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Our movie guy tried to find good flicks during a dark and depressing year

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THE BEST: I LIKE IT … I LIKE IT A LOT. 1. La La Land

Our movie guy tried to find good flicks during a dark and depressing year

by Bob Grimm • bgrimm@newsreview.com

2016 …

Oh, what a vicious, celebrity-deathriddled year it was. The Grim Reaper was a merciless prick coming after our most beloved celebrities. He even took Abe Vigoda. Did you hear me? Abe Vigoda!

I was a few hours away from turning this story in when news came down that the great Carrie Fisher had died. Thankfully, I got an extension, which allows me to tell you about how much I truly loved her.

When I saw Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in a movie theater for the first time, I was an impressionable 9 years old. My female movie heroes at that point were Tatum O’Neal in The Bad News Bears, Adrian from Rocky and Mary Poppins. I instantly fell in love with the way Fisher’s Leia bossed everybody around and kept taking control over lumbering Luke and Han (“Into the garbage chute, Flyboy!”).

I loved Fisher in all of the Star Wars films, loved her as the psycho in The Blues Brothers, and I even loved her in The Burbs. It was so much fun to see Fisher revisiting her Star Wars past with the new films. I thought she had a couple of decades to go. I know she partied hard, but damn it, I thought she would outlive James Earl Jones for sure.

This year not only saw the death of some huge film—and music and TV—stars, but also the deaths of stars you thought were already dead, like George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Zsa Zsa Gabor and the beloved Vigoda. In short, a shit ton of notable famous folks died! What the hell? It feels like more than usual, doesn’t it?

Yes, that’s me crying in this issue’s cover illustration—drawn by my awesome bro, Michael … plug—and I’m crying over the sad year that was 2016. However, while the loss of stars such as Fisher, Gene Wilder, David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman and the way-too-young Anton Yelchin definitely stings, I am actually shedding copious tears over the fact that the new Ghostbusters was derivative crap.

So much potential wasted!

There was a version of the cover drawing that didn’t include Fisher. I sincerely wish that first version, sans Leia with Fisher still alive, was the one that made it to press. Worst … fucking … year … ever, and not just for the celebrity deaths. Don’t get me started.

OK, let’s talk movies.

Many of the year’s big budget blockbuster offerings left a lot to be desired. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story came along in the final month to right the blockbuster ship a bit. For the most part, movies that cost a bazillion dollars delivered supreme disappointment over escapist fun. For every Rogue One, there was a Passengers. Actually, there were more like three shit blockbuster films for every good one. Actually, I think it’s more, but I’m not going to do the math in some sort of grand cinematic mathematical experiment. I have a deadline to hit. And I suck at math.

Massive celebrity casualties aside, it was an “OK” movie year. Smaller, intimate films take the big prizes with a few exceptions. Here are the best and worst of 2016.

I’m a sucker for a good musical. I gave Les Miserables the top prize in 2012, and now I’m giving it to this original piece of work from writer-director Damien Chazelle (maker of the equally incredible Whiplash).

Not enough can be said about Ryan Gosling in this movie. His dancing and singing puts him in league with the great musical stars like Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

Unlike those guys, he brings a superior level of acting chops, which bodes well for this film, because it isn’t all song and dance. The characters have major depth.

Emma Stone is equally amazing in this L.A story. The film is full of gigantic numbers (the traffic sequence) and more intimate ones (the planetarium dance) that make it such a rich visual experience. The songs are also tremendously good. It’s the best film of 2016.

2. Manchester By the Sea This one is right on La La Land’s tail, mainly for a performance that can’t be denied as the year’s best. Casey Affleck will rip your heart out as Lee Chandler, a janitor who loses his older brother and is expected to raise his nephew (Lucas Hedges). Affleck delivers some of the harshest, most emotionally brutal scenes ever put to film. Michelle Williams will make you cry like a baby as his ex-wife.

It’s not a fun movie to watch, although it does somehow manage to include one or two solid laughs. Considering what’s happening around those laughs, the fact that even a giggle can be achieved is some sort of miracle from director Kenneth Lonergan.

3. The Witch There were some terrific directorial debuts this year, none better than Robert Eggers and his tale of baby-mulching witches, religious oppression, evil goats and living deliciously.

Anya Taylor-Joy delivers the breakout performance of the year as Thomasin, banned from an American settlement with her family because her pops (Ralph Ineson) is taking things a little too far on the God front. She and her family are then taunted by a witch, and the devil himself, in the scary forest. It’s a masterpiece.

4. Loving Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga are devastatingly good as real life couple Richard and Mildred Loving, subject of a landmark court case that wound up being a huge victory for civil rights. The Lovings were an interracial

couple married in 1958 and trying to reside in Virginia, where interracial marriage was illegal. Edgerton and Negga play the most moving on-screen couple of the year. One of two exemplary films from director Jeff Nichols in 2016.

5. Hell or High Water Chris Pine and Ben Foster play bank-robbing brothers being chased by lawman Jeff Bridges in this modern western that is the very definition of a smooth, well-oiled movie machine.

6. 20th Century Woman Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig and Billy Crudup shine in Mike Mills’s ode to his unusual mother, who raised him in the late ’70s and tried to like punk music as much as she could. Bening is terrific as Dorothea, perhaps the best work of her career. I love the way this film uses music on its soundtrack, from Talking Heads to the Buzzcocks.

7. Moonlight This sophomore feature effort from director Barry Jenkins is a thing of beauty. A young boy grows into a man in the film’s three parts, and Jenkins has cast the roles perfectly.

Mahershala Ali gives one of the year’s most memorable performances as a drug dealer who winds up being a mentor to the young boy, the ultimate in conflicted characters.

8. Nocturnal Animals Jilted husbands get their own fantasy film with this dark, two-story movie where Jake Gyllenhaal plays both a jilted husband and a character in a novel he’s sent to his ex-wife (Amy Adams) for her review. It’s a unique opportunity for two movies in one, and Gyllenhaal, Adams, Michael Shannon and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are all amazing.

9. Hail, Caesar!

Old reliable Joel and Ethan Coen deliver yet another solid comedy, this one spoofing old timey Hollywood and featuring the year’s funniest scene. That’s when director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) tries his darndest to get new actor Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) to deliver his lines properly. Oh, and George Clooney seeing The Christ takes a close second.

10. Swiss Army Man The best thing related to Harry Potter at the movies this year wasn’t Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It was this nuttierthan-all-hell movie featuring Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse and Paul Dano as his delusional friend.

As is the tradition in this annual article, we don’t stop at 10. This sucker goes to 20.

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11. Midnight Special This chase movie felt more like a Spielberg film than the actual movie Spielberg made this year. Director Jeff Nichols had himself a great year with this and Loving.

12. The Neon Demon

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Elle Fanning had a banner year as well, especially with her work in this techno horror show from director Nicolas Winding Refn. Refn made a nice comeback with this one, a vicious satire about the fashion industry.

13. Edge of Seventeen

15. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) makes a different kind of Star Wars movie, and scores big. The final moment in this one really tugs at the heartstrings now, doesn’t it?

16. Krisha Oh man, don’t watch this one during the holidays. Trey Edward Shults’s directorial debut is an emotional punch in the face as a woman in her 60s (Krisha Fairchild) battling chemical dependency tries to make nice with her family. Things don’t go well with the turkey.

Hailee Steinfeld, who should already have an Oscar for the work she did in True Grit, epitomizes awkward teen angst in this very funny, very true treatment of high school in the new millennium. Woody Harrelson makes the experience all the more fun as her grouchy teacher.

17. American Honey

14. Patriot’s Day

18. Lion

Director Peter Berg teamed with Mark Wahlberg twice in 2016, both times for historical drama/thrillers. Deepwater Horizon proved to be a solid piece of work, but it’s this account of the Boston Marathon bombing that stands as their best collaboration.

There are a lot of bummer movies on this list. I’m going to go ahead and brand this one the “feel good” movie of the year.

Dev Patel plays an Indian man who got lost when he was a kid and wound up in Australia with new parents. Nicole Kidman plays the new mom, and it’s her best role in years. Based on a true story.

A nearly three-hour road trip with some sweaty teens selling magazine subscriptions led by Shia LaBeouf. Sounds like a recipe for hell, but it actually results in a really good movie.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land, Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Th e G ri m my AwArds Best Actor: Casey Affleck (Manchester By the Sea); Ryan Gosling (La La Land); Joel Edgerton (Loving); Jake Gyllenhaal (Nocturnal Animals); Paul Dano (Swiss Army Man) Best Actress: Emma Stone (La La Land); Anya Taylor Joy (The Witch); Natalie Portman (Jackie); Annette Bening (20th Century Woman); Ruth Negga (Loving) Best supporting Actor: Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea); Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals); Ben Foster (Hell or High Water); Mahershala Ali (Moonlight); Woody Harrelson (Edge of Seventeen)

Best supporting Actress: Michelle Williams (Manchester By the Sea); Naomie Harris (Moonlight); Nicole Kidman (Lion); Viola Davis (Fences); Greta Gerwig (20th Century Woman) Best Director: Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special and Loving) Worst Actor: Jesse Eisenberg (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) Worst Actress: Emily Blunt (The Huntsman) Best Actor in A BAD Movie: Tie: Ed Begley Jr. and Zach Woods (Ghostbusters) Best Actress in A BAD Movie: Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad)

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Worst Actor in A gooD Movie: Mykelti Williamson (Fences)

unDerrAteD: The Accountant, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Worst Actress in A gooD Movie: Kim Basinger (The Nice Guys)

unDerAppreciAteD: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Best Movie stAr to MAke it out of the YeAr Alive: Jack Nicholson (Thanks for not dying, Jack!)

Worst Movie stAr to MAke it out of the YeAr Alive: Don Sullivan, star of The Giant Gila Monster … a helluva human being but a terrible, terrible actor. overrAteD: Ghostbusters, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Don’t Breathe

thought it WoulD suck/ ActuAllY kinD of AWesoMe: Ouija: Origin of Evil Best AniMAteD Movies: Sausage Party, Kubo and the Two Strings, Zootopia Best foreign filMs: The Handmaiden, A Man Called Ove, The Wailing Best DocuMentArY: O.J.: Made in America Best reAson to keep on DAncing: Cause the music’s got soul!

Sweet

’16 the rn&r’s resident music geek picks his favorite albums of 2016

by Brad Bynum •bradb@newsreview.com

For folks who care about things like art, humanity, the planet and the future, 2016 was a rough year. Too many good people died—David Bowie, Prince, Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, my grandmother Martha Bynum, Muhammad Ali, and on and on.

And too many evil people consolidated wealth and power, as is their wont. Wars were waged, lives were lost, and climate change continued to be real.

Despite all that—or perhaps because things were so bad out in the world—it was a surprisingly good year in music. So good, in fact, that some of my favorite artists, like Kanye West, PJ Harvey and Swans, all of whom have released my favorite records of recent years, put out good albums that didn’t even make my final cut this year. I heard great albums in all kinds of genres, including country (Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth), metal (Neurosis’ Fires Within Fires), jazz (Nels Cline’s Lovers) and Beyonce (she’s her own genre).

But the enjoyment of music is a subjective pleasure, so this list is shaped by my personal taste, which tends toward post-punk and hip-hop, and the records that I gravitated to most this year were united by a strain of melancholy.

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Leonard Cohen

Parquet Courts

You Want It Darker

human Performance

The first name in melancholy is, of course, Leonard Cohen. And this album, as the title implies, seems willed toward an even dimmer tone than the bulk of his somber oeuvre. And, in one of the year’s strangest trends, Cohen died just two weeks after the release of the record.

With that in mind, it would be tempting to characterize the album as the singer-songwriter’s staringdeath-in-the-face record since the lyrics explicitly explore themes like religious doubt and inevitable mortality. But Cohen had been exploring those themes for more than five decades. A stirring end to a beautiful career.

This is a fun little art-punk/indie rock record by a band that just keeps getting better. This band appeals to the same part of my brain that used to love Pavement back in ye olde 1990s, but I’m starting to think Parquet Courts is an even better band. The songwriting is surprisingly nuanced. There’s a lot of snark and humor on the surface, but some bittersweet undertones in both the music and lyrics that distinguish them from a run-of-the-mill indie band. Plus, the songs are deceptively melodic, and this record just rocks.

Danny Brown

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atrocItY exhIbItIon

For some stupid reason—I blame Pitchfork— most music critics post their “Best of the Year” lists near the beginning of December.

This means that late December masterpieces, like D’Angelo’s Black Messiah a couple of years ago, end up on the critics’ lists for the following year. I hate this trend and am willfully bucking it. Next December, people will tell you that RTJ3 is one of the best albums of 2017.

Don’t believe them. It’s one of the best albums of 2016. Sure, the third record from the fire-spitting, politically engaged rap duo was originally slated to come out in January, but they emailed out a free digital download of the whole album on Dec. 24, “a Christmas fucking miracle” for fans.

It’s essential listening—with raucous, grimy production, astute, infinitely quotable lyrics, and two rappers with perfectly complementary styles.

The album title is a nod to a Joy Division song from 1980. Not the reference you might expect for a 2016 hip-hop album, but Danny Brown is not your usual rapper. The best rappers are often those who balance conflicting impulses. The craft of music in general, and rapping in particular, is to balance predictability—the clarity of rhymed speech—with the unexpected—a surprising twist of thought or phrase. Brown seems like both a loose cannon and a thoughtful, careful craftsman. That mix of precision and volatility, paired with his eclectic taste in beats, references and collaborators, makes him one of the most fascinating players in the game.

Violent Human System GIft of LIfe There are few labels more damning than “local band,” a phrase that tends to lower listener expectations by about 300 percent. VHS is not a local band. They’re based out of Seattle, but three quarters of the group are ex-Renoites.

I know them all pretty well, and have written about their previous bands over the years as part of my beat covering Reno music. This album is one of the best Renoaffiliated records to come out in years. It’s a nice mix of angsty Northwestern rock and dour British post-punk—it sounds a bit like Nirvana covering the Cure. It’s great stuff—although in typical Reno fashion after doing something excellent, they’re already on indefinite hiatus.

Run the Jewels

Radiohead a moon ShaPeD PooL When a band has released multiple paradigmshifting albums, it can be easy to underrate their records that are merely excellent. This record won’t change the world—or even alter the minds and ears of listeners the way that classics like OK Computer, Kid A and In Rainbows did.

It’s subtler and mellower than most previous Radiohead records. And yes, there’s a pervasive air of melancholy about it. And whether from singer Thom Yorke’s recent divorce or from some other source, there’s a feeling of finality.

For tHE WEEK oF JAnuArY 5, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

RENO LATIN DANCE FEST: The Latin dance festival features workshops, evening social dancing with some of the best Latin DJs and an evening showcase. Th-Su through 1/8. Opens 1/5. $35-$300. Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., www.renolatindancefest.com.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). 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.

SIERRA VIEW CODING CLUB: This is a drop-in club for kids who code or want to learn how to code. Using the self-paced NCLab platform, students will learn the basics of computer programming and can earn the Governor’s NV Ready 21 Certificate.

W, 1/11, 4-6pm. Free. Sierra View Library, 4001 S. Virginia St., located inside Reno Town Mall, (775) 827-3232.

SPARKS’ HISTORIC DOWNTOWN LECTURE: Scott Carey presents this lecture on

Sparks’ historic business district. Sa, 1/7, 2-3pm. Free. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, http://sparksmuseum.org.

Burton Mountain Festival

1/06:

Grab your snowboard and head to Northstar California Resort for a weekend of fun on the slopes, snowboard demos and music. The festival will feature 2017 Burton boards and related equipment for all riders to try, equipment demos and a group ride geared toward women riders, youth demos and learn-to-ride events. Burton team rider appearances include riders Danny Davis, Ben Ferguson, Kelly Clark, Kimmy Fasani, Ethan Deiss and Zak Hale. There will be a free concert on Saturday, Jan. 7, featuring Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (pictured), Monophonics, Taking Dreads and DJ CRE8 from 2:30-8 p.m. at The Village at Northstar. The three-day festival takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Jan. 6-8, at Northstar California Resort, 5001 Northstar Drive, Truckee. Lift tickets are $80-$135 for a one-day pass. Visit www.northstarcalifornia.com.

THE TIES THAT BIND: HOW TRADITIONAL ARTS BRING US TOGETHER: Folklorist and Nevada Humanities Director Christina Barr will share how traditional arts and culture bring people together and strengthen communities. F, 1/6, noon-1pm. $10 general admission, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

TUESDAY BOOK GROUP: This month’s selection is Eternal Wonder by Pearl S. Buck.

Tu, 1/10, 1-2pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

WINTER FIREWORKS CELEBRATION: Squaw

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EARTH2TRUMP: RESISTANCE ROADSHOW: This cross-country roadshow features local and national speakers, musicians and an opportunity to join a network of resistance to attacks on the environment and all forms of oppression. F, 1/6, 6:30-9pm.

Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.earth2trump.org.

AFTERNOON BOOK CLUB: This month the book club discusses Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee. W, 1/11, 2-3:30pm. Free.

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

CLASSIX & COCKTAILS: Reno Philharmonic presents this classical listening party and happy hour event. Learn more about Shostakovich’s famous work Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, op. 70, as well as the historical context and inspiration behind the composition. The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the work during its Classix 3 concert on Jan. 15 and Jan. 17. Th, 1/5, 5:30pm; Th, 1/12, 5:30pm. Free. Stamp Social Club, 50 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393.

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by Mental Floss and check out the galleries at NMA’s monthly party. Th, 1/5, 5-7pm. $10 general admission, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

HEALTH FAIR: Northern Nevada Medical

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Center hosts its community health fair in the main lobby of the hospital.

Screenings include complete blood count and lipid profile. T, 1/5, 7-10am. $0-$40.

Northern Nevada Medical Center, 2375 E. Prater Way, Sparks, (775) 331-7000.

Valley Alpine Meadows presents fireworks show on the KT Deck every Saturday, weather and conditions permitting. Sa, 6pm through 3/4. Squaw Valley Resort, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, http://squawalpine.com.

Art HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Purple Domino.

Holland Project features Courtney Asztalos’ exhibition of photography work in the front and hallway spaces of the gallery. Opening reception is on Jan. 10.

Tu, 1/10, 6-8pm; Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/27.

Opens 1/10; Spaces. The subjects of Alex

Vitale’s exhibition are impacted by their transgender and non-binary gender identity, as they seek to represent a space that is neither male nor female.

Opening reception is on Jan. 10. Tu, 1/10,

6-8pm; Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/27. Opens 1/10. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858,

www.hollandreno.org.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Light Abundant: Lainie Vreeland. The abstract painter creates innovative and imaginative compositions centered on water, forms and plant life as they interact with light. The artist reception is on Feb. 2. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24. Opens 1/9; Th, 2/2, 5-7pm; Extravagant Chemistry.

West Gallery in McKinley Arts & Culture Center present new work by abstract painter Liz Penniman. The artist reception is on Feb. 2. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24. Opens 1/9; Th, 2/2, 5-7pm. Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: No Expectations: A Photographic Exhibition.

Matthew McIver’s photographic series is inspired by architecture, sustainability, water and art. Artist reception is on Feb. 2, 5-7pm. M-Su, 8am-5pm through 2/24.

Opens 1/9; Th, 2/2, 5-7pm. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Leiko Ikemura:

Poetics of Form, W-Su through 1/15; Anthony McCall: Swell, W-Su through 1/8; A Shared Legacy Folk Art in America, W-Su through 1/22; A Place in the Country: Aboriginal Australian Paintings, W-Su through 6/4; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31; Peter Stichbury: Anatomy of a Phenomenon, W-Su through 5/28; Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, W-Su through 5/11; Dennis Parks: Land, Language and Clay, W-Su through 1/8; Tarek Al Ghoussein, W-Su through 2/19. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: Wild Open Art Show. A solo show by Lake Tahoe landscape painter Bonita Paulis. M-Sa through 1/24. 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK VISITOR CENTER: Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground. This exhibit features work by 16 artists who were asked to explore the geographical and cultural differences in Nevada, if such differences truly exist. M-Su, 8am-4:30pm through 1/30. 1595 N. Virginia St., (775) 785-4512.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Truckee Meadows Reflections. The Sparks Museum & Cultural Center presents this exhibition detailing historical water usage in the region. In conjunction with the exhibit, Latimer Art Club will present work by their members in the museum’s Cultural Center. Artists from Latimer explore the theme of water in their artwork, which showcases a wide variety of mediums. Meet the artists at the reception on Feb. 25, 4-7pm. Tu-Sa, 11am4pm through 3/25. Opens 1/10. Free. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

music BLIND ONION JAM: Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association hosts this intermediate/advanced jam. Pickers are expected to know the tunes and play up to speed. One bass player at a time (take turns). Beginners are welcome to play along or just sit outside the main circle.

Second M of every month. Opens 1/9. Blind Onion Pizza & Pub, 834 Victorian Ave., Sparks, www.nnba.org.

BRRROQUE MASTERS: TOCCATA—Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus kicks off its 12th annual WinterFest with this concert series dedicated to the memory of Mark Lord, TOCCATA’s principal trumpet player (2007-2014).

The program opens with Mouret’s Suite de Sinfonie fanfare, followed by selections from Charpentier’s Midnight Mass, Handel’s Concerto for Organ in F major, Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos, Bach’s Concerto in E major, Georg Phillipp Teleman’s Concerto for Trumpet, 2 oboes and continuo in D major and Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim,” from the opera Samson. F, 1/6, 7pm. St. Theresa Catholic Church, 1041 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe; Sa, 1/7, 3:30pm. Shepherd of the Sierra Lutheran Church, 3680 Highway 395, Carson City; Su, 1/8, 3:30pm.

Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 501 California Ave. $5-$35, free for youth under age 19 in non-reserved seating.

(775) 313-9697, www.toccatatahoe.com.

COME IN FROM THE COLD: This family entertainment series features local entertainment from music to poetry to interpretive dance. The 2017 season kicks off with NNBA: Monday Night Volunteers.

The program runs weekly through March 18. Seating is limited to 200 people. Sa, 7pm through 3/18. Opens 1/7. $3 suggested donation. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

OPERA AND LUNCH: Sierra Music Society, Century Riverside 12 and Silver Peak Restaurant and Brewery present a day of opera, lunch and fun in a social environment. Watch The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD performance of Verdi’s Nabucco at the Riverside, followed by lunch at Silver Peak to discuss the show and learn about the musical and community activities of the Sierra Music Society and its show chorus P’Opera. Sa, 1/7, 9:55am. $45. Riverside 12, 11 N Sierra St., (775) 233-5105, www.poperanv.org.

sports & FitnEss IDLEWILD HEALTH WALKS: These interpreta-

Film ALPENGLOW WINTER FILM SERIES: Local athletes share stories of their adventures in the mountains during the 11th annual event. Th, 1/5, 7pm. Free. Olympic Village Lodge, 1901 Chamonix Place, Olympic Valley, http://squawalpine.com.

tive walks are designed to offer people in all stages of Alzheimer’s and their care-partners an opportunity to get outdoors, get some exercise and socialize with their peers. The walks begin and end at the Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, across from the California Building in Idlewild Park. Tu, 10-11am through 1/24. Free. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 453-0698.

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