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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

The cover story this week, a list of 25 possible things to be done to help curtail gun violence in the U.S., was put together by the editorial staff at the Inlander, an alt-weekly newspaper like this one up in Spokane, Washington.

We took a different look at the gun issue in Matt Bieker’s story about concealed weapons a few weeks ago (“Packin’ heat,” cover story, June 21). This is a complicated issue that warrants looks from a variety of perspectives.

And here’s the thing—Matt’s story and this week’s list have something in common, namely the underlying idea that this is an issue that needs careful discussion and analysis. It’s not as simple as “all guns are bad” or “the Second Amendment is holy.” It’s not black and white.

There are some important shades of gray.

I think some of the suggestions on the list in this issue are no-brainer good ideas that should be implemented immediately. Some of the ideas strike me as blatantly unconstitutional. But all of them are at least worth discussing. Let’s keep the dialogue going.

One last, completely unrelated note: Anybody else run into this stupid summer cold that’s been going around?

Damn thing won’t go away. I broke into six different coughing fits while writing this note.

The nadir for me was on Fourth of July. All my friends were out barbecuing and swimming, and I was sitting at home coughing, sniveling and wheezing, drinking tea and watching junky old TV shows.

Stay away. Stay far away.

Re “A threshold issue for everyone” (Left Foot Forward, June 21): I don’t know whether to laugh or cry after reading the article by Sheila Leslie. I wanted to laugh because nobody with even the slightest bit of objectivity would have written something so blind and ignorant of the world and try to pass it off as unbiased journalism.

But I find myself leaning toward crying because I have met enough people in my life to know there are “journalists” like Leslie but none of them would be crazy enough to put their thoughts in print.

She mentions Trump’s recent implementation of a “Zero Tolerance” policy started this year. If she means the continuation of the law Obama failed to change during his almost decade-long administration, then I will concede she just didn’t express herself adequately enough. But we know she didn’t do this for the sake of space considerations and it likely wasn’t edited out for the same reason. She wants the reader to believe our president, Donald Trump, woke up one day and wanted to separate illegal immigrant parents from their children. If Leslie had done the slightest bit of research on the matter should would have stumbled across the AP article that ran recently in the “Nation” section of the June 21 PBS newsletter entitled “Immigrant Children Allege Abuse at Virginia Detention Center.” In this article several illegal immigrants, who had been separated from their parents, filed complaints about guards beating them, leaving them handcuffed on concrete floors and subjected to verbal abuse. All of this being perpetrated under the kind, compassionate eye of Barack Obama.

I’m sure President Trump didn’t expect the backlash from the visual nightmare he endured the past month by allowing border agents to follow a law put into place long before he became president. However, I’m guessing he was trying to shine light on the fact that our immigration policy is broken and needs fixing, ASAP. Leslie should have applauded the president for not abusing these

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innocent victims as the previous administration had done. If allowing TV crews to capture little kids crying and held in a cage lights a fire under our Congress to finally fix this issue then he should be applauded, not misrepresented by hacks like Sheila Leslie.

The last point I’d like to make is about her absurd notion that “every Republican candidate in Nevada should be questioned every day about … damaging and destroying families.” Does she have any facts to back up this claim that separating kids from their parents while they are processed “damages and destroys families?” I’m guessing anyone that has been drinking the liberal Kool-Aid as long as Leslie clearly has been drinking it hasn’t done any research on that either. It would have made her open her mind, and the readers’, that maybe the fault here lies with the parents themselves. You would have to be the worst parent in the world to force your child to try to enter a country clearly trying to stem the flow of illegal immigration and with a policy that separates them from their children until they are properly vetted. But Leslie doesn’t want to shed light on that side of the story, so I will, if you have the guts to publish this letter.

Dan Mackenzie Reno

Truth and lies up for grabs For 25 years during the Cold War, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a radio program called “Letters without Signatures” presented by a gentleman named Austin Harrison. It was a reading of letters penned by East German citizens from all walks of life that were smuggled across the wall in various ingenious ways.

A quote from a letter written by a teenager said, “We’re being educated in lies. I can’t tell truth and lies apart anymore. The whole world is dishonest. Politics is just a lying contest. What’s the point of life?”

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blush. Luckily, we still have a relatively free press where the truth can be known. We must keep in mind a quote of Edward R. Murrow in regards to editorializing: “Bias is OK as long as you don’t try to hide it.”

I believe this thought includes the fact that any words written by man will have at least some small amount of bias and can only represent the point of view of the author, even if it’s only in the subject matter chosen.

Although your editorial staff seems to lean a bit to the left, thank you, RN&R, for allowing free speech to be presented from so many points of view remaining basically uncensored.

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Last time you shot a gun? aSkeD at pJ & Co., 1590 S. WeLLS ave.

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Actually, the last time I shot a gun was over Memorial weekend. …

Having grown up in a hunting family and just having very early exposure—but a healthy exposure—to guns, they don’t bug me.

I know what they’re capable of doing. They’re a big responsibility to have.

ryan Leva Driver

It was last month. I was shooting on BLM land in California, where it’s probably the only place you can without restrictions and all kinds of liberal crap. I’m not calling liberals assholes, but everything is a pain in the ass.

Steven SperBer Welfare eligibility worker

A couple of valley neighbors We get awfully weary of liberal readers accusing us of giving free rides to conservatives, and of conservative readers who tell us journalists cannot be fair. There is a letter to the editor on page three from Dan Mackenzie that carries such a message about opinion columnist Sheila Leslie.

Let us first explain the function of an opinion columnist.

It’s to have and write opinions. We would have thought this was clear, but since it causes Mr. Mackenzie heartburn, and he accuses Leslie of trying “to pass it off as unbiased journalism,” we assume it requires explanation.

Columnist Leslie wrote in our June 21 edition about the snatching of children from migrant families, the same topic that nearly everyone in the nation was discussing at the time, so Mr. Mackenzie’s distress is difficult to fathom.

“She mentions Trump’s recent implementation of a ‘zero tolerance’ policy started this year,” Mr. Mackenzie wrote. “If she means the continuation of the law Obama failed to change during his almost decade-long administration, then I will concede she just didn’t express herself adequately enough.”

In fact, as numerous fact checkers—including Politifact, FactCheck and Snopes—have reported, under presidents Bush II and Obama zero tolerance criminal prosecutions were only occasional, and families were only rarely separated. It was under Donald Trump that all alleged violators were charged criminally, and only Trump’s attorney general said publicly that “we will prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you” (May 7).

Our reader further wrote, “Does she have any facts to back up this claim that separating kids from their parents

while they are processed ‘damages and destroys families?’

I’m guessing anyone that has been drinking the liberal Kool-Aid as long as Leslie clearly has been drinking it hasn’t done any research on that either.”

Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams wrote, “We know that children subjected to this kind of trauma suffer catastrophic damage to the very architecture of their brains. Children who were abandoned in Romanian orphanages, for example, were found to have grown up with less cerebral white and gray matter than their peers raised by parents. Or look at our own foster-care system: It is deeply scarring, even when children are separated from their families to protect them from danger. Forty to 50 percent of children who age out of foster care become homeless within 18 months. And fully half of the nation’s homeless population were foster children at some point.”

Finally, Mr. Mackenzie writes that our columnist “doesn’t want to shed light” on both sides of the dispute.

In that connection, we enjoy noting that he accused Obama but not Bush of doing—albeit rarely—what Trump did.

The tone of the letter is the most wearying part. We assume Mr. Mackenzie has never met Ms. Leslie, yet he seems to despise her in the way Moriarity did Holmes, and we are compelled to ask: Why? This once-cooperative and fair society is now a polarized, mean-spirited society because some of us chose to listen to our leaders. Those leaders have reasons for calling on the worst in us. That doesn’t mean we have to listen. Mr. Mackenzie and Ms. Leslie are members of the same community. They need not be enemies because of a mere difference of opinion. Ω

Six weeks ago—I was out in the desert shooting with a friend, just for fun. I like shooting inanimate objects. I don’t like the shooting living creatures thing.

It’s not for me.

Jennifer DuvaL Yoga teacher

I have a lot to say about it, but I’ve never shot a gun. Never. I was around it a lot, but it always freaked me out. My whole family—my dad, he was really into guns. The whole thing was a very bad experience, unnerving.

I didn’t like being around guns.

troy GierSDorf Dealer/pit boss

Holy moley! I think the last time I fired a gun was in 1980. I killed a willow ptarmigan and ate it for dinner. That’ probably the last time I fired a gun. Willow ptarmigans are also called spruce grouse. …

We built a raft. The raft crashed on the river. The gun fell off. I haven’t had a gun since.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

GOP makes war on health care It’s starting to feel like the ’60s again.

The odor of marijuana is ever present at large events downtown. Students are organizing “die-ins” to protest gun violence. In Reno, hundreds of people showed up twice in one week to protest the cruel immigration policies of Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump.

Many people have reached their personal tipping points and are ready to confront elected officials wherever they might be encountered, in restaurants or other public spaces, and hold them accountable for their actions. It’s refreshing and encouraging in these frustrating times to see citizens take action and exercise their democracy.

Is the tide really turning? Happily, corrupt EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned last week after widespread evidence of ethical transgressions, wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, and misuse of staff to resolve his personal concerns, like finding his wife a $200,000 job. Even our imbecilic president couldn’t save him from himself.

But every day brings a new outrage. It’s heartbreaking to see immigrant children

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languishing in detention centers, still separated from their parents. And a looming Supreme Court appointment could have disastrous consequences for our nation for decades to come.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are after your health care again. In June, the Trump administration announced it will not defend the Affordable Care Act against yet another challenge to its constitutionality by 20 red states who argue that now that the requirement to have health insurance is no longer valid, insurance companies cannot be expected to uphold consumer protections embedded in the law.

The most prominent of the consumer protections is the prohibition against considering someone’s pre-existing medical conditions when setting the price of insurance premiums or denying coverage altogether. One health advocate noted the change “would be breathtaking in its effect.

Of all the actions the Trump administration has taken to undermine individual insurance markets, this may be the most destabilizing.”

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Protect Our Care, a Nevada advocacy group, estimates that 51 percent of Nevadans have a pre-existing condition that could make them uninsurable. Before Obamacare, about 18 percent of individual market applications were rejected by insurance companies due to a pre-existing condition.

Trump is also sabotaging Obamacare by cutting funding for “navigators” who conduct outreach activities and assist people in determining their options for health insurance, an especially important service in these volatile times when premiums are expected to rise sharply thanks to the Republicans’ zeal to ruin Obamacare even if it leaves millions of people without insurance.

Many Republican leaders at the state level are waging a “War on Medicaid.” In Kentucky, Governor Matt Bevin reacted to a federal judge’s ruling that the state could not impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients that were “arbitrary and capricious” by announcing the cancellation of dental and vision benefits for Kentucky’s Medicaid population. Back in Nevada, our

more moderate GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval has taken a decidedly different approach, supporting the expansion of Medicaid to childless adults without such arduous requirements.

But GOP Atty. Gen. Adam Laxalt continues to crusade against reproductive rights, signing onto an amicus brief in Texas to support banning a specific type of abortion utilized in the second trimester of pregnancy. In an interview with KOLO’s Terri Russell—who, unlike Laxalt, lived in Nevada in 1990 when the voters approved a ballot measure to protect access to abortion even if Roe v Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court—Laxalt displayed his ignorance of the referendum before hinting that he would look into changing it if he becomes governor.

The fundamental question we should all be asking GOP candidates this election cycle is why are they working so hard to take away our health care? And if you don’t like their answers, eliminate their power by voting them out. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Dump aDvocate DefeateD Nye County, a thorn in the side of state leaders opposing the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, has voted to unseat a county commissioner who has been a leading supporter of the dump.

Commissioner Dan Schinhofen lost the Republican primary to Debra Strickland, who will take office in January. In a four-person race with fewer than 1,200 votes cast in the small county, Strickland won by a plurality, not a majority—36.5 percent to Schinhofen’s 31.7 percent—still enough to elect her outright under a peculiar Nevada law.

Strickland, a real estate broker and long time county resident, told the Pahrump Valley Times she will be seeking more science—and more recent science— on the Yucca project before she decides whether to support it. “The science is 10 years old on Yucca Mountain, and I would like to see some more recent science,” she said. The Obama administration deemphasized the dump project in 2009 and eventually shut it down by cutting off funding for it. Republicans and the nuclear industry are trying to revive it.

Nye and Lincoln counties have had a reputation for trying to lure businesses or projects to Nevada that most jurisdictions would reject (“Nye County comes calling,” RN&R, Jan. 15, 2004). Schinhofen is one in a series of Nye officials who were enthusiastic about the dump while the state was trying to fight it off, causing mixed messages to the feds.

Schinhofen claims Strickland was backed by brothel owner Dennis Hof and credited that with her victory.

Under a section of state law, races in which only members of one political party run can be decided in the primary, with the general election electorate excluded from the decision. Until this law, the two top candidates would advance to the general election. The new law was enacted to accommodate Dean Rhodes, an Elko County Republican senator who wearied of facing general elections when no Democrat was running.

The first winner under the new law was Dawn Gibbons in Washoe County in 1998, who was elected to the Nevada Assembly in a three-person Republican primary.

Gibbons and her leading opponent in that race—Patty Caferrata—tried to have the law repealed but failed.

Roots cut A&W Root Beer, once a prominent fast food option in the valley, will be shrinking to a single outlet.

Lithia Motors will be taking over a defunct strip mall on the southeast corner of Plumb and Kietzke lanes and will be ejecting the A&W that is on a stand-alone pad in the parking lot. That will leave only an A&W on Baring Boulevard in Sparks.

At one time, there were also A&Ws on the west side of Kietzke, on Prater Way in Sparks (now Scooper’s), and at Sutro, Montello and Oliver streets.

BookstoRe foR sale In another business note, used book stores are slowly disappearing in the valley. The Paperback Exchange and Zephyr Books are examples—and, now, Book Gallery owner Joseph Chiappetto in Sparks is trolling for a buyer for the valley’s oldest.

“I have one week left to sell the store as is,” he said this week. “If a buyer is not found, I will soon have a going out of business sale.”

—Dennis Myers

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Democrats at their recent convention took home material designed to attack Dean Heller, as with “REPEAL & REPLACE DEAN HELLER” signs, not to educate the public on where their own candidate—Jacky Rosen—stands.

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Issueless campaign Where do they stand? on monday of this week, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen sent out a news release to reporters headlined, “Rosen Campaign Announces $3.5 Million Raised in Second Quarter of 2018: Jacky Rosen’s record-breaking fund raising is the most ever raised for the second quarter of an election year in Nevada for a U.S. Senate race.”

That was sent out a few minutes after her latest attack on Republican candidate Dean Heller over health care: “Heller Still Trying to Pass His Radical GOP Health Care Plan: Sen. Dean Heller: ‘We’re still having meetings to this day trying to figure out the best way to get that concept passed. … If we have 51 votes, it’ll come back in a heartbeat.’”

And that was the same morning that the Nevada Democratic Party’s Helen Kalla sent out to reporters a Yahoo article by Andrew Romano that, in spite of weasel words (“If Nevada Dems can keep this trend going”), claimed Reid’s operation is still in business and quotes Kalla: “The muchvaunted Nevada Democratic machine that Harry Reid was leading—we like to say it’s still humming.” Romano never mentions that Reid split the party badly by endorsing moneyed Democrat

Steve Sisolak over party favorite Chris Giunchigliani in the governor’s race—or that the Senate race is Rosen’s to lose, nevermind what the Reid “machine” does. The article was accompanied by a photo composite showing Rosen and Reid “together.”

What’s interesting about all this is that few Nevadans know where Jacky Rosen stands. She has attacked Heller dozens, perhaps hundreds of times on health care: “One Year After Heller Lied About Protecting Nevadans’ Health Care, Trump Will Reward Him with a Private Fundraiser.”

“Heller Refuses to Stand Up to Trump as His Administration Argues Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions are ‘Unconstitutional.’”

“Governor Sandoval Wants Senator Heller to Support Bipartisan Health Care Deal, Heller Refusing to Listen.”

“Rosen Campaign Launches New 60-Second Digital Ad Blasting Senator Heller’s Health Care Betrayal.”

“Senator Heller Fails Nevada Families by Refusing to Oppose the Republican Health Care Plan.”

“Jacky Rosen Statement on Senator Heller’s Indecision on Advancing GOP’s Health Care Repeal Bill.”

We requested a copy of Rosen’s health care paper or plan, since none has been issued so far. We received nothing.

Her news releases have mentioned issues only in passing, or as part of attacks on Heller. This week, she sent out the text of a KTVN report on a visit she and Democratic attorney general candidate Aaron Ford made to a Reno mental health clinic. Her only statements were generalities: “I really believe it’s going to be a great partner here for not just the people who need the mental health care, need addiction care, but their families, the caregivers. … Those things that we’re doing can only help to elevate the conversation, and they increase the training or funding, whatever’s needed in each community.”

Presumably, Rosen would want changes in the Affordable Care Act, since few if any Democrats in Congress regarded it as an end result. It was what Democrats could get under the de facto-required supermajority needed in the Senate. But Reid himself, who shepherded the bill through the Senate, said it needs changes and is only a step toward a system without insurance companies.

“What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said. He said the country needed to “work our way past” an insurance-based system.

Does Rosen agree with that? She hasn’t said.

Since the launch of the ACA in 2013, both the country and experts have learned a lot about how it works. If the Democrats gain a majority in one or both houses of Congress, they will be expected to put that information to work.

Rosen sends daily fundraising mailings to her supporters. They deal with issues in the same way. They have not contained issue papers on, say, education or jobs.

Rosen isn’t the only one. Ford, running for attorney general, would be an important part of Nevada’s public lands and Yucca Mountain team.

Where does he stand? Sisolak, a former Nevada Regent, has had trouble in early campaign issues disputes with the state Distributive School Fund, seeming not to understand how it works. Where is he on state parks, affordable housing, corporate welfare, water?

Not surprisingly, these statewide candidates would just as soon get elected

because they are un-Republicans than get down in the bog of issues and define themselves.

Political scientist Fred Lokken said it is entirely possible that candidates will not tell voters where they stand this year, that the day of position papers and well informed voters may be a thing of the past.

“We may start to see some of the substance

by September,” he said, but it may not be all that enlightening, even then. It is likely to be political party boilerplate.

“All candidates seeking national office are following a schematic consistency, including talking points distributed by [campaign committees] from the House and Senate,” he said. “Campaigns used to be a lot more individualized,” he said.

This kind of one-sizefits-all practice does not exactly encourage innovation or independent thinking.

This is in spite of the fact that new technology lets voters have fuller access to campaigns than they once did. They don’t need to phone or drop by the campaign headquarters to pick up a white paper on housing. A couple of clicks and they’re there—but there is no there there, anymore.

While Lokken spoke with us, he brought up Rosen’s campaign website and found references to 11 issues, but they were not blueprints

or plans. The one dealing with health care was 125 words long, immigration took only 93. The name of one issue is so vague it needs accompanying verbiage: “Government reform.” A Rosen mailing sent to her supporters this week with the subject line “News on the ACA” contained just 150 words, none of them laying out how Rosen would improve the law.

It’s entirely possible that in a year of resounding Republican/Trump unpopularity, being known as a Democrat is in and of itself enough to get elected.

Lokken said there is one thing voters can do in the absence of commitments on paper. They should look at, “What has she done?”

However, in Rosen’s case that is not as helpful as it would be in many cases, since she has served just one term. When we made our request, however, that is how she responded—by providing a list of seven health care-related measures she signed onto as co-sponsor and a letter she signed onto asking the Trump administration to probe rising prescription drug costs.

Lokken said that Heller has complicated his own problems. “He was with [Gov. Brian] Sandoval for a while last year, then he went over to Trump. He has the problem of having changed horses in midstream.” Ω

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Simon Jankunas, 25, came from Lithuania to work a summer restaurant job in South Lake Tahoe.

Lots of jobs, no workers Tahoe housing crisis affects local businesses

When Fourth of July draws near, Tahoe businesses beef up their staffs in anticipation of a busy season. But, as the housing crisis escalates, Tahoe’s workforce is disappearing, and businesses are struggling to fill summer positions.

Millions of people visit Lake Tahoe annually, and in the summer, restaurants, hotels, resorts and retail shops hire personnel to handle the wave of tourists.

According to the Tahoe Prosperity Center, 50 percent of all Tahoe jobs are tourism related, but since 2008, the region has lost over 6,500 workers from the labor force.

This is due in part to the lack of affordable housing. Homes and rental prices have skyrocketed in recent years, pushing local people out of the area, and Tahoe businesses are discovering that they can’t operate without them.

“Normally, I would have 30 to 40 experienced locals apply every summer, but now there’s nowhere to live, and I only had five qualified people apply this year,” said Marcia Mendlick, general manager of Stateline Brewery.

Serving and bartending jobs used to be highly competitive in Lake Tahoe. A Craigslist ad could entice hundreds of applicants to apply for only a couple of job openings. Not so anymore.

“I usually receive over 100 applications, but this year, I only received 12,” said Chris Sidel, owner of Sidellis Lake Tahoe Brewery.

Tahoe land is limited, and there is little room to build new homes. With the economy on the upswing, an estimated

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65 percent or more of the existing Tahoe houses have been snatched up by secondhome owners. Long-term rentals have become obsolete or so overpriced that locals can no longer afford them, and many landlords who do rent to residents are raising those rents.

Nicolle Oullette, a 27-year-old server, has lived in a studio apartment in South Lake Tahoe for five years. Her monthly rent was $500 when she moved in, but, in the past four years, her landlord has raised the rent as often as California rent control stipulations allow.

“It’s been consistent,” Oullette said.

“My landlord has raised my rent by 10 percent every six months. With all of the AirBnbs and VRBOs, why would anyone want to rent to us?”

With local workers getting pushed out of Tahoe, businesses are hiring from abroad to fill positions. Young people from all over the world come to Tahoe on J-1 visas (a work and study exchange program) to work seasonal jobs.

But for J-1 workers, even finding temporary housing is a challenge.

Simon Jankunas, 25, came from Lithuania to work a summer restaurant job in South Lake Tahoe. He lives at the Roadway Inn in a hotel room with three other J-1 workers. The room has two queensized beds and costs $1,600 a month.

“When I came here, everything was booked, and I couldn’t find anything else,” Jankunas said. “I live with three guys, in one room, with no kitchen. It’s very crowded.”

Jankunas said the Roadway Inn is a temporary home for many other J-1 workers—people from Macedonia, Poland, Serbia and other countries. It’s crowded, but Jankunas counts himself lucky to have found a place to live.

“I saw on Facebook that other J-1s are struggling to find housing in Tahoe. Prices keep going up,” he said. Ω

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bullet points 25 good, bad and ugly ideas to reduce gun violence

by Mitch Ryals, Daniel WalteRs, saMantha Wohlfeil, Wilson cRiscione anD Quinn Welsch

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he U.S., overall, is a much less violent place than it used to be. Our reported violent-crime rate is almost half what it was in 1991. But mass shootings haven’t decreased. In fact, they’ve become even deadlier.

In 2010, the World Health Organization found that the United States’ gun-homicide rates were more than 25 times higher than in any other highincome country. And that was before Las Vegas— and before Parkland, Florida. We’ve witnessed 19 of the 30 deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history during the past decade.

It isn’t just about murders. The suicide rate has skyrocketed as well, reaching a 30-year high in 2016. More than half were with firearms.

High school and middle school students have risen up in protests and marches after the Parkland shooting, demanding that something be done.

But what?

We looked at ideas to reduce gun violence, weighing the results of academic research and the analysis of experts. Here are proposals likely to reduce gun violence and save lives.

1. plug the holes Gaps in the federal background check system (the National Instant Criminal Background Check System) allow domestic abusers, convicted felons, and people with mental illness to purchase guns.

Roughly 20 percent of Americans purchase guns without a background check.

A 2013 survey of prisoners locked up for gun violence found that more than 96 percent of offenders, who were legally prohibited from owning guns, had purchased them without a background check.

Experts point to three major holes: 1. In most states, gun buyers are able to purchase firearms from unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to run a background check at all. After Missouri stopped requiring background checks for all firearm purchases, researchers found a 25 percent increase in firearm homicides.

2. If the FBI doesn’t complete a background check in three business days, licensed

dealers are free to sell the gun anyway. This is how the man who killed nine parishioners inside a church in Charleston, South Carolina, bought a gun.

3. The federal definition of “domestic abuser” doesn’t include unmarried or childless couples. Many states, including Oregon this year, have closed the so-called “Boyfriend Loophole.”

Strengthening the federal backgroundcheck system is one of the most feasible measures to reduce gun violence. States that require universal background checks have lower gun-death rates, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics show.

Surveys show overwhelming public support.

2. let people sue gunmakers (again) It’s the American way: If a product is killing an unbelievable number of people, the proper remedy is to sue the hell out of whoever made that product. But since 2005, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act made gun manufacturers and dealers essentially legally bulletproof.

A victim can still sue if a gun, for example, malfunctions and explodes—but not if a teenager uses it to kill 14 of his classmates.

Guns are meant to kill, the argument went, so why should people sue when the gun has done what it was built to do?

Remove the shield, an op-ed in the New York Times pointed out, and that means gun manufacturers suddenly would have a financial incentive, like every other industry, to make their products safer.

3. lift the research ban From 2004 to 2014, gun violence killed about as many people as the life-threatening health complication known as sepsis, but funding for gun violence research was only about 0.7 percent of the amount spent to study sepsis, according to a 2017 research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

In fact, the researchers found that gun violence was the least researched cause of death, in relation to mortality rate, and only research into deaths by falling is funded less.

The nonpartisan RAND Corp. looked at thousands of U.S. gun-regulation studies and found that, in many areas, there just wasn’t

enough research to definitively show effects “straw purchasers”—where a person illegally buys a gun for somebody else ineligible one way or another. The lack of research in certain areas muddles debates over policies. to purchase one. It hands law enforcement Part of what has stymied gun research in officers the ability to identify which guns are stolen—cracking down on both illicit arms the U.S. is the 1996 “Dickey Amendment,” traders and allowing cops to get convictions which prevents the CDC from spending for thieves. And it encourages gun owners to money on activities that “advocate or safely secure their weapons. promote gun control.” Former Arkansas A 2002 report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Rep. Jay Dickey, a Republican and the Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded amendment’s namesake, told NPR he never that about 85 percent of criminal gun owners intended for the amendment to cut off federal weren’t the original purchaser. gun research altogether, only gun-regulation advocacy, and regrets that the effect was to essentially halt research. This March, Donald Trump signed a spending bill that left the Dickey Amendment in place 6. background checks and but clarifies that the CDC can research the causes of gun tracking ammo violence. However, no funding Only a handful of states currently have laws regulating for gun-violence research was the purchase of ammunition. This year, congressional included.

Democrats introduced a bill that would establish a federal background check system for ammo. U.S. 4. copy the aussies Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), one of Barack Obama and Hillary the bill’s sponsors, has said it would plug an “absurd Clinton have both pointed to loophole” that allows people to “amass hundreds of Australia as a model of how rounds of ammunition without so much as sharing their dramatic gun regulation can first name with a gun store clerk.” make a nation safer. It’s also Starting in 2019, California will require about as close to “taking your ammo vendors to report bullet sales to the state’s guns” as the mainstream gunDepartment of Justice and conduct background control movement gets. checks on ammunition sales. New York and New There were 13 mass Jersey have similar laws. shootings in 18 years before A 2013 Fox News poll found 80 percent of responAustralia’s sweeping National dents were in favor of ammunition background checks.

Firearms Agreement in 1997.

In the 20 years after, there’s been one. While skeptics quibble with whether the law can be entirely credited, the country’s 7. ban high-capacity magazines already low firearm homicide rate fell further—and suicides plunged.

To trained hands, reloading a weapon is The flashiest piece of the program featured second nature. The rounds run out, the bolt a mandatory buyback program that gathered slams forward, the magazine drops with a around 650,000 firearms—a full fifth of the simple push of a finger and a new magazine is country’s arsenal. However, today Australia inserted. It takes a few seconds. has about as many guns as before the buyback.

But in a mass shooting, those seconds can Instead, the key, as the Science Vs. buy people time to get to safety—or disarm podcast explains, seemed to be the thicket of the shooter. At Seattle Pacific University in other laws that came with it, including a ban 2014, an unarmed student used pepper spray to on semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and subdue a shooter while he was reloading. shotguns. You have to show a good reason to own a gun—and self-defense doesn’t count.

8. lock ’em up You can sell only through a licensed dealer.

An eighth-grade school shooter in Townville, You have to register your gun and report if it’s South Carolina, the Washington Post reported, stolen. thought he’d be able to kill at least 50 of Much of the Australia program would his classmates—150 if he got lucky. But also almost certainly be struck down by the he couldn’t get into the gun safe where he Supreme Court—and the cultural and physical thought his dad kept the powerful Ruger Minigeography of the United States would create 14 semi-automatic rifle. Instead, he settled for serious regulatory challenges. But implement- a pistol he found in his dad’s dresser—a pistol ing even some pieces of Australia’s gunthat jammed after he shot several elementary regulation program could reduce deaths. school students. He didn’t notice that the rifle

5. track ’em One of the most effective parts of Australia’s strategy was simply creating a gun registry— and then enforcing it. The potential benefits are clear, particularly when combined with a requirement that lost or stolen guns are reported. It’s a way to close the loophole of

hadn’t actually been locked up either.

More than two-thirds of school shooters got their guns from their own homes or homes of relatives.

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Massachusetts legally requires guns to be either kept in locked containers or protected with a trigger lock that prevents them from being fired. Gun-rights advocates strenuously objected, arguing that locking up their firearms made it nearly impossible to ward off a home invader.

But a 2015 Harvard University analysis found that victims using guns to ward off criminals were more likely to be injured than people who just tried to run away. Other studies have found that safe storage practices significantly reduce the risk of suicide and accidental gun deaths. Not only that, it makes it harder for thieves to steal them during a burglary.

9. Doctors anD gun talk The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend doctors discuss guns with their patients to prevent accidental shootings and suicides. So far, the research on the effectiveness of doctors talking with patients about guns is limited, but it seems to improve patients’ use of safe storage devices.

One 2000 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry study found that after counseling from a psychiatrist, a third of the parents of suicidal teens removed firearms from their homes. With suicide, by far, the leading cause of deaths from firearms—that’s a big deal.

10. ban bump stocks When a mass shooter fires into a crowd with a semi-automatic rifle, how fast he can pull the trigger becomes a life-ordeath question. In the Las Vegas shooting last October, the gunman in the Mandalay Bay Hotel room was able to fire nine rounds per second. That’s thanks to a rifle modification called a bump stock, which harnesses the recoil of a weapon to allow a shooter to fire at speeds comparable to illegal automatic weapons.

After Las Vegas, banning bump stocks has become a rare measure even Republicans in Congress say they support.

But the impact likely would be small.

While fewer people may have died in Las Vegas if bump stocks were banned, the devices have rarely been used in prior shootings.

11. raise the age Check out this absurdity: You can’t buy a handgun from a licensed dealer if you’re under 21. But if you’re 18, you can still buy an AR-15.

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own semi-automatic rifles, after the Parkland shooting, even gun-rights-loving Florida passed a bill that hiked the age to 21.

The reform is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on mass shootings, however. Of 156 mass shootings since 2009, a Vox piece explained, only one was committed by a gunman under 21 with a legally purchased semi-automatic rifle. So, gun-control advocates suggest going further: Raise the legal age for unlicensed dealers as well, barring informal gun-sellers—dealers at gun shows, for instance—and online stores from selling handguns and rifles. Heck, raise it to 25. Treat guns as seriously as rental cars. FBI data shows that more than half of firearm-homicide offenders from 2005 to 2015 were under 25.

12. responD to reD flags The horror of the Parkland shooting was compounded by the fact that so many people knew that the shooter was a danger. Why didn’t anyone take away his weapons? They legally couldn’t. All the red flags in the world can’t do much if the cops don’t have a legal right to act on them.

A number of states have enacted “red flag” laws, giving cops the power to ask a court for a warrant to temporarily remove a person’s access to firearms if they’re an imminent danger to themselves or others.

In the 14 years after Connecticut implemented such a law in 1999, police temporarily removed an average of seven firearms from each at-risk gun owner across 762 firearmremoval cases, one study found. Often, those gun owners were connected with mental health treatment they wouldn’t have received otherwise.

13. empower family members The profile of mass shooters can vary radically, but a few things keep popping up: They’re almost always men. And they often have a history of domestic violence. More than half of the shootings from 2009 to 2016 tallied by Everytown for Gun Safety involved domestic or family violence.

It’s scary as hell to be a woman trapped in a violent relationship—it’s even scarier if he can kill you with the click of a trigger. It’s why some states have adopted the use of Gun Violence Restraining Orders. Red-flag laws in states like California and Washington let family members, friends and employers ask a court to temporarily take away a person’s firearm access.

14. alert the cops Here’s a policy both Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and his counterpart Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson support: It requires federal officials to notify local authorities within 24 hours whenever someone tries to buy a gun but fails the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

15. share recorDs with the feDs Technically, federal law already prohibits people with a history of some mental health

In October 2017, a shooter at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas fired onto a crowd of concertgoers below, killing 58.

conditions from possessing 17. require a police interview guns. But the FBI’s federal In 1911, New York passed the Sullivan Act. In an background check system relies interview on Slate’s podcast The Gist, Richard Aborn, on states voluntarily reporting the Citizens Crime Commission president, called the that information, and participaact “possibly the most effective gun-control law in the tion is spotty. A New York history of the country.”

Times report in 2016 found that In New York, it generally takes about six months Pennsylvania had entered over to get a gun after the applications, background check, 718,000 mental records into safety training and an interview with a uniformed the federal background check NYPD officer, Aborn said. New York also requires system, for example, while safe storage and reporting if a gun is lost or stolen Montana had entered a grand and bans large-capacity magazines and assault-style total of four. weapons.

There are legitimate debates “The goal is not to prevent law-abiding citizens from about which mental health getting guns,” Aborn said on the podcast, “but rather to conditions should exclude a make sure criminals didn’t get a gun. And guess what? person from gun ownership; It works!” the vast majority of people with Firearm death rates in New York are consistently mental health conditions, after among the lowest in the entire country. In 2016, CDC all, are not violent. But as it data shows a rate of 4.2 firearm deaths per 100,000 stands, some states failing to people, compared to say, Alaska’s 23.3 or Idaho’s 14.6. share their information or properly enforce the law has allowed dangerous individuals like the Virginia Tech shooter to gain 18. manDatory gun-safety classes access to guns. Recent bipartisan legislation In some countries, the checklist of what people has directed grant money to help states better need in order to buy a gun includes a requireshare that information. ment to take a gun-safety course and pass a test, demonstrate gun knowledge, or get a member16. surrenDer their weapons ship at a shooting club or range.

This legislative session, Washington state In the United States, about 61 percent of passed a first-of-its-kind law intended to prevent gun owners have gotten some type of training, suicides. Citizens can now voluntarily waive which typically included information about their rights to own a gun by having their name safe handling, storage and preventing accidents, added to a list of prohibited purchasers in the according to a 2015 University of Washington national background check database. study. But the study identified gaps in training: The new law outlines a process to make sure Only 15 percent of owners said they were trained identities aren’t falsely added to the prohibited about suicide prevention, and only 14 percent of list, and also includes a way for people to restore those who lived with gun owners had received their gun rights later. any safety training.

Making it harder to access guns can stop suicides. About half of people who survived 19. manufacture anD sell suicide attempts and were interviewed smart guns for studies said just a few minutes passed between when they felt suicidal and when they A 2-year-old shot and killed his mother inside attempted. Guns are more lethal than other a Hayden, Idaho, Walmart in 2014. From the suicide methods, leading to death more than 80 shopping cart, the toddler had reached inside percent of the time. the 29-year-old mother’s purse, where she kept Most law enforcement agencies and gun a concealed pistol. When we talk about smart sellers are willing to temporarily store guns for guns, advocates often point to this example for people who are concerned their loved one is support. suicidal or worried about their gun being safely Smart guns are designed to restrict who stored while they are away from home or have can fire them. Some require an authorized visitors, according to a study published in the fingerprint, others use a radio-controlled watch American Journal of Public Health in 2017. or other device that must be within a certain About 75 percent of the 448 law enforcement distance of the gun in order to fire. There are agencies surveyed already provided some form also trigger guards that require a fingerprint to of temporary storage. unlock.

A small 2003 study of 117 unintentional and undetermined firearm-related deaths found that personalized firearms technology was among the most effective at reducing accidental deaths.

20. haRness coRpoRate poweR One sign the response to the Parkland shootings has been different? Corporations started speaking out: Walmart, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Kroger raised restrictions on the minimum age required to buy firearms. CitiGroup banned their business partners from selling firearms to those under 21—and from selling high-capacity magazines or bump stocks at all.

Companies like Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Symantec, Metlife, Delta and United all ended their discount programs for NRA members.

Some pundits urge corporations to go further: The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin argues Visa and MasterCard could follow the example of PayPal and Square, by refusing to allow their products to be used to purchase guns.

21. Ban ‘assault-style’ weapons In 1994, the United States banned the manufacture and sale of certain semi-automatic weapons with military-style features and large-capacity magazines.

The ban was lifted in 2004. A 2018 Quinnipiac poll found that 67 percent of Americans support the ban returning.

Although semi-automatic rifles are rarely used to commit crimes, when they are, the potential devastation is terrifying. The purpose of the ban in 1994 was to reduce the lethality of mass shootings. Mass shootings have become much more lethal since the ban expired.

22. Repeal Right-to-caRRy laws In 1996, University of Chicago researchers studied the link between a citizen’s right to carry a concealed handgun and the violent crime rate. John Lott and David Mustard concluded that “allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths.” Further, they predicted that states without concealed carry laws could have avoided a total of 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes and more than 60,000 assaults.

At the time, the research was used to support right-to-carry laws, which allow people to carry concealed firearms. All states now allow concealed carry in some form. The NRA has pushed for permitless concealed carry laws, which already exist in some states.

In the two decades since Lott and Mustard’s study, academics have debunked their research, concluding that right-to-carry laws actually lead to higher rates of violent crime.

23. Make BuyeRs wait The idea is to require a gun buyer to wait some period of time between the purchase and when he or she actually takes possession of the gun.

Waiting periods would give authorities more time to complete background checks, advocates say.

Research suggests waiting periods can create a “cooling off” period and reduce impulsive violence and suicides.

The American Medical Association has voiced support for waiting periods, and a Quinnipiac University poll found 79 percent of voters support such a mandate. At least nine states and the District of Columbia have some sort of waiting period (typically between two and seven days), according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

A 2017 study in the National Academy of Sciences journal using data on waiting period laws from 1970 to 2014 found that the laws are associated with a 17 percent reduction in gun homicides and a 7 percent to 11 percent reduction in gun-related suicides.

24. MoRe counseling in schools Mental health counselors in schools can play a critical role in identifying at-risk students and referring them to appropriate treatment. That can prevent students from harming themselves or others.

Nearly 87 percent of shooters leave behind evidence that they were victims of severe bullying that resulted in thoughts of suicide or revenge.

Though most bullied children do not decide to

open fire on fellow students as revenge, providing resources to these students could prevent harm.

25. naMe shooteRs less After each mass shooting, experts call for the media not to name the shooter, arguing that glorifying and obsessing over shooters only gives them infamy and creates copycats. And after each shooting, most news organizations publish the shooter’s name and details.

Many school shooters say they studied those before them to learn how to make their shooting more memorable. And there is some contagion effect—a 2015 study by an Arizona State University researcher found that mass shootings are often inspired by other shootings.

The problem with never naming a shooter is the public will find out anyway. Plus, naming a shooter can prevent misinformation, like the wrong person being blamed for a shooting, says Kelly McBride, vice president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Details of a shooter— their motivation, access to weapons, clues that were missed—can give information that may help prevent future tragedies.

Journalists shouldn’t vow not to name a shooter, she says, but instead name shooters only when pertinent. And they should always tell victims’ stories completely. Ω

About this story: A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander, a weekly based in Spokane, Washington.

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by Kris Vagner

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rtist Rossitza Todorova is moving back to Reno after eight years in Arizona, where she earned an MFA, taught at Arizona State University and worked at the Phoenix Art Museum. This fall, she’ll start a tenure-track position teaching drawing at Truckee Meadows Community College.

As Todorova and her husband searched for an apartment in Reno, she also kept an eye out for a studio where she could work on her drawings, sculptures and mixedmedia pieces.

“There’s something to be said about taking your artwork out of your home, to professionalize your practice, separate the personal from the professional,” she said over the phone from Phoenix. “For me, it’s my work. You ‘go to studio.’ You’re going to work.”

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“We try to mix up the models—male, female, different types of people,” said studio director Christopher Newhard, right. That includes an occasional session with a costumed model, like Carli Cheek, left, who dressed as a pirate for a recent portrait session.

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As luck would have it, she saw a flier at See See Motor Coffee Co. advertising a figure drawing class.

In June, she met with the instructor, Christopher Newhard, and learned that he’d just become the manager of a new art studio complex, Artemisia Studios.

Todorova liked that the studios are in a walkable neighborhood close to downtown. They also appealed to her because—while existing art studios like the Potentialist Workshop, Reno Art Works and the Generator accommodate hundreds of local artists who work in groups or in shared workspaces—there aren’t a lot of options for artists who work solo and want private, lockable rooms.

Todorova signed up to be one of Artemisia’s first few tenants.

She’s a perfect fit, according to studio manager Christopher Newhard. They’re each professional artists with academic backgrounds, and while they each favor solitude during working hours, they also want to be part of a community that includes both seasoned pros and up-and-comers who are serious about their craft and techniques.

Chance encounter

Newhard is from Petaluma, California. He specializes in painting figures and portraits, and he has 15 years of part-time teaching at the Academy of Art in San Francisco under his belt. He moved to Reno in 2017. He’s been

teaching classes here at Nevada Fine Arts and drawing with the Reno Portrait Society.

This past winter at Hub Coffee Roasters, he ran into Wayne Morgenthaler, who he knew from Petaluma.

“We’re acquaintances,” Newhard said. “We’re not super close, but we’ve known each other for 10 years, and we have a lot of the same friends.” Newhard asked Morgenthaler what he was doing in town. Morgenthaler said that he’d inherited a commercial building and was trying to figure out what to do with the top floor, which hadn’t been used in several years.

“We got to talking,” Newhard said, “And I said, ‘Could you use the rooms for art studios?

He said, ‘It’s build-to-suit. You could do anything.’”

Morgenthaler in an ex-building contractor who runs a small farm. He’s made several trips to Reno over the last several years, and he said that the city grew on him quickly. And he appreciates the active art scene here—and that the city pitches in funding for the arts.

Morgenthaler’s mother was an artist, and she passed away around the time that he took custody of the the building.

“The arts have been on my radar ever since.”

Newhard and Morgenthaler made an agreement—Newhard would get a free studio in exchange for managing the whole floor, and other artists would rent

their rooms directly from Morgenthaler, who would also support a large, shared room and a kitchen.

Morgenthaler had vinyl flooring installed, the roof fixed and the walls painted. Newhard moved his painting supplies into the front studio and began holding drawing sessions in the large shared room.

Although the three new tenants are yet to move in—and several studios are yet to be rented—Newhard said, “We’ve got a pretty good nucleus here,” referring to the five or six people who’ve been coming every week to paint and draw models.”

Newhard said that he expects that the studio’s burgeoning community will include largely artists who draw figures and portraits, but that’s not a strict requirement.

“All of the artists in here will have their own way of workArtemisia Studios is in a ing,” he said. He also nondescript warehouse mentioned that artists You’re so used building on Bell who specialize in to working alone as Street, a block figure drawing tend north of Second an artist—but the thing to be older, but Street. First-floor that’s not a requireis, when you get together tenants include ment either. a church with and collaborate with other And there’s a a food pantry, bit of flexibility people, you do come up counseling offices regarding what with some great ideas. and Forsaken direction the River Spirits studio programChristopher Newhard, distillery. ming might take.

MaNager, arteMisia On the second For example, there’s studios floor, sound echoes one studio space that’s through most of the empty particularly large. It could be studio spaces. Newhard’s room is occupied by an artist with large equipfull of large canvasses that dampen the ment, a collaborative team, or someone sound, promising a more lived-in feel who wants to use it as an exhibition space. once the complex is occupied. Todorova Newhard isn’t going to decide in advance is planning to move in in August, and two how to use it. other artists also plan to move in soon.

“I am of the opinion it’d be better to Newhard has been using the larger, leave it open to what people want to make shared room for twice-weekly figureof it,” he said. He wants to leave some drawing sessions and monthly all-day philosophical wiggle room right now, to get painting sessions. a sense of what kind of studio space needs “Once a month, a costumed model the community has—and what kind of poses for six hours,” he said. The most collaborative energy the artists might bring. recent model, Carli Cheek, dressed as a “You’re so used to working alone as pirate. The next one is planning to wear an artist—but the thing is, when you get angel wings and a gown. together and collaborate with other people, you do come up with some great ideas. … It’s that kind of hybrid “bigger” that happens,” he said.

There might also be opportunities for high school students to drop by for drawing sessions—and that large common room seems to get people dreaming as soon as they see it.

“It could really cross-pollinate different kinds of art mediums,” Todorova said, suggesting that if the figure models turn out to be dancers, which is often the case, perhaps they’ll have some programming ideas.

“The pastor here [from the church on the first floor] says his kids are underserved as far as dance, so we could even use it maybe for kids’ dance classes,” said Newhard. “It’s exciting. It’s sort of a blank slate.” Ω

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A comedically on-point Ian Sorensen heads up the cast as Pseudolis.

Roman romp When Melissa Taylor, executive director of Reno Little Theater, saw local actor/comedian Ian Sorensen perform for the first time, she became single-minded. With an upcoming production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on her mind, she strode right up to Sorensen and told him he had to be her Pseudolus, the lead in the Sondheim musical.

“I told him, ‘You’re the only one I want to even consider for this,’” recalled Taylor.

After catching a sneak preview before the show opened last week, I congratulate Taylor for this master stroke of casting. Sorensen, a local improv player for years with the Utility Players and the Comedy Collective, is a genius with a cocked brow, a deadpan expression or a well-timed glance to the audience.

He has infinite and natural comedic resources and no fear of physical comedy—essential for this most beloved and silliest of roles.

Drawing upon the basic plot of Plautus’s ancient Roman play Pseudolus, Sondheim (thankfully) adds vaudeville and farce to the mix, with plenty of bawdy humor, slamming of doors, men hiding in women’s clothing, mistaken identities, exploitation of the upper class, and great song-and-dance numbers.

Pseudolus is the most cunning of slaves, far cleverer than his masters, Senex (Kirk Gardner) and Domina (Amy Gianos). When Senex and Domina leave on a trip to the country, they leave Pseudolus in charge of their adolescent son, Hero (Jared Lively).

Hero confides to Pseudolus that he has fallen in love with the young woman he has seen in the window of the nearby house of ill repute, the House of Lycus—for all intents and purposes, a brothel. Hero confesses he would do anything to be with her. Wily Pseudolus, without missing a beat, strikes a bargain: He’ll get the girl for Hero, and Hero can reward him with freedom.

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window, has already been sold to the virginseeking Roman warrior Miles Gloriosus (Jeff Chamberlin). Pseudolus concocts a plan to hide the virgin Philia away from Gloriosus.

But things grow more and more complicated as others get involved, from Marcus Lycus (Scott House), the man who brokered the deal to sell Philia; to Hysterium (Erich Goldstein), the skittish slave Senex left in charge of the others in his absence; to Senex himself, who stumbles upon Philia in his house and takes a fancy to her.

What follows is delightfully fun, madcap nonsense, and as layer upon layer of deception is necessarily piled upon him, Pseudolus rolls with the punches, unfazed and utterly cool while delivering his next pack of lies.

In a role played memorably by Zero Mostel and Nathan Lane, Sorensen makes the role his own, giving Pseudolus a craftier, less clownish persona that’s enjoyable every minute he’s onstage.

The entire ensemble of nearly 20 performers keeps this two-and-a-half-hour show from ever having a dull moment, thanks to Sondheim’s marvelous writing and wellchoreographed scenes in which characters lob dialogue like tennis pros. Though not every volley may squarely hit its target, the score is quite high in their favor.

Like its opening song boasts, this charming comedy features something appealing, something appalling … something for everyone. Ω

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12345 a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is onstage through July 29 at Reno Little Theater, 147 East Pueblo st. Tickets are $12-$25, and the July 14 performance is free. call (775) 813-8900 or visit renolittletheater.org.

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“You can tell the sex of an ant by putting it in water. if it sinks, girl ant. if it floats, bouyant.”

Size up Ant-Man and the Wasp is a fun continuation of what returning director Peyton Reed started with Ant-Man three years ago. I whined a bit about the decent original, a movie that I wanted to be more subversive, having known that Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) was supposed to direct it.

I’m over it. Reed kicks some Marvel ass, and his sequel is actually better than the first. After the well done but admittedly gloomy Avengers: Infinity War earlier this year, Ant-Man and the Wasp joins the likes of Thor: Ragnarok as a fun, slightly eccentric diversion from the serious Marvel shit. This one, for the most part, just wants to have a good time, and it succeeds.

As the title implies, this is no longer a one-man show for the always entertaining Paul Rudd as Ant-Man. Evangeline Lilly returns as Hope Van Dyne and gets a bigger part of the limelight as the Wasp, who has decidedly better martial arts skills than professional burglar Scott Lang. The Wasp lets the kicks fly in an early scene with a crooked businessman (Walton Goggins—god, I love his name), and she owns every moment she’s onscreen. It simply looks like a kick from The Wasp hurts more than one from Ant-Man. Well, that would make sense. She trained him.

Lilly’s Hope was pivotal in the original, but she watched most of the action out of harm’s way.

This time, Hope proves that it would’ve probably been a better strategy to have had her throwing down from the start. She does a lot of the heavy lifting, while Lang sits next to Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and watches from afar.

The film’s main villain is Ghost (Hannah JohnKamen), a complicated badass on a mission to steal some of Dr. Pym’s tech in order to cure her condition. That condition involves her molecular instability and the Quantum Realm which, we also find out, might still contain Pym’s wife, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer, seen in flashbacks).

While the stakes aren’t quite as high as the usual Marvel fare—the entire universe isn’t at risk

in this one—Reed and his crew make it more than compelling. They also make it very funny, thanks mostly to Rudd, ninja master of comic timing.

Fortifying the laughter is Michael Pena returning as the oh-so-happy Luis, who tells yet more amusing stories, one of them under the influence of truth serum. Randall Park shows up as an FBI agent watching over Lang, who is still under house arrest for the events of Captain America: Civil War. His eagerness to learn card tricks is one of the film’s better gags.

The film also qualifies as one of the summer’s better family films. Dr. Pym’s mission to rescue his wife; his relationship with daughter, Hope; and Lang’s love for his daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Forster, capably reprising her role); add heartwarming elements. As for the Ghost, her family issues also play a big part in the plot. Paxton (Bobby Cannavale), Cassie’s stepdad and Lang’s enemy in the first movie, returns and is now one of Lang’s best friends. It’s all rather sweet.

But you don’t go to a Marvel movie primarily to have your heart warmed, right? Don’t worry.

The action is first rate, as are the special effects, which often involve car chases with vehicles and buildings constantly shrinking and enlarging. Sight gags involving buildings as rollaway luggage, salt shakers and Pez dispensers also benefit from exemplary visual artistry.

There’s very little connecting this installment to the overall Marvel universe story arc, but you do get the requisite Stan Lee cameo and the obligatory after-credits scenes. The Ant-Man franchise got off to a decent start with the first film.

Now, it’s the Ant-Man and the Wasp franchise, and that makes the future for this one even more exciting. Ω

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Hearts Beat Loud

Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons make for a winning, inspirational father-daughter team in Hearts Beat Loud, a music-infused cinematic gem that will stand as one of the summer’s under-the-radar greats. Frank (Offerman), a record-store owner—mostly vinyl—with a gruff attitude, has fallen on tough economic times, not good considering his daughter, Sam (Clemons), is about to leave for med school. He informs his landlord, Leslie (Toni Collette, having a great year), that the store will close, and he’s at a sort of spiritual crossroads. He takes great solace and comfort in his mandatory musical jam sessions with his kid, both of them being decent enough musicians, with Sam actually being pretty damn good. She has a knack for songwriting but doubts her talents. Frank pushes her to create, marvels in what she’s able to come up with and suggests they form a real band. Sam pushes back, wanting to focus on the whole becoming-a-doctor thing, but Frank persists, ultimately uploading one of their demos to Spotify. He hears the song in a coffee shop one morning, and it’s a great moment. As a testament to how the face of the music industry has changed, an artist hears his music streaming on somebody’s “mix” rather than broadcasted on the radio in his car. The film is somewhat of an endorsement for Spotify and vinyl. None of this would work if the music stunk. It doesn’t.

It’s good. Offerman and Clemons combine for some sweet music making, including the film’s title track, one that is repeated often in the movie. Offerman is no Jimi Hendrix, but he handles his guitar parts with enough finesse to make you think he’s been playing a long time, and Clemons is a natural wonder with a great voice. The soundtrack and the characters reference a who’s who of great artists, including Ween, Animal Collective, Jeff Tweedy, Spoon and Mitzki. It’s the best music-store movie since High Fidelity.

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Ideal Home

Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan play a fighting gay couple forced to take on the Coogan character’s grandson in this ultimately enjoyable movie. It’s enjoyable because Rudd and Coogan take it above its silly sitcom tropes and provide genuine laughs and real emotion. Paul (Rudd) and Erasmus (Coogan) work on a cooking show together and live an upscale life. Angel (Jack Gore) shows up at their door after his dad gets busted, and the two must learn to be parents overnight. There are moments in this movie— registering the kid for school, visiting dad in jail—that feel like a thousand movies before it, and director Andrew Fleming throws in too many plugs for Taco Bell. Problems aside, Rudd and Coogan had me laughing consistently and loudly throughout the movie. This really is a movie that could’ve been awful, but they more than save it, to the point where it can actually be recommended. Gore doesn’t really stand out as the precocious kid, which slows things down at times, but Jake McDorman is hilarious in his few screen moments as the dad. Overall, this will most assuredly provide a good pile of chuckles, and sometimes that’s all a comedy really needs to do. (Available for rent on iTunes, Amazon and other streaming services during a limited theatrical release.)

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Incredibles 2

After a 14-year hiatus, the Parr family returns for more superhero shenanigans in Pixar’s Incredibles 2, a sequel that continues the zippy, funny spirit of the original. It’s not as good as the first, but it still finds a ranking near the top of Pixar’s best and is the company’s best sequel since Toy Story 3. The film picks up where the last one left off, with a criminal named Underminer (ever-present Pixar voice John Ratzenberger) looking to cause some early movie trouble and teen Violet Parr (Sarah Vowell, reprising her role, even though she’s well past her teens) meeting a boy. Superheroes remain somewhat in hiding, but rich tycoon Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) is looking to

change that. Winston hatches a plan to get superheroes back in the limelight, and that plan involves Elastigirl/Helen (Holly Hunter) on a crazy new motorbike fighting crime and gaining publicity. While she’s out getting her superhero groove back, Mr. Incredible/Bob (Craig T. Nelson) must stay at home and take care of the kids, including Violet, Dash (Huck Milner) and baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile).

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

This is a big dummy dino joke of a movie. It’s nothing but a brainless, sloppy rehash of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World, with a lame militaristic angle thrown in (again!). Yes, the dinosaurs look cool, and things get off to an awesome start with an underwater visit to the skeleton of the genetically engineered dinosaur, Indominus Rex, that died hard at the end of Jurassic World. The prologue is scary, looks great, is well directed, and seems to be setting the tone for a film that recalls the grim tone of Michael Crichton’s original.

Sadly, things degenerate badly after the title credits pop up. When a volcanic eruption on the isle of dinosaurs threatens their genetically engineered lives, Congress holds hearings on whether or not to save them.

These hearings involve the return of the one and only Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm.

Rather than having Goldblum around for his trademark psycho rambling and dark wit, his character just groans a couple of lines about how we shouldn’t have made the dinosaurs because it goes against nature and they have really big teeth and might bite you. Then he goes away. Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island to save Blue, the adorable velociraptor who wants you to pet him. Eventually, the action winds up in a large mansion in the states, where a nefarious businessman is keeping dinosaurs in the basement in order to auction them off in what amounts to a dinosaur fashion show for evil countries who want to weaponize them.

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin—Emily Blunt doesn’t participate—show up for this nasty film plotted in such a way as to assure it would give the likes of Sean Hannity a monster boner. A ginormous, Fox News red boner right there in the middle of the theater. The timing of this movie is, shall we say, interesting. As real-life tensions build along the Mexican border, with families being separated and humanitarian water jugs being poured out, along comes a movie that shows ISIS terrorists crossing over the Mexican border and blowing up strip malls.

Wait a minute, isn’t Sicario supposed to be about America’s beef with drug cartels?

This ISIS stuff feels, well, tacked on. While the terrorism element introduced near the beginning of the movie looks to be the driving force of the plot in the early going, it all but falls away in favor of a kidnapping subplot intended to start a war between the Mexican and U.S. governments. It’s as if screenwriter Taylor Sheridan started one movie, got scared, said screw it, and finished with another one. To say the movie lacks focus is an understatement. Brolin returns as agent Matt Graver, a nasty guy who will blow up your brother as you watch on a laptop if you don’t tell him what he needs to hear. Del Toro is also back as Alejandro, an operative once again hired by the U.S., this time to stir up trouble with the cartels and eventually kidnap Isabel (Isabela Moner), a drug kingpin’s daughter. Let me just take this moment to say Moner, who you might remember from her unfortunate participation in the latest Transformers movie, is a big star in the making. She gives the kind of performance that breaks your heart because it is something so good in service of something so mediocre.

There are moments where she makes you forget you are basically watching a very unimportant movie.

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The old brick building that once housed a downtown Carson City brewery is now brewing up a combination of beers and gastropub cuisine. The Union is an aptly named combination of amenities. It has a coffee bar in the back and a sizeable patio area that includes swinging benches, fire pits and games.

Inside, there are a couple of dining rooms and four bathrooms. A person could host one humdinger of a party in a place like this.

I started with a flight of house brews ($12) that included Happy Days IPA, Carson Blonde, The Governor Hefeweizen and Brickhouse Red. The blonde ale was slightly sweet. The wheat beer had a yeasty finish. The IPA a straightforward punch of hops, and the red was noticeably fruity with a background bitterness.

A few friends and I shared Lamb Poutine ($11), hand-cut crispy potato fries covered in braised lamb, cheese curds and grated horseradish root. The Union’s take on the Québécois comfort food of fries, brown gravy and curds is on another level. The gravied lamb was succulent, the melty curds plentiful, and the horseradish finish was fresh and flavorful. My friends had never heard of poutine. I’m a little jealous that this treat was their first experience.

A cast iron crock of roasted beets ($7.50) with crushed pistachio and goat cheese vinaigrette was next. The cubed root vegetables were roasted just to the point of releasing that tender and earthy, somelove-it-some-hate-it sweetness. The nuts added crunch and flavor, and the dressing was sublime.

Burgers are a staple of brewpubs, and the Union’s City Burger ($14) called to me with its grass-fed, local beef with a cajun spice rub, topped with sauteed mushrooms, blue cheese, citrus aioli and arugula and served on a brioche bun. The burger was done medium rare, and it had a ton

The City Burger comes with local beef, sauteed mushrooms, blue cheese, citrus aioli and arugula on a brioche bun.

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of flavor. In hindsight, I kind of wish I’d been able to taste the seasoned half pound patty solo, to appreciate it on its own merits. Combined with all the other stuff, it was pretty intense. My lone quibble would be that the deeply tanned pastry was enormous, providing way more bread than burger.

It looked gorgeous, but was just a bit much. My side of fire roasted tomato soup was seasoned well and tasted quite fresh. It was served piping hot—a hearty complement to the burger.

The Union also serves wood-fired pizzas, and we definitely had to sample that action. These pies start with a very thin, crispy crust with a bit of char, the sign of a super hot oven that means business.

They had great, chewy edges, but the aroma and flavor were reminiscent of English muffins—not bad, just different. This crust was the perfect delivery vehicle for a Fun Guy pizza ($17) with crimini mushroom, mozzarella, balsamic vinegar drizzle and a sunny-side-up egg front and center. It was really tasty, though I don’t know that the egg added much more than dazzle.

The Bee Sting pizza ($15.50) was surprisingly enjoyable with fresh serrano pepper, basil, red onion, salami, mozzarella and honey. It was easily my favorite of the two and definitely the first time I’ve thought that honey made sense with pizza. The sweet stuff was lightly applied, allowing the herbaceous and savory elements to make their marks, and that bite of serrano drove the whole thing home.

The unique crust worked particularly well here, and having enjoyed this sweet, fiery, savory combination, none of us felt compelled to order dessert. Ω

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People gather in downtown Reno to swim in the Truckee River near Wingfield Park.

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Floating the Truckee River has been one of my favorite summertime traditions since college, and like many hobbies I picked up around that time, it usually involves a few drinks. Few activities beat lazily drifting along in the sun, sipping a beer and watching the High Sierra scenery creep by—but there’s a right and wrong way to partake.

Lazy locals have been trashing the Truckee for years now; even a cursory glance at the river’s shallows reveals a vast and disgusting assortment of trash, and alcohol containers are among the most common type of litter.

I went to Wingfield Park to see if any of the visitors there shared my concerns, and found Tony Capone, Jose Gonzalez and Maria Crusita at the end of their float. The three agreed that the amount of trash in the river and park is off-putting.

“There’s a lot of people who don’t give a fuck,” said Capone. “They disrespect, they litter, and they pollute. We’re not with that. If you’re eco-friendly, everyone’s got to have a part in it.”

“It’s disgusting,” added Crusita. “It’s awful. Who wouldn’t want to pick it up?’

I asked them what they did to keep the river clean on their floats, and Capone pointed to a large, sturdy ice-box at his feet containing the empty bottles of Modelo and Corona from the day.

I liked this strategy. A cooler is sturdier than a trash bag, which might easily be lost or ripped in the Truckee’s occasional rough spots. But I would also discourage anyone from bringing glass bottles, the broken shards of which are invisible underwater until stepped on.

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“That’s going to actually provide somebody to come here and clean the place up.”

Capone offered a more direct solution.

“It’s called picking up after yourself,” he said.

“The environment is nice to us, so let’s be nice to the environment.”

I agree that more people need to take ownership over our shared water sources, especially if we value them as places to relax, and, yes, have a drink. From my experience over the years, a little moderation and some conscientious beverage choices can help maintain both a healthy river and buzz.

Bagged wine, known as “goon” to our Australian friends, is easily retrievable should it go overboard, as it floats even when full. Most bags also have a screwtight nozzle, protecting the contents between gulps.

The empty bag can easily be rolled up and stowed in a secure trash container or backpack.

Hydration packs are also a great option for minimizing waste on the river. Emptying a six-pack into a CamelBak on the shore is far more convenient than navigating the occasional rapid with an open can.

The type of floatation device you choose can also have an impact on what you might lose in the water. It’s better to opt for inner tubes with mesh bottoms when possible, as these will provide more of an opportunity to catch items than the flat, slick surface of the everpopular air mattress.

Last year, volunteer clean up crews removed 113,000 pounds of trash and invasive plants from the river. If you float the Truckee this summer, remember ot take your trash with you. Ω

Learn about river cleanup days at the Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful website, www.ktmb.org.

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Joe Kuster, Rade Hendrix, Wolfgang Hendrix and Alex Garcia keep death metal alive and gruesome.

real death Coffin Raid Check out the following song titles: “Obsessed with Morbidity,” “Matter of Decay,” and—last but not least—“Phallic Torment.” These are all songs by the Reno band Coffin Raid. If those titles disgust or disturb you, you might want to steer well clear of Coffin Raid, because the music will likely horrify you.

Coffin Raid is the musical equivalent of a really well done slasher movie. The band’s goal is to take a well-established genre—death metal—and perfectly execute it. (Pun 100 percent intended.)

It’s all here: heavy guitar riffs, growling vocals, squealing guitar solos, blast-beat drums, and gory, horror movie-inspired lyrics.

“They’re morbid and gross,” said vocalist and guitarist Räde Hendrix.

Coffin Raid started as a side project during Hendrix’s previous band, Thünderhead, sort of a Motörhead-plays-thrash rock ’n’ roll band. He had written a few songs that didn’t fit with that band and decided to work on them with his brother, drummer Wölfgang Hendrix. The brothers had never played together, but they had natural musical chemistry.

Eventually, Räde recruited his Thünderhead bandmates guitarist Joe Küster and bassist Alex Gärcia to round out the project. (If the ubiquity of umlauts strikes you as too suspicious to be coincidental, then you’re right. Likewise, the band’s insistence that it’s just a coincidence that the vocalist is a heavy smoker named Räde seems a bit suspect.)

All four members are veterans of the local metal scene. Wölfgang also still plays in the experimental metal band Impurities, and Gärcia recently started playing with the moody post-punk band Plastic Caves.

Coffin Raid’s intense music is cathartic to hear, and probably even more so to play.

Photo/Brad Bynum

“It’s a great outlet, because I’m pretty frustrated and pissed off a lot of the time, and it’s a nice way to release aggression,” Räde said. But, he’s also quick to add: “We don’t take ourselves too seriously.”

Coffin Raid aims to fill a gap in the local market.

“There were no death metal bands in Reno,” Räde said.

“It’s a dying breed of people who like to play it and actually do it right—not like coming in with clean vocals over the funk parts and shit,” Gärcia said. “Just keep it pure. I love that music. That’s what I grew up with—early Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, all that stuff.”

The band members know the history of their subgenre and love to discuss it in great detail—tracing the history of the genre through its commercial peak in the late ’80s.

Gärcia: “Entombed and all those guys were on MTV and started getting real money, and all those labels really tried to pump money into that music, and it just wasn’t popping off, and then the ’90s came and completely disregarded it.”

Küster: “In the mainstream, anyway. In the underground, it was still going—all the good death metal.”

Gärcia: “The whole timeline of death metal is pretty funny to watch, but it is cool now. It’s an exciting time for it.”

Wölfgang: “Death metal renaissance?”

Räde: “I’d go to that fair!”

As DJ Shreddy Van Halen, Räde Hendrix plays records around town and hosts a weekly metal-themed radio show, the Witching Hour, on KWNK Sundays at midnight. He’s the type of guy who, long after a newspaper interview might seem like it’s over, will excitedly exclaim: “Maybe at the end of the thing, last quote, will you put, ‘Only death is real’?” Ω Coffin raid will play at the disinfect music festival, which occurs at a several reno venues July 13-16. Coffin raid will play with Gehenna, Foreseen and drag me under at Shea’s tavern, 715 S. Virginia St., 9 p.m. on July 16, $7.

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THURSDAY 7/12

FRIDAY 7/13

SATURDAY 7/14

5 Star Saloon

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

alIBI alE WorKS

Serena Dawn, 8pm, no cover

Wheelin’ for Westie fundraiser, 5pm, no cover

Cowboy Indian, Spike McGuire, 9pm, no cover

Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 6pm, M, no cover

Bar of amErIca

Guitar Town, 9pm, no cover

Guitar Town, 9pm, no cover

cEol IrISh PuB

Cole Adams, 9pm, no cover

The Midnight Howls, 9pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878 10069 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 536-5029 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-2626 538 S Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

Surf Curse July 13, 8 p.m.

The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858

cottonWood rEStaurant & Bar 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee, (530) 587-5711

davIdSon’S dIStIllEry

Noxious Degradation, Infecto Skeletons, 9pm, no cover

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

facES nv

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

RuPaul’s Drag Race Rerun Viewing Party, Madonna vs. Britney Round 2: drag show, 9pm, no cover Derrick Barry, Kenneth Blake, 10pm, $15

fat cat Bar & GrIll

Karaoke Night, 9pm, no cover

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

Comedy

Szlachetka, 6pm, no cover

fInE vInES WInE Bar

GrEat BaSIn BrEWInG co.

Live music, 7pm, no cover

hEadQuartErS

Pistachio, Green Fields, 8pm, no cover

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-7711 219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020

hEllfIrE Saloon

thE holland ProjEct 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Surf Curse, Lunch Lady, People with Bodies, 8pm, $10-$12

PHF, Wild Wing, Cult Member, KK, 8pm, $5

Versing, 8pm, M, $5 Kitty Kat Fan Club, 8pm, W, $5

Lifecurse, Qarin, Impurities, 9pm, $5

Sacred Owls, 8pm, M, $5 The Deadrones, 8pm, W, $5

The Holophonics, Local Anthology, 9pm, $5

thE junGlE

Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

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

lIvInG thE Good lIfE

Canyon Jam/Open Mic, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover

941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633 1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663

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on’t miss the amazing workshops, children’s camps, theater performances, music, dance and exploring nature and art at our many parks with the programming at each individual location. Some hidden jewels for the upcoming week are

Destination Dance July 12 at 6 PM; 6:20 PM, 6:40 PM and 7 PM. This unique and free site specific dance tour takes you through downtown. Meet at Reno City Plaza (Space Whale). For more information visit www.ddcreno.com

Looking for Fun Art and Painting for kids? Your child will enjoy creating and painting while expanding their artistic development in this four week workshop series (July 14,21,28 and 8/4-ticketed). For information and reservations email adriana.neighbors@ gmail.com, or call 775.223.3656. Workshops at the Neil Road Recreation Center.

Music at Trinity Cathedral. Angela Kraft Cross on the Casavant Pipe Organ 7PM Free.

July 12. View a listing of other free concerts at Trinity Cathedral visit www.trinityreno.org.

July 16 experience the ware through women veterans as they share their personal stories at the VA Sierra Healthcare System. Free 9AM – 1PM. 95 Kirman. 775.786.7100

Don’t miss the Virtual Reality Experience – A Reno Street Art gallery. July 17th at 6 PM or 7 PM. Reservations requested RenoStreetArt.unr.edu.

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Visit artown.org for a full calendar listing of events.

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

lauGhInG PlanEt cafE

Beth’s PICKs 12-22

3 4 5

DULCE, 10pm, $TBA

DJ All Good Funk Alliance, 8pm, no cover

Cash’d Out, 9pm, $12

Artown Voice

1 2

Hellbound Glory, 9pm, no cover

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

juB juB’S thIrSt Parlor 246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

Guitar Town, 6pm, W, no cover

Dane Rinehart, 8pm, no cover

3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

71 S. Wells Ave., Reno, (775) 384-1652

Traditional Irish Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Stand-Up Comedy, 7pm, no cover

artown

The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: John Caponera, Jason Lawhead, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25, Sat, 8pm, 10pm, $30 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Jim Florentine, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sun, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Eleanor Kerrigan, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Darren Carter, Fri, 6:30pm, $15 The Library, 134 W. Second St., (775) 683-3308: Open Mic Comedy with host Jim Flemming, Sun, 9:30pm, no cover Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Darren Carter, Thu, 8pm, $12-$17; Fri, 9pm, $14-$19, Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $14-$19

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Panda, 9pm, no cover Dave Mensing, 7pm, no cover

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

SUNDAY 7/15

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1021 Heavenly Village Way, S.L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024

THURSDAY 7/12

FRIDAY 7/13

SATURDAY 7/14

SUNDAY 7/15

MON-WED 7/16-7/18

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

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

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

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

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $21-$46

The LoVING CUP

Basha, Grimedog, 9pm, Tu, $5

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

MIdTowN wINe Bar

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

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

MILLeNNIUM

BINGO Tuesdays with T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover

Arizona Jones, 8:30pm, no cover Dareyes de la Sierra, Banda Salvaje, 10pm, $TBA

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

DJ Spryte

Moody’s BIsTro, Bar & BeaTs

Moody’s 14th Annual Jazz Artists in Residence, 8pm, no cover

Paddy & IreNe’s IrIsh PUB

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions, 8pm, no cover

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

Shaun Kama & The Kings of the Wild Frontier, Cowboy Indian, 7pm, $10-$20

Franks & Deans, 8pm, no cover

Caleb Caudle, Glynn Osburn, Matt Bushman, 7pm, Tu, $5

The PoLo LoUNGe

DJ Bobby G!, 8pm, no cover

Ladies Summer Nights with DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

Whiskey Preachers, 8pm, M, no cover Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

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

906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 750-2253

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

PoNderosa saLooN

Moody’s 14th Annual Jazz Artists in Residence, 8pm, no cover

Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

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

Moody’s 14th Annual Jazz Artists in Residence, 8pm, no cover

Live music, 8pm, no cover

red doG saLooN

Open Mic with Greg Lynn, 7pm, W, no cover

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

The saINT

Sadist, A Boy Named John, Impurities, 7pm, Tu, $5

Mojo Green, Lounge on Fire, 8pm, $TBA

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

shea’s TaVerN

715 S. Virginia St, Reno, (775) 786-4774

Amarok, Graveshadow, Scuzzard, Adhdod, The Scattering, 9pm, $7

Deathgrave, Choke, TomHanks, Dissidence, Hostage, 9pm, $7

sT. JaMes INfIrMary

Guest DJs, 9pm, no cover

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

ToNIC LoUNGe

washoe CaMP saLooN

Brother Dan Palmer, 7pm, no cover

3155 Eastlake Blvd., New Washoe City, (775) 470-8128

whIskey dICks

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., S.L. Tahoe, (530) 544-3425 17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

Gehenna, Foreseen, 8pm, M, $7 The Weirdos, 8pm, Tu, $18-$20

The Infamous Stingdusters

Eli Wilkie, Threofourz, Erik Lobe, 10pm, no cover

231 W. Second St., (775) 337-6868-

wILd rIVer GrILLe

July 14, 10 p.m.

Peppermill 2707 S. Virginia St. 826-2121

Eric Stangeland, 6:30pm, no cover

Alex “Muddy” Smith, 6:30pm, no cover

Road Daddies, 7pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 6pm, Tu, no cover

Green Fields, Pistachio, 9pm, no cover

Open mic, 9pm, M, no cover

Eric Stangeland, 6:30pm, no cover

Mel Wade & Gia, 2pm, no cover Tyler Stafford, 6:30pm, no cover

Tyler Stafford, 6:30pm, M, no cover Brother Dan, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover

July 17-18, 11 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe 15 Highway 50 Stateline (775) 427-7247

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Boomtown CAsino

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

CARson VAlley inn

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) TJ’s Corral 2) Cabaret

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe

THURSDAY 7/12

FRIDAY 7/13

SATURDAY 7/14

SUNDAY 7/15

MON-WED 7/16-7/18

2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 7pm, $12 2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover Two Way Street, 10pm, no cover

2) Two Way Street, 8pm, no cover

2) All In, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) David Lewis, 6pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Stephen Lord, 6pm, Tu, no cover Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Rye Brothers, 7pm, no cover

2) Rye Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Rye Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) John Palmore, 6pm, no cover

2) John Palmore, M, 6pm, no cover Jamie Rollins, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

2) Roger That! & Chango, 10pm, no cover

1) Eric Johnson, 9pm, $25-$30 2) DJ Rusty B, micah, 11:30pm, no cover

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

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

1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95

1) Dylan Scott, 8pm, $19.50-$75

1) Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, 9pm, $49-$119 3) Carolyn Dolan, 6pm, no cover

1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37

1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37

CRystAl BAy CAsino

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

July 17-18, 11 p.m.

MontBleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (775) 588-3515

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345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

GRAnd sieRRA ResoRt

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Crystal Lounge

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219 N. Center St., (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge 3) Plaza

Farah & Sons, 1446 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 499-5799: Karaoke, Sat, 9pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Fri, 9pm, 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

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

1) Solid Gold Soul, 8pm, $24-$38

montBleu ResoRt

55 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515 1) Showroom 2) Blu 3) Opal 1) Big Mo & The Full Moon Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Katchafire, En Young, Imperial Sound, 10pm, $20-$25

2) Tommy Lee, DJ Aero, 10pm, $30-$35

1) Big Mo & The Full Moon Band, 8pm, no cover 2) Latin Dance Social, 7pm, $10-$20

1) Big Mo & The Full Moon Band, 8pm, no cover 2) DJ Spryte, 10pm, $20

sAnds ReGenCy CAsino Hotel 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200

silVeR leGACy ResoRt CAsino 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Expo Hall 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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Wednesday Night Blues Pool Party: Rick Hammond, 6pm, W, no cover

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Please do not bring glass, alcohol, tobacco, animals, high-back chairs or coolers to the shows.

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FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 12, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

MAKING SPACE ART: Join an artist, scientist, flight director and musician to explore the exciting nexus of creativity and space. Watch the film Seeing narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Sketch spaceships with Challenger Center flight directors. Make your own astronaut-inspired moonscapes. Sat, 7/14, 9:30am. $12. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300, www.nevadachallenger.org.

RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer

team plays Monarcas Morelia. Sat, 7/14, 7:30pm. $30-$150. Greater Nevada Field,

250 Evans Ave., www.reno1868fc.com.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball

JUL/14:

REAWAKENING THE GREAT BASIN: A NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURAL GATHERING

The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony joins the Nevada Museum of Art to celebrate Native American art, culture, community and tradition. Presented as part of the NMA’s monthly Second Saturday series, the event will feature a variety of Native American artists, dancers, storytellers and musicians sharing traditional and contemporary culture and art from a variety of tribes. The gathering brings together a variety of Native American cultural traditions, while also celebrating contemporary interpretations rooted in those traditions. Numerous performing artists will demonstrate a variety of dances and song, including the traditional Grindstone Patwin Dancers, Pala Band of Mission Indians from Southern California, Owens Valley Paiute War Dancers, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Pow Wow Club, Hoop Dancing by Sage Romero and Eagle Wings Pageant Dancers. Other highlights include basket weaving, creation of tule duck decoys, hand game demonstrations, storytellers, hands-on art projects, gallery talks and Indian tacos. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org.

EVENTS 39 NORTH MARKETPLACE: This familyfriendly street fair features fresh produce from local and regional farmers, arts and crafts, live cooking demos by local celebrity chefs, seminars, live music and creative and educational activities for kids. Thu, 7/12, 4pm. Free.

Downtown Sparks, Victorian Avenue and 10th Street, Sparks, (775) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.

AMERICAN CENTURY CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT 2018: The tournament is a 54-hole modified Stableford format that features some of sports’ and entertainment’s top celebrities. The tournament and raises funds for local and national charities. The event features a record purse of $600,000.

Public parking is located in the casino parking lots or along Lake Parkway. Thu, 7/12-Sun, 7/15. $20-$70. Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, 180 Lake Parkway, Stateline, americancenturychampionship.com.

ART, WINE & MUSIC FESTIVAL: The festival features live, fine art booths and exhibits and wine tasting from 2-5pm. All proceeds from the event benefit Achieve Tahoe. Sat, 7/14-Sun, 7/15, 11am-5pm. Free admission. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

ART PAWS: Artown’s 18th annual dogfriendly arts festival brings together local vendors, artists and animal aid organizations. There will be live music, food trucks and a beer garden, as well as canine contests and a paw art station.

All proceeds from the event will benefit four local non-profit pet organizations.

Sun, 7/15, 10am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 722-9914, www.artpawsreno.com.

BUTTERFLY COUNT: Explore a 15-mile diameter count circle in South Lake Tahoe and conduct a one-day census of all butterflies sighted within that circle.

Butterfly enthusiasts of all ages are welcome. Sun, 7/15, 9am. Free. Alpina Coffee, 822 Emerald Bay Road, Incline Village., www.tinsweb.org.

team plays the Tacoma Rainiers. Mon, 7/16-Wed, 7/18, 7:05pm. $9-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 3347000, www.milb.com/reno.

RENO CHALK ART FESTIVAL: Using pavement for canvas, chalk artists create masterpieces at the third annual festival. The three-day event offers food for sale, live entertainment, crafts and more. Fri, 7/13-Sun, 7/15, 10am. Free admission. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700.

RENO SUPERHERO CRAWL: Dress up as your favorite superhero or villain and purchase a crawl cup and map to get free entry and $3 drink specials at 20 participating bars. All proceeds from the pub crawl go to buy supplies for local schools through Donorschoose.org. Sat, 7/14, 7pm. $5. Harrah’s Reno Plaza, 219 N. Center St., (775) 232-7382, www.facebook. com/superherocrawl.

SASSABRATION 2018: The fourth annual fundraiser features a drag race bike ride, live music and festivities. Proceeds from the event will go to PFLAG Carson Region, the Ron Wood Family Resource Center and Transgender Allies Group.

Sat, 7/14, noon-8pm. Sassafras, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road, Carson City, (775) 8844471, sassafrascarsoncity.com.

SUNRISE TAVERN: The mountaintop gathering features more than 20 hours of live bands and DJs on two stages, food trucks, beer garden, art cars, aerialists, lights, fire art and live painting. The main stage is at 8,000 feet, so dress warm for the late night. Proceeds raised benefit the kids’ ski program at Sky Tavern. Sat, 7/14-Sun, 7/15. $25-$35. Sky Tavern, 21130 Sky Tavern Road, sunrisetavern. brownpapertickets.com.

TRUCKEE TAHOE AIR SHOW: The familyfriendly event offers a world-class air show with world-renowned aerobatic performers. Sat, 7/14, 9am-4pm. Free admission. Truckee-Tahoe Airport, 10356 Truckee Airport Road, Truckee, truckeetahoeairshow.com.

YART SALE: Connections, a local artist collective, holds its 16th annual art sale offering watercolor, oil, and acrylic paintings, collage, jewelry, sculpture, handmade paper goods, note cards, mixed media, pottery, baskets and more.

Twenty percent of all sales benefit Arts for All Nevada’s programs. Sat, 7/14, 9am-4pm. Free. 1420 Mt. Rose St., (775) 358-5149, www.artsforallnevada.org.

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BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA WITH PAUL THORN:

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM: Ancient Roman slave Pseudolus

The five-time Grammy award-winning gospel icons the Blind Boys of Alabama team up with singer-songwriter Paul Thorn for this concert blending rock, gospel, blues and country. Thu, 7/12, 7:30pm. $25-$50. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 322-1538, artown.org.

schemes to win his freedom by helping his young master Hero win the beautiful courtesan Philia, who is betrothed to the egotistical soldier Miles Gloriosus, in this musical farce with music and lyrics

by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Geibart. Thu, 7/12Sat, 7/14, 7:30pm; Sun, 7/15, 2pm. $12-$25.

Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

CULTURAL CONNECTIONS—RICARDO LEMVO: Lemvo’s music blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with pan-African styles. Wed, 7/18, 7:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538.

ALADDIN JR.: Theatre Works of Northern Nevada presents its production based on the Disney’s 1992 Academy Awardwinning, animated film and the 2014 hit Broadway show. Fri, 7/13, 7pm; Sat, 7/14, 2pm & 7pm. $10-$12. Destiny Community Center, 255 Bell St., artown.org.

POPS ON THE RIVER: Craig Meyer will perform as Elton John in Remember When Rock Was Young: The Elton John Tribute, accompanied by the Reno Philharmonic. Sat, 7/14, 5pm. $55.

Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., renophil.com.

A.V.A. BALLET THEATRE’S VORTEX: The rock ballet features classical ballet performed to popular rock and contemporary music. Fri, 7/13-Sat, 7/14, 8:30pm. Free. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, avaballet.com.

REMEMBER JONES: The soul/pop singer, storyteller and bandleader performs as part of Levitt AMP Carson City. Sat, 7/14, 7pm. Free. Minnesota Street Stage, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

BUD PERRY’S THE UNTAMED: The show consists of 99, all-original short plays that are fast-paced, unrated and entirely written by the cast. Only 33 plays are performed each night, but in a random order determined by the audience. There will be a post-show opening night champagne reception on July 13. The matinee on July 15 is followed by a talk back with the company and the audience. Fri, 7/13-Sat, 7/14, 8pm; Sun, 7/15, 2pm; Wed, 7/18, 8pm. $18-$25, $10 on July 18. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, bruka.org.

ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER: Scott Pemberton Band and Silver performs as part of the Reno News & Review’s 23rd annual summer music series. Fri, 7/13, 5:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 324-4440.

SAMBADA: The band musically unites the Americas and Africa, drawing from percussion based styles of South and Central America and Senegal, and blends it with funk, rock and reggae backbeat. Wed, 7/18, 5pm. $18. Valhalla Grand Hall Lawn, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, valhallatahoe.com.

DESTINATION DANCE: Local choreographers

SIDEWALK CHALK: The Chicago-based ensemble blends elements of jazz, funk, hip-hop and R&B. Sun, 7/15, 7:30pm. Free.

Brasserie Saint James, 901 S. Center St., (775) 322-1538, artown.org.

SONIA DE LOS SANTOS: The Mexican singer performs original songs, Latin American party tunes and new bilingual versions of American classics. There will be children’s art activities at 6pm, followed by the performance at 7pm. Mon, 7/16, 6pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, artown.org.

THE PLAY ABOUT A DICK: A middle-aged

TUMBLEDOWN HOUSE: The San Francisco band fuses vintage sounds and themes from yesteryear with modern instrumentation, original compositions and raw energy. Mon, 7/16, 7:30pm. Free.

Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 322-1538, artown.org.

YOLO MAMBO: The Sacramento band blends rhythms from Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Senegal, Cape Verde, France, Spain, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States. Sun, 7/15, 1pm. Free. Valhalla Grand Hall Lawn, 1 Valhalla Drive, South Lake Tahoe, valhallatahoe.com.

take traditional and contemporary dance off the stage and into a whole new environment. Featuring urban and natural sites located in downtown Reno, this walking-distance dance tour will allow audience members a unique engagement with dance while viewing some of Reno’s most treasured locations. Tour groups depart from the Reno City Plaza at 6pm, 6:20pm, 6:40pm and 7pm. The tour route will be about one mile. Thu, 7/12, 6pm. Free. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., ddcreno.com.

woman, Enid, meets a younger man online for sex. But what starts as a simple rendezvous becomes a darkly comedic exploration of vulnerability, intimacy and empathy. After an unpredictable reaction, things become chaotic for Enid as her life gradually spirals outward. Aaron Wilton’s play examines themes of communication, guilt, kindness, solitude, gender roles, human connection, post-truth reality and existential vacuity. It’s also a play about a dick. Thu, 7/12-Sat, 7/14, 7:30pm; Sun, 7/15, 2pm; Wed, 7/18, 7:30pm. $18-$20.

Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

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by AMY ALKON

Weed better get some Febreze I’m sober, but my boyfriend smokes pot. I’m fine with that, but I don’t want him smoking in the house. He says it’s his house, too, so I’m not being fair. Plus, it is cold in the rural area where we live and rains a lot, so he’d have to put on a jacket, go on the porch, etc., to smoke. I get it, but I hate the smell, and I don’t want to go to 12-step meetings smelling like weed. That’s just not right. Help.

Your taking care not to show up all “I just took a bath in Chanel No. 420!” at 12-step meetings —lest you trigger any recovering potheads—is what I call “empathy in action.”

Empathy—caring about how your behavior affects others—is at the root of manners.

Rudeness, on the other hand, is the lack of consideration for what one’s behavior does to another person. It’s a form of theft—theft of “valuable intangibles like people’s attention (in the case of cell phone shouters who privatize public space as their own).” In this case, there’s the theft of your reputation in a group that’s an integral part of your life—and maybe even of your sobriety.

Somebody reading this might make the argument, “Ha, dummy— wouldn’t empathy involve her caring about how her ‘no toking in the house’ thing affects her boyfriend?” Well, yes. But, generally speaking, the person whose behavior changes an environment— in negative ways for others in it—is the one who needs to bear the burden of whatever they’re doing.

This is why considerate people have long asked others, “Mind if I smoke?”—rather than expecting others to ask, “Mind if I breathe?”

And let’s have a look at the level of “burden” here: Oh, boohoo, might your boyfriend sometimes have to put on a parka to smoke some weed?

Put both arms into the sleeves and everything? You could try to fire up some empathy in Pol Pot-head by explaining that coming into 12-step meetings smelling like you just smoked a bowl is embarrassing on the level of strolling in swigging from a big bottle of Jim Beam.

You might also consider whether his stubbornness on this points to a bigger issue—a general lack of

generosity and/or interest in your happiness. We are self-interested mofos, but when we love somebody, we’ll often set aside our immediate self-interest and do what’s best for them. And because we love them, it ultimately benefits us to benefit them. And then there’s your boyfriend, all “Honey, you’ll just need to stand outside a window and participate in your meeting from there: ‘Hi, my name is Belinda, and I’m an alcoholic ... who’s about to be mauled by a bear.’”

Angry bards I’m tired of being angry at my ex-boyfriend. My best friend suggested I write an email to him, saying everything I want to say, but send it to her instead.

It seemed like a bad idea, delving into those feelings even more, but I did it anyway. Miraculously, I felt much better afterward. A fluke?

Psychologist James Pennebaker finds that writing about upsetting events in our lives can act as a sort of mental crime scene cleanup—in a way that simply thinking about these events or venting emotions does not.

Pennebaker theorizes that the process of organizing your thoughts to write them down coherently leads you to reinterpret and make sense out of what happened, thus diminishing the power of the events to keep upsetting you. Accordingly, Pennebaker’s research suggests you could speed your healing by using what I’d call “explainer” words, such as “because” or “caused”—as well as insight words like “understand” and “realize.”

The research also suggests it may help to do this writing thing more than once. So you might want to keep hammering out those emails about him as long as you continue to have strong feelings about him. 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 July 12, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your key theme right

now is growth. Let’s dig in and analyze its nuances. 1. Not all growth is good for you. It may stretch you too far too fast—beyond your capacity to integrate and use it. 2. Some growth that is good for you doesn’t feel good to you. It might force you to transcend comforts that are making you stagnant, and that can be painful.

3. Some growth that’s good for you may meet resistance from people close to you; they might prefer you to remain just as you are, and may even experience your growth as a problem. 4.

Some growth that isn’t particularly good for you may feel pretty good. For instance, you could enjoy working to improve a capacity or skill that is irrelevant to your long-term goals. 5. Some growth is good for you in some ways, and not so good in other ways. You have to decide if the trade-off is worth it. 6. Some growth is utterly healthy for you, feels pleasurable, and inspires other people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can’t sing with

someone else’s mouth, Taurus. You can’t sit down and settle into a commanding new power spot with someone else’s butt. Capiche? I also want to tell you that it’s best if you don’t try to dream with someone else’s heart, nor should you imagine you can fine-tune your relationship with yourself by pushing someone else to change. But here’s an odd fact: You can enhance your possibility for success by harnessing or borrowing or basking in other people’s luck. Especially in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You wouldn’t attempt to

cure a case of hiccups by repeatedly smacking your head against a wall, right? You wouldn’t use an anti-tank rocket launcher to eliminate the mosquito buzzing around your room, and you wouldn’t set your friend’s hair on fire as a punishment for arriving late to your rendezvous at the café. So don’t overreact to minor tweaks of fate, my dear Gemini. Don’t over-medicate tiny disturbances. Instead, regard the glitches as learning opportunities. Use them to cultivate more patience, expand your tolerance, and strengthen your character.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I pay tribute to your

dizzying courage, you wise fool. I stage-whisper “Congratulations!” as you slip away from your hypnotic routine and wander out to the edge of mysterious joy. With a crazy grin of encouragement and my fist pressed against my chest, I salute your efforts to transcend your past. I praise and exalt you for demonstrating that freedom is never permanent but must be reclaimed and reinvented on a regular basis.

I cheer you on as you avoid every temptation to repeat yourself, demean yourself, and chain yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m feeling a bit helpless

as I watch you messing with that bad but good stuff that is so wrong but right for you. I am rendered equally inert as I observe you playing with the strong but weak stuff that’s interesting but probably irrelevant. I fidget and sigh as I monitor the classy but trashy influence that’s angling for your attention; and the supposedly fast-moving process that’s creeping along so slowly; and the seemingly obvious truth that would offer you a much better lesson if only you would see it for the chewy riddle that it is.

What should I do about my predicament? Is there any way I can give you a boost? Maybe the best assistance I can offer is to describe to you what I see.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Psychologist Paul

Ekman has compiled an extensive atlas of how emotions are revealed in our faces. “Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions,” he has written, “much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because your assignment in the coming weeks—should you choose to accept it—is to explore and experiment with your entire repertoire of smiles. I’m confident that life will conspire to help you carry out this task. More than at any time since your birthday in 2015, this is the season for unleashing your smiles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lucky vibes are coalescing in your vicinity. Scouts and recruiters are

hovering. Helpers, fairy godmothers, and future playmates are growing restless waiting for you to ask them for favors. Therefore, I hereby authorize you to be imperious, regal, and overflowing with self-respect. I encourage you to seize exactly what you want, not what you’re “supposed” to want. Or else be considerate, appropriate, modest, and full of harmonious caution. CUT! CUT! Delete that “be considerate” sentence. The Libra part of me tricked me into saying it. And this is one time when people of the Libra persuasion are allowed to be free from the compulsion to balance and moderate.

You have a mandate to be the show, not watch the show.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Emily Dickinson wrote

1,775 poems—an average of one every week for 34 years. I’d love to see you launch an enduring, deep-rooted project that will require similar amounts of stamina, persistence, and dedication. Are you ready to expand your vision of what’s possible for you to accomplish? The current astrological omens suggest that the next two months will be an excellent time to commit yourself to a Great Work that you will give your best to for the rest of your long life!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What’s the biggest lie in my life? There are several candidates.

Here’s one: I pretend I’m nonchalant about one of my greatest failures; I act as if I’m not distressed by the fact that the music I’ve created has never received the listenership it should it have. How about you, Sagittarius? What’s the biggest lie in your life? What’s most false or dishonest or evasive about you? Whatever it is, the immediate future will be a favorable time to transform your relationship with it. You now have extraordinary power to tell yourself liberating truths. Three weeks from now, you could be a more authentic version of yourself than you’ve ever been.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now and then you

go through phases when you don’t know what you need until you stumble upon it. At times like those, you’re wise not to harbor fixed ideas about what you need or where to hunt for what you need. Metaphorically speaking, a holy grail might show up in a thrift store. An eccentric stranger may provide you with an accidental epiphany at a bus stop or a convenience store.

Who knows? A crucial clue may even jump out at you from a spam email or a reality TV show.

I suspect that the next two weeks might be one of those odd grace periods for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Reverse psychol-

ogy” is when you convince people to do what you wish they would do by shrewdly suggesting that they do the opposite of what you wish they would do. “Reverse censorship” is when you write or speak the very words or ideas that you have been forbidden to express. “Reverse cynicism” is acting like it’s chic to express glee, positivity, and enthusiasm. “Reverse egotism” is bragging about what you don’t have and can’t do. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out all these reversals, as well as any other constructive or amusing reversals you can dream up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Emily Dickinson once revealed to a friend that there was only one Commandment she ever obeyed: “Consider the Lilies.” Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki told his English-speaking students that the proper Japanese translation for “I love you” is Tsuki ga tottemo aol naa, which literally means “The moon is so blue tonight.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m advising you to be inspired by Dickinson and Sōseki. More than any other time in 2018, your duty in the coming weeks is to be lyrical, sensual, aesthetic, imaginative and festively non-literal.

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 DENNis MYERs

Reveille sounds again

publication. It’s got information on historic sites and buildings in each issue, stories about the town and the area. It’s available in motels—for guests coming in—and restaurants and shops around town. There is a book store in one of the shops, the Trading Post.

Eric Moody

How did this come to pass?

The fact that we—Nevada in the West Publishing—are publishing the Reese River Reveille is sort of a fluke. About five years ago, Edward Slagle came to me to find out if I was interested in acquiring the trade name of the Reveille. So I acquired that. … And we

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Since retiring as a Nevada Historical Society staffer, author Eric Moody has tried different projects to promote Nevada’s history, including publishing Nevada in the West magazine for eight years with historical community colleagues. Back in mid20th century Nevada, residents would sometimes encounter copies of the Reese River Reveille, published in Austin, Nevada, and bearing the then-slogan “Nevada’s oldest continuously published newspaper.” Other than the Territorial Enterprise, it was probably Nevada’s best known frontier newspaper. But after 130 years, the Reveille finally folded.

Recently, Austin residents were jolted to see the Reveille’s reappearance.

had to do something to keep the trade name alive. So we came up with reviving the Reveille as a tourist-oriented publication, just twice a year now, maybe a little more often later on.

Everybody in our company’s interested in Nevada history, and we hope that besides doing something of interest to us, that it benefits the community our there in Austin.

How long did the Reveille publish?

It was continuously from 1863, the first years in Austin, to 1993. It varied from daily to weekly some of that time, but it came out on a regular schedule.

What utility does putting it out twice a year serve other than keeping the trademark current?

When you say it could go more frequent, what decides that?

We just have to see what the reception is. Obviously, people in Austin like it, but Austin is a very small place these days, and we have to see how it appeals to tourists coming through Austin or along that U.S. 50 corridor, if there is an interest. We could go to three to four times a year. I don’t realistically expect to see it more frequently than that.

How do you suppose it stayed going as long as it did? Austin has been a very small town for a very long time. How did it stay alive in the ’60s, for example?

Well, Austin was still a county seat.

They lost the county seat in 1979—but up until that time, it was the seat of Lander County and with all of the government and legal notices and all of that, even though the population of Austin was quite small, being the county seat, the newspaper was able to survive. Ω

Well, I have to admit that was our main concern. But it seems to be welcome in Austin, and, as I said, it’s a tourist

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

What conservatives didn’t do Some friends lately have been asking—Are you OK? Have you flipped your wig? Is your blood pressure stable? Have you run out of Xanax?

Must you now drop 13 F-bombs per column? Well, yes, yes, yes, yes and—yeah, pretty much!

The point should be made that were this just the normally lame, putrid, crummy Republican asshat administration, like a Reagan or a Bush the First, it would not be that big of a deal.

Hell, I might even be able to mix in occasional columns about electric cars and singing sand dunes and high quality pastries and so forth. But this, as so many of us in the media like to endlessly point out, is not a normal time! Which leads to weekly raves of various screechy stridencies, and I’m sure you understand.

And, gee, how positively super that Dum Dum can nominate a guy who will then rule to prevent his

future indictment? Is this a great country or what?

So a lot of blue excitement was generated recently in a New York City U.S. House district as newbie Alexandria Ocasio Cortez beat a long time incumbent Dem heavy hitter. That’s all well and good, and she’s indeed a dynamic and exciting new face. (Bernie Lives!) But look at the voting numbers. You know what percentage of registered Dems in her district showed up to vote in that primary? 11.8 percent. That’s it. Pitiful. Fucking pitiful. If there’s gonna be a Blue Wave, we better do better than that. A lot better.

Speaking of liberals getting off their asses, maybe this will remind us what it’s all about. It’s from an episode of The West Wing, and it’s a soliloquy given by Jimmy Smits’ character Matt Santos from an episode called “The Debate” written by Lawrence O’Donnell.

“Republicans have tried to turn liberal into a bad word. Well, liberals ended slavery in this country. ... Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things. Every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet—Liberal—as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.”

Absofuckinlutely. Ω

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