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Epidemic

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

During the brief glimpse of spring we had for a week or two between The Return of the Son of Winter, Part II and Winter VII: Nerds in Paradise, I went on a few morning runs, a routine that lay dormant during my winter hibernation.

I live in the Old Southwest/Newlands area, and usually just go running around the neighborhood, which is a great ’hood for running because it’s fun to admire all the historic and eclectic architecture.

Plus, friendly neighbors, and a lot of pretty side streets and unexplored alleyways.

One recent morning, I was running toward the intersection of Bret Harte Avenue and Monroe Street, when I saw a dog rounding a corner up ahead. No big deal, right? Canine encounters are a common occurrence on neighborhood runs. But there was something strange about this dog—it had a lean, athletic build, and something about the way it moved seemed unusually alert or, you might even say, wily.

Yep. It was a coyote.

We used to see them fairly regularly when I lived in a rural neighborhood south of town, but I was a little surprised to see one that deep in Reno. It eyed me cautiously for a while, then crossed the street, and we headed off in different directions. It was a breathtaking, nearly mystical encounter to start the day.

That’s been my go-to small talk story for the last few days, and I’ve been surprised by the diversity of responses I’ve heard from friends and co-workers: “Hope it didn’t kill any cats.”

“Wow! That’s unbelievable.”

“That’s no big deal. That neighborhood isn’t really very far from the hills.”

“Oh, of course. Coyotes live everywhere. There are coyotes on Manhattan.”

“That’s really sad. You know it was hungry, looking for food, probably displaced by all the development that’s taken place recently.”

The total lack of mental-health resources in this area (Washoe County) is an absolute joke! Instead of all the stories you provide on legal cannabis, how about doing a real story on the mental-health epidemic in this area?

In trying to find these services for a family member, I have been mis-directed numerous times. West Hills is a total waste of resources. The only thing they are interested in is collecting money from your insurance carrier. What they actually do in there is an absolute mystery. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of people with no clue where to start.

Dwayne Hubert Reno

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Rosanne Barr’s campaign Re “A message in pop culture” (Let Freedom Ring, April 12): The truth about what happened between Roseanne and Cindy Sheehan could easily be ascertained by interviewing Darcy G. Richardson. Mr. Richardson was the person in the know at the time. He acted as roseanne and Cindy’s handler and campaign manager behind the scenes. He ran for president himself early in the 2012 election.

The entire campaign was derailed by a power within the highest part of the republicandemocratmonarchy of the U.S.A. Paul Dahmen Sebring, Florida

Women and children Re “A better cure for sex trafficking” (Let Freedom Ring, March 22): The most uniformed and out of touch editorial I think I have ever read. You may want to visit with AWAKEN to try to get informed if you are at all interested in understanding the disturbing truth about sex trafficking and prostitution and the unimaginable harm it does to women and

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children. By the way, here is what really happens to women in the brothels, if you care: https://tinyurl.com/y8mc799w Mike Kazmierski Reno Editor’s note: The article referenced in this letter was an opinion column, not an editorial. The article Mr. Kazmierski recommends is titled “A survivor goes on a brothel tour in Frankfurt’s red light district: Truth? Or propaganda and lies about prostitution?”

Footballs Students and parents, aunts and uncles use the electronic media as was done in Egypt to get this on. Use Facebook, Twitter, emails.

Spread the word to all!

No laws are enforceable that may mean death to one of us. Imagine 51 million absences.

Whereas we, the students, parents and teachers are tired of being a political football as our safety is put on hold.

To oppress oppression with more oppression will not work. Where there is oppression, there is retaliation.

Gun laws that are not enforced now means more guns will not be enforced later.

Backpacks can conceal all sorts of weapons.

Many automatics can be broken down and reassembled, also knives and bombs.

We are tired of not knowing that if today is the day for our turn to die.

Out lives are at stake, while legislators do nothing to provide for our safety. The legislators provide billions on weapons to kill and main, darn little, if any, for our lives.

We want to be provided the safety and security that they have in courthouses and airports. We want lockdown doors. We want seat belts installed on all vehicles transporting students. We want more stringent measures taken against bullies, including expulsion. Counseling the bullied doesn’t seem to work.

Richard Davis Reno

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Corrections Re “Arch madness” (cover story, March 15): We reported the first Reno Arch was installed in 1926 in Idlewild Park. Actually, the arch was erected that year on Virginia St. In the 1960s it was moved first to Idlewild Park and then to Paradise Park.

Re “The Teen Issue 2018” (cover story, April 12): The email address of Claire Munoz was misspelled. It should have been claire. munoz@nevadaart.org. The date of Teen Art Night was given as April 28. It is actually April 27. We apologize for the errors.

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Your favorite Reno sign? aSKed at old world coffee, 104 california ave.

Michael Schnabel Real estate professional

The Merry Wink Motel. It was, like, the wildest sign. I took pictures of it. I was like, “I want that sign.” It’s unique, and you can just tell it was there forever.

It’s completely out of place now.

JuStin lewiS Entrepreneur

I used to live downtown, and I would walk to Truckee Bagel.

I would sit out facing Virginia Street. I would see the Wild Orchid sign—the digital sign.

There was always half-naked girls on that. I would always think of the weird juxtaposition of Reno’s old versus Reno’s new.

a aron crouSe Kavatender

Teach our children well In his journalism classic, The Chain Gang, editor Richard McCord wrote of how the Gannett newspaper chain instructed its local newspapers to gather up every cent made each day and send it to the national finance office, with the result that capital was daily being shipped out of dozens of towns around the country, draining the communities that produced that capital of any economic benefit from it.

In February, West Virginia teachers went on strike, staying out of their classrooms until March 7. Most of the national coverage of the strike was terrible to the point of being misleading. Few reporters looked beyond the issues of pay and health benefit levels, though those were the two least important issues. What was amazing was that the four or five most important issues overlapped with issues that concern many of us who have little or no stake in teachers’ pay. They were: 1. “Our message from day one has been for a reversal of corporate tax breaks,” said language teacher Emily Comer.

2. Teachers were expected to use Go365, a new feature of the worker health insurance program requiring teachers to wear an electronic monitor that measures their activities and reports back to Big Brother. Teachers who refused to use the devices incurred whopping penalties—an additional $500 deductible and a $25 monthly premium hike.

3. State legislators were planning to kill collection of union dues from teachers as a part of the payroll system.

4. Teachers wanted a limit put on the number of charter schools.

5. There was a proposal to curb seniority, allowing the state to bring in less experienced teachers with less training.

It was not that the teachers were not interested in pay and health benefit levels. They ended up winning a five percent raise and a freeze on health insurance costs. But that is not as good as it sounds. Teacher pay has fallen by 11 percent since 2009 in the state. No number has been put on the value of the health benefits freeze, but it is pretty clear that, at best, the strike succeeded in keeping teachers from losing still more ground.

While the matter of tax breaks is yet to be settled, the West Virginia teachers won on all other issues.

In Nevada as in West Virginia, corporate welfare drains school systems of needed dollars. It removes millions and billions of dollars from local use. Nevada’s Sales Tax Anticipation Revenue bonds, or STAR bonds, have damaged local businesses while sending capital out of state, hurting schools and failing to produce the promised tourism boom.

On privacy, tax subsidies for private schools, better teachers, the strikers spoke for more than themselves. Their example showed students what it means to live in a society together. The teachers fought for changes from which we would all benefit. Their selfless conduct struck a blow for progressive education and healthier state economies. We all owe them a debt of thanks.

Until the right wing found a reason to demonize them, teachers were honored in this society. We need to reinstate that esteem. For a start, and for a local perspective, turn to page 14. Ω

My roomate’s grandfather designed the Circus Circus clown.

That’s not my favorite sign.

The one that’s coming to mind is a psychic house on Mill. … I love the psychic house signs all around town. The one on Mill is really, really neat.

heShi StaMpS Chef/photographer

I haven’t been in Reno long. I’m thinking of my last place of employment—Shawarmageddon.

Their logo sign is pretty cool.

It’s this pentagram with a goat’s head in it. I really like goats.

Goats are cool.

K arlye KoSt Communications assistant

I keep thinking of all of the signs I see on some of the old motels near the university. They’re not even that pretty, just the aesthetic they have is really cool. … The Ho Hum Motel is my favorite. It’s so simple, but it’s hysterical. I think a lot of the motels from that era draw on those themes.

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Virtual flight to freedom As President Trump further militarizes the southern border, even though illegal crossings are at a 47-year low, it seemed an opportune time to visit the Academy Award-winning virtual reality installation “Carne y Arena” in Washington DC and learn more about what it takes to reach the promise of America. Author and director Alejandro González Iñárritu creates empathy and compassion for immigrants who are willing to risk everything for a better life. It’s loosely translated as “Flesh and Sand” but it has a stronger meaning in Spanish since carne also means meat. And just as animals are hunted, so are these immigrants.

The 15-minute experience is done alone. You begin by entering a small, very cold room, where dusty and scattered shoes left behind by actual immigrants crossing the southern border create a strong impression of poverty and panic. A sign on the wall instructs you to remove your own shoes and sit on a small steel bench to wait. There’s

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nothing to do but contemplate the fate of the people who wore these lost shoes, many obviously belonging to women and children. I learned later that the icy room is meant to simulate the “hieleras,” (freezers), which function as holding cells where apprehended immigrants are kept for days as they are processed for deportation, often separated from their children.

As I opened the door to the next room, alerted by a red strobe light and insistent alarm, I could feel my heart rate rising. My bare feet encountered gritty sand, and I gingerly approached two shadowy figures standing in the middle of the large, dark area. For a few seconds I wasn’t sure if they were real, but one man quietly bid me good evening and fit the virtual reality technology around my head.

I was soon surrounded by a familiar southwest desert landscape at dawn.

Spanish-speaking voices became louder as a group of immigrants approached.

I learned Spanish living in Madrid as a teenager and barely noticed the English woven into the experience. As the struggling people staggered through the sand, it felt eerily real.

My heart pounded more strongly as the room shook with booming helicopters and their probing searchlights.

Soon, white SUVs pulled up behind me with flashing lights, the menacing shouts of armed border patrol filling the space. A large threatening dog appeared on my left and I instinctively backed away from the chaotic scene as children, women and a few men were thrown to the ground, terrorized.

It seemed to go on forever. At one point, I inadvertently walked through a person and was immediately surrounded by a beating heart, as if I were inside him. A border guard aggressively demanded to know who was the pollero, the smuggler. A woman tearfully choked out, “If we tell you, they’ll kill us.” Nos matan. I believed her.

The most powerful moment came at the end of the experience. I was standing with my hands in my pockets when an officer suddenly turned and pointed his massive gun in my face, screaming, “Get your hands out of your pockets” and “Get down on your knees.” I immediately thrust my hands in the air in a posture of submission. Later, a friend told me at that moment, unmoored and frightened, she dropped to her knees and cowered. After an uncomfortable pause, I was surrounded again by the desert landscape, alone except for birdsong and some shoes scattered among the bushes.

I exited the room with my heart still racing. As I brushed the harsh sand from my feet and entered the gallery to view portraits of the immigrant actors whose experience the film was based upon, I felt the brutality and horror inflicted upon these immigrants deep within me, heartbreaking and unforgivable. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

Second and Tenth—a strong combo At the Washoe County Republican Convention, the platform proposals on immigration drew heated debate. County Republicans are against Nevada becoming a sanctuary state.

Except it kinda already is.

Law enforcement in Nevada has stated that it will comply with any subpoena or otherwise lawful order to turn an inmate over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but does not generally comply with mere detainment requests.

At the heart of this refusal by states to ask “How high?” every time the feds say “Jump!” is a principle derived from the Tenth Amendment’s limits on federal power and protection of state powers from unlawful federal coercion. This is called the “anti-commandeering doctrine.”

In 1842, in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, Justice Joseph Story held that the federal government could not force states to carry out the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. He said that it was a federal law, and the federal government had to enforce it. The Tenth

Amendment helped anti-slavery states protect runaway slaves.

As Justice Story wrote, “We held ... that Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce a federal regulatory program.

Today we hold that Congress cannot circumvent that prohibition by conscripting the States’ officers directly. The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. It matters not whether policy making is involved, and no case by case weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary; such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”

However, another principle found in Chief Justice John Marshall’s earlier case McCulloch vs. Maryland holds that states can neither tax or otherwise interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of its own valid laws, including immigration laws.

Courts may find California went too far with some, but certainly not all, of its California Values Act. Likely to be struck down: It forbids employers from cooperating with ICE. Whether allowing the states to inspect federal detention centers will survive judicial review is an interesting question.

If immigration restrictionists gain control of the Nevada state government in this election, the new Washoe County Republican platform supports passing laws like the Texas laws that require state agencies to actively assist federal law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration laws.

Proposed GOP platform planks to require immigration be merit-based and other similar amendments failed at the county convention. It remains to be seen how Nevada Republicans really feel about immigration. The platform welcomes legal immigrants with open arms. Republican nativists want much less legal immigration.

The debate is not over.

The anti-commandeering doctrine was also dispositive in the case Printz v. United

States (1997), where two Western sheriffs challenged parts of the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority that the sheriffs could not be forced to use their own time and tax money implementing the federal Brady law. The Tenth Amendment helped the states defend the Second Amendment.

Nevada Republicans could use rhetorical judo to make Nevada a Second Amendment sanctuary state. The Tenth Amendment protects both red and blue states against overreaching federal power.

Consistent constitutional conservatives understand that the Tenth Amendment protects the rights of states to ignore but not interfere with federal laws. The Tenth Amendment has protected states that legalized marijuana and now will likely protect California’s core sanctuary state laws. The left should no longer believe that state nullification powers are only used by racists. Conservatives should be consistent in looking for federalist approaches to problem solving. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

William Bills returns The Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended trading in a marijuana company based in Douglas County and Carson City that claims an association with the Winnemucca tribal colony.

The company, formerly called IX Biotechnology, merged with American Housing Income Trust in March 2017, to become Corix Bioscience Inc. Its base of operations is described variously—the SEC makes it to be Surprise, Arizona—but its Nevada license names both Carson City and Douglas County.

An SEC statement reads in part, “The Commission temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Corix Bioscience, Inc. because of questions that have been raised about the accuracy and adequacy of publicly disseminated information concerning, among other things, the company’s assets and operations in Nevada. This information includes claims that CXBS holds a valid, state-issued export license in Nevada for growing, processing and distributing industrial hemp.”

Reports on the dispute include frequent mention of William Bills, a Filipino who has claimed to be a member of the Winnemucca tribe.

Bills was adopted by a member of the Winnemucca tribe. After the tribe elected him tribal vice chair, a hearing was scheduled on whether Bills has Indian blood. Tribal chair Glenn Wasson was to preside and was expected to oppose Bills’ membership. Wasson was murdered before the meeting could be held (“Murder of a leader,” RN&R, Jan. 11, 2001), with the result that Bills served as acting chair for a time while the blood and membership issues were still in doubt.

The Winnemucca colony has posted on its website a 2011 federal court order recognizing Thomas Wasson as the tribal chair. Efforts to contact colony officials listed on the website were unsuccessful. In 2016, some business websites named Bills as chief of the Fort McDermitt tribal allotment. The Fort McDermitt reservation is 74 miles north of Winnemucca.

Over the years, Bills has re-emerged in the news occasionally, sometimes reportedly claiming to be the Winnemucca colony chair.

The website Vice, which portrayed the new dispute as officialdom trying to block legal marijuana commerce (“Somehow, the Ridiculous War on Hemp Is Still Going On,” Vice, April 10, 2018) reported that last summer, sheriff’s officers in San Joaquin County, California, came across a 26-acre “hemp farm … operated by William Bills of the Winnemucca Shoshone nation, though the farm wasn’t on the reservation, which is in Nevada.

Bills had planned to start a business extracting cannabidiol, or CBD oil, the non-psychoactive cannabis chemical used as medicine by many but not recognized as one by authorities. He had rented a plot in California and partnered with a company that claimed to be a university, as well as cannabis consulting firms that tout their own research in press materials—an attempt to comply with federal and state laws that only allow hemp to be grown for research purposes.”

After the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors responded to the discovery of the hemp farm by banning such farms, the sheriff’s office uprooted and removed the plants, prompting a lawsuit on behalf of the Winnemucca colony against the supervisors, county counsel, district attorney, sheriff and the Drug Enforcement Administration. We were unable to learn if colony officers knew of the lawsuit.

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Signature gatherers are busy around Nevada qualifying various issues for the ballot. This one is at the Department of Motor Vehicles on Galletti Way. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

To the ballot Will two energy questions confuse voters? supporters of a ballot measure providing for increased use of renewable energy in Nevada are concerned the measure will be confused with a second ballot measure that would change the energy market in the state.

The energy market petition could be called the Adelson measure—billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s Sands Corp. is the prime mover behind it.

The renewable energy petition could be called the Steyer measure—Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund manager worth more than $1.6 billion, is its principal backer (“Petition,” RN&R, March 29).

Both measures would amend the Nevada Constitution, meaning they must be voted on by Nevadans twice.

The Adelson petition has already been approved by voters once with a 72.36 percent vote and must go through second-round balloting this year. The

Steyer measure faces first-round balloting this year.

The Adelson petition is ballot Question Three. The Steyer petition is still being circulated for signatures and will not be numbered until it qualifies for the ballot, which is considered likely. The state requires 112,544 signatures.

The Adelson petition went on the ballot after several Clark County casino corporations sought to break away from NV Energy as their power supplier. The Nevada Public Utilities Commission said they would have to pay hefty multi-million dollar “exit fees” in order to find different power sources. Some casinos paid the fees, but the Sands chose another route—using an initiative petition to change state law, which currently says there can only be one electric utility company per service area. The

measure pits Adelson against fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, owner of NV Energy’s parent corporation.

In a 2016 statement explaining its decision, the Sands corporation said, “While Las Vegas Sands did not exercise its option to exit NV Energy, the company maintains a strong desire to purchase and use the cleanest and most cost-efficient energy available on the open market. Big business should not be the only ones participating in a discussion about energy choice though.

It’s important our employees and all Nevada ratepayers have a voice in this debate and we will absolutely support efforts to help those voices be heard.”

That “big business” shot at NV Energy comes from a corporation that, besides the Sands, also runs an expo hall plus the Palazzo and Venetian casino hotels.

In its first round campaign, Adelson’s campaigners portrayed the measure as offering “choice,” and most journalists followed that cue.

Among critics of the Adelson measure in 2016 was the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1245, whose business manager, Tom Dalzell, said the IBEW was worried about jobs: “The secretive backers of

MORE ENTERTAINMENT this measure want voters to believe it’s about ‘energy choices,’ but in reality, it would help a handful of ultra-wealthy casino moguls get even richer, at the expense of Nevada’s working families.”

The union has gone all-out in trying to defeat Three.

This week, Democratic candidates for governor Chris Giunchigliani and Steve Sisolak both came out against Three.

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defeat U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s reelection bid and Republican candidate for governor Adam Laxalt. He hopes to lure a quarter of a million young voters to the polls in the state. Heller has been receiving financial contributions from, among others, Berkshire Hathaway, the company that owns NV Energy.

Among other ballot petitions filed this year, two have already fallen by the wayside. One, seeking to repeal the Nevada commerce tax, was withdrawn. A second petition with the same goal is still in the field. The second, which sought to ban Nevada sanctuary cities, was stricken from being circulated by a district court judge. There was doubt among political professionals whether its supporter would be able to gather the signatures necessary for ballot status in any event.

Still alive are a measure that would provide for “ranked choice” in elections and do away with primaries, and the second petition to do way with the commerce tax. Ω

The Question Three campaign is expected to be very, very expensive.

Steyer’s petition seeks to require power utilities to provide at least 50 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030. It would be achieved in increments—at least 26 percent in 20222023, 34 percent in 2024-2026, 42 percent in 2027-2029, and 50 percent in 2030 and thereafter. Right now, the state requires that 25 percent of electricity sales be derived from renewables by 2025. In 2016, the state achieved 21.6.

Kyle Roerink, communications directory for the Steyer petition, said, “Right now, Nevada spends $70 million annually on out of state fossil fuels. Consequently, Nevada’s abundant sunshine and geothermal resources go unused, and we squander an opportunity to improve lives and create jobs.”

The worry for Steyer petition supporters in particular is that with two energy measures on the ballot, the public will not distinguish between them very well.

One state legislator who spoke on background said, “Ballot campaigns are difficult.

Voters are really going to have to pay attention, and reporters need to do a good job of pointing out the differences” between the two ballot measures.

The two petitions do not necessarily have the same interest in keeping the lines straight between them. A supporter of the Adelson measure said with a laugh, “I’m OK with them confusing us with Steyer’s effort.”

She said the Steyer petition is more marketable and that “piggy-backing” the Adelson measure onto Steyer would be helpful.

Question 3 is expected to face a much more rigorous challenge in second-round voting, and its supporters are also expected to spend heavily to block that challenge.

Adelson’s organization last week announced it had hired two high-powered and expensive political consultants, one of them former Harry Reid campaign advisor Brandon Hall.

Steyer, in addition to funding the renewables measure, is also planning to spend heavily in two other Nevada campaigns— mobilizing 18-to-35-year-old voters with a precinct level campaign to turn out to help

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As downtown motels are razed, the Nevada Neon Project’s preservation efforts continue

When Will Durham was a child, he had insomnia—and he liked to collect things, a combination that foreshadowed what would even eventually become his life’s mission.

“I hated to be the last one awake,” he said. He’d been downtown at night a few times, so he knew that people there were awake late, too. “I’d look to downtown Reno, and I could see the glow of the neon. It comforted me to know I wasn’t the last one awake.”

“That’s how the seed got planted,” said Durham, who now heads up the Nevada Neon Project—a nonprofit with nine board members, no website, about 260 Facebook fans, almost 5,000 Instagram followers and over 100 neon signs.

The signs have come from casinos, motels and other businesses in Reno, Las Vegas and other Nevada locales. Some are from such well-known, long-ago casinos as the Mapes Hotel, Harold’s Club and the Nevada Club. They’re housed, for now anyway, in storage units and semi-trailers.

As some of Reno’s motels are sold and demolished to make way for new constructions, Durham is trying to acquire as many of their signs as possible for restoration and eventual display.

On a breezy spring evening, shortly before sunset, Durham stood on the sidewalk at 330 N. Arlington Ave., across from the Sands Casino. The El Ray Motel had stood at that address, and now the only things on the property were a chain link fence, a pile of concrete blocks and splintered boards, a yellow excavator that would soon remove the debris, and the motel’s neon sign.

No one seems to know its exact origin date, but it has the telltale swooshes and cheerful script font that signified a national lust for both travel and super-bold graphics in the 1950s and early ’60s. Now, the sites of the El Ray and its next-door-neighbor, the Star of Reno, are vacant lots, and the City Center and Keno

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Fallen icons

Motels on West Street, which were back-fence neighbors, are awaiting demolition.

If things had gone Durham’s way, he would have negotiated with the motels’ purchaser, Colorado-based Jacobs Entertainment, Inc., to salvage the signs for future use.

“As soon as I heard that the Jacobs group was buying these properties, I called them the next day,” he said. He hoped that his group’s track record of preservation would convince Jacobs to part with the signs, but the company opted to keep them to use in its proposed Fountain District development.

Founder Jeff Jacobs declined RN&R’s request for a phone interview. His company sent a prepared statement that read, in part, “Jacobs Entertainment Inc. is committed to protecting and preserving more than half a dozen neon signs from Reno’s historic West Fourth Street corridor.”

The statement acknowledged that the signs are important pieces of Reno history and continued, “The preservation of every neon sign, regardless of its condition or size, is an integral element of the Fountain District project.” No details were given regarding how the signs would be displayed.

“That worries me a little bit,” said Durham. “Just because we’ve been working so hard to kind of tell a bigger story with all these signs.”

Along with signs, he’s also been collecting casino ephemera—matchbooks, playing cards, menus, poker chips, swizzle sticks and the like. “I actually have some carpet from the Sands,” he said. And his group hopes to one day open a museum.

Collector Will Durham has been preserving Nevada’s neon signs for over two decades.

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The next chapter in Durham’s growing attachment to neon, after looking at the lights from his room as a child, took place in the ’90s when he was sharing a house with some friends. His part of the house was a giant sunroom. When he moved his things in, they didn’t fill up the sunroom. He wondered what to do with the empty space.

“I set up a lounge,” he said. “And I was like, ‘I need something substantial in there.’” He bought some neon signs—including a “pool” sign with a bikini-clad diver outlined in red—to use as decor from the Zephyr Motel on West Fourth Street, which was closing.

As of 1999, Durham could count the number of signs he’d acquired on one hand. That year, Harold’s Club, which had opened in 1935 and closed in 1995, was slated for demolition. The old owners had been family friends, Durham said, but by the time the casino closed, it was owned by Harrah’s, so when Durham decided he wanted to try to salvage its signs, he had no connections to rely on.

“I had to make a deal with the demolition people,” he said.

Harold’s Club had a 70-foot wide mural made of porcelain panels. It depicts a group of white settlers in a wagon train going about their daily labors in an idyllic meadow on the left, Native Americans in loincloths lying in wait, apparently ready to attack, on the right, and a light-up waterfall separating the two groups.

Above the image, neon letters in all-caps Helvetica read, “Dedicated in all humility to those who blazed the trail.”

The mural was removed and stored, but, as demolition day approached, the letters remained. Durham thought the two should be kept together.

The demolition crew agreed to allow him to enter the property, but only for a day or two. He made several trips up to the roof, he said, each time carrying down two or so letters, which he recalled being about 20-24 inches high.

“I was able to get them just before it was demolished,” he said.

(It’s perhaps worth a diversion here, for readers who are wondering, to mention that, yes, the tone and content of the mural were debated. The RenoSparks Indian Colony declined to take a position on whether it should remain on display—though tribal chairman Arlan Melendez did point out that members of Nevada tribes did not wear loincloths or attack settlers. In 2003, the mural was reinstalled at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, where it remains today, neon letters and all. Retired journalist Bruce Bledsoe, writing for the Online Nevada Encyclopedia, noted that it was “a considerable distance from the central city where, one assumes, it could be seen but not seen too much.”)

Shortly afterward, Durham acquired several signs from the Mapes Hotel, including the one with the famous twin cowboys whose blue-jeaned legs make up the “M” in Mapes and the one touting the “World Famous Skyroom” in an all-caps Deco font.

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Durham tells it, his collection now seemed legitimate to the public. It’s been increasing ever since.

Many signs have been donated. “The biggest companies in Nevada, like MGM in Las Vegas, they donate signs,” Durham said. “I just got a sign from Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in Las Vegas.”

And many signs have been purchased—either after a business had closed, or, in some cases, long before. “I bought the Merry Wink Motel sign like 15 years ago, maybe longer,” Durham said. The large sign has a scuffed, brick-red background and a man with a wide grin, a top hat and a thick, white beard that makes it look like his name might be Pappy. He’s outlined in neon, and he winks at night. “He’s been shot in the head,” Durham said. “He’s got a bullet hole in him.” But he emanates the charm of bygone eras strongly enough that when a collector came

break-up that took place there. He heard stories from other museum visitors about neon reminding people of other things too, like places where they’d gotten engaged. It wasn’t all heartbreak.

Stories like these are among the reasons he’s passionate about preserving signs. They’re tangible souvenirs of the community’s past. They tell Nevada’s stories, both personal and cultural.

“The signs act as this catalyst for these amazing, rich conversations we could have about our cultural heritage,” he said.

“There’s a lot of story to tell.”

Levi’s were invented here, and “Burning Man—the man was always draped in neon,” he said, listing examples. “We could have 20 years of exhibitions just scratching the surface.”

the Nevada Club sign was designed

by Lew hymers, a reno graphic designer in the 1930s and ’40s.

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Jeff Johnson was commissioned to make this sign for the recent debaucha-reno punk festival.

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Neon sparrow by Kenneth hines.

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through town buying signs to take to Wisconsin, Durham made the motel owner an offer. “We want to keep it part of our landscape,” he said, adding that the property, which is near The Summit mall, will eventually be redeveloped, and when that happens he plans to take possession of the sign. But, for now, the Merry Wink is still in operation.

The bulk of the Nevada Neon Project’s signs are from the 1930s through ’60s, but not all of them. “We collect some modern signs, too” Durham said. “I think a mistake is made to only preserve things that aren’t new. If you look at those streetscapes from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, you wish that someone would have thought ahead and saved some of those things.

So, we’ve preserved some modern signs like the Aces ballfield. The Aces have been very good about letting us preserve the signs that are coming down, and some of those are modern, but they’re done in the old vintage style.”

He also has possession of one sign from a former business that Gen Xers still swoon over, Deux Gros Nez. The second-floor café on California Avenue was the setting of many a coming-of-age story, many a friendship forged and many a novel draft until it closed in 2006. And when a selection of the Nevada Neon Project’s pieces were spruced up and put on display in the Nevada Museum of Art in 2012, Durham said that seeing the café’s sign in lights reminded at least one museum visitor of a long-ago

“We can’t keep all the buildings—progress happens,” said Durham, referring to the doomed downtown motels. But he’s trying his best to be a good steward for any pieces of history he can get a hold of.

Changing times, changing tastes

While Reno’s collective appreciation for vintage neon seems to be going strong, the demand for new neon has declined in recent years. Jeff Johnson is a neon artist who makes both fine art and commercial signs and also does repairs. “People would rather pay me to fix their Bud Light signs than for anything artistic,” he said.

While some modern businesses that align with vintage mindsets—like Golden Jackal or Neon Envy—do use neon signs, a lot of new shops and eateries have LEDs or backlit signs.

“I was told that millennials don’t like neon,” said Johnson. “I think the next generation doesn’t

Neon woman at aces tattoo by Kenneth hines.

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Neon pig from the LiNQ Promenade, Las Vegas Courtesy/Nevada NeoN ProJeCt

Sign from the LINQ Promende in Las Vegas.

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Sign from the Sandman Motel on East Fourth Street Courtesy/Nevada NeoN ProjeCt

care. None of their bars have them. None of the breweries.”

Kenneth Hines, who owns Color of Neon sign shop, also reported a decreased demand for new signs.

“The new market is really tough,” he said. “I don’t do too much commercial neon any more. It’s mainly pieces that people want in their house”—designs that say things like “Joe’s Place” or “Sam’s Bar” for their living areas. He’s also noticed a sudden demand for

neon hashtags to hang inside of businesses. He’s done maybe six of those.

But repairing older tubes from casinos, motels and restaurants that are subject to age and weather keeps Hines employed for 40 hours a week, sometimes more.

A large casino might need its neon repaired weekly, he said. Casinos contract with sign companies such as Yesco or Custom Sign and Crane, and those companies deliver the pieces to Hines’ workshop, where he’ll replace glass, electrodes and gas.

Hines, who figures it’ll be at least a decade before he retires, is concerned about the future of the craft.

“I tell people, from the time I started to the time I could do anything that walked through my door and not have any reservations about it, it took me like seven years.” He’s been doing it for 40 years now, he said, and he doesn’t know of anyone who wants to apprentice to replace him.

“I have tried to train a few people, but they just don’t hang in there,” he said. “It takes a real passion for doing the neon.”

Future aspirations

Las Vegas has its Neon Musuem, which consists of a visitors center shaped in a double hyperbolic parabaloid—read swoopy and space-age like on the The Jetsons—and the Neon Boneyard, a two-acre lot where defunct signs are artfully piled and tower over visitors.

The museum that Durham envisions for Reno is quite different from that of its Southern Nevada counterpoint.

“I think we can do our museum in a way that’s not copying,” he said. “Our exhibition philosophy is much different. And so I think we can do it in a way that feels fresh. We want it to be a modern take on something that’s from our past.”

“These signs are from fun places, party places,” he elaborated. “They’re leisure, and so we would want to capture some of that energy. I can picture going into a room of our museum, where you’re hearing some of the music of the time. You’re hearing Johnny Cash, you’re hearing doo-wop.

It adds a layer, to also take advantage of all the graphics from these places. You think of all the old billboards and the matchbooks and the playing cards and the carpets—there’s so many rich layers of visual.”

“There’s just so much of our history that’s worth telling,” he said. “This is using the signs as an entrée to talk about anything.”

The Nevada Neon Project’s aspirational museum doesn’t yet have a location, a budget or a business plan. But it does have a development director—board member Megan Merenda, who worked on fundraising with the Nevada Discovery Museum during its planning and inception and is now director of philanthropy for The Nature Conservancy.

And for Durham who’s been collecting neon for 23 years so far, the long road ahead doesn’t seem to faze him.

“I don’t want people to be thinking that the neon story in Reno is over, because it’s not,” he said.

He’s even planning to ask the state legislature to make neon Nevada’s official state element. Ω

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In his new book, a local middle school instructor advises that the best ideas for improving education come from teachers

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s teacher strikes in Oklahoma made headlines earlier this month, a local middle school teacher and author was getting ready to publish a new book addressing some of the issues plaguing American public schools.

David Michael Slater is an English teacher at Pine Middle School who’s written chapter books and novels for kids, teens and adults, and his newest book is We’re Doing it Wrong: 25 Ideas in Education That Just Don’t Work—And How to Fix Them.

Aside from the book, which has received advance orders from departments at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of California, Los Angeles, Slater also produces a podcast of the same name focused on sharing submissions from teachers all over the country. The RN&R talked with him about his motivations behind the book and what some of the problems and solutions it addresses look like from inside the classroom.

What was the impetus behind writing this book?

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David Michael Slater thinks of his new book as “a roadmap for improvement.”

It’s my first foray into nonfiction, so there was sort of an interest in giving that a try. When I sat and thought what I could write about, I thought I’d write about what I know: teaching.

When I was putting down these short chapters, I’m thinking, “This really just kind of feels like common sense to me, and I don’t know if anyone is going to want to read this.” Colleagues I’ve had my whole life share a lot of these opinions with me, so I started to share [the book] with some colleagues, and their reaction was extremely encouraging.

Nobody listens to teachers, so that’s one of the main messages of this book. Once I started to realize what it might be worth to people—especially educators—that became one of my main motivations. One of the main ideas at the beginning of the book is that bad ideas reach classrooms because nobody speaks to teachers, and the people who make these decisions have no training in education. So, in part, this book is my attempt to say, “Why don’t you talk to teachers? We have some good ideas.”

How long has this particular book been in the works now?

There’s a long delay in publishing, so I think I wrote it about two years ago.

So, before the current political climate that the country is facing?

Exactly. And I hope the timing is good because it’s definitely not written only for teachers. My other motivation is—I want the average citizen who cares about education to read it. I think people know that there’s something wrong with public schools, but they don’t really know what it is beyond soundbites and hashtags. So, this is my attempt to communicate to them what I think actually can be improved about public schools.

In the book you list 25 ideas that don’t work. What are some of those ideas?

How much, if any, of this book specifically references Nevada? You moved here from Beaverton, Oregon, in 2012, and Nevada has been consistently ranked at the bottom of national schooling standards for years.

I wrote this book drawing on all of my general experiences in education, and my conversations with people over all these years. Because, in fact, I love my job so much. I teach in the Gifted and Talented program at Pine Middle School, and it’s its own little world. Just about everything I argue against, I don’t actually have to put up with. I don’t feel like I’m complaining for myself. I feel like I’m complaining for my profession.

I find it interesting you wrote this book before the current presidential administration, but how many problems in the education system have a root in politics?

The biggest problem our schools have to deal with have nothing to do with school whatsoever, and that’s poverty and economic inequality. If that was fixed, we could just keep doing exactly what we’re doing with everything I have a problem with, and we’d be a thousand times more in shape. So, I do argue that if we really care about making schools better, there has to be a war on poverty.

If nothing else came out of this book, that’s another idea I’m banging the drum about, which is again, part of this idea that teaching is a science. If something works somewhere, it must work everywhere—I think that’s just absurd.

There are no—and this is maybe bad marketing— but there are no hashtagworthy, soundbite-worthy solutions to the problems in public schools.

My premise is that there are four reasons why these bad ideas reach classrooms, and those are, number one, the decision-makers have no training in education, I argue.

Number two, politics really forces teachers to pretend things are true when they just aren’t.

For example, it doesn’t matter how many people you cram in their classroom—it should make no difference to them. These things are just not true, but teachers have to act like they’re true because that’s that political climate.

The third reason is this whole standardized testing craze contributes to the loss of our understanding that teaching is not just a science—of course it is And what influenced your decision to a science—but we’ve sort of turn the book into a podcast? given up on the idea that it’s an I didn’t foresee anything beyond art. The best teachers are artists, DaviD Michael this book, actually, when I wrote it. and those are the ones that are Slater, I have to give credit to my colleague leaving the profession. author and teacher Joe Pazar. He came to Pine after And, finally, the last idea surviving the shooting at Sparks is pretty simple: even if there [Middle School]. In part, that inspired him to are good ideas, teachers have no time to just want to do more for teachers everywhere, implement, so sometimes they implement an anywhere. He’s like a podcast genius. He said, inferior version, or else they just won’t do it.

“Is there anyway we can work this together?”

Then I give 25 examples, and some of them and I thought, “It’s perfect, maybe we can use would require dramatic change, but most this as a launching point.” of them not. For example, one that would Obviously, I wouldn’t have written this require dramatic change is that it just does down if I didn’t believe I have some good ideas, not make sense that we group kids by age. but I would be thrilled if teachers in general There is no pedagogical proof for it. were just taken more seriously, as a result of How actionable did you intend this book to be? Is this a this book. So, amplifying teachers’ voices was call to action, or more of a philosophical offering? the idea behind taking this conversation from No, in fact it’s meant to be extremely practical. the book to our website. It’s a conversation.

I state the problem in two to three pages tops We’re getting awesome submissions from all and then [the] solution. So all of them are over the country from people who feel like they actionable, and it’s been really gratifying that have something to say. Ω so many experts read this book, and [it’s] just brimming with awesome testimonials in the back. What a lot of people say is that this is David Michael Slater will read from his new book, We’re Doing it common sense in the best possible way, and Wrong: 25 Ideas in Education That Just Don’t Work—And How to it’s distilled clearly, these issues, and it’s a road Fix Them, and conduct a forum at 10 a.m., April 28 at Barnes & map for improvement.

Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St. His podcast of the same name is at

“Nobody listens to teachers, so that’s one of the main messages of this book.”

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Pippin is puzzling. It’s a musical centered on the historical figure of Prince Pippin, son of King Charlemagne, yet the show contains nothing historically accurate. Its events are set in the Middle Ages, yet they are set against a backdrop of 20th-century circus acts and so-so 1970s music.

But despite its constant incongruence, it’s one of the longest-running, most popular and most Tony-Award-winning Broadway musicals of all time. Puzzling indeed.

None of the show’s strangeness is any reflection on the TMCC Performing Arts production currently playing at the Redfield Theater in Reno. Though it may be a bit rough around the edges, the razzle dazzle inherent in the production—from gorgeous costuming and circus-inspired set design to astonishing acrobatics and impressive choreography—makes for a fun evening.

So, about that premise. Prince Pippin (played by Jesse Green) has finished his schooling, and the imperious King Charles (Phil Harriman), who at present has his hands full leading his armed forces against the Visigoths, wants to know his first-born’s plans. Nipping at his heir-to-the-throne brother’s heels is Lewis (Wesley Adam Walmsley), the son of Charles and Pippin’s wily seductress of a stepmother, Fastrada (Hayley Lightfoot). Proud and confident Lewis, unlike his older brother, is the very model of a prince and military leader, while Pippin seems weak, insecure and wishywashy. Realizing this, Pippin knows he is destined for something great but has no idea what that might be, so he sets out to find his “corner of the sky.”

All the while, a troupe of traveling performers, under the ringmaster-like direction of the Lead Player (Quinn Jamal Jackson) appear to be putting on a playwithin-a-play about Pippin’s journey—literally jumping through hoops as Pippin does

so figuratively, attempting a stint in his father’s army, a period of lustful hedonism and even a brief, failed endeavor to be king. All the while, the antics of acrobats and dancers all around the forlorn prince make light of his failures and egg him on to follow his heart.

The story is thin and undoubtedly clunky, and the cast struggles at times with the already awkward songs. Yet the cabaret-style acts sizzle, thanks to jaw-dropping feats of strength and agility, as well as choreography inspired by the great Bob Fosse. Jackson’s performance clearly channels the great Ben Vereen, the OG Lead Player. Jackson commands the stage as a magnetic, energetic force with just a touch of dark mystery. I am in awe of the talented, artistic performers of the daring silk work, trapeze and pole acts, but the program lists them among “ensemble” performers so I am unfortunately unable to praise them by name. Nonetheless, their work is mesmerizing.

While the male leads’ performances— those of the unlovable, hapless Pippin and the inelegant King Charles—frequently falter, the females’ performances are strong across the board. In particular, Natalie Gonzalez is endearing as Catherine, Pippin’s second-act love interest, and Nancy Ryman’s brief turn as Berthe, Pippin’s saucy grandmother, may be the best five minutes of the show.

Though the petulant prince may be clownish and his story a real bear, the circus he’s bringing to town is worth the price of admission. Ω

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Canine lives So, if you’ve been sitting around waiting for a Wes Anderson film featuring a stop-motion dog cast and influenced by Akira Kurosawa and the guys who made Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, wait no more!

Isle of Dogs is one of the strangest—and coolest—experiences you will have in a theater this year. Anderson’s second foray into stop-motion animation (after 2009’s excellent Fantastic Mr. Fox) is another visual masterpiece. While the story itself goes a little flat for stretches, it’s a nonstop visual splendor for its entire running time.

Two decades in the future, Megasaki, a fictional Japanese city, is ruled by the evil Mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura). Kobayashi is a cat person, and after the nation’s dogs come down with a strange strain of dog flu, all canines are banned to Trash Island to live out their days scavenging through garbage and rumbling in the junkyards.

Kobayashi’s nephew, Atari (Koyu Rankin), misses his dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber), and sets out to find his beloved pet on Trash Island. The island is occupied by various dog gangs, one of them consisting of Chief (Bryan Cranston), Rex (Edward Norton), King (Bob Balaban), Boss (Bill Murray) and Duke (Jeff Goldblum). Whether it’s live action or stop-motion, you can count on Anderson’s usual gang of performers to show up. (Welcome to the Wes Anderson party, Bryan Cranston!)

There’s some dog gang squabbling for leadership honors, with Rex often calling for votes that the rebel Chief always loses. When Atari shows up on the island, Chief winds up spending the most time with him, and he learns a little bit about bonding with a boy, as dogs do.

There’s a very sweet “love your dogs” message at the center of Anderson’s story, which he wrote with story contributions from Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Nomura. This is one of the rare Anderson films in which neither Schwartzman nor Owen Wilson appear.

Of course, there’s a budding love story, with Chief coming across Nutmeg (Scarlett Johansson) who, unlike Chief the stray, has papers and can do tricks.

(A bit where Nutmeg reluctantly shows off a few provides some of the film’s best laughs.)

Story elements are secondary to just how goddamned good this movie looks. While Fantastic Mr. Fox had the better overall story, Isle of Dogs is, hands down, the best-looking stop-motion animation film ever put to screen. Each one of the dogs is a marvelous creation unto itself, and their human counterparts are just as amazing. Anderson and crew get extra credit for taking fight scenes and explosions to a new level through their use of what appears to be cotton.

This is Wes Anderson, so, yes, you are going to see a stop-motion animation kidney transplant with a bird’s eye view. Hey, it wouldn’t be a PG-13 stop-motion Wes Anderson film without a relatively vivid and detailed—yet somewhat tender—kidney transplant toward the end of it, right? The man is a beautiful nut.

Other voices that show up include Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham, Yoko Ono and, most notably, Greta Gerwig as Tracy Walker, an American exchange student with a crush on Atari.

Much of the film is spoken in Japanese with no subtitles, but it’s never hard to understand what is going on. (Thankfully, all of the dog barks have been translated into English.)

With every passing second of this movie, I was thinking “How the hell does Anderson even think up this stuff, let alone get it on the screen?” It’s safe to say this movie is a feat that will never be duplicated.

I seriously doubt anybody in the future will make a movie that reminds us of Isle of Dogs. It’s off in its own unique cinematic zone. Ω

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Scoring director Ryan Coogler to helm Marvel’s latest proves to be a major triumph. His entry into the Marvel universe is a majestic, full-bodied, exhilarating treatment of the African king title character with the crazy cool suit (Chadwick Boseman).

This is Coogler’s third collaboration with actor Michael B. Jordan, who brings a fully fleshed, complicated villain to the screen in Erik Killmonger. Man, you just have to be bad with that last name. The pre-opening credit scene involves Black Panther’s predecessor father having a confrontation in 1992 Oakland, California. A major event takes place as some kids playing basketball look on. It turns out to be one of the more brilliant and heart-wrenching setups for a Marvel movie character yet. The action cuts to present day, where Black Panther/T’Challa is dealing with the passing of his father due to an event that took place in Captain America: Civil War (massive credit to the producers and screenwriters who interlink these films together so well). He’s to become king but must pass through a ritual with some risk involved. He overcomes the obstacles, gets his throne and prepares for his rule. His kingdom doesn’t get a moment to breathe before trouble ensues. In London, Killmonger comes across an ancient weapon forged in Wakanda, Black Panther’s homeland. It’s made from Vibranium, a precious resource that fuels much of Wakanda’s advanced technology, including the Black Panther suits. With the help of Wakanda enemy Klaue (Andy Serkis acting with his real face as opposed to a motion-capture suit), Killmonger obtains the weapon, threatening world stability.

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A trio of deranged parents (Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike Barinholtz) discovers a pact by their three daughters to lose their virginity on prom night, so they stalk them on their special evening. This sounds like the basis for a crap movie but, as things turn out, it results in what will surely stand as one of the year’s funniest movies. Directed by Kay Cannon, the movie pushes the boundaries, for sure, pouring it on thick with the profanity— very funny profanity—and frank talk about high school seniors treading into sexual activity (not to mention drug experimentation and drinking). It handles its subjects in a surprisingly mature and even sweet way in the end, with the teenaged daughters (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan and Gideon Adlon) having their acts together far more than their bumbling parents. The always reliable Mann gets a chance to really shine here; she is one of the best comic actresses in the game. Barinholtz gets a lot of laughs as the movie’s most messed-up character, while Cena continues to prove that he has the comic chops to hold his own with some of the best. This is one of those rare comedies that gets consistent laughter from the opening scene until its ending.

The legendary rivalry between tennis players Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf) was insane while it was happening. I’m old enough to remember it, and Janus Metz’s film does a pretty good job of reliving the moment. If the film suffers from anything, it’s that Borg was a pretty boring figure, as opposed to the fiery McEnroe. Since much of this film deals with Borg’s side of the story, a good chunk of the film winds up being, well, boring. Such is not the case with the McEnroe side, because LaBeouf turns in his best performance yet as the temper-tantrum-throwing American sports star who came rolling into Wimbledon to face off against the four-time champion Borg.

LaBeouf takes a historical figure in McEnroe and avoids caricature in a role that could so easily become cartoonish. He finds the human competitor at the core of McEnroe, and while he can deliver a very mighty “You can’t be serious!” he finds a lot of sensible levels in the man.

The match itself is all kinds of crazy, and since I forgot the outcome, completely unpredictable.

The circumstances of that particular sporting

event are as intense as any sporting event in the last 50 years, and the film works as a nice time stamp. (Available for digital download during a limited theatrical run.)

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While the original Pacific Rim had some definite problems, its sequel is a big, stupid waste of time. Uprising takes an original idea—big Kaiju monsters fighting man-made robots—from director/creator Guillermo del Toro. That Del Toro idea resulted in an OK first movie in Pacific Rim, with great elements but troublesome issues (robots/monsters, good … people, bad). Uprising takes that original idea and turns it into something akin to the average Transformers movie. It’s a watereddown, cheap joke of a film that obliterates anything good del Toro started. Without del Toro directing—he dumped out a few years back to assume a producer’s role—the film loses all sense of style and artistic direction. Steven S. DeKnight, who has directed such TV shows as Smallville and Daredevil, makes his featurefilm-directing debut with something that screams “Maybe I should’ve stuck with the TV gigs!” Replacing Charlie Hunnam as the original franchise star, John Boyega jumps headlong into this mess as Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, played by Idris Elba in the first movie. Jake is a former Jaeger (Giant Robot) pilot who, after the death of his dad and a bad Jaeger experience, has taken to partying and trading black market hot sauce in a post-Kaiju world. While Elba’s character supposedly closed off the monsters from our world, they find a way back (of course). This results in subpar CGI battles and lousy performances all around.

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Noise-intolerant neighbors are taken to all new levels in A Quiet Place, a new horror film from director John Krasinski. Krasinski also stars as Lee, a father trying to protect his family in a post-apocalyptic world besieged by horrific aliens who will tear you apart if you make so much as a peep. The aliens are blind, so they hunt by sound. Not, say, the sound of a river running or a bird chirping, but sounds that are more “interruptive,” like fireworks, a person screaming after stepping on a nail, or really loud farts. The gimmick lends itself to some faulty logic at times, but it does provide an overall interesting premise: Speak audibly in relatively quiet surroundings, and you will get your head bitten off. Krasinski’s film gives you no real back story about the aliens. A few glimpses of newspaper front pages let you know that the world has been wiped out by the species. One look at them—they are a cross between Ridley Scott’s Alien and the Cloverfield monster—and you know that just a few days with these things running around would decimate the world population. Blunt gives the film’s standout performance as somebody forced to keep quiet after not only a painful injury but, on top of that, having to give birth in a bathtub while an alien clicks and claws nearby.

Steven Spielberg goes for broke but leaves you bleary-eyed in a bad way with Ready Player One, based on the very popular Ernest Cline novel. The film is so full of pop culture references that it doesn’t so much deliver them as visually vomit them into your face. Rather than relishing the opportunity for ’80s nostalgia, Spielberg opts for whiplash pacing and miscasting, squandering the chance to allow any of the fun elements to really sink in. The futuristic storyline involves something called the OASIS, a virtual reality world that is not only a pastime, but a total escape from real-world poverty and pollution. Wade (Tye Sheridan) lives in a place called the Stacks, basically manufactured homes piled on top of each other, and he whiles away many hours in the OASIS as his alter ego/avatar Parzival.

There’s a plethora of pop culture cameos inside the OASIS, including King Kong, Freddy Krueger and the Iron Giant, but there’s very little substance. The whole thing amounts to a lot of imagery, occasionally interesting but mostly dull, flying by with little impact.

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Opa Gourmet Pizza serves Greek and Italian food from its location on Plumb Lane.

Say cheese If you’ve been in Reno for a while, you might recognize the Greek and Italian food at Opa Gourmet Pizza. The business is run by the same family that was behind Opa Subs and Oregano’s Pizza.

For an appetizer, my large group ordered a Greek meze plate ($22.75), a big pile of steak and lamb gyro meat, a couple of triangles of spanakopita (spinach pie) and tyropita (cheese pie), a pair of dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) and garnish of cucumber, tomato, feta cheese and kalamata olives. We also ordered an entree plate, a salad, a gyro and three pizzas.

The salad arrived quickly—along with a complimentary serving of warm points of pita bread with cool tzatziki sauce—but our appetizer didn’t arrive until 40 minutes later, with the entree and gyro. Pizza was another 40 minutes, but I realized they probably needed time to cook through.

They were easily among the heaviest pizzas I’ve ever seen.

Everything on the meze plate was really good. The stuffed grape leaves were smooth and herbaceous. The filo and feta pie was crispy and cheesy, and the spinach pie was exceptional, with its blend of feta and cooked spinach between layers of crispy, thin pastry. The veggie garnish provided a nice contrast, and the gyro meat was tender and delicious. The gyro sandwich ($10.95) was huge and warm—a grilled pita stuffed full of meat, tomato, onion and plenty of tzatziki. Even the salad ($7.95)—a simple plate of iceberg lettuce, red onion, bell pepper, roma tomato, cucumber, kalamata olives and crumbled feta, dressed with a lemony vinaigrette—was a hit.

The entree, Greek kota ($17.95), featured a whole chicken breast cooked in butter, lemon and wine and served over fettuccine with fresh garlic, mushrooms,

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The assembled dish is then browned a bit in the oven. The chicken wasn’t overcooked.

The pasta was fine, and the flavors generally worked together, though you do have to really, really like cheese.

Speaking of cheese, no matter which pizza you choose, there’s going to be a lot of it. Our large “Meat-a-balls” pie ($25.95) was essentially a thick, bready crust topped with what had to be a couple of pounds of mozzarella, and a ring of meatballs around the center. The meat was tasty—though I would have liked more distribution across the pie—but the sauce seemed to be lost in the mix. I dug around a bit to get a taste and found it to be full of herbs and garlic, but I wish there was more of that to counter the bread and cheese.

Similarly, a medium “Smiley” sevencheese pizza ($21.95) could have used more sauce against the onslaught of mozzarella, parmesan, provolone, sharp cheddar, colbyjack, ricotta and feta cheeses. This medium pie weighed at least as much as the large meatball pizza and was an impressive sight to behold. But we hadn’t seen anything yet.

If you’re going to order one thing, you absolutely have to try the Greek pizza ($28.95, large). That stout crust is necessary to contain the enormous pile of mozzarella, feta, gyro meat, kalamata, red onion, bell pepper, zucchini, cucumber, roma tomato and tzatziki sauce. They toss a few dolmades on as a finishing move. This is knife and fork pizza, and if you can eat more than two pieces in one sitting, you’ve either been starving yourself or you’re a competitive eater. It was delicious and well worth the wait. Ω

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My usual remedies include the familiar Advil, some form of bread, long periods of immobility, and chugging water. Since my days as an undergrad, though, I’ve yet to find a more immediate relief from the headache, nausea and general angst of a hangover than marijuana—and I’m not alone. Anthony Bourdain stated in 2016 that his go-to hangover cure was a similar routine: “Aspirin, cold Coca-Cola, smoke a joint, eat some spicy Sichuan food—works every time,” he told TMZ. Regardless, since Nevada legalized recreational marijuana sales last July, I thought I’d have my preferred next-morning treatment validated by the professionals at Silver State Relief cannabis dispensary.

Advocates for marijuana’s curative properties have been equating cannabis with a range of medications for decades, and researchers are beginning to build a better understanding of how it interacts with the body. It turns out, there’s a lot going on.

“If you can treat yourself after a hangover with an edible, that would probably be the most effective route, but smoking would be the quickest,” said budtender Kyle Bayfield. “If you eat an edible, that will go through your liver, and that’ll disperse throughout your body a little bit more intensely.”

An evolving understanding of the hundreds of compounds in marijuana

combined with new methods of ingestion and a dizzying variety of strains means that there are virtually infinite combinations of effects cannabis could present. For my purposes, though, Bayfield said there were a few things to look out for.

“The terpenes, 100 percent, play the most dominant role in treating everything,” Bayfield said, referring to a family of compounds believed to be responsible for cannabis’ smell, taste and various effects.

“Myrcene and limonene have an effect where they decrease the resistance in the brain’s blood barrier, meaning that all the other cannabinoids and terpenes can be absorbed way quicker.”

Bayfield said aside from being a mood stabilizer, limonene allows for greater absorption of marijuana’s main active compound, THC, which provides the immediate pain relief and anti-nausea benefits—as well as the psychoactive high.

Different strains can be bought as dried flower (a.k.a. weed-classic), as extracted oils for vape pens or dab rigs, or as premade foodstuffs or additives.

While many cannabis enthusiasts might consider the THC euphoria to be an added bonus for its pain-relieving qualities—guilty—the real value of cannabis as treatment for people with far more debilitating illnesses than my hangover lies in a different chemical: CBD. “You can call it the cousin of THC,” Bayfield said. “It’s the non-psychoactive cannabinoid in cannabis.”

Aside from providing a treatment for anxiety—another documented symptom of hangovers—CBD is responsible for cannabis’ longer-lasting analgesic effects.

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Cole Bourquin, J.D. Christison and Alex Breckenridge’s band Nubbins is “not jazz enough for the jazz guys, not punk enough for the punk guys.”

Black sheep Nubbins Nubbins guitarist Cole Bourquin describes himself and his bandmates as “black sheep” because of their eclectic music taste.

“It’s a running joke that when we play, we’re not going to please anyone—we’re just going to piss everyone off,” he said recently. “We’re not going to be jazz enough for the jazz guys. We’re not going to be punk enough for the punk guys. We’re not going to be rock enough for the rock guys. … But that to me, is punk rock.”

Bourquin and drummer J.D. Christison—best known for his work in the stylish local band Bazooka Zoo—knew each other growing up in Winnemucca.

Bourquin and bassist Alex Breckenridge met through the jazz and improvised music program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The trio’s band name has a number of associations, but perhaps the most important is Nubbins Sawyer, a character in the 1974 cult classic movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Horror and science fiction movies are important influences on the band, and the mostly instrumental group have been known to play samples from some of their favorite movies during live shows.

And although drummer Christison sings on a few of the group’s newer, more rock-oriented songs, most of their compositions are instrumental. Bourquin and Breckenridge play busy melodies and complex chords that more than compensate for the lack of a vocal line. They auditioned a few dedicated vocalists, but many of the compositions, they say, didn’t leave much room for a vocalist.

“When we tried to put vocals over it, it was like sending a dude out to the sharks,” said Breckenridge.

Nubbins is also the rare band where the bass has more strings than the guitar.

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Breckenridge plays a seven-string bass, which allows him to alternate among playing bass, rhythm guitar and lead guitar without ever taking his fingers off the same—comically large—fretboard.

The group’s music is a mix of rock and jazz. Some songs veer more toward rock, some more toward jazz. Some of it is easily classifiable as “fusion” and is a recognizable descendent of ’70s records by people like Miles Davis, Tony Williams and John McLaughlin. Other songs fall in line with the polyrhythmic post-rock of bands like Don Caballero and Hella.

There are some odd elements to the group’s music—dissonant chords, unexpected time changes—but those elements are wrapped in a fairly accessible, appealing package. The band members call it “extreme elevator music”—Muzak in an elevator where the cables have been cut.

“I’m the byproduct of punk rock, jazz and Nintendo,” Bourquin said. “The Nintendo came first, and then punk rock changed my life, and then jazz made me a better musician.”

Some of the musical left turns might remind listeners of genre-hoppers like Mr. Bungle or John Zorn. Breckenridge is obsessed with Michael Jackson and Prince. Bourquin cites Fugazi as his biggest influence. And although those influences might not necessarily be audible in the music, they’re present in the group’s DIY ethos, commitment to creative freedom, and work ethic.

“One of the things that I love about playing with these guys is that they never say, ‘This doesn’t sound like Nubbins,’” Bourquin said. “We all just love music— all music.” Ω

nubbins performs at raise your Voice, a sexual assault awareness event, at outlets at Legends, 1310 Scheels drive, Sparks, on april 28 at 5:30 p.m. the event was organized by assault shelter Safe Embrace. For more information, or to hear nubbins’ new album, It’s a Bug hunt, visit nubbinstheband.bandcamp.com.

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Comedy The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Matt Iseman, Joe Dosch, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25, Sat, 9pm, $30; Charles Fleischer, Rick D’Elia, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Don Friesen, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sun, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Sue Costello, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX Lounge, Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Anthony K, Thu, 8pm, Sat, 6:30pm, $15 Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: The Legends of Comedy: A Robin Williams Tribute starring Roger Kabler, Marc Price, Thu, 8pm, $15-$20; Fri, 9pm, $15-$20, Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $15$20; Conquering Cancer with Comedy with Kelly Hilbert, 6:30pm, Fri, 12-$17

239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590

RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party, drag show, 8pm, no cover

fAT cAT BAR & gRiLL

Karaoke Night, 9pm, no cover

599 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-3355

fiNe ViNeS

6300 Mae Anne Ave., (775) 787-6300

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Carribean Soul Band, 9:30pm, no cover

Carribean Soul Band, 9:30pm, no cover

The Beat: Johnny Moscow, Sloth, Trent Thomas, Brue, 10pm, no cover

Whitney Myer, Grace Hayes, Almond Mocha, Richard Xavier, 10pm, $20-$40

All Time Low, Dreamers and Gnash, 7pm, $26.15-$27.52

PVRIS, 7:30pm, $20.18-$22.94

Jesse Kopp, 9pm, no cover

The New Harvesters, 9pm, no cover

Peter & Dan, 7pm, no cover

Comedy Showcase and Open Mic, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Opiuo, SubDocta, Mr. Rooney, 9pm, W, $20-$25

Post shows online by registerin g at www.newsrev iew.com/ren o.

Deadline is th e Friday before public ation.

Emily’s Birthday Bash with Soul Connection, 8pm, no cover

Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, Hot Jam Session, 7pm, W, no cover

Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, 8pm, W, no cover

Open mic, 7pm, Tu, no cover Howard Coleman, 7pm, W, no cover

Nick Eng, 7pm, no cover

1540 Main St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0111

HeADQUARTeRS

219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020 3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

MON-WED 4/23-4/25

Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, no cover Hunter’s Review, 7pm, no cover

gOLD HiLL HOTeL & SALOON

HeLLfiRe SALOON

SUNDAY 4/22

Back to the ’80s Party & Drag Show, 10pm, $5, no cover in ’80s attire

Emily’s Birthday Weekend featuring Truckee Tribe, 8pm, no cover

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

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SATURDAY 4/21

The Green Party: Billy Kenny, SkiiTour, 10pm, $15-$20

215 W. Commercial Row, (775) 813-6689

5 STAR SALOON

FRIDAY 4/20

Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover

Treedom 420 Party, 9pm, no cover Be-razz, 10pm, no cover

LIT at NITE: Spring Edition, 7:30pm, $5 donation

Athena McIntyre and guests, 7pm, no cover

Loose with the Truth , 8pm, no cover

THe HOLLAND PROjecT

Nik Test, The Killer Waves, Vatican City Fight Club, 8pm, $5

jUB jUB’S THiRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

Joe Jack Talcum, Coolzey, WOMC, 7pm, $8-$10

Nef The Pharoah, 7pm, $20

Z-Man, DJ True Justice, Oso Negro, others, 8pm, Tu, $10

THe jUNgLe

Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

Open mic, 7pm, M, no cover Comedy Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

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

Fresh Meat Spring 2k18, 6:30pm, $5

Etnies “Album” Video Premiere, 6pm, $5

LAUgHiNg PLANeT cAfe—UNR

Buddy Wakefield, Brendan Constantine, Anis Mojgani, 7pm, Tu, $12-$15

Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633

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THURSDAY 4/19

FRIDAY 4/20

SATURDAY 4/21

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE NIGHTCLUB

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46

Magic Fusion, 7pm, $21-$46 Magic After Dark, 9pm, $31-$46

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

Alias Smith Band, 8:30pm, no cover

T-N-Keys, 8:30pm, no cover

2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 378-1643

Banda El Recordo, Alianza Efectiva, Brandon Solano, 9:30pm, $40

Los Askis, 9pm, $TBA,

MOODY’S BISTrO Bar & BEaTS

Michelle Moonshine, 8:30pm, no cover

Michelle Moonshine, 8:30pm, no cover

1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 523-8024

MIDTOwN wINE Bar

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

MILLENNIUM NIGHTCLUB

10007 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 587-8688

MUMMErS Bar

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $21-$46

PaDDY & IrENE’S IrISH PUB

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions, 8pm, no cover

PIGNIC PUB & PaTIO 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

SNAFU Family GREM FEST Mini-Series, 10pm, no cover

Smoke Signals, Cowboy Indian, 10pm, no cover

THE POLO LOUNGE

DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

Friday Night Party with DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-5484

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

PONDErOSa SaLOON

T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover Nigel St. Hubbins, 7:30pm, W, no cover

PVRIS April 21, 7:30 p.m.

Cargo Concert Hall 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400 Wednesday Night Jam, 8pm, W, no cover

Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

106 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7210

Chris Costa, 7pm, no cover

Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

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

THE SaINT

Saturday Dance Party with Dialect HD, 9pm, no cover

SHEa’S TaVErN

Sophia’s going away party w/DJ Quick, 10pm, no cover

761 S Virginia St, (775) 221-7451 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

ST. JaMES INFIrMarY

Guest DJs, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

wHISKEY DICK’S SaLOON

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

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover Everyday Outlaw, 9pm, no cover

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Blackwater, Dream Warriors, Rhinofish, Sacred Moon, 8pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 409-3754

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Trippin’ King Snakes, 8:30pm, no cover

1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663

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Opiuo Bust!, Basha,Hector Acevedo, 8pm, $5-$6

On The Cinder, 8pm, Tu, $TBA Coyote Bred, 8pm, W, $5-$6 Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

April 25, 9 p.m.

The BlueBird 555 E. Fourth St. 499-5549

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

Boomtown CAsino

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

Morgan Heritage April 21, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 (800) 648-3353

THURSDAY 4/19

FRIDAY 4/20

SATURDAY 4/21

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover Reckless Envy, 10pm, no cover

1) Marshall Charloff & The Purple Xperience, 8pm, $35-$45

2) Alex “Muddy” Smith, 6pm, no cover

2) Dale Poune, 5pm, no cover Velvet Duo, 9pm, no cover

2) Mike Furlong, 5pm, no cover Jason King Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Kiefer Sutherland, Rick Brantley, 9pm, $25-$30 2) Disco Terrorist, Rambo, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Thicker Than Thieves, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95

1) Cirque Paris, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Left of Centre, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 2) Left of Centre, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, Thu, no cover

1) RAIN: Tribute To The Beatles, 9pm, $27.52-$77.98 2) Panic City, 10pm, $20

2) Jermaine Dupri, 10pm, $20 3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, Thu, no cover

1) Spring Meltdown 2018, 4pm, $25-$100 2) DJ, 10pm, Karaoke Rock Bar, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Spring Meltdown 2018, 12:30pm, $25-$100

1) Simply the Best, 7:30pm, $27-$37 Tease, 9:30pm, $30 2) All In, 6pm, no cover

1) Simply the Best, 7:30pm, $27-$37 Tease, 9:30pm, $30 2) All In, 6pm, no cover

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

GRAnd sieRRA ResoRt

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Race & Sports Bar

HARd RoCk Hotel And CAsino

Karaoke

50 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

Fourth Street BAR, 1114 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-7827: Karaoke with Chapin, W, 8pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Sat, 9:30pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, 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

HARRAH’s Reno

219 N. Center St, (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge

1) Simply the Best—A Tribute to the Music of Tina Turner, 7:30pm, $27-$37

HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe montBleu ResoRt

55 Highway 50, Stateline, (800) 648-3353 1) Showroom 2) Blu Nightclub 3) Opal Ultra Lounge

1) Andy Goss, 8pm, $25 2) Alborosie & The Shengen Clan, Jras & The Higher Elevation, 10pm, $20-$25

nuGGet CAsino ResoRt

Dwight Yoakam, 8pm, $45-$85

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 2) EDGE Nightclub

silveR leGACy ResoRt CAsino

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

2) Escalade, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Bob Gardner, 6pm, no cover

1) Spring Meltdown 2018, 12:30pm, $25-$100

2) Buddy Emmer and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

2) Morgan Heritage, Fiji, Maoli & Nomad, 9pm, $20-$25

2) Joshua Cook, 8pm, no cover 3) Latin Dance Social, 7pm, $10-$20

2) Joshua Cook, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Z Trip & Fashen, 10:30pm, $20

2) Max Minardi, 6pm, no cover

2) DJ R3volver, 9pm, no cover 4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover

1) Tyler Henry, 8pm, $59.95-$74.95 2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 9pm, no cover 4) Reno Jazz Syndicate, 9pm, no cover

2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Reno Jazz Syndicate, 9pm, no cover

4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover

Alice’s Pet Parlor Midtown Mutts 225 Redfield Parkway 1426 Tonopah St. 775.851.3625 775.322.2018 www.alicespetparlor.com

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2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Mike Furlong, 6pm, Tu, no cover Mark Miller, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95 1) Cirque Paris, 2pm, 5pm, $19.95-$49.95 2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 10pm, M, 2) Left of Centre, 9pm, no cover Lizano, 9pm, W, no cover

2) Joshua Cook, 7pm, no cover 3) Edge Thursday Ladies Night with DJs Enfo & Twyman, 10pm, $0-$20

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1) Air Supply, 7:30pm, $68.34

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (800) 427-7247 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage

peppeRmill CAsino

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FOR THE WEEK OF apRil 19, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

EARTH DAY GARDEN FESTIVAL: The Carson City Historical Society offers this Earth Day event featuring multiple presentations, art projects, artisans, food trucks and home and garden vendors. A raffle and silent auction will benefit the historical society. Sun, 4/22, 10am. Free. Foreman-Roberts House, 1207 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 887-8865.

HISTORY SYMPOSIUM—THE 1890s: Explore the transforming 1890s with renowned national speakers, authors and state and local experts. The symposium takes place April 25, 26 & 28. Wed, 4/25, 4-9pm. $55. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300, www.automuseum.org.

JOE CROWLEY BOOK LAUNCH: Sundance Books and Music and Black Rock Press host a night of poetry and celebration in honor of the late Joe Crowley and the release of his new book Sleuth on the Goose.

Steven Nightingale, Shaun Griffin and Margaret Crowley will read excerpts from this new collection. A conversation will follow with Gailmarie Pahmeier and Theresa Crowley. Thu, 4/19, 6:30pm. Free.

Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue, (775) 786-1188.

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MAYA SOLEIL TRADITIONS

Washoe County Library System hosts a series of performances by this Afro-acoustic ensemble on Saturday, April 21. Maya Soleil Traditions presents acoustic African song and dance with traditional musical instruments, colorful costumes and featured performers from the countries of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Ghana. Group members use guitar, balafon (wooden xylophone), mbira (thumb piano) and African drums such as djembes and talking drums to weave complex rhythms and beautiful melodies. Original and traditional songs combine with high-energy dance. Learn the simple melody of Kalela, the social dance song of Zambia and other forms of African dance and song, as well the stories behind the songs. The group will perform at 10:30 a.m. at the Sparks Library, 1125 Twelfth St., Sparks; at 1 p.m. at Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive; and at 4 p.m. at South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway. Visit www. washoecountylibrary.us.

EVENTS

MONDAY ART MAKERS: Arts for All Nevada offers 90-minute workshops for people with intellectual disabilities every Monday evening. Art supplies are provided. Aides/caregivers are welcome to attend the workshops as needed. This is a drop-in class. Mon, 4/23, 3:30pm. Free. Arts for All Nevada, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

NATIONAL COIN WEEK : Reno Coin Club and The Nevada State Museum celebrate National Coin Week with displays and lectures. Joe Wozniak will present “Abraham Lincoln: Early Life, Beloved President and Impact on U.S. Coinage” At 10:30am. David Elliott will present “The Changing Faces and Meaning of Liberty on Ancient and U.S. Coins” at 1:30pm.

There will also be displays of the new coins of 2018, the Pictured Rock quarter and the Jim Thorpe dollar and obsolete U.S coins. Fri, 4/20, 10am. $8. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, www.renocoinclub.org.

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Sam Dibitonto will present all the varieties of the 1884-O Morgan Dollar. See the different varieties and learn how they became one of the most popular American series of coins. There will also be a display of new coins, including the Apostle Island quarter and Jim Thorpe dollar. All ages welcome. Early bird prizes, quarter pot, raffle and more. Tue, 4/24, 7pm. Free.

Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays El Paso Chihuahuas. Thu, 4/19-Fri, 4/20, 6:35pm. $9-$33. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-4700.

CAN THEY DO THAT?: Legal experts Trevor Timm and Lucy Dalglish will discuss the state of American press freedom today and consider its broader historical and legal context. Wed, 4/25, 7pm. Free.

Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4783.

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Grizzlies. Sat, 4/21, 4:05pm; Sun; 4/22, 1:05pm; Mon, 4/23, 11am. $9-$36. Greater

Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-4700.

RENO EARTH DAY: The annual Earth Day celebration includes educational exhibits, several stages with local live music and dance, arts and crafts, food and drinks, activities, games, workshops and more. Sun, 4/22, 11am-6pm. Free.

Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 391-7439, www.renoearthday.org.

SCIENCE DISTILLED—THE FUTURE OF FIGHTING CYBERCRIME: Speakers will discuss current threats, strategies for training the next generation of cybersecurity experts, community resilience to vulnerabilities and more. Science Distilled, a lecture series created by Desert Research Institute and The Discovery, makes cutting-edge science approachable through presentations on current and curious topics held at hip locations in a social atmosphere. Wed, 4/25, 7pm. $10-$15. Patagonia Outlet, 130 S. Center St., (775) 398-5940, nvdm.org.

TAHOE-TRUCKEE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: Learn about Earth-friendly practices, including recycling, composting, alternative energy and sustainability. A diverse array of agency representatives and environmentally conscious vendors will be present to help participants learn more about how they can reduce their ecological footprint. Truth Cartel and The Sextones will perform. Sat, 4/21, 11am-5pm. Free. The Village at Squaw Valley, 1750 Village East, Olympic Valley, tahoetruckeeearthday.com.

aRT ARTS FOR ALL NEVADA: Youth Art Month Exhibit. Arts for All Nevada celebrates the creativity of local youth as part of the national celebration of Youth Art Month. The artwork on display was created during workshops conducted

by Arts for All Nevada in over 50 local elementary through high school special education classrooms in 30 different schools. The show runs through April 27. Thu, 4/19-Fri, 4/20, Mon, 4/23-Wed, 4/25, 10am-5pm. Arts for All Nevada, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS: College Art Exhibit.

Working together with Sierra Nevada College, North Tahoe Arts’ latest exhibit features artwork by students enrolled in Sierra Nevada College’s fine arts program. The show closes on April 27. Thu, 4/19-Fri, 4/20, Mon, 4/23-Tue, 4/24, 11am. Free. Corsion Gallery, North Tahoe Arts, 380 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH: MFA Thesis Exhibition. A thesis exhibition by current master of fine arts candidate DePaul Vera, through April 26. Gallery hours are noon-4pm Monday through Thursday. Thu, 4/19, Mon, 4/23-Wed, 4/25. Free. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu.

FilM AHVCS FORUM FILM SCREENING: The Art History Visual Culture Studies Forum hosts a film screening of selected work by collaborative artist duo Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter. Wed, 4/25, 5:30pm. Free. Wells Fargo Auditorium, Room 124, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

WILD AND SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL ON TOUR—TRUCKEE: The evening features award-winning films focused on adventure, activism and conservation.

Kick off Earth Day weekend with three hours of inspiring films, a raffle, local entertainment, food and libations. The WSFF Truckee Afterparty follows at 9pm at Alibi Ale Works. $10 cover at the door. The celebration continues on April 22 with Mountain Area Preservation’s stewardship project at Trout Creek Pocket Park from noon to 5pm. Fri, 4/20, 5pm; Sun, 4/22, noon. $20-$35 for film festival. Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Truckee, mapf.org/wsff.

MUSiC 100 YEARS OF BERNSTEIN: Guest conductor Donato Cabrera closes out the Reno Phil’s 49th season with a concert celebrating the music of American composer Leonard Bernstein. The program will also feature Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47. Sun, 4/22, 4pm; Tue, 4/24, 7:30pm. $29-$89.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

KAT EDMONSON: The Brooklyn-based jazz vocalist incorporates chamber pop, selections from the Great American Songbook and early rock ’n’ roll in her repertoire. There will be a free conversation with the artist at 3pm.

Edmonson presents “Interpreting Vintage Pop & Jazz.” The concert begins at 8pm. Sat, 4/21, 8pm. $17-$20. Barkley Theater, Oats Park Art Center, 151 East Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

L-CUBED LOOK, LUNCH, LISTEN CONCERT SERIES: As part of the School of the Arts and the College of Liberal Arts, L-Cubed is designed to showcase the music of students and faculty at the Department of Music at University of Nevada, Reno. Wed, 4/25, noon. Free. Frank & Joan Randall Rotunda, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

THE MAGIC FLUTE: Nevada Chamber Opera presents Mozart’s masterpiece sung in German with English dialogue and supertitles. Fri, 4/20-Sat, 4/21, 7:30pm; Sun, 4/22, 2pm. $20 general admission, $5 UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, (775) 784-4278.

POPS PLAYS PIPER’S: The Carson Valley Pops Orchestra, featuring trumpet player Wayne Theriault, performs. Sat, 4/21, 3pm. $15, free for children under age 12.

Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 291-6954, cvpops.org.

UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE SPRING CONCERT: The ensemble performs its

spring concert. Tue, 4/24, 7:30pm. $5, free for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

ONSTaGE AN EVENING WITH NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV: Restless Artists’ Theatre presents its Chautauqua program featuring Doug Mishler as the Cold War-era Russian leader. Learn about his visit to America, his ouster from Disneyland, his kitchen debate with Richard Nixon and his views on John F. Kennedy. Thu, 4/19, 7pm. $10.

Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074.

BUDDY WAKEFIELD: The two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion will be joined by Brendan Constantine, Anis Mojgani and Derrick C. Brown. Tue, 4/24, 7pm. $12-$15. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH: Bruka Theatre and Good Luck Macbeth collaborates for their production of John Cameron Mitchell’s and Steven Trask’s cult musical that tells the story of Hansel Schmidt, a slip of a girlyboy from communist East Berlin who becomes Hedwig Robinson, “the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you.” Her journey to find true love, and her other half, takes her across the world and from man to woman. The play opens with a post-show champagne reception and appetizers on April 20.

The play is suggested for people ages 16 and older. Fri, 4/20-Sat, 4/21, Wed, 4/25, 8pm. $20-$30; $10 on April 25. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716 or (775) 323-3221.

JUNIE B. JONES, JR., THE MUSICAL: Wild Horse Children’s Theater presents this adaptation of Barbara Park’s popular Junie B. Jones book series.

Follow Junie B. on her first day of first grade, where many changes are in store. Performances are Friday-Sunday through April 29. Fri, 4/20, 7pm; Sat, 4/21, 2pm & 7pm; Sun, 4/22, 2pm. $10 general admission, $8 students, seniors, $5 kids ages 4-12. Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, www.wildhorsetheater.com.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Sage Ridge School Theatre Arts presents this dark comedy musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken centering on a timid flower shop assistant who discovers an alien plant that turns out to have an appetite for human flesh. Performances are Friday and Saturday through April 28. Fri, 4/20Sat, 4/21, 7pm. $8-$20. Crossbow Stage, 2515 Crossbow Court, (775) 846-4065.

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A brief history of tame I’m a 45-year-old single guy seeking a long-term relationship. My problem is that when I’m interacting with a woman I’m attracted to, my ability to read whether she’s interested in me goes out the window. I’ve missed out on some great women because I couldn’t read their signals quickly enough.

Where you go wrong is in taking the hesitant approach to asking a woman out—waiting for her to give you some unambiguous indication of interest.

That said, you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself. The psychological operating system now driving you—and all of us—evolved to solve ancestral mating and survival problems, and what was adaptive back then can be maladaptive today.

Take how we evolved to be deeply concerned about safeguarding our reputation. Reputation is essentially our social report card—others’ evaluation of the sort of person we are. It matters today, of course, but not in the life-or-death way it often did in an ancestral environment, where—per anthropologist Irven DeVore’s estimate—many people were with the same band of about 25 others for much of their lives. Back then, if a guy got snubbed by a girl, it would be frontcave news—everybody would know and be laughing behind his back.

Flash-forward to today. You’re in a bar. Some woman you hit on spurns you. Well, that blows—and more so if there are witnesses. But there are countless other bars— which means you can erase the embarrassing stain on your social rap sheet simply by trotting down the block to the next happy hour.

Ultimately, recognizing the mismatch between our evolved emotions and modern life helps you understand when the emotions driving you are counterproductively outdated—and basically stupid.

In short, assuming that a woman you’re chatting up isn’t giving you a hate glare, ask her out. If she isn’t interested, she’ll let you know— either right then, with some brushoff like “Actually, I have a boyfriend …” or later, when you phone her and hear: “Home Depot, lumber department. How may I direct your call?”

Darth Vaper I just accompanied my best friend on this extremely stressful trip to put her mom into assisted living.

My friend vapes, and I started vaping, too, after being off nicotine for years. I bought a vape, but I’m hiding it from my wife because she’s so judgmental about it. I’m not ready to stop yet, but I feel awful hiding it.

What’s worse than the crime?

The cover-up.

Your hiding your vaping is an “instrumental lie.” This kind of deceit, explains deception researcher Bella DePaulo, is a self-serving lie used as an “instrument” to unfairly influence other people’s behavior— allowing the liar to get what they want, do what they want, or avoid punishment.

Chances are, the “punishment” you’re avoiding is the rotten feelings you’d have in the wake of your wife’s dismay that your old BFF, nicotine, is back. However, DePaulo’s research on people duped by those close to them suggests that covering up the truth is ultimately more costly—leading to far more and far longer-lasting feelbad.

It makes sense that the betrayal is the bigger deal because it socks the duped person right in the ego, telling them they were a sucker for being so trusting. In romantic situations, a duped person’s notion of the relationship as a safe space—a place where they can let their guard down—gets shaken or shattered when reality turns out to be “reality” in a fake nose and glasses.

Telling the truth, on the other hand—leaving your wife feeling disappointed, but not deceived—sets the stage for a discussion instead of a prosecution. This allows your wife the emotional space to see the real you—the you who broke down and started vaping while doing this emotionally grueling very kind deed.

Compassion from your wife should mean more leeway for you to set the behavioral agenda—to tell her that you want to stop but ask that she let you do it on your own timetable. 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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For the week oF April 19, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the early history of

the automobile, electric engines were more popular and common than gasoline-powered engines. They were less noisy, dirty, smelly, and difficult to operate. It’s too bad that thereafter the technology for gasoline cars developed at a faster rate than the technology for electric cars. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the petroleumsuckers were in ascendance. They have remained so ever since, playing a significant role in our world’s ongoing environmental degradation. Moral of the story: Sometimes the original idea or the early model or the first try is better. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should consider applying this hypothesis to your current state of affairs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Chesapeake

Bay is a fertile estuary that teems with life.

It’s 200 miles long and holds 18 trillion gallons of water. More than 150 streams and rivers course into its drainage basin. And yet it’s relatively shallow. If you’re six feet tall, you could wade through over a thousand square miles of its mix of fresh and salt water without getting your hat wet. I see this place as an apt metaphor for your life in the coming weeks: an expanse of flowing fecundity that is vast but not so deep that you’ll get overwhelmed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll soon arrive at

a pressure-packed turning point. You’ll stand poised at a pivotal twist of fate where you must trust your intuition to reveal the differences between smart risks and careless gambles.

Are you willing to let your half-naked emotions show? Will you have the courage to be brazenly loyal to your deepest values? I won’t wish you luck, because how the story evolves will be fueled solely by your determination, not by accident or happenstance. You will know you’re in a good position to solve the Big Riddles if they feel both scary and fun.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Strong softness is

one of your specialties. So are empathetic rigor, creative responsiveness and daring acts of nurturing. Now is a perfect time to summon and express all of these qualities with extra flair. If you do, your influence will exceed its normal quotas. Your ability to heal and inspire your favorite people will be at a peak. So I hereby invite you to explore the frontiers of aggressive receptivity. Wield your courage and power with a fierce vulnerability. Be tenderly sensitive as an antidote to any headstrong lovelessness you encounter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1973, Pink Floyd released

the album The Dark Side of the Moon. Since then, it has been on various Billboard charts for over 1,700 weeks, and has sold more than 45 million copies. Judging from the astrological aspects coming to bear on you, Leo, I suspect you could create or produce a beautiful thing with a similar staying power in the next five months.

What vitalizing influence would you like to have in your life for at least the next 30 years?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I beg you to take

a break sometime soon. Give yourself permission to indulge in a vacation or recess or sabbatical. Wander away on a leave of absence. Explore the mysteries of a siesta blended with a fiesta. If you don’t grant yourself this favor, I may be forced to bark “Chill out, dammit!” at you until you do. Please don’t misunderstand my intention here. The rest of us appreciate the way you’ve been attending to the complicated details that are too exacting for us. But we can also see that if you don’t ease up, there will soon be diminishing returns. It’s time to return to your studies of relaxing freedom.

Later the singer came to appreciate not only the career boost, but also Lynch’s unusual aesthetic, testifying that the film gave his song an “otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension.” Now let’s meditate on how this story might serve as a parable for your life. Was there an opportunity that you once turned down but will benefit from anyway? Or is there a current opportunity that maybe you shouldn’t turn down, even if it seems odd?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve been to

the Land of No Return and back more than anyone. But soon you’ll be visiting a remote enclave in this realm that you’re not very familiar with. I call it the Mother Lode of Sexy Truth. It’s where tender explorers go when they must transform outworn aspects of their approach to partnership and togetherness. On the eve of your quest, shall we conduct an inventory of your capacity to outgrow your habitual assumptions about relationships? No, let’s not. That sounds too stiff and formal. Instead, I’ll simply ask you to strip away any falseness that interferes with vivacious and catalytic intimacy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1824, two

British explorers climbed a mountain in southwestern Australia. They were hoping to get a sweeping view of Port Phillip Bay, on which the present-day city of Melbourne is located. But when they reached the top, their view was largely obstructed by trees. Out of perverse spite, they decided to call the peak Mount Disappointment, a name it retains to this day. I suspect you may soon have your own personal version of an adventure that falls short of your expectations. I hope—and also predict—that your experience won’t demoralize you, but will rather mobilize you to attempt a new experiment that ultimately surpasses your original expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn rock

musician Lemmy Kilmister bragged that he swigged a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey every day from 1975 to 2013. While I admire his dedication to inducing altered states of consciousness, I can’t recommend such a strategy for you. But I will love it if you undertake a more disciplined crusade to escape numbing routines and irrelevant habits in the next four weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a special knack for this practical art.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany was one of the big losers of World War I, which ended in 1919. By accepting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it agreed to pay reparations equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold. Not until 2010, decades after the war, did Germany finally settle its bill and fulfill its obligation. I’m sure your own big, long-running debt is nowhere near as big or as long-running as that one, Aquarius. But you will nonetheless have reason to be ecstatic when you finally discharge it. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, that could and should happen sometime soon. (P.S. The “debt” could be emotional or spiritual rather than financial.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I would rather have

a drop of luck than a barrel of brains,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes. Fortunately, that’s not a choice you will have to face in the coming weeks, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic signs, your brain will be working with even greater efficiency and ingenuity than it usually does. Meanwhile, a stronger-than-expected flow of luck will be swirling around in your vicinity. One of your main tasks will be to harness your enhanced intelligence to take shrewd advantage of the good fortune.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Singer-songwriter

Roy Orbison achieved great success in the 1960s, charting 22 songs on the Billboard Top 40. But his career declined after that.

Years later, in 1986, filmmaker David Lynch asked him for the right to use his tune “In Dreams” for the movie Blue Velvet. Orbison denied the request, but Lynch incorporated the tune anyway. Surprise! Blue Velvet was nominated for an Academy Award and played a big role in reviving Orbison’s fame.

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

by JERi ChADwEll

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center, and it works its way out the end.

One of them was double-tracked, where they have, literally, two tracks running next to each other. … There’s a Monty Python album that does that.

Paul Doege has owned Recycled Records since 1980. His store participates in Record Store Day, an annual international event for independently owned record stores. This year’s event takes place on April 20.

Customers who bring a canned item to be donated to the Food Bank of Northern Nevada can chose a free item from the Recycled Records dollar rack. To learn more, visit https:// goo.gl/QxJdJi.

I was late to the party. I want to say it was probably around 2011. I didn’t know anything about it because … we never did new stuff back in the day. There were other record stores that could do that. … You came in here and, say, you were looking for a Jimi Hendrix album—if we didn’t have that album, it wasn’t our job to order one for you. We would send you to Mirabelli’s, to Tower [Records]. Once all of those record stores went out, that’s when we started ordering. … But we never knew about record store day, and then we started talking to a couple of people who go, “You guys do record store day?”

And we were going, “What are you talking about?” … Now, we have jumped into it with both feet. And we do it big.

I’ve read that Record Store Day can make a real sales difference.

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Record Store Day started in 2007.

When did you first participate?

You’ll be putting out some fresh used stock, too?

To support it, the record companies issue, for lack of a better term, special pieces that are only available to small, independent record stores on Record Store Day. … We get our list. We order our stuff—what we hope to get. This year they sent me about three quarters of what I ordered. And I won’t even know what I got and what I didn’t get until I open the boxes.

It’s kind of a cool surprise.

I read that in some places they had albums in a Russian style called Roantgenizdat, meaning, “music on ribs” or “music on bones,” and they’re pressed on x-ray film.

Really? They do all sorts of stuff. One year, Jack White, who has Third Man Records in Nashville—he had a record that was backwards tracking. Instead of putting the needle on the end of the record and have it go in towards the center, you put it in the

That is our big gun, because—especially in the recent years since the big resurgence in vinyl—we find ourselves out of a lot of stuff on a regular basis. … You know, there are some things that have always moved. We’ve always moved The Beatles, and Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Now there’s a whole second wave of things we never have anymore.

We never have Fleetwood Mac in anymore.

We never have Rush, Queen. We run out of Boston records. I thought they gave you a Boston record when you were born. How the hell could we ever run out? … We add 1,500 pieces to our used stock the night before. … All of those sections that are normally empty are nice and full.

And live music, too, huh?

We’ll have live music all day. At this point in time, I’ve got eight different bands playing that day.

Want to drop some names on me?

We’ve got the Legendary Train Wrecks, Grimedog, Aurora, Erin Drive, Basement Tapes and then a couple of rappers— including Chapter 13. … We give them an opportunity to pitch what they’re doing and sell their swag and sell their stuff, too. … Mimosas in the morning and beer in the afternoon. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Dope week and rage tweets It’s a dope week for two of our most swingin’ recreational drugs, with Friday being 4/20, and Thursday being Bicycle Day (and would you believe that Albert Hoffman began his legendary Bike Ride on April 19, 1943, at precisely 4:20 in the afternoon? No? OK, thought I’d give it a shot).

One thing I’ve noticed here in the Brave New Nevada where pot shops are burnin’, churnin’ and Vernon ... Law was the great Pittsburgh Pirate right-hander who led the Bucs in 1960 to a World Series win over the hated New York ... real estate developer who came to be known as “President” Spanky, after his notorious affair with a porn actress by the name of Stormy ... Daniels on the rocks, please, with a twist. ... Grabbing the cocktail, he settled into his comfy leather barstool and pulled out his sleek new vaporizer, which he had discovered he could hit in casino

bars and exactly zero people would give a fig. ... Whoa! These new vapes are outtasight!

For all of us who’ve been hangin’ with Mary Jane for a while (she’s always been very pleasant company), we can think back on the bad old days in this state, the days in the ’60s and ’70s when you could get caught with a single joint of weed and go to goddamn prison. It’s true. It used to be that bad, that draconian, that fucked up.

So good riddance to those times when you used to flip out when you got pulled over for a brake light because you suddenly realized that if the cop found even a roach under a floor mat, you had a very serious problem. It was absolutely ridiculous. Thousands of lives were permanently scarred in the Bad Old Days. May they burn in hell (the days, not the lives).

• OK, I’m watching my Trump porn (gotta have it daily, courtesy MSLSD) and Chris Hayes is talking about Dum Dum doing his daily rage tweeting. RAGE TWEETING! I follow Trump on Twitter. I receive his tweets. Yer damn right I do.

And he does rage tweet. A lot. We are all now very familiar with this bizarre new political reality.

But for fuxsake, are you kidding me? As I do on a near weekly basis, I again suggest that you Let That Sink In. (indeed, I should rename this column LTSI.) We’ve got a crabby, pissy, tantrumtossing ignoramus blowhard as a “president,” and he “rage tweets.” How thoroughly Jeffersonian of him. Perhaps it’s a sign that the water in the pot that our froggy “president” currently floats in is beginning to simmer just a bit? Ω

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