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Doubting Thomas Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’ve watched with bemusement as the question of whether the author of our cover story, “The naked truth,” Caitlin Thomas, should call herself a feminist has played out on our letters page. Here’s my take— not because Thomas is my friend, even though she is, nor because I’ve seen her dance, because I haven’t—but because nobody seems to recognize the obvious in this discussion.

By one definition, a feminist is someone who supports equal rights and opportunities for women. Another says it’s an organizer of activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.

So the question is, can she be a stripper and a feminist?

I’ve seen Susan Sarandon take her top off in movies, and she’s widely known as a feminist.

I’ve seen 10,000 women take their clothes off at Burning Man, while the men—mostly strangers—gawk. These women call themselves “empowered.”

I’ve seen local women take their tops off for photographs that have hung in local bars. They call themselves “artists.”

What about the Boho group?

It’d be difficult to call those women exploited or demure.

I’ve seen two women take ecstasy and have sex at a party while men looked on. At least one calls herself “sexually liberated.”

To my mind, the power and reward in half of these examples flows only in one direction—from the women to the men. Isn’t that masculine exploitation?

In my experience, it’s the person getting the benefit who’s doing the exploiting. If Thomas is “objectifying” the men who see her topless, as she says, then that strikes me as an equal business deal.

She’s a founding member of at least two campus groups that work on behalf of women, which would mean she’s done more to advance women’s interests than the majority of people I know.

The people who object to Caitlin Thomas identifying herself as a feminist appar to want to tell women, and Thomas in particular, what acceptable feminism is. And that’s the patriarchal definition, where men don’t get exploited.

Re “Empty Reno” (Arts & Culture, April 19): So the author leaves for two years, then comes back, talks crap about my city, acts like an expert though he was absent for two years, and while he was gone, the rest of us were working hard to improve Reno. He notices one empty strip mall, and all of a sudden, Reno is desolate and empty. He could not be more detached from this community! Never mind the now-2-year-old national trend of cities of all sizes contracting back to their centers, right? Because Reno has some empty ‘60s chic strip mall on the fringes of town, the whole city is empty and desolate? That’s as inaccurate as saying tourists don’t come to Reno anymore despite over 4 million tourists visiting last year. I would suggest the author venture out of his suburban bubble a bit and explore Midtown and downtown, both of which are bustling with businesses and residents, and perhaps think twice about calling Reno desolate as a whole just because his own neighborhood is.

Mike Van Houten Reno

Friends Re “Range life” (Musicbeat, April 19): I’ll admit that I’ve suffered through enough of Brad Bynum’s writing in this paper to already have formed a pretty crappy opinion of it, but his review of The Harvest and The Hunt finally incensed me enough to write a response. Why? His assertions on the metal genre. In his article, Mr. Bynum boasts that “metal bands especially tend to set their levels and rip ahead at a constant unchanging tempo.”

I think we can all classify Black Sabbath as a “metal” band, many would argue the first. From the first song, “Black Sabbath,” on their first album, Black Sabbath, they employ more dynamics than I’ve heard for years out of other genres. It doesn’t stop there. From Judas Priest to Iron Maiden, from Metallica to Sepultura, and even newer death metal bands such as Spawn of Possession and Ulcerate, the metal genre has been all over the

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Shipped out Re “A sinking ship” (Arts & Culture, April 19): The Dennis Myers piece about the Titanic was an interesting read. There is, however, another Nevada connection to the doomed ship. With more than 300 bodies still floating in the Atlantic, White Star Line, owners of the Titanic, moved quickly to recover as many bodies as possible. One of the first calls they made was to the Commercial Cable Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia, owners of the cable ship, Mackay-Bennett. It was built in 1884 and was financed by Comstock millionaire John Mackay and New York newspaper published James Gordon Bennett Jr. The ship spent seven days on the scene and recovered 306 bodies, one of which was New York financier John Jacob Astor. They also recovered Titanic crew member Joseph Dawson who was taken to Halifax for burial.

Dawson became the fictional Jack Dawson played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 film Titanic. The MackayBennett was eventually taken out of service in 1922 and was finally scrapped in 1965. John Mackay became the richest man in the history of Virginia City’s famed Comstock Lode.

He died in London in July 1902, 10 years before the Titanic tragedy never knowing the important part his ship played in one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time.

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Oversight Re “Vinyl fetish” (Musicbeat, April 19): Pretty disappointing that Discology barely got a mention in your Record Store Day piece, especially since it’s been involved in the event longer than all of the other participating stores in Reno combined. I guess if businesses want to get featured in your paper, they need to advertise in it.

Austin Anderson Reno

Tax in the road Re “Getting your money’s worth for your taxes” (Streetalk, April 12): I was surprised by the responses to your Streetalk question, “Getting your money’s worth for your taxes?” as only one out of the five responded positively. I know that I have access to fire and police protection 24/7, along with access to paramedic services through the Fire Department. I have roads to drive on, both locally and nationally with attendant safety features; traffic

Chic DiFrancia Virginia City

Editor/Publisher D. Brian Burghart News Editor Dennis Myers Arts Editor Brad Bynum Special Projects Editor Ashley Hennefer Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Photographer Amy Beck Contributors Amy Alkon, Megan Berner, Matthew Craggs, Mark Dunagan, Marvin Gonzalez, Bob Grimm, Michael Grimm, Dave Preston, Jessica Santina, K.J. Sullivan, Bruce Van Dyke

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Re “The naked truth” (Feature story, March 29): I really feel sorry for you folks down there at RN&R, with your choice to run that Caitlin Thomas thing.

Following immediately on the heels of the Rush Limbaugh misogyny scandal, you must have realized, “Hey, this sex thing really gets people’s attention.”

As for Caitlin herself, she’s just a fatherless kid trying to hustle a buck, exploiting the male sex drive while being exploited herself. So what?

The real issue is that the staff of the RN&R needed something to play “shock jock” with ... to get everyone riled up. How boring, how pathetic of you.

Natalie Merchant sang it best in “Candy everybody wants”: “If lust and hate is the candy, if blood and love taste so sweet, then we give ’em what they want.”

Have your ad revenues gone up yet, boys?

Trent Parker Reno

D. Brian Burghart brianb@newsreview.com OPINION

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dynamic spectrum, oftentimes in the same song. Perhaps Bynum should stick to writing what he knows, which from what I’ve gathered from his writings is talking about himself. He doesn’t know metal and should quit posin’ like he does. On a positive note, I have enjoyed David Preston’s recent restaurant reviews. Perhaps the other writers of this paper could learn something from him. For a start, maybe talking about the food instead of themselves and their friends.

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signs and lights are not free. My granddaughter is being educated, as were my son and I. I spent a lot of time in private schools that in retrospect were more interested in bolstering the religious aspects of the curriculum than critical thinking. Both my son and I enjoyed higher education. Although it was expensive, it was less so due to tax support.

I also benefit indirectly from public education because it ensures that my fellow citizens in the community have had some training in a variety of fields considered essential to the health and well being of our shared community.

Without this basic education, our communities would have citizens with out basic critical thinking or communication skills.

Regulation gets a bad rap, but my tax dollars ensure that when I buy a product from a grocery store, it meets basic standards of purity, and it accurately lists ingredients. Regulation supported by tax dollars also helps protect me from criminal entrepreneurs and dishonest business practices. My tax dollars fund the court system and the penal system allowing me to feel safer in my community and in dealing with business.

My tax money also provides me protection from aggression by foreign powers through the armed forces. These brave men and women form the finest defensive force in the world. (It is not their fault if they are utilized to re-establish international oil companies in lucrative positions, a horribly indecent use of my tax dollars.)

My taxes have helped fund basic scientific research that continually opens up new areas of knowledge and contributes to the amazing technological revolution that has done so much to my world in a positive way.

My list could continue. I am disappointed that your respondents do not share my views. I feel that I get far more from my tax dollar than I get from any other area of my personal expenditures.

Trey O’Brien via email

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BY TOM TOMORROW

Do you trust your doctor?

Asked along the Truckee River Jim Marren Financial advisor

Yes. He’s an honest doctor who’s been practicing medicine for many years.

Michael Oppelt Retiree

Sort of. I guess it would depend on what the situation was. … I have a sleeping disorder, and I’ve had to switch doctors before.

Blink or you’ll miss it A certain member of the editorial staff here at the RN&R needs only travel a few blocks to get from the home to the office. It’s a distance that really should just be walked, were an extra hour of sleep not such an appealing proposition, or biked, were the bicycle not in dire need of a tune-up. Perhaps by Bike to Work Week, May 14 to May 18, the bicycle will be unearthed, dusted off, aired up and ready for the streets. But for the time being, that short distance is driven in a car.

And it’s remarkable how, over the last couple of months, there seems to be innumerable variations and combinations of the unholy trifecta: road construction, convoluted detours and discourteous drivers. These three beasts arise each morning in horrific new forms. Like Gozer the Gozerian, they take different forms every time they arrive to destroy the morning mood. A 15-block drive, almost entirely in a straight line, should be the same every morning, but, nope, every day it presents new frustrations.

Sometimes Virginia Street is closed. Sometimes Evans Avenue is closed. A drive that should take 10 minutes sometimes takes double that, which then provokes the ire of certain coworkers, who glance pointedly at their watches.

And the return trip can be just as bad, as drivers unsure how to merge, or how streetlights work, block Center Street from I-80 to Fifth Street.

Every local commuter has some variation of these frustrations. And they are bound to get worse in the coming months as road crews start tearing up the roads and building them anew. So this is our semi-annual plea to local drivers to keep cool heads. Remember that those road

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crews build the streets which are all that separate your car from the surefire flat tires of unpaved terrain. So be nice.

Be mindful of bicyclists and pedestrians. The weather’s nice, gas is expensive, and the local economy sucks, which means more people than ever are going to be out walking and biking. And inversely, pedestrians—and aren’t we all at some time or another?—be mindful of cars. Use the crosswalks. Don’t just go bolting out in the street like a suicidal squirrel.

And drivers, here’s a great technique for insuring road safety, recommended by numerous driving professionals.

Most modern automobiles come equipped with something called turn signals. If your car doesn’t have turn signals, it’s recommended you get them installed. The operation of these signals is often easy and highly intuitive. Here’s a quick review, since we have noticed that many local drivers apparently don’t know how to operate them. There is generally some sort of lever attached to the steering column.

You usually lift this lever up to indicate that you will soon be turning right and push it down to indicate that you will turn left. It’s easy and fun. It’s usually a good idea to do this a few moments before the turn—not halfway through—so that other drivers around you understand your intention to turn. Hopefully, this clears up the confusion on this practice that seems endemic among local drivers.

Also, the signs that indicate “speed limit” followed by a number are there to direct you, by law, how fast you’re allowed to drive. Driving faster than these posted speed limits—or “breaking the speed limit”—is illegal and could potentially endanger pedestrians, including children and animals, and other drivers. Ω

Debbie Graham Limousine driver

Yes. I like her, and she’s knowledgeable, and she’s young and Indian, and so I feel like she has the latest technology. … She’s open to new ideas. She listens to me and now she’s telling other people things that we’ve discussed that help them as well as helping me.

Grace Greenspan Restaurant hostess

I do, because she has a medical license, and I don’t. I trust my doctor because she is very, very knowledgeable, and she gives it to me in layman’s terms as opposed to medical terms and gives me the understanding of all the information that I need. She’s really great.

Gary Sullivan Retiree

No. I got sick a year ago, lost a hundred pounds. They’ve done five biopsies on me. … I think she’s becoming a quack by just prescribe, prescribe, prescribe.

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Washoe schools superintendent Heath Morrison worked with casino executive Michonne Ascuaga at a Sparks High School ceremony.

Victory over artists In Las Vegas last week, National Association of Broadcasters president Gordon Smith applauded his organization for killing legislation requiring terrestrial radio stations from having to pay royalties to the performers they use, royalties that the NAB formerly called a tax (“TV ads distort issue,” RN&R, Feb. 25, 2010).

The former Oregon U.S. senator said, “When I first arrived at NAB, we were fighting passage of the Performance Rights Act, a bill to levy a fee on local radio that had the momentum of a fast moving freight train. But because of some very smart leaders in both the radio and TV business, NAB was able to thwart this piece of legislation that could have devastated the financial model of free and local radio.”

The legislation would have required stations to pay the same royalties that other services, such as Muzak, already pay. Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was instrumental in defeating the royalties.

Nate Anderson of the online media magazine Ars Technica wrote, “Radio stations pay only songwriters for the music they play; recording artists get nothing (except publicity).” Two years ago in Las Vegas, performers protested outside the NAB convention with an inflatable pig and signs about “Piggy radio.”

Who’s on first?

The sponsor of an initiative ballot petition that would have protected a mining industry tax loophole while slightly raising mining taxes said last week he is dropping the petition.

Monte Miller, a conservative Las Vegas investor and advisor to Jim Gibbons when Gibbons was governor, also dropped a petition that if enacted would have increased the state gambling tax to 9 percent—still one of the lowest in the nation.

Miller has been gaming the initiative process in an effort to block a broad business tax. When Nevada AFL/CIO said it would launch an initiative petition to accomplish it, Miller retaliated with his counterpetitions. He now says he doesn’t think the union federation can accomplish it, leading him to drop his petitions. Earlier this month a state court judge ruled that his gambling tax petition was misleading and Miller had said then he would start over with a new petition.

Nevada AFL/CIO leader Danny Thompson said his group’s petition will go forward.

Also at play in this dance is a legislative proposal, Senate Joint Resolution 15, which would remove the mining tax loophole from the Nevada Constitution. Mining is the only industry that has its own tax break enshrined in the constitution.

Clara Bow back in theaters A newly restored version of the silent movie Wings, first to win the Academy Award for best picture, will be shown at the Century Sparks theater on May 2. The movie stars Clara Bow, once a resident of Nevada who was married to the state’s lieutenant governor.

Wings, a 1927 film about World War One pilots, was an innovative mess. It included a crazy-quilt of techniques including widescreen portions, two types of color tinting and synchronized sound in some prints. Contrary to legend, Bow is not seen nude. There is a scene in which she is surprised by soldiers entering a room while she is dressing, but nothing vital is revealed. On the other hand, there is some male nudity seen—but only from the back.

In 1931, Bow married actor Rex Bell in Las Vegas. When their film careers faded and Bow experienced mental problems, they spent more time in Nevada on a ranch outside Searchlight, the future home of another Nevada lieutenant governor, Harry Reid. Bell ran for office a number of times— CLARA BOW IN WINGS for Clark County commissioner, the U.S. House, lieutenant governor and governor. He was elected to two terms as lieutenant governor in the 1950s and was running for governor in 1962 when he died.

They were married until his death but effectively led separate lives in the later years of the marriage.

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Schools of hard knocks Education in Nevada limps along Instability has long been one of Nevada’s enemies. People come, people go. The by pride of place that generates support Dennis Myers for the state is lacking where only one in five residents is a native.

Then there is the instability within its force of public administrators.

Agency directors come and go, too, depriving the agencies they lead of institutional memory and a sense of what, in Nevada’s culture, works and doesn’t work.

The past week has been a wash.

The Nevada Board of Regents decided to keep acting University of Nevada, Reno president Marc Johnson on permanently, while Washoe County schools superintendent Heath Morrison decided to leave the state.

Teachers, and particularly counThe Washoe County selors, are fond of the quote from School District is Robert Browning: “Ah, but a man’s seeking information reach should exceed his grasp/Or on what changes, if any, should be what’s a heaven for?” The verse plays made in the school a role in the memorable teacher’s environment. More novel Up the Down Staircase. information can Nevada is in no danger of reaching be found at www.washoecounty beyond its grasp. The state’s economic schools.org/ development plan envisions 50,000 students/student new jobs—about a third of the -climate-survey number it has lost during its long recession. State government’s ability to get even those 50,000 jobs is uncertain. Even education is an essential component in luring new business to the state, and between government cuts and inflation, the state’s commitment to education has been in decline for half a decade. In 2009, higher education funding in the state after more

than two years of recession was $683 million. Today, it’s $473 million. At the elementary and secondary levels, Morrison told the RN&R last year that Nevada is far below the norm: “At this point ... the per-pupil in the proposed budget goes to about half the national average. The national average is about [$]10,000 per pupil, and the proposed budget is about $4,900. So a lot of extras that many other states

“We’re in the bottom quartile in almost every measure.”

Eugene Paslov Education consultant have in terms of electives, and really engaging programs that really get kids excited about staying in school, we’ve never had or we’ve already cut. And so you reach into it until you can’t cut any. And you can’t cut math, you can’t cut science, so what you do is you end up having to add students in those classes, so instead of having 31, 32 kids in the class, you have 36 or 37.”

The per-pupil money has risen a bit since then, but the national average is still in no danger from Nevada.

Lower higher education

The White House this week said Nevada has 26,815 people using the Federal Guaranteed Student Loan pro-

gram. It was part of President Obama’s sales pitch for getting Congress to act to prevent higher interest on FGSL loans. He said the interest rates “are slated to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. To out-educate our global competitors and make college more affordable ... And for each year that Congress doesn’t act, students rack up an additional $1,000 in debt over the life of their loans.”

But while the president was doing that, the Associated Press—in an analysis of government numbers—was arguing that the value of a college education is doubtful, at least in the Intermountain West, which the AP said “was most likely to have young college graduates jobless or underemployed—roughly 3 in 5.”

“You can make more money on average if you go to college, but it’s not true for everybody,” economist Richard Freeman told the AP. It was a message educators in Nevada did not need at this particular moment.

Another unwelcome message came at a meeting of the Nevada Board of Economic Development, where a marketing company told state officials that Nevada has an inferiority complex that can be cured by touting the state more.

Lorna Shepard of Noble Studios told the board members that Nevada’s assets are obscured by a focus on its problems, a notion that surprised some leaders who have tried to get policymakers to focus on state problems.

Shepard said, “There’s a belief there’s not a great education system.”

Welcome to Nevada

Morrison’s departure will remove one local target from the poisonous public dialogue that today’s politics generates. While Morrison was generally admired, he did have his critics, with some arguing that the higher graduation rate he posted—70 percent—was actually a product of a change in the system for calculating the rate. Sparks Tribune columnist Andrew Barbano wrote Sunday that even Morrison’s reach was not exceeding his grasp.

“Morrison’s goal for year three [of the

school district strategic plan] is 1 percent. Uno. A single point. A 71 percent graduation rate. So says NevadaReportCard.com, the Nevada Department of Education website. …

By his own admission, his purported progress will prove unsustainable.”

But other criticisms were less reasoned, to the point that this newspaper removed some vitriolic reader comments about Morrison because they could have been legally actionable.

Even comments that fell short of that point were harsh.

Bonnie Wilson: “HOW CAN THIS BE that Washoe County Schools Superintendent Heath Morrison received in 2010 some $280,000 of TAX dollars for this job?!?!?!?! ... FIVE teachers we need desperately IN the classroom have NO job because Washoe County Schools Superintendent Heath Morrison stole and continues to steal THEIR paychecks.”

Matt Ong: “Greed, which these sacrilegious pay raises are, decreasing your staff’s salaries, and the profane obesity of so many of our elected public officials and appointed public employees, are the mortal sin of taking more than your fair share because they break God’s Law.” Wilson and Ong as least signed their messages. From behind the safety of a pseudonym, “iJoe” bewailed—without any evidence— “crimes involving moral turpitude here by Washoe County Superintendent Heath Morrison.”

That should make it easier to attract applicants to replace Morrison.

“The next Washoe County school superintendent will be tarred, feathered and crucified,” Barbano wrote. Ω

County to city Kitty Jung wants to bring her Washoe County experience to Reno City Hall Kitty Jung seems pretty bored by comparison politics.

With almost six years in policy-making on the Washoe County Commission, including three by James DeHaven years each on the Boards of Regional Planning and District Health, she said she already has plenty at stake in the actual politics of Northern Nevada as she runs for the Reno City Council.

“The city of Reno is at an important crossroads in regards to its financial status,” Jung said. “I want to help with my proven track record of having the highest bond rating in Northern Nevada. My strong record of creating jobs through the Regional Jobs Team—with 200 stakeholders who commit their time and expertise to job creation—demonstrates how deep my roots run here.”

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Rather, she said, there’s a “perception problem” that can be cured by boasting more about the state’s schools.

Educators countered that it’s not a perception problem, it’s a real problem. “It is not a great education system,” said consultant and columnist Eugene Paslov, former Nevada superintendent of schools. “We’re in the bottom quartile in almost every measure, and we haven’t moved much in the past decade or two.”

Some of the officials in front of Shepard immediately responded with plenty of touting, bragging about how great Nevada is and challenging the whole notion that the state has an inferiority complex.

Touting is a marketing technique, not an actual governing action, and in any event it’s never been something that is lacking in the state. Nevada leaders are loaded with swagger. “[O]ur economy is robust, our workforce is teeming, our job growth is healthy and the unemployment rate is low,” said Gov. Jim Gibbons during the first year of the recession as he called for halving state higher education funding, reducing the state’s ability to compete for new business.

If elected, she’ll hope that a similarly lengthy background as a member of the Truckee Meadows Flood Authority and the Shared Services Task Force can lend some context to the Council’s upcoming deliberations on flood planning, economic diversification and the everdeepening morass of municipal finance issues.

Jung also has a degree in psychology, something that could be useful in running the no-man’s land between county and city trenches over the tendentious fire divorce. Jung was the only county commissioner to vote against breaking up fire services consolidation.

The long-time member of the Joint Fire Advisory Board has voted in the past to preserve the district’s contract with the city, though earlier this month she opposed a measure that would have extended talks with the city over fire services.

“I have been consistent in my votes to continue consolidation,” Jung said. “The vote you reference also included a demand of services at a set price by the county that I knew would only worsen the negotiations.”

Jung was appointed to the county commission by Gov. Jim Gibbons on August 29, 2007 to fill out an unexpired term. In November 2010, she was elected to the commission on her own.

Two years later, the sitting commissioner is

Kitty Jung chats with some Native American performers at an Earth Day event.

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A worker smoothed the rough surface of the Sparks municipal parking garage floor to get it ready for additional work, one step in renovations being made between now and May that include pavement reconditioning and drainage improvement. The garage is still in use by the public, though only on the ground floor where 40 spaces are available. The entrance will temporarily be on Ninth Street.

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making her first run for the city council. So if you’re a District 3 county voter, then Kitty Jung fights for you. That is, unless or until she’s elected to fight for somebody else in city Ward 5.

In a world full of cynics, that would be the knock on the 39-year-old Democrat, one of three candidates up for the seat Councilman Dave Aiazzi leaves this fall.

Fortunately for Jung, Truckee Meadows Community College political scientist Fred Lokken is pretty sure we don’t live in that world.

“It’s not at all unusual,” Lokken said of Jung’s candidacy. “If she gets elected, she’ll have to give up her county seat, but until then, she has every right to remain as a county commissioner … and the voting public accepts it.”

Ambitious, crafty, or whatever else she might be politically, Jung is nothing if not qualified. With four councilmembers term-limited out of their seats—and 26 other largely inexperienced candidates in the primary field—Lokken expects Jung’s candidacy to be a “win-win” for the well-established county commissioner-turned-city council candidate.

Jung, for her part, is inclined to agree.

“I am the only candidate in this race who understands the issues, and I will fight for the citizens of Reno,” Jung said via email. “I am a zealous advocate for my constituents, and I will continue to be.”

A City Council win for Jung would mean filling one vacancy at the city level by creating another on the county board. By law, Gov. Brian Sandoval would have to pick a Democratic appointee to fill Jung’s county commission seat soon after her departure.

Leaving an office in the hands of the governor won’t be seen as an ideal outcome to anyone, but the commissioner from District 3 hasn’t seen much cause for concern.

“All feedback from [county] District 3 and [city] Ward 5 has been supportive and encouraging,” Jung said. “I have excellent relationships with all electeds in the Truckee Meadows, including the Reno City Council members, and I believe my transition can serve as a peace broker so that we, as electeds, can get to work serving our constituents.”

Whatever the outcomes in June and November, Jung is confident the record she’s put together as a commissioner has won over plenty of hearts and minds in District 3.

When it comes to Ward 5, she’ll just have to wait, hopeful that some of that hard-earned goodwill resonates with voters in her somewhat changed district.

While she anticipates that opponents will try to question her allegiances, Jung doubts that holding on to her county seat looks like a calculated political hedge to her constituents. In addition, there is overlap between Jung’s county district and her city ward. The two jurisdictions share 12 precincts containing 7,008 voters.

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Smart meters not smart enough yet A 2010 FBI document obtained by security blog KrebsOnSecurity states that smart meter hacks “may have cost a single U.S. electric utility hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

Smart meters, intended to streamline energy usage by tracking and providing detailed reports to residents, and by incorporating renewable energy resources into its data streams, have been under fire for several reasons, including health risk claims and privacy concerns.

Health risks have been debunked by several research institutions, including the World Health Organization, but hacking has yet to be prevented, as evidenced by the FBI report.

According to a KrebsOnSecurity article published on April 9, the FBI anticipates more hacks as smart grids are implemented in more communities through the U.S. The article states, “The hacks described by the FBI do not work remotely, and require miscreants to have physical access to the devices. They succeed because many smart meter devices deployed today do little to obfuscate the credentials needed to change their settings.”

In late February, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approved an alternative to the standard smart meters for consumers who wish to opt out.

Instead of the default meters, consumers will receive a different digital device that, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “would not store or transmit daily or hourly power-use details directly to NV Energy, but that would be read remotely once a month by drive-by meter-readers.”

Smart meters are currently being installed throughout the state.

Read the full FBI report and KrebsOnSecurity article at http://bit.ly/JbNxit.

Gas masked In another step to combat landfill waste, Waste Management Inc. opened Nevada’s first landfillgas-to-energy power plant in Lockwood on April 16. According to WM spokesperson Justin Caporusso, the gas will “produce enough energy to power more than 1,800 homes.”

The gas is produced by the decay process of organic materials such as yard or food waste and is approved by the Environmental Protection Agency standards.

According to WM, there are 131 landfill gas sites in the United States, which collectively power around 475,000 homes.

—Ashley Hennefer ashleyh@newsreview.com

ECO-EVENT The Reno Bike Project will host the We HeART Bikes Art Show on April 28 at the Holland Project. Reception begins at 5 p.m., and live music and after party start at 9 p.m. A percentage of the proceeds from the artwork will go toward the Reno Bike Project. This event is family-friendly. For more information, visit www.renobikeproject.com. See Art of the State on page 17.

Got an eco-event? Contact ashleyh@newsreview.com. Find more at www.facebook.com/RNRGreen.

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GREENSPACE

“You’re going to help the world solve some of its biggest environmental problems,” Marnee Benson told students competing in this year’s GREENevada.

Green teens GREENevada Northern Nevada has no shortage of business competitions lately, largely focused on the environmental sector, including the new Nevada chapter of the Cleantech Open (“Open for business,” March 29), and several programs for university by students (“Competitive edge,” April 19). On April 20, high school students got Ashley in on the action and competed in the second annual Growing Resources for Hennefer Environmental Education in Nevada—GREENevada—sustainability plan ashleyh@ competition. Students form teams to represent their schools, and present a plan newsreview.com to make their schools more sustainable, while focusing on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning. The event is a collaborative effort between educational nonprofit Envirolution, Black Rock Solar, Alliance for Climate Education, the Desert Research Institute’s GreenPower program, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful, Sierra Nevada Journeys and Urban Roots Garden Classroom.

Last year, nine Northern Nevada schools participated. Thirteen schools were slated to compete this year, but 12 showed. (Douglas High School was unable to attend due to a time conflict.) A panel of 11 local leaders judged the competition, including Reno City Council member Dave Aiazzi, Nevada Land Conservancy operations director Sonya Hem Giroux and Be The Change Project co-founder Katy Chandler-Isacksen. Marnee Benson, deputy director of Black Rock Solar, MCed the event.

“You’re the leaders, and we’re really glad you’re here,” Benson told the To learn more students. “You’re going to help the world solve some of its biggest environabout GREENevada, visit mental problems.” http://greenevada.org/.

Nevada assemblyman David Bobzien also stopped by to give the students some words of encouragement.

“What you guys are doing is really important for two reasons,” said David Bobzien. “There is this whole movement … called STEM. You guys are on the forefront of that. And there’s a lot of pessimism … but green energy is the future of our state.”

Each team was given 12 minutes to present their plan, and the judges had five minutes to ask questions. The presentations addressed several stages of the plan—the problem, solution, plan, impact, budget and long-term goals.

The teams’ ideas often overlapped—several addressed different ways to combat excess waste, such as Wooster High Environmental Action Team’s (WHEAT) Waste Watch and a two-man team from Sage Ridge Eco Council.

Other projects included community gardens to cultivate food for cafeterias and replacing school lawns with drought-friendly plants. While presenting, many students mentioned the sustainable efforts their schools were already making, such as building green houses, adding solar panels and wind turbines, and adopting single stream recycling.

Each school ended up taking home prize money. Hug High School received top honors and $5,000. Hug’s team, dubbed the Hug High Green Hawks Environmental Club, shared their plan to save their school $15,000 in energy bills. The Reed High Eco Warriors, which one first place and $12,000 in 2011, were awarded second place and $3,500. The Davidson Academy Green Earth Community Knowledge Organization (GECKO) group came in third place and was given $2,000. Sage Ridge, Wooster High and Truckee Meadows Community College High School all received $1,000 each.

Rainshadow Community Charter High School and Sparks High were awarded $750, and North Valleys, Pyramid Lake, Spanish Springs and Bishop Manogue Catholic high school received $500 toward their sustainable projects. Ω

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CELTIC HERITAGE EXHIBIT

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The Sparks Heritage Museum has created a Celtic exhibit in their 900-square foot changing gallery displaying loaned items from the Northern Nevada Celtic community.

M-Su through 4/30, $5 donation for reception. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-1144

F, 4/27, 5:30PM , Sa, 4/28, 5:30PM , Su, 4/29, 5:30PM , no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

3B ALL MTY AND LOS PRIMOS DE DURANGO

Also featuring El Bebeto, America Sierra, Furia Kaliense, Grupo Virus and DJ Dass. F, 4/27, 7PM , $30. Tix available at www.newoasisrenosparks.com. New Oasis, 2100 Victorian Ave. (775) 359-4020

KIDS ACTING

ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK

Learn to act while gaining selfconfidence and poise. Wednesdays, 4-5PM through May 23. Register online. $45 for six classes. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd.

(775) 353-2385

F, 4/27, 9PM , $52, $59 John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

TITANIC NIGHTS

LADIES 80’S NIGHT

Hosted by DJ BG. Th, 6-11PM, Trader Dick’s Lounge. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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Th, 4/26, 5:30PM , F, 4/27, 6PM and Sa, 4/28, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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With First Take, featuring Rick Metz. Th, F, Sa 6PM. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr. (775) 657-8659

WEEKEND JUMP-OFF PARTY

With DJ BG. F, Sa, 10PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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Experience what it was like to stand on the deck of the Titanic 100 years ago. 1PM-4PM Sa, 4/28, $10 adults; $5 for children age 12 and younger.

Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-1144

TREES EVERYWHERE

Having trees in our landscapes is very important. Learn about selecting the right tree for the right place, proper planting, care and fertilization. Sa, 4/28, 10AM & 1PM. Free with canned food donation.

Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way. (775) 355-1551

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This 22.5-minute multi-media planetarium program combines “fully-immersive” computer animation with the latest scientific research, allowing viewers inside the dome theater to experience what it was like on the Titanic. Sa, 4/28 1-4PM. $10 adults; $5 children age 12 and younger. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-1144

ALACRANES MUSICAL AND INDUSTRIA DEL AMOR Also featuring Grupo Kanino and Dj Dass. Sa, 4/28, 9PM , $20. Tix available at www.newoasisrenosparks.com New Oasis, 2100 Victorian Ave. (775) 359-4020

SIERRA EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY RECORDER CONCERT

Learn about the history of these Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque instruments as 12 musicians perform melodious tunes on their recorders. Su, 4/29, 2-3PM , $5 adults; free for members, children age 12 and younger. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-1144

E-mail to: Sparks@newsreview.com

COOL CARS KRUZIN’

A show and shine featuring assorted classic cars, food and beverages. Su, 4/29 10AM-3PM. Victorian Square Plaza.

(775) 345-6083

SCHEELS RUNNING AND WALKING CLUB Looking for a group of people to run with on a weekly basis?

Join the Scheels Running Club today! Tu, 6:30PM through 11/27. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700

ZUMBA FITNESS

Tu, 8:30PM , no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

Zumba is a way to burn calories that’s more like a dance party than an exercise routine. Tuesdays &Thursdays, 6:157:15PM. Designed for all levels, beginner to high fitness.

Bring workout shoes and water. $42 or $35/month for Sparks residents. Drop-in option, $6/class. Sparks Recreation Gym, 98 Richards Way.

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INTERMEDIATE BLACKSMITHING

BLACK AND BLUES JAM

W, 5/2, 6PM , no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

6TH ANNUAL WALK FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY FUN DAY

Hosted by the Reno Association for the Education of Young Children. Sa, 4/28, 8AM-1PM. This year’s theme is “Play: Where Learning Begins”. The Walk begins at 9AM (onsite registration starts at 8AM and Family Fun Day will be from 10AM-1PM. Raffle prizes will be given away throughout the event. Sparks Marina Park, 300 Howard Dr. (775) 327-0680 or (775) 682-5939

Build upon your blacksmithing skills while exploring a variety of techniques like piercing, tooling, using a striker, upsetting, slitting and punching. Tu, 6:30-8:30PM through 5/15.

Opens 3/20, $245. Sparks High School, 820 15th St. (775) 829-9010

KARAOKE

SPIRO’S F, 9PM, no cover. 1475 E. Prater Way (775) 356-6000 THE ROPER DANCEHALL & SALOON Country music dance lessons and karaoke, Th, 7:30PM, no cover.

670 Greenbrae Dr. (775) 742-0861

OPEN MIC

GREAT BASIN BREWING Open mic comedy. Th, 9PM, no cover, 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

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GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR COMMUNITY! CITY OF SPARKS Geno Martini - Mayor, Julia Ratti - Ward 1, Ed Lawson - Ward 2, Ron Smith - Ward 3, Mike Carrigan - Ward 4, Ron Schmitt - Ward 5, Shaun Carey - City Manager, Tracy Domingues - Parks & Recreation Director.

OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS Judge Barbara S. McCarthy - Dept. 1, Judge Jim Spoo - Dept. 2, Chet Adams - City Attorney.

Mayor and Council members can be reached at 353-2311

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Dear Dr. John sincerely,

D. Brian Burghart

bria nb@ new srev iew. com

ILLUST RATION BY MELISS A BERNAR D

Conventional medicine was fun for a fling, but I have to see other doctors now

Dear Dr. John, It’s with a heavy heart that I

say this. We’ve been together for so long. I can’t remember the first time you saw my naked body. And now that I’ve passed 50 years, you want to move to the anal stuff. I mean, it’s not that I’m not looking forward to our kinky new play—because I am—but I feel we’ve grown in different directions, and I know that while I’m going to continue to see you for the rest of my life, I’m also going to have to see other doctors—not the least of whom is that cardiologist that you recently brought in for a sick three-way.

I know this has got to come as a shock to you. Let me set your heart at ease: It’s not you, it’s me.

No. Fuck it. It’s you.

I don’t know when I realized that there was something flawed about our liaison. It might have been the very first time I came into your office, and you looked at me so lasciviously.

“Brian, your blood pressure is a little high, why don’t we put you on some meds to bring it down.” “Well, I’d rather lose a little weight and handle it that way.” “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that, but I’ve never, never seen anyone actually maintain control for the rest of their life through diet and exercise.”

But I did—for more than a decade now. Then there was the time

you wanted my gall bladder removed because I had constant heartburn.

Turned out my belt was too tight.

Thank goodness my friend John Murphy mentioned the possibility to me. It seems like you should have known something about that. And then there was the diabetes. The spats we had over that one: “I think I can fix it with diet and exercise, doc.” “Oh, just have a little bit of this Metformin, it’ll make it easier to take the weight off.” Of course, it turns out that Metformin causes something called “peripheral neuropathy,” pins and needles in the hands and feet. I can truly say you made me tingle.

Fortunately, just a week off the Metformin, and the tingling’s already fading. I never was diagnosed “dia-

betic,” but I did fight the “metabolic syndrome” to a standstill—despite the horrible advice from friends and lovers—and now I daresay with a Hemoglobin A1c of 4.7, my numbers are better than yours.

And now it’s the heart. It started as a little tiff over whether I’d take statins, based on the results of a bad blood test. “People who take statins live longer” was the argument that finally sold me. I took one, simvastatin, and it damned near did me in.

Angry at work, unable to sleep, forgetful, distracted—a recipe for destruction for a journalist who requires a certain level of attention to detail.

Oh, you tease! “So go get a Cardiac CT scan, and prove to me

you don’t need to take them; let’s see if you’re not in the bottom 10 percent.

You’re making me look bad, the other doctors would say, ‘Are you crazy?

This guy should be on statins.’”

So I got the scan. I paid for it out of my pocket since insurance wouldn’t.

And that’s when you broke my heart: Athrosclerosis. That’s quite literally a death sentence without an execution date. In fact, cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer in America, with more than 800,000 deaths in 2005, according to WebMD. Unless I die in an accident, I will die of atherosclerosis.

Probably not today (not before I finish this letter, anyway), but it’s about 50-50 that I’ll have an “event” in the next 10 years. It may be called a stroke or it may be called a heart attack, but it’ll be from these calcified arteries. “No,” you said, “there is nothing that will remove the blockages, but statins will help prevent it from getting worse.”

“Dear DR. JOHN”

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“Dear DR. JOHN” ILLUSTRATION BY HAYLEY DOSHAY

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And you know the funny part, Dr. John? My most recent blood test showed numbers that, again, are better than yours. Just to remind you, my total cholesterol 152; triglycerides 117; HDL 45; VLDL 23; LDL 84. Barely even surprising, since—again, according to WebMD, “a 2001 study of 262 apparently healthy people’s hearts [showed] 51.9 percent had some atherosclerosis, [and] therosclerosis was present in 85 percent of those older than 50.” Heck, 17 percent of teenagers have atherosclerosis.

Get it? You probably have it, too.

And are you on statins? I thought not.

But that death sentence. Man, that kind of stuff will really mess with a guy’s head, particularly a guy who believes he can fix things, control things, particularly himself. Think I couldn’t concentrate on my work while taking statins? Think I didn’t know the first Earth Day was in April 1970? Tell a guy who exercises regularly and strenuously that “events” often start with exercise if you want to discourage exercise. Or tell an editor to reduce his stress. Or how about the old saw that arthrosclerosis is the main cause of erectile dysfunction?

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being able to play basketball.

ED, doc? Me? Have you seen my dick?

Of course you have. Who hasn’t?

You know that joke that starts out with the mother saying, “If you don’t stop that, you’ll go blind,” to which the adolescent boy replies, “But can I just do it til I need glasses?”?

Well, I’m going to try to cure my incurable atherosclerosis until I need Lasik.

Breaking up is hard to do

Looking back, it seems our relationship was doomed from the start.

You were so good at some things.

Trauma. Dude, remember when I threw my back out? You were right there with the Flexerils and Lorazepam. Pneumonia and bronchitis: You gave me amoxicillin like you were pouring me a fine glass of red. A mere 12 hours later, and I was no longer coughing blood.

Broken toe? You were right there with the cotton.

Blood tests. That’s another one you’re really good at. You order the test, and all I have to do is look at the bolded parts, and I can see if I’m a little out of whack. But you’re really good at interpreting that stuff.

But that’s kind of your job, isn’t it? It’s not like you really care about me, although I do feel a certain friendly connection to you. It’s like, I wouldn’t mind hanging out with you or playing a little racquetball, if you would just give me your email address. Why won’t you give me your email address? That would be like dating and not having me over to your house.

I know we’re both going to have to go out and find people who are more suited to where we are in our lives now. You’re an allopath. That means you prescribe drugs: Aspirin for headaches; antibiotics for flus; statins for cholesterol; beta-blockers for high blood pressure. I don’t mean to dismiss what you do, because I know you work hard every day, but this is pretty much it, right?

You give drugs to treat symptoms.

For example, we know that the disease caused by an incorrect insulin response is “diabetes,” but the symptom is wacky blood sugars.

So you treat the symptom. Am I getting that right? The disease is hypertension, but you treat the symptom of high blood pressure by either relaxing the heart and blood vessels or decreasing the volume of blood with diuretics.

But there are lots of kinds of doctors. Osteopaths are supposed to be more systemic, recognizing the body’s ability to heal itself. Sounds like magic to me. But you have to know, when I look at things like diabetes, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, obesity, gout—you know, those First World diseases we get from our higher standard of living—I think they must be related. Must somehow be systemic.

But, that’s just another one of those communication breakdowns that have me running to another’s arms.

The surgeon, for example. He’s the guy who’s going to help me

when things get really bad. He’ll likely have to cut out a big fat vein from my leg and detour the blockages on the right aorta. The Cardiac CT showed there are like eight or nine of them. But when he lies me down on that bed and slides his fingers along my inner thigh before he cracks my chest like some psychotic cupid, you know I’m going to be like putty in his hands.

But look, Doc, there are all kinds of health-care workers in Reno, and there are others who don’t have conventional M.D.s, but somehow they seem to be just as concerned about my body. There’s that ayurvedic doctor, Harish Aggarwal at Everlasting Health in the Sports West Shopping Center. The guy over at Truckee Meadows Herbs on Wells Avenue knows a lot. In fact, anything he says has a lot of proponents on the web. And have you seen the

selection of vitamins, minerals and herbs over at Whole Foods?

No, no, no. Please. Don’t be pathetic. Don’t beg, and don’t enlist your friends to harass me. Don’t talk shit about my new doctors. I’ll miss you, too, but attacking people who are different than you just because you don’t know how to say what’s really in your heart will only get you blocked from my phone. That is, Doc, if I had your phone number.

Why don’t I have your phone number? It’s because even though you know me intimately, you’re not really my friend. I’m just a customer.

And don’t even ask about Facebook.

Love is communication

Speaking of things we don’t talk about, let’s talk about vitamins and herbs. It’s pretty obvious to me that I either have too much of something or too little of something in my internal environment. From your point of view, I guess, I would have a deficiency of Zocor.

I’ve thought about this for a while now. We know there are natural treatments for things that are just as effective as those drugs you so lovingly push. For example, niacin for lowering cholesterol.

In the report, Cholesterol: Niacin vs. Statins, Margy Squires wrote: “Harvey Simon, M.D., responds to a

niacin question in the Harvard Health Publication by saying, “In the doses needed to improve cholesterol, niacin is a drug and a potent one. On average, it can lower LDL cholesterol by 10-25 percent. Statins and other lipid-lowering drugs do even better, but niacin outshines them all for lowering triglycerides levels (down 20-50 percent) and raising HDL cholesterol levels (up 15-35 percent).”

So, is lowering total cholesterol the goal? Nope. Is lowering triglycerides and raising HDL cholesterol the goal? Yep. Doesn’t it make sense if those numbers are off, maybe it’s because a natural nutrient is scarce in the body? Like maybe somebody is suffering from a Vitamin B3 deficiency? I’m not a doctor or anything, and a person would be a fool to act on anything I say, but doesn’t it make sense?

But here’s the deal. As in most matters of the heart, it’s money that matters. In the American system of medicine, we have a method for drug approval through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. We’ve all heard how Vioxx, Baycol and Fenphen got approved for consumption.

We’ve all heard how much it costs to bring a drug to market: A Slate.com article pointed out that while pharmaceutical companies claim it costs almost a billion dollars to bring a

drug to market, the true cost is closer treatments for many diseases, and they to $55 million. don’t want to be exposed as frauds The real problem is that pharmawho risk people’s health for profit. ceutical companies can’t patent And for you and me, Doc, natural substances, like there’s no objective way niacin, so they can’t for us to compare, to make billions of discover drug condollars off it. traindications, But that’s just no way to disThere was the time you one strand of cern what is the conspirreal and wanted my gall bladder acy. Natural what would substances— work best removed because I had vitamins, for my constant heartburn. minerals, health. It all amino acids, boils down Turned out my belt was herbs—have to a matter of little governfaith: Do you too tight. ment believe the drug regulation—none companies and the as far as efficacy goes. government, or do And any time some governyou believe the supplement ment busybody suggests a bit of companies? Maybe some people regulation to protect consumers, the believe the witch doctors or faith pharmaceutical companies and the healers. Remember the whole laetrile supplement manufacturers howl. controversy when people were The supplement manufacturers eating peach pits in desperate hope scream because they don’t want the of surviving cancer and yet still government cooking the books and dying like flies? making their natural drugs look less It’s all big business, Doc, and the effective against the manufactured last time I was in your office, we drugs. Some scream because they’re said a great many things. You said I selling fairy dust, and they don’t was to do the thinking for both of us. want to be exposed as frauds who Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, risk people’s health for profit. and it all adds up to one thing: I’m The pharmaceutical companies going to have to do the experimentahowl because they don’t want people tion on my own body and trust in the to know there are effective natural findings. What’s the worst thing that

could happen? Other than my premature death because the people who would profit off my prolonged life would prefer I don’t have the information to make real choices.

For example, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling claimed he solved atherosclerosis with a combination of Vitamin C and amino acids back in the ’80s. It seems if this were true, the drug companies would eschew some profits in order to help people live longer, better lives. Unfortunately, statins are among the most prescribed drugs on the planet. We Americans spent $19 billion on statins last year.

Well, Dr. John, I feel I’m rambling. I’ve valued our relationship over the years, but I’ve got to admit honestly that I often felt that I was doing most of the giving, and you were doing most of the taking, and if it wasn’t you, it was the insurance company.

I’m sorry I had to do this in a letter, but I’m afraid your fear of commitment to my health was our undoing. I do hope you understand about me seeing other doctors, but I’ll continue to see you when I need an antibiotic, a stitch or a scrip for a blood test.

I just hope we can stay friends.

Yours patiently, Brian

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ust 10 years ago, women with $300 shoes and tiny, annoying dogs flooded dealerships in order to buy Cadillac and Lexus SUVs that functioned no better than their subprime mortgages. Men with tribal tattoos threw money at Dodge, Ford and Chevrolet because they wanted to commute from suburbia to Sparks in the largest truck available. Fashion crushed function under boot, gasoline cost near nothing and profit-taking trumped design innovation.

2012 is much better for car buying.

Behold three affordable paths to comfortable, handsome transport. All achieve at least 40 highway mpg. All are practical enough to serve a family.

One is even fun to drive.

Hyundai Accent

Upon entering, the exterior’s vitriol melts away into a Prada-meets-theBorg orgy of tech modernism. The instrument cluster is a flatscreen display. To the right, another computer screen does many things, some of which neither of us could understand.

Below this resides yet another computer screen where the driver may link to satellite radio, stock quotes, MP3 players, smart phones, Pandora and the launching system for Russia’s nuclear arsenal. You may not, however, link to your favorite FM radio stations without an hour’s searching.

All these computers mount to an angular dash covered in some material I’ve never encountered before. It’s pleasant to touch and looks nice—hundreds of perforations, lines and textures. The spaceship uses nothing so vulgar as a key, and so the owner is likely to leave the door-opening computer chip inside the car at least daily.

without the driver touching anything.

These shenanigans caused a minimum of three lurches per stop light.

Even those ills pale in comparison to the brakes. Press on the pedal with moderate force, and at first nothing happens. Wait a second longer, and suddenly the brakes bite with savage force. Then, at about 10 mph, the car reverts to glide mode. You must initially mash the brake pedal, ease up and then mash it again to stop smoothly.

I drove it briefly in a sporting manner. This caused Gina to call out in terror. I, too, feared for my life and not because it’s fast. The other two would blow it into the weeds. Our heavily optioned Prius C is also most expensive of the three. Rebates? Child, please.

Think of it as the bizzaro-Hyundai.

Where the Accent blandly goes about its business, doing everything with great competence but no exuberance, PHOTO/AMY BECK

Base price $12,545; Price as tested $16,100; EPA MPG 30 city/40 highway; 138 hp Cars must go, stop and turn. They should carry you and your passengers in comfort. In all of these core competencies, the Accent performs admirably.

It is remarkably spacious. Two generously proportioned gentlemen could

gasoline, and I’m sure they do. But, for that extra .2 mpg, the driver suffers a cacophony of road noise—concrete in G-minor, allegro of expansion joint.

Thank god, there’s a good sound system to drown it out. These tires also make the act of cornering so squishy and imprecise it feels like driving in a pit of soggy bread. That’s a shame because the chassis seems capable.

Add in our test car’s sexy, Italian Racing Brown bodywork and automatic gearbox, and the Accent does an excellent job inspiring narcolepsy in all who drive it.

Bad luck really, because with Hyundai’s optional 16-inch tires—I recommend anything to avoid those hateful low friction 14-inchers—and the $900 cheaper manual transmission—an automatic transmission sucks the joy from any small car—I suspect the Accent would make an entertaining little runabout.

FLASH drives If the $4-a-gallon gas prices have got you down, it might be time to switch to an eco-friendly car.

We test drove three. BY BEN GARRIDO

share the back seat in complete serenity.

Indeed, the Accent’s large dimensions allowed me to remain blissfully unaware of the salesman’s preference in antiperspirant. Lots of room in the front as well—my partner in testing, Gina Akao, could flop great distances to and fro whenever I drove vigorously.

All the controls fall naturally to hand, everything seems well-built, and it’s the easiest to drive in our test. The six-speed automatic transmission slushes smoothly and responds to manual inputs within half a second or so. It has the best, most natural-to-use brakes. The Accent has bold new styling, all swoops and curves and adventurous detailing. The Accent also undercuts the next cheapest car in this test by almost ten grand, so it’s excellent value.

But all is not joy and sunshine. Our test car came with special low rolling resistance, 14 inch tires. These nasty, rock hard things are supposed to save 14

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Ben Garrido test drives a VW Golf.

Toyota Prius C

Base price $18,950; Price as tested $25,700; EPA MPG 53 city/46 highway; 99 hp Neither Gina nor I have ever driven any car as weird as the Prius C. It might not even be a car, more like a spaceship.

First the good news. The Prius C looks aggressive and high tech, especially in orange. From the front, it has a scrunched nose and angry frown, like somebody just stole its lunch money. The spaceship almost crouches on its front wheels. Saving the environment evidently involves a lot of pent up angst, and I like that.

Select drive and there’s more good news. The Prius C rides very smoothly. As long as we proceed very, very conservatively, it is a wonderful thing to be a passenger in, though also the most cramped car we sampled.

If you wish to actually drive the Prius C, however, there’s a lot of bad news. The steering is bad. The car sort of goes where you point, but the effort required to turn the wheel varies almost at random.

Throttle response is even worse.

Sometimes pressing on the gas makes a lot of noise with no progress.

Sometimes it accelerates in silence.

Sometimes the spaceship makes a lot of very unpleasant noise and then wheezes down the road. Just for variety, it also moves silently away

the Prius endlessly entertains. It’s one of the most exciting cars I’ve driven, in no small part because it’s scary. It’s also hugely flawed. Gina sums it up best: “I like it and it’s very exciting, but that’s because I never know what it’s going to do next.”

Volkswagen Golf TDI

Base price $24,235; Price as tested $25,200; EPA MPG 30 city/42 highway; 140 hp This is the best car we tried by miles. If the Hyundai is boring, practical transport and the Prius C a dimwitted spaceship with a good sense of humor, then the Golf is Joe Montana, a top athlete settling into respectable middle age.

It’s faster than the Accent and so much faster than the Prius, it feels like stepping into a fighter jet after years of riding an asthmatic donkey. The 2.0 liter turbo diesel engine makes almost twice the torque of the other two and allows the driver to shoot out of corners at near sportscar pace. With sharp, precise steering and an adjustable chassis, the Golf is an absolute pleasure to punt down a twisting road. Want to drive cleanly?

No problem. Want to make the back tires slide a little? Certainly, sir. Want to throw it around like a pissed off 13 year-old handling dirty laundry? It lives to serve.

The interior is even better. Gina, running her hands over the dash, headliner and seats, kept saying, “Ooh, that’s nice.” All the switches feel like they’ve been cut from solid blocks of aluminum. Turn signal indicators make satisfying, muted “clunk” sounds when you push them. The sixspeed manual gear box snicks between ratios quickly and effortlessly, like an expensive knife through sashimi. The entire interior feels grown up, classy and confident. It’s also dead quiet and ultra smooth—85 mph in fourth gear without noticing you’ve been speeding smooth. It rides perhaps a touch harder than the spaceship but never jars. In terms of refinement, it almost feels unfair to compare it with the other two.

There are some minor annoyances.

Putting on the seatbelt requires dislocating one’s shoulder. There’s lots of old-school turbo lag. The brake pedal has an inch of dead squish before biting down—it’s difficult to heel-andtoe. Any time you stall the car, you must turn the ignition all the way off, all the way back on and wait for a split second to restart the engine. I discovered this in the middle of an intersection, which was very exciting.

Finally, it feels expensive largely because it is expensive.

Life’s a gas

These cars represent three different approaches to eco-friendly personal transportation. The conventional gasoline-powered Hyundai gives up very little efficiency to its hybrid and diesel competitors. It’s the most practical, the best value and effectively half the price of the others. It also has the best warranty. You cannot buy any new hybrid or diesel for similar money.

Hyundai offers two other gasoline models, the sporty Veloster and the more powerful Elantra, that achieve an EPA-rated 40 mpg for under $20,000. Ford, Chevrolet, Nissan, Kia, Honda and Mazda can make similar boasts. The Prius C is odd and, during our test drive, managed only 41 mpg.

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most intriguing in a science fiction sort of way. The diesel Golf is simply wonderful. If you can stomach the high price of admission, you will soon discover why diesel is so popular in Europe and Asia.

Wanna help the environment?

Mothball your truck.

The 15 mpg improvement you get going from a 10 mpg truck to a 25 mpg car does far more to help the environment, and your pocketbook, than the 15 mpg improvement you get going from a conventional, 25 mpg car to a 40 mpg fuel miser. The reason has to do with consumption rates.

Let’s start with your giant, 10 mpg truck. Assume you drive 100 miles on your commute and therefore consume 10 gallons of fuel per day. At $4 per gallon that’s $40 in fuel to complete your trip. Assume you trade that truck for a powerful sports car like a Chevrolet Corvette. The Corvette gets about 25 mpg. For that same 100 mile commute you are now consuming only four gallons and $16 dollars of gasoline, saving six gallons and $24 compared to the truck. Next you trade your Corvette for an Accent, Prius C (remember, we observed 41 mpg on our Prius’ trip computer) or Golf TDI. At 40 mpg, your commute consumes 2.5 gallons and $10.

Compared to the Corvette, hardly an ecomobile, you have saved only 1.5 gallons and $6. Going from the Prius’ observed 41 mpg economy to its claimed 53 mpg means even less; .6 gallons and $2.40 savings over that same 100-mile commute.

High mpg is thus a case of diminishing returns. You do far more good getting rid of horrible gas guzzlers—almost any full size truck or truck based SUV—than by upgrading from a normal car to an ultra efficient fuel sipper.

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DREAM deferred The Mexican on presidents, broken-down cars and college tuition fees.

Dear Mexican: How come there are a bunch of fair-skinned European-looking guys running Mexico? When I’m in Mexico, I see them having power lunches in fine restaurants, driving Beemers and escorting absolutely breathtaking women with long legs and high cheek bones around town. Who are these guys? How can I become one of them? OK, the last question is silly but... by Gustavo Arellano Dear Gabacho: Mexico has had a full-blooded Indian (Benito Juarez), gustavoa@ a half-Mixtec (Porfirio Diaz), an newsreview.com Afro-Mexican (Vicente Guerrero), and many mestizos as presidents, and a Lebanese-Mexican (Carlos Slim) is its richest man. The United States de Gabachos has had one negrito, a Dutch cabrón, and a mick serve as president in a cavalcade of Caucasians. European power ¿qué?

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What is up with the broken-down coche in the front yard of almost all Mexicans, and the rose bushes?

Why the rose bushes? Do you get your Mexican card revoked if you do not fulfill these apparent criteria to be Mexican?

Dear Wab: The car is because the cousin who knows how to fix radiators needs to fix his first; the roses are in homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, whom the legend goes ordered the Indian (another Mexi who runs Mexico!) Juan Diego to show skeptical Spanish padres proof of her existence. Juan Diego gathered rose petals in his cloak and dumped them in front of the culero clergy only to find an imprint of la morenita on it. Let’s see an English garden do that.

I came to this country when I was four years old from Mexico with my parents; I’m now 22 years of age.

My parents for some reason didn’t

try to file for papers for themselves when the process was as easy as making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I’m attending community college at Santa Ana College; as you know, I have to pay a million times more because of my residential status. But when I first heard about this DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, I thought that it could be my savior, financially. Because of that same issue, I’m only taking two classes this fall semester, and it still totaled over $400 with books and all. What exactly would the DREAM Act mean if it did pass for students like myself? What/who needs to make the major, final decision for it to come a reality? What’s the status of it at this point? And, do you think it will be passed anytime soon, or ever? Thank you.

Dear Secular Saint: Your astronomical community college fees are a result of bonehead administrators

and largely independent from the question of citizenship. And I’ll tell you and your fellow Dreamers the same thing I’ve been telling ustedes for years about your plight: keep the faith. Although the future seems hopeless, look at all the progress that has been made in just the past couple of years: the coming out of the shadows by so many undocumented youths, unafraid of pendejo politicians. The flowering of amazing artwork by Dreamers such as Julio Salgado, the Mexican’s former intern whose posters have drawn national acclaim and are at nearly every Dreamer rally. The pushing into the national debate about the issue. Sure, Know Nothings will try their damndest to stop Dreamers and other undocumented folks from ever attaining citizenship, but the war is already won; it’s just the rest of the country that’s just realizing this. Again: keep the faith. Ω

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I like bikes

Jumpin’ Jimmy poses with his sculpture for the We HeART Bikes Bicycle Art Show.

We HeART Bikes Bicycle Art Show “The Reno Bike Project is a work in progress, so when Noah Silverman and Kyle Kozar meet up by for coffee, the talk centers on what they Kris Vagner want to do.”

That’s how a 2007 RN&R story began. Back then, RBP was a high-energy group of artists and bike mechanics who wanted to share their enthusiasm for cycling with the community, but weren’t exactly sure how.

Headquarters was bike mechanic Eric Carter’s basement. Reno Sparks Kiwanis Reno Bike Project’s 6th Bike Program Re-Cyclery let the group use Annual We HeART Bikes its warehouse for events. With greasy hands Bicycle Art Show is at and rolled up sleeves, RBP jumped headHolland Project Gallery, first into the world of being a nonprofit. Or 140 Vesta St., at 5 p.m. on April 28. For more maybe a business. Or something. Heck, information, visit they’d just start, then decide. www.renobike Five years and three locations later, at project.com. quitting time on a Saturday, mechanics Anthony Arevalo and Casey Clark locked up the Bike Project’s East Fourth Street shop, a compact garage space with a cotton-candy-colored façade, and met up for beer to talk about what they’ve accomplished.

“We’re now running a full-service, forprofit bike shop inside of a community bike shop,” says Clark, sporting an almost chestlength beard, sleeves still rolled up.

“We have just made our own way,” says Arevalo, whose demeanor is so thoughtful it imbues his clean black hoodie with downright professionalism. “We had an idea and a group of people who believed in it, and it’s growing.”

At first, they focused on bike-repair education and staffing a repair co-op.

Friends volunteered to host events such as Ladies’ Night.

Eventually, says Clark, “People kept coming in and dropping off bikes, not wanting to work on them, just for the Bike Project to repair them, as a way of supporting us, basically. And it turned into a profitable thing.”

Reno Bike Project now has eight employees and an eight-member board of directors. They team with companies such as Microsoft and Patagonia for Bike to Work Day events and send a rep to City Council meetings to put in a good word for

bike-friendly planning. At the shop, cyclists can buy a used ride, repair their own at a DIY workspace for $3 an hour, or just drop off bikes for professional repairs.

What’s next? More advocacy (lobbying for the proposed 4th Street/Prater Way corridor redo to include bike-friendly infrastructure). More outreach (providing bikes to job-seekers in exchange for a few volunteer hours). And maybe lending a hand to the neighbors.

From the shop, Arevalo says, he can see people coming out of St. Vincent’s Food Pantry across the street carrying heavy loads of canned goods on foot, and he’d like to be able to offer them the use of a few cargo bikes.

But first, there’s fundraising to be done, RBP style. On Saturday, April 28, the Bike Project hosts its 6th Annual We HeART

Bikes Bicycle Art Show, the most profitable of several fundraisers the group holds.

“We solicit donations of bike-themed art, and lots of people give it to us,” says Arevalo.

“New Belgium [Brewing Company] sponsors us. They show up with this van full of beer and a rep,” adds Clark.

At last year’s art show, environmentalists and bikers rubbed elbows with art-world regulars. Bands played, and sales of about 90 bike-themed paintings (from the traditional to the avant-garde), drawings, jewelry, postcards, and sculptures made of welded cycle parts netted about $5,000, a sizeable chunk of the RBP’s operating budget.

After six years of evolution and trialand-error, Reno Bike Project has gone from a “work in progress” to a progressive, selfsufficient community organization that hearts bikes, hearts art, and has carved out a stable niche somewhere between a nonprofit organization and a for-profit business.

Plus, adds Clark, we’re finally getting over that “douchebag-hipsters-on-fixedgears reputation.” Ω

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Deaver has his degree in Culinary Arts from Horry Georgetown Technical College in South Carolina. His 18-year history in the kitchen includes an impressive resume. He opened a resort restaurant for golfer Greg Norman.

Then he was on his way to work at the Ritz-Carlton on Maui when 9/11 happened. It detoured him to North Star at Lake Tahoe for a couple of years. Marriott hired him in San Diego; opportunity moved him over to the Hilton chain until the Levy Restaurant Group offered him a top spot. Then, came jobs in Palm Springs, Park City, Utah, and now, Aces Ballpark. Levy is the contractor for the food services at For Reno Aces tickets or the park. He runs all the food on more information, visit the main concourse and also www.renoaces.com.

Buggy’s at the skybox level along the third base line.

Food prices at the park range from $4.75 to $29. A great assortment of domestic, premium, and Executive chef Billy Deaver puts the finishing touches on the Smores Smasher dessert at Aces Ballpark.

microbrews are priced at $6.25 to $9.59. My first time up, I choose the Wild Horse Ale-braised Cheddar Bratwurst with jalapeñoapple slaw and horseradish mustard ($10). This one was out of the park.

A perfect casing holds in the brat’s natural juices. It’s from the Sausage Factory in Carson City. Deaver said he uses as much local product as possible. The bratwurst is pork and beef braised with the brew from Great Basin Brewing Co.—a new, local vender this year—infused with natural California cheddar, has just the right amount of garlic and pepper, and was developed by the Tonino family exclusively for the Aces. The savory, hearty, juicy flavor—even a little tart with a bite of horseradish and jalapeño—was a walk-off home run in my mouth … eat your heart out, Nathan’s.

My second trip to the plate was for a grilled-cheese Smasher ($7.50). It’s a panini-type sandwich with provolone, good, sharp cheddar, tomatoes and homemade pesto without pine nuts on thick bread grilled to a golden brown. It’s simple, but the two cheeses and pesto gave it a rich flavor, very satisfying and ample for a manwich.

While I was waiting on deck for my next at-fork, I decided to hydrate with an Epic IPA from Mammoth Brewery, first times at the ball park ($7.25). Not too hoppy for an IPA and a darker color because they double roast the hops, letting the malt bring a little more to the flavor.

For my clean-up spot, I went to the plate for a Smores Smasher ($7.50). a Belgian waffle broken in half, and now comes the triple play: Spread with Nutello, melted marshmallow, sprinkle crushed graham crackers. Decadent, sweet, a hint of hazelnut, coco, and the flavor carried this smack so far, it almost hit the pop-up baseball in right field that sings “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh inning stretch.

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Very ape Chimpanzee While watching DisneyNature’s latest effort, Chimpanzee, I was reminded of some of the shows I used to catch as a kid during TV’s Wonderful World of Disney. I remembered being wowed by the cool nature footage that Walt’s army used to catch, and I also remembered that the narration would bore and/or annoy me in contrast.

Such is also the case with Chimpanzee. The footage of a little chimpanzee orphan dubbed Oscar is amazing stuff. Oscar, an energetic 3by year-old, is a cute little shit, and I could watch Bob Grimm hours of footage featuring his adorable eyes and natural sense of mischief. bgrimm@ newsreview.com As for listening to Tim Allen narrate the story of Oscar and his predicament (“Power tools … grr!”), I was longing for the voice of Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones. Or perhaps even the famous primatologist Jane Goodall, who served as an advisor on the flick.

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If, while watching the extremely close action of Oscar and his troop of chimps, you guess that the crew got their footage via zoom lenses from many yards away, guess again. Credit footage reveals that the crew was right in the thick of things covered with camouflage.

That’s amazing, considering that there are large, potentially volatile chimps in Oscar’s clan.

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It has been observed that adult male chimps don’t often do that sort of thing. As the film depicts, his actions may’ve been a catalyst in an attack by neighboring chimps looking to steal his area’s food.

Even if it did put his group in a bit of a pickle, it’s a great thing to watch Freddie interact with Oscar. Some of the movie’s more fascinating moments involve the two goofing around with mouthfuls of food, or Freddie showing Oscar how to crack nuts properly. Oscar smacking himself on the toes with rocks provides a couple of laugh-out-loud moments. It must hurt like a bitch, yet he just goes about his business trying to crack his nuts and get a snack, much like I do with whole walnuts during the holidays.

Little kids going to see this movie will probably be baffled by the notion of chimps eating tree monkeys, but that’s exactly what happens when food gets a little scarce. If those same kids know their Lion King, they might also be confused by the film’s villain, an ugly, menacing neighbor chimp named Scar. He shares his name with Lion King’s villain, which might prompt many a child to ask, “Say mommy, why didn’t the big ugly chimp have the voice of Jeremy Irons?”

Eh, probably not.

It would be interesting to see a film about the docile tree monkeys just going for a jungle stroll when a pack of voracious chimpanzees attack them and eat one of their brethren. As cute as these chimps can be, you must remind yourself that they will tear your face off and eat you.

So, please, don’t go adopting any chimps, Michael Jackson style, resulting in your neighbors getting their faces torn off, making you the guest of dishonor at all future street parties. This concludes the PSA portion of this movie review.

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I can understand getting a big name to narrate your nature film. Perhaps the goofiness of the Allen narration isn’t entirely his fault. But some of his efforts at dramatic tension or comedy are quite painful. They don’t completely derail the film, but they do kill the momentum at times. Straightforward narration would probably work better for adults.

Then again, this one is also intended for kids, and they’d probably prefer the voice of Buzz Lightyear hamming it up as if he were reading them a story at bedtime, rather than the voice of Darth Vader. Ω

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum team up as an unlikely comic duo for this twisted reboot of the infamous ’80s TV show that launched the career of a little guy named Johnny Depp. The two play former high school enemies who become friends at their new job of being cops. After quickly getting into trouble, they are put into the newly reactivated 21 Jump Street program—with an angry, hilarious Ice Cube as their captain—and must go undercover as high school students to infiltrate a teen drug ring. The two are very funny together, and Tatum displays a surprising amount of comic chops. He actually has the film’s funniest moments. This will stand as one of the year’s funniest and nastiest comedies. It also contains some very memorable cameos.

American Reunion

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The reality about the American Pie films is that they were never very good, or even just good. A couple of gross-out gags involving deflowered apple pie and tainted beer got some laughs in the original, but the rest of the film was pretty weak, with the sequels getting progressively worse through the terrible American Wedding. This chapter, which might very well be the last, gives Seann William Scott’s Stifler a nice showcase, but it also gives too much screen time to dullards like Thomas Ian Nicholas and Tara Reid. Bad actors manage to sink this one, which tries to pull the nostalgia heartstrings for characters most of us couldn’t give a damn about. As for the gross-out stuff, nothing reaches the level of the original film’s semiclever nastiness. It’s time to set this franchise out to pasture.

Bully

4

Director Lee Hirsch’s documentary faced a lot of controversy on the way to movie screens, but managed to get its PG-13 rating so kids can see it. That’s a good thing, because every kid needs to see this movie. It’s definitely one of those. Hirsch visits the families of children who have committed suicide due, in part, to the stresses of being bullied. He also follows some kids around, including Alex, a great kid who has trouble making friends and endures physical harassment on the school bus. From what I see here, not much has changed since I went to school and bullies made life hard on many. Hirsch wants to put the message out to kids that bullying is very much a crime that can scar people for life and, even worse, take lives.

I’ve known a couple of people who didn’t make it to adulthood, the victims of classmate torture for most of their adolescent lives. I wish this film had been made 30 years ago.

The Cabin in the Woods

4

This crazy rule-bender comes from writer/director Drew Goddard and cowriter Joss Whedon, the father of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and hero to many a geek. It’s quite clever, maybe even a little too clever at times. The setup sees a typical sampling of college students getting ready for a vacation at the lake. They are Curt the Jock (Chris Hemsworth, a.k.a. Thor!), Dana the Almost Virgin (Kristen Connolly), Jules the Whore (Anna Hutchison), Holden the Hot Nerd (Jesse Williams) and Marty the Wisecracking Stoner (Fran Kranz). At the same time, we see two working stiffs (Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford) reporting to their very peculiar jobs, the details of which will not be given away. The film works as both a straight-up horror film and a funny homage to the genre, with plenty of great reveals and twists along the way, including an awesome final cameo. It sat on shelves for three years, and we finally get to see it. Yay!

The Hunger Games

2

For a big blockbuster based on an extremely popular novel, director Gary Ross’ film looks mighty cheap. Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, forced to represent her district in a televised contest where young people must battle to the death.

While Lawrence is a great actress, she doesn’t fit the role of starving teen very well. Josh Hutcherson plays her fellow district rep, Peeta, and he suits the role just fine. I just couldn’t get

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by the drab look of the movie, and the horrible shaky cam that manages to destroy the action visuals instead of enhancing them. Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson are all saddled with silly getups for their roles, which might’ve played OK had another director filmed them. The movie is just a strange clash of tones, never has a consistent feel, and is surprisingly boring considering the subject matter.

Mirror Mirror

2

Director Tarsem Singh, who made last year’s awful, horrible Immortals, does a little better with this wacky take on the story of Snow White. Julia Roberts does her best as the evil queen looking to rid herself of the beautiful Snow White (a charming Lily Collins). Armie Hammer gives it a go as the handsome prince, while Nathan Lane tries to provide comic relief.

The film looks good, with lush visuals and costuming. The seven dwarfs are toughed up and amusing. Yet, the film struggles to find a consistent tone that it never quite achieves. Tarsem is capable of making a good-looking movie—it’s just that his movies are usually kind of irredeemably silly. The film rips off Ella Enchanted during its credits by having Collins lip-synch a pop song. Stupid.

Think Like a Man

2

Comedian and radio talk show host Steve Harvey wrote the bestselling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment in 2009. Even though it’s an advice book, with no plot, somebody has managed to make a movie out of it anyway. The film follows four couples as the women read and take the sage advice of Steve Harvey, who strikes me as an arrogant asshole. So I don’t buy that the characters in this movie would give two shits about what Steve Harvey has to say. Harvey appears occasionally in the film, spewing his nonsense straight at the audience, appearing on talk shows in the film, etc. A winning cast makes things sporadically tolerable, with fun performances from Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara and Gabrielle Union. They are good. Steve Harvey the douche can suck it, as can Chris Brown, who appears in a lame cameo.

The Three Stooges

2

Peter and Bobby Farrelly have been trying to get this thing made for years. There were times when high profile actors such as Sean Penn and Jim Carrey were attached to the project. What finally makes it to the screen is a cast of talented people giving it their all with a script that lets them down. Sean Hayes is especially amazing as Larry, while Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso do good jobs as Moe and Curly respectively. The problem is that the writers rely on dumb jokes involving Jersey Shore, and most of the cast surrounding the Stooges—with the exception of Larry David doing fine work as a grouchy nun—has nothing worthwhile to do. The slapstick hits are often good, but there’s just no story worth watching, and things get a little tedious by the time the credits roll—too bad, because there’s potential for consistent fun with the new Stooges. As performers, the three new guys do the originals proud, even if the movie falls short.

Wrath of the Titans

2

Bad beards, an especially drab actor, and a whole lot of messed up Greek mythology nonsense make their return in this bad film that is, nonetheless, a marked improvement over 2010’s inexcusable Clash of the Titans. There are enjoyable, even exciting stretches in this film where the action and pyrotechnics overwhelm the fact that the movie is anchored with the dullard that is Sam Worthington.

As Perseus, son of Zeus aspiring to be nothing but a human fisherman with awesome flip-hair, he registers zero on the charisma meter. Being that he’s onscreen more than anybody in these Titan pics, it’s a little hard to endorse them. This has some pretty decent explosions and a couple of neat creatures. The 3-D, while not extraordinary, is better than it was in chapter one of this hopefully finished franchise.

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Flying circus Merkin Though the band name refers to a type of pubic wig, Merkin has nothing to hide. The group is a compelling alternative rock by Kelsey Bauder trio that came together about four years ago.

“It was love at first sight,” says singer/bassist Dane DeLucchi.

The band first started as just drummer Jeremy Morrow and DeLucchi.

Guitarist Alan Burton joined forces later. The members of Merkin mesh well and all bring something different to the table.

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recordings are risky and at times dark, but still accessible.

“A lot of our songs are socially charged” says Morrow. “So Budweiser, Nascar, it’s the same shit. The more the government satisfies people, the more they’re willing to comply.”

The diverse EP has been a long time coming. The tracks were recorded in December, and the EPs were pressed a few weeks ago.

Bread & Circus is a milestone for the members of Merkin. They say it’s an excellent representation of their range and extensive song base and just a taste of things to come.

Having just returned from a tour down the West Coast and to Pheonix, these guys have pushed out of their local niche and maintain high aspirations for the future.

“Huge endeavors are going on,” says Morrow.

Merkin has plans to make a circuit through Oregon and Washington and are also in the process of completing a concept album that will incorporate songs off the new EP and many more with a slightly different sound. “[The EP] is more lyrically and conceptually heavy, what we’re doing now is more palatable, I guess,” says DeLucchi. “We’ve lightened some songs up in areas.”

Merkin gigs frequently at a number of local bars and venues, including the Knitting Factory, The Tree House Lounge, and of course Strega Bar, where Morrow is a coowner. Merkin’s record release party will be at Strega on April 27, accompanied by local bands The Kanes, Drinking with Clowns, and Rigorous Proof. Bread & Circus will be on sale along with other Merkin merch. Ω

Dane DeLucchi, Alan Burton and Jeremy Morrow of Merkin kick it on the porch of Strega Bar, the band’s homebase.

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Merkin will release its new EP, Bread & Circus, at the end of the month. It includes songs the members have been working on for the past few years. Each of the seven tracks has a different flare, yet in its entirety the EP remains cohesive.

“We never write the same song over and over again,” says Morrow. “We want each song to be different.”

The album has a distinct raw and lo-fi feeling overall. Some tracks maintain a progressive feel while others had a more grungy vibe.

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Local Listening Party, 9pm, M, no cover; Dark Tuesdays w/Stefani, 9pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke , 8pm, Tu, no cover; The Steve Starr Show, 5pm, W, no cover

Nü Fridays, 10pm, no cover charge for women till 2am

Where’ve You Been?

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555 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993 1) Showroom 2) Tree House Lounge

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Live jazz, 8pm W, no cover

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April 28, 9:30 p.m.

3rd Street 125 W. Third St. 323-5005

Jay Goldfarb, 7pm W, no cover

Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

680 S. Meadows Pkwy., (775) 850-1112

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 786-6460

Open jazz jam, 7:30pm W, no cover

Hip Hop Open Mic, 9pm W, no cover

1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/30-5/2

Open Mic Night/College Night, 7pm Tu, no cover

Haf-Ded, 9pm, $5

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2) Steppenstonz, 8pm, no cover

2) Steppenstonz, 4pm, no cover; 2) Palmore Brothers, 10pm, no cover

2) Steppenstonz, 4pm, no cover; 2) Palmore Brothers, 10pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Kid & Nic, 8pm M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Dave Stamey, Juni Fisher, Jim King, 2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover 7pm, $25; 2) Melissa Dru, 7pm, no cover

2) Melissa Dru, 8pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm M, Tu, W, no cover

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Buddy Emmer, 10pm, no cover

1) Keyser Soze, Boss 501, 9pm, no cover; 2) DJ Arson, Par Gnar, 11:30pm,

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1) Metal Shop, 9pm, no cover; 2) Free Crush, Irieyes, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, $19.95+; 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover; 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 8pm, $19.95+; 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover; 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm and 9:30pm, $19.95+; 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover; 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, $19.95+; 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover; 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott, The Assad Brothers, 8pm, $60-$250; 5) Country dance lessons w/DJ Jamie “G”, Cowboy Tom, 8pm, $5; 5) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no

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1) Mastodon, Opeth, 8pm, $29.50; 4) Baila Latin Dance Party, 7:30pm, $5; 5) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

2) Arthur Hervey, 8pm, no cover; 3) DJ/dancing, VEX Girls, 10:30pm, $20

1) Puddle of Mudd, 7:30pm, $38; 2) Arthur Hervey, 8pm, no cover; 3) DJ/dancing, VEX Girls, 10:30pm, $20

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

CARSON VALLEY INN

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

CIRCUS CIRCUS

500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge 4) Cin Cin Bar & Lounge

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Theater 2) 2500 East 3) The Beach 4) Xtreme Sports Bar 5) Mustangs Dancehall & Saloon 6) Summit Pavilion 7) Grand Sierra Ballroom 8) Silver State Pavilion

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage 3) VEX

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge 3) Plaza 4) Convention Center

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Showroom 2) Cabaret 3) Orozko 4) Rose Ballroom 5) Trader Dick’s

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Cabaret 3) Terrace Lounge 4) Edge 5) Aqua Lounge

1) MITM, 7pm Tu, W, $19.95+; 2) Live Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover; 2) DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover; 2) Steele Breeze, 10pm W, no cover; 3) Live jazz, 4:30pm, W, no cover

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1) Robert Duchaine, 10:30pm, $20, $25; 2) Karaoke, 6pm, no cover

1) Rhythm Riders, 8pm, $25, $30;

1) Robert Duchaine, 10:30pm, $20, $25; 2) Karaoke, 6pm, no cover; 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

1) Rhythm Riders, 8pm, $25, $30; 1) Robert Duchaine, 10:30pm, $20, $25; 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

1) Rhythm Riders, 8pm, $25, $30

2) Jo Mama, 7pm, no cover; 3) Stevie D., 5:30pm, no cover; 5) Ladies ‘80s w/DJ BG, 6pm, no cover

2) Jo Mama, 8pm, no cover; 3) Stevie D., 6pm, no cover; 4) Engelbert Humperdinck, 9pm, $52, $59; 5) DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

2) Jo Mama, 8pm, no cover; 3) Stevie D., 6pm, no cover; 5) Steve Bradford, 5:30pm, no cover; 5) DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

2) Jo Mama, 7pm, no cover; 5) Steve Bradford, 5:30pm, no cover;

3) Dostero, 6pm W, no cover

2) Patton Leatha, 7pm, no cover; 4) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover charge for women

2) Patton Leatha, 8pm, no cover; 3) Major Link, 9pm, no cover; 4) Salsa dancing, 7pm, $10 after 8pm; 4) DJ Battle, 10pm, $20

2) Patton Leatha, 8pm, no cover; 3) Major Link, 9pm, no cover; 4) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20; 4) DJ Spryte, 10pm, $20

2) Patton Leatha, 7pm, no cover; 3) Chris Costa, 7pm, no cover

2) Patton Leatha, 7pm M, no cover; 3) Chris Costa, 7pm M, W, no cover

2) DJ I, 10pm, no cover; 3) Ladies Night & Karaoke, 7pm, no cover

2) Left of Centre, 9pm, no cover

1) Lisa Lampanelli, 8pm, $40-$55; 2) Left 2) DJ REXX, 10pm, no cover; 3) Salsa of Centre, 9pm, no cover; 3) Dance Etc., 7pm, no cover party, 10pm, no cover

2) Gary Douglas, 9pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 9pm, no cover

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 356-9799: F-Sa, 7pm, Tu, 6pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Tom, 9pm M, no cover; 2) DJ I, 10pm Tu, W, no cover; 3) Dudes Day, 7pm Tu, no cover; 3) Mix it Up!, 10pm W, no cover

TAHOE BILTMORE

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407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Ballroom 5) Drinx Lounge

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Red’s Golden Eagle Grill, 5800 Home Run Drive, Spanish Springs, (775) 626-6551: Karaoke w/Manny, F, 8pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 8474467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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For Thursday, April 26 to Wednesday, May 2 KYLE PETTY CHARITY RIDE: The 18th annual

To post events to our online calendar and have them considered for the print edition, visit our website at www.newsreview.com/reno and post your events by registering in the box in the upper right of the page. Once registered, you can log in to post. Events you create will be viewable by the public almost immediately and will be considered for the print calendar in the Reno News & Review.

Events ARBOR DAY TREE WALK AND PLANTING: Learn about local trees during this 45-minute walk through the Wilbur D. May Arboretum. A tree will be planted immediately following the tour. F, 4/27, 11:45am. Free. Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4153.

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Online and print submissions are subject to review and editing by the calendar editor. For details, call (775) 324-4440, ext. 3521, or email renocalendar@newsreview.com.

GIVE KIDS A BOOST HEALTH FAIR: This interactive health fair features more than 35 community organizations that will offer free health and safety services, including immunizations. Bring your child’s immunization card. Sa, 4/28, 10am-1pm.

Free. Sun Valley Neighborhood Center, 115 W. Sixth Ave. Sun Valley, Calif., (775) 770-6713.

The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., May 10, is Thursday, May 3.

HOMEWARD BOUND EXPRESSIONS: Enjoy refreshments, view art and hear poetry created by residents of the Family Shelter and watch a short theatrical production performed by students who have attended TheatreWorks classes. RSVP requested.

Th, 4/26, 5:30-7:30pm. Free. Southside Cultural Center, 190 E. Liberty St., (775) 322-7143, www.reno.gov.

WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES: This is an inter-

charity ride will make its third stop on the 2012 ride. Celebrities and charity racers include legendary racers Kyle Petty, Harry Gant, Eddie Gossage and 1982 Heisman Trophy football player Herschel Walker. Reno race fans will get to mix and mingle with celebrities in Xtreme Sports Bar. Ticket includes a light buffet. Su, 4/29, 3-4:30pm. $45.

Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, www.grandsierraresort.com.

national march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence. Men and women walk a mile in high heels to protest sexual violence. High heels are provided if needed. Proceeds go towards the Crisis Call Center’s Sexual Assault Support Services Program. Sa, 4/28, 9-10:30am. $25 for team of six or more, $5 per individual; free for observers. Mackay Stadium, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4936, www.unr.edu/cultural-diversity.

PAMPERED FOR A PURPOSE: This fundraiser

WEST OF WELLS WALKING TOUR: Walk the

for Habitat for Humanity includes spa services, cocktails, appetizers and a silent auction. Th, 4/26, 5-7:30pm. $50.

Soak Nail Spa & Lounge, 628 W. Second St., (775) 323-5511, www.soaklounge.com.

neighborhood west of Wells Avenue, along the former path of the V & T railroad. Learn about the history of this colorful neighborhood on the other side of the tracks. Reservations required.

Cut-off date for reservations is the day before the tour. Tu, 5/1, 6-8pm. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. Silver Peak Restaurant & Brewery, 124 Wonder St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

SPOTLIGHT ON TALENT!: Sierra School of Performing Arts hosts a star-studded evening with performances from singers, dancers, actors and more.

Reno jazz singer CeCe Gable serves as master of ceremonies. The evening will include a silent auction, raffle prizes and no-host bar. Performances will include “For Good” from Wicked, “When You’re Good to Mamma” from Chicago, a Neapolitan aria, dance numbers, and a piano solo, among others. Proceeds benefit SSPA’s performing arts endeavors.

Su, 4/29, 5pm. $20. Cargo at CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 852-7740, www.sierraschoolofperformingarts.org.

All ages BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIMES: Staff members and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882.

DOWN SYNDROME FAMILY SUPPORT GROUPS: Meet other parents who are going through issues faced by relatives or caretakers of a child with a disability. The Down Syndrome Network of Northern Nevada seeks to connect families and create a strong foundation of support.

First Tu of every month, 5:45-7:30pm. Free.

Nevada Early Intervention Services, (775) 828-5159, http://dsnnn.org/ FamilySupportGroup.aspx.

TASTE FOR JAZZ: The Mardi Gras-themed event and benefit for C*A*R*E* Chest of Sierra Nevada features wine tastings from exclusive regional wineries, samples of creations by local chefs, entertainment by Reno Sax Man and an auction. Proceeds from the event will provide free medical supplies, emergency prescriptions, diabetic items and liquid nutritional support for Northern Nevadans in need. Th, 4/26, 5:30-9pm. $75 per person. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 829-2273, www.carechest.org.

NEW MOTHERS SUPPORT GROUP: This group offers support to first-time mothers in dealing with the changes and issues that come with having a new baby. Th, 10-11:30am. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, (775) 770-3843, www.supportsaintmarys.org/ inthenews/195174.

TITANIC PARTY: The Strega House celebrates its 100th birthday, along with the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s maiden voyage, with art by Killbuck and music by Schizopolitans. Period costumes encouraged. Sa, 4/28, 7pm. Free.

Strega Bar, 310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911.

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Cowboy up Elko, Nev., lays claim to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, the country’s best-known festival of cowboy poetry, music and folklore of the American West. But if you weren’t able to make the trek to Elko last winter, you get another chance to see some of the nation’s top cowboy bards, musicians and entertainers this week at the Genoa Cowboy Poetry Festival. The third annual celebration kicks off April 26 and runs through April 29 with four days of concerts, storytelling, Chautauqua performances, presentations and demonstrations of Western folklife and Native American culture, and more. Headlining concerts include performances by Dave Stamey, Juni Fisher and Jim King on April 26, Waddie Mitchell (pictured), Paul Zarzyski, Cowboy Celtic and Mary Kaye on April 27, and Waddie Mitchell, Paul Zarzyski, Juni Fisher and Mike Beck on April 28. Tickets are $25 for these events. The festival takes place at various locations in Genoa (except for the April 26 opening night concert which takes place at the Carson Valley Inn in Minden). Day passes to the festival are $5-$30. Festival admission is free on April 26. For details, call (775) 782-8696 or visit www.cowboypoetrygenoa.com.

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Art 241 RIDGE ST.: Reno Inside Out. This photography exhibition features large light box images from nine central blocks of Reno. Each image is assembled from 10 individual frames.

The reception is May 4 at 241 Ridge St. Th, 4/26,

12-4pm; F, 4/27, 12-4pm; Sa, 4/28, 12-4pm; Su, 4/29, 12-4pm; Th, 5/3, 12-4pm; F, 5/4, 5-9pm; Sa, 5/5, 12-4pm; Su, 5/6, 12-4pm. Free. Contact Rob

Owens, (775) 560-4835, teleskr@charter.net.

ART SOURCE GALLERY: The Art of the Matter.

More than 540 original works of art in all media are on display and for sale. Safe Haven Rescue Zoo will benefit from the purchases. Sa, 4/28, 10am-5pm; M-Su, 2-5pm through 5/26. Opens 4/28. Free. 9748 S. Virginia St., (775) 828-3525.

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: A Splash of Color. Artists Co-op of Reno Gallery presents work by Dan Whittemore. The work of guest

artist Chikako McNamara is also on display. M-

Su, 11am-4pm through 4/30. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistscoop galleryreno.com.

DOWNTOWN RENO LIBRARY: Hope. Sierra Watercolor Society presents its 11th annual exhibit. An artists reception will be held from 3:30pm to 5pm on Sunday, May 6. M-Th, Su through 5/30. Opens 5/2. Free. Contact Nancy (775) 742-6339, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com for details on this exhibit. 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: North Tahoe High School Student Art. The exhibit in the Corison Loft Gallery features art by Peggy Heidelberger-Smith’s students from North Tahoe High School, as well as a few examples of student art from North Tahoe Middle School. The show includes photography, mixed media and some ceramics. M, W-Su,

11am-4pm through 4/29. Free. A Childs’ World.

This exhibit aims to appeal to every child and to the child in every adult. M, W-Su, 11am-4pm through 4/30. 380 North Lake Blvd.

Art Gallery & Gift Shop in Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

SHEPPARD FINE ARTS GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Two Cats in Real Life of Cattitude, Amerique Powell’s large scale oil paintings envision the ways in which her pet cats, Tin and Thomasino, experience the world around them. Through 4/27, 10am-5pm. Free. Contact University Arts Information (775) 784-4278, arts365@lists.unr.edu, www.unr.edu/arts for details on this exhibit. MFA Thesis Exhibition: Manual Alfaro. Manuel Alfaros

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Vulture capital This woman and I have been friends for a year. She’s a free spirit of sorts with zero boundaries. In the time I’ve known her, she’s been married and divorced and then engaged, and now that has ended. She always has another man on the side, even when married. She frequently mentions my husband. She always gives him a big hug hello, and goes on about how similar they are, and it just strikes me as odd. Here’s the killer: Last week, she saw my husband at a gathering, came up behind him, and kissed him on the neck! Of course he told me, as he has no interest in her, but I was shocked. We are planning a business together, but now I don’t want her near my husband!

Should I confront her?

“She’s a free spirit of sorts.” Of sorts. The classic, harmless sort is the cute hippie girl who dyes her hair teal, changes her name to Magic Rainbow, and goes off for a year to live in a teepee. What does your free-spirited friend do, make lingerie out of found materials she can wear when she climbs on your husband?

Boundaries aren’t such a bad thing. They keep the cows from roaming the freeways. Should the urge strike to let one’s lips prowl the neck of another woman’s husband, true friendship and empathy make the best fences. A true friend might find herself attracted to your husband but would be careful to avoid doing anything to tempt him or make you feel threatened.

This “friend’s” sneak attack on your husband’s neck meat, along with her notion of sexual fidelity, suggests she’s a narcissist, a self-absorbed, manipulative user.

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Narcissists lack empathy and can’t be true friends or partners because their aggressive self-interest always comes first, although they tend to be good at faking friendship or partnership and painting their toxic opportunism as, say, free-spiritedness: A woman must follow her bliss! … right down the pants of another woman’s man.

Do you really want to be in a partnership with a woman whose moral compass seems fixed on magnetic ME! ME! ME!? In deciding that, be careful not to let momentum get the best of you. We’re prone to want to continue down the path we’ve been on and rationalize why that’s a good idea.

If you’re hellbent on working with her, get a partnership agreement drawn up by a lawyer. Probably your best bet, however, is bowing out now with a host of vague but plausible reasons: You’re not ready; you don’t have the energy right now; it wouldn’t be fair to her. Keep the actual reason to yourself: A startup takes a hands-on approach, but she’s only got two hands, and they’re usually crawling up some other woman’s husband.

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drawings and paintings consider the serious issue of organized crime in Mexico. His artwork connects the present-day drug cartel violence to the pre-colonial history of the Aztecs through color palette, symbolism and iconographic imagery. The artists work explores the reality Mexico is experiencing today. 4/30-5/11, 10am-5pm. Free. Contact Univeristy Arts Information (775) 784-4278, arts365@lists.unr.edu, www.unr.edu/arts for details on this exhibit. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Raven’s Alphabet: A Collection of Virtues. Elizabeth Paganelli created a series of work that follows the structure of the alphabet, assigning a virtue to each letter. This group of intaglio prints showcases her personal iconography and storytelling style as well as her deep desire to see and create balance, both in her artwork and in the world at large. Images of bird and ravens, skulls and skeletons of buildings juxtapose with flowers, yarn and pieces of script. Just like the virtues they are representing, these images tell a story, but the narratives are not always literal. MF, 10am-5pm through 4/27. Free. AIR: Artists in Residence. In collaboration with Renown Health Foundation and the University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Sierra Arts Gallery presents work by University of Nevada Medical residents ErikaFrank and Momina Razaq. This exhibition is a showcase of artwork made in conjunction with medical practice. There will be an artists’ reception on May 17, 4-7pm. M-F, 10am-5pm through

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STUDIO ON 4TH: Shadows of the Mind. The Studio on 4th presents a group exhibit of Truckee Meadows Community College graduating students of the Fine Arts Program. The exhibit includes 21 original works that bring to light the hidden parts of the mind. Tu, 5/1, 7-9pm. Free. Contact Charles Wellington II (775) 622-0986, xman053@yahoo.com for details on this exhibit. 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 786-6460, www.studio4th.com.

WHITTEMORE GALLERY: Always Lost. The Western Nevada College student and faculty exhibit honors and personalizes U.S. military personnel who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001. M-Sa through 5/4. Free. First floor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 1664 N. Virginia St. (775) 784-4636.

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created specifically for the exhibit by Sparks cartoonist Brian Crane. W-Sa, 10am5pm. $4 adults; free for members, children age 17 and younger. Basque Aspen Tree Art Exhibition. This exhibition showcases images that were carved by Basque sheepherders in aspen trees across Nevada. The arborglyphs documented what was important to the Basque sheepherders from 1920s thru the 1960s. Photographs will be included to help tell the story of the Basque sheepherder. W-Sa, 10am-5pm through 4/28. $4 adults; free for children age 17 and younger.

Contact Nevada Historical Society, (775) 6881190 ext. 0, jdandini@nevadaculture.org, http://museums.nevadaculture.org for details on this exhibit. 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 688-1190.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Out of the Forest: Art Nouveau Lamps. This exhibition features 20 lamps manufactured in the early 20th century by Tiffany Studios, Handel, Durand and Duffner & Kimberly. The exhibition focuses on themes related to the Art Nouveau style and its inspiration in nature. The show will also explore the intricate copper foil production process used for the creation of glass lamps. W-Su through 5/20. $1-$10. In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows. Created by Tiffany Studios in New York City at the beginning of the 20th century and named for the angels in the biblical Book of Revelation, the seven windows in this exhibition were originally installed in the Church of the New Jerusalem in Cincinnati, Ohio. The windows were crated and stored in various garages and sheds for decades until their rediscovery in 2001. W-Su through 5/20. $1-$10. Anne Lindberg: Modal Lines. Anne Lindberg creates subtle drawings and installations that blur the line between traditional media. Made from colored thread and graphite, her meditative works are studies in formal abstraction, complicating viewers’ perceptions of and relationships to the objects themselves. WSu through 7/15. $1-$10. Gregory Euclide: Nature Out There,.Using traditional methods of landscape painting combined with natural materials and found objects, Euclide constructs three-dimensional encapsulated worlds where pristine notions of landscape meet the reality of our current environment. W-Su through 9/2. $1-$10. The Canary Project: Landscapes of Climate Change. The Canary Project, founded in 2006 by the artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, includes diverse works involving more than 30 artists, designers, writers, educators and scientists who are documenting the impacts of climate change on the environment. This archive exhibition will include photographs, manuscripts and objects from 2005 through 2010. W-Su through 4/29. $1-$10.

Tiffany & Co. Arms from the Robert M. Lee Collection. The Robert M. Lee Collection is recognized as the finest selection of Tiffany & Co. arms privately owned. The collection of items in this exhibition—including three revolvers, four pistols, one rifle and one presentation sword—is rivaled only by those on display in the Robert M. Lee Gallery of American Arms, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. W-Su through 5/20. $1-$10. Tim Hawkinson: Totem,

Made from bronze, Hawkinson’s single sculpture evokes the forms of discarded plastic bottles or jugs, inviting conversations about water, land and the challenges Native American cultures have faced related to these natural resource. W-Su through 10/7.

Gail Wight: Hydraphilia. Wight prepared agar slides tinted with non-toxic dyes, added slime mold and began videotaping the resulting growth patterns. The video is a microscopic time-lapsed view (30x) of the physarum polycephalum or slime mold.

Polycephalum is Latin for “many-headed,” and Wight’s title for her video installation references a mythological nine-headed monster, the Hydra of Greek myths that grew two heads when one was lopped off. WSu through 8/26. $1-$10. Art, Science, and the Arc of Inquiry: The Evolution of the Nevada Museum of Art. Organized on the occasion of the Nevada Museum of Art’s 80th anniversary in 2011, this exhibition celebrates the institution’s early founders Dr. James Church, Charles Cutts and volunteer members of the Latimer Art Club, revealing how their vision for a regional art gallery evolved into the institution that the museum is today. W-Su through 7/1. $1-$10; free for NMA members. Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper. The contemporary artist was commissioned to create a large-scale, site-specific artwork to hang in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall and Atrium. Hashimoto’s sculptures—fabricated from thousands of small “kites”—are made from bamboo-stiffened rice papers not unlike those used for centuries to make traditional Japanese kites. The three-dimensional cascading form is suspended by nylon mono-filament and responds specifically to the museum’s unique architecture and changing light. W-Su through 1/1. $1-$10. Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs. Australian sculptor and photographer Andrew Rogers completed his series of contemporary geoglyphs in 2010, after finishing 47 sculptures in 13 countries with the help of nearly 7,000 people. The photographs in this exhibition were either taken by Rogers from an aircraft or obtained from commercial satellite imagery. W-Su through 8/26. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Celtic Heritage Exhibit. The Sparks Heritage Museum presents a Celtic exhibit in their changing gallery displaying loaned items from the Northern Nevada Celtic community. M-Su through 5/27. $5 adults; free for members and children age 12 and younger. 814 Victorian Ave. in Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

VSA ARTS OF NEVADA/LAKE MANSION: Rich in Art Exhibit. VSA Nevada at the Lake Mansion features work by youth who created 250 art pieces during 1,000 VSA Nevada workshops in 58 classrooms. M-F, 10am-4pm through 4/30. Free. Contact Administrative Assistant (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, info@vsanevada.org, www.vsanevada.org for details on this exhibit. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

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mentary about the troubles of the honeybee.

The screening includes a follow-up panel discussion/Q & A with beekeepers Chris Foster and Shawn Brown. Tu, 5/1, 7-10pm. $7 general; $5 members, bicyclists, students. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.org.

from the Pharaohs Tomb. The exhibit features more than 130 replicas of many of the artifacts found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Additional artifacts help bring life to the turbulent times of King Tut’s reign while telling the story of the “Boy Pharaoh.”

W-Sa, 10am-4pm through 5/23; Su, 12-4pm through 5/20. $9 adults; $8 children age 17

and younger, seniors age 62 and older. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

will read from a selection of poems celebrating the cosmos. Portions of the program will be accompanied by the cello music of Eileen Brownell. The winners of the 2012 Astropoetry Contest will be announced toward the end of the program and the two first-place youth authors will share their final works with the audience. Berendsen will sign complementary copies of the poems of Altazimuth. Su, 4/29, 2-3pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

format film presents the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall as they guide viewers to the islands and waters of the South Pacific.

Music BLUEGRASS JAM: Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association hosts this bluegrass jam. First Tu of every month, 7-9pm. Free. Maytan Music Center, 777 S. Center St., (775) 323-5443, www.nnba.org.

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JAZZ FESTIVAL SHOWCASE & AWARDS CEREMONY: The Festival Showcase will feature a performance by the winners of the 2012 Reno Jazz Festival All-Star Performers competition and encore performances from some of the highest-rated groups and soloists in the festival. Awards are given during the showcase performances in recognition of individuals and groups who place in their category. Sa, 4/28, 6:30pm. $11$18. Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/rjf.

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Guitar Society presents a concert by Rene Izquierdo and Elina Chekan. Sa, 4/28, 7pm. $15. First United Methodist Church, 209 W. First St., (775) 298-1686, www.sierraguitar.org.

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: Pink Floyd’s legendary rock ’n’ roll masterpiece, is recreated in fullcolor HD animation with surround sound and new footage and effects. F, Sa, 8pm through 5/26. $7 adults; $5 kids ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “True life is

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m about to list

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “What people

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A political

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lived when tiny changes occur,” said Leo Tolstoy. I agree. It’s rare for us to undergo rapid, dramatic transformations in short periods of time. That’s why it’s delusional to be forever pining for some big, magic intervention that will fix everything. The best way to alter our course is slowly and gradually, by conscientiously revamping our responses to the small daily details. Keep these thoughts close at hand in the coming weeks, Aries. Be a devotee of the incremental approach. Step-by-step. Hour-by-hour.

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really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing,” said psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. I love that thought, and am excited to offer it up to you right now. You have been invited or will soon be invited to participate in some of the best games ever. These are not grueling games foisted on you by people hoping to manipulate you, nor pointless games that exhaust your energy for naught. Rather, they are fun challenges that promise to stretch your intelligence, deepen your perspective, and enhance your emotional riches. able that you’ve gotten a bit off track? As I close my eyes and ask my higher powers for a psychic vision, I get an impression of you staring at a blurry image of a symbol that is no longer an accurate representation of your life goal. Now of course there’s a chance that my vision is completely unfounded. But if it does ring at least somewhat true to you—if it suggests a question worth asking yourself—I invite you to meditate on the possibility that you need to update your understanding of what your ultimate target looks like.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): From an

astrological point of view, it’s prime time for you to attend a networking extravaganza or collaboration spree. Likewise, this is an excellent phase in your long-term cycle to organize a gathering for the close allies who will be most important in helping you carry out your master plan during the next 12 months. Have you ever heard of the term “Temporary Autonomous Zone”? It’s a time and place where people with shared interests and common values can explore the frontiers of productive conviviality. It might be a dinner party in an inspirational setting, a boisterous ritual in a rowdy sanctuary, or a private festival for fellow seekers. I hope you make sure something like that materializes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): To begin one of his

performances, comedian and musician Steve Martin ambled on stage and told his audience what to expect. “Before every show,” he said, “I like to do one thing that is impossible. So now I’m going to suck this piano into my lungs.” That’s the kind of brag I hope to hear coming from you sometime soon, Leo— the more outrageous the better. Why? Because I’d love to see you cultivate a looser, breezier relationship with your actual ambitions. To make boastful jokes about wacky or farfetched goals might inspire you to be jauntier and friskier about those real ones.

And that would rouse a burst of fresh motivational energy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The text for this week’s oracle comes from Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a great American statesman who, after escaping slavery, became a leader of the abolitionist movement. “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation,” he said, “are people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning …The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Please apply these thoughts to your own situation, Virgo. You have entered the liberation phase of your cycle.

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some declarations that I hope will come out of your mouth at least once in the next three weeks. If for any reason you’re not finding yourself in situations where these words would make sense for you to utter, please rearrange your life accordingly. 1. “There’s nothing else I’d rather be doing right now.” 2.

“Is it okay with you if we take this really slow?” 3. “No one’s ever done that before.” 4.

“Squeeze my hand when it feels really amazing.” 5. “It’s like we know what each other is thinking.” 6. “Can I have some more, please?”

strategist told me one of her most important rules: To win an election, you have to help your candidate choose the right fights. I think that would be an excellent guiding principle for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be getting invitations to spar, joust, and wrangle. Although it might be exciting to leap into each and every fray with your eyes blazing, I suggest you show careful discernment. Try to confine your participation to those tangles that will downplay your weaknesses and highlight your strengths.

the famous children’s book The Little Prince, the hero lives on an asteroid with three volcanoes, two active and one dormant. One day he decides to leave home and travel to other realms. Before departing, he meticulously scours all three volcanoes. “If they are well cleaned out,” the narrator reports, “volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions.” I recommend that you take after the Little Prince, Sagittarius. It’s high time to attend to the upkeep of your volcanoes. Make sure they will burn slow and steady in the coming months, even when you’re not at home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One of

the classics of ancient Sanskrit literature is the Kama Sutra, which gives practical advice about erotic love. The most popular edition of the book offers instructions on eight kinds of kisses and 64 sexual positions, with additional tips on styles of embracing and caressing.

This would be an excellent time for you to get inspired by information like that, Capricorn.

Your relationship with the amorous arts is due for expansion and refinement. You don’t necessarily need to rely on book learning, of course. You could accomplish a lot of empirical exploration simply by getting naked and firing up your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Singer-

songwriter Tom Waits was strongly influenced by Bob Dylan’s down-to-earth album The Basement Tapes. “I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in,” Waits testifies. “The noise and grit” of Dylan’s rootsy, intimate songs, he says, creates a mood of “joy and abandon.” That’s the spirit I wish for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius.

Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, get down to the gritty, organic core of things. Hunker down in the funky fundamentals. Hang out where the levels of pretension are low and the stories are fresh and raw.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re not

really breaking the rules, right, Pisces? It’s more like you’re just testing their elasticity; you’re helping them become more supple and flexible. I’m sure that sooner or later people will thank you for how you’re expanding the way the game is played. It may take a while, but they will eventually appreciate and capitalize on the liberties you are now introducing into the system. In the short run, though, you might have to take some heat for your tinkering and experiments. Try not to let that inhibit your eagerness to try creative risks.

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In 1933, a group of American Legion and financial figures approached former Marine general and Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Butler to lead a coup d’etat against the United States government and establish a military regime. Butler reported the contact, and a congressional probe found that what became known as the business plot was intended to set up fascist rule. Boulder City native Sally Denton has written a book, The Plots Against the President, that deals with the plot.

Given Smedley Butler’s record of criticism of the financial community and U.S. foreign policy, what possessed the plotters to choose him?

Well, I think that they knew that he was probably the only general or military figure of his stature who the veterans would follow. I know that they probably would have preferred to have MacArthur or somebody more likeminded, but there’s no way that the half-million veterans that they wanted would go along with that. I think they were hoping that if they could convince Butler that America was on a downward spiral that they could convince him to take on the position.

When I interviewed you previously, you said that you found information on the coup that was not available at the time of the investigation.

That interview would have been long before I actually even did much of the later research. … During that time I was able to get into the FBI files that had never really been perused before and also there were some of the contemporaneous files about the business plot that were never really published either at the time or later that are now available in various locations.

There were some techniques used against FDR similar to those used by the birthers.

Well, I found a lot of this was stunning and, as you’ve read the book, I don’t draw the parallels to today. I decided a choice not to do that, a narrative choice to let the reader draw the parallels. But while researching it I could not help but see the similarities between this cottage industry that sprouted up during Roosevelt’s first term, trying to prove that he was Jewish. And there was this feeling that there was a Jewish conspiracy

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Yes, there’s something ludicrous about six or seven people at a bar all looking down at their phones instead of flirting with each other. I’m sure there are plenty of grim examples of people now showing sociopathic tendencies as they crawl further and further down the wormhole of an existence that’s completely dependent on their iPhone/Droid/whatever. Our bodies and brains must be all messed up, being built for running and hunting, and now suddenly asked to sit in airports playing stupendously moronic games on the these exotic little doodads.

But here’s an example of the amazing upside of these suckers. I was recently in Boston, trying to return a rental car to the Government Center in the heart of downtown. Now, Boston is an old city. When Henry Comstock found the first veins of silver in what was to become Virginia City, Boston

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Well, I think it was likely that it could have happened back then. First of all, America was in such a tenuous situation that there were actually a lot of intellectual thinkers … who were really thinking that capitalism was finished, that democracy as we knew it was finished, that a fascist government would be preferable. What is clear is that some of the nation’s wealthiest men—and this was bipartisan, these were Republicans and Democrats alike—who were so threatened

by Roosevelt’s monetary policies that they actually flirted with the possible anti-government, paramilitary coup. … I mean, you had a half-million veterans that were dispossessed … who were absolutely destitute and could easily have been manipulated into a paramilitary force, and there was evidence of that all over the world. … But it seems to me that now the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, that all of it is such a huge bureaucracy, I just can’t imagine something like that being possible. Ω

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There are a lot of people my age (late 50s) who are proud, for some codgery reason, of owning an old “dumb” phone that’s unable to text or e-mail or anything. Well, guess what, you old loony geezer? You’re now intentionally and stubbornly avoiding the talents of perhaps the most amazing gizmos ever made available to a human being. These smart phones ain’t no fad, but electronica that are literally changing human culture. And here you are, clinging to your trilobite tribute like some traumatized troglodyte!

I used to think smart phones were almost as cool as the communicators Kirk/Spock used on Star Trek. How charmingly trite. Our smart phones kick ass on those simplistic communicators! The television writers of the ’60s had no freakin’ clue as to what lay in the future of humanity, a mere 45 years down the number line. Our current gizmos can not only communicate via voice or text, but compute, send photos, surf, figure locations, etc. etc.

Our smart phones are nothing less NEWS

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Having gone through this experience of researching all this, how likely is it that a coup would succeed in the United States?

Embrace the tool

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and that he was part of it—a Jewish conspiracy to take over the money of the world. And so they went to great lengths to try and prove that he was descended from Dutch Jews. …

And that even though he [Roosevelt] was a patrician, he was an aristocrat, his bloodlines and aristocratic background was undeniable, there was still this element and the populists, this kind of unhinged element, determined to prove that he was Jewish.

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was already 230 years old! So the streets of this hysterically historical place are weird, bizarre, and mangled. There just aren’t a whole lot of right angle intersections in a nice, thoughtful grid, but streets that began as country lanes centuries before anybody even thought of a car. Trying to negotiate the streets of Boston by myself, with a map, could have been done, sure. But it would have been, very likely, a stressful pisser.

My iPhone saved my butt. It successfully guided me around the totally exasperating streets of downtown Boston, listing my route step-by-step.

And if I’d had a 4S phone with Siri, “she” could’ve talked me through it (I’m a fossil with a 4). After returning the car, I realized, I’m hooked. I’ve consumed the Kool-Aid. I can’t imagine not having the damn iPhone. It’s just too red hot!

And then, I asked it to get me to a pub for a beer and some chowdah. Ω

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