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All work and no playa Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m not going to Burning Man this year. In fact, I haven’t been to Burning Man since 2009, nearly a decade ago. And it’s certainly not that I wouldn’t want to go. If you were to show up here at the RN&R office, 760 Margrave Drive, and hand me a ticket and say, “Here’s a free ticket, no strings attached. You don’t even need to write about it,” I’d probably get on the phone right away to find a babysitter and start making plans.

(Hint, hint.)

But it’s just such a massive undertaking to find a ticket and make arrangements to get out there—an undertaking that’s especially difficult to arrange with parenting and academic obligations alongside the professional ones.

I had a great conversation recently with Adrian Roberts, publisher and editor of BRC Weekly, Burning Man’s sort of alt-weekly newspaper and former publisher-editor of Piss Clear, an extra snarky version of the same concept. You can read part of that conversation on page 31 and a longer version up on our website, www.newsreview.com/reno.

One thing we talked about that’s not in the print version is this: Like most alternative weeklies, the RN&R’s focus is hyper-local. For the first two decades of Burning Man, we covered the event more than just about anyone. But in the last few years, the event has become more international than ever. So we’ve actually covered it less.

In that time, the Reno Gazette Journal has increased its Burning Man coverage. The RGJ, as you’re probably aware, is a Gannett paper. They do very little local arts coverage because they want instead to write stories that get picked up by the whole USA Today network. And what people around the country and around the world want to read about is Burning Man. Still, it’s not exactly a local story anymore.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsrev i ew . com

Best of letters Re “Best of Northern Nevada” (cover story, Aug. 10): Thanks for giving Laika Press an editors’ choice award for “Best art class”!

That means so much! I did want to clarify something, however. I have been credited as leading the group and heading up founding the press multiple times in the RN&R, but I have no more participation than anyone else.

The group is made up of Hannah Huntley, Elijah Lyons, Ray Mueller, Fiona McElhany, Ally Messer, Summer Orr, Erin Carter, Erin Wohletz (who just moved away for her MFA), and myself.

I’ve been credited as the lead member multiple times in articles about Laika Press, and would like to clearly state that my role in Laika Press is no more than anyone else’s. Please don’t credit me more than anyone else. It’s becoming difficult to explain to everyone.

Thanks again for providing us with publicity!

Nathaniel Benjamin Reno Re “Best of Northern Nevada” (cover story, Aug. 10): Best place to shoot? The desert.

It should have been: Best place to shoot and start a fire? The desert.

John Fisher Reno

Anecdotes at the ready Re “California’s prosperity scares Adam Laxalt” (Left Foot Forward, ug. 9): California prosperity? Are you kidding? They can’t even clean up the streets of San Francisco of human excrement and used hypodermic needles. Has Ms. Leslie been to central California lately? Tents in people’s yards. Back alleys used as toilets. The countryside of orange trees and grape vines are littered Leslie, Josie Glassberg, Eric Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Luka Starmer, Bruce Van Dyke, Ashley Warren, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare.

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with plastic bags and human waste.

Food trucks routinely dump their waste products on back roads. It looks a lot like Mexico (not known for their environmental concern). It has been a long time since I have read an article so disconnected with reality.

Stephen Bloyd Carson City

Bad day So, you’d “Rather be Russian than Democrat,” huh? At least that would certainly explain why you are the red party.

Well, after an almost six decade case of the most rampant blue-balls, it’s finally come to this—you just handed us the obvious cure, and it’s about fargin’ time!

Hey, Retrumplicans! America. Love it or leave it! Now bye bye, you stoopid sonsabitches ... and dosvedonya! (Sure hope your Russian is better than mine.

LMAO!) Say? Ya don’t think there’s any sexual overtones here, do ya? I sure hope not, but then who am I to look a gift-ass in the pee-wee? Now get packing peckerwoods! Enjoy your stay. Try the canvas toilet paper—you deserve it.

Democratically speaking, Marc Hogue Washoe Valley

Corrections Re “Best of Northern Nevada 2018” (cover story, Aug. 9): After publication of our annual Best of Northern Nevada readers’ poll results, several missing categories came to our attention. The following categories and winners were missing: • Best tattoo parlor: Aces Tattoo, 675 S. Virginia St., 333-0915 • Best creative writer: Mikalee Byerman

Advertising Consultant Myranda Keeley, Paegan Magner Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Bob Christensen Distribution Drivers Alex Barskyy, Corey Sigafoos, Gary White, Joe Wilson, O.C. Gillham, Marty Troye, Timothy Fisher, Vicki Jewell, Olga Barska, Rosie Martinez President/CEO Jeff VonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Project Coordinator Natasha VonKaenel Director of People & Culture David Stogner Director of Dollars & Sense Debbie Mantoan Nuts & Bolts Ninja Norma Huerta Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Hansen

Accounts Receivable Specialist Analie Foland Sweetdeals Coordinator Skyler Morris Developer John Bisignano System Support Specialist Kalin Jenkins N&R Publications Editor Michelle Carl N&R Publications Associate Editor Laura Hillen N&R Publications Writer Anne Stokes, Rodney Orosco Marketing & Publications Consultants Steve Caruso, Joseph Engle, Elizabeth Morabito, Traci Hukill, Celeste Worden Cover Design Sarah Hansel Cover Photo Radar image by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Ratumfahrt (DLR).

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• Best dance instructor: Marla Richardson • Best dentist: Dr. Jason Sala • Best elementary teacher: Levi Watson • Best photographer: Jeramie Lu Our apologies to the winners of these categories who were not included in the print edition of this year’s Best of Northern Nevada. These first place winners and the runners-up can be found online on our website at https://bit. ly/2vSVBoE.

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by JERI CHADWELL

Best year of Burning Man? askeD at tHe generator, 1240 iceHouse ave., sparks

Dustony HigHtower Inventor

My first year, because it made me so proud of Reno. I had no idea what Reno had going on until I went out and realized, “Oh, my god, we host the biggest party on Earth.” So it made me very proud of my hometown.

r aven vogel Artist/wire sculptor

This year’s going to be the best, because I’m on a big art project.

This is “Eye Robot” in Center Camp. I’ve been three years to the actual Burn—but all sorts of regionals and music festivals.

MicHael Heltebr ake Painter/carpenter

Burn notice Lee Gilmore was a member of “Media Mecca,” Burning Man’s media relations team. In the Sept. 2, 1999 issue of Black Rock Gazette, a now-defunct Burning Man publication, she wrote about Media Mecca’s goal of “initiating” journalists at the event by encouraging them to engage rather than spectate. The objective, she wrote, was “to introduce media to the magic of Burning Man” and “to educate media and participants about the media’s role.”

That year, Burning Man attracted around 10,000 people—about one seventh the number who attended last year. But the organization’s relationship with the press was already complicated and contentious—understandably so. Burning Man lends itself to shallow coverage of party antics and salacious photos of scantily costumed bodies, something upon which many people have tried to cash in.

In 2002, Burning Man sued Voyeur Video, a company that had been filming naked women at the event and selling the videos on a website. Voyeur Video’s owner, Jim O’Brien, responded in a CNN interview, “We just shoot what goes on. … Consider us a news company.”

To stop just anyone with a camera or video recorder from claiming to be a journalist, the Burning Man organization has, for the last 20 years, issued press passes. On the festival’s website, a page dedicated to archiving coverage acknowledges the media’s “large role in sharing Burning Man culture with the world,” adding the caveat of “for better or worse, depending on the accuracy of the coverage.”

As the festival grew, so did Media Mecca.

Photographers, documentarians and journalists must now

submit media proposals well in advance of the event and may be prohibited from pursuing those projects if they don’t receive approval from Media Mecca. And the Burning Man organization’s concerns with media coverage go well beyond accuracy. The application for press credentials states things like, “The ‘first-timer at Burning Man’ narrative rarely makes it through the proposal process.”

In her ’99 article, Gilmore noted that in order to give journalists “time to develop their perspectives,” those seeking to “interview key organizers” needed to show up three days prior to the event’s kickoff. Nearly two decades later, the organization turned down a media request made by this paper to interview some of the mental health professionals who volunteer their time to staff the event’s “med tents” about preparations being made for 2018 in the wake of a suicide at the event last year. The request, made a month and a half in advance of the event, was denied due to a lack of time—and despite several sources having confirmed their willingness to talk.

Burning Man claims to be more than a party in the desert. Organizers and participants like to call Burning Man a “temporary city.” And the bureaucracy involved in organizing it fits that description, with the organization working year-round with agencies ranging from county and tribal governments to the Nevada Highway Patrol. But unlike an actual city, the organization feels entitled to interfere with the work of journalists.

If Burning Man wants journalists to cover its “temporary community” with articles that look beyond costumed partying, it should stop trying to quash the free press. Ω

I have two favorite years. I’m sort of a Burner who went for a while and thought I would go forever but ended up just hating the Burn. I’m reconnecting with it this year for the first time in six years. My first year was ’99, and that was just mindblowing. … My second best year was ’09.

Dave Morrow Events specialist

Next year—next year is going to be better. No, last year was the best year for me, because it was my first year.

bill tubMan Carpenter/contractor

All of them—because it’s always different, and it’s always good. I’ve been doing it since 2005. Once you start, you can’t stop. That’s why I’m building a giant train that’s going to explode on playa.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Income, outgo—grasp the concept Going to school should not cost you your life. That basic premise is one we can all agree upon, even as we watch in horror as one school shooting follows another. As our children are maimed and killed, the grisly events are well-documented by the everpresent cable newscasts that have become as predictable as the thoughts and prayers offered by elected officials.

Government loves nothing as much as a task force to find solutions to intractable problems, so it’s unsurprising that several have sprung up in Nevada focused on school safety. Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Governor Brian Sandoval have both convened groups to consider the issue, with Laxalt beating the Governor to the punch, releasing a 32-page plan in late June, after he convened a school safety summit.

Laxalt, who is now running for governor on a nonsensical platform of saving Nevada from California, wants to repeal Sandoval’s tiny corporate tax, saying there’s plenty of money for education. But his school safety report lays out numerous areas where school

safety improvements are needed, and most of them will require more money. Laxalt wants school police at every site, and he wants to retrofit school buildings to create single-entry points, more perimeter fencing and better security camera systems. He wants better planning and communication between schools and local police, more effective active-assailant training and better information-sharing of “red flag” mental health and domestic violence data.

How will Laxalt pay the healthy price tag for his school safety ideas if he succeeds in decreasing education funding? He gave a non-answer to a reporter from the Las Vegas Review Journal, saying funding decisions would be a “balancing act” the next governor and legislature will have to manage. In other words, he doesn’t know.

Sandoval’s task force was created by executive order last March and is chaired by former state superintendent of public instruction Dale Erquiaga. The task force recently released its initial recommendations and will continue working to refine them to no more

than 10 for its final report to the governor, due at the end of November.

The first report contains a variety of recommendations in three major areas: behavioral health, improved school infrastructure, and additional school police. The task force wants schools to conduct realistic school safety drills; prepare detailed school safety plans, including recovery strategies; and develop closer relationships between school personnel and law enforcement. It’s recommended that schools teach socialemotional skills to help students cope with life and relationship problems.

One of the most substantial recommendations is to establish recommended ratios for school psychologists, counselors and social workers to ensure there are sufficient mental health professionals available to students. Nevada has traditionally resisted such ratios because population growth then drives demand for automatic budget increases. That is, as more children are enrolled in our schools, there is automatically need for

more mental health support. While that seems rather obvious, Nevada is famous for pretending that growth pays for itself, therefore leaders assume funding will be generated to meet the needs of a growing population. Since this never proves to be true, our policymakers have an inherent reluctance to adopt staffing ratios.

Budgetary recommendations to improve school safety will have to go through the state budget process and be supported by the new governor and the 2019 Legislature. And as obvious as it might appear that more mental health professionals are needed in our schools, it does not necessarily follow that the recommendation will be supported with a commensurate budget increase.

After all, how can we afford more school counselors and psychologists when there are tax credits we have to pay to keep Tesla, Apple, Switch, the Raiders and the phantom Nevada film industry happy? Priorities, people. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Taking license

Nevadans go to the polls twice in each election year. An initiative petition proposes ending primary elections.

Likely state legislator Dennis Hof was hit by a business setback while he was on the hustings.

The Nye County Commission stripped him of his brothel and liquor licenses because he forgot to submit renewal requests. However, he found a more sinister reason for the action.

“This is all designed to embarrass me some more so I won’t get elected,” he told the Pahrump Valley Times.

Not much chance of that. Assembly District 36, where he is running as a Republican, is regarded as likely to elect a dingo before it elects a Democrat.

Hof beat incumbent James Oscarson in the GOP primary, and Democratic nominee Lesia Romanov awaits him in the general election. If voter registration means anything, the Republicans hold a massive registration majority in the district.

Hof failed to renew on time once before without being penalized, but this time he was stopped cold.

County officials in the sheriff’s office actually went to his brothels and confiscated the licenses, plus all employee work cards. Hof said he had not received renewal notices, but those are a convenience. The licensee still has the duty to renew.

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UTiliTy chief named Former state assistant attorney general Ann Wilkinson has been appointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval to chair the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, which could be an even more sensitive task than usual, depending on what voters do in November.

The general election ballot will contain Question 3, which would end utility monopolies but also end regulation of rates. The complex ballot measure has caused confusion among voters. Two billionaires— Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett—are pouring millions of dollars into the campaign. Adelson, as a casino owner, wants to drop NV Energy as his supplier. Buffett, as owner of NV Energy, wants to keep his monopoly.

Wilkinson will replace Joe Reynolds, who moved to the state higher education system to be general counsel. Wilkinson was previously counsel to a couple of municipalities. Her only utility experience was giving legal advice to the PUC, but she also has administrative experience as deputy director of the state Administration Department and deputy chief of state in the governor’s office. She also has previous regulatory experience as chair of the Nevada Transportation Authority.

sTUff yoUr TroUbles The 94th annual burning of Zozobra in Sante Fe, New Mexico, will be held this year on Aug. 31.

Zozobra is a 50-foot-high, giant effigy built and burned at the start of the annual 10-day Fiestas de Santa Fe. About 45,000 people are expected for the festival at which the effigy—the name means “Old Man Gloom”—is burned to destroy the worries and bad news of the previous year experienced by those viewing the burning. In advance of the burning, people put slips of paper that record their disappointments and unhappiness in the previous year in Gloom Drop Boxes around Santa Fe. Those papers are then stuffed inside Zozobra to be burned along with him.

The burning was first held in 1924.

—Dennis Myers

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Primary death New political group wants one election, not two a sparks man, doug goodman, moved to Nevada from Livermore, California.

After he arrived in Nevada, he registered as a Republican, as he had all his life.

But by 2010, he said he was weary of the “political climate and lack of civility,” so he switched his voter registration to non-partisan.

“The party no longer represented me,” he said this week. “It was probably one of the toughest decisions I ever made in my life.”

As a result, he discovered that now the only things he could vote on in primary elections were judgeships and other nonpartisan races like school board.

He went to the Nevada Legislature seeking legislation changing the way people vote. At his first legislature, in 2015, there was a Republican majority.

At his second legislature, in 2017, there was a Democratic majority. Neither took action on his bill. That may have been a mistake. He has now set up a political group, Nevadans for Election Reform, and filed an initiative petition to end primary elections altogether and let

everyone run in the November general election with ranked choice voting (RCV) for candidates.

The petition does not really define ranked choice clearly, except to say it “means the number; 1, 2, or 3 assigned by the voter to express the voter’s choice for that candidate.” The NER website is not much more helpful: “To learn how ranked choice voting works watch this video.”

None of that helps a voter exiting a grocery store to decide whether to sign the petition on a moment’s notice when asked by a signature gatherer. More than 112,000 signatures are needed by November. When we asked for a capsule explanation of how ranked choice voting would work that could be given to a voter, Goodman said he did not think petition signers would have a problem.

“No, I don’t think they are going to have difficulty understanding it,” he said. He said he thinks the petition itself provides a “pretty clear explanation” of ranked choice voting, and, if that is not enough, there will be literature explaining

it and signature gatherers to answer questions.

Other sources are not great at defining the practice, but all tend to agree that voters can rank as many candidates as they want in order of choice. But after that commonality, there are myriad other ways it can work. In California, for instance, it does not eliminate primary elections as Goodman envisions for Nevada.

In a common RCV election, voters rank the candidates from first to last, though they have the option of voting for just one candidate. If a candidate reaches a majority of first-rank votes, s/he wins.

If not, the candidate who comes in last is dropped and his or her second rank votes are distributed among surviving candidates. This could go on for a while, depending on the number of candidates, until one candidate wins. This process will be more familiar to Nevada voters who participated in presidential caucuses.

RCV is used in a number of countries, including Ireland and Australia.

Primary evolUTion The primary election was originally a reform. It was part of the agenda of the Progressive Movement that spanned the era from the 1890s to the 1920s, along with womens’ suffrage, utility regulation, prohibition, antitrust law and elected U.S. senators.

The first primary election was held

by Democrats in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1842, but it was half a century before it gained real force.

Nevada parties toyed with primaries—Republicans in the 1870s held primaries if party members took various loyalty oaths. The Silver Party in 1904 scheduled a primary, then canceled it.

The Nevada Democratic Party held the state’s first presidential primary in 1912.

But it took legislative action to get real. In 1909, the Nevada Legislature enacted a primary election law. Some party leaders did not react well. A court challenge was mounted, rumored to be supported by Republican U.S. Sen. George Nixon. Nevertheless, the state’s first primary took place on schedule in 1910, and primaries have been held ever since. There was apparently some opposition as late as 1936, because the Clark County Democratic Party came to the defense of the primary in that year.

The purpose of primaries was to take the decision on who parties nominated

out of the thinly attended party nominating was miniscule, if it existed at all. Each party conventions at local and state levels and give it decided for itself who it wanted representing to an expanded electorate within that party. it in the general election. Democrats could not The problem became that political parties vote in Republican or other party primaries were, in their conventions, performing a public because they had no right to choose who function—narrowing which names could go on represented the other parties. If that had been the general election ballot. By taking the task permitted, it could have led to all kinds of from party leaders and delegates in convention mischief—and did, in those states that opened and handing it to any and all members of primaries in various ways. the parties was seen as an enlightened In California, a court ruling made it improvement. possible for candidates to cross-file And it was. It was one of into the other party’s primary.

State many steps that democratized Earl Warren was once the legislators politics. What no one in the nominee for governor of early 1900s imagined was both the Republican and who ignored Doug a nation decades away that Democratic parties.

Goodman’s concerns doesn’t much care about When Michigan and New are now faced with party politics and whose Hampshire made it possible voters find, when they go for voters registered with one an initiative to the polls, they can only party to cross over into another petition. vote on judges and other minor party’s primary, there were consematters—not on who goes on the quences. In 1968, when Richard general election ballot for major offices.

Nixon’s principal competitor in the New In understanding how this worked to everyHampshire presidential party dropped out, one’s satisfaction for so long, it’s important to some Republican voters are believed to have keep in mind that political parties are private crossed over and voted Democratic, giving organizations. Who they choose as their leaders Vietnam dove Eugene McCarthy a boost in his is up to them, just as who heads the Kiwanis race against hawk Lyndon Johnson. In 1972 and the American Dental Association is left in Michigan, Republicans—who again had no to them. Kiwanians cannot choose who leads contest in their own party—crossed over to the dentists and vice versa. It’s also important give white supremacist George Wallace a win to remember that when primaries came on the in the Democratic presidential primary. scene, voters were deeply loyal to their political Goodman’s group seeks to eliminate primaparties, something that is far less true in 2018. ries altogether. That is a much more extreme Few legislators back then imagined anyone version of ranked choice voting than most wanting to vote in a party primary other than states have considered up to now. Ω their own, and few people failed to register with some political party, so the issue of unaffiliated voters only getting to vote on judges

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Workers have been doing some work on the children’s fountain in downtown Sparks, but a city spokesperson said the fountain will not be functional this summer, the second summer it has been shut down. The movie theatres in the building behind the fountain are being retooled for use by Galaxy Theatres, the company that also operates assignedseating theatres in east Sparks.

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by Jeff Delong

According to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, about 168,000 trees died in the Tahoe Basin in 2017.

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In the woods Tahoe tree mortality Lake Tahoe’s forests are in increasing trouble as drought and attacking insects kill more and more trees.

Across California, an estimated 156 million trees have died after lengthy drought conditions brought disease and infestations of bark beetles. In places, 80 percent or more of low-elevation pine forests, mostly ponderosa pine, have turned a withered brown.

Lake Tahoe has so far escaped the worst of this, largely due to its higher elevation and a more diverse forest makeup.

“We’ve been fortunate thus far,” said Brian Garrett, Tahoe’s urban forest program manager for the U.S. Forest Service. “But we have seen elevated tree mortality.”

The problem appears to be accelerating.

According to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, some 168,000 trees died in the Tahoe Basin in 2017, more than twice the 72,000 counted in 2016. In 2015, 35,000 dead trees were counted.

“There were a lot of dead trees last year,” said Christina Restaino, TRPA forest ecosystem health manager. “That’s definitely above the levels we would expect.

It’s certainly cause for concern.”

The problem is linked to five years of drought that hit the Sierra beginning in 2012. Deprived of moisture, trees were weakened and made vulnerable to disease

and bark beetle infestation. The result is wider swaths of dead trees and heightened risk of major wildfires.

At Tahoe, fir engraver beetles are taking out white and red fir trees. Surveys taken by researchers from University of California, Davis in 2009 and 2017—before and after the drought—show increased mortality among stands of sugar pines, particularly along Tahoe’s north shore. The mountain pine beetle is identified as the culprit there.

It’s not the first time Tahoe’s forests have faced a two-prong threat from drought and insects. Following a seven-year drought in the late 1980s and early ’90s, one out of three of Tahoe’s trees was dead, with tree mortality measured at up to 90 percent in some locations. And with a warming climate expected to bring more droughts, the problem is likely to recur, experts said.

“I would say [forests] are highly vulnerable from drought, insects and fire,” Restaino said. “With all three of those combined, we are at very high risk of losing trees at Tahoe and all over the Sierra. If we do nothing, tree mortality will increase drastically.”

That’s not to say nothing can be done.

Since improving Tahoe’s forest health was identified as a major priority in 1997, land managers have thinned more than 70,000 acres of forest, mostly in areas closest to Tahoe’s communities. Another 50,000 acres are targeted for thinning, and the Forest Service is working to pick up the pace of forest treatment projects in coming years.

Thinned forests have less chance of fueling a major wildfire. And UC Davis surveys also show markedly reduced concentrations of bark beetles in parts of the forest that were previously treated.

“We can’t stop droughts but a healthier, thinner forest is more resilient,” said Geoffrey Schladow, director of UC Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center.

UC Davis researchers are collecting seeds from sugar pines that, for whatever reason, appear to successfully stave off beetle attack. The seeds will be germinated and reared, with some 10,000 available for future revegetation projects around the lake.

And land managers are looking at larger-scale restoration projects, including treatment of an entire 60,000-acre swath of forest west of Lake Tahoe.

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here was a time when many local non-Burners’ experiences with the Burning Man event were limited to what can be witnessed annually in the city—an incursion of mostly clean RVs and smaller vehicles bearing Burners in mostly clean costumes, packing streets and grocery store parking lots, crowding into the Costco in a rush to empty shelves of bottled water, among other things. A bit more than a week later, the exodus from the desert where the event takes place, about 100 miles north of Reno, brings a swarm of mud-caked RVs and cars bearing Burners in dusty costumes, lining up at car washes around town.

It’s a frustration for some, a source of jokes for the more even tempered, a serious boon to the local economy. In 2017, the RenoTahoe International Airport alone reported an estimated economic impact of $11 million from the event—revenue earned “from airline ticket sales, car rentals, and money spent in the restaurants and retail shops.” And, these days, evidence of Burning Man persists long after Burners are finished

leaving mud in the car washes and money in the coffers of local businesses.

Ambitious, often fantastical, large-scale artworks are one of the primary reasons people venture to the playa. And more and more often, these pieces are being installed around town post-event—a huge, stained-glass whale in Reno’s City Plaza, a butterfly sculpture on the Riverwalk north of Wingfield Park, the “Playa Art Park” near the downtown casinos, a 46-foot-tall and 60-foot-wide metal thistle at the intersection of South McCarran Boulevard and Virginia Street.

Some locals might not be aware that many of these public art installations were originally debuted during Burning Man. And odds are high that even fewer know how many of these pieces were made by local hands. Every year, however, artists around the region join others around the globe in turning their attention toward creating art for the desert festival. Here’s a sneak peek at a few of this year’s local projects and the artists behind them.

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Bloom 2018 By Peter Hazel Peter Hazel is a tile and granite contractor by trade who’s spent the last several years working to transition his art avocation into a vocation. These days, Hazel spends on average 12 hours a day working in his studio inside the Artech makers’ space off West Fourth Street. His corner of the large warehouse is packed with pieces of commissioned artworks in progress and parts belonging Peter Hazel built a to his project for this year’s Burning Man small-scale model of festival. According to Hazel, taking art to his project Bloom.

Photo/jeri chadwell the playa has helped him achieve his goal of being a professional artist.

“I’m getting noticed out there, which is great,” he said. “I’m going to want to bring something out there every year. Burning Man is such a showcase for artisans. It’s really amazing. You get work out of it. Someone will come out and see what you do and say, ‘Hey, maybe you could do this for us.’

It leads to more work. It’s a launching pad.”

This will be Hazel’s sixth time at Burning Man, and his fifth as an artist. He’s dubbed his project for this year “Bloom 2018.” It’s a 40-foot-tall glass, steel and chrome jellyfish—its bell comprised of thousands of smaller jellyfish created by melting and reforming old booze bottles and defective ashtray attempts in a kiln.

“Bloom” reflects Hazel’s larger body of work, which, to date, has been ocean-centric, including things like a large-scale manta ray and an equally massive octopus. Many of his current commissioned works also feature sea creatures. But the artist admitted he’s ready to start drawing inspiration from above water.

“I’m going to be known as the sea creature guy, BaBa yaga’s and so I want to step away from that, do other things HoUse By Jessi and experiment and go a little more abstract—figure sProcket my way through this,” Hazel said.

JanUsee He just needs to finish “Bloom” first. For Hazel, it’s more than another aquatic-themed art piece—and Jessi Sprocket Janusee is known taking it to Burning Man this year is a point of pride, around Reno for her art exhibitions, as a well as a sort of salvage mission. That’s because writing and marketing work. She’s also Bloom actually debuted on the playa last year. the coordinator for public programs “And we didn’t pull it off,” he said. “We didn’t and communications for the Generator, finish it properly. All of the glass wasn’t in. We just a non-profit artists’ workspace located ran out of time. The lights were weak. … It was a in a Sparks warehouse. It’s where her weak art piece, and I was really disappointed. So I most recent Burning Man project was asked to bring it back and they said yes.” conceived of and constructed.

This year, Hazel is replacing last year’s white lights Janusee’s name is attached to inside the jellyfish with colored lights and completely several well-known honoraria projects refashioning its tentacles out of chrome ensconced of recent years—including “Space steel with LED lighting piped down the sides. Part of Whale,” the aforementioned stainedthe funding is coming in the form of an honorarium—a glass whale in Reno’s City Plaza—but small amount of money the Burning Man organization 2018 is the first year in which she’s doles out to a limited number of artists each year. received an honorarium for a project of By the time this story goes to press, Hazel will her own. She’s using the opportunity already be on the playa installing “Bloom.” He’s for a passion project—the creation of headed out earlier this year to ensure there’s time to something she’s always wanted to see bring his project together. After that, he’ll return to on the playa. his commissioned works and start thinking about new In Slavic lore, the witch Baba Yaga themes for future personal projects. is often described as a crone who trav“I think it would be fun to do a big alligator,” Hazel els by way of a large, flying mortar and said. “We could make square tiles. I love glass. I don’t wields a pestle. The house in which she know. We’ll see. It might be another sea creature. … lives on the edge of the woods is most I’m still learning. I’m a fairly new artist. I’m still findoften described as literally “chicken ing my way with art, my style, I guess you could say.” legged.” Janusee’s project for 2018,

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“Baba Yaga’s House,” is a real-world imagining of this home.

“I always wanted to have it there,” Janusee said. “I was waiting for the Russian Burners or the Ukrainian Burners or the Lithuanian Burners to bring it out. … It just kept not happening. … It just felt like it was time to bring Baba out. I was like, ‘It’s got to happen, and I guess I’m going to be the person to do it.’”

With help from a crew of volunteers and friends—including her significant other—Janusee has built a two-story house clad in whimsically misaligned wood. It comes complete with dormers and a roof covered in ornate early 20th century tiles that were sourced locally. The 12-foot-tall chicken legs upon which it stands are made of steel. Inside, Janusee plans to have interactive elements—but she’s not keen on spoiling the surprise by discussing them.

Much like Hazel, Janusee’s independent art projects have tended to follow a loose theme. Her exhibitions of recent years have included “Hedgewitch Haus” and “The Nestweb of the Spiderbird,” both of which explored the intersections between the manmade world and nature—both

with an emphasis on strong, magical matriarchal figures. Janusee sees Baba Yaga in this light as well.

“A lot of people feel like she’s this one-dimensional, evil character—but she’s the inspiration for the fairy godmother in Cinderella and also the inspiration for the evil witch in Hansel and Gretel that eats kids,” she said.

“I think it depends on you. If you’re worth it, if you prove yourself—your character defines her. I feel like she’s the embodiment of nature. That makes sense to me, right? Nature can kill you, easily, or it can really help you and give you life.”

On the playa, Janusee hopes to channel her own inner Baba Yaga.

“I was just talking with my crew earlier and was fantasizing about dressing up as Yaga and being down by the feet with a broom, yelling and cleaning the dirt off and cursing the desert—like, ‘House! Why did you bring us here?’” she said. “I want to bring more of that foresty darkness to the playa. I think it plays well. I think even with the Space Whale—it being a whale in the middle of the salt flats is really cool.”

Creu Hudol By Kelly smitH Cassidy Unlike Hazel, Kelly Smith Cassidy is still somewhat new to Burning Man—but she’s an established, fulltime artist.

“I’ve been a sculptor for 22 years,” she said. “Both of my parents are fulltime artists, so they taught me.”

After taking a trip to Ecuador, where she partook of ayahuasca—a hallucinogenic ritual brew made from a tropical vine native to the Amazon region—she returned home with the goal of attending Burning Man, something she said she’d previously been a bit nervous to do, having heard a lot about its party atmosphere. Last year was her first time. She went as just a participant but decided shortly after arriving that she’d return in 2018 as an artist.

This year, Smith Cassidy submitted eight proposals featuring renderings of panels for the inside of the Burning Man temple. She received rejection letters on each before receiving notice that a ninth proposal—a rendering of an automaton she wanted to build— had been chosen to be featured on the pavilion that surrounds “the man” at Burning Man. Smith Cassidy’s automaton will be one of a dozen “burn bots” that will go

up in flames with the man when it’s burned at the end of the event.

“There are 12 of us that were selected for this project, and we were only given notice the second week of July, so I’m sure all of us are kind of scrambling,” she said. “I’ve only been to Burning Man once, but as far as I know, they kind of like to think up last minute things … like, just today, in their newsletter, it says, ‘Calling all artists! Send us your images, and we’re going to make lanterns for Center Camp.’”

Smith Cassidy’s burn bot is called “Creu Hudol”—meaning “magical being” in Welsh. It’s a six-foot-tall, elegant female figure made from wood, glass and some metal and featuring a crown made from rows of quartz crystals. For the artist, it’s more than a first-time Burning Man submission; it’s also the first time she’s relying heavily on the help of others to complete a project.

“I designed it all, and I’ve had to have it made for me, except for the legs and the arms. So it’s a little frustrating waiting for things to come in.”

The torso is being made at the Generator using a computer-controlled cutting machine called a computer numerical control router.

“It’s a CNC model that’s cut out in slices, and then I’m gluing

them together,” Smith Cassidy said. “The hands are artist’s model hands. They’re coming in today. The boots are children’s ski boots that I’m going to spray paint.”

In fact, the entire body of the automaton will be painted silver, to include an antique glass head the artist purchased on eBay. “I wanted it to speak to a more elegant future,” Smith Cassidy said.

When it comes to watching her elegant creation burn at the end of the event, Smith Cassidy said she’s not upset.

Kelly Smith Cassidy She’s too excited by this carves a leg for Creu year of firsts, which includes Hudol from wood. her first honorarium from Photo/jeri chadwell Burning Man. “I got an honorarium,” she said. “I didn’t think I would get one, because I haven’t done something before. It’s a double-edged sort, like, you’ve got to have one in order to get one. It was really a surprise. And my first honorarium project is burning—which is OK, it’s Burning Man.”

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Nature can kill you, easily, or it can really help you and give you life.”

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BlaCKsmitH sHop By anton standteiner Anton “Toni” Standteiner’s has taken several pieces of large-scale art to Burning Man over the years. He’s one of the owners of Mountain Forge in Truckee—a family-owned blacksmith shop that’s been turning out commissioned metalwork and public art for half a century.

His name is on Burning Man’s honoraria list for the third consecutive year, but Standteiner doesn’t simply make art for the event. His aim is to get others to, inside a

blacksmith shop that he, his family and colleagues from around the country and world have brought to Burning Man annually since 2016, when the organization’s theme was “Da Vinci’s Workshop.”

And although Anton’s wife, Jennifer Standteiner, is quick to point out that the Mountain Forge isn’t involved as a business in the Burning Man blacksmith shop, it is often a source of shop’s trained talent—and was its initial inspiration.

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“What we do is really incredible, and getting an opportunity to share that with people was really one of the motivations,” she said.

Burners can come to the blacksmith shop to work oneon-one with a professional blacksmith in creating a piece of metal art.

“Every year, there’s a form. One year it was feathers. Another year it was butterflies,” Jennifer said.

“We have a form that we bring, that’s already cut out.

What the people get to do is … manipulate that butterfly or whatever shape into whatever they want. They’re putting it in the fire. It’s very traditional. … They use the anvil with the forge. And the forge is a hand-cranked, traditional forge. … They

use a traditional anvil and traditional tools. It’s pretty basic, but it’s really exciting for people to strike a hot piece of steel and see it move.”

It also serves another purpose—helping to solving a problem the Standteiner’s see in Burning Man. “There’s a little bit of a problem at Burning Man, with it modernizing,” Jennifer said.

“You get a lot of spectators.

You get a lot of people who don’t bring art at all, who don’t do art or anything. They just come to look. And they just come to stare. We decided we help solve that problem by bringing something functional and something interactive.”

According to Jennifer, the dollar amount of the honorarium her husband has received from Burning

Man has increased each year, because she said, “they recognize the value of what we’re doing.” This year, the Standteiners asked specifically for additional funding—which they received. In years past, they’ve used borrowed forges for the event. Now, they’re hoping to use the additional funds to build their own so they can bring them for the week-long event each year but also use them to teach blacksmithing to people off the playa during the other 51.

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n Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Galaxia is the future state of all living organisms, a utopian super-organism in which all are connected as one.

Considering the concept’s many parallels to Burning Man’s Black Rock City, it’s a wonder that it took until now for Asimov to play a prominent role in Burning Man. This year’s theme—“I, Robot”—finally connects the two.

London-based French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani seized this chance to submit a design for this year’s Burning Man temple that would draw upon the idea. It was this design, Galaxia, that founder Larry Harvey chose before passing away this spring.

Mamou-Mani, who has attended Burning Man for years with a contingent of architecture students from the University of Westminster, saw the theme as an opportunity to connect his students’ classroom learning with hands-on, challenging, meaningful work intended for a gallery like no other on Earth.

“The theme, I, Robot, was very relevant to the projects we do in general,” said MamouMani, the 35-year-old whose firm, MamouMani, Ltd., is noted for its use of digital fabrication through 3D printing. “So I thought, that’s beautiful, because it’s not just about the technology, but it’s also the temple, which is a very human thing. ... So I submitted an idea, it got chosen, and here we are, six months later.”

The design, as described in the Burning Man Journal, “celebrates hope in the unknown,

stars, planets, black holes, the movement uniting us in swirling galaxies of dreams.” It employs 20 twisting timber trusses that meet at a central point aimed toward the sky, like a swirling galaxy.

The temple, a component of the festival every year since 2000, has traditionally been a sacred place in which visitors can grieve for and remember the loved ones they’ve lost. For all that Burning Man and the temple represent to attendees, Galaxia’s design is not only about the people of the world coming together, but also about the convergence of man and technology, the physical and spiritual, the past and future, the living and the dead, and the heavenly and earthly realms.

“Galaxia is a temple for everyone, regardless of religion or background,” Mamou-Mani explained. “The idea is to use a universal symbol, the galaxy, to bring people together into these 20 gateways. There is no right direction; you can come from anywhere you want, and that reflects everyone’s differences and the act of coming together in a central space, which I think is the most beautiful aspect of the Burning Man temple, the way it connects everyone together.”

RIsIng fRom the dust The logistics of building the structure, which will only survive for about nine days, are mind-boggling. Hundreds of people on two build sites, in Reno and San Francisco, have

prefabricated the structure’s components. For ease of transport, the lighter, top half, called “the crown,” has been assembled in San Francisco. Meanwhile, a team of more than 125 volunteers—some Westminster students, some local artists, some with carpentry or engineering skills, and some simply Burning Man enthusiasts—have been busily making “the skirt,” or wide bottom half, at the Generator, a community art space in Sparks, since the beginning of April.

Transporting large sections of the structure to the Black Rock Desert would not be feasible, so the team has been creating small, uniform triangles made of 2-by-4 timber that, when laid flat in the proper sequence, could be “folded” up to create a three-dimensional sort of origami. Those triangles are joined together with metal joints, then fitted in a repeatable, volunteer-friendly sequence to create the 20 long, swirling arms, or “petals” making up Galaxia. The crown, which will contain the topmost segments of the petals that converge at the top center, will be lifted by forklift and placed atop the skirt, with a compression ring between them.

Beneath its “roof” is a central altar where visitors can place offerings and memorials, illuminated by the LED lights emanating from 30 chandelier-like teardrops composed of polylactic acid—a bioplastic comprised of vinegar, corn starch and glycerin—that were produced by a 3D printer and will hang from the central eye of the temple.

A hub-and-spoke wheel design that uses the tension of cables leading into a central plate serves as a foundation. Mamou-Mani likes the connection to a bicycle wheel, an image mimicked outside the temple in the benches that will double as bike racks.

Once the structure is erected—an exhausting, 18-day undertaking—Galaxia officially becomes a gift to the people of Black Rock City. When the event concludes, the crew will burn it.

LaboR of Love Mamou-Mani received a $100,000 Burning Man Temple Honorarium grant for the project, almost all of which went into materials, transportation, rental equipment and tools, and still didn’t cover the costs.

Fundraisers in London and San Francisco helped cover what they needed, including travel expenses and costs of living for five months.

“No one gets paid,” Mamou-Mani said. “I think money is a strange topic on this project because it’s so beyond that. … It’s an invaluable project. For me, I’ve never worked that hard, ever. I can’t even quantify that, and I don’t want to, because I never saw it as something that was to be commodified or something that would have an actual value assigned to it.”

it’s pretty profound, and, of course, for a temple where we celebrate and memorialize people we lost, thoughts about the galaxy for that kind of memorial go well together.”

The architect also appreciates this rare opportunity to play such a hands-on role. “There wouldn’t be another project in which the architect, the carpenters, the engineers, the scaffolders, the metal-

The architect understandably feels a significant weight on his shoulders, designing the first temple to come to Burning Man since the recent death of Larry Harvey. He said he’s fortunate to have had input from Jerry James, an old friend of Harvey’s who often is called the co-founder of Burning Man. James, who had been estranged from Harvey for a number of years, had found himself re-engaging with the event and reconnecting to Harvey. While perusing the Burning Man website in January, he came across the news that Mamou-Mani’s concept had been chosen and felt a pull to help out. He emailed the architect to offer his services but didn’t get a reply.

“I thought, ‘I’ll try one more time before I give up on this,’” James said. “I guess he saw that next email—I think the first one got lost—and I guess he was pretty excited to have me, given my background. I think the concept is fitting for this year’s event. I’ll go with what Arthur says about our faith in the unknown, the galaxy, infinity, eternity, all that stuff. I think

workers, all these different people come together on one thing and discuss everything together,” Mamou-Mani said. “It’s not something where the architect has the vision and everyone else executes it. It’s not at all like this. It’s actually the opposite.

It’s like, ‘What do you guys think of this issue?

This is a drawing, but, obviously, you know more about metal than me, so what do you suggest?’ …

So there’s a really beautiful, empirical loop. I wish all projects were like this because it really becomes something collective—and informed by logic and brains and humans.” Ω Kind of like I, Robot.

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Retail redo Sierra Water Gardens Pop-Up Indoor Plant Shop In last week’s Best of Northern Nevada issue, we listed Sierra Water Gardens as “closed.” It turns out that’s incorrect—sort of. When I called owner Samantha Stremmel, I learned that the situation is a little more complicated than that.

First, to clarify the “closed” label, Sierra Water Gardens as we knew it—the garden shop on Dickerson Road that doubled as a venue for summer concerts—is no longer.

That location closed August 2017 and is now a private event space run by The Hytch, a boutique wedding service. It’s still called Sierra Water Gardens, though.

On a recent afternoon, two smartly dressed, would-be plant shoppers arrived at that location and were confused by the locked gate. As luck would have it, I had just exited the other Sierra Water Gardens, so I was able to direct them to the place they’d seen on Instagram.

Diagonally across the street from the garden-store-turned-wedding-venue and just west of Wedge Ceramics Studio—also owned by the Stremmel and her husband— there’s a warehouse with a sign that reads, “Wayside Studios.” It contains three work spaces that have been occupied since spring 2017 by artists Sarah Lillegard, Casey Clark and Ahren Hertel. The building has two rooms on the ground floor that the artists weren’t using for much, and in November 2017, Stremmel opened a small store there.

A framed chalkboard outside reads “Sierra Water Gardens Pop-Up Indoor Plant Shop” and announces that the shop is open Fridays through Sundays.

“This front room is [the artists’] showroom, where they get to show what they do,” Stremmel explained. That window-lit, white-walled room is decorated

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with one large Hertel painting, one fiber assemblage piece by Lillegard, a shelf of Clark’s pottery, and a lot of plants nestled in corners and hanging in the window. It looks almost like a gallery and almost like a living room.

With its limited hours and an entryway that looks like it may or may not be intended for the public, people are sometimes unclear on whether they’re in the right place. This sort-of-public/sort-ofprivate arrangement presents some pros and cons for all involved.

“It can be difficult to communicate to visitors what areas are accessible, who is working here, and [make sure] that the plant shop’s business hours are adhered to,” Lillegard said in an email interview.

Sometimes customers arrive when the artists are working but the shop is closed.

The artists have to explain that there are two different—but related—entities here.

Lillegard said that despite the confusion, the potential for cross-marketing is a plus.

She’ll install some new work in the front window soon. With her labor-intensive, high-concept fiber works, it takes a long time to make enough work to fill a gallery, so being able to showcase just a few pieces at once works well for her.

Next to the gallery/living room is the main warehouse bay, which is forested with cacti, succulents and houseplants and stocked with handmade planters by Clark and other potters. Stremmel said the entire set-up was inspired by a visit to Cindercone Clay Center in Bend, Oregon, an artists’ studio facility that’s fronted by a retail shop.

If this nondescript location doesn’t bring in throngs of shoppers, so be it.

To Stremmel, this is in part a business venture—and, to a large extent, an experiment in encouraging art-community involvement. Ω Sierra Water Gardens Outside Pop-Up Indoor Plant Shop is located in Wayside Studios, 2135 Dickerson Road. Hours are Friday–Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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“if you watch Jaws backwards, it’s a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach.”

There won’t be blood It’s been over two decades since author Steve Alten released his big shark story Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, the first of many Meg books. From the moment the first book hit stands, producers have been attempting to make a movie out of it.

Many directors have flirted with making the movie, including Jan de Bont, Guillermo del Toro and, as recently as 2015, Eli Roth. The property eventually ended up under the directorial guidance of one Jon Turtletaub, the guy who made Cool Runnings, the National Treasure movies and, wait for it, 3 Ninjas.

The result? A movie as misguided, sloppy and boring as you would expect from the guy who directed 3 Ninjas.

Let’s just get the obvious problem out of the way early in this review. The Meg is rated PG-13 and probably could’ve pulled a PG. This is not a horror film. It’s an undersea adventure with a big, messy CGI shark and a sci-fi twist. Roth left the project because they wouldn’t let him gore it up, and they wouldn’t let him star as deep-sea diver/adventurer Jonas Taylor.

Instead, we get Jason Statham as Jonas and hardly any need for makeup artists on the set due to a supreme lack of bloodletting. Heck, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial had more bloodletting in it when Elliot pricked his finger on that saw blade. Like I said, this thing could be PG. And let’s be very clear, Jaws, the mother of all shark movies—and the greatest movie ever made, thank you very much—had a shit ton of bloodletting, and it was PG. It also had nudity and a constantly palpable sense of dread. Come to think of it, how the hell did Jaws get away with a PG rating?

Oh, the times have changed.

When a submarine from a mega-billion underwater exploration facility goes deeper than any expedition has gone before, it gets attacked by something big and winds up trapped on the ocean floor.

Enter Jonas, who, in the film’s prologue set years earlier, failed to rescue some of his friends when a

big something-or-other also attacked and caused a mostly bloodless death toll.

Much of this movie consists of long, drawn-out sequences where submarines dive around and get swatted about by a mostly unseen—at first—70-foot shark. Other long, drawn-out sequences involve Jonas and his crew floating around at sea while the CGI menace circles them. You’ll be pretty damned surprised how not scary a 70-foot shark can be.

The rushed finale features a lot of the shots in the trailer—the ones with tons of swimmers in the shark’s path, including a little doggie named Pippin. (Contrary to what many believe, the black Labrador that got eaten in Jaws was not named Pippin. That dog’s name was Pippet. So, the attempt at an Easter egg here is a little off.) That trailer is very misleading. For 75 percent of this rather long movie, the shark terrorizes a very small group of people. When it finally does go after the beach-goers, the vast majority of them get out of harm’s way—but not the guy in the big, bouncy, clear ball like the one Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips uses to surf concert crowds. He gets eaten—bloodless PG-style.

The movie trucks out the usual stereotypes, including Rainn Wilson as the hipster billionaire who funded the whole underwater lab thing and wears lots of Nike products. Statham himself is one big action hero stereotype. The movie also makes a few too many Jaws references. When you suck this much you shouldn’t constantly remind people of a genre film far superior to yours.

If The Meg could’ve found a way to be as campy fun as, say, the very bloody Piranha 3D or Deep Blue Sea, I’d be looking forward to the inevitable sequel.

Instead, it’s just about the equivalent of the terrible Jaws 3-D. It’s not as bad as Jaws: The Revenge, though. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have been able to write this review, for that surely would’ve killed me. Bloodlessly. Ω

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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), and she owns every moment she’s onscreen. 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 funny, thanks mostly to Rudd, ninja master of comic timing.

The great Spike Lee has returned with what amounts to his best film since Malcolm X 26 years ago. Based on a true story, with some significant tweaking, it centers on Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, son of Denzel), a black police officer in Colorado who, on a whim, decided to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan by posing as a redneck. It wound up being a two-man sting, with Stallworth pretending to be a white man on the phone while sending in a white partner (depicted here by Adam Driver) to do the face-to-face work. Stallworth’s investigation eventually leads to him being named head of a local chapter of the KKK, and direct dealings with David Duke (Topher Grace), Grand Wizard of the KKK and all-time major asshole. The movie is as crazy as the story was, with Spike balancing intense drama and humor perfectly. Washington is as good as his old man in this movie, and Driver continues to show he’s always a cast MVP. Lee, shooting on celluloid again, makes a fantastic-looking movie; he’s a master of period pieces, with this one set in the ’70s. The film’s conclusion uses current events news footage—including Charlottesville—showing the unfortunate and all too real racism parallels between the events in this film and the current state of America.

The movie is a great watch, but it is also a loud, absolutely necessary wakeup call.

This movie is a masterpiece in many ways, from its perfect cast to its crafty camerawork and immersive electronic score

by Anna Meredith. But, most of all, this movie is what it is for its central performances from Elsie Fisher as Kayla and Josh Hamilton as her dad. Going into this movie, I didn’t realize Fisher was already a cinematic hero of mine. As it turns out, she’s the voice of Agnes from the first two Despicable Me movies. Agnes is the “It’s so fluffy I could die!” girl. In Eighth Grade, Fisher shows her talents go well beyond voice, creating a character that captures the awkwardness, joy, sorrow and virtual hell of that last year before high school when everything is just about to shift into an all-new, freaky gear.

Yes, the movie captures the significance of social media and its impact on adolescents, but so much of this film is timeless and universal.

It’s a storytelling triumph. While the film can certainly be categorized as funny, it tackles some of the nasty sides of a girl’s childhood head on, sometimes in scary fashion. As Kayla prepares for high school, she winds up in a situation or two that takes her from joyful elation to horrified in mere seconds. It’s heartbreaking, even terrifying to watch at times, but Burnham and Fisher expertly navigate the emotional waves.

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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. 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.

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Tom Cruise is his maniac self in Mission: Impossible—Fallout, the sixth installment in his steady franchise and proof that the actor is spectacularly certifiable. The movie is one “Wow!” moment after another—and proof that the guy shows no signs of slowing down more than half way through his sixth decade. The movie stacks stunt after stunt featuring Cruise doing everything from jumping out of airplanes to scaling cliffs to piloting his own helicopter. It also features Cruise leaping from one rooftop to another and breaking his ankle against a building. That stunt shut down production for weeks but remains in the film in all its bone-breaking glory. Thankfully, the plot is the sort of fun, twisted story that has become the hallmark of this series, so you’ll be interested even when Cruise isn’t risking his life. Yes, there are a lot of “Hey, haven’t I seen that before?” moments—lots of masks being ripped off—but the labyrinthian hijinks still feel fresh overall. Henry Cavill ups his stock worth with a great performance as an agent sent along to shadow Cruise’s Ethan Hunt; Cavill finally gets a chance to really show what he’s made of as an action star. Cruise is sick in the head for a myriad of reasons. Thankfully, one part of his sickness provides for movie stunts like the ones mentioned above.

First-time writer-director Boots Riley, leader of musical group the Coup, creates one of the craziest movies you will see this—or any—year with Sorry to Bother You, a hilarious, nasty and even scary showcase for the talents of Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson. Stated simply, there are tons of “what the fuck?” moments in this movie.

Cassius Green (Stanfield) is living in his uncle’s (Terry Crews) garage, looking for a better life and a job. His performance-artist girlfriend, Detroit (Thompson), encourages him to pursue whatever but not to lose his sense of self. After procuring a job at a telemarketing agency, Cassius finds himself striking out call after call. It’s here that Riley employs an ingenious visual trick, with Cassius physically showing up in the lives of the people he interrupts with his telemarketing nonsense, dropping his desk into one situation after another (people having sex, people mourning, etc.). Thanks to a seasoned coworker (Danny Glover), Cassius is advised to use his white man voice (supplied by the great, and very white, David Cross). This brings immediate success and catapults Cassius up the ladder to the hallowed upstairs office where the “power callers” reside. The road to success involves him becoming more of a douchebag and, ultimately, a revolutionary.

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Loco moco is a dish featuring hamburger patties in brown gravy topped with sunny-side-up eggs.

Island vibes Hawaiian cuisine is all about multicultural food fusion. Polynesians brought pork, chicken and various vegetables, including coconut and taro.

Europeans introduced beef and a whole host of crops. Pineapple is South American. Macadamia nuts, Australian. Plantation workers from the Philippines, China, Korea, Portugal and Japan really blew up the menu with technique, ingredients and flavor. Spam, macaroni, mayonnaise, hot dogs and hamburgers were adopted from American supplies during World War II. Japanese bento boxes spawned pre-packed meals eaten by plantation workers, resulting in the quintessentially Hawaiian “plate lunch”—a protein entree served with scoops of white rice and macaroni salad—now served at Maui Jane’s Hawaiian BBQ. The rice at Maui Jane’s is pretty basic, dusted with a bit of mild seasoning. Plates come with a choice of macaroni salad or Hawaiian salad, the latter a mild cabbage slaw. The cabbage was crisp with perhaps a hint of salt and rice vinegar, and the macaroni— though simple—actually had decent flavor.

We started with small bites. Coconut-crusted calamari sticks ($4.95) were crunchy, tender and tasty dipped in tartar sauce. Cousin to the egg roll, Filipino lumpia ($3.95) were crisp with an adequate filling and OK sweet and sour sauce. Unfortunately, the teriyakigrilled Spam musubi ($2.75) was a letdown. Rather than a slab of salty, processed pork strapped with nori to rice a la nigiri, a brick of rice was completely wrapped in seaweed, with a thin slice of Spam tucked in. I could barely taste the meat or teriyaki.

A seafood combo ($10.95) of fried ono fish, shrimp and calamari was fair. The shrimp and the white fish were a bit dry, but the coconut coating and dipping sauces helped. A barbecue combo of chicken,

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beef and pork short rib ($10.95) was quite good. The Hawaiian barbecue sauce—think teriyaki—did the trick. The chicken wasn’t dry. The beef was tender, and the Korean-style ribs—cut into strips lengthwise across the bones—were very good.

Saimin is a noodle soup with Japanese and Chinese roots. We chose to try the plain saimin ($6.50) with scallion, kamaboko (sliced, cured, surimi, like sushi krab sticks) and char siu (Cantonese roasted pork).

There wasn’t much meat—with neither a standout— and only a smattering of scallion. The broth was instant ramen grade.

Hawaiian hot dogs ($8.95 for two) featured bright red franks, pineapple slaw, Hawaiian barbecue sauce, Korean kimchi sauce, cabbage, and french-fried onion on a King Hawaiian bun. In 1949, Hawaiian sausagier “Redondo” produced paprika red-dyed wieners, though no one knows why. They became popular, and competitors adopted the practice; red dogs are now Hawaiian. They taste like, well, hot dogs.

Likely the most Polynesian item on the menu, lau lau ($13.95, large) is pork shoulder wrapped in edible taro leaves, then wrapped in sturdy ti plant leaves to steam or roast. The pork was juicy, and the greens were earthy and satisfying. Last was a double plate of loco moco ($9.95). Two hamburger patties atop a bed of rice were doused in brown gravy and finished with a pair of sunny-side-up eggs. The burgers—though thin and overcooked—were just the size to host a couple of perfectly runny eggs. The gravy was a bit salty, but mixed with egg, burger and rice made for a pleasant bite. “It’s Salisbury steak and eggs,” said my daughter. Right she was. Ω

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Los Tigres del Norte has been a band for more than half a century now.

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In April, the long-running Norteño band Los Tigres del Norte performed at Folsom Prison on the 50-year anniversary of Johnny Cash’s legendary concert. The audience was mostly made up of black and Latino inmates, many of whom were serving life sentences. Some were moved to tears by the music.

Jorge Hernández, the band’s vocalist and accordionist, also became emotional.

“You have different feelings when you perform for them,” he said. “We had the opportunity to talk to different inmates, and they told us their stories. It makes you very sad. How you feel when you perform for them, for me, there is a lot of sentiment. At the same time, you have the feeling that you’re doing something for them, for the community—that you’re giving them more hope and life.”

Hernández believes that’s the secret to the band’s remarkable 50-year career. Los Tigres del Norte has become legendary in its own right by acting as a voice for the downtrodden, just like the Man in Black.

“We sing stories about the people, about the real life,” he said. “We perform songs that go directly to our problems.”

And speaking of problems, Hernández discussed President Trump’s blatantly racist rhetoric against our neighbors to the south during a phone interview with the RN&R. Indeed, Trump’s proposed border wall and the radicalization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is greatly dispiriting for an artist such as Hernández, who has spent much of his career singing about the discrimination and rejection many Mexican-Americans have encountered.

“It hurts our community here in the United States—all Latino communities, but especially the Mexicans,” he said.

“Our country is also hurt. To be written off like that, it’s very hard. We have in our minds that [Trump] doesn’t like us. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but all the Mexicans who live here and in Mexico, we don’t feel very welcome in this country.”

As teenagers, Hernández and his brothers and cousins immigrated from Mexico to San Jose in the late 1960s. In the half-century since, Los Tigres del Norte has recorded more than 500 songs, sold more than 30 million albums, won several Grammy Awards and played arenas that seat 100,000 or more.

It’s not hyperbolic to say that this musical family is the Norteño equivalent of Bruce Springsteen or the Rolling Stones. But in a microcosm of the Mexican-American experience, Los Tigres del Norte are grossly overlooked by the U.S. mainstream, despite being one of the most influential Mexican bands of all time.

However, America’s shifting demographics are allowing Los Tigres del Norte to reach new Spanish-speaking audiences in new places. Each member of the family is over 60 years old now, and they’re still telling stories of everyday life in Mexico and about the immigrant experience in a way that resonates with generations of fans on both sides of the border.

“The songs we perform make it easy for us to connect with [audiences],” Hernández said. “We sing stories about our lives and their lives. Those stories, I think, let us connect heart-to-heart.”

Los Tigres del Norte is playing at Silver Legacy Resort Casino on Friday, Aug. 31. Ω Los Tigres del Norte are scheduled to play the Reno Ballroom inside the Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St. Tickets are $49.50-$89.50.

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Metal Echo, 8pm, no cover

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Donald Glaude Aug. 17, 10 p.m.

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Arizona Jones, 9:30pm, no cover

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The Beat: Donald Glaude, Johnny Moscow, Nick Phoenyx, 10pm, $10-$15

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Doyle Stewart, 9pm, no cover

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Rusty Blackbird & The Tennessee Warblers, 7pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 6pm, M, no cover

Victor Wooten Trio, 8pm, $25-$35

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Jess the Ripper, 6pm, no cover

Karaoke with Matthew Ray, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Panda, 9pm, no cover

Trivia Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Smooth Jazz Sunday with Bob Irons, 10am, no cover

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SALES, No Vacation, 7pm, M, $14-$16

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SUNDAY 8/19

MON-WED 8/20-8/22 Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

John Stowell Trio, 7:30pm, $5

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

Magic After Dark, 9pm, $31-$46 Chris Lake, That! and Friends, 10pm, $25-$30

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

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

Monique Jade Band, 8:30pm, no cover

Krystal McMullen, 8pm, no cover

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

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $21-$46 T-N-Keys, 4:30pm, Tu, no cover Biggest Little City Band, 7pm, W, no cover

Victor Wooten Trio

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FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 16, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

MONDAY ART MAKERS: Arts for All Nevada offers weekly workshops for people with intellectual disabilities. Art supplies are provided. Aides/caregivers are welcome to attend the workshops as needed. Mon, 8/20, 3:30pm. Free. Arts for All Nevada, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY DUCK RACE AND FESTIVAL: Twenty thousand bright yellow, rubber ducks will race down the Truckee River during the annual fundraiser for homeless pets. The festival also features bounce houses and face painting for kids, carnival games, live music, vendors, food trucks and adoptable pets from the Nevada Humane Society seeking a forever home. Adopt a rubber duck for $5. The duck race starts at 4pm. Sun, 8/19, 11am. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 856-2000 ext 335, www.duckrace.com/reno.

NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: Dragon boat teams will

AUG/17:

RENO GREEK FESTIVAL

Enjoy authentic cuisine crafted by members of St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Church, as well as traditional Greek dance, music, desserts and more. Limited advance tickets are $12 (includes $10 of food) and regular admission will be $5 at the door. Festival hours are 5-10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 19, at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Church, 4795 Lakeside Drive. Call 825-5365 or visit www.facebook.com/RenoGreekFest.

EVENTS

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: The weekly gathering features about 30 food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday. Local bands and artists are featured each week. Fri, 8/17, 5pm. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1800 Idlewild Drive, facebook.com/renostreetfood.

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, 8/16, 4pm. Free.

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

HIGH SIERRA WRITERS: Bring your written work to share and critique with published and unpublished writers. Wed, 8/22, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5555 S. Virginia St., highsierrawriters.org.

BEIJING TAXI: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of the 2010 documentary film directed by Miow Wang. The film takes an intimate and compelling look at the lives of three cab drivers as they confront modern issues and changing values against the backdrop of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Sun, 8/19, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., artemisiamovies.weeebly.com.

FEED THE CAMEL: Local food trucks convene under the Keystone Bridge, serving unique specialties along with local beer.

The event takes place every Wednesday through Aug. 29. Wed, 8/22, 5pm. Free.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/ Feed-The-Camel-256832417824677.

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KTMB’S RAISE THE RIVER: The annual fundraiser offers craft drinks and interactive sensory activities, along with a sit-down dinner in the garden and local music. All proceeds benefit Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful’s education and beautification efforts in the community.

Thu, 8/16, 5:30pm. $125. Sensory Garden in Idlewild Park, 74 Cowan Drive, (775) 8515185, www.ktmb.org/raisetheriver.

JAZZ & BEYOND—CARSON CITY MUSIC AND ART FESTIVAL: The 15th annual festival

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features music, art and film events at multiple venues, including Bob McFadden Plaza, Silver Saddle Ranch, the State Railroad Museum, Comma Coffee, Brewery Arts Center and Living the Good Life. Thu, 8/16-Sun, 8/19. Free for most events. Various venues in Carson City, Carson Street, Carson City, jazzcarsoncity.com.

race across Sparks Marina during the second annual event. The festival features a health and wellness village, beer garden, food trucks, kids’ fun zone and more. Sat, 8/18, 9am-3pm. Free admission. Sparks Marina Park, 300 Howard Drive, Sparks, (855) 496-2628, www.gwndragonboat.com.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball

team plays Salt Lake Bees. Thu, 8/16-Sat, 8/18, 7:05pm; Sun, 8/19, 1:05pm. $10-$45.

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

RENO PIRATE CRAWL: Dress up as your favorite buccaneer, pirate wench or other sea marauder and purchase a commemorative crawl cup and map for $5, which gets you drink specials, live entertainment, free giveaways and free admission to more than 15 participating bars, nightclubs and restaurants. The crawl starts at Harrah’s Reno Plaza and Headquarters Bar. Sat, 8/18, 8pm. $5 cup and map. Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., www.crawlreno.com.

TMQ QUILT SHOW: The event includes two featured quilters, 280 quilts, 18 vendors, demonstrations, country store, raffle table and silent auction. Fri, 8/17-Sat, 8/18, 10am. $10-$15. Reno Convention Center Exhibit Hall C, 4001 S. Virginia St., (925) 890-3103, www.tmqshow.com.

VIRGINIA CITY RODEO & FIESTA DEL CHARRO: Enjoy two days of bull riders, wild broncs, kids’ mutton busting, Mexican bull fighting and more. Sat, 8/18-Sun, 8/19, 1-3pm. $15-$25. Virginia City Fairgrounds, 458 F St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7500, visitvirginiacitynv.com.

ART ARTIST CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Nevada and the West and Loving Nevada. Members Larry Jacox and Ann Weiss host the gallery’s August show. Thu, 8/16-Wed, 8/22, 11am-4pm. Free. Artist Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896,www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

GALLERY EAST: Untitled: A Venture into the Unknown. Quynh Tran’s series deals with the artist’s conception of the liminal space—a space between worlds, thresholds, or psychological states. Thu,

8/16-Fri, 8/17, Mon, 8/20-Wed, 8/22, 9am5pm. Free. McKinley Arts and Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, www.reno.gov.

GALLERY WEST: A Splash of Color. McKinley Gallery West hosts painter Courtney Jacobs. Thu, 8/16-Fri, 8/17, Mon, 8/20-Wed, 8/22, 9am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts and Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, www.reno.gov.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Dungeon Crawler.

The exhibition features three immersive solo installations by Devra Freelander, Jessica Gatlin and Cassie McQuate. The exhibition is on view Tuesday-Friday through Aug. 29. Thu, 8/16-Fri, 8/17, Tue, 8/21-Wed, 8/22, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

ONSTAGE LEGALLY BLONDE—THE MUSICAL: Sierra School of Performing Arts presents the award-winning musical based on the hit movie. Sorority star Elle Woods doesn’t take “no” for an answer. When her boyfriend dumps her for someone “serious,” Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style. Performances are Aug. 17-18, 24-26, 30-31 and Sept. 1. Fri, 8/17-Sat, 8/18, 7:30pm. $15-$45. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, sierraschoolofperformingarts.org.

TAHOE/TRUCKEE FARM TO TABLE DINNER: Join the Sierra

METRO GALLERY, RENO CITY HALL: Winnemucca Valley—Nevada’s Serengeti.

The Reno City Hall Metro Gallery exhibits Erik Holland’s landscape paintings of Winnemucca Valley. The show runs through Sept. 7. There will be a reception on Sept. 6, 5-7pm. Thu, 8/16-Fri, 8/18, Mon, 8/20-Wed, 8/22, 8am-5pm. Free. Reno City Hall, 1 E. First St., (775) 334-6264.

SPARKS MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: The Biggest Little Watercolor Show.

Sierra Watercolor Society presents its latest exhibition of original watercolor paintings by local artists and its annual judged show. Thu, 8/16-Sat, 8/18, Tue, 8/21Wed, 8/22, 11am. Free. Sparks Museum & Cultural Center, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

MUSIC DENNIS JOHNSON & THE MISSISSIPPI RAMBLERS: Johnson’s vibrant slideguitar based interpretations of blues classics and high-energy originals feature honky-tonk piano, a lively rhythm section and vivacious energy that sooth the soul and lift the spirit. Sat, 8/18, 7pm. Free. Minnesota Street Stage, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, concerts.levittamp.org/carsoncity.

FROBECK: The Grammy-nominated band performs their blend of pop, funk and rock. Wed, 8/22, 7:30pm. $22. Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, Tallac Historic Site, 1 Valhalla Road, Highway 89 (Emerald Bay Road), South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, valhallatahoe.com.

MINDI ABAIR & THE BONESHAKERS: The saxophonist and two-time Grammy nominee performs. Mon, 8/20, 7:30pm. $30-$94. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697.

P’OPERA! WALKS THE RED CARPET: A showcase of music from award-winning shows. Sun, 8/19, 5pm & 7:30pm. $35.

Napa Sonoma Grocery Company, 7671 S. Virginia St., poperanv.org.

Nevada Alliance and Squaw Valley Institute to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Sierra Nevada Alliance with a farm-to-table dinner on the beach at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. This event features food from Tahoe Food Hub and live music by jazz artist CeCe Gable. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Sierra Nevada Alliance and Squaw Valley Institute. Fri, 8/17, 5:30pm. $125-$150. North Lake Event Center, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, sierranevadaalliance.com.

LAKE TAHOE MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Lake Tahoe Music Festival’s 20-piece Academy Orchestra kicks off a five-day concert series at intimate outdoor settings on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City and Truckee. Wed, 8/22, 6pm. $30, free for children under age 12. West Shore Café, 5160 W. Lake Blvd., Homewood, (530) 5833101, tahoemusic.org.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s 46th season is headlined by productions of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the off Broadway revue Beehive: The 60s Musical. The productions will be performed in rotating repertory Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30 p.m., through Aug. 26. Thu, 8/16-Wed, 8/22, 7:30pm. $15-$188. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697.

SKATE THE LAKE: Skate, bike or roll 28 miles around the lake to raise funds and awareness for Boarding for Breast Cancer’s education, prevention and survivorship programs. This year B4BC will add a drop-in point right at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows. This drop will be a mellow, 7-mile push to the finish line at Commons Beach. Fri, 8/17, 8:30am.

Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (310) 418-2174, squawalpine.com/ events-things-do/b4bc-skate-lake.

YOGA SQUAW’D: Breathe and stretch in an outdoor setting with live music every Wednesday through Aug. 29 in The Village. Wed, 8/22, 5pm. Free. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

by AMY ALKON

Smells like quarantine spirit I’m a 41-year-old married lesbian.

My wife and I used to work from home together. She recently got an important job, and she’s now gone all day, five days a week. I’m happy for her, and this is good for us in the long run, but I’m really sad and lonely.

The late neuroscientist John Cacioppo explained loneliness as a painful feeling of “disconnection” from others. He differentiated loneliness—the aching longing for human connection—from a desire for solitude, “the pleasures of sometimes being by yourself.” And he and his wife and research partner, psychologist Stephanie Cacioppo, noted that loneliness has been associated with serious negative effects on not just emotional well-being but also physical health, including an increased risk of heart attacks.

However, as you’re staring gloomily into the void, it might help to understand that our emotions are actually our watchdogs. They rise up in us to motivate us to engage in the sort of behaviors—like connecting with other people—that would help us survive and pass on our genes.

For example, we humans evolved to be cooperators—interdependent—which is to say we’re “people who need people.” Take author Henry David Thoreau, an icon for hermitude and selfsufficiency who put in big chunks of alone time out by Walden Pond. What few people realize, notes Thoreau expert Elizabeth Witherell, is that he was also a huge people person. In fact, Thoreau wrote in Walden, “I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way.”

As for you, it’s possible that some of the feelbad you’re experiencing is the discomfort we often feel about change. But chances are, you’d feel a good bit better if you could replace at least some of the level of daily human engagement you’re used to. You could, for example, go out to a coffee shop for part of your workday—the same coffee shop every day so you can connect with other regulars there.

You could also invite work-at-home friends over to your place to be coworkers. Volunteer work could be helpful, too.

No, it isn’t the same as having your wife there with you all day.

But it should dial down your separation distress—perhaps even substantially. This should allow you to let your wife know you really missed her—but maybe just with a sexy kiss at the door.

Love you faux ever How do you know when a man’s “I love you” is for real? I’ve had men express their love to me with great sincerity, only to vanish not long afterward.

To parse whether a man’s “I love you” is just the later-in-therelationship version of “You related to Yoda? Because yodalicious,” you need to consider context. The exact same statement can have different meanings depending on the context—the situation, the circumstances in which it’s made.

Research by evolutionary social psychologist Joshua Ackerman and his colleagues suggests that men’s I-love-yous “are likely to be more sincere (i.e., less colored by the goal of attaining initial sexual access) after sex has occurred.” They also find that men, on average, start thinking about “confessing love” 97 days into a relationship—so just over three months. Of course, an individual man may know sooner or take longer.

All in all, the best lie detector you probably have is context—racking up a good bit of time and experiences with a man and seeing how well the walk matches the talk. You might even wait till the three-month benchmark before concluding that the I-love-yous are likely to be for real—and aren’t, say, the best possible air bag for what might come shortly afterward: “I got you a little something on my work trip. It requires a short course of antibiotics.” 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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garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks.

You’ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should. It might feel more like work than play—even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and theologian

Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitating human temptation is to settle for too little; to live a comfortable life rather than an interesting one. I wouldn’t say that’s always true about you, Taurus. But I do suspect that in the coming weeks, a tendency to settle for less could be the single most devitalizing temptation you’ll be susceptible to. That’s why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a smaller blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. Hold out for the best and brightest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I’ve learned quite a

lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.” So says the wise and well-educated novelist Margaret Atwood.

Judging by your current astrological omens, I think this is an excellent clue for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? Have you been half-avoiding any teaching that you or someone else thinks you’re “supposed” to be learning? If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it with cheerful rebelliousness.

Doing so may lead you to what you really need to learn about next.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sometimes you make

it difficult for me to reach you. You act like you’re listening, but you’re not really listening.

You semi-consciously decide that you don’t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself. When you lock me out like that, I become a bit dumb. My advice isn’t as good or helpful. The magic between us languishes.

Please don’t do that to me now. And don’t do it to anyone who cares about you. I realize that you may need to protect yourself from people who aren’t sufficiently careful with you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and I think you’ll be wise to open yourself to them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Whoever does not visit

Paris regularly will never really be elegant,” wrote French author Honoré de Balzac. I think that’s an exaggeration, but it does trigger a worthwhile meditation. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul, and add more of it to your repertoire. So here are your homework meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship with your deep self?

(P.S.: Fashion designer Christian Dior said, “Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity.”)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of us imagine

medieval Europe to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous hues: “big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches, and the colored magic of stained glass.”

Maybe you’ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo. I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers and pinks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An astrologer on Tum-

blr named Sebastian says this about your sign: “Libras can be boring people when they don’t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves.

But they can be just as exciting as any fire sign, just as weird as any Aquarius, just as talkative as a Gemini and just as empathetic as a Pisces. Really, Librans are some of the most

eccentric people you’ll ever meet, but you might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred

by Sebastian’s analysis, here’s my advice to you: I hope you’ll spend a lot of time with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your mental, physical and spiritual health, you’ll need to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastian’s at venuspapi. tumblr.com.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who calls

herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that makes her “believe in magic.” They include the following: “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever-changing grey green blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. You’re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Since 1969,

eight-foot-two-inch-tall Big Bird has been the star of the kids’ TV show Sesame Street.

He’s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write poetry, dance and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Big Bird’s imagination. I’m foreseeing a comparable event in your life sometime soon, Sagittarius.

You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or private pleasure or unappreciated asset.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and author

Simone de Beauvoir was one of those Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. “I am awfully greedy,” she wrote. “I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.”

Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my

reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book Yarn/

Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, “The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil spirit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.” The idea is that the mistake “is a crack left open to let in the light.” Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. “It’s that little voice in my head that says, ‘I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.’” I’ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.

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 BRAD BYNUm

Editor Adrian Roberts is an event promoter and DJ, and publisher and editor of BRC Weekly, an alternative weekly-style newspaper distributed around Burning Man. From 1995 to 2007, she was publisher and editor of Piss Clear, an extra snarky Burning Man alt-weekly. For more information, visit www.brcweekly.com. To read a longer version of this interview, visit www.newsreview.com/reno.

Piss Clear was a great publication, and I was such a fan. But I’m way less familiar with BRC Weekly.

Thank you! Basically, we had a 13-year run. Piss Clear published from 1995 ’til 2007. It started off as literally a zine—because, hello, mid-’90s, that’s what we did back then. 1997 was our first year on newsprint—because I worked for an independent alternative newsweekly ... so we ended being able to print on newsprint, and we kind of became like a legit alternative newspaper. But, by 2007, [sighs] Piss Clear was pissy and snarky, a good-natured piss take on Burning Man. But after so many years, especially after multiple issues over the course of a week, it just felt like we were bitching about the same things. I was all bitched out. … If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t be going, but I needed to take a break from the snark. ... So, we ended it in 2007, because that

was 13 years. And the Black Rock Gazette, Burning Man’s official newspaper, had also lasted for 13 years. And at that point, I had started DJ-ing at Burning Man. Ooh, how original! A DJ goes to Burning Man! But my day job now is that I produce events for a living. I’m a DJ and an event producer. I do Bootie Mashup parties in San Francisco, L.A., New York. ... So, obviously, I wanted to start doing them in Black Rock City. But, I have to say, after two years off, going out there, but then not doing a newspaper—it had become such a part of [my] identity. I kept coming up with things for the “what’s out, what’s in” list, playa lingo—we just kept coming up with funny material. So, I said basically, let’s re-launch Piss Clear.

But, by that point, I had put out a book that compiled all 13 years of Piss Clear. ... So I didn’t want to relaunch the paper, because then the book would no longer be complete. Plus, I wanted us to be seen

as more legit journalism. And really the biggest, biggest thing was that we only wanted to do one issue. … Distributing three or four issues over the week was kind of stupid. Let’s just make one really kick-ass issue—all killer, no filler—and produce more of them. Hence, a weekly. ... And the very first year, 2010, we made a real stab at being a legit alternative journalism newspaper—and then it only took one year for us to devolve back into snarky, bitchy, sarcastic Piss Clear. … We’re a little light on news, because we can’t get news out there. Any legit news—this camp got busted for drugs or this person died—they keep that stuff on such a clampdown. … And frankly, the other newspaper out there, the Black Rock Beacon, they’re a little light on news, too. And when I say a little, I mean entirely light on news. ... I always worry that we’re going to run out of material, but no, there’s more than enough to write about in Black Rock City, even if it’s not actual news.

But that has to be a little frustrating. It would be for me, anyway.

Yeah. We’re all writers, but we’re not necessarily journalists. We’re not doing investigative journalism out there. The BRC Weekly, like any alternative weekly, is done the week before. It hits the stands—the stands? The boxes in the Center Camp Cafe on Monday. If stuff happens out there during the week? Well, too bad. You’ll have to wait til next week’s issue, which of course doesn’t happen because the event is over the next week. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Libraries serve in heat Here’s a slab of bullshit that has completely overstayed its presence on the living room couch.

You’ve heard it a thousand times.

“Yes, the Russians attacked our election in 2016, but as far as we can tell, those attacks didn’t affect the outcome in any way.” Oh, piss off and die. Let’s acknowledge and accept the reality of that mangled farce once and for all, as put forth by terrorism analyst Clint Watts: “Without the Russian influence effort, I believe Trump would not have even been within striking distance of Clinton on Election Day.” Exactly. The Plain Truth, put in easily digestible form.

• Tweet of the Day—”I don’t watch Fox News for the same reason I don’t drink out of my toilet.”

• Jeez, it’s been kinda warm lately.

I’m guessing you’ve noticed. For those without AC or a swamp

cooler—interesting to consider the impact millions of raging air conditioners are having on global heating—these past weeks of 99s meant it was time to bring out the old Heat-Beat Playbook, featuring such tried and true standards as (1) matinee at the hellplex (amazing the crap you’ll sit through when it’s roasting outside) or (2) frolicking at the Lake. (Ah, the rapture of the Tahoe traffic jam!) Well, there’s another plan that’s far less popular but just as effective as movies and Tahoe, and that’s your local library.

I’ve had a swell time holing up in the extremely pleasant Spanish Springs branch during recent days of triple digits. They’ve got that thermostat set at about 76. They’ve got the nice Visa-friendly coffee machine. They’ve got the comfy reading chairs, and there are usually just a few quiet, polite people there. It’s a really nice way to hide out during the broiling hours of 2-6

p.m., and, as a bonus—you can get some reading done!

• I’ve been greatly enjoying the stories coming out on Commerce Secretary Wilbur (The Cryptkeeper) Ross, and the accusations that he has swindled hundreds of millions from business associates and partners. Now, come on. Just look at Wilbur. Does he look like a guy who would screw you out of a few million? What an absolutely grizzled old creep. I usually buy into the old saying that you can’t judge a book by its cover, but in Wilbur’s case, I’ll gladly make an exception. Just another perfect example of Dum Dum’s Cabinet of Cretins, who continually assault us with their malevolent incompetence.

• Omarosa doesn’t have any cred?

Hey, she’s got a lot more than the liar-in-chief! Ω

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