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COOLING ON WARMING See News, page 6.

TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD? THAT IS THE QUESTION.

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ATTACK OF THE POD PEOPLE See Arts&Culture, page 14.

WHITNEY PROTECTION See Musicbeat, page 23.

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Chortling out loud Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m sitting here in my office. It’s Friday afternoon.

Just past 3. I’ve got Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s first album playing on my cell phone, which blasts over my office stereo loud enough that it probably irritates people around me. I’ve got a friend who keeps texting me tempting messages suggesting that dive bars are the place I belong this evening—and maybe even this afternoon.

Man, it’s hard. I had one of those weeks, and I anticipate working all weekend, so it would be so easy just to slip out and catch up at home tomorrow. I’m the boss, after all. Who’s going to complain? I mean, besides me.

Gotta be strong, though. I know you’re right there with me. Accuweather says it’s 73 degrees outside my unopenable office window, but I think it’s a little warmer. At least, it sure seemed that way as I walked back from my lunch with the irrepressible Carter King at Louis’ Basque Corner, where I did not have any Picon punches with lunch but did have the sweetbreads. I didn’t even have a glass of the chilled red wine that comes with lunch. Responsible, you know.

Oops, I think the album is repeating. “You say I’m hurt, well, I will take your word.”

Something about music when I’m feeling like getting my drink on. Those ... lyrics ... just ... hit home. Apparently, I’m going to pay for my excessive charm.

But not tonight. Truth be told, this office is stifling.

Occasionally, I feel the wisp of a breeze from the air conditioner, but these four walls feel like a cell. Makes me feel parched. Look at that—among my texting friend, answering these constantly interrupting emails, and writing this snapshot, the time just keeps marching on by. In a few short minutes, it’ll be 4 o’clock and they’ll be opening up the deck over at St. James.

Hmm. You know, I did get into the office at 7:30 this morning: “Let the cool goddess rust away.”

Re “Libertarian weekend” (Feature story, May 10): The people of Nevada deserve to know the truth about what happened at the Nevada Republican State Convention. Throughout the whole day, there were delays being intentionally created by the Credentials Committee.

The “cred com” is in charge of validating passes, counting totals and printing ballots. The cred com was full of Mitt Romney supporters. They failed to properly count the total number of attendees, and this created a two-hour delay. They failed to make enough ballots. This created additional delays. It was the Mitt Romney supporters at the convention who were wreaking havoc.

Whether it was passing out fake slates of ballots or creating delays at the convention, the people have a right to know what the supporters of Mitt Romney were doing at the convention and the trouble they caused.

Joseph Jumale Reno

Check the bottom line Re “League endorses candidates” (Greenspace, May 10): It’s not surprising that they would take that position, as I am a strong supporter of green energy—and everyone know that—but only if the project creates more than two jobs, and taxpayers and ratepayers don’t get the bill. The May 10 edition of the Nevada Journal ran an article titled, “Canadian firm will receive up to 50 million stimulus dollars for Nevada solar plant that employs two people.” That works out to about $25 million of tax credits per job. What a bargain! I’m left to wonder how much funding NCL gets from NV Energy or other energy producers to force a 6 percent mandate of photovoltaic solar energy in the Nevada Renewable portfolio standard, when it’s one of the most expensive ways to produce energy at this time.

Those high costs are part of the reason that manufacturing companies will not relocate to Nevada and we’re losing more jobs every day. NCL reported a $25,000 contribution in 2010 from the American Wind Energy Association. “AWEA supports policies to boost wind energy, including exten-

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sion of the Production Tax Credit (PTC), establishment of a Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) ...”

Obviously, there’s no conflict of interest there. Yes, Nevada will produce some of the cleanest, most expensive energy on the planet. NV Energy and their corporate cronies and investors (in Canada) will continue to get rich, until there is no one here left to pay for it, except the occasional tourist, as the mining industry certainly isn’t going to pony up.

Newmont Mining has its own 242megawatt coal-fired power plant in northeastern Nevada. If we expect manufacturing in Nevada to be competitive, we need a new approach to energy production in Nevada. It has become clear that tax-incentives do not provide real benefits, and developing utility-scale wind, solar and geothermal energy will not provide long term jobs or significant economic impact. We need to develop our renewable energy resources as a means to decrease energy costs and enable value-added manufacturing. That is exactly what Iceland did. They were able to bring themselves out of an economic recession by offering, 100 megawatts of clean, low-cost geothermal energy to Alcoa for an aluminum smelter.

Perhaps we could learn a lesson from Iceland and stop the Nevada Conservation League from making us use taxpayer and ratepayer money to subsidize the most expensive clean energy available. It seems to me the only jobs they’re interested in saving in Nevada are their own.

Lauren Scott Reno

Dirty old men Re “Sonic adults” (Guest comment, May 10): Not allowing minors in bars has been around since the ancient juke joint days and before. So has the childish threat, “If we don’t get entrance to adult music venues, we’re going off and get in trouble with drugs and crime.” Want to lower the drinking age? Good luck. Check the 18-21 stats on driving, unwanted pregnancy, crime and substance abuse. I am really tired of every place in America being some version of “family friendly.” No smok-

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ing coffee houses are bad enough. To say that we now must be subjected to 18-year-old behavior everywhere we go takes all the fun out of being an adult.

Amazingly, generations of musicians have grown and evolved without the benefit of their teenage peach faces being allowed into saloons. Also, do you really want minor girls around dirty old men?

Hank Sosnowski Sparks

That’s very kind Re “Positively Fourth Street” (Feature story, May 10): I must say that for a while I meant to write to you to congratulate you on a great—and free!—weekly paper, which I love to pick up as I cycle around, ever since I moved to Reno from Europe last July. This week’s edition with yet more interesting articles got me to put finger to keyboard.

As a newcomer, I had no idea what Reno would be like and even less how life here would pan out, and I have to say it has been an amazing discovery.

In my opinion, Reno is not only the world’s biggest little city but also a well kept secret. As you can imagine, coming from little old Europe, I feared I was moving to a land of just big cars and highways. But soon enough it was clear that cycling in Reno was no problem. I discovered the Bike Project on Fourth Street on my second day upon arriving, which made me immediately at home. There I met friendly, passionate and environmentally conscious people. That same day I bought an old burner bike, which, 10 months later, still carries me hassle free to work across town everyday as well as to the zillions of gorgeous bike trails in and out of Reno and Sparks.

On the subject of developing a bike path along the Reno-Sparks thoroughfare, I could not be more supportive. I want to recount a ride I took last autumn to a great concert at the Alley in Sparks. On the way there from Reno, I rode a beautiful path along the Truckee. On the way back, since it was a bit too dark to return the same way, I went along East Fourth Street.

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which had been badly signaled. I cycled right into one mega hole and nearly broke my neck. Thankfully, the owner of Abby’s Highway 40 happened to be riding by on his motorbike and stopped to help me up. He was so generous also as to call me a cab and store my bike in his bar so I could pick it up the next day.

In general, it seems to me that Reno has so far done a great job of integrating cyclists. And as drivers here are also on the whole particularly careful, reliable and kind, a happy cohabitation seems to be quite possible.

Zoe Bray Reno

We’re tax slaves Re “<3 a tax” (Letters to the Editor, May 3): There’s a lot of love for taxation in the letters section lately, so I figured I should chime in with a different view.

Taxation is violence enacted on free individuals. Taxes are a claim on your life. The payment you receive from your labor is your property.

Government takes a claim on a portion of that property through law. Since government takes that property from the owner without any agreement, does the government own that property? If they do, then do they also own that labor? Of course if you tell the government that they don’t in fact own your life and labor, you are imprisoned. But what about the roads? But what about the police state? What about the guns that murder Mexican citizens? The drone warfare? The spying on American citizens? The failing public schools? The crony capitalism? The dictators? The oil subsidies? Endless wars? What about you? We are bribed with our own money, thinking that our own best interests cannot be chosen by ourselves.

John Kratky Reno

Correction Re: “Fame” (News, May 10): A quote from school board candidate Diane Nicolet described parents as “the child’s first and only teacher.”

That should have read, “first and always teacher.”

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Gay marriage?

Asked in downtown Sparks Gary Stevens Retiree

Hey, I have no problem with it at all. We all have the right to live the way we want. I have felt that way ever since I was a young teenager. I myself am not gay, but I’ve never had any issues with anybody being gay.

Marnie Frank Nurse

I believe gay and lesbian people should have the right to get married. … I feel they are due the same equal rights as anybody else because all people are equal.

Norman Frank

Fourth wheels We wanted to have an editorial supporting marriage equality for all adult human beings, but we’ve offered our support on this topic so often, the fact that a seated president said he personally supports gay marriage though he also still supports states having the right to discriminate against same-sex couples didn’t warrant the ink.

Then there was some discussion about the fundamental human right to end one’s own life in the wake of Junior Seau’s death. But a rousing editorial in favor of suicide fell flat in the newsroom.

But bike lanes on Fourth Street and Prater Way is right up our alley. Recall Brad Bynum’s feature story, “Positively Fourth Street,” last week? It highlighted efforts among stakeholders to somehow address the need for a direct bike route from west Reno to east Sparks.

And frankly, it makes a lot of sense for both cities.

There were a couple options that weren’t deeply explored, though. For one, the Truckee River bike path already exists. The problem is it’s a multi-use path. It’s always been a bit sketchy at times, and since the Reno City Council moved the homeless people of the streets, it’s sketchier. However, with improvements like a couple of feet widening for bikes only, winter snow removal, solar-powered lights and maybe even a citizens’ group to monitor criminal activity, that bike path could accomplish everything the 4th Street/Prater Way Corridor Study seeks to do—without stop signs, stop lights or automobiles—at least as far east as Kietzke Lane, where it could reconnect to Prater.

Another idea was presented in the story, namely to route bicyclists on Sixth Street through downtown. It intersects Fourth Street from the north at Sage Street. The 4

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idea was pretty quickly dismissed by the participants of the bike ride, but it really deserves a second look. True, Fourth Street and Prater Way are both substantially developed with retail businesses and watering holes, and the Reno Bike Project is there as well, but Sixth Street gets a lot less use, and has a lot more potential for businesses that could cater to bicyclists. There’s more potential for greening up with trees and xeriscaping or rest stops. And again, there’s a lot less motorized traffic. And finally, when the casinos shut down Fourth Street, as they do throughout the summer or when the mood strikes, Sixth Street generally remains a viable way to get through downtown.

Reno is being pulled slowly but surely out of its 20th century gambling heyday mindset. If there is no appetite to make the downtown city friendlier to adults, then it must be made friendlier to families—at least so they can pass through on their way to work or recreation. The Regional Transportation Commission is doing the right thing by studying this now. If preparations are made now, then the transportation commission will not be hamstrung by current stakeholders, as they were when they were designing the new mass transit bus routes.

Staffmembers at this newspaper are keeping our fingers crossed that the RTC is successful with its federal grant proposal to do the project sooner rather than later.

However, if this grant falls through, there will be others in the years between now and 2030, and the agency should work diligently and quickly to find funding to make the dream of a bicycle friendly thoroughfare between west Reno and east Sparks a reality. Ω

I have no problem with it. I hadn’t really thought about it until it became more and more [a public issue].

Brian Ridpath Teacher

I don’t think what the president did this week was wise. I think marriage has always been an institution between a man and a woman. ... [T]here are many cultures around the world [where] that’s what marriage has been. There are plenty of options if people want to live alternate lifestyles to do what they want. I think it’s a red herring in society, a distraction.

Tina Cords Jewelry manufacturer

I’m for it. Whatever it takes for people to be happy, as long as we can support them and do what’s right. I don’t think I was real firm the other way before [when she opposed gay marriage], but as we grow as a society, I think I’m growing, too.

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Hope blows eternal The U.S. Department of Energy is using Reno city government’s wind turbine program as a good example for the nation, apparently unaware that substantial questions have been raised about whether that program is accomplishing its stated ends.

“On the street level in Reno, it may be easy to forget that every time the breeze blows off the Truckee River and past the 17-story City Hall, the town is quietly saving money,” begins an article on a page on the DOE website. It can be read at http://energy.gov/articles/saving-money-renos-wind-tunnels In March, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported that one turbine that cost the city $21,000 saved the city $4 on annual energy costs and that $416,000 worth of turbines saved the city just $2,800. Savings of $91,000 had been predicted a year earlier.

Want to vote?

The early Nevada primary election means residents can’t put off voter registration until August anymore. The primary this year is June 12, which means the registration deadline is May 22.

The county voter registration office will be open regular business hours—8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon— until May 18.

On the last two days— May 21 and 22—the office will be open into the evening, until 7 p.m.

Later start One way of showing how much election campaigns have begun earlier over the years is the fact that it was just 98 years ago— on May 14, 1912—that Nevada held its first presidential primary election. This year, by contrast, the Nevada caucuses were held the first week back in February.

The Democratic Party of Nevada in 1912, acting under a little known state statute, held that first primary in which U.S. House Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri defeated former U.S. attorney general and Ohio Gov. Judson Harmon and New Jersey Gov. Woodrow Wilson. In 1958, legislative researchers discovered that the statute under which the primary was conducted depended for its authority on a second statute that had been repealed before 1912, making that first primary technically illegal.

Heads up, Cory The Reno Gazette-Journal has positioned a competitor to popular longtime columnist, Cory Farley.

In a note to readers, RG-J editor Beryl Love wrote, “Another thing we heard on our listening tour is that about half of you love RG-J columnist Cory Farley. You really love him. The other half of you wonders, to put it mildly, why we can’t find a local columnist who writes from a perspective a little more right of center.”

The new addition to the newspaper’s roster is Randi Thompson, member of the Washoe County Airport Authority and registered lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Thompson has run for office several times and has lobbied for putting high level nuclear waste in Nevada at Yucca Mountain for at least three organizations— the American Nuclear Energy Council, Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy, and Nevada Alliance for Economic Prosperity. She also sits on the board of Nevada Opera.

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Global concerns at home Lack of urgency troubles Nevada environmentalists The director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen, has drawn attention to the impact of cliby mate change on different parts of the Dennis Myers nation.

“Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semiarid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought, with rain, when it does come, occurring in extreme events with heavy flooding,” Hansen wrote in the New York Times. “Economic losses would be incalculable. More and more of the Midwest would be a dust bowl.

California’s Central Valley could no longer be irrigated. Food prices would rise to unprecedented levels.”

Nevada is heavily dependent on the California economy.

Hansen is also an environmental sciences professor at Columbia University and is known for developing climate models used to understand the climates of Earth and Venus.

Meanwhile, the documentary Last Call at the Oasis premiered in Los Angeles and New York and is appearing in theaters across the nation. It deals with water supplies around the world with focuses on the Midwest, Australia, the Middle East, the San Joaquin Valley and Las Vegas.

Water is the area in which Nevada is considered most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

“If we don’t do anything, Las Vegas is a dead city—period, full stop,” Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Tim Barnett said in an interview in the film, which was produced by the company that made Waiting for ‘Superman’. There appear not to be any plans for showings of the film at Reno theatres yet.

“The economy has really eclipsed climate change.”

Dan Geary Nevada environmental leader In still another development, climate scientist K. Bruce Jones has been named director of the ecosystem sciences program at the Desert Research Institute, a scientific arm of Nevada’s higher education system.

Jones is a former U.S. Geological Survey scientist.

Finally, University of ColoradoBoulder scientist Mark Williams reports changes showing up in plant and animal life in the West. A campus statement on his findings reads, “As for the future of flora and fauna in sub-alpine and alpine regions … there

Nevada’s pika population may be in decline because of less snow in the state’s mountain ranges, according to a Colorado scientist.

will be ‘winners and losers’ as the climate warms,” said Williams. Animals like American pikas, potato-sized denizens of alpine talus slopes in the West, need heavy snowpack to insulate them from cold winters as they huddle in hay piles beneath the rocks.

In lower, more isolated mountain ranges in Nevada, researchers are already seeing a marked decline in American pika populations.” A pika is a small mammal in the rabbit family.

States and communities have a role in dealing with climate change, but the public’s concern about it is waning in opinion surveys, which is a source of worry among scientists because a sense of urgency is needed to get anything done. Public officials are less likely to act when the public is complacent.

Earlier this year, Alabama scientist John Christy—a noted leader of the small group of climate researchers who dispute the scientific consensus— released a report published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology that argued snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has not fluctuated much over the last 130 years. “There isn’t a trend significantly different from zero for the whole period,” he said in a Tahoe Tribune interview. That clashes with most other research. Most other scientists, including Roger Bales of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute and Mike Dettinger of the U.S. Geological Survey, say Christy’s conclusions went beyond the data he offered. Official water planning policies assume a decline in snowfall.

Though warming in Nevada is usually described as milder than in other regions, the ecology of the Great Basin is also more fragile than other areas. A lack of water can be catastrophic, both for the environment and for the economy. A July 2008 University of Maryland study of the economic impact of warming on Nevada reported that reduced water would sap hydroelectric power generation for the state, leading to both higher utility bills and less tourism— particularly outdoor tourism such as hunting, fishing and golfing. “Warmer temperatures and drought will negatively affect most of these activities,” the report said.

Nevada environmental leader Dan Geary said the public’s concern over climate change has been pushed aside by more immediate concerns like jobs.

“My experience on that subject is that there has been, for as long as I’ve worked on this issue, very intense debate on climate change and [it] has been a front burner issue,” he said. “I think what’s happened is the economy has really eclipsed climate

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“The Western United States will develop semi-permanent drought.”

James Hansen National Aeronautics and Space Administration community] emphasizing job creation and technology advances in climate change,” he said.

Some Nevada projects have come under fire on grounds other than climate change denial. In Forbes magazine, columnist Larry Bell wrote, “Then there’s the matter of DoD [Department of Defense] financing of the largest North American solar plant to provide electricity for the Nellis Air Force Base. Located outside Las Vegas, it covers 140 acres of the Nevada desert with massive photovoltaic arrays. As advertised, the Air Force expects to save $1 million per year in power costs. In fact the Air Force is so pleased with the project that it hopes to double the power it gets from solar in the near future.

Sounds pretty good, so far, doesn’t it?

The down side is that these current and future cost savings are only possible thanks to multimillion-dollar federal and state financial subsidies and incentives. ‘Without those, prices wouldn’t be competitive,’ according to Daniel Tomlinson, editor of a solar newsletter for Navigant Consulting.”

Bell has described concern about climate change as “warmmongering.” Ω

City considers changes to make campaigns less expensive The Reno City Council reviewed proposed changes to the citywide voting process last week, opening by James DeHaven discussion on a ballot initiative that would put a ward-only elections process to a referendum this fall.

Currently, in five of the City Council seats, candidates run ward-only in the primary but then must run city-wide in the general election. And candidates for one City Council seat must run citywide in both primary and general election. The proposed ballot language would allow voters to reconsider that process in favor of a ward vote in both the primary and general election races for all six seats, eliminating the single at-large seat.

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change and a number of other environmental issues.”

He said this is particularly unfortunate, because an aggressive state climate change policy would create jobs, jobs and more jobs.

“Nevada is smack dab in the center of the best natural resources,” he said. “We have sunlight 365 days a year. We have more mountain peaks than Colorado for wind production.

We have the raw materials, but we don’t have significant capacity to deliver energy.”

This last is a reference to the state’s lack of transmission lines with which it can deliver energy from one end of the state to the other and send it out of state as well. Congress has authorized the construction and provided funding and the Interior Department has given final approval to loan guarantees, but the long-sought project—which would create hundreds of construction jobs—is moving at a crawl within Nevada’s borders. It was supposed to be in operation this year.

An update from NV Energy, one of the partners on the project, reads: “NV Energy, Inc. … announced on March 30, 2012, that the in-service date for the One Nevada Transmission Line (“ON Line”) under construction in Eastern Nevada will be further delayed due to on-going efforts to address wind-related damage sustained by some of the tower structures erected for the project. At this time, the Company does not anticipate that ON Line will be placed in service until the latter half of 2013.”

Geary said that Nevada environmentalists have tried to identify their movement with economic concerns.

“After the last election cycle I believe there was a very clear change in messaging [by the environmental

Last week, after weeks in a city-commissioned review process, the Reno Charter Review Committee issued a report unanimously recommending the ward-voting proposal. “I’m prepared to move forward. I mean, this is why we set up a committee, for their recommendations,” Ward 3 Council member Jessica Sferraza told the Mayor during last Wednesday’s meeting. “It’s time to put it on the ballot.”

Council member Pierre Hascheff, who currently holds the at-large seat, disagreed. He said the question needed to be revised before making its way to the ballot. “To me the language doesn’t really tell the whole story,” Hascheff said. “When you read the question, it talks about changing the current method, but it doesn’t tell you what that means. I don’t think most people would know that right now.”

On the other hand, he said, “I’m not so sure that people read these explanations.”

Hascheff was referring to five explanatory paragraphs that would appear alongside the ballot question. Despite his objection, the Council did not completely reject the proposed language, which reads: “Shall the current method to elect the five ward City Council Members in the general election be changed to where each Council Member representing a ward must be elected by only the registered voters of the ward that he or she seeks to represent?”

NAACP chapter president Lonnie Feemster, left, is a critic of the city’s election system.

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Muralist Mark Switlik’s business card reads in part, “No job too LARGE!” Here he is atop a cherry-picker working on a mural on the side of a building at Pyramid Way and Oddie Boulevard in Sparks.

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In the 20 years since the last time the issue appeared on the ballot, citywide elections have become something of a hobbyhorse in Reno politics. Ward election supporters have watched a handful of proposals come and go without changing the citywide general elections, which they say are prohibitively costly to all but the wealthiest and most established candidates.

In 2011, Sen. Sheila Leslie, a Washoe County Democrat, won approval of legislation that would have let Reno residents vote on ward elections. Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed it in July.

But Reno’s citywide elections could face more than just political threats. Earlier this year, City Attorney John Kadlic warned the Council that shifting demographics might eventually make the system legally vulnerable to federal civil rights statutes.

“I think you need to put the question on the ballot, because realistically, at some point, I think we’re going to have to go to ward-only elections,” Kadlic said.

He said the city’s current redistricting and elections process is “probably” in compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act, but he added that the Department of Justice has a history of pursuing cases in cities with at-large systems.

“Ward 3 is a perfect example,” Kadlic explained. “It has 56.5 percent minority population. You could end up with a situation where a minority candidate wins in the primary, but loses in the general election—someone who wins in the ward but loses citywide. That may cause the Department of Justice to look at the situation and say, ‘OK maybe the system you have in place isn’t fair.’ ”

“I think we’re going to have to go to ward-only elections.”

John Kadlic Reno city attorney Lonnie Feemster, head of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, is critical of the citywide process. He said the current redistricting map “violates the concepts of the Voting Rights Act” by splitting ethnic minority communities.

“I’d like to see it make the ballot,” Feemster said of the current proposal, “The NAACP is concerned because the current system creates a number of inequities for candidates of color and for the disadvantaged communities who support candidates of color.”

The Washoe County Registrar has a July 15 deadline for adding items to the November ballot, so the city will have to move quickly if it wants to address concerns expressed by Feemster, Kadlic and others.

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On April 30, Nevada Bighorns Unlimited (NBU) and the Nevada Department of Wildlife released five adult Desert Bighorn Rams into their native habitat of Clark Mountain.

In a statement, NBU president Steve Field said, “This re-introduction of Desert Bighorn Sheep is the continuation of our efforts we began last October to establish a healthy population of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Virginia Range.”

Desert, Rocky Mountain and California Bighorns have been released into more than 60 mountain ranges in Nevada. NBU is also working on reintroducing antelope and elk throughout Nevada.

Straight to the heart The Heartland Institute—notorious for its denial of global warming—put up billboards on which famous criminals were used as examples of people who believed in global warming. The billboards featured figures such as Ted Kaczynski—the Unabomber—alongside quotes like, “I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?”

The backlash was immediate, and the billboards were taken down after 24 hours. Other billboards, which would feature Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson and Fidel Castro, among others, were not released.

Heartland president Joseph Bast wrote in a statement, “We know that our billboard angered and disappointed many of Heartland’s friends and supporters, but we hope they understand what we were trying to do with this experiment. We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate the ‘realist’ message on the climate.”

Ironically, he also said that the billboards led to “uncivil name-calling and disparagement” from climate change scientists and advocates.

As a result of the “experiment,” several donors pulled support from Heartland, which at press time equaled a $1 million loss for the institute.

Sun power in Clark County Last week, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar dedicated the Silver State North Solar Project, which, according to a statement from Sen. Harry Reid, is “the first large-scale solar energy project to be built on public land in Nevada.” The project is located on 600 acres of public land in Clark County, and it’s estimated to produce enough energy to power 9,000 homes each year. A release stated that this will “displace approximately 42,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually—the equivalent of taking about 8,000 cars off the road.”

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In the midst of legislation that will impact the future of Lake Tahoe—such as Senate Bill 271 (“Political science,” May 3)—the basin is torn between interests and agendas. There are those who want to increase its tourism, which can manifest in two ways—ecotourism, which prioritizes the natural landscape and by a “leave no trace” mentality, and tourism dependent on development, such as Ashley Hennefer new buildings, hotels and housing. There are those who want to reap the benefits of the lake’s natural resources, and those who want to protect it. But the ashleyh@ Tahoe region needs more than just business people and policy makers—it newsreview.com needs scientists who will predict the environmental impact of these choices.

The 2012 Tahoe Science Conference, held biennially, aims to address these challenges and discrepancies in opinion, while using science and research to drive decision making.

“What this is designed to do originally is give the researchers all working on applied research programs a chance to share their scientific findings with the management in the agencies,” says Melissa McCarthy, executive director of the Tahoe Science Consortium (TSC).

The conference, to be held at Sierra Nevada College from May 22-24, is a project of the consortium, a collaborative organization between University of California, Davis, University of Nevada, Reno, the Desert Research Institute, the U.S. Geological Survey and the USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station. This year’s theme is “Environmental restoration in a changing climate.”

For a full schedule “It’s a meeting of scientists and managers to find the best task to move forof events at ward, and one of the primary ones is climate change,” says Nicole Shaw, TSC the Tahoe Science Conference, visit program coordinator.

A series of talks and panels are scheduled for the conference, includwww.tahoescience.org. ing the public policy forum on May 24, hosted by South Lake Tahoe mayor Claire Fourtier, and will feature Nevada and California secretaries of conservancy Leo Drozdoff and John Laird, local fire chiefs and other representatives from agencies.

“What they’re talking about is the challenges facing them as managers making policy and having to balance economic well being and environmental restoration,” says McCarthy. “They’re trying to figure out how to continue to protect the environment in difficult economic times.

We’ll be trying to tie between science and policy.”

Other topics include sustainable urban agriculture, outcomes of forest fuel management and wildfire ecology. The conference also has an artistic component through a photography exhibit, which opens this week at Sierra Nevada College.

“We put out a call to people across the country and asked for visuals that convey a topic in environmental restoration, using photography as a tool to understand the environment,” says McCarthy. Last year, the consortium curated an exhibit of time sequence photography showing the impact of the 2007 Angora Fire.

Summaries of the panels and abstracts from research and lectures will be available on the TSC website for the public. More than 300 people are expected to attend the conference—the largest attendance since the conference began.

“We wanted to expand the participation of organizations outside of the basin, so they can learn from the science and management activities, and hopefully we can learn new things from people in different areas,” McCarthy says. Ω

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United States.” There are also two other, similar clauses in the law and additional language protects legal aliens.

It should be noted, these are the very same passages opponents of the law say show the president has powers to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge.

Amodei, a Republican, is being afflicted by something that more often causes problems for Democrats—the widespread things we all “know” that, however, aren’t true.

Rep. Mark Amodei fussed with his tableware amid the noise of the coffee shop in south Reno.

He was exasperated by my question.

Nuking the facts

I’d asked about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a measure then before Congress that had generated a lot of grassroots opposition for its “counterterrorism” authority for the president on U.S. soil, including use of the military to arrest and detain U.S. citizens. In fact, the very day we spoke, a Reno resident had entered the race against Amodei’s reelection and cited the NDAA as part of his motivation.

The measure, I said to Amodei, “seems like an unusual thing for conservatives to support, that kind of power in a president’s hands.”

He looked pained and said, “Yes, but you know what?—and your statement represents a lot of the thinking—let me tell you my frustration. … There are two provisions in that bill that are highlighted—and we’ll get them to you—that, Dennis, just flat out says this does not apply to citizens of the United States.”

Amodei said this kind of thing happens often enough that he has learned to start looking for someone “manufacturing a perception.”

Later, we found this in the final language of NDAA: “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the

Weapons of mass destruction are probably the best example of something bogus that we all “know” to be true, but WMD lies started long before Iraq. Nevada experienced it in the 1950s when, as a result of what U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah later called “a massive campaign to assure the public that no danger existed,” the public “knew” that atom tests within the United States were not a threat to public health. U.S. officials and their civilian contractors went to great and ethically challenged lengths—including letting people die—to make sure that nothing disrupted the tests. When U.S. Rep. Douglas Stringfellow of Utah demanded that the Atomic Energy Commission stop using the Nevada Test Site because it caused clouds of fallout to land in Utah, AEC scientists Alvin Graves and Jack Clark were sent to Las Vegas, Mesquite, St. George and Cedar City to mislead residents about the safety of tests. The Utah cities later developed high rates of cancers and leukemias.

It’s not as though reporters didn’t have plenty of reasons to investigate. In 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission admitted that atomic testing in southern Nevada was injuring livestock, which suggested that some-

thing about the tests was hazardous. In 1954, the AEC had Tonopah residents wearing “radiation badges.” The lack of curiosity of Nevada and national reporters was startling.

But those who bucked the government line faced consequences. When two Colorado scientists reported findings on radiation danger that conflicted with government claims, they were red-baited by the Hearst press and attacked by the governor of Colorado (“Blinded to science,” RN&R, March 2, 2007). When southern Nevada rancher Martha Bardoli Laird wrote to her U.S. senator about her fallout concerns, Sen. George Malone of Nevada questioned her patriotism.

U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby said, “Exposures from fallout are very much smaller than those which would be required to produce observable effects in the population.” He was lying, and knew it. But the heat of the Cold War melted all the fuses, including journalism, that are supposed to safeguard a free society against its government. The cover-up of radiation danger was maintained. So since everyone “knew” the tests were safe, U.S. policies allowed actions and practices that threatened—and took—lives.

Relying on conclusions that are intuitive rather than proven has pitfalls. The war on drugs is based almost entirely on things we “know” instead of things we know.

Criminal coverage On June 17, 1971, President Nixon, in an effort to get his war on drugs approved, reported to Congress that illicit drug use caused crime amounting to “more than $2 billion every year.” As former Wall Street Journal reporter Dan

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U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei with his press aide, Brian Baluta.

SHARED ASSUMPTIONS AND FACTS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. Baum later pointed out, that was about 154 percent of all property crime in the United States, drug-related and otherwise. The next year, when crime rates fell, U.S. Sen. George McGovern put the cost of drug crime at $4.4 billion. Sen. Charles Percy made it “$10 billion to $15 billion.” These figures were pure fantasy.

When the first Bush administration was devoting most of its energies to jacking up hysteria about drugs in 1989, Bush official Ben Renshaw at the Justice Department wanted the data showing a link between drugs and crime, a link everyone “knew” existed. He found the link had never been established in other than an anecdotal way. Baum reported that when statistician Renshaw tried to assemble the data to prove that drugs cause crime, he was blocked by other administration officials who wanted to “close the debate” on drugs and were satisfied with the widespread assumption. As Renshaw was prevented at every turn from doing his study, he concluded that “Data are risky. ... What if they demonstrate a reality counter to the one the government wants to project?”

Non-drug crime, too, is often very different from what we “know” about it. Pollster Lou Harris once wrote that when members of the public are asked how common crime is, they always overestimate it. Journalism helps create that perception.

In his 1931 autobiography, reporter Lincoln Steffens wrote a chapter titled “I Make a Crime Wave” about an incident in the 1890s. New York Post reporter Steffens and New York Sun competitor Jacob Riis began reporting minor crime stories that previously passed unnoticed. Soon other reporters joined in.

Police reports showed crime was actually declining, Steffens later wrote, “It was only the newspaper reports of crimes that had increased; there was a wave of publicity only.” But officials and the public were becoming aroused. The police commander told police board president Theodore Roosevelt what was actually happening, whereupon Roosevelt asked Steffens and Riis to knock it off, which they did, ending the crime wave.

Nothing has changed. I have seen several manufactured crime waves in Reno over the years, never substantiated by crime figures. And one of the insidious effects of these myths is that those who spread them start believing them. I have twice seen Reno television news anchors express disbelief on the air at the very stories they were reading off the teleprompter dealing with declining crime numbers in the city.

National network programs like 48 Hours spend most of their time on local crime stories with no national implications, projecting onto a national canvas a threat level that is misleading. There are ratings in scaring the hell out of people. Meanwhile, genuine national stories go uncovered.

Money is at stake. Not long after the federal government began a grant program for local senior citizen crime protections, New York City’s news outlets—aided by helpful law enforcement agencies—began reporting rampant anti-elderly robberies.

Everyone “knew” seniors were at risk because they heard or read about it happening. Criminologist Jerome Miller later noted that “no objective evidence backed up the premise of this reporting.”

Creating new realities by lying to the public is big business.

Public relations firms and experts and scientists with easy morals can always be counted on to say black is white for big money.

When scientist Rachel Carson reported on the dangers of DDT, the industry rented scientists to put out competing claims and were very successful at muddying the waters as journalists and commentators with little ability to distinguish science from public relations parroted those claims. Meanwhile, among real scientists, Carson’s work stands up well.

When high fructose corn syrup began getting a bad reputation from scientists for fueling obesity more than other sugars, particularly among women, the industry started paying scientists to crank out competing studies. There is now plenty of dubious “science” online alongside the real thing.

It’s astonishing how many people and institutions are willing to let people die for lies and money. One public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton, with more than 60 offices around the world, went through tens of millions of tobacco industry dollars telling the public its products were safe and later accepted big fees from the Kuwaiti government to lie the United States into a war, including sending the daughter of the Kuwait ambassador to a highly publicized congressional hearing to pose as “Nurse Nayirah” and testify falsely that she witnessed Iraqi soldiers killing hundreds of babies at al-Addan hospital in Kuwait City. If there is something HK will not do for money, it has yet to emerge.

Meanwhile, reliable authorities, experts and scientists often have trouble getting a hearing.

There are several useful volumes on the falsehood industry:

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway Doubt Is Their Product by David Michaels The Heat Is On by Ross Gelbspan Trust Us We’re Experts by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

For more information on why we so easily buy into nonsense:

Agnotology/The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance edited by Londa Schiebinger and Robert Proctor Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer

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One of the most influential governing myths of all had major legal consequences and was entirely missed by journalists. It came in the late 1990s when state attorneys general and the health lobby spread a story that the tobacco settlement required state governments to use the settlement payments for health care. There was and is no such requirement, but it was so widely believed that it gave the health lobby an advantage over other groups in competing for state budget dollars—and still does to this day.

No field is more afflicted by false positives than education, and there is no way to cover them all here. Suffice it to say that the amount of bad information about schools is a national and local scandal. Education’s role as a policy problem child is so pronounced that its troubles are something we all “know” to be true. Politicians and reporters benefit by characterizing education as deeply troubled and they often feed off each other, prompting the enactment of laws based on false information.

In the vice presidential debate in 2000, Republican Richard Cheney said, “Well, I think public education is a solution. Our desire is to find ways to reform our educational system, to return it to its former glory. I’m a product of public schools.” In fact, U.S. schools of the 1940s—when Cheney attended grade school—were far worse than they are today. There was no “former glory.”

The debate question Cheney answered came from Bernard Shaw, who framed the question with a premise defining education as a problem. Shaw said there was “no magic bullet to solve the problems of public education, but what’s the next best solution?”

Journalism, which never misses the failings of education, rarely sees its progress, either. In the current American Journalism Review—a journal that polices media practices—Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi flunked journalism for its education coverage.

Its hand-wringing made it miss a major story in the last couple of decades: “Have the nation’s schools gotten noticeably lousier? Or has the coverage of them just made it seem that way? Some schools are having a difficult time educating children—particularly children who are impoverished, speak a language other than English, move frequently, or arrive at the school door neglected, abused or chronically ill.

“But many pieces of this complex mosaic are quite positive.

First data point: American elementary and middle school students have improved their performance on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study every four years since the tests began in 1995; they are above the international average in all categories and within a few percentage points of the global leaders. …

Second data point: The number of Americans with at least some college education has soared over the past 70 years, from 10 percent in 1940 to 56 percent today. ... All told, America’s long-term achievements in education are nothing short of stunning.”

Even pure science is not safe from agendas. In February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations/World Meteorological Organization group, released a report finding that there was a clear scientific consensus that climate change was real and was caused by humans.

The report was the fourth done by the IPCC on the subject, following 1990, 1995 and 2001 surveys. The fourth study was the most ambitious and detailed ever and was so conservative that it was criticized on the left for soft-pedaling the bad news. The 2007 study took seven years to research and compile. Six thousand studies were reviewed. The findings were peer reviewed in 130 nations. After its release, its findings were accepted by 56 percent of the public, according to a CNN survey. Then corporate money went to work. Last month, a Rasmussen survey showed belief in science on climate change has dropped to 34 percent. Among climate scientists, that figure is 97 percent, according to a CNN survey of more than a thousand climate scientists. The science undermined was done by cherry-picking available studies, emphasizing oddball issues, quoting selectively, publicizing “experts” with no expertise. Real science is described as junk science while the real junk “science” gets a pass.

Money versus facts Policy myths don’t come from nowhere. There are often powerful forces fostering them. One of the reasons medical care for senior citizens—now called Medicare—was delayed for so long in the

United States was that the medical lobby put out outlandish stories of what it would mean. President Kennedy on May 20, 1962: “The mail pours in. And at least half of the mail which I receive in the White House ... is wholly misinformed. Last week I got 1,500 letters on a revenue measure—1,494 opposed, and six for—and at least half of those letters were completely misinformed about the details of what they wrote. And why is that so? Because there are so many busy men in Washington who write—some organizations have six, seven and eight hundred people spreading mail across the country, asking doctors and others to write in and tell your Congressman you’re opposed to it. The mail pours into the White House, into the Congress and senators’ offices—congressmen and senators feel people are opposed to it. Then they read a Gallup Poll which says 75 percent of the people are in favor of it, and they say, ‘What has happened to my mail?’ ” Policy myths are usually created either by those with money or for political reasons. In the 1950s, it was anti-communism. In the 21st century, it is often anti-environmentalism. And hostility to the environment overlaps with money, as when busy corporate polluters Charles and David Koch fund a massive complex of think tanks and advocacy groups to undercut scientific findings about climate change and protect Koch oil refining.

When Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway researched their book Merchants of Doubt, they found that some of the rent-a-scientists who once cranked out studies and provided court testimony for the tobacco companies are the same scientists who now aid the Kochs and other industry figures in creating doubt about climate change.

It doesn’t take a lot to get a false story out there and embedded in the minds of the public. “People are impressionable,” Columbia University professor of sociology and journalism Todd Gitlin told us. “The less they know about an area, the more vulnerable they are to the crusading passions of the moment. Synapses, once formed, tend to harden.”

University of Michigan social psychologist Norbert Schwarzhas did a study that found when people are given false information to read, and it is clearly identified as false, they tend

within minutes afterward to misremember nearly a third of it as true—40 percent within three days. There is now a massive industry dedicated to misleading the public. It’s child’s play when billionaires open their wallets and principle is not an issue.

They are aided by journalists who often create a false balance.

Reporters—and pop culture czars like Oprah Winfrey—who would never dream of giving hearings to both sides of bank robbery or cancer, happily put climate scientists up against TV weathercasters or pit physicians against Jim Carrey in order to “balance” a story about something that is not actually a subject of scientific dispute. The falsehood industry loves this willingness by reporters.

In some ways mendacious manipulation of information is becoming so widespread and deeply rooted in our culture that we are starting to lose sight of what facts are. After U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida said falsely that “there’s [sic] about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party [in Congress] that are members of the Communist Party,” Chicago journalist Rex Huppke sat down and wrote an obituary for facts: “Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC.” Some journalism entities are trying to compete with the bad information injected into the public bloodstream like poison. The Washington Post has a “five myths” feature—five myths about the Keystone XL pipeline, five myths about zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, five myths about the health-care law, five myths about Syria, five myths about student loans, five myths about voter fraud.

But tinkering with the effects of intentional, unscrupulous and well funded disinformation is not enough. A whole system of communication is failing and no one has a realistic way of coping.

Next month, Dennis Myers will have a report on the damage done over the past quarter century to a single field—education— by policy myths. Ω

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Despite big names like Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow and Marc Maron hosting their own podcasts—internet radio shows, often independently produced—it’s still a creative medium reserved mostly for nerds or groups of friends with a niche interest. Anyone with a computer and something to say can make a podcast. But as Reno’s podcast hosts will tell you, you better make sure you say something interesting. And it helps if there is drinking involved. Here are some of the more popular Reno podcasts.

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Crazy Reno Podcast Benita Camarena, Stanley Neill, Erik Peterson, Charles “Nemis” Wellington II and Henry Barnhart make up the Crazy Reno Podcast.

The podcast operates under the moniker “ADHD podcasts,” which Barnhart hopes to use for a full podcasting network in the future. The name is fitting, as the hosts jump from topic to topic, often without a discernable segue.

It takes some getting used to, but after a few episodes, individual personalities start to emerge—Nemis is softspoken but opinionated. Camarena holds her own against the men when they dominate the conversation. Neill is reserved but chooses his words wisely, and Barnhart sets the tone by directing the conversation toward topics. Mostly it’s a show about their lives and their experiences, and it’s often funny.

“It was a chance for us to just be ourselves,” says Nemis, who was unfamiliar to the podcasting scene until he was recruited by Barnhart, who has previous broadcasting experience.

With an uneven gender balance— Camarena is the only female presence—the show is sometimes reminiscent of the Rob, Arnie and Dawn show on Rock 104.5. But don’t tell them that.

“We’ve gotten comparisons like that before, and we’re trying to not be that kind of show,” Barnhart says.

“We don’t want it to seem like we treat our female host badly. We have to be conscious of how we’re coming across to listeners.” www.facebook.com/CrazyRenoPodcast

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which are recordings of live sermons given by Living Stones pastors. LS has a reputation for being a hip place of worship, and its pastors give some rousing and often funny talks. For the techie disciple, the episodes are worth downloading from iTunes and listening to on the go. www.livingstonesreno.com/podcast.html

News & Views Jim Scripps and Ryan Jerz host News & Views, which they say is “everyone’s most favorite podcast about Reno and a lot of other stuff.” The two discuss what they’re eating—

including a discussion on Otterpops and the benefits of Taco Bell while drunk—but they also tackle current events in depth. www.mrjerz.org/newsandviews/

Reno Ramblecast According to Reno Ramblecast’s website, it’s “a crappy podcast about crappy stuff.” Despite the self-deprecation, it’s an enjoyable show with more than 20 regular hosts, including comedians Alyssa Cowan, Tim Dufrisne and Matt Wiegand. Occasionally, an entire episode feels like an inside joke that the rest of us aren’t in on, but most of

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The intro song leads into the show with, “Worst Little Podcast—talking out of our ass.”

Worst Little Podcast is hosted by “The Reverend” Rory Dowd, “Just Nick” Ramirez and Josh “Chewie” Martin, with sound engineer “Dogwater” Dick Spagnola and webmaster Shaun “the Stryse” Burks.

Dowd says that the podcast fell together organically.

“We’d known each other for years,” says Dowd. “We’re all fans of personality talk radio. One night we were sitting around drinking and we thought, ‘We should record this.’”

The show features guests from area bands and art projects, but they also talk about happenings in Reno.

“Our main goal is to just help blow up the Reno music scene and the wonderful art and culture we have here,” he says.

Currently, more than 200 people tune in each month.

“We put out a couple and had good feedback from friends,” Dowd says.

“We’re booking guests two months out now. It really took off.”

Dowd says they only edit for audio, not for content.

“It’s like a live program,” he says.

“We hit record and just go.”

This is a show for locals. Nearly every story references local bars and people. It’s vulgar and hilarious, but also quirky and sincere. There are music performances and drinking (and accompanying games—“drink every time Rory says ‘Yeah, no.’” Which he does a lot).

Dowd says the crew has plans to make a live webcast and stream video, but for now they just want to spread the word about what makes Reno an interesting place to live.

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unpublishednotdead Renoite Eric Kenny maintains unpublishednotdead.com which features several podcasts, including The Reno Show and the general unpublishednotdead show. A regular cast of hosts trade off on discussing various topics, such as texting while driving, the presidential election, television shows and Reno events. And they insist that, “even if you don’t live in Reno, it’s still entertaining.” www.unpublishednotdead.com Ω

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“We’ve all been involved in Reno music and performing and the arts in some fashion for 15 years apiece,” he says. “Reno is going through this little artist’s milieu, turning into an art town and music town on the West Coast.”

But much of the appeal of hosting a podcast is having the freedom to talk about the town, no holds barred.

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Hot topics Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past Ronald M. James University of Nebraska Press Ronald M. James had a hidden agenda as he was writing his latest book. I don’t mean that by in a pejorative sense. Almost all writers D. Brian Burghart have a hidden agenda. It’s often called the “theme.” brianb@ Those hidden agendas are something newsreview.com I’ve been thinking about lately, so I played directly into James’ hands. While I was thinking about why some journalists misrepresent events with intent to support their masked agendas, James is considering how archaeologists and historians approach their processes differently.

What’s funny is while James didn’t specifically expose his agenda until the epilogue, he definitely steered my mind, at least on an unconscious level, toward it.

His method, basically, was to show that while archeology can be boring and detailridden to the average reader, its necessity and expense can’t be dismissed. In fact, as I look back on the book, I notice that the very first sentence of the introduction announces his intention. It’s a quote by

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James Deetz: “Simply put, archaeologists are storytellers. It is our responsibility to communicate to as wide an audience as possible the results and significance of our findings.”

James is the state historic preservation officer for Nevada and chairman of the National Historic Landmarks Committee of the National Park Service. This plays into the agenda. His plan, simply put, is to combine an expository archeologist with an imaginative historian to create a work that’s accessible to the public. His agenda is to make the public and politicians understand that it’s in their best interests to fund archeological research. Simple as that. And when it’s considered that he’s the state historic preservation officer, it’s not hard to understand where he’s coming from.

I would imagine it must be frustrating to a guy like James that a book chock full of accurate historic details but enriched with fantasy, like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, will make millions, while his own

book, chock full of accurate historical details but enriched with fact-based speculation, wouldn’t fund an archeological excavation of his own basement.

In my opinion, Virginia City is successful as an archeological treatise, a history, and as literature. In my favorite parts of the book, James imagines what V.C. must have looked like 130 years ago. In most cases, his fancy comes out of historical record, like drawings or the orientation of a building’s foundations, but in others, it’s just where his mind goes. For example, there’s one place where he talks about a cat or a

dog that’s installed in a building’s foundation in the Chinese area of town, and he speculates—with reason—that it was placed there to give the place luck. A simple archeologist would have noted the animal, possibly noted its chemical make up or the fact that it was under the cornerstone. It’s the historian who brings the social context to the narrative. It’s the writer who allows the mind to infuse a dead dog with life.

Virginia City is a pretty quick read—129 pages of narrative, citations, and lots of illustrations, including historic and modern photographs, historic and modern drawings (some by James himself). Each chapter focuses on a different sector of social life in the city, from the mines and the saloons to the plights of smaller segments of society— women, children, Chinese, blacks and Irish—to the sanitarium and cemeteries.

The book begins with the unearthing of the world’s oldest known bottle of Tabasco sauce under an ancient African-American bar. This broken bottle fired imaginations and headlines around the world. It’s the type of discovery that could only have happened through archeology, but the story behind its transport 2,200 miles from its point of origin took a historian. And making the find of a 14-year-old volunteer the linchpin of a literary effort took a writer. Ω

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Ken Bartlett, Josh Vaile and Brendan Bartlett in the old J.C. Penney on Sierra Street. Note the giant eyeball.

Josh Vaile and Ken Bartlett In a raw interior space downtown that used to be a J.C. Penney and was then an antique by store and now has a health club two Kris Vagner floors above, Josh Vaile and Ken Bartlett have been spackling and nailing for six months during what would normally be their off hours. Their paint-splattered jeans, work boots, and classic rock playlist say “licensed contractor.”

Actually, they’re architects. With Queen and Pink Floyd in the background, they’re transforming this couple-thouThe Reno Art Project sand-square-foot former retail space presents Focus, at 100 they’re borrowing into a one-night popN. Sierra St., on May 18, up gallery. from 7 to 10 p.m. For Vaile explains that he and Bartlett more information, visit accepted long ago that architecture wasn’t www.renoartproject.com . necessarily the “free-flowing, creative” discipline he’d once hoped it was. On the bright side, a couple of combined decades in the profession navigating endless rules and constraints has yielded them a wealth of building techniques, materials knowhow, and a warehouse-sized cutting-room

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So they asked themselves how to transition into a fine arts career and decided to jump headfirst.

“We thought, ‘Let’s go big. Let’s do a lifetime of art in six months,’” recalls Vaile.

He and Bartlett took an anything-goes approach to materials, using rows of mirrored bathroom cabinets they’d scavenged from a construction site as sculpture materials, gluing army men to the floor, and smashing pumpkins so they could include indiscernible chunks of the desiccated orange gourd in a collage and name it after the Billy Corgan-fronted alt rock band from the ’90s.

They constructed a survey of their collective fascinations: process art from the ’60s, installation art from the ’70s, graffiti from the ’80s, and a process/installation/ graffiti hybrid à la Mr. Brainwash, the Los Angeles videographer-turned-cult-celeb documented in the 2010 film Exit Through the Gift Shop. (For Vaile and his son Brendan, 10, who’s planning a performance

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for the one-night exhibit, this is actually their second art show. They installed an art piece in a Mr. Brainwash show in Los Angeles in 2011.)

With the wide-eyed, unjaded perspective of art-world newcomers and the adept craftsmanship of people who’ve been designing large, 3-D things for years, Bartlett and Vaile wedged in references to current events, such as a memorial to the 2011 Reno Air Races crash. They sprinkled in personal references and in-jokes, some entombed in the artwork and nearly impossible to see—they buried collared shirts, a symbol of constraining office work, in layers of joint compound within a huge abstract painting—and some right in front of you. Plot spoiler: You are allowed to sit on the red thing that looks like it could possibly be a bench.

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Then, they hid most of their work behind wood frames and drywall.

The exhibit is called Focus, a response to the cultural phenomenon of our widespread scatteredness.

“Basically we’re taking you and holding your head and focusing it on what we want you to see,” Vaile says. Most of the exhibit is visible only through “view holes,” long, square, cardboard tubes that provide a sliver of a view through a false wall onto part of a painting or an installation.

Some of the pieces are large and far away. Some are small and nearby. Some are embellished with lighting tricks or mirrors.

It’s process art meets interactive art.

Then there’s the performance, which will turn into a conceptual sculpture.

“I graffitied this,” explains Brendan, gesturing to an architecturally perfect stack of cardboard boxes and Styrofoam. He’ll roll an LMFAO song, bust through the structure, and put his signature on the resulting pile with spray paint.

“We want everybody to get on our mothership and experience how we see art, and fly away with us,” Vaile says. Ω

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I’d been having a poor run on breakfast places lately to the point where I started wondering if I even liked breakfast by K.J. Sullivan foods anymore. Sparks Coffee Shop made me see that I’m not over ksullivan@ breakfast, just bad breakfast. On a newsreview.com Saturday morning, my friend Brett and I wandered in to try Sparks Coffee Shop. The interior was clean and comfortable with a country kitchen feel to it, with rustic bird cages, wooden shelves and a large chalkboard displaying the specials.

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the white beans beckoned me when I noticed there were small pieces of meat, which I think was chorizo, mixed in with them. I’m used to being given just plain old refried beans with huevos rancheros, so I thought this was a nice touch and went really well with the eggs and tortillas, which soaked up the green salsa nicely. I can eat quesadillas for every meal, so I was excited about one offered at breakfast.

The steak quesadilla was made with a corn tortilla and was packed full of flavorful steak. The only quibble was some of the pieces of steak were a little dry.

Brett went with Mo’s omelet ($10.50) which came with roasted Anaheim peppers, onions, andouille sausage and jack cheese. The omelet was substantial in size and most importantly, it was packed full of peppers and sausage. With every bite of this omelet, I was rewarded with flavors from the ingredients. The andouille offered a low spice, which was nice with all of the melted cheese. The omelet came with a side of potatoes and choice of toast as well, so there was no way to walk away from this one still hungry.

Throughout the meal, service was impeccable. My coffee cup never got below half full. Brett and I started joking that it was like we would take a sip, someone would see it and rush to fill it. All of the servers seemed to be friendly and attentive, and this isn’t the kind of place where only one staff person will help you. The restaurant was fairly busy, but service did not waiver.

As an aside, I used to live in this neighborhood, so I watched this building go through a lot of changes, and I have seen other businesses around it close. I think Sparks Coffee Shop is not only a welcome addition to the area, but also a business that should be able to last. It’s nice to see something positive coming back to the area, so I hope Sparks Coffee Shop is here to stay. Ω

We were immediately greeted by a smiling hostess who led us to a nice sunny booth in the corner. She stayed and chatted with us, asking if it was our first time here and answered questions about the restaurant. Another smiling waitress appeared quickly and brought us some coffee ($2.25), waters and menus. The menu had a lot of breakfast and lunch choices, but we were focused on breakfast, so we looked over the array of benedicts, omelets and pancakes offered.

I decided to go with the daily special, the huevos rancheros Sparks Coffee Shop is ($10.99), which came with two eggs open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and tortillas smothered in a tasty green salsa, with a large side of home fries and beans. There was also a small steak quesadilla and a large side of fresh pico de gallo and sour cream. The plate was huge and I wasn’t quite sure where to start, but

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Lightweight Dark Shadows A lot of work and a lot of money have gone into Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, a big-screen adaptation of that strangest of strange soap operas that ran in the late ’60s and early ’70s. The saga of tortured vampire Barnabas Collins proves to be a nice exercise for the eyes, but the stuff coming out of people’s mouths and the pacing of the film prove too languid to keep a person’s interest past the first half-hour.

Burton has his go-to guys here: Johnny by Depp steps into the infamous role of Barnabas Bob Grimm (the original Barnabas, Jonathan Frid, recently passed away), while Danny Elfman provides bgrimm@ newsreview.com the sleepy soundtrack. Depp drones on and on with seemingly every line, while Elfman’s meandering soundtrack fails to liven the place up. Dark Shadows is monstrously boring for much of its running time.

The film opens over 200 years ago, with a quick glance at Barnabas’ childhood and his brief time on the planet as a young adult. After a quick affair with family servant Angelique (Eva Green), he turns his amorous attentions to the beautiful Josette (Bella Heathcote).

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Angelique, who dabbles in witchcraft, compels Josette to do something very sad, and has something even worse in store for Barnabas: He’s going to spend the rest of his years as a vampire. Furthermore, he will spend eternity buried in a coffin.

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Michelle Pfeiffer plays the stately Elizabeth Collins Stoddard with her usual grace, while the usually reliable Chloe Grace Moretz is actually slightly annoying—a first!—as her rebellious, grumpy daughter Carolyn. Johnny Lee Miller plays Roger, the flaky family patriarch, while Helena Bonham Carter gets her usual Burton film role as the strange doctor.

Youngest son David (Gulliver McGrath) can see dead people, as does his new nanny, Victoria. Victoria is also played by Heathcote, which creates all sorts of confusion for Barnabas, who still longs for his dead girlfriend.

This would seem to be a fun setup for a clashing of sensibilities, with Barnabas trying to get it on in a notably funkier world. No such luck. Most of Dark Shadows has Depp droning out his lines in a sort of dreary soap opera mode, whining about his predicament or the non-events of the day. There is surprisingly little action, and the action isn’t anything to get worked up about.

The potentially interesting story of Victoria is pushed into the background, with much more emphasis on the Barnabas/Angelique rivalry. Their crazy sex scene is supposed to be played for comic effect, but it’s a scene that feels like it should be in another movie.

Admittedly, I was under the impression that the film would have a more satiric and comedic tone. But efforts at comedy, such as the goofy sex scene, fall flat and don’t integrate with the film. This is surprising, considering how successful Burton’s efforts at comedy have been in the past. His other Gothic epic, Sleepy Hollow, had some great laughs.

Not much to laugh at here, even when Alice Cooper drops by the mansion for an evening of entertainment. The Cooper presence is a wasted opportunity.

No doubt, Burton makes a good-looking movie. The film’s most interesting visual is the ghost of Josette floating around the house and swinging around the chandelier. It looks very much like something you would see in Disney’s Haunted Mansion.

Obviously, you need much more than pretty pictures to tell a good story, and the script for Dark Shadows stinks. Nothing of interest happens, and this winds up being the second lackluster pairing of Depp and Burton in a row after the lousy Alice in Wonderland.Ω

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The Avengers

Everything good about the last bunch of Marvel superhero movies comes together for one massive, excessively entertaining party. Director Joss Whedon hits all the right notes as Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Hulk (newbie Mark Ruffalo) all get equal time in this well balanced, often funny, and completely satisfying cinematic experience. I wasn’t sure if they would pull this off, but they did, with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) once again bringing the fun as the villain. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) contribute mightily to the process, as does Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Good luck to all the rest of the summer movies in trying to top this one’s fun factor. And let it be said that this contains the best Hulk action put to film ever! Joss Whedon is a god.

The Cabin in the Woods

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Chimpanzee

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While watching DisneyNature’s latest effort, 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 this movie. The footage of a little chimpanzee orphan dubbed Oscar is amazing stuff. Oscar, an energetic 3-year-old, is a cute little shit, and I could watch hours of footage featuring his adorable eyes and natural sense of mischief. I’d say I’d like to pinch his cheek, but he would probably tear my arms off. 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.

The Five-Year Engagement

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This one feels more like a 50-year engagement. Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star as a couple who get engaged but wind up postponing their wedding for career considerations.

While Segel and Blunt have some decent comedic chemistry, the movie just drags on and on and on. What’s more, while they work as a comedic team, they don’t really click as a romantic couple, making it all seem a little strange that they’re together in the first place.

Directed by Nicholas Stoller, who co-wrote the screenplay with frequent writing partner Segel, the two fail to capture the magic that made their prior effort Forgetting Sarah Marshall so funny. The humor here is mostly flat, peppered with occasional laughs, which mostly come from Segel’s character trying to adjust to life in Michigan after living the big life in San Francisco. Segel says he won’t be in the next Muppet movie because he wants to do human movies. As this movie shows, humans can be really boring.

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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 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.

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits

This movie excels in a brand of weird, random comedy that had me laughing out loud often. Not so much a pirate movie than a fictional goof about what a jerk Charles Darwin could’ve been in his younger days, it has a lot of laughs that come out of nowhere, make no sense, and that’s something I happen to love very much when done right. Hugh Grant most entertainingly voices the Pirate Captain, trying his best to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, which usually goes to Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven).

Determined to score a lot of booty and increase his chances for victory in the contest, he sets out to pillage a bunch of boats and gather the gold. He happens upon Darwin (David Tennant), who points out that his trusted parrot is, in fact, a dodo. The film is crazy funny—Queen Victoria is the villain!— and just the ticket for parents looking to be entertained by a kid movie.

The Raven

2

While John Cusack gives it his all as the film’s central character, Edgar Allan Poe, this cinematic attempt at making the author some sort of super sleuth during his dying days is a little silly. As history has told us, Poe was found in bad shape on a Baltimore park bunch shortly before he died. This movie comes up with the fictional device that Poe was running around looking for a serial killer copying his stories, 1849’s answer to Saw’s Jigsaw. The premise is too goofy to overcome despite a decent performance from Cusack and a goodlooking movie from director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta). By the time this movie reveals its mysteries, you could care less, although having Alice Eve in your cast can easily make things worth watching at times. There have been a number of Poe films kicking around for years now. I’m kind of bummed this is the one that actually wound up getting made. Cusack is still a god, even if this movie is beneath him. Just had to say that.

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.

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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!

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Back from reality Whitney Myer Although Whitney Myer’s reality TV show stint was short, it’s given her a lot of perspective on her career as a recording by Megan Berner artist and performer. Yes, being on NBC’s singing competition, The Voice, has garnered her a lot of attention—locally and nationally—but more than anything, it has helped her to figure out what direction she’s headed in.

“It made me realize that perception is everything,” says Myer. “I was doing the same thing that I’m doing now before The Voice but now everybody’s like, ‘Wow, you’re amazing!’”

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Whitney Myer Band. Auditioning for The Voice and performing without her band on the show took Myer out of her comfort zone. She has been playing with her father and uncle since she was 14. During the show, she was on her own in Los Angeles, fielding interviews and meeting people.

“I’m so glad that I did it because I learned a lot about myself as an individual,” Myer says. “I’m really glad that it ended when it did, as painful as it was to my ego. I’m glad that it ended that way because I don’t want to be pigeonholed as a reality TV show star.”

While being on The Voice gave Myer a lot of publicity, she also saw a lot of things behind the scenes that viewers didn’t get to see.

“At the end of the day, they’re making a television show,” says Myer. “It’s not really even about music.”

She says she had originally wanted to be on Cee Lo’s team until she heard what he had to say—apparently a lot of the conversation in front of the judges was edited out—and so decided being on another team would benefit her more.

“It’s exciting when you’re on it but when you get off of it you’re like, ‘How much longevity does that really have?’” says Myer. “I feel it was perfect timing for me and where I want to go in my career.”

Ultimately, Myer wants to be a recording and touring artist. She already devotes most of her time to her music and would like to get on a national tour with someone from a similar genre.

The upcoming show at Cargo is a sort of homecoming for her. This will be the band’s first Reno show after The Voice, and they won’t be playing local shows as frequently. They’ve invited professionals from the industry and have some surprises in store for the audience. Myer didn’t want to reveal everything but did say that she is working with a local designer and one of her outfits will be made out of a World War II parachute.

Myer is grateful for all the support she has received locally.

“If you believed in me on [The Voice], come to our shows and show support that way,” Myer says. “We have such a cool community here. We all help each other out, and I don’t know that that happens everywhere. I think Reno is a special place.” Ω

Whitney Myer performing recently at the Montbleu Resort.

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All four judges, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton, approved of her blind audition, but then she was eliminated from the competition during an early battle round.

“I didn’t do it necessarily to win,” she says. “I did it because I wanted to let the nation—and especially my hometown—know that I’m here, and I’m doing things. I’m following my dreams. I can’t do it without their support.”

The thing she says she came to realize from her time on the show is that it’s the community around her that will help her to accomplish her dreams. The support Myer received locally was overwhelming, and she is hoping that people realize that it’s them who have the power—not The Voice—to help make her a star.

“I really want to sell out again,” says Myer in reference to the band’s upcoming show at Cargo in CommRow on May 19. “It would show the public that we can do it without The Voice. I can have the same power if they help support the career.”

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THURSDAY 5/17

FRIDAY 5/18

Blues jam w/Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover

SATURDAY 5/19

Simple Creation, 9:30pm, no cover

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Schall Adams Band, 9:30pm, no cover

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/21-5/23

Moon Gravy, 8:30pm, no cover

DG Kicks, Jakki Ford, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Gabardine Sisters, 7pm, no cover

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SUNDAY 5/20

Scotty Roller, Jonny “Two Bags” Wickersham, Spike McGuire, Cry Pardon, 9pm, no cover

Jazz Night, 7:30pm, Tu, no cover

Trever Crow’s Hip Hop Night, 7pm, $5

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Civet, Old Glory, 7:30pm, M, $5 Sparks the Rescue, Namesake, 7pm, $13 Joe Buck Yourself, Viva le Vox, 8pm, Tu, $7

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Fire spinning performance, 8pm, no cover

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Jesse Kalin, 5pm, no cover

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No Question, Kado the Dreadlocked Gentleman, Young T Mel, 9pm, $TBA

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Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

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Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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1) Whitney Myer Band, 9pm, $10-$35

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Modern Day Moonshine, 6pm, no cover

Thom Crowder & Friends, Mary Jane Rocket, 10pm, no cover

Merle Jagger, 9:30pm, no cover

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Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Phil, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Phil, 9pm, no cover

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FRIDAY 5/18

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Live jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

Live jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

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Social Distortion, Toadies, Lindi Ortega, 8pm, $34-$75

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Jazz Jam w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

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Open mic, 9pm, M, no cover

Fishtank Ensemble, 8:30pm, no cover

Fishtank Ensemble, 8:30pm, no cover

Sneaky Creatures, 9:30pm, no cover

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Open Mic Night w/Tom Miller, 7pm, no cover

Mark Sexton Band, 8pm, no cover

Rocky Tatarelli, Judith Ames, 8pm, no cover

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

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Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

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Corky Bennett, 5pm, no cover

Johnny Lipka, 9pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

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Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

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STREGA BAR

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MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

May 19, 9:30 p.m.

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/21-5/23 Take Offense, 7pm, M, $TBA, Buddy Wakefield, 7pm, Tu, $7

Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

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SUNDAY 5/20

Tree Woods, DJ Idano, Jyoubei, Emic, 8pm, $5

The John Whites, 9pm, no cover

Drinking with Clowns, 9pm, no cover

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

1) Cheap Lick, Peace Mafia, Sequel, DejaVu, 8pm, $5 Lenny Walker, Farewell Belladonna, 7pm, no cover

Reno Music Project Acoustic Open Mic, 6:30pm, no cover Sunday jazz, 2pm, no cover

Local Band Listening Party, 9pm, M, no cover Dark Tuesdays w/Stefani, 9pm, Tu, no cover

THURSDAY 5/17

FRIDAY 5/18

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2) Shake, Rattle & Roll, 8pm, no cover

2) Shake, Rattle & Roll, 4pm, Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Shake, Rattle & Roll, 4pm, Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

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

2) Stew Stewart, 7pm, no cover

1) The Lettermen, 8pm, $29.50 2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover

1) The Lettermen, 8pm, $29.50 2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover

1) The Lettermen, 3pm, $29.50 2) George Pickard, 6pm, no cover

2) George Pickard, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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

2) Fruition String Band, 10pm, no cover

1) BoDeans, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, 9pm, $18, $22 2) Chango, Justin O’Brien, 11:30pm, no cover

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

1) Man in the Mirror, 8pm, $19.95+ 2) Alias, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Roni Romance, DJ Dragon, 10pm, $10 4) Live piano, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, 9:30pm, $19.95+ 2) Alias, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Roni Romance,(((xm fredie))), Jessica the Ripper, 10pm, $10

4) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

1) Ultimate Reno Combat 33, 8pm, $25-$100 4) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

4) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

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

1) Beatles vs. Stones—A Musical Shootout, 7:30pm, $20 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

Karaoke

1) Nathan Owens: Motown After Dark, 8pm, $25, $30, Scott Henry, 10:30pm, $20, $25 2) Karaoke-Trivia, 6pm, DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

1) Nathan Owens: Motown After Dark, 8pm, $25, $30, Scott Henry, 10:30pm, $20, $25 2) Karaoke-Trivia, 6pm, DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

1) Nathan Owens: Motown After Dark, 8pm, $25, $30, Scott Henry, 10:30pm, $20, $25 2) Karaoke-Trivia, 6pm, 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 7pm, no cover 3) Scot and Scott, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ BG, 6pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover 3) Scot and Scott, 6pm, no cover 5) Namolokama, 5:30pm, DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover 3) Scot and Scott, 6pm, no cover 2) Steppen Stonz, 7pm, no cover 5) Namolokama, 5:30pm, DJ BG 5) Namolokama, 5:30pm, no cover Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

1) Academy of Dance Arts: A Spring Celebration, 6pm, $20

1) Academy of Dance Arts: A Spring Celebration, 6pm, $20

2) Chili Sauce, 8pm, no cover 3) Soul Experience, 9pm, no cover 4) Salsa dancing, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

2) Chili Sauce, 8pm, no cover 3) Soul Experience, 9pm, no cover 4) Suits & Sneakers w/DJ OB One, 10pm, $20

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

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

CIRCUS CIRCUS

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs 5) 2500 East

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

MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 4) Cabaret 5) Convention Center

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

SILVER LEGACY

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

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

1) Nathan Owens: Motown After Dark, 8pm, $25, $30 2) Karaoke-Trivia, 6pm, 2) DJ/dancing, 10pm, 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) Chili Sauce, 7pm, no cover 3) Jackie Dauzat, 7pm, no cover

2) Chili Sauce, 7pm, M, no cover 3) Jackie Dauzat, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) DJ REXX, 10pm, no cover 3) Salsa Etc., 7pm, no cover

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

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For Thursday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 23 BIKE TO WORK DAY PANCAKE FEED: In support of the national Bike to Work Day, the Reno Bike Project hosts its sixth annual event featuring free pancakes, coffee and bacon served all morning to celebrate riding bikes to work. F, 5/18, 6-10am. Free.

Reno Bike Project, 541 E. Fourth St., (775) 323-4488, www.renobikeproject.com.

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compete on a natural terrain course. See some of the wildest, coolest and weirdest vehicles you have ever seen, from Jeeps to moon buggies. Bring a chair; coolers OK. Gates open at 9am. Sa, 5/19, 10am-4pm; Su, 5/20, 10am-4pm. $5-$25; free for children age 7 and younger. Exit 28, Motorsports Park, 410 Wild Horse Canyon Drive, Sparks, (530) 391-2580, http://cal-nevaextreme.com.

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Events

ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE VIEWING: The University of Nevada, Reno’s Fleischmann Planetarium hosts a free viewing event to watch the annular solar eclipse at the MacLean Observatory. Activities will include a photovoltaic (PV) demonstration trailer from NV Energy’s Renewable Generations program, a mobile planetarium from the Challenger Learning Center, demonstrations from University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Education, hands-on activities from the Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada, displays from DRI’s Green Power program and a high-altitude BalloonSat launch. Su, 5/20, 5-7pm.

Free. MacLean Observatory, University of Nevada, Reno Redfield Campus, 18600 Wedge Parkway, (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

2012 EDEXPO EDUCATION AND TRADESHOW: The education and tradeshow event for real estate professionals features continuing education courses taught by real estate instructors and real estate services exhibitors. Th, 5/17, 8am5:30pm; F, 5/18, 8am-5:30pm. $65-$400.

Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 823-8800, www.rsar.net/CEClasses/EdExpo.aspx.

2ND ANNUAL SPRING KICK-OFF DAY: Learn about koi, ponds, pond plants and talk with reps about different pumps and supplies. There will be beverages, a food truck for lunch and free raffle where you can win pond supplies, koi food, art donated by local artists on Dickerson Road and more. Sa, 5/19, 10am-5:30pm.

Free. Sierra Water Gardens, 2110 Dickerson Road, (775) 622-4090, www.sierrawatergardens.com.

CANDY CHANG: BEFORE I DIE: Recognized as a leader in developing new strategies for the design of cities, Chang will discuss her installation of Before I Die in Reno.

Networking and social hour at 5pm. Talk follows at 6pm. Th, 5/17, 6pm. $10; $8 NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

CHESS AND MORE: Players of all ages and skills are invited to play chess and other board games for fun. Second and Fourth Tu of every month, 3-5pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

DESIGNING DIVAS NIGHT OUT: Professional image consultant Myree Townsend will present a mini-seminar on fashion and image, including color and fashion personality analysis, money-saving shopping techniques and accessorizing. The

monthly Designing Divas events are free and also feature networking, appetizers, beverages and store discounts. RSVPs are required. Tu, 5/22, 5:30-7pm. Free. Real Deals on Home Décor, 1445 S. Meadows Parkway, Ste. 209, (775) 853-4303, www.realdeals.net/reno.

proceeds are donated to a local charity. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm. $20.

The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.

ROADS AND RAILS, HISTORIC FOURTH STREET: Discover the historic origins of the Lincoln Highway and the Nevada, California and Oregon Railroad, stopping to appreciate the Barengo/NCO building, Flanigan warehouse and other vestiges of the corridor’s heyday. Reservations required. Cut-off for reservations is the day before the tour. Sa, 5/19, 10am-noon. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. Louis Basque Corner, 301 E. Fourth St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

DYNAMICS OF A DISASTER: Retired Reed High School history teacher, Nevada Humanities speaker and Chautauqua performer Fred Horlacher retells the story of the ill-fated Donner Party in this two-part series. W, 5/23, 7pm; Th, 5/24, 7pm. $10-$20. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

MEET THE COLLECTORS: THE BLOMS ON SOUTHWEST POTTERY: Brenda and John Blom

SPRING FLING KINDA OF THING: The theme of

discuss the range of pottery they have collected from every era and pueblo in the Southwest. F, 5/18, noon. $10; free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

this year’s event is “A Walk Thru Time: Past, Present and Future.” A fashion show will highlight ritual wear and fashions throughout the ages.

Divination services will also be performed by Silver Dawn. A spaghetti dinner will be provided for $5. A children’s area will be provided for in the Great Room where the event will be held. Sa, 5/19, 3-6:30pm. Free admission.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, 780 Del Monte Lane, (775) 846-1520.

PLANT SALE: The sale features heirloom tomatoes, herbs, vegetables, annual flowers, trailing petunias, perennials and hanging baskets. All four pots and six packs $1. Proceeds benefit Reno Municipal Rose Garden. Sa, 5/19, 7:30amnoon. City of Reno Greenhouse, 190 Telegraph St., (775) 224-1680.

SPRING WINGS BIRD FESTIVAL: The annual cel-

RIVERWALK DISTRICT WINE WALK: Visit any

ebration of shorebird and waterfowl migration through the Lahontan Valley of north-central Nevada features birdwatching tours, exhibits, talks and demonstrations, hands-on activities and more. F, 5/18; Sa, 5/19; Su, 5/20. $10$25 for tours; free festival admission on May 19. Churchill County Fairgrounds, 325 Sheckler Road, Fallon, (775) 423-5128, http://springwings.org.

Riverwalk District Merchant on Wine Walk day to get a map of participating Wine Walk merchants. Go to the participating merchant of your choice, and, with a valid photo ID, you’ll receive a wine glass and an ID bracelet that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Every month offers a different theme and part of all

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Y E K R U T A taste of It’s hard not to be entranced by the music, food, culture and history of Turkey.

The ancient land, which straddles Europe and Asia, has served as the crossroads of East and West for thousands of years.

Locals can get a sampling of Turkish culture this weekend at the Reno Turkish Festival. The fifth annual event, taking place the same day as the annular solar eclipse, will feature Turkish arts and crafts, demonstrations in water marbling and calligraphy, food and drink such as shish kebab, baklava and Turkish tea and coffee, folk dancing and musical performances. The festival takes place from noon to 6 p.m. on May 20 at Wingfield Park, corner of First Street and Arlington Avenue.

Admission is free. Call 453-6217 or visit www.renoturkishfestival.org.

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SYMBIOSIS GATHERING: PYRAMID ECLIPSE: This festival celebrates emerging cultural and sustainable lifestyles and the solar eclipse on May 20. Thousands of people will gather on the shores of Pyramid Lake to participate in co-creating a visionary village directly in the path of the eclipse. The festival will feature musical performances, speakers, workshops and presentations for mind, body and spirit. M, Tu, Th-Su through 5/22. Opens 5/17. $250-$280 for tickets; $40-$180 for vehicle passes. Pyramid Lake, Nevada State Route 445, 40 miles northeast of Reno, Sutcliffe, http://pyramideclipse.com.

WORK DAY AND PLANT SWAP: Nevada Native Plant Society hosts this volunteer event to help the staff of Mormon Station State Park get the grounds spruced up for the summer season. Volunteers will transplant some flowers, prune shrubs and spruce up the garden in the stockade where events are

held. There will be a plant swap in the parking area during lunch. Meet near the entrance to the stockade in front of the museum at 10am. Wear sturdy shoes and sunscreen. Gloves and knee pads are also recommended. Sa, 5/19, 10am. Free. Mormon Station State Park, 2303 Main St., Genoa, (775) 684-2911, http://nvnps.org.

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: It’s A Small World. Artists Co-op of Reno Gallery presents work by Mary Chadwell, Harriet Uhalde and Ralph and Cheryln Bennett. Guest artists are Heidi Reeves, Tricia Poulous-Leonard and Chikako McNamara. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 5/31. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896. www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

BACKSEAT GALLERY AT COMMA COFFEE: Abstract

Art 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. M-Su, 25pm through 5/26. Free. 9748 S. Virginia St., (775) 828-3525.

Portraits. New work created by Deana Hoover is on display. M-Su through 5/31. Free.

312 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 883-2662.

BRUCE R. THOMPSON COURTHOUSE AND FEDERAL BUILDING:Watercolor Display. Work by local watercolor artist Donna Chouteau is on display. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/30. Free. 400 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-5780.

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I get a kickball out of you My boyfriend of three months is 22, and so am I. He tells me he loves me but is horrible about returning texts and calls and following through with dates. (He seems to ditch me if something better comes along.) He also doesn’t treat me very well around others. Recently, he got really drunk at a party and was hitting on my friend all night, though she ignored him. I finally pulled him aside and said he was hurting my feelings, and he said I was too sensitive, and I’m just jealous that people like him. He later disappeared from the party for more than an hour, and when I asked him where he’d gone, he said, “What are you, my mom?” I know I don’t deserve to be treated like this, but he can be so sweet and kind when we are on my couch watching a movie or in bed snuggling. Part of me wants to leave, and part thinks he just needs to get used to being in a relationship, because this is his first “serious” one.

Men, like golden retrievers, have their flaws. They shed on the furniture, leave hairs in the soap, and hump your leg at inappropriate times. But when it’s clear that a particular man generally means well, these things are to be overlooked. Your boyfriend, on the other hand, claims to love you but ignores you, stands you up, belittles you, and publicly humiliates you, making it pretty clear he’s looking to leave hairs in other women’s soap. And sure, he’s sweet to you when you’re snuggling in bed—probably because there are no other women under your comforter for him to hit on.

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Like many people, you place too much importance on hearing “I love you.” You want to believe that these words mean something— and they probably do: that he needs to throw you a romantic chew-toy from time to time so you’ll stick around for all the casual cruelty. In an abusive relationship, which this is, you begin to crave the little moments of sweetness and intimacy that you use to justify staying through all the spirit-chomping parts.

You aren’t so much this guy’s girlfriend as you are his backup girlfriend—the spare tire of girlfriendhood—the one he keeps around in case there’s nothing or no one better to do.

Part of you wants to leave? Follow that part. And turn this into a meaningful relationship after the fact—one you use to represent what you won’t put up with in the future. Sure, in the process of figuring out what you want in a man, you’ll have to “kiss a few toads,” but if you’re honest about who a guy is, you’ll see no reason to stick around for an extended makeout session.

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DOWNTOWN RENO LIBRARY: Hope. Sierra Watercolor Society presents its 11th annual exhibit. M-Th, Su through 5/30. Free. 301 S. Center St., 742-6339, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Sticks and Stones. Ahren Hertel’s new paintings are a visualization of the everyday damage we do to the environment. The series depicts a group of women who are making direct attacks on nature using sticks and stones.

Children often use such weapons to infer a kind of playful violence as they begin to understand their power in the world. The women in Hertel’s paintings take that playfulness to the next level with a more deliberate act but with a similar emotional detachment. This series poses a question to the viewer: If the outcome of your actions were clear, how would that inform the choices you make? There will be an opening reception Friday, May 18, 6-8pm. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 6/8; F, 5/18, 6-8pm. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

JAVA JUNGLE: BURDEN, Artist Eric Endy takes a different take on burdens found in our everyday society through his paintings. There will also be art by local artist Nikki Kelly. Through 6/6. Free. 246 W. First St., (775) 385-8152.

JOE WINTER POTTERY STUDIO: Spring Show. Joe and Shiso Winter show their latest ceramic art. Sa, Su through 5/19. 16620 Fetlock Drive, (775) 969-3394.

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Annual Members Exhibit. The exhibit features work by member artists. Vote for your favorite artist. A People’s Choice Award will be given for first, second and third place. M, W-Su through 5/30; Ursus Among Us, North Tahoe Arts and the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society presents a collaborative exhibit, juried art contest in anticipation of the opening of the Gatekeepers Museum’s Ursus Among Us in July. This exhibit focuses on the American black bear. The exhibit hangs from May in the upstairs Corison Loft Gallery. M, W-Su through 5/30. Free. Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: 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 Erika Frank 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. Th, 5/17, 10am-7pm; F, 5/18, 10am-2pm.

Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

STREMMEL GALLERY: Open Space. Stremmel Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by contemporary landscape painters Dale Livezey, Craig Mitchell, James Shay, Valerie Shesko and Alan Sonneman. There will be an opening reception on May 17. Th, 5/17, 5:307:30pm; M-Sa through 6/16. Opens 5/17. Free.

1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.

THE VISION PLACE GALLERY, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF NORTHERN NEVADA: Eureka!, Last year a group of artists and photographers spent a weekend in the historic mining town of Eureka, Nev. Works inspired by that tour will be on display through June 17. M-Su through 6/17. 780 Del Monte Lane, (775) 240-7998.

Museums NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): Mutant Rides: Origin of a Species, Burning Man automobile creations. M-Su through 7/25. $10 adults; $8 seniors; $4 kids ages 6-18; free for children 5 and younger. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Gail Wight: Hydraphilia, W-Su through 8/26; In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows, W-Su through 5/20; Tiffany & Co. Arms from the Robert M. Lee Collection, W-Su through 5/20; Out of the Forest: Art Nouveau Lamps, W-Su through 5/20; Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs, W-Su through 8/26; Tim Hawkinson: Totem, W-Su through 10/7; Anne Lindberg: Modal Lines, W-Su through 7/15; Art, Science, and the Arc of Inquiry: The Evolution of the Nevada Museum of Art, W-Su through 7/1; Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, W-Su through 1/1; Gregory Euclide: Nature Out There, W-Su through 9/2. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Celtic Heritage Exhibit, M-Su through 5/27. $5 adults; free for members and children age 12 and younger.

814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: King Tut: Wonderful Things from the Pharaohs Tomb, 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.

Film BAD ASTRONOMY: MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS: The full-dome digital planetarium show is based on the popular book and website Bad Astronomy by author Phil Plait. Starlight Express, a short overview presentation of current space news that changes monthly, accompanies Bad Astronomy and is included in the ticket price. M-Su, 2 & 4pm through 5/28; F, Sa, 6pm through 5/26. $7 adults; $5 children ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older.

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

BLACK ORPHEUS: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of Marcel Camus’ 1959 film, a retelling of the Orpheus & Eurydice Greek myth set against the backdrop of Carnaval in Rio de Janero, starring Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn and Lordes de Oliveira. Tu, 5/22, 7-10pm. $7 general; $5 members, bicyclists, students. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.org.

CORAL REEF ADVENTURE: The SkyDome 8/70 largeformat 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. M-Su, 1 & 3pm through 5/28; F, Sa, 5 & 7pm through 5/26. $7 adults; $5 children ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older.

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812.

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., (775) 784-4812.

Poetry/Literature BOOK SIGNING: THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD: Lawrence Williams Coates signs and presents his latest novel. Th, 5/17, 6:30-8pm. Free.

Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

RENO TRAVEL GUIDE BOOK SIGNING PARTY: Ed Park signs his book The Happy, Fun, Party Guide to Reno. People are encouraged to dress as their favorite Reno event or theme: Hot August Nights, Santa Crawl, Superhero Crawl, Zombie Crawl, rodeo bull rider, Reno 911, Street Vibes biker, etc. Th, 5/17, 6-8pm.

Free. Midtown Wine Bar, 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 745-7485, www.facebook.com/edsjcpark.

Music FISHTANK ENSEMBLE: The Los Angeles-based quartet performs its “cross-pollinated Gypsy music.” Members of the ensemble will also participate in a free conversation on innovation in traditional musical forms at 3pm on the day of the performance. Sa, 5/19, 8pm. $17 CAC members; $20 non-members.

Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

KUNR JAZZ BRUNCH: Chuck DiLaura Trio performs at the monthly event presented by

KUNR Radio and Nevada Museum of Art. Su, 5/20, 11am-1pm. Free; admission fees apply to art galleries. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

MAGIC OF MOTOWN: The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Laura Jackson join The Contours, featuring original member Sylvester Potts, and Martha Reeves of Martha & the Vandellas for an evening of Motown hits. Proceeds from the concert go to Reno Philharmonic’s education programs, three youth orchestras and the orchestra.

Sa, 5/19, 8pm. $35-$65. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., 323-6393, www.renophil.com.

PERFORMING TIFFANY: WINN & DEBOER: Hear musical selections performed by acclaimed pianist James Winn and renowned vocalist Katharine DeBoer. Sa, 5/19, 3pm. $10-$15.

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

RENO PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRAS SPRING CONCERT: The Youth Symphony Orchestra, Youth Concert Orchestra and Youth Strings Symphonia perform repertoire from classical to pops to Hollywood musical scores. M, 5/21, 7pm. $10 adults, $5 students. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., 323-6393, www.renophil.com.

Coco Chanel, Marie Curie and Pocahontas. Sa, 5/19, 1-2:30pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

PAJAMA GAME: The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company presents its production of the Tony Award-winning musical. F, 5/18,

7:30pm; Sa, 5/19, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 5/20, 2pm.

$25-$28. Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 445-3000, www.wnc.edu/news/2012-04-25c.php.

Sports & fitness RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays Oklahoma City RedHawks. Th, 5/17, 6:35pm; F, 5/18, 6:35pm; Sa, 5/19, 6:35pm; Su, 5/20, 1:35pm; the team plays New Orleans Zephyrs. M, 5/21, 6:35pm; Tu, 5/22, 11:35am; W, 5/23, 6:35pm; Th, 5/24, 6:35pm. $6-$24. Reno

SHERLOCK HOLMES: FINAL ADVENTURE: Reno Little Theater presents this witty, fast-paced mystery by A. Conan Doyle, adapted by Steven Dietz. F, 5/18, 7:30-10pm; Sa, 5/19, 7:30-10pm; Su,

5/20, 2-4:30pm; F, 5/25, 7:30-10pm; Sa, 5/26, 7:3010pm; Su, 5/27, 2-4:30pm; F, 6/1, 7:30-10pm; Sa, 6/2, 7:30-10pm; Su, 6/3, 2-4:30pm. $15 general,

Aces Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-4700, www.renoaces.com.

Onstage THE 2012 GOLD HILL SPRING FOLLIES: The Gold Hill Theater Troupe and the Gold Hill Hotel present All That... The 2012 Gold Hill Spring Follies, gourmet dining with two hours of dance, song and comedy. F, 7pm through 6/8. $45 dinner and show; $15 show only. Gold Hill Hotel, 1540 Main St., Gold Hill, (775) 847-0111, www.goldhillhotel.net.

$12 seniors, students, military. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, www.renolittletheater.org.

A SPRING CELEBRATION: The Academy of Dance Arts presents its 18th annual dance concert for all ages featuring dance genres from ballet to contemporary to hip hop. F, 5/18, 6pm; Sa, 5/19, 6pm. $20. MontBleu Resort, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, (530) 208-3084, http://academyofdancearts.us.

THE WORLD GOES ROUND: Good Luck Macbeth presents this musical revue of the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb, spotlighting songs from Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, New York, New York, Funny Lady and more. F, 5/18, 7:30-9:30pm; Sa, 5/19, 7:30-9:30pm; Su, 5/20, 3-5pm. $14-$20. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

CINDERELLA: Wild Horse Children’s Theater presents the musical based on the classic fairy tale about a servant girl who’s transformed into a princess. F, 5/18, 7pm; Sa, 5/19, 4 & 7pm; Su, 5/20, 4pm. $8 general admission; $5 seniors, students, children ages 4-12.

Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, 813 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 887-0438, www.wildhorsetheater.com.

DEATH BLOOMS IN SPRING: Funtime Theater presents an interactive dinner murder mystery.

If you are the super sleuth of the evening you could win the prize. Sa, 5/19, 6pm. $50.

Pipers Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 240-5762, www.funtimetheater.com.

Auditions AUDITIONS FOR THE TEMPEST: Good Luck Macbeth Theater holds auditions for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. All roles are open to any age, ethnicity, gender and/or level of experience. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Auditions are by appointment for the day. Please be prepared to attend the entire two hours on the day you choose. If you cannot attend the entire two-hour session, please make a note of it in your audition appointment email. To make an appointment, please email Chad Sweet at chad@goodluckmacbeth.org stating your name and audition day. Sa, 5/19, 11am-1pm; Su, 5/20, 11am-1pm. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

THE GOD OF CARNAGE: Brüka Theatre presents Yasmina Reza’s dark comedy that asks what happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children. The play is recommended for mature audiences. There will be talk back with the company following the May 20 matinee. Th,

5/17, 8pm; F, 5/18, 8pm; Sa, 5/19, 8pm; Su, 5/20, 2pm; W, 5/23, 8pm; Th, 5/24, 8pm; F, 5/25, 8pm; Sa, 5/26, 8pm. $18 general; $16 seniors, students, military; $20 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

GREAT BASIN YOUNG CHAUTAUQUA PERFORMANCE: Members of Nevada Humanities Great Basin Young Chautauqua living history program portray historical figures. Characters include Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Milton Hershey,

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is there a dif-

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ference in sound quality between relatively inexpensive modern violins and the multi-million-dollar violins created by master craftsmen in the 1700s? In research done at the Eighth International Violin Competition, most violinists couldn’t tell them apart. (Read more at http://tinyurl.com/violinresearch.) In accordance with the astrological omens, Aries, I urge you to do comparable tests in your own sphere. There’s no need to overpay for anything, either with your money, your emotions, your energy, or your time. Go with what works, not with what costs the most or has highest status.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If we thought

of your life as a book, the title of the next chapter could very well be “In Quest of the Primal.” I encourage you to meditate on what that means to you, and then act accordingly.

Here are a few possibilities: tapping into the mother lode; connecting to the source; communing with the core; returning to beginnings; seeking out the original; being in tune with the pulse of nature. Does any of that sound like fun? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a mandate to be as raw as the law allows—to be the smartest animal you can be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A Russian

woman named Marija Usova decided to go skydiving even though she was eight months pregnant. “I wanted my baby to have the beautiful feeling of flying through the air and free-falling before it was born,” she said.

Soon after she jumped out of the plane and opened her parachute, she went into labor.

Luckily, her daughter waited until she landed to be born. What does this have to do with you? I don’t recommend you do anything even remotely like what Usova did in the next few weeks. But do be alert for healthier, saner approaches to the basic theme, which is to be adventurous and wild and free as you birth a new possibility.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You spend

nearly one-third of your life sleeping. For one-fifth of that time, you’re dreaming. So pretty much every night, you watch and respond to as much as 90 minutes worth of movies created by and starring you. Much of this footage is obscure and confusing and not exactly Oscar-worthy, which is one reason you may not recall many of the details when you wake up. But according to my astrological analysis, the immediate future could be different. Your dreams should be full of riveting entertainment that reveals important information about the mysteries of your destiny. Please consider keeping a pen and notebook near your bed, or a small recording device.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s Oxymoron Season

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for you. That means you’re likely to encounter more than your usual share of sweet and sour paradoxes. The logic-loving areas of your brain will almost certainly have to seek assistance from your non-rational wisdom. I’ll give you a heads-up on some of the lucid riddles you should be ready to embrace: 1. a humbling triumph; 2. a tender rivalry; 3. a selfish blessing; 4. an opportunity to commune with risky comfort; 5. an invitation to explore a relaxing challenge; 6. a chance to get up-close and personal with a long-distance connection. For best results, Leo, memorize these lines from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and recite them periodically: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself. / I am large, I contain multitudes.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s at least

a 50 percent chance that the coming days will be over-the-top, out-of-the-blue, and off-the-record. I’m half-expecting florid, luscious, and kaleidoscopic events, possibly even rococo, swashbuckling, and splendiferous adventures. Are you ready for all this? Of course not. That’s the point life will be trying to make: nudging you to learn more about the fine art of spontaneity as you improvise your way through unpredictable lessons that will lead you toward the resources you’ll need to succeed.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Obsessions.

Enchantments. Crushes. Manias. Fetishes.

Some astrologers think you Libras are mostly immune from these indelicate but sometimes delightful modes of human expression. They seem to believe that you love harmony and balance too much to fall under the spell of a bewitching passion that rivets your focus. I disagree with that view. It may be true that you’re better able than the other signs to be objective about your fixations. But that doesn’t necessarily dilute the intensity you feel when they rise up and captivate your imagination with the force of a thousand love songs. My advice? Have fun and stay amused.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The chains

that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken,” said Scorpio poet Antonio Porchia. In other words, the oppression from which we have freed ourselves may continue to influence us long after we’ve escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches might keep distorting our decisions and twisting our emotions. But I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that you’re entering a time when you have an enhanced power to dissolve the lingering taint your broken chains still impose. You finally have the resources and wisdom to complete the liberation process.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In

the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It’s not driven by envy, pettiness, or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you speculate about people’s talents and call attention to their successes; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might not flow as easily as the cheap and shabby kind—at least at first—but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene sparkling clean.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Sometimes I have a dream that seems cryptic or meaningless when I first wake up, but a few days later I realize it was a brilliant insight into what I most needed to transform about my life. If you don’t recall many of your dreams, that might not be a familiar experience for you. But you’ve probably had waking-life experiences with a similar arc. I predict you will be given at least one of those in the coming week. It may confound you while you’re in the midst of it, but will eventually reveal choice clues that have the power to change your life for the better.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may

not have heard about the “forbidden colors.”

And you certainly haven’t seen them, even though they exist. They’re reddish green and yellowish blue, which the cells of your retina are not built to register. However, scientists have figured out a trick by which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough— seeing something that is supposedly impossible to see. (If you’d like to read more about the forbidden colors, visit http://tinyurl.com/forbiddencolors.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There’s no

such thing as a wrong note,” said jazz pianist Art Tatum. “It all depends on how you resolve it.” Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis had a similar philosophy. “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note,” he said. “It’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” I think that’s an excellent understanding for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Pisces. Be wary of coming to premature conclusions about alleged mistakes. Wait to hear the entire song and see the bigger picture.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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Debbie Griffith and her husband, John, have owned DJ Comic Kingdom & Collectibles for nearly 20 years.

The Griffiths are in the process of selling the store, and the new owner will likely move to a new location.

I’m starting the tape recorder …

I know nothing about the comics. … We’ve owned the store for almost 20 years, but not because of me. It was because of my son. We were at the point of anything to get a child to read. And in order to get him to read, he loved G.I. Joe and Star Trek and Star Wars, and so there were comics, and that’s how it kind of started. … We started going to Park Lane Mall. There used to be an antique show once a month in the center of that mall, just in the walkway of that mall, and we would go there and take [son] Paul, and he would pick out a few old Star Wars and G.I. Joe comics, and [Kathy Brown], the lady that owned that little operation ended up in Old Town [Mall]. The name of her store was the Misguided Mouse, but all she had were older comics. And as you read through the older comics you want to know what happens next, and so my husband talked her into going into new books, and helped her get on with one of the comic distribution companies—Capital City Comic Distribution, at that time. And after that, we sort of became a silent partner in the store, so she had a little backing and somebody with a credit record she could fall back on.

When was this?

It’ll be 20 years in November … 1992. … So then, she was having trouble financially and just couldn’t really run the store, and it got overwhelming with her carrying new comics too. She was comfortable with her small operation with the older books, but when it came in with all the new books, it became overwhelming for her. So I looked at John and said, “You know, we’re paying all the bills. We should own 100 percent of the store. So at that point, we went in, talked to her, and it became ours [laughs]. It just kind of happened out of the clear blue. ... We ended up with all the new comics over here, and we have back stock too, and we have lots of very loyal customers that have followed us from Old Town to Park Lane and then over here. Some of our customers have been with us nearly the entire time. ... [T]he average comic collector collects for about 18 months, and what you see, over the course of the 20 years that we’ve had the business, some of those kids that were in it 20 years ago are adults now. They have jobs, and they’re getting back into it. They find their old collection at home, and then they come back into and they want to start reading again. … Kids who

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Your initial goal in getting involved in comics was to get your son reading. Was that successful?

It really was. We have a lot of teachers that come in here, and we donate books to teachers and to schools. When people come in and they collections to sell us that we can not buy, I tell them, they’re really not worth a whole lot of money, you might want to think about donating them to a school, and sometimes they say can I just leave them here and have you do that? And we will. We have schoolteachers that come in here all the time. Ω

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We’d done our lensing—and some nice species had been been encountered, although nothing insane—and headed westward into the late afternoon. We left the birds behind and entered the realm of burros. This wasn’t cattle country, and we didn’t see any wild horses, either, but there were plenty of donkeys, the apparent kings of Porter Springs. Handsome little bucks in their way, with their solid grays and buff colors. There were plenty of them on display.

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Show over. We’ll run with you as long as you don’t look at us, buddy. Once you do that, though, forget it. We only share the magic peripherally. Never directly.

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were into it when we first started, some of them are coming back now, and in fact Cody [Laux], who’s going to be the future owner is one of those kids. … Cody was a collector back when he was in high school and got out of it, and been working for someone else doing accounting, and he’s ready to own his own business. He has a child now, and is just ready to own his own business. He approached us several months ago, but we were still locked into this lease, and he did not want the store at this location because of the rent that they charge here. So he approached us again a few weeks ago and wanted to start talking, so we just started talking about, and then last weekend we really talked hard about it. This is not a done deal.

We haven’t signed any paperwork or anything like that, but we’re pretty confidant that he is going to be the new owner.

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We didn’t see it coming. We should have, but we didn’t, until it was almost too late.

These were the wide open spaces of baked, naked desert in that rarely travelled limbo land that exists between Lovelock and Gerlach. Willis and I were in the truck, heading west towards G-town, anticipating an early evening encounter at Bruno’s involving tumblers and tuna melts.

We’d spent the afternoon at a biological anomaly known as Porter Springs, a sudden cluster of green shockingly set amidst the normal Great Basin colors of tan, gold, and brown. The reason to visit PS is one of avian voyeurism. It’s a place that’s been known, during spring migration,

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