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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

One of these days, I’m going to invite you all over to my house to see what I do when I take time off of newspapering, childrearing, studying and teaching.

I went into this weekend buried.

I had this week’s cover story roundtable to transcribe, four stories to read and responses to write for my speculative fiction class, a must-do project to work on for my data journalism class, and my friend was coming over at 6 a.m. on Saturday to finish my hardwood floor.

It was a series of tasks impossible for anyone to complete.

And there was also the little thing irritating the back of my mind.

So, I got a bottle of wine, a few fittings for copper tubing, and I went straight from work to my home improvement project.

I have this room that’s detailed with copper: outlet plates, door knobs, ceiling light. The walls are basically that aquamarine that was a popular color for Chevys back in the mid-’50s.

The floor is stained concrete, about the color of fall peach tree leaves. The ceiling is white, until I install stamped copper.

Since it’s on a slab, if I want to hide speaker wires for my surroundsound movie system, I’d have to run them through the wall—a helluvalot of work. So a few weeks ago, I had the bright idea to install copper waterpipe around the room and run the wires through that.

Well, that was also a helluvalot of work, particularly because the ceiling was one-inch lower at one spot than it was at the place I started. No matter. I’d hung the tubing without missing a stud before I was even halfway finished with the bottle. But then, that’s when things got complicated. I had to buy a couple of hundred feet of 16 gauge speaker wire, which, of course, was all silver-colored on one side and copper on the other.

Well, that whole bottle was gone before I had even one speaker hooked up. And things went a little slower on Saturday morning when my buddy showed up for breakfast at 6 a.m.

But you should see and hear it now. The low ceiling and concrete floors make the movies sound great. I’ll have to have you over to check it out.

Re “Support marriage equality” (The Liberty Belle, April 4): Marriage wasn’t conceived to take anybody’s freedom away, or to be discriminatory or exclusionary, or to be anti-gay or to espouse inequality, or to be unfair or mean-spirited. Plain and simple, it was conceived to be a union between a man and a woman. And that’s true for cultures all over the world, from centuries ago to now.

Nobody forced that on anybody.

It’s the only kind of marriage that is universal. It doesn’t matter if you’re American, Mexican, Canadian, Asian, white, black, Latino, straight, gay, lesbian, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic, heck, you can even be an atheist. Everybody can agree on a marriage between a man and a woman. It’s common sense and doesn’t need, and there shouldn’t be, a need to define or redefine it. Not everything is about equality. It it were, we should let 18 year olds drink. They can vote, they can fight for this country if they want to, but they can’t drink. Or if it were, anybody should be able to climb Cave Rock if they want to.

But it’s restricted to climbing out of respect for the religious freedom of the Paiute tribe, even though the majority of people don’t think the rock is sacred. But here we are, we have a group of people, forcing their concepts and beliefs on the rest of society, in effect, forcing it on everybody else, without respect to someone’s sensibilities and beliefs.

Samuel Thickering Reno

Really unite The Nevada Legislature is addressing a number of historical issues this session—most on a local or statewide basis. However, there is one outstanding national issue that is crucial to whether America continues to be a functioning democracy. This bill attempts to stem the corrupting influence

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that corporate and political action money has on our elected representatives. Our legislators must now devote much of their time raising countless amounts of money to get elected and then find themselves under the thumb of their donors when they win. The recent Supreme Court Citizens United decision has opened the floodgates for political contributions by outside interests and made the outrageous determination that corporations should have the same (or more) rights as people. Nevada’s legislators have brought forth legislation that will join with other states in an effort that will eventually amend the US Constitution and put control of our government back into the hands of the people. Please join in urging your Senator and Assembly person to support this truly patriotic legislation, Senate Joint Resolution 11.

Ron Schoenherr Reno

Eponymous Re “Secret life” (Musicbeat, April 4): Chandelle, how right your name proved to be; excellent choice on the part of your parents. You were a gifted young person in the fourth grade; your writing was outstanding. I well remember your darling freckled nose and intelligence. I’m so happy for your success.

Mary Covington Carson City

Talk about sex Re “Let’s have sex education” (Left Foot Forward, April 4): This article needs to be read by all! Statistics will show two significant things. Abstinence education does not work. Although non-secular schools will debate this point, hormones win. As a result, often those educated this way are not aware of the options to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

Comprehensive sex education does work in reducing STD’s and pregnancies. Last time I checked, the couple in the back seat does not

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pull out their notes on abstinence.

Foil or Bible? Seems a reasonable choice if educated on the options. I know some teachers are reluctant to implement this with their students.

If it is structured and presented like any science curriculum standard some of the reluctance can be trained out of the teacher.

I realize some parents will object.

Usually this will be based on their perception that this is violating their biblical principles. No doubt a hot topic and parents can be informed and given the opt-out opportunity for their children. I will wager one of their daughters will come home with the tingling statement of “Mom, I need to talk to you.” Hormones will win. This is one case where statistics can speak volumes if you look at them.

Bottom line is that comprehensive sex education does work, abstinence is one part, and by itself does not work.

Ted Beecher Reno

Mining should pay more Re “Mining pays more” (Guest comment, April 11): So the mining industry pays more taxes. There is a reason why these extra charges are there. The mining industry in general has this habit of rearranging the landscape and walking away when they don’t find, or stop finding what they started digging to find in the first place. Take a drive in any direction, pick the loneliest, most deserted spot you can find, and look around.

Somewhere you will see the tell-tale scars of a tailing heap, the ubiquitous white posts of survey markers.

When the big deposits play out, the public is left with the now-toxic runoff from those millions of cubic feet of disturbed rock. Mining is dirty work. Those extra taxes are there because it brings the corporations that benefit from all this a bit closer to their fair share of the impact.

Rick Woods Sparks

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Diss is that Re “Milking the land” (Green, April 4): I would like to additionally note that the City Council, UNR administration, and UNR Board of Regents dissed their constituents.

There has been an overwhelming and unprecedented response by the people of Reno opposing the rezoning that varies from the UNR undergraduate and graduate student bodies, the College or Agriculture, farmers, restaurants, and up-andcoming businesses, etc. I would suggest that people read or at least scan the agenda packet from the meeting and see all of the information (from UNR and the appellants) that overwhelmingly opposed the rezoning.

I would also like to suggest that people watch the archived video of the meeting on the Reno City Council’s website. Not only did UNR ignore the arguments put forth by the appellants, but they boasted their “outreach” and “action” which vehemently opposed the rezoning and spectacularly failed, respectfully. The meeting ended with public comment by farmer Mark O’Farrell on the “action” that President Johnson proudly highlighted during his opening comments. O’Farrell was the subject of President Johnson’s “action” and O’Farrell scolded the UNR administration: “I’m here to testify that the assertion that the university has supported this project and worked hard for over a year to make it happen is just blatantly false.”

As a Reno citizen, graduate student of UNR, and graduate student body Vice President, I am offended and appalled by the action taken by the UNR administration, the Board of Regents, and all other supporting parties.

Christopher Moore Reno

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I reuse my bags. I used to use reusable bags, but they get really gross. I usually have a ton of leftover paper bags, so I bring them over and use them again. I do a lot of stuff. I grew up on an organic herb farm, so I grew up doing sustainable stuff.

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I actually have a room in my basement dedicated to sorting and organizing stuff we don’t recycle here in hopes to either turn it into stuff for art projects or make a trip to Sacramento or a place where they actually recycle. That seems stupid because you’re leaving a carbon footprint by making the trip, but I figure if I’m making a trip that way anyway, it would be killing two birds with one stone.

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Be Americans The attacks at the Boston Marathon are horrible. Mind numbing. Three people died and more than 170 injured?

For what? America has got to wake up and realize what this nation has become. We are a people under siege from within and without.

We’re not going to offer our usual spiel about how the media once again blew the story of a disaster, offering rumors for news, inaccurate reports for information, and lies as truth. Just look for the first-day reports of extra bombs, draconian measures used by police against the crowds, numbers of dead (did it ever get above 13?).

Calling for change in the poop-scoop media makes us like a lapdog that yaps at the sound of a car door closing.

But officials, including our president, have simply got to stop talking around the truth in situations like this.

Two bombs go off in a crowd. In his first statement to the American public, President Obama said, “We still do not know who did this or why. And people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts. But make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this. And we will find out who did this. We’ll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.”

We understand the need for coolness under ignorance of the full facts. But anyone can look at the simple evidence of their own eyes and see an act of terrorism.

So in the context of the millions and maybe billions of comments on the world wide web, such reticence looks deceitful—the sort of thing that political parties eventually politicize to drive Americans apart, like in the case of the deaths in Benghazi.

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I recycle, and I have made my banking and paying my bills green by going paperless. If they ask, I have stores send my receipts to email. I actually don’t have to get receipts when I get my hair done at any of my salons because they already have that information, too.

the Bureau can search anywhere for no reason? Come on, America is supposed to be a transparent government, especially in times of tragedy. Just tell us what you know or what you think you know and tell us you’re not sure.

CNN has reported that apartment is occupied by three Saudi men on student visas. CNN also reported that one of the men may have even been injured in the blast.

Not making a definitive statement has just as deleterious an effect on us citizens as a misleading statement, like after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. And how does our government think this reflects on our citizens and visitors of Middle Eastern descent? And how can it expect to protect them from real and virtual assaults when it can’t protect the thousands and thousands of attendees at the Boston Marathon or any of the huge events across this nation?

It didn’t take an hour to see the trolls on the internet start making assertions as to who committed this act of terrorism. The truthers began even before the racists, saying it was a setup to push through gun-violence legislation. The opposite view, that these bombs were set by people who are against gun-violence legislation (to show the need to keep Americans armed), appeared at the same time.

America, you’re not safe. You have never been safe.

Enemies both foreign and domestic are in our midst, and the extents to which the government would have to go to ensure everyone’s personal security are beyond anyone’s measure of what can be described as a free society.

Stay alert, hold your families close, and do not allow our government use this terror as another means to diminish your liberties. Be Americans. Ω |

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Recycling. I recycle everything that can be. Everything. My family reuses our water bottles. I recycle because I think there is a plenty of garbage that needs to be sorted and reused.

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Support your local library Libraries are democracy’s great equalizer, providing access to knowledge regardless of income, race, gender or class.

I earned $1.50 an hour at my first job shelving books after school at the Pacific Grove Public Library in by 1969, half a lifetime ago. I quickly Sheila Leslie learned the messiest days were those with the children’s reading hours, when little ones would leave piles of books on the floor in the reading circle, along with messy shelves and sticky little chairs. Still, it was fun to see them leave the library late in the afternoon with their piles of picture books held tightly in their arms, chattering about whatever story FREEP0001 they’d heard that day.

Less than a decade later, I worked in a library again, as a college work-study student at Sonoma State, a job that paid enough to live on, barely, while I earned a degree in a thriving state college system that was both financially accessible to lower middle class students like me and challenging enough to attract top students from across the state.

When I walked into the downtown Reno library on my lunch hour a few weeks ago to reactivate my long-dormant library card, I reflected on those past job experiences as the uber-efficient young woman signed me up in less than two minutes, briskly competent as most library people tend to be. She and her colleagues quickly helped the people ahead of me with kindness and ease: a scruffy, homeless-looking man checking out some battered paperbacks, an older woman, of retirement age, with a stack of novels, and a younger downtown worker with some audio-books.

The Washoe County I was mostly interested in gaining Library downloads can credentials to access the library’s be found right here: e-books, having finally converted to www.washoecounty.us/ the pleasure of reading on an iPad library/downloads. with its back-lighting and adjustable text size. E-books are still a small percentage of the Washoe County book collection, with just 7,000 titles out of 750,000, but still about 6,975 more than those in my personal collection.

The downtown branch was the library’s flagship when I moved to Reno 35 years ago, with its multilevel greenery and open floor plan, filled with the constant murmur of activity of patrons of all ages.

Today, budget cuts have slashed its hours to just five days a week, along with other library branches, a 36 percent reduction in public hours.

The recession has not been kind to the library, despite its role as the literary heart of the community.

The materials budget is now just 52 percent of what it was in 2008, and its staff has 94 fewer positions.

Although volunteer hours have increased 74 percent and community donations of magazine subscriptions and books are growing, it’s not nearly enough to provide the depth and quality our community deserves.

In recognition of National Library Week, April 14–20, why not celebrate by joining the Friends of Washoe County Library, a volunteer group that offers book sales and other fundraisers to support basic library needs. With more support, perhaps the Friends can revitalize their traditional role of expanding the library’s offerings by supplementing its budget instead of maintaining the basics, by replacing the funds lost to budget cuts.

You can even be a little selfish, like me, and donate a book through Amazon Wish List that you really want to read, like This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, knowing that you and hundreds of others can enjoy the book through your contribution. Buy a book every month this year, and do something concrete to build your community’s sense of civic engagement, one book at a time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Libraries are the great symbols of the freedom of the mind ... essential to the functioning of a democratic society.” How about doing your part for democracy and freedom? Ω

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School vouchers will force improvement In January, I wrote about Nevada’s education system. It’s a touchy subject for students, teachers and parents alike.

It seems that no matter how many programs are cut or how much money is re-allocated, the public schools of Nevada still seem to perform at a by Chanelle Bessette nationally sub-average (or sub-subaverage) level.

For the few students who manage to find their way into an Ivy League school, there seem to be thousands more that don’t even graduate. In the 2010-2011 school year, only 62 percent of students graduated, which left Nevada’s rate only marginally better than students in Washington, D.C. (59 percent) and on Native American reservations (61 percent), according to the Las Vegas Sun. While the blame can’t all be placed in one spot, something has to change.

Apart from the StudentsFirst initiative detailed in my previous column—which is currently championed by former D.C. superintendent Michelle Rhee and focuses on loosening the hold of teachers’ unions so that effective teachers can replace ineffective ones—another option that has been considered by Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Legislature is a state voucher system for education.

The institution of a voucher system would have required a constitutional amendment and died in committee without a hearing during the last legislative session.

For more The theory of a voucher system information about is that it promotes greater academic Senate Bill 445, check and administrative achievement from out https://nelis.leg. schools. Families are given vouchers state.nv.us/77th2013/ App#/77th2013/Bill/ toward tuition that allow them to Overview/SB445. choose which school to send their children to instead of relying on zoning. Poorer performing schools will not attract as many students, and high achieving schools will be rewarded with a larger number of vouchers going to their institutions.

Currently, this kind of system would mean that more students would be able to attend private schools, but in the long run, private schools would not be able to support the number of vouchers that would end up choosing their institutions. Public schools would then be pushed to entice students via competitive academic and extracurricular programs.

Senate Bill 445 proposes a voucher system in a roundabout way.

The bill gives tax breaks—which would not exceed $5 million per year—to businesses that donate to a scholarship fund that helps lowincome families send their children to private schools, thereby increasing the students’ chances of success throughout and after their secondary education. The scholarship would apply to families whose income is three times the poverty line or less, which is currently around $70,000.

Naturally, such a bill has sparked resentment among teachers’ unions and public school officials since it means less money goes toward funding public schools. But with the graduation numbers at such low rates and systemic disadvantages going to low- and middle-income families who can’t afford to send their children to higher-performing schools, very few options remain.

In fact, if the voucher system can be developed to include public schools—which encompass charter schools, vocational schools, magnet schools and home schooling as well—then even more options can be given to students. In addition, with more competition to achieve among schools, administrators of lower performing schools will be given the push to develop their programs so that they become more attractive to voucher carriers.

Poorly performing schools would have to adapt or fail. This may sound drastic, but perhaps it is time for drastic measures to be taken for the sake of Nevada’s community and workforce. School isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but instilling a lifelong competency to attain work certainly should be. And to have an adequate workforce, an adequate education system is required. A reconsideration of the voucher system—or comparable alternatives—could be the thing we need to revitalize Nevada’s students’ ability and willingness to learn. Ω

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On the right: End drug war The rightist Nevada Public Research Institute has called for an end to drug prohibition.

“Nevada governments spent roughly $258 million in 2008 to enforce drug prohibition within the state’s borders,” the group said in lengthy paper on Nevada issues titled Solutions 2013. “This includes $51 million for policing, $62 million in judicial expenses and $150 million for corrections. As these figures indicate, enforcing the prohibition of a substance for which there is significant demand can be a costly proposal.”

Where drug warriors tend to blame drug-related violence on drug use, NPRI argues that drug prohibition causes it: “Because buyers and sellers within black markets cannot turn to the legal system to solve disputes or protect property rights, only violent means remain. Indeed, many scholars argue that prohibition increases the rate of violence in society. When the legal system fails to recognize property rights and contract law, black markets thrive, generating opportunities for individuals to now profit through the most unscrupulous of behaviors. Drug cartels, narco-terrorism and gang violence spread—as America now witnesses daily on its southwestern borders. Because of such effects, researchers have found, higher public spending on prohibition enforcement leads to higher murder rates and other violent crimes. Hence, prohibition enforcement appears to be a public safety expenditure that actually endangers the public safety.”

NPRI also asserted that prohibition creates a market and ending prohibition reduces drug use: “Significantly, in Europe also, in the decade since Portugal decriminalized the possession of all drugs, usage rates in that nation have declined across the board.”

On marijuana—the Nevada Legislature is now considering making it legal—NPRI contends that there is a good fiscal reason for doing so: “Of the $258 million that Nevada taxpayers spent to enforce drug prohibition in 2008, nearly $50 million was spent to counter private citizens’ ability to possess small amounts of marijuana: More than 7,000 citizens were arrested for simple possession of marijuana.”

A puzzle within The new state tourism slogan—“A world within. A state apart.”— has raised a lot of questions. Foremost among them: “What does it mean?”

That was the question we got from five people when we asked half a dozen Vassar Street post office patrons to read it and give us their reactions. The sixth said it reminded her of “that slogan—I forget what it was—that the city looked at.”

She’s referring to “A Little West of Center,” which was rejected by Reno officials as a city slogan. Mayor Bob Cashell was particularly outspoken, calling it “embarrassing.”

So we decided to ask Cashell about “A world within. A state apart.”

“I don’t understand it,” the mayor said. “I guess I’m not smart enough.”

On Yahoo Answers, on the very day the new slogan was announced, an entry was posted under the headline “What does ‘A world within. A state apart.’ mean?” The reader, who signed him/ herself Katsutoshi, wrote, “It doesn’t make sense to me who is a foreigner. Could you explain it in plain language for me?”

A reader responded: “A world within: It means Nevada is like a small world within its boundaries. It has everything that the world has.

“A state apart: It means Nevada is very different from the other states. It is not the same as the other states.”

Meanwhile, Sparks Tribune columnist Andrew Barbano faulted claims that AWWASA is the first state “brand.” Barbano recalled “Bet on it,” a familiar campaign 45 years ago that used catchlines like “Is Nevada the place for world class entertainment? Bet on it.” “Is Nevada great for skiing? Bet on it.”

Barbano said, “Pros in the business took their hats off to that bull’s eye of a campaign that would fit any specific.”

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Bad days for Newcastle Health could improve as coal use declines In 2007, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed that the state get into the coal business.

Dennis Myers “After visiting with Wyoming Governor Freudenthal and seeing what his state is doing, I will encourage the creation of a coal-toliquids fuels plant in Nevada, similar to the successful plant in Wyoming,” he told the Nevada Legislature. “It would use existing rail to transport coal to the plant and convert that coal to diesel and jet fuel for use at airports. It could also create natural gas to be injected into a natural gas pipeline for domestic use.”

“Solar electric generation would not have those kinds of [health] consequences.”

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The idea was widely derided.

Assemblymember David Bobzien said, “Burning liquid coal fuel can emit twice as much CO2 as regular gas.”

The Las Vegas Sun said the technology Gibbons described was water intensive, and Nevada is a desert state.

And nearly everyone pointed out that Nevada doesn’t have coal.

That wasn’t entirely true. Coal has occasionally been struck and mined in Nevada, at Lewis in Lander County in 1881, Elko County in 1901, and intermittently over the years at Verdi in Washoe County.

But not recently, and never in great volume.

It turns out there’s another reason Gibbons’ idea did not catch on.

Support for coal is falling as fast as support for marijuana is rising.

Nevada would have been buying into an investment in decline.

When NV Energy announced on April 3 that it will close its coal-generating plants, starting with Reid Gardner in the south next year (one of its three units will continue operating until 2017), and finishing with its northern plant at Valmy in 2025, is joining a national trend.

And there have been published reports that NV Energy is considering backing out of its investment in Arizona’s 2,250 megawatt coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, which would be a financial jolt to that state’s utility customers. NV Energy has 11.3 percent of the project, which faces from $600 million to $1.1 billion in federally-ordered improvements to cut down on pollutants. The city of Los Angeles has announced it will no longer be a customer of the plant.

Rate debate At the same time, NV Energy will accelerate investing in renewable

energy and increase its natural gas generating capacity. Its Tracy station east of Sparks uses natural gas.

In-state Nevada comment on NV Energy’s decision on coal tended to focus on supposedly likely rate hikes. Bob Boehm of the Center for Energy Research in Las Vegas told KVVU News, “There’s a cost associated with that and that’s the downside to it. … A lot of these renewables, you put all the expense in right at first.” The state Bureau of Consumer Protection estimates 8 percent in rate hikes over 10 years while NV Energy itself said to expect 4 percent over 20 years.

Reno scientist Glenn Miller disagreed.

“There’s no question that coal is cheap energy, but the price of natural gas has dropped so much that it is more competitive,” he said.

Nevadans currently pay the second highest power costs in the Intermountain West.

Outside Nevada, investors and analysts seemed to agree with Miller. The day after the NV Energy announcement, its shares gained 1.24 percent, closing at $20.36 on a volume of 6.02 million shares.

A quick assessment by Goldman Sachs of the corporation reaffirmed its neutral rating and said the coal switch “will likely not impact earnings through 2015.”

SBWire said the corporation’s “focus on controlling costs and lower natural gas prices will certainly help.

Lower natural gas prices have led to weakened demand for coal as more and more companies shift to natural gas from coal for power generation.”

Health costs Most of the calculations showing financial impact failed to take into account reduced health care costs, though that is one of the reasons Nevada Moapa Paiute tribe has been pushing for shutdown of Reid Gardner.

“The Native American communities surrounding the Reid Gardner facility are going to have better health because of the lack of coal ash,” Miller said. “Each of us makes a decision on our own basis, but I suspect that solar electric generation would not have those kinds of consequences.”

Coal is a factor in asthma attacks, chronic bronchitis, heart attacks, hospital admissions, heart attacks, premature deaths, and lost work days. Nevada tends to be at the wrong end of state rankings in a

variety of health maladies.

A Clean Air Task Force study in 2010 estimated that pollutants from coal plants cause 20,000 heart attacks, more than 13,000 premature deaths, and 1.6 million lost work days each year at a total cost to the economy of more than $100 billion.

Miller said there is a moral component to the decisions being made about coal, akin to the concerns over deficits of the Reagan and Bush I administrations, when there was widespread comment that the deficits that created that era’s prosperity were being pushed onto the next generation.

“What we don’t deserve to do is to have cheap electricity when those costs are going to be extended to people in the future because of climate change,” Miller said. Coal is regarded as a principal contributor to climate change.

NV Energy is jumping on an increasingly popular movement.

Two days after its announcement, Reuters reported, “U.S. power companies plan to shut or convert over 50,000 MW of smaller, older coal-fired plants over the next few years as cheap natural gas prices and strict environmental rules have made coal the more expensive option in some areas. Eventually, the switch away from coal may shut 60,000 MW to 100,000 MW of power generation across the

“Lower natural gas prices have led to weakened demand for coal.”

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country, according to industry estimates.”

At the time that NV Energy announced its break with coal, it also offered an amendment to Senate Bill 123 in the Nevada Legislature to accommodate that break. The maneuver alarmed some legislators who said there was no legislative action required in order for NV Energy to accomplish its plans.

Their suspicions were heightened when the amendment was reported to contain language reducing Public Utility Commission authority over rate hikes.

On April 8, the Las Vegas Sun reported that NV Energy “can accomplish [the coal switch] through existing regulation; a change in state law isn’t necessary.”

S.B. 123, sponsored by Sen. Kelvin Atkinson of Clark County, is intended to encourage development of renewable power sources. Ω

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“This is something Reno needs,” says Reno Earth Day organizer Heather Howell.

Green day After pruning, Reno Earth Day grows over last year Reno Earth Day 2013 will have everything from snakes and ponies to solar power, electric cars and local art this year at Idlewild Park on April 21 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. by Sage Leehey The event is organized by Heather Howell, Anastacia Sullivan and Todd Howell, who took over last year after the previous organizers sage l@ disbanded and cancelled the event. newsreview.c om Heather Howell said that this year will have a lot of new things, and many of the smaller events that popped up last year after the centralized Reno Earth Day celebration was canceled will be consolidated again for this year’s celebration. The event will also be larger physically, taking up the entire park.

“Before there were so many people in a small area,” Heather said.

“It was hard because some people want to lay their towels down and sit on the grass, and people were walking over them. By spreading it out, people still have space to do that, but people who are walking around all the booths don’t have to step on people.”

As part of the Earth Day Innovations aspect of the event, there will be a science fair that Washoe County high schools were invited to participate in. The prize for the science fair will be a laptop computer, which was donated to the event.

Also new to this year’s celebration will be dog daycare to try to avoid fines for having pets in the park during the event. Although pets will be not be allowed into the majority of the event, they will be allowed in the baseball field. Also in this area will be pony rides and other aspects of the Animalia portion of the event.

This is the fourth year that the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Sparks will have its Bike Swap and Sale at the event. This is one of the club’s biggest and best events of the year, according to Ellen Jacobson, the club’s vice president and special events coordinator.

The club will have about 100 bikes, used parts and repair stands with expertise in bike repair at the event. Community members will be able to buy, sell or swap bikes at the event. There is also the option to donate the bike to the club.

Jacobson said that Reno Earth Day is one of her, and the club’s, favorite events of the year and that Idlewild is a great venue for them.

“The number of people, the advocates for riding, and the general community support is outstanding,” Jacobson said. “Last year we moved to Sparks, and the camaraderie, the overall sentiment and the enthusiasm were so much less, it can’t be described. We’re glad to be back home in Idlewild Park.”

Heather also loves this event and believes that the community benefits immensely from it, which is why she and her colleagues decided to organize it these past two years.

“This is something Reno needs because it’s a bigger event for Reno For more information about Reno Earth Day and local businesses,” Heather said. “It would be more detrimental to the 2013, visit http:// local economy to not have it than I think people think about. It brings in renoearthday.com. a lot of people from Fernley and outlying towns, and some of the local nonprofits get a lot of support at the event. It would definitely hurt a bunch of things if it didn’t happen.” Ω OPINION

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Stories are more journeys than maps, and our original plan was to have a roundtable discussion with activists who represented a lot of different facets of the environmental movement. But, when you get right down to it, the biggest issue facing the planet today is global warming, and its symptoms and cures both have their foundation in the same question: What kind of energy are we using?

When Sage Leehey and I sat down with Bob Tregilus and David Gibson, we had a notion of a wider range of ideas to discuss, but if human beings could solve this one issue of our addiction to fossil fuels,all of the other weighty topics of “environmentalism” become a lot easier to fix.

Locals are probably familiar with Tregilus. He first hit the public eye in 2000 as the chairman of the Washoe County Libertarian Party. He says he’s recovering from economic libertarianism, but he’s still a civil libertarian. Around 2005, he got interested in electric-drive transportation, starting the Electric Auto Association of Northern Nevada, and trying to promote good policies in the Legislature. He went from there to an interest in alternative methods of putting energy on the grid, moving from centralized utility-provided power to a decentralized, small source (like cars, small arrays and homes) renewable energy grid, more in line with Germany’s feed-in tariff. He’s cohost of a radio show, This Week in Energy, at www.thisweekinenergy.tv.

David Gibson is originally from Maine. He studied civil and environmental engineering, beginning his career in large-scale construction, before moving to the nonprofit sector. He moved here in August 2009, and he now works for Envirolution, a nonprofit that focuses on

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sustainability and energy-efficiency education. “We primarily work at the middle school and high school level, but we’re developing elementary school curriculum right now.

We have a summer program we’re starting to recruit for right now, called Three Spheres Leadership Academy.” For more information, check out envirolution.org.

We only meant to ask three questions, but—as might be expected from two such impassioned individuals—we had a 20-minute conversation before we got down to brass tacks. These first two paragraphs were outside the three-question interview, but are illustrative. All responses are abridged for space.

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Gibson: The only reason natural gas is cheap right now is because hydraulic fracturing is exempt from the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Drinking Water Act. They’re polluting our groundwater big time, and they’re causing cancer and all this stuff in remote areas in like 20 different states. They’re causing all kinds of horrible impacts, but they’re exempt from the laws, and they can’t be regulated by the EPA. But if there is either a climate change legislation or if they remove the rider that passed under Dick Cheney, the price of natural gas is going to skyrocket.

Tregilus: A lot of it came from an [Securities and Exchange Commission] ruling that they made back in 2009 which allowed them, because of the way they report this to their shareholders, to essentially create this huge investment bubble so they could develop the fracking technology. It’s like $3 a therm at the wellhead right now for traditional methods of collecting natural gas, but actually the cost at the fracking wells is more like $8. At some point, that’s going to collapse. |

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What should the media be talking about?

g i b s o n : I think one of the big things the media is lacking is promotion of all the positive things that are happening in Reno. Last summer, during our Three Sphere’s Leadership Academy, we had eight high school students who had never heard of the food co-op, that had never heard of the Reno Bike Project, didn’t know that the Peppermill had a geothermal plant. I presented to the [University of Nevada, Reno] renewable energy minor [class]—half of them didn’t know that the Peppermill has a geothermal plant that provides all its heat and hot water. The media needs to cover all the positive things that are happening here. There are so many people that are depressed by the economy. We need to totally flip our image and focus on the renewable energy, the geothermal, the solar. Sunvelope Solar has the most cutting edge solar hot water technology anywhere in the world, and they manufacture right here in Sparks. There are amazing things happening. Green Nevada has eight partner nonprofits that are all focused on sustainability education in different ways. People don’t even know what’s going on. There’s a whole lack of education in media. ... Especially with the internet, you talk to a lot of middle and high school students, and they don’t read the local newspaper or watch the news. The internet is not local. t r e g i l u s : The next time you do your Best Of, you ought to look at Patagonia because it’s a “benefit corporation;” give them big points for that. David Bobzien actually has a bill in the Legislature to create the legal framework to create these benefit corporations. It’s kind of a hybrid between nonprofit and for-profit corporations where they have this triple bottom line that they’re not only responsible to their shareholders but also to their employees and the environment, and B-Corp[oration], that’s their oversight.

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corporations are not people, but this is a way to actually change for a new type of business for the 21st century, so they’re responsible to the communities that allowed their creation because public corporations are supposed to be public corporations.

The media should be talking about Energiewende. There’s your German word for the day—the energy transition. There’s a big effort underway to get this idea adopted into the American psyche so that we can actually change the electric grid so that it’s more democratized.

Right now, and this is what NV Energy is up to at the Legislature, trying to lock themselves in, because they like being the monopoly, and they don’t want anybody else playing in their sandbox, which is why they opposed my bill for the feed-in tariff, which was about allowing everybody to participate equally and meaningfully in energy production. Renewable energy resources are ubiquitous, they’re everywhere. It calls for a decentralized approach. It’s counterproductive building these giant solar strip mines in the desert. Solar should be on rooftops, it should be on industrial buildings, everywhere you can have them, we should have panels capturing that energy and putting it into the electrical grid instead of soaking it up on the asphalt and reflecting it back into the atmosphere. And this is what they’re doing in most parts of the world, except the United States.

A lot of those big solar strip mines down in our southern deserts are owned by Chinese companies. A bunch of people come in to build the things, great, they’re these migrant worker types, and they’re gone. Then all the money, because the company is foreign-owned, all the money leaves the state. If you build all these smaller projects, on everybody’s house and over parking lots and everything, you’re keeping the local economy going, lots of little contractors who live here.

g i b s o n : Nevada is perfectly positioned for this. We have more renewable resources than almost any other state. With our population distribution being kind of focused around Reno and Las Vegas, it makes it very easy for us to transition to the distributed generation.

It really doesn’t make sense to have power generation 100 miles outside of the city from a huge natural gas plant when we can have solar panels on every house. The first step is for outreach and awareness and education because we need to have everyone aware that Nevada can provide all its energy from renewable resources. Nevada actually receives enough sunlight every year that—using existing solar technology—we could power the entire United States. Granted, the transmission doesn’t make sense, but that’s how much sunlight we receive, and essentially, we’re letting it go to waste by having asphalt rooftops instead of solar on every roof. The second step of the plan is energy efficiency. Right now, the average home in the U.S. wastes a third to half of the energy that goes into it. Between inefficient light bulbs, inefficient appliances, shower heads that use two-and-a-half gallons of water a minute rather than one-and-a-half gallons of water, really basic stuff and then air sealing and insulating homes—the average home has one complete air exchange with the outside every hour. So every hour in the wintertime, you have to reheat the entire volume of your house. If you air seal and insulate your house, you’re keeping all that heat in. It doesn’t matter what your source of heating is if you’re keeping the heat in the house. I think statewide, and I’ve seen studies to support this, across all buildings, we could cut our energy usage by at least a third and probably closer to 50 percent if we get really aggressive with it. Once we reduce our usage, you can put enough solar on your rooftop to provide all the power for your house.

The big thing is to empower every individual to make their home more efficient, or their business more efficient, there are a lot of rebates and incentives available or low-cost financing. We don’t need a billion dollars from the federal government. We don’t need a huge state bailout to do this. It’s something that every homeowner and every business owner can do. I think it’s really important not to be waiting for the governor to take action but if instead if we do it from the grassroots, we can do it on our own. t r e g i l u s : Nevadans or Northern Nevadans? Municipalize our utility. Create a muni. If you use Boulder, Colorado, as an

example, a couple years ago, they threw Xcel Energy out of their area because Xcel Energy was making all these promises of renewable energy and smart grids and so forth, and they were all failures, and they built a big coal plant, and people in Boulder, which is a bedroom community for federal government employees, they got pissed off at Xcel, and they threw them out, forming their own municipal utility. And of course, this is all being driven by green-minded people because munies can be just as bad as investor-owned utilities, in that they’re only interested in costs of energy delivered, so they buy the cheapest energy they can find, which is from the oldest, dirtiest coal plants on the planet.

My solution would be to municipalize, create a feed-in tariff so that it’s communityowned, and everybody is participating, and this would create a huge local economy. NV Energy, on the flip side of that, is heading toward this huge brick wall at 100,000 miles per hour—because this is happening. This is actually changing where generation is moving away from utilities and being put in the hands of the people. And utilities are just taking up the delivery and the smart grid stuff. In Germany, for instance, this has already occurred. We’re heading toward this disaster. If we don’t force NV Energy to [a] 21st century of energy production and delivery model, we’re heading toward this disaster like the landline telephone companies or the media companies. Newspapers are collapsing right and left because they didn’t adapt. Kodak Film didn’t adapt to all this new technology.

Distributed renewable energy, whether they like it or not, is coming. The cost of solar has come down so far thanks to the feed-in tariff, not thanks to anything we’ve done in the United States, so it brought the cost of this technology down. Right now is a really good time to put solar on your house, you’re not going to see solar as cheap as it is right this second, not for probably the next five or six years. As we have more and more electric cars on the road, these batteries are going to get repurposed into static storage applications because you know, in a vehicle, it’s a very demanding application on the battery. But once the battery has maybe 70 percent of its capacity left, it’s easy, you can stick it in your garage. You take a Nissan Leaf battery with 24 kilowatt-hour storage capacity and say now it’s got maybe 17 kilowatt hours, you put it in your garage, it’s a couple, three days of storage for your house. So you’re going to be calling up your utility saying, “I don’t need your line anymore.”

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Is It too late to save the planet? have we gone so far that we’ll never recover from the damage we’ve done to the envIronment and the planet’s system?

g I b s o n : I like to stay positive. On the one hand, I see corporations doing damage exponentially faster than I see it being fixed. On the other hand, students at the high school level and the college level—they get it. A lot of them see that things are just horribly awry right now. I really see social changes happening that are going to drive really positive feedback loops. I think that, particularly when you look at carbon storage in the form of growing trees and growing food in your yard, and stuff like that, and at the same time, people being able to take action at the individual level, I really think that there’s potential to turn things around pretty quickly.

The big thing is breaking away from these huge corporations that are making profit at the expense of the planet, and instead focusing on local. You’re not going to buy from someone local if you can see the waste pipe that they have into the Truckee River. But if they’re doing that in Kalamazoo, Michigan, you don’t see the impacts of that. Or if it’s in Nigeria or China or somewhere else, you don’t see the impacts. So focusing on local businesses and supporting local production of goods and local food and local energy, if we can localize our economy, we can really turn things around. But we need to act very quickly.

I was just looking at the RTC plan through 2035 which calls for expanding roads and the new southeast connector spending $5 billion on new roads and almost nothing on public transit. We need to figure out how to reverse that.

For the cost of the Southeast Connector, which will cut right through the UNR farm in order to get people from

Fernley to South Meadows 10 minutes faster, for the cost of that one project, we could build a light rail from Stead to Carson City. That’s based on the numbers I got from the RTC planner. Apparently, that was from a vote in 2008, the public approved widening and expanding roads and not the public transit. I feel we really need to go back to a public vote because five years ago, the economy was very, very different. People didn’t realize this recession was going to be a long drawn-out depression, and so we need to focus on sustainable transportation. t r e g I l u s : The problem is our state constitution.

We use our state constitution for all the wrong things, and our gas tax has to be used for either new road construction or road repair. It can’t be used for urban design or putting streets on diets.

Have we gone too far? Human beings are resilient, and the Earth and the environment are resilient. I don’t think we’ve gone too far yet. I see a lot of hope in things like David works on, like Envirolution and working with the kids. I think the youth are a lot smarter than a lot of us older folks give them credit for. They’re paying attention to all these things. They can get this information instantly through the internet and being socially connected. And they’re acting on it. We can recover. The biggest roadblock is actually our politicians, which reflects on the populace, because we’re the ones who elect them. But we have a lot of positive things in the pipeline. Benefit corporations, I think, is a huge one. Ω

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o celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band, the members of Reno’s Vampirates hit the road for an 11-week national tour, traveling coast to coast, covering 29 states in every region of the country. They kicked things off with a show on Feb. 28 at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, and will return home for a show at 40 Mile Saloon on May 5 with Actors Killed Lincoln.

In between those two local shows, the group is playing gigs just about every day—at bars, clubs, houses and record stores—all across the country.

This is the hardcore punk band’s fifth national tour—“the fourth that’s really extensive,” according to the group’s vocalist and sometime drummer Dave Masud. Over the course of their career, the group has played over 40 states.

Though the band is a four-piece for home games in the Reno area, regular drummer Chris Tufino isn’t usually able to tour, so when the group tours, they usually do so as a trio—Masud, guitarist/vocalist Chris Fox and bassist/vocalist Pat Mayfield.

We caught up with the touring band members by phone on the fifth week of the tour, just before their gig in Long Island, N.Y. The hardened road warriors seemed comfortably in the groove of touring. Most of the shows, they said, had been great—with the shows in Knoxville, Tenn., and Asheville, N.C., being the highlights thus far.

“That place is always so awesome and really supportive,” said Masud of Asheville. “It’s a smaller, college, artsy town in western North Carolina, and they

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just have a really good underground music scene. A lot of kids come out to just about every show. … We’ve played 13 shows in total over the last four years there, and we’ve never had a bad show there.”

Of course, they’ve also had a couple of strange experiences already, including seeing a car shot at in Oakland, and playing the afterparty for an all-male burlesque show in Florida.

“It was packed for the burlesque show,” said Masud. “It cleared out when we played and then filled back up when we were done.”

The played a few gigs in Austin during the annual South

by Southwest festival, one of which was a part that turned too frightening even for this generally ferocious band of swashbuckling bloodsuckers. Their brand of fast, high-energy punk often teeters on a knife edge of violence—but this gig spilled over in a way that surprised even them.

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Top left, Vampirates bassist Pat Mayfield and guitarist Chris Fox, Jon Simpson of Ft. Worth, Texas, band One Fingered Fist, and Vampirates drummer Dave Masud. Below, a typical Vampirates merchandise table and a very badly loaded tour van. This page, the Vampirates’ current tour map.

“We played this party for this really, really crazy club,” said Masud. “The party was terrifying.

We actually ended up having to leave before it was over, which is good because they set off a bomb—a propane bomb connected to a toilet full of shit and ignited with a shotgun. The police came and started arresting people.”

Fortunately, the Vampirates had played first, still early in the party, when everyone was relatively sober and before the craziness got out of hand, and perhaps even more fortunately, the band was well received.

“They loved us,” said Masud.

Still, as sketchy or frustrating as some of those shows might have been, they’re better than the worst kinds of shows: the canceled ones.

“Two nights ago the show in Pittsburgh fell through, which was a bummer after driving a long ways to find out the show’s not happening,” said Fox.

Tour de force So, what are the secrets to maintaining a well-oiled touring band?

(Besides maintaining a well-oiled touring van?)

“Definitely make sure that the members of your band are your friends and people you can handle being in a band with and always being around every day,” said Masud.

“That’s the most important thing.

Learning how to screenprint has been extremely beneficial for us.”

The group members makes their own merchandise while on the road. Every couple of towns, they buy blank shirts and set up “merch factories” in friends’ houses. They screenprint shirts, sew patches onto hats and jackets, and even dub tapes.

Having low-cost merchandise like this ensures that they make money even at under-attended shows.

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“The only thing that we don’t make ourselves are the CDs,” said Masud.

“Take showers if they’re available,” says Fox. “Take advantage of any laundry or showers. Eat food if it’s there. Appreciate the small things, like food or laundry or a bed or a floor to sleep on.”

It’s worth noting that this is good advice not just for touring bands but for life.

“Watch the band you play with, because you might find some of your new favorite bands,” said Fox. “Make friends. Don’t be a dick.”

It’s easy to become jaded on the road, so a genuine interest in discovering new music is essential and it pays off in other ways in the long run.

“A lot of times just playing with good bands makes a good show for me, regardless of turnout or pay or anything—just getting to see a bunch of rad bands for free,” says Fox. That essential curiosity about other bands leads to developing friendships and building a network—it’s how a band like Vampirates is able to tour on the cheap, with well attended shows.

Every time gets better, the members say—easier to book shows with better bands and better audience turnout.

“In the beginning it was definitely a lot harder when we didn’t know anybody anywhere,” says Masud.

“We were basically cold calling each town, just looking people up on the internet, talking to other bands and getting their contacts. The more times we’ve done it, the more friends we make, and we kind of grow the network each year. … It definitely makes it easier. The more people you know, the less you have to sleep in the van.”

“It’s like building a small community or a family,” says Fox. Ω

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Conversation piece

J. Damron’s exhibit at the Holland Project will be a work of collaboration and evolution.

visitors themselves will get to respond, thanks to the 6-feet-by-10-feet walk-in camera obscura that Damron is building for the event. The camera, he says, essentially is a wooden frame with black fabric bellows, and will be positioned to capture the ever-changing street scene outside the Vesta Street gallery’s door.

“A camera obscura is really the most primitive form of camera,” Lillegard explains. “It’s essentially a dark box that people can walk inside. Light comes in through a small hole and an image is reflected, upside-down, off a mirror inside.”

So as Damron takes photos from the gallery, adding those to the exhibit’s conversation, so will the audience, witnessing live the fleeting nature of the photographic medium.

“Even with the restraints of the concept,” Lillegard says, “it feels approachable because photography is so familiar to us all. We all take pictures and look at pictures every day. A camera feels fun and approachable. So we hope to push the initial concepts of art in a way that doesn’t alienate people.” Ω

J. Damron When an artist hangs a piece of work in a gallery, it’s often with the intent of making a by statement, stirring the soul and prompting Jessica Santina a conversation. Yet the artist is usually the only one talking.

So when local artist and art instructor J. Damron proposed a true artists’ conversation as a theme for an exhibit at its gallery, the Holland Project jumped at the chance. tête-À-tête Emulsion “A lot of elements stood out about this will be on exhibit at idea,” says Sarah Lillegard, Holland’s art the holland Project, director. “A lot of it is that, as a gallery, 140 Vesta st., April 19 through May 10, with we want to cater to our audience and an opening reception demographic [18 and under], but we on April 19, 6 to 8 want to encourage everyone to push the p.m., with an artist’s concepts of what art is and how to make it talk at 6:30 p.m. And a closing reception on look in a space.”

May 10, 6 to 8 p.m.

Damron, who earned a master of fine For more information, arts degree from the San Francisco Art visit Institute, has exhibited his work—which www.hollandreno.org. includes photography and design-build projects—nationally and internationally.

As an adjunct art instructor at Truckee Meadows Community College and

Feather River College in Quincy, Calif., Damron strives to make provocative art.

Thus he conceived a show entitled Tête-à-Tête, inviting a collection of artists with a wide range of experiences to respond photographically to a work of his own.

“The concept, as it was described by J., is that it has to do with how photography as an art form involves capturing moments in time,” Lillegard says. “Time is a fleeting thing, and the world is constantly changing.

The moments photographers capture today are gone tomorrow.”

“The idea is about creating the possibility that an exhibit can be a generative concept instead of a traditional, static one,” Damron explains, saying that he sought a range of artists, from less-experienced students who seem to have an intuitive grasp of photography to those who’ve been doing photography for years.

Invited artists are Eric Sallender, Kelsey Heil, Michael Chanez, Cecilia Walters, Toshadeva Palani, Alex Rubio, Holly Bethers, Alisha Funkhouser, Manuel Becerra, Megan Berner (an RN&R

contributor), Matt Theilen, Dean Burton, Gerald Frandsen, Ian Ruhter, Russell Dudley and Chris Carnel.

When the exhibit opens Friday, April 19, what audiences will find is work by Damron himself, which he will discuss— along with the show’s premise—during his 6:30 p.m. talk. Throughout the course of the three-week exhibit, the invited artists will hang their own photographic responses to his work, so that the exhibit truly evolves, is always changing, like the world photographers themselves are constantly trying to capture. During the closing reception (a Holland Project first) on May 10, gallery visitors will find a completely different exhibit, one which showcases an ongoing artistic conversation.

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FREE PARKING at Reno High School

Tons Of Free Giveaways!

Animalia Kingdom An animal lover’s haven, full of live familiar fuzzy friends, as well as exotic reptiles, fish and insects, services for all of your pet needs, artisans with animal friendly crafts and entertainment featuring our animal friends.

• Doggie day-care sponsored by

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• Pet tribute balloon launches throughout the event, using environmentally-friendly balloons and soy ink.

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• Zippy Pet Races • Adoption Showcase at 2PM

FREE E-Waste Drop Off at Reno Earth Day! FREE E-Waste Drop Off this year for Reno Earth Day will be provided by ComputerCorps. ComputerCorps is a local, yet internationally recognized 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization dedicated to providing access to computer technology and skills training for under-served families, while eliminating electronic scrap from our nation’s landfills.

Thanks to

People can come to Reno High School parking lot, drop off their electronic waste for FREE, park for FREE and walk or ride a bike taxi just one block to Idlewild Park. Look for the big truck on the corner of Booth and Foster. Any electronic waste items will be accepted, except TV’s. A trailer will also be located there for collection of bicycle donations for the Kiwanis Bike Program.

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ComputerCorps is also a sponsor of the Earth Innovations Science Fair as a prize donor and they have donated a refurbished laptop computer for a lucky high school science fair winner this year, to be announced on the West Stage at 4:30PM.

• Pet Fashion Show at 4PM The Animalia Kingdom is sponsored by

(over 600 prizes to give away) All day

Little Explorers’ Expedition

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Exhibitor Treasure Hunt

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Knowledge Seeker Game

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Workshops Scholar Game

11:00AM

Trash Scavenger Hunt

12:00PM

Zippy Pet Races

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Pollinator Relay Game

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RTC Game

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Earth Day Fashion Show

4:00PM

Pet Fashion Show

5:00PM

Trash Pick Up Race

Reno Earth Day reserves the right to modify these schedules at any time

Little Explorers’ Expedition Something special at Reno Earth Day this year, especially for Kids! The Little Explorers’ Expedition is a Treasure Map game, mapping out many of the kids’ activities throughout the event.

The map will highlight all types of activities from arts and crafts to planting seeds, from role playing and storytelling to learning games and exercises.

Little Explorers’ Expedition activities cater to children ages 3-12 and all include some type of interactive action, usually about 5-15 minutes each.

Children who complete at least 5 of the activities on the Treasure Map can turn in their maps for a special treasure at the Reno Earth Day Prize Gallery.

Reno Earth Day expects to give away hundreds of prizes to Little Explorers on April 21st this year.

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Reno Earth Day Exhibitors Animalia Kingdom

A Plus Animal Hospital Animal Ark Boxers + Buddies (Dogs, Inc.) Branch Clothing Fantasy Face Painting FRONN Goats R Us - 4H Heartbreakers & Co Heart’s Companion Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Hills Angels Hippies Hungry Mother Organics Natural Paws Nevada Humane Society-Cats Nevada Humane Society-Dogs Rancho Red Rock - Pony Rides Reno Herpetological Society Reno News and Review/Heart’s Companion SNAKE (Sierra NV Academy of Kindred Exotherms) SPCA of Northern Nevada Steve Nesbitt Zippy Pets

Reno Hydroponics River School Farm Urban Roots Garden Classrooms

Radio Stations 105.7 KOZZ Rock 104.5 93.7 Bob FM 100.1 The X 100.9 The Mix 92.9 The Bandit 92.1 The Wolf

Others

Alderego Aspen Electric Ayurvedic Herbal Systems, Inc. Bhakti Yoga Dhama Black Rock Solar California Transplant Donor Network Capital Glass Carolyn Kenny

Chakra Village Tee Pee Church of Inner Light ComputerCorps Crafts by Neddie Davidson’s Organics Denise’s Gem Creations Desert Tortoise Tie Dyes Dragonfly Media Eastern Sierra Land Trust Energy Fit Envirolution Everlasting Health Floating on Clouds Massage Friends of Black Rock High Rock Friends of Nevada Wilderness Fun Time TATS Futurekind Gold Seam Vintage Gradient Resources Great Basin Fed Credit Union Great Basin Institute Great Basin Resource Watch

Heifer International Hemp Designs Independent Power Corp.

Indie Reno Juice Plus Kashmir American Keep Tahoe Blue L and Woodworks L’Essence Day Spa Lovely Salt Scrubs Made in America Make Your Momentum Mama Em’s World Maternal Integrity Project Midtown District Reno Miki’s Arts and Crafts Mission of Sierra Nevada Mt. Rose Designs Mystic Rose NDEP - Nevada Recycles Nevada Birth 2012 Note-Ables Music Therapy

Awake and Aging NDEP - Water Quality Nevada Connections Academy Nevada Satsang Society Petco Reno-Sparks Local Business Co-op The Honors Academy of Literature The Green Party Washoe County Democratic Party Washoe County Health - Air Quality Management

EAST STAGE Sponsored by 100.1 The X 9:30 AM 10:45 AM 12:00 PM 12:15 AM 1:00 PM 1:10 PM 1:20 PM 1:50 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:45 PM 5:15 PM

Connecting the Good/Birth 2012 Earth Cleanse Invocation West Coast Martial Arts Martial Arts Demonstration Destynee Howell Cirque Hula Hoop The Note-Ables Connecting the Good/Birth 2012 Earth Spirit Circle Activity Jim Eaglesmith Under One Sky Song Staford Christy Native American Spirit Dance Paisley Brain Cells Psychedelic/Classic Rock Earth Day Fashion Show Fashion Show Jahzuki Reggae/Funk Zephyr Spirit Tribe Belly Dance Belly Dancing Six Mile Station Folk/Rock/Americana

Rajan Zed Love Like Wes Reno Taiko Tsurunokai Farewell Belladonna Future Kind Drinking with Clowns In Motion Dance Studio CRUSH Velocity Movement Scarlet Presence Earth Innovations Weapons of Mass Creation

Sponsored by 105.7 KOZZ 10:30 AM John Fredrick 11:30 AM Mick 1:30 PM Smiley Mikey 2:30 PM Jayde Howell 3:30 PM Avatara 4:30 PM Todd South 5:30 PM Max Volume

Full Circle Compost Great Basin Bird Observatory Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful Nature Conservancy Nevada Discovery Museum NV Energy Sierra Nevada Journeys UNR American Fisheries Society

Future of Transportation

Electric Auto Association of Northern Nevada Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Kiwanis Bike Program - Bike Sale and Swap NV Energy Electric Car Operation Lifesaver Reno Bike Project - Bike Valet RTC Space Shuttle The Cart Barn Tour de Nez Outreach Vrill Society Car

Multi Faith Invocation Japanese Taiko Drumming Folk/Bluegrass AcroYoga Latin Rock Band Dance Music Hula Hoop Act Rock, Blues Science Fair Prizes Punk Rock

Singer Songwriter Acoustic Rock Singer Songwriter Intrumental Guitar Singer/Songwriter Singer/Songwriter Acoustic Rock

Conservation Zone Sponsored by

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This area will include local organization booths with fun, interactive and educational activities for kids and adults. There will also be a “Picnic for Earth” area with available picnic blankets so that visitors can relax on this beautiful day.

Conservation Zone Workshops are listed on this page under “Workshops”.

The Garden

Campie’s Lavender Patch Girl Scouts of Sierra Nevada Great Basin Community Food Co-Op Hidden Valley Honey Hyde’s Herbs Jr. Garden Rangers (School Club) Lattin Farms Olsen’s Soap Works

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Tahoe Rim Trail Association Technology Center The Melting Pot The Tea Rex Thirty One Gifts TM Chabot Trail Safe Nevada Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Truckee Meadows Water Authority Tupin Crafts Unitarian Universalist of Northern NV Usborne Books and More VegNV Velocity Movement Virtual Academy Washoe County School District Washoe Tribe Environmental Division Waste Management Weston Price Foundation

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Om Home Reno/MA On the Move One of A Kind Stuff Paper Moon Personality Plus Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Plastic Free Reno Prism Magic ProEnergy Consultants Pure Yoga REMSA Reno Gazette Journal Reno High School Environmental Club Reno Vineyard Rock the Babe SEA Group Sierra Club Sierra Green Builders Snowlands Network Solar Universe Somewhere in Time Sunvelope Solar

9:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:45 AM 11:15 AM 12:30 PM 12:45 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:45 PM 4:45 PM 5:15 PM

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WORKShOpS Educational Workshops Running throughout the day in two locations. Attend at least 2 workshops during the day and receive one of 600 prizes from the Prize Gallery!

Conservation Zone Workshops – 12:30PM Bird ID and Research. Presented by the Great Basin Bird Observatory 2:30PM Lizards and Turtles and Snakes - Oh My! Presented by Cory VanHoose of the Reno Herpetological Society ALL DAY Ongoing Composting and Gardening workshop by Full Circle Compost in the Greenhouse in the Conservation Zone and

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Great Basin Workshops Focusing on the Great Basin region – wildlife, ecology, natural resources, issues, etc.

10:30AM MYO Reusable T-Shirt Bag! Presented by Lisa Schmidt from Plastic Free Reno 11:30AM Geckos Galore! Presented by Cory VanHoose of the Reno Herpetological Society Backyard Gardening & Worm Soil. Presented by Nikki Boyce of the River School Farm 12:30PM 1:30PM Identifying GMO’s in Your Food. Presented by Kiki Corbin, CTN, of Label GMO Nevada 2:30PM Plant Classifications!. Presented by Nate Daniel from Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation

Spirit Garden Workshops Spiritual and cultural awareness workshops 11:00AM Future Kind and Life Straws. Presented by Jessica Valle of Future Kind 12:00PM Yoga in the Park. Presented by Cia Greene of Pure Yoga 2:00-4:00PM Sound Healing unlocking the ancient vibrations of the cosmos” with the Didgedelic Cowboy, and the Gong Diva, with special guest Tom the Wizard of Light and Clayton the Cosmic Conductor. Featuring a Earth Gong, flutes, didgeridoo, drums, and singing bowls. In the Giant Tipi.

2:30PM Spirit Walk. Presented by Matt Fisher of the Reno Buddhist Center 3:30PM Bullying for Kids. Presented by Lena Covello from Birth 2012 Reno Earth Day reserves the right to modify these schedules at any time

The Artists’ Grove Sponsored by Reno Art Works has outdone themselves by creating a unique backdrop from this area, envisioned and produced entirely by our local artists. The scene will envelope the Artists’ Grove, and numerous local artists and art groups will be featured in the Grove, demonstrating their work, hosting activities or educating regarding art in schools and the ever-growing Reno art culture. Come witness unique works and support your local artists who have come to support Reno Earth Day.

The Garden A garden for all things green and growing, check out live plants, hydroponics systems and garden technologies, while learning about soils, planting and harvesting your own food in an urban environment - naturally and safely.

Future of Transportation A world of energy efficiency, electric vehicles of all modes and mass transit - both existing and imagined! Come test drive the latest hybrid models, meet the Tour de Nez famous bicycle race organizers, explore RTC’s new articulated buses and have fun with the art cars: Space Shuttle and Flying Saucer.

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Reno Earth Day Exhibitors Animalia Kingdom

A Plus Animal Hospital Animal Ark Boxers + Buddies (Dogs, Inc.) Branch Clothing Fantasy Face Painting FRONN Goats R Us - 4H Heartbreakers & Co Heart’s Companion Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Hills Angels Hippies Hungry Mother Organics Natural Paws Nevada Humane Society-Cats Nevada Humane Society-Dogs Rancho Red Rock - Pony Rides Reno Herpetological Society Reno News and Review/Heart’s Companion SNAKE (Sierra NV Academy of Kindred Exotherms) SPCA of Northern Nevada Steve Nesbitt Zippy Pets

Reno Hydroponics River School Farm Urban Roots Garden Classrooms

Radio Stations 105.7 KOZZ Rock 104.5 93.7 Bob FM 100.1 The X 100.9 The Mix 92.9 The Bandit 92.1 The Wolf

Others

Alderego Aspen Electric Ayurvedic Herbal Systems, Inc. Bhakti Yoga Dhama Black Rock Solar California Transplant Donor Network Capital Glass Carolyn Kenny

Chakra Village Tee Pee Church of Inner Light ComputerCorps Crafts by Neddie Davidson’s Organics Denise’s Gem Creations Desert Tortoise Tie Dyes Dragonfly Media Eastern Sierra Land Trust Energy Fit Envirolution Everlasting Health Floating on Clouds Massage Friends of Black Rock High Rock Friends of Nevada Wilderness Fun Time TATS Futurekind Gold Seam Vintage Gradient Resources Great Basin Fed Credit Union Great Basin Institute Great Basin Resource Watch

Heifer International Hemp Designs Independent Power Corp.

Indie Reno Juice Plus Kashmir American Keep Tahoe Blue L and Woodworks L’Essence Day Spa Lovely Salt Scrubs Made in America Make Your Momentum Mama Em’s World Maternal Integrity Project Midtown District Reno Miki’s Arts and Crafts Mission of Sierra Nevada Mt. Rose Designs Mystic Rose NDEP - Nevada Recycles Nevada Birth 2012 Note-Ables Music Therapy

Awake and Aging NDEP - Water Quality Nevada Connections Academy Nevada Satsang Society Petco Reno-Sparks Local Business Co-op The Honors Academy of Literature The Green Party Washoe County Democratic Party Washoe County Health - Air Quality Management

EAST STAGE Sponsored by 100.1 The X 9:30 AM 10:45 AM 12:00 PM 12:15 AM 1:00 PM 1:10 PM 1:20 PM 1:50 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:45 PM 5:15 PM

Connecting the Good/Birth 2012 Earth Cleanse Invocation West Coast Martial Arts Martial Arts Demonstration Destynee Howell Cirque Hula Hoop The Note-Ables Connecting the Good/Birth 2012 Earth Spirit Circle Activity Jim Eaglesmith Under One Sky Song Staford Christy Native American Spirit Dance Paisley Brain Cells Psychedelic/Classic Rock Earth Day Fashion Show Fashion Show Jahzuki Reggae/Funk Zephyr Spirit Tribe Belly Dance Belly Dancing Six Mile Station Folk/Rock/Americana

Rajan Zed Love Like Wes Reno Taiko Tsurunokai Farewell Belladonna Future Kind Drinking with Clowns In Motion Dance Studio CRUSH Velocity Movement Scarlet Presence Earth Innovations Weapons of Mass Creation

Sponsored by 105.7 KOZZ 10:30 AM John Fredrick 11:30 AM Mick 1:30 PM Smiley Mikey 2:30 PM Jayde Howell 3:30 PM Avatara 4:30 PM Todd South 5:30 PM Max Volume

Full Circle Compost Great Basin Bird Observatory Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful Nature Conservancy Nevada Discovery Museum NV Energy Sierra Nevada Journeys UNR American Fisheries Society

Future of Transportation

Electric Auto Association of Northern Nevada Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Kiwanis Bike Program - Bike Sale and Swap NV Energy Electric Car Operation Lifesaver Reno Bike Project - Bike Valet RTC Space Shuttle The Cart Barn Tour de Nez Outreach Vrill Society Car

Multi Faith Invocation Japanese Taiko Drumming Folk/Bluegrass AcroYoga Latin Rock Band Dance Music Hula Hoop Act Rock, Blues Science Fair Prizes Punk Rock

Singer Songwriter Acoustic Rock Singer Songwriter Intrumental Guitar Singer/Songwriter Singer/Songwriter Acoustic Rock

Conservation Zone Sponsored by

and

This area will include local organization booths with fun, interactive and educational activities for kids and adults. There will also be a “Picnic for Earth” area with available picnic blankets so that visitors can relax on this beautiful day.

Conservation Zone Workshops are listed on this page under “Workshops”.

The Garden

Campie’s Lavender Patch Girl Scouts of Sierra Nevada Great Basin Community Food Co-Op Hidden Valley Honey Hyde’s Herbs Jr. Garden Rangers (School Club) Lattin Farms Olsen’s Soap Works

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Tahoe Rim Trail Association Technology Center The Melting Pot The Tea Rex Thirty One Gifts TM Chabot Trail Safe Nevada Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Truckee Meadows Water Authority Tupin Crafts Unitarian Universalist of Northern NV Usborne Books and More VegNV Velocity Movement Virtual Academy Washoe County School District Washoe Tribe Environmental Division Waste Management Weston Price Foundation

LIvE EnTERTAInmEnT: Acoustic Stage

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Om Home Reno/MA On the Move One of A Kind Stuff Paper Moon Personality Plus Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Plastic Free Reno Prism Magic ProEnergy Consultants Pure Yoga REMSA Reno Gazette Journal Reno High School Environmental Club Reno Vineyard Rock the Babe SEA Group Sierra Club Sierra Green Builders Snowlands Network Solar Universe Somewhere in Time Sunvelope Solar

9:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:45 AM 11:15 AM 12:30 PM 12:45 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:45 PM 4:45 PM 5:15 PM

Earth Innovations California Building

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LIvE EnTERTAInmEnT: Electric Stages

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Carola Nan Roach Cheryl Rhodes Custom Metal Graphics Kelderman Klassy Glass Nevada Rock Art Foundation Paul Schmidt Winter Art Reno Art Works Mallory Mishler

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WORKShOpS Educational Workshops Running throughout the day in two locations. Attend at least 2 workshops during the day and receive one of 600 prizes from the Prize Gallery!

Conservation Zone Workshops – 12:30PM Bird ID and Research. Presented by the Great Basin Bird Observatory 2:30PM Lizards and Turtles and Snakes - Oh My! Presented by Cory VanHoose of the Reno Herpetological Society ALL DAY Ongoing Composting and Gardening workshop by Full Circle Compost in the Greenhouse in the Conservation Zone and

Sponsored by

Great Basin Workshops Focusing on the Great Basin region – wildlife, ecology, natural resources, issues, etc.

10:30AM MYO Reusable T-Shirt Bag! Presented by Lisa Schmidt from Plastic Free Reno 11:30AM Geckos Galore! Presented by Cory VanHoose of the Reno Herpetological Society Backyard Gardening & Worm Soil. Presented by Nikki Boyce of the River School Farm 12:30PM 1:30PM Identifying GMO’s in Your Food. Presented by Kiki Corbin, CTN, of Label GMO Nevada 2:30PM Plant Classifications!. Presented by Nate Daniel from Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation

Spirit Garden Workshops Spiritual and cultural awareness workshops 11:00AM Future Kind and Life Straws. Presented by Jessica Valle of Future Kind 12:00PM Yoga in the Park. Presented by Cia Greene of Pure Yoga 2:00-4:00PM Sound Healing unlocking the ancient vibrations of the cosmos” with the Didgedelic Cowboy, and the Gong Diva, with special guest Tom the Wizard of Light and Clayton the Cosmic Conductor. Featuring a Earth Gong, flutes, didgeridoo, drums, and singing bowls. In the Giant Tipi.

2:30PM Spirit Walk. Presented by Matt Fisher of the Reno Buddhist Center 3:30PM Bullying for Kids. Presented by Lena Covello from Birth 2012 Reno Earth Day reserves the right to modify these schedules at any time

The Artists’ Grove Sponsored by Reno Art Works has outdone themselves by creating a unique backdrop from this area, envisioned and produced entirely by our local artists. The scene will envelope the Artists’ Grove, and numerous local artists and art groups will be featured in the Grove, demonstrating their work, hosting activities or educating regarding art in schools and the ever-growing Reno art culture. Come witness unique works and support your local artists who have come to support Reno Earth Day.

The Garden A garden for all things green and growing, check out live plants, hydroponics systems and garden technologies, while learning about soils, planting and harvesting your own food in an urban environment - naturally and safely.

Future of Transportation A world of energy efficiency, electric vehicles of all modes and mass transit - both existing and imagined! Come test drive the latest hybrid models, meet the Tour de Nez famous bicycle race organizers, explore RTC’s new articulated buses and have fun with the art cars: Space Shuttle and Flying Saucer.

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A large component of Earth Day goals is sustainability: Renewable fuel and energy sources, new technologies for reducing or cleaning up pollution and other human impacts, conservation of natural resources through both technologies and habits, new agricultural technologies.

Earth Innovations seeks to explore and engage the ideas of our young minds in these areas, as young minds are key to a sustainable future. This includes a Science Fair with Washoe County high schools participating.

We will showcase 30 of these projects at the fair in the California Building.

10AM-2PM 2PM-4PM 4:30PM

Exhibitions and Demonstrations Science Fair Judging with judges from Truckee Meadows Water Authority, USDA Agricultural Resource Services, Reno Earth Day and UNR Awards Ceremony on the West Stage

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All you can’t eat Sushi Saga Siena Hotel Spa Casino, 1 S. Lake St., 327-4362 Sushi Saga has taken over an oddly shaped space in the corner of the Siena Hotel Spa Casino that looks like it by K.J. Sullivan was probably once part of the coffee shop. The look is modern, but the red booths and carpets paired with yellow chairs made me feel like I was in a McDonald’s, albeit a fancy McDonald’s. Sushi Saga offers an a la carte menu as well as an all-you-can-eat menu (AYCE). I

met my friends Judy, Annette and Brett there on a Sunday afternoon.

We were all pretty hungry so we decided to do the AYCE option ($19 for lunch, $24 for dinner), even though I was a little concerned about the limited choices on the AYCE menu. It excluded any signature rolls and even basics like upside-down shrimp.

When our waitress finally came over, she brought another AYCE menu, meaning our table of four now had two menus. Um, thanks?

As she darted off, I managed to call out for water. Brett and I had signed up for the Siena’s rewards program as we noticed a billboard offering, “buy one AYCE sushi, get the second at half price.” When she returned to collect our orders, Brett showed her the rewards card, but she indicted she didn’t need it until the end.

We placed our order and waited and waited and waited. For a lunchtime crowd, one sushi chef and one waitress does not cut it. After about half an hour, I realized the only way

Chef Daniel’s Siena Tower: spicy ground yellowfin tuna, spicy crab, avocado, rice and two kinds of flying fish eggs.

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I was going to make it through this lunch was with the assistance of alcohol. Somehow, I managed to flag down our server to order a large Sapporo ($8). Before anyone else at the table could place an order, she again scurried away.

About 35 minutes in, the sushi chef brought out two rolls, apologized for the delay, and indicated they were very busy. Yes, who knew that on a weekend at lunchtime a restaurant would be busy? The two rolls brought out, the Nevada and the Priscilla, were large and looked good, so we thought things might be turning around. Instead, both rolls were missing key ingredients like scallops and cilantro on the Priscilla and mango and seared tuna on the Nevada. About this same time, another sushi chef arrived, and we again foolishly assumed things would speed up and improve. Cue another 20 minutes while we waited for our nigiri and remaining rolls.

Every roll we ordered seemed to taste the same, except the Ninja, which was deep-fried and just tasted burnt. We realized the rolls all tasted the same because they were all missing ingredients. While the fish was fairly fresh, they skimped on it.

Additionally, the rice would not stay together, causing a huge mess.

We all wanted more sushi but at this point, but we had been at the restaurant for well over an hour and were just done. When our server finally brought the bill, I offered up my rewards card. She told us we didn’t get the discount because we hadn’t all ordered drinks. This might have been helpful to indicate when we first showed her the card, but then again, that still would have required she actually take our drink order. She agreed to discount one meal—probably based on my large beer and exasperated look.

Don’t bother with Sushi Saga.

The AYCE menu is limited and overpriced, the sushi isn’t that great, and the service was horrid. There are far too many sushi restaurants in this town to waste your time here. Ω

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Father knows worst The Place Beyond the Pines

FRIENDS OF BLACK ROCK HIGH ROCK RE-LAUNCH FILM FESTIVAL The Wild & Scenic Film Festival returns to Reno, Friday, May 3. Friends of Black Rock High Rock, a leading local conservation organization, are the new hosts, taking over from Nevada Wilderness Project.

Director Derek Cianfrance, who helmed the devastatingly brilliant Blue Valentine, cranks up his ambitions for The Place Beyond the Pines, a gripping film experiment that works on every level.

Cianfrance, as with Blue Valentine, does a lot of unconventional things. There are many stories in this movie, with strong emphasis on by many characters. Cianfrance finds a way to Bob Grimm focus on these characters in an efficient way that doesn’t have us jumping from one story b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m to another from scene to scene. The stories progress chronologically over a period of about 16 years, with some characters fading away as others take over like runners taking a baton in a relay race.

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The result is long, but never boring.

The film starts with a lengthy tracking shot that follows Ryan Gosling’s Luke, a stunt motorcycle driver, as he leaves his trailer and heads for the evening gig. The shot establishes that, although the heavily tattooed, bleached blond Luke is a semi-celebrity on the carnival circuit, he’s undeniably lonely and isolated.

Luke gets some surprising news from ex-lover Romina (Eva Mendes), and his life trajectory takes a drastic shift. He goes from stunt shows to robbing banks, a decision that will bring him face to face with Avery (Bradley Cooper), a rookie cop with a terrible haircut. Avery finds himself thrust into upstate New York law enforcement with the big boys, which includes being around much corruption.

Hey, Ray Liotta is one of the cops, so there you go. Bad stuff always goes down when Liotta is in the mix.

Luke and Avery both have 1-year-old sons, and the film ultimately deals with the sons’ stories when they have hit 17. AJ (Emory

Cohen) is Avery’s son, a neglected product of divorce with a marble mouth, a taste for drugs, and violent temper. Jason (Dane DeHaan) is Luke’s son, a mild-mannered loner who knows little about his father and gets high a lot. The two sons cross paths, become friends, and the film becomes a startling look at the results of bad fathering.

The movie is always good, but is perhaps at its best in the Gosling scenes. Gosling got off to bad start this year with his junky turn in the lousy Gangster Squad. His performance here puts him back on the right track. Luke has similarities to the dark, brooding Driver from Drive (like Driver, Luke is prone to violent outbursts). Gosling brings out sensitivity in Luke that makes him all the more tragic when his crime spree spirals out of control and things go downhill.

Cooper, recently Oscarnominated for Silver Linings Playbook, is every bit Gosling’s equal in this film, making Avery virtuous at first, but prone to devious leanings.

Avery’s ambitions lead to broken marriages and a miserable kid, canceling out any heroic deeds from years before.

Cooper has become an actor capable of delivering no false notes for the entirety of his film performances. His work here is just as strong as his work in Playbook.

As for Cohen and DeHaan, they provide Pines with an absorbing final act. It’s usually a good thing when a movie has a couple of memorable characters in it. This film has a whole cast’s worth. No character gets shortchanged in the narrative.

Mendes heads the supporting cast with an authority that, quite frankly, she’s never shown before. She’s nothing short of terrific here, and it’s a performance that should open some new doors for the veteran actress. The ever-reliable Ben Mendelsohn (so good in Killing Them Softly) gives a wonderfully quirky performance as Robin.

Anybody thinking The Place Beyond the Pines is just a movie about a dude on a motorcycle robbing banks—as commercials have implied—will be in for a big surprise.

It’s a sprawling work about the sins of the father that happen to include Gosling on a motorcycle, robbing banks. It’s also one of the year’s best films so far. Ω

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Spike Lee tried to get a movie about American hero Jackie Robinson, starring Denzel Washington, off the ground for many years, but couldn’t make it happen. I get a feeling that Lee, who made one of the great biopics with Malcolm X, would’ve done something really special with the subject.

This effort from director Brian Helgeland (Payback) is OK, even really good at times, but gets awfully hokey in too many moments.

Chadwick Boseman is a great pick to play Robinson, as is Lucas Black as Pee Wee Reese. Harrison Ford delivers big time as Branch Rickey, the man who brought Robinson to the majors, and Christopher Meloni leaves the movie all too soon as Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, who was suspended the year Robinson made his debut. Boseman shines, even when the movie doesn’t, and it’s a lot of fun to see Ford do something this craggy and different. I’m thinking Robinson went through some major hell during his baseball times, and this movie only scratches the surface. It’s good, but it should’ve been great.

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Evil Dead

The low-budget classic horror film gets a slick new remake and loses the iconic character of Ash in favor of a girl trying to kick heroin. Mia (Jane Levy) is trying to sober up, so friends and family take her out to a secluded cabin. They find a mysterious book in the basement, somebody reads it out loud, Mia goes for a walk in the woods, the woods treat her badly, and gore aplenty ensues. While Levy is fine in the central role, and Lou Taylor Pucci is good as one of the guys who should’ve gone to a hotel instead, the film has a few too many uninteresting characters. Shiloh Fernandez is a dud as Mia’s brother, and Elizabeth Blackmore is only there so somebody can cut her own arm off. Let it be said that moments such as the arm-cutting are well done. The film is a true gore fest. While it is OK, and doesn’t slander Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, it’s not a horror classic by any means. Like most good horror these days, it’s just good, and that is all.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Yes, the sequel is an improvement over the original, but don’t get your hopes up too high. Dwayne Johnson joins something like his 18th franchise, as does Bruce Willis, in this confusing yet sometimes entertaining follow-up to G.I. Joe: The Sucky First Movie.

There are some good action sequences, including a snowy cliff sword battle and the destruction of London. There’s also a lot of clatter about Cobra Commanders and Snake Eyes and a bunch of other toy names I simply lost track of. Channing Tatum and Johnson have a great rapport, and a whole movie with them together could’ve been fun.

Unfortunately, Tatum makes an early exit, making way for The Smirk. Willis is OK here, but he doesn’t add all that much. Jonathan Pryce is fairly menacing as two characters: the President of the United States and his evil imposter. I’d tell you some plot details, but that would be a waste of space. Just know that if you plunk down for this you will see a couple of good action sequences and a whole lot of mindless crap.

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The Host

From the toxic pen of Stephenie Meyer comes this atrocity about an alien race of psychedelic sperm “bonding” with humans and taking over their bodies and minds. In the future, the planet has been overrun excepting for pockets of resisters, one of them being Melanie (Saoirse Ronan).

Melanie’s luck runs out, she’s bonded with an alien and becomes Wanda. Wanda starts hearing Melanie’s voice in her head, begins arguing with herself, and the film becomes just about the dumbest thing you will ever see. Wanda makes it out to a desert commune where her uncle (William Hurt) is harvesting wheat in a rock. She has two boys after her, one of them being Melanie’s ex and the other being somebody who just doesn’t mind getting it on with an alien as long as said alien is inhabiting a hot American girl’s body. Seriously, I can’t even believe this thing even happened. Stay away, for the good of your health and all of mankind.

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Jurassic Park 3D

Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur fantasy is still one of the best adventure films ever made, but the new 3-D retrofit winds up muting the presentation rather than expanding it. Unlike, say, James Cameron’s Titanic, which looked and felt like it was meant to be shot in 3-D, the presentation here feels forced. The color is diminished, and the scope seems “squished.” It’s not awful, and I’ve seen worse 3-D, but it fails to enhance the film much. Some theaters are offering the movie in its original 2-D presentation, and I would recommend revisiting it in one of those theaters for sure. The combination of practical and computer effects to create the dinosaurs has easily stood the test of time. The dinosaurs continue to look amazing. Watching the 3-D version, I did notice that Jeff Goldblum sticks his tongue out a lot when he speaks. It’s creepy.

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Gerard Butler stars in one of the more ridiculous action films you will see this year. He’s a Secret Service agent on duty the night something very bad happens to the president (Aaron Eckhart), and he winds up with a desk job. When some nasty North Koreans hilariously infiltrate the White House and hold the president and his cabinet hostage in the bunker, it’s time for Gerard to dispense with the paper clips and pick up an automatic weapon! Yes, it’s Die Hard in the White House, or at least it wants to be. There’s some fun to be had here, but the movie has some tragic flaws, including terrible CGI and mawkish patriotic crap that distracts rather than making the heart swell (Melissa Leo screaming the Pledge of Allegiance as she is dragged to certain death comes to mind). You aren’t going to catch me calling this a good movie, but I won’t fault you for enjoying it to some degree if you choose to see it. It’s one of those “so bad it’s almost good” movies.

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James Franco is in over his head for Sam Raimi’s mostly lame prequel to The Wizard of Oz. The title character calls for somebody with that old school Hollywood charm like Robert Downey, Jr., or Johnny Depp. Franco looks like a kid playing dress up here, and he’s not even the worst thing about the movie. That would be Mila Kunis looking completely lost as the witch who will become that witch we all know from the original Oz. I’m sorry—that witch isn’t supposed to be all corseted and hot. As for Rachel Weisz, she fares best as yet another witch, while Michelle Williams is just serviceable as Glinda the Good Witch. Raimi relies heavily on CGI effects—big surprise—and they look pretty crappy for the most part.

This is an underwhelming movie in much the same way his Spider-Man 3 missed the mark.

It’s overblown, misguided and odd.

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Spring Breakers

This looked like it would be fun. A movie full of bikini-clad starlets, including Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, going on a crime spree to raise money for a spring break trip, and then continuing the crime spree when they get to Florida. Director Harmony Korine blows a good opportunity for fun by making a repetitive, slow, sloppy movie with no script. James Franco shows up as a rapper/crime lord who can’t rap for dick and looks like an idiot. I was hoping Franco could bring some offbeat fun to the party, but all we get is him describing the contents of his room and making up stupid songs. This one feels like the director shot about fifteen minutes worth of worthy footage and stretched it out by repeating said footage or picking stuff up off the cutting room floor and throwing it back in.

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Piano for an answer John Medeski How did that happen? It always seemed a little disconnected to me.

Actually, to be honest, I’m glad to hear that [laughs]. Really. To a lot of people, that’s what we are. And we never understood it. It never made sense to us, but it’s been a very welcoming scene. The truth is we were around before that scene was a scene. We were doing our thing, and that scene didn’t exist. We were there at the beginning of it, as it was developing, and for some reason the people related to our music. ... We got together in ’91, 22 years ago. There was no jam band scene then. There was the Dead, and Phish was starting to get huge, but there really wasn’t this whole scene. We ended up opening up for Phish on a gig—one gig.

And I think we had a tour where we had a very similar routing. We were playing Madison, Wisconsin, and there was 4,000 kids there. It was a night off from Phish, and the kids had heard one of our CDs at a Phish show, so they came to the gig. And that’s how it happened. It sort of evolved organically. I’d like to speculate that maybe there’s something we’re doing that’s different than what the other bands are doing. That scene is a very broad scene, musically. Admittedly, there’s certainly a lot of noodly guitar to be found [laughs], which you’ll not find in our band. We don’t even have a guitar player. It’s a blessing and a curse. What’s great is that there’s a lot of people listening to our music and the scene is very welcoming and open. I think the curse is that these are people who are not really listening and experiencing music on a higher level. … But I’ll tell you one of the things about the trio, and this also bridges into doing an acoustic gig. There’s a level of communication when it’s just the three of us. Three is a really incredible number for making music.

Think about piano trios. As much as we use organ, we’re not an organ trio at heart. That music is a big part of my life. We have a bass player, which organ trios don’t have, and it’s more of an expanded piano trio. If you think about musical history—or jazz history—the piano trio is always more intimate and subtler than a quintet or a quartet. You think about Red Garland, Ahmad Jamal or Ramsey Lewis or Dollar Brand. There’s stuff left out, left to the imagination. There’s more space. And that’s kind of really important to what Medeski, Martin & Wood does. We, as a trio—there’s space for the imagination. Ω

Over more than 20 years, the trio Medeski, Martin & Wood has earned unusual mainstream success for an instrumental combo by combining jazz improvisation with funk and hiphop influenced grooves. The trio will perform an all-acoustic concert at Reno’s Knitting Factory, on April 21.

John Medeski is the group’s pianist, keyboardist and organist.

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Billy Martin, Chris Wood and John Medeski of the prolific and eclectic jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Why an all-acoustic tour?

Our very first record when we first started, we were an acoustic piano-based trio. That’s kind of how we started. But we sort of naturally evolved, because they were no pianos anywhere when we started to tour, to bring in the Hammond organ and the electric piano, and one thing lead to another. We kept looking for more sounds and more colors and that’s how the band evolved. At some point, we did that record called Tonic, our first with Blue Note. For us, at that time, we did it mainly because we’d been playing a lot of huge venues.

We’d opened up for Dave Matthews for five nights and playing all these festivals, and frankly we were kind of burned out on that way of making music. Nobody would be really listening. So we did this little all-acoustic run at [defunct New York city club] Tonic mainly for ourselves. We did no amplification. No mics on the piano, no mics on the drums, no mics on the bass—just acoustic in the room. Just for our own sanity. It was a return to a certain more intimate way of playing.

Medeski, Martin & Wood perform at The Knitting Factory, 211 N. Virginia St., on Sunday, April 21.

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For an extended version of this interview, visit www. newsreview.com.

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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

Kill Paris

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

April 20, 9 p.m.

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

POLO LOUNGE

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

PONDEROSA SALOON

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

RAW BAR LAKE TAHOE

31 Highway 50, Stateline; (775) 580-6029

Live music/DJs, 8pm, $0-$15

RED DOG SALOON

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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

Blue Haven, 8pm, no cover

Smoke Signalz, 9pm, $5, no cover charge for women

DJ Battles, 9pm, $5-$15

Reggae Vibes, 8pm, $0-$15

Thought Creates Audio w/DJ AHN, 10pm, no cover

Comedy Night hosted by Brandon Lara, 9:30pm, no cover

RED ROCK BAR

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

THE RED ROOM

Karaoke w/Craig Holley, 7pm, no cover

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

RISE NIGHTCLUB

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

Fusion Fridays w/DJs Kentot, Fredy G, 10pm, Rise Culture Night, 10pm, $10 $10; no cover charge for women until midnight

RYAN’S SALOON

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

ZeroJones, 9pm, no cover

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

Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY STREGA BAR

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

4/20 party w/Bazooka Zoo, 9pm, no cover

Sil Shoda, 9pm, no cover

310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993

Wicked Hicks, 9pm, no cover

Benefit show w/Electric Gypsy, TAZER, Renegade, Wicked Hicks, 1pm, no cover

Adopt a Singer/Songwriter Showcase, 7:30pm, $5

The Good, The Bad, The Naughty w/Aversion 2nd Annual Bob Marley Burlesque Therapy, Hella A Cappella, 9pm, $10 Tribute, 9pm, $15 Crush, Ruby Jaye Fradkin, 7pm, no cover

Open Mic Night w/Tany Jane, 8pm, M, Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Karaoke, 8pm, M,Mixtape DJ/iPod jam session, 8pm, Tu, live music/DJs, 8pm, W, $0-$15

A Surrogate Band, 9pm, $3, $5

210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833 924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

April 24, 8 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/22-4/24

Rick Sparks and Friends, 7:30pm, no cover

76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

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SUNDAY 4/21

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover Standup Tuesdays Comedy Open Mic, 7:30pm, Tu, open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

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

WALK TO CREATE A WORLD FREE OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

WALK MS: Reno/Sparks Saturday, May 4, 2013

Idlewild Park Terrace

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2) Kid and Nic Show, 8pm, no cover

2) Kid and Nic Show, 4pm, Rebekah Chase Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Kid and Nic Show, 4pm, Rebekah Chase Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Rebekah Chase Band, 8pm, no cover

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

Bobby Jo Valentine, 6pm, no cover

Keith Allen, 4:30pm, Dean Bromwell, 8pm, no cover

Dean Bromwell, 8pm, no cover

Dean Bromwell, 6pm, 8pm, no cover

Jason King, 10pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Decoy, 7pm, no cover

2) Decoy, 8pm, no cover

2) Decoy, 8pm, no cover

2) Brian Andrews, 6pm, no cover

2) Brian Andrews, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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

BOOMTOWN 2100 Garson Rd., Verdi; (775) 345-6000

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

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Break Science

1) Purple Haze, Casual Dogs, 1) Break Science, Auxiliary, 9pm, no cover 10pm, $12, $15 2) Dubvirus, SInth3sys, 11:30pm, no cover

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

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

2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

HARRAH’S RENO 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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2) Steppen Stonz, 7pm, no cover 3) Alex Miller, 6pm, no cover 5) DJ Larry Williams, 7pm, no cover

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

1) Menopause the Musical, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Menopause the Musical, 3pm, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Atomika, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10

1) Menopause the Musical, 3pm, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Lingerie Bowling w/DJ Williams, 7pm, Double Trouble, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Lingerie Bowling w/DJ Williams, 7pm, Double Trouble, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Four Tenors, 8pm, $25, $35

1) Tim Snider, Kate Cotter, House of Waters, 8pm, $20 2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover 3) Alex Miller, 6pm, no cover 5) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

1) Mark Sexton Band, 8pm, $15 2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 9pm, no cover 5) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 7pm, no cover 5) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

1) Menopause the Musical, 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Karaoke, 10pm, M, Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Left of Centre, 10pm, W, no cover

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

2) Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 7pm, W, no cover 3) Michael Higgins & Gary Metz, 6pm, W, no cover

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

MONTBLEU RESORT 55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 4) Onsen Beach & Nightclub 5) Outdoor Event Center

1) Kill Paris, Candyland, 9pm, $12 3) Boogie Nights at Blu, 8pm, $5-$10, free w/’70s or ’80s attire

3) Antiserum, 10pm, $15, $20

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

3) 3-D Thursdays w/DJs Max, Chris English, Kronyak, 10pm, $20

2) Local guest DJs, 10pm, W, no cover

2) Schall Adams, 9pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing with BB of Salsa Reno, 2) Schall Adams, 9pm, no cover 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 3) DJ Enferno, 10pm, $20 DJ XM Fredie, 10pm, $20

2) Carolyn Dolan Duo, 7pm, no cover

1) Foreigner, 8pm, $55.50-$69.50 2) Live music/DJ, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 7pm, no cover 4) Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover 4) Live music, 6:30pm, 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 Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover

2) Carolyn Dolan Duo, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

SILVER LEGACY 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 3) Social Network Night, 9pm, no cover 1) Grand Exposition Hall 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge 5) Drinx Lounge

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— The Ne vada Chamber Oper a Presents —

For Tickets: www.UNR.edu/Music or call (775) 784–3555

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A program of the School of the Arts, Department of Music.

For Tickets: www.UNR.edu/Music or call (775) 784–3555

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Sierra Nevada Guitar International Guitar Series Sierra Nevada Guitar holds its spring concert series featuring classical guitarists from across the country and the world. The series, which kicked off on April 17, features musicians Larry Aynesmith, Yuri Liberzon, Anna Helwing, Chakrapani Singh and Pete Fairley, who will present a program of guitar music ranging from Renaissance-era compositions to contemporary work. Singh will perform Indian ragas and his own compositions on the Indian slide guitar. Performances will take place on April 18 at Hope Lutheran Church in Carson City, on April 19 at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Incline Village, on April 20 at First Congregational Church in Reno, and on April 21 at Squaw Valley Chapel in Olympic Valley, Calif. The concerts begin at 8 p.m., except for the April 21 show which begins at 4 p.m. The performances are free, but donations are requested to benefit Sierra Nevada Guitar Society’s Guitar Festival & Competition in July. Call 298-1686 or visit www.sierraguitar.org.

—Kelley Lang

Animal Ark Sanctuary’s Raptor Adventure

Marco Calliari Sextet

Learn about eagles, hawks, falcons and other birds of prey this weekend at the wildlife sanctuary, located about 25 miles north of Reno. Falconers Jim & Kathleen Tigan will present an hour-long program on these winged hunters featuring some of these birds in flight. The program starts at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at Animal Ark’s new amphitheater. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for children ages 3-12.

Animal Ark is located at 1265 Deerlodge Road, off Red Rock Road. Call (775) 970-3111 or visit www.animalark.org.

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Swing Into Spring with Curious George

The Quebec-born musician describes his Italian folk-fusion as “pasta al dente with a little grappa and la famiglia.” While that sort of comes off sounding more like an advertisement for an Italian restaurant, Calliari and his band are known to put on an energetic show performing their insalata mista of sounds, which include pop, jazz, flamenco, reggae, tarantella and rock.

The band performs at 8 p.m. on April 20 at the Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon. Tickets are $17 for Churchill Arts Council members and $20 for nonmembers. Call (775) 423-1440.

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Bring your little tyke to Rancho San Rafael Regional Park for this day of exploration and hands-on activities at the park’s Great Basin Adventure. The day’s events kick off at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 20, with a pancake breakfast that will cost $5 for adults and $3 for kids age 12 and younger.

The fun continues at 10 a.m. with a free scavenger hunt,and kite-making, craftmaking and seed-planting activities. There will be free showings of the movie Curious George Swings Into Spring from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Inside the Wilbur D. May Museum.

Finally, Kathleen Durham will read stories to youngsters at 2 p.m. Admission is free for most events. There will be a special $6 admission per person to the Creatures exhibit at the May Museum. Rancho San Rafael Park is at 1595 N. Sierra St. Call the museum at 785-5961 or KNPB Channel 5 at 682-7781 or visit www.knpb.org/swing. |

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The Art of Coffee

3rd Annual TWC Cannabis Cup

Nicholle Alumbaugh of Homage Bakery and Nathanael May of Portland Roasting Coffee will take coffee lovers on a journey from “soil to saucer” during this class. Learn about the production and processing of coffee, sustainable practices, and how to make a good cup of joe. Participants will also get to sample a dessert and coffee pairing at Homage Bakery, 519 Ralston St. The class takes place at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 19, and 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. The cost is $32 for Nevada Museum of Art members and $37 for non-members. Register by calling the NMA at 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org.

While Earth Day will get most of the attention this week, there’s another “green” holiday that’s almost as important to a certain segment of the population. 420 (also spelled 4:20, 4/20) celebrates the cannabis plant. Tahoe Wellness Cooperative will hold a cannabis-tasting event in celebration of 420 on April 20 at 3445 Lake Tahoe Blvd, South Lake Tahoe. Members of the medical marijuana coop will judge strains donated by member providers. The event begins at noon and also features performances by reggae and hip-hop artists Lion Camp, Hieroglyphics and Don Carlos. The results of the cannabis-tasting will be announced at 4:20 p.m. Tickets for the show are $20 in advance and $30 at the door. For details, call (530) 544-8000 or visit www.tahoewellnesscoop.org.

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Ivy Spadone, PA-C, Chief Operations Officer

helping People... that’s our passion “We’ve always had a model of care where we take care of the whole patient, not just the disease process. our model of care that was solely focused on hiV patients became a model of care that is now available to all patients. that’s a big change.

What makes hopes stand apart is that we integrate mental health into primary care, and that’s not something that a lot of other people do. We want the majority of our patients to have good health outcomes. that’s what’s going to make our community strong.

We take care of patients as a team. For example, the patient has a case manager, a mental health provider, a medical provider, and an r.n. if you come in for your diabetes and you cannot take care of your insulin, we’ll have social services help you with that. if you’re depressed, we’ll have mental health help you with that. it’s a very team-integrated process.

Dark clouds on the Verizon I work 9 to 5, and my girlfriend of two years is retired and free all day. I’ve asked that we treat dinner as our special time to reconnect and ignore incoming phone calls. Sadly, she has resisted me with full force. Whenever the phone rings during dinner, she answers and stays on as long as the call takes. We don’t get urgent calls.

She counters that if the phone rings, you answer it, and that it could be some problem she can just address and be done with. She deems my request “controlling,” yet I’ve never thrown a tantrum. I’ve also asked her to ignore the phone when we’re in bed, but her tendency is to answer it—even if we’re having sex. I’ve explained how unwanted this phone thing makes me feel, but she doesn’t seem to get it.

What will happen if one of these calls goes to voicemail?

Kim Jong Un will unleash an electromagnetic pulse bomb on the U.S., and the power grid will be fried for 40 years—or the neighbor will have to call back to tell your girlfriend the ingenious thing she did to perk up her banana cake?

Two years into your relationship, the point when so many partners are just getting good at taking each other for granted, you’re telling your girlfriend you want to carve out special time to focus on each other—just 30 minutes out of her unbusy day. She, in turn, responds like you just demanded she cut off her three favorite fingers.

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It’s possible that she isn’t entirely conscious of why she’s treating you this way. She may fear getting closer and then getting dumped, or think you’ll value her more if she makes you feel like less and less. It’s possible she’s punishing you for something or trying to abuse you into leaving. What is clear is who’s the controlling one here—the self-appointed dowager countess of the relationship, making the unilateral decision that the phone will be answered no matter what.

It must get hard to parse whether you’re in a relationship or a call center. Perhaps you, like many people, assume that being in a relationship means having a partner who loves you and cares about your happiness. Your girlfriend does seem to—as long as it doesn’t mean having to call somebody back after dinner. Even if she doesn’t fully understand what’s motivating her behavior, if she does love you, she can behave lovingly while she figures it out and stops answering the phone like she’s one of the town’s two sober volunteer firemen. Telling her how unwanted you feel obviously isn’t enough. You also have to have standards for how you’ll be treated and be willing to walk if they aren’t met—ideally, into the arms of a woman whose screams of passion in bed don’t include “Who’s calling, please?”

i always feel like, when i come to work every day, i have really made an impact in somebody’s life. helping people and always making sure that the under-served community has resources that they can access – that’s our passion.”

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica,CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The writer

Oliver Burkeman has some advice that would be helpful for you Aries folks to hear right now: “When you assume your current preferences won’t alter, you’ll make bad decisions: embarking on a career or marriage, say, not with a view to its durability, but solely based on how it makes you feel now.” I am most definitely not predicting that you are about to make the kind of bad decision Burkeman refers to. I’m sure my warning here in this horoscope will derail any temptation you might have to make shortsighted moves.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m happy

to report that help from the invisible world is available to you right now. Of course, you won’t be able to use it, let alone tune in to it, if you don’t believe there is any such thing as help from the invisible world. So, if you are the type of person who is very sure that reality consists of nothing more than what your senses reveal, I suggest that you temporarily suspend that belief. And if you are someone who has had direct experiences with blessings that come from the unseen realm, be aware that the imminent delivery is quite different from those you have known in the past.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In her book A

Monster’s Notes, Laurie Sheck describes the nuances of the term “ghost” in the German language. A mediocre wine may be called unghostly, she says. A witty, lively person is “Rich in Ghostliness,” whereas a dull, blank type “has no ghost in him.” In this spirit, Gemini, I suspect you will have some pretty fine ghostliness working for you in the coming weeks. And there’s a good chance that part of your extra-special mojo will arise from your creative engagement with energies that resemble the more traditional definition of “ghost.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A one-minute

video commercial for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas luxury resort shows an elegant woman at a sumptuous feast. She’s eagerly holding her dinner plate up to her face so she can lick it clean of its last delicious taste.

The scene shifts to a well-dressed man who’s down on all fours serving as a chair for a chic woman. She applies her makeup while gazing into the shiny mirrorlike surface of a high-heeled shoe. New scene: An 80-year-old woman pats the butt of a handsome young stud with whom she’s slow dancing. At the end of the ad, a catchphrase appears: “Just the right amount of wrong.”

I say, let that be your mantra in the coming week, Cancerian.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Albert Einstein

published his general theory of relativity in 1916. It had radical implications for the field of theoretical physics but remained an unproven concept until 1919. Then, a British physicist verified its accuracy with evidence gathered during a solar eclipse. The Times newspaper in London announced the event with the headline “Revolution in Science: New Theory of the Universe, Newtonian Theories Overthrown.” Not wanting to be left behind, The New York Times assigned one of its own journalists to cover the revolution. Unfortunately, the person they sent was a sports reporter whose specialty was golf. His article was less than illuminating.

The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Leo: When big developments are underway, show up at full strength, with all your powers engaged.

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lost is not to live,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost. In fact, she says that not knowing how to get lost is unhealthy. These are useful ideas to consider right now, Virgo. It will probably do you good to get at least semilost. As you wander around without a map or compass, I bet you will stumble upon important teachings. At the same time, I hope you will put some thought into how you’re going to get lost. Don’t just leave it to chance. Make sure there’s a method in your madness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the English

language, “low man on the totem pole” is an idiom that refers to a person who has the worst job or the least status. He or she is considered to be at the low end of the hierarchy. But it’s an incorrect metaphor.

The creators of the original totem poles were indigenous Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, and for them the figure at the bottom of the pole was the most important one. I foresee the possibility of a similar situation arising in your sphere, Libra. Be alert for a misapprehension that needs to be righted. It may be the case that what’s last should actually be first.

Something that has been beneath or behind “more important” matters should perhaps get higher priority.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his book

Karmic Traces, Eliot Weinberger describes the life story of naked mole rats. They’re animals that never leave their underground tunnels. Normally, you Scorpios have nothing in common with them. But in the coming days, I’m hoping there will be one resemblance. According to Weinberger, the naked mole rats “change direction by somersaulting.” Metaphorically speaking, I think this would be an excellent strategy for you.

There’s no need to mope cautiously as you alter your course. No need to be lackadaisical and fitful and full of doubts. Just spring into action with a cheery bounce, and move on with a renewed sense of purpose.

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

famous philosopher John Searle unleashed a witty dig about the famous philosopher Jacques Derrida, saying he is “the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name.”

One of your fun assignments in the coming week, Sagittarius, is to do the opposite of what Derrida’s work does. In other words, give bullshit a good name. How? Well, you could engage in creative verbal expressions that boost morale and propagate delight and lubricate worthwhile connections. Make up noble fictions that are more accurate and useful that the literal truth. Spread uplifting gossip that heals and invigorates.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The

ideal piano player … is the one who wants to be the piano,” says a character in Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser. He continues: “I say to myself every day when I wake up, I want to be the Steinway ... I want to be the Steinway itself.” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to apply this attitude to your own personal situation. In other words, merge with the tool you want to master. Immerse yourself in the skill you’re working to perfect—disappear into it. In your imagination, become completely united with the thing or person or experience you desire.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The

trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination,” said writer Louis Kronenberger. I’m concerned that you may have fallen under the sway of this kind of myopia, Aquarius. A steady stream of useful tips and clues has been appearing, but you’re missing some of them. Your long-range goals aren’t sufficiently clear, so you don’t always recognize the significance of new revelations. Here’s the cure: In your imagination, create a vivid picture of your next big destination.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A group of

bicyclists in Southern California challenged a blogger to a race. They said they could cover the 38.4 miles from North Hollywood to Long Beach faster on their bikes than the blogger could get there by plane. As it turned out, they were right. Their trip took an hour and 34 minutes. As for the blogger, he had to drive to the airport, wait for the plane to depart, fly to a different airport, then catch a cab to the designated destination.

He arrived about an hour after the cyclists.

Can you guess which of those two modes of travel is the preferred metaphor for you this week, Pisces? The earthy, simple, stripped-down approach will get you where you need to go better than the big, elaborate, expensive method.

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Yoga soldier Barry Peterson is a West Point alumnus and instructor who teaches courses in genocide, the Vietnam War and nonviolence at the University of Nevada, Reno. Peterson has observed life from diverse perspectives, beginning his career in the military as an infantry officer and later becoming a Bikram Yoga instructor. Now, he’s bringing the two together.

Tell me what you’re involved in right now.

How did that anger and separation come about?

I teach three courses, and I teach yoga.

I’ve also got some projects that relate yoga with the military. ... I went to Germany in November, and I’m going again later this month to the U.S. military bases. … The overall goal is to create a place where veterans and their family can come in a social environment and do yoga and other activities to help them with reintegration and helping them feel good about their lives. I also organized and conducted a workshop for veterans in New York in September. We worked with the group— Team Red, White and Blue—a pro-veteran nonprofit that does a lot of athletic activities with veterans. … We’re going to do that again this September.

environment. There are physical demands on their bodies that take a toll over the years. PTSD and the symptoms of it come to the surface more in really stressful situations. When we have high stress, our tempers are shorter; we tend to react more extremely to emotional situations.

When you look at the life, the career, of a service member, introducing yoga early on can really help them health wise. …

There’s actually a lot of common ground philosophically about doing one’s duty and about facing adversity without resentment. … If service members are clear about what their duty is while they’re serving, there’s a hope that it will lessen the symptoms related to guilt or resentment about what they did or didn’t do.

What are the benefits of yoga in the military?

How did you come from the military to yoga?

It helps with physical flexibility and strength and to reduce the negative effects of stress, which, for the military, is particularly important. They are in a high-stress

I had many years after I got out of the military where I never even thought about yoga. Then I had a phase where yoga came into my life not really by choice…It felt good

Guns and bombs Here’s a snarky skull-scratcher headline from the Huffington Post (April 15)—“Gun Control Vote Will Be a Nail-Biter.”

Really? A nail-biter? Goddammit, aren’t we having to work way too hard to get that goddamn gun show loophole closed? Polls consistently show that at least 80 percent of us—not 53 percent or 61 percent, but 80—want this dangerous loophole closed and closed tight. If that figure is even remotely accurate, the Republican senators from even the most gun-crazed states (Oklahoma, Alabama, Idaho) could vote “yes” and not lose their cushy jobs in Washington. Our own Dean Heller? As of this morning, Deano’s still on the fence. Hasn’t made up his mind on this one. OK, Deano. We’re watching. Are you gonna be a tool of the NRA? Or an actual servant doing the will of the people?

While we sweat, scream and scrape for every one of the 60 votes needed to close the gun show loophole (how’s that nifty little filibuster compromise working for you now, Harry?), I remind OPINION

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for my body. Then over the years, I started to see the commonalities, and I felt that there was something in yoga that I wish I had when I was in the Army. There was a period of time, that’s kind of uncomfortable for me, when I intentionally distanced myself from the military. I held nonviolence and yoga and then the military in these two different areas. I was always angry. I was always judging. But I have arrived at a point where I don’t see that anymore.

I worked for the Department of Defense when 9/11 happened. After 9/11, I went to this extreme, to nonviolence and yoga, and I stayed in that angry place for many years.

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In ’06, I went to my 20-year West Point reunion. I sat down on the shuttle bus next to one of my classmates, and we started swapping stories. He was a lieutenant colonel, and I was a just a full-time yoga teacher. I thought he was going to laugh me off the bus, but he wound up having a really serious conversation with me saying, “Barry, we need yoga in the Army.” It was that conversation that really oriented me to the possibility. Ω

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∫y Bruce Van Dye religious group in Waco, Texas. It’s quite a heavyhanded move.

The compound is burned to the ground, and the group’s 82 members, including 17 children, are killed.

April 19, 1995: Two years later, Tim McVeigh drives his fertilizer car bomb up to the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 people die.

April 20, 1999: In Colorado, the nightmare at Columbine High School takes place, with teen gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killing 15, including themselves.

And now, this thing in Boston.

These events aren’t totally random.

McVeigh chose his date because he was pissed about Waco. The Columbine killers’ choice of April 20 is less certain.

Today’s perps were probably gunning for the Marathon. But the ultimate message is this—stuff goes down and blows up in mid-April, for whatever reason. Beware the Ides of April. Ω

you that the Brits, back in ’97 after a horror called the Dunblane Massacre (16 dead kids, one dead teacher, one dead madman), went ahead and banned handguns. They didn’t screw around with token gestures like improving the background checks. They just banned the guns. And here we are, being told that any bill to control assault weapons or to restrict magazine size is DOA, that these bills don’t have a prayer in our Senate and House.

All we want right now is a lame-ass token gesture. It appears even that is too much for our Congress to muster.

• Speaking of madness, as I write, two bombs just blew off in Boston at the finish line of the famed Marathon.

Early reports indicate death and gore are in play (three dead, over 170 injured, some with missing limbs). Once again, mid-April proves to be a very good time to (1) be on your toes, and (2) put on your crash helmet.

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