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Passionate intensity Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m writing this note on Tuesday, Jan. 17. This edition will hit the stands on Thursday, Jan. 19, and then the next day will be the beginning of a new era of American political life.

I imagine that the inaugurations of new presidents almost always feels momentous (I’ve only been alive for a handful), but this date seems seismic.

It’s not just the new commander in chief or his administration. It’s a tonal shift of our entire culture.

I keep thinking of William Butler Yeats’ poem “Second Coming,” and more specifically the lines “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.”

The internet trolls have been emboldened to come out from under their bridges. The nominee for secretary of state is an oilman who doesn’t understand conflicts of interest. The nominee for attorney general is a racist.

And many of the best and brightest people I know are scared about the future—about what will happen to health care, education, peace, prosperity, science, the arts, climate change and more.

This is an important time for people who believe in these things to make sure our voices are heard.

The presence of alternative journalism is especially important in this state, where the largest newspaper, the Las Vegas ReviewJournal, is owned by a multibillionaire casino magnate who has a sycophantic relationship with the new president, promotes his own agenda regardless of the wishes of voters, and doesn’t hesitate to meddle with editorial content.

Well, in this time of great change, I’d like to renew my commitment to Northern Nevada to publish solid news journalism, well-informed opinion voices, and critically engaged arts reporting.

We will remain vigilant. Come what will.

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

And other times, too As the events of the last few days have shown, we need to do more as a city to provide for our homeless community. The homeless were the hardest hit by the flooding of the river. We need to provide a safeground for folks to stay without being harassed by police and arrested. We also need to put funding toward building temporary and permanent housing.

Alese McMurtry Reno

A teaching moment Supporters thought Donald Trump wouldn’t shake hands with big business and the political establishment, but shake it up instead. I’m sad to see Trump is already doing just the opposite by appointing Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

DeVos believes in more private control of our public schools and supports vouchers, which divert funds from public school, and do not provide every family the opportunity of school “choice.” Vouchers often leave the poorest families trapped in ever more starved public schools. I attended Galena High, where I had the privilege of taking jazz band, but the threat of vouchers means future students may not have that opportunity. Fine arts are usually the first to be cut. If DeVos is confirmed and the Trump administration focuses on expanding policies like voucher systems, we’ll be limiting resources necessary for our children to grow and expand their working knowledge.

Let’s say no to DeVos, no to ineffective and harmful schemes like voucher programs, and yes to adequate public school funding.

Brendan Aguiar Reno

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Basin National Park, and now Gold Butte, especially on the heels of the Congressional inaction of the past several congressional cycles.

Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Dina Titus had legislation to protect Gold Butte that was stalled in Congress. So thanks to their support and the leadership of President Obama, Gold Butte will be protected for now and for future generations.

Andrea Welsch Reno

Russian denial Re “Why publish denialism?” and “Exploding green heads,” (editorial and Let Freedom Ring, Dec. 20): It’s the job of any newspaper’s editor and/or publisher to ensure that facts, not lies, are printed for the public to read and trust. I always assumed that columnists write their opinions based on factual issues, not of untruths. Anything else is irresponsible journalism, in my opinion.

If you’re going to permit Mr. Trainor to report his opinion on facts that are inaccurate, his columns aren’t valid.

Sure, you addressed Trainor’s lies in your editorial, but his fictitious column shouldn’t have been printed in the first place. You also could respond to letters that express obvious inaccuracies, such as the Dec. 29 letter that stated “Russia had nothing to do with the leaked emails.”

Please set the standard for strong, honorable journalism.

Mary Lee Fulkerson Reno

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Monumental letter Since 1906, 16 presidents of both parties have used the Antiquities Act to protect some of our nation’s most valuable and vulnerable natural, cultural and historic resources. Protecting places like Gold Butte just makes sense. Gold Butte saw extensive damage over the past few years and it was imperative this landscape—that is habitat for rare and threatened species, sacred to Native American Nations, and Nevada’s piece of the Grand Canyon—be protected.

In Dennis Myers’s Jan 5 article “Gold Butte preserved,” he states that “[t]he problem is that the law—enacted by Congress—authorizes presidents to act as Obama did, without congressional input.” On the contrary, the benefit of that law is that presidents can act. And they can act to protect places like the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Great

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Your thoughts on Harry Reid? aSked at weSt St. wine Bar, 148 weSt St. Shawn heneghan Retired rocket scientist

I voted for Harry Reid. It was the only time in my life I’ve voted for an incumbent. [My wife and I have been here] just over six years.

We voted for him last term, when we first got here. We only had one opportunity to vote for him. … I don’t vote for incumbents because the government does a lousy job.

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I think that people forget, Yucca Mountain didn’t happen because of Harry Reid. And I think we forget sometimes how valuable he was for our interests nationally. We took on 49 other states, and we said, “No.” And that’s the reality we live in today.

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I met him one time … when I was in Vegas. I definitely approve of the job that he has done, and I will miss him.

Prove it Former U.S. senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada once told a tale of how he heard from U.S. intelligence how secure the Shah of Iran was not long before he fell from power. Our spies were caught completely by surprise. While we hate being on the same side as Donald Trump, we’re not ready to believe the stories of Russia tampering with our election just because U.S. intelligence says it happened.

It’s time for our government to come forward with the evidence of election problems. This vague, nebulous, nonspecific claim isn’t flying.

PBS Newshour: “Top intelligence officials stop short of providing evidence of Russian hacking at Senate hearing.”

Japan Times: “Charges of Russian hacking fall flat without evidence.”

Wired: “Feds’ Damning Report on Russian Election Hack Won’t Convince Skeptics.”

Whenever we read a news report on this topic, there’s always a line where the evidence fails to appear: “The officials declined to describe the intelligence obtained.”

Meanwhile, Democrats—always legitimately critical of Trump’s use of bogus information—seized on what are just rumors to claim election fraud. It’s not easy to support good relations with Russia while demonizing it.

Then there are the patriotic chauvinists who seem to think Trump should be loyal to U.S. intelligence. Slate: “Why Does Donald Trump Continue to Defend Russia and Attack U.S. Intelligence?” Doyle McManus: “Trump just compared the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi Germany. Let that sink in.” Los Angeles Times: “Trump hurts himself and the nation by trashing the intelligence

community.” Let’s keep in mind that what Russia is accused of, U.S. intelligence is an old hand at. Our agents have overthrown, installed or destabilized governments all over the planet, causing the United States endless problems.

U.S. intelligence agencies are just that—agencies, like OSHA or the Veteran’s Administration. They should be subject to scrutiny by journalists like McManus and presidents like Trump—and especially by Congress. If they engage in misconduct, as U.S. intelligence frequently has done, they should be called to account.

The record of U.S. intelligence is abysmal, from the promise that exiles landing at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 could “melt into the mountains” to contributing to the uncooked evidence of weapons of mass destruction in 2003. Major developments, like Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait, got by U.S. intelligence completely.

What we want in the present case is congressional hearings—open hearings—in which evidence is subpoenaed and examined. There should be no withholding anything for national security. There should be no extended period for declassifying records. This was our election, not the government’s, and we should get all the information fast. Public’s confidence is part of national security. The case should be presented in language all—not just Wired and Bill Gates—can understand. And there should be clear distinctions drawn between “influencing” an election and “hacking” an election.

If our government wants us to believe Russia behaved like—well, like our government, then it needs to prove it.

Lay it all out. Ω

JeSuS OchOa Information technology specialist

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I grew up in rural Nevada, and then I escaped. … I’m liberal by my conservative family, I’m conservative by my liberal friends. ... He was a little heavy-handed, pushed the liberal agenda a little far for Nevada—for rural Nevada.

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by Sheila leSlie

Every day it gets worse In the grocery store the other day, I ran into a neighborhood Republican I’m on friendly terms with and, we wished each other a Happy New Year. I told her I’d just come from the gym where I had been watching Donald Trump on TV, and it was depressing and horrifying to think of him becoming president soon. “Oh, he’s not that bad,” she said. “You’ll see.”

I protested that he’s turning out to be every bit as bad as I feared—even before he’s sworn in—citing his terrifying, unqualified cabinet picks and his unending narcissistic and immature behaviors that continually humiliate the nation. She countered with, “Well, I didn’t like who Obama picked for his cabinet either,” hinting that our differences might be more about political parties than the deep moral divide I imagine.

Later I read about Trump press secretary Sean Spicer asking on a Sunday talk show that Americans stop mocking the president-elect for his grandiosity and mendacity and start supporting him as our

duly-elected president. Spicer aggressively defended Trump’s Twitter tantrums and indicated Trump has no intention of toning down his tweets, stating “When he uses Twitter, he gets results.”

A few days later, there was Trump aide Kellyanne Conway defending Trump after actress Meryl Streep called him out for his disrespectful portrayal of a journalist with a disability. Incredibly, Conway argued that Trump isn’t given the benefit of the doubt when he says or does something offensive and complained that people “always want to go by what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart.” She seems oblivious to the idea that apparently what comes out of his mouth is exactly what is in his heart.

Trump’s self-congratulatory, boastful tweets contain an outrageous number of outright lies. Politicians generally know their “facts” can be quickly verified or exposed as false but Trump and his followers don’t seem to care that he lies so easily and so often.

Trump’s falsehoods are so pervasive the Washington Post reports they are working on a new tool to provide “additional context” for Trump’s tweets in order to fact-check him in real time. Meanwhile, Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief, Gerard Baker, says his newspaper won’t call Trump’s falsehoods “lies” because they don’t want to infer a “moral intent” or “a deliberate intent to mislead.” In other words, if Donald Trump actually believes what he tweets in the moment, even if it’s false, it’s not a lie.

Like 19.5 million other Twitter users, I’ve been following Trump even though I am continually astonished by how revealing and unflattering his tweets are. The bullying and the boasting are so beneath the dignity of a president, I’m embarrassed for our country. The poor grammar and misspellings, sometimes corrected but sometimes left for the entire world to see, combined with an utter lack of impulse control and disregard for the truth leave me aghast.

Trump follows only 42 people on Twitter, and most are family members or commercial accounts associated with his hotels. Clearly he’s not using Twitter to listen. Like the classic narcissist he is, he views Twitter as a way to broadcast his every misguided thought to the world.

My Republican neighbor advised me to just stop watching Trump on television if his pronouncements upset me so much.

But that won’t protect our country from his ignorance, his alt-right influences, or his enormous ego, corrupt values, and lack of ethics.

As inauguration day looms, we must engage in a strong public resistance to Trump, joining other Northern Nevadans at the Reno Women’s March. The saying that “Democracy is not a spectator sport” has never been more true. Ω

The Nevada Women’s March will begin at 9 a.m. on Sat., Jan. 21 at the downtown federal building, Liberty and Virginia streets.

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by Brendan Trainor

Perils of privatization President-designate Donald Trump and the new Republican Congress have announced they want to deregulate to spur economic growth.

When Trump and running mate Mike Pence announced the Carrier Corp. deal that would keep around 1,000 jobs in the U.S., Pence said the “free market has been sorting it out, and America’s been losing.” Pence is under the mistaken impression that America has a free market system.

America has tumbled to 20th in the world in economic freedom, according to the Cato Institute and Canada’s Fraser Institute. The President of Carrier said the reason to move his factory to Mexico was the new energy regulations imposed by the Obama administration.

Pence refused to help him in 2014 by vetoing state energy regulations, so Pence arranged state subsidies instead, effectively making taxpayers pick up the bill for his political mistake. At best, Trump’s Carrier deal treated the symptom, not the disease.

The dilemma facing free market advocates is similar to their opposites, the Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic party. They disliked Obamacare because it was not single-payer. They believe it was a compromise that betrayed their socialist ideals, and leads to cronyism.

The same paradox faces deregulators.

If deregulation is not done well, it can degenerate into crony capitalism and betray their free market principles.

One of the best examples of deregulation is the abolition of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the deregulation of airline ticket prices. Deregulation lowered ticket prices by allowing competition.

Millions can now afford air travel that would not under the old system. Since air travel is much safer than driving, especially for the poor who drive older cars, deregulation has saved lives.

Many forget that one of the principle architects of this landmark deregulation was liberal lion Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Few liberals have supported his vision

since. Deregulation and privatization are anathema to most Democrats.

When Nevada voters approved Question 3 last November, they voted for deregulation of one of the cornerstones of Progressivism—the regulated public energy utility. Classical liberals like Hoover Institute senior fellow Richard Epstein called Obamacare the effective transformation of health care insurance into a public utility.

Now Republicans want to unwind that transformation and allow more market freedom in health insurance than there was even before Obamacare was passed.

Republicans are talking about keeping some of the popular aspects of Obamacare, like lower costs for those with pre-existing conditions, keeping children on adult policies until they are 26, etc.

There are two ways to accomplish these goals. One is to mandate the coverage. The other, which people like Senator Rand Paul advocate, is to free insurance from other government imposed structures, such as by decoupling insurance from employers and

making insurance available to new independent private pools that will allow people to obtain insurance at affordable rates.

The very need for health insurance for anything but catastrophic coverage should be discussed more. Obamacare spurred many health care providers to set up practices that did not take insurance, avoiding the enormous paperwork burden involved. Practices like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma offer cash based services at a fraction of the cost of the regulated insurance-based practices.

Medical tourism to Mexico, Southeast Asia, India, etc (helped by deregulated airfares) also provide a much cheaper alternative to American over-regulated health care.

Obamacare is all about expanding insurance coverage. But insurance does not necessarily mean better health care. Heavily regulated health insurance often leads to unnecessary procedures, higher costs and poor outcomes. The Republicans now finally got their wish to be in a position to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Let’s see what they produce. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

E pluribus unum

U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei is Nevada’s last Republican U.S. House member. He must navigate the new Trump GOP.

Following an election in which the Nevada Latino vote went heavily Democratic, two Republican state lawmakers will sponsor legislation seemingly designed to continue that voting pattern.

Washoe County Sen. Don Gustavson and Clark County Assemblymember Richard McArthur have sent a request to legislative bill drafters asking for measures to require nearly all state business be conducted in English.

Both men have previously sponsored similar bills, but they were met with little enthusiasm on either side of the aisle and were allowed do die.

In 2013, Gustavson sponsored Senate Bill 188, requiring that all “official documents, transactions, proceedings, meetings and publications issued, conducted or regulated by, on behalf of, or representing the State or its political subdivisions must be in English” unless required otherwise by the state or federal constitutions or superseding laws.

The bill was not given a hearing. It was processed along with other measures providing for English as a second language instruction, including one applying to pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.

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sEssions avoids commitmEnt With Nevada now a marijuana merchandising state, Nevadans have more of a stake in what U.S. attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is saying in his confirmation hearings.

Known as a vociferous opponent of marijuana, Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee has been cagey, allowing him to do what he wants if he is confirmed.

On the one hand: “I won’t commit to never enforcing federal law.”

On the other hand: “But absolutely it’s a problem of resources for the federal government.”

The Obama administration has mostly kept hands off states which have made the plant legal for medical or recreational use. But it remains illegal under federal law, a sort of Sword of Damocles hanging over local officials and merchants that can be wielded at any time. Sessions will not commit to honoring state laws.

On the one hand: “It is not so much the attorney general’s job to decide what laws to enforce.”

On the other hand: “We should do our job and enforce laws effectively as we are able.”

vEtErans push for pot usE In other marijuana news, veteran groups are starting to call for Congress to reschedule marijuana because the jury-rig arrangements of many states for medical use do not allow Veterans Administration physicians to prescribe.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and the American Legion of Indiana have provided congressional testimony on medical marijuana use for service-connected maladies. A Legion resolution calls on Congress to “remove marijuana from schedule I and reclassify it in a category that, at a minimum, will recognize cannabis as a drug with potential medical value.”

In Texas, meanwhile, a veterans group called Operation Trapped has been formed to join with Texas NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project to lobby for expansion of the state’s Compassionate Use Act.

—Dennis Myers

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Grand old party Adjusting to its volatile leader nevada republicans are facing the difficulties of following the lead of their president-designate in a state that voted against him.

Physicians and patients are complaining about the promised loss of the Affordable Care Act. Nevada’s Democratic Assembly speaker has replied to a congressional leader’s inquiry on how to deal with federal/state relations with a list of complaints about Trump’s policies.

An essay by two Nevada physicians calling on GOP legislators Mark Amodei and Dean Heller to protect the ACA ran on the website of the Nevada Appeal under an ad calling on Heller to vote against confirming Trump’s nominee for head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Various groups and individuals are employing means from letters to the editor to television spots to get Heller to vote against Trump nominees for a variety of posts.

A telephone news conference by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

brought the jarring news that perhaps 370,000 Nevadans could be cut loose from health insurance under GOP plans—a number that could rise to three quarters of a million.

More than 150 state legislators, including two from Nevada, signed a letter to Trump calling on him to declare his support for LGBT rights.

Gov. Brian Sandoval—himself a Republican—warned GOP congressional leaders against cutting off Medicaid expansion funds before a new health care program is created.

Even the supposed Russia/Trump alliance has raised its head in connection with Nevada. U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican, offered one of the less convincing defenses of alleged Russian interference in the election by analogizing it to Mexican celebrities performing openly at Nevada political events: “Harry Reid and the Democrats brought in Mexican soap opera stars, singers and entertainers who had immense influence in those communities

into Las Vegas, to entertain, get out the vote and so forth,” Conaway told the Dallas Morning News. “Those are foreign actors, foreign people, influencing the vote in Nevada. You don’t hear the Democrats screaming and saying one word about that.”

Nevada tribes are concerned about what the ACA’s repeal would mean for them, particularly because of complications with the Indian Health Services.

It’s all the latest example of the way politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose. Congressional Republicans—always uncertain about the volatile leader their primary and caucus voters foisted on them—are feeling their way as they decide whether to go out on limbs for him.

MarketWatch.com on Trump: “One presidential candidate wants to end loopholes for the ‘very rich.’ He’s against trade deals that allow foreign ‘sweatshops’ to steal American jobs. He backs ‘prevailing wages’ for U.S. positions filled by foreigners with special visas. He supports universal health-care coverage and an ‘individual mandate.’

And he says he’s the guy to rebuild America, a job that could cost hundreds of billions of tax dollars.”

“He was elected by crossover Democrats who came over in Reagan’s time and Nixon’s time,” Nevada political scientist Fred Lokken said of Trump.

“It’s not the typical Republican coalition that put him in office.”

Some of those voters expect things from government. Republicans must navigate treacherous ground between their traditional supporters and Trump die-hards, who until recently may have been independents or Democrats.

Meanwhile, Democratic leaders are free to attack from left and right. And it’s pretty clear Trump should not expect a traditional new president’s honeymoon period. This week, Democrats.com sent out a mailing calling the not-yet-inoffice Trump administration “the most corrupt administration in history.”

Who lEads?

“Before the ACA, women could be denied coverage because they were victims of domestic violence or had previously had a C-section,” wrote Henderson OB-GYN Keith Brill in the Las Vegas Sun. “Before the ACA, women were routinely denied, delayed or limited when seeking affordable,

comprehensive maternity coverage. Before the ACA, women could even be charged higher premiums than men for identical coverage.

The ACA has made tremendous strides to expand coverage for women by fixing these problems.

“Now, 455,665 women in Nevada have no cost-sharing for preventive services such as gynecological cancer screenings and contraception, 329,000 have benefited from the ACA’s prohibition on lifetime limits on health benefits. About 857,000 Nevada women have health insurance coverage. Do we want to put those citizens in jeopardy?”

Brill, chair of the Nevada section of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, was appealing to Sen. Heller to protect the state’s women patients and doing it in terms that makes it difficult for Heller to stay straight with both his female constituents and GOP ideologues for whom repeal of “Obamacare” is a party article of faith.

In the Nevada Legislature, Assembly Speaker-designate Jason Frierson and Senate Democratic leader Aaron Ford have written to Heller asking for information on whether, under an as-yet unwritten alternative Republican health care plan, there will continue to be mandates for pre-existing conditions, policies that allow children to keep coverage on their parents’ plans until age

26, coverage under expanded Medicaid eligibility—plus pledges of support for women’s health care.

Meanwhile, Frierson received a letter from U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It invited Frierson to complain about federal unfunded mandates, regulations or other grievances Nevada has against the feds.

Frierson knew what Chaffetz was up to and wrote back suggesting retention of the ACA, an end to “hateful” immigration language, and governing instead of campaigning.

In Congress, meanwhile, Republican leaders are being put in difficult positions of real stakes, and they must decide how reckless they want to be. “We have China clearly escalate based on his pronouncements,” Lokken said. “We could have war with China. That just doesn’t make sense to Republican leaders.” He said they are equally unnerved by Trump’s Israeli policies.

On matters of less moment, Trump can put people like Amodei and Heller in positions where they have to choose between the party leader and the party.

Trump is “proposing things without clearing them with the party,” Lokken said. “An Obama-style health program for everyone— that’s not the Republican program. Where it is that coming from?” Ω

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exit r eid EnD of an ER a • by dennis Myers •

March 7, 2011: On the anniversary of the historic 1965 Selma march, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (back to camera).

n December 1935, the Nevada Colorado River Commission reported to Gov. Richard Kirman that if the state built transmission lines to supply power to western and northern Nevada, the cost of electricity to consumers would be reduced.

It didn’t happen. Not until three quarters of a century had passed, in February 2009, did U.S. Sen. Harry Reid pledge to support building a major transmission line linking north and south for the first time. As it happened, the same month—in a reaction to the Great Recession and the Wall Street meltdown—Reid and his fellow Democrats pushed stimulus funding through Congress, providing a source of funding for the line. The next month, President Obama signed a public lands act freeing up 70 acres for a transmission line corridor near Sunrise Mountain in Southern Nevada.

Construction began in 2010. That same year, Reid pushed through a measure to shift the line to avoid sensitive historic and wildlife sites.

Another year later, a federal $343 million loan guarantee was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2011 and 2013, the Energy Regulatory Commission—chaired by Reid nominee Jon Wellinghoff of Nevada—eased regulatory obstacles to the transmission line. In 2015, Reid won enactment of a measure assuring a corridor through an abandoned manganese mine and mill site used in World War I. The 235-mile, 500-kilovolt, 600-megawatt line is now in place. Cost: $510 million. Reid shepherded it along, removing roadblocks, clearing the way. And he insisted that part of the deal would be reduced coal use and increased renewables.

The hatred that found its way to Reid during his Capitol Hill years cannot argue with his record of accomplishment. Indeed, it sometimes seemed his congressional tenure was devoted to unblocking old projects that had been proposed by earlier legislators but never reached fruition.

On Nov. 4, 1986—the night he was elected to the U.S. Senate—he promised to win enactment of a Truckee River operating agreement, badly needed for decades. Indeed, his Senate predecessor Paul Laxalt was at that moment making a last, unsuccessful stab in his final weeks in office to push a Truckee agreement through Congress. It’s unlikely that even Reid had any idea how long the agreement would take—nearly his entire Senate service. It’s a separate, three-decade story that needs telling, but for our purposes here it’s useful to show Reid’s history of achievement that had eluded other state leaders.

As a member of the U.S. House, Reid took on the task of creating Great Basin National Park, an idea that had been kicked around during the 20th century without success. In 1934, landscape architect William Penn Mott surveyed the area for the National Park Service and recommended creation of the park. It didn’t happen. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson supported the idea in the 1960s. Still no luck.

Reid succeeded, pushing through legislation creating a park with 76,800 acres (about 120

square miles), including Wheeler Peak and the Lehman cavern.

Reid went after wilderness areas, which Republicans had held to a minimum in Nevada. There was no reason for him to win.

The state’s then-four person congressional delegation was anti-environment, with Reid the only Democratic member. He outlasted them.

The two Republican senators departed, to be replaced by Reid and his friend Richard Bryan.

Nevada got 700,000 acres of wilderness, and Reid has been adding to it ever since.

Not all of his legislation concerned oncestymied projects, of course. He developed a terrific dislike of coal power, a factor in asthma attacks, chronic bronchitis, heart attacks, hospital admissions, premature deaths and lost work days. Reid worked on shutting down Reid-Gardner, one of the nation’s dirtiest coal plants. Most of it was finally closed, and a $4.3 million settlement was paid to the nearby Moapa Band of Paiutes for health problems.

Reid also prevented construction of two coal plants in eastern Nevada, infuriating local leaders who wanted the jobs.

In the Truckee Meadows in the 1990s, there was an unpopular plan to import water for growth from the Honey Lake area that straddles the Nevada/California border north of Reno.

Reid helped kill it (though it later came quietly back to life). Paradoxically, in southern Nevada where water officials are trying to import water for growth from areas along the Nevada/Utah border, Reid has aided the importation plan.

There are those who say Reid gets more credit than he is due for stopping the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, that three governors kept the federal government chasing its tail for a couple of decades. That is certainly true. Reid did change the dynamic when he won for Nevada one of the first presidential nominating events in the nation— the early caucuses. An entire generation of political leaders came to Nevada and took a pledge against Yucca, akin to the Iowa pledge on ethanol.

T h E b a D n E w D ay s Reid’s career in Congress more or less parallels the Era of Bad Feeling, when Republicans stopped working with Democrats and learned to parlay polarization into election successes—if not legislative accomplishments.

In 1999, Reid became the assistant Democratic leader in the Senate, informally known as the Democratic whip. In that post, he made allies in both parties by accommodating and servicing the needs of members. His cooperation coupled with his relatively conservative voting record made him the Republicans’ favorite Democrat. Trent Lott called him “soothing,” not the kind of term normally applied to a partisan fighter.

But then in 2005, Reid became Senate Democratic leader. There is substantial reason to question whether Reid was ever the person for the job. Today’s party congressional

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leaders must also be national party leaders.

Rank-and-file party activists did not want him, preferring Richard Durbin of Illinois as more media-savvy and a better salesperson.

Six months into the job, Reid was asked if, given his conservative voting record, he was miscast as Democratic leader. His answer was a Capitol Hill one—“Well, 44 [Senate] Democrats don’t think so.”

But senators want a leader who makes their lives easier. That doesn’t necessarily mean they know to choose the best person to sell their policies, either in substantive or public relations terms. The first thing that started happening to Reid was that, under the dogma of today’s Republican politics, people who had never heard of him before began hating him. It wasn’t rational. If Reid had stayed in the more below-the-radar post of whip and Durbin had become leader, it would have happened to Durbin. But soon, Reid was learning more about this new world of polarized, mean-spirited politics. He did not thrive in it. Probably no other single member of Congress changed so much in the polarized climate. His demeanor changed. His personality changed. His looks changed. At any time during Reid’s tenure, it was possible to run a Google image search for photos of him and get mostly frowning, scowling portraits.

It did not go unnoticed. In 2013, Conan O’Brien had a visual aid that cast the dour farmer in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” as Harry Reid. In 2014, a site called Red Alert Politics posted some freeze frames from a 1986 C-SPAN interview with a smiling, friendly U.S. Rep. Harry Reid and contrasted them with recent shots of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid: “This video reveals a different side of Reid that modern America has rarely, if ever, seen, a once happy warrior who smiled amid the discussion of politics and local issues and spoke with respect and praise of Republicans. … From appearances, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid derives little pleasure from his job. ... Bitter, bitter man.”

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period, instead letting tension build inside of him. It’s where some of his gaffes came from.

When he finally blew, it was on something unrelated to what was really bothering him.

Thus he made impolitic comments on the hygiene of summer tourists visiting Capitol Hill or Clarence Thomas’s poor legal scholarship.

He was aware that his words were now being weighed on a different scale. He once told us that “even when I was assistant leader, nobody really cared what I said. And certainly when I was just a senator, it was rare that anybody even wrote what I said. But now, people are even wondering what I’m thinking about. ... I mean, who would think that somebody would cover a high school class I was talking to? Or who would think that somebody would pick up the Ralston—something I may have said on the Ralston show, for heaven’s sakes, and send it across the country? But I’ve learned over the months that that in fact is the case.”

But it did not curb his often sharp tongue.

It is difficult, indeed, to resist the notion that both Reid and Nevada would have been better off if he had stayed out of the congressional leadership pool. In 2001, Reid—then still serving as Democratic whip—lured Republican Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont away from the GOP. Jeffords changed to independent and voted with the Democrats to organize, switching the Senate from a Republican to a Democratic majority. One of the carrots Reid used was giving up his own expected chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to Jeffords.

Senate Environment is a prized committee for any Nevada senator. As its chair, Reid would been a policymaker in areas the state cares about. He might well have accomplished a good deal more for his state than he did as party leader, while making life a lot easier on himself and preserving the cooperative relationship he once had with Republicans.

of votes needed for cloture to 60. Cloture is the number of votes needed to stop a filibuster. A filibuster means talking endlessly on the senate floor until the other side gives up.

But that’s not the only thing that happened in 1975. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield and his whip Robert Byrd came up with a plan for preventing filibusters from tying up the floor. In what was called a silent filibuster or the two-track system, senators would be able to announce their intent to filibuster and the cloture threshold—that is, the 60-vote supermajority used to stop a filibuster—would automatically be applied to the bill at issue. The senators would not actually have to go onto the floor and talk endlessly anymore. This would keep the floor free for other business.

The two-track system depended on trust, on senators not claiming they would filibuster when in fact they had no intention of doing so. But as polarization came to Congress, fair play became passé. Senators began announcing filibusters by the dozen, tying up bills with 60-vote cloture thresholds constantly. Soon, the Senate was operating routinely as a house where 60 votes were required to pass any major bill. A 51-vote majority was a thing of the past.

The abuse of the two-track system was almost entirely Republican—and grass roots Democrats, members of the House, and a variety of others called on the Senate to get rid of the system. Reid defended it for most of his tenure as Democratic leader, and when he finally yielded, it was only for presidential nominations. The Senate still remains a minority-controlled house. Reid paid a high price. During the debate over the Affordable Care Act, Democratic Senators Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln and Joe Lieberman all held up the Senate for concessions, causing health care to be watered down and threatening support by key Democratic groups like labor. In addition, the stimulus bill was far smaller than Democrats had wanted because of filibuster threats.

What was striking was how easy it would have been for Reid to end the silent filibuster.

Sen. Harry Reid and three friends at the funeral of U.S. Sen Daniel Inouye.

T h e d y s f u n c T i o n a l s e n aT e In 2008, the Wall Street meltdown and the Bush recession gave Democrats one of their great historic majorities. Reid made things much harder on himself by not doing anything about the silent filibuster while he had the power. With a majority of 60 votes, the Democrats were held hostage to any one Democratic senator who threatened a “filibuster.”

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When I tried to find the rule under which it functioned, I could not locate it. I wrote to the Senate Historical Office asking for the 1975 rule covering the two-track system.

Senate Historian Don Ritchie informed me, “The ‘two-track’ process is simply a leadership tactic and is not codified in the rules.”

By implementing the two-track system on his own authority instead of with a rule, Mansfield had presciently anticipated that it might one day get out of hand. He had left future successors free to get rid of it on their own authority. Thus Reid had the sole power to reverse Mansfield’s change and put the Senate back on a simple 51-vote majority basis. But he would not do it.

A couple of years ago, during an interview with Reid, I found out why. Neither he nor his staff had ever had historical research done on the filibuster. Reid believed—and still believes—that a rule covering the silent filibuster had been approved by the Senate in 1917. He and his staff could not be convinced otherwise. Nothing happened in 1975, Reid told me, except the change in the cloture threshold. One of his aides contacted me by phone to try to convince me. He challenged me to prove my case. I sent papers by several scholars describing the system’s creation in 1975, but never heard anything back.

Without the two-track system, the entire Democratic/Obama program could have been enacted in the first month of 2009 instead of eating up most of the year. ACA could have been put into effect fast, in the full form sought by the Democratic majority. The stimulus could have been larger and more effective. The Democratic Congress’s public image as efficient and effective would have been stronger. And the Senate would have stopped being dysfunctional.

JudgmenT History would have been of greater help to Reid in another way, too. He tended to yield to presidents on national security issues, though history demonstrates how untrustworthy they are. We have been unable to find

any U.S. military action in Reid’s tenure that he opposed at the outset. This was most glaring, of course, in the case of Iraq. And it took him a long time to learn from the experience.

As late as 2007—four years after the war began—he was defending the vote. “That was an easy vote for me,” he told Las Vegas editor Steve Sebelius.

He came to resent George W. Bush’s false information given to Congress—but too late. But senators had contrary information from U.N. weapons inspectors who—unlike Bush administration officials—had actually been on the ground in Iraq. Moreover, of course Bush misled Congress. Every president since World War II has lied about matters of war or peace. It’s a law of nature.

Why was Reid not more skeptical?

Reid’s own political savvy sometimes ran head-on into his own fellow Democrats.

Senate Democrats were often unwilling to take strong action, but they became alert to the party’s Howard Dean-inspired grass roots demands that party leaders get in the Republicans’ faces. At one point, Democratic senators wanted to filibuster against a troop funding bill that had been loaded down with unrelated measures, including REAL ID, a federally required form of personal identification. Dianne Feinstein of California was ready to lead the filibuster, but Reid feared what the GOP would do with it and vetoed the idea.

“This was not a time to filibuster a bill that was providing the money for the troops,” he later told us. The senators felt they could use the filibuster—a real one, when people talk endlessly on the floor—to spin it as a case of Republicans using the troops for cover to pass controversial bills that could not pass on their own merits.

Reid’s false claim that Mitt Romney had paid no taxes for 10 years was another instance that put Democrats in a poor light.

News reports often described Reid’s claim as “new Democratic tactics” or some such.

Embarrassed Democratic leaders were reluctant to criticize Reid—though John McCain, John Boehner, Marco Rubio and other Republicans had repudiated a Michelle Bachmann smear of an Obama administration official two weeks earlier. So they just lived with it, staying silent in the face of a McCarthyite attack by one of their own.

Reid also had difficulty making the case for the Democratic Party when it was not doing well. For a period he was citing the Democratic effort keeping Social Security from being a Bush Wall Street investment program as one of their great triumphs. He didn’t seem to understand that the party protecting its proudest legislative achievement of the 20th century was the least that should be expected of Democrats.

Finale

A young and happy U.S. Rep. Harry Reid, in a C-SPAN freeze frame used by one website to show Reid’s changes.

Reid has a reputation of having lived on the edge in elections, but in fact once he arrived in Congress, he had only one close call. That was 1998, when he was opposed

by Republican John Ensign and a recount affirmed Reid’s narrow 400-vote win.

Otherwise, he always won by comfortable margins. He actually talked about running again in 2016, but sight and other problems he suffered after a freak accident with workout equipment made it difficult. (Conspiracy

theories of how he actually sustained his injuries were an example of the weirdness of today’s politics.)

Many of the Reid achievements mentioned at the start of this article were already accomplished or well under way when Reid became Democratic leader. Certainly a grad student writing about his career a hundred years from now will consider the accomplishments in that time frame among his most important. There are not a lot of Reid measures after that.

It’s hard to imagine Nevada politics without Reid in it. He goes out on what he would consider a high note—his state voted Democratic in the presidential race, three of four U.S. House races, gave both houses of the legislature to the Democrats. It also elected a Democrat to replace Reid himself.

Moreover, he leaves a Senate that, though he predicts it will someday get rid of the supermajority cloture requirement, didn’t do it on his watch.

“One thing we fought for that’s worth defending is a fairer, more open and more productive Senate,” he wrote in the New York Times shortly before leaving office. Ω

A section of this article cut for space, on the damage to Reid’s personal reputation during his years in D.C., can be found on our Newsview blog.

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Fat cat reno man’s Dr. seuss collection is no joke

Dr. Seuss art collector Tom Hovenic bonds with a roommate.

by GeorGia Fisher

He sure does like it in his house. He’d probably like it with a mouse. He likes it here. He likes it there.

He likes his Seuss art everywhere.

“I’m actually buying pieces I don’t even like, because I just like having them all,” said Tom Hovenic, a Dr. Seuss/ Theodor Geisel devotee who began his formidable collection back before the rest of the art world cared much.

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A $10,000 inheritance from his grandparents was meant for a down payment on his first house—something along those lines, anyway—but Hovenic, a strapped medical student at the time, spent it on an array of Dr. Seuss prints instead. He’s never looked back.

Years later, the effect in his home is at once whackadoo and tasteful, with early works from vintage magazines, darker fare full of playful vice, sketches teeming with social commentary—think ruthless caricatures of La Jolla, California socialites—and oddball animal busts looking down from the walls. A Goo-Goo-Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast lives in the formal dining room amid other creatures, and “Indistinct Cat with Cigar,” a print that looks much as it sounds, greets you in the foyer.

There are many more to see.

A prized serigraph in Hovenic’s home office, “Cat From the Wrong Side of the Tracks,” has the subject smoking and playing pool. He’s a tomcat, or maybe a Tom Waits cat, and if you peer closely enough you’ll see a buxom naked-lady kitty painted onto his necktie. Meow.

“It’s not so much The Cat in the Hat for me,” said Hovenic. “When I look at [Seuss’] books, that’s just what he did for a living.”

Hovenic’s mother, Ginger, reeled a bit when he told her how he’d spend his nest egg, but soon began to follow his hobby with great delight. She’s an elementary school principal turned administrator, after all, and has long been a Dr. Seuss fan anyway.

The rest of the family had to sign on, too, of course.

“When we were married, I told Whitney, ‘You know this is part of the deal,’” Hovenic said of his wife, who aptly describes the hobby as expensive. “When I buy something, you can’t just say, ‘Baloney.’”

A few years ago, he supposedly had the No.1 private collection in the country. He didn’t bring that factoid up on his own, however, and quickly added that his rank could’ve dropped by now. (It’s no longer an available statistic, at least at the moment.)

All told, though, competing with other fans isn’t the point.

It’s more about geeking out and having fun.

“He was sarcastic,” Hovenic said of his inspiration. “He was funny, he was dirty, he was silly, and he was serious.” He failed many times, too, before The Cat in the Hat hit big.

And his work, at least his well-known stuff, “was the child in his mind,” said Hovenic, himself the father of two young daughters, Giuliana and Victoria. “His children were the world’s children.”

oh, the places you’ll Go Unexpectedly enough, the artwork is also a stellar investment, and some folks learn that their once-$2,000 Seuss piece later goes for $20,000 to $30,000, said collection curator Bill Dreyer. The work was practically on clearance back in the 1990s, though, when Geisel’s widow, Audrey, began to introduce her late husband’s obscurities to buyers and galleries.

“We had it, and it was literally sitting around,” remembered Mike Dicken, national sales director at Chuck Jones Galleries.

“When it was first released, everybody was kind of like, ‘Really? Dr. Seuss?’” That’s when Hovenic bit.

A humbling note—Hovenic’s selection is “amazing,” said Dicken, whose sales repertoire includes works by Jones—the animator who collaborated with Seuss on How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—Charles Schulz and other heavy hitters,

“but understand I have collectors who’ve spent millions upon millions of dollars with me, who make Tom’s collection look like he doesn’t even have one.”

Granted, Dicken said, Hovenic has almost all the “secret art” pieces—those are a thing, by the way—plus the taxidermy-style busts, magazine illustrations, political drawings and more.

“He has some pieces in his collection that people can’t even imagine exist,” he said.

Meanwhile, he talked about “Ted” as if he’d known him. He knows about his marriages, his life, his private motivations. And to be fair, the items he covets do feel like a peek into another person’s mind. They were always private, really, the therapeutic, doodly sort of art never meant to be shown or sold.

One of Hovenic’s dearest treasures hangs at the end of a short hallway. A stunning, one-off original bursting with abstractions and signature secondary colors, it’s not the painting itself that matters so much; it’s the fact that when you flip the frame around, you’ll see a hidden sketch and a distinct blue fingerprint. Ted’s fingerprint.

“To me,” he said, “that is just way amazing.”

‘This oTher collecTion’ “The vast, vast majority of the public has no idea about this other collection,” Dreyer, now an old friend of Hovenic, said of the obscure works that are drawing an ongoing cult following.

“When people find out about it, it just shows them a side of Seuss they didn’t know. But you know what? You almost suspect it, so it’s just delightful when you find out.”

Dreyer has a haul of prankster stories, some not for public consumption, about the celebrated and sometimes introverted artist and author. Here’s one from a fan he met in Washington, D.C. The woman grew up as Geisel’s neighbor in La Jolla, “and when she was about 13 years old, she decided she should be able to meet Dr. Seuss,” Dreyer said. “So she climbed over his back fence, and ran into the gardener behind his house.”

The effect in his home is at once whackadoo and tasteful ...

Naturally, she asked for an introduction.

“And the gardener said, ‘Look, you can’t just walk up and meet Dr. Seuss.

But if you want to come back and walk up to the front of the house, and meet him in about 15 minutes, well, you can.’ “… So she comes back and knocks on the front door, and the ‘gardener’ answers and says, ‘Hello. I’m Dr. Seuss.’” True story.

So what if Hovenic could go back in time and meet Seuss himself? What if they sat down and had the proverbial beer?

For starters, he said, he’d ask if the beer were as good as the brew Geisel’s father made during Prohibition. (That’s another area in which he’s well read— Geisel’s family history. Don’t get him started.)

The thing is, Hovenic said, “I feel like I have met him. Ω

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whose tendency to wear revealing clothes makes the calendar a natural fit; Jessie (Veronica Fraser), a retired schoolteacher; and Ruth (Julie Douglass), the prim and proper housewife who participates reluctantly.

The women only consent to the project when Chris explains that they won’t be In the last 12 months, three of my dear naked, they’ll be nude. They’ll eschew the friends have been diagnosed with cancer. traditional ideas about older women—that Two of them, thankfully, already are now they bake and sew and make jam all day— cancer-free following treatments. One is, I by doing those activities in photos without am heartbroken to report, spending his final clothes on. Strategically placed props (a days in hospice. It’s been a crappy year, cake here, a mason jar there …) hide the which is why Calendar Girls, Reno Little “naughty bits.”

Theater’s current production, is particularly The calendar is an unexpected hit, but relevant, beautiful and important to me. the attention the ladies draw from it has But Calendar Girls is anything but dark some unintended effects on their relationand depressing. Based loosely on a true ships with their families story, it’s the tale of how and each other. a group of women from The play doesn’t the local ladies’ society dwell heavily on John’s club rally around their death or its aftermath. friend, Annie (La Ronda It’s mostly an uplifting Etheridge), when her story about the imporhusband, John (Bradford Calendar Girls plays at Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St. Jan. 13-15, 19-22 and 26-29. For tance of friendships in Ka’ai’ai), succumbs tickets, visit www.renolittletheater.org. difficult times. But I also after a long battle with found myself in tears leukemia. more than once, so touched by playwright John had been a poet at heart, given Tim Firth’s writing and the idea of honorsunflowers as gifts and believed fervently ing someone’s memory in such a lovely that women, like flowers, were most a way. Despite a few flaws—the actors’ beautiful in their final phase. So to honor difficulty capturing a Yorkshire accent, the his memory and raise funds for the local occasional technical difficulty or blocking hospital’s visitors’ lounge where John and issue—the story is moving and sweet.

Annie spent so many days, Annie’s friends Reno Little Theater has extended the from the Women’s Institute come up with story into real life, partnering with photogan unconventional idea—they will pose rapher Anicia Beckwith to create a stunnude for a calendar and devote the proceeds ning, richly designed calendar, featuring from its sale to the purchase of a new couch images of 12 brave local women, most of for the hospital. them actors in this show. Ten dollars from Leading the effort is Chris (Moira every $25 calendar will be donated to Each Bengochea), Annie’s brash, bold best friend One, Tell One, an organization that raises who uses the WI to escape from her dreary awareness about breast cancer detection. life with her dull husband. Following suit Considering the January we’ve had so are Cora (Stacey Spain), the bedraggled WI far, I think you’ll find Calendar Girls is the organist and divorced mother of a rebellious perfect way to warm your heart and take teen daughter; Celia (Cathy Gabrielli), the chill out of a winter’s night. Ω

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A Monster Calls

This is a well-meaning movie with good heart, but it was better when it was called The Iron Giant. J.A. Bayona’s film of the Patrick Ness book tells the tale of Conor (Lewis MacDougall), a young boy whose mother (Felicity Jones) is dying. Conor is, understandably, having issues, not just with the impending loss of his mother, but bullies at school and a domineering grandma (Sigourney Weaver) he doesn’t quite understand. When things come to a boil, a tree monster (voice of Liam Neeson) shows up to offer guidance and tough love.

MacDougall gives a respectable performance, as do Jones and Weaver, but the film never really works as a whole. The relationship between the boy and the imaginative monster never makes much sense, so the human interactions wind up being far more interesting. Problem is, this movie is called A Monster Calls, and much of the film leans on the effectiveness of the monster scenes.

“Lord, Lord, why hast thou forsaken our script?”

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by what amounts to the film’s Judas, a guide named Kichijiro (Yosuke Kubozuka). Kichijiro screws Rodrigues over repeatedly, constantly asking for confession, even getting paid in silver at one point.

His actions almost feel like a running gag.

The film does get better in its final act, when Rodrigues finally crosses paths with Ferreira. Neeson Martin Scorsese’s Silence, or, How to Torture a is so good in his scenes, you’ll wish he had shown Jesuit Priest Until He Says, “Ah, Screw It!” and up a little sooner. As for Garfield, for every scene Looks for Another Gig, is the auteur’s most inconsiswhere he’s powerful, there are others where he’s tent offering since his misguided and sloppy Casino. overwrought and feels slightly miscast. Driver is It’s clear that Scorsese has poured his heart into excellent, and the film might’ve benefited from him the passion project, which makes it all the more sad and Garfield switching roles. that it doesn’t live up to his usual standard.

The movie isn’t without the typically great The movie is far too long, and repetitive to the Scorsese flourishes. A scene where three men are tied point where it becomes laughable rather than having to crosses in the ocean, continuously being pummeled the desired effect of moving the viewer. Based on the by waves, is an absolute marvel. Rodrigues’ interrogaShusaku Endo book, and a project Scorsese had been tion at the hands of an evil feudal Samurai governor trying to mount since the ’80s, it’s (a creepy Issey Ogata) is mesmernothing but a colossal waste of a izing. Had Scorsese and longtime great director’s time. editor Thelma Schoonmaker Bored to death is not what I taken a pair of scissors to the expect to be during a Scorsese film and brought it in under two offering, but that’s what I was hours, it might’ve done the movie Director: Martin Scorsese watching Silence. Two Jesuit a big favor.

Starring: Andrew Garfield, priests, Rodrigues and Garrpe Let me take this moment to Adam Driver, Liam Neeson (Andrew Garfield and Adam point out that I will sit through a Driver), head to Japan in search of five-hour movie if it is well done. their mentor priest, Ferreira (Liam Neeson). Ferreira Let me also point out that many movies that are 90 went missing during a prior mission years ago and is minutes long feel interminable and stretched out. rumored to have gone into hiding as a civilian with Praise to the sound crew and camera work—as with a wife. The whole setup feels a bit like Apocalypse all Scorsese films, they are exemplary.

Now, minus the excitement, capable storytelling and Scorsese grapples with faith and religion often fat Brando. in his films, most notably with the great The Last After the two priests split up on the search, the Temptation of Christ and the very good Kundun. film basically becomes a series of scenes where Silence feels like a film with no limits set upon itself.

Rodrigues witnesses atrocities against Japanese Coupled with Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, Christians being tortured by samurai trying to Silence represents the second movie of 2016 by one of cleanse the country of Christianity. He watches men my very favorite directors to disappoint. (Silence is a and women getting drowned, hung upside down, 2016 release. It had a limited December run to qualify beheaded, etc. To Scorsese’s credit, the violence, for awards.) It’s just another reason to hate 2016. while horrifying, is never gratuitous.

With all the bad things I could say about Silence, Garfield’s character is essentially a Christ I could also say good ones. I didn’t like the movie figure reminiscent of Willem DaFoe in The Last overall, but I feel like I should have and could have.

Temptation of Christ. He’s being followed around Scorsese needed to rein himself in on this one. Ω

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Katherine Johnson was part of a segregated division at NASA in the ’50s, a wing of mathematicians who did the work that computers do today. Hidden Figures depicts the humiliation she and two other historical African-American figures, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, went through while solving equations that helped put men safely into space. The women had to put up with a lot of racist bullshit, and the film shows their hardships, albeit in PG fashion. Taraji P. Henson plays Johnson, the “smart one” astronaut John Glenn personally demanded check the coordinates before his historical flight launched.

Octavia Spencer is her usual great self as Vaughan, doing the work of a supervisor without the title and curious about that new IBM thing they just installed down the hall. Vaughan would become crucial to the implementation of computers at NASA, as well as being the agency’s first African-American supervisor. As Jackson, NASA’s first female African-American aeronautical engineer, singer Janelle Monae is so good, it’s easy to forget that this is just her second movie role. As a composite, fictional character named Al Harrison, Kevin Costner does some of his best acting in years.

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La La Land

This is an all new, original musical from director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) that’s surprisingly low on melodrama while full of vibrancy, beautiful tunes, outstanding set pieces and a stunning sense of realism for a movie where the characters bust out singing. It’s the best original movie musical ever made. The story follows wannabe actress Mia (Emma Stone) and jazz composer Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) as they try to make it in crazy Los Angeles. They meet, they don’t like each other much at first, but then they fall in love, which provides Chazelle and his performers ample opportunities for musical numbers that surprise at every turn. This solidifies Gosling as one of the best actors of his generation. He can wow you with insightful indies and carry big-budget blockbusters. Now, with La La Land, he takes his game to a new level. He proves he can pretty much do anything when it comes to movie characters. He can sing and dance with the best of them. Stone doesn’t just make her mark with a beautiful voice and expert footwork—she embodies the character with the honest and almost tragic drive to “make it” in the business.

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Live By Night

Director Ben Affleck’s latest is a period piece/costume drama that looks like a lot of work went into it but never feels like a cohesive picture. Affleck also stars as Joe Coughlin, one of those gangsters you just gotta love, fighting the gangster fight during Prohibition in sunny Florida. Joe rises to the top of the gangster field, despite being the son of a cop (Brendan Gleeson), and despite basically being an all-around good guy. The problem here is that Affleck fails to give his central character a true identity and emotional toolbox. The character feels stilted, and the movie around him feels like a costume party. It’s as if Affleck

is afraid to make him the truly bad guy he should be. The fedoras and sweet suits all look good, but it’s in the service of a story that has been told before in far more powerful fashion.

Sienna Miller is good as Joe’s early love, and Elle Fanning, who had a great year with The Neon Demon and 20th Century Women, is also good as a disgraced actress who finds a new career in preaching. Again, the movie looks good, and Affleck’s performance is OK, but the story feels like a rehash of every gangster movie ever made.

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Two of Hollywood’s biggest, most lovable stars labor away in the pretty but dumb Passengers, a movie that doesn’t have the guts to be as ugly as it should be. Chris Pratt plays Jim Preston, a mechanic dedicated to starting a life on a distant planet. He and 5,000 other passengers are in suspended animation aboard a ship taking a 125-year journey. That ship has an unfortunate encounter with a meteor shower, and Jim’s sleeping pod awakens him … with 90 years to go on the trip. What to do, what to do, what to do? Jim gets it into his mind to do a very bad thing, and that’s when Jennifer Lawrence’s character comes into play.

The movie is good-looking for sure, and I really liked the design of the ship. That’s essentially what’s keeping Passengers from getting my lowest rating. That, and the fact that Jennifer Lawrence really can act, even when she’s in a junk-food movie. Passengers won’t frustrate you so much for what it is, as for what it could have been. Imagine if somebody like Stanley Kubrick got ahold of this premise. Oh man, that would’ve been a movie to be reckoned with.

This could’ve been one of the sickest science fiction epics since Alien.

The latest collaboration between director Peter Berg and actor Mark Wahlberg, Patriots Day, stands as not only a valuable tribute to the victims and heroes of the Boston Marathon bombings, but a solid, meaningful, gritty look at what it took to take down the terrorist Tsarnaev brothers. Wahlberg plays Sgt. Tommy Saunders, another one of those fictional composite characters that often show up in historical dramas. You may forgive this kind of artistic license, because the goal of Patriots Day is to take you through the entire drama, from the bombing itself, through to the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Alex Wolff) inside a boat in somebody’s backyard.

There probably wasn’t a single person who was at all of the events leading to the ultimate capture of the final living suspect in the bombings. It’s best to just view the Wahlberg character as a partial representation of the heroism and diligence that led to that arrest.

This is the second of two Berg/Wahlberg collaborations in 2016, and it’s a good one. The film is about heroes, the heroes who worked to find the perpetrators, and the selfless, persevering heroes who were standing close to an explosive device when it went off.

There was a quick little moment in the very first Star Wars (now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) where a character mentions rebels possibly obtaining vulnerability secrets regarding the Death Star. That group of people actually gets their own movie in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a Star Wars spinoff that’s technically another prequel. In fact, it tells a story that leads right up to where A New Hope begins. It’s also a little different from your typical Star Wars movie in that it doesn’t mainly deal with the Skywalker saga—although a couple of them make notable appearances—and doesn’t prominently feature the John Williams score (although that makes some appearances, as well). Director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) goes for something a little different here, a tonal shift that reminds of the big change The Empire Strikes Back brought to the saga. Felicity Jones is terrific as Jyn, a woman who finds herself with strange ties to the Death Star, and becomes part of the effort to destroy it.

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by Marc Tiar

Verdi Local Distillery offers flavored whiskeys, including an apple cinnamon flavor.

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complimentary tastes and cocktails, “just tell all your friends about us.” You had me at free whiskey. Friends, I’m telling you.

Despite feeling like we were crashing A badly planned Ikea trip turned into a a house party, we felt welcome to ask for stop in Verdi for lunch instead. Always on tastes of any the bottled spirits and cocktails the hunt, my alcohol radar alerted, remindmade to order. We started with sips of ing me that there was a distillery nearby.

Hoppymess whiskey. An almost clear I’ve had brief encounters with Verdi Local spirit, Hoppymess is made from distilled Distillery—bottles at the supermarket, a Mammoth IPA beer. I enjoyed it enough taste at a special event. I’d flirted enough, to bring a bottle home—a nice hop flavor it was time I got to know her better. Alas, neither dominates nor hides behind the a look at the website revealed the hours alcohol. Before diving into mixed drinks, to be utterly impossible for me—Tuesday we tasted the Mahogany Whiskey, a corn/ through Thursday, entirely within my rye whiskey aged for two months with working hours. The saving grace was a mountain mahogany in stainless tanks. It tasting event. (They’re held on the first and was so smooth I would have thought it third Friday of each month.) I marked my spent years in a barrel. Struggling for what calendar. to order, I asked and our host suggested her The first Friday arrived, and my wingown concoctions, mixing the spirits with man (father-in-law) and I saddled up (got ginger beer, soda and orange or lime. I was into my Toyota) on a cold Northern Nevada embarrassed by how quickly I drained the evening for the short cup. But my embarride out to Verdi. I rassment quickly wondered if they would faded enough to ask wrap up early due to 1155 Old Highway 40, 247-4628 for a taste of the Yeti low turnout from the For more information, visit Jackalope, a lovely gin icy roads and very low www.verdilocaldistillery.com. made with orange peel temperatures. and juniper, certain to My fears were be quite nice with tonic in the summer. entirely unfounded. Wandering into what While the other spirits—most in 750 ml appeared to be an old house, it was like bottles and 200 ml flasks—didn’t appeal something out of the movies—the rustic, to my taste, I know how popular Bloody small Western town roadhouse, filled with Marys are, so you should know they sell jovial faces, laughter and song from a a spicy mix and a garlic flavored whiskey guitarist off to the side. Friends clustered that must go really well with it. An apple at the lone table, among the distilling cinnamon whiskey rounds out the core equipment, and behind the bar. It was lineup. The current seasonal release is a hard to tell who was staff and who wasn’t, also appear, a black licorice whiskey—in the crowd spilling into every corner of flask size only. the small space—they’re seeking official After tasting all we wanted, we Guinness recognition as the smallest purchased our bottles and shuffled into the distillery in the world—enjoying beverages snowy night. From worrying we’d be the and conversation with fellow Verdi-ans and only ones there to experiencing a uniquely whiskey drinkers. Approaching the little local night, a good time was had and good two-stool bar, a friendly face explained spirits consumed. Ω that the bimonthly tasting events offer

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Moving on to complex nigiri, the upside With so much sushi to choose from in down shrimp was topped with rice, raw bay Reno, service and flavor have to be present scallop, scallion, black sesame seed and in equal measure for a place to compete. I Japanese mayo. This was followed by the can cope with waiting on food if the meal is Volcano, a big piece of yellowtail rolled outstanding, and a middle-of-the-road meal around a ball of rice, topped with raw bay can be improved by quick and attentive scallop, scallion, black sesame seed and service. Unfortunately, neither side of the Japanese mayo. The Hollywood featured equation made me want a repeat visit to the rice topped with sliced, raw jumbo scallop strangely named Sushi? OK. topped with cooked sea scallop, sesame The place was packed with families seeds, and toasted sesame oil. Last was the having dinner, so perhaps they were short Sexy Dory upside down shrimp, which was on supplies. We were provided a single topped with rice, sea scallop, scallion and menu for the table to share. The order slip toasted sesame oil. Overall, the flavors of included half the items listed on the extenthe two variations on upside down shrimp sive menu—and some items that weren’t and the Volcano were quite sweet and listed on the menu. We mostly indistinguishable wrote a few selections in from one another. The the margins and hoped for Hollywood stood out on the best. flavor and texture, most 1499 N. Wells Ave., 622-3874 Everything but our Sushi? OK is open Sunday through Thursday definitely something I drinks took a long time from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and would order again.

Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. to arrive. Appetizers took Our first long roll about 30 minutes, and was the Sancho, a mix of there were long pauses jalapeño, crystal shrimp, salmon, avocado, between plates after that. From the sizeable spicy crab, cilantro, lemon and teriyaki list of appetizers, we kept it simple with sauce. Mostly I tasted rice, sweet with a potstickers, miso soup and baked mussels. bit of heat. The Show roll—crystal shrimp, The soup and potstickers were tasty but jalapeño, spicy crab and seared tuna—had served at lukewarm temperature. More quite a bit of spice, cut by crab salad with disappointing were the nicely seasoned, a lot of mayo. The Guerra Fire roll’s mix spicy mussels that were served stone cold. of salmon, crystal shrimp, lemon and At least my sake was served a bit warmer, sesame seed was a bit overpowered by a though not really hot. Perhaps the oddest seriously fiery habanero sauce. We used things was that we were presented with bites of deep-fried Jumbo roll—shrimp, napkins, utensils and condiment dishes, but crab, cream cheese and sweet teriyaki—to we had to ask for pickled ginger and wasabi cut the heat, though I really couldn’t taste after our first dishes arrived. any fish flavors through the cream cheese, Although I appreciate hand rolls and batter and sauce. long rolls, nigiri sushi is my favorite. The Three other rolls were ordered but rice-to-fish ratio and freshness of fish apparently forgotten, so we decided to just were adequate. I sampled tuna, yellowtail, skip them and move on. Sitting for two salmon, snapper and mackerel—which was hours for a partial order is about my limit about as fresh-tasting as any mackerel I’ve for adequate-to-mediocre food. Ω

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016 – JANUARY 22, 2017

Anita Kuhn and Rob Pelikan make music separately as Lady Aladrah and Robsounds—and together as the Stars Below.

Love story The Stars Below

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For a long time, Anita Kuhn called herself a “closet musician.” She lived in Colorado, where her fans knew her for her visual works—things like paintings, carved stones, jewelry, fashions, makeup and photo shoots with models. Her style is based on a mix-and-match of fantasy realms—horror, goddess, graffiti, steampunk and goth, to name a few. We’re talking looks ranging from full-body zombie makeup to flowing robes and angel wings.

Her work is somber and elegant, and she’s serious about craftsmanship.

Less known to her fans, until a few years ago anyway, was the fact that she also writes music she calls “soundscapes,” based on similar blends of styles. Think classical-meets-ambient-electronica.

“It’s … ethereal and mood-oriented, not a lot of lyrics, not a lot of rhythm to it,” Kuhn said, sporting the kind of striking, black eyeliner you could wear straight from the office to a punk club.

Among Kuhn’s inspirations is a band based in Amsterdam called the Legendary Pink Dots, with an ambient, electronic jazz/ goth sound, 40+ albums, and a decadesold cult following, including a devoted Facebook fan group.

Through that fan group, she connected with musicians from around the globe who were contributing tracks to an album called Proverbial 11. It’s a benefit album, released digitally in 2013 under a pay-what-you-like agreement, to benefit the family of David Alsemgeest, a Canadian whose two children had a rare, fatal degenerative disease.

“Just through being involved with the fan network, eventually they found out I’m a closet musician,” said Kuhn. She contributed tracks to Proverbial 11 and two follow-up volumes, released in 2014 and 2016.

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Along the way, through the same network of musicians and fans, she ran into Reno’s Rob Pelikan, a fellow “closet musician.” His sound is made of slow, mellow percussion and vocals that layer a warm, folk-like tone with a meditative drone-like sound—something you might hear played by a serene-looking guy at a yoga retreat.

She sent him a voice recording of a poem she’d written. He sent her a song.

One thing led to another.

“She sent a little 30-second a capella song gift to me,” Pelikan said. He expanded it into a full song.

“And that was basically the start for our relationship, like, the inception of love, if you will,” he said.

Kuhn moved to Reno in December 2015, and the two have each been working on their own music as Lady Aladrah and Robsongs, and together as a duo, the Stars Below. Their latest piece together is the lead track on Proverbial 11 .v4, to be released in February. This one is a benefit for Heather King, another Canadian, who is battling lyme disease.

“The songs are coming from Europe, Brazil, Canada,” said Kuhn.

“I play guitar and dulcimer,” she said.

“He plays the guitar and bass, and we’ve kind of been using keyboards.”

The track symbolizes the culmination, so far, of Kuhn and Pelikan’s efforts as a couple and a musical duo, and their contributions to their online community of fellow musicians, closet and otherwise. (The Legendary Pink Dots themselves appeared on Proverbial 11, v. 2.)

Pelikan said popularity never was much of a motivator for him as he’s made songs in his living room studio over the years.

“Love is the creative ‘why’ of what’s going on,” he said “It’s the whole reason we came together. It’s like a binding force.

It’s like a glue.” Ω

The Stars Below are featured on the benefit album Proverbial 11 v.4, to be released on Bandcamp Feb. 3

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2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 772-6637 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $19-$37

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

MILLENNIUM NIGHTCLUB MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/23-1/25 Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Boondoggle, 9pm, no cover

Metaphysical, 9pm, no cover

Calling Ophelia, Bluegrass Lex, 8:30pm, $7 Hare of the Dawg String Band, 9pm, no cover

THURSDAY 1/19 ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

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

BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTEL

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

FRIDAY 1/20

SATURDAY 1/21

SUNDAY 1/22

2) Joey Carmon Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Joey Carmon Band, 4pm, no cover Reckless Envy, 10pm, no cover

1) The Purple Xperience: A Prince Tribute, 8pm, $35-$45 2) Joey Carmon Band, 4pm, Reckless Envy, 10pm, no cover

2) Reckless Envy, 8pm, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover George Pickard, 9pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover George Pickard, 9pm, no cover

2) The Run Up, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover The Robeys, 6pm Tu, W, no cover

2) The Novelists, 8pm, no cover

2) The Novelists, 8pm, no cover

2) Dijatal Junkie, SBASS JAMZ, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Rusty, Gurbtron, 10pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Sorority Slumber Party, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) TEDx University of Nevada, 8am, $100 2) DJ Peeti-V, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights, 10pm, no cover

1) Michael Carbonaro, 8pm, $22.94+

2) DJ Montague, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 7:30pm, $40.36 2) DJ Shift, DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 7:30pm, $32-$42 3) Erin & The Project, 9pm, no cover

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 7:30pm, $32-$42 Decadence, 10pm, $32.75 3) Erin & The Project, 9pm, no cover

The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, 359-1209: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party, Th, 6pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., 322-3001: Karaoke, Th-Sa, 8:30pm; Su, 6pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

CARSON VALLEY INN

2) The Novelists, 7pm, no cover 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

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

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2) Lex Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

HARRAH’S RENO

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 7:30pm, $32-$42 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Showroom 2) HQ Center Bar 3) Opal Ultra Lounge 4) Blu

NUGGET CASINO RESORT

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

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

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

SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401

1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/23-1/25

2) Bill Wharton, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover Ashley Red, 10:30pm, W, no cover

3) Buddy Emmer Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

2) Karaoke w/Dreu Murin, 10pm, no cover

1) Dawes, 8pm, $25-$35

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover

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

2) Johnzo West & The Wayward Souls, 7pm, no cover

2) Johnzo West & The Wayward Souls, 8pm, no cover 3) The Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20

2) Johnzo West & The Wayward Souls, 8pm, no cover

2) Max Minardi, 6pm, no cover

2) Max Minardi, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) DJ Ivan, 9pm, no cover 4) DJ MoFunk, 9pm, no cover

1) Styx, 8pm, $59.50-$79.50 2) Apple Z, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Fridays, 9pm, no cover 4) Arizona Jones, 9pm, no cover

2) Apple Z, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Arizona Jones, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Ivan, 9pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 10pm, no cover 4) Kronik, 9pm, no cover

2) AMP Ent DJ, 9pm, M, no cover DJ Ivan, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe 15 Highway 50 Stateline 588-6611

Karaoke Corkscroo Bar & Pizzeria, 10 E. Ninth St., 284-7270: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party, F, 8pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 772-2475: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

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FOr tHE WEEK OF JAnuArY 19, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

TEDX UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: Speakers and performers will present cuttingedge insights and ideas as part of the University of Nevada, Reno’s TEDx series.

Sa, 1/21, 8am. $100. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000.

All AgEs CRAFTING AT RANCHO: Enjoy family-friendly crafts inside the Discover Room near the main barn in the Nevada Farms and Family area of the park, formally referred to as the Great Basin Adventure. Su, 11am-1pm through 1/29.

Free. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4512.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Come into the library, find a table, grab a game and have some fun. Second and fourth W of every month, 4:30-6:30pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

Motown The Musical

1/24:

Broadway Comes to Reno continues its 2016-2017 season with the story of Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr.’s journey from a featherweight boxer to a heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and other legendary artists whose influential music provided a soundtrack to a transformational time in American history. Performances start at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 24-26, 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27-28, and 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29, with matinee shows at 2 p.m. on Jan. 28 and 1 p.m. on Jan. 29 at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $37-$115. Call 686-6600 or visit http://pioneercenter.com.

ME2: MOBILE ENGINEERING EDUCATION LAB: University of Nevada, Reno students present engineering topics with fun and fascinating hands-on demonstrations.

The presentations include discussions on going to college, engineering majors, careers in engineering and why math and science are important. Sa, 1/21, 11am-noon. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

Art ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE:

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RENO WINE WALK: The Riverwalk Merchants Association hosts its monthly event along the Truckee River and neighboring streets in downtown Reno. Visit any of the participating Riverwalk District merchants on Wine Walk day and receive a wine glass, a map of Wine Walk merchants and a wristband that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm. $20.

The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255.

JEDEDIAH SMITH LECTURE: Local historian Fred Horlacher presents the tale of Jedediah Strong Smith, mighty mountain man of the West. W, 1/25, 7-8pm. $10 per person. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, http://sparksmuseum.org.

OPERA & LUNCH: Sierra Music Society, Century Riverside 12 and Silver Peak present a day of opera, food and fun.

Watch The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD performance of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, followed by lunch at Silver Peak. Learn about the activities of the Sierra Music Society and its show chorus P’Opera. Sa, 1/21, 9:55am. $45. Riverside 12, 11 N Sierra St., (775) 233-5105.

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.

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Reno Coin Club presents a showing of the DVD So-Called Dollars by Jeff Shevlin. Learn about the dollar-size medals that were commemoratives to the opening of the Eire Canal, the end of World War II and souvenirs of the Colombian and Golden Gate Expositions, as well as other U.S. historical events. The club will also have its annual dinner, elections and awards night. All ages welcome. Tu, 1/24, 7-9:30pm.

Free. Denny’s, 205 E. Nugget Ave., Sparks, www.renocoinclub.org.

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natural history topics, track the ebb and flow of the Sierra Nevada’s seasons and catch a sneak peek at some of the wildlife you may want to watch for in the coming year. Th, 1/19, 5:30-7pm. $5 suggested donation. UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560 ext. 7474, http://tahoe.ucdavis.edu.

Extravagant Illusion. The abstract art gallery is open for Riverwalk Wine Walk on Jan. 21. Gallery hours are 3:30-7pm Monday-Thursday. Sa, 1/21, 2-5pm. Free.

142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Spaces. The subjects of Alex Vitale’s exhibition are impacted by their transgender and nonbinary gender identity, as they seek to represent a space that is neither male nor female. Including both photography and video work, Spaces is on view in the Holland Project Gallery. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/27; Purple Domino. Holland Project features Courtney Asztalos’ exhibition of photography work in the front and hallway spaces of the gallery.

Her portraits of female protagonists cast in neon light explore the masked realms of her subjects while also touching on notions of post-humanism and the idea of the “monstrous beyond gender.”

Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/27. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Domestic Dreams. The exhibition features photographs capturing altered landscapes of rural Nevada (and beyond) and portraits of people who live there, all through the lenses of the students of Smith Valley High School.

The opening reception is on Jan. 21, from 4-6pm. M-Su through 2/10; Sa, 1/21, 4-8pm.

Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Extravagant Chemistry. West Gallery in McKinley Arts & Culture Center presents new work by abstract painter Liz Penniman. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24; Light Abundant: Lainie Vreeland. The abstract painter creates innovative and imaginative compositions centered on water, forms and plant life as they interact with light. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24.

Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

FilM MUSCLE SHOALS (2013) USA: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a showing of Greg “Freddy” Camilier’s documentary about the famous Alabama recording studio as told by Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards and Steve Winwood. Su, 1/22, 6-8pm. $5-$7.

Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

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

Matthew McIver’s photographic series is inspired by architecture, sustainability, water and art. M-Su, 8am-5pm through 2/24. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK VISITOR CENTER: Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground. This exhibit features 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.

SIERRA ARTS: Somewhere in the Desert There’s a Forest. In this series of paintings, artist Lisa Kurt has crafted miniature narratives of human fascination with nature, particularly animals and animal-like creatures. Inspired by the New England woods of her childhood, the wooded and damp world of North California and the Pacific Northwest and her home in the high desert mountains of Nevada, she integrates elements of these landscapes into her works in various ways. The artist reception is on Jan. 19. M-F through 1/27; Th, 1/19, 6-8pm. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787.

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. Tu-Sa, 11am-4pm through 3/25. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

MusEuMs NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: 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; Peter Stichbury: Anatomy of a Phenomenon, W-Su through 5/28; Tarek Al Ghoussein, W-Su through 2/19; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, W-Su through 12/31; Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, W-Su through 5/11; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Toytopia. This immersive and hands-on exhibition takes visitors through 100 years of classic toys, games, dolls and more. Learn about the origins of toys, who made them, and why they are fun or dear to us. W-Su through 4/16. Opens 1/21. $9 adults, $8 seniors, children ages 3-17. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

Music COME IN FROM THE COLD: The family entertainment series continues with a performance by Ricochet. Seating is limited to 200 people. Sa, 7pm through 3/18. $3 suggested donation. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

ERIKA PAUL CD RELEASE CONCERT: This concert features local jazz artist Erika Paul on keyboards and vocals. Her new CD with her trio is titled Sway—A Tribute to American Latin Jazz. Sa, 1/21, 7-8:30pm. $10 to benefit Sierra Arts educational programs. Sierra Arts Gallery, 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787.

OnstAgE CALENDAR GIRLS: Reno Little Theater presents Tim Firth’s stage adaptation of his own film script inspired by a group of Yorkshire Women’s Institute members who stripped off for a charity calendar to raise money for leukemia research.

Th, 1/19, 7:30pm; F, 1/20, 7:30pm; Sa, 1/21, 7:30pm; Su, 1/22, 2pm; Th, 1/26, 7:30pm; F, 1/27, 7:30pm; Sa, 1/28, 7:30pm; Su, 1/29, 2pm. $12-$22. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900.

DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Funtime Theater presents its dinner murder mysteries.

The show starts at 6:30pm with dinner service starting at 7pm. Visit website for dinner selections. Third Sa of every month, 6pm through 11/18. $50. Lili’s, 2325 Kietzke Lane, http://funtimetheater.com.

THE EXPLORERS CLUB: Restless Artists’ Theatre presents this comedy by Nell Benjamin. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 1/21; Su, 2pm through 1/29. $12-$20. Restless Artists’ Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANDA JUNE: Brüka Theatre presents this play by Kurt Vonnegut. Th, 1/19, 8pm; F, 1/20, 8pm; Sa,

1/21, 8pm; Su, 1/22, 2pm; W, 1/25, 8pm; Th, 1/26, 8pm; F, 1/27, 8pm; Sa, 1/28, 8pm; Th, 2/2, 8pm; F, 2/3, 8pm; Sa, 2/4, 8pm. $20

general admission, $18 students, seniors, military, $25 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

by AMY ALKON

Is it something I wed?

Two of my girlfriends just got divorced. Both recently admitted to me that they knew they shouldn’t have gotten married at the time but did anyway. Just this weekend, another friend— married for only a year and fighting bitterly with her husband—also said she knew she was making a mistake before her wedding. Can you explain why anyone would go through with something as serious and binding as marriage if they have reservations?

It isn’t just the allure of the star treatment and wedding swag that leads somebody to shove their doubts aside and proceed down the aisle. Other influences include parental pressure, having lots of married or marrying friends, being sick of dating and feeling really bad about guests with nonrefundable airline tickets. There’s also the notion that “marriage takes work.”

We have a powerful aversion to loss and to admitting we were wrong, and this can cause us to succumb to the “sunk cost effect.” Sunk costs are investments we’ve already made—of time, money or effort. The “sunk cost effect” is decision researcher Hal Arkes’ term for our tendency to keep throwing time, money or effort into something based on what we’ve already put in. Of course, our original investment is gone. So the rational approach would be deciding whether to keep investing based on whether the thing’s likely to pay off in the future.

A way to avoid the sunk cost trap is through what psychologists call “prefactual thinking”— thinking out the possible outcomes before you commit to some risky course of action. Basically, you play the role of a pessimistic accountant and imagine all the ways your plan could drag you straight down the crapper.

Write out a list—a detailed list. Parse out the ittybitties, like “figure out how the hell to find a decent divorce lawyer,” “get lost on the way to the lawyer’s office and stand on the side of the road weeping” and “start working as the indentured servant of a bunch of sorority girls to pay the lawyer’s retainer.”

Yeah, that kind of detail.

We’ve got

issues.

Making potential losses concrete like this helps you weigh current costs against the future ones. This, in turn, could help you admit that you and your notentirely-beloved might have a real shot at happily ever after—if only the one of you in the big white dress would bolt out the fire exit instead of walking down the aisle.

Expiration dating I’m a 32-year-old guy using dating apps. I was in a long-term relationship that ended badly, and I’m not ready for anything serious right now. I get that many women are ultimately looking for a relationship. I don’t want to ghost them if they start getting attached, but saying from the getgo that I just want something casual seems rude and a bit presumptuous It isn’t presumptuous to explain “from the get-go” that you aren’t ready for anything serious—it’s the right thing to do. Lay that out in your online profile so women are clear that you’re an aspiring sexfriend, not an aspiring boyfriend. Consider, however, that research by anthropologist John Marshall Townsend finds that even women who are sure that casual sex is all they’re looking for can get clingy afterward—to their great surprise. Townsend explains that women’s emotions evolved to “act as an alarm system that urges women to test and evaluate investment and remedy deficiencies even when they try to be indifferent to investment.”

Ghosting—just disappearing on somebody you’re dating, with no explanation—is dignity-shredding.

If a woman does end up wanting more than you can give, you need to do the adult thing and tell her you’re ending it. Sure, that’ll be seriously uncomfortable for both of you. But keep in mind that bad news is usually the road to recovery, while no news is the road to randomly running into a woman everywhere, including your shower. 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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Please read between the lines: (1) Navigate the ocean that roars within the seashell. (2) Carry the key, even if the lock has been temporarily lost. (3) Search through the deepest shadows for the bright light that casts them. (4) Delve into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the inexplicable.

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There’s a booze manufacturer that claims to provide this sensation. The company known as Oddka has created “Electricity Vodka,” hard liquor with an extra fizzy jolt. But if any sign of the zodiac could safely approximate eating a streak of lightning without the help of Electricity Vodka, it would be you Leos. These days you have a special talent for absorbing and enjoying and integrating fiery inspiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Eighteenth-century

painter Joshua Reynolds said that a “disposition to abstractions, to generalizing and classification, is the great glory of the human mind.” To that lofty sentiment, his fellow artist William Blake responded, “To generalize is to be an idiot; to particularize is the alone distinction of merit.”

So I may be an idiot when I make the following generalization, but I think I’m right: In the coming weeks, it will be in your best interests to rely on crafty generalizations to guide your decisions.

Getting bogged down in details at the expense of the big picture—missing the forest for the trees—is a potential pitfall that you can and should avoid.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Czech writer Bohumil

Hrabal penned the Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age. It consists of one sentence. But it’s a long, rambling sentence—117 pages’ worth.

It streams from the mouth of the narrator, who is an older man bent on telling all the big stories of his life. If there were ever to come a time when you, too, would have cosmic permission and a poetic license to deliver a one-sentence, 117page soliloquy, Libra, it would be in the coming weeks. Reveal your truths! Break through your inhibitions! Celebrate your epic tales! (Ps. Show this horoscope to the people you’d like as your listeners.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When Pluto was discovered in 1930, astronomers called it the ninth planet. But 76 years later, they changed their mind. In accordance with shifting definitions, they demoted Pluto to the status of a mere “dwarf planet.” But in recent years, two renowned astronomers at Caltech have found convincing evidence for a new ninth planet. Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown are tracking an object that is much larger than Earth. Its orbit is so far beyond Neptune’s that it takes 15,000 years to circle the sun. As yet it doesn’t have an official name, but Batygin and Brown informally refer to it as “Phattie.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect that you, too, are on the verge of locating a monumental new addition to your universe.

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

and potato are both nightshades, a family of flowering plants. Taking advantage of this commonality, botanists have used the technique of grafting to produce a pomato plant. Its roots yield potatoes, while its vines grow cherry tomatoes.

Now would be a good time for you to experiment with a metaphorically similar creation, Sagittarius. Can you think of how you might generate two useful influences from a single source?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some guy I

don’t know keeps sending me emails about great job opportunities he thinks I’d like to apply for: a technical writer for a solar energy company, for example, and a social media intern for a business that offers travel programs. His messages are not spam. The gigs are legitimate. And yet I’m not in the least interested. I already have several jobs I enjoy, like writing these horoscopes. I suspect that you, too, may receive worthy but ultimately irrelevant invitations in the coming days, Capricorn. My advice: If you remain faithful to your true needs and desires, more apropos offers will eventually flow your way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The word

“naysayer” describes a person who’s addicted to expressing negativity. A “yeasayer,” on the other hand, is a person who is prone to expressing optimism. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you can and should be a creative yeasayer in the coming days—both for the sake of your own well-being and that of everyone whose life you touch. For inspiration, study Upton Sinclair’s passage about Beethoven: He was “the defier of fate, the great yea-sayer.” His music is “like the wind running over a meadow of flowers, superlative happiness infinitely multiplied.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If I’m feeling

prosaic, I might refer to a group of flamingos as a flock. But one of the more colorful and equally correct terms is a “flamboyance” of flamingos. Similarly, a bunch of pretty insects with clubbed antennae and big fluttery wings may be called a kaleidoscope of butterflies. The collective noun for zebras can be a dazzle, for pheasants a bouquet, for larks an exaltation and for finches a charm. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m borrowing these nouns to describe members of your tribe. A flamboyance or kaleidoscope of Pisceans? Yes! A dazzle or bouquet or exaltation or charm of Pisceans? Yes! All of the above.

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

Taylor Newell

What’s the basic concept?

It’s highly curated vintage and new clothing. The new clothing comes from designers that [Barnato] and I have both met in, like, Portland and L.A. We get jewelry from them and clothing. We have Filthy Animal Apparel, which is a local from here in Reno, Laura Cooper.

We’re carrying her stuff here too. The vibe is very ’70s, ’60s, with a touch of ’80s band tees and stuff—rock ’n’ roll.

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Dick Diamond’s Golden Jackal is a new clothing store opening in midtown Reno at 600 S. Virginia St. Dick Diamond is a fictional mascot partially inspired by Dick Damond’s Motors, a car lot that was once in the same location. The store sports a mix of classic vintage clothes and new clothes that can be custom tailored, including embroidery by Cody McElroy of Dirty Needle Embroidery, and leather stamping by Jake Houston, who’s known around Northern Nevada as a country music performer. Taylor Newell is a co-owner of the store, along with Zachary Girdis of nearby Midtown Community Yoga and Peter Barnato of The Loving Cup bar. Golden Jackal’s grand opening is Jan. 19 from 6 to 9 p.m.

… My thing is that I like each decade, when it comes to fashion, and I play with it into one look. Sometimes I’ll wear bellbottoms—so, ’70s—with a satin bomber—’80s. … The two other people working here [Houston and McElroy]— we give them free rent, and they’ll just make stuff, which I think is a cool aspect of the store. There will be people in here constantly making things. That will be happening live. They’re part of the store.

I think they’re a bigger part of the store than we are.

So, you’ll have people in here making things while the store is open?

Yeah, and we’ve tossed a lot of ideas around. I have a friend who does oils, so she’ll sell some of her essential oils, but on—I don’t know what day it’s going to be—but one Saturday she’ll come and speak about it after hours. And we’ll

have people come in and learn about these oils. We want to do that with a bunch of things. Like, one week, how to distress your denim because that’s super in. So you bring your jeans in, and we’ll go through and learn how to do it.

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Natural Selection is going to put some taxidermy up for us. [Will Durham’s] Nevada Neon Project hooked us up with this neon sign, which is awesome.

The grand opening is Thursday?

Jake Houston is playing an acoustic set.

I’ll have some friends, some hot model babes, walking around, just being flirty and fun with everyone. We’ll have a photo booth and a cool furniture setup. … The Nest is doing our furniture setup.

It’s a monthly thing that we’ll change out, but we basically want it to look like you’re in someone’s living room. It’s a good opportunity for people to take pictures, and everything on the stage is for sale, while we’re promoting other Reno businesses. … You’d think The Nest would be our direct competition, but we’re all helping each other out. We needed a furniture display, she hooked us up, and we’re leaving her price tags up and telling everyone to go there.

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by BRUCE VAN DYKE

The next step The more simply this is said, the easier it will be for us all to come to grips with it. Folks, this election was indeed illegitimate. John Lewis nailed it. Trump is, quite plainly, flat out, stone cold, illegitimate. The Moscovian Candidate.

It was the Fake Election. Of course it’s bogus. Of course its results don’t mean diddley squat to a hula hoop. This election, were it held in Uruguay or Uzbekistan, would be thrown into a shredder and done over. Why? Two reasons.

Putin. Comey.

But this malevolent mess took place in the United Bleeping States of America, the untouchable bastion of liberty and freedom, and the reality of this reality show is now finally sinking in, and it’s frankly so weird, so bizarre, so unprecedented, and so absolutely gigantic in the scope of What It All Means that most Americans still aren’t really dealing with it. I mean,

we could barely handle Florida’s hanging chad bullshit. How are we supposed to process this level of evil madness?

But we better. And fast.

Because Twitler is now our president.

Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle had a spot-on reaction after that remarkable press conference on the 12th.

Check it out: “[T]his was Trump’s single, overarching message for the nation at his presser, and it was as simple as it was deafening.

“Fuck you, America. I won.

I conned you all, and I now am going to do whatever I want. I will obey no rules, laws, whiny ethics committees, popular votes, congressional regulations, media guidelines, conflict-of-interest boundaries, historic precedent.

Why should I? I have no filter, no real plan, no fresh ideas, no crisis

management strategy, no moral compass. Who needs it? The presidency is now mine to do with as I please, and I will piss all over it like a dog on your favorite carpet.

“Know this now, America: I am not here for you. I am not here for peace, or democracy, or our collective success, or the working classes, or anyone else. I am here only for revenge and to further expand my own wealth, and the world is my punching bag. Thank you for coming, and you may now all feel free to go to hell.”

Is that a bit much? Too real?

Too bad. Too goddamned bad.

It may be tough to process, granted. But it’s also, unfortunately, an honest, accurate assessment of Twitler’s ’tude. So what to do about it? Well, there’s a nice function this Saturday, as a matter of fact. You’re invited.

Here’s to a million marchers in the streets of Earth. Ω

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