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Plutonium In session Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. As I sit writing this, the Nevada Legislature is getting ready to wrap up its second day of the 2019 legislative session.

I’m always really excited by the start of a new session. I cut my teeth in journalism as a master’s student covering the 2013 session for the University of Nevada Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism, and I’ve covered the two sessions since.

Along the way, I’ve had the opportunity to meet not just legislators and lobbyists but also my fellow Nevadans—everyday folks who make their way to the capitol to speak in favor or against pieces of proposed legislation that affect them directly. (If you’d like info on how to follow those hearings online, go to www.leg.state.nv.us/universalaccess.htm.)

This year is, of course, particularly exciting considering the Nevada Legislature is the first in the nation to have a female majority. I’m baffled by states like Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, where only about 15 percent of state legislators are female. But Nevada has long had strong female legislators. I’m thinking of women like Shelley Berkley, Jill Derby, Chris Giunchigliani, Dina Titus, the RN&R’s own Shelia Leslie, Frankie Sue Del Papa, Sue Wagner, Debbie Smith Jan Evans and Jan Jones, to name just a few.

I hope all of this year’s legislators—male and female, new and experienced—will keep in mind all of the good work that was done by the state’s female legislators who came before.

—Jeri Chadwell je ric @ ne wsrev i ew . com

In regards to the State of Nevada politics concerning the DOEs shipment of Plutonium to Nevada. Why does the Nevada political representation continue to ignore that 85 percent of the state land mass is desert owned by the federal government, e.g. all U.S. Citizens? Why, for strategic reasons and “national security” of AMERICA. Nevada has had a long history of this service to our country.

Gov. Steve Sisolak said he is “beyond outraged by this completely unacceptable deception.” Governor, the state’s opposition to this AND its opposition to Yucca Mountain are based on “your” politics, rather than the actual science & engineering conducted by the DOE. NONE of the Nevada representatives have toured the Idaho National Laboratory for an education about our nation’s nuclear technology.

The best security has always been, unannounced, unmarked movement. Many touring concerts employ such tactics. E.g. you and the other representative comments are statements based on opinion rather than research. Ms. Titus, if you and Ms. Rosen want to deem this and the Yucca Mountain program unethical, you should legally recognize the facts. The Obama Administration which halted the Yucca program obstructed congressional law, and the Obama stoppage of Yucca was overruled by the courts, facts.

All occasions of Nevada’s legal challenges to the “Yucca Mountain Law” have been overturned by the courts. The Yucca program was never developed to serve Nevada politics. It was developed to serve all of America and the Nevada public.

The truth is the citizens have been misled for over 35 years about its science and engineering stability.

Some 80 percent of the science & engineering community accept the Yucca facility as designed is a safe long-term sustainable facility. Most also believe that reprocessing technology eventually will

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resolve 96 percent of the Spent Nuclear Fuel. Will there ever be a chance that Nevada’s political representatives might be educated about nuclear technology?

Gary Duarte Sparks Susan Orr and I testified at a 1974 Salt Lake City hearing on the Atomic Energy Commission (now Department of Energy) environmental impact statement about storage of nuclear wastes in Nevada. We learned not only U.S. wastes but also wastes from every country which had received nuclear fission reactors from the U.S. would be our responsibility, plus, reactors must be decommissioned (after 30-35 years), and also would need storage for 240,000 years (later revised to “only 10,000 years”). The U.S.A. soon will be only 243 years old.

Nevada, mostly federally owned, was “barren & unpopulated” and the “test site” was “contaminated by above and below-ground atomic bomb tests.” Not much science needed to decide just to stick the stuff underground. A dog burying a bone could put more deep thought into his/her actions.

Wastes were stored mostly in granite on the East coast. Nevada earthquake fault tremors from the test site were felt in Idaho. Should canisters or steel tunnel rupture, liquid waste could leach through porous “tuff” and sandy soil to the Amargosa River underground to reach populated communities like Pahrump. No need to add “waste” flavors to their winery.

We co-founded Citizen Alert and traveled Nevada to share what we had learned.

At one point, I said “Nevada is not a wasteland” and bumper stickers with that slogan were made by Marla Painter.

Nevada is a beautiful, subtle state. She has often been abused by those who dug holes to take her treasures, and she has long (legally) accepted money from those who wanted to put their stuff in her orifices.

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Luckily, state leaders have for five decades protected her (and us), until the sneak attack last October of a half metric ton of plutonium forced upon her with rapacious disregard for our beloved state’s “freedom of speech” to say “No, thank you.”

Heck fire and boy howdy, talk about “inappropriate behavior.” No hearings held, no leaders informed, no citizens alerted— such secret lawless actions can destroy a democratic republic. To say the crime had to be “secret” for our “security” reveals a cavalier disregard for truth.

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By matt bieker

Who should be on the city council? aSKed at WaShoe county liBrary, 301 S. center St.

Stephen Kelly IT specialist

Obviously, Mariano Calvin, my fiancé. He cares about the people, and he’s always helped.

He’s a very good leader.

tom tate Retiree

I’d like to see someone who’s concerned about providing good services at a reasonable price, who isn’t so political that they go off on tangents that don’t really have anything to do with us, and who try to preserve the good aspects of Reno while improving on the things that could use a little help.

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Thanks, government workers Nevada social scientist James Richardson often discusses “the Other,” a concept people in his field use to describe the way entire groups can be demonized.

“There’s such a thing as ’the Other,’ the fearful other,” he once told us. “They’re different from you and me. ...

The animosity toward German immigrants in the period before World War II, Italian immigrants who were working hard and trying to find their place. ... If you can stoke fear, that’s a winning combination.”

It’s happened, for instance, to Jews and Catholics and African Americans. And it still happens to other groups, such as trial lawyers, union workers and government employees.

Every time there’s a government shutdown, a letter to the editor commonly appears in local newspapers across the nation. Last month it appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal, and it said that with no initial problems as a result of “non-essential” federal employees having to stay home, it was apparent that they were unnecessary workers.

Last week, the Sparks Tribune ran a piece by former Las Vegas editor Thomas Mitchell titled “State public employee unions will bust the budget.”

These are the arguments about the public’s workers that fall apart as a result either of events or a few minutes of thought. Unfortunately, many people don’t take that time or make that linkage. The RGJ letter got some perspective when, as the shutdown wore on, needed services started having difficulty assisting the public because the missing “non-essentials” quickly became essential again. And with

a little thought, it would be clear that public workers, with or without collective bargaining, have a stake in reasonable restraint because driving government to busted budgets jeopardizes their jobs.

We can hear some people now as they say, yes, the police and firefighters and the road workers are fine, but it’s all those paper pushers who really bug me. It’s an argument akin to the assertions that were once heard, that the good Jews are OK or the good blacks are fine, “It’s all those others who are the problem.” The paper pushers may be the ones whose paper reports make sure we get a gallon of gas from the pumps inspected by public workers, whose papers record the cleanliness of meat markets and restaurants we use and the purity of our air and water, whose papers filed make sure the companies we depend on are truly licensed. The paper pushers may be just folks on our street. In other words, they may just be us.

There are always anecdotes to undercut the notion of the majority of public workers being useful and reliable.

Where are the anecdotes about when the storm moved in this past Monday evening and an army of public employees were out all night long keeping streets cleared? When school moneys run short, how many teachers spend their own money on school supplies? And let’s remember that 404 of the public’s workers died on September 11.

Yes, there will always be the ones who try to project the faults of the occasional government worker who screws up onto the entire body of those workers.

But we don’t have to let them. We’re all in this society together. Ω

Somebody that’s a little bit more in touch with what’s going on in Reno, because I think a lot of these city council members are a little bit removed. Yes, a lot of them are business people, but they don’t run their businesses.

City council is their job.

Jocelyn Kemp Student

I guess it depends on the types of people that are already on the council, but I think it’s always good to have diversity and people who can kind of see things from different points of views. It’s good to have as many points of view as you can, as many people to give their personal insight.

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Chip Evans. I know him. I know he’s an extremely concerned citizen. I know he’s already made a lot of effort toward making his voice known in the political realm here in the city, and he’s somebody I would trust.

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Lessons from history Listening to several fascinating podcasts recently has taken me back to 1973, the year I graduated from high school and the year the Watergate scandal fractured the Nixon presidency. By the time I left for Madrid that summer to spend the next year studying abroad, Nixon’s secret tapes were making headline news, and people were starting to understand the scope of the attempted cover-up of the Watergate burglary, but I didn’t pay much attention.

In Spain, I worried about making it through another day trying to learn the language and maneuver through a huge city. I don’t remember Watergate ever coming up. If it did, I didn’t understand the conversation.

I missed the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in October of 1973, remembering vaguely that he was forced out for tax evasion, so I was stunned to learn of his old-fashioned thuggish crime of soliciting and accepting envelopes stuffed with cash as described in Rachel Maddow’s podcast, “Bag Man.” The podcast includes newscasts from the era, with voices of

network anchors betraying their own incredulity about the daily news coming out of Washington.

By the time I returned to California in the summer of 1974, the country was obsessed with Watergate, and the highlights of congressional hearings were must-watch television every night. The days leading up to impeachment felt like a real-life, real-time soap opera, especially when the “smoking gun” tape revealed Nixon was deeply involved with the cover-up and had obstructed justice with a vengeance. Even my Republican father was disgusted with Nixon and his misdeeds and his audacity and stupidity in audiotaping his crimes.

Slate’s podcast, “Slow Burn,” documents Nixon’s final months with precision, using snippets from the tapes, interspersed with interviews of congressional investigators and newscasts bringing those July days into high relief for baby boomers like me who were transitioning to young adulthood in 1974.

By the time Nixon resigned in August, it

felt like we’d collectively been through a national calamity—and survived it.

It’s been 45 years now but the lessons of the forced resignations of a corrupt vicepresident and a crooked president are very relevant to the national conversation about our current president and his band of merry sycophants.

When I read Yoni Appelbaum’s case for Trump’s impeachment in the Atlantic last week and watched his video editorial, the podcasts were fresh in my mind, and I found his argument that Congress should open a formal impeachment inquiry convincing. He notes we’ve been through presidential impeachment three times—Nixon in 1974, Clinton in 1998, and Andrew Johnson way back in 1868.

He argues the Johnson impeachment offers the most historical resonance to today’s situation, as Johnson was “autocratic and egotistic to the point of mental disease.”

Appelbaum is clearly right when he says Trump has failed to keep his oath of office and “demanded that public officials

put their loyalty to him ahead of their duty to the public,” “evinced little respect for the rule of law,” and has “repeatedly trampled upon” the Constitution. He reminds us that impeachment is sometimes “a process, not an outcome.”

Before you dismiss impeachment as impossible or too divisive for the country, recall the tumult of 1973-74 and the cleansing breath the nation took post-Nixon/ Agnew. Then read Applebaum’s essay. He concludes: “Today, the United States once more confronts a president who seems to care for only some of the people he represents, who promises his supporters that he can roll back the tide of diversity, who challenges the rule of law, and who regards constitutional rights and liberties as disposable. Congress must again decide whether the greater risk lies in executing the Constitution as it was written, or in deferring to voters to do what it cannot muster the courage to do itself.” Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Camp Fire and pG&e bankruptCy

South Carolina waste is now in Nevada—at thisNational Security Site, though the U.S. Energy Department disputes the term waste.

Ben Ehrenreich in the Nation Magazine: “In August, as fires raged through Northern California, the Democratic National Committee passed a resolution to ‘welcome’ donations from the fossil-fuel industry, reversing a ban it had voted in two months earlier.

This would be corrupt and cynical in the best of circumstances, even if the status quo wasn’t literally in flames.”

Wes Venteicher and Sophia Bollag in the Sacramento Bee: “As California wildfires grew, so did PG&E lobbying spending. An end-of-the-year bump put PG&E among the top lobbying spenders of the last legislative session, according to disclosures filed Thursday.”

How muCH From don?

Nevada billionaires Miriam and Sheldon Adelson have given half a million dollars to the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust, a fund set up to assist people associated with Donald Trump with their legal bills.

Trump himself has received $30 million from the Adelsons over the years.

Also contributing to the fund is Phil Ruffin, Trump’s business partner in Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Ruffin ponied up $50,000.

nanCy GraCe roman 1925-2018 Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, first woman executive at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, died on Christmas Day. Known as the mother of the Hubble, she was the first chief of astronomy in NASA’s Office of Space Science.

In the 1930s, 11-year-old Nancy became bewitched by the stars in the night sky over Reno.

“In Reno, of course, the skies were very clear, a beautiful place to observe the sky, and we lived on the edge of the city at the time,” she told a National Air and Space Museum interviewer in 1980. She and her friends formed an astronomy club for girls, though later some of her teachers told her it was not a calling for women.

“We learned the constellations, read astronomy. I just never lost my interest in it,” she said.

The website O3H2.com noted that though she never won the Nobel prize, there is an honor that is probably more impressive to later little girls who might want to overcome skepticism that they belong in the field—a Nancy Grace Roman figurine by Lego.

—Dennis Myers

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Notification They have their own brand of it in D.C. if nevada had not filed suit to try to stop plutonium from coming into the state, it would never have known the stuff was already in Nevada.

On Dec. 20, 2017, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs ordered the U.S. Department of Energy to remove a metric ton of plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina within two years or no later than Jan. 1, 2020.

A few weeks ago, on Nov. 30, while Nevada officials were in talks with the DOE—and shortly before the DOE released a “progress report” that said the plutonium move would mean “additional radiation exposure to workers”—Nevada filed a lawsuit to halt any shipment to the state.

Then, last week, a DOE lawyer filed papers updating the court on what he claimed was newly declassified information. It informed the court that a half ton of plutonium had already been shipped to the Nevada National Security Site (formerly called the Nevada Test Site) before the state filed its lawsuit.

Nevada officials were livid.

“I am beyond outraged by this completely unacceptable deception from the U.S. Department of Energy,” Gov. Steve Sisolak said in a prepared statement.

“We’re going to be really pissed off if it turns out they snuck a shipment in here while they were engaged in what we thought were good faith negotiations,” Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects Executive Director Robert Halstead told the Nevada Independent.

“The Department of Energy (DOE) and NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] negotiated in bad faith, hiding the timing of their shipment and refused to share crucial information with Members of Congress who had the security clearance to know,” said a prepared statement by U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

Did the DOE fail to tell Nevada officials before shipping the plutonium?

It’s not an easy question to answer. Federal agencies are amazingly skilled at obfuscating their actions, and news stories of 50 or 100 words don’t deal in nuance.

Snopes, the website that started out exposing urban legends and has expanded to fact-check claims in the news, has rated the Nevada officials’ claim “unproven.” The accompanying text merely recounted the events that brought the waste to Nevada. There was no examination of the record.

“It is inaccurate to state that the members of the Nevada delegation were not informed of this movement,” said a prepared statement from the DOE. “The Department of Energy was as transparent as operational security would permit. Efforts were made to ensure that Members of Congress and state officials representing the states involved were notified of the planned movement ahead of time, as early as August 2018 when NNSA publicly released the plan in a Supplement Analysis.

Since then, NNSA confirmed that it was ‘actively engaged’ in removing one metric ton of plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada, Texas, and New Mexico.”

The “supplement analysis” referenced is a 49-page report with an index and glossary and verbiage that, if it ever came to the attention of Nevada officials, may well have seemed to be describing a future shipment. It does not say that the DOE is about to move plutonium. It says the DOE “proposes to move” plutonium. Nor does it say where the shipment would be taken. That was yet to be decided: “near Amarillo, Texas and/or Nevada National Security site.”

The DOE claim that Nevada officials were informed, incidentally, seems to conflict with the court filing by its lawyer, Bruce Diamond, who wrote, “In order to provide security for its shipments of these kinds of materials, DOE normally will not release information about the status of the shipment(s) until sometime after the shipping ‘campaign’ is concluded.”

Moreover, the notion that informing members of the Nevada congressional delegation was adequate notice is faulty. Federal agencies also have a responsibility to inform the public of their actions. The DOE says it did that

and as proof has presented one newspaper report published in Aiken, South Carolina, population 30,000, adjacent to the Savannah site (“NNSA: Weapons-grade plutonium will be moved out of SC this year, next year,” Aiken Standard, Nov. 1, 2018).

The problem with the DOE statement “The Department of Energy was as transparent as operational security would permit” is that the DOE has a conflict of interest—it decides for itself what constitutes security.

The citizen is forced to accept its assessment, when the motivation for the action may be security but may also be public relations or concealment of an awkward bureaucratic problem. It’s not like there is no precedent within the DOE and its predecessor agencies for these other motivations. The DOE and its earlier bureaucratic incarnations—the Energy Research and Development Administration and, still earlier, the Atomic Energy Commission—have long had a reputation for a casual relationship with accuracy.

“The AEC was just the worst agency,” journalist I.F. Stone said in 1988. “They were mendacious. They started out right off the bat by telling us that fallout was good for you, and it was all downhill from there.”

There have been many indications that this climate within the AEC was retained as the agency evolved into the DOE. For instance, just as Donald Trump would like U.S. intelligence agencies to concoct findings that support his policies, he also expects the U.S. Energy Department to support his anti-alternative energy policy—and the department has accommodated him. Trump has a policy of propping up coal and nuclear, and his Energy Secretary Rick Perry claimed in 2017 that “grid experts” say energy alternatives make the power grid less stable. Perry even appointed a panel of such experts to examine the issue and was disappointed when it came back with a report that said, with a few reservations, that wind and solar did nothing to undercut the reliability of the grid. Nevertheless, the maneuver demonstrated the way the DOE can obfuscate to advance political policy.

This sort of thing has been going on since before the DOE and its previous agencies even existed. In 1945, federal nuclear officials prevailed on New York Times reporter William Laurence—the only reporter present at the detonation of the first atomic bomb, in New

Mexico—to write a Sept. 12, 1945 report challenging the notion that various deaths and sicknesses from radiation had followed the Hiroshima bomb: “This historic ground in New Mexico, scene of the first atomic explosion on Earth and cradle of a new era in civilization, gave the most effective answer today to Japanese propaganda that radiations were responsible for deaths even after the day of the explosion, Aug. 6, and that persons entering Hiroshima had contracted mysterious maladies due to persistent radioactivity.” There were later reports that Laurence was on the payroll of the War Department, later called the Defense Department.

Notifying Nevada officials is not the same as notifying the Nevada public.

Jargon Similar approaches to controlling information were taken to Western states residents when atomic testing began in Nevada.

When the Atomic Energy Commission announced in January 1951 that it would begin testing on a gunnery range in Southern Nevada, it said the explosions would be safe. When in October of that year it announced that servicepeople would be present for the tests, it said the troops would be out of range of any dangers. In August 1953, the AEC said the tests were affecting livestock but made no such admission about humans. Yet in 1954, it had Tonopah residents wearing radiation badges to determine whether they were affected by radiation levels. In 1955, when U.S. Rep. Douglas Stringfellow of Utah demanded an end to the testing, AEC scientists Alvin Graves and Jack Clark were sent to Las Vegas, Mesquite, St. George and Cedar City to calm locals. In 1957, AEC member Willard Libby said rain that fell in the District of Columbia was hot with radiation but was “not dangerous and nothing to be frightened about.” In 1967, the New York Times disclosed a 22-year effort by the Pentagon and the AEC to acquire and suppress film footage of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki aftermaths.

Journalists were not a great deal of help.

In 1954, the Las Vegas Review Journal referred to “the highly accurate information” the AEC provided. In 1962, when protesters appeared at the test site, the Las Vegas office of United Press International called them “professional protesters.”

Finally, there were the failings of elected representatives. In both Nevada

and South Carolina, elected officials loved the jobs they got in the 1950s and ’60s from their states’ roles in nuclear weapons, but they gave very little scrutiny to the risks and hazards that accompanied those jobs.

Now, South Carolina wants to dump the resulting waste on another state, and Nevada wants no part of it. Nevada’s waste from its cooperation with the federal government is vast tracts of irradiated land that cannot be moved anywhere and will not be habitable for 24,000 years. In 1967, when the AEC belatedly announced that figure, Gov. Paul Laxalt expressed surprise, but also immediately declared his faith in the public’s safety.

Notification is treated differently in some federal agencies than it is in the reality in which most people live. Many federal agencies are highly skilled at using jargon to obfuscate and conceal their actual activities.

One example is the sudden January 2006 announcement by an agency called the Defense National Stockpile Center (DNSC) that it would dump more than 4,000 metric tons of mercury at a site near Hawthorne.

The action had clearly been in preparation for years—an environmental impact statement had been done—and DNSC insisted it had fully informed Nevada officials that the plan was under consideration.

The RN&R combed through all the public notices the agency had issued and laid them out for readers to decide whether

that had happened (“Public notice,” March 23, 2006). We reported that after examining all public notices and statements issued by DNSC between the start of the search for a dump site in 2001 and its completion almost exactly five years later, we had found that there “were 14 such notices … filled with bureaucratese and candor-free. There was no announcement at any time that the agency was targeting Nevada or that the environmental impact statement completed partway through the process recommended Nevada as one of the candidate sites.”

It is true that as a small state, Nevada does not have the kind of staff support to closely monitor everything the federal government does in military, environmental, energy and other fields that might involve serious impacts on the Great Basin.

For instance, in order for the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to have known about the mercury site search its staff would have to examine all filings in the Federal Register, a daily magazine that lists all federal agency actions—and even then, they might well have missed the March 5, 2001 notice on page 13,308 of the Register describing the DNSC plan for “consolidated storage of the excess mercury” because it neglected to mention Nevada or Hawthorne.

That’s what happens when public agencies will not speak with candor to inform the public and its representatives. Ω

Historical setting

Historians Guy Louis Rocha (left) and Eric Moody chatted at a memorial gathering at the Nevada Historical Society honoring the late Phil Earl, an NHS staffer. Earl was also author of the long-running “This Was Nevada” newspaper column.

PHOTO/ DENNIS MYERS

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Write stuff Writers in the Woods Quiet weekend evenings at Sierra Nevada College’s main campus in Incline Village will become lively again this February, as community members, including students and faculty, have the opportunity to meet and share ideas with accomplished writers.

The school’s Writers in the Woods series attracts poets and writers from across the country. The college has hosted famous writers such as Lola Haskins, Nick Flynn, Tobias Wolff and many more.

According to SNC English Chair and creator of the series June Saraceno, several National Book Award winners who’ve participated in the past, including Tim O’Brien and Rebecca Makkai, will return for Writers in the Woods in September.

The program begins with a free reading on Friday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. at the SNC Tahoe Center for Environmental Studies. This part of the event is designed for both passionate writers and those just looking for a relaxing evening to engage with great literature. On Saturday mornings, those who are interested in improving their writing and getting feedback, can attend the writing workshop from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The workshop is $50 and is also located at the center on campus.

“Writers in the Woods is an inclusive series, bringing to campus speakers who represent the diversity in our nation,” Saraceno said. “In creating the event, my goal was—and continues to be—to make SNC a literary and cultural hub for the region, both for our students and for the local community.”

Writers in the Woods stands out from many literary events in that it is very intimate, Saraceno said. Instead of taking place in a large auditorium setting,

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SNC’s Writer’s in the Woods series will feature journalist and adventure writer Jeremy Evans on Feb. 8-9.

attendees are in a small classroom— allowing for questions, conversation and jokes. The event, which has become increasingly popular over the years, started in 2008 and coined the name Writers in the Woods in 2010.

The upcoming installment of Writers in the Woods will feature former journalist and adventure writer Jeremy Evans on Feb. 8-9. Evans’ books In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum and The Battle for Paradise have been reviewed in national publications like The Wall Street Journal, ESPN.com and other national and international outlets. Before writing them, Evans worked for eight years as a journalist and won many awards from the Nevada Press Association and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He has also contributed to publications such as Powder, Skiing, and Adventure Sports Journal. Evans received his master’s in teaching from Sierra Nevada College and now teaches an adventure travel writing course at the school. He also teaches writing and composition courses at Lake Tahoe Community College and South Tahoe High School.

On Feb. 22-23, the series will feature poet and memorist Alice Anderson.

Anderson is known for her books Some Bright Morning, The Watermark and Human Nature. Her work is inspired by issues she has faced in life like family violence and a traumatic brain injury.

Anderson is also a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, having written for fashion and music industry icons. Ω

For more information about Writers in the Woods or to learn how to register and attend for school credit, visit the website at: bit.ly/2MOgF7C or contact SNC Tahoe English Program Chair June Saraceno at 775 831-1314 Ext. 7514.

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repression black history has lessons for us all

by Dennis Myers

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omedians have commented on the fact that Black History Month is February, the shortest month of the year. This is so because its originator, Carter Woodson, originally created Black History Week, and he chose the week that Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born.

“History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” wrote Joseph Anthony Wittreich, and that is a good reason to learn real history and not the sanitized version given to us by state textbook officials who pressure publishers to clean up the past and make it more palatable and thus less useful.

1859 Nevada became a U.S. territory, with an

African American population of 44.

1861 Eight months after the Civil War began, President Lincoln recommended a program of shipping African Americans “back” to Africa (“at some place or places in a climate congenial to them”), although most of that population was born in the U.S. 1861 The New York Times editorialized that

schemes like Lincoln’s back-to-Africa plan assumed the willingness of other nations to accept the “absorption of four million black barbarians.”

1861 Congress enacted the Crittenden

Resolution, declaring the purpose of the Civil War to be preservation of the union and not the abolition of slavery.

1862 Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories,

including the Territory of Nevada.

1863 President Lincoln issued the

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Europe, where it discouraged governments from recognizing the Confederacy.

1864 In the U.S. House, Representative Henry Winter Davis pointed out that Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” had no legal effect, so Congress should continue working on abolishing slavery.

1864 In Fort Harrison, Virginia, African American soldiers James Gardiner and Thomas Hawkins each took actions for which they both received the Medal of Honor for gallantry.

1864 Nevada became a state.

1865 President Lincoln received a wire from

Nevada: “Received constitutional amendment yesterday abolishing slavery our legislature ratified it immediately only two 2 dissenting [signed:] H G Blasdell Gov Nevada.”

1865 The 13th amendment abolished slavery

for real.

1865 A three-day convention of African

Americans held in newly conquered Virginia adopted an appeal to the federal government not to lose politically what it gained militarily.

1866 Under a treaty between the United

States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw, the tribes agreed to give up their African American slaves.

1868 The South Carolina House convened

with the only African American majority in a state legislature in U.S. history, working on reforms in education, jury trials, local government and land ownership, though tales of irresponsible post-Civil War black legislatures abound in fiction, including some textbooks.

1870 African American barber William Bird announced his candidacy for mayor of Virginia City, Nevada, upsetting Republicans who felt he would draw votes away from the (white) GOP candidate.

1872 Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Pinckney

Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor, the first African American to serve as chief executive of a state.

1877 Four decades after he left St. Michaels, Maryland as a fugitive slave, Frederick Douglass returned as a U.S. marshal.

1879 The Nevada State Journal editorialized on legislation in Congress to establish reservations for African Americans: “It lacks practicality.”

1879 William Edward White became the first African American player in major league baseball by playing one game for the Providence Grays.

1884 Christopher Perry began publication of the Philadelphia Tribune, now believed to be the oldest continuously published African American newspaper.

1895 Booker Washington made a speech urging blacks to work hard to win their place in U.S. life, urging whites to employ African Americans instead of immigrants, and endorsing separate-but-equal arrangements.

1896 Nevada’s Gold Hill News reported that the African American “has obtained his rights, or is so near obtaining them, that he has ceased to be an object of special interest.”

1898 In the only known coup d’etat against a municipal government in U.S. history, white supremacist Democrats led by Josephus Daniels in Wilmington, North Carolina, frustrated by their inability to dislodge the moderate, black-friendly city fusion government of Republicans and Populists in elections, used white rioting to slaughter an undetermined number of blacks, exile more blacks, destroy an African American newspaper office, overthrow the local government and install white racist Democrats in office.

1901 In Leavenworth, Kansas, an African

American named Fred Alexander who was jailed on dubious evidence for allegedly assaulting two women was broken out of jail by a mob and burned at the stake in a nearby ravine (Nevada State Journal: “One More Inhuman Brute Gets His Just Deserts.”).

1905 The Niagara Movement, a gathering of 29 influential African American leaders, met secretly in Ontario to draft a manifesto denouncing Booker Washington’s “accommodation” approach to black rights.

1908 Two days of race rioting by 2,000 whites began in Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Illinois, leaving two African Americans dead and 40 black homes and 12 black businesses destroyed, for which 75 white rioters were indicted and one convicted on a minor offense, all of which inspired Theodore Roosevelt to introduce the ultimate tokenism—the Lincoln penny—in order to shift attention to a more positive racial message. The riot led to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

1908 African American Frank Price, shot by Reno’s chief of police A.A. Burke while Burke claimed he was attempting to escape arrest, was found not guilty by a jury, shocking the chief who arrested Price again on a different charge as Price was leaving the court room.

1908 Journalist Jack London responded to the world heavyweight victory of African American boxer Jack Johnson by calling for a great white hope: “The White Man must be rescued.”

1910 White hope Jim Jeffries lost to Jack

Johnson at a temporary arena near the present corner of Toano and Fourth streets in Reno, prompting white riots around the nation that left 26 people dead and many injured.

1912 In a four-way race with the Republican vote split between two candidates, white supremacist Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president with 42 percent of the vote, ushering in a calamitous eight year era that set back African American aspirations by years, including Wilson’s segregation of the federal workforce.

1915 In Temple, Texas, William Stanley

was burned alive in the city square after advance publicity of the event drew

thousands of people, including boys and girls on bicycles.

1923 Garrett Morgan, son of slaves and inventor

1916 The Journal of Negro History began publication.

1924 William DeHart Hubbard won a gold medal in the running long jump at the Paris Olympics, the first African American to win an individual medal.

1917 Encouraged by Wilson administration

crackdowns on dissenters and Woodrow Wilson’s own racism, white vigilantism exploded in East St. Louis against African Americans. (The official count of the dead was 39, but newspapers at the time said 200.)

1918 Unwelcome as U.S. troops in World

War I, many African Americans fought as French soldiers. U.S. commander John Pershing, for whom Nevada’s Pershing County is named, issued a document titled “Secret Information Concerning BlackAmerican Troops” warning French military officials of the “menace of degeneracy which had to be prevented by the gulf established between the two races ... because of the fact that they were given to the loathsome vice of criminally assaulting women.” The French ignored the advice.

1918 The Wilson administration barred African Americans from leaving the United States by denying blacks passports.

1921 Masked men entered a dance pavilion in Texarkana and kidnapped black orchestra conductor Gordon Harrison

of the gas mask, patented the traffic signal.

1924 Masked men invaded a Nashville hospi-

tal and seized a 15-year-old African American boy named Samuel Smith and lynched him.

1937 At Beckwourth Pass near the California border northwest of Reno, a monument was erected to honor African American scout and explorer James Beckwourth, who located the route over the Sierra foothills by which many emigrants traveled safely to California.

1940 Benjamin Davis became the first African American general.

1941 At Pearl Harbor, African American ship’s

cook Doris Miller was collecting laundry on the USS West Virginia—African Americans were restricted to such jobs—when the attack began, and he went topside, carrying wounded sailors, including the ship’s captain, to safety, then firing a 50mm machine gun— which he had never operated—at the Japanese planes until the crew was ordered to abandon the damaged ship, for all of which he was awarded the Navy Cross. (Miller was later among sailors killed when the USS Liscome Bay was sunk.)

1941 Democrat James Eastland of Mississippi, son of a man who led a lynching that murdered five African Americans, was appointed to the U.S. Senate where he eventually spent 37 years supporting white supremacy.

1941 The March on Washington was originally scheduled for this year by A. Philip Randolph, who wanted a march of 100,000 people to draw national and international attention to the plight of African Americans. He refused repeated pleas from President Franklin Roosevelt to cancel it until a desperate Roosevelt signed an executive order throwing open thousands of defense jobs to previously barred blacks and creating a Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce it. Randolph then cancelled the march, but he finally saw it happen in 1963.

1943 With African Americans still facing

unemployment in the midst of wartime prosperity and white workers refusing to work alongside them, rioting broke out in Detroit, leaving 34 dead.

1943 Two hundred African American workers

at the wartime Basic Magnesium plant near Las Vegas struck the plant with a demand that separate white and black restrooms be abolished. (Management blamed it all on labor organizers.)

1943 W.E.B. DuBois was made first African

American member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1944 In a speech to the Capital Press Club in Washington, publisher Marshall Field called for greater news coverage of African American contributions to the war effort as a way to break down racial barriers.

1944 In Contra Costa County, California, an explosion at Port Chicago Naval Magazine, killed 320 sailors and civilians and injured more than 400 others, mostly African Americans, and when black servicepeople were instructed to continue working in the unsafe conditions, 258 of the 320 sailors in the ordnance battalion refused.

1944 The 370th Regimental Combat Team (later the 92nd Combat Team), an African American unit, disembarked at Naples, Italy.

1944 At Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, 50 African American workers responded to the Port Chicago explosion by refusing to go back to work unless the officers and workplace practices—including putting blacks in most of the dangerous jobs—were changed, resulting in their courts martial and convictions.

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1946 In the Philippines, the Manila Morning

Courier reported that white U.S. soldiers engaged in a gunfight with African American U.S. soldiers, and that machine guns and hand grenades were among the weapons employed.

1949 The Nevada Assembly defeated a

measure sponsored by Don Crawford of Washoe County to outlaw the poll tax.

Crawford pointed out that Nevada was bracketed in the nation’s mind with the Southern states that used the tax to keep African Americans from voting, but James Johnson of White Pine argued that in Nevada it was merely a revenue producer.

1951 In a game between Drake and Oklahoma A&M, Oklahoma players—particularly defensive tackle Wilbanks Smith—kept attacking Drake’s African American halfback John Bright, the nation’s leading ground gainer, after Bright had already passed or handed off, battering him and breaking his jaw. The pattern was exposed the next day in a dozen photographs taken from overhead by Don Ultang and John Robinson, and published in the Des Moines Register and Tribune and later in Life Magazine, winning the Pulitzer Prize. Drake withdrew from the conference and severed all ties with Oklahoma A&M, and the NCAA made illegal hits grounds for suspension and

1954 The NAACP launched a boycott of Las

Vegas after African American delegates to the convention of the American Public Welfare Association were denied lodging in the city’s major hotels.

1954 Plans were announced for a plaque

memorializing slaves who were used to operate a mine at the 1850s mining camp of Rough and Ready in Nevada County, California.

1963 African Americans in Las Vegas led by NAACP figure Dr. James McMillan agreed to call off a march on the strip after the city’s casinos made concessions in hiring and training.

1955 African American Emmitt Till, 14, of

1963 The March on Washington was finally

Chicago, visiting Money, Mississippi, was dragged from his bed, beaten to death, and his body thrown into the Tallahatchie River.

His confessed killers were acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury, a lynching that helped spark the civil rights movement.

held with its originator A. Phillip Randolph a dominant participant and Dr. King’s powerful speech broadcast live, though in later years its militant tone was sanitized by whites who focused solely on the “dream” segment: “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. … It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hoped that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.”

1955 Half of the African Americans in Georgia

who signed a petition calling for school integration were fired from their jobs and their names circulated through white citizens councils to prevent their being hired elsewhere.

1957 Althea Gibson became the first African American woman to win a tennis championship at Wimbledon.

1958 Letter to Martin Luther King after a

mentally ill woman stabbed him in the chest at a book signing in New York: “Dear Dr. King, I am a ninth grader at the White Plains High School. While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I am a white girl.

I read in the paper of your misfortune and of your suffering. And I read that [your surgeon said that] if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I’m simply writing you to say that I’m so happy that you didn’t sneeze.”

1960 Harry Belafonte received the first Emmy

awarded to an African American.

1961 The U.S. Census Bureau reported that non-whites made up about 7 percent of Nevada’s population of 285,278 persons, including 13,484 African Americans residing mostly in Reno and Las Vegas.

1961 After Nevada blacks poured into the state

capital, a senate committee kept approving a weak civil rights bill and then revoking its approval, finally allowing a full senate vote by which the measure lost 9 to 8.

1950 Ralph Bunche, grandson of a U.S. slave, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for stepping in after the assassination of his boss Count Bernadotte and negotiating a settlement between Israel and the Arab states.

1951 A mob tried to keep an African American family from moving into their home in Cicero, Illinois, sparking rioting. The Cicero police did nothing, and Gov. Adlai Stevenson sent in the national guard.

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also mandated facemasks and mouth guards for all players. Bright played most of the game injured, recovered from his injuries, and later passed up a draft into the NFL in favor of the Canadian Football League, where he spent a great career.

1952 The U.S. Army announced that because

Reno businesses refused to serve African Americans stationed at Stead Air Force Base, the army was starting bus service between Stead and Sacramento for black soldiers to use for R&R.

was admitted to U.S. astronaut training, where—after full public relations mileage was obtained from him—he was harassed and threatened into quitting two years later. (He is now a renowned sculptor.)

1962 Nevada Attorney General Roger Foley informed U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy that because Nevada had no anti-discrimination statutes, it had no authority—except for casino licensing—to stop racial discrimination. (The letter responded to criticism from Nevada civil rights leader Prentiss Walker, who said African Americans had been prevented from attending a Hawthorne breakfast at which U.S. Senator Howard Cannon spoke.)

1963 Aeronautical engineer Ed Dwight,

an African American air force test pilot,

1965 At a hearing on the color line at

Hawthorne’s El Capitan and other businesses, two restaurant spokespeople said they were reluctant to serve African Americans for fear of losing white customers.

1966 Attorney Robert Reid became the

first African American named a Nevada judge when the Las Vegas city commission appointed him an to be alternate municipal court judge.

1971 The U.S. Department of Justice charged

17 Las Vegas casinos and hotels, four unions, and the Nevada Resort Association with discrimination against African Americans employees.

1971 The Reno Police Department announced

plans for a program to reduce racial tensions between the department and the community, reflected by numerous complaints of police harassment of African Americans.

1971 A taxpayers’ lawsuit was filed to overturn

the new Nevada legislative reappointment plan on the grounds that it failed to provide one-person, one-vote, it created multi-member senate districts to protect incumbents, and it created districts for African American voters.

1972 Joe Neal was elected first African American member of the Nevada Senate, later—as president pro tempore—becoming the first African American to act as governor.

1972 Beverly Harrell defended her decision not to admit an African American man to her brothel at Lida Junction—“a bordello should have a choice of who they entertain”—but Nevada Equal Rights Commission director Tony McCormick said a formal complaint would be filed against her.

1972 Four years after Orangeburg, two years after Kent State and Jackson State, African American students Leonard Brown and Denver Smith were shot and killed at a Southern University protest in Baton Rouge, with law enforcement officers suspected but never charged or prosecuted.

1975 Daniel James became the first African

American four star general.

1980 Lt. Col. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez of Cuba became the first African American in space when he was launched by the Soviet Union in Soyuz 38 on an eight day mission.

1981 Nineteen-year-old African American Michael Donald of Mobile, Alabama, was lynched by four Klansman who chose him at random and beat him to death in anger over the mistrial of an unrelated black man.

1984 The Center for the Study of Social

Policy reported that while African Americans had made political gains in the previous

quarter century, they made no economic gains at all.

1988 Las Vegas hanger-on Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder was fired by CBS for comments that African Americans could push whites out of sports management and blacks had been bred during slavery to produce stronger children: “The slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid … If they take over coaching jobs like everybody wants them to, there’s not going to be anything left for white people.”

1989 Douglas Wilder was elected Virginia

governor and David Dinkins was elected mayor of New York City, the first African Americans elected to both posts and, in Wilder’s case, the first elected black governor in U.S. history.

1993 Carol Moseley-Braun was sworn in as the

first female African American U.S. senator.

1993 The African Burial Ground, a colonial era cemetery for blacks unearthed at 290 Broadway in 1991 during excavation for a planned federal building in New York City, was declared a historical landmark.

1996 During competing Ann Arbor rallies and

after a liberal leader urged protesters to “look

for people who may be identifying themselves with the other side and deal with them appropriately,” protestors began chasing Confederate flag-wearing Albert McKeel, Jr., knocked him to the ground, and kicked him, whereupon African American teen Keisha Thomas threw herself over him to protect him from the angry liberals, producing a memorable newspaper photo.

1997 Census Bureau figures reported an estimated 34 million African Americans living in the United States, comprising 12.7 percent of the total population.

2000 After blocking confirmation for five months, Republicans finally allowed the U.S. Senate to approve Johnnie Rawlinson of Nevada for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the first African American woman on the court.

2004 A marker was dedicated in Virginia City commemorating African Americans on the Comstock near the site of the Boston Saloon, a black-owned business of the 1860s that was the subject of a 1999 dig by archaeologist Kelly Dixon.

2008 Barack Obama was elected president of

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Dragons on exhibition at Wilbur D. May Museum Story and photoS by Jeri Chadwell JeriC@newSreview.Com

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he sign just inside the entrance to the Wilbur D. May Museum reads “Here be dragons.” It welcomes visitors to the latest attraction at the museum that’s known for the interactive exhibits it books annually to fill the late winter and spring months.

Locals may remember 2016’s hands-on herpetological exhibit Snakes Alive! In 2017, Toytopia brought together a collection of toys spanning decades and generations. Last winter, the museum played host to Hall of Heroes, an exhibit exploring the pop culture history and science behind superheroes.

From now until May 12, it’s The Lost World of Dragons, an exhibit that mixes animatronic dragons with a bit of science and mythology. The museum’s curatorial staff hopes the exhibit will appeal to dragon fans of all varieties—from those eagerly awaiting this month’s third animated movie installment concerning how to train dragons, to those anticipating April’s release of HBO’s Game of Thrones, which isn’t kid-friendly but also features dragons.

“We look for exhibits that are going to appeal to kids and to adults,” said Samantha Szesciorka, the museum’s assistant curator.

“And we have a lot of flexibility, so we look for stuff that’s educational, to some extent, but also fun. Over the years, we’ve done some really cool, really different exhibits—and dragons are always a hit. … Every generation loves dragons.”

A young patron examines one of the dragons on display at the exhibit.

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Together, the animatronic dragons on display in the exhibit represent the mythologies of cultures spanning from Mesoamerica to Asia.

Each is accompanied by interactive interpretive materials discussing its origins in mythology and context in history. The dragons are large and look strangely right at home in the museum’s airy, plant-filled atrium and its darker, adjoining exhibit spaces.

“It’s this company we’ve been working with the last few years—Stage Nine out of Sacramento,” Szesciorka said. “We’ve gotten the last few years’ exhibits through them. … We’re just really happy with the quality of their exhibit design.”

Stage Nine Exhibitions was the company behind both Toytopia and Hall of Heroes. It specializes in incorporating light, audio, video and hands-on elements into its exhibits.

According to Szesciorka, “That’s sort of a trend throughout the museum industry, to sort of make exhibits less these static things that you just walk past or through and look at and read and into more immersive experiences for people—because a lot of people learn better that way, when they hear it or smell it or touch something.

And why not? The technology is amazing right now to create these amazing experiences for people that can be educational at the same time.”

Troy Carlson—owner of Stage Nine Exhibitions— who was at the May Museum on opening day of the new exhibit, said his company has been approached many times over the years by museums seeking a dragon exhibit. The company began work on The Lost World of Dragons two years ago.

“We were fascinated with the mythology,” he said.

“That’s how the story started.”

To learn more about the mythology of dragons, Carlson’s company partnered with Adrienne Mayor, a folklorist and historian at Stanford University.

“She’s kind of our curator who helped us understand all of the stories,” Carlson said. “What we found really amazing is that all of these cultures all over the world who had no communication or connection with each other all came up with stories of similar creatures.

They’re all a bit different, but it was a way for them to make sense of things they didn’t understand in the natural world.”

Mayor has written extensively about dragon mythology as well as possible links between myth and real natural history—things like sailors mistaking whales for sea serpents and medieval travelers on Asia’s Silk Road taking dinosaur bones for those of dragons.

Myth-dispelling theories like these are woven throughout the displays, from the red and white Welsh dragons in the atrium to the Asian Lung on the far side of the exhibit space.

But mythbusting isn’t the singular focus of the exhibit. Situated around the dragon displays are interactive stations celebrating the mythology and magic of the creatures. Near the Asian Lung, there’s a shadow puppet theater. In the hall connecting the atrium and other exhibit spaces,

“Every generation loves dragons.”

Samantha Szesciorka Assistant curator

visitors can stop to make a crayon rubbing of the dragon of their choice from detailed plates embedded in a table. Other elements, like a display of chained boxes that rattle and emit growls are there for the thrill factor.

Things like this and a virtual reality dragon-riding experience—13 and

The Lost World of Dragons is on exhibit at the Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 N. Sierra St., until May 12. Learn more about museum hours and ticket prices here: bit.ly/2MJw7lC.

older only—are meant to help the exhibit appeal to people of all ages.

“Some content may be above the little kids, but we don’t want parents— we don’t want anyone—sitting on the sidelines,” Carlson said. “It’s like with the Toytopia exhibit—at first blush, you may think, ‘Oh, it’s a kids’ exhibit.’ But we wanted it to have toys that are from my generation and my dad’s generation, so there’d be a lot of good sharing opportunities.”

Another way Szesciorka plans to attract all-ages visitors is with extended, after-dark hours on certain days.

“People can come in and see it glowing in the dark, sort of after-dark dragons,” she said. “I think that will be a really fun way for people to see it, too.”

She’s also planning an adults-only night. This one’s likely to catch the attention of those who’ve been patiently waiting nearly two years for the final season of the aforementioned dragoncentric HBO series.

“So it’ll be a Game of Thronesthemed adult night,” Szesciorka said.

“And it’ll be before the next and final season premieres. … It’s going to be so fun.” Ω

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Zoe Bray poses with one of the portraits in her exhibition, Nevadan Basques.

People person Zoe Bray “I’m an anthropologist, so I’m generally interested in people,” said Zoe Bray. She’s also a portrait artist.

Bray was born in Paris to an English father and a French mother. She has French and British passports and speaks French, Spanish, Basque and Europeanaccented English. Her academic specialty is Basque studies.

The Basques are an ethnic group from the western Pyrenees of France and Spain.

About two million Basques live in Europe, and about a million are dispersed across the globe, including a few thousand in Northern Nevada, where a wave of Basque immigrants—many of them sheepherders—arrived between the mid-1900s and the 1960s. Basque restaurants remain in Reno, Elko, Winnemucca and other Northern Nevada towns.

“I got into studying the Basque people for two reasons,” Bray said. “One is an academic reason—that I felt writings about the Basques were always kind of absolutist.

‘The Basques are this. The Basques are that.’ … So, I wanted to break down those hard categories and show the fluidity of what it is to be Basque.”

The second reason was more personal.

Bray’s mother’s family is Basque. “But I had to discover this identity for myself, given that I was living abroad and feeling at home in other countries,” she said.

Bray was exposed to art growing up but didn’t pick up a paintbrush herself until she moved to Florence, Italy, to pursue a doctorate in political science. There, she and a few other students studied traditional techniques at a master painter’s studio.

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In 2011, she moved to Nevada and became a professor in the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Soon after arriving, she attended a Basque picnic, where she met Marie Louise Lekumberry, owner of J.T. Basque Bar and Dining Room in Gardnerville, whose father had come from a French Basque village.

“I realized I know her family back home,” said Bray. In 2012, she painted Lekumberry’s portrait.

A few months later, she painted Joan Arrizabalaga, a Reno artist whose grandparents had come from the Spanish Basque country. At that point, Bray didn’t have a sense of where her portrait series was going.

“We connected more just as fellow artists,” she said. “When I did Joan’s portrait, I wasn’t really thinking about the Basque aspect of it.”

In 2018, Bray drew some portraits at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. She made large charcoal drawings of people like Kiaya Memeo, a descendant of Spanish Basques who lives in Lamoille; and Ana Mari Arbillaga, a prominent member of Elko’s Basque community who moved from Spain to the U.S. in 1960.

By now, Bray’s portraits fill the walls of the Metro Gallery in Reno’s City Hall, and this fall she’s scheduled to exhibit them at the Musée Basque in Bayonne, the main city in the France’s Basque region.

“I discovered drawing or painting somebody’s portrait is a great way to get to know them,” she said. And she’s already planning her next projects. “I’ll always continue painting local Basques, but I think as I get established here, I want to just paint the diversity of Reno, Nevada,” she said.

“I have a lot of fascinating people I’ve met who I’d like to paint.” Ω

Nevadan Basques, Portraits by Zoe Bray is on exhibit through March 1 at the Metro Gallery in the lobby of Reno’s City Hall, 1 E. First St.

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“What are you looking at?”

War and piece Oh … the Legos. My mom asked me for Legos this past Christmas, and I thought, sure, why not? That’s kind of cute—buying Legos for your Mommy on Christmas. It’s a rad little stocking stuffer, a nice starter present.

So, I grabbed a Star Wars X-Wing Fighter Lego set in a well-known department store. (OK, since we are already advertising Legos here, I’ll name the store: JC Penney’s.) I figured Christmas shopping was off to a good start. No, I did not look at the price.

After the lady at the cash register announced my total, I stood aghast and realized Mom had her big gift already. Damn … they are expensive!

(Incidentally, Mom, earlier today, sent me a photo of the fully operational X-Wing built and ready for play. OK, it’s pretty glorious. Might be worth the money.)

Why did I tell you this story? Two reasons: to let you know that I am commercially out-of-touch when it comes to gift giving, and as a sort of preamble to a very relevant film considering the above story. I am, of course, about to give you my thoughts on The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.

Taking some cues from Mad Max, the Book of Revelations and, yes, Radiohead, The Second Part is another healthy dose of family-friendly fun where both sides of the age spectrum should laugh heartily.

One of my favorite moviegoing things is to hear an adult blast out laughing, and then their kid following suit. Either the kid is, indeed, in on the joke, or he/she just wants to be like the parent. Either way, it’s just a lot of fun and really cute when a movie produces these kinds of reactions for its entire running time.

Cut to five years after the end of the first movie, and our hero Emmet (Chris Pratt) is happily buying coffee in Apocalypseburg, a devastated Lego land of sullen tones and broken dreams. Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) has taken to dramatic narrating at all times, things are getting knocked down as soon as they are built up, and invading aliens called

Duplos are mostly to blame—invading forces that are at once undeniably adorable and unabashedly destructive.

It’s a crazed world where Batman (Will Arnett) winds up engaged to Queen Waterva Wa-Nabi (Tiffany Haddish), leader of the Duplo, and Emmet winds up running with a Kurt Russell-type antihero who is suspiciously like him. The reasons for all of the craziness will not be revealed here. Take the kids, and find out for yourself.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller do not return as directors, but they do contribute to the screenplay.

Directorial chores go to Mike Mitchell, whose illustrious career has included Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

While this is easily Mitchell’s best directorial effort, some of the charm and zest of the original is lost in the transfer. The movie feels a bit repetitive at times, and some of the action is too fast to be taken in properly.

Flaws aside, the movie is still a lot of fun, especially when Arnett’s cranky Batman is at the forefront. There’s also a slightly dark underbelly at play here, and it’s fun to see a kids’ flick that doesn’t totally play it safe. As I mentioned before, there’s plenty here for adults to appreciate. There are some great gags involving raptors—funny considering Pratt’s Jurassic World participation—and a terrific small role for an iconic action hero who spends a lot of time in air ducts.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part has a feeling of finality to it, as if these characters are being closed out. But, let’s face it, money talks, and with Toy Story 4 on the way—chapter 3 was supposed to be the last—it’s clear that animated movies can keep on trucking as long as adults and kids line up. I’d be surprised if they didn’t find a way to keep the Lego Movie ball rolling. Ω

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Aquaman

The latest DC effort, Aquaman, is middling fun for about 20 minutes before it becomes one of the worst films of 2018. It’s the typical DC garbage can of a film and proof that Warner Brothers has learned next to nothing when it comes to making a good comic book movie since Christian Bale took off the cowl (Yes, Wonder Woman was good—the lone exception.) Jason Momoa returns as big, tattooed, beefy Arthur, the dreamy son of a Lost City of Atlantis queen (Nicole Kidman) and Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison), a lowly lighthouse keeper. Fett finds the queen washed up on the rocks and takes her home, where she promptly eats his goldfish. (What a laugh riot! She ate his pet fish!) She gives birth to Arthur, and the origin story part of the movie is well on its way. We see a few more moments in the fish man’s young life. Momoa eventually shows up in full party mode, and it looks like we could be on our way to some goofy fun. Alas, like Zack Snyder before him, director James Wan doesn’t know how to keep a leash on his epic, and this things goes bonkers in a bad way. The undeniable charms—and admittedly glorious hair—of Momoa can only go so far in this unholy mess.

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Following one bomb after another during a 15-year stretch, in 2017, M. Night Shyamalan showed us he was still capable of good cinematic things with Split—a showcase for James McAvoy’s multi-persona performance and a creepy little thriller thanks to Shyamalan’s surprisingly deft direction. An after-credits scene showed us Bruce Willis as David Dunn, his superhumanly strong Unbreakable character, and the possibilities became very intriguing. The director announced his intention to make Glass and that Split was, in fact, the second part of what would be a trilogy. Glass would bring back the brittle-boned character of that name played by Samuel L. Jackson in Unbreakable, along with Willis and the newly introduced McAvoy character(s). OK, sounds good. Let’s go! Well … shit. 2019 has its first legitimate clunker. Shyamalan is up to his old tricks again—the kind of loopy, half-assed filmmaking that made the world scratch its collective head with The Happening, The Village, The Last Airbender, After Earth and Lady in the Water—all wretched stink bombs. He has a remarkable ability to employ both lazy and overambitious writing simultaneously. He puts a lot in play with Glass but doesn’t seem to have a distinct idea of where to take it. Plot holes abound like wolf spider offspring jumping from their momma’s back when you slam a shoe down on her. There are so many, it’s hard to keep track of them.

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While Tom Holland’s live action Spider-Man remains in limbo due to that infamous Thanos finger snap, Sony Pictures ups the ante on the Spidey franchise with the eye-popping, all around ingenious Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, one of 2018’s greatest cinematic surprises. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is trying to adjust to a new, upscale school after winning a scholarship. He’s away from his big city friends and getting some guff from his well-meaning police officer dad (Brian Tyree Henry), who wants him to appreciate the chance he’s been given.

Miles’s uncle (the ever busy Mahershala Ali) keeps him grounded, encouraging him to continue as a graffiti artist. On one of their painting excursions, Miles is bitten by a strange spider and then—well, you know. He eventually crosses paths with the original Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Chris Pine). And, as the plot would have it, parallel universe portals open and allow in a whole fleet of different Spider-

Men, Spider-Women, Spider-Pigs and Spider-Robots. That group is comprised of Peter B. Parker (the invaluable Jake Johnson), Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Ham (a mishmash of Spidey and Porky Pig voiced by John Mulaney), Peni Parker and her robot (Kimiko Glenn) and, best of all, Nicolas Cage as the blackand-white Spider-Man Noir. So Miles is one of many Spider entities on hand to go up against Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), whose corporation is responsible for the time hole rip allowing all of his adversaries into his corner of the universe. Like any good comic book, the movie is stacked with action, plot threads and many twists and turns.

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A modern-day bullied kid pulls a sword out of a stone and is tasked with saving the world in The Kid Who Would Be King, writer-director Joe Cornish’s attempt to capture the youthful, magical wonder of Harry Potter and mix it with the legend of King Arthur. While he doesn’t completely fail, an overall drab directorial style, messy action and many moments that are far less clever than they think they are keep this action-adventure from being a true crowd-pleaser. This one will probably work better on a smaller screen, so wait until it’s streaming. Do that, and you’ll catch a pretty good performance from Louis Ashbourne Serkis (son of Andy) as British school kid Alex, the fed-up boy who sticks his neck on the line to protect best bud Bedders (Dean Chaumoo) from bully Lance (Tom Taylor). Serkis is a little overwrought in some of the film’s more emotionally demanding parts, but he hits the right notes when it comes to Alex’s heroic proclamations after he procures Excalibur from a big rock in the middle of a construction site.

Alex happens to notice that Bedders sounds a lot like Bedivere, and Lance is short for Lancelot, so he figures destiny requires him to knight the two, along with Kaye (Rhianna Dorris), Lance’s partner in crime. They form an unlikely alliance against Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson), banished half-sister of King Arthur who will return in flying dragon lady form and make England the hub for the apocalypse.

The reliable combo of writer-director Dan Gilroy and Jake Gyllenhaal (they partnered up on Nightcrawler) takes a creative step backward with this art world satire/horror effort. Gyllenhaal plays Morf Vandewalt, an art critic losing his lust for the profession. His love affair with Josephina (Zawe Ashton), an art house employee, gets confusing in many ways when she comes across paintings by a dead man in her apartment building. The paintings, which the artist had literally put his blood into, have deadly consequences for those who gaze upon them. Gyllenhaal is his usual sharp self in the role, creating something funny without obviously going for laughs.

Rene Russo is equally good as a ruthless art dealer, willing to cut down anybody who gets in her way. The supporting cast includes Toni Collette, John Malkovich and Billy Magnusson, which lends to the feeling that the film should be more than what it is. It’s sharp satire for its first half, then a sloppy horror film for its second. It’s not scary by any means, and it tries a little too hard to be.

Gilroy takes his eye off the ball, loses focus and wastes a promising premise and solid performances. (Streaming on Netflix during a limited theatrical release.)

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Go round For a few years now, Pizanos Pizza has been serving up thin crust pizza, chicken wings, salads, hot and cold sandwiches, pasta bread bowls and other snacks—yet somehow it flew under my radar. I mean, I knew it was there in the heart of downtown but never had occasion to stop in.

Having just missed the happy hour “beer and a slice” special, my friends and I decided to order a variety of full pies.

A classic pizza with sausage, mushroom and black olive with mozzarella and red sauce (14-inch, $15.99) seemed a good place to start. The crust was acceptably crispy and held up well enough, though it didn’t add much flavor. The sausage was average but provided the strongest note. There was a lot more olive than mushroom. In fact, had I tasted it blindfolded, I doubt I would have noticed the fungus. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see or taste the sauce, so I can’t relate much about it.

Garlic alfredo sauce was definitely present on a steak, mushroom and bacon pizza with mozzarella (10-inch, $12.49). Despite the saltiness of bacon combined with heavily seasoned, thin-sliced beef, the creamy, very garlicky goo kind of evened things out. I’d be tempted to try their flatbread “pazini” sandwich ($4.99) made with the same stuff, plus veggies.

The Tahoe pizza was a hit with everyone (14-inch, $19.99), featuring an excellent blend of garlic pesto, mozzarella, spinach, chicken, bell pepper and fresh diced tomato. The pesto was excellent, and the chicken actually had some flavor to it. It was a smart idea to use an oil-based sauce on a pie with this many wet ingredients, not to mention it sent the flavor over the top.

Best of all was a veggie supreme pizza (10-inch, $12.49) with pepper blend, pepperoncini,

mushroom, olive, red onion, artichoke heart, feta and mozzarella layered atop a healthy schmear of garlic olive oil. The only thing wrong with this pie was my goof in ordering one that was too small. I really wish I’d gone large with this and small on the sausage pie, and everyone voiced their agreement—with feeling. The veggie supreme was spicy, hearty, pungent and left us wanting more.

As with many pizza joints, the dough is also offered in the form of breadsticks, cheesy bites, garlic bites, etc.—but I most wanted to sample the bacon jalapeno bites (six pieces, $4.49, served with marinara and ranch). They were pretty dry and really needed a dunk in sauce. The marinara was chunky and tasted fresh, though without much in the way of herbs. My sample included both bacon and a fair amount of heat, but the rest said they tasted either just jalapeno or bacon, not both.

Apparently I got the golden bite.

Baked chicken wings (five for $4.99 or nine for $8.79) are available plain or with barbeque or hot sauce. We tried both sauces. I have rarely encountered a baked wing I liked—much preferring ’em nice and crispy out of a hot oil bath—but I have to admit, these weren’t bad. They were a lot crispier than most rubbery examples run through a pizza oven, and the sauces were good enough. The barbecue sauce was sweet with a fair amount of smoke, and though the “hot” sauce would classify as mild at my favorite purveyors of wings, it was still enjoyable—even better with a dash of red pepper flakes. Ω

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Space cadet Bazooka Zac Local producer and musician Bazooka Zac, or Zac Haley, has found himself in a new era. After playing an estimated 70 shows all over the West Coast last year, he has left the myriad side projects and collaborations he’s been involved with for the past few years to focus on his own brand of trippy, electro-tribal beats. In the spirit of new beginnings, Haley released his first album in almost two years on Jan. 1.

“The album is called Opening Cosmic Gateways because that is the intention of what the music was written to do,” Haley said. “Like, the way I see it is, there is a route in this universe for whatever you see for yourself as possible.”

Haley created the album as a reinvention of his sound. Before uploading the album, he removed at least 60 other singles, EPs, albums and other collaborative works from his online catalog. Gateways, he hopes, will be the new signature sound for his loftier aspirations.

“This is hopefully the key to open up all the correct paths for the festivals like Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle, Coachella, High Sierra [Music Festival],” Haley said.

The sound, he said, is best described as electronic dance music, drawing heavily from world music, tribal rhythms and hiphop beats. The result is a trance-like groove through spacey trap beats and chilled-out samples—equal parts synthesizer and sitar.

The album sounds like it would play in an opium den on Mars.

“There’s, like, nine tracks and each one starts off with some, like, world sample,” Haley said. “I would go find these Japanese string instruments that were recorded 100 years ago and just find this really incredible lick that somebody recorded, and then use that to create hiphop drum and bass around it.”

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preference for the balance he finds in nature. While developing the album, he would often bring his laptop and beat-pad with him on hiking excursions or desert bike rides, stopping to experiment with his sound in the tranquil setting.

“For me, it’s just like, everything is just trying to come back to nature, you know, in terms of like spiritual enlightenment,” Haley said. “And what that means is just, like, wellness. Like, how to enjoy your life and get the most out of it. And for me, it’s all about returning to nature, learning everything you can from nature in the silence and the flow and the harmony and the stimulation.”

His live performances have also evolved through experiences like providing the soundtrack for the Sacramento-based fire dancing conclave Surreal Fire at last year’s Burning Man, or opening for one of his own favorite acts, TokiMonsta, at 1-Up last April. Bazooka Zac usually performs with an Ableton beat pad in one hand, and a real-time image processor in the other with which he manipulates the psychedelic visuals projected onto the wall behind him—an integral part of his show, he said.

“It’s become a more fluid, improvised process, where before I was, like, literally rehearsing fucking every single day,” Haley said. “If I had a show on Friday, I would rehearse for, like, three to five hours every single day leading up to the show. ... But now what I’m doing is I’m putting more energy into the creative process, and then the live show is like a window into that creative process.”

Haley believes he could end up on the festival circuit this summer, but for now, he has nine show dates in the coming months, including Feb. 9 at Ecstatic Dance in South Lake Tahoe, and Feb. 14 at Alibi Ale Works in Truckee. He will also be returning to his residency at Pignic every second Friday and will be starting a new residency at Rum Sugar Lime every third Thursday. Ω opening Cosmic Gateways can be heard on Spotify, itunes and at bazookazac.bandcamp.com

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Lil Debbie, Smoov-e, 9pm, $20

Open Mic Night with James Ames, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover

Zion Roots, 9pm, no cover

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ATLANTIS CASINO reSOrT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Ballroom 2) Cabaret

BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTeL

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

SunSquabi Feb. 7, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Casino 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay (775) 833-6333

CArSON VALLey INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret

THURSDAY 2/7

FRIDAY 2/8

2) The Vegas Road Show, 8pm,no cover

2) The Vegas Road Show, 4pm, no cover 2) The Vegas Road Show, 4pm, no cover 2) Joey Carmon, 8pm, no cover Joey Carmon, 10pm, no cover Joey Carmon, 10pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Brother Dan, 6pm, no cover

2) Velvet Duo, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 9pm, no cover

2) Velvet Duo, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 9pm, no cover

2) Stephen Lord, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Gary Douglas, 6pm, Tu, no cover Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Decoy, 7pm, no cover

2) Decoy, 8pm, no cover

2) Decoy, 8pm, no cover

2) Rock River, 6pm, no cover

2) Rock River, 6pm, M, no cover Stephen Lord, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) DJ MoFunk, 10pm, no cover

1) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

1) North Mississippi Allstars, DJ Harry Duncan, 9pm, $25-$30

1) Los Lobos, Sam Ravenna Band, 9pm, $35-$40

3) DJ Bob Richards, DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

3) DJ Dustin, DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

2) Karaoke with Rock U Ent., 10pm, no cover

2) Karaoke with Rock U Ent., M, W, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Mikey Swift, 9pm, $20 3) Live music, 6pm, no cover

1) Tom Segura, 8pm, $65-$85 2) DJ P-Jay, 10pm, $20

1) Franco Escamilla, 8pm, $59-$129

CIrCUS CIrCUS reNO

500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711 1) El Jefe’s Cantina 2) Cabaret

CrySTAL BAy CASINO

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

1) SunSquabi, Yak Attack, 9pm, $12-$15

eLdOrAdO reSOrT CASINO

Karaoke Pizza Baron, 1155 W. Fourth St., Ste. 113, (775) 329-4481: Wacky Wednesday Karaoke with Steve Starr & DJ Hustler, 9pm, no cover.

The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

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

GrANd SIerrA reSOrT

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

SATURDAY 2/9

HArrAH’S LAKe TAHOe

NUGGeT CASINO reSOrT

SILVer LeGACy reSOrT CASINO

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) GEH 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura 4) Silver Baron

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

1) Country Artists Tribute Show, 8pm, $15-$25

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Ballroom 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 2) Edge 3) Capri Ballroom

MON-WED 2/11-2/13

1) Chris Botti, 7:30pm, $61.92

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

PePPerMILL reSOrT SPA CASINO

SUNDAY 2/10

1) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 7pm, no cover

1) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 2) Latin Dance Social , 7:30pm, $10-$20

1) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 2) Kayper, 10pm, $20

1) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

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

1) King of the Cage, 6pm, $30-$65

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE PRESENTS

Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself!

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Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Venue: Redfield Proscenium Theatre

Mar. 1-2,5,6,7,8,9 @ 7:30 & Mar. 9 @ 1pm

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEbRuaRy 07, 2019 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT SALOON CRAWL: Bring your sweetheart or find love along the way as you tour the historic saloons of Virginia City while sipping on signature drinks themed for the occasion. Event check in starts at 11am. The crawl begins at noon. Sat, 2/9, noon-5pm. $8-$20.

Bucket of Blood Saloon, 1 S. C St., Virginia City, visitvirginiacitynv.com.

FIRST THURSDAY: Explore the Nevada Museum of Art’s galleries at this monthly social event featuring live music by Jelly Bread and specialty refreshments. Thu, 2/7, 5pm. $10, free for NMA members.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

GRAND OPENING OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER: This fundraiser features a

FEb/09:

CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

The Nevada State Museum, in collaboration with the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, will celebrate the Year of the Pig with traditional Chinese dances and a display of Nevada Chinatown related-objects from its collection. The event begins with a noise-maker craft activity, which will be followed by a dance performance at 10:15 a.m. in the Dema Guinn Concourse. At 11 a.m. everyone will follow the dancers to parade down the street to the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, 813 N. Carson St., where more activities will be available. The program is free with museum admission. Admission is $8 for adults and free for museum members and children age 17 and younger. The fun starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City.

Visit nvculture.org/nevadastatemuseumcarsoncity.

EVENTS

BACK IN THE DAY IN SPANISH SPRINGS: Washoe County’s Lazy 5 Regional Park hosts an event to bring together newcomers and old timers to learn and/or publicly share their personal stories of Spanish Springs history prior to recent development. Speakers include representatives from the Sparks Heritage Museum, the Nevada Historical Society and the Board of Washoe County Commissioners. This event will also give the public an opportunity to share their own short stories, memories, photos or relics. Fri, 2/8, 5:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Highway, Sparks, (775) 424-1866.

3RD ANNUAL WINTER WONDERLAND: An evening of seasonal cocktails paired with gourmet bites from local restaurants.

This benefit for the Nevada Diabetes Association includes a silent auction, winter sports showcase and more. Dress in your winter white attire. Thu, 2/7, 6pm. $45-$60. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 856-3839, www.winterwonderlandrenotahoe.com.

ABILITY BASH FUNDRAISING GALA: Achieve Tahoe’s annual gala and fundraiser begins with a social hour, followed by dinner, silent auction, raffle and presentations. Attire is semi-formal.

Sat, 2/9, 6pm. $200. Olympic Village Lodge, 1901 Chamonix Place, Olympic Valley, achievetahoe.org.

ART AFTERNOON WORKSHOP AND SOCIAL FOR SENIORS: Enjoy a guided tour and a studio art class along with light refreshments.

Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience. Advance registration is recommended. Fri, 2/8, 1pm. $6-$10.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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BEAUPROMO PUPPETRY: Two-foot tall marionette puppets narrate stories from America’s history through song, dance and music. Sun, 2/10, 11am. Free.

Spanish Springs Library, 7100-A Pyramid Highway, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

CONTRA DANCE: Sierra Contra Dance

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Society holds its monthly event featuring live music with a caller to walk you through the moves. Singles and couples are welcome. There will be a beginner’s walk-through at 7:15pm. Sat, 2/9, 7:30pm. $8-$10. Southside Cultural Center, 190 E. Liberty St., (509) 595-1136, sierracontra.org.

cocktail reception with food provided by local restaurants and music performed by Silver Strings. Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell and his wife Susan Crowell will conduct the ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a performance by the Western Nevada Musical Theater Company. Tue, 2/12, 6:30pm. $50. Bob Boldrick Theatre, Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 882-1565.

HANDS ON! SECOND SATURDAYS: The Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly program offers free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docent-guided tour, live performances and community collaborations. Sat, 2/9, 10am. Free.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

JEWELRY AND CHOCOLATE SHOW: Enjoy champagne, Valentine’s Day cookies and chocolates while strolling through the gallery and trying on jewelry during the eighth annual show. Artists will be on site throughout the day to talk about their creations. Sat, 2/9, 10am. Free. Artsy Fartsy Gallery, 405 N. Nevada St., Carson City, (775) 885-2787.

JOHN L. SMITH READING AND SIGNING: The author of The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal’s Lifelong Fight for Social Justice will read from and sign copies of his book. The Westside Slugger is the story of civil rights in Las Vegas and Nevada through the eyes and experience of Joe Neal, a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada. Thu, 2/7, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

LAKE TAHOE—PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: John Farley, a docent at the UC Davis Science Center in Incline Village, will share information on Lake Tahoe’s history, the current state of the lake and projections for the future. Sat, 2/9, 2pm.

Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

LOVE THE LOVELESS: Channeling Andy Warhol’s Factory, the NMA’s newest membership level the Contemporaries presents this pre-Valentine’s Day event.

Enjoy live art and shadow dancers, watch Andy Warhol films, have your fortune unfold at a group tarot reading station and more. Fri, 2/8, 7pm. $20.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

POPPIN’ PISTONS: The Reno Pops Orchestra presents an evening of classic cars, dinner and drinks, silent auction and live music. Sat, 2/9, 6pm. $80. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., www.renopops.org.

SOCIAL SCIENCE—THE ’80s: Explore of the science and culture of the 1980s. Play classic arcade games, make your own ectoplasm, master the Rubik’s Cube, design a sequined glove and more. Sat, 2/9, 7pm. $15-$25. The Discovery—Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

SPRING FILM SERIES—THREE FROM KATHRYN BIGELOW: Churchill Arts Center’s film series kicks off with the 2002 film K-19: The Widowmaker. Starring Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson and Peter Sarsgaard, the film is about the first of many disasters that befell the nuclear Soviet missile submarine K-19 at the height of the Cold War. Fri, 2/8, 7pm. $7-$10.

Barkley Theatre, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

WEEKEND NATURE WALKS: The May Arboretum’s Weekend Nature Walks are designed for families with children 10 years and younger who want learn more about different aspects of the environment. Sat, 2/9, 10am. Free.

Wilbur D. May Center, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4153.

ONSTaGE CLASSIX SERIES—TIMELESS MASTERS: Reno Phil’s 2018-2019 Classix season continues with a concert featuring works by Mazzoli, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Van Cliburn-winning pianist Jon Nakamatsu returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Sat, 2/9, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/10, 4pm. $9-$89. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., renophil.com.

COME IN FROM THE COLD: The 2019 season of the family entertainment series continues with a performance by Ricochet. Sat, 2/9, 7pm. $3 suggested donation. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

THE DRESSER: Brüka Theatre presents Ronald Harwood’s play. The Dresser is based on the author’s experiences as dresser to an English Shakespearean actor. Thu, 2/7-Sat 2/9, 7:30pm. $18-$25.

Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

ELIZABETH PITCAIRN: TOCCATA-Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presents celebrated American violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn. The orchestra and chorus will perform selections from Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. This will be followed by Pitcairn performing Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the orchestra. Sat, 2/9, 4pm. $0-$40. Cornerstone Community Church, 300 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, www.toccatatahoe.org.

THE GREATEST SHOWCASE VARIETY SHOW: See performances by Western Nevada Performing Arts Center, Youth Theatre Carson City, Suspect Terrane, Wildhorse Children’s Theatre, Studio E Arial Arts and Carson High School Choir and Drama. Wed, 2/13, 7pm. Free.

Bob Boldrick Theatre, Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 887-2290.

JAZZ IN THE SCHOOLS: More than 300 middle and high school musicians from over a dozen school jazz bands will perform during the 19th annual program. Sat, 2/9, 9am-5pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., renojazzorchestra.org.

JOHN RILEY WITH THE RJO: The Grammy award-winning drummer and educator will share the stage with the 17-piece Reno Jazz Orchestra. Sun, 2/10, 2pm. $30 adults, $10 students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 372-6160, renojazzorchestra.org.

NEVADA WIND ENSEMBLE & CONCERT WINDS: The University of Nevada, Reno wind and percussion ensemble performs a broad repertoire of classic and contemporary styles, ranging from large band works to chamber pieces. Wed, 2/13, 7:30pm. $7, free for students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

RAMON AYALA: The Grammy award-winning norteño artist performs. Fri, 2/8, 8pm. $45-$63. Reno Ballroom, 401 N. Center St., (775) 325-7401.

RAT CHAUTAUQUA: Restless Artists Theatre presents a Chautauqua performance focusing on President Theodore Roosevelt. Wed, 2/13, 7pm. $10. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, rattheatre.org.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE: Good Luck Macbeth presents Lee Hall’s play based on the 1998 film and screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. Thu, 2/7-Sat,

2/9, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/10, 2pm; Wed, 2/13, 7:30pm. $18-$30. Good Luck Macbeth

Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

SIRENS: Restless Artists Theatre presents Deborah Zoe Laufer’s dramatic comedy.

For 25 years, songwriter Sam Abrams has been looking for the creative spark that his first flush of love had inspired in him—to no avail. Sam and his wife Rose are now celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with a cruise in the Mediterranean. While on this cruise, Sam hears the most sublime music ever heard, jumps overboard and winds up with a siren. And there on her island he must struggle with the terrors of middle age, the tortures of creative failure and the desire to live in his past rather than face his uncertain future. And he must find a way to get home and win his wife back. Fri, 2/8-Sat, 2/9, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/10, 2pm. $8-$15. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, rattheatre.org.

by AMY ALKON

America’s next top remodel I’m seeing so many women on Instagram who’ve had themselves made over to be super hot through cosmetic surgery and injectable fillers. They all have the same face—with big, luscious lips and huge doll-like eyes. In every shot, they’re in full makeup— crazy eyeliner, tons of contouring.

Do guys actually like this plastic Barbie look? Are guys cool with cosmetic surgery in general?

Countless men insist that they prefer “the natural look”—no makeup (let alone surgical re-mod)—yet they never go “Wow...gorgeous!” when you sashay toward them with a face full of unconcealed pimples.

Helpfully, zoologist John R. Krebs and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explain that “living organisms” can easily be tricked by crude fakes—fakes that bear only the itsy-bitsiest resemblance to the organisms’ real-life stimuli.

They give the example of what I call “Popsicle birdie”—how “a black-headed gull will show its normal aggressive response to a stuffed gull’s head mounted on a stick, with no body.” And then there’s the male stickleback fish, which gets red on the underside when in mating mode and will attack any other red-bellied male that enters its territory.

Guess what, fellow humans: We shouldn’t be too quick to feel superior to our friends with beaks, gills and tails. Krebs and Dawkins note that a man can get “sexually aroused” by a mere photo of a naked woman. Of course, he knows it isn’t an actual woman, but the photo “has enough visual stimuli in common with the real thing to have a similar effect on his physiology.”

Though it’s unlikely that women getting their faces remade in Klonedashian-esque ways are versed in anthropology, the enhancements they’re having done align with the female facial features that anthropologists like Douglas Jones have found are attractive to men across cultures—like big eyes, full lips, a small jaw and chin and clear skin.

These features are basically evolution’s billboard, advertising a highly desirable interior—meaning that they are cues to health and fertility.

However, though men evolved to prioritize looks in a woman, it’s obviously not all they value—especially when they’re hoping to get into a relationship. So these cosmetically and surgically redeveloped features may catch a man’s eye— but then, mentally, he may take a step back: “Oh, wait—she’s gotten all this work done.” And beyond how we all tend to feel threatened and even angered by fakery, many men see a woman’s extensive re-mod as a red flag, reflecting lessthan-healthy psychology—an empty interior hidden behind a fancy paint job and a new, um, deck.

Also, consider that women who get their faces and bodies remade often seem to go by the reality TV standard, which seems to stem from stripper standards—exaggerated in-your-face sexuality. Research by Cari Goetz that I cited in a recent column finds that women with an overtly sexual look are generally not seen as long-term mating material by men.

However, there’s a counterpoint to all of this. Consider that it’s now possible, through medical innovation, to survive many diseases and conditions that were usually fatal. We don’t expect people with diseases to do what’s “natural”—suffer and die. Maybe we’re a little too harsh on women who jump ahead in the beauty hierarchy through cosmetic procedures. We don’t knock men for using Rogaine, those little blue pills or deodorant.

Additionally, maybe stigmatizing any sort of line-jumping stops discussion of the need for restraint in beauty-upgrading. As I see it, the most successful “work” is the sort we don’t notice—women who look like themselves, only, uh, “better rested” or something. Ultimately, if a woman invites a man to meet her closest relatives, he isn’t at a loss for whether she’s asking him to a family reunion or to hit the aisle in Home Depot where they sell that expandable foam insulation stuff that people spray into their walls. Ω

ERIK HOLLAND

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Now and then, the sun

shines and rain falls at the same time. The meteorological name for the phenomenon is “sunshower,” but folklore provides other terms. Hawaiians call it “liquid sunshine” or “ghost rain.” Speakers of the Tangkhul language in India imagine it as “the wedding of a human and spirit.” Some Russians refer to it as “mushroom rain,” since it’s thought to encourage the growth of mushrooms. Whatever you might prefer to call it, Cancerian, I suspect that the foreseeable future will bring you delightful paradoxes in a similar vein. And in my opinion, that will be very lucky for you, since you’ll be in the right frame of mind and spirit to thrive amidst just such situations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A study by the Fidelity financial

services company revealed that in 43 percent of all couples, neither partner has an accurate knowledge of how much money the other partner earns. Meanwhile, research by the National Institutes of Health concludes that among heterosexual couples, 36 percent of husbands misperceive how frequently their wives have orgasms. I bring this to your attention in order to sharpen your focus on how crucial it is to communicate clearly with your closest allies. I mean, it’s rarely a good idea to be ignorant about what’s going on with those close to you, but it’ll be an especially bad idea during the next six weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Torre Mayor is one of the

tallest skyscrapers in Mexico City. When workers finished its construction in 2003, it was one of the world’s most earthquake-proof buildings, designed to hold steady during an 8.5-level temblor. Over the course of 2019, Virgo, I’d love to see you erect the metaphorical equivalent of that unshakable structure in your own life. The astrological omens suggest that doing so is quite possible. And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to launch that project or intensify your efforts to manifest it.

expand your persona and mutate your self-image.

The generator is at tinyurl.com/yournewname.

(P.S.: If you don’t like the first one you’re offered, keep trying until you get one you like.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Leonardo da Vinci’s

painting “Salvator Mundi” sold for $450 million in 2017. Just twelve years earlier, an art collector had bought it for $10,000. Why did its value increase so extravagantly? Because in 2005, no one was sure it was an authentic da Vinci. It was damaged and had been covered with other layers of paint that hid the original image. After extensive efforts at restoration, the truth emerged. I foresee the possibility of a comparable, if less dramatic, development in your life during the next ten months, Scorpio. Your work to rehabilitate or renovate an underestimated resource could bring big dividends.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): We can behold colors

because of specialized cells in our eyes called cones. Most of us have three types of cones, but a few rare people have four. This enables them to see far more hues than the rest of us. Are you a tetrachromat, a person with super-vision? Whether you are or not, I suspect you will have extra powerful perceptual capacities in the coming weeks.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be able to see more than you usually do.

The world will seem brighter and deeper and more vivid. I urge you to deploy your temporary superpower to maximum advantage.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are two kinds

of minor, boring little tasks. One is when you’re attending to a detail that’s not in service to a higher purpose; the other is when you’re attending to a detail that is a crucial step in the process of fulfilling an important goal. An example of the first might be when you try in vain to scour a permanent stain on a part of the kitchen counter that no one ever sees.

An example of the second is when you download an update for an existing piece of software so your computer works better and you can raise your efficiency levels as you pursue a pet project. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to keep this distinction in mind as you focus on the minor, boring little tasks that are crucial steps in the process of eventually fulfilling an important goal.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you sit on your own

head? Not many people can. It requires great flexibility. Before the late comedian Robin Williams was famous, he spontaneously did just that when he auditioned for the role of the extraterrestrial immigrant who was the hero of the TV sitcom Mork and Mindy. The casting director was impressed with Williams’ odd but amusing gesture, and hired him immediately. If you’re presented with an opportunity sometime soon, I encourage you to be inspired by the comedian’s ingenuity. What might you do to cinch your audition, to make a splashy first impression, to convince interested parties that you’re the right person?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Twitter wit Notorious Debi

Hope advises us, “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” That’s wise counsel for you to keep in mind during the next three weeks. Let me add a few corollaries. First, stave off any temptation you might have to believe that others know what’s good for you better than you do. Second, figure out what everyone thinks of you and aggressively liberate yourself from their opinions. Third, if anyone even hints at not giving you the respect you deserve, banish them for at least three weeks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Multitalented Libran singer

and actor Donald Glover uses the name Childish Gambino when he performs his music. How did he select that alias? He used an online random name generator created by the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. I tried the same generator and got “Fearless Warlock” as my new moniker. You might want to try it yourself, Libra. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to add layers to your identity and

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 realastrology.com.

by JERi ChADwEll

Radio personality

What about Denver appeals?

Everything. It’s been on my bucket list of places I’ve always wanted to work.

I’ve interviewed in Denver probably for four different jobs I never got, over the course of my career. I’ve always wanted to live there. It just never happened. When this opportunity presented itself, I had to at least explore it—and I’m glad I did.

Willobee Carlan, program director for the radio station NV89, is leaving the Reno broadcasting market to move to Denver, Colorado, and a job at Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir music discovery station. He leaves in about a month.

You’ll be OpenAir’s program director. What are you looking forward to most?

How long have you been a Northern Nevada broadcaster?

Well, I’ve been here in Reno for over seven years. I was brought here by Shamrock Communications to run KRZQ and Bob FM … and Martini Radio. And then they sold off their stations … and kind of gave me the heads-up that they were selling everything. I started looking for a job out of market. I was getting ready to accept an offer to move to Cleveland, and then I got a frantic email from a consultant friend of mine. He said, “You can’t leave Reno.” And I’m like, “Why?” And he said, “I’ve got a job for you.” I said, “Where?” And he said, “I can’t tell you.” It was like confidential, top secret. He just asked me to trust him for a couple of weeks, and I’m glad I did because I got on with Nevada Public Radio. … It really worked out.

You’re leaving Nevada Public Radio to go to CPR’s OpenAir, the music

discovery station. What can you tell me about it?

So I’m going from Nevada Public Radio to Colorado Public Radio. It’s a similar company but much larger—a larger market and a larger company. They have the NPR station, which is the number one station in Denver. They have a classical station, and then they have OpenAir, which is their indie music station. It’s very similar to the makeup of Nevada Public Radio.

That’s cool. Music discovery is something you’re well known for with NV89.

Right. So, they reached out and asked me if I was interested. I’ve always wanted to live in Denver. If it wasn’t Denver, I probably would have said no.

I’m looking forward to two things: continuing the quest for music discovery at a radio station that breaks all the molds. And I’m also looking forward to the very vibrant local music scene in Denver. There are a lot of great bands from Denver. … Devotchka is from Denver. We play them on NV89.

What will you miss about this community?

I’m going to miss all of the friends I’ve made here. It’s just an awesome city.

We love Reno. We had no plans of ever leaving here. I’m going to miss Lake Tahoe. I’m going to miss the amazing buffets. I’m going to miss the blossoming of Reno that’s coming. …

Well, we wish you the best of luck.

I appreciate that. Thank you for even thinking of me. I’ll probably have to have a going away party. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Eye off the ball As we continually sift through the endless wave of orange scandals, there’s a tendency to proceed swiftly to the next set of outrages.

Too swiftly. There’s much stuff that should sink in for just a bit.

One recent set of such revelations came about as the directors of the CIA, FBI, NSA, and others sat in front of the Senate and basically said that everything President Manbaby spews out of his mouth is demonstrably fact-challenged, and what’s really happening in the world is seriously serious.

Manbaby, of course, responded via tweet, saying his intelligence directors are naive and need to go back to school. Right. So who do you believe? The six sober directors of national intelligence, or the flaming moron who requires pictures for his daily briefings and thinks all that wild shit he saw in the film Sicario 2 is actual reality and therefore constitutes a crisis

that needs to be addressed by a big dumbass Wall?

Manbaby’s willful ignorance is combined with the everdisturbing possibility that he’s an actual asset of Russia, doing the bidding of Daddy Vlad. You wonder what Putin and Dum Dum might have chatted about in their secret talks and late night phone calls? How about Vlad telling his Good Boy to bail on the INF treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev, which bail would open the door for all kinds of brand new Nuke Nastiness (and yes, Congress just may have something to say to Twitler about this treaty jazz).

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats released the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community (https:// tinyurl.com/y9r6kkhu), and it’s not classified in the slightest, but fully intended for public consumption.

OK, so let’s consume.

It’s filled with chilling statements, like this one: “China has the ability to launch cyber attacks that cause localized, temporary disruptive effects on critical infrastructure—such as disruption of a natural gas pipeline—for days to weeks in the U.S.” Or this: “Russia has the ability to execute cyber attacks in the U.S. that generate localized, temporary, disruptive effects on critical infrastructure—such as disrupting an electrical distribution network for at least a few hours.”

Don’t forget Iran and North Korea, who are both gaining proficiency in these new digital cyber-battlefields. Who needs expensive tanks and jets when you have a badass pack of brilliant nerd-geeks?

These are not potential problems from 2030. This shit can happen now. And we have a “president” obsessed with a Wall of CrayCray he made up in his demented mind.

Sleep tight. Ω

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