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LETTERS

Yesterday’s dawn

Bases loaded

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

More than most people who read this newspaper and probably more than most people in this office, with the possible exception of Ashley Hennefer, I live in the internet age.

I’m probably the one guy you know who’d like to be even more plugged in. For example, if there was a way to install a plug that would recharge my phone off my body’s electro-chemical energy, I’d probably do it. I might even consider a chip to allow me to access the world wide web without any further appliances.

So when I have to write things that will appear as new long after I’ve written them—like this column, for instance—I feel a need to point out this temporal fugue state in which I write.

Another example: the Mayan calendar will switch over with the solstice at 3:12 a.m. four days from now, but this column won’t even be published until Dec. 27, 10 days from now. In fact, the only thing that can save it from being completely irrelevant when this paper is removed from stands, 16 days from now, is if the Mayan doomsday predictors are right on the money, and the world ends—thus precluding need for this column at all.

But wouldn’t it be cool if something did happen at 3:12 a.m. Dec. 21? What if we did enter a new age or if it were the true dawning of the Age of Aquarius? What if that was the exact moment that Mike, the HOLMES IV from Robert Heinlein’s classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, became self-aware? Of course, I have an easier time imagining a Skynet dawn (from Terminator) with drones raining horror down on this planetary infestation than a computer that likes to tell jokes.

But we’ll see. As you read this—days after the solstice, days after Christmas, days before the fiscal cliff and New Year’s—you know far more of the future than I do. I wonder if you (and I, hopefully) have learned anything worth knowing.

Re “General fund dollars” (News, Dec. 6): I applaud the newly elected members of the Reno City Council in their vote to moderate the pace and reflect on the consequences of continued funding of the Reno Aces ballpark from the general fund. It took great courage by the City Council to allow a finally interested public to voice concerns of a business deal obviously gone wrong in which the taxpayers will ultimately have to foot the bill.

The original ballpark debacle epitomizes the incestuous nature of business as usual of Reno politics: political selfinterest at the expense of the collective good, opaque and often shadowy dealings with little public input, contrived and unrealistic economic projections and a bureaucratic hubris by current Mayor Cashell and select members of the prior City Council with their respective attitudes that taxpayers can be taken for granted as an unending source of revenue. It is said that sunlight is the best disinfectant, but in this case, it is the overhang shadow of harsh economics that now brings this largely hidden issue to the forefront. Some clouds do have a silver lining.

While anecdotal statements by some in the downtown area romanticize the charm of warm summer nights spent under the ballpark lights while watching the Reno Aces and local business owners speculate to causes and effects of a failed ballpark, it does little to determine if the ballpark was economically viable in the first place. One would think that question would have been posed earlier in the process.

Given the well-known and historic boom and bust economic cycles of Reno makes the question even more relevant. Mayor Cashell said he can’t recall why there were no contingencies made for an economic downtown.

Instead, he blames the now deceased Bill Raggio for the oversight. The words “convenient,” “callow” and “cynical” ring hollow in the face of such prophylactic behavior. I find it difficult to believe that Mayor Cashell, in his myriad of personal business dealings, would be so cavalier with his own funding as to not ask similar questions

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when committing to a long term, big budget project. Of course, when one doesn’t have skin or money in the game, why potentially torpedo a legacy project as one comfortably rides off into the sunset?

Even more disappointing is former Washoe County commissioner Bob Rusk’s vehement opposition to the mere possibility of the entire issue decided by a public ballot. Professing the prescient knowledge that taxpayers would not just say, “No, but hell no” begs the question: Why is Mr. Rusk is so fearful of the democratic process?

Why does he hold the taxpayers and voters of Reno in such low regard? Mr. Rusk’s “how dare you question us” form of governance does much to feed the justified cynicism felt by citizens toward all levels of government. It would be humorous if it weren’t so pathetic.

Some in the community fear that Reno’s image may be tarnished if the Aces leave town. Maybe. Others believe doubling down on an already poor investment will eventually yield good results. Unlikely.

When the president of the Pacific Coast League, Branch Rickey, opens the dialogue with the threat of moving the Aces unless he gets his way, it undercuts an adult conversation given the current economic climate. Being held hostage by a so-called partner is no way to do business. Does the city of Reno really want to deal with such a retrograde mentality for the next 30 years? Indiana-based billionaire and coowner of the Reno Aces, real estate mogul Herbert Simon, has no connection to Reno other than allowing taxpayers the privilege of subsidizing his hobby of sports team ownership. He also owns the Indiana Pacers. If the Aces leave Reno, it will be financially consequence-free to Mr. Simon.

The Reno City Council should study the financial impact of the ballpark in an objective, transparent manner, employing generally accepted, yet conservative forecasting techniques, utilizing relevant economic data distant from competing special interests. These results should be widely publicized. If the ball park can pay for itself in spillover economic benefits, keep the Aces here under the original agree-

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

ment. If the data shows that an opened ended stream of taxpayer subsidies are required, then place the issue on a ballot and let the citizens of Reno decide. Who knows, they may vote to continue the subsidies, but if so, it will have been discussed in the open, voted upon by those ultimately responsible for its funding and at least for this issue, the democratic process, in its own small way will have worked.

Kurt Neathammer Reno

Alternating current Re “Power brokers” (Feature story, Dec. 6): I am very unhappy with the way my position on smart meters, as well as the scientific information about them, was presented in your article. I would like to share important, science-based information about the potential health effects of smart meters as well as correct misinformation in the article.

In my interview, I gave several important pieces of information to the RN&R staff, including the article “Smart Meters: Correcting the Gross Misinformation.” This article, written by physician David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany’s School of Public Health, involved the contributions of more than 50 international experts. Regrettably, your reporter failed to provide any of this information, instead focusing on smart meter information provided by the National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation website.

I would like to share another document that deserves public attention. It is called the “BioInitiative Report.” It is an analysis of data regarding electromagnetic frequencies and their effect on humans. These are peer-reviewed studies that have been published in numerous medical and scientific journals. I encourage everyone who has interest in this subject to read the report. The report is on the organization’s webpage, www.bioinitiative.org.

Having provided the factual basis for concern about smart meters, I’d like to make specific criticisms of the article itself. Several times, the author quoted “engineering consultant” Joseph

Executive Assistant/Operations Coordinator Nanette Harker Assistant Distribution Manager Ron Neill Distribution Drivers Sandra Chhina, Gil Egeland, Neil Lemerise, John Miller, Russell Moore, Jesse Pike, David Richards, Martin Troye, Warren Tucker, Matthew Veach General Manager/Publisher John D. Murphy President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Chief Operations Officer Deborah Redmond Human Resource Manager Tanja Poley

Design Manager Kate Murphy Art Director Priscilla Garcia Associate Art Director Hayley Doshay Design Brian Breneman, Marianne Mancina, Skyler Smith, Melissa Arendt Advertising Consultants Meg Brown, Gina Odegard, Matt Odegard, Bev Savage Senior Classified Advertising Consultant Olla Ubay Office/Distribution Manager/ Ad Coordinator Karen Brooke Business Manager Grant Ronsenquist

Tavormina. Tavormina’s consulting firm serves Lockheed Martin (one of the world’s largest defense contractors), along with PG&E, and Southern California Edison. These two utilities companies have been battling consumers in California over smart meters long before this problem came to Nevada. Non-biased? Hardly. Conflict of interest? Most definitely. Reno News & Review, I expect better from you.

Though I brought this to the author’s attention, the article failed to mention that 11 counties and 45 local governments in California have opposed smart meter programs. Four counties and nine cities have completely banned smart meters. Do you really think representatives of this many local governments are relying on “pseudoscience” and “paranoia” to make decisions on health and safety?

Last, my condition is not psychosomatic. After assessing and helping treat patients for 10-plus years, I can distinguish between psychosomatic and real symptoms, especially my own.

Furthermore, many people in other countries including Switzerland, The Netherlands, Canada, and Sweden have been diagnosed with electrohypersensitivity, and the medical communities in other countries, particularly European countries, are recognizing the diagnosis more and more. I have already been marginalized enough because of my symptoms. the last thing I need is for local media to publicly discount my symptoms or diagnosis.

I don’t like my name and photo being displayed alongside information about conspiracy theories, paranoia, pseudoscience, and references to psychosomatic illness. This is not the information that I expected the Reno News & Review to share, but it is information that is out there.

Fortunately, I and many others are able to determine the difference between credible and unreliable information that is not based on science. It is unfortunate that the News & Review staff was unable to follow the scientific leads I gave them on this issue and was apparently unable to make the distinction between credibility and unreliability for themselves and the public.

Deirdre Mazzetto Reno

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How should the nation respond to Sandy Hook?

Asked at Java Jungle, 246 W. First St. Scott Armstrong Salesperson

Well, I don’t believe that banning assault rifles is the answer. I think it basically boils down to there’s good men and then there’s evil men. And that’s what the country should be focusing on. What is it that we can do as a nation to maybe get back to God?

Jessica Winkle Barista

I don’t think they should put a lot of the blame on gun control policies. I think it’s more like the mental health of the shooter. So I think we should be having more empathy for the parents and the loved ones of the children rather than trying to place blame on gun control laws right now.

Cari Croghan

Lifting the veil

Emergency room physician

I really think we need to pay attention to gun control and mental illness because I think those are usually the two major factors behind these shootings.

A popular Zen mantra says “Jump—and a net will person’s life like the annual transition of the appear.” It’s supposed to encourage positive riskGregorian calendar. All is in transition—the Earth taking, plunging into the unknown with an open mind. continues to spin on its axis, and we grow, change and We’re not actually suggesting leaping over a bridge or age along with it. A destructive, earth-shattering apoca cliff, but we want to encourage you to take a risk in alypse didn’t happen last week, but it did seem to the new year—be happy. indicate a sort of societal shift, a united desire to look Because if we, as individuals, obtain a certain degree forward to the potential of the future rather than fear of peace, then we can find some common ground as a it. One translation of the Greek word “apocalypse” community, right? With constant access to news from means “lifting the veil.” It’s time to lift the veils that around the world, we tend to hear more negative than cloud our judgment and separate us as a community, positive. Once again, it was a rough and instead, expose what makes us year, with acts of extreme violence, vulnerable—a hesitant optimism that natural disasters, global conflict, and we really do believe in this place, We have a few a brutal election from which we’re all that we envision a city with opportuNew Year’s trying to move on. But what’s new? nities. German neuroscientist Stefan On one hand, it’s imperative that Klein writes, in the book The resolutions for you. we’re aware of hardships people face Science of Happiness, “Our resolve outside of our little bubbles, but it in facing life head-on depends much also makes it hard to escape from a more on the way we assess a situaconsistent feed of discouragement. tion than on reality.” And the reality is, this year was a It just requires a shift in perspective to funnel the mixed bag, so what do we do now? Wallow in the bad into something productive. Happiness is a science, bad? Or dive head first into the abyss of negativity to and, like all sciences, takes many experiments before try to find the light? revealing the desired outcome. It largely depends on We have a few New Year’s resolutions for you. the chemical balance in our brain, which means it has Strive to be healthier. Develop a new skill. Teach a formula. It’s simple, really. So here’s our hypothesis: yourself, then teach others. Make new friends. And be We bet that if this city starts thinking more about the nice to each other, dammit. importance of community and innovation, we’ll all be We’re not sure what 2013 will hold for Northern happier for it. And what better time to start doing that Nevada, but we’re certain about one thing—it’s time than Jan. 1? to jump in and get our hands dirty making this city Making New Year’s resolutions apparently isn’t better. What do we have to lose? Ω cool anymore, but few events restart and recharge a OPINION

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This should unite us as parents. Back up our schools and teachers and all of our communities. We should respond by being more loving, more generous to one another.

Antonio Mulei Truck driver

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Every journey starts with a single step When I moved to Reno in 1977, I cried.

My parents made the transition from California during the boom years in the mid-’70s when nurses were desperately needed, and salaries were doubled as an incentive. After finishing college at Sonoma State, I had no money, no job, and moved temporarily to Reno to regroup. I went to the University of Nevada, Reno to by check out graduate school opporSheila Leslie tunities and was immediately offered a summer job in Mexico, teaching Spanish to American college students, and then a graduate assistantship.

So why the tears? After growing up in Monterey Bay and attending one of the most liberal state colleges in California, I found Reno to be, well, backward. Conservative. Provincial. I hated the cold weather in the winter and the emphasis on beer, hunting and slot machines. There were few Democrats and even fewer liberals. I felt like the classic outsider.

In 1977, the university cared about one thing: football. The library was poorly stocked, and I had to order all my research materials from out-of-state libraries.

When I refused to give a football player a passing grade in Spanish due to poor attendance and even worse performance, an assistant coach visited me with the promise of season football tickets for a better grade. I vowed to put in my two years, get my master’s, and be gone.

Upon graduation in 1979, I did leave. I joined the Peace Corps, serving as a nutritionist in a center for malnourished children in the Dominican Republic, near the Haitian border. When I returned to Reno once again with no money and no job, I was a changed and chastened person after battling real poverty and living in conditions much of the world continues to endure today.

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Frustrated at trying to create change in a foreign country where children surviving past the age of 2 were celebrated for beating the odds, I decided to get to work changing Reno, serving as the first director of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. I went on to more challenging positions, as director of the Children’s Cabinet in its early developmental years, and then spent 14 years in the Nevada Legislature fighting for progressive policies in a state that seemed to value low taxes over everything else, even its children.

But over these past decades I’ve grown to love Nevada and its libertarian tradition of “bootstraps” and self-reliance. I’ve also appreciated the decided political shift as progressives came out of hiding and started taking a higher profile in politics and community leadership.

And I’m suspicious but happy about the even more dramatic shift in the last campaign cycle as many elected Republicans suddenly discovered new views on education

and equal rights, and are at least pretending they’re willing to consider abandoning the Grover Norquist brand of anti-tax, antigovernment philosophy.

It’s been 35 years since I moved to my adopted hometown. I raised a daughter here who had mostly wonderful teachers in the public school system, and is now in graduate school herself, studying public policy at Georgetown. But if she’s to return to Reno to raise her own family, we must have more economic, intellectual and cultural opportunities. Otherwise, she and others in her generation will settle elsewhere, taking their social and intellectual capital with them.

I continue to feel a personal responsibility to create progressive change in Reno, and I welcome the opportunity to offer weekly political commentary towards that goal. I hope you’ll join me in the journey. Ω

THE LIBERTY BELLE

Use money where it will do the most good There’s no denying that Reno is in a state of flux. As the gambling industry has become less of a draw for visitors, City Hall is struggling to find ways to capture an audience that has long abandoned the Biggest Little City.

One of the current proposed ways is to make the Aces Ballpark that glimmer of hope, much to the dismay of this columnist.

With the proposition of funnelby ing public dollars ($30 million over Chanelle Bessette the next 30 years) into refinancing a $55 million loan for the Aces stadium, we need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

While it may be the hope that the stadium will bring fresh life into downtown commerce, the fact is that gambling is a business that is waning, and there is an expectation of special treatment that other businesses do not generally receive.

Now, I feel just as badly as the next gal to see a giant like the Aces ballpark decline. It gives me no pleasure to see people besieged by the brutal forces of the free market.

It straight up sucks. But is it the

responsibility of the Northern Nevada taxpayer to prop up a failing business with a multi-million dollar loan? The stadium might bring visitors to downtown, provide jobs for people operating the stadium or bring some positive attention to Reno, but what it wouldn’t do is efficiently promote growth the way other economic projects would. And, if it has to be spent, $30 million could go a hell of a lot further to stimulate the Reno economy if it were applied elsewhere.

My New Year’s wish is to see greater economic development in the areas where the Reno area is on the up-and-up. If City Council wants to find a way to draw in new commerce, it needs to embrace and promote businesses that revolve around the artistry of technological development. The upcoming Apple data center in Sparks will undoubtedly draw positive national attention to northern Nevada, and the projection is that it will pump in approximately $1 billion to the state’s economy, according to Wired magazine. And to roughly quote

Field of Dreams (See? I’m maintaining the baseball theme), if you build an Apple data center, other rich, nerd-chic tech businesses will come.

With tax increases and city bankruptcies hitting California hard, a mass exodus of corporate wealth and technological talent has begun to move away from The Golden State. If Reno plays its cards right and caters to the sensibilities of the displaced geniuses of Silicon Valley, it could look forward to a very healthy stream of revenue for the new businesses and jobs they could bring to our area. The presence of wealth in any city inevitably creates a snowball effect that draws in more business, especially high-end designers and the proliferation of luxury goods.

The question now is, what concrete measures can be taken to attract and maintain tech talent in the Reno area? First of all, offer established and profitable tech companies incentives to set up shop. Reduce (or eliminate) property taxes for the first five years of business. Nevada technically loses little to no revenue if it attracts businesses that wouldn’t

have come here in the first place.

Businessmen and their employees would still pay sales tax and property tax on their homes in Reno, so they are continuing to contribute to the economy as a whole.

About 44 percent of Nevada college students graduate with debt, and the average amount of debt is $20,000. If the money designated for the Aces ballpark were instead to be put toward student loan forgiveness, that would mean approximately 2,250 students would have the incentive to bring their talent for technology into the Nevada economy instead of taking it elsewhere.

I truly believe that the intentions of City Council are good. They want to support local businesses, and they want to grow the economy.

But without a meaningful and efficient allocation of funds, they are merely investing in a monetary sinkhole. If the ballpark has failed to bring in promised revenue, then it’s time to rethink whether throwing more money at the problem is the solution. Ω

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While waiting for last summer’s graduation ceremonies to begin, UNR President Marc Johnson (right) chatted with Dale Raggio and Nevada higher education chancellor Dan Klaich.

Missouri water to Nevada?

A U.S. Interior Department report issued Dec. 12 predicts the Colorado River Basin states will experience a supply/demand “imbalance” of 3.2 million acre-feet of water within 48 years. Nevada is one of the seven states in the Basin.

In a separate project, Interior also solicited suggestions for how to solve the impending Colorado River Basin water shortage. Many of them, such as moving an iceberg south, were not taken seriously, but U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials said they would evaluate a proposal called the “Missouri River Reuse Project” which involves a pipeline to bring water from the Missouri River Basin to the West.

The study found that the 700-mile pipeline would be less expensive and would supply more water than other proposed alternatives that were examined. Its construction would cost nearly $9 billion with yearly operating costs of $1 billion.

The Interior Department said in a press release that the Dec. 12 report was “prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River Basin states,” which led the Associated Press to issue a story headlined “Missouri River water sought by Western states.”

But the report itself never mentions Nevada’s state government, which appears not to have been a participant. The report did name the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), a county-level agency, as participating. SNWA is the agency that is seeking to take water from western Utah and eastern Nevada to supply the Las Vegas area with additional water, and its director, Patricia Mulroy, was quick to embrace the Missouri pipeline, too.

“Maybe it’s time for us to look at marrying the concepts of flood control and drought protection,” the Associated Press quoted Mulroy saying. “We’ve seen in the middle portion of the country some devastating flooding going on. Should we be talking about preserving those floodwaters somehow and not putting New Orleans at risk and some of the other communities at risk year after year?”

But Bob Fulkerson of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada said, “It’s a 19th-century project that has no place in the 21st century. Nevada has a bitter history with such projects, as the first Bureau of Reclamation ... project in Nevada, the Newlands Project that diverted water from the Truckee River to the Lahontan Valley, caused the complete extinction of the Pyramid Lake Cutthroat Trout. It also killed Lake Winnemucca, where my grandfather told me of seeing so many ducks and geese that they ‘blotted out the sun.’ It’s not only gone, it’s totally forgotten. We will fight this ill-conceived boondoggle with allies in other states, and not just those in the conservation community. Our most powerful allies will be politically powerful economic interests along the Missouri River who stand much to lose under this proposal.”

The Missouri River begins in Montana and winds through seven states, which were terminally thrilled to hear of the pipeline plan. The Kansas City Star reported, “Almost to a person this week, interests along the Missouri River said the political, legal and practical problems associated with the pipeline made its construction highly problematic.”

A CBS station in St. Louis quoted Kansas agriculture official Burke Griggs: “If this gets any traction, people in the Missouri River Basin probably will scream.”

Even Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned the Colorado River Basin states not to count on the Missouri pipeline and urged them to look elsewhere for solutions. “There’s no silver bullet to solve the imbalance between the demand for water and the supply in the Colorado River Basin over the next 50 years,” he said.

National Parks Traveler said the pipeline proposal “largely ignores national parks the river flows through. Aside from passing mention in a list of parks, wildlife refuges, tribes, and national recreation areas for which the river is the ‘lifeblood,’ the voluminous report fails to discuss the value of the river to those 11 national parks ... and seven wildlife refuges or outline how their water rights should be preserved.”

And federal regulators are not exactly friendly these days toward water transfers. Earlier this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission upheld its previous denial of permitting for a pipeline from the Green River in Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range.

The full Colorado River Basin report can be read at usbr.gov/lc/region/programs/crbstudy.html.

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Campus concern Ongoing recession problems undercut morale

Some Nevada higher education workers will take another pay hit this spring, by bringing their total loss during the Dennis Myers recession to about one-fifth of their pay.

Others have already received notices that their contracts will not be renewed next year.

It will happen in the University of Nevada, Reno agriculture college, in Cooperative Extension, and other areas.

“New faculty ... have not seen raises for several years.”

Glenn Miller Nevada Faculty Alliance In most colleges, faculty members have a nine-month contract. In the summer months those faculty members can do consulting or other activities. But agriculture faculty have 12-month contracts because they are expected to work over the summer growing season.

They receive five weeks of vacation. Nine-month contracts are called B contracts, 12 months is an A contract.

Two years ago, as part of coping with recession shortfalls, those faculty members were cut back to

nine-month contracts, while more than a dozen faculty members were eliminated altogether.

“This cut was not met with a warm and fuzzy response,” said one faculty member outside the agriculture college.

But the implementation of the nine-month Ag contracts did not happen immediately— they will take effect on July 1. When combined with the cuts all campus workers have experienced, some instructors say their pay cuts since 2007—when the recession began—comes to about 17 percent.

Meanwhile, UNR Cooperative Extension—an 18-office arm of the campus that aids Nevadans around the state with home and workrelated problems—is facing severe cuts in July. Both the agriculture and CE cuts—and potential wildlife research cuts—fall heavily on rural Nevada.

The story doesn’t end there, though. Campus sources claim that at about the time the agriculture cuts were being put in the pipeline, so were some pay hikes for UNR department chairs in engineering, science and liberal arts. In their cases, the change was from 9month contracts to 10-month contracts.

While not a secret, all this flew below the radar at the time it was happening. But recently Nevada Faculty Alliance representative

Glenn Miller was looking at numbers on Transparent Nevada, a website that posts information on government in Nevada, and discovered the department chair pay increases. He wrote about them in the NFA’s newspaper: “While most faculty do not begrudge extra pay for chairs, these sometimes dramatic salary increases come at a time when faculty are being dismissed and most of the rest of the faculty are bearing at least a 4.8 percent reduction in salary.”

The fact that only certain department chairs received raises is having an impact.

One professor said, “It is bad for morale. My chair got another month, and it comes to about $20,000. We haven’t seen any merit increases or cost of living increases for a long time.”

In fact, he said, he thought the pay changes were exactly opposite what they should have been, that chairs jobs have become easier as instructors’ jobs have become more difficult. A faculty members’ job, he said, has become more difficult because so many faculty jobs have been eliminated, increasing the pressure on those who remained.

On the other hand, “With a significant number of research active faculty having left for better places in recent years, I believe a chair’s job has actually become a lot easier since there are fewer people to manage.”

Miller said, “Many of us felt this was unfair, particularly for the new faculty who have not seen raises for several years,” he said. “Chairs already receive stipends, and adding another month of salary ... seemed unfair to everyone else who had their salaries cut at the same time.”

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Critics of the pay situation cited some individual cases.

“One young faculty member could not take that much of a hit, started looking for a job, was offered one at Purdue University, and the administration promptly reverted her salary to the previous A contract amount, but now on a B contract salary,” Miller said. “She is worth it, but this all is something of making up rules as they go along.”

But not all references to specific cases panned out. Kwang Kim, a mechanical engineering professor who left UNR for UNLV, was said to be unhappy with the pay and work-

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by Kim in traveling to southern California—is just under 450 miles.

Those we spoke with attributed the department chair pay increases to President Marc Johnson when he was provost. That could not be confirmed—Johnson did not respond to a request for an interview—but other sources suggested there could be legitimate reasons for the hikes.

A May 5, 2008, document titled “Report of the Department Chair Task Force” was obtained by the RN&R. The task force found that while most universities offer department chairs 12-month contracts, only 27 percent of UNR chairs had such contracts.

Heather Hardy, who served on that task force and is now the new provost, said last week, “Part of the argument for a 12-month contract is that it is the norm in our peers [other universities] and so we can’t compete.”

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Based on the task force recommendations, Marc Johnson as provost did provide longer contracts to some department chairs, Hardy said.

Whether that was appropriate in a period when faculty members were taking bad hits can still be argued, but that at any rate was the reasoning. Still, it does not satisfy many of the complaints being voiced on campus.

The remedy for a lot of those complaints can’t necessarily come from campus administrators. For instance, Cooperative Extension needs support from the Nevada Legislature because the Board of Regents has declined to reinforce its budget.

“I have personally been treated well over the years, and do not have much of an argument for my situation,” Miller said. “However, the younger faculty are making much less money than I am, but are taking a correspondingly higher percentage cut.” Ω

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In the midst of mining opposition in Storey County and the lack of regulation for mining throughout the U.S. (“In the dark,” News, Dec. 20), Nevada’s U.S. Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller introduced the Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act of 2012. The act will “allow the city of Yerington to work with Nevada Copper to expand its mining operation and create jobs while also providing the city with new infrastructure, job creation and recreational opportunities,” according to a statement released from Reid’s office. The mining project is called the Pumpkin Hollow Project. Lyon County’s primary industries are mining and farming.

After the bill was stalled for some time over environmental negotiations, including conservation of the endangered sage grouse, the bill was revised last weekend to encompass protection of 48,000 acres of wilderness, in exchange for 12,500 acres to be mined by Nevada Copper. The wilderness will be named the Wovoka Wilderness, after the Northern Paiute spiritual leaders associated with starting the Ghost Dance.

Building bridges The Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway (see mention in “Road conditions,” right) will be able to complete another large portion of the 116-mile route by spring 2013, the bikeway’s organization of the same name announced last week.

Construction on the Fleisch bridge over Fleisch dam, the first part of the bridge to be worked on in California, started in December after a brief delay, and is estimated to cost $440,000.

The organization has received $370,000 through grants and donations.

“The 200-foot-long bridge will have new cabling for support, new wooden planks and safety railing,” said a statement from Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway. “The cables are suspended from towers at both ends of the bridge and those structures also will be replaced. The towers will be supported by new anchors of concrete.”

A three-mile path from Crystal Peak Park to Quilici Ranch Road in west Verdi is next on the agenda.

Girl power Amelia Gulling, administrator of the Desert Research Institute’s GreenPower Program, was named the “2012 Amazing Individual” by the Nevada chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

GreenPower is an environmental outreach organization that works with the Washoe County School District, providing teachers and students with curriculum, programs and research opportunities related to environmental and climate change awareness.

In September, Gulling helped students at Jerome Middle School start a garden with edible native plants. She also helped teachers in Southern Nevada obtain certificates in environmental studies, and is developing a recycling program in Henderson.

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Road conditions 2012 was a pedal in the right direction for Reno cyclists The start of the next phase of the Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway—a three-mile path in Verdi—marks the last of several 2012 local bike lane projects. The Fourth Street bike thoroughfare was approved (“Changing lanes,” .by Ashley June 21), “green lanes” (often used synonymously with “bike lanes”) Hennefer were installed on Moana Lane, and local cyclists are hopeful that projects slated for 2013, including reconstructions of Neil Road and ashleyh@ newsreview.com Terminal Way, West Plumb Lane and Sutro Street, will provide more alternative routes throughout the city.

But it’s not enough yet, says Jeremy Buchmann, founder of BikeReno.net. Buchmann started BikeReno.net in 2008, inspired after BikePortland.org, a popular website about bicycling efforts in Portland, Ore. Buchmann, an avid cyclist and a computer software engineer, wanted to fill a niche by following bike policy and projects.

“2012 was a decent year, but also disappointing in several ways,” says Buchmann. “The horribly unsafe section of Plumas Street was finally addressed—although not without some friction—and we got a new cycletrack on Nichols [Boulevard] in Sparks. On the downside, the promised bike path on southeast McCarran [Boulevard] has been delayed even though the road widening was completed—they were supposed to be completed at the same time—and the Moana [Lane] bike lanes make you feel like you’re riding a bike on a freeway. And there’s still no cohesion to the bike-related projects. There’s a new half-mile of bike lane here, another half-mile over there, but no effort to connect anything and create meaningful routes, which means that the new half-mile of bike lane is useless.”

He notes that “cycling in Reno isn’t too bad. I can do it yearround, and there are a lot of opportunities for different styles of riding—recreational, commuting, mountain.”

Buchmann says that Reno can follow examples set by other Western cities, including San Francisco and Portland, to encourage biking as a feasible alternative to driving.

“While riding in San Francisco recently, there were times when I was riding in a small peloton of commuting cyclists,” he says. “It was liberating.”

He also says that it’s good for business because a good bike infrastructure attracts people willing to invest in the local economy.

“Occasionally, I receive emails from people who are interested in moving here for a job or whatever else, and want to know how bikefriendly Reno is,” says Buchmann. “One of the things I wish I could get across to decision-makers is that bike [and] pedestrian infrastructure is an investment, not a burden. And it’s not just an investment in transportation for a few, it’s an investment in talent. ... These are the people who research the quality of life in prospective cities and care about what a city is doing to make itself more livable. These are the people we want and need, and they don’t want to live in a city where they’re afraid to walk or bike anywhere.” Ω OPINION

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“I’m not sure we’re accepted,” says Steve Daugherty, proprietor of the bathhouse.

“But I think they do realize that we offer a service that benefits an element, I guess.”

when a business gets a feature-length profile in the RN&R, be it a record store or a grocery cooperative, that business might experience a bump of new customers visiting the place for the first time or old customers reminded to return to an old haunt. That’s not necessarily the case for Steve’s Bathhouse, which isn’t to say that the aim of this article is to discourage anyone from going there, but only that the increased media attention might make even some loyal customers pause, because privacy is the fundamental service that Steve’s provides.

And it’s a service that’s been provided for 50 years. Originally called Club Baths, the bathhouse is one of the oldest such places in the country, part of a West Coast network of bathhouses where gay and bisexual men could meet one another without fear of prejudice or the false romances of alcohol inebriation. Many bathhouses have been closed down, due to the twin menaces of disease and discrimination, but because of its dogged insistence on safe, healthy sexual practices and Nevada’s liveand-let-live, libertarian attitude about social issues, Steve’s has endured, thrived and become an institution.

“I have been a customer at Steve’s,” says a former regular who no longer lives in the area and prefers to stay anonymous—we’ll just call him Mike. “I started going 20 years ago. …The appeal is no-strings sex. No complications. There’s no ambiguity in terms of why people are there and what they’re there to accomplish.”

Steve’s is open 24 hours, seven days a week. Electronic dance music plays throughout the facility, which is relatively straightforward: lockers and private rooms upstairs, and showers and saunas downstairs. There’s a TV lounge, snack machine and complimentary coffee, as well as more unusual amenities, like an adult video room and glory holes. The ambiance is casual, low lit but not too dark to see, and the place seems as clean and well maintained as a mid-scale hotel.

Steve Daugherty, the eponymous proprietor, is an amiable guy, with a friendly smile, a perfectly coiffed head of gray hair, and a quick, comfortable way of moving and talking. Originally from Modesto, Calif., he was a hair stylist, and when he and his partner broke up and sold their salon, he went to work at a bathhouse in Sacramento, a sister business of Reno’s Club Baths. In 1983, he took over as manager of the Reno location, eventually becoming a co-owner of what officially became known as Steve’s Bathhouse in 1991.

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“We identify a behavior, not a lifestyle,” says Jennifer Howell from the Washoe County Health Department.

For Daugherty, a big part of the appeal of the bathhouse environment is that it’s alcohol-free. He doesn’t drink and doesn’t like meeting people while they’re drinking.

“I was never one to go to a gay bar,” he says. “If I was good, I want him to know it.”

That said, he doesn’t begrudge or judge anyone the decision to go to a bar.

“I’m more pro-bathhouse than antibar,” he says. “We’ve only ever been an option, an alternative. That’s it.

That’s all I’ve ever looked at us as.

Nowadays, it’s evolved. In the last five or eight years, it’s very different than it used to be. The gay community is getting online. We’ve always been big for bisexuals, now even more so.”

The men that Daugherty describes as bisexual are men who don’t selfidentify as homosexuals. Jennifer Howell, sexual health program coordinator for the Washoe County Health Department, describes them as “men who have sex with men.”

“We identify a behavior, not a lifestyle,” she says. “There are a lot of men who have sex with men who do not identify as being gay, bi or whatever. They’re having sex with women as well.”

According to Daugherty, this demographic shift has also affected the bathhouse’s peak business hours.

Though it used to be busiest during the graveyard hours, it’s now busier during the day.

“Everyone’s experience is different,” says Mike. “Different people do it different ways. Some people wander around looking for people. Some

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people stay in their rooms with the door open. Some people stay in their room with the door open and, say, laying on their face, with their butt sticking in the air, just waiting for someone to come by. Some people go to the glory hole. Some people go to the video room and hang out. If it’s during the day, and the sun is shining, and it’s not cold, they’ll go out to the back patio area and suntan.”

“We just offer an option for meeting other people,” Daugherty says.

“Some people come here just to watch The Price is Right. Some come here just for company, just to be here. The thing about the bisexual community is they live in that world, so this world is really exotic or whatever. It’s not to me; it’s dull as dirt. But for somebody else, it’s exciting.”

Another demographic that frequents the bathhouse is crossdressers.

“They feel like they don’t fit here and don’t fit there,” he says. “I always felt like they were very misunderstood. Even I don’t understand them, and I’m not going to pretend to. I like that they feel comfortable enough to do that here. I don’t think it’s a sexual thing. I think it’s just that they put their things on, and they feel better.”

For Daugherty, the distinctions among gay, straight and bisexual are somewhat arbitrarily drawn. He sees sexuality as existing on a free-flowing, open-ended continuum.

“Society puts people in a little box,” he says. “I wish there was no longer a box.”

“The goal of being there is to have sex, and what your life is outside of Steve’s doesn’t really matter at the time,” says Mike. “Whether or not you

think you’re straight outside Steve’s, or other people think you’re straight outside of Steve’s, has little to do with Steve’s.”

Law of the land

From the outside, Steve’s Bathhouse is fairly nondescript. There are no signs announcing the name of the business.

It’s off Keystone Avenue on Second Street, and many Renoites pass it regularly without a second glance.

Among residents who are even aware of the business, it’s generally discussed with hushed tones and derisive language—not so much talked about as whispered about. It’s a taboo topic even among the customers who frequent it.

“The funny thing about our community is you can go out and you hear people, and they’re like, oh, that club,” says Daugherty. “But I know that they go here. But they have to pretend that they don’t.”

Daugherty says that when he bumps into customers out in public or in social situations—he’s involved with the charity organization Silver Dollar Court, for example—that they often seem embarrassed or awkward.

“Like I’m going to say something to somebody?” he says. “After all these years, I wouldn’t be able to go to Costco or Savemart without running into somebody. I run into people everywhere I go. I never say hi to them unless they say hi to me. … It’s just the way it is. I get that they want to be prim and proper. Sexuality is private. It’s private stuff, that’s all. And here [at the bathhouse] you do know more than you want to know. You can

just walk somewhere and see something you didn’t want to see. And they know I know. They know I hold the world’s biggest secrets.”

Daugherty considers protecting his customer’s privacy a sacred duty.

When talking to a reporter, he seems conflicted—torn between his naturally engaging, outgoing personality and his reticence to discuss others’ private affairs. He’s also clearly proud of his business, its consistent advocacy for safe sexual practices, and its ability to endure despite a sometimes hostile social environment, but he believes that part of why the business has been able to succeed is that it has maintained a low community profile. The people who need to know about it, know about it. Increased attention might lead to harassment from the types of zealots who believe that interfering with others’ private affairs is some kind of cosmic mandate.

But nor does he think that his business needs to mask its true nature.

“I don’t think we need to be prettied up,” he says. “I think we are what we are. That’s basically it.”

Over the years, the bathhouse has faced adversity, particularly in the AIDS-fueled homophobia of the 1980s. Daugherty says that back in those days, there were often protesters out front, sometimes praying and proselytizing, sometimes throwing threats or water balloons at customers.

“It’s like Jerry Springer doing shows on skinheads,” says Daugherty.

“Don’t ban them. Keep doing shows like that because it shows how ignorant they are. Let them do their deal and just wear them down.”

Back in those days, Daugherty says, local law enforcement was no help against discrimination and harassment. But nowadays, his relationship with local law enforcement is much more amicable.

“That’s evolved,” he says. “I’m not sure we’re become accepted. … But I think they do realize that we offer a service that benefits an element, I guess. … To have survived what it has survived is amazing—even to me. “ “From a disease prevention and health promotion perspective, and a safety perspective, bathhouses offer an important venue for a population that normally has nowhere else to go,” says Howell of the county health department. “It’s good that there’s somewhere for them to go because everyone in society says there’s nowhere. … As other service providers, we really protect it, because if it goes away or if there’s controversy about it, or if any attention is drawn to it, then that can ultimately mean somebody goes out on the street. They could get robbed.

Because they’re meeting somebody in a hotel room versus somewhere that if they call for help, somebody’s going to be there.”

“When I was going there 20 years ago ... I would say that Steve’s was very important, because, other than the bars—or the parks, god forbid—there wasn’t really a place to meet up with people. Obviously, if you do stuff in the park, it’s possible that you’d get caught and that’s not a good thing.

Steve’s was a place that you could go that you didn’t have to worry about getting raided or arrested or anything like that. Now, these days, you’ve got

Grindr or Craig’s List or any number of other options. So Steve’s is now less important, I would say, than it used to be, but it’s still terribly convenient. You’re not spending hours and hours online trying to convince someone to have sex with you. …

Even with Grindr and Craig’s List and Adam 4 Adam, it’s not uncommon for someone to just say, ‘OK, let’s just meet at Steve’s.’”

“[Daugherty] has been a long time community partner in prevention efforts,” says Howell. She adds that the bathhouse is a point of contact for a community that might not be willing to go to other venues for testing, like the county or Planned Parenthood or even their own physician, because they don’t want to discuss their sexual activity. The bathhouse isn’t subject to any legally mandated health regulations, so Daugherty’s insistence on safe sex and free STD tests comes from his own willing initiative.

“When I came here, there was an incredible amount of ignorance in the gay community,” he says. “The attitude was that AIDS was only in the big cities, New York and San Francisco. So it was really big for me to promote safe sex. It wasn’t the community. That wasn’t one of their goals yet. But it became a goal.”

Part of Daugherty’s disease prevention and safe sex efforts is a strictly enforced no drugs and alcohol policy.

If customers come to the door clearly intoxicated, they’re not allowed in.

“If they’re under the influence, there’s no reason to bring them in,” says Daugherty. “They’re going to bother other people. Even though you can’t control the practice of safe sex, if you’re not allowing people under the influence, they’ll have better judgment.”

Safety dance

Daugherty takes his mission to promote safe sex very seriously, so he says that of all the whispered rumors and misconceptions about his establishment, the one that bothers him the most is the perception that it’s an “AIDS palace.”

“That’s the biggest thing that bothers me,” he says. “There’s no reason for anybody to practice unsafe sex here—none.”

“I have had my stupid times of not practicing safe sex, but none of those times were at Steve’s,” says Mike.

“They have the bowls of condoms, and you just grab some on the way to your room. It’s not hard.”

Condoms are readily available throughout the facility, as well as posters, pamphlets and signage promoting safe sex. Additionally, the bathhouse partners with the county to offer free STD testing onsite on a regular basis.

Customers have to be at least 18 years old, and are required to give an ID to the front desk before coming in.

“It’s funny how once you have their ID and know who they are, there’s no crimes,” says Daugherty.

“So, they’re protected. They have a safe place that they can come and do what it is they do.”

Though many customers come to the bathhouse with an expectation of having sex, it’s not a brothel, and solicitation and prostitution are strictly forbidden. Just visiting the bathhouse is not a guarantee of a sexual encounter.

“You’re not paying for sex,” says Howell. “You’re going for the environment where you can actually meet somebody that you might not be around at any other place in your life.”

She also points out that it’s a more private environment than having sex in a public space, like a park—not to mention significantly more legal—and is safer than inviting a stranger met on the internet into a private residence.

“It’s a contained environment where there’s condoms and this expectation of safer sex everywhere, versus you opening up your home to somebody and you have no idea what’s going to happen,” she says.

The bathhouse exists in a tricky space in the consciousness of the community: On the one hand, sexual health specialists like Howell see it as providing an essential community

outlet, but a central part of its service is a high degree of discretion. So, Steve’s Bathhouse is a cornerstone of the community that’s rarely openly acknowledged as existing. And privacy is a foremost concern of many of the customers.

“Once they’re in here, they have no problem,” says Daugherty. “They do worry that I have a registration card … the more you try to explain, the more worried they get. So we tell them not to even think about it. Once people realize that we are that private, their worries go away. They’re just people. We treat them like they’re people, not freaks. We don’t judge.”

“People need options in the community to express themselves how they want to, as long as they’re not infringing on other people’s rights, which in this case they’re not,” says Howell. “Because we as a society put up these barriers, there needs to be a safe haven. A safe haven needs to be there because as much as people may not think things are going on in a community, they are. … These guys would find another way to reach out to who they want to have sex with, and if that integrity is breached, people would find another venue that isn’t safe, that doesn’t protect their confidentiality, that doesn’t offer a place where they have condoms everywhere and promote safer sex. … If that’s a venue that isn’t there anymore or protected, then that safe haven and that point of

access for services disappears.”

“I don’t know how it ever survived here, in this little town,” says Daugherty. “The population doesn’t warrant a bathhouse, that’s for sure.

They’re usually in heavily populated towns and cities.”

Historically, he credits Reno’s tourism industry with helping business, and though that’s suffered in recent years, the business itself is fairly low overhead. Still, Daugherty thinks the business might be ready for a new evolution, and he’s considering opening it up for a coed night, if only for a night or two a week. There’s nothing definite in the works yet, but he says that sort of evolution is a strong possibility. It’s part of his perspective that human sexuality exists on a fluid continuum. “We’re just sexual people,” he says. “I think everybody’s sexual.”

Howell credits the bathhouse’s unusually long survival in Reno to a similarly tolerant attitude popular among Nevadans.

“This is a very libertarian place,” she says. “Do what you’re going to do, just don’t mess with my life or anything. … Let it be over there, let ’em do what they’re going to do, and as long as it doesn’t bother me, then, oh well.”

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Free jewelry, iPads, $2,000 in mortgage help, truck bed liners, tickets to the Nutcracker and Aces, $500 every Friday until Christmas—local TV stations are in a real giving mood this holiday season.

All they want in return is for you to “like” them on Facebook.

The incentives began this year, driving up the number of people on TV station Facebook pages by tens of thousands. Channel 2 has emerged as the leader with more than 29,000 “likes.”

For initial insight, I turned to my friends on Facebook.

“I entered their contests,” wrote Jennifer Beard. “To my surprise I actually won a laptop from Channel 8.”

Then she got frustrated with the station and stopped watching. “I almost felt guilty for [not watching] or obligated to watch because of winning the laptop.”

Ron Futrell called it “bribery.” Gary Stone said it’s “whoring out the station image.” Leslie Rand Raso wrote, “Reminds me of the stories about payola.”

Guilt, bribery, whoring, payola, call it what you like. But the fact is more than 30,000 people are newly connected to local TV. The public posted more than 1,000 comments in the month of November alone. An incredible rise in civic engagement.

For professional analysis, I turned to Todd Felts, assistant professor in the University Nevada, Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism. He teaches courses in social media marketing.

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“News now has a responsibility to have a dialogue with their viewers,” he says. “It’s a major paradigm shift.”

The incentives are the first of three stages: Invite the public, talk to them and apply what you learn from the public to the news.

Stage 1: incentives

The stakes couldn’t be higher. A relationship with viewers is “is what they need for survival,” Felts says. Without a relationship, they have no viewers and without viewers, no advertisers.

Channel 8 was the first to regularly engage viewers on Facebook and other stations had a lot of catching up to do.

“When we started off, we gave away gas cards, and then we thought, ‘What would someone want?” said Ann Burns, Promotions Manager for Channel 2. “We invested in iPads and that was successful. We are giving away cash. And that is just straight ‘here is a check.’”

Channel 2 signed a market-exclusive agreement with “Aptivada” of Salt Lake City. These wizards of Facebook built the software behind Channel 2’s Facebook contest.

“We can see who responds to what,” Burns says. 15,000 people enter their contest each week. “People approach me all the time and say, ‘Can we give this away on your Facebook

page?’ And I am like, ‘No you can’t, that is not good enough.’”

The right incentive is key. For example, Channel 11 tried to give away an audio book last week. No one responded for two days.

Channels 11 and 4 didn’t respond to a requests for interview before deadline. (Channel 4 called back after the story was written.) Channel 8’s general manager declined to provide anyone to speak to about it. Channel 2 was the only local station willing to talk.

Stage 2: talk to the “likers” This massive public forum and direct line to the TV station’s staff is a whole new monster for TV stations.

“When people ‘like’ us, that dialogue is real-time,” Burns said. It’s been a real-time flood. In the month of November alone, Channel 2 had 380 viewer inquiries. They responded to nearly half. Channel 8 had 360 inquiries, responded to less than a third. Channel 4 had 226 inquiries but staff only responded to 40.

It’s “a tsunami of social media activity,” Felts says. You can scroll through endless reams of comments on every station’s page going back years.

Viewers are agitated: “Wow ... having a reporter do a news story on distracted driving while driving and talking into a news camera,” wrote one. Others have accolades: “I watch every morning ... very helpful since I moved from SW Florida.” Viewers alert to problems: “You should police your own posts and delete those with

KTVN Promotion manager Ann Burns with anchors Kristen Remington and Wendy Damonte.

cuss words and those that are threatening others.” Channel 2’s response to that one was poignant: “We’ve been trying to go through all the posts.

There’s just a lot of comments to get through!”

The power of these huge new local social media networks extends news power to the people. For instance, when Channel 2 “liked” Sandra Harley’s picture of fall colors, it was automatically shown to thousands of people. That kind of exposure builds relationships.

“If you have that relationship with the viewer then they are going to stay with you a little bit longer,” says Felts.

“A little bit longer means tremendous things to advertisers.”

Stage 3: cater the news to social media.

“News now has a responsibility to have a dialogue with their viewers,” says Todd Felts.

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Facebook “News Feeds” allow people to share information instantly, cutting out the TV news middle man. When you “like” a TV news page, you are inviting the news to join your network, allowing information to flow from you to them.

“Ultimately what they need to think about is that there are already people having conversations about what matters to them, and they need to be thinking about how to join that conversation,” Felts says.

The stations have done it incredibly fast. In less than a year, Channel 2 is joining conversations with 100,000 unique Facebook viewers a week. The challenge is converting the conversations to news.

Channel 8 has been at it longer, harvesting viewers through dialogue rather than contests and converting those conversations to news. The most recent tip was posted by Nancy Arredondo: “Please watch the YouTube video that was created by nursing students at UNR.” A few days later, the story was on air.

The same was true when a cat was stuck in a tree for four days. When authorities didn’t respond, the cat’s owner posted Facebook messages on TV station pages. Channel 8 sent a reporter to the rescue.

But it doesn’t always go well.

Before the anticipated flood in early December, Channel 8 posted a picture of its own sandbagging efforts to fortify the station’s front door. Facebook fan Mike Jolly posted a comment: “U guys need someone to show you how to sandbag?lol” It wasn’t until two weeks later that Channel 8 investigated “how to sandbag.” The station missed the boat to warn the public. According to the story, 80 percent of properties that had used sandbags used them wrong.

Facebookers held the station accountable. Mike Thomas wrote, “Good info, lot of typos.” Denise Hooker wrote, “I would have liked a diagram or video showing the correct way to do it, rather than the picture of the wrong way.”

Despite getting to the story late, typos and wrong-way pics, viewers still gave Channel 8 credit for following up on the Facebook tip. User “Bitter Oldman” wrote, “Channel 8’s sandbag attempt needed work ... Glad to see someone has followed up.”

Engaging the public is “proven to be successful,” Felts says. But he’s not sure if stations really have a measure of what success is.

“I think Todd is right,” Burns said.

“We have to be at this full force for a year to be able to say this makes a difference.”

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The brushfire within Brushfire

Various authors Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Reno I love college students. I love teaching them. I love talking to them. I love their sense of entitlement. I love their passion. I love their by D. Brian Burghart self-absorption. I love their earnestness. I love their creativity. I love how even brianb@ though everything they do has been done newsreview.com by others before them, they think it’s wholly original. (And in the case of my own students, works of incredible brilliance, and when I don’t perceive it that way, it’s because I don’t have the capacity to recognize their genius.)

Now, I know college students, and I know some will find this insulting, but I’m in no way being sarcastic. College students are fun because they’re a very complex group. People arrive at the university in true melting pot fashion, and students who would never interact off campus are forced to cohabitate and collaborate. It’s beautiful.

Nowhere are these conflicting attributes more glaring than in their artistic efforts. I was recently handed the spring edition of the Brushfire (Edition 64, Volume 2).

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Brushfire is a usually once-a-semester literary magazine—short stories, poetry, photography and visual arts—published by the students and ASUN. An electronic version can be found at www.unrbrushfire.com.

My first impression was of quality of construction. Nice thick, glossy paper, great color reproduction, comfortable folio. But I rolled my eyes when reading the masthead page—“Copywright 2011,” what?—I had to hope that this was not going to be kids playing grownups with more expensive tools than the grownups get to use.

But my fear at plodding through 100 pages of dreck was assuaged within the first 45-minute session on the elliptical machine, and I actually developed a bit of respect for the editor, Hannah Behmaram, whom I’ve never met.

These types of collections, with their necessarily uneven and disparate styles of writing and illustration, are not easy to make into a cohered work. The idea is to

show the widest possible sampling of what’s going on in students’ minds—how they perceive and express art—but that virtually guarantees inconsistency in quality and tone. The bag of tricks from which Behmaram pulled more than competently, includes varying the pacing of good with not-so-good, stories with poems, use of a consistent but muted color palette, the insertion of sustained visual metaphors—in this case, mostly watercolor swipes and splashes—and then a thoughtful pairing of story with art. That interspersing and pairing of visual art might be the trickiest part.

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Even though I’ve never worked on this magazine, I’d be willing to bet that few if any of these visual works were designed to go with the words they accompanied. And yet, none of the combinations was jarring.

Aside from the occasional copy-editing error—the bane of all editors’ lives—I really only have two complaints: First, the work overall felt too safe for college students. With no overtly violent or sexual expressions, it felt as though the magazine had to pass some bureaucratic sensitivity muster. Second, the scripty font that was used for the names of the pieces and in the bylines of the written works was unreadable to my eyes. Fortunately, the table of contents was legible.

I’d like to single out some of the artists for recognition, but that wouldn’t really be fair to the ones who went unmentioned.

Such is the variety of works in Brushfire that on any given day I might prefer one over another. I think all of the contributors and various editors deserve recognition.

These college collections, as idiosyncratic and solipsistic and earnest as they are, require a certain amount of bravery on the part of the submitters, and they should be encouraged and congratulated. After all, I know some great writers who got their first bylines in such magazines. Ω

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Claying on of hands

Owners Sutter and Samantha Stremmel in the studio at The Wedge Ceramics Studio.

The Wedge Ceramics Studio Hobbies—we all want them. They make you a more well-rounded, interesting member of by society. However, finding an accessible, Laura Davis creative way to pass the time can be easier said than done. So what’s a person to do in town that’s both stimulating and affordable? How about throwing around a wedge of clay?

Ceramics, an art generally offered only in private studios and university settings, is now an option for those looking to get their hands a little dirty, thanks to The Wedge Ceramics the Wedge.

Barely a year old, the local ceramic Studio is at 2095 Dickerson Road. For studio opened its door in September 2011, more information, visit and with the dedication of its young artiswww.thewedge ceramics.com or call tic owners—husband and wife Sutter and 770-4770. Samantha Stremmel—its been steadily spinning itself a following ever since.

Offering not only an independent practice in a membership format for established ceramic artists, the Wedge also offers its wheels up to clay novices—without all the hoop jumping a university class would require, such as applications and of course, grades.

“They’re not done in an academia setting,” explains 12-year ceramic junkie, instructor Bryan Stieger, of the beginners’ class he teaches monthly. “I’m not going around critiquing. I want people who work all week to just be able to come in, get on the wheel, and have some time to relax and have fun.”

And fun they do have. With people of all demographics coming through the studio to try the course, which is offered at $90 for three three-hour sessions on Thursday evenings, Stieger says the only consistent similarity he sees among people coming through the door is their attitude.

“People have smiles on their faces when trying out the clay,” he says. “Or when it’s spinning through their fingers. They love just getting messy.”

That, and the romantic fantasy those who have seen Demi Moore’s clay spinning skills tend to entertain. “Everyone always wants to make pots on the wheel if they’ve seen the movie Ghost,” Stieger laughs. “They’re always somewhat intrigued by that.”

One former student who can vouch for the mesmerizing effect getting a little clay under the fingernails has is Randy Boggan.

Boggan signed up for November’s beginner class, after his potter brother-inlaw introduced him to the art while seeking a place in town he could spin while visiting.

“He was jonsing to put his hands in some clay so … we went down and I watched him throw,” Boggan says. After that, he was hooked. “My wife has become a widow to the studio—I probably go down four times a week to learn something new.”

The opportunity to acquire new skills from the existing members, post beginners course, is easy— the studio is open 24 hours daily to them. Upon signing up with a month-to-month fee, they are given a key and can come and go as they please. An open studio format ensures someone is always around to lend a clay-covered hand.

“Any of the members, and [owners] Sutter and Sam, are willing to help in anyway they can and share their skills,” Boggan says. “That’s what makes it a pretty unique experience.”

“Our members take pride and ownership in this place,” Samantha Stremmel confirms. “They’re very supportive.”

And with the studio gaining popularity—the recent beginners classes have filled up so quickly they started taking deposits in advance—the Wedge seems to be successfully striking while the kiln is hot.

“Right now we’re thriving,” Samantha Stremmel says. “I think Reno really needs it—so we’ll be around for a while.” Ω

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When I got to Bighorn Bar and Grill, I was expecting a tiny hole in the wall because this was how my friends by K.J. Sullivan described it—except they routinely used a more vulgar term. All I could wonder was what I had gotten myself into when I headed up there with my friends Brett and Tim. When we walked in, I was confused and wondered if all of my friends had somehow become my 87-year-old grandmother when it comes to assessing risk.

There were some people sitting at the bar who looked like they might show you pictures of their kids or something, but c’mon, that’s not that bad.

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We decided to start with some chicken wings ($7.95 for a dozen) and went with medium heat level.

This ended up being the perfect amount of spice mixed with tang.

There was a lot of sauce on these wings, so be prepared for a mess.

The wings were tender and meaty, so we gobbled them up pretty quickly.

They also came with a large serving of tasty hand-cut fries that were long, thin and nicely salted.

For entrées, Brett went with the taco special, which was two tacos and a domestic beer for $4.99. The tacos arrived with ground beef, cheese and lots of shredded lettuce.

They were a bit greasy, but the beef had a nice flavor, and you can’t beat the price. I also ordered a special and went with the grilled turkey sandwich ($7.95). There was a ton of cheese and turkey on this sandwich, but it needed something else, like avocado or tomatoes. I asked for a few slices of tomatoes, and they were brought out immediately and definitely helped liven up the sandwich. I asked to substitute onion rings ($1) for the fries, and I’m glad I did. The thick slices of onions weren’t over-battered and had a nice crispy shell. Tim went with Scott’s meatloaf sandwich ($7.95), which came with a large slice of meatloaf with American and provolone cheeses on toasted sourdough. The meatloaf had a rich tomato taste, and the grilled onions on top were a nice touch. The sandwich was large and also came with another generous serving of the fries.

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Bighorn is small, but set up well with an “L” shaped bar and some high top tables off on the sides. The overall vibe is very mellow and comfortable. We sat at a table with a view of a football game on the TV in the corner. A smiley young waitress soon came over and brought out some menus. OK, still nothing scary here. I was happy to see they had Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale on tap ($4). Brett and Tim went with PBRs ($2). I asked the waitress if the place had been renovated, and she explained that about a year and half ago, major changes were done to convert it from the “slum it once was.” Well, there you go. Glad to see my friends haven’t completely settled down.

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Give this one a chance! Lovers of this musical, unite! The movie is a blast!

For me, Les Misérables, based on the Victor Hugo novel set in 19th century France has always been the epitome of big show musical done right. When I saw it on Broadway, I remember thinking something along the lines of “No way in hell anybody could ever put this on the big screen in respectable fashion. It’s too big, by and it’s too hard.”

Bob Grimm To mount a production worthy of the musibgrimm@ cal, you would need a big budget, and you newsreview.com would need big stars with box office allure that can sing like no other. I’m happy to report that director Tom Hooper found stars that can not only sing, but make you freaking cry when they sing. They are that good.

Hooper (The King’s Speech) gathered his glorious cast, and then he went and made things even more complicated. The actors and actresses

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in this muscular musical sing live on set. No comfy sound booths with fancy mineral waters, conveniently prerecording songs for lip-synching. What you see and hear in this movie is the product of live takes.

And it’s absolutely remarkable. Hugh Jackman in the central role of notorious bread thief Jean Valjean is more than Oscar worthy— his work here requires an Oscar. His physical presence is appropriately commanding, and his voice is miraculous. This is a role that could turn to schmaltz instantly in the wrong hands. Rest assured that what you’re seeing from Jackman here is one of musical cinema history’s greatest, most uncompromising performances.

Shockingly, his is not the best performance in the movie. That honor goes to one Anne

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Hathaway as Fantine, the betrayed factory worker turned prostitute desperately trying to care for daughter Cosette (played by the sweetly voiced Isabelle Allen as a child). Hathaway delivers “I Dreamed a Dream” in one devastatingly beautiful take that will drop many a jaw into many a lap.

No doubt, some will point to Russell Crowe’s Javert as the film’s weak link, and in some ways it is. Crowe’s voice doesn’t compare to the likes of Jackman and Hathaway, but I submit that his diminished vocals help make his Javert more pathetic.

Javert, the dogged lawman who destroys his life unrelentingly pursuing the fugitive Valjean, has long been a literary loser, and Crowe brings a marked sadness to him. The fact that his voice isn’t so grand just makes his Javert lonelier and bleaker. I was expecting something more booming for Javert, but this interpretation grew on me.

Admittedly, it took a second viewing for me to gain more appreciation for Crowe’s efforts.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter are appropriately disgusting as innkeepers Thenardier and Madame Thenardier.

Amanda Seyfried, after the failure of Mamma Mia!, gets to put her capable voice to a better test as the grown Cosette, while Eddie Redmayne (My Week with Marilyn) gives a breakthrough performance as her suitor, Marius.

The coveted role of Eponine, for which Taylor Swift was once rumored, has gone to Samantha Barks, who was featured in the acclaimed Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary. Hooper made the right choice here.

Her rendition of “A Little Fall of Rain” qualifies as the best I’ve heard, and I’ve heard a few.

Hooper does more than put a bunch of great actors and voices in play. His staging of the musical is superbly accomplished. When Daniel Huttlestone emerges from a huge elephant statue and delivers “Paris/Look Down” from the back of a moving horse carriage, it’s pure movie magic. The costuming, art direction and sets are all impeccable. The movie has a gigantic scale that looks as great as it sounds.

Les Misérables is so much more than a worthy adaptation of a long cherished musical.

It’s a masterful game changer when it comes to movie musicals. I could go on and on about how great it is. My words of praise can’t possibly do it justice. See it, and see why it puts many past movie musical to shame. Ω

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 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.

Hitchcock

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While this isn’t the Oscar bait its studio was hoping for, it’s still a good time at the movies. Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins in a fat suit) risks it all to make the slasher film Psycho as wife, Alma (Helen Mirren), struggles with their marriage and helps with the little things, like writing and co-directing with no screen credit. Director Sacha Gervasi throws some weird ideas into the mix, like Hitchcock having hallucinatory conversations with Ed Gein (Michael Wincott), the serial killer on which Norman Bates was based. Scarlett Johansson and James D’Arcy are well cast as Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, and there’s a great Ralph Macchio cameo to boot! The movie is just a little too goofy to be taken seriously, but it’s fun watching Hopkins navigate the role. As showy as he is, it’s the Mirren performance that winds up being the most memorable.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Oh damn, this one hurts to write. Damn! I waited and waited for Peter Jackson to return to Middle-earth. I so wanted to see this film that its previous lack of existence in my life has probably contributed to a myriad of social problems I just can’t explain right now. And after all that waiting, we get this, a nearly three-hour mess that lacks focus and anything resembling pizzazz. Jackson, as we all know by now, has stretched a relatively small book into what will be somewhere in the neighborhood of nine hours after three films and, so far, it’s a big mistake. Martin Freeman is fine as Bilbo Baggins, the little hobbit who decides to go on an adventure. In the book, that adventure is a quick, crisp, wonderful thing. In this movie, it’s a bunch of indistinguishable dwarves acting all goofy and stuffing their faces for half the running time, and then a bunch of battles that have no sense of meaning. Smaug the dragon doesn’t really factor yet—Jackson is leaving that for Part Two—and Bilbo gets lost in the shuffle. The movie achieves its only true great heights when Gollum (Andy Serkis) finally shows up for a game of riddles. Until then, the movie doesn’t catch fire, it meanders. And, brother, I’m heartbroken over it. I watched this in standard 3-D. I’ll try to see it in the much debated 48fps— twice the normal film speed and definition—and give an update on how this looks at a later date.

Life of Pi

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This is an amazing achievement in filmmaking. It’s one of the year’s best movies, and easily one of the best uses of the 3-D medium. Director Ang Lee is a creative force that cannot be deterred or stopped. Life of Pi is his most splendorous and enchanting film to date, and this is the guy who gave us Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Suraj Sharma plays Pi, a young man who winds up on a lifeboat with a tiger after a storm sinks a ship carrying his family and its zoo animals. Pi must learn to appease the tiger, the tiger must accept or eat him, and that’s the plot of the movie. The story is told in flashback with an older Pi (Irrfan Khan) being interviewed by a writer (Rafe Spall). This is a great screen adventure full of countless magical moments and a sure contender for Best Picture.

Reno Century Park Lane 16, 210 Plumb Lane: 824-3300 Century Riverside 12, 11 N. Sierra St.: 786-1743 Century Summit Sierra 13965 S. Virginia St.: 851-4347 www.centurytheaters.com

Lincoln

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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 Oscar hunt. He could actually win for this movie, a film that doesn’t live up to his magnificence.

Skyfall

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This officially stands as my all-time favorite Bond film. That’s coming from somebody who really hasn’t cared much for the Bond films. Daniel Craig had been my favorite Bond since Sean Connery and, with this fine entry, has actually become my favorite Bond. Sam Mendes directs this installment with a depth and level of excitement I haven’t detected before in the series—although Casino Royale came close— and Javier Bardem, as a former British agent gone bonkers, is a Bond villain for the ages.

Great action scenes, fun homages to the series and a nice supporting turn from Judi Dench as M make this a Bond to be reckoned with, and truly enjoyed. Also stars Ralph Fiennes and a decent song from Adele. I don’t know how many Bond films Craig has left in him, but I hope it’s a lot.

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This Is 40

Writer-director Judd Apatow spins off his own Knocked Up with the further family adventures of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann, Apatow’s real-life wife).

The two characters prove worthy of their own movie thanks to the appeal of Rudd and Mann, who make for a great screen couple.

Debbie is not interested in being 40 on her 40th birthday, and Pete wants to eat cupcakes without persecution while trying to get his independent music label up and running.

Apatow pits the two against each other, and great comedic arguing ensues. Rudd is always a pleasure to have around, while Mann continues to prove herself as one of Hollywood’s funniest actresses. The supporting cast includes Melissa McCarthy (who steals the movie in her few scenes, including a hilarious closing credit outtake), Jason Segel, Albert Brooks and John Lithgow. They are all in top form, as is Apatow.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

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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.

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Horizon Stadium Cinemas, Stateline: (775) 589-6000

Century Sparks 14, 1250 Victorian Ave.: 357-7400

Galaxy Fandango, 4000 S. Curry St.: 885-7469

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Goes a long way Six Mile Station The members of the band Six Mile Station describe the group as “prog folk,” but this isn’t wholly accurate. by Brad Bynum “Prog” implies that the musicians are trying to show off their technibradb@ cal skills, but these guys play in newsreview.com service of the songs. That’s not to say that they aren’t all technically proficient—or even better—players, just that the music isn’t needlessly complex. It’s authentic American folk music, not just some other genre masquerading as folk just because the musicians play acoustic instruments.

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Nate Carter, Alán Burton, Spike McGuire and Tyson Schroeder of Six Mile Station perform at The Alley.

Six Mile Station performs at Chapel Tavern, 1099 S. Virginia St., on Jan. 19 with Keyser Soze and Drinking with Clowns.

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An appealing thing about Six Mile Station is that like the Beatles or Sonic Youth or, uh, the Backstreet Boys, each member represents a different personality within the group.

Bassist Tyson Schroeder is the cool one. He exudes the aloof, detached hipness of a jazz musician.

He’s also a photographer, and, it should be said, actually a multiinstrumentalist: He doubles on train whistle.

Multi-instrumentalist Nate Carter is the brainy one. He wears glasses and a bowtie onstage, and seems like the best kind of poindexter, a classically trained musician who’s also going to med school—or, more precisely, as he puts it: “I’m in the mezzanine between graduating and going to med school.” He also has an electronic music solo project called N8-bit. In Six Mile Station, his primary instrument is violin, but he also plays mandolin, banjo, accordion and “who knows what else.”

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and quick-fingered chops, he has the air of mid-’70s rock star—like a member of Deep Purple or something. He’s also a member of the rock band Merkin.

And singer-songwriter-guitarist Spike McGuire is the jolly one. He’s a charming, easygoing everyman, singing big-hearted songs in a big voice—the type of guy everybody wants to have a beer with. He has the deep, warm voice of a radio DJ—he does weekend afternoons on Rock 104.5. He also hosts the monthly Loud as Folk songwriter showcase shows at The Alley—the next one is on Jan. 10—and he performs juggling shows. He has the relaxed stage presence of a veteran vaudeville performer. His stage banter is natural and funny: “This song is called ‘The Devil’—it’s autobiographical,” he says with perfect timing before one song.

The band formed last spring, and though the current lineup only been in place a month, the band members agree that this version is definitive.

The focus is on McGuire’s songs, which range from upbeat tunes like “Run Me Back Over” to ballads like “Gasoline.” The chorus of the latter tune is “If you’ve seen what I have seen/You’ll know exactly what I mean/I cover my past in gasoline/The embers glow, they smoke and crack/There is no way I’m turning back/I cover my past in gasoline.”

“It’s about being open-minded, living for the day and not being buried in the past,” says McGuire of the song.

His songwriting has the diversity—in terms of tempos, moods and arrangement—of someone who approaches songwriting from many different angles.

“I don’t have a real specific process for songwriting,” he says.

“Sometimes I just jam on some chords. Sometimes I start with the words.”

McGuire brings the songs to the other band members, who flesh them out. Schroeder adds low-end momentum to the upbeat tunes and lovely arco bass to the ballads. Carter adds technical virtuosity to his melodic fiddlin’ leads. And Burton’s guitar arpeggios fill in the lines with surprising colors. The overall effect is entertaining and eclectic, with multifaceted personality. Ω

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214 W.Row Commercial Row, 214 W. Commercial

3RD STREET

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

EDM Thursday, 10pm, no cover EDM Thursday, 10pm, no cover

No Remorse Records Holiday Party, 8:30pm, no cover

BAR-M-BAR

Friday Night Firespinning, 8pm, no cover

BIGGEST LITTLE CITY CLUB

Dec. 30-31, 9 p.m.

Great Basin Brewing Co. 846 Victorian Ave. Sparks 355-7711

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

THE BLACK TANGERINE

9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 853-5003

THE BRONX PIZZERIA

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

Comedy Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Dobie Maxwell, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; Adam Hunter, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Rondell Sheridan, Ron Morey, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Brian Dunkleman, Carlie & Doni, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Lamont Ferguson, Sa, 7pm, 9:30pm; $13, $16; NYE Comedy Celebration w/Lamont Ferguson, M, 8:30pm, $15, $20

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

Apothesary, Flesh Hammers, Pain Clinic, I Wish We Were Robots, 9pm, no cover

1) Formerly Known As, 9pm, no cover 2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover (21+)

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

Drawin’ Flies, 9:30pm, no cover

The Cutters, 9:30pm, no cover

FRESH KETCH

New World Jazz Project, 7pm, no cover

FUEGO

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

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

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

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711 Tre and Chango Hip Hop Experience,

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

JAVA JUNGLE

NYE party w/Neil O’Kane, 9pm, M, Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm, Tu, no cover

NYE Show w/Hollywood Trashed, 9:30pm, M, open mic, 9pm, W, no cover

Dead Winter Carpenters, Moondog Matinee, 9pm, $20-$40

NYE party w/Dead Winter Carpenters, Buster Blue, 9pm, M, $20-$40

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

NYE party, M, 9pm, Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

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

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

Kelly Ann Miller, 9pm, no cover

1) K-Ci & JoJo, Mr. Dalvin, Autumn & Caleb, 8pm, $30, $40 2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover (21+)

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

NYE Bash w/Sinister Scene, The Reagan Years, others, 8:30pm, M, $10 Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

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

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

NYE party, 9pm, no cover

The Bradfords, 7pm, no cover

COMMROW

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

1up Wednesday, 10pm, W, no cover 1up Wednesday, 10pm, W, no cover

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

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/31-1/2

Bike Night Blues Jam w/live music, 7pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

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

SUNDAY 12/30

’90s Night, 10pm, no cover ’90s Night, 10pm, no cover Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

THE ALLEY

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

SATURDAY 12/29

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

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891

Dead Winter Carpenters

FRIDAY 12/28 EDM Night, 10pm, no cover EDM Night, 10pm, 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

Live jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover NYE party, M, 9pm, $TBA

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THESE DON’T MIX Think you know your limits?

Think again.

If you drink, don’t drive.

PerIod.

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

THURSDAY 12/27

FRIDAY 12/28

SATURDAY 12/29

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Drinking with Clowns, Merkin, The Kanes, Big Bad, 8pm, $6 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Frank Hannon, Max Volume Band, Greg Golden Band, 8:30pm, $19.50-$51 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

MO & SLUGGO’S

MOODY’S BISTRO, BAR & BEATS

Andy Frasco and the U.N., 8:30pm, no cover

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/31-1/2 1) NYE 2013: Pandemonium, 9pm, M, $10-$200

Mark Castro Band, 8pm, no cover

110 W. Telegraph St., Carson City; (775) 885-1888 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

SUNDAY 12/30

Peter Apfelbaum and Josh Jones, 8:30pm, no cover

Peter Apfelbaum and Josh Jones, 8:30pm, no cover

Pete Charles and Ridin’ High, 8:30pm, no cover

NYE party w/George Souza, 8pm, M, $TBA Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

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

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

POLO LOUNGE

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

PONDEROSA SALOON

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

3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 106 S. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7210

NYE Bash w/Baker Street, 9pm, M, no cover

RED ROCK BAR

Comedy Night hosted By Patrick Shillito, 9:30pm, no cover

241 S. Sierra St., (775) 324-2468

RISE NIGHTCLUB

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

RUBEN’S CANTINA

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

210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

RYAN’S SALOON

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

Rise of the Brave New World Pre-NYE Party, 10pm, $10

Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover Open Mic Sundays, 8pm, no cover

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

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Survived 2012 Bash w/Mimic, 9:30pm, no cover

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

Karaoke with Steve Starr, 9pm, no cover Loud Talkers, 9pm, $TBA

Clementine’s Knight, 9pm, no cover

STUDIO ON 4TH

Jay Goldfarb, Frazzled, The Bradfords, Rex Stenzel, 7pm, no cover

Burlesque Bash with DanceFloorJunkie Dolls, 7pm, $10

VASSAR LOUNGE

3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

WILD RIVER GRILLE

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

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

NYE Party w/Lucas Young and the Wilderness, Murietta, 9pm, M, no cover NYE party w/Cheap Lick, 7pm, M, $5 Dark Tuesdays, 7pm, Tu, no cover

The Fixx Dec. 31, 10 p.m.

John Ascuaga’s Nugget 1100 Nugget Ave. Sparks 356-3300

Rock’N J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover

1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE

NYE Party w/Dropkikk, Wicked Hicks, 8pm M, $10, blues jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

Tazzer, 9:30pm, no cover

STREGA BAR

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

Cinema Tuesday, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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

SHEA’S TAVERN

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

Dec. 30, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

NYE party, 10pm, M, $TBA

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

Jackie Greene

Christopher Good, Megan Hope, 7pm, no cover

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

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THURSDAY 12/27 ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret

CARSON VALLEY INN

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

CIRCUS CIRCUS

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

Chromeo Jan. 1, 1 a.m.

Montbleu Resort 55 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 648-3353

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

Karaoke

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

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

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Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover Celtic Knot Pub, 541 E. Moana Lane, 829-8886: J.P and Super Fun Entertainment, Th, 8pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Red’s Golden Eagle Grill, 5800 Home Run Drive, Spanish Springs, (775) 626-6551: Karaoke w/Manny, F, 8pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover 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, 847-4467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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2) Escalade, 4pm, Kick, 8pm, no cover

2) Dale Poune, 7pm, no cover

2) After Dark, 8pm, no cover

2) After Dark, 8pm, no cover

2) After Dark, 7pm, no cover

2) After Dark, 7pm, M, no cover

Chili Sauce, 10pm, no cover

Chili Sauce, 10pm, no cover

Chili Sauce, 10pm, no cover

Chili Sauce, 10pm, no cover

Chili Sauce, 10pm, M, no cover

2) Swamp Zen, Derick Brooker, 9pm, no cover

2) Tumbleweed Wanders, 10pm, no cover

1) Jackie Greene Band, The Mother Hips, 1) Jackie Greene, 9pm, $25, $50 9pm, $30

1) NYE show w/Jackie Greene Band, 10pm, M, $45

2) Steele Breeze, 10pm, no cove 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) Steele Breeze, 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) Steele Breeze, 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) Steele Breeze, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 3pm, 7pm, M, Tu, W, $19.95$24.95 2) NYE party w/The Crashers, 9pm, M, $15, Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover

1) Red Hot Superstars, 9pm, $12-$25 4) Buck Ford Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Red Hot Superstars, 9pm, $12-$25 4) Buck Ford Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Red Hot Superstars, 9pm, $12-$25 4) Buck Ford Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Red Hot Superstars, 9pm, $12-$25 4) Rustlers’ Heat, 9pm, no cover

1) Red Hot Superstars, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $12-$25 2) NYE: Frozen in Time, 8pm, M, $TBA 4) Rustlers’ Heat, 9pm, M, no cover

1) Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, 7pm, $44

1) The Fab Four, 7:30pm, $38.50 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

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

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

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Audioboxx, 9pm, no cover

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 8pm, M, W, $25, $35 2) Audioboxx, 9pm, M, no cover

2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover 3) Scot Marshall, 6pm, no cover 5) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

1) Billy Gardell, 9pm, $39 2) Just Us, 8pm, no cover 3) Scot Marshall, 6pm, no cover 5) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

1) The Saddle Tramps, 9pm, $15 2) Just Us, 7pm, no cover 5) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

1) NYE show w/The Fixx, 10pm, M, $TBA 2) Just Us, 7pm, M, no cover 3) Nate Harasim & Darren Rahn, 6pm, M, no cover

1) SnowGlobe After Party w/MiMOSA, Paper Diamond, 11pm, $25 3) SnowGlobe After Party w/Minnesota, Baauer, RL Grime, 11pm, $20

1) SnowGlobe After Party w/Flosstradamus, Griz, UZ, 11pm, $25 3) SnowGlobe After Party w/Samples, Black Rock City All-Stars, 11pm, $10

1) SnowGlobe After Party w/MiMOSA, Paper Diamond, 11pm, $25 3) SnowGlobe After Party w/Minnesota, Baauer, RL Grime, 11pm, $20

1-5) NYE parties, 8pm, M, $55-$75 1) SnowGlobe After Party/NYE party: Chromeo live DJ set, 1am, Tu, $30

2) John Ponzo, 7pm, no cover 3) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover charge for women

2) Chocolate Martini, 9pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

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

2) Chocolate Martini, 9pm, no cover

3) EDGE Revel NYE Party w/DJ Risk One, 8pm, M, $55, $60 4) Capri Ballroom Bash w/Too Smooth, 9:30pm, M, $60

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

4) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

3) Dance party w/DJ Teddy P, 9pm, no cover 4) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

1) Gary Allan, 8pm, $49.50-$79.50 2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Sin Biggest Little Locals Night, 4pm, M, Step This Way, 8pm, W, no cover 6) Rockin’ the Dome NYE party, 10pm, M, $40

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

2) Just Us, 7pm, no cover 3) Scot Marshall, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ Larry Williams, 7pm, no cover

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

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407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Ballroom 5) Drinx Lounge 6) Mining Rig

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2) Escalade, 4pm, Kick, 10pm, no cover

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 8pm, $25, $35 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

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

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2) Escalade, 4pm, M, Tu, W, Kick, 10pm, M, Tu, no cover

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

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NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENTS EAST COAST TOAST AT HIGH CAMP: Ring in the new

NYE PARTY AT JOHN ASCUAGAS NUGGET: John

year with your family at High Camp. Ride the Aerial Tram to a buffet dinner and an East Coast toast at 9pm. Dinner starts at 6pm.

Reservations are required. The dinner ticket does not include the aerial tram ticket.

Discounted tram tickets will be available for $22 for adults and $11 for children age 12 and younger. Season passes and day tickets will work for the tram ride. M, 12/31, 6pm. $59 adults; $39 children age 12 and younger. Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

Ascuaga’s Nugget rings in the new year with free party favors, champagne toast and countdown to midnight on the casino floor. The Fixx will perform in the Celebrity Showroom starting at 10pm. Call for show ticket info. M, 12/31, 10pm. $TBA. John Ascuagas Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300, www.janugget.com.

NYE PARTY AT MOODYS: George Souza performs at Moody’s New Year’s Eve event. M, 12/31, 8pm. $TBA. Moodys Bistro Bar & Beats, 10007 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 587-8688, www.moodysbistro.com.

FROZEN IN TIME: Dress in costume from your favorite era for Grand Sierra Resort’s New Year’s Eve party. Prizes will be given away for the best dressed. The party takes place inside WET Ultra Lounge and Bar. The resort will also host a casino-wide countdown and special New Year’s dining menus. M, 12/31, 8pm. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, www.grandsierraresort.com.

NYE PARTY AT RED DOG SALOON: The party features NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH: The Alley closes 2012 with performances by Sinister Scene, The Reagan Years, Thursday Knights Out, and Weapons of Mass Creation. M, 12/31, 8:30pm. $10. The Alley, 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-8891, www.thealleysparks.com.

HEAVENLY HOLIDAYS: Celebrate the 13 days of Christmas at Heavenly Holidays, a two-week festival for the whole family at the Heavenly Village featuring professional ice skating shows, ice sculptors, carolers, local artists and a 16-foot snow globe where kids can get their photos taken with Santa Claus. The celebration culminates on Dec. 31 with A Heavenly New Year’s Celebration featuring ice sculptors, live music, fire dancers and a 9pm ball drop and fireworks show. M-Su through 12/31.

Heavenly Ski Resort, 3860 Saddle Road, South Lake Tahoe, (775) 586-7000, www.skiheavenly.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION: Bring in the new year at Squaw Valley with a family-friendly East Coast midnight toast at High Camp. For those age 21 and older, head to Olympic House for a rockin’ party to celebrate new beginnings and welcome 2013 in style. M, 12/31, 5pm. Prices vary. Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION: The evening features music, games, fireworks and the world’s only Gondola Ball Drop. Entertainment includes music from L.A. Allstars, ice sculpting performances, fire dancers, a photo booth and face painting. The party continues into the night at one of the many casino nightclubs. M, 12/31, 6-9pm. Heavenly Ski Resort, 3860 Saddle Road, South Lake Tahoe, (775) 586-7000, www.skiheavenly.com.

HOLIDAYS AT SQUAW: The Village at Squaw Valley USA celebrates the holidays with Santa on the slopes, Christmas Eve Torchlight Parade, New Year’s Eve Bash and fireworks, skiing and snowboarding with Chief Mountain host Jonny Moseley, caroling and more. M-Su through 1/1.

Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE FIRE & ICE CELEBRATION: Ring in the new year with Northstar’s annual celebration for all ages featuring a DJ, live music by Livin on a Prayer—A Bon Jovi Tribute, a fireworks show, s’mores, dining, ice skating and more. M, 12/31, noon-midnight. Free. The Village at Northstar, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (866) 466-6784, www.northstarattahoe.com/info/calendar/cal endarevent.new_years_party.item.asp.

MARDI GRAS NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: Lance Gillman of Mustang Ranch hosts this NYE party featuring a Cajun-style buffet, live music, dancing, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight. Proceeds benefit Virginia City schools. M, 12/31, 8pm. $40 per person; $60 per couple. Pipers Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433, www.lancegilmansnewyearseve.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS: Circus Circus Hotel & Casino Reno, Club Cal Neva, Eldorado Hotel Casino, Harrah’s Reno Hotel Casino, Silver Legacy Resort Casino and the city of Reno team up to light up the sky with a special New Year’s Eve Fireworks celebration. Hundreds of sparkling pyrotechnics will be shot off from four casino-resort rooftop levels and synchronized to music for a 15-minute display.

KRNV News 4 will carry a live local New Year’s Eve show from the roof of Circus Circus and from Virginia Street and will broadcast the fireworks display. M, 12/31, 11:59pm. Free.

Downtown Reno, Virginia St., (775) 325-7343.

MASTERWORKS CONCERT 4 (NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION): The Nevada Chamber Music Festival concludes with a program featuring works by Anton Arensky, David Popper, Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Giuseppe Tartini, George Gershwin and other composers. M, 12/31, 7pm. $5-$30. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

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presents its New Year’s Eve bash featuring Chuck La Vida, H-Mazz, Ultraviolet Riot, DJ Kronyak and DJ 530. M, 12/31, 9pm. $10-$200.

Knitting Factory Concert House, 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648, http://re.knittingfactory.com.

NYE AT RISE NIGHTCLUB: Ring in 2013 with champagne poured from the air by aerial performers. M, 12/31, 10pm. $TBA. Rise Nightclub, 210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833, http://risenightclubreno.com. party favors, free champagne and the balloon drop at midnight. Music by Baker Street starts at 9pm. M, 12/31, 9pm. Free. Ponderosa Saloon, 106 S. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7210.

NYE COMEDY CELEBRATION: Reno Tahoe Comedy presents its New Year’s Eve show featuring comedian Lamont Ferguson. M, 12/31, 8:30pm. $15 advance; $20 day of show. Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St. Pioneer Center plaza on Virginia and Mill streets, (775) 686-6600, www.renotahoecomedy.com.

NYE EVENTS AT THE ELDORADO: BuBinga Lounge will host a New Year’s Eve Midnight Masquerade featuring Roni Romance and DJ Dragon.

General admission is $35 in advance or guests can upgrade to a $100 all access pass that includes an open premium bar from 8pm to midnight and no waiting access to BuBinga, The Brew Brothers, Cin Cin and Roxy plus party favors, countdown and midnight toast.

The Brew Brothers New Year’s Eve features The Crashers playing today’s hits and DJ D.Rek rockin’ the beats well into 2013. The $15 cover includes entry to The Brew Brothers and Roxy’s Bar and Lounge and includes party favors plus a countdown and midnight shot.

Gil, Stam and Bobby play at Roxy’s Bar and Lounge starting at 4:30pm with DJ Freeze spinning into the wee hours of the morning. $15 cover gets everyone party favors and midnight toast plus entry into The Brew Brothers. M, 12/31. Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700, www.eldoradoreno.com.

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NYE PARTY AT SIDELINES: Dropkikk and the Wicked Hicks help ring in 2013. M, 12/31, 8pm. $10.

Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 355-1030, www.sidelinesbar.com.

NYE PARTY AT STREGA BAR: Celebrate the new year with Strega specials all night M, 12/31, 9pm. no

NYE PARTIES AT PEPPERMILL: The Peppermill offer

NYE BASH AT PONDEROSA SALOON: There will be

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music by Lady and the Tramps, party favors, snack bar and champagne toast at midnight.

M, 12/31, 8pm. $20. Red Dog Saloon, 76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474, http://reddogvc.com.

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several party options to ring in the new year.

Enjoy complimentary champagne from 8pm to 10 pm, a midnight champagne toast and balloon drop and music spun by DJ Risk One at EDGE nightspot. Tickets are $55 in advance, $60 at the door. Too Smooth will set the musical mood for an evening of dancing, mingling, cocktails and party favors at The Capri Ballroom Bash from 9:30pm-2:30am. Tickets are $60 per person and include three drink tickets, party favors and a champagne toast.

Chocolate Martini performs at the Terrace Lounge from 9pm–1am. Ring in the new year with a balloon drop and champagne toast in front of the Cabaret Lounge at midnight. Enjoy complimentary champagne and party favors on the casino floor. M, 12/31, 8pm. Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121, www.peppermillreno.com.

NYE PARTY AT STUDIO ON 4TH: This rockin’ tribute to Cheap Trick rings in the new year. M, 12/31, 7pm. $5. Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993, https://www.facebook.com/events/4529228447 63788.

NYE SHOW AT CRYSTAL BAY CLUB: Jackie Greene and his band bring in the new year with a show slated to start at 10pm and carry over into 2013 with confetti, party favors and a free champagne toast at midnight. M, 12/31, 10pm. $45. Crystal Bay Club, 14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333, www.crystalbaycasino.com.

NYE SHOW AT DAVIDSONS DISTILLERY: Music by Hollywood Trashed M, 12/31, 9:30pm. no cover.

Davidsons Distillery, 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917.

NYE PARTY AT CEOL IRISH PUB: The party includes party favors, champagne toast and music by Neil OKane. M, 12/31, 9pm. Free. Ceol Irish Pub, 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558, http://ceolirishpub.com.

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. The talks, which will be held on the last Thursday of each month, will be presented by local experts in the fields of federal and state resources management and specialists in their fields. Last Th of every month, 6pm through 8/31. $5 per person.

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

NYE PARTY AT GENOA BAR & SALOON: Music by Mark Castro Band. M, 12/31, 9pm. Call for info. Genoa Bar & Saloon, 2282 Main St., Genoa, (775) 782-3870.

NYE PARTY AT GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.: Dead Winter Carpenters and Buster Blue help ring in the new year. $20 for one night or $40 for Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 shows. M, 12/31, 9pm. $20-$40.

Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-7711, www.greatbasinbrewingco.com.

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For Thursday, December 27 to Wednesday, January 2 CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING: Keep Truckee

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

Meadows Beautiful holds its annual tree recycling program. Drop off trees at Bartley Ranch Regional Park and Rancho San Rafael Regional Park in Reno and Shadow Mountain Sports Complex in Sparks. Volunteers are needed to unload trees, keep traffic moving in the drop-off areas and collect donations. Trees must be free of decorations and not flocked. Recycled trees are chipped into mulch to be used year-round for weed abatement projects and to prevent soil erosion in park, river and open space projects. Mulch can also be picked up for free by residents. M-Su, 9am-4:30pm through 1/13.

Opens 12/26. Donations welcome. Call or visit website for details, (775) 851-5185, www.ktmb.org.

Listings are free, but not guaranteed.

The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., Jan. 10, is Thurs., Jan. 3. Listings are free, but not guaranteed.

Events CANDY CANE LANE: This custom outdoor

DOLLAR EXCHANGE AT NEVADA STATE MUSEUM:

drive-thru holiday 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. To experience this visual and musical salute to the festive holiday season, pull into the Carson Valley Inn parking lot at the RV Resort Entrance, between the Carson Valley Market and the Inns electronic sign. The lighted arches mark the way. The lightshow begins at dusk. M-Su through 12/31. Free. Carson Valley Inn, 1627 Highway 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711, www.carsonvalleyinn.com.

Reno Coin Club and The Nevada State Museum present a coin exchange and minting on Old Coin Press No. 1 The press will be running, and the new National Park quarters and Presidential dollars will be available at cost. There will be a display of ancient and obsolete U.S. coins. Free foreign coins for kids, as well as the Old Coin Press minting a new medal. F, 12/28, 10am-3pm. $8 adults; free for children age 17 and younger. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.

HEAVENLY HOLIDAYS: Celebrate the 13 days

two-week festival for the whole family at the Heavenly Village featuring professional ice skating shows, ice sculptors, carolers, local artists and a 16-foot snow globe where kids can get their photos taken with Santa Claus.

The celebration culminates on Dec. 31 with A Heavenly New Year’s Celebration featuring ice sculptors, live music, fire dancers and a 9pm ball drop and fireworks show. M-Su through 12/31.

Heavenly Ski Resort, 3860 Saddle Road, South Lake Tahoe, (775) 586-7000, www.skiheavenly.com.

HOLIDAYS AT SQUAW: The Village at Squaw Valley USA celebrates the holidays with the New Year’s Eve Bash and fireworks, skiing and snowboarding with Chief Mountain host Jonny Moseley and more. M-Su through 1/1. Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

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. The talks, which will be held on the last Thursday of each month, will be presented by local experts in the fields of federal and state resources management and specialists in their fields. Last Th of every month, 6pm. $5 per person.

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

RENO WINTER BACHATA FESTIVAL: William “BB” Flanders and Roberto Ramirez of the Latin DanceFest present the Reno Winter Bachata Festival. The festival features dance workshops during the day, evening dance showcases and evening dance parties all night long. The is open to dancers of all levels. W-Su through 1/6. Opens 1/2. $250. Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 813-1143, www.latindancefest.com.

ROBERT LEVIN LECTURE: Pianist Robert Levin presents his lecture-performances, “Composing Mozart” as part of the Nevada Chamber Music Festival. Th, 12/27, noon. $5-$20. South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 DeSpain Lane, (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

R.I.S.E. AND DINE: PEOPLE FEEDING PEOPLE: Each week Reno activists and volunteers shop, prepare and cook for local persons and families without a home.

On Saturdays at 5pm, volunteers meet outside of the Community Assistance Center and serve about 250 or more of Reno’s most poverty-stricken until 6pm. All assistance and donations are appreciated. Sa, 5-6pm through 12/29.

Free. Community Assistance Center, 335 Record St., (775) 322-7143, www.renoinitiative.org.

Art ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: I’m Dreaming of a Reno Christmas. The Christmas show and sale features a variety of ornaments, paintings, gourds, glass, jewelry, photography, holiday cards, hats, scarves and more.

Through 12/27, 11am-4pm. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistscoopgalleryreno.com.

All ages BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIMES: Staff members and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 8268882.

BUSINESS RESOURCE INNOVATION CENTER (THE BRIC): BRIC Art 3. Capital City Arts

HOLIDAY ART CAMP FOR KIDS: One hour of art, theater and crafts. Camp is held Wednesday through Friday, Jan. 2-4 at the Lake Mansion. Register online. W, 1/2, 1-4pm. $57 for three half days. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

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.

Blanco’s paintings continue the centuries-long Spanish tradition of monumental portrait painting with a few contemporary substitutions: Alma in the Nevada landscape and Ramiro in front of classical architecture at the University of Nevada Reno. M-F through 1/18. Carson City Courthouse, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

of Christmas at Heavenly Holidays, a

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Basement Eyes.

Party all weekend and into the next year at the SnowGlobe Music Festival, which returns to Lake Tahoe on Dec. 29.

The three-day festival features a variety of musical acts in the genres of electronica, hip hop and rock on three stages. Wiz Khalifa headlines the main stage on Dec. 29, followed by deadmau5 (pictured) on Dec. 30 and Chromeo on Dec. 31. In addition to musical acts, there will be entertainment by the Quixotic Dance Troupe, which includes fire dancers, parachute dancers, stilt walkers and aerialists, The Big Air Demonstration featuring dozens of local professional skiers and snowboarders, and The Silent Disco, where fans wear wireless headphones and dance to DJ spun music in a woodland setting. The festival will take place at Lake Tahoe Community College, One Lake Drive, South Lake Tahoe.

Single-day tickets are $75-$85. The fun continues into the night with the official after parties at Montbleu Resort, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, Dec. 29-31. Visit www.snowglobemusicfestival.com.

The exhibit features wok by Jaron Coxson, Denali Lowder, Aubrey Banks and Joshua Dean Hageman. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/4; These Truths. The Holland Project Gallery hallway will feature books by local artist Megan Matthers.

Comprised into three hand bound books, These Truths showcases a collection of both images and selected writings from the artists journals documented over the past two years.

Working in analog and Polaroid photography, Matthers’ work expresses a tender and poignant perspective of Nevada and the longing of exploration.

Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/4. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

LIBERTY FINE ART: Advent. Painting, photography and jewelry. M-Su through 12/30.

100 W. Liberty St., (775) 232-8079.

NEVER ENDER: Holiday Cash & Carry. Seven local artists using various mediums will show and sell their art. M-Su through 12/28. 119 Thoma St., (775) 348-9440, http://myneverender.com.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Holly Arts, a

—Kelley Lang

Winter Celebration. North Tahoe Arts presents its holiday exhibit featuring original winter-themed art, cards, decorated trees, hand-crafted wreaths, felted goods, leather goods, woodcarved and glass ornaments, as well as jewelry, organic botanical potions and homemade soaps and creams. All proceeds benefit North Tahoe Arts. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 12/31. Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

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The visual narrative panels of Nevada Codices are chronicles of the evolution of a visual language. Interpreting the style, format and seriousness of pre-Columbian book-style codices, Nevada Codices are panels printed on high quality Hahnamuhle watercolor paper, 44” x 60” or larger. M-F through 1/3. Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: The Book of the Lagoons: Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, See the massive and very rare The Book of the Lagoons by artists Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison on view in the CA+E

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Research Library, 11am-2pm, WednesdaySunday. W-Su through 1/6.The Way We Live: American Indian Art of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada, This exhibition surveys contemporary art made by American Indians in the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada region. The purpose of the project is to encourage the creation of new artworks in a range of media. W-Su through 3/3; Bovey Lee: Undercurrents, W-Su through 1/2; Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, The contemporary artist was commissioned to create a large-scale, sitespecific artwork to hang in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall and Atrium.

Hashimoto’s sculptures—fabricated from thousands of small “kites”—are made from bamboo-stiffened rice papers not unlike those used for centuries to make traditional Japanese kites. The three-dimensional cascading form is suspended by nylon mono-filament and responds specifically to the museum’s unique architecture and

His back to the wallet My girlfriend of a year is enormously wealthy and very generous. Despite my protestations, she loves buying me nice clothes and other gifts, and appears to expect little or nothing in return except my love. I have a professional job but much more modest means. There’s no way I can return her generosity in any material sense. How might I be able to give a visible and meaningful sign of my commitment to her? She wears rings on both hands with huge diamonds, and anything I might be able to afford would seem trivial by comparison.

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changing light. W-Su through 1/1; Jorinde Voigt: Systematic Notations, Nevada Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition of drawings by German artist Jorinde Voigt, recent winner of the prestigious Guerlain Drawing Prize in 2012. This will be her first solo exhibition at an art museum in the United States. W-Su through 1/6; The Light Circus: Art of Nevada Neon Signs, After many hours of restoration and conservation, about 20 vintage neon signs from the collection of Will Durham will be on view. Among the most recognizable are those from the Nevada Club, the Mapes Hotel, Harold’s Club, Parkers Western Wear, the Downtowner Motel and the Windsor Hotel. Some of the signs will be accompanied by historical artifacts and ephemera from the business establishment that once owned the sign. WSu through 2/10; Juvenile-In-Justice: Photographs by Richard Ross, Ross’ series of 50 photographs documents and examines the placement and treatment of American

It’s a losing battle, giving jewelry to a woman who prompts thoughts like, “Is that a diamond on your finger or have they discovered a new planet and given it to you to wear?”

You’re actually lucky you can’t take the spendy way out. It makes it too easy to drag a duffel bag of cash to the obvious places: the jewelry store, the cashmere store, the handbags-that-cost-more-thansome-compact-cars store.These items aren’t exactly horrible gifts, but a better choice is “the gift that keeps on giving,” which, I know, sounds like something you get from drinking the water in Mexico. It actually describes a feeling you give another person—the feeling that she’s loved—through showing her that it means a lot to you to make her happy, and not just on Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and days you’re trying to say you’re sorry for doing something you shouldn’t have.

By truly listening when a woman talks and then using the intel you get to make her life happier, easier and more fun, you tell her a very loving thing: “I’m paying attention to who you are.”

You can say this by going out of your way to pick her up a latte or her favorite snack; by making a $50 book with your photos and captions about all the things you love about her (Shutterfly.com, Apple.com); by sending sweet, funny, 30-second videos you shoot of yourself on your phone; and by fixing things she didn’t realize were unwieldy, uncomfortable or broken until you made them better. In other words, any guy with a spare $100,000 lying around can buy a woman a ginormous diamond.

It takes a really special guy to give her a bag of pinecones—assuming he’s trying to remind her of happy times she spent at her family’s cabin as a kid, and not just getting rid of tree litter he cleaned out of the bed of his pickup.

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Virginia St., (775) 348-7225, www.nevadawolfpack.com.

Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

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Pilates class to get the body moving with concentration, control, centering. All levels welcome. M, W F, 12:15-1pm through 12/30. $16 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

tal principles and therapeutic application of a healthy yoga practice. Classes are designed to give you the time and support to understand the proper alignment of yoga postures (asana) and breathing techniques.

M, 5:30-6:30pm through 12/30. $16 drop-in fee.

Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

FAMILY AFTERNOON SNOWSHOE TOUR: Introduce your little ones to the great outdoors in a fun, friendly atmosphere. Su, 12/30, 1-4pm;

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Su, 1/20, 1-4pm; Su, 2/17, 1-4pm; Su, 3/31, 14pm. $40 per adult; $20 per child; $15

RLT SOLICITS DIRECTOR PROPOSALS FOR 2013: Reno Little Theater requests directors and play proposals for RLT’s 2013-14 season, both main-stage and fringe shows of any genre, preferably ones which have not been performed in Reno recently or at all.

Submission deadline is Jan. 11. M-Su through 1/11. Free. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 348-7091, www.renolittletheater.org.

rentals. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (866) 466-6784, www.northstarattahoe.com.

MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE TOUR: Bask in the moonlight while enjoying the mountain setting all while getting some exercise. F, 12/28, 5-

7:30pm; Sa, 1/26, 5-7:30pm; Sa, 2/23, 5-7:30pm.

$45 per adult; $30 per child; $15 rentals.

Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive,Truckee, (866) 466-6784, www.northstarattahoe.com.

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PILATES FUNDAMENTALS: This mat class focuses SOLAR MAX: This full-dome digital feature film

juveniles housed by law in facilities in the United States. By photographing the children from behind or by obscuring their faces, the children’s identities are always kept anonymous. W-Su through 1/13; Hoor Al Qasimi: Off Road, Al Qasimi’s landscape photographs speak of physical displacement, of removing oneself from one’s customary environment, of seeking insight by looking beyond the obvious well-worn path and gazing to the territory that lies beyond. WSu through 1/27; Rebeca Méndez: At Any Given Moment, Méndez’s video installation investigates the nature of matter through a focus on cycles and systems, specifically the forces and cross-rhythmic tensions that make natural phenomena emerge. W-Su through 1/20; Ciel Bergman: Sea of Clouds What Can I Do, While teaching art at the University of California, Santa Barbara during the 1980s, artist Ciel Bergman discovered increasing amounts of plastic trash washing up on the local beaches. She began to pick up the detritus with her friend Nancy Merrill. Together they created an installation titled Sea of Clouds What Can I Do that was exhibited in 1987 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum. W-Su through 2/10. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

by John Weiley, back by popular demand, explores the vastness and power of our closest star using footage of the Earth’s sun captured from international sites, including the European Space Agency/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). F, Sa, 7pm through 1/5; M-Su, 1, 3 & 5pm through 1/6. $7 adults, $5 children ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

Music AFICIONADOS CONCERT: The Nevada Chamber Music Festival continues with a program featuring Bohuslav Martinu’s Piano Quintet No. 2, Witold Lutoslawski’s Partita and Ernst Bloch’s Piano Quintet No. 1. M, 12/31, 11am. $5-$20. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

Music Festival continues with a program featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F major, Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata and Johannes Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108. Sa, 12/29, 2pm. $5-$20.

South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 DeSpain Lane, (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

IMPACT EARTH AND UNIVERSE: Learn from recent NASA explorations how asteroid hunters seek new objects in the solar system, how ground-penetrating radar finds meteorites embedded in the Earth, and how these sky fliers can pose potential dangers to life on Earth in this full-dome digital show by Houston Museum of Natural Science. M-F, 2

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60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 7844812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

MASTERWORKS CONCERT 1: The Nevada Chamber Music Festival continues with a program featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34, Antonín Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23, Robert Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110 and Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15. F, 12/28, 7pm. $5-$30.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

PERFECT LITTLE PLANET: This full-dome digital show by Clark Planetarium Productions takes viewers over Pluto, through the rings of Saturn, across the storms of Jupiter and other destinations. Sa, Su, 11am through 1/6. $7 adults; $5 kids ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 7844812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

Music Festival continues with a program featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 87, Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 45, Ernst Chausson’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3 and Johannes Brahms’ String Quintet in G major, Op. 111.

Sa, 12/29, 7pm. $5-$30. South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 DeSpain Lane, (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

dome music and light show by Starlight Productions presents the legendary rock music masterpiece in immersive HD animation and surround-sound. F, Sa, 8pm through 1/5. $7 adults; $5 kids age 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 7844812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.SEASON OF LIGHT: A full-dome digital star show by Loch Ness Productions. Narrated by National Public Radio’s Noah Adams, Season of Light celebrates many of the world’s holiday customs and explores how diverse cultures light up the season. M-Su, 6pm through 1/6. $7 adults; $5 children ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 7844812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

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PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon. Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

SNOWGLOBE MUSIC FESTIVAL: The music festival features performances by deadmau5, Wiz Khalifa, Chromeo, Beats Antique, Big Gigantic, Laidback Luke and MiMOSA, among others. More than a dozen local professional skiers and snowboarders will entertain the crowd between main stage sets. M, Sa, Su through 12/31. Opens 12/29. $75-$199. Lake Tahoe Community College, One College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4660, www.snowglobemusicfestival.com.

SONATAS CONCERT: The Nevada Chamber Music Festival continues with a program featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5/1, Alexander Tcherepnin’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 49, Robert Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75. Su, 12/30, noon. $5-$20.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

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presents a series of English language learning sessions ideal for non-native English speakers who want to improve their speaking skills. The group will practice speaking English around various scenarios that involve everyday activities. W, 4:30-6pm.

Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 829-7323.

PRANA FLOW YOGA: Morning yoga that stretches

JIMMY BEANS WOOL OPEN KNIT NIGHT: Join local

and strengthens the body from the inside out. This class will start your blood flowing and help you body remain toned and flexible.

M, W, 8:30-9:45am through 12/30. $16 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

and visiting fiber enthusiasts for an evening of knitting and crocheting. Door prizes awarded. Fourth Th of every month, 6-8pm. $5. Jimmy Beans Wool, 5000 Smithridge Drive, Ste. A-11, (775) 827-9276, www.jimmybeanswool.com.

RENO PORTRAIT SOCIETY: There will be a live

RINK ON THE RIVER: Operation of the ice skating

model for artists to paint or draw in the medium of their choice. No formal instruction, but participants can learn from experienced artists. The event is open to all ages and abilities. W, 9am-12:30pm. $10.

Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128, www.nvfinearts.com.

rink is dependent on weather and ice conditions. Call the Rink on the River Hotline prior to visiting the rink to ensure that it is open and operating. Holiday hours may vary. M-Su through 2/3. $7.50 ages 13-54; $5.50 kids ages 3-12, seniors age 55+. Reno City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., (775) 334-6268, www.reno.gov.

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favorite grooves from the ’70s and ’80s while you skate round the 9,000 square-foot rink.

Tu, 6-9pm through 3/19. Opens 12/25. Free admission; $15 for skate rentals. The Village at Northstar, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (866) 466-6784, www.northstarattahoe.com.

BOARD AND CARD GAMES: Bring one of your own games or choose one from Comic Kingdom’s game library. Sa, 12-6pm through 12/30. Free.

Comic Kingdom, 595 E. Moana Lane, (775) 827-2928, www.facebook.com/renocomickingdom.

WOLF PACK MEN’S BASKETBALL: The University of Nevada, Reno plays Yale University. F, 12/28, 7pm. $10-$44. Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N.

30/30 (CARDIO MAT/STRETCHING): Thirty minutes of Cardio Mat Pilates and 30 minutes of intensive stretching. Intermediate-level strength, stamina and flexibility are required for this class which emphasizes the principle of fluidity. Call to reserve your spot. M through 12/31. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

ADVANCED MAT PILATES: This class focuses on intermediate and advanced Pilates mat exercises. Must have very good knowledge of Pilates. Call to reserve your spot. F, 99:50am through 12/28. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

DAWN PATROL: Dawn Patrol is a unique early

Music Festival continues with a program featuring Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 14, Bedrich Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44. Su, 12/30, 3pm. $5-$30.

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on three Pilates principles for the seven exercises in the modified basic and basic mat routines. Recommended for students with no previous classic Pilates experience.

Call to reserve your spot. Th, 5:15-6:05pm through 12/26. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

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MASTERWORKS CONCERT 2: The Nevada Chamber

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Music Festival continues with a program featuring Richard Wagner (arr. Franz Liszt)’s Overture to Tannhäuser, Maurice Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole, Leos Janacek’s In the Mists and César Franck’s Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue. M, 12/31, 2pm. $5-$20.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

Festival continues with a program featuring Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005 and Suite No. 6 in D major for Solo Cello, BWV 1012. Sa, 12/29, noon. $5$20. South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 DeSpain Lane, (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

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morning mountain experience that includes exclusive access to untouched corduroy or fresh powder depending on the weather.

Dawn Patrollers arrive before the general public and take the Tram to High Camp before anyone else. W-F, 7:40am through 12/28.

Opens 12/26; Sa, Su, 7:40am through 3/24.

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CONVERSATION CORNER Washoe County Library presents a series of English language learning sessions. W, 4:30-6PM, free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. (775) 352-3200 FOUR SEASONS BOOK CLUB The book club meets the first Saturday of each month. Call to find out each month’s book title. 1-2PM, free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. (775) 352-3200 CONVERSATION CAFE The drop-in conversation program meets on the first Saturday of each month. 2-4PM, free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. (775) 352-3200 BEADS AND BOOKS Learn basic beading techniques with volunteer beading expert, Jamie, and work on projects with other beaders. First Su of every month, 1-3PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800 CLICKETS KNITTING GROUP Jean Peters guides this class for knitters of all ages and levels. Yarn and needles are available. First and Third Su of every month, 1:30-3PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800 CROCHET CONNECTION Learn to crochet or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Second and Fourth Th of every month, 4-5:45PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800 BEADS AND BOOKS! Learn basic beading techniques with volunteer beading expert, Jamie, and work on projects with other beaders. First Su of every month, 1-3PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800 DEEP FREEZE SOFTBALL LEAGUE Teams can register through 12/29 at the Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd. The 8-week season will take place on Wed. evenings, 1/9 -2/27 at the Golden Eagle Regional Park sports complex. Individual shirts will be awarded to 1st place in each division, along with the coveted Ice Cube Trophy. $400 per team. Players must be 18 or older. (775) 353-2385 or email sportsinfo@cityofsparks.us.

KTMB CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful hosts the 22nd annual Christmas Tree Recycling program on Mon, 12/26-Sun, 1/14, 9AM-4:30PM daily. Recycling your tree will reduce space in the landfill, provide mulch for your area parks and keep our community clean! Please bring clean trees (no tinsel, lights or stands) to Shadow Mountain Sports

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ADULT CO-ED WINTER VOLLEYBALL Seven-week leagues available for adults who enjoy a fun, low-key recreational game of indoor volleyball. This is a coed non-spiking league. A tournament will be played at the end of the session. Open to adults 18 and older. $95/team. Saturdays, 1/53/2, 4-6PM. Alf Sorensen Community Center. (775) 353-2385 or e-mail sportsinfo@ cityofsparks.us DOG OBEDIENCE TRAINING Curb your dog’s bad habits and establish good conduct through a 6-week obedience class taught by professional dog trainer Guy Yeaman. Learn how to teach your dog to sit, stand, stay, heel and master other commands. Mondays from 7-8PM, next session starts 1/7. $98($82 for Sparks residents).Current shot records (rabies, parvo, distemper), training collar, and fabric or leather leash required. Parks & Rec Gym, 98 Richards Way. Preregister online at www.sparksrec.com or (775) 353-2376.

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TAZZER Sa, 12/29, 9:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030 LIN PHILLIPS ANNUAL JAM SESSION The Lin Phillips Jam Session will have all genres of music ranging from jazz to rock ‘n’ roll. Local musicians will be playing. Su, 1/6, 4-10PM, $25. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 AN EVENING WITH TOMMY EMMANUEL Artown presents a performance by the classical guitarist as part of its Encore series. Th, 1/24, 8PM, $27. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 DJ LARRY WILLIAMS DJ Larry Williams at Trader Dick’s. No cover. F, 10PM, Sa, 10PM. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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

SCOT MARSHALL Th, 12/27, 5:30PM , F, 12/28, 6PM and Sa, 12/29, 6PM , no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

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JUST US M, Th, Su, 7PM through 12/31. Opens 12/27, F, 12/28, 8PM and Sa, 12/29, 8PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 PAUL COVARELLI F, 12/28, 6PM, Sa, 12/29, 6PM and Su, 12/30, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave.(775) 356-3300 MUSIC AT THE MARINA Show off your singing talents for a chance to win a prize every Friday night. F, Sa, 9PM through 12/7, free. Anchors Bar & Grill, 325 Harbour Cove Dr. (775) 356-6888 SURVIVED 2012 BASH With Mimic F, 12/28, 9:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd.

(775) 355-1030 BILLY GARDELL Sa, 12/29, 9PM, $39. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

SHEEP DIP 49 This annual fundraiser show is dedicated to exposing the follies and foibles of the Truckee Meadows in an evening of skits, songs and dance. F, 1/18, 8PM and Sa, 1/19, 8PM, $35. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 BREW HAHA Sierra Arts Foundation presents its 18th annual fundraiser featuring beers from 35 breweries, raffle and live music by Diego’s Umbrella to keep the party hopping. F, 1/25, 8PM, $50 general; $65 VIP. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 KARAOKE ASPEN GLEN BAR Every Sat night. Hosted by Mike Millard of Cycorockstar Entertainment. Sa, 9PM-2AM through 9/14. Aspen Glen Bar, 5215 Vista Blvd. 89436 / (775) 354-2400 SPIRO’S F, 9PM, no cover. 1475 E. Prater Way (775) 356-6000 THE ROPER DANCEHALL & SALOON Country music dance lessons and karaoke, Th, 7:30PM, no cover. 670 Greenbrae Dr. (775) 742-0861 OPEN MIC GREAT BASIN BREWING Open mic comedy. Th, 9PM, no cover, 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

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BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the sci-fi film

trilogy The Matrix, the heroes are able to instantaneously acquire certain complex skills via software that’s downloaded directly into their brains. In this way, the female hacker named Trinity masters the art of piloting a military M-109 helicopter in just a few minutes. If you could choose a few downloads like that, Aries, what would they be?

This isn’t just a rhetorical question meant for your amusement. In 2013, I expect that your educational capacity will be exceptional. While you may not be able to add new skills as easily as Trinity, you’ll be pretty fast and efficient. So what do you want to learn? Choose wisely.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you famil-

iar with the fable of the goose that laid golden eggs? The farmer who owned it became impatient because it laid only one gold egg per day.

So he killed it, thinking he would thereby get the big chunk of gold that must be inside its body. Alas, his theory was mistaken. There was no chunk. From then on, of course, he no longer got his modest daily treasure. I nominate this fable to be one of your top teaching stories of 2013. As long as you’re content with a slow, steady rate of enrichment, you’ll be successful. Pushing extra hard to expedite the flow might lead to problems.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are some

of the experiences I hope to help you harvest in the coming year: growing pains that are interesting and invigorating rather than stressful; future shock that feels like a fun joyride rather than a bumpy rumble; two totally new and original ways to get excited; a good reason to have faith in a dream that has previously been improbable; a fresh supply of Innocent Crazy-Wise Love Truth; and access to all the borogoves, mome raths and slithy toves you could ever want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In her gallery

show Actuality, Reminiscence, and Fabrication, artist Deborah Sullivan includes a piece called “Penance 1962.” It consists of a series of handwritten statements that repeats a central theme: “I must not look at boys during prayer.” I’m assuming it’s based on her memory of being in church or Catholic school when she was a teenager. You probably have an analogous rule lodged somewhere in the depths of your unconscious mind—an outmoded prohibition or taboo that may still be subtly corroding your life energy. The coming year will be an excellent time to banish that ancient nonsense for good. If you were Deborah Sullivan, I’d advise you to fill a whole notebook page with the corrected assertion: “It’s OK to look at boys during prayer.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For years, the grave-

stone of Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde was covered with kiss-shaped lipstick marks that were left by his admirers. Unfortunately, Wilde’s descendants decided to scour away all those blessings and erect a glass wall around the tomb to prevent further displays of affection. In my astrological opinion, Leo, you should favor the former style of behavior over the latter in 2013. In other words, don’t focus on keeping things neat and clean and well-ordered. On the contrary: Be extravagant and uninhibited in expressing your love for the influences that inspire you—even at the risk of being a bit unruly or messy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): After Libran poet

Wallace Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1955, Harvard University offered him a job as a full professor. But he turned it down. He couldn’t bear leaving his day job as the vice president of an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. I suspect that in the first half of 2013, you will come to a fork in the road that may feel something like Stevens’ quandary. Should you stick with what you know or else head off in the direction of more intense and unpredictable stimulation? I’m not here to tell you which is the better choice; I simply want to make sure you clearly identify the nature of the decision.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2013, I will

try to help you retool, reinvent and reinvigorate yourself in every way that’s important to you. I will encourage you to reawaken one of your sleeping aptitudes, recapture a lost treasure and reanimate a dream you’ve neglected. If you’re smart, Scorpio, you will reallocate resources that got misdirected or wasted. And I hope you will reapply for a privilege or position you were previously denied, because I bet you’ll win it this time around.

Here are your words of power for the year ahead: resurrection and redemption.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Based on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, a team of physicists in France and Switzerland announced last July that they had tentatively discovered the Higgs boson, which is colloquially known as the “God particle.” What’s all the fuss? In her San Francisco Chronicle column, Leah Garchik quoted an expert who sought to explain: “The Higgs boson is the WD40 and duct tape of the universe, all rolled into one.” Is there a metaphorical equivalent of such a glorious and fundamental thing in your life, Sagittarius? If not, I predict you will find it in 2013. If there already is, I expect you will locate and start using its 2.0 version.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2013, I

pledge to help you bring only the highestquality influences and self-responsible people into your life. Together we will work to dispel any unconscious attraction you might have to demoralizing chaos or pathological melodrama. We will furthermore strive to ensure that as you deepen and fine-tune your selfdiscipline, it will not be motivated by self-denial or obsessive control-freak tendencies. Rather, it will be an act of love that you engage in so as to intensify your ability to express yourself freely and beautifully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Genius is

the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience,” said French painter Paul Cézanne. What do you think he meant by that? Here’s one interpretation: Many of us replay the same old emotions over and over again—even in response to experiences that are nothing like the past events when we felt those exact feelings. So a genius might be someone who generates a fresh emotion for each new adventure. Here’s another possible interpretation of Cézanne’s remark: It can be hard to get excited about continually repeating the basic tasks of our regular routines day after day. But a genius might be someone who is good at doing just that. I think that by both of these definitions, 2013 could be a genius year for you Aquarians.

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conspire with you to raise your levels of righteous success. If you’re a struggling songwriter, I’ll be pushing for you to get your music out to more people—without sacrificing your artistic integrity. If you’re a kindergarten teacher, I’ll prompt you to finetune and deepen the benevolent influence you have on your students. If you’re a business owner, I’ll urge you to ensure that the product or service you offer is a well-honed gift to those who use it. As I trust you can see, Virgo, I’m implying that impeccable ethics will be crucial to your ascent in the coming year.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Home is not

just the building where you live. It’s more than the community that gives you support and the patch of earth that comforts you with its familiarity. Home is any place where you’re free to be your authentic self; it’s any power spot where you can think your own thoughts and see with your own eyes. I hope and trust that in 2013 you will put yourself in position to experience this state of mind as often as possible. Do you have any ideas about how to do that? Brainstorm about it on a regular basis for the next six months.

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

Small banker Stan Wilmoth is president of Heritage Bank of Nevada, a six-branch bank that operates in western Nevada.

You’re a small banker in the sense that you are president of a small bank. Rather than running away from it, you actually use the bank’s size in promotions and advertising. Who came up with that idea?

bank again because you’re handcuffed because they want to centralize the decision-making process, and it prohibits local guys from making decisions.

I think in our marketing plans during the initial phase of the bank was to be that problem solver for small businesses in our market. That was the one advantage we had as a community bank, was that we could react.

We knew the market, and we were problem solvers. We had decision makers on the ground that could help change peoples’ lives. We knew that, if you talk to customers of large banks, their number one complaint was when they had a problem they couldn’t get ahold of a decision maker. So we decided that, if the majority of their complaints was that, we’d got after that market.

At this time of the year the most visible banker is usually Henry S. Potter. How do you feel about having him as a representative?

[Laughs.] Well, George Bailey really had the right idea. He took local deposits from his friends and neighbors, he gave them a decent return on their deposits and loaned it out to his friends and neighbors that needed the money to build homes and improve their lives. And even in a point of crisis they were able to rally the town around them to support [measures against] what could have been a catastrophe.

It’s hard to imagine the same technique working for big banks.

How do you say, “We’re big”—and have it sound well?

I don’t know how they do that. And frankly, I wouldn’t go back to working for a large

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The size of our bank will be predicated on loan demand because we have plenty of liquidity. … We’re looking for qualified borrowers and the size of the bank will be predicated upon how many qualified borrowers we can find in the near term. And we’re looking for those guys. That’s a fallacy that banks are frozen up and aren’t making loans. That’s just wrong. We’re trying to make loans as quickly as we can. We have way too much money, and we’d like to loan it out. So I think the branching in Gardnerville, Carson City, Reno is probably where we need to be. We might have a couple of infill projects to do, like maybe look into that eastern Nevada potential.

Is there a point in growth where you lose the cachet of being a small bank?

I think if you hire qualified individuals you can empower, and you control it that way, and it allows them to make decisions, then you can expand exponentially using those empowered employees. But you need to build those chains and we’ve done that— slowly, methodically got people that thought like us, and we’ve empowered them to make decisions at each one of our branches. So we feel like, if you go back to the original premise of the bank, that the major complaint at the big banks was they couldn’t find somebody who could make a decision because they centralized that power, we don’t want to do that. We want to continue to empower those employees to make decisions no matter where we go. Ω

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desperate need of some good PR. Did they not see that in the last election cycle, they didn’t generate much of this crucially important element?

Crucially important, that is, if you’re interested in remaining somewhat relevant as a political party of occasional influence. I mean, they came out as anti-women, anti-Hispanic, anti-environment, anti-health care, anti-social security, anti-gay, anti-medicare, antimiddle class, anti-pasto and anti-climax. And they lost because Frankenstorm Sandy messed it all up?

There are two images that accurately depict where this current batch of Republicans in the House is “at.” The first is that of Mr. Charles Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons, the grinch who owns the Springfield Nuke Plant. If we pose Monty as the typical billionaire, then it becomes easy to see his lackey Smithers as a perfect symbol for House Repubs, which is to say, as a groveling toady who will vote as his master desires. And his master doesn’t want his taxes going up.

Yoo hoo? House Republicans? Hey, do you folks think you could do something—anything—that could be construed as likable, even (gasp!) popular just once this year? Just once. That’s all. Too much to ask? Thought so.

With Boehner pulling a super boner with Plan B (yes, that’s one low hanging fruit of a gag, but I’m not too proud to pluck it) and all this self-imposed Cliffocalypse looming, I’m forced to finally admit that, well, it would appear that we are in the clutches of a House of Representatives that’s completely sub-par, below average and inferior. As in—it’s just not a very good House. And considering that the approval rating of Congress is rapidly approaching a negative number, that’s not exactly a daring call to make.

In the dictionary of modern slang, to “house” someone is to defeat him impressively. We, the American people, appear to be getting “housed” by the House, which is curiously synonymous with getting “hosed.” I guess nobody told the Republicans that they are in

Where do you go from where you are?

The other image comes from the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. If you’ve seen it, you’ll recall the scene where the pharmacologically reformed “droog,” Alex (played by Malcolm McDowell), is put on stage in a room full of politicians and forced to lick the sole of the shoe of a thug who’s just beaten him to the floor. Alex, in order to prevent a newly drug-installed catastrophic nausea from overwhelming him, sticks his tongue out, and, as ordered, slathers it liberally and grotesquely on the bottom of the thug’s wingtip.

House Republicans—Alex.

Mitt Koch Adelson—shoe-wearer.

I still harbor an ember of hope that by the time this column hits print, it will have been made totally moot by some evidence of sanity from Capitol Hill. If not—go out to the garage and locate your crash helmet! Ω

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