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In the can Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

They say you live and you learn. I hope I live long enough to see if that’s true. However, this weekend, I did learn how to can apricots, which actually contained a whole series of little lessons.

First, canning uses jars, not cans.

They should call it “jarring.”

Second, who even knew that apricots grew in Reno? I didn’t recall ever seeing any before, but as soon as my girl’s tree went ripe, and we picked probably 15 pounds worth of fruit, suddenly everybody started bringing apricots around. They came ripe around the same time as the local cherries, so I’m guessing that, like cherries, they’re about a triennial fruit hereabouts.

Third, I always thought canning was a difficult, even dangerous, activity. Come on. I’m a dude. When the women in Nebraska started canning, generally speaking, we dudes found our ways to the pool hall. Turns out, it’s quite literally easy as pie. It’s analogous to how the womenfolk kicked us men out of kitchens at Thanksgiving then claimed it was hard to cook a turkey.

Finally, and here’s the takeaway for you other folks who will find inspiration to can some fruit with the thought that, if a dummy like myself can do it, anyone can. Canning is fruit, sugar, pectin, apply heat. You can buy a huge 25-quart aluminum pot at Marketon on Wells Avenue for about $17. The next cheapest we saw was around $70. And if you don’t have any fruit or vegetables you want to preserve for winter, this pot is big enough to soak both your feet in.

LETTERS Are you there Jake?

It’s me.

Nobody really does

Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): Here it comes, the good news and the bad news for atheists and agnostics. The good news: God does exist, and He loves you. He has proven His love by coming here as one of us and suffering the most incredible torture known to mankind to pay a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay.

Why do I believe this? It’s not just blind faith, but common sense and proof that God does exist. Please consider these things: What holds the stars in their place? What takes the salty water from the oceans, purifies it, and drops it where we can drink it?

What about the four seasons, the balance of nature, and the intricate ways our bodies work? Do you think that this was all an accident? If so, your faith is much greater than mine.

That’s like throwing a bomb into a junkyard and producing a 747!

How do I know that the Bible is true? History and prophecy.

Hundreds of years before His birth, it was written when, where, and the lineage of the birth of Jesus. Crucifixion was described hundreds of years before it existed. Who knew? God knew. Prophecy has come true so far, and still does.

What if you’re right and I’m wrong? What have I lost? Nothing.

What if I’m right and you’re wrong?

What have you lost? Everything, forever. God loves you so much that He will give you what you desire. If your desire is to know Him and love Him, He will honor that with eternal life in paradise. If you reject Him, He will honor that also, but with a broken heart. God is gracious and won’t force Himself on you. No matter how unfair you think the God you don’t believe in is, He still gives you a free will to choose. Now you know. And here’s the bad news: Now you know.

Bo Rapp Reno

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Re “Misused forum” (Editorial, July 12): It’s not often that I agree with the political commentary of your newspaper, but this time you hit the nail on the head. There is no question that the mayor violated his public duty as the mayor of Reno and perhaps his oath as well. What seems difficult to understand is that the mayor was not cognizant of this public relations blunder. A mayor as well as any other politician on city, state and national levels should always be willing to face the music of his constituency especially on those few occasions that are required by law or tradition.

Mayor Cashell, you owe the citizens of Reno an apology for failing to perform this duty.

Fred Speckmann Reno

It’s like rain on your wedding day Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): A captivating read, Jake. From the first word to the very last, you had my mind a willing prisoner. I applaud your passion, it really comes through in the writing, and we all know how arguments really shine when there is an ax to grind. I especially enjoyed the part where you began to laundrylist the evils done in the name of religion, or the atrocities committed by the religious. No self-respecting atheist would stoop to that kind of inhumanity. By the way, Josef Stalin was a great man. I, too, think it is silly how these people read their “holy books” only to confirm their sorry beliefs.

It always excites me to see Science pitted against Religion—the two of them being utterly incompatible. Now that would be the pay-per-view event of the ages. I can see it now, Sir Isaac Newton in the Science corner against Sir Isaac Newton in the Religion corner!

Perfect match-up. I understand how we have to admit that there were some great minds throughout history who did happen to be religious men

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and women. But I am glad we can attribute that glowering hole in your argument to their own failure in reasoning. They were great minds, but ours are even greater. It is a great thing, Science. The answers to all the mysteries of the universe at our fingertips! And that’s how we know God is not real, right? Because Science. As a hardcore believer in everything you had to say in your article, I have faith that we will show these pre-literate extremists what it is to present an argument based on reason and fact. It is obvious, if there was a God, anyone, anyone, could discern the truth of His existence, and His presence in their lives. But because He doesn’t, it is up to you and me and the internet (which I can’t see and don’t necessarily understand, but accept its presence because of its huge impact on my daily life) to spread the good news. And the good news? Oh, we don’t matter. We are made of matter, but ultimately we don’t matter. We’re all just a happy accident in a vast universe that cares not a whit what we do.

Alexander Karcher Reno

You are that angry man who divides people. You are turning people against people. Obviously, a religious choice has nothing to do with education. Obviously, just because you are atheist or just because you are Christian doesn’t make you good or evil. I hope that you rethink your argument and see the harm that your words cause. In addition, I have a feeling that you have a large number of people praying for you!

Jessica Estes Reno

Food for thought Re “Family values” (Arts & Culture, July 5): The author moans about the choices offered for kids’ meals and then asks, “Why not offer half orders of regular menu items?” Many restaurants do offer half orders, but they charge 70 percent of the price. If you are looking to save money and give your child a wider variety of food experiences, it might be better to just order a meal for yourself and ask for an extra plate.

Karen Marie Sparks

Jake’s folly Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): Jake, I have thought heavily about your article. There is an underlying anger towards anybody religious. It is safe to assume that your views come from the way you were raised and people from your past. It is sad that you are using this to maliciously attack religious people. Making a general statement that “Christians” are all uneducated and foolish for their personal belief is foolish in itself. Why can’t you allow people to live the way that they choose? Is this article an attempt to create your own following of people? People who slander and attack anyone religious.

To beat down a person for who they are and what they believe is exactly what is wrong with our society and our entire world.

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Including God, whom I think was created by the burps of a herd of gassy unicorns.

Larry Taylor Reno

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THIS MODERN WORLD

BY TOM TOMORROW

How would you change Reno?

Asked at Michael’s Deli, 628 S. Virginia St. Tim Carter Merchant

I’d make it easier for street performers to just show up and perform. Quit charging people a hundred bucks for a permit so they can stand on the corner and play a guitar.

Michael Carter Student

I think the [Sierra] Spirit bus should come down to Midtown. There’s a lot of fun things in Reno, but the Spirit bus won’t get you there.

One vision for downtown From coast to coast, New York to Los Angeles, Reno is thought of as a latrine. That is the nation’s perception of our beautiful city. At least, that’s the takeaway message from the feature stories that ran Sunday in the New York Times, “With Gambling in Decline, a Faded Reno Tries to Reinvent Itself,” and the Los Angeles Times, “Nevada isn’t a sure bet for Obama.”

We’ve written about this a hundred times, and this isn’t the kind of validation we needed, but let’s talk about it again, and again, we’ll propose our solution.

Downtown Reno is the most memorable thing most tourists see in Reno. Since the vast majority of people who visit stay in hotels, and our hotel rooms are primarily downtown, it is a necessity. Downtown Reno is the first and last impression people have of our town. They may see the mountains, lakes, river, suburbs, ski slopes and biking trails in between, but the first and last impression they have of our town is of a toilet: at least 13 closed hotels, businesses and casinos downtown; drug dealers, panhandlers and wastrels; and of the open casinos, at least two appear to be siphoning out the last of the profits and not maintaining or upgrading their properties before they pull out of town.

And that’s those property owners’ prerogative: Take the money and run. But it is not the prerogative of Renoites. We have choices, but as long as our elected officials are carrying water for the casinos instead of for us, things are going to continue to deteriorate.

If Reno wants to represent itself as an outdoor destination, an outdoor destination must be the predominate impression visitors have of Reno.

If Reno wants to represent itself as a haven for highend businesses, a haven for high-end businesses must be the predominate impression visitors have of Reno.

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Both these impressions have the same solution, but it seems our elected officials are too cowardly to take it: Shut down Virginia Street from the south side of Sixth Street to the river, leaving Sixth, Fourth and Second streets open to east-west traffic. Make Sierra and Center streets two-way traffic. Put a layer of soil down on the closed streets.

Does anyone believe Apple is going to tolerate traffic not being able to reach their downtown operation because of whatever “special” event is going on that week? They will not. Having Second, Fourth, Sixth, Sierra and Center streets open at all times will alleviate this fundamental business infrastructure issue.

And then what? How about grass, trees, flowers, shrubs, shade, bicycle access, walking paths, and subtle emergency access? How about gas-lit lamps for evenings, or a fountain like the one at the theater in Sparks? How about a beer garden or a patio for coffee consumption? How about a stage and amphitheater on that pad over the train trench or turn the stage at Harrah’s toward Reno’s new Central Park? The casinos could have much improved “special” events from now until the zombie apocalypse.

These improvements would cost one-tenth, if that, of what it cost to redo Virginia Street this spring.

The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times could not see the simple fact that most of Reno was built and rebuilt in the last 20 years and not faded at all. By necessity, they looked at the only faded part of our city and reported the truth. Just as tens of thousands of bowlers will return home and report the same thing.

Why? Because it’s the truth.

But it doesn’t have to be. Ω

Nancy Cisneros Hospital patient advocate

I think maybe improve some of the parks for the kids. Maybe change some of the material they use. It gets really hot outside on the kids’ bottoms when they go down the slide. Maybe upgrade the equipment. More grass, also. Gravel isn’t easy on my little boy’s sandals, and that’s uncomfortable for him, or if he falls. More grass and upgrade the toys.

Bob Howell Retiree

I’d like to see the planning commission actually plan something. I’d like to see clean streets, few panhandlers, and basically a cheerier people.

Charles Robinson Construction worker

Drinking laws. I lived in Vegas, and it wasn’t a problem to walk down the street with open containers. We should have the same law here in Reno.

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Announcing the East Shore Express

s Free entry into Sand Harbor with $3 round-trip bus fare. $1.50 round-trip bus fare for children 12 and under, seniors and disabled passengers.

Must be cash only and exact change. s Runs every 20 minutes from 9 am-6 pm s Runs all summer: June 15-September 3 s Park at 771 Southwood Blvd. in Incline Village (Old elementary school at Southwood Blvd. and SR 28) s Smart, convenient and better for our lake

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Attn: Peepers RTC Ride, the municipal bus line, has employed a novel approach to dealing with graffiti in the bathrooms at the downtown Reno terminal—eliminate privacy.

“The cost to clean and repair this damage is significant,” according to Regional Transportation Commission spokesperson David Jickling. “In response, we added additional custodial staff in the spring of 2011 and increased the frequency of security patrols of the restrooms in hopes of limiting the damage. This effort did not prove to be effective, and we chose to remove the toilet stall doors to reduce the opportunity for vandals to damage our facility in private. This proved to be successful, and we saw an immediate decline in vandalism.”

However, some OPEN DOORS, OPEN WALLS vandalism continued and so now in addition to the missing doors, the stall side walls contain 4-to-5-inch gaps open to the viewing public. This has led to less vandalism and also to less use of the bathrooms, period.

“I started using the Eldorado,” one bus rider told us. Another rider, listening nearby, said, “Actually, Harrah’s is closer, I think.”

At one point, RTC actually went further, lowering the side walls to about waist-high. That generated protests, and the sightgaps were used instead.

Foreclosures slow “There’s a reason banks aren’t foreclosing. I just haven’t figured it out yet.”

That was Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Hubble Smith last week.

Nevada has dropped from its usual first-in-the-nation foreclosure rate to third place, and there have been claims that the slowdown in foreclosures was caused by Assembly Bill No. 284, which was passed by the 2011 Nevada Legislature and supported by Cortez Masto. The bill supposedly prohibits “robosigning,” in which mortgage agency employees sign large numbers of documents without reading them carefully and sometimes even without the documents being filled out.

Cortez Masto sought the new law after indictments were brought against workers engaged in the practice in Nevada, and a lawsuit was filed against a firm that used the technique.

The attorney general questioned whether the slowdown in foreclosures was caused by the law. “I hear that because of AB 284, banks can’t foreclose,” she said. “How is it that 284 is preventing a bank from foreclosing on someone not making their payment?”

Poverty level plus a buck The New York Times reported on June 23 that Apple store workers, who make up three-fourths of the corporation’s workforce, earn about $25,000 a year.

Lawrence Mishel at the Economic Policy Institute ran the numbers and reported “That $25,000 annual salary works out to $12.02 an hour for someone working full-time for one year (2,080 hours paid, either for work hours or paid leave). That’s pretty low; about $1 above the ‘poverty-level wage.’” (The poverty line for a family of four in 2011 was about $23,000, equivalent to an hourly wage of $11.07.)

Apple is planning new facilities in Reno. The Mishel report can be read at www.epi.org/blog/apple-store-employees-wages.

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The Reno City Council can be a good launching pad to the mayor’s office—if it’s legal.

No comment Can term-limited-out members of the Reno City Council run for mayor, when the duties of the two posts are essentially the same?

Recently, a question has come up in discussions among journalists, politicians and by other sorts of wags around Reno. The D. Brian Burghart mayor and city councilmembers are both term limited. The duties of the brianb@ mayor are very similar to the duties of newsreview.com councilmembers. So can a term-limited councilmember run for essentially the same job, just because it’s called something else?

It seemed every proponent of each side of the issue was as certain of their correctness as the other, but the question has never been firmly answered because it has never come up in Reno before, and each city must have its city charter examined individually.

Even Frankie Sue Del Papa, who was Nevada attorney general when term limits were written into law in 1996, was uncertain, saying in an informal conversation that some arguments may be based on an unrelated attorney general’s opinion, and that AG opinions don’t have the strength of law, anyway. She suggested the question be posed to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office, since that office handles elections.

In the end, that office declined to comment, calling the question “hypothetical,” even though two other hypothetical questions were answered.

There are two possible reasons for this reticence, though: The question is too politically hot for the Secretary of State’s office to stick its neck out to answer, or the Secretary of State’s office would prefer to defer to a decision by city officials.

Whichever the case, though, when the mayor’s office goes to election in 2014, the answer to this question will help decide Reno’s future. This email exchange illustrates the difficulties journalists and bureaucrats have negotiating the political landscape, and a reason the public often goes uninformed.

As an aside, this is not intended in any way to suggest Scott Gilles, deputy secretary of state for elections, was an obstacle. Quite to the contrary, he was very responsive, helpful and communicative. A few emails have been abridged or removed for space reasons.

From: D. Brian Burghart

Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:02 AM To: SOS Elections Division Subject: Re term limits To Scott Gilles Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Sir, There’s an issue regarding term limits on the Reno City Council that has elicited some discussion in Reno.

Basically, several seated councilmembers have floated their intentions of running for mayor in 2014. However, all the ones I’ve heard this about have been term limited off the Council by 2014. A local attorney called me to question whether they legally could run, saying that mayor and councilmembers have basically the same duties and sit on the same “local governing body.” He referred me to the attached attorney general’s opinion (page 6), “Nevada Attorney General Opinion 96-23,” and to a more recent document regarding term limits for the mayor of Winnemucca: http://ag.state.nv.us/publications/ago/2 001/AGO2001-30.pdf

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the provisions of Nevada Revised Statutes which apply to a mayor of a city organized pursuant to the provisions of a special charter.

So, anyway, [the attorney’s] argument is if the mayor is subject to term limits because he’s a member of the council, then term-limited out councilmembers can’t run for mayor because they’re running for a seat on the same local governing body. I’m not a lawyer, but I can see that his argument has at least some merit. All right, sorry for the long-winded introduction, but here are my questions: 1. Is the Reno mayor subject to term limits?

2. Can a term-limited-out member of the Reno City Council run for mayor?

3. Can a term-limited-out member of the Reno City Council move to a different ward and run for that office, or even for the at-large seat without moving?

You are probably wondering why this is important now, with the 2012 election in just a few months. I think it’s important because qualified people may dismiss the idea of running because they think they’ll be running against “incumbent” members of the Council, with all their organizational systems already in place.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

D. Brian Burghart Editor, Reno News & Review From: Scott F. Gilles

Sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:13:02 Brian: You pose an interesting question, which I don’t know the answer to off of the top of my head. Initially, I believe the two positions would have enough different and distinct duties to not implicate the term limit rule.

However, I will provide you with a formal answer tomorrow. As for questions 1 and 3 1. Mayor is subject to term limits 2.Will get back to you 3. A termed-out city council member may not run in a different ward or for the at large seat.

“You pose an interesting question.”

because he’s a member of the council, then it seems a 12-year member can’t run for the position. On the other hand, the mayor feels like a role beyond council leader.

I’ll look forward to your answer, and thanks for your time on this.

Brian

Scott Gilles Deputy secretary of state From: Scott F. Gilles

To: D. Brian Burghart Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:48:47 Nothing more. Like I mentioned we need to research and analyze this a bit more with our counsel before letting you know our position on the issue.

Election, other litigation and preparing ballots taking precedence right now for us and our counsel … will keep this on our radar and will hopefully have something for you soon.

Thanks for your patience.

From: Scott F. Gilles

To: D. Brian Burghart Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:52:14 Brian: I do want to look at this a little more in depth before we respond.

Maybe not as black and white as I thought. I have some other pressing matters and a short day today so it will likely be Monday or Tuesday when I get back to you with our offices “official” interp on this issue.

Thanks for your patience

From: Scott F. Gilles

From: D. Brian Burghart

To: D. Brian Burghart Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:46:03 Brian: I don’t think we are going to have a position on this for you. No one has had time to look into it and this type of situation is precisely why we don’t respond to hypothetical questions (particularly legal questions).

So officially—we are not going to take a position on this hypothetical scenario.

Apologies for letting this linger ... it seemed cut and dry to me at first.

Thanks for your patience. p.s. Should this actually come up in 2014 … get a hold of me! Ω

Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:06 PM To: Scott F. Gilles Thanks, Scott. I totally understand. I’ll look forward to your email, and have a great weekend.

Brian From: D. Brian Burghart

Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:46 AM To: Scott F. Gilles Hey Scott, I’m doing the budget for next week’s newspaper, and I was wondering if you might have some information for me. Hope you’re having a good week.

Thanks, Brian

Having a heat wave PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

OK, this [next bit] is from Article 15, Section 3 of the Nevada Constitution: No person may be elected to any state office or local governing body who has served in that office, or at the expiration of his current term if he is so serving will have served, 12 years or more, unless the permissible number of terms or duration of service is otherwise specified in this constitution.

This [next paragraph] is from the AG’s opinion: Mayors have both executive and legislative duties. Cf. NRS 266.165; 266.190; and 266.200.

An examination of the instrument creating each city is necessary before a conclusion can be reached as to whether a mayor would be subject to term limits or not. If the creating instrument indicates the mayor’s main function is to be an administrator for the city, and the mayor does not exercise legislative power as a member of the city council, then the mayor would not be subject to term limits. If, on the other hand, the mayor functions as a member of the city council, a governing body, then term limits would apply to that position as well as to the other members of the city council.

And this [next citation], finally, is from the Reno City Charter.

ARTICLE III - Executive Department Sec. 3.010 Mayor: Duties; Assistant Mayor.

1. The Mayor: (a) Shall serve as a member of the City Council and preside over its meetings. (b) Shall not have any administrative duties. (c) Must be recognized as the head of the City government for all ceremonial purposes. (d) Shall determine the order of business at meetings pursuant to the rules of the City Council. (e) Is entitled to vote and shall vote last on all roll call votes. (f) Shall take all proper measures for the preservation of the public peace and order and for the suppression of riots and all forms of public disturbance, for which he or she is authorized to appoint extra police officers temporarily and without regard to Civil Service rules and regulations, and to call upon the Sheriff of Washoe County, or, if that force is inadequate, to call upon the Governor for assistance. (g) Shall perform such other duties, except administrative duties, as may be prescribed by ordinance or by

From: D. Brian Burghart

Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:24 PM To: Scott F. Gilles Thank you, Scott. It’s kind of a quandary, which is why I wrote. If the mayor is a member of the council, and a member of the council can take his duties when circumstances require (vice mayor), and term limits apply

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Antarctica afloat Desert Research Institute researcher Alison Murray was featured in a recent issue of Science magazine, which highlighted her ongoing research in Antarctica.

Murray is investigating the impact of climate change on Antarctica, identifying challenges conservationists face in preserving the landscape, including global warming, loss of ice, pollution, tourism and over-fishing. The article also touches on Murray’s concerns about the exploitation of the ecosystem’s natural resources, such as gas, oil and minerals.

Murray is part of an international research team, which recently collaborated at a summit in South Africa. Her expertise lies in microbial ecology, biodiversity and biological oceanography in the Southern Ocean. Murray also heads the U.S. Life Sciences Standing Group team.

Read the article at www.sciencemag.org.

Public parks Washoe County’s Department of Regional Parks and Open Space is seeking public input for preserving Red Hill, a natural formation overlooking the city of Reno, located near Sun Valley and north of the Truckee Meadows.

Options for the landmark include developing trails, outdoor classrooms, native interpretive garden, community art, conservation and restoration, and possible expansion of the land.

The Red Hill Master Plan Draft can be viewed at www.washoecountyparks.com. Public forums will be held to discuss the draft on the following dates: July 26, 6 p.m., 5000 Sun Valley Blvd., Sun Valley; Aug. 7, 2:30 p.m., 1001 E. Ninth St. and 6 p.m., 190 E. Liberty St.; and Aug. 14, 10 a.m., 1001 E. Ninth St. For more information, email park planner Jennifer Budge at jbudge@washoecounty.us.

—Ashley Hennefer ashleyh@newsreview.com

ECO-EVENT The Sierra Club is raising funds for outdoor programs for kids and will host a family event on July 22. The event will be a potluck, and participants should bring a dish to share and their own beverages. It will also offer live music and entertainment. $10 minimum donation. 5-8 p.m., Galena Creek Park.

For more information, call or email David Von Seggern at 3038461 or vonsegl@sbcglobal.net.

Got an eco-event?

Contact ashleyh@news review.com. Visit www. facebook.com/ RNRGreen for more.

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Josie Stein is one of several people in the community fighting installation of smart meters.

Grid lines Smart meters and human health According to energy experts, like the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a smart grid is a step toward implementing more renewable energy sources into America’s existing infrastructure, and this step includes smart meters—digital by Ashley versions of traditional power meters meant to better track peak energy usage.

Hennefer This data is transmitted back to the power companies, which helps determine consumer rates for power usage. Smart meters are intended to help people ashleyh@

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This is part of an ongoing look at smart meters and smart grid technology. For more information on PUCN’s workshops and studies on the issue, visit www.pucweb1 .state.nv.us/pucn/S martHome.aspx.

better manage their own power use.

But some members of the public are concerned about the health risks of smart meters. It’s been an ongoing issue in California—a group of residents is suing the California Public Utilities Commission for refusing to reopen an investigation of smart meters. Josie Stein is one of several people fighting against smart meters in Washoe County. While Stein lives in Truckee, Calif., her 91-year-old mother lives in Reno. It started in February, Stein says, when her mother began feeling sick and disoriented.

“It progressively got worse, so we ran a bunch of tests,” Stein says. “Then my son emailed me asking if my mom had gotten a smart meter installed, so we looked, and she’d had one since February when her symptoms started.”

Stein called NV Energy to have it removed, but the company refused.

“Everyone is on a wait list to get these smart meters removed,” says Stein. “We have to wait for the PUC [Public Utilities Commission] to change the rules about it.”

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has had several public workshops, and its website has a page dedicated to smart meter information.

What Stein is concerned about is the idea of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, an ailment in which a person claims to be sick from radiation emitted by wireless devices. There’s not enough solid research about smart meters health implications, says Indira Chatterjee, associate dean of the University of Nevada, Reno’s college of engineering, whose research is on the bioeffects of electromagnetic fields.

“The field of bioeffects of electromagnetic radiation has been very controversial,” says Chatterjee. “Innumerable studies have been done in various laboratories all over the world on the safety aspects of electromagnetic fields and very often these results have been inconclusive.

Many studies that showed positive effects have not been reproduced.

More research needs to be done.”

The radio frequency emitted from a smart meter averages at 900MHz. Mobile phones range from 450 to 2700MHz. Some claim that it’s not the average megahertz that makes people sick, but the pulsing “spikes” in megahertz. However, Chatterjee says that these numbers are just the radio frequency, whereas the concern is with electromagnetic fields, for which there are mixed findings from scientists.

There are different ways smart meters communicate with power companies: mesh networking, in which data is transmitted from node to node; power lines, in which data is transmitted along a wire; or modems, which functions like a standard cell phone modem, using analog signals to transmit digital data. Many studies conducted by research organizations around the globe, including the World Health Organization, California Council on Science and Technology, and the Nordic Radiation Safety Authorities, debunk any health risk claims of smart meters—as well as cell phones and wireless hot spots—because smart meters do not emit ionizing radiation, and are designed using heavily standardized equipment. Ω

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n 2002, Bob Cashell came to the rescue of business leaders accustomed to dominating City Hall. In that year, unpopular and pro-business Mayor Jeff Griffin was stepping down. It was a climate in which a mayor independent of the business community was a real possibility. His fellow businesspeople prevailed on Cashell to move into the city and run. Even then, he nearly lost. But his handling of the job was widely admired, and he was easily reelected twice.

He now has two and a half years remaining before he must retire under term limits.

You’ve got another six months with this Council. What would you like to get done in that time?

There’s a lot of priorities I have. … Getting Moana Springs, making that thing come to fruition and raising the funds for the new swimming pool, the different ball fields and upgrading those and getting the soccer fields and things, and really turning that back into some active property. Because back when I was starting off, I used to sponsor American Legion teams out there, playing baseball. ...

I guess what I’m getting at is, right now you’ve got a Council you’re familiar with, you guys work like a well-oiled machine. You’re not going to have that advantage right away.

Texas native Cashell brought a wealth of public and private experience with him to the mayor’s job.

Starting with a small Verdi truck stop in 1967, Cashell eventually was involved in operating numerous truck stops and casinos in two states and held more than 20 gambling licenses. He was elected to the Nevada Board of Regents in 1978, which he chaired, then became Nevada lieutenant governor in 1983. In that post, he chaired the state tourism and economic development commissions. He was elected lieutenant governor as a Democrat, but switched to the Republicans on Aug. 12, 1983. After leaving elected office, he served as Republican state chair.

When he became mayor, there was a good deal of infighting and rancor on the City Council, and Cashell was given a lot of the credit for creating greater harmony. He accomplished this in part by personal missionary work among the council members and partly by making sure that all parties to city issues were given respect and were heard— though he sometimes lost patience with community gadflies who he believed wasted Council time. He was successful enough that sometimes there have been complaints about the Council being too harmonious and easily led.

After this interview, during which we asked about his goals, he said, “You know, it’s not my goals. It’s the Council’s goals.”

No, I’ll have that. I’ve met just about all of the [candidates for Council]. I think there’s only one I haven’t met, and I intend to meet this next week. … I find some similarities in a lot of the people that are going to be coming on. They’ve got a lot of start-up time that they’re going to have to put in to get caught up on where we are and what the priorities are and what we’ve been looking at.

And so we’re going to work on those and get those guys up to speed. We’re going to have to get them up to speed pretty quick because I don’t want to have to sit around here for two and a half years getting things up to speed.

The action figure of Mayor Cashell used in art here was created as a handout for the first game of the Reno Aces on April 10, 2009.

You do have two and a half years as mayor.

How would you like to use that time?

Finishing some of the projects. You know, one of the things right now that I found when I asked Andrew Clinger to join our team—somebody with the financial background, and he’s

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put together a real good team with Robert Chisel and the rest of his staff. We got to get all of those [projects] under control so we know exactly where we are and what we’re doing. … And I think the transparency that they’re working on [needs completion]. Every contract that we have in the city, you’ll be able to see on the internet.

You’ll be able to see who bid on it, who bid what prices, what they charged, what they’re doing, where they’re hiring their people, where they’re coming from, the whole nine yards. Also, you’re going to be able to see everybody’s payroll on the internet. You want to know what a fireman makes? All you have to do is dial his number in and pull it up, tell you how much overtime, how much sick time, what his benefits are and the whole thing. So trying to get that transparency brought in and do that. And I’d love to see that all finished before—well, I want a lot of it done before this Council leaves but definitely want to see it a hundred percent before I leave office.

Is there something that, when you leave office, is undone, you’re going to feel badly about?

No. You know, I had dreams of seeing this white water rafting course going all the way down to the automobile museum. But I’m not sure—depends on if I can find a foundation that’ll work with us or somebody to do it and those are things that I’ll look at. But also I want to make sure public safety is up to snuff before I leave office. In fact, I’d like to see some of the little contingents there in there right now straightened out before these people leave and before the county commissioners leave.

those old motels and stuff. And I tell staff, “Hey, find out what the rules are and give them an ultimatum. You tear them down, we tear them down. And we’ll lien the property, whatever.”

But we have to find out what the grounds are we have to play with.

You’ve been in politics for a little over 30 years.

Yes, off and on.

Talk about the changes.

Well, there’s a lot of difference. I remember when I was chairman of the Board of Regents.

I used to get invited down to their [state legislators’] meetings: “What are you willing to give up?” “What are you working on?” …

Both parties—they invited me to closed door meetings with them. There’s a lot of tension between both parties right now and compromise seems to be a dirty word. And yet, that’s the way life is, is the art of compromise. As [former Nevada governor] Mike O’Callaghan told me one time, “Don’t go after the whole pie. Get a piece of pie. Work around it. …”

There’s anger that I see in the legislative branch that really—and I don’t like the anger that’s between the county and the city right now. It’s not called for.

There was a time when I would not have imagined the Legislature becoming like Congress is, and yet it has—

Oh, it has.

I would argue that it’s also worked its way some in the County Commission. Do you foresee it working its way at this [city] level?

Little contingents? Like what?

It’s happening right now. And I don’t like it. I don’t like it. I think that it’s got to change. It’s got to come back to where people work together and people want to compromise. … It seems like people want to have a hundred percent of everything, and I don’t think that ever happens when you’re in politics.

Arguing over mutual [firefighting] aid and all those kind of things.

Do you get tired of hearing about the King’s Inn? [The Inn is a seven-story hotel between Third, Arlington and West streets that closed down decades ago and has stood empty ever since. Cashell talked about tearing it down during his first campaign for mayor.]

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Oh. [Laughs] I want to blow the King’s Inn up so bad. In fact, I can’t wait to drive a bulldozer through the front door. The sad part, we had—maybe it was four years ago—we had somebody that was interested in doing the King’s Inn. And they were going to add three floors to it, and they had different shops and things. Then the two partners had a falling-out.

And these were big developers out of San Francisco. They’d just finished up some projects like that. And I really thought, OK, we’ve come around. And now it’s just like—to have that building sitting there, it’s just an eyesore. From what they told me, it’s a well-constructed building. You’d have to go in there and get all the asbestos and everything. … It’s probably got a good nucleus, but—we either got to come up with a way to make them immediately open it up or tear it down. I mean, that’s just like some of the other blocks we got going up toward the freeway. Some people have gone in and tied [up] 12

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How do you convince them of that? I mean, obviously the case is there to be made to Congress, and it doesn’t help.

And even with our [state] legislative branch, I mean, I’ve got to get some of my people that think poking in the eyes is sport. … You got to sit and come down and sit with people. I’m hoping we can get some conversations going.

A lot of people here credit you personally with having improved the situation on the Council after you became mayor, that you worked out some of the disagreements, some of the personality conflicts, that sort of thing. Most of the Council next January is going to be new. Some of those people are going to have their own agendas.

Sure.

At a recent ceremony dedicating municipal bus stops, Cashell chatted with Sparks Mayor Geno Martini.

If things get tense again, they’re going to be looking to you.

Well, then, I’m willing to sit down with them.

I’ve met with a couple of them, and I said, “Let’s you and I have an understanding right now. We can agree to disagree. If I can’t convince you my way is the way to do it, then you convince me your way is. And sometimes we’re just never going to settle, so let’s just agree to disagree and go have a cocktail afterwards and visit with each other. Let’s don’t become enemies over you not getting your way or I didn’t get what I wanted and stuff like that.” And, you know, I’ve been very fortunate to have a Council that was very easy to work with. They don’t always agree. Some of them go in different directions, and I even wonder where in the hell they came from. But you got to keep your mind open and work with all of them.

During these last six, seven months, now that fire’s behind you, do you think the relationship with the [County] Commission will improve?

I’m hoping so. I do know that after the elections the attitudes will change. You got one or two county commissioners, and I got one or two Council people that, you know, just love poking people in the eye. …

We’ve had recessions in 1981, 1992, there was one in the early 21st century, and now. Have we learned anything about how to protect against future recessions?

Dennis, I think everybody relied so much on gaming, they convinced themselves that the gaming was the kingpin of the world. And with gaming spreading the way it is, a new one opening up 45 minutes from San Francisco, the one that opened up in Auburn, they’re just eating us alive. And we have to diversify the economy.

Having Apple come in, having Microsoft here, those type of things help us and if we can get more of Microsoft in and get some more of Apple going, then those are good paying jobs that come in. I already know of two other major companies that I can’t even announce and when we turn these two boxes [tape recorders] off, I’ll tell you about them. But just the announcement with Apple has had the phones ringing a little bit, asking questions and stuff like this. Or I just

met with a gentleman that wants to do something by the university and stuff, and all of a sudden they’re coming out of the woodwork— “Well, maybe Reno’s not a bad place to live.”

The Legislature really has to address our tax situation here and do some things like that and quit playing kick the can, you know.

How deep do you think the understanding is that the casinos are not the source of prosperity that they once were for us? I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve heard people say in the last year, “Once the recession is over ...”

Well, the gaming is not going to come back like it did. I remember when lottery first started in California, you know, in Boomtown [Cashell’s former Verdi casino]. My dollar slots just fell off. I thought somebody was stealing from me. And then about, oh, maybe four, five months later my revenues are back. … So people were spending that discretionary money buying those tickets in California at the gas stations, convenience stores and once they worked it back in their budget, they were [back] here. But now—we didn’t have casinos in California, one on 50, one on Interstate 80, and a new one going by San Francisco. The one on 80 took a lot of revenue—that building alone took a lot of revenue out of this market.

So we’re going to have to upgrade our products. The casino owners are going to have to stick their necks out, like the Peppermill and Atlantis and John [Ascuaga] have a little bit, and so has the Eldorado. But they’re going to have to stick their neck out and gamble on it.

But I don’t see gaming—personally—I don’t see gaming back like it used to be. ... But again, then you need to look—other states, they don’t have slot machines in every grocery store or every gas station and every bar. So we’re going to have to look at that and see, are we’re going to continue to do that? Because those people don’t bring anybody to town. Not that I’m against them or anything, but they don’t bring anybody to the town. The big hotels bring in the [tourists], so here they’ve [spent] some hundred million, and then you let 25 slot machines go across the street from them, that hurts them a little bit. You need to look at the overall thing.

It’s really hurt. All of our property tax, sales tax, and room tax are all off, what—about 40 percent. That really hurts.

But I mean, what didn’t get done?

Luckily, I think we’re in pretty good shape.

We’ve got some sewer stuff that we need to do.

Some of our roads and things that we needed to do. We’ve got some pieces of property, that when it [the economy] comes back, that we should unload and put them out on the market. But I wouldn’t put them out now because you’d get 10 cents on the dollar of what you ought to get them for, and we’re not in a position that we need to do that right now. So in the future we’ll do it.

The developing of paying for unfunded liabilities—you know, the heart/lung deal for firemen and stuff like that is a very big nickel—and we’ve got to figure out and make sure we’ve got that covered. But again, the unions, working with the unions, some of the bargaining groups, we need for them to step up to the plate and work with us a little more. …

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How much damage has the recession done to the operations of city government?

Do you think the people understand the financial restrictions you operate under that are imposed by the state?

No. They don’t. They don’t understand the tax system. They don’t understand the distribution system. And really, I don’t see them getting interested in learning. They just say, you know, “You guys are goofballs and can’t do anything” and stuff like that. When you try to explain—I had a lady not long ago, I’m out to dinner and [here the mayor made a sound that is difficult to transcribe into words that represented an angry citizen’s comments]. And I don’t mind, they can call me any day, and I’ll meet with them, whatever.

But when I’m out [to] dinner with my family, I don’t really want to get my tail chewed out. But you try to explain to her—“I don’t care what you got to say [she said]. I know you’re just going to blow smoke.” …

You just can’t worry about it. You just got to go, and you can’t be real thin-skinned about this stuff.

Cashell says City Manager Andrew Clinger, right, is one of the city’s assets.

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to carry on and do some of the things that I’d like to see done.

Knowing what it’s like, are you going to miss it?

Yes, I will. I thoroughly enjoy being mayor of the city. It’s been a great honor to be mayor of the city. I will miss it very much. I’m probably getting to the age where I should think about retirement, but really I don’t want to retire. If the next two and a half years with the new Council and stuff is as great as working with [the current Council], I’m going to be very sad when I leave office because it’s a lot of fun. It’s a lot of fun. It’s a lot of fun working with the people. It’s a lot of fun finessing. It’s a lot of

Are you going to cultivate a successor?

I don’t know if I’ll cultivate one. There’s three or four people that I’ve heard talking about it, running, and all I can [do is] see who’s there and see who I could work with or who’s going

fun negotiating. It’s even fun to be called a jackass once in a while—“You hard-headed mule,” you know. “Well, now, come on. Let me show you this side of it.” … I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s been a lot of fun. And I get a lot of credit for things that the Council does, so I try to make sure that the Council gets credit for it because they’re the ones that did it. … We as a team make things happen. … But the homeless shelter’s there because we as a team decided we’re going to bite the bullet and address our problems. A lot of cities want to study it—“How did you do it?” … And right now I think I have one of the best city managers coming along that we’ve had out of the four. Ω

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is shuffling around with a level and a focused expression in an upstairs hallway at Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center at the University of Nevada, Reno.

“As a sculptor, I always feel installing sculpture is similar to creating it,” he says.

He’s one of a handful of people fussing over canvas placement and glass exhibition cases and other final details of an art exhibit.

McNamara’s piece in the show is an abstract wooden sculpture, upright enough to hint at looking like a human figure. It has no face, but it does have a smooth, slightly curved, playfully exaggerated appendage that seems like a tongue hanging down to what would be knee level if the sculpture had legs. Anyone who knows Nevada art, even a little, could identify its blocky curves and rustic/urban sensibility as classically McNamara from 50 feet away. And it’s easy to see how this sculpture probably precedes by a few decades the sculptor’s sleeker, more assertively

tooled works.

Same with McNamara himself—since the 1950s, when he was a student at UNR, (then just “UN”), his beard has gone from hipster length to shorter and whiter, and his gait, still spritely, reveals that he’s in his early 70s, but he’s still quick-witted and earnest and looks a lot like he did then.

Just like the exhibit he’s hanging suggests, some things change, and some things don’t.

McNamara is co-curator, along with fellow long-time artist Jim McCormack, of Far Out: The University Art Scene 19601975. It’s a collection of works by 28 artists from the ’60s and ’70s, including a few pieces all the way into the ’80s. It was conceived as a follow-up to last year’s Post-War Bohemians exhibit, which featured artwork from the university from 1945-65.

CH-CH-CHANGES Co-curator Jim McCormick has long been known as a collage artist and retired professor. Back in the ’60s, he too was a student at UNR, where he made, large, pastel-leaning abstract expressionist paintings.

Recently, he reminisced about the changes the art department underwent in the early 1960s.

Reporting from his couch, where he was taking a mid-day rest, McCormick remembered, “The day we walked into the Church Fine Arts Building, it was already crowded.” That’s the building facing Virginia Street that still houses the art department.

“Prior to 1960, the entire art department had been housed in four dilapidated Quonset huts tucked away in a corner of the University of Nevada campus called Skunk Hollow,” wrote McCormick in a detailed exhibit catalog he penned, which is available at the exhibit.

He said later by phone, “Reno in 1960 was 15 years past World War II, and the population started to explode at that point.

People were moving in. A lot of kids came in from ranches, and there was a rapid increase in faculty size. It had been more rural before then.”

The university commissioned Viennaborn, Los Angeles-based Frank Lloyd Wright protégé Richard Neutra to design the Church Fine Art Building, which opened in 1960. When McCormack says the building was crowded, he’s not exaggerating.

As Edw Martinez, then a student, now a revered ceramic artist and retired professor, put it, “I used both the men’s and women’s restrooms as photo darkrooms.”

The artwork students and faculty members made then more-or-less mirrored what was going on nationally and internationally, as McNamara recalls it.

From left, Jim McCormick, Bill Howard, Walt McNamara, Edw Martinez, Charles Ross, Bob Morrison and Ken Miller.

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Some of the artworks in Far Out are representative of the ’50s or ’60s.

The requisite abstract expressionist style is amply represented, anchoring the exhibit in its time period, and the expression on a striking black-and-white portrait of Arrizabalaga—who was then a UNR student, later an artist and casino costumer—sums the more optimistic parts of the time leading up to the Summer of Love.

Some pieces look conspicuously modern. Sophie Sheppard’s grid paintings from the early 1980s would fit right in at a show at the Salvagery or Reno Art Works.

A few pieces are quintessentially Nevadan. In a sculpture of a farm yard, metal sheep are shaped like the state lain sideways. A ceramic sculpture features the legendary Virginia City prostitute Julia Bulette leaning out of a house the size of a cookie jar, surrounded by a garden of ceramic phalluses.

Several pieces, such as those by McNamara, Martinez, Larry Williamson and Bob Morrison, current Reno artgoers will identify easily. Others have evolved with the times. Jim McCormick, for example, who made those big, abstract paintings, later became known for meticulous collages.

The exhibit works like a coherent, complex survey of images, ideas, and stories that define an era.

Far Out is edited to be balanced and complete. It’s a carefully selected survey that presents just enough comparisons and entry points to catalog a time period, without slipping into redundancy or ever sounding like Grandpa telling a story 100 times too many. It would fill a large gallery nicely. The “gallery,” however, is a dozen or so walls spread over five floors of computer labs, study areas and library stacks of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

It takes a little research and dedication to find it all.

The organizers, though, have made helpful efforts to make the exhibit more visitor friendly, despite the fact that it’s tucked into corners of a potentially confusing space.

Artists and curators offered docent tours during the opening reception, and visitors who arrive post-reception can pick up a brochure, which provides something of a self-guided tour, at the building’s info desk. Jim McCormack’s exhibit catalog is a fun compendium of tales from the past.

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He says, “I think there’s always a kind of feeling in the West.

Naturally there’s a Western bent to it. But it has an international quality.

There were a number of good art publications. Everyone was aware of what was going in the world. There were strong connections to San Francisco, New York, and even L.A.” Students went on an annual bus trip to San Francisco to visit museums and soak up city culture.

A few things have changed since the ’60s. McNamara, who was curator of Sheppard Gallery for a couple of decades, then left the university in the ’90s to pursue his artwork independently, says, “Universities were very supportive of the arts then.”

Now, he says, “Let’s say the bureaucracy is a little thicker.”

In other ways, says Donnie Curtis, another exhibit co-organizer and Head of Special Collections at Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, the present allows more freedom than the past. She recalls the day when Joan Arrizabalaga’s slot machine sculptures were first debuted. They’re ceramic wall pieces, realistic likenesses of slot machines, with, says Curtis, “stuff coming out that’s not money.” (It’s ceramic dog excrement.) Officials deemed the work unfit to show entirely publicly, and it was first exhibited in a gallery kitchenette behind closed curtains.

“We can do anything we want now,” says Curtis. Those same slot machine pieces are featured prominently among library stacks now.

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Tight fit The Mexican on Mexican gold, World War II and skinny pants Dear Mexican: I was wondering about the Spanish going into Mexico and taking the gold and artifacts away from the Indians. Could the Mexican government ask for the gold back? What do you think? Why doesn’t Mexico’s president demand that all nations and/or entities return stolen artifacts taken from Mexico and its indigenous people?

If the Jews got their stolen goods by Gustavo Arellano back taken during World War II, Mexico the country should be able gustavoa@ to get its culture back! That’s not newsreview.com just art but a way of life—life of the indigenous!

Dear Wab: While I like your thinking (save for the Jewish example—the Nazis stole from specific individuals whose descendants could provide proof of ownership, usually via paperwork, and thus had a legal case), I’m afraid we don’t have much ground to stand on.

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Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property protects newly found artifacts from tomb raiders and the black market, it doesn’t apply retroactively to artifacts looted during the days of empire, especially when said empire no longer exists. You could conceivably build a case if, say, a bona fide descendant of Nezahualcoyotl could show that his family’s treasures were looted, but all Mexico and other nations whose cultural treasures were looted for centuries have going is appeals to sympathy—and since when has Spain ever given a shit about Mexico? And Spain lost that gold long ago, so good luck getting that back. Mexico could conceivably ask for reparations for the damage Spain caused to its former colony— but there’s that legal nopal again.

Mexico didn’t exist as a political entity until declaring its independence from Spain, so all we can do to

get back at our former oppressors is beat them in soccer—yeah, I laughed bitterly when I read that, too.

If hipsters want to wear pants like Mexicans, we welcome them.

My question is something I think is unique to the Mexican male population that I haven’t seen back East: why do Mexican men wear pants so tight you can see every inch of what God gave them? I assume they’re straight. But I have gay friends that don’t wear their pants so tight that they have to lie down to put them on. Is it a Macho thing? Is it to impress the ladies or

men? Doesn’t the seam up your butt and lack of circulation in the front get uncomfortable? How can you adjust yourself when your pants are so tight?

You obviously haven’t been to Brooklyn in a while, eh? And not the Mexican part, but rather the gentrified areas, where hipsters wear jeans tighter than the face of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s telenovela wife. In regards to actual hombres: the traditional Mexican man (as opposed to his cholo nephews) will never wear baggy pants, or even loose pants. We’re a working class, and loose pants can get caught in machinery and generally get in the way of our jale, something blue-collar gabachos know well. If hipsters want to wear pants like Mexicans, we welcome them—but if ustedes try to appropriate Stetsons, cinto piteado, and boots as well, prepare for a culo-kicking.Ω

Gustavo Arellano’s column “¡Ask a Mexican!” runs every week on our website at www.newsreview.com/ reno/All?oid=310599

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Lady Torrence (Holly Natwora) and Val Xavier (Bradford Kai’ai’ai) are drawn like moth and flame.

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Brüka Theatre’s rendition of Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending competently carries the heavy weight of this challenging and by moving story. But despite his remarkable Jessica Santina storytelling talents, Tennessee Williams is a real bummer.

His main characters struggle in vain for freedom, coming just close enough to touch it before plunging once again into what Orpheus’ protagonist, Val Xavier, calls, “solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” Such a remark gives some indication of the tone of Orpheus, which in Orpheus Descending, Williams’ typically overwrought fashion

by Tennessee Williams, seems to be asking, “What’s the point in directed by Stacey trying? Everything sucks anyway.”

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you’re both out of the underworld. But he can’t resist temptation; he looks back anyway, sending Eurydice back to Hades forever.

Orpheus never quite received the critical attention that Williams’ betterknown works did, likely because it simply tries to do too much, so it’s not clear what, exactly, it wants to be.

While those original themes—love, rescue from Hell, temptation, and the evils of looking back—exist here too, they’re played out in a ’50s-era Southern town, which also wrestles with racial and ethnic intolerance, Christian fire and brimstone, sexual repression, female oppression, and the vain struggle to reform one’s self. All that combined with a lot of melodramatic dialogue is a tall order. Here, it provides mixed results.

Val Xavier (Bradford Ka’ai’ai), the central figure, is a guitar-toting, snakeskin jacket-wearing loner who channels Elvis Presley, with irresistible sexual appeal and a dark past he tries—and fails—to live down.

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Val, like a fox in a chicken coop, arrives at the town’s dry goods store, the play’s setting, as the town gossips dish the dirt on the store’s owner, Lady Torrance (Holly Natwora). Lady is the daughter of an Italian immigrant bootlegger who was killed by the Klan for selling booze to a black man. Lady eventually married Jabe Torrance, the hateful old man who owns this store and is now dying of cancer.

Despite local floozy Carol Cutrere’s attempts to seduce Val, and despite nosy rumor-mongerers keeping watch over Lady’s behavior, the two are like moth and flame.

During her breathless Act I monologue, Cutrere (Mary Bennett) acts as a sort of Greek chorus when she says, “What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at

whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?” Val and Lady attempt to carve out their own little piece of heaven in the dry goods store, but end up with broken fingers nonetheless.

Time and again I am reminded why Ka’ai’ai and Natwora are two of the area’s busiest local actors; they’re also two of the most gifted, and are capable of embodying nearly any sort of character. They even deal effectively with their characters’ accents, which isn’t easy (especially for Natwora’s character, a Sicilian).

Then again, as someone who grew up in North Carolina and Georgia, I’m fairly intolerant of bad Southern accents, and there were several here among the minor roles.

And frankly, Williams’ already over-thetop language was frequently delivered with too much histrionics that, instead of provoking my emotions, made me roll my eyes.

Ultimately, though, I did ache for Val and Lady. Though I left the theater feeling bummed, it was mostly because I cared what happened to them, and that’s a good thing. Ω

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3892 Mayberry Landing, 787-8226 Batter-fried fish tacos as we know them in the United States originated in the 1930s in Ensenada, Mexico, home to a large by Dave Preston Japanese immigrant population that worked in the fishing industry there. davep@ This, then, is a fusion food—a combinewsreview.com nation of Mexican and Japanese because the fish are deep fried in a tempura batter. And if you want to get the real el McCoyson, Buenos Grill at Mayberry Landing is the place.

Greg and Mimi Butler have owned the restaurant for the past 13 years, and they have created a fish taco-fresh Mex comedor that’s authentic with some flair. Cement floors, wood tables and chairs, and outdoor dining make this a casual place for all seasons, seating 120. You order at the counter, and the wait isn’t long. Greg has been in the restaurant biz since he was a lad. He worked for the famous Chart House steak chain in California and ended up managing its South Lake Tahoe eatery before opening the BG.

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I had to try that Brie and mango quesadilla ($6.95). Mangos are generally sweet, although the taste and texture of the flesh varies across cultivars, some having a soft, pulpy texture similar to an overripe plum, while the flesh of others is firmer, like a cantaloupe or avocado, or may have a fibrous texture. This was the avocado variety, and combined with the Brie, it was an elegant, slightly sweet, rich and savory flavor—a great summer starter.

My fish taco was the Baja San Felipe-style with sour cream chili sauce ($4.95). If you’ve ever fished in Baja, you know that when you get off the boat, the first things you see are all the fish taco stands, and everyone is a winner. This offering was that and more. Beer-battered with tempura, rice flour and paprika and quick fired in vegetable oil making it crisp on the outside, moist on the inside. Then it’s topped with a mixture of lettuce, red and green cabbage, tossed with cilantro, lime juice, honey, purple onion, Buffalo hot sauce, and dill, wrapped in a flour tortilla. Memories of the Sea of Cortez flashed through my mind. The crispness of the fish surrounded by the sweet-tart, slight heat slaw-like topping was a burst of flavors and textures; sublime and savory as it congeals in your mouth testing every taste bud with true palatepleasing results—a taco triumph.

Then I had the Del Mar Caesar Wrap ($8.60). It was huge, and what a combination: start with a blackened salmon, add in some Spanish-style rice, toss a Caesar salad with house-made dressing, and wrap it all in a huge flour tortilla. This combination was a fiesta of flavors, from the grilled fish to the garlic and the lightly spiced rice. Everything is house-made, and wheat tortillas are there for the asking.

My quaff was two-fisted, a frozen Margarita ($4.75) and the house-made Sangria ($4). Both hit the spot and were true to their flavor profiles. My cardiologist friends tell me we should eat fish twice a week to stay healthy.

My prescription: the Buenos Grill, to stay health and happy while enjoying the medicine. Ω

Fresh Mex with flair: a taco, Mexicana salad, quesadilla and Caesar wrap from Buenos Grill.

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The menu is creative and reading it gets the saliva going. Appetizers ($1-$8.25), soups and salads ($3$5.75), tacos and burritos ($4.50-$8.60), wraps ($6.95-$$8.60), and children’s plates ($2.25-$4.75) make a cost-effective place for the whole family. Simple desserts with a Mexican flair ($2.25-$5), a salsa bar and breakfast on weekends from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., make up the wellrounded menu.

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This time out, the animals must deal with the cracking of the continents, something that probably happened a billion or two years before they were born, but who’s counting? As by with past adventures that involved dinosaurs, Bob Grimm the makers of these movies just throw science out the window. Kids, don’t watch this film bgrimm@ newsreview.com thinking you are going to get a head start on that big science test, because that would result in a big fat F. When the planet cracks, the mammoth, tiger and sloth end up on a piece of ice that floats out into the ocean. They struggle to return so the mammoth can be with his lame family, but a pirate monkey (Peter Dinklage) gets in their way. So they must fight this pirate monkey, who inexplicably breaks out into a forgettable song during a very awkward musical number.

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The writing for the movie is almost nonexistent. The film uses the 3-D angle for time-killing adventure sequences in lieu of storytelling. There’s lots of sliding down mountains, riding waves, diving through oceans, etc. In short, there are a lot of excuses for characters not to talk.

The other major new character would be a white tiger voiced by Jennifer Lopez. Her character provides the possibility of a love interest for Leary’s tiger, but the movie doesn’t do much with that because it’s too busy going “whoosh” and “swish” with crazy action sequences that leave no time for tiger lovemaking.

And, oddly enough, the J-Lo tiger doesn’t get her own musical number. Strange that the Dinklage pirate monkey gets his own tune, yet the J-Lo tiger mostly just speaks drab dialogue. J-Lo does get a chance to sing in a song that plays during the credits, but Romano, Leary and Drake—who apparently voices something in this thing—sing just as much, so the J-Lo tiger never really gets to shine musically. Oddly enough, this little fact doesn’t really bother me at all.

In a summer that offers the likes of Brave, parents are better off just taking their kids to that movie twice than subjecting their prepubescent eyes to this thing. I actually got tired watching this due to all of the frantic 3-D movement. Or perhaps it was the stupid pirate monkey song that made me want to go sleepy time.

I fear these Ice Age movies are going to keep on coming. Future plotlines will probably involve more scientifically impossible adventures for these creatures, like their sailing to Mars on a leaf or battling evil pugs and bulldogs well before anybody even bothered to breed them.

That wouldn’t be any crazier or more impossible than the notion of a sloth dealing with the terrors of continental drift alongside a wooly mammoth whilst battling a dreaded pirate monkey voiced by the short dude from Ω Game of Thrones.

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Honestly, this was one of the movies I was most excited about this year. Abraham Lincoln killing vampires—how could they go wrong? Director Timur Bekmambetov has most certainly found a way, turning in a boring, redundant and humorless film that blows it in most categories. Benjamin Walker is given little to do as Lincoln. He walks around looking glum and occasionally swings an axe at very unconvincing vampires. The movie speculates that the Confederacy was full of vampires during the Civil War, and it has absolutely no fun with this idea. I was hoping for something that I could file alongside the likes of Evil Dead 2 with this one—good, sick fun with a dash of camp humor. Instead, we get a movie that’s as tedious and bland as the Underworld films. It will surely stand as one of the year’s biggest cinematic letdowns.

I think it’s fair to say that Marc Webb was not a good choice to helm a big budget summer blockbuster. His sole feature credit is the sweet (500) Days of Summer, a film that, to the best of my memory, had nothing like a big CGI lizard man in it. This is a “reboot” of the Spidey franchise, with Sam Raimi parting ways producers after his outrageously bad Spider-Man 3 and an aborted attempt at a Spider-Man 4 that would’ve seen John Malkovich as a vulture dude. Webb gets it all wrong, from his casting of SpiderMan (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone), to the terrible operatic soundtrack, and, most disappointingly, a truly bad screen rendition of The Lizard (played drably

by Rhys Ifans). As it turns out, Webb can’t handle an action scene to save his life.

Garfield, so good in The Social Network, takes an “Oh-gosh-golly-gee-willickers-please-likemy-nerd-ass!” approach to the role of Peter Parker. It’s cute for about five minutes, and then it gets pretty painful to watch.

After the severe misstep that was Cars 2, Pixar gets back to goodness with this, the tale of Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald). Merida is a princess who doesn’t want to conform to tradition, shooting arrows better than any of the boys in or around her kingdom, and not really too keen about marrying any of them under arranged circumstances. When a spell is cast on family members, she must search for a way to restore normalcy, while convincing her mom (Emma Thompson) that she has the right to choose her own destiny. Merida is a fun character, and Macdonald is the perfect voice for her. As for the look of this movie, it is beautiful for its entire running time. While I’ve liked many Pixar films more than this one, that is not a dig on this movie. It might not be one of the best the studio has offered, but it is still a highly entertaining piece of work.

The third in this franchise winds up being the best, and a decent comeback after a bland second installment. The zoo animals, still kicking it in Africa, wind up on a European tour with a circus, which gives writers Eric Darnell and Noah Baumbach the opportunity to introduce some fun new characters. These include a hoop-jumping tiger (voiced by Bryan Cranston), an evil animal control officer (Frances McDormand) and, most winningly, a dopey seal named Stefano voiced wonderfully by Martin Short. This one is a bit touched in the head, as evidenced by the “Circus Afro” sequence featured in the advertising campaign. Darnell and Baumbach write good jokes that will keep both the adults and children laughing. Stars the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith.

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Loosely based on the pre-Hollywood stripper life of Channing Tatum, the man himself stars as the title character in this dark character study from director Steven Soderbergh. While there are plentiful shots of male butt and thongs to go around, the film does have a semi-deep and dark narrative, so it’s not all about stripping. Tatum continues to impress as an actor, and the film allows him to mix drama with comedy effectively. Matthew McConaughey, who I’d say is in better shape than anybody in this movie, is fun as the stripper gang ringleader. Alex Pettyfer is pretty good as the up-and-coming stripper who has a few lessons to learn, while Cody Horn is a little drab as his sister and Mike’s potential love interest. This one isn’t a jolly romp, so don’t be bringing your bachelorette parties to it. There was one at my screening, and they were not having a good time.

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s return to live action after his animated gem Fantastic Mr. Fox is probably the most “Wes Anderson” Wes Anderson movie yet, and that’s a good thing if you love the guy (I do!). The story here is set in 1965, where Sam the Khaki Scout (newcomer Jared Gilman) has flown the coop during a camping expedition, much to the worry of Scout Master Ward, (Edward Norton, in his funniest performance yet). Sam runs away with Suzy (Kara Hayward, also a newcomer), and they have themselves a romantic couple of days while parents and authority figures frantically search for them. The adolescent puppy love story is treated with the sort of storybook grace one would expect from Anderson. Every shot is a thing of beauty. Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman all contribute wonderfully in what stands, and will stand, as one of the year’s best films.

The 347th Snow White movie this year is actually a fairly decent one, with Kristen Stewart doing a fine job as the title character and Chris Hemsworth contributing nicely as the ax-wielding Hunstman.

Best of all the cast is Charlize Theron as Ravenna, a loony queen hell-bent on staying young and eating Snow’s heart. Director Rupert Sanders puts together a swell visual movie, especially in the way he creates dwarves out of actors like Nick Frost, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins and Toby Jones. The movie is quite good when it features Snow White running around in various enchanted forests, though not so much in the final act, where it becomes a weird Joan of Arc movie. The last act feels tacked on, like it belongs on another film. Still, Stewart is quite winning here and Theron is a bona fide scene-stealer.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane makes his feature film directorial debut with one of the year’s funniest movies. MacFarlane lends his voice to the title character, an obnoxious teddy bear given the gift of speech and life after a wish by his child owner, John. The two never part, even when John, played as an adult by Mark Wahlberg, is in his 30s. They become pot-smoking buddies, and John’s girlfriend (Mila Kunis) starts to get annoyed. For those of you simply looking for good, raunchy, super R-rated comedy, Ted has got the goods. But MacFarlane also takes the human elements of the story seriously, and they wind up being quite charming. It’s a major directorial feat when a first timer creates an animated teddy bear character that’s more well-rounded than most actual human characters in movies today.

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Dynamic shift Southpaw Stranger Some singers are the same in casual conversation as they are in their songs or onstage. Their voices sound more or by Brad Bynum less the same, and their presence and personality are much the same, bradb@ maybe slightly muted. But some newsreview.com singers seem like two totally different people when they move from floor to stage.

Sylvan Goldberg, of the Reno band Southpaw Stranger, is a singer of the latter variety. In conversation, he’s quiet, soft-spoken and unassuming, maybe even shy, but when he straps on a guitar and starts to sing, he changes, like a piece of paper suddenly aflame.

His voice shifts from a low mumble to a high, soulful howl.

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Shane Forster, Vincent Van Goat, Tim Blake, Merlin, Sylvan Goldberg and Ian Hodges get cuddly.

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“I try to maintain an even keel from day to day, but music is my way to keep that even keel the rest of the time,” he says.

Southpaw Stranger is an indie rock band that ranges across the super sounds of the ’90s: Super Deluxe, Superdrag, Super Furry Animals, Superchunk and Supergrass are among the influences. Some of the songs are poppy, upbeat rockers, and others are slower, with shoegazing guitars and big dynamic shifts and builds.

Bassist Ian Hodges and drummer Tim “Fink” Blake are a tight, propulsive rhythm section, and guitarist Shane Forster plays with sinewy melodicism.

Goldberg and Hodges both spent their formative years in

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Portland, Ore., and Southpaw Stranger has a definite Portland vibe—like it’s always raining, and all the food comes from local farms. There’s even a song called “Portland Feeling”: “It’s a Portland feeling I’ve been trying to shake/Got a knife in my chest, got a heartache.”

Goldberg came to Reno for graduate school in the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Hodges is originally from Spokane, Ore., and lived in Portland and Tucson, Ariz., before coming to Reno.

“He’s Johnny Hipsterseed,” jokes Blake.

Blake and Forster are veterans of the local music scene. Perhaps most notably, they both played in the festive garage rock band The Juvinals, and both are currently in the grownup pop punk band Miracle Drugs.

For all four members, Southpaw Stranger is a casual, fun, low-pressure project. The band name, after all, is a masturbation joke (which shan’t be explained here). But for a group that’s primarily an outlet for its members to blow off steam, the band is surprisingly tight, with a great command of dynamics, and the songs are really well crafted.

Goldberg says Southpaw Stranger combines the interests of two of his previous projects: a shoegaze rock band and a mellow singer-songwriter country music project. The country influence is in the songwriting. Many of the songs have narrative lyrics and recognizable verse-chorus-bridge structures.

Goldberg honed his lyric-writing skills while studying creative writing as an undergrad at Vassar College. He brings in bare-bones versions of the songs, and the rest of the band fleshes out the arrangements with the volume changes and effects-driven guitar freak-outs of shoegaze.

Some bands have good songs.

Some bands have cool sounds.

Southpaw Stranger has both.

Goldberg says that though he has performed as a solo singersongwriter, he prefers playing in a rock band, because it’s more entertaining and cathartic.

“I want to be dripping blood at the end of the show,” he says. Ω

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Jonny Craig, 7pm, $10

Pacific Dub, Uprising, 8:30pm, Tu, $6, $8

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Bike Night Blues Jam, 6pm, no cover

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Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

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Sonic Mass w/DJ Tigerbunny, 7pm, no cover

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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Ladies Night w/DJs (dubstep, electro, house), 10pm, $5 for women

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World Dance Open Floor Night, 8pm, no cover

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Bias & Dunn, 6pm, no cover

Green Weather, 6pm, no cover

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1) Broadway Twisted, 6:30pm, $5-$60, Authority Zero, Versus The World, 9pm, $10, $15

Jeffrey James and the Wanted Gang, 9:30pm, no cover

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Karaoke with Doug, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, no cover

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The Underground 555 E. Fourth St. 410-5993

College Night w/DJs (dubstep, electro, house), 10pm, $5 with college ID

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2) Blues Callin’ Band, 7pm, W, no cover

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, open mic, 9pm, W, no cover Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, w/Alex, 9pm, Tu, w/Tony, 9pm, W, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

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Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

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

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THURSDAY 7/19 KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648 1) Main Stage 2) Top Shelf Lounge

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

FRIDAY 7/20 1) The Kid Bre, 8pm, $6 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

SATURDAY 7/21 1) House of Zombie, Envirusment, Nuke Vegas, Determined, 8pm, $10-$20 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

SUNDAY 7/22 1) Reel Big Fish, Suburban Legends, Big D, The Maxies, 7pm, $20-$45

KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL

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

MO’S PLACE

Pato Banton & The Now Generation Band, Thrive, 9pm, Tu, $12, $15

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July 22, 7 p.m.

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PIZZA BARON

Acoustic Open Mic hosted by Roger Scime, 8pm, no cover

PLAN:B MICRO-LOUNGE

Open Mic Night w/Dale Poune, 7pm, no cover

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

1155 W. Fourth St., (775) 329-4481 318 N. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 887-8879

El Tigrillo Palma, 9pm, $35 Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover Open Blues Jam with Schall Adams, 7pm, no cover Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7:30pm, W, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

PONDEROSA SALOON

Karaoke w/Steel & the Gang, 7:30pm, no cover

Hired Gunz, 8pm, no cover

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 106 S. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7210

RUBEN’S CANTINA

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

Hip Hop and R&B Night, 10pm, $5, no charge for women before midnight

RYAN’S SALOON

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

SAWTOOTH RIDGE CAFE

THC, The Roemers, 9:30pm, no cover

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Mimic, 9:30pm, no cover

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Chris Bayer & Mr. Spoons, 1pm, no cover

Comedy at the Cantina, 9pm, $5

Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, 9pm, Tu, no cover Hip Hop Open Mic, 9pm, W, no cover

Metal show, 9pm, no cover

Hillbilly Bandits, 8pm, M, blues jam, 8pm, Tu, live jazz, 7:30pm, M, W, no cover

Metal Echo, 9:30pm, no cover

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

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Bluegrass w/Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001

July 24, 9 p.m.

Mo’s Place 3600 Lake Tahoe Blvd.

South Lake Tahoe (530) 542-1095

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Joel Ackerson, 7pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

2) Hot Tree House Nights w/Kristophari, Space Crafter, guests, 9pm, $5

1) Music, Poetry, Paint w/Drinking With Clowns, Reno Art Works, Spoken Views, 8pm, no cover

3-17, 7pm, no cover

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

Eric Andersen, 7pm, no cover

Verbal Kint, 7pm, no cover

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

Local Band Listening Party, 9pm, M, Dark Tuesdays, 9pm, Tu, DJ Ahn, 9pm, W, no cover

Erika Paul Carlson, 2pm, no cover

Colin Ross, 7pm, M, Bobby Jo Valentine, 7pm, Tu, Moon Gravy, 7pm, W, no cover

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

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THURSDAY 7/19

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SATURDAY 7/21

SUNDAY 7/22

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/23-7/25

2) Doctor Rock-It, 8pm, no cover

2) Doctor Rock-It, 4pm, Palmore Brothers, 10pm, no cover

2) Doctor Rock-It, 4pm, Palmore Brothers, 10pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) The Livin’ DayLites, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Stew Stewart, 7pm, no cover

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover

1) Mark Chesnutt, 8pm, $25 2) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, M, Tu, Vinny Messina, 6pm, W, no cover

1) Steve Kimock Band, 9pm, $22, $25

1) Love Fool, 10pm, no cover 2) Boggan, Multipleks, 11:30pm, no cover

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

1) Man in the Mirror, 8pm, $19.95+ 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

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

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

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Garage Boys, 10pm, W, no cover 3) Spindustry Wed., 9pm W, no cover

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10 4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Ultimate Reno Combat 35, 8pm, $25-$100 4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10 4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Viva Le Cirque, 9pm, $10

4) Jackson Michelson, 9pm, W, no cover

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Ron Morey, 8pm, $15

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Ron Morey, 8pm, $15, live local bands, 10pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Ron Morey, 8pm, $15, live local bands, 1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 10pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover 4) X-Fest, 4pm, $10

5) Mad Karma, 9:30pm, no cover

5) Mad Karma, 10:30pm, no cover

4) Maroon 5, 7pm, $59.50-$150 5) Mad Karma, 10:30pm, no cover

4) Journey, Pat Benatar, Loverboy, 6pm, $59.50-$199.50 5) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

5) Cash Only, 9:30pm, M, DJ JBIRD, 9:30pm, Tu, Dyer Maker, 9:30pm, W, no cover

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

1) Buster Blue CD release party, 8pm, $15 2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover 5) Scot and Scott, 5:30pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover 5) Scot and Scott, 5:30pm, DJ BG, 10pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 7pm, no cover 5) Scot and Scott, 5:30pm, no cover

3) JJ Sansaverino, 6pm, W, no cover

1) An Evening of Sit Down with Robin Williams & David Steinberg, 9:30pm, $100-$175

1) An Evening of Sit Down with Robin Williams & David Steinberg, 9:30pm, $100-$175

2) Fast Lane, 7pm, no cover 3) Kyle Williams, 7pm, no cover 4) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no charge for women

2) Fast Lane, 8pm, no cover 3) Major Link, 9pm, no cover 4) Salsa dancing, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

2) Fast Lane, 8pm, no cover 3) Major Link, 9pm, no cover 4) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

2) Fast Lane, 7pm, no cover 3) Eric Andersen, 7pm, no cover

2) Fast Lane, 7pm, M, no cover 3) Eric Andersen, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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

3) Live music, 5pm, no cover

3) Dance party, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ REXX, 10pm, no cover 3) Live jazz, 4pm, $10, 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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs 5) 2500 East 6) The Beach 7) Summit Pavilion

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE

18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 427-8397 1) Cabaret 2) Tahoe Live 3) The Improv 4) Outdoor Arena 5) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge

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) Onsen Beach & Nightclub 5) Convention Center 6) Outdoor Event 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

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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Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 356-9799: F-Sa, 7pm, Tu, 6pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Red’s Golden Eagle Grill, 5800 Home Run Drive, Spanish Springs, (775) 626-6551: Karaoke w/Manny, F, 8pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover

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foods and beverages for sale. Sa, 7/21, 10am-5pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 762-3577, www.renoisartown.com.

AMERICAN CENTURY CHAMPIONSHIP: Charles Barkley will join Michael Jordan, Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers, John Elway, Ray Romano and Jerry Rice and other sports and entertainment figures at the 23rd annual celebrity golf tournament. The 54-hole event includes a purse of $600,000. Proceeds will be donated to LIVESTRONG. Tu-Sa, 9am through 7/22. $15-$60; free for children age 10 and younger. Edgewood-Tahoe Golf Course, 180 Lake Parkway, Stateline, (530) 544-5050 ext. 224, www.tahoecelebritygolf.com.

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nearly 400 events, more than 100 workshops and more than 30 ongoing programs. Festival highlights include performances by Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Michael Feinstein, Chanticleer, Missoula Children’s Theatre and Maceo Parker, as well as returning festival favorites such as the World Music Series, Monday Night Music Series and Movies in the Park. M-Su through 7/31. Free for most events. Call or visit website for details, (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

1862 DAVID WALLEY’S HOT SPRINGS RESORT ANNIVERSARY: The hot springs resort celebrates its 150th anniversary with a barbecue and a free concert featuring Mumbo Gumbo. The birthday bash will kick off at 6:30pm with barbecue favorites, including tri-tip, chicken and ribs. Mumbo Gumbo will take the stage at 7:30pm. Early arrival is recommended.

Sa, 7/21, 6:30pm. $12 for barbecue. 1862 David Walley’s Hot Springs Resort, 2001 Foothill Road, Genoa, (855) 392-5539, www.davidwalleys-resort.com.

ARTOWN FAMILY FESTIVAL: Enjoy children’s activities before the Family Series show.

M, 5-7pm through 7/30. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

45TH ANNUAL BASQUE FESTIVAL: The Reno Basque Club presents its annual festival as part of Artown. The event features live accordion music by Mercedes Mendive, folk dancing, improvisational poetry and demonstrations and contests such as children’s bota juice drinking, weight carrying and

ARTOWN WINE WALK: Dress as your favorite artist or art inspiration at this month’s Wine Walk. Proceeds support VSA Nevada at the Lake Mansion. Visit any of the participating Riverwalk District

merchants and for a $20 wine-tasting fee and valid photo ID, you’ll receive a wine glass, map and an ID bracelet that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Must be age 21 and older to participate. Sa, 7/21, 2-5pm. $20 per person. The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.

ARTS IN BLOOM: ART AND WINE FESTIVAL: The city of Sparks’ presents its 10th annual event as part of Artown. The festival features art, entertainment, wine tastings, food and beverages and activities for children. About 40 artist booths offer a variety of fine art, including oil paintings, watercolors, jewelry, ceramic pieces, woodwork and photography. Sa, 7/21, 26pm. Free. Victorian Square Plaza, Victorian Avenue, across From John Ascuaga’s Nugget, Sparks, (775) 329-5539, www.sparksrec.com.

BEYOND THE ARCHES TOUR: This tour links the downtown Reno arches with stories of the forces that shaped the town. Walk in the footsteps of Bill Harrah, Myron Lake, Baby Face Nelson, Frederic DeLongchamps and others. Reservations required at least one day in advance of the tour. Sa, 7/21, 911am. Free. National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

CAMP FIRE PROGRAM: Ranger Colleen presents a program about bats. F, 7/20, 7pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Regional Park, 18350 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

CELEBRATION OF YOUTH SILVER STATE YOUNG CHAUTAUQUA FESTIVAL: Enjoy various Chautauqua performances along with arts and crafts in the morning from

building, set in the pines above Marilyn’s Pond. Take the Galena Creek South Entrance to get there. $10 taxdeductible donation per family at the door. Su, 7/22, 5-8pm. $10 donation.

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9:30am-12:30pm. In the evening there’s music, art, dance and more dramatic performances from 6-9pm under the Big Tent. There will be a different program every night featuring youth achievement in scholarship and performing arts. It will be a combination of performances of Youth Chautauqua, music, dance, acting and art. Th, 7/19,

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Experience Carson City’s Victorian era and diverse past during this guided walking tour of the downtown district’s historic homes. Hear about lingering spirits of the past and other paranormal stories. The 90-minute guided walking tour leaves rain or shine. Tours depart from Third & Carson streets next to the St. Charles Hotel (Firkin & Fox Pub). Sa, 7/21, 6:30pm; Sa, 8/18, 6:30pm; Sa, 9/15, 6:30pm. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Visit website for details, http://carsoncityghostwalk.com.

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FLINT STREET FESTIVAL: The Artown event features more than 35 regional artisans selling their goods along Flint Street, between Court Street and Ridge Street, as well as the Lake Mansion and adjacent Garden Pavilion. The festival includes food, drink, tours of the Lake Mansion and River Walk Merchants wine walk. Tickets for the wine walk are $20 per person. Purchase your map and glass at the Lake Mansion or 30plus Riverwalk merchants. Sa, 7/21, 10am-5pm. Free admission. Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2, www.vsanevada.org.

GREATER RENO STAMP & COVER SHOW: The show features free appraisals, 60 frames of exhibits, 16 dealer tables, a youth activity center, raffle prizes and more. Sa, 7/21, 10am-6pm; Su, 7/22, 10am4pm. Free. National Bowling Stadium, 300 N. Center St., (775) 246-4769, http://home.earthlink.net/~renostamp.

GETTING KIDS OUTDOORS FUNDRAISER PARTY: The Sierra Club hosts an event for the whole family to benefit outdoor programs for kids. The bluegrass and folk tunes of the Mountain Girls will get everyone kicking up their heels while the Great Basin Outdoor School will lead outdoor activities for kids and families. Participants should bring a potluck dish to share, their own beverages (wine and beer OK) and a donation (cash or check only) to support future outdoor programs for kids. The party is being held in the historic fish hatchery

KIDS’ DISCOVERY ROOM: Discovery Room Volunteers will open the Discovery Room three days a week during the summer months. Each week, activities will focus around a different theme, ranging from dinosaurs to pioneers.

Regular activities include “Crafts on the Porch” on Wednesdays and story time at 11am on Fridays. W-F, 10am-1pm through 8/24. Free. Great Basin Adventure, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.washoecountyparks.com.

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RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Tu, 7/24, 7:05pm; W, 7/25, 7:05pm; Th, 7/26, 7:05pm; F, 7/27, 7:05pm. $6-$24. Reno Aces Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-4700, www.renoaces.com.

Hot August Nights and Burning Man are two of the area’s most anticipated summer events. Although these events don’t have a lot in common, Burners and car lovers can find something to admire at the ArtCar Fest, which rolls into town this weekend. Art cars are street legal vehicles that have been permanently modified into pieces of mobile art, and are created by those whose backgrounds range from self-taught folk artists to custom car professionals.

Each year, these artists drive their mobile sculptures across the West as part of the ArtCar Fest. Festival founders Philo Northrup and Harrod Blank started the event in 1997 after deciding that California needed a festival to showcase the various cars. Blank has published three books and made three documentary films on art cars, which are annual attractions at the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert. The Reno leg of the ArtCar Fest kicks off with the Movin’ and Groovin’ party at 7 p.m. on July 20 at the National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St. The event is one of the last chances to see the Mutant Rides exhibit (pictured), featuring Burning Man art cars, before it closes on July 25. The party features a display of art cars in the parking lot, and chances to meet the owners of the vehicles as well as Blank and Burning Man’s Michael Mikel, aka Danger Ranger. Admission is $10. Call 333-9300. The event moves to the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., on July 21 with a display of art cars outside the museum from 1-10 p.m. and a screening of Blank’s documentary film Automorphosis at 2 p.m. DJ Spooky will present his Ice Music performance later that evening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10-$15 for the show and $8-$10 for the screening. Call 329-3333 or visit www.artcarfest.com.

THE SALON: ART AND REVOLUTIONS: Nevada Humanities presents The Salon, a gathering where a select group of panelists and the audience have a conversation about thought-provoking and inspirational topics. As part of Artown, The Salon addresses art and revolutions with a panel of experts from diverse backgrounds speaking about the history of the topic and how it manifests in modern day street art and music. F, 7/20, 6-8pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 7861188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

TAHOE STAR TOURS WITH ACCENT STRING QUARTET: Tahoe Star Tours offers an evening of science, poetry, star gazing and music.

Accent Nevada, a Reno-based string quartet featuring cellist Eileen Brownell, will perform while Tony Berendsen takes you on a tour of the skies. Sa, 7/21. $65 adults; $30 children age 18 and younger.

Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

TAHOE STAR TOURS–SATURN SEEKS VIRGO: Join star guide and poet Tony Berendsen for a unique and educational night under the stars. F, 7/20, 8pm; F, 7/27, 8pm; Sa, 7/28, 8pm. $30 adults; $15 children age 12 and younger. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 4666784, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

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WANDERLUST TAHOE: The annual festival brings together the world’s leading yoga teachers, top musical acts and DJs, renowned speakers, top chefs and winemakers. Headliners include Ziggy Marley and Beats Antique, yoga instructors Shiva Rae, Seane Corn and Baron Baptiste and speakers Dr. Wayne Dyer and Gopi Kallayil. Th, 7/26; F, 7/27; Sa, 7/28; Su, 7/29. $99-$475. Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

WHOLE FOODS SPARKS FARMERS’ MARKET: The 20th annual farmers’ market returns with a family-friendly atmosphere and farmerfocused event. New highlights include a gourmet food truck court and expanded food area. Th, 3-8pm through 8/2; Th, 8/16, 38pm; Th, 8/23, 3-8pm. Free. Victorian Square Plaza, Victorian Avenue, across From John Ascuaga’s Nugget, Sparks, (775) 746-5024, www.shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Hats Off to Artown. M-F, 9am-4pm through 7/30; Tu, 6:308:30pm through 7/24; Tu, 7/31, 9am-noon. 209 W. First St., (775) 322-4564.

GALLERY 3: Dan Ericson: The Signtologist. W-F, Su through 8/8. 3 N. Virginia St., (775) 230-7333, www.gallery3art.com.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Strychnine Divine. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 8/3; Sa, 7/28, 4pm. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

Art ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Rockin’ Out. MSu, 11am-4pm through 7/31. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistscoopgalleryreno.com.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: New Crop. M-F through 9/4. Free. Carson City Courthouse, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

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Bitter homes and gardens If your wife says another man’s name while making love, what does that mean? It was her ex’s name—my stepson’s dad. She apologized, saying it was only because she remembered needing to call him about problems their son’s having at school.

Although I don’t think she’s cheating, I can’t say I believe her excuse. Had I blurted out another woman’s name, she’d never forgive me. She has lots of anger and a very suspicious nature.

She goes through my phone and constantly checks up on me.

She’s had men cheat on her, but I’ve given her no reason to doubt me. Her response when I try to have a healthy discussion about this or anything is either “whatever” or starting a full-blown argument, then suggesting we shouldn’t be together.

That’s the last thing I want for our kids.

There you are, trying your best to give your wife an orgasmatastical time in bed, and not only does she belt out another man’s name, she decides to get a head start on her to-do list. Apparently, her sex face is also her “Did I schedule that parent-teacher conference?” face.

Chances are, your wife’s explanation, that this was just a brain burp, is the truth. People’s minds wander during sex—especially when it’s not their first time with a particular partner.

Although every relationship gives rise to wounds, how you respond depends largely on what your “base” is. If you’re emotionally secure and your relationship is loving, you can shrug off a whole lot—maybe even tease your wife about her

sexual faux pas by yelling out your own name in bed.

When you get married, it isn’t just to a woman and all her annoying inlaws; you also marry all her unresolved issues. Your wife’s insecurity makes her feel vulnerable, but instead of expressing her fears and giving you the chance to allay them, she takes the emotionally “safe” way out—attacking you.

Tell your wife that you need to remake your marriage to save it—because you love her and for your kids’ sake. Because she fights dirty and you seem unable to stand up to her, you should bring in a therapist as a referee. What you can do yourselves is make a pact to never treat each other like you’ve forgotten you love each other. For backup, the way couples have a “safe word” in sex, you can agree to call “empathy!” if the poo-flinging gets out of hand—your signal to stop and call up some compassion for what the other person must be feeling. It won’t teleport you into instant maturity. But, because it’s really hard to be a hugger and a hater at the same time, it should remind you that “til death do us part” is supposed to be a romantic promise, not a battle cry.

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ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER: IGOR AND RED ELVISES: The the Russian rock ’n’ roll group performs as part of RN&R’s summer concert series. F, 7/20, 5:30-8pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 324-4440.

SWEET VIBRATIONS: NO COMPRENDE: The Artown music series features a performance by Hans Halt and his Latin wind/percussion ensemble.

Tu, 7/24, 7-8pm. Free. First United Methodist Church, 209 W. First St., (775) 322-4564, www.renoisartown.com.

TRUE NORTH HARP DUO: Harpists Lynne Aspnes and John Wickey will perform a program of works by Ravel, Debussy, Salzedo and others.

Su, 7/22, 2:30pm. Free. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 341 Village Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0075, www.tahoechambermusic.org.

WORLD MUSIC SERIES: ANA TIJOUX: The Artown music series continues with the Latin hip-hop stylings of the French-Chilean rapper. W, 7/25, 7:30-9pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

Onstage ANNIE JR.: Nevada Shakespeare Company and NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: A Very Special Art Exhibit. Tu-Sa through 8/24. Free. 2325 Robb Drive, 826-6100 ext. 3, info@vsanevada.org, www.vsanevada.org

Film GREEN FIRE FILM PRESENTATION: This full-length documentary follows legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold and traces how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental movement. Sa, 7/21, 7pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Regional Park, 18350 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

RENOWN SOUTH MEADOWS MEDICAL CENTER: Art For Healing, Through 7/31, 10am-7pm. Free. 10101 Double R Blvd., (775) 343-8100, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

RIVER SCHOOL FARM: Recycled Art Tour. F, 7/20, 5:30-6:30pm; Su, 7/29, 2-3pm. $5. 7777 White Fir St., (775) 747-2222, www.riverschool.info.

MOVIES IN THE PARK: STRICTLY BALLROOM: The Artown movie series continues with a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s musical comedy about a young, ambitious ballroom dancer who defies tradition and outrages the establishment by dancing his own provocative steps. F, 7/20, 9-11pm. Free.

Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 3221538, www.renoisartown.com.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Revolución: Celebrating a Rich Artistic Society, M-Su through 7/31. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

STREMMEL GALLERY: In Urban Light. M-Sa through 7/31. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.

TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: RECON|STRUCTURE|NATURE, M-F, 9am-9pm through 9/7; Sa, 9am-5pm through 9/1. Free. 7000

Poetry/Literature CLAIRE VAYE WATKIN: BATTLEBORN: The author reads and signs her new collection of short stories.

Th, 7/19, 6:30-8pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

Dandini Blvd., (775) 673-7000, www.tmcc.edu/vparts/artgalleries.

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, NORTHERN NEVADA CAMPUS: Deon Reynolds Exhibit. M-F through 8/15. Free. 10345 Professional Circle, Ste. 200, (775) 828-7999.

VSA NEVADA AT LAKE MANSION: Through Bipolar Eyes: A Child’s View, M-F, 9am-4pm through 7/31. Free. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100,

Music BELLA HRISTOVA: The internationally acclaimed violinist performs John Corigliano’s “Red Violin Caprices,” Kevin Puts’s “Arches,” Astor Piazzolla’s “Three Tango Etudes,” Nathan Milstein’s “Paganiniana” and J.S. Bach’s Partita in D minor. Sa, 7/21, 7-9pm. $20 general; $5 students, youth age 18 and younger. Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 501 California Ave., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

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BIG ORGAN BASH: Organist David H. Brock performs his 14th annual concert on Northern Nevada’s largest pipe organ as part of Artown. Featured music includes Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E minor “The Wedge” BWV 548, Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor, Widor’s Symphony No. 5 complete and the music of Scott Joplin. Tu, 7/24, 7-9pm. $5-$20.

Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 781-4702, http://davidbrockmusic.com.

NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): Mutant Rides: Origin of a Species, 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: 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; Southwest Pottery From Anasazi to Zuni: Selections from the Brenda and John Blom Collection, W-Su through 9/9; Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs, W-Su through 8/26; Gail Wight: Hydraphilia, W-Su through 8/26; Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Highlights of the California Decorative Style, Tu-Su through 10/14; Ice Music, W-Su through 10/28; Tim Hawkinson: Totem, W-Su through 10/7; Edward Burtynsky: Oil, W-Su through 9/23. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

DJ SPOOKY: In partnership with the Holland Project, the Nevada Museum of Art presents Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid in a live performance accompanied by a quartet of Reno Philharmonic musicians.

Octophonix opens the show. Sa, 7/21, 7-10pm. $15 general admission; $10 NMA members.

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

AN EVENING WITH DANNY WRIGHT: The worldrenowned pianist performs his blend of contemporary, classical and jazz compositions. F, 7/20, 7-8:30pm. $15. Steinway Piano Gallery, 500 E. Moana Lane, (775) 829-0600, www.renoisartown.com.

WESTERN HERITAGE INTERPRETIVE CENTER, BARTLEY RANCH REGIONAL PARK: If Parks Could Talk, MSu, 8am-5pm through 8/1. Free. 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Sierra Watercolor Society Exhibit, W-Sa, 10am-4pm through 8/18. Free.

FAMILY SERIES: COLIN CONCERT FOR KIDS: After a

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week of training with musician Colin Ross, children perform on stage the pieces they have learned. The performance features various instruments and plenty of opportunity to

shout, dance, sing and make noise. Following the concert, Colin and Mig Ross perform an interactive music and dance show. M, 7/23, 67pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

THE FOUR SEASONS X2: The Reno Chamber Orchestra, led by Maestro Theodore Kuchar, performs Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

World-renowned violinist Bella Hristova is the violin soloist for both pieces. The concert will begin with a performance of Venezuelan composer Aldemaro Romero’s “Fuga con Pajarillo.”

Th, 7/19, 7-9pm. $20 general; $5 students, youth age 18 and younger. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 3489413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

GOSPEL FEST: The festival celebrates gospel music as a historical contemporary art form. The event features music, dance, visual arts, food, games and more. Su, 7/22, 3-7pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-6770, www.renoisartown.com.

KANSAS: The classic rock band performs. F, 7/20, 9pm. $29 -$50. Eldorado Hotel Casino Convention Center, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700, www.eldoradoreno.com.

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: MILLENNIUM BUGS: The group presents an evening of jazz as part of the summer concert series. W, 7/25, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 823-6500.

MID-SUMMER MELODIES: Opera Bel Canto presents this showcase of local young musical talent. Hear favorite arias, duets and Broadway tunes. W, 7/25, 7-9pm. Free.

Steinway Piano Gallery, 500 E. Moana Lane, (775) 829-0600, www.operabelcanto.org.

NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF THE SILVER SCREEN: Reno Pops presents an evening of movie soundtracks from a century of cinema, including Pirates of the Caribbean and Gone with the Wind, as well as music by John Williams and several recent cinematic hits. Part of Artown’s Monday Night Music Series. M, 7/23, 7:30pm. Free. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 673-1234, www.renopops.org.

THE NORTHSTAR CHAMBER PLAYERS: TOCCATATahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus continues their summer season with a chamber music series featuring a traditional wind quintet augmented by piano and soprano soloists. Works by Mozart, J.S. Bach, P. Muller, Max Brauer and Saint-Saens will be performed. F, 7/20, 6:30pm. $20 adults; $5 students; free for youth under age 12. Squaw Valley Chapel, 444 Squaw Peak Road, Olympic Valley, (775) 313-9697, www.toccatatahoe.com.

RIVER RANCH CONCERT SERIES: PATO BANTON: The concert series continues with a performance by the reggae artist. DJ Treez will open the show. W, 7/25, 9pm. $15 in advance. River Ranch Restaurant and Lodge, 2285 River Road, Tahoe City, (775) 337-8344, www.renegadeshows.com.

Sage Ridge School presents the musical based on the popular comic strip about a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents. F, 7/20, 11am-noon. Free.

Sage Ridge School, 2515 Crossbow Court, (775) 852-6222.

ANNOYANCE: Ageless Repertory Theater presents Sam Bobrick’s comedy about a very annoying man who goes to see two therapists with the hopes of becoming less annoying. In his pursuit of mental stability he drives them both over the edge. Mature audiences due to language and adult themes. Th, 7/19, 7-9pm; F, 7/20, 1-3pm. Donations welcome. Circles Edge Center For Spiritual Living, 1117 California Ave., (775) 345-7323, http://webpages.charter.net/agelessrep.

BROADWAY TWISTED: TNT and PDC presents this show that brings favorite Broadway classics together with a fanciful twist. $2 from each ticket will be donated to the Children’s Cancer Foundation. Sa, 7/21, 6:30pm; Su, 7/22, 12:30pm. $5-$60. CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400, www.commrow.com.

DANCING IN THE PARK: INNERRHYTHMS DANCE THEATRE: InnerRhythms Dance Theatre and RhythMatriX proudly present The Road to Remembrance, an eclectic evening of dance and music celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary. Th, 7/19, 8-9:30pm. Free. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 322-1538, www.renoisartown.com.

EMPIRE IMPROV COMEDY SHOW: Empire Improv presents its long-form improv show in two halves. Empires house team Like a Banshee

performs with either Hostel Greetings, The George Collection or The Level 2 Students.

Show recommended for those 17 and up. F, 10:30-11:45pm through 7/28. Free. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (530) 4140050, www.empireimprov.com.

HOOTCHY KOOTCHY GIRLS: JULY JUBILEE: The dancebased troupe presents a colorful and patriotic show based on 1940s Hollywood glamour and 1950s pin-up style. Sa, 7/21, 7:30pm. $22. Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., Pioneer Center plaza on Virginia and Mill streets, (775) 7629870, www.renotahoecomedy.com.

ORPHEUS DESCENDING: Brüka Theatre presents Tennessee Williams’ retelling of the Orpheus legend in which a guitar-playing drifter takes up with a married storekeeper with wonderful and tragic results. Th, 7/19, 8pm; F, 7/20,

8pm; W, 7/25, 8pm; Th, 7/26, 8pm; F, 7/27, 8pm; Sa, 7/28, 8pm. $18 general; $16 seniors, students,

military; $20 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

PRIVATE LIVES: Reno Little Theater presents this comedy by Noel Coward that depicts a couple, now divorced and married to new partners, who end up honeymooning at the same hotel, rekindling old passions and discovering they cant live with (or without) each other. F, 7/20,

7:30-10pm; Sa, 7/21, 7:30-10pm; Su, 7/22, 2-4:30pm; Th, 7/26, 7:30-10pm; F, 7/27, 7:30-10pm; Sa, 7/28, 7:30-10pm; Su, 7/29, 2-4:30 & 7:30-10pm. $12-$15.

Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 8138900, www.renolittletheater.org.

THE TEMPEST: Good Luck Macbeth Theater presents Shakespeare’s final play. Th-Sa, 7:30-10pm through 7/29; Su, 3-5:30pm through 7/29. $14-$20.

Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary season with this Shakespeare comedy. Th-Su, Tu-W through 8/26, 7:30pm. $20-$80. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (775) 832-1616, http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

VORTEX: A.V.A. Ballet Theatre presents its rock ballet as part of Artown. F, 7/20, 8:30pm; Sa, 7/21, 8:30pm. $15-$40. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 762-5165, www.avaballet.com.

Classes BANKRUPTCY EDUCATION CLINIC: Nevada Legal Services Inc. and Washoe Legal Services host this legal education clinic. Pre-registration requested to ensure the availability of materials. Third Th of every month, 1:303:30pm. Free. Nevada Legal Services, 654 Tahoe St., (775) 284-3491 ext. 214.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): AcroYoga is a

relatively new physical discipline. According to a description I read on a flyer in Santa Cruz, it “blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of massage, and the dynamic power of acrobatics.” I’d love to see you work on creating a comparable hybrid in the coming months, Aries—some practice or system or approach that would allow you to weave together your various specialties into a synergetic whole. Start brainstorming about that impossible dream now, and soon it won’t seem so impossible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Unless you

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grow your own or buy the heirloom variety at farmers markets, you probably eat a lot of tasteless tomatoes. Blame it on industrial-scale farming and supermarket chains. They’ve bred tomatoes to be homogenous and bland—easy to ship and pretty to look at. But there’s a sign of hope: A team of scientists at the University of Florida is researching what makes tomatoes taste delicious and is working to bring those types back into mainstream availability. I think the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks is metaphorically similar, Taurus. You should see what you can to do restore lost flavor, color and soulfulness. Opt for earthy idiosyncrasies over fake and boring perfection.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’ll be a hum-

ming, murmuring, whispering kind of week—a time when the clues you need will most likely arrive via ripplings and rustlings and whirrings. Here’s the complication: Some of the people around you may be more attracted to clangs and bangs and jangles.

They may imagine that the only information worth paying attention to is the stuff that’s loudest and strongest. But I hope you won’t be seduced by their attitudes. I trust you’ll resist the appeals of the showy noise. Be a subtlety specialist who loves nuance and undertones. Listen mysteriously.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Most change

is slow and incremental. The shifts happen so gradually, that they are barely noticeable while you’re living in the midst of them from day to day. Then there are those rare times when the way everything fits together mutates pretty quickly.

Relationships that have been evolving in slow motion begin to speed up. Long-standing fixations melt away. Mystifying questions get clear answers. I think you’re at one of these junctures now, Cancerian.

It’s not likely you’ll be too surprised by anything that happens, though. That’s because you’ve been tracking the energetic buildup for a while, and it will feel right and natural when the rapid ripening kicks in.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lately, you’ve been

spending time in both the off-kilter parts of paradise and the enchanting areas of limbo.

On one notable occasion, you even managed to be in both places simultaneously. How’d you do that? The results have been colorful but often paradoxical. What you don’t want and what you do want have gotten a bit mixed up. You have had to paw your way out of a dead-end confusion but have also been granted a sublime breakthrough. You explored a tunnel to nowhere but also visited a thrilling vista that provided you with some medicinal excitement. What will you do for an encore? Hopefully, nothing that complicated. I suggest you spend the next few days chilling out and taking inventory of all that’s changed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The painter

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Philip Guston loved to express himself creatively. He said it helped him to get rid of his certainty, to divest himself of what he knew.

By washing away the backlog of old ideas and familiar perspectives, he freed himself to see the world as brand-new. In light of your current astrological omens, Virgo, Guston’s approach sounds like a good strategy for you to borrow. The next couple of weeks will be an excellent time to explore the pleasures of unlearning and deprogramming. You will thrive by discarding stale preconceptions, loosening the past’s hold on you, and clearing out room in your brain for fresh imaginings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nineteenth-cen-

tury author Charles Dickens wrote extensively about harsh social conditions. He specialized in depicting ugly realities about poverty, crime and classism. Yet, one critic described him as a “genial and loving humorist” who showed that “even in dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius could still be clean and mirth could be innocent.” I’m thinking that Dickens might be an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks, Libra. It will be prime time for you to expose difficult truths and agitate for justice and speak up in behalf of those less fortunate than you. You’ll get best results by maintaining your equanimity and good cheer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For many

years, ambergris was used as a prime ingredient in perfumes. And where does ambergris come from? It’s basically whale vomit. Sperm whales produce it in their gastrointestinal tracts to protect them from the sharp beaks of giant squid they’ve eaten, then spew it out of their mouths. With that as your model, Scorpio, I challenge you to convert an inelegant aspect of your life into a fine asset, even a beautiful blessing. I don’t expect you to accomplish this task overnight. But I do hope you will finish by May 2013.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Interruption” will be a word of power for you in the coming days. No, really: I’m not being ironic, sarcastic or satirical. It is possible that the interruptions will initially seem inconvenient or undesirable, but I bet you will eventually feel grateful for their intervention.

They will knock you out of grooves you need to be knocked out of. They will compel you to pay attention to clues you’ve been neglecting. Don’t think of them as random acts of cosmic whimsy, but rather as divine strokes of luck that are meant to redirect your energy to where it should be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You

don’t have to stand in a provocative pose to be sexy. You don’t have to lick your lips or radiate a smoldering gaze or wear clothes that dramatically reveal your body’s most appealing qualities. You already know all that stuff, of course; in light of this week’s assignment, I just wanted to remind you. And what is that assignment? To be profoundly attractive and alluring without being obvious about it. With that as your strategy, you’ll draw to you the exact blessings and benefits you need. So do you have any brilliant notions about how to proceed? Here’s one idea: Be utterly at peace with who you really are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I brazenly

predict, my dear Aquarius, that in the next 10 months, you will fall in love with love more deeply than you have in more than a decade.

You will figure out a way to exorcise the demons that have haunted your relationship with romance, and you will enjoy some highly entertaining amorous interludes. The mysteries of intimacy will reveal new secrets to you, and you will have good reasons to redefine the meaning of fun. Is there any way these prophecies of mine could possibly fail to materialize? Yes, but only if you take yourself too seriously and insist on remaining attached to the old days and old ways.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be alert for

fake magic, and make yourself immune to its seductive appeal. Do not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to get snookered by sexy delusions, enticing hoaxes or clever mirages. There will, in fact, be some real magic materializing in your vicinity, and if you hope to recognize it, you must not be distracted by the counterfeit stuff. This is a demanding assignment, Pisces. You will have to be both skeptical and curious, both tough-minded and innocently receptive. Fortunately, the astrological omens suggest you now have an enhanced capacity to live on that edge.

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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Carole Maupin

On Friday, July 27, at Hiroma Hall— Reno’s Buddhist center—there will be an Artown event, an evening of chanting from Buddhist traditions.

The event begins at 5:45 p.m. at 820 Plumas St. Carole Maupin describes the occasion. Check out www.renobuddhistcenter.org.

Tell me about the event on the 27th.

We’re doing Buddhist chants from a lot of different Buddhist traditions, including Pearland, Zen, Tibetan, Thich Nhat Hanh. …

And we have a group of 16 people that have been practicing since January. There’s a lot of confusion—lack of information among a lot of people about what chanting is. It’s different in all Buddhist traditions. Some of it is very melodic. We also have Jim Eaglesmith, a well known local musician, and he does a lot of Tibetan chants. Then Phil Bryan, who is just an awesome guy, is going to do a couple of Zen chants. He’s going to dress in his regalia and bring his authentic Zen drum, which he calls a fish [Zen drums are known as Wooden Fish].

We’re going to do some Zen chants, then we’re going to do a couple of Pearland or Jodo Shin chants. … [Some are chanted] in classical Chinese, some of them we do in Pali, some we do in Japanese, and then the Thich Nhat Hanh will be in English. So there’s going to be a lot of variety. I think people will really enjoy it.

What makes it an Artown event?

It’s a cultural—we’re trying very hard to stay away from the religious aspect—it’s a cultural event. As part of the dance program at Wingfield a couple of years ago, we participated in a Buddhist dance with music. And people just love it for the musical value, and the cultural value of different cultures.

How many Buddhists are there in this area?

There are different traditions, so—at the center, we have fixed up a couple of beautiful meditation rooms, and different groups come in. The Tibetan Dharma Zephyr Sangha meditates there. So we have like four or five meditation groups that meditate there … so the center itself has become a real Buddhist center. We also have Buddhist-related activities just as a

A big concern for Nevada right now is the looming threat that the sage grouse might be listed as an endangered species. There was a major look at the story in the local fishwrap a couple of Sundays ago, talking about the problems with such a listing, especially the negative economic impacts of this coming to pass.

OK, it’s something to be concerned about, for sure. It’s something to be avoided, for sure. So in this regard, well, gee, uh, maybe the state might want to suspend its sage grouse hunting season for a while. Just a thought.

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I think it’s been a presence for a long time—over 30 years, at least. … And more and more people come all the time. I think we have about 600 people on our mailing list. We get about 70 people at our bimonthly incense services, which are the more formal Sunday services, and then we get a lot of people that come to meditation groups, and we have a book study group, and we have a Tai Chi group, so it’s growing. It seems to me there’s a lot of interest in it. Ω

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The 2012 Sage Grouse season is all set. Game on. Tag applications available through August 3 at the Division of Wildlife. But what kind of message is this to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? That we have a bird on the verge of being listed, but we’re still gonna go ahead and blast a few every fall, goddammit. Actually, it’s misleading to say “a few.” There won’t be dozens of grouse killed in the field this year, there’ll be thousands. In 2010, 7,355 sage grouse were “harvested” in Nevada. In ’11, that number was 6,141.

So again, what kind of confusing, disconnected bullshit in defiance of common sense is taking place here?

You’ve got a bird—and a great bird at that, one completely deserving of protection—that’s in danger of being listed, and if it’s listed, it will cost the state millions in jobs and development. And yet, you’ve got a Division of Wildlife that continues, in the face of all this potential hardship, to allow its killing by the thou-

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How long has Buddhism been a presence here in the valley?

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Keep off the grouse One comment on the Freeh report about the outrageous pedophilia scandal at Penn State (S.F. Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler suggests the school nickname be changed to the Cowardly Lions). Louis Freeh says 3.5 million emails were examined. 3.5 million? Good lord. Those people were chatty. I mean, I would have believed 3.5 THOUSAND emails, sure, but 3.5 mill? Wow. Talk about a paper trail.

service to the Buddhist community. I don’t know—there are a lot of people that say that they’re Buddhist, but in Buddhism you’re not encouraged to go to church necessarily. It’s a practice, especially Zen, that you do on your own. So it appeals to a lot of people because of that.

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sands. Kafka would have felt right at home with this.

Yes, I’m sure biologists have their defenses, their stats, their reasons. I’m sure they’re all righteous and persuasive.

I’m really just talking PR here.

Sometimes you gotta play that game.

Sometimes, that game pays off.

Taking a couple of years off, for example. Why would that be “wrong?”

It’s not as though a suspension of the sage grouse hunting season is gonna take food off the table for hundreds of Nevada families. Pul-leez. As a food source, sage grouse is? well, check out this time-honored high desert recipe for Grouse Under Glass: 1. Take plucked grouse. 2. Place on cedar slab. 3. Place slab on grill and cover. 4. Cook for one hour at 350 degrees. 5. Take grouse. Throw away.

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