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GREIN VS. ROSENBERG See Election, page 7.

NEW FANGLED ELECTRIC CARS USE NOTHING BUT PLUGS See Green, page 9.

BRAIN DEAD

ZOMBIES? See Film, page 20.

BLOW THE SOUTH UP See Musicbeat, page 23.

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Keep your Child in the Game School is back in season, and fall and winter sports activities are starting soon. If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to get your kids to their physician for a physical. Here’s what your sports star can expect from a sports physical:

teams, including major league baseball, women’s professional soccer and men’s professional indoor lacrosse. He has also served as the official physician for the Reno Tahoe Open PGA Tour since 2010.

Review of Medical History

Dr. Palacio considers the Reno/Sparks area to be a big, wonderful playground and enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, golf and other year-round activities with his family. Practicing medicine here provides him the tremendous opportunity to care for folks that enjoy doing many of the same activities.

To schedule a sports physical for your child, call 775-352-5300.

First, you will be asked to complete a medical and family history form. Any illnesses, injuries or surgeries your child has experienced, as well as any medications he or she is taking, should be noted. Answers to these questions can provide important clues to current health issues or risk factors, so provide as much information as possible. The doctor will review this form with you and your child before the exam.

Physical Exam The physician will conduct a basic physical exam, which may include:

A sports physical can help identify any health issues that might interfere with your child’s ability to play a sport.

• Measuring height and weight • Taking blood pressure • Checking heart, lungs, stomach, ears, nose and throat • Vision, strength and flexibility tests

Be sure and discuss the sport your child is interested in. Your doctor can make recommendations about stretching, strengthening and other ways to help prevent injury. Based on your child’s medical history and exam results, adjustments may be made to medications.

Luis E. Palacio, MD

Board Certified, Family Medicine Board Certified, Primary Care Sports Medicine

Disclose any recent changes to your child’s health or physical condition and encourage your child to ask questions. If possible, schedule your child’s physical six weeks before the practice season starts. The healthier your athlete is before starting play, the better his or her performance will be.

Dr. Palacio is the Director of Sports Medicine at Northern Nevada Medical Group. He has cared for Olympic athletes and served as team physician for high school, collegiate and professional sports

5070 Ion Drive, Suite 200 | Sparks, NV | 775-352-5300 | www.NNMC.com Information is provided for educational purposes only, and is not intended to constitute medical advice or to be relied upon for the treatment of any particular condition. If you have concerns or questions about speci c symptoms that may affect your health, please contact your healthcare provider.

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LETTERS Dream on

Cults Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’ve got a couple of religious items conflated in my mind today. For one, I don’t sympathize in any way with the people who killed Americans and destroyed property in the Middle East over that Innocence of Muslims video attack on Islam, but I will tell you this, I get where they’re coming from.

It’s like this. Most of those people live in countries where the government decides what gets published. In order for that video to be made there, the government would have to sanction it. They have no understanding of our system of publication, so they believe our government sanctioned that video. You know how I know this? Because when I listen to how Americans talk about the riots, they can’t understand why these riots would attack our government when it was obviously some nutjob, individual hater who made the video. Lots of ignorance to spread around.

Closer to home, I’m still getting emails on Jake Highton’s June 28 story about atheism, “Are you there God. It’s me, Jake.” The reaction is interesting to me, and seems a bit analogous to the riots. I wrote a column called “Filet of Soul” for four years. I went to a different church, mosque, temple, woods clearing, chapel, stake—you name it—almost every week. I represented every single type of faith that I could find, and I tried to do it without bias, despite the fact I’m not a spiritual guy.

In those four years, I presented something like 200 different sects and belief systems and cults to the public. And in all that time, not once did an atheist write in telling me that the represented belief system was wrong. I’ve written cover length stories about people of faith; never a hateful letter from an atheist.

When you watch the TV news or you read what’s written about people of faith or of no faith in local media, be very attentive. The people who cry “discrimination” or “hypocrisy” loudest are often the ones who should be explaining their own bullshit instead of calling out others.

Re “The man who would be prez” (Feature story, Sept. 13): Obama and Romney have forsaken the American Dream. A declaration is an affirmation. Independence means self-government. They could have called the Declaration of Independence, the Affirmation of SelfGovernment! Gary Johnson and Judge Jim Gray are the only choice to Save the American Dream.

Colleen McCool Stephenville, Texas

Value voters Re “The man who would be prez” (Feature story, Sept. 13): The big picture for the November elections is one about the economy and social values. Under Obama’s economic agenda, we have a growing implementation of socialism where the state is more important than the individual. This is encapsulated in his “spread the wealth” and “you didn’t” comments. He believes the government should control wealth and not individuals, hence his repeated “you didn’t do that” comments contrasted to government planning (internet, roads and bridges). Obama also has implemented a more secular agenda in government with more liberal values. Romney stands for a return to free markets or capitalism, where the individual has more control of his wealth and the government is more limited. Romney also stands for the preservation of traditional Christian-Judeo values. So, we have an economic and cultural war going on that affects all of us, and people are really voting about that, whether they realize it or not.

Ernest Serano Reno

Kill Nevada gambling Re “Poker faceoff” (Upfront, Sept. 13): Regarding Party-Bwin and Jim Ryan and the Ultimate Bet scandal: Ask Russ Hamilton about Jim Ryan— the book will be out soon. He and Full Tilt/PokerStars were not investigated.

Who do you think got them started with thousands of bots and organized crime? Billions of government-backed student loans lost at online poker, and

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Send letters to renoletters@newsreview.com Nevada is looking the other way. This will be a killer for Nevada gaming.

Remember when the late Terry Lanni told you it could not be regulated?

Remember when Steve Wynn said, “No way”? Now Sheldon Adelson says, “No way, Jose.” These are very smart men with lots of input. What has changed is they can bring big brother technology so that your gambling is on a chart or graph and that’s the so-called protection. Money now is speaking, not wise gaming. This will not stop collusion, just make them smarter. Why did Nevada not seek to create its own software with the likes of Google, Bill Gates and Apple to create jobs, real jobs? Why not partner with clean corporations for a better Nevada? Please explain how online poker will create jobs. All the software is outsourced to Europe. Truth is it will cost thousands of jobs. Who is going to police the rest of the world when they market to the United States? How come the word “collusion” is not the main topic? Does the gaming control board really understand the word and how it works on a higher level?

Robert Turner Downey, Calif.

Here’s to old friends It’s about to happen again. Nationwide, Congress has only a 10 percent approval rating, yet we are about to reelect 90 percent of the incumbents!

How can this be? The only explanation: 90 percent of us approve of our own representative but want everyone else to elect someone different.

If this continues there will never be meaningful change in Washington.

Things will always be the same, right up until our country collapses.

Fellow Americans, we must do something different now. You can only vote for/against, and possibly replace, one of the 435 members of the House.

Is your representative really worthy of being sent back to Washington? If he/she has been there for 8 or more years it’s very likely he/she is part of the problem. If one of your choices in November is an eight-plus-year incumbent, seriously consider voting for the challenger. But you say, “The other candidate is a member of the other party, and he’s pro this or that.” A freshman representative of either party

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Glen Terrell Arlington, Texas Editor’s note: I wonder about this, too. I think people generally tend to stay with the horse they know in unsettled times. If this is true at all, one of the best ways for incumbents to get reelected is for them to perform poorly.

Yes. I don’t know.

Probably. Nope. Nope, again. Recycle it. Yes. It’s rumored that a couple of executives from health insurance corporations make near a billion bucks a year, including bennies and platinum parachutes. Here’s what the handy dandy trusty solar-powered pocket calculator says about all that: $3,846,153.85 a day. $480,769.23 an hour. $8,012.82 per minute. $133.55 per second.

So if a health insurance CEO can make as much in four hours as I have earned in my entire lifetime, my questions are: 1. Is he really that much smarter, and work that much harder in half a day than I did in a whole 40-plus years on the job?

2. Why does my health insurance cost so much?

3. Did I get into the wrong profession?

4. Can he lend me 10 minutes of his time?

5. Do you wonder why I hate unbridled/unregulated capitalism?

6. Should I throw my calculator away?

7. Did he just earn $5,000 taking a piss?

Damn.

Craig Bergland Reno

Conspiracy in Libya Remember back to the Koran burning that caused Muslim riots and the killing of American soldiers. We know that the Afghan advisors warned U.S. officials against it. But, who ordered the burning? The inflammatory video was Executive Assistant/Operations Coordinator Nanette Harker Assistant Distribution Manager Ron Neill Distribution Drivers Sandra Chhina, Jesse Pike, John Miller, Martin Troye, David Richards, Warren Tucker, Matthew Veach, Neil Lemerise, Russell Moore General Manager/Publisher John D. Murphy President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Chief Operations Officer Deborah Redmond Human Resource Manager Tanja Poley

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circulating Cairo University, but, so was word that the Obama raid was a “kill mission” and that “Obama killed Osama” was an American election slogan. The demonstrators at the embassy in Egypt chanted, “Obama, Obama we’re all Osamas, now!”

It was the ambassador there who made the connection to and apology for the inflammatory video. On a 9/11 anniversary, our Libya embassy had no Marine guards and relied upon Libyans for security, and the Marine guards at the Egyptian embassy had no bullets in their guns. Terrorists used sophisticated weapons to capture the embassy not just to take and kill our ambassador but to seize documents identifying our collaborators there. It was after the ambassador made a standard apology that demonstrators turned into rioters, breached the Egyptian embassy walls and hoisted the terrorist flag.

It took President Obama 15 hours to make a public statement, and that was just after Gov. Romney spoke. Where Romney condemned the terrorist acts and criticized the diplomatic apologies, President Obama condemned the video and criticized Romney’s “shooting from the hip.” No one remembers back five years ago when candidate Obama called President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, “Bush’s Pet.” Rash words in that case led to Musharraf’s downfall and political turmoil. In the current situation, we see how timid words, in the face of terror, condone violence and provoke contempt. The State Department continues to condemn the video and, of course, the media follows the president’s lead in criticizing Romney. Do you see a pattern here?

This pejorative video is blamed for causing demonstrations at our embassies just as American soldiers were blamed for burning the Korans.

No one asks why the embassies were not prepared just as no one asked who ordered the Korans burned. We do know the result of these mistakes— the loss of support for the war effort among Americans and Afghanis and, now, loss of support for American presence in the Mideast and the Muslim world.

Our foreign policy sets us up for failure and the terrorist for success.

Michael McCarthy Hayward, Calif.

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Asked at Nevada Judicial Historical Society meeting Patty Cafferata Attorney/author

I want to know how they’re going to create new jobs.

Lynn Bremer Retiree

I think questions about Iran and the whole nuclear situation, some specifics about how each would respond to that.

Karen Baggett

How they keep power It’s not often that voters can see the major parties working with media to undermine democracy, but occasionally it’s there, like the wake left after a hand passes through cigar smoke.

This presidential election shows that hand. We live in Nevada, right? We’ve had a massive increase in non-partisan voter registration, right? You know why? Because we don’t like our choices from the two main parties.

Up until Tuesday morning when we pointed out the omission, the Washoe County Registrar of Voters wasn’t listing presidential candidates on its website. That’s forgivable—mainly a technological oversight. But staffmembers didn’t even know who was running; one even provided the false information that it was just Obama and Romney.

For the record, there are four presidential candidates running in Nevada, and each has a vice presidential running mate. For the Independent American Party, it’s Virgil Goode and Jim Clymer; for the Libertarians, it’s Gary Johnson and James P. Gray; for the Democrats, it’s Barack Obama and Joe Biden; and for the Republicans, it’s Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. No Green Party candidates in Nevada, but there is, for now at least, the choice of None of these Candidates.

The major parties would prefer you don’t know that there are other options. Can’t have a spoiler like Ross Perot or Ralph Nader. The Republicans are even suing to take None of these Candidates off the ballot. But curious people know there are other options, so they go looking.

Well, currently the best internet site to figure out who’s on the ballot for president in the state of Nevada, locally anyway, is the Reno Gazette-Journal’s, www.rgj.com/candidates. And it sucks. Inconsistent information across races.

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I believe they should address the health care issue, particularly what they’re going to do about the rising costs [for] people unable to afford health care, as well as the medical community and help them so they can provide services.

date for U.S. Senate from the third-largest party in Nevada says, “The only defense spending you should focus on is arming yourself against the federal government and the police. The feds will disarm you so they can rob you, rape your family, and kill you in the end,” all you can do is wonder what rabbit hole you’ve fallen into.

The Reno Gazette-Journal lists only two candidates for president. No mention of vice presidents. No mention of third parties.

So, aside from the local-focused rag you hold in your hand, where are we independents going to go for information? How about the presidential debates? We could actually get a feel for these people who’ve been frozen out of the mainstream coverage.

At this moment, there are only two candidates for president listed for the three scheduled debates. Those debates are controlled by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which in turn is controlled by the two major parties (chaired by former Nevada Republican chair Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. and former Bill Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry). The commission imposes burdensome rules on other candidates instead of just letting in any candidate who is on enough ballots to get an electoral vote majority.

And the major news organizations have rolled over for this, instead of pressuring the commission to open up the process. If the major news organizations were truly fair, truly unbiased, they’d champion the right of other candidates to be heard.

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How are they going to work to improve relations with Muslim countries around the world?

Mike Fondi Former judge

You both said you need to create more jobs. How are each of you going to go about creating new jobs for the state of Nevada? What method are you going to use?

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At the downtown Reno municipal bus terminal, voter registrars have been signing up voters.

Water film showing set Last Call At the Oasis, a documentary by the Oscar winning Participant Media (Waiting for “Superman,” Charlie Wilson’s War) will be shown in Reno on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Century Riverside theater.

The movie is a look at water policies in an era when corporations like Goldman Sachs are trying to make water a privately owned commodity.

The Washington Post described Oasis as a movie that “represents nonfiction filmmaking at its most urgent, timely and stylistically smooth. ... Beginning in Nevada (now the go-to geographic metaphor for American profligacy and greed), Last Call at the Oasis delivers the alarming news that if [Las Vegas] continues to irrigate its dancing fountains and casino tourists at current rates, the nearby Lake Mead will be depleted, rendering the Hoover Dam unable to generate electricity in four years.”

Additional information and advance tickets can be obtained at http://tinyurl.com/8zx2syw

Romney’s complaint Nevadans fall smack in the middle of the ranking of people who pay no income tax, the people who so vex Mitt Romney, who complained about them at a private fundraiser. A video of his remarks was leaked to Mother Jones magazine.

According to the Tax Foundation, 35 percent of Nevadans make too little money to pay income tax. That’s 25th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Some of Romney’s comments: “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it—that that’s an entitlement. ... These are people who pay no income tax.”

The income tax system was designed to be progressive and exempt those without much money. It’s the reason many grass roots groups demanded an income tax during the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1913, the year the tax took effect, everyone with an income of less than $4,000 ($87,108.76 in 2010 dollars) was exempt.

By the way, all the states with high numbers of people who pay no income tax usually vote Republican in presidential races—the South and Idaho.

Nevada still underbanked The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reports that about a quarter of Nevada households are not fully engaged in the banking system, with 27.6 percent either “unbanked” (66,000 households) or “underbanked” (208,000 households). That represents a slight gain from the last such survey in 2009, when Nevada was at 27.3 percent (“Nevadans ‘underbanked,’ ” RN&R, Dec. 10, 2009).

Unbanked households are defined as lacking a checking or savings account. Underbanked households are those that have bank accounts but still rely on alternatives like money orders, check cashing shops, payday loans, rent-to-own agreements, pawn shops remittances, and other forms. These are called alternative financial services, or AFS. Full figures for some communities were released, but only limited information was provided in the cases of Reno and Las Vegas. Those in Reno who are underbanked or entirely unbanked come to 35.8 percent of households, more than 10 percent above the state figures. Figures for the number of Reno households that use AFS were not provided.

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Conventional wisdom A drive to register poor Nevadans spawns theories On the day before Nevada’s primary election this year, Project Vote, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under by Law, the NAACP, and the law firm Dennis Myers of Dechert LLP, sued Nevada to get a remedy to what the civil rights groups called the state’s “ongoing disregard” for the voting rights of low-income residents.

The suit argued that the state was not in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Best known for imposing “motor voter”—a requirement for voter registration at state motor vehicle licensing offices—the Act did not stop there.

“Party loyalty has never been lower.”

Fred Lokken Political analyst The lawsuit filing argued, “Section 7 of the [Act] requires that all public assistance offices … distribute a voter registration application with each application for public assistance, and each recertification, renewal, or change of address relating to an individual’s receipt of public assistance. Section 7 of the [Act] reflects Congress’ objective to ensure that registration is accessible for the poor and persons with disabilities who do not have driver’s licenses.”

At one time, the state was very active in providing voter registration in public assistance offices. Tens of thousands of registrations were taken there. But in recent years those numbers have fallen into four digits.

In response to the lawsuit, voter registration efforts have become much more aggressive in various offices that serve low-income Nevadans.

In addition, online voter registration has become available this month.

However, the notion that ease of registration increases voter turnout is not a proposition that has panned out in the past.

Party gain?

Some commentaries have suggested that the push in the state for more low-income participation in voting is likely to be an advantage for the Democratic Party, but that is far from certain. Low-income whites, in particular, are a big question mark.

“This is a nation of aspirations, and many people vote their aspirations,” said political scientist Fred Lokken. “Voters often want to identify with the party that speaks to affluence.”

He said party is only one of many factors that drive votes by the poor, and there has never been a worse time to bet on party loyalty.

“It can be driven by religious affiliation, family history, the critical

issues of the day or the state of the economy,” Lokken said.

The kinds of likely behavior the party system once counted on are no longer givens.

“One of the realities the two parties have had to face is that their guaranteed locked-in support has kind of disappeared,” Lokken said.

“Party loyalty has never been lower.”

The economy is a very powerful driver of voter preference in hard times, he said.

“They’re going to take into account how well they’ve done.”

Even if people are registered, nothing assures that they will vote.

In the state’s primary election in June, turnout was in the teens—and that was as a percent of registered voters. As a percent of eligible voters, it was even lower.

In part, the low turnout was likely attributable to the early date—June 12. But even taking that into account, a 14.5 percent turnout is pretty dismal.

Overall turnout generally is of less importance, certainly in the presidential race, than who turns out.

In Nevada, Mitt Romney leads among white voters, men, voters over 45, and those who describe themselves as independents. In addition, the number of Nevadans who view him negatively has declined, giving him about the same favorability rankings as Barack Obama— though Romney may be on a trend line, which means his favorability could continue improving.

Obama leads among minorities, women, and voters under 45.

Obama’s Nevada lead fell to three points in a Public Policy Polling survey taken the weekend before the Republican National Convention, the most recent independent survey available. That margin is so close that Republican tactics like suing to remove Nevada’s “none of these candidates” ballot option could have a determinative impact if that margin holds.

Latinos resist

Perhaps surprisingly, PPP found that Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson polled in other states better than in Nevada, where he receives just 2 percent of the vote. However, it is difficult to assess who Johnson takes votes from, because his issue stands tend to cut across liberal/conservative lines. He opposes the war on drugs, supports abortion rights, opposes the kind of military interventions the U.S. has launched in recent decades, opposes

Teaching moments use of detention and torture, and supports marriage equality. He also opposes the Democratic health care plan, supports gun rights, and opposes the level of taxation that currently exists.

Voters registering with the Democratic Party have grown steadily during this campaign year compared to Republicans, but that is likely due to more effective efforts by the Democratic Party as much as to voter preferences. Voter registrations are not usually a good indicator of election outcomes. And Obama is not the rock star he was in 2008, when he drew huge numbers of voters to the polls.

As of the end of July, 451,066 of the state’s voters were Democrats, 402,471 were Republicans and 180,366 were nonpartisan. One Democratic think tank said Nevada is experiencing nonpartisan gains in double-digit percentages, one of two states where independent numbers are growing that fast.

In any event, Republican voter registration efforts could now gain with the arrival of $166,000 from the Republican National Committee for the Nevada GOP registration campaign.

Probably the biggest disappointment for Republican leaders is the Latino vote. Obama currently enjoys a 39-percentage point lead among those Nevada voters. Republican organization leaders have put in serious effort in recent years to lure those voters to the GOP, but Republican elected officials unable to resist beating the drum for harsher immigration policies have stymied those efforts. Latinos account for a fifth to a quarter of the Nevada electorate.

With Nevada’s beleaguered economy playing backdrop to the upcoming elections, by it comes as no surprise that funding Bethany Deines is a large point of contention in Ken Grein and Howard Rosenberg’s race for the Washoe County School Board in District D. They are using the campaign to try to educate the public on how to cope with the money troubles.

“The most pressing problem we face is financial,” said Ken Grein, the incumbent board president and a trustee since 2009.

Born and raised in Lovelock Nevada, Grein received a bachelor’s in Elementary and Special Education and a master’s in Education Administration, both from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Grein has spent 32 years serving the Washoe County School District in a number of roles, including teacher, coach, princiGREIN pal, assistant superintendent of elementary education, assistant superintendent of K-12, and superintendent of operations.

According to Grein, the WCSD has suffered over $120 million in cuts over the past two years, and unfortunately, he said, the future of education funding doesn’t look much brighter.

A bond measure currently used to make much-needed capital improvements in Washoe County, such as the repair of heating and air-conditioning systems or the fitting of schools with up-to-date technology, expires in November. If the district can’t obtain the proper funding to meet its capital needs, which Grein estimates to be in excess of $500 million, the board will be forced to take money from the general education fund—right out of the classroom.

Grein said the most important task facing the upcoming school board will be to lobby the Nevada Legislature for increased education funding. He said that as part of the previous school board, he’s already gathered a large group of over 800 Washoe County parents to help in this endeavor.

“We’re going to have to get the Legislature to come up with some sort of line-item capital funding provided by the state,” Grein said. “If you value education, you have to fund it.”

But Grein’s opponent, ROSENBERG Howard Rosenberg, disagrees with Grein’s hard focus on the importance of increased funding.

“People solve problems, not money,” said Rosenberg. “Every

Ease of registration doesn’t mean voters will turn out Significant campaign benchmarks still to come that could provide game-changing moments are the three presidential and one vice presidential debates. Obama and Romney debate on Oct. 3, 16, and 22, and the vice presidential candidates debate on Oct. 11. So far, no other candidates have been admitted to the debates. Ω

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State highway officials have been selling the new leg of the Reno/Carson highway like a tourist attraction. But riders on a morning commuter bus between the two cities were pretty blasé about the new route and its new scenery.

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school system in the world could use more money.”

According to Rosenberg, the problems confronting the district are not strictly financial, but systemic.

Although he recognizes the essential role of funding in K-12 education, he believes the WCSD could better allocate its existing funds.

As a school board trustee, Rosenberg said one of the first changes he would make would be a reevaluation of the K-12 curriculum.

He believes the goal of education should be for students to attach profound meaning and value to the subjects they’re taught in school. He wants Nevada children to make a deep and personal connection with their educations.

“You have to attract the child to something that means something to him or her,” he said. “I’m not saying that we throw everything away, I’m saying that we reexamine what we’ve got.”

Another of Rosenberg’s suggestions is to hold the school board meetings in a rotational circuit among the various K-12 schools in Washoe County. He believes that such a change would not only put the school board in better touch with the needs and problems of Washoe County schools, but allow parents easier access to policy-making that affects their child’s education.

Rosenberg’s education beliefs stem from a career-long immersion in education at all levels. He received a bachelor’s degree in art education at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1962 and advanced degrees in education and art at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and School of Design in 1965. He has been an art professor at the University of Nevada, Reno for 46 years, where he serves as the sole undergrad advisor for the art department. Between 1996 and 2008, Rosenberg served on the Nevada Board of Regents that governs higher education in the state.

It was his experiences in higher education that led Rosenberg to pursue a position on the Washoe County School Board. Disappointed by the high number of university and community college students required to take remedial classes before entering a college-level curriculum, Rosenberg decided a more radical reinvention of the K-12 system was necessary.

“There’s so much we could do,” said Rosenberg. “The most important thing is to build that wonderful relationship that needs to exist between student and teacher.” Ω |

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The grant will last for five years, with $7.6 million going to UNR and the rest distributed to other institutions. Cushman is the team leader.

Brain fuel for Washoe students The University of Nevada, Reno is not the only school receiving grants for new projects. The Washoe County School District recently implemented the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which provides produce to students at 34 local schools. Schools in which more than half of the students are enrolled in free or reduced lunch are eligible for the program, funded with $2 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Part of the initiative includes educating students and teachers about healthy foods, spearheaded

by UNR’s cooperative extension department and funded by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program education project, SNAP-Ed.

Cool runnings Producing snow for the slopes at Heavenly Mountain Resort will use less energy this year due to brand new snow guns. Ten Viking V2 snow guns were installed at the resort, which create snow by mixing compressed air with cool water.

Heavenly will be rebated $29,913 from NV Energy for the project, and the new guns are estimated to save the resort 378,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and reduce carbon emissions by 283 tons.

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Cheating cheatgrass Western environmental publication High Desert News published an article about local scientists’ work to combat cheatgrass, an invasive species susceptible to wildfires. In the article, University of Nevada, Reno professor Beth Leger and graduate student Owen Baughman were profiled. Leger and Baughman are part of a team of scientists studying the plant species of the Great Basin, and have been researching the growth potential for native Nevada plants such as Poa secunda, a type of grass that grows in tufts. Along with this research, scientists are investigating the impact of a fungus dubbed the Black Fingers of Death on cheatgrass. The scientists are manipulating the fungus to reproduce differently in order to make it as potent as possible on cheatgrass seeds, and are also testing its effect on native plants.

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A concert to benefit the restoration of Bartley Ranch Regional Park will be held on Sept. 22 at the Robert Z. Hawkins Ampitheater. Areas of the park were damaged by fire earlier this year. The band lineup includes Homemade Jam, Electric Catfish, Guitar Woody and the Boilers. Doors open at 5 p.m. and concert starts at 6 p.m. $15 for reserved seats, $10 for lawn. Buy tickets at www.washoecountyparks.com or at the Washoe County Parks Office, 2601 Plumas St., Mon.-Thurs. 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

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The event, held at Idlewild Park on Sept. 23, is a collaboration between the Electric Auto Association, Plug In America and the Sierra Club, and is intended to spread the word about the benefits of electric and hybrid vehicles.

“The purpose of the event is to reach out to our neighbors and community and to show them what emerging technologies of electric vehicles are all about,” says Tregilus.

Other local environmental groups will be in attendance, such as the Clean Energy Center, Envirolution, Young Professionals in Energy, among others.

Attendees will have a chance to drive an all-electric Nissan LEAF or a hybrid Chevy Volt, and can enter in a raffle to drive a Tesla Motors Roadster. Tregilus wants participants to feel no sales pressure at the event, but to be open-minded about the potential for EVs in Northern Nevada. While EVs are still rare in the area, the Nissan LEAF (which stands for “leading, environmentally friendly, affordable, family car”) and the Chevy Volt are available at local dealerships.

Tregilus says that one of the most common concerns about EVs is the “long tailpipe,” argument, which suggests that EVs are more damaging to the environment because they use electricity from dirty power plants. However, as the power grid becomes cleaner, “so will cars,” he says. “But only if they’re electric.”

The other concern is about range anxiety—the worry that the car will run out of fuel before reaching a destination. Tregilus mentions actress and EV activist Alexandra Paul, who has talked about the flipside of range anxiety—“gas anxiety,” or the concerns over the global politics and environmental damage related to cars that require oil.

Transportation researchers anticipate that people will move away from gaspowered cars as new infrastructure is built to support better public transportation, cycling and walking, and EV power stations. But EVs have had a mixed public response lately after sales for the Nissan Leaf reported to be much lower than expected, and Fisker Automotives had to recall some of its vehicles in August after reports of the cars catching on fire. However, buzz around the Tesla Model S and new concepts to be showcased at the Paris Auto Show next week are encouraging to EV supporters and consumers who want more plug-ins and hybrids on the market. Even the Pope is in on the action, recently reported to be using a Renault EV to tour the Italian countryside.

Tregilus said that once people make the switch, it’s hard to imagine going back to a gas-powered vehicle, especially with the prices of gas continuing to rise.

“People from two car families, one gas and one electric, find that they are pushing the envelope of the electric car just to avoid having to go to the gas station,” he said. “It really shifts when you’re on the other side of the wheel.” Ω

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when pumpkin-spiced everything hits the stores, and those early mornings on the way to work begin to feel chilly. After this year’s dry winter, hazy spring and parched summer, we’re ready for the chance to cuddle under some blankets and consume some new and interesting media.

In our annual fall guide, we like to highlight books, games, movies and more to keep you engaged and stimulated throughout the autumn months.

Books

by Casey O’Lear

As the weather begins to turn toward the fall, the outdoorsy summer activities make way for more of my favorite kind of exercise—sitting snugly indoors and reading a new book.

This fall, several big-name authors and some choice up-and-comers will release a range of great reads for those rainy fall nights that lie ahead for us in Reno.

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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown & Company): One of the most highly-anticipated new novels of the year comes from J.K. Rowling, the inexhaustible creator of the Harry Potter universe. The Casual Vacancy will be Rowling’s first foray into adult-aimed literature, as well as her first novel to stray from the fantasy world so many have been enthralled with since the first installment of the series was released in the late 1990s.

The Casual Vacancy follows the story of Barry Fairbrother, a member of the parish council in a town called Pagford, whose sudden death leaves his council seat available and sets in motion a terrible town-wide war that reveals the town to be far less than the idealistic English village it appears to be on the surface.

The novel will be Rowling’s chance to transition into a different market and test her fiction-writing skills in a world without Lord Voldemort. Though the verdict is still out as to whether Rowling will be able to capture an adult audience The Casual Vacancy in the same way she has captured them before, this novel is certainly one to check out this fall.

NW by Zadie Smith (Penguin Group): Zadie Smith recently released her first novel in seven years, since 2005’s On Beauty. In the meantime, Smith focused her efforts on nonfiction writing, but she returns to fiction with NW, a tragicomedy that follows four Londoners who are all attempting to forge adult lives outside of their childhood hometown. The setting of the novel plays an integral role in the lives of the characters, who are in their mid-30s and struggling to lead fulfilling lives in the working class area of northwest London.

The plotlines of all four characters intertwine, creating a mesmerizing story arc for readers to follow through their lives and their interactions with one another, both through personal history and by chance.

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Smith gained critical acclaim for her 2000 debut novel, White Teeth, which told the story of two wartime friends—one Bangladeshi and one English—who also lived in London with their families.

Smith’s writing chops are obvious, and the gloomy tone of the novel and its setting in the dreary Caldwell area will perfectly complement this season’s impending Reno weather of surprise thunderstorms and sudden blizzards that leave you trapped inside with your books.

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press): Famed Native American author Sherman Alexie combines 15 new stories with 15 classics in his latest collection, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories, creating the perfect assortment of work for readers who are not familiar with his expansive 20-book career, as well as those readers who hang on his every word. Some of his most famous short stories—“This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” and “The Toughest Indian in the World,” to name a few—are included in this anthology and will be reintroduced to readers after their first round of publication.

Additionally, Alexie brings some new work to the table, delving into topics ranging from life and marriage on a Native American reservation to wind turbines and donkey basketball leagues.

Alexie, as a well-established author, will likely deliver another impressive collection of writing with Blasphemy, and his short story format will make this a perfect quick read to keep you company this fall.

Life After Death by Damien Echols (Blue Rider Press): Damien Echols is one of three friends who have been dubbed the West Memphis Three—teenagers convicted in 1994 for three murders they did not commit. Echols was sentenced to death while his two friends were sentenced to life in prison, but they were released last year following a decision from the Arkansas Supreme Court that admitted new DNA evidence into the case. During the trial, the three friends were targeted for the music they listened to and their rebellion against traditional Bible Belt values, and were accused of killing three young boys as part of a Satanic ritual.

During his time in prison, Echols collaborated with artists such as Pearl Jam and Michale Graves of the Misfits, and he published poetry and non-fiction writing in local literary journals. Since the release of the West Memphis Three, Echols has penned a memoir—Life After Death— chronicling his journey through the process, detailing his experiences in prison and his feelings about his imprisonment.

Life After Death has been recommended as a must-read for anyone who has been following the case of the West Memphis Three throughout the years, as well as anyone with an interest in the U.S. justice system. Echols’ story is compelling, shocking and thought-provoking, which is sure to make “Life After Death” a captivating read for this fall.

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese): Ian McEwan, the author of Atonement, delivers another period piece with a healthy dose of both romance and espionage in Sweet Tooth. The book is also McEwan’s first to feature a female protagonist since Atonement. It follows a bookish Cambridge student named Serena Frome during the height of the Cold War. An operation codenamed “Sweet Tooth” aims to manipulate the tone of society by giving funding to writers whose work aligns with the thinking of the British government. Serena is enlisted to infiltrate the literary community, but begins to fall in love with a promising young writer she is sent to spy on, thus compromising her undercover identity.

The classic quality of a good spythemed romance novel—about writing, no less—is undeniable. Sweet Tooth will doubtlessly provide ample entertainment for this fall’s reading.

Video Games

by Ashley Hennefer

2011 was a hot year for new game releases, but all hope is not lost for 2012’s fall games. From massive multiplayer online games (MMOs), to epic first-person shooters, there’s some new gameplay to suit every kind of gamer. And this year, genre games reign supreme.

Guild Wars 2 (Aug. 28, PC): This game has been out for a couple of weeks but it’s worth adding to your fall gaming queue. GW2’s beautiful graphics and unique gameplay are a step up from the original Guild Wars, which was a good game in its own right. Rather than featuring one story line, the game builds the story around the character traits selected by the player, allowing for a controlled and open world experience within a heavily populated MMO. The character creation is gorgeous and can easily rival that of the Elder Scrolls franchise, although

often the options feel like they were designed based on the fantasies of 14year-old boys. I mean, if you’re not a ranger, you should at least have some armor or clothing protecting the rest of your body, am I right? But once you get past the ridiculously skimpy costumes, you’ll be taken through an awesome cinematic opening sequence and plopped straight into a battle. This a game best played while it’s raining outside, just because it feels more epic that way. But beware—it’s a guaranteed time sink.

Borderlands 2 (Sept. 18, Xbox, PS3, PC): The first game in this franchise was generally well-received for being a fun multiplayer experience, and this game promises to have a more lively world with an abundance of nonplayer characers (NPCs) and four new classes to choose from. The comic book style graphics work well with the space western setting of the game, and the motley crue of characters evoke the quirkiness of other co-op games like Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead.

Dishonored (Oct. 9, Xbox, PS3, PC): Dishonored, created by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda, got a lot of hype at this year’s gaming conventions, and the first-person game is sure to be the most anticipated release this fall, given that it’s a brand new game with no established franchise. The steampunk-inspired aesthetics and top notch voice actors— including Susan Sarandon, Chloe Grace Moretz and Brad Dourif, to name a few—

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make this a promising title. The fact that it’s single player is also a welcome change from the abundance of multiplayer and co-op games, and the gamemakers have noted that it’s possible to play the game without having to kill any character, which means that the player will have a lot of freedom in choosing how to navigate stealthily through the game’s mysteries.

Assassin’s Creed III (Oct. 30, Xbox and PS3; Nov. 20, PC; Liberation, PS Vita): The third game in Ubisoft’s successful Assassin’s Creed franchise is set during the American Revolution, a significant change from the past games’ stories in Europe and the Middle East, and is a sequel to AC: Revelations, released in 2010. The game has a new engine, intended to make battles more epic, such as having around 2,000 NPCs instead of 100. The game’s weather will also have an effect on gameplay—for instance, snow will make characters stumble and walk slower, adding more challenges in the game.

Also coming out on the same day is Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, made for the PlayStation Vita handheld device.

This game has been the buzz of the internet because of its black female protagonist. Liberation takes place in New Orleans during the French and Indian war.

It’s nice to see new titles for the Vita being released since the potential for the device seems often overlooked.

Halo 4 (Nov. 6, Xbox): This is the eighth game in the Halo franchise and the footage released looks promising, although the story has lost some of its appeal since there are many more epic space games now then there were when Halo was new. Word is that Conan O’Brien is one of its voice actors, which is … interesting. Nonetheless, the first person shooter has a dedicated fanbase, and the graphics look mighty clean. Halo 4 also happens to come out on Election Day, so we’ll see how this impacts the future of our country.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Nov. 13): The next installment of the ultimate bro game is out in November. Black Ops II is the first game of the franchise to take place in the future using futuristic weaponry. The game’s story will change based on of player choices, also a first for the series and a break from the traditional CoD gameplay. Last year’s Modern Warfare 3 release was the biggest entertainment launch ever, so it’s safe to assume that Black Ops II will come in a bit short, but CoD fans will likely be excited about this installment.

Music

by Brad Bynum

The presence of four distinct, unique seasons is something locals often cite as the best thing about Reno. And, if you live in

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this town long enough, those seasons get in your blood. I find it interesting how much my tastes change depending on the seasons. For beers, I crave stouts in the winter, Hefeweizens in the spring, Pilsners in the summer, and IPAs in the fall. Likewise, my music habits change from season to season, and over the first few weeks of September, I’ve already noticed a personal shift away from the hip-hop and upbeat rock of the summer to darker, more introverted material.

Cue Bob Dylan, whose latest record, Tempest—his 115th album—came out on Sept. 11. It’s mostly old timey music at the crossroads of blues, country, folk and rock. The first song’s about a train, if that tells you anything. The backing musicians crank out a competent, professional and tasteful if somewhat anonymous and occasionally clichéd musical backdrop,

over which the most important singer of the last 60 years croaks his tales and wheezes his refrains. (And it probably goes without saying by now that if you don’t appreciate a good croak or wheeze, then Bob Dylan is not for you. Have fun listening to Enya or whatever the fuck you people listen to.)

What makes Tempest such a perfectly autumnal record is that the now 70-something Dylan spends much of the running time in a deadlocked staring contest with death. The title track, for example, is a

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14-minute meditation on the sinking of the Titanic. The tune is apparently based partly on a old folk song about the same subject, and Dylan rolls out details that are by turns funny, surreal and tragic, building up to the devastating quatrain: “They waited at the landing/And they tried to understand/But there is no understanding/On the judgment of God’s hand.”

The final track, “Roll on John”—the comma after the preposition is presumably implied—is a memorial tribute to John Lennon. The best chorus belongs to “Pay in Blood”: “I pay in blood, but not my own.” But my favorite track, at least in the first week of listening, is “Tin Angel,” an atmospheric murder ballad. It remains to be seen if Tempest will stand alongside other late-period Dylan masterpieces, like Time Out of Mind and Modern Times, but it’ll definitely be in my regular rotation as 2012 moves toward its end.

Fall is the season of October, the month of Halloween, and Halloween is that rare annual occasion in which modern Americans wholeheartedly embrace an animalistic emotion they spend much of their lives denying: fear. And I doubt that a more frightening album will be released in 2012 than The Seer, the new two-hour opus by Swans. The band has been around in various incarnations since the early ’80s, minus a stretch around the ’00s when bandleader Michael Gira focused on his more acoustic-oriented project Angels of Light.

Much of the music on The Seer is huge, powerful and physically exhausting. The title track stretches on for 30 minutes, best described as unrelenting.

(Gira, in recent interviews, compares making music to tantric sex.) The music, often superficially hideous and dissonant, connects to the listener’s brain-melted animal emotions: in addition to fear, there’s hunger, lust and violence. (And if you try to tell me that violence isn’t an emotion, I’d direct you to once again listen to that title track.)

For all the brutality of the record, it’s also radiated with moments of pristine beauty, like “Song for a Warrior,” a lovely, country-like song written by Gira and sung by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

After my first listen, The Seer shot straight to the top of my “Best of 2012” list, a position from which it is unlikely to be dislodged.

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Among my musical disappointments this year is Animal Collective’s latest, Centipede Hz. As a genuinely experimental band, it stands to reason that Animal Collective, like, say, Sonic Youth, would occasional have an experiment fail.

Such is the case here, which I guess isn’t a surprise. The band’s last proper fulllength, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is gorgeous, as were their most recent couple of EPs, so they were kind of due for a stinker.

(Not to mention the fact that, due to a recent movie series about coprophagia, the word “centipede” makes me uncomfortable.) But their last bad album, Strawberry Jam, has buried deep in its midst “Fireworks,” arguably the band’s best ever song. So I’ve been scouring this thing for hidden moments of brilliance among its constant bubbling cauldron of cutesy digital sounds.

I haven’t found much, though “Today’s Supernatural” is a decent rock song. However, I’ve enjoyed each listen more than the last, so maybe it’s a grower.

Movies

This is but a sampling of the movies that will be making their way to cinemas this fall. I must say, this looks like very exciting times for moviegoers.

The Master (Sept. 21): Of all the movies coming out in the next few months, this is the one I am most excited about. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is pure genius, and he’s never made a film I didn’t like. I doubt he ever will. This film, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as a man supposedly based on Scientology master L. Ron Hubbard, got a bunch of awards at the Venice Film Festival, and marks the return of Joaquin Phoenix. I want this in my face now!

Dredd 3D (Sept. 21): This one is out this week, I will see it, and I will do so with a smile on my face. Karl Urban taking over the title role of the nastiest judge ever from Sylvester Stallone sounds good to me, and early buzz is very encouraging.

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Trouble with the Curve (Sept. 21): Clint Eastwood drags his craggy ass out of the house to do some acting as a baseball scout hanging around with his daughter, played by the ever reliable Amy Adams. I already hate this movie because Eastwood plays a scout for the Atlanta Braves.

Looper (Sept. 28): Yes, I believe September, usually a suck month for movies, is going to kick some mortal ass this year, culminating with this scifi trip starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a time traveling assassin who faces off against a very strange, and familiar, opponent in Bruce Willis.

Pitch Perfect (Sept. 28): This singoff movie chaps my nads whenever I see the trailer. It looks like it is part Glee and part Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Taken 2 (Oct. 5): Reader … listen up, reader … I need you to be calm … now that cup of coffee you are drinking … the one right off to the side of this paper as you read it … IT’S GOING TO BE TAKEN! Frankenweenie (Oct. 5): Tim Burton directs a black-and-white stopmotion animation film based on a live-action short he did years ago. This looks amazing.

Argo (Oct. 12): Ben Affleck sports Zac Efron hair for his latest directorial effort, an Iran Hostage Crisis movie where he can lose the Boston accent.

Seven Psychopaths (Oct. 12): If you’re a faithful reader of this paper, you might remember that I went nuts for Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges a few years ago. The warped writer-director is back, doing a dark comedy about dognapping with Colin Farrell once again in tow. Throw in Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson, and you have the makings of one to remember.

Killing Them Softly (Oct. 19): Director Andrew Dominik reteams with his The Assassination of Jesse James by

the Coward Robert Ford star Brad Pitt.

Paranormal Activity 4 (Oct. 19): As with the Saw films, it seems as if these poorly produced horror films for mouthbreathers will never stop.

Cloud Atlas (Oct. 26): I like the looks of this one. The Wachowskis, makers of The Matrix, return and codirect with Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). The likes of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant play a series of different roles in different times, with their characters having some sort of “connection.” This could be one of the year’s biggest surprises.

Flight (Nov. 2): Denzel Washington makes an Oscar bid as a pilot who performs an amazing act but then gets himself into lots of trouble. Robert Zemeckis directs.

Skyfall (Nov. 9): Apparently you can’t say “skyfall” to Daniel Craig’s 007. He’ll just get up out of his chair in the interrogation room, give a death stare through the two-way mirror, and step out for coffee and pie.

Lincoln (Nov. 16): Steven Spielberg directs and Daniel Day Lewis stars as the title character, a really swell car that gets terrible gas mileage but truly does deliver when it comes to luxury. Oh, wait …

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2 (Nov. 16): And Satan awoke after a night drinking the blood of kittens mixed with boxed wine, pleased with himself, for he knew that as long as this franchise continued, his presence would most surely be felt amongst moviegoers.

Alas, nobody told him that the franchise would reach its end in 2012 and, even worse, that Kristen Stewart screwed around on Robert Pattinson.

That was the work of Satan’s mischievous nephew, Oliver (that little shit from The Brady Bunch).

And then, Jesus called Satan, and this was their conversation.

Jesus: “Good morning, Satan.

Hate you.”

Satan: “Waddup, Jesus. Hate you too. Didn’t I ask you not to call me here?”

Jesus: “Hey Satan, no more Twilight after November this year.

Sucks to be you!”

Satan: “Noooooooooooooo!”

Satan dropped his iPhone 23— they are many models ahead in Hell—hunched over, and vomited gallons of kitten blood/boxed wine all over a napping Richard Harris.

About to admit defeat and retire from being bad altogether, he suddenly remembered something, and raised the phone to his triumphant, bloody face.

Satan: “Suck it, Jesus! I still have Hunger Games and Avatar sequels in the funnel!”

Jesus wept.

Life of Pi (Nov. 21): Ang Lee directs a crazy looking movie about a dude getting stuck on a raft with a tiger in the middle of the ocean.

Better a tiger than Jodie Foster. I just think she would be too intense and gloomy for a long boat trip.

Hyde Park on Hudson (Dec. 7): Bill Murray won’t do another Ghostbusters move. He’d rather slum around in this movie as Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Dec. 14): Peter Jackson returns to his wheelhouse with a projected trilogy of Hobbit films.

Am I the only one who thinks the trailers for this look kind of blah?

Let’s just hope the guy who edited the trailer took a lot of painkillers that day and failed to include the truly engaging stuff. As it is, it just looks like a bunch of dwarves singing songs and smoking pipes.

Fuck that shit.

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Les Misérables (Dec. 14): The footage of Anne Hathaway singing live on a soundstage for this movie is unbelievable. If the rest of the movie is half as good as that moment, well, we are looking at possibly one of the greatest movie musicals ever made, right? Right?

Zero Dark Thirty (Dec. 19): Kathryn Bigelow, director of The Hurt Locker, makes a film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. I think a lot of gun-toting conservative types will ejaculate when the old bastard finally takes one in the head.

This Is 40 (Dec. 21): Judd Apatow makes a “sort of” sequel to Knocked Up starring the characters played by Paul Rudd and Apatow’s real-life wife Leslie Mann.

Jack Reacher (Dec. 21) Tom Cruise’s latest “Oh, come on … I’m not that crazy!” comeback has him starring as a guy who drives fast and punches hard. And he can also sing Def Leppard like nobody’s business and has rock hard abs. Seriously, let’s not forget how good he was in Rock of Ages.

The Impossible (dec. 21): Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor star in a disaster film about the Southeast Asia tsunami. This has to be an Oscar contender.

Django Unchained (Dec. 25): So, if hobbits, Christopher Walken, James Bond and Joaquin Phoenix haven’t kicked your ass by year’s end, here comes the latest Quentin Tarantino movie … STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO! Oh … my … God. Ω

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The infomercial grabbed my attention because women were disrobing, but I soon became enthralled by the Genie Bra’s miracle tales of “lift,” “support” and “comfort.” I ecstatically repeated this trifecta to my wife, Shahla, but she remained skeptical. Thankfully, she agreed to act as our guest reviewer.

Shahla found the bra to be “very comfortable” with “support just short of a sports bra.” She didn’t feel the lift was evident, though we both agreed that the nylon fabric contoured to her shape for a more natural appearance, avoiding a sports bra’s infamous uniboob. “It’s a great multipurpose bra,” Shahla said, “I could work in the yard, go for a run, and sleep in it.” Despite infomercial claims that it could double as a camisole under a shirt, Shahla disagrees. “The full coverage and size of the straps rule out most low-cut or backless tops.” With no underwire, Shahla could see the Genie Bra thriving during travel—unceremoniously thrown in a suitcase or worn while sleeping on cramped planes and trains— and she praises the Genie Bra as a bra truly, “designed for the wearer and no one else.” $20 for a two-pack at department stores or $60 for six online.

Recommended by a friend whose anime and video game cosplay career often calls for an exaggerated bosom, Bombshell by Victoria’s Secret promises more than lift with a claim to “add two cup sizes.”

While the thick padding in the cups achieved this goal, Shahla said the “forced shaping” created a “torpedo effect” that made her feel silly and self-conscious. Though a little pricier than department store bras, she appreciated the quality—nice stitching, strong fabric and sturdy underwire that wouldn’t bend in the wrong places—and little touches such as decorative lace and a fashionable, triangular connector at the base of the straps. Unfortunately, the thin straps, though pretty and agreeable to dresses and non–full sleeve tops, didn’t provide the support that she looks for. After getting used to the padding, Shahla found the Bombshell to be comfortable and could see it in a regular lingerie rotation, but she’d drop the Bombshell from the day-to-day line-up.

Not for high price or lack of quality, rather a lack of practicality. $49.50–$62.

A “middle-of-the-line” entry for Shahla, Self Expressions’ Two Times Sexy push-up bra does “a little bit of everything, but none of it very well.”

Closer in style to a traditional bra than the overly padded Bombshell and the ugly duckling Genie Bra, Shahla liked Self Expressions’ entry for the office or going out to dinner. Wide straps provided the support missing from Bombshell while still avoiding the sports bra–sized straps of Genie Bra that limited dress options.

When it comes to sizing, all brands are different, Shahla noted, but she found this line to be, “way, way off the mark,” which—paired with the minimal padding—led us to believe this wasn’t so much a push up bra as a “squeeze it all up to the top” bra. The quality, fabric and underwire—which Shahla noted would inevitably and irreparably bend out of shape— couldn’t touch Victoria’s Secret, but this demi-cup could pass as lingerie and was, most importantly, perfectly comfortable. $18.

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Dominique Palladino’s vividly titled piece “Faggot” at Sierra Arts.

Dominique Palladino When looking at the work in Dominique Palladino’s current exhibition, H(i)erarchy, one immeby diately senses the performative aspect of Megan Berner the pieces. To the left of the gallery entrance, the viewer is confronted by a pile of shattered, bright orange, hard candy, surrounding the remainder of a translucent wall barely standing, as the sugar bricks warp in the heat coming from the sun shining through the window. To the right of the entrance, a chair sits next to a wooden table, on which there’s a small pitcher and Dominique Palladino’s bowl of wax. On the wall is an outline of a H(i)er-archy is on human form with a halo of nails and hair display at Sierra Arts, 17 severed from the head. It’s evident that S. Virginia St., through some action was performed here.

Oct. 4. For more In her work, Palladino draws upon syminformation, visit www.sierra-arts.org or bols, rituals and materials that reference dominiquepalladino. religion and art—two spheres that, historitumblr.com. cally, are predominantly patriarchal. She often uses materials that contrast each other, in a way creating a dichotomy between two seemingly contradicting ideas.

“In general, we relate to everything in the male perspective,” says Palladino. “I was really interested in referencing the holy

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The opening night of the exhibition, Palladino did a performance that included her grandmother and mother. Toward the end, Palladino stood in the outline of the human form drawn on the wall, while her mother stretched pieces of her hair up and around the halo of nails in radiating lines, securing them there with wax.

“I was being torn in all these different directions because of the actual physical tension that was created,” Palladino says, referring to having her hair pulled. “That energy to me is what really signifies how a woman functions and how she feels in our society.”

Visually, the work is seductive, but also plays with this idea of contradictions.

Palladino’s use of materials like human hair and animal skins in conjunction with her formal presentation, creates a visceral reaction that is simultaneously repulsive and alluring. In “The Good Shepherd,” sheep’s wool in varying shades of brown and beige and approximately the height of a tall man

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exudes from the corner, taking the shape of a vagina. The rich textures draw you in, and yet it’s confrontational and overwhelming.

In some cases, the simplified associations in the work can seem heavy-handed, albeit serving the artist’s purpose.

The far end of the gallery is occupied by a coven of identical brooms hanging from white satin ribbon. They dangle about six inches above the floor, which is covered in a layer of hair. In the midst of these hangs a stick broom that clearly stands out. The piece, titled “Faggot”—which originally referred to a bundle of sticks and was used as a derogatory term for women—com-

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Palladino says that her work questions where the female exists within these hierarchies that we live with on a daily basis.

“Feminism isn’t about equality,” she says. “For me, it’s about bringing attention to how a woman functions in a male-dominated society.

How do we find our bearings within that?”

Her exploration and intimacy with the materials don’t necessarily offer answers so much as it is thought provoking and deeply personal. Nor is it a complete rejection of the status quo. Take for instance the candy wall piece, “Penetration.” Palladino, after creating the wall, licked a hole through one of the bricks.

“It was really degrading but also rewarding in that breakthrough,” she says.

“It’s like the walls and barriers I keep talking about. It’s fake and phony—not real and sturdy. It became empowering to use my sexuality to break through that.” Ω

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Upper crustacean Scampi Pasta House and Bar 425 S. Virginia St., 284-0660

Many long-term Reno residents are probably familiar with Scampi Pasta House and Bar’s location, the former Board by K.J. Sullivan of Trade. The last time I was in the building was during its stint as ksullivan@ Amendment 21, a bar that dismannewsreview.com tled the once gorgeous interior and turned it into a frat house basement.

Thankfully, Scampi has come along and restored this amazing space to its old glory with dark wood walls, stained concrete floor, hidden nooks and low lighting with a bar along the back. The space definitely has an old Reno feel to it and is absolutely beautiful.

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After we finished our drinks, we were escorted to one of the side dining areas looking out on Virginia Street and were given some menus.

The area has been painted all black and is very private but is in need of some additional decorations. The area also seems to funnel the noise from the bar through it, so if it’s loud at the bar, it’s loud there. The menu has a variety of choices with an emphasis on pasta and scampi dishes. We decided to start with the Tuscana salad ($9). I don’t tend to get all excited about salad, but this was so excellent, I would come back just to have another. The arugula was fresh and went well the cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and cucumbers.

The herb vinaigrette had a perfect tang and didn’t drown the lettuce.

For entrées, Brett went with the clam and mussel linguini ($18), while I went with the filet mignon ($25).

Brett liked his dish and commented that they didn’t scrimp on the clams or the mussels. My filet was large and so tender I didn’t even need a steak knife to eat it, as the fork passed through like butter. It was topped with delicious porcini mushrooms and there was almost a cocoa flavor to the filet.

The filet was accompanied by a side of zucchini and sundried tomatoes that were excellent as well.

For dessert, we went with the crème brûlée ($6), which to me is just fancy pudding, but who doesn’t like pudding? The crispy sugared layer went nicely with the strawberries on top and had me wishing I hadn’t agreed to share with Brett.

Service throughout was hit and miss. We had about three different people waiting on us and while one waiter, Ross, was on top of it, the other two seemed a little confused about what they should be doing.

However, they have only been open a few months, and service issues take time to iron out. Still, everyone was very nice if not entirely efficient. What they have down is the food and a beautiful atmosphere, so it’s a no-brainer to head over and check out Scampi. Ω

Scampi’s Tuscana salad is worth getting excited.

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The vibe in Scampi makes you want to have cocktails, so that’s exactly what my friend Brett and I decided to do. The bar has an extensive cocktail menu with unique drinks created by the bartender.

Brett went with a martini ($8), and I went with a Scampi Smash ($8) which had bourbon, lavender bitters and ginger beer. I liked my drink, but it was a little heavy on the ginger beer, and I couldn’t taste any bourbon. Also, it took quite a bit of time to get the drinks as the bartender was easily distracted. We decided to have the scampi appetizer ($12), which arrived quickly with five decently sized scampi.

They had a nice lemon and garlic flavor, but I felt they were a little plain, a little chewy and a little overpriced.

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When Universal decided to forge ahead with the Bourne franchise after Matt Damon, a.k.a. Jason Bourne, decided to call it quits, they were most assuredly looking for a glorious changing of the guard—something akin to when Daniel Craig took over for Pierce Brosnan as 007.

What they get with The Bourne Legacy is something closer to the vibe when Roberto Benigni replaced Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther franchise. Jeremy Renner taking over for Damon in this franchise feels like the underwhelming switcheroo that occurred when Andrew Garfield took over for Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man. Renner, like Garfield, is a good actor. But he doesn’t command a movie like Damon can, no matter how good The Hurt Locker was. Renner isn’t nearly as good as Damon as the Bourne centerpiece. The plot feels like a poor, scrapped together excuse for keeping a franchise alive longer that it should be.

I was hoping for a late summer powerhouse that would top off a mediocre season with something to remember. I figured a film with John Hillcoat at the helm and featuring the likes of Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce and Shia LaBeouf couldn’t fail.

While it isn’t a complete failure, it is a bit of a letdown. Considering the star power and the director at hand, I was expecting much more than your typical backwoods moonshine thriller. John Hillcoat (The Road) telling the “true story” of the Bondurant brothers, Depression-era bootleggers who stood up to the law, had a great amount of appeal. It makes the mistake of positioning LaBeouf’s youngest brother Jack as the primary character, when his older brothers Forrest (Hardy) and Howard (Jason Clarke) are far more compelling. LaBeouf isn’t necessarily bad in the role; it’s just that Hardy and Clarke are way better and far more interesting to watch. Guy Pearce overdoes it as the bad guy in a film that ultimately feels empty and misdirected.

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Here’s a stop-animation movie that isn’t afraid to be creepy for the kids. Norman (voice of Kodi Smit-McPhee) can see dead people and has premonitions, for which he gets picked on at school and yelled at by his parents. As it turns out, he’s the only one who can save the town from a curse involving zombies and witches. Directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell have put together a great-looking movie.

And Butler’s script actually pushes the limit of the PG rating to the point where adults might be surprised by what they have taken their kids to see. As for this being too scary for kids, let me tell you that the kids were screaming with delight at my screening. They love this stuff. Also features the voices of John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Casey Affleck and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. One of the year’s best animated films.

The Possession

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As far as demon possession movies go, I’d have to count this as one of the better offerings in recent years. That still doesn’t make it all that good. Based on a “true story”— bullshit!—it stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a basketball coach who moves his two daughters into a new house. They go to a yard sale, where the youngest daughter (an impressive Natasha Calis) grabs a mysterious box that has dead moths and spooky stuff in it. She winds up getting possessed by a demon, requiring the help of a Hasidic Jew instead of Roman Catholic priests for a change. And, of course, that Hasidic Jew is none other than Matisyahu.

Director Ole Bornedal provides some genuinely creepy moments—I especially liked the very spooky CAT scan—but he also provides a little too much bad melodrama that drags the film down. Still, Morgan and Calis are good here, and the possession portions of the movie do have a decent freak-out factor. (Love those hands coming out of mouths!) A hearty “Screw you!” to the dumbass who decided to make this a PG-13 affair. This one should’ve shot for an R.

Finding Nemo 3D

Nine years after its original release, this Pixar charmer comes back to screens with a nice 3-D presentation.

Honestly, I felt like I was watching it for the first time. The Pixar films are primed for 3-D. The movie looks like it was always intended to be this way. Albert Brooks voices Marlin, a paranoid clown fish who loses his kid Nemo to human divers. While Nemo sits in a dentist’s aquarium, Marlin frantically races across the ocean with new friend Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in tow. For me, DeGeneres is the true star of this movie. Her voice work will always stand as a favorite cartoon character of mine, especially when she speaks whale. Other voice actors include Willem Dafoe as a growling angelfish and Brad Garrett as a puffer fish. I know I sound a bit clichéd saying this, but this is a real treat for the entire family.

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Here’s a sequel that learns a lot from the mistakes of the first installment, while capitalizing on the ideas that should’ve made the first installment good fun. It gathers up a bunch of old goons, gives them big guns, and tells them to shoot things. And, this time out, they do it better and with much aplomb. It’s obvious before the opening title credit, in a sequence where many a man is shredded via gunfire from aging American action superstars, that Stallone and friends are going to get things right and deliver the crazy-gory goods. Much of the credit must go to newly anointed Simon West, who replaces Stallone in the director’s chair. West made the ridiculously enjoyable Con Air, which combined stellar action with funny, dumb dialogue to much success. Unlike Stallone’s effort with the first movie, Expendables 2 gets real laughs, rather than groans, from its boneheaded dialogue.

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I’m OK with a film telling a story within a story. This is one of those movies where a narrator in the present day reads from a book and we see his story play out, with occasional revisits to the narrator and whatever they have going on in their life. The Princess Bride totally rocked this format.

Again, I’m OK with this. But when you go to a story within a story within a story … well, you start to lose me. Dennis Quaid plays an author reading from his book, and Bradley Cooper plays the subject of that book in a separate storyline that includes a character played by Jeremy Irons. Then, the Jeremy Irons character tells a story and the film goes into yet another time period and storyline. It’s a few levels too many, with the Quaid character proving completely unnecessary.

Irons does good work here, while Cooper tries a little too hard. Your eyes will glaze over around the midway point.

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While this falls into the category of weaker Will Ferrell comedies, it’s still funnier than most of the stuff thrown out there with the intent of making us laugh.

Ferrell stars as a congressman running for reelection who is surprised by the candidacy of an unknown candidate looking to unseat him (Zach Galifianakis). Ferrell is basically doing a riff on his Ron Burgundy character, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He has a few shining moments, including a profane phone message left for the wrong person and a classic baby punching incident. Galifianakis is funny, but his character’s two dogs, heavy breathing pugs, are funnier. This one is front-loaded, with most of the funny stuff happening in the first half. While it misses out on the opportunity to really skewer the American election process, it does have some good giggles involving refrigerator sex and petting zoos, so it’s got that going for it.

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Radio, active Nuke Vegas The members of Carson City band Nuke Vegas describe their group’s sound as “radioactive rock.” by Brad Bynum “You’ve got to fit into some genre, right?” says drummer Jesse bradb@ Rollins. “So we made up our own.” newsreview.com Radioactive rock can be described as a mix of ’90s metal— not nü-metal but rather the öld-metal of the era, like Pantera or Sepultera or something—and classic, bluesy AC/DC-style hard rock. Vocalist James Kelly has the sad-faced, jawlocked yowl of Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley, which he varies in degrees from chesty singing to throaty screaming.

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Radioactive rockers: Ben Renken, James Kelly, Jesse Rollins, D. and Charles Untereiner are Nuke Vegas.

Nuke Vegas plays at the Knitting Factory, 211 N. Virginia St., on Sept.

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The rhythm section plays with a bit more groove and room for breath than a straight-ahead pummeling metal band. Rollins is a shirtless motormouth drummer in the grand tradition of Lars Ulrich—all enthusiasm and verve tempered with timekeeping precision. The bassist goes by the mysterious mononym D., and often wears a pig mask onstage.

The band’s two guitarists, Charles Untereiner and Ben Renken, both take plenty of guitar solos on songs like “Let You Go,” “Man on Fire” and the moody, dramatic, slow-building epic “The Paradox.” Sometimes they play harmonized leads, sometimes they trade bars, sometimes one or the other will take off on a long flight over the fretboard from low end sludge riffs to high-up-the-neck, tickle-the-pig squeals. Renken’s solos have a bit more blues feel, and Untereiner’s playing is more in line with old school thrash GREEN

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metal, sometimes reminiscent of Slayer’s guitar solos.

Kelly’s lyrics often have narratives, many of which are autobiographical.

“I write from personal experience, but I try to get them to where people can bring in their own interpretation,” he says. He writes lyrics and vocal lines to fit the guitarists’ riffs, and varies his vocal approach to fit the vibe of each song. He seems especially proud that the band has managed to arrange some of the songs for acoustic settings.

Renken and Kelly started the band in 2009, and the current lineup has been in place since early 2011. The members are veterans of a number of local bands, including The Flesh Hammers, Shockbox and Kut-Pile. They’re currently in the process of recording their debut album which they plan to release in early 2013.

“There’s no egos in this band,” says Rollins. “We’re keeping that shit in check.”

Arrogance has destroyed many bands, and while a healthy confidence is important onstage, especially for bands playing heavy, aggressive music, Rollins contends that it’s important “as soon as you step off the stage, you got to turn that off.” Egos can only get in the way when interacting with music fans at shows or collaborating on music at band practices.

The band members say that the “radioactive rock” term is also a play on the band’s Nevada-centric name, which plays two things for which the state is well known, nuclear weapon testing and the city of sin, and casts them against one another. It also reflects many Northern Nevadans’ contempt for the state’s biggest city.

“Even if people don’t like the music, they still like the band name,” says Rollins.

“People always ask, ‘Why do you hate Vegas?’” says Untereiner “We’re not really saying we should blow it up—but it’s not my favorite place.”

“It’s also a metaphor,” says Kelly.

“It describes what we sound like— what it would sound like if Vegas got nuked.” Ω

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3RD STREET 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

THURSDAY 9/20

FRIDAY 9/21

SATURDAY 9/22

SUNDAY 9/23

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

Jason King, 9pm, no cover

Matty T Band, 9pm, no cover

Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/24-9/26 DG Kicks, Jakki Ford, 9pm Tu, no cover

ABEL’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT

Jazz Night, 7:30pm Tu, no cover

2905 U.S. Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 345-2235

THE ALLEY

7Seconds, Bastards of Young, Union Hearts, Let It Burn, 7:30pm, $13, $15

BAR-M-BAR

Freestyle firespinning, 9pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891 816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 345-0806

Souls of Mischief, Pep Love, Casual, 8:30pm, $15

OBITUARY, Broken Hope, Decrepit Birth, Jungle Rot, Encrust, 7pm Tu, $18 Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

BIGGEST LITTLE CITY CLUB

BLITZKRIEG POP! w/DJ Endif, Hyperkarma, 9pm, $5

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

THE BLACK TANGERINE

Bike Night Blues Jam w/Seeing Eye Dogs, 7pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 853-5003 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

Shall Adams and the Shall Adams Band, 9pm, $5

Open mic comedy night, 9pm, no cover

7Seconds

Metal Echo, 9pm, $5 Brendan Desmond, 9pm, no cover

Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks 358-8891

Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm Tu, no cover

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

CLUB BASS

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

COMMA COFFEE

World Dance Open Floor Night, 8pm, no cover

Large Bills Accepted, noon M, no cover

1) Forbidden Fridays Foam Party, 10:30pm, 1) Starkey, 11:30pm, $12, $15; $10, $12; 2) DJ Double B, DJ Luciano, 10pm, no 2) DJ Double B, DJ Luciano, 10pm, no cover; 3) DJ Homrekka, 2-9pm, no cover cover 2) SpaceCrafter, 10pm, no cover

1) Shut Up and Battle No. 3 w/hosts Iron Solomon, Okwerdz, 9pm Tu, $6; 2) VooDooDogz, 7pm W, no cover

Merle Jagger, 9:30pm, $TBA

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover; Open mic, 9pm W, no cover

535 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-1774 312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

COMMROW

1) The ONE Boys, 8pm, $5; 3) DJ Double B, 2-9pm, no cover

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 1) Cargo 2) Centric 3) Main Floor

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

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

The Fryed Brothers Band, 9:30pm, $TBA

ELBOW ROOM

Hired Gunzz, 8pm, no cover

2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 359-3526

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

Karaoke with Doug, 9pm, no cover

235 W. Second St., (775) 324-4255

Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, no cover

FRESH KETCH

New World Jazz Project, 7pm, no cover

FUEGO

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover

2435 Venice Dr., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 541-5683 170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800

Karaoke with Alex, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm M, Tu, W, no cover

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711 Jazz night featuring Aaron Edgecomb Group, 5pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

JAVA JUNGLE

Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

Java Jungle Open Mic, 7:30pm M, no cover

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The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Joel Lindley, Avi Liberman, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Charles Fleischer, W, 9pm, $25

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THURSDAY 9/20 JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659

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

FRIDAY 9/21

SATURDAY 9/22

SUNDAY 9/23

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/24-9/26

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

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

Open mic, 9pm M, no cover

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

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

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

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

405 Vine St., (775) 323-6500

Sept. 25, 7 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victoria Ave., Sparks 358-8891

PIZZA BARON

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

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm W, no cover

PLAN:B MICRO-LOUNGE

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

Open jazz jam, 7:30pm W, 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 3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001

PONDEROSA SALOON

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

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

RED ROCK BAR

Thursday Jam Session, 9pm, no cover

RUBEN’S CANTINA

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

241 S. Sierra St., (775) 324-2468 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

RYAN’S SALOON

Decoy, 7pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

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

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

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Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 786-6460

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE 3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

Spontaneous Combustion, 8:30pm M; Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm Tu, no cover

Bluegrass w/Strange on the Range, 7pm M; Trivia, 8pm Tu

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Live jazz, 7:30pm W, no cover

Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

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

Sept. 21, 11:30 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. (775) 323-5648

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

Guest DJ, 7 pm, no cover

Local Band Listening Party, 9pm M, no cover; Dark Tuesdays, 9pm Tu, no cover

Afterburn Party, 7 DJs, 7pm, no cover 3-17, 7pm, no cover

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

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2) Hindsight, 8pm, no cover

2) Hindsight, 4pm, no cover 2) Escalade, 2) Hindsight, 4pm, no cover 2) Escalade, 2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, $19.95+; 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Jersey Nights, 8pm, $19.95+; 3) Skyy High Fridays w/Roni Romance, DJ Dragon, 9pm, $10; 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Jersey Nights, 7pm , 9:30pm, $19.95+; 3) Addiction Saturdays w/RoniRomance,(((xm 1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, $19.95+; 4) Live fredie))), Jessica the Ripper, 9pm, $10; 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Brit Floyd, 9pm, $25-$45 4)Jackson Michelson, 9pm, no cover

1) Anthony Cool, 9pm, $10 4)Jackson Michelson, 9pm, no cover

1) Gov’t Mule, 8pm, $27.50 4)Jackson Michelson, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30; 2) Live local bands, 10pm, no cover; 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30; 2) Live local bands, 10pm, no cover; 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

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

SATURDAY 9/22

SUNDAY 9/23

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/24-9/26

1) Jersey Nights, 7pm Tu, W, $19.95+; 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm M, no cover; 3) (((xm fredie))), 9pm W, no cover; 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm W, no cover

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 LAKE TAHOE

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

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Persuasion, 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 9pm, $25, $30 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

George Thorogood & the Destroyers

1) Wilco, 7pm, $39.50

Sept. 22, 8 p.m.

Silver Legacy 407 N. Virginia St. 325-7401 1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30

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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

5) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

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

1) Journey Unauthorized, 9pm, $15; 5) DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

5) Ladies ‘80s w/DJ BG, 6pm, no cover

5) DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 4) Onsen Beach & Nightclub 5) Convention Center 6) Outdoor Event Center 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Cabaret 3) Terrace Lounge 4) Edge 5) Aqua Lounge

4) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover charge for women

4) Salsa dancing with BB of Salsa Reno, 7pm, $10 after 8pm; 4) DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

4) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

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

1) George Thorogood & the Destroyers, 8pm, $40, $65; 3) Live music, 5pm, no cover

3) Dance party, 10pm, no cover

Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover

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zebra and quagga mussels and invasive weeds like Eurasian water milfoil are just a few of the plants and critters that currently threaten local waters.

The Tahoe Resource Conservation District will share information about these species, how they are easily spread and how to prevent and minimize their damage. Staff from Nevada Department of Wildlife will also be on hand to answer questions about Nevada's new Watercraft Decal program that will help to fund invasive species prevention efforts. W, 9/26, 6:30-8pm. Free. REI, 2225 Harvard Way, (530) 587-4911, www.rei.com/event/43778/ session/56289/11092012.

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STREET VIBRATIONS FALL RALLY: The 18th annual celebration of music, metal and motorcycles offers tours, live entertainment, ride-in shows, stunt shows and more. Major event venues are planned at Reno, Sparks, historic Virginia City, Lake Tahoe and Chester’s Reno HarleyDavidson Dealership. W-Su through 9/23.

Opens 9/19. Free for most events. Call or visit website for details. (775) 329-7469, http://roadshowsreno.com.

TRACTORS AND TRUFFLES: Chefs Mark Estee, Steve Hernandez and Mark Davis will highlight Fallon’s locally grown foods in this farm-to-table culinary event. The ticket includes farm tours and cooking demonstrations, wine tasting at Churchill Vineyards, lunch, dinner and a music workshop and concert featuring The Defibulators at Barkley Theatre. Sa, 9/22, 11am. $125 per person. Lattin Farms, 1955 McLean Road, Fallon, (775) 423-4556, www.visitfallonnevada.com/ tractorsandtruffles.

NEWLANDS NEIGHBORHOOD WALKING TOUR: Take an architectural walk through one of Reno’s oldest and most prestigious neighborhoods. Reservations required.

Sa, 9/22, 10am-noon. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. My Favorite Muffin, 340 California Ave., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

Events 9TH ANNUAL BASKETWEAVERS GATHERING: Native weavers and artisans from California and Nevada will gather at the Gatekeeper’s for a weekend of weaving and sharing their traditional cultures.

Jennifer Bates and Kimberly Stevenot will present their demonstration “Nuts to Soup,” the processing of acorns from the raw nut that is gathered each year to the finished soup. Sa, 9/22, 11am-4pm; Su, 9/23, 11am-4pm. $10 non-members; $5 North Lake Tahoe Historical Society members. Gatekeeper’s Museum, 130 W. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-1762, www.northtahoemuseums.org.

WINTERIZING ROSES & FLOWERING SHRUBS: Certified arborist Jon Bruyn will present tips and techniques for preparing your roses and flowering shrubs for the winter. Seating is limited to 60 and is first come, first served. Sa, 9/22, 10am. Free. Moana Nursery Landscape & Design Center, 1190 W. Moana Lane, (775) 825-0600.

NORCAL TOUGH MUDDER: Tough Mudder is a 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test all around strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie. Sa, 9/22; Su, 9/23.

Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784, http://toughmudder.com.

Spend an afternoon learning about Safe Haven and its animals at their annual fundraiser. The event includes desserts and wine tasting. Sa, 9/22, 1-6pm. Free.

Art Source Gallery, 9748 S. Virginia St., (775) 828-3525, www.artsourcereno.com.

GREAT BASIN THURSDAY NIGHT FARMERS’ MARKET: This farmers’ market celebrates the late-season Nevada harvests featuring produce from local Nevada farms. The market will be held every Thursday in September on the plaza next to the Great Basin Brewing Company. Th, 4:30-7:30pm through 9/27.

Free. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 351-2551, http://greatbasinbrewingco.com.

includes photos, weapons, artifacts, models and uniforms donated by more than 30 local veterans and their families. Tu-Su through 11/17. $5 adults; free for children under age 12, museum members, active duty military. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

a hand-building class to familiarize kids with the studio and clay. Kids 7- 13 years old will learn and use techniques with clay that explore texture, shape and structure. All materials, firings, clay are included. W, 9/26, 3:30-5:30pm. $120 for four classes. The Wedge Ceramics Studio, 2095 Dickerson Road, (775) 770-4770, www.thewedgeceramics.com.

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LEARN TO SEW: Have fun learning how to sew multiple projects. Classes are held every Wednesday through Nov. 7. W, 45:30pm through 11/7. Opens 9/26. $55 for seven classes; supplies not included.

VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

2112 SNOWBOARD FEATURE FILM: Standard Films presents this film that showcases the diverse world of snowboarding through the eyes of the next generation of snow rippers. The event includes a concert by Peace Mafia. Sa, 9/22, 7pm. $9. CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400, www.commrow.com.

POSTMAN IN THE MOUNTAINS: Artemisia

Art AARON BROTHERS ART AND FRAMING: Live art demo by artist Dennis Mathewson.

Airbrush artist Dennis Mathewson is known worldwide for his island-inspired artwork style, vibrant use of color and custom mixed paints. There will be live music, raffles, a food truck and a live donkey for petting and painting by children who attend. Sa, 9/22, 11am-4pm.

Free. Contact Liz Levitt or Stacey Coleman, (775) 827-2004 for details on this exhibit. 4809 Kietzke Lane, (775) 827-2004.

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KIDS CERAMICS CLASS (AFTER SCHOOL): This is

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

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SNAFU CON: Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite Convention (SNAFU Con) is a collaborative effort of local anime, game, comic book and science-fiction fans. Th, 9/27; F, 9/28; Su, 9/30. Visit website for details. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, www.snafucon.com.

value, shading and an introduction to perspective while developing techniques and skills to practice on their own. Onehour workshops, Mondays, Sept. 24-Oct. 29. M, 4-5pm through 10/29. Opens 9/24. $45 for six classes. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100, ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

Packin’ heat While the idea of this pick is to highlight the most generally interesting thing to do on the weekend, sometimes it’s fun to highlight the coolest thing to do. The most generally interesting thing to do this weekend will undoubtedly be Street Vibrations. You’re stuck with it so you might as well enjoy it. Just poke your head out the front door or try to walk in either of the downtowns. But the coolest thing to do this weekend would be to take a class billed as “Rifle Gunfighting” out at the Washoe County Regional Shooting Facility. “This course will take the student quickly through the basics and impart the techniques necessary to deploy the Tactical Rifle, Civilian Carbine, or Submachine gun in a close interval emergency. This course is highly recommended for civilian defenders, military personnel, or police operators.” No prerequisites required, but you’ll need to bring guns and a minimum 500 rounds and 50 rounds of pistol ammunition. It runs from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 22-23. $450.

Roger Phillips is teaching, and lots more information can be had at www.suarezinternationalstore.com/sep22-2012rifle-gunfighting-reno-nv.aspx. I mean, really, which would be cooler? A motorcycle rally or a gunfight?

—D. Brian Burghart

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Moviehouse presents a screening of this Chinese drama that recounts the story of an old postman who has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountains of Hunan and is about to retire.

Winner of five foreign film awards. Tu, 9/25, 7-10pm. $7 general; $5 members, bicyclists, students. Midtown Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.org.

Poetry/Literature BOOK SIGNING: THE VAMPIRE GIRL NEXT DOOR:

Seattle glass artist Tyler Kimball and Reno collage artist Gordon Magnin explore the alchemy of images and connectivity of symbols across medias.

Featured in the gallery will be Kimball’s large glass shuttlecocks as well as multiple diptych collages by Magnin. Tu-F through 9/28. Free. Contact Sarah Lillegard (775) 742-1858, sarah@ hollandreno.org, www.hollandreno.org/ gallery/upcoming-exhibitscalls-for-work for details on this exhibit. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

Richard Arbib signs his supernatural novel. Sa, 9/22, 4-7pm. Free. Zephyr Books, 1501 South Virginia St., corner of Mt. Rose St., (775) 322-6657, www.thevampire girlnextdoor.com.

BREAKS, BRAINS AND BALLS: THE STORY OF JOE CONFORTE: Author David Toll, Conforte’s

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Nature’s Colors in Fiber and Glass Exten. North Tahoe Arts presents a collaborative exhibit featuring sister artists Catherine and Linda Strand. Catherine’s fused glass and Linda’s fiber-based wall hangings are distinctive yet complementary media celebrating color and design with nature themes. M, W-Su, 11am-5pm through 10/1.

Free. Bits & Pieces: A Sculpture & Mosaic Exploration. North Tahoe Arts features five sculpture and mosaic artists whose body of work includes glass, ceramics, wood, canvas, found objects and paint swatches. There will be an artist reception on Friday, Sept. 14, 5-7pm. M, W-Su through 10/1. Free. 380 North Lake Blvd.

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

SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: Always Lost: A Meditation on War. Featuring Iraq War combat photographs courtesy of The Dallas Morning News. Through 9/23. Free.

Contact June Saraceno, jsaraceno@ sierranevada.edu, www.sierranevada.edu for details on this exhibit. 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 831-1314, www.sierranevada.edu.

Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper. W-Su through 1/1. $1-$10.

Juvenile-In-Justice: Photographs by Richard Ross. W-Su through 1/13. $1-$10.

Jorinde Voigt: Systematic Notations. WSu through 1/6. 1-$10. Ice Music. W-Su through 10/28. $1-$10. Tim Hawkinson: Totem. W-Su through 10/7.Edward Burtynsky: Oil. W-Su through 9/23. $1-$10.

Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Highlights of the California Decorative Style. Tu-Su through 10/14. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

biographer, tells all about the former owner of the Mustang Ranch, as part of the 3rd Thursday Speaker Series. Toll will sign copies of the book. Th, 9/20, 6:30pm. $10 suggested donation nonmembers; free for North Lake Tahoe Historical Society members.

Gatekeeper’s Museum, 130 W. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-1762, www.northtahoemuseums.org.

SUZANNE ROBERTS BOOK SIGNING: Roberts reads from and signs her new book Almost Somewhere: 28 Days on the John Muir Trail. Th, 9/20, 6pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundance bookstore.com.

TIM O’BRIEN READING AND INTERVIEW: O’Brien received the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979 for his novel Going After Cacciato and also wrote Northern Lights (1975), Tomcat in Love (1998), July, July (2002) and In the Lake of the Woods, which was named the best novel of 1994 by Time Magazine. F, 9/21, 7pm.

Free. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd.. Incline Village, (775) 831-1314, www.sierranevada.edu/blog/snc-continues-and-expands-common-readingprogram-for-fall-2012.

TIM O’BRIEN, WRITING CRAFT TALK: The author will hold a writing workshop. Contact the SNC Registrar’s Office to register for the Saturday morning workshop. Sa, 9/22, 10am-noon. $50. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 831-1314, www.sierranevada.edu.

Music BIG TIME RUSH: The pop group and stars of the Nickelodeon TV show performs. Th, 9/20, 8pm. $35-$59.50. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800.

CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducetees and Grammy award-winning trio perform. Sa, 9/22, 8pm. $57.50-$102.75. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800.

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GIVE ME THE NIGHT: A tribute to George Benson featuring Michael Coleman and special guest Jakki Ford. Th, 9/20, 7pm. $10. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 770-8768, http://musicolewmichaelc.com.

BASIC MAT PILATES: This mat class focuses on

30/30 (CARDIO MAT/STRETCHING): Thirty minutes of Cardio Mat Pilates and 30 minutes of intensive stretching. Intermediate-level strength, stamina and flexibility are required for this class which emphasizes the principle of fluidity. Call to reserve your spot. M through 12/31. $15 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 670 Alvaro St., Ste. B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

GLENN LITTLE TRIO: Glenn Little, formerly of the Reno Municipal Band, and fellow musicians Gene Albright and Harry Stover perform Dixieland tunes and music from the ‘30s and ‘40s. The Lake Mansion is will be open for tours from 11am-2pm. F, 9/21, 12-1pm. Free.

VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

ADAPTIVE & CHAIR YOGA: This yoga program is for people living with heart disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other debilitating diseases. The class teaches breathing techniques, relaxation, guided meditation and visualization. Please call before attending. Tu, 2-3:15pm. $8 per class. Yoga Loka, 6135 Lakeside Drive, Ste. 121, (775) 337-2990, www.yogalokareno.com.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon.

Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

three Pilates principles for the seven exercise in the modified basic and basic mat routines.

Recommended for students with no previous classic Pilates experience. Call to reserve your spot. Tu, 6:15-7:15pm through 12/25. $15 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 670 Alvaro St., Ste. B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

ECSTATIC DANCE: This free-form dance class allows participants to explore different motions, rhythms and pattern of movement.

Fourth Tu of every month, 7:15-9:15pm. $8-$10, free for first-time visitors. Tahoe Yoga & Wellness Center, 1085 S. Virginia St., (775) 348-9642, www.tahoeyoga.com.

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Apocalypse meow For years, a group of us girls has gone camping, to dinner, to concerts, etc. Our husbands do their own thing together while we hang out. When they bring a new guy into their circle, they seem to think we should automatically accept his female partner. We normally do, because we’re nice like that. The problem is there’s a gal who invites herself to everything she catches wind of from her husband. She consistently creates incredible upheaval, agitation and hurt feelings with her callous remarks and abrasive personality. Triple that when she drinks. Her bad chi is ruining the nurturing dynamic of our loving and supportive group. Help soon, as she’s trying to get in on a camping trip. We’d be stuck with her for five negativity-filled days.

Imagine if Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, communicated like so many other women tend to. Forget the direct approach. She’d roll her eyes behind some prime minister’s back, burn sage after he leaves, and make the Joint Chiefs hold hands and chant, “Shine white light on our borders and restore our protective womb of national security!”

Men and women approach conflict in very different ways. Men have an easier time being direct because they evolved to be the competitors of the species and see trying to top one another as a normal part of life. If the guys were bugged by a guy in their group, one of them would probably just blurt out, “You’re being a dick. Be less of a dick.”

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Assuming you lack the Bewitched skill set—the power to twitch your nose and transform or relocate people and objects—wishing things were different is merely a way to kill time. One of you needs to take this woman aside, gently explain the group culture, and give her a couple examples of things she’s said that don’t quite mesh with it. She also needs to be told that it’s kind of a problem when she gets likkered up. The direct approach is tough in the moment but ultimately less hurtful than the silent one, and it gives her a chance to mend her ways. If she keeps on harshing, it should be no surprise to her when she’s invited not to come, having been given fair warning that your group is more “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Chi” than “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pabst.” Ω

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BEGINNERS CERAMICS ON THE POTTERY WHEEL: Learn

will start and finish in front of Scheels with trophies awarded to the top three overall male and overall female runners. Wear retro gear for a chance to win the Best ’70s Dressed award. Su, 9/23, 9am. $45. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 322-7065, www.nevadaheartwalk.org.

to throw on the pottery wheel. This threesession class will take you from a ball of clay to a finished piece of work. Open Throw on Wednesday nights is included free for three weeks. Materials, clay and firings are all included. Class begins on Sept. 6. Th, 9/20, 5:30-8:30pm. $90. The Wedge Ceramics Studio, 2095 Dickerson Road, (775) 770-4770, www.thewedgeceramics.com.

PILATES FUNDAMENTALS: This mat class focuses on three Pilates principles for the seven exercises in the modified basic and basic mat routines. Recommended for students with no previous classic Pilates experience. Call to reserve your spot. Th, 6:15-7:15pm through 12/27. $15 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 670 Alvaro St., Ste. B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

SCHEELS BIKING CLUB: Moderate to strong riders are encouraged to participate. Rides will vary from 20-30 miles. Participants will need to sign a liability form when they attend. Helmets are required. The rides depart from the southeast corner of the parking lot by Best Buy. Th, 5:45pm through 9/27. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700, www.scheels.com/events.

SCHEELS RUNNING AND WALKING CLUB: Runners and walkers are invited to join this Tuesday night group run. Water and snacks will be available after the runs. Meet in the mens sport shoe shop. Tu, 6:30pm through 11/27. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700, www.scheels.com/events.

BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT: Breast-feeding mothers are invited to join Breastfeeding Cafe. Mothers exchange their experiences and discuss concerns such as milk supply, pumping, going back to work, sleeping or lack of sleep, etc. Tu, 4-5pm through 12/18. $10 drop in; free for first-time attendees. Renown South Meadows Medical Center, 10101 Double R Blvd., (775) 240-9916, www.wellnourishedbaby.com.

CONVERSATION CORNER: Washoe County Library presents a series of English language learning sessions ideal for non-native English speakers who want to improve their speaking skills. The group will practice speaking English around various scenarios that involve everyday activities. W, 4:30-6pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 829-7323.

FALL BULBS: Fall is the time to plant bulbs for spring color. Selection, ideas and protection will be discussed. The class is free but a canned food donation for the local bank

is requested. Sa, 9/22, 11am; Su, 9/23, 1pm.

Free. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way, Sparks, (775) 355-1551, www.railcitygardencenter.com.

HEARTSAVER FIRST AID AND CPR: The Heartsaver

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PLEIN AIR OIL PAINTING (AGES 15+): Join local artist Erik Holland to capture fall colors and light.

Painting will be done both outside (weather permitting) and in the studio from photographs. Classes are held every Friday, Sept.

14- Nov. 16. Register online or call F, 1-4pm through 11/16. $145 for eight classes. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): For every tril-

lion dollars the U.S. government spends on the military, it creates about 11,000 jobs.

That same expenditure, if directed toward education, creates 27,000 jobs. Personally, I’d rather have the taxes I pay go to teachers than soldiers—especially in light of the fact that the United States spends almost as much money on its military as all the other nations in the world combined spend on theirs. I suggest that in the coming months you make a metaphorically similar move, Aries. Devote more of your time and energy and resources to learning, and less to fighting. Ironically, doing that will ultimately diminish the fighting you have to do.

As you get more training and wisdom, you’ll become more skilled at avoiding unnecessary conflicts.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Now is an

excellent time to cull, prune and winnow. I urge you to look for opportunities to pare down and refine. On the other hand, don’t go too far. Be careful that you don’t truncate, desecrate or annihilate. It’s not an easy assignment, Taurus. You will have to be skeptical about any temptation you might have to go overboard with your skepticism. You will have to be cautious not to allow your judicious discernment to devolve into destructive distrust.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Why did

people start drinking coffee? Who figured out that roasting and boiling the bitter beans of a certain shrub produced a stimulating beverage? Historians don’t know for sure. One old tale proposes that a ninthcentury Ethiopian shepherd discovered the secret. After his goats nibbled on the beans of the coffee bush, they danced and cavorted with unnatural vigor. I urge you to be as alert and watchful as that shepherd, Gemini. A new source of vibrant energy may soon be revealed to you, perhaps in an unexpected way.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Hello Dear

One: My name is Lorita. I am a beautiful heartfelt woman from Libya. I was browsing online through the long night when I came across your shiny dark power, and now I must tell you that I am quite sure you and I can circle together like sun and moon. It would give me great bliss for us to link up and make a tender story together. I await your reply so I can give you my secret sweetness. —Your Surprise Soulmate.” Dear Soulmate: Thank you for your warm inquiry.

However, I must turn you down. Because I was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, I have to be very careful to maintain proper boundaries; I can’t allow myself to be wide open to every extravagant invitation I get, especially from people I don’t know well.

That’s especially true these days. We Crabs need to be extra discriminating about what influences we allow into our spheres.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Questions and more

questions! Will the monkey on your back jump off, at least for a while? Will the sign of the zodiac that you understand least become an X-factor in the unfolding plot? Will a cute distraction launch you on what seems to be a wild-goose chase—until it leads you to a clue you didn’t even know you were looking for?

Will a tryst in an unsacred space result in an odd boost to your long-term fortunes? The answers to riddles like these will be headed your way in the coming weeks. You’re at the beginning of a phase that will specialize in alluring twists and brain-teasing turns.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Want to submit a

letter to the editor of a major newspaper?

The odds of you getting published in the influential Washington Post are almost three times as great as in the super-influential New York Times. The Post has a much smaller circulation, so your thoughts there won’t have as wide an impact. But you will still be read by many people. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase when you should be quite content to shoot for a spot in the Post. Please apply that same principle to everything you do.

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tury Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen was an iconoclast who relished exposing the hypocrisy and shallowness of conventional morality. While working on one of his plays, he kept a pet scorpion in an empty beer glass on his desk. “Now and again,” he testified, “when the creature was wilting, I would drop into the glass a piece of fruit, which it would seize upon in a frenzy and inject with its poison. It would then revive. Are not we poets rather like that?” Keep these details in mind during the coming weeks, Scorpio. You will probably have some venom that needs to be expelled. I hope you’ll do it like Ibsen writing his brilliantly scathing plays or the scorpion stinging some fruit.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose,” said French artist Henri Matisse, “because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.” I’d love to expand this principle so that it applies to everything you do in the coming week.

Whatever adventures you seek, Sagittarius, prepare for them by forgetting all the adventures you have ever had. That way you will unleash the fullness of the fun and excitement you deserve.

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

do you belong? Not where you used to belong and not where you will belong in the future, but where do you belong right now? The answer to that question might have been murky lately, but the time is ripe to get clear.

To identify your right and proper power spot, do these things: First, decide what experiences you will need in order to feel loved and nurtured between now and your birthday.

Second, determine the two goals that are most important for you to accomplish between now and your birthday. And third, summon a specific vision of how you can best express your generosity between now and your birthday.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you

excited about your new detachable set of invisible wings? They’re ready. To get the full benefit of the freedom they make available, study these tips: 1. Don’t attach them to your feet or butt; they belong on your shoulders.

2. To preserve their sheen and functionality, avoid rolling in the muddy gutter while you’re wearing them. 3. Don’t use them just to show off. 4. It’s OK to fly around for sheer joy, though. 5. Never take them off in mid-flight.

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many ejaculatory orgasms. Doing so depletes his vital energy and can lead to depression and malaise. But medical researchers in the West have come to the exact opposite conclusion: The more climaxes men have, the better. According to them, frequent sex even promotes youthfulness and longevity. So who to believe? Here’s what I think: Every man should find out for himself by conducting his own experiments. As a general rule, I recommend the empirical approach for many other questions as well—and especially right now for Libran people of all genders. Rather than trusting anyone’s theories about anything, find out for yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that

leap of faith you’re considering? Now would be a good time to rehearse it but not do it.

How about that big experiment you’ve been mulling over? Imagine in detail what it would be like to go ahead, but don’t actually go ahead. Here’s my third question, Pisces: Have you been thinking of making a major commitment? My advice is similar to the first two issues: Research all of its ramifications. Think deeply about how it would change your life.

Maybe even formulate a prenuptial agreement or the equivalent. But don’t make a dramatic dive into foreverness. Not yet, at least. This is your time to practice, play and pretend.

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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Sandwich maker

ing. ... Sometimes we hit it wrong when we first went into it. You’re old enough to remember the savings and loans, the fiasco we had—not dissimilar to what happened in the last four or five years here [the savings and loan crisis ran from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s]. We had savings and loans going bankrupt everywhere from bad loans. … From ’85 to ’89, we lost everything we had put into it and finally turned the corner in 1989. … It’s not always easy, you know?

Heck, we were pretty young kids still at that time. We had to get through an entire business cycle on the downside, the bad times.

So we just about lost it all. …

John Larsen

The Port of Subs chain of sandwich shops is based in Reno and owned by Reno High grad John Larsen. The chain is currently marking its 40th anniversary.

What made you get into this business?

Did you expect Port of Subs to be as big as it is?

I’m an accountant by trade and [clients] who started this business got a little upside down with the Internal Revenue Service. It was originally a place called the Sub Shop in 1972 down on Rock Boulevard behind Sparks High School. And they opened another place in downtown Reno in ’74 where the new theatres are at on Sierra and First. They didn’t bother to file tax returns for ’72, ’73 or ’74. The IRS caught up with them, they hired me, I put together three years worth of tax returns, realized they had a decent business, invested as a silent partner, bought them out a year later.

So, you know, I never planned on getting into the food business [but] I spent … junior high school, high school and college in grocery stores. You know, I was actually born—my parents owned a grocery store and I was born right over the top of it in Susanville, California. I’ve been in the food business for many years of my life.

When you go into something like this, you don’t think about if it’s going to be this big.

You know, you hope that you’re going to end up with maybe eight or 10 stores—or five stores. … For a period of seven years, from 1976 when I bought them out—at the time we had three stores—until 1983 … my wife and I never took more than one day off a week, never took a vacation for seven years. And at the end of seven years, we had 10 stores paid for. I think people can— if you set your mind to it, you can do anything you want. Now there’s trade-outs in life, right? Work that dang hard and sometimes you don’t get to enjoy your kids grow up as much as you should. There’s all kinds of trade-outs. I think everybody’s trade-out is a little bit different. … We were making a fortune. This was back in 1983. We were making a ton of money going into franchis-

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Do you ever think about pitching it all and taking it easy?

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spot to live this summer. You know, I couldn’t have a giant cat-face living next to the door. It’s just something a decent person won’t allow. Right? But then, I began to inspect his work.

The web was there, fully constructed, but he wasn’t. During the day, cat-faces like to creep up into a nook or crack, somewhere they can hide and be out of the sun. They’re total Draculans, coming out at dusk and hanging in their webs awaiting victims until dawn. Dangle all night, hide all day. You leave me alone, I’ll leave you alone. A fine attitude for a spider to have, I’ll admit. You won’t see these guys wandering around looking for hands or legs to bite. And anything that eats flies and moths, that’s a positive.

Anyway, as I inspected his web, I had to admit—it was a helluva piece of work. A beautifully built circle of silk, comprised of 30-50 equally spaced concentric circles, and carefully attached to the roof and walls in key locations for maximum support.

You may have seen their webs at your house. They like the underside of roofs or decks or patios, wherever there are some angles and materials to work with. They’re probably there right now, somewhere you’ve overlooked, getting bigger and fatter with each passing night. They’re one of the great spiders of the west, known commonly as the cat-faced spider, (because, when seen at the correct angle, their abdominal bumps do indeed make them look exactly like cat heads).

I’ve got a couple of good ones out at my place, including a big-bodied bulbous brute—maybe two inches long from tip to tip—who hangs out right by my front door. His name is Boris, a name to which any old Who fan will immediately relate. (On an early album, they did a crazy Entwistle song called “Boris the Spider.”)

When he first showed up in July, I reacted in a normal, sane way, which happens on occasion. I grabbed the broom, intent on trashing his web so as to encourage him to go find another

You’re in seven states now?

Obviously, I couldn’t tear this thing up. It was really quite something. And to think, he engineered it in the dark, while upside down! I had to admit—big props for your skills, my arachnid pal. At dusk, when he crawls out of his crack and takes up his spot in WebCentral, to surf upon his gently moving creation as it sways back and forth in the fading zephyrs of the afternoon, he’s really quite the stylin’ cool cat. Er, cool cat-face.

So we’ve made our peace, Boris and I. He eats all the damn flies and moths he can, and I make sure I don’t walk into his web and muck it all up.

And come Halloween, he should be frightfully huge, and I’ll have a superb monster of a spider hanging next to my door to righteously spook all the little sugar suckers who dare to come a beggin’. Ω

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