Washington.

Those were the 2014 Monitoring the Future study conducted jointly by the University of Michigan and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

As for alcohol, it appears that it has always been the drug of choice for Colorado teens. In 2012—the year of marijuana legalization—Colorado officials were pleased that teen alcohol use in the Healthy Kids survey had dropped from 75 percent in 2005 to 65 percent in 2011. It is now down to 30 percent in the new Healthy Kids survey. Incidentally, 65 percent is also the number of Colorado teens who have never tried marijuana in the new survey.

The new Healthy Kids survey—which covers 2015—says Colorado figures are in line with national statistics.

There is one study, released last month, that shows marijuana use by the Colorado young rising—but it was released by an advocate prohibitionist program called Smart Approaches to Marijuana, whose slogan is “Preventing Another Big Tobacco,” and its release of the survey was accompanied by language that does not normally accompany serious research (“In Colorado especially, Big Marijuana has been allowed to run wild”). The reason for its existence is to oppose marijuana. But even its numbers, stripped of the prohibitionist spin, show that Colorado post-legalization teen marijuana use has never reached prelegalization levels.

The Question 2 ballot measure in Nevada provides for regulation of marijuana in part by permitting use only by adults.

—Dennis Myers

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Restoration?

Abuse funding lost may be gone for good local domestic abuse programs took a hard hit shortly after the recession got underway. They were cut off from federal dollars allocated by local governments. And economic recovery—such as it is—has not resulted in restoration of those dollars.

In an interview with the RN&R, the executive director of the shelter program Safe Embrace in Sparks was asked if his agency and the Committee to Aid Abused Women work together when shelters are full to aid each other.

“Absolutely,” John Etchemendy said. “But we’re full with waiting lists, and they’re full with waiting lists. And there’s something, you know, that not everyone would say on tape. … We don’t have the resources to adequately respond to the client’s need. Our city, you know—I don’t see them even trying to address the problem.”

Reno or Sparks?

“I’m talking about both,” he said.

“Reno, Sparks. I’ve been doing this

for two and a half years. I’ve reached out. Every once in a while I’ll get a meeting. We try to attend the group when we have time, the different committees [of local governments].

But we don’t receive any local funding—none. … The county does

In May, the Committee to Aid Abused Women held an event to open new shelter housing.

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hard timeS According to Sparks City Councilmember Julia Ratti, prerecession the three local governments each received federal dollars to pass along to local programs.

“Washoe County, Reno and Sparks pooled these dollars and for many years they were distributed to local nonprofits through a competitive grant process overseen by an appointed board,” she said. “You may recall the Washoe County Human Services Advisory Board. During that time, I believe domestic violence organizations competed successfully

ATTENTION for funding. As the allocation from the school—revenue, it’s a struggle to fund federal government shrank and the needs basic city services let alone do anything grew during the recession the process no progressive. The only exception is we just longer made sense and was disbanded. ... reaffirmed homeless service as our priority Sparks chose to direct the entirety of our at the city and doubled our funding level allocation to homeless services in an effort there. Social services funding needs to be to make more impact in one area. I can solved at the state level. One exception speak for myself to say it is not may be the county which does have a lack of recognition of the social services built into their need, rather it’s a lack budget, but they have the of a funding source same property tax cap at the local level issue. Really part of to meet the need. the question is which The [Advisory level of governBoard] process ment—state, also funded county, city— basic needs— should be funding disability, child which services.” care, youth “If you drill services, health, into funding, seniors, etc., Washoe County Julia Ratti and the needs are is structured on Sparks city councilmember significant across the revenue side to the board.” be the social services Reno City provider,” Reno City Councilmember Jenny Councilmember Jenny Brekhus said Reno City Brekhus said. “Cities are Attorney Karl Hall has been more infrastructure, land developtrying to throw a spotlight on domestic ment and public safety.” violence. But that still leaves the issue CAAW director Denise Yoxsimer was of whether those federal dollars will be not available for comment. Ω restored.

“Honestly, probably not,” Ratti said.

More of our interview with Safe Embrace director John “With the property tax cap formula Etchemendy can be found on page 35. suppressing local government—and

“It’s a struggle to fund basic city services, let alone do anything progressive.”

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Cory King is the Greenhouse Project manager.

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All grown up The Greenhouse Project shows range Sometimes a project is actually 10 projects. The Greenhouse Project in Carson City is like that.

Located on the Carson High School campus—but operating as a separate nonprofit—the Greenhouse Project started in 2008 as a single-building operation that has steadily outgrown its four walls.

Today, the farm-like facility stretches down a dirt-road shoulder, housing 75 raised beds, two hoop-houses and a compost pile in addition to the original 2,100-square-foot greenhouse.

With their growing patchwork of production space, the non-profit does what greenhouse manager Cory King refers to as “a lot.” This is a bit of an understatement, as the one-acre property manages to fuel a community supported agriculture (CSA) basket, a city-sponsored hanging petunia program, plant sales, and annual donations for local food banks. They also provide agriculture courses, student internships, and culinary program support for the neighboring high school.

Though none of this is news to capital city residents who have seen the non-profit grow over the years, the method behind the madness is worth a second look.

“I’m still learning how to juggle it.” said King. “But I think it all has a lot of value here.”

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“It’s really a learning experience not just in growing produce, but also in how to take care of the environment—how humans can live within that system,” King said.

Questions like, “How does agriculture fit into the environment?” and “How can we generate as many nutrients as we can for our plants?” help guide the students and AmeriCorps volunteers who run the property—leading to better compost systems, a new food forest and even the decision about what to do with 500 tomato plants infected with mites.

“We were gearing up to sell hundreds of tomatoes at [the plant sale],” King said, recalling the early spring discovery of tomato russet mites. After applying a sulfur spray as a last resort, the greenhouse team decided that even with green tomatoes on the vines, sending a potential blight into the community was too risky.

“Having production goals and having education goals—sometimes they work really well together, sometimes they don’t,” said King. “So it’s balancing what the students are learning with those production goals.”

However the yields turn out, King is comfortable taking a hit and hopes his students are too.

“Failure is a learning experience, and that’s the bottom line there,” he said. “One thing fails. Other things survive. I try to have enough planted so that if something fails, I have enough of other things.”

So they pivot. Instead of making money on tomatoes this year, The Greenhouse Project continues on with its CSA, petunia basket program and its annual benefit—Concert Under the Stars—which raised $12,500 earlier this month.

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REASONABLE DOUBT Courtroom sketch artist David Tscheekar drew this sketch of James Biela’s appeal hearing on July 11.

Convicted murderer James Biela maintains his innocence

by Tim PrenTiss

Entirely by accident, I came across a website, “Exonerating Jimmy,” dedicated to exonerating James Biela. Everyone knew he was guilty. They had his DNA. The website, which appeared to be managed by his sister, said otherwise. Apparently everyone but his sister knew he was guilty.

It could only be some glitch.

Some evolutionary defense mechanism that could cause those who love him to be unable to see the obvious—that in 2007 and 2008, he stalked and attacked three or four young women, raped three of them and killed one—that he was, to put it simply, a monster.

The disappearance—later found to be the murder—of Brianna Denison put the city of Reno on edge for six weeks. On January 21, 2008, while back in her hometown, Reno, on vacation from college in Santa Barbara, Denison disappeared from a friend’s house near the University of Nevada, Reno.

Less publicized were the attacks on Taiwanese exchange student Emma C. that occurred five weeks earlier, an attack—apparently an aborted rape attempt—on UNR student

Anna P. a month before that, and the rape of Amanda Collins three weeks before that.

Prior to the trial, news agencies reported that Biela’s DNA had been matched to three of those crimes— all but the attack against Collins.

Collins didn’t report her attack until two months after it occurred, so no DNA had been recovered in that case.

Biela was charged with all four of these attacks, and, with the exception of charges related to the attack on Anna P., which were inexplicably dropped, was convicted on all counts and sentenced to death.

Because of the death sentence, the case was subject to mandatory appeal by the Nevada Supreme Court. The court’s written decision, in which it denied all the claims brought by Biela’s counsel, could be called perfunctory. One hopes judges always do their jobs with diligence, but the tone of the decision gave the impression they found the grounds brought unworthy of serious consideration.

So despite DNA evidence and no hint of uncertainty on the part of the supreme court, Biela, and apparently

his sister, still were attempting to convince the world of his innocence.

And he was working with considerable diligence.

Biela initially filed his own 200-page petition, back in December of 2012, burying himself in documents in the process.

I sent an email to the contact on the exoneratingjimmy.com website in March 2014. Only a few hours later, I was contacted by Biela’s sister, Kim Eastman, who asked for details on what exactly my intentions were. I explained I was a journalism student hoping to do a documentary on her efforts to exonerate him. After exchanging emails over the course of a week, she passed my address on to her brother. I soon received a letter from him, and over the course of the next two years we regularly exchanged letters and spoke on the phone about 10 times.

“I have 700 police reports, then I have the Secret Witness tips,” Biela told me. “So I have thousands and thousands of pages of random garbage. But some of it is pretty interesting.”

Some of what he found is bizarre.

For someone widely considered a

monster, some of it seems to genuinely shock him.

“When Miss Denison was gone, and they were sending out search parties, they found a human skull.

It wasn’t hers, but you never heard anything about that. And I find that to be strange. I mean, whose fucking head was that? … Kind of weird.

Then they call me weird.”

The surprising thing is, though, he doesn’t seem weird—nervous, frustrated, occasionally angry, but not weird. In fact, he was friendly and funny. He didn’t resemble the descriptions of sociopaths I had read: cold, self-absorbed, free of shame.

He was none of those things. He just seemed … normal.

Eastman, Biela’s sister, is also unable to reconcile the brother that she knew with the murderous rapist he was accused of being.

“I don’t remember him ever being violent, and as a kid, the role he played in our family was the funny one,” she said. “He was like the class clown kind of personality.

He was always joking around and trying to make people laugh.

“I don’t believe Jimmy’s someone who’s capable of doing

something like that. It literally was from left field. Jimmy growing up was quiet and shy, and he’s sensitive.

He doesn’t fit the profile to me. And I’m sure that lots of people say that about their family members once they’re arrested. But I know there’re also people who’ve shown that side of themselves—that they are aggressive or angry. And I’ve never seen that side of Jimmy before.”

The question of Biela’s personality and demeanor turned out to be at issue in the trial. The prosecution brought in witnesses to testify how he reacted when he heard the news Denison’s body was discovered.

Defense attorney James Leslie claimed they refrained from putting Biela on the stand because, in Leslie’s estimation, he was incapable of seeming sympathetic. Ideally, a person’s demeanor should not be used as an indication of guilt or innocence. Trial lawyers aren’t naïve, however—they know a person who seems guilty, who acts like a criminal, is more likely to be convicted.

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The defense obviously wanted a second opinion, so in March 2009, Biela’s attorneys requested the DNA evidence be sent for analysis to a Chromosomal Labs in Arizona. The prosecutor responded by forwarding an email he had received from the WCCL. The crime lab stated for all the samples relevant to the Denison case, no swabs remained, “only the sticks.” For three (the perineum, vaginal and lips) a small amount of extracted material remained, but for two others (door handle and genital) “no extract remained.” It is not clear from the correspondence if this extracted material would be sufficient to test. But remember, Rolands had already stated two weeks earlier that there was “not enough for testing.”

“ DNA is key. That’s why I was arrested.

That’s why they were pointed to me. That’s the crux of the case—the reason I was arrested. So when I try to defend myself, I automatically jump to the DNA. ” In May, the parties met in court for a status hearing. By now, two months had passed, during which the defense had tried in vain to receive the DNA samples. In court, defense attorney Rich Davies said it was the defense’s understanding that no DNA remained to be tested. The prosecution did not contradict this statement.

Since the defense was now under the impression it would be impossible to have the DNA independently tested, they filed a motion to have the evidence suppressed.

In their opposition to the motion, the prosecution stated there was DNA left to test. Consequently, the motion to suppress was denied, and the defense and prosecution agreed that the samples would be sent to Chromosomal Labs. It was now January 2010—nine months after the defense had first requested the samples.

If there was anything still left to test back in March, there wasn’t by January. When Dr. Vincent Miller at Chromosomal Labs finally received the package of evidence it contained only empty test tubes.

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Courtroom sketch of Washoe County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Backman during Biela’s hearing.

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Eastman didn’t think her brother seemed guilty, her gut feeling wasn’t the only reason for doubt.

“There are parts of his case that don’t add up,” she said.

The Washoe County Crime Lab (WCCL) and the Reno Police Department both made the assertion that Biela’s DNA had been matched to three different attacks. Generally the media repeated this claim, without explaining exactly what these “matches” entailed. Even when the story gained national media coverage on the show Dateline, host Josh Mankiewicz claimed “the prosecution had rock solid DNA evidence.”

In fact, the crime lab was only able, at best, to recover partial matches.

Biela was initially linked to an attack on Anna P., with the WCCL claiming it had matched DNA from this attack to Biela. The charges were later dropped without explanation. However the supplemental petition filed by Biela’s lawyers states the WCCL discovered the DNA match was a false positive.

From the attack on Emma C., the crime lab was only able to discover a Y STR—which is the male half of DNA. Jeff Rolands from the WCCL stated the profile they developed would match about 1 in 493 Caucasian males, meaning more than 200 people in Reno at the time would have matched.

Of all the attacks, however, the DNA evidence used in the Denison murder case was the most damning and the strangest.

Rolands testified that immediately after the discovery of Denison’s body in February 2008, he tested the DNA and developed a genetic profile. However, one month later, RPD lieutenant Robert McDonald sent a letter to the WCCL director requesting that the DNA evidence be sent to a lab in Florida in order to “determine a physical profile.” The crime lab director, Renee Romero, passed the letter on to Rolands, after adding a note instructing him to send the samples out. Rolands added his own note to the document, which simply read “sample not sent—not enough for testing.”

After Biela’s arrest the following November, the WCCL claimed Biela matched the profile that had been developed. This match was claimed to be far more powerful than the match to Emma C.—on the order of one in trillions, even though the crime lab had never found a complete profile.

Still, by rehydrating them, Miller attempted to test the dried out samples he received. Like the WCCL, he also found an incomplete male profile and an incomplete female profile. However he also found an allele that was present in neither Denison’s nor in Biela’s profile.

“DNA is key,” said Biela.

“That’s why I was arrested. That’s why they were pointed to me. That’s the crux of the case—the reason I was arrested. So when I try to defend myself, I automatically jump to the DNA, which they never disclosed, and what they did disclose had a result that’s not my profile.”

From the attack on Amanda Collins, there was no DNA evidence recovered at all. This attack differed from the others in some other striking ways, to such an extent that police were reluctant to link this attack to the other three. There was, as one detective described it, “internal war” over this issue.

It was the only attack that occurred in a public place. (Denison was attacked at a home, while both Anna P. and Emma C. were accosted

in residential parking lots.) And it was the only attack that involved a gun. The description of the attacker differed significantly from Emma C.’s description and from Biela’s actual appearance.

Collins described her attacker as 5’8” or 5’9” weighing about 170-180 pounds, though Biela is 6’, and when he was arrested weighed 253 pounds. Before going to the police, Collins wrote a letter to a friend in which she described the attack and claimed she didn’t know what the attacker looked like. However, she later helped the police produce a sketch of her attacker’s face.

The prosecution’s explanation for how Collins could have produced the description shifted during the trial. Though Collins had reported she had never gotten a good look at her attacker, prosecution argued at trial that Collins had managed to glimpse half of her attacker’s face; the sketch was made simply by adding the mirror image of that half. The prosecution also argued that she had seen his face, but didn’t remember it in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

“The jury submitted a question saying how can you do a sketch if you didn’t see the guy? Sattler reiterated that. Where the fuck is it,” Biela said, searching for the passage in the court transcripts. “‘That part’s true—she couldn’t remember at the time,’” Biela said, quoting prosecutor Elliot Sattler from the transcripts. “How do you remember something—later?”

Collins additionally claimed she contracted herpes from her attacker.

So, in 2009, the police requested and

received an order to get a sample of Biela’s blood. However, tests indicated that Biela did not have herpes.

“This is two years after they spoke to her, and they’re still believing she got it from her attacker, then suddenly three months later at trial they’re saying, oh no, she got it from her fiancé,” said Biela. “How the fuck do you not know who you got herpes from? Don’t you think you’d have a conversation with your significant other?”

To me, Biela has always maintained his innocence. But of course he would. It was only after learning the extremely confusing facts about the case that I started to have serious doubts about the dominant narrative, that this was a slam-dunk case. I was doubting that he was guilty at all. For one attack he was convicted based on no physical evidence, only a description that didn’t much resemble him. For another, there was DNA evidence that could have implicated hundreds of men in Reno. And for the third, there was what the prosecution claimed was very strong DNA evidence, but then they played a shell game with it, appearing to do everything they could to hide it from the defense.

And when they finally disclosed it, it didn’t quite match.

Then there was Biela himself.

We had now been exchanging letters for two years. I had spoken on the phone with him a dozen times. It was hard to believe he could have done these things. These kinds of actions are committed by monsters.

Or sociopaths, or whatever word can indicate rapes and murders

of complete strangers are entirely inhuman behaviors. Biela seems completely human. Even nurturing.

After canceling a couple interviews—because of fallout from my own marital problems—I received this letter: I wanted to make sure you’re doing okay (because of your divorce). I’m sorry, I know it’s not really my business. I just wanted to remind you that things do get better. It’s always hardest when it’s new. I don’t have much experience with divorce, but I recall how hard it was for me when I was first arrested.

As you know I lost virtually everything. While some feel that I ‘deserved’ that (and more) it was very difficult for me to deal with.

When I was in jail at the beginning, I was placed on suicide watch, which means you are in a cell with a suicide prevention gown only. There is literally nothing to do but sit and think, which made the situation harder.

After a week of that, they moved me to a cell in the infirmary where I could wear clothes, have a blanket and pillow and

could read a book. Whoever had been in that cell before me carved into the shelf the phrase ‘this too shall pass.’

I read it with a mix of anger and laughter. I remember thinking ‘I’ll probably be imprisoned forever; how is this going to pass?’

I can fast-forward almost six years now and realize that it did pass. Although I am still in a very bad situation, it is considerably better now than it was. Whomever originally said: time heals all wounds, or whichever inmate carved ‘this too shall pass’ into that shelf was right. During my trial, when the state would lie and I wanted to scream out, I would actually say that phrase over and over in my head.

It will get better. Time itself is the hard part, but it moves on and things pass.

If you need anything (not that I could provide much other than just talking/writing) please let me know.

Nearly seven years have passed since Biela was arrested. For now, his goal is to get a new trial. If the DNA evidence were to be thrown out, it would all but guarantee

an acquittal. We won’t know the outcome for at least a month. The hearing on Biela’s petition has been continued and will resume in August.

Biela’s case already went to the Nevada Supreme Court, but, in that case, Biela was prohibited from raising several issues he wanted to raise. For an issue to be raised on direct appeal, an attorney needs to have made an objection during the initial trial. If no objection is made, the issue can’t be raised on appeal.

But such issues can be brought up appealing on the grounds of ineffective counsel—basically making the argument that your lawyers didn’t make enough objections for there to be a fair appeal (or otherwise failed to do their job competently). That’s what Biela is doing now.

It must be a difficult position to be in for the original defense attorneys. A person they worked to defend is now availing himself of one of the last mechanisms that could save him from execution. A defense attorney may still be on his former client’s side in such a situation. Still, he’s publicly accusing them of incompetence.

When two of his attorneys from the initial trial were required to testify in this case, on July 11, they seemed to have very different reactions to this tension. Mazie Pusich seemed friendly towards Biela’s counsel, admitting in several instances she should have done things differently. Jay Slocum, on the other hand, seemed hostile and was resistant to giving direct answers to even simple questions.

Biela’s attorneys were barely better off than if they had been questioning a wall. But when the DA was able to examine the witness, Slocum finally had something dramatic to contribute, the answer being a consequence of a particular legal rule: when you accuse your attorney of ineffective counsel, you lose attorney/client privilege.

Slocum stated that James Biela knew the house from which Denison disappeared was usually left unlocked. Slocum claimed Biela had told him he knew this because Biela had been in the house before. This comment was walked back slightly and framed as a hypothetical. The defense needed an explanation for how Biela’s DNA had been found

on the doorknob of the house, so (hypothetically) Biela had been in the house on several occasions, to masturbate with the tenants’ underwear. However, Slocum didn’t know if he’d been there on the night of the disappearance. Hypothetically.

It was the only time during the hearing that Biela reacted to anything that was said. Having sat still during the entire proceeding, he began shaking his head vigorously, and then he whispered something to his counsel.

I hope I can ask James Biela (or Jimmy, as I’ve gotten used to calling him) what he said. Why was he shaking his head? I hope he can tell me it’s not true, that he was never in that house. Or maybe I don’t hope that. I don’t know if it’s better if he was there or wasn’t.

Either an innocent man has been sentenced to die, or horrible attacks were committed by a man who seems sane, funny and caring. I honestly don’t know which possibility is more terrifying. Ω

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A local middle school teacher is also an author. Two of his dozens of books are on their second release.

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avid Michael Slater is an author of dozens of books and an English teacher at Pine Middle School. He never planned on being either, but he’s been teaching and writing books for close to 20 years. Now he’s an author in motion.

The New York Journal of Books likened him to David Sedaris, and he’s awaiting a second run of his teen fantasy series, The Forbidden Books, and his adult dark comedy novel, Fun and Games, by Zharmae Publishing Press. He’s thinking of developing his teen series for the big screen.

Slater said he got where he is now because of a love of words, an obsession with the works of the legendary Argentine poet and author Jorge Luis Borges, and several instances of “smart luck.”

Born in Pittsburgh in 1970, he was never one for having a plan. Even now, he never outlines his work before he writes. He composes and revises his words as they come to him.

“I think I wanted to be a soccer player,” said Slater. “But not once I got into college, no.” He earned a degree in something called “organizational psych.”

As a junior at the University of Michigan, Slater spent a year abroad in Australia, where, on a whim, he wrote the beginnings of a play on the back of a magazine in an airport

David Michael Slater teaches English at Pine Middle School and writes books for kids, teens and adults.

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sTory AnD pHoTo by mATT bieker van. The resulting Gods and Cats was his take on the absurdist style of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a high school favorite he had rediscovered in college.

The script eventually won a local theater competition and was produced in its entirety.

“That was the first thing I’d ever written and the first thing I’d ever produced,” said Slater. “So I got the wrong impression of how easy this was going to be, to write.”

Slater went to the University of Pittsburgh to complete a full year of English courses in order to change his major. In 1993, his plan to pursue a doctorate in English took him to his first, and only, year at Carnegie Mellon University, where the extra reading section of a class syllabus introduced him to the works of Borges, known in the 20th century for his multi-dimensional works of fiction. His magical realism has heavily influenced Slater’s style.

“A lot of my books—there’s a vein of absurdity in them,” said Slater. “But what really unifies all of my work is a love of words, a play with words.

Even my teen fantasy series, where there really is no absurdity, they’re all books about books. There’s some sort of magic to the words, and that’s Borgesian. Every single one of them starts with a Borges quote in them.”

In Beaverton, Slater would also begin work on his young adult series, The Forbidden Books, and his critically acclaimed adult novel Fun and Games. Both works received quiet first pressings by small publishers. The Book of Nonsense, the first of the Forbidden Books series, was originally published in 2009.

Now, Slater has come across a rare opportunity, a second release.

Zharmae Press, the new publisher, re-released The Book of Maps, the fourth book of the series, in July, and Fun and Games will hit the market Nov. 17.

A dry, witty, coming-of-age story based in 1980s Pittsburgh, Fun and Games follows the story of young Jonathan Schwartz, a Jewish kid with a decidedly American

brand of family dysfunction, courtesy of his manipulative sisters and Holocaust-survivor grandparents.

Slater called the book, “geographically biographical,” in that many of the settings described in its pages are true to life.

“I’ve told people, ‘It’s like my life but much funnier, and much more sad,’” he said.

The Forbidden Books series is Slater’s effort in the tradition of series such as Harry Potter and The Golden Compass, which he said were influential to his writing process. The original idea, however, came from one of Slater’s Borgesian short stories about a magical book that can rearrange the words on its own pages.

In pitching some of his picture books to small animation studios, Slater happened across a former studio executive named Kevin Bannerman, who requested the opportunity to develop The Forbidden Books for a movie script—a venture that is still in the works.

Slater’s latest successes, and his career as a whole, may look like happenstance, but that is only half true. He subscribes to a combination of opportunism and dogged perseverance, an ethos he calls “smart luck.” One way he strives to combine work and luck is by ignoring the standard advice to pitch his stories to just a few precisely targeted publishers.

“There’s no way I’d be published if that was all I did,” he said. “How are you going to find someone with some goofy reason to publish your book if you don’t knock on 10,000 doors?”

After pursuing any and every option, Slater has earned an impressive resume and critical praise.

But the road hasn't always been an easy one. He has two large binders full of rejection letters, over a thousand of them, which he uses to teach students and young authors— be persistent.

“You have to have talent, but persistence is every bit as important,” Slater said. “There are very few people where success comes immediately as a result of talent.” Ω

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After watching friends and peers struggle to balance work, graduate study and post-grad career prospects, Slater decided a doctorate wasn’t for him. He had found success in publishing several of his own Borges-inspired short stories in obscure literary journals and decided to go into teaching, a stable career that would allow time for other pursuits.

“I want to know what I’m doing tomorrow because I want the time to write,” he said. “And I used it like crazy. I got a lot of writing done in those early years. Writing was also a big deal helping me teach.”

After completing his master’s at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, Slater immediately took a job in the Beaverton, Oregon public school system, where he would remain for 16 years. For 13 of those, he taught seventh grade English. While he had worked with children before and liked his job, he found the realities of disengaged students and an overburdened school system draining.

“I had a lot of teachers burn out around me,” he said. “And I often told them, ‘You need something else.’ Having writing was always something else.”

During those early years of teaching, it occurred to Slater that one of his many fantastical fictions might translate to a children’s book. In 2000, he penned the first of his 17 published picture books, Cheese Louise.

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who was on the theater faculty at University of Nevada, Reno for several years.

“I’ve had some important roles, but they were more supporting, so this is my first big role,” said Delbridge, who studied vocal performance at UNR. “I’ve wanted to be Dorothy for a long time. I’ve been in the The Sierra School of Performing Arts has Wizard of Oz, like, three other times before been a fixture—and a product—of the local this, in middle school and in high school, theater community since 2005. Since its but I never was Dorothy.” inception, a dedicated group of parents, Originally from Spring Creek, teachers and theater professionals have Delbridge found a love of theater—and relied on donations and borrowed stages to specifically musicals—that has made her a offer Reno’s aspiring actors a place to hone dedicated member of SSPA for five years their craft. SSPA has recently acquired now. As Dorothy, she shares the stage with its own dedicated rehearsal space and is Brad Fitch as the Cowardly Lion, Thomas preparing for its summer performance of Thompson as Tin Man, and Thomas Chubb the Broadway musical, The Wizard of Oz. as Scarecrow, not to mention Chewy, the “It’s classic and popular and a wondertrained dog playing Toto. ful story with great music,” said Janet “Everyone who has helped is so Lazarus, director and founding member passionate about putting of SSPA. “That’s what on a good production,” draws me to a show.” said Delbridge. “I think SSPA was founded it’s just been really Director: Janet Lazarus in response to a lack of awesome to see the kids Starring: Nicole Delbridge, opportunities for stage come back every year and Brad Fitch, Thomas acting in Reno at the time. grow. It makes me jealous Thompson, Thomas Chubb With many long-time because I wish that I The Sierra School of Performing Arts members returning year would have had the care presents The Wizard of Oz, 7:30 p.m. Aug. after year, the company 12-14 and 19-21 at the Robert Z. Hawkins and passion from these Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch. Visit www. has steadily increased the adults who put this on.” sierraschoolofperformingarts.org/shows. scope of its performances The show includes html. Tickets are $15-40. to include full-scale musiover 50 other cast cals. This year’s budget is members, a nine-piece an estimated $75,000. band, and a production team of 15 people.

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One of the script’s best aspects isolates the grumpy Doctor “Bones” McCoy on the planet with his spiritual nemesis, Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto). Spock is dealing with some awkward news—Spock Prime, a parallel universe’s version of himself, has passed away. So, he’s dealing with the realization of his own mortality in a most bizarre fashion. (The movie pays a touching tribute While the new Star Trek Beyond lacks a little bit in to the late Leonard Nimoy, as well as the classic soul and story cohesiveness, it scores high on the Trek cast.) zip factor and introduces a creepy new villain. The This, of course, will be the final journey for third film in the franchise’s reboot might be the late actor Anton Yelchin as Chekov, who has a weakest chapter featuring the newish cast, but it’s formidable role in this installment. It’s actually a still a lot of fun. little hard watching the movie when Yelchin is on J.J. Abrams stepped down from the conn screen. It’s very strange knowing this excellent to direct his revamped Star Wars, relegating young actor has left the planet. himself to a producer’s role. In stepped Justin There are times during all of the chaos that it’s Lin, best known for making cars jump between hard to connect the dots and comprehend what skyscrapers in the Fast & Furious franchise. It’s exactly is going on with the story. There are many no surprise that Lin’s take lacks a certain depth subplots at play—Kirk’s spiritual that Abrams managed to bring dilemma, Spock’s relationship to his two installments. It’s also with Uhura, Bones’s perpetual not a surprise that some of the grumpiness, etc.—along with the action scenes motor along with the Krall confrontation. Portions of it efficiency of a Dodge Challenger don’t make a lick of sense.

Hellcat.

Those portions are often wiped The film picks up with James Director: Justin Lin out by the film’s blast power, most T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his crew Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary notably during a space battle that in the midst of their five-year Quinto, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, deftly uses Kirk’s favorite Beastie mission. Kirk, as he did in Star John Cho, Simon Pegg Boys song. (Yes, Adam Yauch Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, is helps save the universe.) If the starting to get a little bored. He’s makers of the new Star Trek series were concerned up for an admiral’s position, and might soon find that the new Star Trek movies were lacking in action himself grounded to a desk job. dazzle, Star Trek Beyond helps quell those worries.

The movie has barely started when the U.S.S. This new film has a lot in common with the Enterprise is attacked by thousands of maraudcampy TV series, and has a throwback element to ing spaceships, and the crew finds themselves it. Your enjoyment of this chapter probably hinges shipwrecked on a sparsely inhabited planet. upon your preference for the TV show or the Unfortunately, one of those few is Krall (Idris movies. While some of the goofier plot elements Elba), a nasty looking alien with evil intentions do recall old-school Trek, the action sequences involving an ancient weapon. The crew must definitely have a more Fast & Furious modern reform to band against Krall, get off the foreboding feel. I was half expecting Vin Diesel on the bridge planet and save the Federation. in a wife-beater.

Star Trek Beyond is basically Star Trek on The next chapter is allegedly in the works and steroids, with crazy action sequences involving supposedly aims to bring back Chris Hemsworth as motorcycles and thousands of ships rather than just Kirk’s dad. While I’m glad to see Justin Lin didn’t a couple of ships squaring off against one another. totally blow his chance at the Star Trek helm, I’d Some of this action is top-notch but occasionally like to see somebody with a more nuanced touch hard to follow, thanks to Lin’s editing style. take a stab at it the next time. Ω

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Central Intelligence

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.

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Finding Dory

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.

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I was not expecting anything near the brilliance or originality of the 1984 original from Paul Feig’s reboot/remake/ whatever-you-want-to-call-it entry into a movie franchise that has remained dormant since the miserable 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2. Considering the cast that Feig assembled (Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones), I did expect to have a good time. That didn’t happen. I was bored. Super bored. I laughed a total of two and a half times at the new Ghostbusters, not once due to anything the headlining stars did. It’s as if Feig (Bridesmaids, Spy, The Heat) figured, “Hey, I have these stars and a big budget for special

effects. I don’t really need a funny script, do I? These stars can just stand in front of a camera and be funny, right?” Perhaps they can, but not this time out. Ghostbusters is a stale facsimile of the original. If you watched those lousy preview trailers and worried that the franchise was creatively bankrupt, know that the stupid jokes in that trailer (“Ow, that’s gonna leave a mark!”) are about the best the film has to offer. It is utterly void of laughter. The ghosts are dull, fluorescent things bolstered slightly by some decent 3-D effects if you should choose the more expensive viewing route. In one of the only real compliments I can bestow upon the film, the folks putting together some of the 3-D action did a pretty good job.

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And with this, the startling run of Steven Spielberg duds continues. After delivering two of the dullest movies of his career (Lincoln, Bridge of Spies) Spielberg does the almost impossible; he makes Roald Dahl completely boring. Oscar-winner Mark Rylance delivers a motion-capture CGI performance as the central character, the Big Friendly Giant, that results in more yawns than smiles. His giant captures dreams and blows them into the sleeping residents of London. On one of his excursions, he kidnaps Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), and takes her to the land of giants, where most giants are meat eaters. Luckily, he’s a vegetarian, but he’s being bullied by a group of bad giants led by Jemaine Clement in the film’s most fun motion-capture performance. Despite a winning performance from Barnhill, a true star in the making, the film drags on and on, trying to get by on big special effects rather than an engaging story. Everything feels a little off for Spielberg. A visit to the Queen’s house, which should be bizarrely funny and subversive, winds up feeling awkward and uncomfortable.

The whole movie seems to be playing it safe in Dahl land, as if it is E.T. in Dahl land, and it throws the tone completely off. It doesn’t help that John Williams ripped off his own E.T. score.

It never clicks. Nothing really works, yet again, for Spielberg, a director who seems to have momentarily lost his mojo.

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The BFG

Three years ago, director David F. Sandberg made a great short about a woman home alone at night, noticing a dark figure when she switched the light off. The payoff was both hilarious and scary as shit. So, of course, producer James Wan got a hold of Sandberg and now there’s a full length feature film based on that light-switch premise. Writer Eric Heisserer takes the idea, fleshes it out, and comes up with a pretty good story to go with Sandberg’s strong horror directing abilities.

Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) is an angry woman with mommy and commitment issues. Her mom, Sophie (Maria Bello), recently lost her husband and has fallen into a depression where she is talking to herself. Her son, and Sophie’s brother, Martin (Gabriel Bateman) is seeing a strange dark figure when the lights go out. It all leads up to a finale where flashlights are very valuable and potential victims behave like idiots. Sandberg repeats the same jolt scare over and over again and makes it all work nicely. The film is genuinely scary when it tries to be. The background story is a little flaccid, but Palmer and Bello are good in their roles, and Bateman plays a scared kid with major aplomb.

A bunch of comedians lend their voices to some cartoon characters, and the results are moderately entertaining. Louis C.K. voices Max, a Jack Russell terrier who loves his master, Katie (Ellie Kemper of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), with that undying loyalty that makes dogs so damn cool. Katie brings home a new brother for Max, a big brown shaggy dog named Duke (Eric Stonestreet), and it creates some turmoil in the household. Max and Duke eventually wind up in the hands of Animal Control, and eventually fend for themselves in the sewers of Manhattan. There they become enemies of the Flushed Pets, a group consisting of alligators, lizards, snakes and furry critters led by Snowball the Rabbit (Kevin Hart on a sound booth tear). The advertised premise for the film suggests the movie might be about what our pets do in the house when we leave home. That part of the film is out of the way early in the movie’s opening minutes. The rest of the movie is the band of pets in Max’s neighborhood trying to find him and Duke when they get lost. Some of the sequences are borderline deranged. Max and Duke wind up in a sausage factory, where they gobble down hot dogs in an almost hallucinatory scene set to Grease’s “We Go Together.” This doesn’t feel like the stuff of kids’ movies.

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-ass 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.

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In the zone Zona Norteña Traditionally, Norteña music hasn’t been subject to much interpretation. It’s polkainfluenced country, and even though its name means “northern,” it’s popular all over the Western U.S. and Mexico. Ever since it developed in the 19th century, based on Polish and German sounds migrating to the Southwest and Mexico, the genre’s steady, danceable beat and reliance on traditional accordion haven’t changed much.

“That’s the music you listen to with your great grandparents, your grandparents, your parents,” said Kristias Trujillo-Zenea, drummer for the band Zona Norteña.

The thing is, once a genre crosses an international border, and once a band that intended to stick to tradition hires a teenager in croc-skin cowboy boots with a rock ’n’ roll heart—it’s hard not to mix things up a bit. That young musician is Imanol Quezada.

“He’s our pride and joy—our 15-yearold kid, who plays the accordion like Jimi Hendrix.” said Trujillo-Zenea.

Quezada said that his dad taught him accordion when he was four or five, and that he grew up on, “all types of stuff, jazz, blues, sometimes rock.”

Each of the band’s six members has a story of growing up on Norteña and at least one other musical lineage, and each has settled on his own level of traditional or fusion.

Bass player Martin Arroyo switches from genre to genre often. He’s a member of both Zona Norteña and the Latin-funk/ jazz group Drinking With Clowns.

Drummer Trujillo-Zenea also plays in Drinking With Clowns, but the sounds emanating from his drum set when he plays Norteña aren’t Latin-funk/jazz in the least.

They’re more like strains of Pantera or Metallica—bands he’s always revered.

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Zona Norteña—Imanol Quezada, Federico Mendez, Kristias Trujillo-Zenea, Miguel Rodriguez, Martin Arroyo and Ramiro Ramirez—are bringing their rockified Mexican country music, honed at weddings and quinceañeras, out to the bar.

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Other members keep it more traditional.

“When you play Norteña you have to stick within the Norteña style,” said singer Ramiro Ramirez, who grew up singing in a church choir in Guadalajara. He likes to scream like a metal head and croon romantic ballads.

“I grew up singing all kinds,” Ramirez said. “I’m used to singing everything.”

But when he takes the mic for Zona Norteña, he said, “I try to stick within the boundaries.”

Miguel Rodriguez has always been into classic rock, but shortly after he bought a Classic Series Fender Stratocaster, his rock band broke up. Now he plays a bajo quinto, a 10-stringed guitar with fancy edging. No self-respecting Norteño band would do without either a bajo quinto or its close cousin, the 12-stringed bajo sexto.

Federico Mendez provides the other essential Norteña sound, straight-up country accordion. Yep, you read right, this sixmember band has two accordion players.

Zona Norteña played its first-ever show about a year ago, opening for Los Tigres del Norte, the influential, multi-Grammywinning group from San Jose that’s widely popular in Mexico and the U.S. Since then they’ve been playing two or three weddings, birthdays or quinceañeras a month and the occasional bar gig. With practice, they’ve mixed their different approaches into a seamless, amalgamated style that’s still right for dancing with the grandparents—provided the grandparents are cool with a few jazz and blues chords, a little Metallica in the percussion and a little Hendrix in the accordion. And the experimentation may well progress further.

“I think it’s a work in process,” said Trujillo-Zenea. “The other day we started working on original music, just to see what will come out of it. It has a good chance to evolve.” Ω Zona Norteña plays at 10 p.m. July 29 at 3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third St.

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3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, 882-1626: Carlos Rodriguez, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Kivi Rogers, Paula Bel, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Charles Fleischer, Tu-W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Josh Blue, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Josh Nasar, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Steve Hytner, F, 9pm, $17-$20 Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $17-$20

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

SundaYze: Brunch and live jazz w/Reno Jazz Syndicate, noon, no cover

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901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888 425 S. Virginia St., (775) 432-1633

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/1-8/3

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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Trevor Vichas, Sub Ascension, Cobalt, Shady Acres, 10pm, $5 after midnight

Stay Gold, 8pm, no cover

La Luz, The Gloomies, Dead Seagals, 8pm, W, $8-$10

THURSDAY 7/28 JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

FRIDAY 7/29 1) Knightfall, Graveshadow, The Scattering, Misamore, 7:30pm, $5 donation

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room

SATURDAY 7/30 2) Greenriver Thrillers, Klaw, Weight of the Tide, Alpha Complex, 10pm, $5

SUNDAY 7/31 2) Voted Best Camp fundraiser show w/The Antidon’ts, 10pm, donations

THE JUNGLE THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING

Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $19-$27

Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $19-$27

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $19-$27

MIDTOWN WINE BAR

Britt Straw, 7pm, no cover

Dane Rinehart, 8pm, no cover

Dane Rinehart, 8pm, no cover

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Smooth Hound Smith, 8pm, no cover

1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024

10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484

RED DOG SALOON

Open mic and jam, 7pm, no cover

Smooth Hound Smith, 4pm, no cover Richard Elloyan, Steve Wade, 8pm, $10

ROCKBAR THEATER

Rockaraoke, 8pm, no cover

Sav*iors, 6pm, $10

THE SAINT

Rigorous Proof, 6pm, no cover

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

SHEA’S TAVERN

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

SPARKS LOUNGE

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 409-3340

Thursday Blues Jam hosted by Rich Maloon, 8:30pm, no cover

Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover Jamie Rollins, 7:30pm, W, no cover

T. Lee Walker, 9pm, no cover The B Foundation, Brewfish, Treedom, 10pm, $15

Turbonegra, Drop Tank, Betty Rocker, Nevermute, 9pm, $5

Comedy Night w/Jenny PezDeSpencer, 9pm, no cover

Dropkikk, 9pm, no cover

St. Christopher Project, 6pm, no cover

Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Explorations in Jazz, 8pm, no cover

Johnny Azari, 8pm, $8

Monaco & Alameda, 7pm, $7

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

Lila Rose, Grace Hayes, 8pm, $10-$15

Ultrafaux, 8pm, $10-$12

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON 17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Cash Only Band, 9pm, no cover

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

WILD RIVER GRILLE

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

Aug. 3, 8 p.m.

The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

July 31, 2 p.m.

Wild River Grille 17 S. Virginia St. 284-7455

La Luz

All About Rockets, ghostplay, Wizard Colors, 10pm, $7

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

Erika Paul Trio

Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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Magic Fusion, 7:30pm, M, Tu, $19-$27

U Play Wednesday (open mic jam), 8pm, W, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $19-$27

Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter showcase, 8pm, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

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

2) Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/1-8/3

Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

Moon Gravy, 6pm, no cover

Alex Muddy Smith, 6pm, no cover

Erika Paul Trio, 2pm, no cover Milton Merlos, 6pm, no cover

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FRIDAY 7/29

SATURDAY 7/30

SUNDAY 7/31

2) Platinum, 8pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover In-A-Fect, 10pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 4pm, no cover In-A-Fect, 10pm, no cover

2) In-A-Fect, 8pm, no cover

2) Lonnie Garcia, 5pm, no cover

2) Crush, 5pm, no cover Stephen Lord, 9pm, no cover

1) Boomtown Blues Festival: Ana Popovic and Coco Montoya, 1-9pm, $25-$50 2) George Pickard, 6pm, no cover 2) Stephen Lord, 9pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Jason King, 6pm, Tu, no cover The Desperados, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Rye Brothers, 7pm, no cover

2) Rye Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Rye Brothers, 8pm, no cover 3) The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards, 8pm, $39

2) Patrick Major, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Kevin Farley, 8:30pm, $16-$20

2) Purple Haze, 10pm, no cover

2) Stanzu, VGNX, 11pm, no cover

3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Lex Fridays, 10pm, $15 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) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50

1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50 4) In-A-Fect, 6pm, no cover

1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50 5) Kansas, 8pm, $45-$65

1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, $39.50-$40.50

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

2) Bobby G, 9:30pm, no cover

1) Keith Urban, Brett Eldredge, Maren Morris, 7pm, $63.24-$114.20 2) Jessie Leigh Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Jessie Leigh Band, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

NUGGET CASINO RESORT

1) Reno Dance Company’s The Frozen Ballet, 3pm, 8pm, $22 3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover John Dawson Band, 9pm, no cover

1) David Nail, 8pm, $35-$65 3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover John Dawson Band, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover John Dawson Band, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Barrio Manouche, 7pm, no cover

2) Barrio Manouche, 8pm, no cover 3) The Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10 before 10pm

2) Barrio Manouche, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ OB-One, 10pm, $30

2) The Socks!, 6pm, no cover

2) The Socks!, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) The Novelists, 8pm, no cover

1) The Novelists, 8pm, no cover

3) Hot for Teacher, 7pm, $10 4) Live Jazz Sundays by the Pool, 5pm, no cover

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

2) Flock of 80z, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover 4) Decoy, 9pm, no cover

1) Johnny Mathis, 8pm, $63.76-$82.11 2) Flock of 80z, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Decoy, 9pm, no cover

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

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

ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret

BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTEL

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

Ana Popovic

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1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

July 30, 7:30 p.m.

Boomtown Casino Hotel 2100 Garson Road Verdi 345-6000

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

GRAND SIERRA RESORT HARRAH’S RENO

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 The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover 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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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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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/1-8/3

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

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

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rd Street Lounge 2) Copa Bar & Grill 3) The Tent 4) Pool

SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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

1) The Full Monty, 7pm, Tu, W, $36.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover

1) Sammy’s Showroom 50th Anniversary Show, 8pm, M, $39.50-$40.50 4) Hot Rods, noon, W, no cover

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FOr tHE WEEK OF JULY 28, 2016 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

THE LIFE OF STEPHEN MATHER, NPS DIRECTOR: Join Steve Hale as he portrays Stephen Mather, the first director of the United States’ National Park System. Wine and cheese social begins at 6pm. Program begins at 6:30pm. Sa, 7/30, 6-7:30pm. $15.

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

MOANA FOOD TRUCK ROUNDUP: The food truck gathering features family-friendly activities, entertainment and more.

Th, 5-9pm through 9/29. Free admission.

Rounds Bakery, 294 E. Moana Lane, Ste. 10, (775) 329-0800.

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.

RENO-SPARKS OPEN STREETS: Experience the concrete jungle like never before by walking, biking, dancing or running in the vehicle-free Reno and Sparks streets, stopping at vendors serving the best in local food trends, offering yoga classes, dance sessions, health tips and showcasing local businesses. Su, 7/31, 10am-3pm; Sa, 8/20, 10am-3pm. Free. Locations vary, www.renopenstreets.org.

THURSDAY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: The

Lake Tahoe Dance Festival

7/28:

The fourth annual festival features dance performances on an outdoor stage against a backdrop of lake and mountain views. The event spotlights leading professional dancers and two workshop pieces, including contemporary new works by San Francisco Conservatory of Dance’s Christian Burns and New Chamber Ballet’s Constantine Baecher, an excerpt from Swan Lake, and a selection from Agathlon by choreographer Erick Hawkins. The show begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, July 28-29. Tickets are $25-$30. The event takes place at Gatekeeper’s Museum, 130 W. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City. Visit www.laketahoedancefestival.org.

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ENCHANTED WEST SLIDESHOW: Slideshow presentations by Kurt Kuznicki, Martin Gollery and Janis Knight. Th, 7/28, 8-10pm.

Free. Buenos Grill, 3892 Mayberry Drive, (775) 787-8226, www.renoisartown.com.

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) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.

EXTRAVAGANZA AT THE PLAZA: Explore the riverwalk and visit unique booths, artists displays and a kids’ zone. Sa, 10am-9pm through 7/30. Free. West Street Plaza, West and First streets, (775) 303-6551, www.renoisartown.com.

AIGA PRESENTS: STEVE LAMBERT: Lambert discusses how to “Dream Bigger Than Clients.” Doors open at 5pm for social hour and cash bar inside chez louie.

Program begins at 6pm. Th, 7/28, 6-7pm. $15 general, $12 NMA/AIGA members, $8 students. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

FEED THE CAMEL: The Hump Day food truck event and arts bazaar takes place under the Keystone Bridge. 8/3, W, 5-8pm. Free.

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

HOT AUGUST NIGHTS: The 30th annual clas-

ANIMAL ARK RAPTORS & CHEETAHS: Local falconers Jim and Kathleen Tigan present a program on raptors at 5:30pm.

Then at 6:30pm, walk over to the cheetah yard to watch cheetahs racing at 55-60 mph across the hillside off leash.

Reservations required. Kids must be age 8 or older to attend. Sa, 7/30, 5:30-7:30pm. $30-$40 for cheetah race. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road, (775) 970-3431.

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sic car event showcases more than 6,000 vehicles from this golden era of design at events all over Reno and Sparks. The event features show ’n’ shines, nightly cruises, drag races and burnouts, AutoCross, live music and entertainment, swap meet and Hot August Nights Auction presented by Motorsport Auction Group. Tu-Su through 8/7. Opens 8/2. Free. Call or visit website for details, (775) 356-1956, www.hotaugustnights.net.

JEFF LOCK AND FRIENDS SLIDESHOW: See

slideshows of travel and adventure. Th, 7/28, 6-7pm. $5 donation. Nevada Fine

weekly event includes local and regional produce, 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.

WOLF STOCK 2016: The United States Wolf Refuge holds its second annual fundraiser featuring live entertainment, kids’ activities, raffles and silent auctions and food from Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que. All proceeds from the event will go to the U.S. Wolf Refuge. Su, 7/31, noon-9:30pm.

Free. Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

44th annual festival presents William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and the Off-Broadway musical revue Forever Plaid, written by Stuart Ross. The productions will be performed in rotating repertory Tuesday through Sunday at 7:30pm, through Aug. 21. The Showcase Series takes place on Monday through Aug. 15 and continues on Friday, Aug. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 3 and Sept. 10. Tu-Su,

7:30pm through 8/21; M, 7:30pm through 8/15; F, Sa, 7:30pm through 8/27. Opens 8/26; Sa, 9/3, 7:30pm; Sa, 9/10, 6:30pm.

Prices vary. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 7474697, http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

LIFE OF CHARLES DARWIN: Israel Borokini, a PhD student at University of Nevada, Reno, gives a presentation on the life, work and contributions of British naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin. Su, 7/31, 10-11am. Free, $5 donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Greg Allen + Evan Dent Art Reception. Local painter Greg Allen’s exhibit features photorealistic paintings of remaining relics from the oil age American West, which become monuments to places rapidly disappearing in the rush toward urban renewal.

Running concurrently with Allen’s exhibition is artwork by Evan Dent, who will transform the entry/hallway space with large-scale charcoal murals drawn directly on the wall in a style reminiscent of early 20th century-era animation.

Tu-F, 3-6pm through 8/12. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: As Life Slips Through My Fingers. Nathaniel Benjamin will feature his original screen prints that illustrates the humanistic elements of his personal relationships and the mystical aspects that surround him. The opening reception is on Aug. 2. M-Su through 8/26; Tu, 8/2, 6-8pm. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087.

LAKE MANSION: From the Walls of the Riverside Artist Lofts to the Lake Mansion. Arts for All Nevada presents artists of the Riverside Artist Lofts.

Artists include Holly English, Erik Holland, Patricia Sherer, Dianna Sion, Catherine Sweet, Damien Cole, Maggy Anthony, Gene Anthony, Jay Fisher and Marilyn Fisher. Through 8/26. Free. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: In the

Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128, www.renoisartown.com.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The

CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE GALLERY: New

Art 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 and 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.

CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Silver State Swimmer. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents artwork by artist Michael Malley at the Carson City Community Center’s Sierra Room.

M-Th, 8am-5pm through 11/10. Free. 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 887-2290.

Open: RenoTahoe Plein Air Painters.

Artwork by Emma Auriemma-McKay, Pat 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.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: 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; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31; Past Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, W-Su through 10/23. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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Try Reiki

by AMY ALKON

People who needle people A female friend overheard me on the phone with my boyfriend and became concerned. He and I tease each other relentlessly, calling each other mean, silly names, but it’s all in fun. Though we have a very loving relationship, she thinks the teasing is a sign of submerged anger. Is she right?

And are we doing something damaging?

Yesterday, on the phone with my boyfriend, I had to ask him to repeat something he’d just said because I’d become briefly mesmerized by a big fern shimmying in the breeze. No, sadly, I wasn’t all “Sorry, I missed that bit because my couch caught fire.” The man was competing for my attention with a plant.

It isn’t that he’s boring. I have ADHD. And in our relationship, as in yours, teasing plays a big role.

So when my boyfriend has something important to tell me, he’ll sometimes prepare me (with a line that always makes me laugh): “Do I have your divided attention?”

Teasing like this is what social psychologist Dacher Keltner calls an “indirect, playful way to negotiate conflict.” This is especially important in a relationship, where there are many conflicts and annoyances you’ll never resolve.

Teasing is like bullying, Keltner explains—in that it’s something you say or do that’s intended to provoke another person. However, teasing includes clues that what you’re saying isn’t to be taken literally—and that your intent is playful, not hurtful.

These playfulness signals are called “off-record markers” and include laughter, obvious exaggeration, a jokey tone, mimicry and contorted facial expressions.

Keltner and his colleagues found that “couples who playfully teased, as opposed to resorting to direct, cogent, but ultimately hackle-raising criticism, felt more connected after [a] conflict and trusted their partners more.”

The reality is that only two people who truly love each other can get away with trash-talking each other in extravagantly awful ways. This is an example of what behavioral ecologists call a “costly signal”—one that, through its expense or riskiness, tells you it’s more likely to be for real. Conspicuous consumption is an example—signaling that you’ve

got money to burn by shelling out $8K for a Rolex when a $50 Swatch tells the time just fine. So, sure, there are many ways to express romantic appreciation, but it’s nice to opt for something unique, like “What a wonderful love note—made all the sweeter by handwriting that looks like that of an 8-year-old locked up after multiple disappearances of neighborhood pets.”

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Splendor in the crash My boyfriend recently got laid off and lost a bunch of money in stocks. Yesterday, feeling blue, he said, “Can’t anything good happen for me?” I know he’s talking about financial and career stuff, but we have something pretty special together. Why is he focusing on the bad stuff and not appreciating the good? Money isn’t everything.

No, money isn’t everything, but that can be difficult to remember while panicking that you’ll soon be raiding the market share of the wino on the corner begging for change. Also, because women evolved to go for men with status—a cue for the ability to provide—and men co-evolved to recognize this, it can be especially hard on a man when his career trajectory goes from riches to rags.

However, emotions are—at root—behavior management tools, and the feel-bad that comes with a loss in status pushes a man to go out and get a new job and make new investments.

What you can do is be fierce in telling your boyfriend why you believe in him and about all the things you respect and admire in him (especially those that employers will also respect and admire).

This is the sort of “appreciating the good” that he need—especially if he gets to the point where he’s driving a brand-new Tesla but only until he gets a $2 tip for bringing it back to the guy who owns it. Ω

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

ON SIERRA BREWFEST! Saturday, August 27 Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, 3:00 – 6:30 pm Unlimited Tastings

The 25th annual Sierra Brew Fest is fast approaching!

This event will be held on Saturday, August 27th from 3 pm to 6:30 pm at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.

A unique, unlimited microbrew tasting experience.

Sample over 100 hand-crafted beers. Enter the Bagg-O Tournament to win tickets to the 2017 BrewFest and other great prizes! Enjoy delicious food from some of the best local food trucks and restaurants.

Nevada County’s favorite band, SoLS Band, will be rocking the stage with rock, pop, country, swing and blues. Featuring the soulful vocals of Doug Sowell, one of the best singers and entertainers in Northern California, SoLS will keep you on the dance floor with its infectious grooves, surprising song selection, tight arrangements and spontaneous audience interaction.

To get great deals on concerts at Ace of Spades, Goldfield Trading Post and Harlow’s go to www.newsreview.com

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PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime

Vantage Point of Distance. This exhibit features the sculptural work of Las Vegas artist David Rowe. M-F, 8am-5pm through 7/29. Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680.

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: HELLBOUND GLORY:

POTENTIALIST WORKSHOP: Requiem: Guy Gilmore. Gilmore’s exhibit features 14 metal and ceramic sculptures. M-Su through 8/1; W, 8/31, 7pm. Free. 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

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. M-Su through 7/31; Haunted. Meg Regelous’ installation combines ceramics, etchings printed on silk, drawings, paintings and found objects.

Sierra Arts will host a reception on Aug. 18, 5-6pm for SAF members and 6-7pm for the public. M-F through 8/26. Opens 8/3; Th, 8/18, 5-7pm. Free. 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. Summer artisans include Casey Clark, Don Kennedy, Pam Sutton and Linda Gamble. F-Su, 11am-4pm through 8/22. Donations welcome. 55 N. R St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7774.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF NORTHERN NEVADA (UUFNN): Looking Out—Seeing Within. Twenty artists show their renditions of Nevada two ways: one realistic/impressionist paired with an abstract work of the same location. M-F, Su, 11am-2pm through 8/24. Free. 780 Del Monte Lane, (775) 851-7100.

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This summer soiree presented by Nevada Museum of Art and The Holland Project features pop-up art installations, live music, a bike ride and other fun activities.

The evening kicks off at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, at The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., with a parking lot party featuring pop-up installations and performances, DIY letter station, vintage Reno neon and food and drink. Visit the Serva Pool Space to see The Jacket, an exploration of the jacket as a symbol of youth identity and culture though the ages. Attendees can then hop on their bikes for a group sunset ride with the Reno Bike Project to a secret stop before heading over to the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St., for a rooftop party featuring live music, star gazing hosted by the Fleischmann Planetarium, extended gallery hours and more. Admission is free.

Visit www.nevadaart.org or www.hollandreno.org.

mUSiC ANDREW SULLIVAN: The guitarist and

singer-songwriter performs. Th, 7/28, 7-9pm. $20. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 843-5500.

ARTOWN CLOSING NIGHT CELEBRATION: The 21st annual summer arts festival concludes with a performance by jazz singer and America’s Got Talent winner Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. Su, 7/31, 7:30-10pm.

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

BOOMTOWN BLUES FESTIVAL: The inaugural event features headliners Ana Popovic and Coco Montoya with opening acts BLU, Guitar Woody and the Boilers featuring Melanie Pearl, Whiskey Haulers and Blue Haven. Sa, 7/30, 1-9pm. $25-$50.

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SUCH SWEET THUNDER: The Reno Jazz Orchestra will perform some of Duke Ellington’s greatest compositions like “Mood Indigo” and “In A Mellow Tone” capped by a performance of his suite “Such Sweet Thunder” infused with the works of William Shakespeare and featuring Lake Tahoe Shakespeare actors performing excerpts from 12 separate sonnets and plays. Sa, 7/30, 7:30pm. Free.

Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St.; M, 8/1, 7:30pm. $25-$75. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 3726160, http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

SUMMERTIME BLUES: The show features performances by The Note-Ables, Electric Catfish the Band, Bridge Church Blues and more than 60 participants from Note-Able Music Therapy Services’ music and dance programs. There will also be local fare from Battle Born food truck, Winey Munkies and Jack’s Popcorn Company and activities for the kids with games on the lawn and a bubble station.

Th, 7/28, 6-8pm. $5 suggested donation.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 324-5521.

UB40 FEATURING ALI CAMPBELL WITH ASTRO & MICKEY VIRTUE: Artown’s Summer Soiree series concludes with a performance by the British reggae/pop band. Jo Mersa Marley opens the show.

F, 7/29, 7-10pm. $50 general admission lawn seats, $70 reserved seating. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

WHITNEY MYER: The neo-electronic-soul

artist performs. Sa, 7/30, 6-10pm. Free.

Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

MOVIES IN THE PARK: SECRET SCREENING: As Artown wraps up its classic movie series, the Films on Tap! crew will bring a first-run movie never before shown in Reno. F, 7/29, 9-11:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 300 W. First St., (775) 322-1538.

RN&R’s summer music series concludes with a performance by the roots rock/ country band. Jake Houston & The Royal Flush opens the show. F, 7/29, 5:30-8pm.

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

CLASSICAL TAHOE @ BARTLEY: An all-star ensemble of 40 musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Reno Phil, Reno Chamber Orchestra and more conclude Artown with music by Mozart, Kodaly and Stravinsky under the direction of Maestro Joel Revzen. Su, 7/31, 7-9pm. $20 adults, $10 youth. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 298-0245, www.renoisartown.com.

LISA LINDSLEY AND MAC ESPOSITO: Jazz vocalist Lisa Lindsley performs familiar and overlooked standards accompanied by local musician Mac Esposito on the upright bass. Th, 7/28, 8-10:30pm. $10 suggested donation. Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (510) 579-7911.

MUSIC ON THE BEACH 2016 SUMMER CONCERTS: Free live music performances featuring a variety of genres on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe. Concerts take place at Kings Beach State Recreation Area and start at 6:30pm (6pm on Aug. 19, Aug. 26 and Sept. 2). F, 6:30-9pm through 9/2. Free. Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, (530) 546-9000.

onStage ALICE IN WONDERLAND: TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada presents a darker, more faithful version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale that reimagines the experience of Wonderland and ends with an unexpected new twist. F, 7/29, 7pm; Sa, 7/30, 11am, 2 & 7pm; Su, 7/31, 2pm. $12 general, $10 students, seniors, military. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 284-0789, www.twnn.org.

BUYER & CELLAR: An underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu, Calif., basement in Jonathan’s Tolin’s absurdist comedy and one-man play. F, 7/29, 7:30-9pm; Sa, 7/30, 7:30-9pm. $15-$18. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

CABARET: Laughing Owl Productions presents John Kander & Fred Ebb’s musical about American writer Cliff Bradshaw’s journey into the nightclub scene in Berlin during the era of Weimar Germany. W-Sa,

8-10:30pm through 8/27. Opens 7/29; Su, 2-4:30pm through 8/21. Opens 7/31. $25 in

advance, $30 at the door. Laughing Owl Productions, 75 S. Wells Ave., (775) 3849967, www.laughingowlproductions.com.

THE FROZEN BALLET: The Reno Dance Company presents its ballet based on the Disney animated film and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Th, 7/28, 3 & 8pm. $22. Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300, www.renodancecompany.com.

MALVOLIO OR WHAT YOU WILL: As part of Artown, Brüka Theatre presents an original play by Sandra Brunell-Neace and Rachel Lopez that explores what it means to live as a transgender person in an intolerant society. The truth of the transgender journey through the eyes of those who live it is revealed through courageous stories and honest accounts of transgender then and now and what it truly means to live as your authentic self. The show opens each evening with The Brüka Greenshow, also an original performance piece. Th, 7/28, 8pm; F, 7/29, 8pm; Sa, 7/30, 8pm. $20-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

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SportS & FitneSS GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a naturalist along one of the Galena Park trails and learn about the area. Bring water, sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes (if weather permits.) Sa, 10am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

PADDLE BOARD YOGA: The West Shore will offer Saturday morning SUP Yoga classes. Previous yoga and paddleboard experience recommended. Pre-registration is encouraged. No class on Aug. 6. Sa, 8-9am

through 7/30; Sa, 8-9am through 9/3. Opens 8/13. $25. West Shore Cafe, 5160 W. Lake Blvd., Homewood, (530) 584-6867.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays the Sacramento River Cats. Th, 7/28, 7:05pm; F, 7/29, 7:05pm; the team plays the Fresno Grizzlies. Sa, 7/30, 7:05pm; Su, 7/31, 6:05pm; M, 8/1, 7:05pm; Tu, 8/2, 7:05pm. $8-$9. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

Community Theatre presents this rollicking southern comedy by Jamie Wooten, Jessie Jones & Nicholas Hope. F,

7/29, 7:30pm; Sa, 7/30, 1 & 7:30pm; Su, 7/31,

2pm. $13-$15. CVIC Hall, 1602 Esmeralda Ave., Minden, (775) 292-0939.

7/30:

As if with this week’s triple-digit temperatures weren’t enough, things will heat up in downtown Reno this weekend during the ninth annual celebration of fire and the arts. The Artown event features performances by DJ Nicki Smiles, eNVision, AVA Ballet and Tsurunokai Taiko Drummers, art cars and mutant vehicles, a fire art garden, demonstrations and workshops and a nighttime performance by Controlled Burn and other fire artists.

The fiery festivities take place from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, at the ReTrac Plaza, 301 N. Virginia St. Admission is free. Visit www.renoisartown.com.

TWENTIETH CENTURY: Ageless Repertory Theatre presents the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur comedy about an egomaniacal theater producer in need of a hit and his attempts to sign a temperamental actress for his show. Th, 7/28, 1-2:30pm.

Free. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 345-7323.

SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM: Reno Little Theater presents this Tony Awardwinning musical that explores the music of Stephen Sondheim. Featuring music from Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Anyone Can Whistle and Pacific Overtures, as well as the classics written with musical theater giants Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Richard Rodgers. Th, 7/28, 7:30pm; F, 7/29,

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$20 general admission, $18 seniors, students, military. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 329-0661.

TAHOE IMPROV PLAYERS: The improv comedy troupe performs on-the-spot scenes.

Tu, 8/2, 7:30pm. $12 general admission.

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ART EXPLORATIONS AT THE LAKE MANSION: “Landscape in Watercolors” will be the night’s theme in this two-hour class, which is open to participants age 15 and older. W, 8/3, 10am-noon. $25 (supplies included). Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Free your body. Don’t ruminate and agonize about it. Free your body!

Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily.

Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce, animal elegance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The people of many

cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An Interesting Op-

portunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong—you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): [Editor’s note: The

counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?”, or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a T-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white feathers

gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimism-fueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation. You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For many years, my

occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little

as necessary at low-end jobs—scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind’s eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you’d be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build more self-sufficiency. Here’s an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the

forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you’re out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have a

special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you’re virginal, fresh and raw, and in other ways you’re mature, seasoned and well-developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Where is ev-

erybody when I need them?” Even if you haven’t actually spoken those words recently, I’m guessing the voices in your head have whispered them.

But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources.

They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they’ll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: (1) Purge your low, outmoded expectations. (2) Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. (3) Humbly ask—out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination—for precisely what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of

Pisceans less fortunate than you won’t read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That’s why I’m predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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Plus the pet’s got to be some comfort to the sheltered family, too.

John Etchemedy is executive director of Safe Embrace, a domestic abuse shelter program based in Sparks.

What got you into this kind of work?

Do you ever encounter people who say, “But you’re a man. What are you doing in this position?”

Rarely. From time to time. ... I think that there should be. I think it’s healthy to question the motives of any guy who’s running a woman’s shelter or wants to work on women’s issues. Especially the

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I grew up with domestic violence. It’s part of my story, part of my childhood. My mother was treated horribly by my stepfather. And as I got older, in high school, it got pretty bad and she started drinking a whole lot. ... There was always yelling. The kids, we just stayed out of the house. We just avoided it. We were outside most of the time. The neighbors used to feed us.

We’d just avoid going home. My mother, between drinking and depression, and just second-guessing herself, being told that she had no value, that she wasn’t intelligent—we were all bombarded by an oppressor in our home. … Depression led her to attempted suicide a couple of times, depression and substance abuse.

You can imagine teenagers trying to go to school and deal with with all that normal stuff … and then you are trying to avoid your home.

women who’ve led the fight for so many years, they’ve earned the right to ask, “Why now? Who are you? Where are you coming from? What are your intentions?”

What’s the size of the program?

Last year we responded to about 1,100 victims locally. And by “responded” I mean we answered our hotline all hours of the night and day. ... Those aren’t even the repeat numbers. Those are the unique clients. We provided them information about how to access a temporary protection order, a TPO, where they could go for certain services. We offered them mental health service—we have a counselor on staff … Our shelter’s small. It’s a 15-bed shelter. Its the only pet-friendly shelter in all of Northern Nevada. … So you don’t have to abandon an animal with someone who—you know, if someone’s going to be physically violent with a child or his wife or

Sure, absolutely. … You know what’s interesting? What’s fascinating? Right now we’re selling tickets to an Aces game where we get a little bit of a cut on the tickets, and we’re trying to do a gala and we’re trying to sell tables at a holiday gala.

And the response when I said, “I’m building a pet kennel. Can anybody donate money, time?”—the response came flooding in, flooding in. I mean, absolutely a torrent.

It was the easiest ask I’ve ever made.

And I ask every day—we need funds, we need support, we need volunteers.

You’re talking puppies and kittens, and people are bending over backward, and I think there’s a really fascinating thing to talk about with regard to victim-blaming mentality. A woman or a man who stays with an abusive partner—it’s their fault, for staying. They should have just left. And it ignores the complexity of this, the reality of this situation, that these actual, individual humans are in. In my own case, my mother refused to leave because—and it sounds silly, I guess—but she’d failed on her first marriage. She wasn’t about to fail on her second. She believed she was at fault. … There’s so many factors. There’s so many reasons why people stay, and they’re legit reasons—that when people would hear the individual cases, they go, “Oh, I kind of get it.” But when folks look at the issue on a whole, versus a dog or a cat that’s abused, it’s easy. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Beatles 101 OK, now hold on a sec. I’m now expected to roll with LGBT ... Q? WTF? I’m not sold on this addition to the roster, not at all. In fact, I’m putting my foot down as a COB (crabby old bastard) and saying no, nyet and negative. I’m not gonna add that Q to my usage of the rainbow acronym, because to my simple, crusty mind, it’s unnecessary and redundant.

Let’s review. If you’re a boy who likes boys, you’re a G. If you’re a girl who likes girls, you’re an L. If you like both, you’re obviously in the B camp. So if you’re inclined to be a Q, which Googles up as a Queer who is unsure which sexual way he/she is flying (or Questioning), well, aren’t you then basically a confused, ambivalent and uncommitted B? Why do I have to give you your own letter? I’m all for efficiency in acronyms, and this new Q, I’m tellin’ ya, it feels baggy (and by now, most cafes in the U.S. should definitely

have the LGBT sandwich on the menu, with the “G” being guac, of course. Good sandwich!

• The Olympics in Rio? Big deal.

BFD. Now Moloch, the winged skull demon that’s the guiding spirit of athletic nationalism, also known as jockular fascism, wants me to give a flying flapdoodle about Romanian ribbon twirlers, Japanese gymnasts and Bosnian bicyclists. Pass.

Zzzzzzzzz. Wake me up when Usain Bolt shows up.

As a COB in good standing, I couldn’t be more burned out or indifferent to the friggin’ Olympics.

Every time Moloch tries to rev me up to give a shit, I immediately flash to John Lennon. “Imagine there’s no country/ It’s easy if you try/ No country to kill or die for/ Above us only sky.” I do hope all those lovely, firm, toned athletes have a delicious fuckfest in Rio, though. After all, that’s truly what the Olympics

are all about, the athletes of world meeting up to Come Together.

• With my Beatle groove now firmly established, it’s time for me to plug something I do give a flaming flapdoodle about—my class at Truckee Meadows Community College. This autumn, I’m done messin’ around, folks. This semester, it’s all about the Fabs. The class is called “The Beatles—A Compleat History,” where we’ll re-live what is inarguably the Greatest Story in Rock’n’Roll, and if you don’t believe me, well, take the dang class and let me unleash the beats of The Beats on you and then see what you think.

Here’s how you sign up for this $49 shindig, which will be Wednesday nights from Sept. 14 to Nov. 2.

Go to tmcc.edu. Then go to Register Now. Then go to Creative Arts, where you will see Music classes.

Click on those and there you go.

From Me to You, till The End. Ω

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