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THE RED ISSUE, REDUX See News, page 6.

DO BILLBOARDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SIGNS? See Green, page 9.

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, BUY IN NORTHERN NEVADA, BUT FOR YOUR OUT-OF-TOWN FRIENDS, ALSO CONSIDER GIFTS

WITCH WAY HOME? See Arts&Culture, page 14.

THAT ARE EASIER ON THE PLANET

BASQUE IN THE GLORY See Western Lit, page 16.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

LETTERS

Too early for me

Only if she be defiled

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Sometimes in journalism, an editor has to work around crazy deadlines. This week is one of those weeks. We had early Thanksgiving deadlines, so instead of putting the paper to bed on Nov. 20, we finished a day early. So we started the Nov. 29 issue two days early. That means, in order to get anything done, I have to get something done.

And that means, this Editor’s Note will go in the can early.

I don’t have much to say.

I’m looking forward to the turkey that I’ll eat two days from now, which will be 14 days from the day this issue is finally replaced on the newsstands—so don’t expect me to be too relevant.

It’s always easy to talk about the future, though.

For me, I’m going to start a master’s degree. I’m not going to kill myself over it—I figure I can handle around two classes as long as one is after hours. I’ve been accepted in the English Department for the Creative Writing program. I wanted to get a Master’s in Fine Arts in Writing, but such a program does not yet exist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

I’ve had another thought along those lines, though.

The dailies have been laying off senior reporters and hiring kids who don’t have the institutional memories of those grizzled vets. People think it’s financial. I don’t happen to believe it. I think those news outlets prefer young people because technology is in their DNA in ways it’s not for those old-timers.

A journalist who graduated 10 years ago probably did not have classes on digital layout, digital photography, digital sound, databasing— none of the stuff we use on a daily basis now. In other words, college grads beyond a 10-year-ago matriculation are already obsolete. Some even took pride in not succumbing to the new technology, until it was too late.

All is not lost, though.

There are many ways to get current. For one, go back to school.

Re “Just be consistent” (Editor’s note, Nov. 22): As I opened the RN&R and saw you starting along the road of attempting to argue with an intractable anti-abortion type, I presumed you couldn’t possibly complete your argument in the paragraphs I counted ahead. But you did a fair job of it in the space allotted. I always like to include a review of the Bible book of Numbers, the fifth chapter, which includes step-by-step instructions for preparing an abortion potion, but I understand if you don’t want to go all scriptural. However, since you very correctly raised the issue of consistency, I long to see you dive in far more: Both the titles “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are too easy to wear and herald, but both titles are more difficult to earn than I’ve ever seen any individual or organization acknowledge.

Really being pro-life should mean committing to and embracing all life issues; and pro-choice should mean the same regarding all reproductive choice issues. The continuum of life issues includes the right of an adult to decide when, how and why one’s life will end; the right to one’s own body, including when, why and what drugs one can take, the right of an adult to sell or rent out for profit any part of one’s own body, including prostitution and organ donation; and, regarding reproductive issues, the right to an abortion even late term (according to the Bible, one is not a living being unless one is breathing through the nostrils), ready access to abortions including location of state-of-the-art clinic and affordability, pre-decision counseling, and post-decision aftercare, and the right to accessible contraception, as well as the right to get pregnant and carry a pregnancy to term, including the rights of people who require fertility assistance who don’t have tens of thousands of dollars to be able to afford such assistance.

So-called pro-lifers will never admit what they know about the continuum of life issues, including the fact that if any government can tell you that you can’t have an abortion, that government can make any other reproductive choice for

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Unwanted children come into the world with so many strikes against them from day one, that many end up a burden to society and have deep emotional problems. It would be interesting to have a study on how many of the death row inmates were unwanted pregnancies—the irony being that radicals who demand the mother give birth—are the same radicals who demand the death penalty later on when that child has grown up and not turned out well.

The one and only person who knows if the pregnancy will result in an unwanted child is the mother.

you, including ordering you to have an abortion or ordering you not to get pregnant. Regarding those who call themselves pro-choice, see all the life issues above. So compatible are all real pro-life and pro-choice issues, that I dream of a clinic within 50 miles of any populated area, where so-called pro-lifers and so-called pro-choicers staff an office that includes a medical department, an adoption department, a fertility clinic, a chaplain’s office, a social worker’s office like they have in hospitals, and room for any well-behaved factions to set up shop and entice anyone entering the clinic who wants to listen to them, to come over and listen to them preach or shame or sloganeer, so they don’t have to stand outside the clinic carrying signs and harassing women.

Martha Liou Reedsport, Ore.

Jake’s ludicrous

R.A. Drew Reno

“That’s capitalism, folks!”

(Feature story, Nov. 15) The article you printed by Professor Jake Highton contained numerous conceptual and factual errors.

A laundry list of platitudes does not negate the actual conditions of existence. “Socialism means Social Justice” is a meaningless term because “social justice” is nowhere defined, and is in fact indefinable.

The idea that Karl Marx is a great economist is ludicrous. The key elements of his economic doctrines, the labor theory of value and the exploitation of workers’ “surplus value” were refuted in the late 19th century, decades before his deluded followers established communism.

And deluded they were. Actual communism was never established, even in the Soviet Union, because of the impossibility of central planners to duplicate the millions of decisions that are made in the production process by decentralized actors.

Socialism can’t calculate, because socialism would be devoid of price signals, which are absolutely necessary to allocate production and distribution of all goods and services.

Pure socialism lasted for a few years as Lenin’s “War Socialism,” and then was abandoned due to the impossibility of making it work to satisfy the most basic human needs.

Economists far superior to Marx, such as Ludwig von Mises and

Women’s work Re “Just be consistent” (Editor’s note, Nov. 22): Your attitude about women’s rights written in this piece reflects the reasoning of the men who helped women gain human rights.

I was around during the 1960s women’s rights movement, and there were and still are, some hardcore radicals among them that I am not in league with, just as there are hard core radicals on both sides of every issue. So, while I did not want my rights shoved down my throat to the extent that some radicals seemed to want, I did want choices, period.

The choice to study and work hard to earn the same wage as a man, the choice to vote, own property and basically be in charge of my own business ... including my own body.

Women did not gain rights all by themselves. There were men who helped. Most of us like men, so the majority didn’t want to alienate males or dominate them—we just wanted the same human rights and choices they had. Bless you, men with the attitudes you expressed are helping us keep those human rights.

For me, being pro-choice, does not mean that I am pro-abortion. But I am also not against abortion. Pro-choice to me, means just that—choice.

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Freiderich Hayek, debunked the entire notion of socialist production, and the dangers of totalitarianism that come from adherence to its principles.

Highton showers accolades on the socialist societies of the world for their enlightened policies regarding women, workers, etc. Yet he glosses over the horrors of the socialist regimes. Would he advise anyone to move to North Korea? How about Cuba where people drive 1950’s automobiles, where doctors in their wonderful health care system are forbidden to emigrate. By the way, the health care system in Cuba is a two-tiered, not egalitarian system. Party bosses and international heads of state like the Venezuelan strong man Chavez get access to the best care. Ordinary workers have to bring their own bedclothes to crowded hospitals devoid of supplies. Old age homes have been photographed in European magazines as filthy and covered with cockroaches.

A self-styled intellectual, Professor Highton would be surprised to know that others know exactly why “intellectuals” favor big government—because government provides them with a tax-funded platform to present their bizarre views, which would have a much harder time being heard in the real world without government subsidies.

Like all socialists, he professes to abhor war, while refusing to acknowledge it is the state, not the capitalist system of production and distribution, that wages war. He rejects war, but embraces the coercion and inhumane bureaucracy that accompanies big government. His class war is simply misguided: it is not the wealthy who are the enemy of the people, but the bureaucrats, politicians and crony capitalists who form around the slimy coercion of state power.

Brendan Trainor Reno

Yes “That’s capitalism, folks!”

(Feature story, Nov. 15) Ummm, isn’t it a bit early for the April Fools’ Day edition?

Dave Abeloe Reno

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by Dennis Myers

THIS MODERN WORLD

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BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25kFinished your holiday SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HEshopping?

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Asked at Sparks Post Office, 750 Fourth St. Tony Beverly Retiree

Not even close. I’m on a fixed income. I only shop certain days of the month. My list isn’t that long so I should be able to cover what I want to do.

Mike Botsford Plant manager

I have not even started. I never do. I wait until the end. I want to get in the Christmas mood. I’m not there yet.

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Fiscal cliff

Homemaker

No. I’m waiting for payday for the last bit I have to do. I’m about halfway there.

The “fiscal cliff” is a very tempting item to write So then what happens if he does “reform” filiabout, particularly now, in these moments when the busters? The fiscal cliff is avoided, and we’ll see a mainstream power brokers seem to be hammering out tsunami of Democratic legislation shoved through. their lines of defense. These are pre-emptive strikes But nothing will be fixed. The next election could against the finger pointing that will occur when our change the character of the Senate, and then the majority national representatives show that—despite the mandate party could push through their favored programs while provided in the last election that we Americans really, repealing the work of the previous Congress. really don’t like a dysfunctional Congress—they still Ahh, but this fiscal cliff. It would start on Jan. 2, favor party over people.

2013, and would enact incrementally over years. It It’s kind of funny, actually. The fiscal cliff may be a would increase taxes on all Americans, lower deficits radical answer to the stalemates over and cut spending. In short, in some taxation and social programs, but in a ways, it’s a very real fix to the probbigger way, it’s also an answer to the lems Congress has created since Bush Who’s afraid of the intransigence demonstrated by both the Second destroyed our balanced parties since the Bush the First years. fiscal cliff? budget with his warmongering and The fiscal cliff, while evoking anti-regulation policies for the counimages of Thelma & Louise, is actutry’s economic engines. ally a bunch of tax hikes and spending cuts that were And do you know what would happen then, beginnegotiated by a bi-partisan group in order to force ning Jan. 3, 2013? Negotiation, mediation, Republicans and Democrats to negotiate a public debt statesmanship. Maybe another horrible recession. But as ceiling agreement. They did it because few could imagsoon as every single American began paying higher ine that representatives would choose to cut off their taxes because these jackoffs couldn’t honestly negotiate, own noses despite voters’ faces rather than simply negowe would see an unprecedented wave of removals from tiate—but guess what? It sure looks like that could office. The radicals on both sides would get their status happen. and probably their pensions taken from them. There is So Harry Reid brings up the specter of filibuster no doubt they would be punished for their failure to proreform, which is exactly what he should have done tect the citizens’ interests. many times in the past over important things like immiAnd this message, this message, would be a shout gration reform, health care reform, appointments—too heard all the way to Washington. Yes, the landing at the many things to mention, knowing that the Senate’s bottom of the fiscal cliff would hurt for a few months, minority must negotiate or get made irrelevant, which but it would be hardly more painful than the long drop it would create a whole new form of dysfunctionality on took to get there. Ω Capitol Hill.

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In February the Nevada Legislature will be faced with the ticklish task of repealing an anti-communist law.

Unions back Walmart workers Workers from local labor unions marched at Truckee Meadows Walmart stores on Thanksgiving, saying they were speaking for Walmart workers who risked firing if they spoke out themselves.

Similar protests took place at Walmart stores across the nation.

The mammoth chain is noted for low wages and benefits.

“I’m out here to support the workers, not just in Reno but nationally,” said Judy Jensen, a member of the Communications Workers of America local.

Jensen also said, “There’s a lot of intimidation going on. I think Walmart can do a much better job of paying their people. ... You know, they say they give them health care, but there have been at least three studies that show that their workers—because of the wages—are having to live on public assistance.”

Ron Schoenherr, a member of the Operating Engineers union, also pointed at poor health benefits as a factor in the Raley’s grocery strike. He said Walmart’s poor wages and benefits force other stores to have similar policies in order to compete—a “race to the bottom,” he called it.

“Raley’s wants to reduce their medical benefits because their overhead is too high,” He said. “They can no longer compete with Walmart.”

Jensen urged shoppers to do research on Walmart and then go to other stores.

“If you take their newspaper ads, a lot of other stores will match their prices.”

Walmart claimed its best “Black Friday” sales ever, though the statistics it released—nearly 10 million transactions—included sales on Thursday evening.

In a prepared statement, Walmart CEO Bill Simon said, “Only 26 protests occurred at stores last night, and many of them did not include any Walmart associates.”

But unions said there were more than a thousand protesters who participated in events in 42 states.

“We estimate that less than 50 associates participated in the protest nationwide,” Simon said. “In fact, this year, roughly the same number of associates missed their scheduled shift as last year.” His comments conflicted with a statement from his own corporation that the number of workers who did not appear for a scheduled shift declined by over 60 percent compared to last year.

In Paramount, Calif., three Walmart workers were arrested at a protest.

In Arizona, a Catholic charity—Tucson’s Casa Maria Free Kitchen—rejected a $2,000 donation from Walmart, calling it “blood money.” Charity overseer Brian Flagg told the Arizona Daily Star, “We feel that even though Walmart has low prices, they pay lousy wages, they’re anti-union, and they have a detrimental effect on the survival of small businesses.”

One Reno labor activist noted that the protest at the Glendale Avenue Walmart took place across the street from the Grand Sierra Resort, which is unionized.

Weighty info Thanksgiving Day editions, packed with holiday shopping ads, are reportedly the largest of the year for daily newspapers. The Nov. 22 edition of the Reno Gazette-Journal weighed 3.91 pounds.

If it were ground beef, it would have cost $9.73, according to Raley’s grocery prices on Monday of this week. If it were crab, it would have cost $19.51.

Although it was a weekday and although that particular edition was revenue-rich, the Gazette-Journal raised the price for it to $3.

The normal weekday price is $1.

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Repeal Nevada reconsiders a remnant of the past

State legislators will consider whether to repeal a Nevada law that currently allows employers to engage in job disby Dennis Myers crimination against communists.

The Legislative Commission—a body that handles some legislative business when the full Nevada Legislature is out of session—is having a bill drawn up to repeal Nevada Revised Statute 613.360. The lawmakers go into session on Feb. 4.

The 47-year-old law doesn’t necessarily allow discrimination against all communists. It allows it in the cases of communists who are members of a Communist Party and may allow it in other instances. It reads:

It may come as a surprise that it is legal for employers to inquire into the political beliefs of job applicants.

“Actions permitted against member of Communist Party or related organization. As used in NRS 613.310 to 613.435, inclusive, the phrase ‘unlawful employment practice’ does not include any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor-management committee or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member of the Communist Party of

the United States or of any other organization required to register as a Communist-action or Communistfront organization by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.”

The Subversive Activities Control Board was created by the U.S. Internal Security Act of 1950, which was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Patrick McCarran of Nevada, a right wing Democrat.

Title II of the same law provided for concentration camps in the United States, a number of which were constructed but never used. (Democratic Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, who coauthored Title II, was later placed on an FBI list of people to be rounded up for the camps.)

The Nevada law was enacted by the 1965 Nevada Legislature as section 15 of that year’s Assembly Bill 404, sponsored by Assemblymembers Mel Close and Vernon Bunker, both Democrats.

Bunker, who was the Democratic floor leader in 1965 and later moved down to the state Senate, is deceased.

Close, who later became Assembly Speaker and also eventually moved to the Senate, is a Las Vegas lawyer. He has no memory of the legislation.

“I read about it [the plan to repeal] in the paper, and I thought, ‘How did such a dumb law get passed in the first place?’” Close said with a laugh this week. “I wish I could tell you why that was in the bill, but I can’t.”

An examination of legislative records does not provide any indication of why the section was in the bill.

Most of the committee discussion dealt with how the state law meshed with federal law, and some concern was expressed over disallowing sexual discrimination. Some legislators thought it might mean businesses would be subject to equal pay for women or might have to hire women as ditch-diggers. The committee minutes say Gov. Grant Sawyer signed off on the language.

The bill passed the Assembly 34-2 on March 18 and the Senate 21-8 on April 2.

The language of the law is a reflection of the times when it was enacted.

The word “communist” was usually capitalized, even when not used as a proper noun, a practice that dwindled as red-baiting receded into the past.

Would legislators today run a political risk by voting to repeal the law?

“I honestly don’t think so,” said political scientist Fred Lokken. “I don’t think there’s any risk of it.”

He said that with the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the threat both inside and outside the United States was always from the right.

“The Soviet Union was fascist, China the same, but the hysteria was over their being leftist,” he said. “That is what the great threat is in the United States, is takeover from the right, not from the left.”

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, business leaders in the U.S. were able to use both money and force—sometimes U.S. military force—to put economic theories like Marxism, communism, socialism and social democracy permanently outside allowable discourse in the nation, unlike Europe where socialism and social democracy are still vigorous and often successful movements and even communism is a credible faction.

Lokken acknowledged that there’s always the possibility that a fringe figure might accuse a Nevada legislator in the next election of being pro-communist, but he said there are ways for the lawmakers to protect themselves.

“It would be wise to combine it in a bill with a number of other ridiculous laws,” he said.

It may come as a surprise that it is legal for employers to inquire into the political beliefs of job applicants. It is, with some exceptions and some ambiguous risk points for employers.

There are federal court cases that protect public employees from scrutiny of their political views.

In some states there are laws that protect private sector job applicants

from political probes, but Nevada isn’t one of them.

One lawyer at an online legal advice site, William Wilson, suggests that a federal law, 42 USC 1985(3), could be used in this field. He wrote that it “prohibits conspiracies to deprive persons of equal rights and privileges that has been raised in various contexts. The statute, which is a Reconstruction era law, is broadly drafted to correct some of the abuses that arose after the Civil War for blacks trying to exercise their rights.

However, it addresses ‘any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws’ which could include party affiliation, or a particular political viewpoint. The ‘class’ must be one that is sufficiently defined, so it is more likely to apply to party affiliation, such as Democrat, rather than an amorphous group, such as liberal.”

There are other, similar Nevada laws that are still on the books but have not been marked for revision and will apparently stand as is. Among them: • NRS 613.370, which allows job discrimination for a job applicant who is adjudged by federal officials to be a threat to “national security”; • NRS 203.115, which makes “criminal anarchy”—that is, holding the opinion that the government should be overthrown by force or violence—illegal even without action to put that opinion into practice; • NRS 203.117, which makes “criminal syndicalism”—that is, holding the opinion that “political or

industrial reform” should be carried out by force—illegal even without action to put that opinion into practice; • The Nevada Constitution at article two, section five, which requires teachers at all levels to take loyalty oaths.

Syndicalism laws in some other jurisdictions have been overturned by the courts and in 1969 they were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio, a case involving a member of the Ku Klux Klan who was convicted of holding officially disapproved opinions.

Surprisingly, none of these laws is the product of the McCarthy era of the 1950s, when Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin became known for accusations of subversion against liberals. McCarthy launched that movement with campaigns swing of speeches around the nation for Republican candidates that began in Wheeling, W. Va., and included stops in Reno and Las Vegas.

The language in the Nevada Constitution requiring loyalty oaths was written in 1864 when suspicions of the loyalty of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and of Confederate sympathizers were at issue.

The syndicalism laws were written during the early 20th century when business practices were challenged by labor and reform movements. According to NRS, they were already on the state’s lawbooks in 1911 when a revision of state laws took place. Ω

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GREENSPACE Sunny days for Nevada tribes Nearly 1 million photovoltaic panels were approved for construction on the Moapa River Indian Reservation in Southern Nevada. The solar plant will help supply power to Los Angeles, resulting in economic growth for the Moapa Band of Paiutes. According to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, it’s the largest solar plant on tribal land in the country. Los Angeles and the tribe have a “$1.6 billion, 25-year pact,” the report said.

The power generated by the plant will provide energy for more than 100,000 homes in Los Angeles, and Moapa Band of Paiutes will oversee the plant and supply gravel and sand.

Response to the solar plant has been positive as tribes throughout the state have been developing renewable energy resources onto reservations. The Moapa Band of Paiutes has been active in opposing the Reid Gardner coal plant, notably staging a protest at the Clean Energy Summit, held earlier this year in Las Vegas.

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Until recently, scientists and organizations, including the United Nations, have stressed the importance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.

However, the focus has shifted to 3 degrees Celsius and, in a worst case scenario, 4 degrees Celsius.

The report begins with a foreword by World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, who writes, “It is my hope that this report shocks us into action. Even for those of us already committed to fighting climate change, I hope it causes us to work with much more urgency. … The 4°C scenarios are devastating: the inundation of coastal cities; increasing risks for food production potentially leading to higher malnutrition rates; many dry regions becoming dryer, wet regions wetter; unprecedented heat waves in many regions, especially in the tropics; substantially exacerbated water scarcity in many regions; increased frequency of high-intensity tropical cyclones; and irreversible loss of biodiversity, including coral reef systems.”

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The intermittent glow of a digital billboard in Sparks may conflict with commuters’ headlights.

Scenic route Scenic Nevada vs. Reno City Council In 2000, residents in the city of Reno enacted an ordinance by initiative petition banning construction and permits of new billboards. Twelve years later, on Oct. 24, the Reno City Council voted to override that ordinance. by Ashley Environmental organization Scenic Nevada started organizing against Hennefer digital billboards in 2008, and has been actively appealing decisions made by the planning commission (“Bright blights, Feb. 9; “Screen savers,” July 5). ashleyh@ Scenic Nevada, the local chapter of national non-profit Scenic America, newsreview.com opposes digital billboards because “they violate the billboard ban, mar scenic mountain views, contribute to street clutter, use far too much energy and distract drivers.” The voter initiative is a Reno Municipal Code called “Restrictions on permanent off-premises advertising displays.” The code states, “The construction of new off-premises advertising displays/billboards is prohibited, and the city of Reno may not issue permits for their construction.”

Now that a revised ordinance has City Council approval, Scenic Nevada has filed a lawsuit to void it. The organization had 25 days to file a lawsuit after the revised ordinance was approved.

“We filed a lawsuit because we believe that the ordinance violates the voter initiative of 2000, which banned new construction and new permits for digital billboards,” said Lori Wray, board member of Scenic Nevada. Lori’s husband, Mark, is the attorney for Scenic Nevada. He said that ultimately, the ordinance goes against the law set in place by the public. “[Reno City Council] just left us with this horrible, horrible mess,” Mark said. “We think the law shows that what they did was dead wrong. … Can the City Council do what they did here? Of course it’s illegal. The citizens passed a law.”

Scenic Nevada made an appeal against the planning commission’s decision in July. Between July and October, the revised ordinance was finalized.

Mark and Lori note that a similar, and successful, case in Arizona has set a precedent for other Scenic America groups organizing around the country.

Digital billboards were erected in Phoenix, but the court ruled that digital billboards use intermittent light—which flash and change every ten seconds—and are a violation of the federal Highway Beautification Act. “The state entered an agreement with the federal government to have codes and policies that uphold the act,” Lori said. She said that Scenic Nevada hopes to take a similar approach.

Mark said that the “overarching principle” of the issue is that the city is ignoring the wishes of the public. Scenic Nevada commissioned an independent survey in 2000 before the initiative was passed, which found that 57 percent of locals do not want new digital billboards in the city.

“It’s the public’s business,” he said. “This is a public lawsuit and the people have a right to know. ... It’s not about helping billboard companies making another dollar. Why is the City Council enforcing the proliferation of new billboards? These are supposed to be our elected representatives. Who else are they representing?

“It’s very maddening. Think that only Scenic Nevada is fighting this? It’s not just Scenic Nevada. Nobody wants to drive down from work and pass a bunch of billboards.”

The City Council has 20 days to respond to the lawsuit, which was filed on Nov. 16. Ω

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otherwise end up in a landfill is what attracts many consumers to upcycled goods. And, as often happens where trends mature, upcycled fashion pieces have transformed from kitschy and sometimes embarrassing to quite ingenious, well-crafted and even high-end luxury clothes and accessories.

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“Upcycling” means taking something disposable and creating something of higher value with it—making a purse from a tire, for instance. (Recycling, on the other hand, decomposes items into materials that can then be used to create something else, such as turning wood chips into paper.)

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She’d been searching in vain for a vegan handbag, and “it occurred to me that this inner tube could be made into the [one] I’d been dreaming of,” she says. The first bag she made was just for herself, she says, but when she carried it, she got so many inquiries about it “that I naively went into business.”

Today, her company, English Retreads, uses inner tubes to make purses, totes, wallets, belts, and iPad and laptop sleeves. The colorful linings are made from recycled plastic bottles. Prices range from $9 to $158.

“Normally, fashion is designed to last one season before the indus-

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try tells us we can’t wear it anymore and to get rid of it,” English says. “Many products are mass produced so they fall apart after several uses; things are made by people who are taken advantage of due to their socioeconomic position. These are all nonsustainable situations.” The idea behind her company is “to keep stuff out of the landfills and use as few new resources and [as little] energy as possible.”

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The company upcycles more than 5,000 pounds of cast-off seat belts annually, Kehler says. All of them come from vehicles that have reached the end of their useful lives and they would otherwise be shredded and sent to a landfill.

Kehler believes his business model can work for other industries.

“I think our industrial waste is quickly becoming our greatest unnatural resource,” Kehler says. There’s “tons of trash, a sky full of ideas—we need to work together.

Bend over and pick up the garbage. ... The truth is in your trash.”

Akawelle Jewelry is Lovetta Conto’s fashion offering inspired by her past. She’s a 19-yearold Liberian who grew up in a refugee camp in Ghana after fleeing with her father from her country’s civil war. In the camp she was selected for the Strongheart Fellowship Program, a U.S.-based nonprofit that helps rehabilitate and guide children traumatized by war and violence through entrepreneurship as an exit strategy from poverty.

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Canadian Trevor Kehler found the inspiration for his company’s upcycled seat belt bags and purses while contemplating the creation of a product he could feel good about and that would be useful but also speak to the “disposable society” he saw all around him.

“When I first started U.S.E.D., I was making sandals out of car tires and seat belts,” he says. “I made two pairs. They were ridiculous. ... [But] I realized the potential in the seat belts.” He taught himself to sew, made the first bags from his home in British Columbia in 2002 and gradually grew the company to nine people with a 1,300-square-foot shop. Today his products sell in 62 retail outlets across

TOSHEKA DESIGNS www.toshekadesigns.com: The ubiquitous plastic shopping bag recently banned in Los Angeles and several other cities is not just a menace in the U.S. but also the world over. So Philadelphiabased entrepreneurs Lucy Lau Bigham and husband Herman Bigham conceived of a way to transform the trash into handbags.

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ucts. When they approached a major Kenyan supermarket chain called Nakumatt and proposed collecting clean used bags from the market’s clients, creating the handbags with their community groups and then circling them back to the retailer to sell, “they thought this was a brilliant idea,” Herman Bigham says.

Today, more than 130 women in 15 underserved Kenyan communities crochet the colorful bags using techniques passed down from their ancestors. The finished bags sell in 15 supermarkets throughout Kenya, and the company is gearing up to enter tourist hotel boutiques and the U.S. market.

“What do people do with the many plastic bags they come home with from the supermarket?” Herman Bigham says. “If they bring them back clean to the supermarkets, we can make a product that will probably outlive them. ... We see this as a great intervention in making sure these plastics don’t get into the environment. Most of our customers simply can’t believe [the purses] are made out of plastic trash bags.”

She was sitting in traffic when the idea came to her to design a necklace with two pendants hanging side-by-side. One is a leaf made from a melted bullet shell with the word “life” engraved on it; the other is the round bottom of a bullet casing. Together they represent the transformation from struggle and conflict to life. Thousands of these bullets still litter Liberia.

“I think many people understand how serious a thing it is to wear a bullet that’s been fired in a war that hurt people I love,” Conto says. “I feel like when people wear it, I’m asking them to remember the lives that were affected by the materials I use— and to know that those same materials are now being used for good.”

“It’s a big beautiful world, but not an infinite place,” Conto says. “Materials can have a life far beyond what we usually allow them. Transformation is possible and can be beautiful—whether from bullets to jewelry, or products that have hurt into products that can heal. You don’t have to throw things away; let the past speak to you and show you how it wants to be reborn.”

JUDARI www.judari.com: When Muscovite business partners Julia Voitenko and Daria Golevko decided to start a fashion company in 2005, they wanted to combine their love of vintage and scarves. Both designers relished their vintage flea-market hunts across Europe, and soon they fell on the idea of making shoes with one-ofa-kind vintage scarves.

Judari is their Milan-based shoe company and Russy their new line, which produced 600 limited edition colorful and bright sneakers made from the old scarves they found across Europe. The sneakers can be laced with shoelaces or scarves.

“At first, the production was difficult because the scarves were all of different sizes and that was not a normal thing for a production of sneakers,” says Voitenko. “Although even with that problem at the end we were happy with the results.”

She says this is part of what makes upcycled fashion so appealing—“each item is unique,” a stand-alone, with a one-only story. “We’re so sure of the idea that we’ll create more in the future,” she says. “At first, some customers didn’t understand and even called to verify if there had been a mistake. But now, people love the idea.” Ω

MAPLEXO www.maplexo.com: When Oregonian skateboarder Lindsay Jo Holmes started her MapleXO jewelry line—flipping used skateboards into funky jewelry—she went to a local indoor skatepark and asked if she could put out a skateboard recycling bin. “They were so enthusiastic I baked them cookies when I picked up the boards, and it started a trend,” she says. “Each time I go to pick up boards now, I bake cookies and even to this day, we still sit up at night baking cookies for the rad people who send us boards.”

The boards are generally made out of maple, hence the name (XO was added “as a feminine touch,” Holmes says). And it’s the boards that produce the colors in the jewelry. “It usually takes a second [for people to understand] and then they get it,” Holmes says. “The scratches on the graphics, the layers in the wood, the contour the pieces have from the shape of the board— even people that don’t know much about

skateboarding can recognize these qualities. It’s so awesome because each piece really has a story all its own.”

She gets the used boards now from skateboard shops, skateboard companies, her friends, friends of friends, random people met at skate parks, the guys she works with. “Now, more than ever, I think people crave a connection to the things they buy,” she says. “The plastic world of mass production and sweatshops has revealed its unglamorous truths.”

The company sells to 40 outlets across the world.

“We love thinking about getting a board that has traveled on skate-trips through the U.S. and Spain perhaps, and then sending jewelry from this board to an order in Japan,” Holmes explains. “So many pieces of the world can touch each piece.”

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“SATAN IZ CUMMING,” announced flashing, screen-high letters at the beginning of the video for the song of the same name. The musician was Dvchess, someone essentially unknown in the local scene. The video was directed by Toshadeva Palani, a photographer and surprisingly accomplished music video director, formerly of Reno.

The debut video of Dvchess, filmed in the Black Rock Desert, has some of the recognizable conventions of a rap video, including dancing, posing, thuggish-looking characters, wardrobe changes, and, of course, rapping. It also features a burning cross, a severed pig’s head, medieval weaponry,

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and—as promised by the title—a morbid sexual fetishization of the Prince of Darkness. At the center of it all is the black-clad Dvchess herself, the first transgender witch-house rapper you are likely to have laid eyes on.

The things Dvchess discusses doing in the song would be enough to earn her a spot at a burning stake, if our culture still subscribed to that sort of thing. In this day and age, however, the activities she references could merely get her arrested in several states. Dvchess is something of a perfect storm for anyone looking for a scapegoat. Whether you get riled by references to drug abuse, the occult, group sex, bodily fluids, the casual use of the N word by a white rapper, or just someone who was born a boy aggressively embracing a female role, there is something for everyone to get pissed off about.

“Now Satan is cummin’/Deep in my plumbin’,” Dvchess spits, in what may be the only lyric fit to print. As dark and repulsive as it may come across, however, it also comes across with a wink. The audience at the public screening snickered throughout the video, sometimes from genuine amusement, sometimes along the

lines of the nervous laughter that can be heard during a horror movie screening. To the extent her music makes people laugh, Dvchess is very much in on the joke. She confesses to giggling along with the crowd at the screening, and even breaking up during filming. If you stumbled across her video on YouTube, you might first be taken in by its shock value, but if you were able to get through it, you would probably appreciate its freshness and be struck by its grand incongruity. One thing is almost certain: love it or hate it, you’re almost certain to crack a smile at it unless you’re an absolute puritan.

Drag race Sitting through the video, of course, would require a tolerance for what has come to be known as witchhouse. It’s a sub-genre of electronic music with a dark, Gothic aesthetic and heavy hip-hop elements. The term “witch-house” started out as a joke but caught on, and in that respect, it’s no surprise that Dvchess identifies with it, even though the witch-house community, such as it is, tends to take itself

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As for the rap element, Dvchess arrived at it in a somewhat unusual way. She professes to have always hated rap until she discovered the gateway drug: Lil Wayne.

“I couldn’t stop watching his videos. Then I started listening to other stuff, surprisingly, and I really liked singing along to it.

Then I discovered witch-house and I was like, holy shit, there’s rapping in this, but it sounds scary as fuck, has interesting content— slightly on the darker side. So I just started doing my own stuff.”

Dvchess’ own stuff turns out to be pretty unique indeed. With the concept of transgender being associated with homosexuality, and with hip-hop being a historically homophobic sphere of the culture, Dvchess is breaking ground in more ways than even she has considered.

“I’ve never heard of a transgender rapper,” she acknowledges, but she doesn’t see anything earthshattering about it. While recognizing how unusual she is in that respect, she doesn’t dwell on it or incorporate it into an agenda.

“I haven’t really thought about it.

I’m a lot more worried about putting out a good song.”

Dvchess the performer is a bundle of contradictions, and while her transgender aspect may be only one, it’s right at the forefront of her persona. Generally speaking, “transgender” is an umbrella term for anyone who identifies with a gender that they weren’t born into.

In Dvchess’s case, this preference will manifest in medically changing sex, which is a long and expensive process, with obvious social stigma.

Dvchess is good-natured and open about it all, but does note the difficulty of finding a date.

“I’m a living fetish right now,” she acknowledges.

Right now Dvchess’s musical output is limited mostly to a bunch of drag remixes. If interest in her original work persists, Dvchess hopes to put out an LP, but is still seeking the right producer to collaborate with. She also has not played a live show yet, given some financial and technical limitations, but her black-lined eyes gleam at the prospect.

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pretty seriously. In that respect, Dvchess defies the conventions even of her own narrow niche. Her name itself is something of a wink.

The Old English V in place of a U is a nod to witch-house’s exclusionary obsession with purposely making it harder to search for witch-house on the internet. So too is the litter of special typographical symbols on her Facebook page and YouTube channel. Where internet witch-house musicians and fans will mix in Unicode text just to be difficult, Dvchess changes every A to a triangle, every T to a cross, every E to a 3, exposing the ridiculousness of it all.

In her mission to constantly do the unexpected, Dvchess seems also to be carving out a new aesthetic in her chosen genre.

Witch-house thus far has been styled like hip-hop, heavy on baggy sweatshirts, oversize jerseys, and other signposts of not giving a fuck. Dvchess wants to glam it up. Six feet tall with long black hair, in tall leather boots, skintight black clothes and a flatbilled cap, the sight of Dvchess as she raps about the devil is a big part of her appeal.

As for the provocative nature of her imagery and lyrical content, Dvchess laughs. “Shocking people is fun,” she admits. “But it’s not the root of what I’m doing. I just have this fascination with the darker side of things, and I think it’s funny to throw sex into it.

Weird sexual ideas are fun to explore musically.”

Dvchess has made music before in other projects under other names, but she got started in the witch-house style by doing drag remixes of popular mainstream hits. The term drag doesn’t have anything to do with being transgender, but refers to a style of remixing music that is often characterized by vocals that are slowed down and deepened in pitch to the point of unintelligibility.

“You take a song, stretch the fuck out of it, throw some nasty filters on it,” Dvchess explains.

“You’re basically raping a song to make it sound like hell spewing out of someone’s mouth. It’s not supposed to sound pretty. “ Drag isn’t the kind of thing that most people would sit and listen to for hours on end. Even Dvchess herself acknowledges that much of drag’s appeal is about the novelty of hearing something familiar raked over the coals. Her most notable drag effort is a remix of a Justin Bieber song. It blew up on YouTube, but was taken down

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One Basque story Two Basque Stories Bernardo Atxaga Center for Basque Studies

I really hate being faced with my own ignorance, but fortunately, through a lifetime of practice, by I’ve developed calluses on the part of my D. Brian Burghart ego that’s sensitive to such things. brianb@ Arts editor Brad Bynum passed me a newsreview.com book, Two Basque Stories, when I was looking for something quick for Western Lit, having procrastinated until the day before deadline. I never heard of the guy who wrote the book, Bernardo Atxaga, but it was slender with big type and pictures, so it was perfect for my needs.

Then I got into it, and discovered it was deceptively complex, so I had to do a little research on this Mr. Atxaga. Turns out his real name is Jose Irazu, and he’s probably the world’s best known Basque writer—hard to believe, I know, with Robert Laxalt’s roots in this very community, but just look on his Wikipedia page, and you’ll see what I mean.

So, please forgive me for going in with less gravitas than this book deserved, but congratulate me for figur-

ing it out before I was a quarter through the first story. I’m afraid this review is too short to get much into the second story, “When a Snake Stares at a Bird,” which also features a Grandpa Martin, but I will note the second story has the lyrical beauty of the first.

The first thing that caught my attention was the overwhelming sense of sweetness and guilelessness that emanated from this writing. “Two Letters All at Once” reminded me of the way a child tells a story, taking a long path just to get to the beginning of the story, lingering at the story only momentarily before tripping off to a tangential topic, getting lost in the woods before accidentally finding his way back to the path and then back home, all the while seemingly unaware of the tension building in the reader.

This guilessness shows absolute guile and skill on the part of the author (and the translator, in this case, Nere Lete).

Essentially, for those who need a plot summation, “Two Letters All at Once,” is a story as told by Martin Agirre, an almost 80-year-old curmudgeon. He retired off the mountain where he was a shepherd in Idaho. It’s about the falling out his two best friends had back in the old country, a Basque village called Obaba, before Agirre came to the United States. Old Martin’s friends fell out over a wager about a feat of strength. Agirre

knew that his friends were being manipulated by “managers,” but he never told them. He profited from their rivalry and moved to America with the proceeds.

Actually, I’m kind of surprised I could sum it up in a paragraph. Interspersed throughout the story were themes of his modern family issues—he lives with his son’s family—his adjustments to aging, a minor but irrevocable sense of loss and regret, declining health, drinking, sex, racism, fear of death, love and chocolate pudding. And love of chocolate pudding.

It’s a beautifully written book by a master storyteller. It’s kind of too bad I didn’t know that going in. It’s certainly worth a glance, and since it’s No. 6 in the University of Nevada, Reno’s Center for Basque Studies’ Basque Literature Series, it might be the beginnings of a collection. Even though I didn’t read this aloud—and maybe the peppered Euskara would make this difficult—I had the feeling it was a story that should be read aloud to the family during the holidays.

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A conference in Denver for leaders in the arts, with multiple workshops and discussions, inspired Walker in the way different cities across the country come The Good Works art up with the funds to support artists in exhibition opens on Dec. spite of a faltering economy.

6 at Jungle Vino, Sierra With people less willing to indulge on Tap House, Bar, Whisky art, artists not financially supported by an and Se7en Tea House.

The exhibition will be up institution find it difficult to keep their through Jan. 2. creativity lucrative—or even see their ideas manifest, according to Walker.

Walker took his inspiration back to Reno, but found little support.

“I gave some of my ideas to different groups here and no one utilized them,” he says.

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By requiring the artists to submit works with a small maximum measurement, Walker can ensure the price tags remain low. The hope is to boost the amount of overall sales, something participating artist Anastasiia Sapon can vouch for being difficult to do when keeping a higher price.

“Both times I’ve submitted for Reno, owners told me my prices were too high,” she says. “They say, ‘It’s Reno, you should sell it for cheaper.’”

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“This is for the people who can’t afford school but have good ideas and need money to realize their work,” Walker says. “It’s for the have-nots.”

Grant applicants will then apply at the end of January, with the beneficiary being the artist with the best proposal for the allocation and use of the funds.

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If all goes well, Walker sees both the show and grant becoming an annual occasion.

This time around, the month-long benefit show begins Dec. 6, and stays up through Jan. 2. The opening reception will be held at Java Jungle at 7 p.m., with snacks provided. The show’s other venues will include Jungle Vino, Sierra Tap House, Bar, Whiskey and Se7en Tea House. Live music supplied by local band Clock’s Magic Bandits will begin at 9 p.m. at Se7en. The venues will donate 10 percent of their opening night sales to the grant, with the majority of the grant money coming from the sale of the artwork itself.

“There are so many creative people, and they just go unheard and unseen,” says Walker. “I try to find them and get them out of their comfort zone—show people what they’re capable of.” Ω

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House recipe Fresh Creations Culinary School 800 W. Second St., 284-1080

Walking up to Fresh Creations Culinary School, I was immediately charmed by the light blue Victorian house. Once my by K.J. Sullivan friend Brett and I stepped inside, things just got better. The house has been converted to a restaurant and cooking school. It used to house Back of the House cooking school.

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ordered the roasted vegetable panini ($10), which came with a choice of salad or soup. I decided to go with the soup, which was pumpkin. I was expecting a pumpkin purée type soup, but instead the soup had large chunks of pumpkin, along with chicken, rice and celery. The soup had a light mint taste that went perfectly with the pumpkin. When my panini arrived, I was blown away by the vibrant colors of the vegetables including beets, red and yellow peppers and zucchini.

The vegetables all tasted fresh. A nice layer of spicy jack cheese was melted on the vegetables, and the toasted sourdough bread gave this a nice crunch. This panini was not only delicious, but also filling.

Brett ordered off the specials menu and went with the beef stew ($10), which came with a small side salad. The salad was very fresh and was served with a Vidalia onion dressing that had a nice sweet tang along with some of the brightly colored beets. The stew arrived with steam pouring from the top beckoning him to dig into the thick broth.

The stew was filled with large hunks of beef, carrots and portabella mushrooms. The beef was very tender and went perfectly with the hearty broth.

There was also a side of garlic bread for dipping.

Service throughout was friendly, attentive and non-intrusive.

One hint: They only accept cash for tips, but you can use your card for payment of anything else. With great reluctance, I had to pass on dessert because I was too full from the meal, so now I have another reason to come back. In addition to the café, Fresh Creations is a culinary school with a beautiful kitchen area is in the back. It has partnered with Washoe Innovations High School to offer a culinary program for the students, and with the Anti Cancer Club to offer cooking classes for cancer patients. This is a great addition to the community, so I recommend you come down and enjoy the relaxed setting while you have a gourmet meal. Ω

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I almost felt like I was dining at a friend’s house—if I had a friend who was a gourmet chef and lived in the cutest house ever, that is. We were greeted by Pam Crucitti, part of the husband and wife duo that runs Fresh Creations. Her husband, Paul, is the chef. We were told to sit wherever we wanted, so we took a long metal table by the window. We both ordered hot tea ($2), which was brought out in cute little tea pots.

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Life of Pi It’s that time of year when studios release their Oscar hopefuls, continuing the embraced tradition of saving the best—or, what they hope to convince us is the best—for last.

So here’s Life of Pi, an adaptation of the seemingly unfilmable novel by Yann Martel about a 14-year-old boy spending more than 200 days at sea, alone on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger that totally wants to eat his face.

Many took a crack at making the 2001 by spiritual novel into a film, and many just Bob Grimm threw their hands up in the air, said “Screw bgrimm@ this, I’m going to Cabo!” and departed. newsreview.com I never read the book, but seeing a synopsis of the story had me thinking it would be best to leave this particular fable on the page.

It appeared it would be a real bitch to film.

Then I read somebody got director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Hulk) on the project. For me, this means hold on to your asses because something amazing is on the way.

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thing special in store for us. Here’s a 3-D movie so innovative, even the great critic and 3-D naysayer Roger Ebert declared, “I love the use of 3-D in Life of Pi.” Anybody who reads Ebert knows he detests 3-D, so we’re definitely talking about a landmark film achievement when The Ebert comes around.

Lee has cast Suraj Sharma as the teenaged Pi, and Irrfan Khan as the adult Pi, and both deliver performances that center the film.

Khan sets a good, worldly tone as the older Pi being interviewed by a writer (Rafe Spall) who heard he had a great story to tell.

Khan describes, in very matter-of-fact terms, how he came to be the lone survivor of a spectacular shipwreck.

The shipwreck sequence, by itself, is some of the most harrowing and eye-popping footage you will see this or any year. Lee uses 3-D to put you right in the middle of it.

As water pounds Pi, you’ll be checking yourself to see if you’re wet.

Pi finds himself in a lifeboat out at sea with members of his family’s zoo that were being transported on the big boat: a frightened zebra, a crazed hyena and, of course, a rather annoyed tiger.

Things transpire, and it’s just Pi and the tiger staring each other down, with Pi using a makeshift raft to stay the heck out of the boat. The tiger, as it turns out, is not very good company.

The tiger itself is a mixture of CGI and actual tigers. He’s named Richard Parker for a reason I won’t give away, and there’s never a dull moment when he’s on screen. I especially liked when Richard Parker found himself in the water, and unable to get back on the boat. And let it be said that there are few things sadder than a giant, soaked tiger that’s very hungry.

Those who have not read the book are in for a lot of surprises when watching Life of Pi. Those who have read it are in for some big surprises as well, in that the film does great honor to the bestseller. If you read it thinking “There’s no way anybody can make this into a movie!” you are in for a big shock.

It’s a movie, all right, and it’s a great one. Ω

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And with this, the suffering of discerning moviegoers finally ends. No more Bella pouting, no more Edward swooning, no more Taylor abs (OK, I admit the Taylor abs are wonderful). Bella is now a super vampire capable of taking down mountain lions and sitting in a chair real fast. The head vampires of the world hear that Bella has had a baby—and a weird-looking CGI baby at that—and they look to start a vampire war with Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen as their overacting leaders. The previous film showed some promise, but this one (both directed by Bill Condon) tosses that promise aside and reverts to the awfulness that pervaded the earlier films. Stephenie Meyer has hinted the saga could go on with Taylor’s Jacob and the grown up Bella Baby.

No, this needs to stop. It needs to stop now.

I love Steven Spielberg, I love Daniel Day-Lewis, but I do not love this movie. In fact, I don’t even like it. While Day-Lewis is astoundingly good in the title role, the movie around him is a drab, lifeless retelling of the final days of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Spielberg makes this a darkened room political potboiler, chronicling how Lincoln and his staff managed to get slavery abolished in the waning days of the Civil War. Sally Field is cast as Lincoln’s troubled wife. While Mary Todd’s plight deserves a movie of its own, it’s not given much consideration here, nor is the life of Lincoln’s eldest son (an utterly wasted Joseph Gordon-Levitt). The movie’s final act treats the death of Lincoln like a strange afterthought. They would’ve been better off ending the film before his assassination. I expect Day-Lewis to be in the

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John Hawkes delivers a remarkable performance as Mark O’Brien, a man rendered virtually motionless by polio and looking to lose his virginity in his late 30s.

He contacts a sex therapist (played by an often very naked Helen Hunt) that guides him through the ways of fornication and also becomes his friend. Hawkes does most of his acting from the head up, and he’s never anything less than totally convincing as O’Brien (an actual journalist who lived in Berkeley, Calif.). He should easily find himself in contention with the likes of Daniel Day-Lewis for this year’s best acting Oscar.

As for Hunt, it’s the best work she’s done in many a year. William H. Macy brings great humor to the film as Mark’s priest and confidant. This is one of the movie year’s more pleasant surprises.

This animated take on Dracula (Adam Sandler) and other big monsters like Frankenstein’s monster (Kevin James) and the Werewolf (Steve Buscemi) has a fun setup and some great gags. But its overall feeling is that of total mania in that it barely slows down long enough for you to take it in. It’s often unnecessarily spastic in telling the tale of a nervous Dracula dealing with his daughter on her 118th birthday—young in vampire years). A human (Andy Samberg) shows up at the title place, a building Dracula created to keep dangerous humans away, and his daughter (Selena Gomez) falls for him. The overall story is hard to digest, but there are some great moments, such as every time the vampires turn into bats (cute) and a werewolf baby knowing what plane flight somebody is taking by smelling his shirt (unbelievably cute). Even with the cute moments, there were too many times when I just wanted to look away because the animation was far too frantic.

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This one languished on the studio shelf for three years; I wish it had stayed there. I would say it’s the equal of the 1984 original, for they are both pieces of shit. Chris Hemsworth and Josh Peck replace Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen as two brothers who become experts in guerilla warfare after the Pacific Northwest is invaded. This time the culprit is North Korea, although that happened in post-production, because they shot the movie with China as the invading enemy.

The movie shows some promise in the buildup, but goes off the rails in the second half, becoming too much like its ridiculous and melodramatic predecessor. If I had to choose, I would say this one is better than the John Milius original. I really hated this new movie, so that’ll give you an idea just how much I hated the first crack at it.

Denzel Washington stars and Robert Zemeckis directs this uneven film about an airline pilot with mad flying skills and a mad problem with alcohol and drugs.

Washington is Whip Whitaker, a man who ties one on the night before a flight that first requires him to pilot through a horrible storm and then results in a spectacular crash. Whip performs miraculous feats as the plane goes down despite an alcohol level off the charts. Washington is typically great in the role, keeping the movie worth watching even when it gets a bit trite. The first half hour of this movie is a powerhouse. The remaining nearly two hours are OK, but nothing like the punch of that flight sequence. Sure to score Washington on Oscar nomination. A decent return to live action for Zemeckis, who had gotten all caught up in those creepy motion capture animation films like The Polar Express.

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Ben Affleck makes another meaty movie with this spellbinding recreation of the late ’70s/early ’80s Iran hostage crisis, and the strange CIA mission that helped to extricate six American citizens from Iran at a most inopportune time.

Affleck directs and stars as Tony Mendez, who hatches an elaborate plan to pose as a Canadian film director scouting Iran for shooting locations, with the six Americans posing as his Canadian film crew. The whole scenario seems ridiculous, yet it actually happened. Having lived through this period of American history, I can tell you that Affleck does a terrific job of capturing the look and mood of the time. The late ’70s were sort of humiliating both in terms of our status overseas and the way folks were wearing their hair. Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Alan Arkin are all superb in supporting roles. This one will be in the running for some Oscars.

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Bitter, sweet CandyShoppe Great art is often bittersweet. For example, think of Woody Allen’s best films, like Annie Hall or Hannah and Her by Brad Bynum Sisters, sad stories filled with funny jokes. Reno rock band CandyShoppe bradb@ is able to achieve similar balance by newsreview.com combining emotions that seem contradictory but work together in harmony, using a simple but effective technique: actual harmony.

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midtempo rock ’n’ roll backdrop in front of which the twin vocalists bob and sway.

“I feel like the purpose of the band is to accentuate the vocalists, and not take away from it,” says Geddon. “We want to highlight what they’re doing.”

The band members describe their sound as “princess pop punk,” a description that accentuates the rock and pop aspects of the group but neglects the all-too-important undercurrent of melancholy.

“I hate to say it, but I write ballads,” says Leigh. “All of my songs are sad, emo chick rock.

There’s definitely some quirk in there.”

That quirkiness includes “Robot,” a song about robots who are in love but don’t know they’re robots, and “Butterfly,” a song about butterflies that may or may not be a metaphor about death.

CandyShoppe is also a band that isn’t afraid to employ the occasional gimmick or two. In addition to the candy-themed nicknames, they occasionally wear costumes and cover candy-themed songs, like The Strangeloves/Bow Wow Wow classic “I Want Candy.”

“We used to throw candy at the audience, until I hit someone’s mom in the head with a boxed candy and gashed her forehead open,” says Leigh. “So now we just bring it and tell people to come up front.”

The group’s next gig is Marianarchy Winter Ball at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S.Wells Ave., on Dec. 7. The band members dropped hints that they’ll have a limited edition version of their new full-length album, Glitterbox, available at the show.

“We’re quintessentially Reno,” says Leigh. “We all love this town.

We love playing music here. We love the support we’ve gotten from the scene. We love the bands we played with in this town. And we love each other.” Ω

CandyShoppe, Jon Cornell, Nick Ramirez, Cheyenne Leigh, Margy Ford and Irma Geddon, rock the stage at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor during a recent open mic.

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The group has two vocalists, Cheyenne “Caramellow” Leigh and Margy “Joo Joo Bee” Ford. The vocalists often take on traditional lead and backing roles, with lyricist Leigh taking the lead, but they often work in such close harmony that the effect is more like two intertwining lead melodies, creating the effect of two different emotions existing simultaneously.

“Cheyenne is good expressing anger and outright emotions, and Margy is more subtle,” says bassist Irma “Kitt Katt” Geddon.

CandyShoppe is also a band that writes happy sounding music that contrasts nicely with the sad-eyed lyrics of songs like “Cigarette,” a song that references the bittersweet feeling explicitly: “I held your pictures in my hand/Yellow turns to blue/And sweet becomes bitter/I burned a hole in you/And watched your eyes fade away.”

CandyShoppe is a vocal-centered band. The songs sound like songs, not as instrumental excursions that happen to have vocals. The instrumentalists, Geddon, drummer Nick “Pixie Styxx” Ramirez, and Jon “Bit O’ Hunny” Cornell, churn out a simple, straight-up, tasteful,

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THE HOLLAND PROJECT

Speak Easy: Spoken Views Open Mic, 7:30pm, $5

Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover

Seeing Eye Dogs, 9:30pm, $3

The Grups, 9pm, no cover

Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Community Drum Circle, 5:30pm, no cover

Large Bills Accepted, noon, M, no cover

1) Tommy Walter, Oliver’s Organ, 9pm, $10, $12 2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover (21+)

2) John White, Rigorous Proof, Tovah Goodman, Halfway West, 8:30pm, $10

Char Brooks Band, 9:30pm, No Cover

The Flesh Hammers, MeatHook & The Vital Organs, 9pm, no cover

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

Karaoke w/Nick, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Nick, 9pm, W, no cover

1) Backcountry Film Festival, 8pm, $10-$18

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover Ivory Drive, Yukon and the Territories, Lucas Young, 7:30pm, $5

100 For Haiti Benefit Show, 7pm, $5

JAVA JUNGLE

1) Nevada Wilderness’ Wilderness Wingding, 6pm, W, $10 2) Blues Jam Wednesdays, 7pm, W, no cover

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

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

Monday Funday w/Gurbtron, 9pm, M, Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA The Babies, Prescription, Precariously Stacked, 8pm, M, no cover

Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484 1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659

Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

Naked for Safety, Big Bad, Sweaty Already, 8:30pm, no cover

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300 9pm, no cover

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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

170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800

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Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

Randy Blake, 7pm, no cover

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

1up Wednesday, 10pm, W, no cover

BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HE AD)

Seeing Eye Dogs, A Surrogate Band, 9pm, $3

CEOL IRISH PUB

1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/3-12/5

The Bradfords, 7pm, no cover

7689 S. Virginia St., (775) 853-1111 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

SUNDAY 12/2

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

Live jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover The Jingoes, The Feather Merchants, The Kanes, 9pm, $5

Open mic, 9pm M, no cover

Tommy Walter Nov. 30, 9 p.m.

CommRow 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

Comedy 3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: K-von, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; Rob Sherwood, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95 Centric at CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., 398-5400: Marc Yaffee, Adam Stone, F, 8pm, $14.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Rocky LaPorte, Larry Brown, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Wendy Liebman, Amir K, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Hypnot!c Harvest of Blessings w/Dan Kimm, F, 7pm, $13, $16; Susan Jones, F, 9:30pm; Sa, 7pm, 9:30pm, $13, $16

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THURSDAY 11/29 KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648 1) Main Stage 2) Top Shelf Lounge

FRIDAY 11/30

SATURDAY 12/1

SUNDAY 12/2

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/3-12/5

1) She Has A Fashion Vice, A Sight for 1) Trapt, Oleander, Sil Shoda, 8pm, $17-$40 1) Tegan and Sara, 9pm, $30-$60 Sore Eyes, We Predict A Riot, Come Home 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover Geoffrey, Sound the Sirens, 8pm, $6

KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL

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

405 Vine St., (775) 323-6500

PIZZA BARON

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

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

1155 W. Fourth St., (775) 329-4481 3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001

Ivory Drive

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

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

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HE AD)

POLO LOUNGE

Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

PONDEROSA SALOON

Karaoke w/Rockin’ Steel, 7:30pm, no cover

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

RISE NIGHTCLUB

Comedy Thursdays w/Comedy Mafia, 8:30pm, no cover

RUBEN’S CANTINA

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

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

RYAN’S SALOON

Hellbilly Bandits, 9pm, no cover

210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833

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

Student Night, 10pm, $10, $5 w/college student ID after 11pm

Rise Culture Night, 10pm, $10

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

SHEA’S TAVERN

Open Mic Sundays, 8pm, no cover

715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Metal Echo, 9:30pm, no cover

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

SIERRA GOLD

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

Alias Smith, 9:30pm, no cover Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

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

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

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

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

Dec. 1, 9 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648

STREGA BAR

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

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

STUDIO ON 4TH

Y-Not Female Singer/Songwriter Showcase,8pm, no cover

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993

Movember Shave-off Party w/Liam Cahill & Fishnets & Fedoras, 9pm, no cover Weapons of Mass Creation, 9pm, no cover

VASSAR LOUNGE

VooDooDogz, 8pm, no cover

Rock’N J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE

Tom Van Ruiten, John Eldridge, 7pm, no cover

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

1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197 3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

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17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

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THURSDAY 11/29

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2) Palmore Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 4pm, Cook Book, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 4pm, Cook Book, 10pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover

2) Doctor Rock-It, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Escalade, 7pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Lonesome Locomotive, 10pm, no cover

2) Mojo Green, 10pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 7:30pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 7pm, M, 5:30pm, 8pm, Tu, W, $19.95-$24.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover 4) Live piano, 4:30pm, W, no cover

4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Walang Hanggan Pasasalamat, 7:30pm, $48-$88 4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

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

1) Toad the Wet Sprocket, 7:30pm, $24.20 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Pop Vinyl, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 8pm, $25, $352) Pop Vinyl, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

2) Fast Lane, 7pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ Larry Williams, 7pm, no cover

1) Reno Irish Dance Company: Siasma, 7pm, $22-$25 2) Fast Lane, 8pm, no cover 5) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

1) Reno Irish Dance Company: Siasma, 7pm, $22-$25 2) Fast Lane, 8pm, no cover 5) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

2) Eric Anderson, 7pm, no cover

2) Chocolate Martini, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

2) Chocolate Martini, 9pm, no cover 3) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

CARSON VALLEY INN

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

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

HARRAH’S 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) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

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

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 3) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, $20 men 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge

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1) Randy Travis, 8pm, $39.50-$59.50 3) Dance party w/DJ Teddy P, 9pm, no cover

3) Ladies Night & Karaoke, 7pm, no cover

TAHOE BILTMORE

5 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 831-0660 1) Breeze Nightclub 2) Casino Floor 3) Conrad’s

Dec. 4, 8 p.m.

Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

1) Megadeth, Kyng, 8pm, Tu, $36.50

Karaoke 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 Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

2) Fast Lane, 7pm, no cover 5) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

SILVER LEGACY

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

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2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover

Red’s Golden Eagle Grill, 5800 Home Run Drive, Spanish Springs, (775) 626-6551: Karaoke w/Manny, F, 8pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover 2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Sin Biggest Little Locals Night, 4pm, M, no cover

Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 8474467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli Trio, 8pm, no cover

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Events BAC HOLIDAY ART SALE AND OPEN HOUSE: Brewery Arts Center presents a day of art, holiday gift ideas, music, song, food and drinks. The teaching artists, art students, artisans and the Nevada Artist Association Gallery artists will new artwork for sale just in time for gift giving. Sa, 12/1, 1-5pm. Free.

Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976 ext. 114, www.breweryarts.org.

BAGNA CAUDA DINNER & WINE TASTING: AAF Reno teams up with Sierra Graphics Network for their annual Bagna càuda wine tasting, raffle and dinner.

Proceeds from the event go to the AAF Reno Foundation Scholarship Fund and the SGN Scholarship

fund to assist students pursuing their collegiate studies in graphic arts, marketing, advertising and related fields. F, 11/30, 6pm. $35 members; $40 nonmembers. Reno Elks Lodge No. 597, 597 Kumle Lane, (775) 741-1632, http://aafreno.com/events/bagnacauda-2012.

BARTON HEALTH 4TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES & LIGHTS: The annual fundraiser for Barton Health features entertainment, photos with Santa Claus, trees and holiday displays and events, including the Teddy Bear Breakfast, Senior Stroll, Gala, Family Night and Movie Night. Th-Su through 12/2. Opens 11/29.

Price varies. MontBleu Resort, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, (530) 543-5614, www.festivaloftreeslaketahoe.org.

CANDY CANE LANE: This custom outdoor drive-thru holiday display at the Carson Valley Inn will be lit-up for nightly viewing through New Year’s Eve. In its third year, Candy Cane Lane features thousands of seasonal lights and a variety of scenes depicting traditional characters and images getting ready for Christmas. Accompanying music can be heard by tuning your FM radio to the frequency posted at the entrance. Pull into the Carson Valley Inn parking lot at the RV Resort Entrance, between the Carson Valley Market and the Inn’s electronic sign. The lightshow begins at dusk. M-Su through 12/31. Free.

Carson Valley Inn, 1627 Highway 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711, www.carsonvalleyinn.com.

HOLIDAY EVENTS IN DOWNTOWN TRUCKEE: The annual Bud Fish memorial tree lighting ceremony takes place at 5pm in front of the California Welcome Center in the train depot. Sing holiday favorites and enjoy complimentary hot cocoa and a visit from Santa Claus.

Downtown merchants will offer special promotions, activities, live music, food and beverages on these evenings.

Downtown merchants will host holiday events every Friday evening through December. Guests are invited to peruse the downtown shops from 5-8pm on Dec. 7 for Family Night, Dec. 14 for Girls’ Night Out and Dec. 21 for Couples Shopping. F through 12/21. Opens 11/30.

Historic Downtown Truckee, Bridge Street, between Donner Pass Road and Church Street, Truckee, (530) 587-3161, www.historictruckee.com.

HOLIDAY FARMERS’ MARKET: The market will be inside the former Abercrombie & Fitch store. Citrus, pomegranates, persimmons, potatoes, onions, garlic, packaged and specialty food items, honey, frozen whole chickens, fudge and candied apples are some of the items that are expected at the market.

Available produce will depend on the weather. Other items include soaps, crafts, jewelry and holiday decorations.

Chef Jacob Gordon from Tuscan Tomato will give cooking demonstrations during the markets. Galena and McQueen high school choirs will be caroling throughout the event. Bring the kids to visit Santa and have pictures taken. Sa, 12/1, 10am6pm; Su, 12/2, 10am-6pm. The Summit, 13925 S. Virginia St., (775) 746-5024, www.shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

HOLIDAY SWING DINNER-DANCE PARTY: High Sierra Swing Dance Club presents a holiday/club member-appreciation dinner and dance party. Attendees are urged to bring five non-perishable food items to be given to a charity or an unwrapped Toys for Tots donation. F, 11/30, 8-10:30pm. $5-$10. Brewery Arts Center Grand Ballroom, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 629-9369, http://highsierraSDC.org.

INDIE RENO 3RD ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: The Indie Reno crafters guild holds its holiday craft fair during the 26th annual Sparks Hometowne Christmas Celebration in Victorian Square. More than 20 local artists and crafters will be represented. F, 11/30, 6-9pm; Sa, 12/1, 10am-5pm. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.indiereno.org.

NATURE OF AWARENESS, NATURE OF THE HEART: During this Vipassana silent retreat day, explore the nature of awareness itself through which the heart softens and a depth of wisdom is revealed. Sa, 12/1, 9am-5pm. The Reno Buddhist Center, 820 Plumas St., (775) 772-2695; Su, 12/2, 9am4pm. O2 Yoga & Wellness, 1557 Zerolene Place, Minden, (775) 392-1085, www.dharmazephyr.org.

NEVADA ZUMBATHON CHARITY EVENT 4 TOYS: The ZUMBA ZIN Family of Northern Nevada will present six hours of a come-and-go style Zumbathon Charity event to benefit the Sierra Association of Foster Families. Sa, 12/1, 10am-4pm. $5 plus unwrapped toy(s). Evelyn Mount Northeast Community Center, 1301 Valley Road, (775) 721-1893, http://maguilar.zumba.com.

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. First Sa of every month, 7pm.

Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240, www.wnc.edu/observatory.

PEOPLES AND ENVIRONMENTS OF NEVADA: Galena Creek Visitor Center presents a new series of talks that will focus on the history, prehistory and past and present environments of Nevada. Last Th of every month, 6pm. $5 per person.

Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

PICTURES WITH SANTA: Get your picture taken with Santa. Su, 12/2, 9am-5pm. $35 for first individual; $10 for each additional person. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way, Sparks, (775) 355-1551, www.railcitygardencenter.com.

STEP2’S HOMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Tour homes located in Pecetti Ranch and Holcomb Ranch that have been decorated for the holidays to highlight their architecture and designs. Sa, 12/1, 10am-3:30pm; Su, 12/2, 10am-3:30pm. $35 in advance, $40 day of event. The Grove at South Creek, 95 Foothill Road, (775) 787-9411 ext. 207, www.step2reno.org.

VIRGINIA CITY CHRISTMAS BALL: Virginia City Tourism and Battle Born Civil War ReEnactors present this “Civil War meets Steampunk” Christmas Ball, which includes appetizers, dessert and a silent auction. Contra dancing with Dennis Butterfields Victorian Orchestra with Gus Gustufsen calling the dances.

F, 11/30, 6pm. $15 advance, $20 door.

Pipers Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433.

WEDDING & EVENTS OPEN HOUSE: The biannual event showcases local events vendors in food, coffee, desserts/cakes, makeup, photography and entertainment. Sa, 12/1, 11am-3pm. Free.

Tannenbaum Events Center, 20007 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-7688, www.tannenbaumevents.wordpress.com.

WILDERNESS WINGDING: Friends of Nevada Wilderness their annual volunteer and member appreciation party featuring a raffle, silent auction, hors d’oeuvres and live music, as well as an award ceremony for some select volunteers and partners. W, 12/5, 6pm. $10 suggested donation. CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400, www.commrow.com.

SEASON’S GREETINGS The sights and sounds of the holiday season are in full swing. You can’t escape it, so if you have nothing better to do this weekend, why not check out a few of these events going on in the area?

The rail city celebrates the holidays with the Sparks Hometowne Christmas this weekend. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 with a tree lighting ceremony in front of the Saint Mary’s Amphitheater at Victorian Square in downtown Sparks. The festivities continue on Dec. 1 with the 26th annual Sparks Hometowne Christmas Parade, which will travel east to west along Victorian Avenue. The parade begins at 1 p.m. and wraps up by 3 p.m. Other highlights include a meet and greet with Santa Claus in the Glendale Schoolhouse from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 1 and Indie Reno’s Holiday Craft Faire at the Sparks Heritage Museum, 814

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Victorian Ave. The fair is open 6-9 p.m. on Nov. 30 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 1. Call 353-7856. Virginia City will also kick off its Christmas on the Comstock celebration this weekend. Highlights include the Parade of Lights down C Street at 5 p.m. on Dec. 1, the “Christmas in the Sierra” concert featuring David John and the Comstock Cowboys at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 1 at Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., and Breakfast with Santa at 10 a.m. on Dec. 2 at Piper’s Opera House. Tickets for Christmas in the Sierra are $20-$25. Tickets for Breakfast with Santa are $6. Call 847-7500.

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Sa, 12/1, 12-5pm. Nevada Humane Society, 2825 Longley Lane, Ste. B, (775) 856-2000, www.nevadahumanesociety.org.

the Nevada Historical Society gives a presentation on bats. Sa, 12/1, 10-11am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA: Enjoy breakfast and photos with Santa Claus. Su, 12/2, 10am-noon. $6.

Pipers Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7500, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

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a Reno Christmas. Artists Co-op of Reno presents its annual Christmas show and sale. The gallery is open daily except on Christmas. Through 12/27, 11am-4pm. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

2-12 will be able to play in the Gymboree playroom before sitting down to enjoy tea, sandwiches and cupcakes. Seatings are limited to 30 people per time slot. This tea party benefits the Northern Nevada Children’s Cancer Foundation. Su, 12/2, 1:15 & 2:30pm. $5.

Gymboree Play and Music, 3987 S. McCarran Drive, (800) 882-5888, http://eventbrite.com.

BRIC Art 3. Capital City Arts Initiatives exhibition features Jill Altmann’s fiber art, Steve Davis’ photography, Andy Gallian’s prints, Mimi Patrick’s ceramics, Stephen Reid’s drawings and watercolors and Gus Bundy’s paintings. M-Su. 108 E. Proctor St., Carson City, (775) 283-7123.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: Living in El Norte, The Capital City Arts Initiative presents Blanco de San Roman’s exhibit featuring large oil on canvas portraits of two of Blanco’s friends, Alma and Ramiro, both of whom have lived with the difficulties of immigration status.

M-F through 1/18. Carson City Courthouse, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

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continued from page 27 UNIVERSITY FLUTE, OBOE & BASSOON RECITAL: Student musicians studying flute, oboe and bassoon perform a variety of music. Su, 12/2, 7:30pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

Sports & fitness MOUNTAIN WEST-MISSOURI VALLEY CHALLENGE: The University of Nevada, Reno men’s basketball team plays Drake University. F, 11/30, 7pm.

Call for ticket info. Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-7225, www.nevadawolfpack.com.

RENO BIGHORNS: The development league basketball team plays the Santa Cruz Warriors. F, 11/30, 7pm; Su, 12/2, 3pm. $8-$125. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 284-2622, www.renobighorns.com.

RINK ON THE RIVER: Operation of the outdoor ice

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: In Other Worlds.

THE WEDGE CERAMICS STUDIO: Chilly Cash and Carry Art Sale. This is a chili feed and art sale at The Wedge Ceramics Studio and Infinity Forge on Dickerson Road. For a donation you can get a handmade bowl and spoon to fill with chili. There will also be ceramics for sale from local artists in the gallery and studio space of The Wedge. Brett Moten at Infinity Forge will have his shop and gallery open with sculptures, bottle openers, steak hooks, hardware and more available for sale. Sa, 12/1, 11am-5pm. Free. 2095 Dickerson Road, (775) 770-4770, www.thewedgeceramics.com.

Merging the lines of myth, reality and the creation of memories, In Other Worlds pairs out-of-town artists Kate Csillagi (Austin, Tex.), Andy Le (Mukilteo, Wash.) and Lucie van der Elst (Paris, France). Together the three artists work provides an exploration of the fantastical and the everyday through a variety of mediums from fabric collage to painting to paper-cutting. Tu-F through 11/30. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

LIBERTY FINE ART: Advent. Painting, photography and jewelry. Opening reception, Dec. 6. M-Su through 12/30; Th, 12/6, 6-9pm. 100 W. Liberty St., (775) 232-8079.

NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Latimer Art Club’s Miniature Show, W-Sa, 10am-5pm through 12/8. Free. 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 688-1190.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Hoor Al Qasimi: Off Road, W-Su through 1/27; Rebeca Méndez: At Any Given Moment, W-Su through 1/20; Ciel Bergman: Sea of Clouds What Can I Do, W-Su through 2/10; The Book of the Lagoons: Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, W-Su through 1/6; The Way We Live: American Indian Art of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada, W-Su through 3/3; Bovey Lee: Undercurrents, W-Su through 1/2; Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, W-Su through 1/1; Jorinde Voigt: Systematic Notations, WSu through 1/6; The Light Circus: Art of Nevada Neon Signs, W-Su through 2/10;

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Celebrating the Season. Sierra Watercolor Society’s new show is an exhibit of original watercolor paintings for sale by local artists. W-Sa, 10am-4pm through 12/15.

Free. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

Film 8TH ANNUAL BACKCOUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL: Winter Wildlands Alliance’s film festival is a celebration of winter as told through seven unique films.

Su, 12/2, 8pm. $10-$18. CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400, www.commrow.com.

GERMAN DOCUMENTARY: LIVING WITHOUT MONEY: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of this portrait of the life of 68-year-old Heidemarie Schwermer, a German woman who made a deliberate choice to stop using money 14 years ago. Tu, 12/4, 7-10pm. Pay what you can for admission. Midtown Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.org.

Juvenile-In-Justice: Photographs by Richard Ross, W-Su through 1/13. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

NEVER ENDER: Art As Quilts. The show will feature quilts made by Summer Sloan-Swanson of her interpretation of abstract paintings by famous artists. M-Su through 11/30. 119 Thoma St., (775) 348-9440, http://myneverender.com.

STRANGE DAYS: ENDTIMES: Churchill Arts Council continues its film series with a screening of Dr. Strangelove on Nov. 30. F, 11/30, 7pm; F, 12/14, 7pm. $7 CAC members, $10 non-members. Barkley Theatre, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Holly Arts. North Tahoe Arts presents its holiday exhibit. MSu, 11am-4pm through 12/31. Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

SHEPPARD FINE ARTS GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Amy Sacksteder Exhibition. Sacksteder has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, and she attended artist residencies in Illinois, Newfoundland, Southern France, Philadelphia, Budapest and Reykjavik. M-Th, 11am-5pm through 12/14; F, 11am-2pm through 12/14. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

Poetry/Literature THE GOLD RUSH LETTERS OF E. ALLEN GROSH: Editors Ronald M. James and Robert E. Stewart sign and discuss their book. W, 12/5, 6:30-8pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

THE NEW POETRY OF AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT: This reading features poems from a new anthology hosted by co-editor Ann Keniston and featuring local poets Gailmarie Pahmeier, Steve Gehrke, Lindsay Wilson and friends. Th, 11/29, 6:30-8pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Peter Goin: Codices of Nevada and Beyond. Sierra Arts Gallery presents recent work by photographer Peter Goin which deals with the development of symbol and language. The artist reception is Nov. 29, 5–7 pm. M-F through 1/3. Free. 17 S. Virginia St. Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

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STREMMEL GALLERY: Configurations.

Contemporary abstract artists Tim Bavington, John Belingheri, Kris Cox and Nicholas Wilton use a variety of color, texture, images and symbols in order to achieve vivid compositions. M-Sa through 12/8. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.

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Free. Grassroots Books, 660 E. Grove St., (775) 828-2665.

Music ARGENTA CONCERT SERIES: URI CAINE: Best known and celebrated for his eclectic and inventive interpretations of classical music, Caine will present a concert of his Mahler Project featuring acclaimed collaborators Ralph Alessi (trumpet), Chris Speed (saxophone), Drew Gress (bass), Josefina Vergara (violin) and Clarence Penn (drums). F, 11/30, 7:30pm. $5$20. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

MARTEN FALK: The classical guitarist from Sweden will perform on six-string guitar, as well as play rarely heard repertoire for Russian eight-string guitar; F, 11/30, 7pm. $5-$15. Hope Lutheran Church of the Sierra, 930 Julie Lane, South Lake Tahoe; Sa, 12/1, 7pm. $5-$15. First Congregational Church of Reno, 627 Sunnyside Drive, (775) 298-1686, www.sierraguitar.org.

THE NOTE-ABLES: Prior to the Sparks Hometowne Christmas Parade, The NoteAbles will be caroling at the Breakfast with Santa event in the Victorian Square Plaza.

Sa, 12/1, 10-11am. Free. Victorian Square Plaza, Victorian Avenue, Sparks; Hear a performance of holiday favorites by members of the Note-Ables. Su, 12/2, 1-2pm; Sa, 12/15, 12pm. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 324-5521, www.note-ables.org.

SPIRIT OF THE SEASON: The Reno Philharmonic and conductor Jason Altieri present this annual holiday concert. This show features the orchestra, the Reno Philharmonic Chorus, trumpeter Joe Gransden, J.R. Johns’ Performing Dogs, Sierra Nevada Children’s Choir, Santa Tappers, Santa Claus and others.

Sa, 12/1, 2-4pm; Su, 12/2, 2-4pm. $11-$61.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, www.renophil.com.

THIS IS NOT A CHRISTMAS CONCERT: Strings in the Schools, Carson City Symphony’s afterschool program, presents its third annual concert. About 80 string players will perform several pieces from classics to folk and fiddle tunes. Tu, 12/4, 6:30pm. Free. Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 450-5584.

TODD GREEN CONCERT WITH LIVE DVD SHOOT: The multi-instrumentalist and solo touring performer will be filmed for a live DVD. The show is also a fundraiser for the UNR Recording Arts Department. W, 12/5, 7:30pm. $10 general; $5 UNR students. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

TUBA CHRISTMAS CONCERT: This family-friendly event features holiday carols arranged in four-part harmony and performed by local tuba, baritone and euphonium players. All area tuba, baritone, and euphonium players are invited to participate in the Tuba Christmas Concert. Musician registration begins at 12:30pm; rehearsal begins at 1pm. The concert begins at 3pm. Sa, 12/1, 3pm. Free. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 847-9207.

skating rink is dependent on weather and ice conditions. Call the hotline prior to visiting the rink to ensure that it is open and operating. The rink will close at 6pm on Dec. 2 and Dec. 9. Holiday hours may vary. M-Su through 2/3. $7.50 ages 13-54; $5.50 kids ages 3-12, seniors age 55 and older. Reno City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., (775) 334-6268, www.reno.gov.

WOLF PACK FOOTBALL: The University of Nevada, Reno plays Boise State. Sa, 12/1. Call for ticket info. Mackay Stadium, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-7225, www.nevadawolfpack.com.

WOLF PACK WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: The University of Nevada, Reno plays Cal Poly. Su, 12/2, 2pm. $8 adults; $5 seniors, youth. Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-7225, www.nevadawolfpack.com.

A CHRISTMAS CHAOS: Proscenium Players Inc. presents this original play written by Michael Wehrli. The Royal Shakespeare Company is slated to perform Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Brewery but get stranded in Carson City, Michigan. The show must go on, and a local troupe is forced to rewrite, rehearse and perform a replacement. F, 11/30, 7:30pm; Sa, 12/1,

7:30pm; Su, 12/2, 2pm; F, 12/7, 7:30pm; Sa, 12/8, 7:30pm; Su, 12/9, 2pm. $5-$18. Maizie Jesse

Harris Black Box Theatre, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID, JR.: Adapted from Disney’s 2008 Broadway production, Wild Horse Children’s Theater presents the Northern Nevada premiere of this musical that centers on the beautiful young mermaid Ariel who longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. F, 11/30, 7pm; Sa, 12/1, 2 & 7pm;

Su, 12/2, 2pm; F, 12/7, 7pm; Sa, 12/8, 2 & 7pm; Su, 12/9, 2pm; F, 12/14, 7pm; Sa, 12/15, 2 & 7pm; Su, 12/16, 2pm. $6-$12. Brewery Arts Center

Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 887-0438, www.wildhorsetheater.com.

THE HOSPITAL PLAYS: University of Nevada, Reno students direct a series of one-act plays. Th, 11/29, 7:30pm; F, 11/30, 7:30pm; Sa, 12/1, 7:30pm. $5 all seats. Redfield Proscenium Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

INSPECTING CAROL: Reno Little Theater presents Daniel Sullivan’s Christmas comedy about a theater group on the verge of a nervous breakdown as they try to stage A Christmas Carol with virtually no money and no talent while awaiting an inspection from the National Endowment for the Arts. For mature audiences. Th-Sa, 7:30-10pm through 12/22. Opens

11/30; Su, 2-4:30pm through 12/23. Opens 12/2.

$13-$16. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, www.renolittletheater.org.

SIASMA: A CELTIC CHRISTMAS: The Reno Irish

Onstage BUTTCRACKER IV—ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: Brüka dances its pants off in this high-octane parody based on the holiday favorite The Nutcracker. This original performance experience is laced with Brüka’s theatrical style and features favorites from the past three productions. Th, 11/29, 8pm; F, 11/30, 8pm; Sa,

12/1, 8pm; Th, 12/6, 8pm; F, 12/7, 8pm; Sa, 12/8, 8pm; Su, 12/9, 2pm; Th, 12/13, 8pm; F, 12/14, 8pm; Sa, 12/15, 8pm; W, 12/19, 8pm; Th, 12/20, 8pm; F, 12/21, 8pm. $20 general; $18 students, seniors; $25 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

Dance Company presents its holiday program of dynamic Irish dance, lilting reels, beautiful voices and music as the young Holly searches for the light that represents the true meaning of Christmas. F, 11/30, 7pm; Sa, 12/1, 7pm. $22-$25. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 829-7878, www.renoirishdanceco.org.

TOM JONES: Damonte Ranch High School’s Signature Academy, the Performing Arts Center presents this adaptation of Henry Fielding’s comic novel. W, 12/5, 7pm; Th, 12/6, 7pm; F, 12/7, 7pm; Sa, 12/8, 7pm. $7-$9. Damonte Ranch High School, 10500 Rio Wrangler Parkway, (775) 334-7124, www.showtix4u.com.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “They are

trying to make me into a fixed star,” complained religious leader Martin Luther a few centuries ago. “I am an irregular planet.” I invite you to use that declaration as your own in the coming weeks. You have every right to avoid being pinned down, pigeonholed and forced to be consistent.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need abundant freedom to mutate your identity. You deserve a poetic license that allows you to play a variety of different roles and explore the pleasures of unpredictable self-expression.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The Star-

Spangled Banner” is America’s national anthem. It features the lyrics of a patriotic poem written by Francis Scott Key. But the melody itself is entirely lifted from a bawdy old song that celebrates Bacchus, the ancient god of wine and ecstatic dancing. I love it when things are repurposed as dramatically as that. Do you? The coming weeks will be prime time to repurpose stuff with creative abandon. Make the past useful for the future, Taurus. Turn good old ideas into fantastic new ones. Don’t just recycle, transform.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m guessing

that in the coming weeks you will be receiving a multitude of inquiries, invitations and temptations— probably more than you feel capable of responding to and certainly more than you should respond to. A few of these opportunities might be appealing and lead to interesting adventures. But some will be useless, diversionary or trivial. Will you be able to tell the difference? That’s your big challenge. If you’d like help dodging unwanted solicitations, give out this phone number as your own: (212)-479-7990. It’s a free service provide by The Rejection Line at www.rejectionline.com. People calling that number will be politely told you aren’t available.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For millen-

nia, the plant known as the yellow avalanche-lily has thrived on mountain slopes and meadows throughout western North America. It blooms early in the spring, just in time for broad-tailed hummingbirds that migrate from Central America to sip the flower’s nectar. But now there’s a problem with that ancient arrangement. Due to global warming, the lily now blossoms 17 days earlier than it used to. But the hummingbirds haven’t made an adjustment in their schedule, so they’re barely showing up in time to get their full allotment of nectar. I suspect this is a metaphor for a shift you may be facing in your own life rhythm. Fortunately, you’ve been forewarned, and you can adjust better than the hummingbirds.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In our calendar, there

is no special holiday devoted to honoring the joy and power of rebellion. This oversight confounds me. All my experience tells me that the urge to revolt is a fundamental human need. Every one of us has a sacred duty to regularly rise up and overthrow a stale status quo that is oppressing us— whether that’s an organized group effort we’re part of or our own deadening routine.

I’m telling you this, Leo, because it’s an excellent time to celebrate your own Rebellion Jubilee. Your vitality will soar as you shed numbing habits and decaying traditions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Recently, you’ve had resemblances to an 8-year-old kid wearing the pajamas you loved when you were 5. Your bare arms are jutting out beyond where the sleeves end, and there’s a similar thing going on with your legs. The fabric is ripped here and there because it can’t accommodate how much you’ve grown. You’re feeling discomfort in places where the overly tight fit is squeezing your flesh. All of this is somewhat cute but mostly alarming. I wish you would wean yourself of the past and update your approach.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A lot of leopard

frogs live on Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs. Most of them make a sound that resembles a long snore or a rapid chuckle. But over the years, biologists have also detected a third type of frogly expression: a clipped, repetitive croak. Just

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this year, they finally figured out that this belonged to an entirely distinct species of leopard frog that they had never before identified. It’s still so new it doesn’t have a name yet. I expect a metaphorically similar development in your life, Libra. You will become aware of a secret that has been hiding in plain sight. You will “find” something that actually revealed itself to you some time ago.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Tom Tolbert

is a sports talk-show host on San Francisco radio station KNBR. I am amazingly neutral about him. Nothing he says fascinates me or mirrors my own thoughts. On the other hand, he never makes me mad and he’s not boring. I neither like him nor dislike him. I simply see him for who he is, without any regard for what he can do for me. He has become a symbol of the possibility that I’m able to look at a human being with complete impartiality, having no wish for him to be different from what he is. In the coming week, I suggest you try to achieve this enlightened state of mind on a regular basis. It’s prime time, astrologically speaking, to ripen your mastery of the art of objectivity.

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

you say “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least that’s how reality works according to a British superstition. But judging from your astrological omens, I don’t think you will have to resort to magic tricks like that to stimulate your good fortune. In the next four weeks, I suspect you will be the beneficiary of a flood of cosmic mojo, as well as a surge of divine woowoo, a shower of astral juju, and an upwelling of universal goo-goo gaga. If it would give you even more confidence to invoke your favorite superstitions, though, go right ahead. Even scientists say that kind of thing works: http://tinyurl.com/SuperstitiousBoost

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

According to Greek myth, Perseus cut off the head of Medusa. She was the creature whose hair was composed of snakes and whose gaze could turn a person into stone.

The immortal winged horse Pegasus was instantaneously born from Medusa’s blood.

He ultimately became an ally to the nine Muses, and Zeus relied on him to carry thunder and lightning. I predict that while you’re sleeping, Capricorn, you will have a dream that contains elements of this myth.

Here’s a preliminary interpretation of that dream: You are undergoing a transition that could, in a sense, give you the power of flight and more abundant access to a muse.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s time

for you to be leader of the pack, Aquarius; to take your gang to the next level; to make sure the group mind isn’t suppressing innovation and enforcing peer pressure but is rather inspiring every member of the tribe to be as creative as they dare to be. And if it’s not realistic for you to wield that much power, then do whatever you can to synergize the alliances that hold your posse together. Build team morale. Gossip constructively. Conspire to animate an influx of fresh magic.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’re a

food company that wants to sell chicken in the shape of a chicken wing, it must have actual chicken wing meat in it. Otherwise, the law says you’ve got to call your product “wyngz.” I’ve always thought that there’s a lot of information the media presents as “news” that is really as fake as wyngz.

That’s why I advocate calling the bogus stuff “newzak” (rhymes with “Muzak”).

Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to make sure you’re not putting out any wyngz- or newzak-like stuff in your own chosen field. The fates will help you rather dramatically if you put a high premium on authenticity.

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.

by Dennis Myers PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

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popular beers because the tanks are so large. When we do brew the specialty beers, we don’t need to brew that much, so we’ll be sticking with our big sellers.

Bonda Young is co-owner of the Great Basin Brewing Company, which this week opens its third facility, Great Basin Taps & Tanks, located on East McCarran Boulevard between Rock Boulevard and Mira Loma Drive.

How much distribution do you do outside the restaurants?

Is No. 3 going to be any different than No. 2 and No. 1?

What made you want to expand?

I can’t tell you the exact number, but we’re in many, many outlets around northern Nevada.

It will be different, in that it’s a production facility. We won’t be serving food over there—no restaurant. compared to a lot of the breweries. I don’t like that word “chain.” We really want to continue to focus on the community and what people want from us as far as beer and quality beer and quality food.

This [No. 1] is a production facility, too, right?

Well, it’s a production facility with a restaurant attached, which makes it a brew pub. That’s the definition of a brew pub. … Our third location is strictly a production facility with a tap room, so people can come in and taste the beers, have pints of beer, that sort of thing, but it’s mainly to produce more beer.

Will there be music at the new one?

We have had some concerts over there already. It’s kind of a nice concert venue. I don’t know if we’re going to continue to do that or not because our plans are that we will not have space to do that any more. When we took over the facility it still had space, as far as floor space goes, and it made for a nice venue for some concerts but this time next year that empty space is going to be filled with more tanks, bottling machines, that sort of thing, so we’re going to use up the space.

Are there things you’ll be able to do there that you can’t do here?

We’re hoping to do a lot more bottling.

We’re planning on increasing our production by 50 percent, which turns in to a lot more bottles out there on the market.

Now that you’re a chain, is there a danger that you’ll become corporate and impersonal?

Will it be the same brews?

Same beers being produced there.

Quantity-wise, of course, the tanks over there are much, much larger and we will be brewing Icky over there, and we’ll be brewing Wild Horse. We’ll be brewing our more

[Laughs] You know what, we’re not a chain.

We’re never going to be a chain. Three does not make a chain. We still believe in small batches of beer. We are very tiny

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I think we’ll always stay true to our roots.

We really enjoy talking to people and being a part of the community and if we were strictly a brewery we wouldn’t have that human touch anymore—especially my husband [Tom Young]. He’s just really a people person and loves talking to people. Yes, I think we’d all miss the restaurant side of it. Ω

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looking hunk of a boyfriend will always turn out to be an asshole.

• People in movies and on TV hang up on people. All the time. Without a second thought. And they don’t just hang up on the guy at the video store or the IRS, but on friends, spouses, lovers, etc. You know, people with whom you generally want to get along.

And yet, stars frequently just hang up on em. As if to utter a simple OK, See ya, or Later would slow down the movie to an unbearable crawl.

• People trapped in houses with monsters/ghosts/weird shit spend way too much time looking for the M/G/WS. For some reason, they forget to (1) leave the house, (2) get in the car, and (3) drive to Milwaukee.

• People in fist fights regularly take three or four huge haymakers to the jaw/head, then get up, wipe the blood trickle off their philtrum, and order a drink. In the real world, they are, of course, dead. Or in the back of an ambulance. They’re certainly not having a beer and prepping for sex. |

Do you foresee, maybe ten years down the road, you might get entirely into distribution and lose the restaurants?

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The other reality In recent years, I find I’m less and less willing to tolerate the distortions, misconceptions, lies, and ridiculous behavior regularly put forth by movies/television. I think as one gets older, one realizes that, you know, goddammit, instead of watching these foons behave in a way that only occasionally corresponds with reality, I could instead be (a) learning Sanskrit on Rosetta Stone, (b) naming each sagebrush on my property, (c) whittling, (d) building a birdhouse made of Baby Ruths, or (e) anything.

Let me back up my crabby rant.

Here are just a few of the horribly wrong things we learn from movies/TV: • The Bad Guys, whether they are Roman Centurions, Indians on the Warpath, or Star Wars Storm Troopers, can’t shoot worth a shit.

Eternally. Couldn’t hit a barn with a shotgun at 10 feet.

• Annoying fat nerd geek schlubs will, if he annoys his gorgeous shapely ultra babe co-star long enough, win her over. Because the babe’s good-

Demand. We expanded into the Reno location because we couldn’t keep up with the demand for beer here in Sparks and so when we opened Reno we thought, Oh, this’ll be good for quite a few years. To our surprise, we were out of beer in two years.

We weren’t able to fill distributor orders. …

So that means that we could have pulled our product from the shelves in all the places that our beer is in northern Nevada, but that’s sort of the direction that our business has taken and we wanted to continue fulfilling those orders. So we didn’t plan on doing it this quickly, but when the Buckbean facility became available, we thought, well, gee, you know, we should do that.

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• If you want to plug your laptop into the computer system of another country/alien spaceship, the plug will fit, the voltages will be compatible, there will be no security, and you’ll be able to take over the whole system in a jiffy.

• Contrary to all sexual research, women seem to actually crave sex acts featuring absolutely no foreplay whatsoever. I’ve also learned from movies that women (1) get all romantic and lovey dovey if he climaxes in 15-30 seconds, (2) don’t seem to care at all about their own orgasm, and (3) are real suckers for having sex standing up. And don’t forget, just after the Crazy Fantastic 17 Seconds of Sex, all actresses pull the sheets up and cover their breasts afterward because, uh, because, well, jeez, baby, weren’t we just goin’ at it like drunken Burners on oysters and X about a minute ago? Ω

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