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Recovering from Surgery? Suffering from Pain that Just Won’t Go Away? Physical Therapy Might be for You Physical therapists at NNMC use specialized exercise and equipment to help reduce pain, weakness and stiffness, while also helping patients to rebuild strength and endurance.

Those With the Following Needs May Benefit: Ask your doctor about a referral for physical therapy if you have any of the following conditions: • • • •

Surgery preparation Postoperative recovery Sports injuries Arthritis

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Muscle and joint pain Back and neck pain Neurological disorders

Northern Nevada Medical Center (NNMC) is excited to announce the opening of a new rehabilitation facility for comprehensive physical therapy in South Reno.

With the already established Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Center in Sparks, NNMC can now offer patients two convenient locations for physical therapy.

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Meet the NNMC Physical Therapists Jessie Fisher

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PT, MPT, OCS Jessie grew up in the communities of Reno and Sparks. She has been an outpatient physical therapist since 2001.

DPT, ASTM Heidi is a native to Nevada and has been practicing physical therapy since 2008.

Her qualifications include: • Board certified orthopedic PT specialist • Level I Functional Movement Screen Certification (treats the body as a whole in the development of individualized treatment plans) • Certified specialist in the LSVT BIG protocol for people with Parkinson’s disease • Experience with NCAA Division I athletes

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At NNMC Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Center: Sparks and South Reno, physical therapists develop individualized treatment plans for a variety of common and complicated conditions in fully equipped clinics.

Physical therapists are available to see patients Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Her experience includes: • Orthopedics and aquatic therapy • Post-surgical rehabilitation and worker’s compensation • McKenzie Mechanical Diagnosis & Astym® (assisted soft tissue massage) methods • Certified Functional Evaluator

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Capital ideas Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I spent a big chunk of last week in the belly of the beast, the center of the labyrinth, the gaping maw of the golden-haired blowhard, the bubbling water of the porcelain bowl— that’s right, Washington D.C. I was there for the annual conference of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, of which this paper is a proud member. Overall, it was a great little trip—despite some travel difficulties that I won’t bore you with. (A few years ago, I took a solemn vow to never tell “I had the worst time at the airport” stories, which are right up there with “I almost got into a car accident” stories in the category of stories that everyone likes to tell, but that no one wants to listen to. But let me give a quick nod of “fuck you” to United Airlines. You might think a company that’s trying to repair its damaged public image would try to go above and beyond with its customer service—but you’d be wrong.)

Some highlights from the conference: I learned a lot about some of the resources available to help journalists make effective public records requests. I got to visit the Haitian embassy, and see an amazing collection of works by Haitian artists. I got to hear a candid, inspiring speech from Rep. John Yarmuth. He’s the former publisher of an alt-weekly newspaper a lot like this one, the Louisville Eccentric Observer. I went to a reception in one of the U.S. Senate office buildings and walked right past the offices of a number of senators, including our own Catherine Cortez Masto. It was after hours, and none of the offices seemed occupied—except John McCain’s.

And best of all, I got to spend time with hard-working colleagues from papers all around the country. It’s great to see how alt papers are doing more and more with very limited resources, but very dedicated staffs. Special shout-out to the crew of the Baltimore City Paper, who continue to write great boots-onthe-ground stories—even though their paper is going to fold before the end of the year. If you pass through Maryland this fall, be sure to pick up a copy. And if you have the resources, write ’em a check.

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

Orrock vs. McCain Re “McCain death sought” (Upfront, July 20): Wait, what?!

A pox upon Johnstone and Orrock.

As we now know, Senator McCain is unlikely to survive long with the virulent and aggressive cancer with which he has been diagnosed, but to speak of anyone in such terms is despicable and shameful.

Apologies will be reluctantly accepted.

Standing by, but not holding breath.

Steve Walco Carson City

Report card Alright! So here we are at the half year juncture. Let’s see what’s happening!

Southern border wall to be paid for with Mexico’s dinero? Ain’t gonna happen, folks!

Simplifying a horribly complex tax code? Too hard, lets move on!

A crumbling infrastructure? Avoid bridges!

Trumpcare? Do not get sick!

4 a.m. tweeting as a method of mass distraction? How very presidential!

Nepotism in the White House? Not a good idea!

Collusion with the Russians? Da! (Yes, in Russian) Probable obstruction of justice, treason, solicitation, perjury at the Executive Branch level? Almost certainly!

Mental incompetence, a.k.a. insanity, at the very top? Sure as hell!

Mr. Trump, playing dictator may have worked just fine in a family-run real estate gig, but it simply doesn’t cut it at the highest echelon in the greatest country in the world. Politics, while filled with horrendous spin, vagaries and partisanship, has a certain necessary rigidity, and decorum that must be

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abided or negative ramifications will surely result—as you are now finding out. Making America great again? We’ve never stopped being great, and now it’s high time for you to step aside, and allow us to continue to do so!

Mark Murray Reno

Stacked deck Re “The big boys plan more deregulation” (Newsview blog, July 19): A day after Dennis Myers’s column on myopic deregulation, Sen. Dean Heller provided another example by cosponsoring S.J. Res. 47, a bill that would let Wall Street go wild. In the past few years, forced arbitration clauses became nearubiquitous in financial contracts.

Under these clauses, if a bank, payday loan store, or other lender breaks the law through illegal fees or unauthorized withdrawals from your account, you are blocked from taking that malicious company to court to get your money back.

Instead, you are shunted into arbitration, where the deck is stacked against you.

The arbitrator is often handpicked by the thieving company and there’s no right to appeal.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), our lone watchdog on Wall Street, studied the matter and—in an approach rare in Washington today—used this evidence to create a policy. The CFPB issued a rule that will prohibit financial contracts from blocking class action lawsuits. This will let consumers have their day in court and hold scammers accountable. Senator Heller wants to repeal the rule and let financial firms continue to run roughshod over American consumers.

Laura Martin Las Vegas

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Would you rather be too hot or cold? aSkeD at the Saint, 761 S. Virginia St.

Darrell BernarDo Software engineer

I’d definitely rather be cold, because I hate sweating—like that’s flat out. I don’t like sweating. If the question is, “Would I rather be hot or cold?” It’s definitely cold. Would I prefer hot or cold for the temperature? I’d go hot. It’s weird, right?

Joy Wong Photographer

I’d rather be cold because I can layer, and it’s cozy. If you’re hot, you’re just hot. I live L.A., so winter is nothing like it is here.

If I lived here, I think I might say I’d rather have it be summer than winter.

roBert Moret ti Financial adviser

Second guessing With ongoing fights over health care and a U.S. Interior Department “review” of the existence of some national monuments underway, it seems like a good time to point out that these are relatively new governing techniques.

When President Harding, on Jan. 24, 1922, made the Lehman cavern in eastern Nevada a national monument, no one made a political issue of it. There was no “review” or legislation to take away the president’s power to designate such monuments. But when President Obama designated Basin and Range and Gold Butte national monuments in Nevada, the howls were heard in Muscat, and Western leaders, if not residents, started talking sagebrush revolution.

In 1959, after the American Medical Association and Republicans finally lost a three-decade-long fight to enact medical care for the aged, Republicans and physicians got to work on how to make the new system a success. In those days, once Congress decided a policy, most people on both sides hoped for the best.

As we reported in 2015 (“Medicare at 50,” Aug. 6, 2015): “What happened [after the vote] would surprise anyone born thereafter who watched the Affordable Care Act being enacted by Congress in 2009. Although the 30-year battle over Medicare was long and hard fought, it was not a party line vote. Once Medicare was law, the GOP did not, for years afterward, tie approval of other, unrelated programs to it. Republicans didn’t try to shut down the government to get their way. The AMA made a point of telling doctors they didn’t have to serve Medicare patients, but it was just a gesture by then, and few doctors

did refuse. No one tried to kill Medicare by defunding it.

No one tried to delay the law taking effect. Rather, nearly everyone accepted the outcome, and life for most patients and doctors resumed with few changes.”

No such luck these days. Presidents and legislators try to sabotage legal programs. Established government agencies must endure guerrilla warfare instead of being allowed to show what they can do. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke was in Nevada in the last few days, a trip to hear from locals about the national monuments, a trip he cut short but did squeeze in a symbolic visit to Bunkerville, home of the Bundy family.

The power of example is the greatest power government has, and it is particularly effective with the young.

When a once-great political party is seen as submerging politics and ideology to community well being, it teaches one kind of lesson. When it slowly switches to elevating politics and ideology over the good of the community, it teaches a whole different lesson. So does refusing to abide by the decision of the public’s representatives. Republicans in the House like to brag that they have voted 50-plus times on repealing the Affordable Care Act, overlooking what it says about their members that they do not respect the proper enactment of a program. If ACA had been tried and failed, that would be one thing. But so far it has barely been given a chance to function.

As time goes on, how many programs will Republicans sulk about and try to obstruct instead of allowing a fair test of programs they oppose? Ω

I’d rather be cold. You can always add more layers. You can’t take off layers, eventually. It gets to a point.

nicole Dion Account manager

[Moretti] says that you can always add more layers. But you know you’ve been cold and no matter what you put on, you’re just chilled to the bone. Like nothing helps except hot soup or a hot shower. I’d rather be hot, because if you just sit and don’t move in heat, it’s fine.

Patrick SMith Audio engineer

I’d rather be too cold, because I can always put on another layer.

If I’m too hot, there’s only so much that can come off. I lived in Arizona. I would rather deal with cold.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Meeting of minds: Heller and Trump As tens of millions of Americans prepared for the very real possibility they would lose their health care last week, Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Dean Heller was doing a whole lot of nervous giggling. In one instance, Heller awkwardly laughed a little too heartily when President Trump casually threatened him on national television after positioning him as his right-hand man at a White House luncheon, asking the country, “Look, he wants to remain a senator, doesn’t he?”

Heller’s uncomfortable goofy grin and insincere chuckles spoke volumes, and it was obvious at that moment that he had received the President’s message and would choose Trump over his constituents.

It was infuriating to watch Trump smirk as the CNN chyron proclaimed 32 million fewer people would be insured by 2026 under the Republicans’ repeal bill, and Heller cackled at Trump’s not-so-hilarious comments.

Just think if Nevada’s senator had walked out of the luncheon or coldly

stared the president down, indicating he would not be bullied on a matter of such great concern to his constituents. Instead, Heller went radio-silent after giving a mind-boggling interview to Axios where he indicated he was against the repeal, for the repeal, and certainly not neutral, offering this gem: “And it’s not because I’m undecided—all I’m trying to do is get all the information I possibly can before I make a decision.”

Heller displayed the same cringeworthy grin a few days later when the Republicans squeaked through a vote to allow the repeal bill to move forward.

Instead of voting against the “motion to proceed” as Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski did, Heller cast his vote to proceed with repealing the Affordable Care Act, which has enabled hundreds of thousands of Nevadans to finally have access to health care. He was later photographed yucking it up on the Senate floor with his colleagues as Vice President Pence broke the tie vote. He

threw his head back with a broad smile as if he’d heard a funny joke or was celebrating a great victory. Even for Heller, it was a bizarre performance.

As President Trump trumpeted the Senate’s “last chance to do the right thing,” no one could say which version of eliminating the Affordable Care Act would emerge. Senator Collins remarked, “I don’t think that’s a good approach to replacing legislation that affects millions of people.”

But then, practically no one did.

As the week wore on, the “vote-a-rama” became increasingly chaotic with senators proposing all sorts of amendments in an effort to pass a bill, any bill, so they could move it to a conference committee with the House of Representatives and negotiate the final horror.

Heller embarrassed himself and Nevada by presenting a symbolic amendment to protect Medicaid funding that was so ridiculous in its pathetic attempt to give Heller political cover that 90 of the 100 senators voted against it. Heller then voted

no on several versions of reform, trying to inoculate himself against the final version of the bill he would vote yes on, the “skinny” reform that would have kicked millions off their health care and raised premiums for everyone.

But make no mistake about Heller’s decisions. If our senator had chosen a heroic path, he could have stopped the legislative disaster at the first motion to proceed vote. He could have told the president he would not be bullied, as Sen. Murkowski did when the administration threatened Alaska’s interests. He could have kept his promise to Gov. Sandoval to vote no on any bill that would hurt Nevadans. He did none of those things.

Nevadans won’t forget that when the moment of truth arrived, Heller chose Trump’s Republican party instead of his constituents.

I doubt he’ll be laughing much next November. Ω

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Boots in the air What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!

That is, unless your garbage cans contain used condoms, or you frequently hang a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your room door, or the maid sees “excessive” sex paraphernalia in your room, that maybe reeks of “cigarettes, marijuana, sweat, bodily fluids and musk.”

Perhaps the desk clerk noticed you avert your eyes and not make eye contact, or your teenage daughter was “dressed inappropriately for [her] age” or with “lower quality clothing than companions.”

Maybe you sport “suspicious tattoos.” Please don’t bring a lot of photography equipment. Whatever you do, don’t keep restocking your mini bar. Leave your lubricants and douches at home. Don’t pay for your room with cash. Don’t pretend you are older than you look. And, never, ever refuse the maid service more than one day!

If they spot any of these things most people do, the hotel staff is trained by

the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to phone their hotline and report your suspicious behavior. The DHS Blue Campaign is not just about hotels.

Airline personnel are now the new “boots in the air” organized to spot traffickers and their supposedly hapless victims. Not only are we forced through humiliating security theater by the Transporation Security Administration when we fly the friendly skies, but now we are being watched by Big Brother and his minions even as we check in and board the aircraft and fly.

In early 2016, Kathleen Chan and Jay Serrano, residents of Astoria, Queens, were forcibly removed from an American Airlines plane at JFK airport by three armed Port Authority police officers.

The Asian and Puerto Rican couple were pulled off their flight and interrogated because of vague suspicions by the cabin crew that she was too submissive and deferential to him and

because they shared a cup of juice!

American Airlines released a statement that out of “an abundance of caution” their personnel were trained to look for human trafficking.

Our U.S. way of life didn’t used to be about an abundance of caution.

Rather, it used to be based on the expectation of privacy and respect for the individual. Our right to travel is eroded as the DHS Blue Campaign spreads from airline employees to truck drivers, then to Amtrak and bus lines workers, turning our transportation system into a spider’s web of baseless suspicion.

From 2000 to 2002, the State Department claimed that 50,000 people were trafficked into the U.S. each year for forced sex or labor. By 2003, the agency reduced this estimate to 18,000– 20,000, further reducing it to 14,500– 17,500 in subsequent reports. That’s a 71 percent decrease in just five years, though officials offered no explanation as to how they arrived at these numbers

or what accounted for the drastic change.

These days, federal agencies tend to stick to the vague “thousands” when discussing numbers of incoming victims.

In other words, no one really knows the actual extent of human trafficking, but everyone is sure it’s all around us. The sex trafficking moral panic is the result of decades-long anti-prostitution efforts by religious prohibitionists—I’m looking at you, Salvation Army—joined by anti-male feminists. Throw in politicians looking for a way to juice up their base with new programs to “help” those soiled doves forced into unspeakable bondage that the pearl clutching voters in Peoria find shocking. Don’t forget the lazy, ratings- or circulation-hungry media who breathlessly report every new sex trafficking warning by law enforcement inevitably followed by run of the mill prostitution crack-downs.

Isn’t it time we have an open conversation about decriminalizing sex work? Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Rep. Mark Amodei (right) is seen here at a Carson City gathering during a visit to Nevada.

Forgotten Figures

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Two commemorative displays in Reno have quietly been removed, we discovered recently.

A display in the Church Fine Arts Building at the University of Nevada, Reno on the life and accomplishments of Dr. James Church, for whom the building is named and who is entombed in the building with his wife, is no longer in place. It used to be at the central intersection of north/south and east/west corridors on the main floor. Some longtime campus figures wonder where the original paraphernalia relating to both Church’s art career and his scientific snow surveys ended up.

And a Sammy Davis, Jr. exhibit that was on the ground floor of Harrah’s on the side facing Virginia Street has similarly disappeared. But it is not gone. Harrah’s publicist Laura Brownlie said, “The Sammy Davis display was moved to the second floor of our West Tower by the elevators.”

Library Fest The Duncan Community Library will mark its 20th anniversary with a Sunday, Aug. 6 gathering at the library, 1650 Carville Drive.

The event is combined with an end-of-summer party and will run from 2 to 4 in the afternoon. There will be story times, toddler times, teen crafts and summer reading. Up to 80 children will receive free backpacks containing books.

Fighting back A website has been created as a part of Silver City’s effort to block Comstock Mining’s plans to start open pit mining in the tiny town. Readers and interested citizens can find it at www.savesilvercity.org.

Pot taLe oF the week A story out of Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, England has made worldwide news, as well it might. The London Daily Mail reported that 31-year-old Gemma Moss of Boscombe is the first person in human history to die of “cannabis poisoning.” The death occurred in 2013 but has been publicized recently in the wake of marijuana legalization in several states, prompting the fact-checking website Snopes to inquire into it.

The story immediately raised suspicions, akin to those that surfaced in 2000 when a Clark County coroner attributed the death of 21-year-old Danielle Heird to ecstasy use, the first time such a thing had happened when other, more toxic drugs were not involved. The Partnership for a Drug Free America immediately seized on the Heird case and launched a national advertising campaign.

Snopes first discovered that the Daily Mail overstated the coroner’s finding on Gemma Moss. The newspaper used the term poisoning; the coroner did not.

Snopes went on: “Is it Possible to Consume Enough Cannabis to Be Directly Poisoned by Its Toxicity? There is a near universal agreement on the answer to this question: No. While no studies designed to ascertain a lethal dose level for THC—the primary psychoactive component of cannabis—have been undertaken on humans, a number of animal studies suggest that THC’s potential toxicity is remarkably low. … [S]cientists were literally unable to intentionally cause fatal toxicity from cannabis in both dogs and primates.”

Snopes’ verdict on the claim that Gemma Moss’s death was caused by cannabis poisoning: “unproven.”

—Dennis Myers

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Amodei starts sounding green Forty-six republicans joined with Democrats on July 13 to shield a climate study on military security from interference. U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei was in the majority. This is all the more remarkable because he has previously voted the other way—to prevent the Pentagon from even reporting its findings on the topic.

It is the latest sign that the Nevada Republican’s views on climate may be evolving.

It is not the only alteration in Amodei’s environmental stances. In May he said he was dropping his legislation to transfer seven million acres of federally managed public lands to state control.

“Transferring millions of acres of public lands … is not something I think the majority of people think is a good idea,” he told the Reno Gazette-Journal. A recent Public Opinion Strategies survey indicated that Nevadans supported leaving public lands in federal management by 51 to 42 percent.

Recently, Amodei attracted favorable attention from the Ripon Advance,

a publication of the Ripon Society, which supports a more moderate GOP: “Amodei worked to include a number of provisions in the [Interior Department] bill, including a $4 million increase in administrative funding for specific Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) programs, a $1.5 million increase in administrative funding for detentions and corrections to ensure local facilities are paid for tribal partnerships, and $3.4 million to help promote Native American tourism. ‘Specifically, the bill encourages the responsible use of our natural resources by providing critical funding to combat devastating wildfires, improve forest health and promote clean air and water,’ Amodei said. ‘It also supports our Native communities and preserves funding for important arts and humanities programs that add culture and value to our local communities.’”

Amodei has said nothing publicly to suggest his views may be shifting.

He still has posted on his website this statement: “I do not believe it is

appropriate for the federal government to advocate one position over another in discussions of climate change. I do think that we should promote unbiased scientific research funded by both the government and the private sector to help answer climate change questions and bring effective solutions to any human causes.”

The statement has become well known among Nevada environmentalists because it commits Amodei to nothing. Who decides what “unbiased” scientific research is? What are the benefits of research funded jointly by the government and, say, corporate polluters David and Charles Koch or Exxon Mobil—which had internal research showing the dangers of climate change while it funded millions in denial propaganda?

The climate change statement for which Amodei is best known is this one, from a letter Amodei wrote to a constituent in 2013: “The issue of climate change is very controversial and many scientists disagree as to its causes and how to handle it. I recognize that some scientists believe that global warming is caused by failed environmental practices; however, others argue that these temperature increases would incur regardless due to the warming of the center of the Earth. I do not believe it is appropriate for the federal government to advocate one position over the other. Since we do not know much about long-term climate change, I do agree we must have an unbiased research effort funded by both the government and the private sector to answer the essential questions about climate change. Since 1990, the U.S. has spent at least $50 billion on climate research.”

That helped get him named “Public lands enemy #11” by the Center for Biological Diversity.

For reaL? But, in addition to the Pentagon study vote, Amodei recently joined the House Climate Solutions Caucus. That alone has not convinced some of his critics of anything, because the new caucus is regarded with suspicion by some environmentalists. They are waiting to see if it turns out to be like anti-environmental groups with nice-sounding names such as People for the West and the National Wetlands Coalition.

In the case of the July 13 vote, rejecting an amendment blocking study of

the impact of climate change on national pressure from conservationists than from security, there was plenty of cover to go environmentalists. around. The vote supported the Pentagon, Public lands may be the most dicey issue which has an array of research underway on for Amodei to navigate between his urban how to protect against climate change, and and rural constituencies, which made his few congressional districts punish support of decision to halt seeking more public lands the Pentagon. for the state all the more politically risky.

There are times Amodei becomes impaCommunity leaders in the small counties tient with some spokespeople on land issues, tend to see public lands as a threat to their and he does not hesitate to disagree with ability to bring in economic development, them sharply. though that has sometimes been a “You think you’re being flawed equation. Localities for kind to horses?” he said to years opposed the creation of “We should critics of federal wild horse Great Basin National Park, promote unbiased policies at a July 18 hearbut the little towns in easting. “You’re not. Letting ern Nevada have benefited scientific research them starve out on the from the tourism attracted funded by both the range? Nobody’s adoptto the park. government and the ing these things, these One key to Amodei’s horses. Not very many future views may be a bill private sector.” people, anyway.” he introduced. On July U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei Amodei’s transition, 10, 2015, President Obama Nevada Republican if such it is, is aided by the designated 704,000 acres fact that many environmental of federally managed land in issues are fronted by hunters Lincoln and Nye counties to be and anglers. It’s akin to the way the Basin and Range National Monument National Wildlife Federation—originally On Dec. 28, 2016, he made 297,000 acres in “an organization of fish and gun clubs,” northeastern Clark County into Gold Butte in the words of former national president National Monument.

Cliff Young of Nevada—became an Amodei and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller environmental group. Amodei is not offered legislation limiting the authority the only Western Republican who has of presidents to create monuments without felt similar pressure. In Utah, Rep. advance consultation with localities. That Jason Chaffetz dropped his own public legislation is still pending but has shown lands transfer bill more as a result of little movement. Ω

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inclair Broadcast Group, Inc., which is based in Hunt Valley, Maryland and operates three Reno television stations, already owns the largest number of broadcast television stations of any corporation. Its latest planned acquisition, of Tribune Media, would further secure that status by adding 44 stations currently owned by Tribune Media. Variety reports: “The breadth of the combined company is eyepopping, even after two decades of consolidation of TV station ownership. The combined entity would own 223 TV stations serving 108 markets, including 39 of the top 50. The group’s stations would reach some 72 percent of U.S. TV households. That’s nearly twice the reach of its nearest broadcast competitors: Nextstar (39 percent), CBS (38 percent) and Fox (37 percent).”

Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley says the corporation has no plans to revive a one-time project of competing with another far-right network, Fox. He told Variety’s Cynthia Littleton, “Our strength is local news. The market for national cable news is very well served.”

That threat alone is enough to send tremors through local news departments.

Recently, Sinclair sent out a script smearing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its local anchors to use in introducing a “report.” The speculative anchor intro was very deftly written: “Did the FBI have a personal vendetta in pursuing the Russia investigation of President Trump’s national security advisor Michael Flynn? It could very well be true.” Thus an idea of FBI misconduct is planted in the first sentence. The second sentence—“It could very well be true”—never actually says it

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Comic broadcaster John Oliver recently showed footage of Sinclair anchors in eight different markets speaking this one-slur-fits-all FBI script. Depending on how many Sinclair stations used the FBI material, it could have planted wide suspicion of the agency.

Across the nation, this kind of material washes over trusting audiences who assume it is coming from real news departments. It’s a demonstration of how false information can be spread more or less instantly without using language that is legally actionable, just weasel words like “could.”

Note that no Sinclair manager mouths the innuendo. Rather, corporate executives send anchors who are familiar in their communities out to voice it.

So (1) a political hit person in Hunt Valley, Maryland (2) writes up a slander of the FBI, which is then (3) peddled behind the credibility of local news anchors communities trust.

Such reports sent from Sinclair to local stations are often accompanied by the instruction “must run.”

Sparks Tribune columnist Andrew Barbano says of two Reno Sinclair anchors, “Sometimes, Shelby Sheehan and Joe Hart become visibly tight-jawed presenting national items ordered onto the air by corporate.”

With this kind of broadcast firepower, Sinclair could put dubious information into the nation’s information bloodstream overnight with little accountability. With its political agenda, Sinclair’s combined stations might well function as the local news version of the kind of “news” coverage Fox provides at the national level.

six outposts In Reno, KRNV, KRXI and KAME are all either owned or operated by Sinclair. KRNV is an NBC affiliate, KRXI is affiliated with Fox, and KAME with an arm of Fox, MyNetworkTV. Sinclair owns KRXI but owns only a local marketing agreement to run KAME, which is owned by Zephyr Covebased Deerfield Media.

In Elko, Sinclair operates but does not own KENV, which carries KRNV’s newscasts. KENV is housed at Great Basin College.

In Las Vegas, Sinclair has KSNV, affiliated with NBC, and KVCW, affiliated with CW. There have been bits of discontent since Sinclair entered the Western Nevada market.

In April 2014, online commentator Paul Kizer wrote that KRNV News, an NBC affiliate, was rebroadcasting Fox News reports.

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“tentacles” continued from page 11 Reno News & Review special projects editor Jeri ChadwellSingley worked briefly as a news producer at KRNV and experienced worrisome practices.

“The first was when the producer who was training me told me not to choose a science- and nature- related fluff piece as a kicker for the show,” she said. “Fluff pieces at the end were mandatory, for whatever reason, but she said that the station and the viewers didn’t like liberal-leaning stuff. The only other thing was that I overheard producers and photogs talking about how the company was right-wing controlled and how they give preferential treatment to political spots from Republicans.”

This last, she acknowledges, is hearsay. She departed after three weeks.

Bob Fulkerson of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada said he has noticed a decline in quality of some Reno stations: “It really shows the depth and the reach of the fascist corporate culture on our country. We’re like that frog in the pot of water, and I’m afraid it’s starting to boil and we’re just getting used to it. We’re inured to it.”

Barbano: “They run regular reports originating from ‘The Washington Terrorism Desk,’ always hosted by a comely young woman trying to scare the shit out of the public. ... It often runs at 12 noon but rotates through other newscasts. They also run a regular in-the-news commentary—usually at the end of a segment—from some right wing nutso guy [Mark Hyman]. It’s worthy of Fox. ... Their Washington Bureau ... will often produce segments where most of the time is given to GOP or think tank moonhowlers with perhaps a token 10 seconds near the end as a genuflection to the idea of ‘both sides.’ That is many times just a 10-second voiceover, no talking head.”

The “Terrorism Desk” segments are not the fault of local producers. Sinclair orders its local stations to run them, though there is frequently so little terrorism news to report that John Oliver was able to poke fun at some of the “threats” publicized on the segment. When does terror become a topic of comedy? When Sinclair tries so hard to use it politically that it becomes a reach to even call it terror. The term loses its meaning.

against it, which alone should have made it newsworthy. Local and national news departments ignored “one of the great ripoffs of American history.” Keep that in mind the next time a broadcast executive talks about the public’s right to know.

Politicians are in constant tussles with broadcasters. Nevada’s U.S. Sen. John Ensign once walked out of a meeting with Nevada Broadcasters Association officers in anger.

These days, the broadcast lobby is pushing the Federal Communications Commission for a change to make Sinclair’s absorption of Tribune Media legal. Right now, the audience share that one corporation can have is 39 percent. Never mind that 39 percent is an insane concentration. The FCC—at the suggestion of a Trump FCC commissioner—is considering cooking the numbers to make larger combinations possible.

Of course, if FCC regulations led to hundreds of corporations, each with a 39 percent reach, that might be something to talk about.

But our economy doesn’t work that way. When Sinclair is allowed a 39 percent reach, others are pushed out. And television is one tool that traffics in ideas. It serves, or does not serve, our ability to function as a society.

From the beginning, Congress treated broadcasting as outside the protections of the First Amendment. Its members liked to

...television is one tool that traffics in ideas. it serves, or does not serve, our ability to function as a society.

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Unhealthy codependence No lobby terrorizes members of Congress more than the broadcast lobby. Legislators worry that if they cross the industry, broadcasters will retaliate with their big megaphones.

There is occasional support for that fear. When Robert Dole was the Republican presidential nominee, he received a letter from Nick Evans, owner of stations in five states: “If over the next few days your position on spectrum has not changed and been made public, you will have lost my support. I will be forced to use our resources to tell the viewers in all of our markets of your plan to destroy free over-the-air television.”

The broadcast lobby lies, steals and thrives on conflicts of interest—some of which hurt its journalists. If that sounds strong, here are examples: Lie: In the 1990s, at the behest of the National Association of Broadcasters, hundreds of stations ran television spots warning that “a TV tax” could pass Congress. It was a lie. There was no tax. The bill the broadcasters were trying to stop would have required them to pay in an auction for public property—additional broadcast spectrum.

Theft: In part because of the television spots that claimed Congress was trying to “destroy free TV,” Congress yielded to the pressure and gave the spectrum to the broadcasters for free!

“It is one of the great ripoffs of American history,” said Sen. John McCain. “They used to rob trains in the old West. Now we rob spectrum.” It was a theft that cost the public an estimated $70 billion (“The great HDTV swindle,” RN&R, July 10, 2008). That would be perhaps $101 billion in today’s dollars.

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control the industry only to find that the industry could control them with the threat of negative news coverage. In the last quarter of the 20th century, as the Democratic Party started getting more corporate money, Democrats became further obligated to the industry. Part of that became protecting industry from anti-trust, though the courts have ruled that the First Amendment does not prevent breaking up media monopolies.

During that same quarter century, many broadcasting stations— particularly in radio—started using their facilities to spread a conservative message. The Democrats have long called for revival of an old FCC policy called the Fairness Doctrine. It required broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a balanced fashion. By contrast with the First Amendment, which allows print entities to say what they want, the Fairness Doctrine would require broadcasting stations to present material that is approved by government—which decides what is “balanced” and what issues require coverage.

The FCC came up with the doctrine, and it eventually got rid of it. Congress then passed it as a statute, but it was vetoed by President Reagan.

On July 25, Forbes columnist Brett Edkins noted that Democratic leaders had released a new economic agenda (called the “Better Deal”) that ignores the consolidation of local television news. The Sinclair/Tribune deal was his exhibit one: “Sinclair requires stations to air political segments with a conservative bent. Former Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn, for instance, hosts ‘Bottom Line with Boris,’ a segment in which he defends President Trump and criticizes the mainstream press. In

his career as a pundit, Epshteyn has promulgated numerous false claims, including the debunked theory that Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008 because immigrants voted illegally. ... In the Trump era, local news will be a crucial political battleground.”

His headline: “Democrats Ignore The Consolidation Of Local TV News At Their Peril.”

Democrats have always tried to game the system instead of putting broadcasting under the First Amendment and letting it function free of government interference.

In 1988, Sen. Edward Kennedy arranged for legislation that required Kennedy critic Rupert Murdoch to choose between owning newspapers or television stations in New York and Boston.

Murdoch was already in violation of “cross-ownership,” as it’s known, in both cities. He was hoping the FCC would issue more temporary waivers. Kennedy’s amendment made sure Murdoch obeyed the law. But why aim an amendment at only one man—an adversary of the senator?

Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Harry Reid once brought heavy pressure on a Clark County radio station. Its crime? It let some right wing figures express opinions on the air.

cat in a box Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley told Variety that critics “mischaracterize what we do by just focusing on a small subset of our newscasts.

We put those players [Boris Epshteyn and Hyman] on because we are optimizing for ratings. They represent a diversity of views that you can’t find on other channels. ... The selective cherry-picking of some stories that end up on our newscast paints us in a light that is

very unjust. If you were to listen to the John Oliver skit, you would Epshteyn’s hypothesis of a stolen election in North Carolina nine think that our news was 24/7 commentary, which is certainly not years ago, John Oliver joked, “Do Trump surrogates even know the case. It is a small fraction of what we do.” KRNV’s News why they are lying, or are they driven by some vague instinct, like Director Scott Fitzgerald was not available for comment. when a cat sits inside a box?” After Oliver’s report aired, Sinclair Constitutional scholar Richard Labunski has argued that leaving announced it would increase to nine the number of opinion pieces broadcasting out of the First Amendment has given the U.S. “a

by Epshteyn it sends to its stations each week. Sinclair: “While we second rate First Amendment.” appreciate John Oliver’s unique brand of humor, we stand by our Labunski—a former KTVN reporter, UNR political science approach to sharing content among our stations.” instructor and author of The First Amendment Under Siege—says “Sharing content” sounds less menacing than “must run.”

“It is extremely disturbing that a single company would The one-size-fits-all reports handed down from on high control so many TV stations that reach such a large in the Sinclair world often grate on local sensibilipercentage of American households. Managers ties in some markets. That’s not the only thing in such a company do not need to say that grates, either. Businessweek reported explicitly to their employees that their on station jackets supplied by Sinclair news coverage should favor one political on the East Coast to KOMO, a wellview over another. Journalists who work regarded Seattle station on the West for companies that are determined to Coast. The jackets bore prominent L.L. promote a certain ideology know that Bean logos. Setting aside the ethics some stories and the way those stories of journalists wearing advertising, are presented may well annoy managWashington is Eddie Bauer country. ers who don’t recognize that fairness Bauer was founded in Seattle in 1920. and accuracy should be the primary Advertising Age runs an annual list commitment of people working in news of the 10 largest companies in media. and that promoting a political viewpoint is Consider this: “Time Warner, which has not what journalists do. The effort to shape held the No. 1 spot each year since 1995, news coverage this way is often subtle and not collected 11.8 percent of Media 100 reveBrett edkins easy for the audience to recognize.” nue—nearly one of every eight dollars spent by Forbes columnist The situation Labunski describes is reminiscent of advertisers and consumers on products and services the time the Reno Gazette-Journal’s publisher also sat on the from the top 100. Time Warner is more than 100 times the board of directors of Harrah’s. RG-J reporters said no one had to size of the smallest ranked entry, Schurz Communications, a tell them to use greater care than before when covering Harrah’s. newspaper, broadcasting and cable operation with estimated The message was implicit in the situation. revenue of $301 million.”

After showing an appearance by Sinclair commentator Now consider this: That was 10 years ago. It has only gotten Epshteyn in which a plainly disbelieving anchor questioned worse. Competition?

a, “In the trump er be a local news wIll crucIal polItIcal battleground.”

In some ways, Sinclair in Reno is a throwback to earlier times in this valley. In the 1970s, KCRL Television—now KRNV—was owned by Charles Cord, who had inherited it from his father, Errett Cord. Charlie Cord had an old pal, columnist Ernest Cuneo.

(Cuneo was reportedly the person who leaked the George Patton slapping incident to columnist Drew Pearson.) Cord subscribed to Cuneo’s column and had local announcers read it at the start of each evening’s news. The sound of television sets changing channels all over town was nearly audible when Cuneo’s turgid prose came on. Many of the dreary Sinclair “must run” pieces serve the same purpose. Bloomberg News has observed that Sinclair does what Fox does—minus “Fox’s high-end graphics, state-of-the-art studios, tailored wardrobes ... and polished scripts.”

Sinclair is legally permitted to reach 39 percent of the national audience with its stations. It cranks out one-size-fits-all news “stories” which bear strong resemblance to campaign commercials and sends them to its 100-plus stations. If Sinclair were limited to the ownership of five stations, what are the chances that those five communities would be better served than those 100-plus communities? If Sinclair’s stations did not have to devote air time to attacks on Donald Trump’s critics, might that time be used to cover the local school districts or housing starts? If the one crew back East that makes those one-size-fits-all pieces were released for more productive work, might Sinclair have to make more of a commitment to each of the 100-plus markets, such as hiring perhaps one reporter and one photographer in each market to cover the local stories they now miss?

It’s fair to ask of our neighbors in this valley: Would having three Sinclair stations that do not compete with each other instead of three non-chain stations that do compete improve news coverage?

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You check your confirmation biases, have devoured Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984 and subscribed to the Washington Post, the Atlantic and Teen Vogue. Still emotionally, intellectually and spiritually exhausted?

Here are 10 must-read books to renew your commitment to the resistance.

Recommended if you like: Naomi Klein’s No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Amanda Sussman’s The Art of the Possible, calling your senators and marching in the streets.

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ReBecca SoLnIt, Hope In tHe DaRk: UntoLD HIStoRIeS, wILD poSSIBILItIeS

Read it because: Solnit writes smartly on myriad topics—feminism, climate change, art—and this book is no exception. Hope in the Dark, originally published in 2004, is just that: a guiding spotlight on activism and commitment in a time of despair. Placing personal experiences against the broad tapestry of history, Solnit makes a case for optimism and action as the path to real, transformational change.

“Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win,” Solnit writes in the foreword to the book’s latest edition. “Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender.”

Trumpcare remains a dire threat.

Reproductive and LGBTQ rights are in peril. People of color and those who are—or appear to be—Muslim live their lives in constant danger. Meanwhile, our continued abuse of the environment produces real consequences, and every time you turn on a TV, a bunch of talking heads are yelling political nonsense. It’s difficult to tell alternative facts from fiction, much less stay focused on figuring out real change.

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Recommended if you like: Philip K. Dick’s terrifyingly prescient The Man in the High Castle, Orwell’s 1984 or not sleeping thanks to crippling anxiety.

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It’s nearly six months into the current presidential regime and, let’s be frank, things feel worse than ever.

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Read it because: The New Yorker called Lewis’ 1935 novel “one of the most important books ever produced in this country” and that assessment still holds true today.

Lewis’ book tells the story of a fascist politician who stirs up fears, foments distrust and, basically, promises to make America great again and accordingly defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It once seemed like a chilling glimpse at an alternate American reality; now it reads like a primer on the last election and current administration.

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Read it because: Fake news, alternative facts and other lies make it difficult to parse real life from politics. Gladstone, who co-hosts On the Media, a weekly radio news magazine show with Bob Garfield, lays out Trump’s authoritarian communication strategy, including a look at his beloved Twitter account. Whether he’s pushing send on “trial balloon tweets,” “deflection tweets” or “diversion tweets,” Gladstone posits that when it comes to the current president, “lying is the point.” Still, she adds, we’re part of the problem, too: “If fake reality is the problem, the logical first step is to track down its sources,” she writes. “But that is a very short, very frustrating expedition, because fake reality begins at home. In your head.” Oof. Recommended if you like: Gladstone’s graphic nonfiction book, The Influencing Machine, Hannah Arendt’s 1973 classic The Origins of Totalitarianism or yelling at TV news.

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Read it because: You want to get a better understanding of at least part of Trump’s base but found J.D. Vance’s much-praised memoir Hillbilly Elegy to be myopic and frustratingly superficial. Published just months before the 2016 election, Isenberg’s book deconstructs this country’s class system with a precise eye. And, looking back on the contentious 2008 election that wrought Sarah Palin, she cements the future, writing, “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”

Recommended if you like: Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? and a better understanding of the inevitable arguments you’re going to have at the family holiday dinner table.

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read it because: Faderman’s 2015 book offers a bird’s-eye view of the LGBTQ community and its struggle for basic rights and safety from the 1950s to the present.

Whether it’s the Stonewall riots, the misguided “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation or the lengthy fight to legalize same-sex marriage, Faderman writes with the unflinching eye of a historian and the dramatic elegance of a novelist.

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read it because: This collection of stories, poems and essays (edited

by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon) was penned by working women across the country.

Originally published in 1976, it makes for a feminist history that transcends generations, cultures, race and class.

recommended if you like: Michael Bronski’s A Queer History of the United States and, of course, advocating for love.

recommended if you like: Anything

by Bell Hooks, Susan Faludi and Virginia Woolf, or borrowing dusty books from your mom’s shelf.

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read it because: Coates’ slim collection of essays, written as letters to his young son, make for a brutally honest read on race in America.

Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin live in these pages as does an argument for the Black Lives Matter movement and an examination of this country’s ongoing and systematic mistreatment of black people. Not an easy read, but an essential one. recommended if you like: James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son or facing your own inherent prejudices.

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read it because: You’re worried about Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, which aims to fight climate change. McKibben, an environmentalist and journalist, writes about the planet in a way that takes the universal and makes it personal. Told through the lens of a long hike through the Northeastern United States, the book brings the physical world to life on the page. recommended if you like: Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and saving the planet.

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read it because: You’re overwhelmed, you don’t know where to start and you’re mad as hell at the current administration.

Originally published in 1971, Alinsky’s book remains relevant as a guide on how to get past talk to effect real social, cultural and political change through community organizing, sacrifice and tangible action. recommended if you like: Noam Chomsky, getting off your ass and meaningful conversations that actually lead to action.

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“Brand it, and they will come” is the new “build it, and they will come.” Tweet right, ’Gram right, align yourself with the right memes, and you will amass a following.

Leaders of the scrappier, DIY parts of the art scene have used social media branding to build enthusiastic followings on small or nonexistent budgets—much to their credit.

Meanwhile, only a handful of visual arts venues in the region showcase the work of mid-career, late-career or academic artists, and few of them do a great job of keeping in touch with the broader public. That’s one of the reasons that the OXS Gallery is inadvertently one of the region’s best kept secrets. Located inconspicuously on the second floor of a strip mall between the Carson City Visitors Bureau and the Nevada State Museum, it’s a place that only art-world insiders know about, and it looks like it’s someone’s private office.

It is someone’s private office—the Nevada Arts Council’s. It’s OK to just walk on in, and art lovers might want to make a habit of it. OXS stands for “Office Exhibition Series,” and you’re likely to see the work of the state’s most practiced—if not most eagerly marketed—artists.

The current two-person show is called Environmental Perspectives, and while the title might seem to invite open-ended speculation, the artwork itself amounts to a clear, blunt admission of environmental devastation. It’s less of a youthful, rageagainst-the-powers-that-be kind of message and more a bleak but certain sense of resignation, delivered by people who’ve been exploring the topic for a long time.

Scott Hinton, a photographic researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno, digitally stitched together groups of 20 or so

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snapshot-sized pictures to make yard-long vistas of wide-open spaces in the West. The perspectives are convincing—he conveys the experience of taking in an expansive view from a peak or across a sage-dotted valley as well as you possibly could in a 2-D format. But traces of human impact— tailing piles, vehicles and dirt roads— appear in every landscape, no matter how remote. Of course, it’s a message we’ve heard before in hundreds of ways: humans have impacted the Earth beyond repair. But Hinton uses his panoramic arrangements, which refer to the photographic surveys of the 1970s that helped kick off the long-lived “altered landscape” photography movement, to demonstrate his reverence for both his craft and for open spaces. He pulls off an alarming degree of gravity without being heavy-handed.

Paul Ford’s works have a size and aesthetic that appeal to the eye, but they also convey a dire message.

A decade ago, Ford was recently retired from being Carson High School’s art teacher. Back then, he used paints, collages and natural materials to explore the imposition of sprawl upon Carson Valley. He balanced an appreciation for planning and architecture with his critique of population growth. Now, he lives in coastal Sonoma, California, and while he still uses materials that look the desert—flat, cracked earth on a board in place of canvas, for example— his tone has shifted from objective to bluntly elegiac. And somehow, even though Ford wrapped a thick, black, fabric arm band of mourning around one piece, his work doesn’t come off heavy handed either.

It’s so technically refined and aesthetically resolved that it simply commands attention—much like this gallery should. Ω

A reception for Environmental Perspectives is from 5-7:30 p.m. Aug. 8, with an artists’ talk at 6:15 p.m. at OXS Gallery, 716 N. Carson St., Carson City.

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“Surely you saw my two-star passenger rating before you picked me up.”

Hit parade Charlize Theron goes on a tear for the ages in Atomic Blonde, another pin on her action hero lapel after her ferocious turn as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road.

As Lorraine Broughton, an undercover agent on a mission in Berlin in the late ’80s as the wall begins to fall, she showcases her ability to kick people through walls with the best of them. She also shows how to use a freezer door as a weapon.

Directed by David Leitch, one of the directors of the original John Wick and future director of Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde pops with the same kind of kinetic energy as Wick when the bullets and kicks are flying. Also a legendary stuntman, Leitch knows how to make a hit look real, and the choreographed action scenes in this film stand as some of the year’s best. When Charlize lands a blow in this movie, you feel it in your face.

Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City, the film does drag at times, especially when Lorraine does the standard interrogation room narrative scenes with Toby Jones and John Goodman drilling her for answers. While it could’ve used some tightening in the edit room, the movie is very much worth wading through the shallow parts.

Lorraine tells her story in flashback as she hunts for a list containing nefarious info about herself and fellow agents, a list that could continue the Cold War for decades to come. Her hunt includes interactions with unorthodox agent David Percival (James McAvoy), somebody who mixes his espionage with partying and black market Jordache jeans trafficking.

Theron and McAvoy are good on screen together, and their dialogue scenes are some of the best that don’t involve teeth getting broken. As for the bonecrunching action, there’s a scene in this movie that rivals Logan for best action scene of the year. Leitch coordinates a battle that starts in a building and culminates with a car chase as if it were one shot, and it’s an exhaustive exercise in how to keep fighting while falling down stairs, getting shot and getting your face kicked in.

If the rest of the movie surrounding that scene were Theron and McAvoy gardening and sipping herbal teas while listening to a ball game on the radio, Atomic Blonde would still be worth seeing. It’s classically good.

McAvoy, having a great year with this and Split, has moved himself from amusing curio actor to heavy hitter in 2017. He’s a nut in this movie, as was the case in Split. He’s an actor willing to take some risks, and they are paying off. He also might win the award for keeping a cigarette in your mouth through a major ass kicking and strained dialogue delivery.

As good as he is, you don’t go to Atomic Blonde to see McAvoy. This is Theron’s vehicle, and she owns it in much the same way Keanu Reeves has taken his career to new levels with the John Wick films. Theron, an Academy Award-winning actress who can dramatically spar with the best of them, is a physical performer in league with the best of them.

With this movie, she convinces you that neither Conor McGregor or Floyd Mayweather would stand a chance in the ring with her.

Late ’80s playlists are sure to spike on streaming services thanks to the film’s soundtrack, which includes David Bowie, Queen, Falco, ’Til Tuesday, the Clash and, quite notably, George Michael. (His “Father Figure” is put to astonishingly good use in that classic scene I mentioned above.) Leitch and company find some great ways to make the music a part of the film, and while I probably never need to hear “99 Luftballons” again, the presence of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Cities of Dust” is much appreciated.

The summer movie season is coming to a close, and while Atomic Blonde isn’t one of the summer’s best, it does have a couple of the summer’s best scenes. I’m not sure if there’s enough here to warrant another Atomic Blonde movie, but there’s definitely a call for more movies with Theron hitting people in the face with freezer doors. Or, just hitting and kicking people in general. She’s quite good at it. Ω

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Baby Driver

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The Big Sick

This is a nice car chase movie antidote to The Fate of the Furious, a car chase movie that made me never want to see a car chase movie again, let alone Vin Diesel’s mushy mug. The soundtrack is one of the year’s best, and the guy in the title role is a major star in the making. Ansel Elgort plays Baby, who we see in the film’s opening sequence driving the getaway car for a robbery, a kinetic chase choreographed to the great Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms.” The scene snaps with a colorful energy that’s been missing from car chases of late. The best car chase movie of recent years, Drive, also featured a lonely driver and great vroom-vroom, but the soundtrack and look for that film were more meditative and hazy—not complaining; it worked beautifully. Baby Driver opts for a more clear-eyed, zippy approach, and it pays off. Edgar Wright writes and directs for this, a project he took up after his failed dalliance with Ant-Man. The chases go off with precision editing, filmed in a way that makes you feel like you are in the car.

And the soundtrack, featuring music ranging from Simon and Garfunkel to Hocus Pocus and Queen, perfectly complements them.

This is a romantic comedy like no other.

Yes, two people fall in love in it, but that’s about all it has in common with the average romantic comedy. This film is an amazing beast off in its own rom-com category. Let’s just call it a rom-coma comedy. Real-life couple Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) and Emily V. Gordon penned the script based on their own courtship. Nanjiani plays himself while the eternally awesome Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks) steps into the role of Emily. After a brief relationship, Kumail and Emily break up. A rare illness places Emily in the hospital, which results in Kumail not only coming back into her life, but dealing with her parents (Ray Romano and Holly Hunter), who feel slightly awkward around the guy who recently broke up with their daughter.

Their story is incredible, and the way it is presented here, by a fine ensemble under the direction of the great Michael Showalter (Hello, My Name is Doris; Wet Hot American Summer) stands as one of the year’s best films. All the above mentioned actors are legitimate Oscar contenders, as is Showalter for his directorial efforts. I don’t think I’ve ever had to use my T-shirt sleeve to dab away tears from both laughing and crying while watching a movie in public. The Big Sick got me both ways, and it will get you, too.

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Cars 3

The Cars franchise gets a nice little rebirth with Cars 3, a much, much better movie than Cars 2, and a slightly better movie than the first Cars. If you’re keeping score— and, really, you shouldn’t be, for there are far more pressing matters in your life—that still makes Cars 3 one of the more mediocre offerings from Pixar. Jettisoning the stupid spy movie bullshit—oops, I just cursed in a review for a G-rated movie … sorry, kids—that made the last installment convoluted and useless, the folks at Pixar choose to go an earthier, more emotional route with this one, and it works, for the most part. They also find a way to get the voice of the late Paul Newman into the mix, and hearing his beautiful growl again definitely warms the heart. Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is getting on in years, and he’s facing fierce competition from newer model cars like Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), a strong, highly-trained vehicle that is beating McQueen on the racetrack. After a calamitous accident that renders his beautiful red sheen primer gray, McQueen is faced with either retirement or a new training regime comeback, Rocky III-style. The movie plays around with the notions of retirement and the rites of passage to the next generation, pretty heady stuff for a G-rated animated movie.

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Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan’s ambitious film about the 1940 evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk is one of the great visual cinematic spectacles of the 21st century, and

for that, he should be applauded. Unfortunately, some of his scripting and editing decisions take away from the effectiveness of his movie.

In a strange way, this is one of his least successful films. We’re talking about the guy who made Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Inception, Insomnia and Memento. All of those films are better movies than Dunkirk.

They are, in fact, great movies. Dunkirk is a good movie, and an occasionally astounding one if you manage to see it on an IMAX screen.

Nolan shot on film, with all scenes intended for IMAX. Mixed with some incredible soundtrack work by Hans Zimmer, the movie begs to be seen in theaters. All that said, it still feels like a bit of an empty experience in some ways. I’m glad I saw it. I’m glad it exists, but it didn’t blow me away. Any Nolan fan knows that he loves to make his movies complicated in relation to time—Memento being a prime example—and the director himself has called Dunkirk his most experimental yet. Nolan is out to prove that you can cut away from a harrowing shipsinking sequence to an also harrowing battle sequence set in the air and maintain the tension. He simply doesn’t pull off the stunt every time. There are moments when he cuts away to another timeline that are nothing short of totally frustrating and unnecessary.

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Spider Man: Homecoming

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War for the Planet of the Apes

The last two Spidey adventures were a bummer. Things get back on track in a fun way with Spider-Man: Homecoming, a complete overhaul of the Peter Parker character thanks to the effervescent casting of Tom Holland, a fine actor and an impressive athlete (he does most of his own acrobatic stunts). The film gets a great villain in Vulture, played with snarling glee by Michael Keaton. Director Jon Watts and an admittedly ridiculous number of writers give Vulture an interesting origin. He’s Adrian Toones, a construction salvage worker who had a city contract to clean up the mess in New York City after the events of The Avengers. Some government types take over and kick him off the gig, leaving him pissed and with a bunch of high-tech alien junk in his possession.

Toones constructs some weapons, including an elaborate winged suit, with the alien technology and, voila, Vulture. Parker is a younger incarnation this time out, dealing with typical high school traumas that seem a little trivial after the events of Captain America: Civil War, where he sort of saved the day. He’s gone from stealing Captain America’s shield to worrying about girls, and he’s just a little bored. Enter Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) who has given Parker his Spidey suit with some conditions, like that he can only be a “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man,” concentrating on local problems The film is basically one half kick-ass Marvel movie and one half enjoyable and frothy high school comedy.

The enthralling, modern Planet of the Apes trilogy comes to a close with its best chapter yet. Caesar (motion-capture Andy Serkis) is holding his own in the forest with his band of ape soldiers when a crazed colonel (Woody Harrelson) finds him and delivers a painful blow. Caesar finds himself on a revenge quest, with the likes of Rocket (Terry Notary), Maurice (Karin Konoval) and a new character named Bad Ape (a funny Steve Zahn) in tow. It all leads to a man vs. ape showdown for the ages, and the special effects that were great in the first movie are 10 times better in the third. For fans of the original Apes films, this movie is a virtual love letter to the series.

It even has a mute girl named Nova (Amiah Miller), the same name as the girl who saw the Statue of Liberty with Charlton Heston in the original. Matt Reeves, directing his second Ape film, has managed to imbue his special effectsladen adventure with genuine emotion. This is a big budget blockbuster with heart and soul.

While this concludes a trilogy, it’s a safe bet it won’t be the last for the Apes. If you recall, astronauts went missing in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Events in this film seem to be leading up to the events of the original movie. We might be getting a new dude in a loin cloth barking at Lady Liberty in our cinematic future.

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In the wind Located in a landmark downtown building, Taste of Chicago aims to bring authentic flavors from the Windy City to our own breezy neck of the woods.

Knowing that Chicago-style deep dish pizza takes at least an hour to bake, I asked our server to get that started while we perused the rest of the menu. Unfortunately, although we put the rest of our order in about 15 minutes later, the entire thing was delivered after about 70 minutes.

The “tavern style” pizzas ($15, 12-inch, plain cheese) we ordered were good, with thin, crispy crust bordering on crackery in a good way. The pies were layered with sauce, then toppings, then cheese, and sliced in a square-wise “party cut.” Wanting to sample authentic flavor combinations, I chose the South Sider with sausage, pepperoni, Canadian bacon and egg ($20), the West Sider with sausage, peperoncini and whole garlic cloves ($18.50), and The Beef, sporting a sizeable portion of Italian beef and hot, housemade giardiniera ($19).

There was at least one other “traditional” combination I wanted to taste—the North Sider, with anchovy, green pepper, olive and tomato-—but I was told they hadn’t been able to source the anchovy. Bummer.

All three pies held their own, and I enjoyed them pretty equally. The South Sider’s finishing touch—a single raw egg cracked in the center—was the only real surprise. I presumed it must be akin to the egg served with steak tartare, so I broke the yolk and dipped a slice. It didn’t really add much to the experience, but to each their own. The West Sider’s garlic stood out, as did The Beef’s giardiniera. Man, that was a spicy pie.

One member of our group ordered a gyro ($8). While the meat was definitely

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not straight from a spit, it was tasty and tender, served on a soft pita with a good amount of tzatziki sauce, red onion, tomato, feta and romaine.

A bone-in pork chop sandwich ($7) was a unique offering. Yes, I said bone-in.

I don’t know if someone in Chicago was being lazy, or perhaps someone lost a bet, but this dental hazard is apparently a beloved tradition of Chi-town folk. The chop was lightly breaded and served on a toasted bun with grilled onion, sport peppers (pickled serrano) and mustard. It’s good, but consume with caution.

I’ve always enjoyed French dip sandwiches, so the Italian beef ($9) sounded great. Taste of Chicago’s version features thin-sliced roast beef simmered in beef broth then stuffed into Turano rolls imported from Chicagoland and topped with hot giardiniera. I added sport peppers for 50 cents extra. For an authentic experience, order the sandwich “wet.” They’ll dip the whole thing in gravy, and you’ll end up with a somewhat soggy, completely delicious experience. It’s probably not for everyone, but I’m convinced—wet is the way to go.

And the deep dish pie? Ladies and gentlemen, this baby ($28.50, 12-inch) was the real deal—crust, sauce, crazy amounts of cheese. It’s was as if lasagna and a pizza had a love child. I stuck with the “traditional” option, with sausage and mushroom. The sauce is on top, the other stuff is in with the cheese. A pie server was needed to plate these enormous wedges of wonder. There’s a reason why you’re supposed to eat this with a knife and fork. I love, love, love thin crust pizza, but this pie was something else. Ω

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Hop to it My daughter has found a monthly hobby consulting online sources of questionable validity to fill her calendar with “national days” like National Sock Day or National Pancake Day. This seems to be a trend recently—modern Hallmark holidays, the likely love children of marketing firms and social media propagation. So, today, the first Thursday in August, please join me in observing IPA Day, celebrating America’s favorite craft beer style—India Pale Ale. Favorite is no exaggeration. IPA is the largest category in virtually every beer competition. As the largest category in craft beer sales, it accounts for 26 percent.

The number of spin-off and sub-styles is dizzying. Beyond standard American IPA and stronger Double IPA, lower alcohol “session” IPAs are the recent trend. Add in classic English IPA, black, red, white and brown IPAs, Belgian, rye and fruited IPAs, and you realize almost anything with those three letters on the label has potential.

For the uninitiated, briefly, traditional IPA is a highly hopped beer of moderate strength. Beyond that, the variations are many. Typically, the amount of hops lends a characteristic, often intense bitterness that some find unappealing. As the style evolves, many brewers are seeking flavors and aromas of tropical fruit, pine and citrus rather than just bitterness. If the only IPA you know is what you tasted 10 years ago and didn’t like, it’s time to try again—starting with your local breweries.

While some local brewers focus on continental styles or sours, and others pour a satisfying spectrum from blonde to amber to stout, a few are going all-in on hops and looking for that IPA jackpot.

Great Basin Brewing Company: An IPA column would be incomplete without the granddaddy of Nevada IPAs, Ichthyosaur

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India Pale Ale. These days Icky drinks more like an English IPA, earthier and less bitter than its American cousins—and serves as a benchmark of IPA evolution.

The “West Coast” Tectonic Event IPA—at nine percent ABV, really a Double IPA—is a showcase of modern American hops.

Revision Brewing Company: The most prominent “hop shop” in town, Revision’s award-winning IPA is just the start. Hoppy beers are this brewery’s game, and it plays it well, with two Double IPAs, an 11 percent Triple IPA, and a constantly rotating menu of seasonal and experimental brews.

Lead Dog Brewing: One of the newer kids on the block, Lead Dog seems to have found its niche playing with IPA variations.

I recently found six different IPAs on tap. I really enjoyed the Citra Solo, both canned and on draft, while the hoppiness in the black IPA took a backseat to the coffee-like dark malt. Amarillo Dayze, a version of the beer geek darling “Northeast IPA” is silky, hazy, and bursting with fruit-juicy hops but has virtually no bitterness.

Pigeon Head Brewery: While Pigeon Head has mainly been focused on lager brewing, the siren song of IPA was apparently irresistible. Recent releases Juicy Smooch and Silky Pillows are easily the best local examples of the Northeast sub-style, like Juicy Fruit gum in a glass.

One-off variations with tropical fruit and funky saison yeast were also on tap when I visited.

Of course, every local brewer offers at least one IPA of some kind. From The Depot’s Voyager to Brewer’s Cabinet Dragon Punch, the palette of hop varieties and the flavors and aromas they offer are well represented. Happy IPA Day! Ω

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Revision Brewing Company owner Jeremy Warren samples one of the brewery’s IPAs in the brewing area.

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Nicholas Mills is the MC and guitarist of the jazz/ hip-hop combo Redfield Clipper.

Rap redux Redfield Clipper At over six feet tall, with a shock of flyaway red hair and a septum piercing, Nicholas Mills stands out from the crowd— and that’s the idea. For the past five years, Mills has been the MC and guitar player for an experimental hip-hop group under his stage name, Redfield Clipper. Now, a seven-piece ensemble also goes by the name Redfield Clipper, with a new direction and a new album.

“It’s my middle name,” said Mills. “My name is Nicholas Redfield Clipper Mills— It’s on my license.”

The group plays a genre-bending fusion of technical modern jazz and grungy hip-hop. Mills met most of the band members through the jazz department at the University of Nevada, Reno, including bassist and co-MC Mac Esposito, drummer Greg Lewis, and Chris Sexton on keys and synth. Zac Haley supervises the band’s accompanying visuals and live digital production, Eric Johnson plays tenor sax, and a revolving door of trumpet players has most recently featured Brandon Sherman. That’s a lot of sound on one stage.

“It’s never going to be unanimous— there’s a lot of ideas that can conflict sometimes,” Mills said of the band’s decision-making process. “I’m super grateful because every single person is incredibly devoted. I couldn’t ask for people more excited about the project that they’re in.”

Redfield Clipper released an album last year, No Labels, which features eight tracks highlighting the band’s forays into freeform instrumentals and Mills’ own complex staccato rhymes. But the finished product lacked “unity,” according to Mills. This year’s Beach Master comes from a bigger budget and follows a single narrative, one about the pitfalls of hypermasculinity.

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“Beach Master is an analogy to elephant seals and the way that elephant seals behave—and mate, specifically,” Mills said. “The largest male elephant seal is the only one that has sex with the other female elephant seals. I just saw that as such a simple, animalistic behavior to compare this to.”

Listening to rappers like Snoop Dogg and, specifically, his 1993 album Doggystyle, Mills saw that the hallmarks of a gangster rap persona—guns, money, power and a particular disrespect for women—can be rewarded in hip-hop culture, and that indications of tenderness or emotional strife can be masked by aggression.

“That’s like the Beach Master mentality,” Mills said. “The whole album revolves around me in the thirdperson kind of, as a child dealing with these influences and struggles—and sometime succumbing to them—or overcoming them and saying, ‘My masculinity is different from all these social identifiers that get constructed and stuff.’”

Beach Master was recorded over 10 days by Colin Christian at Sound Saloon Studios and features guest performances

by Nico Lacala of Nico’s Mystery, Chance Utter of the Batamba Collective, and local R&B singer Grace Hayes.

Instead of a single release date, however, the band has something a little more ambitious in mind.

“We have three videos coming out in the next two months by Chris Reed,” Mills said. “The plan is to release a music video for every track, so we’re going to release seven videos until they’re all out, and then, after that, we’ll decide on the full album release date.”

So far they’ve recorded videos for the tracks, “2 Close,” which comments on the hesitant nature of modern dating, and “2 Tha Ladiez,” a satirical take on a traditional club banger. Stay tuned for the rest of Beach Master some time in 2017. Ω

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THURSDAY 8/3

FRIDAY 8/4

SATURDAY 8/5

SUNDAY 8/6

MON-WED 8/7-8/9

3rd Street Bar

DG Kicks Big Band Jazz Orchestra, 8pm, Tu, no cover

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

5 Star Saloon

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Sunday Takeover, 8pm, no cover

alturaS on the down low

Metalachi, Thünderhead, 9pm, $15

’80s Party with The Original Bow Wow Wow, 9pm, $20

Royal Bliss, Anchors For Airplanes, 9pm, $10

Sunday Sunset BBQ with Leroy & Rico, 5pm, no cover

Bar oF aMerICa

Origami Ghosts, 9:30pm, No cover

New Wave Crave, 9:30pm, no cover

the BlueBIrd nIghtCluB

An-Ten-Nae, 10:30pm, $20

Hot August Delights, 9pm, $15

132 West St., (775) 329-2878 1044 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-5050

Metalachi

10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-3110

Aug. 3, 9 p.m.

Alturas on the Down Low 1044 E. Fourth St. 324-5050

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549

Cargo at whItney Peak hotel 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

The Cadillac Three, Hellbound Glory, 7pm, $20-$23

James McMurtry, 8pm, $32.50-$35

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3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition with host Pat Shillito, Wed, 9pm, no cover The Improv at Harveys, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611: Francisco Ramos, Dana Eagle, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25; Sat, 8:30pm, 10:30pm, $30; Jenny Zigrino, Wed, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Richie Minervini, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Michael Finney, Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Cort McCown, Thu, 8pm, $13-$17; Fri, 9pm, $15-$20; Sat, 6:30pm, 9pm, $15-$20

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538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

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312 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 883-2662

Cottonwood reStaurant & Bar

Jacob Westfall, 6pm, no cover

Moon Gravy, 6pm, no cover

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Hellbound Glory, 8;30pm, no cover

Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

Karaoke, 8:30pm, M, no cover Folk & blues session, 8pm, W, no cover

Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover Millennium Bugs, 7:30pm, Tu, $5

Karaoke with Nightsong Productions, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

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Open Mic Jam Slam, 8pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke w/Toni Tunez, 9pm, W, no cover

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Open mic with Lenny El Bajo, 7pm, Tu, No cover

2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-6700 6300 Mae Anne Ave., (775) 787-6300

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Southern Cut, 7pm, no cover

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Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover

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Haunted Summer, 8pm, M, $7 Human Leather, 8:30pm, Tu, $5

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THURSDAY 8/3

FRIDAY 8/4

SATURDAY 8/5

SUNDAY 8/6

MON-WED 8/7-8/9

THE JUNGLE

Outspoken Monday Open Mic, 7pm, M, no cover

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

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

Ev Musselman, 6pm, no cover

THE LOFT

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45

THE LOVING CUp

Jazz Night, 8:30pm, no cover

MIDTOwN wINE Bar

DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425 188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

MILLENNIUM NIGHTCLUB

Acoustic Tuesday w/Canyon White, 6:30pm, Tu, Jazz jam, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $20-$45

James McMurtry Dane Rineheart, 8;30pm, no cover

MOODY’S BISTrO Bar & BEaTS

Christopher Hawley, 8pm, no cover

Christopher Hawley, 8pm, no cover

paDDY & IrENE’S IrISH pUB

Acoustic Wonderland, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave, Sparks, (775) 359-1594

Magic Fusion, 4pm, 7pm, $20-$45 The Irieites, 9:30pm, no cover

Jason King, 8:30pm, no cover

T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, no cover

Banda Arkangel, Banda Maguey, 11pm, $20

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

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45

THE pOLO LOUNGE

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

rED DOG SaLOON

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

Mat Marucci Organ Trio, 8:30pm, no cover You Play Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

Vamp, 9pm, no cover

Ladies Night w/DJ Bobby Dee, 9pm, no cover

VooDooDogZ, 2pm, no cover The Giving Tree Band, 8pm, $10

Musicole, 1:30pm, no cover VooDooDogZ, 8pm, no cover

Jazz, Rock and Blues Jam, 7pm, M, Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover Deep Groove, 5:30pm, no cover

Shinyribs, 8:30pm, W, $15

THE SaINT

Cranialgalactic Orchestra, Rob Ford Explorer, T Heavy, 8pm, $TBA

Dankjewel, 8pm, $6-$8

SparkS LOUNGE

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

Blues Etc. Jam with Tony G & Friends, 8:30pm, no cover

Rick Hammond Blues Band Summer Bash, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke Night with Derek Cecil, 7pm, no cover

The Soul Persuaders, 8pm, W, no cover

ST. JaMES INFIrMarY

College Night Disco, 9pm, no cover

First Fridays with DJ Alastair, 9pm, No cover

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Georgia Maestro, Kyra Gordon, 9pm, W, no cover

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

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Live blues, 8pm, W, no cover

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

Ritual (industrial, EBM, postpunk), 9pm, $3-$5

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Special Blend, 9pm, no cover

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425

Aug. 5, 8 p.m.

Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

Haunted Summer Aug. 7, 8 p.m.

The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858

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

Boomtown CAsino

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

THURSDAY 8/3

FRIDAY 8/4

SATURDAY 8/5

SUNDAY 8/6

MON-WED 8/7-8/9

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

2) In-A-Fect, 8pm, no cover Just Us, 10pm, no cover

2) In-A-Fect, 8pm, no cover Just Us, 10pm, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover

Heroes of Rock and Roll, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Ruby Jaye, 6pm, no cover

2) The Look, 9pm, no cover Stephen Lord, 5pm, no cover

2) Keith Allen, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) Crush, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Keith Allen, 6pm, Tu, no cover Scott Parsons, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Voodoo Cowboys, 8pm, no cover

2) Voodoo Cowboys, 8pm, no cover

2) Stephen Lord, 6pm, no cover

2) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, Tu, no cover

2) Luciano & Trexx, 10pm, no cover

1) Flow Tribe, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Le Noir, 8pm, $19.95-39.95 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Cirque Le Noir, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$39.95

1) Cirque Le Noir, 2pm, 5:30pm, $19.95-$29.95

1) Cirque Le Noir, 8pm, $19.95-$29.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover

2) Romeo Reyes, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) Rodrigo y Gabriela, 8pm, $32-$27 2) Miles Medina, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20 3)Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) The Magic of Rob Lake, 8pm, $24-$39 2) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) The Magic of Rob Lake, 8pm, $24-$39

1) The Magic of Rob Lake, 8pm, M, $24-$39 3) Buddy Emmer and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

1) Solid Gold Soul, 7:30pm, $29.50-$40.50 iCandy The Show, 10pm, $30-$55

1) Solid Gold Soul, 7:30pm, $29.50-$40.50 iCandy The Show, 10pm, $30-$55 4) Night Fever, 7pm, no cover

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

Slightly Stoopid Aug. 4, 5 p.m.

Harveys Lake Tahoe 18 Highway 50 Stateline (775) 588-6611

CRystAl BAy CAsino

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

1) Cirque Le Noir, 7pm, $19.95-$29.95

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3) Anthony K, 8pm, $15

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

Karaoke

HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe

O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, (775) 359-1209: Karaoke, Thu, 6pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 7pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 427-7274 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

1) The Magic of Rob Lake, 8pm, $24-$39

HARRAH’s Reno

1) Solid Gold Soul, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 7:30pm, $29.50-$40.50 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

HARVeys lAke tAHoe

1) Slightly Stoopid, Iration, J, Boog, 5pm, $22.94-$37.50

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

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55 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (800) 648-3353

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

4) Jim Show & The Sneakers, noon, W, no cover

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1) LUMA: Art In Darkness, 8pm, $25

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1) LUMA: Art In Darkness, 8pm, $25

2) Johnzo West & The Wayward Souls, 7pm, no cover 3) Edge Thursdays Ladies Night with DJs Enfo & Twyman, 10pm, $20

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

2) Johnzo West & The Wayward Souls, 8pm, no cover 3) Four Color Zack, 10pm, $20

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

4) DJ Punktematrix, 9pm, no cover

1) Ron White, 7pm, 9pm, $59.50, $69.50

3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

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

silVeR leGACy ResoRt CAsino

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FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 3, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

BLUES, BREWS & BBQ: The Carson Valley Inn’s 33rd birthday party features barbecue fare, including hot dogs and pulled pork sandwiches, free ice cream and performances by Maxx Cabello, Jr., Alastair Greene and Buddy and Kim Emmer—all backed by the Buddy Emmer Blues Band. Sat, 8/5, 5:30pm. Free.

Carson Valley Inn, 1627 Highway 395, Minden, www.carsonvalleyinn.com.

CARSON CITY GHOST WALKING TOUR:

Jazz and Beyond! Carson City Music Festival

8/04:

The 14th annual music festival features more 100 performers in a variety of genres, including jazz, blues, bluegrass and Latin. The celebration kicks off on Friday, Aug. 4, with Art on the Porch and the Garden Party. The events feature food trucks, artwork for sale and art demonstrations, music by Andean Peruvian music act Kantu Inka and jazz band Take This. The festivities take place from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the historic Bliss Mansion, 608 Elizabeth St., Carson City. The festival’s entertainment lineup this week includes a performance by Thee Commons (pictured), whose appearance is also part of the Levitt AMP music series at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St. The East Los Angeles band, whose sound mixes psychedelia, cumbia and punk music, and opening act Whatitdo hit the Minnesota Street Stage at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5, outside the BAC. The Jazz and Beyond! Carson City Music Festival continues through Aug. 21 at various venues across Carson City. Admission is free to most events. For a schedule of upcoming shows, visit jazzcarsoncity.com.

EVENTS

56TH ANNUAL JEEP POSSE BBQ: The Storey County Jeep Posse’s annual fundraiser is an old-fashioned barbecue with steak, potatoes, beans and salad and includes a no-host bar, live music and raffles.

Sat, 8/5, 4pm. $15. Ice House, Toll Road, Virginia City, (775) 847-7500.

2017 TAHOE STAR TOURS: On Friday evenings, Tahoe Star Tours will meet in Café Blue at The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe, with the telescopic viewing portion of the evening taking place on the open meadow in the backyard of the property. The resort will offer coffee, hot chocolate and water and access to blankets once the tour moves outside to the meadow for telescopic viewing. Fri, 8/4, 8:15pm. $20$40. The Ritz Carlton, Lake Tahoe, 13031 Ritz Carlton Highlands Court, Truckee, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

AMERICAN BUSINESS WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION MONTHLY LUNCHEON MEETING: The group’s monthly event features a guest speaker, a raffle drawing and networking with businesswomen from many different types of businesses. Thu, 8/3, 11:30am. $20-$25. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., www.abwa.org/ chapter/reno-tahoe-express-network.

39 NORTH MARKETPLACE: The family-friendly community street fair features local artisans, craftspeople, specialty foods, beverages provided by surrounding local businesses, produce from local farmers, a variety of vendors, live music, healthy eating and cooking demonstrations and lectures, plus the interactive Kids Connect Zone. The market is open Thursday evenings through Aug. 17.

There will not be a marketplace on Aug. 10, due to Hot August Nights. Thu, 8/3, 4pm. Free. Victorian Square, Victorian Avenue and 10th Street, Sparks, (775) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.

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BACK PAIN TREATMENT AND PREVENTION: This presentation discusses new approaches to treating back pain, including both non-surgical and minimally invasive approaches. Wed, 8/9, 6pm. Sparks Medical Office Building, 2385 E. Prater Way, Suite 201, Sparks, (775) 331-7000.

BACON, BOURBON AND BREWS: CARE Chest

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of Sierra Nevada’s annual fundraiser offers unlimited bacon samples, craft bourbons, cocktails and beers from local distilleries and breweries and live music.

Fri, 8/4, 4pm. $50-$60. Wingfield Park Amphitheater, 2 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 829-2273 ext 105, carechest.org.

Carson City’s history is explored and theatrically relived in these evening walking tours, led by Madame Curry—a ghostly, witty and fictional character named after the widow of one of Carson City’s founders, Abe Curry. This is a guided walking tour of the downtown district’s west side historic homes and businesses. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the walk begins.

Sat, 8/5, 6:30pm. $15-$20. Ghost Walk Corner, corner of Third and Curry streets, Carson City, (775) 348-6279, carsoncityghostwalk.com.

COWBOY-CON GRAND EXPO: The event features over 250 booths, static displays and exhibits. Mingle with cast and crew of western hits such as Deadwood, Tombstone and other television and movie Westerns. View props and Western movie memorabilia and shop from a large selection of vendors. Come in costume or purchase one there. Fri, 8/4-Sun 8/6, 10am. $10. Reno Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., (775) 354-7331, www.cowboy-con.com.

DOWNTOWN RENO FARMERS MARKET: The market includes freshly picked produce, a variety of international food and beverage items, packaged foods, unique arts and crafts, assorted flowers, prepared foods and children’s activities.

The event takes place on Thursday through Aug. 24, 4-9pm. Tue, 8/8, 9pm. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 746-5024, www.shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

FEED THE CAMEL: The fourth annual food truck gathering features some of the best food trucks in the Truckee Meadows and local beer. The event happens every Wednesday through August. Wed, 8/9, 5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/Feed-TheCamel-256832417824677/.

FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a drink, enjoy live music by The Coney Dogs and check out the art galleries at Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly party. Thu, 8/3, 5pm. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

HOT AUGUST NIGHTS KICKOFF VIRGINIA CITY: The annual classic car and music celebration holds its kick-off event featuring a car cruise, live entertainment, a poker walk fun and more. Fri, 8/4-Sat, 8/5, 9am-4pm. Free.

C Street, Virginia City, (775) 356-1956, hotaugustnights.net.

LADYBEE ON PLAYA MADE JEWELRY: Join Christine “Ladybee” Kristen for a conversation about her personal collection of jewelry, the makers featured in her collection and her recent book The Jewelry of Burning Man. Fri, 8/4, noon. $10 general admission, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333,.

RENO REUNION XTREME BARREL RACE: Contestants from 10 states compete for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes in this fast-paced sporting event with top athletes of all ages. The event also features Western art and merchandise.

Thu, 8/3-Sun 8/6. Free. Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave., (775) 688-5752.

RENO STREET FOOD: The gourmet street food event features over 30 gourmet food, craft dessert, beer, wine and mixed drink vendors. Local musicians provide free live entertainment each week. Reno Street Food will be held every Friday night from May through Sept. 29. Fri, 8/4, 5pm. Free. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night. 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. Sat, 8/5, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

SCIENCE CAFE NV: Scientists and researchers to give short 15-20 minute presentations to the public, followed by roundtable discussions. Mon, 8/7, 6:30pm. Free.

Brasserie Saint James, 901 S. Center St., (775) 785-3416.

SPENT SAINTS & OTHER STORIES: Awardwinning journalist Brian Smith will read from his debut collection of short stories, Spent Saints. Sat, 8/5, 1pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882.

TRUCKEE THURSDAYS: The street fair features local and regional artisans, food trucks, a beer garden and live music.

Thu, 8/3, 5pm. Free. Historic Downtown Truckee, 10065 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, www.truckeethursdays.com.

WILL’S KIDS: The second annual children’s art fair brings together Lake Tahoe non-profit organizations that focus on providing services for youth with local arts organizations. The event features a performance of William Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost presented by the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program. Fri, 8/4, 11am-5pm. Free.

Valhalla Grand Lawn, 1 Valhalla Road, off Highway 89, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 5414975, valhallatahoe.com.

ART ART INDEED: Fantastic Rubbish—Locality and Progress, Fragments & Reflection.

Art Indeed Gallery is open for the First Thursday Art Walk. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 5:30-7pm and by appointment. Thu, 8/3, 4-8pm. Free. Art Indeed, 142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367.

ART SOURCE GALLERY: Moving the World— Once, Twice, Nevermore. Permanent installation of art by renowned artist Yuyu Yang, as well as Art Source Gallery’s art collection at its new location.

Surprise boxed gift with any purchase during the month of August. Thu, 8/3-Wed, 8/9, 10am. Free. Art Source Gallery, 2195 S. Virginia St., Ste. 102, (775) 828-3525, yuyuyangart.com.

ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY OF RENO: Open Spaces and Special Places—The Art of Conservation. This benefit art show and sale for Nevada Land Trust runs through Aug. 31. There will be an opening reception on Aug. 6, noon-4pm. Thu, 8/3-Wed, 8/9, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery of Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

REID HOUSE GALLERY AND STUDIO: Constructing Memories. DJD Foundation/ Art Heals War Wounds presents this show of fiber art by Lynda Yuroff and Luana Ritch. The show runs Aug. 6-31.

Gallery hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, noon-6pm. Sun, 8/6, Tue, 8/8, noon-6pm. Free. Reid House Gallery and Studio, 515 Court St., (775) 391-2668, www.arthealswarwounds.com.

SIERRA ROOM AT CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Dylan Silver Tahoe Clarity.

The Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) presents this photography exhibition by artist Dylan Silver. The artwork will on view in the gallery through Nov. 9. The Sierra Room is open Monday-Thursday, 5-8pm. There will be an artist’s reception on Aug. 15, 5-7pm. Thu, 8/3, Mon, 8/7-Tue 8/8, 5-8pm, Wed, 8/9, 5pm. Free. Sierra Room at Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 2837421, www.arts-initiative.org.

WEST ST. MARKET: Art Walk Reno. The events highlights public art and murals with stops at several galleries and alternative venues along the way, including Sierra Arts Gallery, Art Indeed Gallery and La Terre Verte. Proceeds from the evening will benefit a local nonprofit. Thu, 8/3, 6pm. $10. West St. Market, 148 West St., (415) 596-4987, artspotreno.com.

MUSEUMS NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: Be the Astronaut. The exhibition immerses visitors in the science and engineering of spaceflight via state-of-the-art video game technology, simulators and actual NASA reconnaissance data. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 9:30am to 5:30pm, and Sundays 10am to 4pm. The exhibition runs through Aug. 31. Thu, 8/3-Wed, 8/9. $6-$12. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295, www.nevadachallenger.org.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl. The artwork is on view through Dec. 31; Jessica Rath: Projects.

The exhibition runs through Aug. 27; City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man. The show runs through Jan. 7; View From the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger. The artwork is on view through Jan. 7. Museum hours are 10am-6pm, Wednesday and Friday through Sunday, and 10am-8pm on Thursday. Thu, 8/3Sun, 8/6; Wed, 8/9, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): A T. rex Named Sue. At 42 feet long and 12 feet high at the hips, Sue is the largest, most complete and best-preserved T. rex ever discovered. A dramatic, life-sized skeleton cast of Sue is the centerpiece of this exhibition that also features hands-on and digital interactive exhibits that help you uncover Sue’s amazing past and explore the field of paleontology. The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 15; Science Underground. Located on the museum’s lower level, Science Underground features an eclectic, subterranean collection of exhibits from The Discovery’s first five years, including big, blue building blocks, Electrosketch, Nano Science, an oversized Nevada puzzle, the Tube-o-Phone, a walking piano and more. Museum hours are 10am to 5pm on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and noon to 5pm on Sunday. The museum is open from 10am to 8pm on Wednesday.

The museum will be open on Monday from 10am to 5pm. through Sept. 4. Thu, 8/3Wed, 8/9. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

CLASSICAL TAHOE: The sixth annual concert series brings world-class music and talent together for a series of performances featuring the music of Dvořák, Brahms, Bernstein, Gershwin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and more. Concerts take place at the Festival Pavilion at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village through Aug. 12. The Shooting Stars at the Nightingale Sky Room concert takes place on Aug. 6 at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Tickets for this event are $150. Fri,

8/4-Sat, 8/5, 7pm; Sun, 8/6, 11am; Tue 8/8, 7pm. $25-$150, student discounts

available. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, classicaltahoe.org.

COWBOY-CON KICK-OFF CONCERT: The tribute concert features Keith Ormond as Kenny Chesney and Michael Sugg as Toby Keith. Thu, 8/3, 6pm & 8pm. $19.95.

Baldini’s Sports Casino, 865 S. Rock Blvd., Sparks, www.cowboy-con.com.

HEARTBREAK ON THE DANCE FLOOR: The story of a love affair presented through songs and dances from Spain and Latin America. The program will include arias from favorite operas, including Bizet’s Carmen, art songs by Albeniz and Rodriguez, instrumental tangos

by Piazzolla and other contemporary composers. Sat, 8/5, 7:30pm. $20-$35.

Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, 1 Valhalla Road, off Highway 89, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, valhallatahoe.com.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Enjoy live music performed by Erika Paul and brunch presented by chez louie. Call for reservations. Sun, 8/6, 10am-2pm.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921, www.nevadaart.org.

FILM OUTDOOR SUMMER MOVIE SERIES: Enjoy watching new releases and family classics on the big screen in the Events Plaza at The Village at Squaw Valley. A different movie shows every Thursday through Aug. 31. All movies start at 8:30pm, weather permitting.

Blankets and warm clothes are recommended. Thu, 8/3, 8:30pm. Free.

The Village at Squaw Valley, 1750 Village East Road, Tahoe City, (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com.

TERRAFERMA: Artemisia Moviehouse presents this drama by director Emanuele Crialese set on a small Sicilian island that has become an unintended destination for African refugees stranded in the nearby waters.

After tragedy strikes a boatload of immigrants, a young fisherman must break the law to help a mother and her children arrive safely on the Italian mainland. In Italian, Sicilian and Amharic with subtitles. Sun, 8/6, 6pm. $5-$9.

Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

BRAVO ON THE BEACH—OUT OF THIS WORLD: The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Dr. Jason Altieri, will play popular space fantasy film themes, including those from the films Star Wars, Star Trek and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Mon, 8/7, 7:30pm. $50-$60. Warren Edward Trepp Stage, Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, laketahoeshakespeare.com.

BARRACUDA CHAMPIONSHIP, PGA TOUR GOLF TOURNAMENT: Golf fans can watch some of the world’s best golfers up-closeand-personal as they compete for a $3.3 million purse and 300 FedExCup points. Thu, 8/3-Sun, 8/6. $27.25$92.65. Montreux Golf & Country Club, 16475 Bordeaux Drive, (775) 322-3900, barracudachampionship.com.

CAPITAL CLIMB TRAIL RACE: This is the third and final run of the new Tahoe Dirt & Vert Series. The course starts and finishes at the Brewery Arts Center in downtown Carson City and runs to the top of Snow Valley Peak at 9,218 feet overlooking Lake Tahoe. The route is 21 miles in length and has over 5,000 feet of climbing. Sat, 8/5, 6am. $75-$95.

Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, trailrunner.com/event/ capital-climb-trail-race/.

GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist.

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 8/5, 10am. Free, donations welcome. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays the Nashville Sounds. Thu, 8/3-Sat, 8/5, 7:05pm, Sun, 8/6, 1:05pm. $15-$35.

ONSTAGE LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The festival returns with Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Hound of the Baskervilles performed on alternating nights, Tuesday-Sunday through Aug. 27. The Monday Night Showcase includes a diverse array of live music and entertainment from a variety of genres. A different performance will be featured each week. Shows start at 7:30pm. Thu, 8/3-Wed, 8/9, 7:30pm. $15$99. Warren Edward Trepp Stage at Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, laketahoeshakespeare.com.

MURDER AT THE MINE OR WHO GOT THE SHAFT?: The Friends of the Nevada State Museum present this mystery theater and dinner event to benefit the Nevada State Museum. Sat, 8/5, 4pm. $35.

Nevada Governor’s Mansion, 606 Mountain St., Carson City, (775) 888-7647, visitcarsoncity.com/event/murdermine-got-shaft/.

evening of spontaneous comedy. Every week is a new show. Sat, 8/5, 8pm. $5.

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

THREE LITTLE GIRLS: Piper’s Opera House presents Makayla Rose Taylor as Lottoa Crabtree, Maude Adams and Emma Nevada, three little girls who performed at Piper’s Opera House. Performances are at noon on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, through Aug. 17. Thu, 8/3, Tue 8/8-Wed, 8/9, noon. $5 for show, extra $10 for box lunch. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433.

Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

8/09:

Led by singer and guitarist Robert Williams, a.k.a. Big Sandy, the Anaheim, California group’s music encompasses rockabilly, folk, bluegrass, Western swing, Cajun, and mariachi influences.

The band performs as part of the Valhalla Art, Music and Theatre Festival in South Lake Tahoe. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, 1 Valhalla Road, off Highway 89. Tickets are $23$35. Call (530) 541-4975 or visit valhallatahoe.com.

Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.renoaces.com.

LIFESTYLE BOARDGAMERS OF RENO: Boardgamers of

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SPORTS & FITNESS

Reno play a variety of Euro-style board games that rely more on planning and tactics than simply rolling a die and moving. The event is open to all levels of players. Tue, 8/8, 5pm. Free. Baldini’s Casino, second floor, 865 S. Rock Blvd., Sparks, (775) 453-8406.

OUTDOOR SPANISH GROUP: Practice Spanish language skills in an outdoor setting.

The group meets every other Sunday in a different trail or park each time. Sun, 8/6, 7am. Free. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Bldg. B, Ste. 117, (775) 2246271, www.trainingconnexion.com.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND COFFEE: Discuss different topics of Spanish grammar and enjoy coffee and cookies or sweet bread. You will receive a binder with content corresponding to the day’s lesson. Sat, 8/5, 11:30am. $10. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Bldg. B, Ste. 117, www.trainingconnexion.com.

CLASSES DIVORCE WORKSHOP RENO: This presentation will be led by a family law specialist, a certified divorce financial analyst and a marriage and family therapist. Thu, 8/3, noon. Free. Rounds Bakery, 294 E. Moana Lane, www.divorceworkshopreno.org.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Learn how to build your family tree, discover your ancestors and impress your family with your research skills. Fri, 8/4, 11:30am.

Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd, (775) 674-7602.

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HUMP DAY JAM & COLOR SESSIONS: Color in a creative environment. Bring your own coloring pages or work on blank paper using simple mediums. Crayons, markers, watercolor, colored pencils will be provided. Listen to music from local bands while you color. New jams every second Wednesday. Bring your own drinks or snacks. Instructor: Jessica Fry. Email: jafrizzle.art@gmail.com Wed, 8/9, 5pm. $5. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, www.renoartworks.org.

OPEN ART DAY WORKSHOP: Pop in to Reno Art Works, check out the latest gallery show and then get creative for two hours. All supplies are provided. All experience levels welcome. Instructor: Meredith Tanzer. Email: meredith_tanzer@yahoo. com Fri, 8/4, 11am. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, (775) 391-0278, www.renoartworks.org.

PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF RENO: PSOR meets every Wednesday. There is painting from life models (no instruction). All artists are welcome. For more information, email psor2016@gmail.com Wed, 8/9, 9am. $10. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 8/4, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

WEDNESDAY WORKSHOPS: Multiple hour-long workshops and presentations on various topics. Topics vary from consciousness to art, music, social networking, theater, etc. Contact ksweetsparlormint@gmail. com if you are interested in facilitating a workshop. Wed, 8/9, 6pm. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., www.potentialistworkshop.com.

BLOOD DONATIONS NEEDED: Donors must be age 16 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health. There are some weight and height restrictions for donors younger than 23 and parental permission is required for all 16-yearold and 17-year-old donors. Contact United Blood Services to make an appointment. Thu, 8/3-Wed, 8/9. Free.

United Blood Services, 1125 Terminal Way, (775) 324-6454.

BREAST CANCER—ON WITH LIFE: Saint Mary’s team of social workers and educators and breast cancer survivors meet weekly to discuss cancer survivorship.

The group meets in the Tumor Board Conference Room. Tue, 8/8, 4:30pm. Free.

Saint Mary’s Center for Health, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Suite 120, (775) 722-1222.

DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Terry Lee Wells Reno Family Support Group offers a supportive environment for parents and children to learn about diabetes management. Meetings include guest speakers, youth activities, special events and parties. This event takes place on the second Wednesday of the month. Wed, 8/9, 6:30pm. Free. Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum, 490 Center St., (775) 856-3839, diabetesnv.org.

IDLEWILD HEALTH WALKS: These walks are designed to offer people in all stages of Alzheimer’s and their care-partners an opportunity to get outdoors, get some exercise and socialize with their peers. Tue, 8/8, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.

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To have and to mold My otherwise wonderful husband always leaves his wet towel on the bed (on my side!). I’ve asked him to stop doing this countless times, but I don’t think he’s being passive-aggressive or anything.

I think he just spaces out after showering. How can I get him to remember?

As you appear to understand, the problem isn’t ill will—it’s I, Robot. The first time your husband wondered “Where do I put this wet towel?”—perhaps at age 10—his brain said, “Easy peasy … just drop it right there on the bed.” Sadly, it seems his superhero bedspread didn’t pipe up: “Superman’s got a ton to do today, and flying your wet towel over to the hamper is not on his agenda.”

The brain is an efficiency expert. Figuring things out the first time around (à la “What should I do with this towel?”) takes a bunch of energy. But, as neuroscientist Donald Hebb pointed out, as you do an action over and over, your brain goes, “Oh, that again.” The trigger for the action—in this case, approaching the bed (while in a towel, ready to get dressed)— becomes automatic. Automatic means there’s no stopping to muse, “Wait! I have a wife now, and she’s threatening to Saran Wrap the bed.” There’s only the old familiar launch code: “Bed!”— cueing “Drop wet towel here!”

This automation thing—with thinking removed from the equation—is the reason nagging or even asking nicely before or after the fact is so often useless in changing behavior. You need to break in to the automatic sequence as it’s in progress (when he gets to the bed).

Interrupting the trigger sequence allows you to send a yoo-hoo to areas of his prefrontal cortex, the brain’s department of rational thought—asking them to kindly wake the hell up and take over from the basal ganglia and other parts of the brain’s department of automation.

To grab your husband’s attention in a positive way, I suggest collecting cartoons and leaving one marked “Towel alert! xo” on the area of the bed he turns into terrycloth swampland. Pair it with a battery-operated flashing light if he ends up dropping his towel on

top of it. The cartoon should break him out of his auto-daze, reminding him to return the wet towel to its ancestral home, Ye Olde Towel Rack.

Fame fatale I’m a novelist who’s suddenly getting successful (after 20 years of crappy jobs and rejected manuscripts). Every day, several people make this annoying and rather insulting comment to me: “Don’t forget about me when you’re famous!” This got me wondering: What keeps some people grounded while others let success go to their head?

The quality that keeps success from turning you into, well, Kanye East, is humility. People confuse humility—being humble—with being humiliated. However, humility is basically a healthy awareness of your limitations—what social psychologist and humility researcher Pelin Kesebir describes as “a downto-earth perspective of yourself in relation to all other beings.”

That’s something you’re more likely to have when you make it at 40—after 20 years of working crappy jobs, driving a car held together with duct tape and hope, and selling your blood to buy a tuna melt.

The cool thing is, social psychologist Elliott Kruse and his colleagues find that you can bolster humility by expressing gratitude—appreciation for how another person has helped you. Expressing gratitude both “inhibits internal focus” and “promotes external focus”—focus on others. This sort of wider view may help you keep any fame you get in perspective.

After all, there’s a way to live on in the hearts and minds of many, even after you die, and it’s by creating brilliant, spirit-moving art—or by being a chinchilla videotaped while eating a Dorito. Ω

ERIK HOLLAND

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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ion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to Reinvent

the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Writing in The Futurist

magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear.

“Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

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Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next 11 months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Robert DeNiro

once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone—just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It has almost become

a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect.

They have served as rousing prompts for you to reimagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness—an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned. Then crushed.

Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering.

The aging process, which brings the grapes’

transformation to completion, requires more time then the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles.

I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday.

You are nearing the end of the aging phase.

When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you gearing up

to promote yourself and your services? In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[place your name here] is a poised overseer of nervewracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources.

He/she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your eyes are

more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now.

Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Love is your gritty

but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn—from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s an eclipse

of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius.

Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: (1) tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; (2) make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; (3) become more skilled at mothering yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): August is Good

Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense. Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your peak effort for the Big Thing.

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Wendy Stolyarov

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Wendy Stolyarov is legislative director of the Libertarian Party of Nevada. We encountered her collecting petition signatures and donations for the nonprofit organization NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Are you from Nevada?

I’m from Texas originally. I was born in Lubbock, but I grew up in Amarillo. I moved out here right after college. ... I was a freelance illustrator and graphic designer until this last legislative session.

The Libertarian Party picked me up.

They wanted somebody local to Carson City, who was fluent with the issues and passionate about making local change. It was actually the first time the Libertarian Party had a full-time lobbyist at the legislature. It was fantastic, actually just going in there, researching bills, testifying on them, lobbying legislators directly.

Who are you here with today?

Today I’m here with NARAL. It used to stand for National Abortion Rights Action League. Now they’re rebranding. NARAL doesn’t really stand for anything, but it’s pro-choice Nevada, pro-choice America. … We’re collecting signatures for the petition that we’re going to send out [to state legislators]. We’re also doing a fundraising drive. Our goal is to collect donations so that we can continue lobbying in the 2019 session. ... We’re not like Planned

Parenthood. They’re a service provider.

We’re a political action group.

How has fundraising been going?

Decently. Our goals are pretty low, but we’ve been exceeding them consistently every day, so that’s good.

And the petition drive?

The response has actually been great. If people oppose us, they tend to just not open their doors. … It’s been pretty great.

I’ve had two naked people answer their doors today, which is fantastic.

People love to do that.

One was actually in really good shape. The other one looked like Iggy Pop. But they both signed, so good for them.

Where do you see NARAL overlapping with the Libertarian Party?

And what attracted you to the Libertarian Party?

What were some of your legislative goals during the session? ...

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I would say our principle is pro-choice on everything. I know Libertarians have a reputation for being conservative, especially with Ron Paul in 2012. I would say that we’re moving far away from that—far away from that. We’re pro-choice on everything. The Libertarian Party has always been the party of bodily autonomy, and abortion is essentially a bodily autonomy issue for women. It’s a question of whether they own themselves. In terms of NARAL, I’m a strong supporter of abortion as a principle—just because it’s your body, you have a right to control it.

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Our big issues this time around were criminal justice reform, and marijuana issues clearly came up. There were some civil liberties issues that we were able to cover, and some LGBT issues that we were really successful on. We were able to unify a lot with the Democratic legislators—more than in the past.

Would you say that at this point the Libertarian Party is more aligned with Dems or Republicans?

Or does it vary issue to issue?

It varies from issue to issue. … We’re pragmatic Libertarians. The Libertarian Party of Nevada is reasonable and moderate compared to some Libertarian parties in the country. And we’re very willing to make compromises. ... Being poor is almost illegal in this country. And the poorer you are, the harder it is to get along. ... We believe Libertarianism can make life easier for poor people. Ω

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Us against them Thank you, Sen. Murkowski. Thank you, Sen. Collins. Thank you, Sen. McCain. Your considerate and courageous votes will save thousands of decent Americans—me, for one—much physical and financial pain and will probably save thousands from actual premature deaths. You three are true heroes, in the literal sense of the word. In the end, all we can say is Thank You and let you know that you have our sincere and lasting gratitude.

I got the distinct feeling that McCain truly enjoyed his dramatic moment, which has to be one of the great moments in Senate history. It seemed that his thumbs down was mostly for McConnell, that thumb expressing complete disapproval, disdain and detestation for the abhorrent process that resulted in “The Skinny Bill.” I also got the feeling that the other hand gesture in the Senate at that

thumbing moment, a figurative but no less intense gesture, was a big fat bird for Dum Dum, the stiff upright middle finger of a gnarly old coot saying, “So, Trump, you like guys who don’t get captured?

Well, capture this. Asshole.”

McCain knew it was very likely going to come down to his vote, that he was going to be The Man to tell Mitch no go and Trump that he could forget about getting the “win” that he so desperately wanted. Many senators would have shrunk from that glaring limelight. McCain, god bless him, appeared to positively relish it.

Actually, though, how tough is it to vote against a bill that is hated by 85 percent of the U.S.?

I mean, it’s a little over the top for me to be singing the high praises of McCain, Murkowski and Collins simply because they dared to vote against an absolute

POS that Americans absolutely loathed. Should have been one of the easier “no” votes in voting history. And yet, this is where we are at. But we shouldn’t forget, we came within one stinking lousy little vote of having some wretched version of Trumpcare shoved up our asses by Republican senators and congressmen.

One vote. Which reminds me to remind you: The true enemy of the American people is—still—the Republican Party.

I’m sorry to say I was right about Heller. I predicted at the start of all this that he would roll with Mitch. Oh, he waffled nicely with his Sandoval maneuver.

Faked my ass out big time. But, in the end, it was not to be. Too bad.

You’ll probably get through the primary, Deano, having voted for this horror. But, November—? Ω

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