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Power up Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Statistical analyst Nate Silver’s website, FiveThirtyEight, lists a metric called the “voter power index,” defined as “the relative likelihood that an individual voter in a state will determine the Electoral College winner.” Until very recently, Nevada was listed second on that list. (At least once this year, it was at the very top.)

The power ratings are adjusted based on recent polls, and Nevada fell a bit—at press time, down to sixth, right behind Pennsylvania—after the first presidential debate, the aftermath of which saw Clinton get a sizable bump in the polls.

But the presidential race is still very competitive in the state, just as it has been in other recent presidential elections. Nevada is a hotly contested swing state.

That’s why we got a lot of visits from the nominees.

And here’s something Northern Nevadans need to remember: Clark County is likely to go blue, and the rural counties will likely all go red. So Washoe County will likely determine which presidential candidate will get the state’s electoral college votes.

At this point, it’s hard to imagine a voter who might still be undecided. It seems like the two sides are fairly well entrenched— the outcome will likely come down to turnout.

But there are also those undecided voters who are torn between voting for Clinton and voting for a third-party candidate.

I can perhaps understand the appeal of voting for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, who won’t even be on the ballot here, but you get either of them away from the core issues of their respective parties and ask them difficult questions about foreign policy, for example, and they often appear out of their depth.

And as the swing county in a swing state, we Washoe County residents have real voting power.

And, just in case you never read Spider-Man comics, with great power comes great responsibility.

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

WC-1 Re “Stop making cents” (cover story, Sept. 22): I only got a few paragraphs into this when I realized how completely unrealistic the author was and while he may have heard some great anecdotal stories from parents here and there, he has never been a struggling parent. I have. Yes, Janet. A mother of two would have some difficulty scraping up 75 cents to take care of her laundry but the costs of our kids and school go way beyond that.

Imagine if Janet had to find before- and after-school child care and activities for her four children every day because three of them were in double sessions? Mothers and families of multiple children already know the struggle of having kids in elementary that get out at 3:30 p.m., middle that gets out at 3 p.m. and high school at 2:30 p.m.

The threat of double sessions is not just a threat, it is the reality of our situation here in the district. Our schools are overcrowded and it is already impacting parents like Janet with multiple children, before- and after-school programs, busing and gas to the Boys and Girls Club, and also with their students, who have classes that fall outside of school hours and do not have transportation to and from the school because the regular buses don’t run at those times.

Fifteen years ago, before- and after-school childcare with transportation to and from the school ran me $400 a month for one child. Children’s Cabinet helped but it wasn’t much on my single mother income of barely above minimum wage. That was after being on a waiting list. Free breakfast and free lunch programs are often the only full meals some of the children get as parents hit up food pantries on the weekends. Plus, as a former low-income single parent I can tell you yes, we watched those nickels and quarters. but very few purchases overall were “taxable” items. Outside of groceries and rent, we thrift-shopped clothes and other items. Necessities like toilet paper, shampoo, etc., were bargain hunted through dollar stores and clearance racks. I doubt we spent much over $100, if any, since many months the extra after food and a home was less than that.

So with WC1, I would have paid an extra 54 cents each month and at one to two pennies a purchase. I might have noticed a little but I damn well wouldn’t have minded. Thankfully now, our family’s monthly contribution under WC1 will likely be much more than 54 cents a month, but I don’t mind that either.

Michelle Beck sparks

initiatives. Why? Because of waste and poor management, planning or no planning. Always they have a huge asking price each time. The architects of this constant assault on the taxpayers of Washoe County want huge increases in the taxes on us each time they put these issues to vote.

Terminate these people who are the cause of the Washoe County failures and listen to the real issues. Many taxpayers are not willing to deal with tax after tax after tax. We are being beaten down with federal, state, local and quasi-governmental utility taxes.

All governments are hurting and the middle class is whom they turn to for relief. We cannot continue to afford this constant tax bombardment from every governmental and non-governmental agency! KRNV totally picked on the opposition during their “town hall meeting” (Oct. 3) on WC-1. Shelby Sheehan was not a fair moderator as she has kids in school, and those kids are moving up through the school system.

Here’s my answer to them: Ask for less! Every middle class individual must balance their checkbook and keep their budget within their spending ability. This school system does not seem to be able to grasp this concept.

Instead of asking for 350 million in one voting year or an unlimited spending agenda in this voting year ... ask for $55 million or $75 million bonded increases. Ask for “sunset” increases that middle class folks, who are on a budget and fixed income, can afford and would probably support. Get real and understand the demographics.

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ERIK HOllAND

Horrible is my description of the town hall meeting seen on KRNV hosted

by Shelby Sheehan. Liberals, and an agenda which include the hostess, are unacceptable. They stack the deck against the opponents of WC-1 and do not allow the same reply time as the overwhelming majority. Over the years, we have voted down the Washoe County School tax

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By JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

What do you want done with your body? askeD at hatuey cigars, 1583 s. Virginia st.

Paul Bourgeois Fire chief

I would want to be cremated, because I like the idea of what’s left of me to be spread at locations that were important to me—kind of the ashes to ashes, dust to dust kind of thing.

gregory yBarr a Cigar salesman

I would like to go like the Vikings go. I’d like to be put on a big boat, set on fire and then, afterward, have a party—just go up in a blaze of smoke. And then everybody can have a party— when I’m left from this world.

Dennis DelgaDo Railroader

Yes on Two There are problems with Nevada’s ballot Question Two, and opponents of the measure have been making good use of them.

For instance, Minden prohibitionist Jim Hartman has written, “It qualified for the ballot as a result of pot promoters paying $660,000 to mercenary signaturegatherers. Passage will give monopoly powers to existing medical marijuana retailers and liquor wholesalers. ... ‘Big Marijuana’ wants to buy—through an initiative—that which they could not achieve in the scrutiny and compromise required by the legislative process.”

Take note that the measure got on the ballot through 247,000 mercenary signature givers—all of them registered Nevada voters. That was more than twice the required number of signatures.

It’s true that Question Two limits initial licenses to existing medical marijuana licensees. Nevada Medical Marijuana Association spokesperson Will Adler told us he believes the players who took early risks investing should have a leg up on newcomers seeking to enter the field.

We’re not wild about the restriction, but it’s certainly true that Citicorp or Harrah’s or Jim Beam weren’t lining up for the chance to open a dispensary 10 years ago.

As for achieving through the ballot what they could not through the legislative process, in fact, state legislators got the first crack at this ballot measure. It was submitted to the 2015 Nevada Legislature so lawmakers could write a better version. They chose not to.

Then there is “Big Marijuana” from out of state. All we can say is that no one objected to Big Tesla—and Big

Marijuana is at least willing to pay its own way. Tesla held the state up for a vast bundle of corporate welfare, some of which it later sold off. When it comes to having a little class, marijuana has it over Musk every time.

Even if all these things were problems, we would still support Question Two because it is time for the public to do something about the War on Drugs and the carnage it causes. In 1929, Republican leader Pauline Sabin switched sides in the alcohol prohibition fight and came out for repeal of prohibition. She was tired of the damage done to family in the United States, tired of the crime generated by prohibition, tired of the violence and disrespect for law. “The young see the law broken at home and upon the street,” she said. “Can we expect them to be lawful?” She led the effort for prohibition repeal.

To paraphrase H.L. Mencken on alcohol prohibition, there’s not less drug use in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

Good people are injured by prohibition while a pack of liars spreads the same hoary old pack of lies.

And marijuana prohibition is the worst part of the drug war. Ignorance of the plant, corruption in enforcement, rupture of families, pointless imprisonment, all for a nonviolent crime that causes no one injury except—very rarely—users themselves. We can tolerate the quibbles about Question Two’s provisions, since state government will be able to create regulation. What we can’t tolerate any more is prohibition. Ω

When I pass away? … Either throw me on a ship and shoot a flaming arrow at it, or spread my ashes on the field of U.S. Bank [Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota].

Dick BarnarD CPA

I want to be cremated—spread probably. … [Where has] not been determined yet.

r anDy churchill Retiree and taxi driver

That’s a kind of morbid question, huh? … Oh, probably cremate it. You could spread me over the Truckee River, I guess.

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by Sheila leSlie

The deserving rich Progressives are profoundly disappointed in last week’s Nevada Supreme Court decision that found the school voucher program passed by Republicans in the 2015 legislative session to be constitutional except in its funding mechanism. Using taxpayer money intended for public education to provide subsidies to wealthy parents to send their children to religious private schools seems to clearly violate the constitutional separation of church and state. But the Supreme Court decided otherwise in a 4-2 majority decision, saying once the money is deposited in the “Educational Savings Accounts” it ceases to be public funds. And unless and until the decision is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s the law of Nevada.

Now there’s just one thing standing in the way of implementing the broadestin-the-country voucher program—about $40 million. The Supreme Court said the allocation of taxpayer money to private schools must be funded separately from the Distributive School Account which

supports public schools. That means the Nevada Legislature must find significant new resources to subsidize the private religious education of children from wealthy families.

But will the taxpayers support yet another giveaway of their funds to the rich?

Sparks Assemblymember Jill Dickman thinks so. In a quickly issued press release she requested an “immediate Legislative fix,” although she didn’t specify where she thinks the $40 million should come from.

Attorney General Adam Laxalt crowed about his victory, saying the “small funding issue” can be fixed and help thousands of parents who want their children to exit the public school system.

The pressure is now on Gov. Brian Sandoval to add the issue to the anticipated special legislative session next week, an “emergency” meeting of the Legislature that will occur less than 30 days before the general election. It would be a Hail Mary move since it is widely anticipated that Democrats will regain control of the

Assembly on Nov. 8, and it’s no secret they despise school vouchers, as they’ve managed to protect public schools from them for decades.

The emergency session, featuring five new legislators appointed for just a few weeks, is also scheduled to grant $750 million to the Raiders for a new football stadium in Las Vegas, through an increase in the Las Vegas room tax. It wouldn’t be that far of a reach for the Legislature to raise the room tax a little more to find the extra $40 million for school vouchers.

There’s just one small obstacle—that pesky 2/3 vote requirement, much loved

by Republicans until now. Democrats believe educational savings accounts (ESAs) siphon funding from public schools and other vital services to fill the bank accounts of primarily wealthy families, since most Nevadans cannot afford the price of private school, even with the taxpayer subsidy. Compromise will be needed to reach any agreement, such as limiting the vouchers to very low-income

families, defeating the Republicans’ desire to please their wealthy base.

It’s also an inconvenient time to increase taxes to fund school vouchers in Washoe County, where there’s a November ballot measure to increase sales tax to fund construction of new schools and repair old ones. The prospect of raising taxes for public schools while providing taxpayer-funded incentives for the upper class to abandon them is a disconnect that is guaranteed to anger middle-class voters.

Funding the vouchers separately will enable Nevadans to fully understand that they are paying taxes to support Catholic and other religious schools while their neighborhood schools are overcrowded and crumbling. If legislators decide Nevada can afford to set aside $40 million for wealthy students, the rest of us have every right to demand the Legislature find the money to bring public schools up to a reasonable standard.

But that’s going to take a whole lot more than $40 million. Ω

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by Brendan Trainor

Why not liberty and order?

French parliamentarian Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865: “Liberty is the Mother, not the Daughter, of Order.”

There has been a lot of talk about “law and order” this election cycle.

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to bring back former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s stop-and-frisk tactics.

This means stopping citizens without reasonable suspicion and patting them down for guns or drugs. Trump says it worked exceptionally well in New York City. Many disagree, but in any event, the courts declared the practice—as employed in New York City—unconstitutional. Although the Donald will probably tell you no one reads the Constitution as much as he does, he doesn’t seem concerned about the Fourth Amendment, or the Bill of Rights in general.

Why can’t we talk about “liberty and order”? The phrase most often used to describe American justice is “Ordered

Liberty.” The problem with ordered liberty today is there is a whole lot of order but not much liberty.

Even economic liberty in America has declined in recent decades. America has slipped from its usual perch at the very top echelon of nations that appreciate economic liberties to a mediocre 16th place in the libertarian Fraser Institute’s rankings. If Hillary Clinton is elected, you can be sure our standing will slip even more. She is prepared to come with her army of regulators, who will make economic life even more uselessly complicated. Even when she talks about government funding minority green startups, she has it backwards. Startups are the product of a strong economy, which can afford to take risks. Startups themselves simply cannot expand economic growth.

Government does not have the knowledge or incentives to pick the winners and losers in an economy.

At the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Cory Booker told us

we cannot just tolerate one another, we must absolutely love one another.

But then “loving” politicians will fine a baker who won’t write words that trouble her conscience on a wedding cake tens of thousands of dollars. That is not even tolerance, never mind love!

Liberals like to accuse the right of being authoritarian, but what is more authoritarian than forcing everyone to love one another?

Only classical liberals understand that government is not a positive force for good overall. You have more chance of being killed by IKEA than by the Islamic State, but every day’s news cycle is relentlessly about the Takfiris in the Middle East and North Africa that the U.S.—despite having the most powerful military in history—cannot defeat. Becoming “radicalized” no longer means you smoke pot and protest war. Instead, it means you arm yourself and kill unarmed people while yelling “Allahu Akbar”!

If Obama and Hillary did not exactly found the Islamic State, they certainly subsidized it. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we battle what we ourselves created.

The idea that we should just stop fighting these wars, on the Wahabis overseas, on drug sellers and users, on prostitutes and their clients, on Christians who believe in traditional morality or peaceful Muslims who want to build a mosque, or on the coal and oil and nuclear power industry, is now considered extreme and unthinkable. Yet only a century ago, before World War I, there was no such thing as money laundering or a war on drugs. A middle-class person could travel the world without a passport and invest his actual gold or silver coins in whatever venture caught his fancy without asking permission of a government bureaucrat at every turn. A century of big government wars, laws and regulations has resulted in an almost complete loss of basic freedoms with no real reversal to a truly free society immanent.

But, but, they hate us for our freedom!Ω

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by Dennis Myers

John Marschall 1933-2016

The fate of private school grants have become entangled with corporate welfare for the Oakland Raiders, shown in artist’s concept.

University of Nevada, Reno history professor John Marschall died on Sept. 21. He was also a former vice president of the university.

Marschall came to Reno as a Catholic priest in 1968 to work in the Center for Religion and Life, a fondly remembered campus interfaith location used for a variety of events—debates, concerts, weddings, a coffeehouse and so on—during the tense years of war and student disenchantment. He eventually left the priesthood (“A faith for all seasons,” RN&R, July 18, 2002) and became a fixture on campus as both an instructor and administrator.

“One of the kindest, most intelligent, generous and compassionate men it has ever been my good fortune to know, with the wickedest sense of humor and mischievous twinkle in his eyes one could imagine,” said UNR art professor Howard Rosenberg. “Heaven is a much richer place for his presence.”

Marschall’s book, Jews in Nevada, was published in 2008. “What this book has done is impress upon the people that a very integral part of Nevada was shaped by Jewish people,” said historian Guy Louis Rocha.

PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

Pot tale of the week Some critics of ballot Question Two, which would regulate legal marijuana, are claiming that it would damage the “gaming” industry and tourism.

The board of the Nevada Resort Association, a gambling lobby organization, has voted to oppose Two. (It also unanimously voted to support the corporate welfare stadium in Clark County.)

Minden prohibitionist lawyer Jim Hartman sent a letter out to newspapers arguing, “The negative risks to the gaming industry for being in conflict with federal marijuana law caused the Nevada Resorts Association to announce opposition to Q2 as well.” Hartman does not specify what “negative risks” means.

In all likelihood, Nevada casinos—which have enormous clout in the state—can take care of themselves. As for the tourism industry, the best indications are that it will benefit from Two. The Denver Post recently reported on the development in Colorado of “marijuana tourism”: “A study commissioned by the Colorado Tourism Office and presented to the office’s board of directors on Wednesday shows legal weed as a growing motivator for trips to Colorado—conflicting with the mantra of tourism officials statewide that savvy marketing alone is responsible for record visitation and spending in the past two years. … 22 percent of survey respondents said marijuana was ‘extremely influential’ in their decision to visit Colorado. Twenty percent said it was ‘very much influential’ and nearly 7 percent said it was ‘somewhat influential’.”

Marijuana got them to the state, but, while there, only eight percent actually visited a marijuana dispensary, so other sites—Pike’s Peak, Vail, the Rockies—likely benefited.

Meagan Angus of Seattle Weekly recently wrote of Washington’s tourism gains in an article for Las Vegas Weekly: “All told, cannabis has created more than 5,000 wellpaying jobs here. Moreover, the Pacific Northwest is on the verge of becoming the ‘wine-country’ for weed consumers, with cannabis tourism on the rise. All in all, legalization has been a boon to Washington, and I expect it will be for Nevadans too—provided you do it right.”

—Dennis Myers

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Stadium and school Special session could stir up campaign the nevada supreme court on sept. 29 halted Nevada’s program that would have paid parents to take their children out of public schools.

Justices ruled that the program ran afoul of a state constitutional provision preventing school funds from being diverted to other purposes once they are appropriated for schools.

The court approved the program on other grounds that parents and interest groups had raised.

The 2015 enactment of the program by the Nevada Legislature was an unusual instance of putting a conservative proposal into law in virtually its purest ideological form, intentionally striking a blow against public education. It was specifically designed to get parents to remove their children from public schools. Parents whose children are already being homeschooled or are in private schools are not eligible for the grants. Only parents with children in public schools can qualify.

Most of the best private schools in the state are religious, prompting one lawsuit to block the program on separation of church and state grounds, but the court said granting the money to parents who then decide how to spend it launders it sufficiently to avoid that problem. One line in the ruling drew laughter on both sides of the dispute: “It is undisputed that the ESA [education savings account] program has a secular purpose—that of education.”

One quirky aspect of the case is that Nevada’s former right wing U.S. House member and governor, Jim Gibbons, was responsible for the school grants program being enjoined by the Supreme Court.

In 2003, Gibbons sought to exploit anger in some circles over a Nevada Supreme Court ruling dealing with school funds by circulating an initiative petition requiring legislatures to approve public education monies before other spending, and further specifying that once school funding is allocated it cannot

be diverted to other purposes. The petition was approved by voters and has had little impact until now. Republicans in 2015, in creating the school grants, did exactly what the Gibbons amendment said not to do. They approved the education budget and then drained money from it for grants.

Supporters of the now-stymied program want Gov. Brian Sandoval— himself a supporter—to add the issue to the agenda of a proposed special session of the legislature planned for this month, so the school grants can be advanced before the November election might increase Democratic strength in the regular February session of the legislature.

Sandoval seemed to be angling to avoid a special session of the newly elected Legislature. The special session is planned to accommodate a casino-demanded Las Vegas stadium.

But with opposition to both stadium and special session growing, Sandoval initially sounded reluctant to add another controversial proposal to it. He called the school issue complex, though the same adjective also applies to the stadium.

“Although the court found the current funding mechanism for education savings accounts unconstitutional, there may be a path for a legislative solution,” he said.

“However, such a solution is complex and must be well thought out to meet constitutional muster. … I also believe it is important to consult with legislative leadership on this issue as we approach the 2017 legislative session.”

Later in the week he made other comments that were interpreted to mean he might now add the issue to the special session agenda.

In Nevada, state legislators take office immediately after election, so no lameduck session is possible after the election.

Sandoval said he would call the special session no later than Oct. 13. If he waited just 26 days the newly elected lawmakers would be in office.

Many legislators felt that finding $41 million to legally reactivate the school grants program would be difficult. That amount would be needed to cover the number of applicants who have already applied for the $5,100 grants. Those applications come principally from affluent zip codes, since the grants are not enough on their own to cover most private school costs.

If Sandoval adds the school grants to the agenda of the special session,

he will be asking legislators to increase both taxes and corporate welfare in successive votes and take positions on two highly polarizing proposals less than a month before election, a prospect that has lawmakers terminally thrilled.

The session would offer something to offend everyone on the political spectrum.

The stadium plan was floated by Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson, Majestic Realty and the Oakland Raiders. Raider executives have pledged to ask for relocation to Nevada if the stadium goes up.

A KTNV News/ Rasmussen survey of 800 Nevadans showed 52 percent were opposed to raising room taxes to build the stadium, with 32 percent supporting and 14 percent undecided.

On Sept. 26, a religious community action group in Las Vegas, Nevadans for the Common Good, came out against the proposed room tax hike. It later released another statement, “Seven Hidden Risks in the Stadium Plan.”

Later the same day, the Nevada Taxpayers Association—an influential business group— announced it was also opposing the room tax hike, which would produce $750 million for the stadium project. It saw the Common Good list and raised it by releasing a 16-point list of reasons for its opposition. “We will work

to raise these concerns with lawmakers as we prepare for the special session of the legislature,” the statement said.

Columnist Thomas Mitchell last week wrote, “If state lawmakers approve the outlay, that will be $750 million—$268 for every man, woman and child in the state—not being spent on education, on roads, on other public services. Additionally, every dollar spent for tickets to events in the proposed stadium is a dollar that would have been spent buying goods, or at the gaming tables or in restaurants and bars—all of which are taxed. … According to a 2014 economic impact study for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, $140 million of Clark County’s room tax went into the statewide distributive school account, $130 million for parks, recreation and transportation and nearly $80 million to Clark County schools.

None of that additional $750 million in tax revenue would be available for those purposes.”

The $750 million is equivalent to about a tenth of state government’s biennial budget.

The remainder of the stadium costs will reportedly be paid by Adelson and family ($650 million) and the Raiders and the National Football League ($500 million). Ω

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Plaques in markers around the valley were being pried out for the bronze or copper during the Great Recession, and that may have happened here, too. We have been trying to find out from long-time merchants and residents of the area what exactly was commemorated by the marker, but with little luck. We suspect it may have memorialized the Sparks Airport that once occupied the shopping center grounds—Shelly’s Hardware now occupies the hangar—but no one has been able to confirm it. If any reader has information on the marker, please send it to us at renoletters@newsreview.com.

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There are a lot of campaign posters to keep track of for candidates running for the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees. After 20 candidates ran in the primary, there are now two non-partisan candidates in each race for elections in districts E, A, D and G (the open strings on the violin).

This week we look at District D—the race between Ken Grein and Malena Raymond. Incumbent Howard Rosenberg did not seek re-election.

Grein served as the District D representative from 2008 until 2012 when Rosenberg defeated him. Prior to that, Grein had a 36-year career in the Washoe School District, working as a teacher, principal, area superintendent and superintendent of operations.

He was part of the Board of Trustees that hired former superintendent Pedro Martinez, who received a $700,000 settlement against the district in 2014 when the school board ousted him.

“It was the board’s fault that caused that payment,” said Grein. “There were a lot of ugly things going on.”

Grein calls for audits on what he calls a top-heavy administration.

He said during his time there were three area superintendents for 68,000 students in the school district. “Now, my understanding is there are 10 area superintendents with no additional enrollment,” he said. “And I guess to me that is a waste of money. It could be better used.”

He disagrees with the way the previous board hired and approved the contract of current Superintendent Traci Davis without a formal interview.

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Grein speaks highly of Washoe School District CPA Paula Ward, who would conduct the proposed internal audit. Ward ran and won the primary election for school board in District E, but has since withdrawn her candidacy, leaving the seat to incumbent member Angie Taylor.

Whereas Grein’s experience with school board politics and administration is his self-stated strong suit, his opponent is taking a different approach.

“To me, as a voter and a parent, I’m just ready to see some new faces at the table,” said Malena Raymond. Her child is a second grader at Jesse Beck Elementary. She serves on the board of directors for the Holland Project and is a consultant for the Committee to Aid Abused Women.

“I don’t think it’s necessarily a time to just bring the old board back. I want to be looking at a group of trustees that are ready to dig in and work hard to move the district forward, and I’m not sure that having [Grein’s] level of experience is necessarily a good thing at a time like this.”

Raymond has taken to social media to garner support, touting her endorsement from Mayor Hillary Schieve next to #tbt photos and candids from the campaign trail.

Both candidates in this race support the revenue generating ballot initiative, Washoe County Question 1 (WC-1).

Both would like to avoid double sessions and get schools off of multitrack schedules.

“I hope that it’s real clear to the community how that money is spent,” said Grein.

“I think the oversight committee that is going to be suggesting use of funds is an important component of the ballot question and the future of those funds,” said Raymond. Ω

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The recent fight over Hillside Cemetery is the latest twist in a long story STORY AND PHOTOS bY JeRi CHADwell-SiNgleY

George W. Cassidy’s grave is near the cemetery’s northeast corner.

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eorge Williams Cassidy was born in Kentucky in 1836.

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At 21 years old, he moved to California to mine for gold, before embarking on a journalism career that brought him to

Nevada. He later served in the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives and, in 1878, as acting governor of Nevada.

According to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, he was a delegate to the 1892 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The directory entry states that Cassidy died in Reno, although this seems unlikely since his passing came only one day after the convention concluded on June 23.

Where Cassidy was when he died is a bit of a mystery, but his final resting place is not. He’s buried near the northeast corner of Hillside Cemetery. And his plot was the first that Fran Tryon cleaned when she started her volunteer effort to restore this privately owned burial ground three years ago.

On Aug. 26, a sign was posted on a fence just a few yards from Cassidy’s grave. It was a notice of cemetery owner Drew Lawton’s intentions to disinter Cassidy and hundreds of other people buried at Hillside.

At the bottom of the notice were a toll free number and the link to a website for people seeking more information regarding what Lawton had termed the restoration of the cemetery—a project with far different goals than Tryon’s, who had, on the day the notice went up, received word that her group of volunteers—the Hillside Cemetery Preservation Foundation—had been granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.

Tryon and her fellow volunteers spoke with the media and reached out for support through social media, but it seemed their preservation efforts might be done for. The City of Reno issued a statement saying it had no authority over the disinterment, and the Washoe County Health District—which only a few weeks earlier had renewed the permit for disinterment—communicated in a statement of its own that it had no role in overseeing the process other than to ensure public safety.

Then, three weeks after the notice went up, Lawton’s company, Sierra Memorial Gardens, issued a statement saying that the plans had been suspended. Cassidy and the others were to remain undisturbed—at least for the time being.

As the dust settled, questions remained. What gave Lawton the authority to disinter so many people (1,434 by most estimates)? Didn’t the deeds to the plots—which specified that they were assigned to their buyers and

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Cemetery owner Drew Lawton spoke with descendants after a Sept. 28 Reno City Council meeting.

Volunteers clean the cemetery every Saturday.

those buyers’ heirs “forever”—protect them from being dug up and moved?

It turns out the answers to these questions are hard to find, in part because this was not the first time someone had planned to disinter the people buried in Hillside Cemetery. It wasn’t even the second or third or fourth time.

Lawton’s plan for disinterment was at least the fifth such attempt. And before questions about its legality can be answered, it’s necessary to understand the history of the cemetery and the other four attempts to disinter the people buried there.

ThIS SIDE OF ThE GRAvE In 1875, the State of Nevada granted a patent for 40 acres of land to Wiltshire Sanders (whose name is also spelled as Willshird Saunders in some records). Over the years, Sanders sold more than 80 percent of his land. Some of it became city streets and private property. Other acres became the Knights of Pythias and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) cemeteries.

But Sanders kept a small tract of land between the Knights of Pythias and GAR cemeteries, as well the nearly six acres from which he sold the burial plots that became Hillside Cemetery. In 1905, he deeded the land to his wife, Margaret. It was the first time the property changed hands.

The details of Margaret’s ownership of Hillside Cemetery and how it was eventually abandoned are vague, but a collection of documents kept by the Special Collections Department at the University of Nevada, Reno holds some clues. The documents are photocopies of original materials collected by Clyde Biglieri during the late 1960s and early ’70s, when—as a member of the Reno City Council—he devised the first known plan to disinter people from Hillside Cemetery.

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The earliest documents include letters sent between city officials discussing “the Hillside Cemetery problem” and possible solutions. From these, it’s clear that by the mid ’60s, the cemetery had been abandoned for several decades and had fallen into disrepair. Possible solutions discussed in the letters included condemning the property and turning it into a park, or abating it as a nuisance in the hopes that this would lead to people cleaning up their family plots.

In 1968, the city decided to move forward by ordering a title report in an attempt to figure out who might have inherited interest in Hillside Cemetery. It was eventually discovered that Margaret Sanders had kept the title to the land but had moved to Oakland with her and Wiltshire’s two sons—Robert and John—abandoning the cemetery sometime around 1930.

Attempts were made to track the family down, but an interoffice memo from Nov. 6, 1972 reveals that these had been unsuccessful: “We have attempted to locate R. W. Saunders who wrote a letter … from Oakland, California, in February of 1939. We have contacted the Oakland City Hall, Police Department, [and] Chamber of Commerce with regards to this letter and have been unable to turn up any particular information. … It may be necessary if we get any leads to send an investigator to Oakland to try and run down any heirs of Saunders Family.”

In December of that year, Biglieri introduced a resolution, which the city council passed, stating “the intent of the City of Reno to restore Hillside Cemetary [sic].” The plan was to acquire quitclaim deeds from the heirs to all of the individual plots before disinterring the people buried there and moving them and the remaining original headstones to the unused northern tract between the Knights of Pythias and GAR cemeteries.

From there, the city would sell Hillside Cemetery and use that money to “endow the new cemetary [sic] for care” or place it “under the City Park Department for continuing maintenance.”

When the 57th session of the Nevada Legislature convened a few months later, a bill was introduced to clear the way for the city to proceed. Assembly Bill 942 was signed into law by Governor Mike O’Callaghan on April 24, 1973, and the city began holding meetings to gain the support—and deeds—from the descendants and heirs of the people buried in Hillside. On June 26, 1973 the city took control of the Sanders family’s portion of the cemetery after paying the delinquent taxes owed on it to the county.

Flowers, notes and trinkets are secured to the fence at Hillside Cemetery.

This marked the second time the cemetery changed hands, but the city’s control of the land was short-lived. Before any of the deeds to private plots could be obtained, Margaret Sanders’ heirs turned up to reclaim their property.

This portion of the Hillside story can be found in the pages of a 1988 United States Tax Court decision in a case that was brought against the IRS by William and Barbara Thornton. The court’s decision—available through www.leagle.com—provides insight into the history of the cemetery, including the third and fourth times it changed hands. According the text, about the same time the city began moving forward with its plans, William Thornton—a local lawyer and one of the owners of Club Cal Neva—“became interested in the Hillside Cemetery as a possible development site for apartments, fraternity houses, or dormitories and launched a search for Margaret Sanders and her sons.”

By June of 1973, Thornton had discovered that Margaret had died, as had her two sons. He was, however, able to track down the two men’s wives—each of whom had one child. Thornton contacted the families and arranged for the grandchildren of Wiltshire Sanders to claim their mothers’ interest in the cemetery. From there, he struck up an arrangement with the heirs.

Thornton agreed to advance the money necessary to pay the delinquent taxes and do the legal work necessary to secure the heirs’ interest in the cemetery free of charge. Once the property was back in the heirs’ hands, he planned to help them proceed with the disinterring of bodies and then sell the land—recouping his costs out of the profits before taking a 50 percent share of the remaining money made.

Thornton succeeded in gaining control of the cemetery for himself and the Sanders heirs, and it changed hands for the third time when the city was forced to turn it over in early 1974. However, Thornton’s plan to develop and sell the land was unsuccessful. The bill that the Nevada Legislature

had passed the previous year stipulated that only the City of Reno could order the disinterment of bodies buried at Hillside Cemetery, and it’s unsurprising that city officials were disinclined to do so after having their own plans for the property thwarted.

In 1975, Thornton lobbied the legislature to change the law, but the proposed bill died in committee. In 1977, he bought out the heirs’ respective interests in the property for a sum of $7,500 each. And in 1978, the cemetery changed hands for a fourth time when Thornton donated it to UNR by a quitclaim deed.

But Thornton’s involvement with Hillside wasn’t quite finished. With the help of Clinton Wooster—a former state legislator, state legislative counsel, lobbyist and Reno city attorney—whom he’d hired in 1978, Thornton helped the university lobby for yet another change to Nevada Law, this time to allow the “owner of a cemetery to disinter old gravesites and reinter the remains in a separate part of the same cemetery.” Senate Bill 527 passed in 1979, repealing “the special legislation passed on behalf of the City of Reno in 1973” but still requiring that “the city approve an ordinance prescribing regulations governing” any future plans. (The court case that tells this chapter in the cemetery’s history arose when the commissioner of the IRS challenged the half million dollar tax write-off Thornton claimed after donating the land.)

UNR owned Hillside Cemetery until 1996. At one time, there was talk of turning it into married student housing, but nothing came of this—likely in part because of the negative press the university had received from its removal of bodies from the site. Hillside Cemetery changed hands for the fifth and final time on April 16, 1996, when UNR sold it to Drew

Lawton’s father, John Lawton, then owner of Sierra Memorial Gardens, for a sum of $10. Five years later, another bill was introduced in the state legislature, seeking yet another change to laws governing disinterment of people buried at Hillside. In 2001, Assembly Bill 402 was passed. It removed the provision of state law requiring a city ordinance be passed for bodies to be removed from a cemetery and seemingly cleared the way for future plans at Hillside Cemetery.

In 2003, John Lawton announced that he was preparing to proceed with disinterment but was met with an outcry from the public and descendants of the people buried at the cemetery, and nothing came of these plans. In the decade that followed, things remained quiet.

Part and Parcel In 2014, Sierra Memorial Gardens was issued a permit to disinter bodies from Hillside Cemetery. And in 2015, lobbyist Garrett Gordon attempted to have an unrelated amendment added to a bill concerning permits for cremation facilities. The amendment, which failed to garner support from legislators, would have given a cemetery owner the right to “execute any city or county land use application for all lands included within the cemetery, including without limitation any burial plots not owned by the cemetery authority.”

It would have revoked the rights of plot owners and their heirs and descendants, which have been an essential barrier to previous plans to dig up the people buried in Hillside—and the final obstacle standing in the way of Sierra Memorial Gardens. But this legal obstacle has always been there. Every

time ownership of Hillside Cemetery has changed hands, the deed to the property has contained nearly identical language making it clear that individual plots are not included. Take, for example, the language from the 1996 deed between the UNR Board of Regents and Sierra Memorial Gardens, which specifies that the sale excludes “any and all grave lots or parts thereof sold by said Wilshire Saunders to different individuals for burial purposes prior to the date hereof.”

A closer look at the disinterment permit from the Washoe County Health District reveals that it too excludes the individual plots belonging to the heirs and descendants of those buried in Hillside. It is limited to the parcels owned

by Sierra Memorial Gardens, and an interactive map on the county’s website shows this clearly. Each separate plot is highlighted in yellow, and each can be selected individually to reveal the name of the person to whom it is assigned. One plot, near the northeast corner, bears the name of George Williams Cassidy.

Now the Reno City Council has once again adopted a resolution related to Hillside Cemetery. On Sept. 28, the council voted unanimously “in support of the City of Reno engaging as an active stakeholder in proposed development at the Hillside Cemetery.” While there are no definite plans in place yet, the move does seem to have brought the state of affairs there full circle—back to the work Clyde Biglieri started more than four decades ago. And if conservation is what the city council has in mind, they’ll find that Tryon and the volunteers of the Hillside Cemetery Preservation Foundation have laid a solid groundwork for it. A visit to the cemetery, where three years of work have gone a long way toward reclaiming this historical landmark, shows that quite clearly. Ω

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Chelsie Kern and Natalie Handler are among the founders of the Reno InstaGrammys.

The Reno InstaGrammys started as a joke at a party. One thing led to another, and now Reno has a snazzy annual awards show for pro and amateur photography.

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ow that an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide use smartphones, we’ve probably lost count of how many photographs are taken. One estimate from Resource Magazine put it at around a trillion last year. In any case, gone are the days when shooting photos meant lugging around equipment that was bigger than a pocket. A huge percentage of us shoot and post selfies, pet pics, travel shots, bowl-of-cereal shots, and shot upon shot upon shot of pretty much everything.

There are different theories on the effects that quantity and accessibility have had on photography. Some miss the days when the medium had a higher barrier to entry.

“It’s really weird,” photographer Antonio Olmos told The Guardian in 2013. “Photography has never been so popular, but it’s getting destroyed. There have never been so many photographs taken, but photography is dying.”

Try telling that to Chelsie Kern, Natalie Handler and Anna Kernecker, however. They’re the founders of Reno InstaGrammys, an annual photography competition and gala awards event. Where some might see the era of ubiquitous photos as an unwelcome barrage, they see it as opportunity.

“It is kind of boring to me to say that because something’s more accessible it’s being watered down,” said Kern. “There is a lot more happening, and you might have to sift through it a little bit more, but everybody can take beautiful photos, and that’s amazing.”

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Photographic memories The InstaGrammys started with an offhand comment made between friends early in 2014.

“We were at a barbecue,” said Kern. “We were eating oysters. Somebody showed one of us a picture that our friend posted, and we were joking. We were like, ‘Aw, that’s a good one. That should win an InstaGrammy. Kind of like making fun of ourselves a little bit, you know? But it was a really beautiful picture.’” The thought of merging “Instagram” with “Grammy Award” stuck immediately. “[We thought,] ‘We’ll have this little party and competition for our friends—and a few other people that might come,” said Handler. She was—and still is—on the board of directors at Holland Project, so she was obliged to come up with fundraising ideas for the all-ages arts group.

The founders skipped the “small party for our friends” stage and held the first InstaGrammys event in August 2014 at Southside Cultural Center. Kern recalled that it was a hot day, and there was no air conditioning.

“We had to bring in every single chair,” she said. “We were too broke, so we couldn’t rent 200 chairs. So we had to get, like, 25 chairs here, 50 chairs here.”

“Everything was sourced mostly through people donating,” said Handler. “Or us just being resourceful.” Despite the

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tight budget, the hot room and the mismatched chairs, they remember the evening as a success.

“The opening number was this crew of breakdancers that no one really knew about outside of their community of breakdancers,” said Handler. “People were already out of their seats from that first opening-number moment. … So, we packed that place and were over capacity. People were sneaking in, and we were like, ‘Who sneaks into a fundraiser?’”

social media socialites Here’s how the contest works: Professional or amateur photographers submit images via Facebook or Instagram and hashtag them with the name of a category such as #homemeansnevada, #urbanlandscape or #albumcover. There are 20 categories altogether. Initially, organizers conceived of the contest as being for locals, but they’ve since expanded the parameters to include anyone, anywhere.

“We had some submissions from out of state last year, but this year even more so,” Handler said. “We have people from Philadelphia, L.A., Salt Lake City, Portland.”

“Chelsie, Anna and I, all the cofounders, go through the nominee selection,” she explained, “because there’s, like, thousands of photos to look through, and we would never wish that upon anyone else.” The entries gets narrowed down to 100 finalists, five in each of 20 categories.

Handler laughed when she talked about not wishing the task on anyone, but she had a serious point to make, too. On one hand, it didn’t take long for the InstaGrammys to earn their official stripes of cultural validation—during the first year, then-mayoral candidate Hillary Schieve was a presenter, and the next year the event grew into the Pioneer Center. On the other hand, it’s important to the organizers that the InstaGrammys maintain an air of independence, and for that reason they plan to continue to think of the event as a labor of love more than a labor of time efficiency. Kern and Handler talked about the recent efforts by the city and local branding firms to project a polished image for Reno as an entertainment destination. They said it’s important to them to acknowledge different kinds of expression too.

“ It’s different when we tell the world who we are, rather than having the [marketing] people tell the world who Reno is.”

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“We’re kind of celebrating that, as a diverse population, we all have different values of aesthetics,” said Handler.

“I’m a marketer by trade,” said Kern, “but it’s different when we tell the world who we are, rather than having the [marketing] people tell the world who Reno is.”

Another priority for the InstaGrammys, Handler said, is to contribute to supporting a self-sufficient culture industry in Reno over the long term, as opposed to having the city be—for many artists and musicians who begin to make it big—a good place to grow up and leave.

“It’s important to support the artists here in Reno,” she said.

“The hope in the future is to create industry for artists so they don’t have to move away from their home, or this place that they love.”

The big night Finalists and attendees—1,500 of them if organizers sell out the Pioneer Center, again this year’s venue—will gather for an awards ceremony, styled somewhat in the spirit of the Recording Academy’s annual Grammy Awards. The awards are handmade pieces of artwork, and they’ll be presented by well-known locals including Mayor Schieve, Recycled Records owner Paul Doege, neon-sign collector Will Durham and RN&R editor Brad Bynum.

Kern and Handler said they’re keeping much of the entertainment lineup a surprise. They did mention that some prominent neon pieces from Durham’s collection will be on view during the event—and they went into detail about the dress code.

“We want everybody to be comfortable, but this is an environment where you can get as formal and as fancy as you want and feel comfortable, or dress totally weird,” said Kern.

“You can wear a gown made of bubble wrap if you want,” said Handler. Ω

The Reno Instagrammys Red Carpet Awards Show will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., followed by an afterparty at 9 p.m. at Cargo Concert Hall, 255 N. Virginia St. For tickets, visit www.pioneercenter.com. For more information, visit www.renoinstagrammys.com, “renoinstagrammys” on Instagram or “Reno InstaGrammys” on Facebook.

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Trail mix Phyllis Shafer Take one look at Phyllis Shafer’s paintings, and it’s clear she’s a hiker. She’s a South Lake Tahoe artist whose name has long been synonymous with gorgeously rendered paintings of off-the-beaten-path mountain and desert scenes. But she was a painter long before she was a hiker.

“I grew up in a rural area in New York state,” she said, “so the land has been part of my consciousness from the beginning.”

For a long time, though, she painted indoors.

Back when she was in art school, the idea of painting out of doors, she said, “was for little old ladies on a Sunday afternoon. I would have been ousted from school. … So I was doing these big, bombastic, surrealistic landscapes that had, like, machine parts and plants that had gone haywire. They were big. They were aggressive. I was in my 20s and early 30s.”

Long story short, Shafer, now in her 50s, is well known in the region as a painter of elegant landscapes. They’re pensive and serene—yet so lively they almost appear animated. She’s highly celebrated in artcollector circles, so much so that Stremmel Gallery owner Turkey Stremmel said Shafer’s exhibits consistently sell out before the opening receptions.

After finishing art school, Shafer lived in Marin County. She was still working on those assertive landscape paintings, until one day she saw an exhibit in Sonoma County by a group of plein air painters— painters who work outside in the elements, watching the sunlight crawl across a mountain or forest as they render it.

“I hadn’t been that turned on by painting for a long time,” she said. “I’m living in the Bay Area, and in the thick of the art scene there. And it just felt so fresh and so honest

Gallery owner Turkey Stremmel and artist Phyllis Shafer prepare Shafer’s paintings for her upcoming exhibition.

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and true. … There was life. Those paintings were breathing. They were out there in nature capturing the wind, the movement, the sun, the rhythm, the color, the texture.

It just captured me.” She started sneaking outside to paint.

Shortly afterward—by then it was 1994—she moved to Tahoe to work at Lake Tahoe Community College, where she still teaches painting and also runs the gallery.

“You can’t not hike if you live in Lake Tahoe,” she said. She picked up that habit immediately. Now, in between her full-time responsibilities at the college, she spends as much time as possible exploring Tahoe and the Eastern Sierras, toting small canvases and paints, sometimes miles down a trail.

Her signature style is mix of patches of realism with bands of abstracted color.

“I think that that play between fantasy and observation is what really intrigues me,” she said. She wants her paintings to be at once true to the scene and subjective. She wants viewers to recognize the backgrounds—Fallen Leaf Lake, Swall Meadows or Lake Ediza, for example—but the foreground, she said, is more her invention.

“It becomes like a character in my play,” she said.

While the region’s hikers will easily see see home in Shafer’s work, she said she steers clear of heavily traveled locations.

“I actually prefer to paint scenes that are not recognizable,” she said. “One year I went to Yosemite and painted Half Dome, and there was a kind of almost a little bit of pressure, to be painting something that iconic. Something like this, it doesn’t really matter where you are, then it becomes my story. It’s more about the painting than about the place.” Ω

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Manager Shawn Roe, sous chef Mickey Woomer and Angelo Lugo present Bru-Go’s Braveheart pizza and chicken gorgonzola salad.

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Thirty minutes post-wings it was pizza time. The Big Combo was a classic mix of pepperoni, Chicago-style Italian sausage, red onion, bell pepper, mushroom, black In the last three years, I’ve written a lot olive, mozzarella and roasted red sauce. I’m of words about pizza—pizzas from diners, not sure what was roasted, but the sauce pizzas at coffee shops, pizzas in bars, pizza was every bit as tasty as the wing sauce. from food trucks, and pies from traditional The crust was thick but not too bready, with pizzerias. The best always start with a chera nicely crisped foundation—perfect for ished family recipe or two, and Bru-Go’s holding up all of those ingredients.

Pizza Co. is just such a place.

Joe’s Sicilian Meatball Pizza featured The shop is cozy, with indoor seating the same nice crust, with that great red for perhaps 30 and more seating on the sauce, mozzarella, red onion, bell pepper patio. The decor is fairly modern, with and mushroom. The meatballs are a recipe rough-hewn rock textures and a series of of Joe’s Sicilian grandmother. Grandma paintings color-coordinated with the light apparently knew her way around a fixtures. Classic rock house music was meatball. They had nice flavor and texture, competing with hip-hop jams coming from neither tough nor too squishy. the kitchen, a distraction from the otherwise The name alone drew me into ordering pleasant atmosphere. Halfway through our the Finding Nemo Scampi Pizza, with visit someone realized this was a mashup sundried tomato, artichoke heart, roasted made in hell and sacrificed the sounds of garlic, asiago and mozzarella cheeses, the ’70s for the chef’s favorite jams. creamy garlic white sauce, and itty-bitty Notified that chicken wings ($11.95 garlic butter sauteed for 12) take a while, shrimp, all atop a my wife put in an order crispy thin crust. right after being seated.

3228 N. Carson St., Carson City, 430-4605 The tomato was I arrived about 20 Bru-Go’s Pizza is open Monday and Tuesday 4 to candy sweet, but the minutes later—perused 9 p.m. and Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m. combination with the menu for another to 9 p.m. the savory flavors 10—and put in an order worked surprisingly for a set of six-inch well. Shrimpy goodness. personal pizzas ($11.95 each) so we could The Cefalu pizza—named for a coastal sample a few of the house specialties. town in Sicily—is from yet another family The wings showed up 10 minutes later. recipe. Olive oil and Parmesan cheese are The wings were definitely baked, which worked into dough that is then rolled quite at least partly explains the 40-minute wait. thin. It’s with a sparse amount of onion, Deep-fried wings require a third of the time tomato, garlic, pesto and sauteed bits of and—I believe—are superior in texture and mushroom. Despite the lack of much on flavor, but I will say these were about as top, it’s definitely worth repeating. good as baked wings are ever going to be.

There are salads and sandwiches and They were cooked through and not overly other stuff on the menu, too, and I’m mushy or rubbery. Definitely not a standard definitely planning a return visit to try their “Buffalo” sauce, this ample bath of spicirotolo baked sandwiches. I’ll just know to ness had hints of garlic and oregano mixed bring a book next time—and perhaps some in with a nice amount of salt and was headphones. Ω finished with the perfect amount of kick.

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Amanda Knox

“Jeez, we could have taken that job on the Exxon Valdez.”

Oil and water

pretty good horror films in 2016. The staging of explosions and fire in this one, many done upon an oil rig built exclusively for this film, are award-caliber.

There’s a true sense of isolation and disorientaI think my shockingly lustrous eyelashes got singed tion when the action goes full throttle. Props to the watching Deepwater Horizon, director Peter editor for creating a sensation of being utterly lost Berg’s harrowing account of the worst oil rig in the mayhem that escalates until the final two disaster in American history. survivors jump many stories to the ocean below.

That’s because Berg’s film drops the viewer It’s not all about the fire and explosions, as into a situation where fire and explosions are so Berg, his writers and performers all give the realistic, you can feel the heat and disorientation movie a true heroic element, one that results in of the 2010 disaster, which claimed the lives of heartbreak after the film plays out. Good people 11 men and led to an oil spill eclipsing all other perished in this disaster, and the movie makes oil spills. sure to pay solid tribute to all of them, including Mark Wahlberg is first-rate as Mike Williams, a nice epilogue featuring real footage and photos a man who was actually on the rig at the time of the victims. of the disaster. Kurt Russell equals his power as Kate Hudson plays Williams’ wife, who’s Jimmy Harrell, who questions the integrity of the having a Skype conversation with him when rig, and then proceeds to have the worst shower everything starts to go south. Hudson has always in cinema history since Janet been good for waterworks, and Leigh had a showdown with she gets an opportunity to show Anthony Perkins. that off talent in this movie.

The setup is a doozy: Other standouts include Ethan Williams and Harrell head out Suplee as one of the men in the for a three-week stay on the ill-fated drill command center, Deepwater Horizon along with a Gina Rodriguez as an employee couple of BP stuffed shirts. Much who must endure the incompeto their amazement, some men Director: Peter Berg tence of a co-worker, and Dylan who were supposed to conduct Starring: Mark Wahlberg, O’Brien as a drill worker who all-important tests were leaving Kate Hudson couldn’t have been closer to the upon Williams and Harrell’s initial stages of the disaster. arrival without conducting To call this a disaster film similar to those anything, so that gets Harrell all riled up. This is put out by Irwin Allen in the ’70s is both a a good thing, because Russell doing “all riled up” compliment—hey, some of those where pretty is always fun. great, including The Poseidon Adventure and The The lack of testing leads to a showdown Towering Inferno—and a bit belittling. While with a sleazy BP employee, played by a slithery this film follows a similar schlocky blueprint at John Malkovich. Some backwards reasoning times, it has a little more substance and heart leads to the acceptance of some bad drill results, than those goofy blockbusters. and Deepwater Horizon is cleared to start up.

Berg and Wahlberg, who had a prior collaboUnbeknownst to the higher ups and technicians, ration on the very good Lone Survivor, aren’t there’s a cataclysmic clog and mud explodes done in 2016. Somehow, they worked it into upwards, eventually followed by a massive gas their schedules to deliver Patriots Day, a film leak, and you probably know the rest. about the Boston Marathon bombing, on Dec. Berg puts his film together in a way where 21 in limited release, before an expanded release the mere sight of mud oozing from a pipe is in January 2017. These guys are busy with their terrifying. When the stages of the disaster go true-life epics. Ω into high gear, it’s as scary as any horror film to hit screens this year, and there have been some

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Directors Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn investigate the horror show that was the Meredith Kercher murder and the many injustices rained down upon American exchange student Amanda Knox and her boyfriend of one week, Raffaele Sollecito, in Perugia, Italy. Both were convicted by an Italian court, along with a third suspect, of stabbing Knox’s roommate Kercher to death, and both served time as their cases went through a series of appeals. The two, now free, sit down for interviews and speak of the confusion that was their interrogation, their whereabouts on the night of the murder, and the hell they endured in prison. The film mostly skips over the trials, concentrating more on Knox and Sollecito’s recollections about the night of the murder and the aftermath. The subject probably requires an entire series, and not one 90-minute documentary, but the story is covered pretty well given the time constraint.

Other interviews include an idiotic journalist who admits much of what was reported on Knox was rushed, inconclusive or even made up. The head prosecutor on the case also sits down, and insists upon Knox’s guilt even though there was a lack of evidence. This story probably had many families pull the plug on plans for teenagers to attend school overseas.

(Available for streaming on Netflix.)

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Blair Witch

This is the second sequel to The Blair Witch Project, the original “found footage” horror film. This movie is essentially the original with louder noises, a few more gizmos—drones, walkie talkies, better tents— and, yes, lots more sticks tied together with twine and piles of rocks. For those of you who are scared shitless by stick men made out of twigs and twine—and piles of rocks in front of tents—this movie will fuck your shit up. I’m thinking that accounts for perhaps .00009832 percent of the movie-going population. The rest of you will be bored out of your minds. James (James Allen McCune), long suffering brother of the original film’s Heather, who vanished all those years ago, has found … a tape. That tape contains shaky footage made by somebody moronic enough to try to keep the action on camera rather than focus on their much needed getaway. In said footage, a messed-up looking woman is glimpsed for a second, so James instantly thinks it’s Heather. James assembles a crew of idiots to go into the forest, the cursed forest where people disappear and strange tapes are found, in search of the house where the footage was filmed by some moron who didn’t just drop the stupid camera in favor of weaponry and get the hell to safety.

3

The Hollars

Actor John Krasinski’s second directorial effort is a decent one with a first-rate cast. Krasinski stars as John Hollar, working a dead-end job for a publishing company when his girlfriend (the always great Anna Kendrick) informs him that his mom (a terrific Margo Martindale) is sick, and then he’s flying home to see her. Once there, John has to deal with his weird brother Ron (Sharlto Copley), the oddball nurse that is also his old girlfriend’s new husband (Charlie Day) and his weepy dad (Richard Jenkins). The script goes to some familiar territories, but the performers put new spins on the situations, especially Martindale, who takes the part and really runs with it. Krasinski does a good job handling the script’s many mood swings, and the relationships in the film feel real—that strange kind of real. The film manages to get laughs, even when the subject matter goes to dark places. It deals with the lousier side of life without getting totally depressing, something that could’ve happened easily. Krasinski makes it all work.

The supporting cast also includes Randall Park, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Josh Groban in small but memorable roles. The soundtrack is stellar, featuring Josh Ritter, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and Wilco.

3

The Magnificent Seven

Director Antoine Fuqua’s remake of The Magnificent Seven, which was itself a remake of Seven Samurai, has enough in common with the Yul Brynner/Steve McQueen film to make it feel like a retelling of the classic story. It also contains enough departures to make it feel like a fresh take rather than just a rehash. The Mexican bandits led by Eli Wallach are replaced by an evil, land-stealing company led by Bartholomew Bogue. As played by Peter Sarsgaard, Bogue is a memorable villain who makes the skin crawl. He rolls into a mining town, kills a bunch of good hard-working people, and winds up getting the group in the movie’s title on his ass. Let the spectacular gunfights commence! Fuqua’s pal Denzel Washington—they did The Equalizer and Training Day together—is first-rate as Chisolm, basically Brynner’s role from the 1960 classic.

When the wife of one of the deceased (Haley Bennett) comes looking for help and mentioning Bogue’s name, Chisolm flies into calm, collected and most certainly valiant action. He enlists six other men to visit the town and prepare the townspeople for the fight of their lives. The supporting cast includes Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio.

1

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Holy hell, is this film a boring mess.

Tim Burton directs a leaden Asa Butterfield in this adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel. The movie is sloppy, as if the special effects weren’t completed. The story is convoluted, as if the filmmakers thought hiring a big time art director and costuming department were a fair swap for a good script. The narrative involves some nonsense regarding mutant children in a house in the ’40s that’s stuck in a time loop. The house is led by Miss Peregrine (Eva Green, the only good thing about the movie), and visited by young Jake (Butterfield), who heard about the place from his late grandfather (Terrence Stamp). The kids all have “peculiarities” but no personality. They are X-Men with no sense of purpose. Butterfield, a normally reliable young actor, decimates nearly every line he utters in this film. It’s actually quite shocking how inept and lost he seems in this production. Burton stresses the visuals, as usual, but without a strong lead like Johnny Depp or Michael Keaton, Burton is a lost cause. This will hang tough as one of the year’s biggest disappointments. Samuel L. Jackson does show up with a gray version of his wig from Unbreakable, along with Venom’s teeth. He has his moments, but he can’t save this thing.

3

Sully

Historical accuracy be damned in Sully, Clint Eastwood’s take on the heroic actions of pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who landed his plane on the Hudson River and saved the lives of all crew and passengers on board. The passages about a pilot successfully landing his plane in an ice-cold Hudson River and allowing over 150 people to tell the tale, live long and prosper are really the most important, and most compelling, parts of this movie. As for the evil, fictitious inquisition that basically tortures Sully (played by Tom Hanks in a typically riveting performance) and co-pilot Jeff Skiles (welcome back to decent movies, Aaron Eckhart!), well, that’s basically a lot of made-up horseshit. That’s not to say Sully wasn’t tormented and obsessed in the days after the event, and the film does a good job displaying his internal struggles. The man had to land a plane after a bunch of birds flew into his engines, and then he probably did have a bunch of dicks asking him too many questions in the aftermath. Eastwood and Hanks deliver a compelling psychological drama about a man who doubts his own heroism, to the point of nightmarish visions and self deprecation.

Where the film goes a bit afoul is the depiction of a panel that didn’t even give Sully and his crew a chance to breathe after being plucked out of the Hudson. Yes, there was an inquiry, but it took place many months later, not a few days after the event.

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2-D Wok Taiwanese Cuisine: $20 value for When John Lee, Jordan Rice, Quinton Bunk and Jack Rice rehearse, the earplugs aren’t optional.

Welcome distraction ADHDOD Walking into the narrow storage unit where ADHDOD rehearses, drummer Jordan Rice threw a small plastic case at me from behind his kit. Inside were two foam earplugs.

“You’re going to need those,” he said.

The music is as frenetic as the band’s name suggests, with machine-gun drum cadences, arduous guitar riffs clambering up and down the fretboard, and guttural roars screamed full-power into the mic—all the hallmarks of contemporary hardcore. To the unfamiliar, the chaos can be intimidating, and to the snob it could all just be violent noise, but that’s exactly the point.

“The noise is the best part about it,” said Quinton Bunk, the band’s bassist.

“That’s pretty much what it is. That wallof-sound effect, that’s what made me like it in the first place.”

When ADHDOD’s first show was scheduled about a year ago, the band had no name and no vocalist. Rice asked his 17-year-old son, Jack, if he wanted to take the microphone. Jack eagerly accepted.

“I was totally into it,” said Jack. “I didn’t know if it would be a long-term deal. I thought it would just be one. ... But that show ended up being awesome.”

With their roster now complete, the members of ADHDOD span a 30-year age difference and a variety of musical influences in their mission to play as fast and loud as possible.

“I just always wanted to stir the guitar fast, and that’s what I do,” said John Lee, guitarist. “I feel like I’m always trying to compete, like, I want to beat every band at being fast and brutal. I don’t know why.”

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Bavarian World: $25 value for Underneath the brutality of hardcore music, however, lies a close-knit community of musicians and fans who are drawn to the raw energy of the live performances. In that community, different subgenres abound—grindcore, crust, death rock and power violence—but the goal remains consistent—put on the best show you can with what you’ve got.

For Rice, who has been playing in bands in Reno since the early ’90s, the feeling of community found at hardcore shows was different than the isolation he felt at large stadium concerts watching the likes of Iron Maiden or similar big acts.

“The first gig I saw was D.R.I. [Dirty Rotten Imbeciles] in the old Castle on Kietzke Lane,” Rice said. “I went to that show, and there are these guys putting the amps on stage, putting the drum set together, and I was like, ‘Oh, those are the roadies.’ About five seconds later, the guys I thought were the roadies turn on and start playing, and there was no separation between the [band] and the audience. The energy was right there.”

Rice considers the exposure to the DIY music scene at that show a life-changing experience, and after ADHDOD opened for D.R.I. a few months ago, he’s happy to see his influences come full circle.

ADHDOD has become a staple in DIY show houses and venues around the city and expanded its reach, touring the West Coast and even putting out an EP with an Indonesian label, which can be found on Bandcamp.

As a longer-term goal, the band has its sights set on global domination.

“We’re going to Japan,” said Lee, laughing. “They love this stuff in Japan.” Ω

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1) The Producers, 9:30pm, $37+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

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1) Something Inside Is Broken, 7pm, $15-$35 2) Ty Dolla $ign, 9pm, $20 2) Lex Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 3) Country Nights, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

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2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 8pm, no cover 3) The Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20

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

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3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) The Vegas Road Show, 8:30pm, no cover

2) Sunday Funday Industry Night, 10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover

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

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EvEnts 5TH ANNUAL RED SHOE GALA: Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern Nevada’s gala features fine dining, a red shoe runway contest, entertainment and heartwarming stories. Proceeds go toward the organization’s mission to provide families a home away from home during their children’s hospital stay. F, 10/7, 6pm. $200. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-4663.

9TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY PET BLESSING: Bring your pet to be blessed or a photo so he/she can be blessed “in spirit.”

Meet local rescue groups and adoptable animals, enjoy games with your dog or donate a toy for animals in local shelters. Su, 10/9, noon-3pm. Free. Center for Spiritual Living, Reno, 4685 Lakeside Drive, (775) 826-0566, www.cslreno.org.

CARSON SIERRA SPINNERS AND WEAVERS GUILD DEMONSTRATIONS: The Carson Sierra Spinners and Weavers Guild is a group of local craft artists that promote appreciation and knowledge of fiber arts in the community. The Historic Huffaker School will be open between 9am and 3pm for viewing of live demonstrations and for self-guided tours. Park rangers will offer guided tours of the historic school house at 1pm. Sa, 10/8, 9am-3pm.

Free. Huffaker Schoolhouse, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

DONNER PARTY HIKE: Participants can choose from six different hikes on Saturday and a walking tour on Sunday.

All hikes offer insight into emigrant history from local area guides. On Saturday, guides will lead groups of about 15-20 people to interpretive spots giving detailed historical information focused on emigrant and area history.

In the afternoon, hikers can enjoy a hamburger lunch and a presentation by Frank Mullen, an expert on the Donner Party. Sa, 10/8, 7:30am. $55-$80. Donner Ski Ranch, 19320 Donner Pass Road, Norden, http://donnerpartyhike.com.

DRIVING ON MARS: Science Saturdays include interactive simulations and workshops to integrate learning, fun and imagination for children 8 to 12 years old.

Each monthly event features a different theme relating to space and technology, where participants can become an astronaut or scientist for the day. Sa, 10/8, 9:30am-1pm. $12 plus $1.65 service fee. National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300, www.nevadachallenger.org.

FAMILY FUN NIGHT: Make a Halloween trick or treat bag. Bags, stickers and markers provided. W, 10/12, 5-6pm. Free.

Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

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

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

HANDS ON! SECOND SATURDAYS: Enjoy free admission, live performances, hands-on art activities and storytelling. Sa, 10/8, 10am-6pm. Free. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

HEALTH FAIR: Northern Nevada Medical Center hosts its community health fair in the main lobby of the hospital.

Screenings include blood pressure, complete blood count, lipid profile, thyroid function, among other tests. First Th of every month, 7-10am. $0-$40. Northern Nevada Medical Center, 2375 E. Prater Way, Sparks, (775) 331-7000.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset. The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. Sa, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

Halloween attraction and indoor haunted house opens for the season. Th-Sa,

7-11pm through 10/29; Su, 5-9pm through 10/30. Opens 10/9; W, 10/26, 7-11pm; M, 10/31, 7-11pm. $17 general admission,

$24 VIP pass. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., www.renofrightfest.com.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Paula Rie Bonham’s Horse is a series of mixed media paintings that focuses on movement and strength expressed through the powerful image of the horse. There will be a reception on Oct. 6. M-Su through 11/4; Th, 10/6, 5-7pm. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

NEVADA SAGEBRUSH ALUMNI DINNER: The Nevada Sagebrush Alumni Chapter presents its fifth annual dinner where Linda (Chambers) Faiss will be awarded the 2016 Frank McCulloch Sagebrush Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Linda served as editor in chief of the Sagebrush in 1965, and is the president and founding partner of Faiss Foley Warren Public Relations & Government Affairs in Las Vegas, Nev. The Frank McCulloch Award was created in 2013 to honor the accomplishments of Sagebrush alumni.

Funds raised will be used to send current Nevada Sagebrush staffers to the Associated Collegiate Press Conference or assist with other expenses. F, 10/7, 6pm. $25-$50. Pinocchio’s Bar and Grill, 5995 S. Virginia St., (775) 742-9424.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: New Works from the Studio Art Quilts, Metro Gallery at City Hall hosts STRATA: New Works from the Studio Art Quilt Associates. Artist reception on Oct. 6.

Through 11/4; Th, 10/6, 5-7pm. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: Mi Casa es Mi Casa. Artist Justin Favela pays homage to his Guatemalan maternal grandmother by recreating objects found in her home. Objects that have been part of the domestic landscape for his entire life have helped form his identity and in the exhibition, represent the love he has for his grandmother and her home. M-F, 8am-5pm through 10/14. Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680.

REDRUN 4: ARMAGEDDON: During the annual

nominees from the summer-long photo and video competition and features notable Northern Nevada movers and shakers presenting each category’s award, as well as world-class talent busting out unexpected numbers throughout the show. Proceeds from the event go to the Holland Project. Sa, 10/8, 6pm. $30. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., www.renoinstagrammys.com.

State Swimmer. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents work by artist Michael Malley. Sierra Room, Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

Exhibit. PANORAMA: Selections from the Nevada Arts Council’s Artist Fellowship Program features 12 artists and brings Nevada’s statewide artist landscape into view. Each contributing fellow has demonstrated mastery of process and medium in producing a significant body of work. A talk follows the reception. The reception will start at 6pm on Oct. 13, with a gallery talk starting at 6:30pm.

M-Th, 10am-4pm through 10/27. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6837.

painted by local, national and international artists on this self-guided walking tour. If you want to hear more details about the murals, you can sign up for a guided tour. Guided tours are available Saturday and Sunday at 11am (minimum of six people). To schedule a guided tour, email artspotreno@gmail.com. Second Sa of every month through 12/10. $10 for guided tour. Blue Whale Coffee Co., 32 Cheney St., http://artspotreno.com.

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CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Silver

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MIDTOWN MURAL TOUR: View up to 50 murals

zombie run, runners fight their way through cemeteries, mining bunkers, old buildings and down the center of one of the oldest “living” ghost towns in the country. Participants can register as either a “living runner,” “living dead” or “living insane.” Participants and spectators can register for the saloon crawl at various Virginia City bars. The crawl cup includes a free first beer at the main event bar and a map to sample a wide range of Redrun-themed drinks and specialty drinks. Sa, 10/8, 11am-5pm. $30-$65 race entry fees, $20 for saloon crawl.

C Street, Virginia City, (775) 851-9444, http://redrunvc.com.

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Forms. Tu-Th, noon-4pm through 10/22; J. Antoni & S. Petronio: Honey Baby. Tu-F, noon-4pm through 10/22. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

ST. MARY’S ART CENTER: St. Mary’s Art

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The 35th annual event features traditional Italian food, a sauce cook-off, grape-stomping competition, children’s gelato-eating contest, a wine walk, farmers’ market and live entertainment on two stages, including performances by Ray Massa’s Eurorhythms, Aaron Caruso, Moreno Fruzzetti, Primo Basso and Lena Prima, as well as the cast from the musical The Producers, now playing at the Eldorado Showroom. Gates are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, outside of the Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St. Admission is free. Pasta-tasting bowls will be sold for $3 at the pasta booth on the corner of Fourth and Virginia streets from noon to 4 p.m. on both days. People’s Choice ballots for favorite sauce will be given with the purchase of pasta. Call 786-5700 or visit www.eldoradoreno.com.

Center Fall Art Reception. Featuring new work in the Artisan Gallery. Sa, 10/8, 1-4pm. Free, donations welcome. 55 N. R St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7774.

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by AMY ALKON Reno Bites Restaurant Week

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The fifth annual culinary event encourages local foodies to explore Reno’s culinary culture. Dozens of participating chefs and restaurants, including Bistro 7, Brasserie St. James, Campo, Chez Louie, Homage, Noble Pie Parlor, among others, will offer specialty items, price points and signature events ranging from global culinary tours to meals invoking bygone eras and spooky tales. The Chef Showdown on Friday, Oct. 15, will pit eight local chefs against each other as they prepare one dish using secret ingredients, which the chefs then present to a panel of judges to see who wins top honors and prizes. Reno Bites Week runs from Friday, Oct. 7, through Sunday, Oct. 16. Visit http://renobitesweek.com.

Film BOY AND THE WORLD: This cautionary tale about the dangers of globalization was nominated for best animated feature at this year’s Academy Awards. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Tu, 10/11, 7-9pm. $7 general, $6 seniors, students, $5 members. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

ARGENTA CONCERT: WU HAN-SETZER-FINCKEL: In a piano trio formation, pianist Wu Han, violinist Philip Setzer and cellist David Finckel will perform works by Dvorak and Schubert. Th, 10/6, 7:30pm. $30; $5 for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

CARLO AONZO: An evening of mandolin, guitar and bass in an intimate setting. The Reno Swing Set opens the show. Sa, 10/8, 7pm. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S. Center St., (775) 8435500, www.mountainmusicparlor.com.

A HEALTHY HOMECOMING CELEBRATION: Local musician Brother Dan returns to Reno after an extended absence after receiving a liver transplant. The event will feature special musical guests, an appearance by the BroDANcers, a silent art auction and other surprises. Sa, 10/8, 7-10pm. Cantina Los Tres Hombres, 926 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-6262.

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Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100; W, 10/12, 11:15am.

Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway; W, 10/12, 5pm. Free. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Building A, Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

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ist along one of the Galena Park trails and learn about the area. Bring water, sunscreen and hiking boots. Sa, 10am. $5 donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

onstAge 2016 VOICES OF THE PAST CEMETERY TOUR: Funtime Theater presents its annual ghostly walking tour. Sa, Su, 10am & 1pm through 10/9. $10-$15. Silver Terrace Cemetery, North E and Carson streets, Virginia City, http://funtimetheater.com.

GRAND CONCOURSE: Restless Artists’ Theatre presents Heidi Schreck’s play which navigates the mystery of faith, the limits of forgiveness and the pursuit of something resembling joy. Th, 10/6, 7:30pm; F, 10/7,

7:30pm; Sa, 10/8, 7:30pm; Su, 10/9, 2pm; Th, 10/13, 7:30pm; F, 10/14, 7:30pm; Sa, 10/15, 7:30pm; Su, 10/16, 2pm. $12-$20. Restless Artists’ Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.

A mile in somebody else’s choose I’m a woman who’s on the feminist dating app Bumble, where women have to make the first move. Men can only write back to women who message them. I thought this would be empowering, but even pursuing a guy in this small way feels unsexy and overly aggressive. Do I just need to get over my retrograde thinking?.

Who does the chasing in dating isn’t some arbitrary thing. It comes down to what evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, in 1972, called “parental investment.” His theory—borne out in research on humans, animals and insects—is that the sex that has the highest cost from sexual activity (the female—in almost all species) will be choosier about whom they mate with than the sex that invests less (which is almost always the male).

In humans, of course, women are the ones who get pregnant and stuck with the kids, and men can, as anthropologists quip, just “inseminate and run.”

So—over thousands of generations—women being choosier and men being, uh, chase-ier got wired into human psychology. We can’t just shrug off the emotional mechanisms that drive this behavior even today—even if Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe deems it “heteronormative” hooey that women damage their desirability by chasing men.

A trip to the Panamanian wetlands would show her she’s wrong—that what drives which sex does the chasing and which does the choosing really is about who gets stuck with the child care. Yes, in most species, that’s the female. But check out the role reversal in the wattled jacana, a long-legged South American wading bird.

Zoologist Stephen Emlen and his team found that it’s the male jacana, not the female, that sits incubating the eggs in the nest and cares for the chickies after they hatch. And right in line with Trivers’ parental investment theory, female jacanas are the ones who do the chasing, competing for the males. Some even have “harems” of up to five boy birds. And it gets worse. The Emlen team found that as male jacanas sit tending their egg brood, they’re sometimes forced to watch while their girlfriend bird gets it on right in front of them with the other boy birds in her harem.

Getting back to Bumble, where the app goes wrong is in removing the filtering that comes from a man needing to lay his ego on the line and expend effort to pursue a woman. The notion that it’s “empowering” for women to do the chasing ignores that it’s in men’s genetic interest to not turn down a mating opportunity—even with a woman they aren’t that interested in. Also, because men evolved to expect choosier women, even subtle forms of chasing like your contacting a man first may send a message that you’re not all that. If you’re really looking to put him off, why not turn the tables all the way and send a panorama shot of your erect penis?

You: “Yoo-hoo? Where’d you go?!”

When push comes to love I’ve been dating a 55-year-old guy for a year. I have two teenage boys; he has no kids. He initially mentioned marriage but now doesn’t want to “rush” moving in with me and my boys. As a first step, he’s moving closer. He just signed a lease on an apartment near me. I love him, but I’m overwhelmed handling two teenagers alone. Should I tell him he needs to speed up the pace?

Perhaps because you’re seeing this through “I need a break!”-colored glasses, you confuse being careful with not caring. But zoologist Amotz Zahavi has some good news for you. His research finds that when a message involves some expense to the sender, it’s more likely to be for real. For example, anyone can claim they’re committed, but as the saying goes, talk is cheap. Moving, however, is not.

Your boyfriend may ultimately decide that the package here isn’t for him, but pressuring him is unlikely to help. In fact, it’s likely to pressure him right out of your life. Ω

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

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Over the years, they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problemsolving and art-making. But I suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Love wants more of

you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a mul-

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That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

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foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge.

Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a peanut up there with your nose, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next 10 months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitioners of

the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming

weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. Why do I say that? Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant! That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve? What test would you most like to ace?

At what game would you most like to be victorious? Now is the time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you grunt-

ing and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way toward the rewards of the future? I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you believe

that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and your genetic makeup? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of your nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster—and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who will cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.

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Day of the Dead artist

Robin Ruybason is a resident artist at Reno Art Works. Her art exhibit, Dia De Los Huesos, presents her personal take on Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a holiday celebrated in Mexico and parts of the United States Nov. 1-2, during which people traditionally celebrate their deceased family members and ancestors with parties, parades, skeleton-themed imagery and ornately decorated skulls made of sugar. The exhibit opens Oct. 15.

A reception is scheduled for 5-9 p.m. Oct. 21 at RAW, 1995 Dickerson Road. For information see “Reno Art Works” on Facebook.

What’s the difference between Dia de los Muertos and Dia de los Huesos?

I sort of made up the name Dia de los Huesos, because I just have a fascination with—I like Day of the Dead art. But I started my training by going to the med school and drawing anatomical figures.

Huesos means bones?

Yes.

Were you a med student or an art student?

Art student. At [the Univesity of Nevada, Reno], they sent us to the med school to draw bones. I love the idea that that’s

Muertos imagery?

I have some traditional drawings of sugar skulls. But I also did some drawings that look like traditional sugar skulls, skeletons, that make them look more decorative, not so anatomical. … There’s a little felted skull that looks like an egg in a nest.

That’s in memory of my tree—I had to say goodbye to it. ... Fruit trees have a life span. They have about 27 years, then they get too old to make fruit. I think about that tree all the time. I was really sad to say to goodbye to it.

Do your art pieces pay homage to deceased family members also? the basics of it all. It doesn’t have to be a scary thing. I don’t particularly like scary, Halloween-style bones. I think that’s what led to my fascination with Day of the Dead.

What initially drew you to celebrating the holiday?

That [experience at UNR] combined with my heritage. It’s Basque, Spanish, some of my family is Mexican. I really got the idea that we should celebrate our ancestors rather than mourn them. … I’ve drawn Day of the Dead stuff. I’ve made sugar skulls. I lean toward Mexican folk art.

Did you celebrate Day of the Dead as a child?

No, we did not. My family wasn’t really into Day of the Dead. They like it now. I was the first one to make it part of our life.

How do your representations differ form traditional Dia de los

In this particular show, they’re general.

For the closing reception, I’m going to be making cookies with my grandmother’s recipe. They’re biscochitos.

Anything else people should know about your exhibit?

It’s lighthearted. It’s fun. It’s about celebration. It’s about being happy. It’s not dark. It’s not morose. It’s not sad. And I think I’d like to see more of that when we say goodbye to family members or ancestors or friends. It’s OK to celebrate when saying goodbye to people. …

Throughout time, cultures have marked the passage of loved ones in unique and ceremonial ways. I have always been fascinated with the visual record keeping of those traditions and how people choose to honor their ancestors. This show is my celebration of memories, tradition and ceremony. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Trump at Bushwood In contemporary films, the bad guy usually comes from one of three Pools of Villainy: (1) Middle Eastern terrorist, (2) Mexican drug cartel, or (3) sleazy, amoral, money-mad real estate developer. What are we to make of the disturbing reality that a member of Pool 3 was actually nominated for the office of President of the United States by the Republican Party?

Well, right off, I suspect that the GOP has been skipping its meds.

You know, like hiding ’em under its tongue and then spitting them out.

Nurses, be watchful!

You know of whom Trump reminds me? Does the name Al Czervik ring any kind of bell? I’ll give you a second. Al Czervik. No? Remember Rodney Dangerfield’s character in Caddyshack? That’s him, that’s Al, described as “a rich, fun-loving real estate and construction mogul, who’s visiting Bushwood with the possible inten-

tion of buying it and using the land for condos.” And there ya go. Spot on and bull’s eye.

Trump unleashed upon Bushwood Country Club would be a Xerox of Czervik/Rodney D—backslapping everybody, chompin’ on a cigar, ogling the waitresses, hittin’ on the cart girls, needling the regulars, and hustling up $50 nassaus (golf bets). And I have no problem with Trump being that guy, being a real-life Al Czervik, in NYC or Florida or wherever, being that high volume, bloviating hot dog of a showboating asshole at the country club that you love to beat if you get into a game with him, because you know if he beats you, you’re gonna hear about it and it’ll be tough to swallow and you’ll start daydreaming of burying a sand wedge up the crack of his ass, a move that you’re pretty sure will have considerable support in the clubhouse.

So no, I don’t mind Trump being a deplorable dude straight out of Caddyshack. Not at all. It’s a free country. At least, until Pepe the Frog and his cuddly fascist shithead skinheads take control of Congress. However, what I do mind is that the Republican Party nominated this self-centered asshat to be the president of our country, ferfuxakes! I totally mind, and it totally blows my mind. It’s as though the GOP thought it would be real funny and give America a hot foot this year … only in doing so, it lit its own undies on fire.

Rosie O’Donnell responded nicely to Trump’s latest toxic tweets, calling the 6’2”, 236- pound payaso an “orange anus.” That pretty much nails it. I’m thinking Hill might wanna find a way to sneak that into the next—wait. Hold on. 6-2, 236?

Watch it, Pendejo Naranja! Gettin’ a little tubby! Ω

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