TAHOE GALLERY AT SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: When The Road Was A River. Recent works from alumni and 2015 POD Award recipient Tom Letson. M-F through 9/23; Th, 9/22, 5-7pm. 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 831-1314.
CAll For Artists CALL FOR ART: OCTOBER POP-UP SHOW: Pitch Black Printing Company will host an alienthemed Halloween pop-up show on Oct. 22. Artists of all genres are encouraged to submit work with an alien-related, Halloween theme. Work must be submitted by Sept. 24. Visit website for details. M-Su through 9/24. Free. Pitch Black Printing Company, 1108 California Ave., www.pitchblackprintingco. com.
four-concert series beginning on Sept. 11. The series commemorates the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy and features Brahms’ A German Requiem and Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole with guest artist Elizabeth Pitcairn performing on the legendary Red Stradivarius Violin. Su, 9/11, 3pm. $5-$40, free for youth under age 18 in nonpreferred seating. St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, 100 Bishop Manogue Drive, W, 9/14, 7pm. $5-$40; free for youth under age 18 in non-preferred seating. Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3597 N. Sunridge Drive, Carson City, (775) 313-9697.
PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon. Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno. org.
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R. CARLOS NAKAI: NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE: Nakai
MuseuMs FOURTH WARD SCHOOL MUSEUM: The Comstock Through Time. This exhibit highlights some of the history of the Comstock through photographs and personal accounts. Then-andnow photographs help to emphasize the changes in the community and surrounding area. Books, journal entries and oral histories will give the visitor a first-hand account of daily life. M-Su, 10am-5pm through 10/31. $3-$5, free for children age 5 and younger. 537 S. C St., Virginia City, http://fourthwardschool.org.
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Anthony McCall:
Swell, W-Su through 1/8; Ai Weiwei—Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, W-Su through 10/23; Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, W-Su through 5/11; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31; Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, W-Su through 10/23; Anna McKee: 68,000 Years of Ice, W-Su through 9/18; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31; Contemporary Nevada: State of the State, W-Su through 10/23. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.
WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Married to Adventure. The safari-themed exhibition tells the story of Martin and Osa Johnson—daring naturalists, filmmakers, photographers, explorers and American heroes of the 1910s-1930s. This exhibition is on loan from the Safari Museum in Chanute, Kansas and features more than 100 original photographs, movie posters and artifacts that capture the romance and adventure that characterized Martin and Osa’s life together. W-Su through 10/30. $9 adults, $8 seniors, children. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.
FilM WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL ON TOUR: Join Friends of Black Rock/High Rock for a funfilled evening with food and drink, watching inspiring films about nature. Food trucks will be on site, as well as adult beverages for purchase. F, 9/9, 5-10pm. $10-$12. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 557-2900, http://blackrockdesert.org/ wild-scenic-2016.
melds classical training with the traditional haunting sound of his cedar flute. He will be joined by luthier William Eaton and percussionist Will Clipman. Tu, 9/13, 5:30pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, W, 9/14, 3:30pm. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.
RBS’ BALLOONS & BLUES STRUT: The Reno Blues Society’s inaugural pub crawl event takes place during the weekend of the Great Reno Balloon Race. Five venues on East Fourth Street feature a local blues band playing from 5:30-9:30pm. The band lineup includes the Whiskey Haulers starting things off from 5:30-8:30pm at Abby’s Highway 40, the Rick Hammond Band playing from 6-8pm at Davidson’s Distillery, Rick Metz and friends taking the stage from 6-9pm at the Morris Burner Hostel, the Jason King Band performing from 6:30-9pm at Studio on 4th and the Blues Monsters capping the evening off from 7-9:30pm at the Lincoln Lounge. Wristbands will be available at any of the venues. This event is a fundraiser for the Reno Blues Society. Sa, 9/10, 5:30-9:30pm. $5 day of event at any of the venues. Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St., www.renoblues.org.
SOARING SOLO RELEASE PARTY: Join University of Nevada, Reno professor Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio as she shares highlights from her recent Soaring Solo CD release with music by Debussy, de Falla, Hindemith, Satie, Schnittke and more. Special guest is pianist Christina Wright-Ivanova. F, 9/9, 7:30pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.
WORLD CONCERT: A PEACE PROJECT OF TRUCKEE TAHOE: Take a trip around the world with Trails & Vistas World Concert featuring San Diego band Todo Mundo with their blend of rumba, reggae, samba and gypsy and a message of equality and diversity. Opening acts include Peter Joseph Burtt, Emily Tessmer, Motoshi Kosako, performance painting with Susie Alexander and a few surprise guests. The World Concert for Peace will be the finale of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Encore Showcase Series. Sa, 9/10, 6:30pm. $24-$69. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 831-0494, www.trailsandvistas.org.
sports & Fitness GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a natural-
MusiC 9/11 MEMORIAL SERIES: TOCCATA—Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will finalize their 2016 Tahoe Summer MusicFest with a
ist along one of the Galena Park trails and learn about the area. Bring water, sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes (depending on weather.) Sa, 10am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.
Aisle always love you My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and a half, and we really love each other. His parents adore me and are thrilled that he might not die alone. After his mom saw us being all cuddly in the supermarket, she warned him that we may be getting in people’s way or annoying them by “hanging all over each other.” We aren’t doing anything dirty or gross—just hand-holding, play wrestling, quick kisses. She wondered whether we do this because one of us is insecure. I felt sort of offended. We’re just affectionate. Even if what you’re publicly displaying is affection, not foreplay, there are a number of reasons it may make onlookers uncomfortable: It’s them. (They were raised to think PDA is not OK.) It’s their relationship. (The more warm, cuddly and adorbs you two are the more you remind them that their relationship temperature is about 3 degrees above “bitter divorce.”) It’s the wrong time and place. (They’re watching you do muggy headlocks at Granny’s funeral.) You’re actually onto something by being so physically demonstrative. Charles Darwin observed that expressing the physical side of an emotion—that is, “the outward signs,” like the yelling that goes with rage—amps up the emotion. Modern research finds that he was right. For example, clinical psychologist Joan Kellerman and her colleagues had total strangers do something lovers do—gaze deeply into each others eyes. Subjects who did this for just two minutes “reported significantly more feelings of attraction, interest, warmth, etc. for each other” than subjects in the “control” condition (who spent the two minutes looking down at each others’ hands). The upshot? Act cuddly-cuddly and cuddly-cuddly feelings should follow. Maybe you can science his mom into feeling better by explaining this. Consider that she may just be worried that you two are going to burn yourselves out. If you think that’s part of it, you might clue her in on what the greeting cards don’t tell you: Love is also a biochemical process, and a year and a half in, you’re surely out of the hormonal hurricane stage. You also might dial it down a little around her—not
because you’re doing anything wrong but because it’s nice to avoid worrying Mumsy if you can. The reality is, we all sometimes get in other people’s way when we’re trying to find something at the supermarket—organic broccolini … grape kombucha … precancerous polyp in the girlfriend’s throat.
Florist Gump I love my girlfriend, but the other night on the phone, I said something that really hurt her feelings. I was out with my guy friends, and one said, “Get her flowers. Girls love that stuff.” I ran around in the middle of the night looking for them. I had to hit a slew of 7-Elevens. I came home with a rose and told her about my treasure hunt to find it. She loved it, and all was forgiven. For a flower? I don’t get it. A rose can also be a form of information—one that anthropologists call a “costly signal.” A costly signal is a message that’s more than just words—meaning it involves an investment of time, effort, risk and/ or money, which tells the recipient that it’s more likely to be sincere. To be willing to burn money on something so intrinsically useless suggests you’re either a natural-born idiot or so in love that it makes you droopingly dim. But, as you might argue, you only spent a few bucks on that rose. Well, context counts. Research by evolutionary social psychologist Yohsuke Ohtsubo and his colleagues points out that buying just one flower will make you look cheap—but only when “a more costly option (is) available” (like if you’re at a florist). Otherwise, effort counts. In other words, if you only bring your woman a single rose, casually mention that you got it by crawling over broken glass to 7-Eleven while dodging gunfire from the Albanian mob. Or that you at least tried Rite Aid, CVS and 12 other 7-Elevens first. Ω
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