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The truth works?

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m sending out a sympathy letter this week. Maybe I’m feeling sorry for myself, but if I am, it’s because misery loves company.

I went most of my life without any problems from allergies, but man, they’re pounding me now, sapping my strength, depressing my metabolism, and fouling my mood. I think they started about 15 years ago when the feds stopped managing public lands and the wildfires increased.

I know a lot of you are feeling similarly grouchy. When people used to complain about allergies to me, I didn’t quite understand their suffering. So this is probably karmic retribution.

Does anyone know anything that works? I’ve tried most of the over the counter drugs, but I can’t take them because they mess with my ability to think and my attention to detail, which, all evidence to the contrary, I need to do my job. I know going in that I can’t take anything that has a “D” in it (Claritin-D, for example), because I can’t handle the pseudoephedrine, which messes with my sleep, compounding the fuzzy-headedness.

I’ve noticed that sensitivity to one thing—say the haze in the air from these summer wildfires—seems to enhance my sensitivity to other things, like pine pollen and cat dander.

This seems to go against what’s taken as conventional wisdom that exposure decreases the immune system’s reaction, which is the argument toward consumption of local bee honey and homeopathic treatments.

While I haven’t spent much time researching the mainstream science or folk traditions, I can see that treatment is the American conflict between covering up symptoms and curing the root of the disease. In other words, the allergic reaction is the body’s attempt to expel a toxin or irritant, so treating the symptom may delay the body’s adaptation to the environmental factor.

Whatever. That logic takes me back to the idea of exposing myself to the irritants throughout the year, instead of just in the summer when the pines release their pollen and the wildfires fill our air with who knows what.

Re “Hospitals price power probed” (Upfront, June 27): Recently, I reviewed the term “ethics” in relationship to corporations.

Roughly translated, their prime directive is to increase shareholder return with no concern for collateral damage (conflict with their fiduciary duty).

Reading into this, increase the costs because it does not matter. People still need medical care. Therefore, they will pay. This will result in increased premiums with insurance companies to coincide with their prime directive as medical compensation goes up. Do not forget about the attorneys who will defend, no matter what. A few years ago, I read about a county which went on a full disclosure idea. If a doctor pulled an “oops,” he disclosed it. Attorneys were in an uproar. Their litigation got cut to one-third, and premiums for insurance were cut in half. Actual litigation decreased by some 60 percent with settlements on damages filling the gap, at less than half the expected litigation amounts.

Wish I kept a copy. All of us would like to earn a fair wage for the work we do. As of now, the gap is huge on the benefit vs. cost in medical care. When can we let go of the $20 aspirin?

Ted Beecher Reno

Messed up priorities Re “Stepping out” (News, July 18): Western Nevada College president Carol Lucey is right about the misplaced priorities of the state’s budget decided by both the governor and a legislature restricted to 120 days every other year. The writer is correct about the lack of a protest culture in Nevada. It’s “go along to get along.”

The short response to local input to higher education now comes through the significant tax deductible donations to college foundations. There is little to no oversight of this money now and would be even less with individual boards. The overarching structural problem is the lack of “checks and balances” stemming from the principle of three equal branches of government. Legitimate power in Nevada is

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centralized in the office of the governor—one election easy to control, and political party doesn’t matter. That’s the way the monied interests want it.

My best wishes and interest go out to Carol Lucey for her future.

Also, regarding “Invest your privacy in drones,” by Chanelle Bessette. This is just an example of what was said above. In this case, it’s the weapons industry and virtually no citizen representation. However, I’ll be first in line to sign up for the class if possible. I like to know as much as I can when I protest something.

Nancy Price Sparks

How many points for a mayor?

I watched on the news as our mayor proudly walk across the new crosswalk in front of Junkees and proclaimed, “I didn’t get hit!” I had to laugh out loud. You see, I own a business one block north with an existing crosswalk. Unfortunately, our pedestrians haven’t been as lucky. Since we have owned our business, there have been two people hit right in our crosswalk. My staff and I go out on a regular basis and literally put our hands up to stop traffic so that senior citizens can cross. Yes, I have called repeatedly to please have someone come down and monitor this crosswalk—to no avail. So you see, Mr. Mayor, your crosswalks are only as successful as your enforcement of them.

Cecelia Soper Reno

A dubious connector I would like to challenge Dennis Myers of the Reno News & Review to investigate the Regional Transportation Commission Southeast Connector. There is definitely something very fishy about the way in which the RTC is going about the construction of this poorly designed/ unnecessary six-lane highway in the middle of the flood plain, a golf course, and a bucolic neighborhood.

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They have received no permits from the National Environment and Planning Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers or any other governing entity that would allow them to construct “Phase II” of this throughway, but they have already committed millions of dollars to complete Phase I. Phase I leads nowhere—it stops in the middle of the University of Nevada, Reno farm. What is the thinking behind such a commitment of dollars to something that may or may not ever be completed? Is there money changing hands? Are there power or promises of economic rewards being exchanged?

Why would the Truckee Meadows Flood Project not be daily and publicly complaining about the placement and design of this project? The statement by the RTC that the road is “floodable” makes one wonder about the sanity of the engineering department of the RTC. The floods of 1997 and 2005 completely filled Rosewood Golf Course, as the course was meant to do.

However, with six lanes plus of fill, asphalt, and other accoutrements of highway build-out, the flood plain is basically filled up. Where will the next 50, 100, 117-year floods go? How will the residents of City Council-approved development survive such floods? How will the businesses in the southeast area protect them selves against the floodwaters?

I believe that the RTC has shotgunned this whole project through the City Council, the voters, the community. There needs to be a thorough investigation of what exactly is driving the construction of such a huge project through flood retention basins, threatening the survival of thousands of homeowners and business owners.

I hope that the RN&R will be brave to go up against the political powers who are pushing this down our throats.

Thanks for listening—and hopefully for doing something about this travesty.

Janet Pederson Reno

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Or how about an opt-out choice?

We can save the U.S. Postal Service, Saturday delivery, some of the world’s forests, much of our valuable time, and provide some alternative energy.

Daily, we receive large amounts of junk mail, most of which is rejected and goes to the city dump, but could be used as fuel in a wood-burning stove.

We suggest, as a deterrent, that postal rates for junk mail be doubled, tripled, or best of all, quadrupled. The added revenue would be an economic boost for our postal system.

Walden and Betty Joura Reno

End the filibuster Lighting fireworks on the Fourth didn’t restore freedom taken by the tyranny of the IRS. Reading the Declaration of Independence underscored this nation’s return to conditions founding fathers found intolerable: government use of fear to take property and control citizens.

The tax code threatens liberty. It cannot be understood by those who must comply with that code or live in fear of penalties imposed by the IRS. A law that cannot be understood is not a law derived from the consent of the governed. If audited, the basic principle of trial-by-jury is replaced by presumed guilt. The accused must prove his innocence. The 16th Amendment must be repealed. End the IRS. Missouri’s Lt. Gov. Kinder recently said, “No law abiding American should ever have to fear a call from a government official.” The IRS, a tool of fear used by politicians to control citizens, businesses, reward friends and punish enemies, has no place in a free society.

Only the FairTax HR25/S122 ends the IRS and supports the repeal of the 16th Amendment. End direct taxation on jobs and income. Call Representative Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (202-225-3561). Demand FairTaxHR25 be brought out of committee. End the IRS. Beverly Martin Fulton, Mo.

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How was high school?

Asked at Outlook Restaurant, Artemesia and North Virginia streets Garrett Felling UNR student

I liked high school. The party never stopped, and the consequences were a lot less severe than they were after I graduated high school.

Jordan Deweerd Facilities drafter

I liked high school. I don’t know, I just didn’t have too difficult of a time.

I thought it was manageable and lots to do, and I had a good high school. It was pretty much all academic for me. I didn’t participate in too many extracurriculars. But I had a nice, supportive high school.

Allura Addington UNR student

Bike curious?

This is going to be a very bike-rich weekend with the Tour de Nez running on July 27-28, www.tourdenez. com, the Reno Bike Project’s Bike Swap being held on July 28 at Barbara Bennett Park, http://tinyurl.com/ ko8astp, and Cyclectric’s block party on July 27 (see 15 Minutes, page 35). There are going to be more bicycles on the street than usual, so drivers, please keep your eyes open for bike riders.

This newspaper has supported creating a better and safer bike culture in Reno for going on two decades.

The efforts of more people than can be mentioned in one editorial—including volunteers, elected officials and bureaucrats—have resulted in huge improvements.

Frankly, it’s hard to believe how far this city has come in these last 18 years. There is still, it does need to be said, a long way to go.

We’re going to keep pounding on officials to further enhance the bike-riding environment in the Truckee Meadows, and we have no reason to believe those interested parties like the Regional Transportation Commission and the Reno Bike Project won’t continue their good work. We owe thanks and congratulations to everyone who’s worked to make this city safer.

We would like to see a service that is available in other cities come to Reno: a bicycle registration site.

On this wish list item, someone, possibly the University of Nevada, Reno, which already has a large collection of serial numbers, or the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, would create a web database in which people could register their name and the description and serial number of their bicycle. The

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I liked it. I was thoroughly engaged in activities—many clubs, many organizations. I was pretty much at the school all day. And I did attend classes.

idea is to prevent theft, the sale of stolen property, and to give people the ability to tell if a used bicycle they’re buying is stolen. It would be an additional tool for police to use against criminals.

While some registration programs like this have met with failure, it’s generally because the entity tries to make money off the registrations. For example, the National Bike Registry charges about a dollar per year per registration. San Jose charged $3 per registration.

What we’re picturing would be a database created and maintained by either government or a non-profit because everyone in the community benefits by less theft and by putting thieves out of business. The entire bike-riding community would be grateful.

And finally, every time we write one of these pro-bicycle editorials, we end up coming back to the riders. The vast majority of bicycle riders ride safely and follow the rules of the road, but there are those who don’t pay attention to stop signs or exhibit common courtesy.

Until the day that every road has a bike lane, automobiles and bicycles are going to have friction.

As everyone who’s ever been run into loose gravel or narrowly missed a collision with a clueless driver can attest, it’s incumbent upon the bicycle rider to always be aware of his or her surroundings. Yes, the law says cars must give bike riders three feet clearance, but the bottom line is every time an automobile and a bicycle tangle, the four-wheeler wins. A defensive attitude and helmet are a bike rider’s best hope against a major injury. Ω

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I thought it was OK. I went to a non-traditional high school, so I didn’t really get the typical high school experience. High school’s a very different community than colleges. Being in a university, you can choose your friends more. There’s more of an option to the classes you take and the people you hang out with, so I think it’s a lot nicer, in that sense.

Glen Atkinson Economist

I just attended my high school reunion in Crescent City, California, this past weekend. I liked high school. It was fun.

I didn’t learn enough, but I liked my high school life. It was probably half social, half academic.

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Playing to the base One of Nevada’s treasured political maxims is “I vote for the person, not the party.”

We are proud of our shared value of independence in all things, mostly joining a political party to vote in primaries and to express a general political preference. We tend to be libertarian in nature, believing governby ment needs to stay out of our personal Sheila Leslie lives, but we aren’t all that interested in becoming an official Libertarian.

In recent years, Nevadans have increasingly defected from the major parties, dissatisfied with partisan gridlock and harsh rhetoric. In an only-in-Nevada twist, many who want to register non-partisan end up selecting Independent on their registration form, and mistakenly join the far-right Independent American Party, recoiling in horror when that fact is explained to them.

Setting aside the issue of whether the Democratic Party is becoming far too dependent on corporate largesse, bending principle to try and satisfy endless greed, it is clear that many more Nevadans will abandon the Republican brand as it continues to tilt

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rightward, despite all the evidence that the majority of Americans are repelled by this new wave of senseless policies.

Take a look at the latest developments, just in the last few weeks.

Republicans in the House pushed through a farm bill full of subsidies for corporate “farmers” in a program known for its fraud and waste, while simultaneously eliminating funding for food stamps, (now called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), a 50-year-old program that feeds hungry children and low-income families. Despite the myth of “welfare moms” having more and more children to get more and more food stamps to trade for liquor and cigarettes, the fraud rate for this program is exceedingly low.

Meanwhile, at the state level, Texas, Ohio and South Carolina passed anti-abortion bills that supposedly “protect” women through increased rules and regulations but are really about putting abortion providers out of business. When the bill was passed earlier this month in the Texas Senate, and hundreds of ordinary

Texans streamed into the capital wearing orange shirts in protest, security searched every bag coming into the building, removing “potential projectiles” including maxi-pads and tampons.

Really, they did.

In North Carolina, thousands of citizens have been protesting in “Moral Monday” demonstrations for the past 11 weeks to show their revulsion at the actions of Republican leaders as they demolish their social safety net and dismantle their educational system.

How bad is it now that the Republicans control North Carolina’s governor’s office and both branches of the Legislature? Since January, lawmakers have terminated or reduced federal unemployment benefits for several hundred thousand people because the Chamber of Commerce argued that was better than paying back the unemployment fund through increased taxes. The legislature also eliminated 10,000 prekindergarten slots, reduced teacher pay and cut services to disabled children.

They repealed the Racial Justice Act and have plans to close most of the state’s abortion clinics. They refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. They are busy imposing new voter registration requirements. And they seem determined to cut income taxes for the rich and raise the sales tax instead so the middle class pays more. Sound familiar?

Adding insult to injury, Republicans in North Carolina refer to “Moral Mondays” as “Moron Mondays,” trying to diminish the hundreds of people who have been arrested for acts of civil disobedience.

This is the party trying to reconnect with voters and convince women, Latinos, and youth they are looking after their interests? Back home in Nevada, the Republican party continues to fracture despite their leaders’ public insistence that everyone has agreed to unite in a quest for one-party control of the governor’s office and our own state Legislature.

If that thought doesn’t scare you, nothing will. Ω

H.L. Mencken: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

‘Stand Your Ground’ requires firm footing On the evening of Saturday, July 13, my Facebook and Twitter feeds blew up with reactions to George Zimmerman’s “not guilty” verdict. I was in the Bay Area for a weekend vacation, and the local news sources erupted with reports of peaceful protest in San Francisco proper but by Chanelle Bessette also of violence and destruction in Oakland. Interviews with both disheartened and contented citizens flooded in from around the country.

On one side of the fence, many claimed that Zimmerman literally got away with murder, while others stuck to the rhetoric of racism. On the flip side, others still stood by the decision of the jury that Zimmerman acted in self-defense and should not be charged with second-degree murder or manslaughter. While everyone has their own opinion, the fact remains that an unarmed teenager was killed, and his shooter was acquitted on the basis of self-defense.

The “Stand Your Ground” law in Florida is what caused police officers to not initially arrest Zimmerman after the incident, although the

defense did not rest on the law throughout the case. What really gave the defense its teeth was the compounding evidence of violence between Zimmerman and Treyvon Martin. The “Stand Your Ground” law allows citizens to use deadly force in self-defense without the obligation to attempt to retreat.

Nevada—along with approximately 20 other states—has a similar law that can be used to protect oneself in self-defense cases. In an article written last year by John Cahill, the Clark County public administrator and a former police officer, he clarified the circumstances in which “Stand Your Ground” applies. He wrote, “To merit the use of deadly force in self-defense, the attack must be unprovoked and the person suffering attack must be innocent and act on reasonable fears alone as presented in that instant.

The danger of death or great bodily harm must be imminent and the use of deadly force in response must be absolutely necessary.”

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although race was not allowed as a factor of intention in the court.

Perceptions of white-on-black violence—even though Zimmerman himself was of mixed white-Hispanic descent—is perhaps one of the biggest reasons the story garnered so much national interest. But what really made the incident frustrating for so many people was how blurred the lines of the justification for “Stand Your Ground” became throughout the case. Was Zimmerman’s life really threatened? Could Martin’s death have been avoided? Well, clearly we already know what the jury thought.

When it comes to Nevada and the other states that have a “Stand Your Ground” law, the Zimmerman trial stands as a testament to the weight of responsibility borne by those acting in self-defense. While the law can offer great protection to those whose lives are threatened, the defendant must also be ready to prove that they acted in the right. Ω

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For some, the law reeks of justification for vigilantism. But the Zimmerman case has become an example of how thorough the justification for violence must be.

Through the defense’s detailed account of the incident, it would seem that Zimmerman acted within his full legal rights. The evidence showed the injuries sustained by both Martin and Zimmerman before the lethal shot, and it appeared that Martin had been attacking Zimmerman in a way that made him fear for his life, especially when he testified that Martin seemed like he was about the reach for Zimmerman’s gun. The main issue, however, besides Martin’s age, and the thing that made the case spread like wildfire, was the public opinion that Zimmerman, in his position as a member of the neighborhood watch, had used racial profiling to track Martin in the first place.

The now-famous symbol of the hoodie to represent prejudice has been used widely to encourage a groundswell of public opinion about racism in the criminal system,

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Range fires across Nevada have become a source of political conflict.

‘None’ ballot option upheld The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has declined to rule on a challenge to the Nevada ballot line of “None of these candidates.”

Three of the court’s 29 judges handled the case, and ruled that those who brought the lawsuits seeking to overturn NOTC did not have standing.

The opinion by Judge Raymond Fisher, said that the plaintiffs had attempted to “cobble together” elements from different ways to qualify for standing. “Manufacturing standing in this way is impermissible,” Fisher wrote.

The NOTC ballot option, which occasionally drains off enough votes from challengers to reelect incumbents, was challenged in court in 2012 by supporters of Mitt Romney and Dean Heller. U.S. Nevada District Court Judge Robert Jones gave them an injunction taking NOTC off the ballot.

Another three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, reinstated NOTC for the 2012 election on the grounds that the “likelihood of success on the merits overwhelmingly favors” the state, which was defending the law. One member of the panel, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, also harshly criticized Jones for not acting more quickly at a time when ballots needed to be printed and mailed overseas: “His dilatory tactics appear to serve no purpose other than to seek to prevent the state from taking an appeal of his decision before it must print the ballots.”

The court’s opinion, and other documents filed in the case, can be read at http://tinyurl.com/lx74hhe.

Cafferata enters council race Calling for keeping “our best and our brightest here” by working “with some of the city’s young innovators and entrepreneurs,” Elisa Cafferata this week announced her candidacy for the Reno City Council. She is running in ward 2, a seat currently held by Sharon Zadra, who is term limited.

“I know it seems early, but the primary election is less than a year away,” she wrote in an announcement sent out by email. “And, there are people already talking about extending their political careers by running for this seat. I would like to ask for your support. …

While I’ve been active in Nevada politics, I have also worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Because of this, I know how to navigate government, but I will bring a fresh, problem-solving perspective to the Reno City Council. I’m not running for this seat for any reason other than I love this community. My grown children don’t live here. Their work has taken them to other cities.”

Derailed The U.S. Department of Transportation has halted consideration of a $5.5 billion loan for XpressWest to build the decades-old proposed high speed train from Las Vegas to Southern California.

“After several years of engagement with no resolution ... and the significant uncertainties still surrounding the project, we have decided to suspend further consideration of XpressWest’s loan request,” said a DOT letter, only part of which was released.

XpressWest responded that U.S. companies lack the expertise of those in nations where high speed trains already exist.

“As most people know, satisfying a 100 percent manufacture in America standard for XpressWest’s trains is not required in the RRIF [Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing] loan rules and not commercially possible because there is NO high-speed train manufacturing base in the United States,” the company said in a prepared statement.

It went on, “Notwithstanding the [federal] position, XpressWest ... will continue its plans to develop the first true high speed passenger rail system in the United States. XpressWest has always, and will continue to work with an international high-speed group from North America, Asia and Europe.”

Sen. Harry Reid plans to meet with the White House chief of state to press for a change in the decision.

—Dennis Myers

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‘The West is burning’ Businesses and lives can be lost to heat and drought The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is trying to cope with drought and heat across the West. by And U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Dennis Myers Nevada said Western heat and fires are signs of climate change.

The heat and fires jeopardize the livelihood of ranchers who depend on grazing, and threaten urban areas like Reno that depend on snowpacks for their water supplies.

“Since last fall and winter, we have been working with grazers across the West in anticipation of tough conditions related to drought,” said BLM deputy director Neil Kornze in a

“Wild horses, livestock, and wildlife that rely on rangeland forage and water will face extremely challenging conditions.”

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prepared statement. “In southwestern Montana, for example, the BLM worked with permitted ranchers to graze no more than 70 percent of their allotted forage on BLM-managed lands. As drought conditions continue, wild horses, livestock, and wildlife that rely on rangeland forage and water will face extremely challenging

conditions that may leave them in very poor condition. We are taking action to address these situations as quickly and as effectively as we can, but our options are increasingly limited by conditions on the land.”

In Nevada, the BLM has been trucking 5,000 gallons of water day, five days a week to four locations for wild horses. A veterinarian was expected to be in Lincoln County this week. BLM employees reported that horses were not eating or drinking, raising questions about their health.

“The West is burning,” Reid said in Nevada on July 17. “I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a fire in the Spring Mountains, Charleston range like we just had.”

“The West is being devastated by wildfires,” Reid said a day later in D.C. “Millions of acres are burning.

Millions of acres have burned. …

They’re occurring all over. Why? Because the climate has changed. The winters are shorter, the summers are hotter.”

Nineteen firefighters were killed in the Yarnell fire in Arizona.

“Climate change is an extremely important issue for me, and I hope we can address it reasonably,” Reid also said. “It’s something, as we’ve seen with these storms that are overwhelming our country and the world, we need to do something about it.”

His comments drew sharp online responses outside the scientific community.

Former Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Thomas Mitchell wrote on his website, “Got a problem? Harry’s got a scapegoat. Bad breath? Blame climate change. Flooding? Global warming. Drought? Climate change.

Wildfires? You guessed it.”

The leading scientists at TexasGunTalk.com concluded a commentary on Reid’s comments with, “So, proof that Reid is senile, demented and oblivious to reality.”

Las Vegas Badger posted this: “Sadly, Senile/Coward/Liar Harry Reid continues to make a complete ass of himself and keeps on embarrassing Nevada.”

A reader on a site called called Twitchy.com posted this, addressed to Reid: “I suppose the ‘Dust Bowl Days’ were also caused by Global Warming or Climate Change. I repeat, YOU SIR ARE AN IDIOT!” In the main article at that site, this appeared: “Senator Harry Reid’s off on another climate change kick, blaming wildfires in the Western U.S. on man-made climate change. … One of the fires Reid cited, in Nevada, was sparked by lightning, as was the terrible Yarnell fire in Arizona. Many tweeters aren’t buying what Harry’s selling.”

If Reid must do without the support of “many tweeters,” however, he can probably make do with the support of science.

Scientists heard from Fires in the U.S. will double in their destructive power in the next 37 years, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report published in January by the scientific journal Science Findings. Forest Service scientists James M. Vose, David L. Peterson and Toral Patel-Weynand wrote the report, which concluded, “The projected changes will likely lead to even more disturbance from insect outbreaks, forest fire, and drought. ... Fire suppression efforts will likely be more costly as climate warms and fires become larger and more frequent, and as more houses are built in the wildland-urban interface.” Tree mortality will become worse, they reported.

For every degree Celsius that Earth temperatures rise, according to the report, the acreage burned in the West could quadruple.

The New York Times reported last week that scientists say hotter, deadlier range fires have become “part of the new normal” in the West.

“The fire season has lengthened substantially, by two months, over the

last 30 years,” research ecologist Craig Allen of the U.S. Geological Survey told the Times.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on July 18 that global temperatures have been above above the 20th century average for 340 straight months, as of June 2013—nearly three decades.

“The footprint of the drought has changed little over the last month, but the places that are receiving drought have mostly experienced intensifying drought, including parts of the Southwest and into the Great Basin,” according to NOAA climatologist Jake Crouch in an interview with E&E Publishing.

Nearly all climate scientists believe that greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide generated by fossil fuel use, are causing higher planetary temperatures. This consensus has been documented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Geneva in four massive surveys of scientists since 1992, and a fifth is expected next year. The fourth report was completed in 2007 (“Global warming comes home,” RN&R, Feb. 8, 2007) found that warming of the planetary climate is certain, that most of it has happened since mid-20th century, that upward of 90 percent of it is caused by human activity, and the likelihood of it being caused solely by the planet’s natural activity is less than 5 percent.

“ Reid is senile, demented and oblivious to reality.”

TexasGunTalk.com As for Nevada, research biologist Jeanne C. Chambers of the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Reno has reported that climate warming is causing an increase in precipitation across most of the Great Basin, a decline in the snowpack since about 1950—an alarming trend for Reno— and earlier arrival of spring which can have an impact on streamflow and seasonal changes in plant life.

Reid seemed to relish taking on climate change deniers, planting a question at a news conference and using language that seemed intended to provoke them.

Some of his online critics seemed to believe that because the Spring Mountain fire in Nevada was caused by a lightning strike, it undercut Reid’s argument. But on drier terrain in heat and drought, lightning strikes are more likely to start fires.

Media Matters, an organization that monitors news coverage, said that since April of this year, most media have failed to put coverage of fires into a climate change context.

“Only 6 percent of total wildfire items mentioned climate change, including 9 percent of major print coverage and 4 percent of TV coverage,” the group said. Ω

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The Nugget gets some of its material back in the form of compost that feeds the plant beds around the property.

Meat and greens Proper tree care begins with proper drip irrigation and Weather-Wise Watering to build a deep, strong root system.

The annual Nugget Rib Cook-off’s leave no trace ethic There are only two Labor Day weekend events for many Northern Nevadans: The Burning Man Festival and the Annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off. While the Burning Man’s core value of “leave no trace” is by well known, events like the rib cook-off can often get a bad rap, simply D. Brian Burghart because of the mindboggling amounts of consumption of food, drinks and packaging. brianb@ newsre view.c om Lauren Garber, the Nugget’s public relations manager, said the cookoff’s recycling program goes back to 2011, when the company made changes to the operation and layout of the festival to more easily allow for cleanup and separation of throwaways by placing recycling containers in high-traffic areas. The Rib Village, too, got a makeover with all plates, cups, utensils and food being compostable. These efforts have diverted some 82,140 pounds of waste from landfills since the program started.

So what’s that look like? From Aug. 29 through Sept. 6 of last year, that was 1,080 cubic yards of cardboard at 48,780 pounds. The glass recycled weighed in at 1,400 pounds. Compost during the same period yielded 21,960 pounds. Steve Duque, operations manager for Castaway Trash Hauling, which handles the Nugget’s recycling, said the compost number included some 80 cubic yards of meat products.

And it’s not just the rib festival, the Nugget has a year-round green program. In 2012, the hotel and casino diverted more than 447,900 pounds of food and recyclables from landfills through composting and recycling. In fiscal year 2012, excluding the rib festival, that broke down to 104,000 pounds of cardboard and paper, 262,107 pounds of food compost, 59,872 pounds of glass, 10,920 pounds of plastic, and 11,060 pounds of metals.

“We make a conscious effort here at the Nugget to consistently recycle and compost everything we can,” said Garber. “There are bins all over, even on our management floor and in our executive offices.

We just make a conscious effort to compost and recycle wherever we can. That even includes our employee cafeteria. And when it’s all said and done, Castaway takes it away to their facility, and then eventually we get some of that compost back, and it goes into our planting beds around the Nugget.”

It seems logical that the casino would make some cash back from all that good citizenship, but that’s not the way it works. Not yet, anyway.

“The way it works right now, we don’t make any money back on it,” Garber said. “We could make some money back on it in the future, but right now we do it because it’s the right thing to do. Throwing away all that extra food, throwing away glass and plastic, it’s just not a good practice for the environment. So even though we lose a little money financially by composting and recycling, it’s best in the long run for our community.”

This year, the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off, which is in its 25th year, will run Wednesday, Aug. 28 through Monday, Sept. 2, 2013.

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When you stop to think about it, we all seem to think our own high school experience is the high school experience that defines the American school experience. But when you get right down to it, not a lot has changed. School is mostly about reading, writing and arithmetic. Yeah, right.

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he outer world was in tumult in 1968, the year I graduated from Reno High.

What we think of now as the “Sixties” were really the mid1960s to the mid-1970s. But inside the walls of RHS, things seemed little changed. We were into studies, romance, music, all the usual high school concerns. I had the impression that the larger world’s turbulence seeped into Wooster, Hug and Sparks earlier than it did Reno High. Our school’s district was more affluent and comfortable.

There were those who tried to keep RHS in its traditional place. At one point I published a letter to the editor in the Red and Blue from Joe Reading and Mike Echeverria that called for reducing athletic funding and shifting it to other programs such as speech. It’s hard to believe after 45 years that have made protest more respectable, but a vice principal hauled the two pleased students into his office to berate them! They loved it.

There were signs of what was happening outside. It was particularly difficult for boys to warm up to principal Bill Bowden. He was chair of the local draft board and his signature was on our draft cards. On Dennis Myers one side of Booth Street, he educated us. On the other side, he shipped us off. I don’t know “There was a fallout if I knew the term conflict of interest then, but I understood shelter in the depths of the concept, thanks to him. the school.”

Example is the best teacher.

If we needed any other reminders of the times in which we lived, they could be found. There was a fallout shelter in the depths of the school. I had one of my reporters on the Red and Blue, Meredith Roelofs, go down and see it and write about it. Right across the street was the federal building, where the draft board had its offices and where draftees had to report every time there was a human shipment out of Reno. And, of course, there was the ever constant reminder that we had to get into college fast after high school graduation. I think it’s really neat that boys today have control of their lives so they can take time off after high school to work or travel or whatever. We didn’t have that ability. continued on page 14

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The drug war had not yet started, so drug use was still negligible. But there were always those who occasionally stirred up public panic on the issue. Washoe County District Attorney William Raggio at one point claimed that a third of local students had tried pot, and high school campuses should be closed. Reno’s campus was open, and I ran an editorial with an accompanying drawing showing Reno High surrounded by a moat. Years later I told an amused Raggio that the first thing I ever wrote about him was a critical editorial. He was also an RHS grad, class of ’44.

My name did not appear as editor on the masthead of the Red and Blue until the last issue of the year. Our great journalism teacher, Rex Daniels, knew a vice principal was targeting me, so he had me keep a low profile.

It was 1968. Martin King died during the spring semester, then Robert Kennedy.

Kennedy had been so unpopular with Nevada big shots and the casino industry—he had tried to wipe out the Nevada mob—that some friends of mine and I set up a campaign committee for him so he would have at least some visibility in the state.

It was amazing how the school changed in that year from spring semester, class of ’68 to fall semester, class of ’69. During our class, the outside world seethed, but inside the school the signs of that turmoil were below the surface. We graduated in June 1968. I returned for a visit in December, and the dress code, if it still existed, was ignored.

Girls wore short things below, boys wore facial hair above. The school newspaper was stirring things up. Rebels were about. The world had come to Reno High.

—Dennis Myer

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of square pegs in the 21st century school system.

Maybe that’s the takeaway for kids who’d rather wear a plastic bag over their heads than take one more step down that tiled hallway: High school is only four years, but the scars last forever. Just kidding. High school may be four horrible years, but things almost immediately get better—as long as you make it past graduation.

et me say this from the outset: I hated high school. High school in the 1970s was barbaric. I can’t think of another word to describe it. I went to a small Catholic high school in Nebraska. It featured a systemic structure of bullying with the seniors at the top and freshmen at the bottom. You never —D. Brian Burghart knew at what moment you’d be walking down the hall, and one of those beefy Cornhuskers would slap you on the head Rock ’N’ Roll High School: with his school ring turned outside in. We even had a special night where the seniors The ’80s got to take us out in the back of a pickup, n 1987 when I began high school, hair drive us to a remote country spot and torture metal bands like Poison and Mötley Crüe us with fun games like making us eat a bar dominated the air waves, acid-washed jeans of Exlax or forcing down cherry vodka or and big hair were in style, and the mall was spitting something that was supposed to be a the place most teens hung out. We didn’t tobacco chaw into our mouths while we wore have smart phones, Facebook or other forms blindfolds and underwear. All this stuff was of “social media.” You just called your friend supposed to toughen us up for football, as I on a land line, arranged to meet at a certain recall. I guess it worked in a Dexter sort of time and waited for them to show up. way. I believe they canceled the tradition a Being part of a subculture was a little year or two after I participated. more dangerous back then. If you were Even the teachers got in on the act, in a punk rocker, a goth or were just a little some cases actively encouraging picking on different looking, you were seen as bizarre, certain individuals to scary or even subversive help them manage their by some people. You ADHD. I had a teacher were likely to get your who forced me to take ass kicked if you went a university corresponto places frequented dence course rather than by folks who weren’t teach me grammar. used to seeing teenagers And to our detriment, dressed in black with we passed the bullying green hair. Today, hardly on. I’m sure the people anyone bats an eye if who followed me still you’re walking down the think of me as something street wearing bondage between Vlad the Impaler pants, dread-locked and Gunnery Sgt. hair or multiple body Hartman. There are some piercings. Of course, apologies I’ll never be there are still those types able to make. I can barely who will pick on others bring myself to visit my who look different, but home town because of overall Reno has become those school years. a little more tolerant of Students in the 1970s the “freaks.” I wonder if saw the end of the Burning Man has someKelley Lang analog age. We saw the thing to do with that. possibilities of the digital There weren’t as age, but we didn’t get the many places to hear “We had to navigate benefits. For example, I “underground” or “alterthink we had two semesthe Dewey Decimal native” music, unless ters of typing. The first, you lived in big city with System.” my entire class was on a college radio station manual typewriters. The that played that sort of second, some of the girls got electric ones. music or had a hip record store that offered The ’70s were a combination of big-hair a selection of releases from those sort of rock, punk and disco. I don’t know if I bands. Back when MTV was a music channel would have survived high school without the instead of a “lifestyle channel,” you could Cramps. Of course, the drugs and alcohol see music videos by up-and-coming bands: helped a lot. But we did not see any irony 120 Minutes if you liked alternative music to dancing to “Turn the Beat Around” at and Yo! MTV Raps if you preferred hip hop. the Oasis on kids’ nights and driving home Fortunately, there’s YouTube for those of us listening to “Pretty Vacant.” Or Waylon who still like to watch music videos.

Jennings, for that matter.

Back in late the 1980s, students had to High school in the latter part of that go to the library and check out books for decade, probably because the late ’70s research papers. We had to navigate the followed the cultural rebellion of the late Dewey Decimal system and thumb through ’60s and early ’70s, was designed to stomp the index cards to locate books. Today, loads out any trace of individuality in children. of information is available on the internet And you know what? I was one of the lucky with a click of the mouse. I was probably kids: Smart, rebellious, weird. But it was a bit behind the curve, but I don’t recall my experience in grade and high school that hearing the words “world wide web” or “the informs my ideas of what schools should internet” mentioned until 1991. While we still be, and makes me sensitive to the plight don’t have transporters or replicators like

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Brad Bynum “I loved learned and hated following rules.” those envisioned in Star Trek, today’s internet would seem almost like something out of a sci-fi novel to people back then. Of course, we didn’t have to worry about the downsides to technology or the ways it can be used to harm people such as cyber-bullying, stalking, identity theft or loss of privacy.

There are other things about being a student or young person back in the 1980s that are different than today, but I don’t think today’s teenagers are inherently different.

The fashion, music and technology have changed, but teenagers are still trying to find out who they are and where they fit in this world, and I imagine tomorrow’s young people will still be doing that 20-30 years from now.

—Kelley Lang

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nlike most American teenagers, I had very little interest in getting a driver’s license. This was partly because I wanted to drink and do drugs. And I knew, at least, that drinking and driving do not mix. I ended up finally getting my driver’s license in my mid-20s, but even now I still prefer to drink rather than drive. Support your local cabbies.

Anyway. I went to Reno’s Galena High School, graduating in 1998. My teen years were fun, because there was a near constant sense of discovery and self reinvention.

And, for the most part, I have nothing but positive memories of high school. There was an unusual number of creative students in my class and the classes a year ahead and a year behind us—wannabe artists, writers and musicians. Great people, many of whom I’m still friends with today.

But there were a couple of negative emotions that felt consistent. The first was a sense of cultural isolation. I felt like there was a big beautiful world out there that I didn’t get to be a part of because I was trapped in the dehumanizing institution of school. I’ve always loved learning and always hated being forced to follow

rules—especially rules that made no sense, like those dictating when it was acceptable to eat food or go to the bathroom. To paraphrase Mark Twain, I often felt like school was getting in the way of my education.

The other negative emotion I closely associate with high school is a feeling of sleep deprivation. I think school started at 7 or 7:30 a.m., which is ungodly early for those of us who are naturally nocturnal. And for those of us who lived far away from campus and had to either chase down a school bus or mooch a ride from a friend, it meant having to get up before 6 a.m. (I became a much, much better student when I got to college, where I avoided signing up for any class that started earlier than 11 a.m.)

So to combat the sensation of being forced to get up unnaturally early and told exactly where to go and what to learn—which interfered with my own interests in learning—I took to substances: Coffee to help with the sleep deprivation, alcohol and marijuana to combat the institutional control. They might have been able to dictate where my body was, but my mind would be elsewhere.

This was, of course, a terrible tactic. And it misfired badly when I showed up to sophomore chemistry class too drunk to stand, promptly vomited on my desk, and had to be rushed off to the hospital to get my stomach pumped.

So, that was awkward. My poor parents thought I was suicidal or something, which I wasn’t at all. I loved life, then as now, but had no use for institutions that told me how to live it. Honestly, I think if school had started later in the day, or if I had been allowed more choice in my education—what classes to take and when—I wouldn’t have

mean, talk about a blast from the past, right? Time to break out all the old Grumpy Cat jokes along with Internet sensation Ridiculously Photogenic Guy and to remind ourselves of how great it was to live in the good ol’ days of 2012.

I don’t imagine going to school in the 2000s wasn’t much different than attending school in the ’90s or ’80s. The only difference was the technology available. Technology was becoming more and more advanced, and it seemed like it was going at a much faster pace than Gabby Benavidez before, and there was this —Brad Bynum rush of wanting to implement it in all schools.

“It was interesting Elementary school was Thnks fr th not having any sports nothing memorable, really.

Middle school was just Mmrs: teams.” awful. When has anyone ever had a decent middle The school experience? Never trust someone 2000s who says they have. Mother Nature decides city like Las Vegas isn’t well-known to mess with your body, give you a face full for its wonderful education system, but of acne and makes you feel just generally it does make a nice place for memories. awkward.

Vegas may not have the best education in the High school is sort of a nice change. I U.S., but at the same time, I’m grateful for went to a magnet high school and majored what I learned and experienced there. in Japanese all four years. It was interesting I graduated in 2012, and I know what you not having any sports teams, but sports were must be thinking: “That was so long ago!” I never my thing so I didn’t really care. I was

been going to class drunk and on drugs.

It’s all about a yearning for freedom.

For some kids, freedom is defined by the ability to drive. For me, it was about freedom of consciousness. I believed as a teenager, and still do, that drugs should be legal, that the drinking age should be lowered to at least 18, that the driving age should be raised to at least 18—cars are more dangerous than beers—and, perhaps most important of all, that high school should start later in the day.

on the newspaper staff in my high school and my first year on the paper I won an award from the Las Vegas Review-Journal for Best News Story. That, along with my Japanese major, helped me figure out what I wanted to major in at college.

Those four years did go by fast and classes became more technologically interactive too, with Smart Boards in the classrooms and electronic quizzes. But I never believe a person when they say that high school, or college even, will be the best time of my life.

High school is only a step up from middle school and isn’t much of an improvement.

College falls under that category, too. It’s only a step up from high school.

When I tell non-native Nevadans that I’m from Vegas, the assumption is that I had a subpar education and struggled due to budget cuts. The budget cuts part is true, but my education never “suffered,” really. My school district didn’t struggle to the point where we had to use textbooks from 1896. Like any school district, we made do with what we could. The things I learned outside of the classroom—how to interact with people and handle difficult situations—have helped me more in life than anything else.

—Gabby Benavidez

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“Jungle” Jim Gibson owns the Morris Hotel on Fourth Street.

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Crammed between train tracks, four lanes of traffic, and the red brick walls of the Morris Hotel, near Fourth Street and Valley Road, lines of homeless people drink beer in the blazing sun. A retiree with white-rimmed hipster glasses and chains draped across his hairy chest gives nearly everyone he meets a hug. He talks to one of the homeless men.

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want to get an awning out here and we are trying to get the city to put some Porta Potties out here,” says “Jungle” Jim Gibson.

He is gleeful to have bought this raunchy corner and the Morris Hotel for just over $400,000.

“You have to understand, where we are sitting right here, next to the homeless and the food center, it’s a relatively rugged area, and to turn it into a normal hotel in this area would be very, very difficult,” Gibson says. “We have an opportunity to turn it into a Burner Hotel, because in the Burner community, we embrace everybody, and we are not intimidated or worried or scared off by the homeless people that are here, and in fact, we want to help them.”

The idea is a hybrid of how local hotels cater to Burners during Burning Man and NadaDada Motel, which isn’t really a motel at all—once a year, artists occupy cheap hotels in Reno to showcase their wares. To make a permanent Burner art hotel, Gibson is enlisting the help of a panel of artists and community members, organized on the Morris Burner Hotel Facebook group.

“To put together a steering committee,” Gibson says. “So that this isn’t just me doing this. This is the community, what they need and what they want.”

So far, the ideas include outdoor greenhouses where hotel residents and homeless can grow their own food and take it next door to cook it, a rooftop garden, outdoor barbecue, artists occupying rooms, displaying art and selling it with no commission for the hotel. He also hopes to enclose the back yard on the property and put in a permanent fire performance stage.

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If the Morris Burner Hotel becomes a reality, it may be the first and one and only of its kind in the world.

“We are not aware of any other Burner hotel that operates year ’round,” wrote Megan Miller, Burning Man public relations manager in an email to the Reno News & Review.

On the Burners Gibson is a relative newcomer to the highly social Burner community. He hails from the space materials industry, and space can be a lonely place. He retired in 2011 and went to Burning Man. “It changed my life,” he says. “When I retired as the president of my company, I could count on one hand the number of good friends I have. And now I could probably call any one of 500 people—friends, good friends. It is such an amazing community. It really is.”

The community has given him strength to undertake this Morris Burner Hotel project on Fourth.

“I think most people are afraid of the area,” he said. “I would have been afraid of it, had I not been tied to the Burner community, because it is just a perfect place for us.”

The rather ugly corner of abandoned buildings and downtrodden folk is the perfect place because artists are experts at taking things that are discarded by society and recreating them into something appealing. It’s been done in midtown, downtown and in towns nationwide. But to do it, artists need a little help from people like Gibson.

“There are an awful lot of them who are truly starving artists, and this is something that will truly help them,” Gibson says.

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“We are going to let them decorate the rooms, hang all their art, sell it for free, no commission. It will be a permanent art gallery for them for free.”

Gibson points out that the Morris Hotel has been a viable business continuously operating for 80 years, so there is room for experimentation.

“We are not doing this thing to get rich by any stretch,” Gibson says. “We want to pay for it. I don’t want it to be a cash drain, I don’t need that.”

He has some experience with the Burner clientele for this unconventional, socially conscious business model. He says he has held a party on his property in Minden for Burners.

“After 35 RVs left, I walked out in the field and there wasn’t even a gum wrapper on the ground. They are the cleanest, neatest, leave-no-trace people, and that is part of the reason I am doing this hotel. If this were just a normal hotel with normal people thinking, ‘I am paying for a room, I don’t care if I trash it,’ I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. But the burner community is so respectful of others and their needs and wants, not only will they come in and enjoy it but they will probably dust and clean. They are that kind of a group.”

The Morris Hotel commands a little respect as a historic place in Reno. It’s across from an old train station. It might have been the first building of its kind in Reno to have sheetrock and modern wiring. The ceilings are stamped tin above hardwood floors, lit by the sun through leaded glass windows and original chandeliers. Until now, the Morris’ biggest claim to fame were some scenes in the 1994 movie Cobb. In one of the scenes, Tommy Lee Jones angrily smashed a glass against a Morris Hotel room wall over the head of a sleeping ghost writer.

A more permanent and rosy vision of the Morris is Gibson’s investment. He hopes the price of rooms will cut down on drunk driving and that the eclectic clientele will patronize the nearby ballpark. He wants to make it look good, too.

“Neon around the top of the building and maybe put neon around every window and make it a beautiful part of downtown,” he says. “You know, downtown Fourth Street here historically has been kind of rugged and it is turning around quickly.”

He says it is already wired for wi-fi, cable and inter-room communications. He plans to tear out carpets, replace the beds and make the hotel non-smoking. He says he has an army of 30 volunteers waiting to do it.

“We will work something out that gives them long-term discounts because they helped do it. We want to keep it reasonable. That is the goal, we are not going to make it into an expensive boutique hotel. It is going to be a burner hotel.”

The Morris Hotel currently has 43 rooms renting for $20 a night. But Gibson wants to quadruple the occupancy of some rooms, putting in four bunks and charge $12 each, more than doubling the income. He hopes to keep the price low with no waiting lists: “I mean, we have got 43 rooms and when we have events like Burning Man there is no question this could be filled two or three times over.”

All this isn’t likely to happen within a month.

“The only rumor is that we will be ready for Burning Man this year, and we won’t,” Gibson says.

While his purchase of the Morris only closed this month, the transformation has already begun because Gibson himself is here contemplating how to revive the Morris. “We have a long way to go, but I think it is important for us to do something for the community, not just the Burner community, but the community as a whole and the city.” Ω

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When used in theater and music, “gravitas” refers the performability or onstage presence of a character. For Allison, it means something that will catch your attention. “It’s like when

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Allison is originally from Truckee, Calif., and currently lives in Reno. After parting with her last job at an indie record label, she realized she wanted to push her own boundaries, explore the world of art beyond the Biggest Little City.

“When I was working for the indie label, I couldn’t help but feel that there was still a void,” she said. “I felt like I was spending so much energy for someone else’s project and decided to part ways. The idea for this project just kind of struck me after my time there. And whatever uncertainty I am feeling with this, I feel like it would be way worse if I didn’t do it.”

She’s driven to follow this creative path and allow for spontaneity along the way. As she jumps from city to city, Allison plans to find people to stay with through friends and the world wide web.

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mediums who will want to be involved and let me document their work. I want to push my barriers about what I know about art and get beyond just music or painting to explore film, sculpture and other mediums.”

Allison will be updating her website regularly during her journey with photos, interviews and posts about the experience of unearthing a new location’s creative gems.

For now, Allison is funding the venture herself. She’ll launch a Kickstarter campaign this fall to raise money for the project; giving those who donate money an Ebook. Art is everywhere, and Allison plans on finding it.

“I want to find things that inspire me and then want to share them with the world,” she said. “I have recently adapted this huge wanderlust, there is so much beauty in the world, and I want to experience it first hand.” Ω

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Brett and I loaded our plates up and headed back to the table.

True to buffet style, some items were great and others not so much. The goat curry had low spice. The goat pieces still on the bone were chewy and fatty, while boneless pieces fared much better and were tender. The saag paneer, which is spinach and cheese melted together, was amazing while the tandoori chicken was too dry. The chicken tikki masala was a hit, with a great combination of sweet, spicy and nicely cooked chicken. My favorite of the night was the dish called kadhi pakora, a really spicy vegetable dish.

I guess the bright yellow color should have tipped me off, but it tasted so good with the naan, that I just kept eating it.

Speaking of the naan, Taj Mahal serves it fresh and it was probably one of the best items we had, leading me to believe ordering freshly prepared items might be the better way to go. Brett and I also ordered both types of Indian beers offered, the Taj Mahal and the King Fisher ($5.99 for 22 ounces). Both were light beers that went well with some of the spicier dishes. We finished our meals with some desserts offered from the buffet, including a mango pudding, which I would describe more like melted mango ice cream. I also tried the gulab jamun, which are like spongy donuts in rose water.

Service throughout was a bit distant. It was hard to get anyone’s attention, but once you did, someone would rush right over. Overall, it was a fun experience. I doubt I’m going to make it to see the Taj Mahal in India anytime soon, so I guess I will have to stick with what Reno has to offer me and settle on a little culinary adventure at the Taj Mahal restaurant. Ω Photo/AlliSon Young

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Taj Mahal shares space with the Comfort Inn, so I guess if you overdo it on curry, you can just grab a room to crash out. When we walked through the lobby of the Comfort Inn to get to the restaurant, I wished for a little more wonderment. The restaurant is large and clean, but outdated with wood paneling, glass and brass throughout. Large flatscreen TVs and new window treatments helped to liven it up a bit. We were greeted quickly, led to a table and told that if we wanted the buffet, we could just go on up and help ourselves and our naan, Indian bread, would be brought out to us.

I’m not an expert in Indian cuisine, so I was glad to see labels on the buffet items. Otherwise, I would have just been saying, “Well, the green lumpy one was my favorite.” The buffet had a ton of choices ranging from salads, noodles, rice and soups, along with entrée type dishes such as tandoori chicken and egg curry.

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Bob Grimm This is one of those films that claim to be “based on a true story.” It should actub g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m ally start with the words “based on made up, fairly entertaining crap.” Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson play Lorraine and Ed Warren, well-known paranormal investigators who try to help out a family that has just moved into a Rhode Island house. They are like the Ghostbusters without the proton packs and one-liners.

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The family, shortly after moving in, finds their dog dead in the yard, birds smashing their heads into the house, and a ghost playing “clap-clap” hide-and-seek with them.

The dead dog would’ve been my cue to say, “screw this!” and head for the nearest Motel 6, but these dopes stick around for more fun with ghosts, demons and whatnot.

Carloyn Perron (Lili Taylor), the mom, gets mysterious bruises all over her body and strange dreams where ghosts puke blood into her face. Roger (Ron Livingston), the dad, keeps finding dead animals and spooky parts of the house he didn’t know about.

And no matter how many of his kids say something just pulled at their feet during the night or wrestled with them on the floor, he keeps the family in the freaking house.

I forgive stupid movie families in horror films if the film manages to scare me at least twice. I would say The Conjuring got to me over five times, which is a damned good score for a routine haunted house film.

Actually, this is a haunted house film with demon possession and exorcism thrown in for good measure. As Wan showed with Dead Silence and Saw, he likes evil puppets and dolls as well. One particularly malevolent doll contributes to the movie’s mayhem, making this a veritable stew of horror genres.

The Conjuring managed to sucker punch me, in that it starts with a lot of those cheap sound and sight gags that plague most haunted house movies. I thought for sure we were getting another one of those low budget so-called horror flicks where it’s just a lot of moving sheets, closing doors and sudden sounds like the stupid Paranormal Activity movies.

Wan, evil bastard that he is, probably knows that most movie viewers are jaded in this way, so we let our guards down. Then, some pretty freaky visual stuff starts happening, and The Conjuring is off and running.

I’ll just say this: The Conjuring isn’t afraid to show you who is making all those noises and screwing with those doors.

I must give props to Wan and company for doing a lot of the effects the natural way. Wan has figured out that the more “real” something looks, the scarier it is. Actors and actresses in freaky makeup lit just so can often out-creep megabytes. There are a few instances in this movie where gray and green makeup is the scare tactic of choice. It probably cost the makeup guys fifty bucks, and it scared me just fine.

Wan is in the midst of a busy movie year. After this, we shall get his Insidious: Chapter 2 in time for Halloween, and he just got the gig directing one of cinema’s scariest creatures of them all. He’ll be helming Fast & Furious 7 starring the repugnant, naturally frightening Vin Diesel. I’m scared already. Ω

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Adam Sandler has done it again. He has made the worst movie of his career, yet again, as his films just keep topping themselves in horribleness. This one, a sequel to the Dennis Dugan disaster that joined forces with David Spade, Chris Rock and Kevin James, is twice as bad as the original. Considering how awful the original was, I didn’t think such a feat was possible, but Sandler has done it. The plot involves Sandler moving back to his hometown, where a deer enters his house and promptly urinates on him. Then he goes shopping with his friends who fart and burp a lot. Then he has a big ‘80s party where everybody dresses up as people from the ‘80s (Pat Benatar, Bruce Springsteen, The Terminator). Then somebody farts again, and then the movie is over.

I sat in a theater where people were laughing their asses off every time somebody farted.

It was one of the more depressing experiences of the movie going summer, and I had to sit through The Purge, so that’s pretty bad. I have officially given up on Sandler. This is a talented, funny guy who can’t seem to say goodbye to some of the people who drag him down. Given the box office performance of this piece of crap, he probably will be giving Dugan plenty of directing jobs in the future. This is our loss.

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The Heat

Sandra Bullock might get top billing, and she’s pretty funny in the latest from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, but, and there’s no doubt about it, this is Melissa McCarthy’s movie. McCarthy plays a vulgar Boston police detective whose world is turned upside down when an FBI Agent (Bullock) starts sniffing around her precinct and meddling in her cases. McCarthy and Bullock are good together, with Bullock taking the obvious, tightly wound route while McCarthy just unloads expletive after expletive. McCarthy is so natural when she delivers put downs in this movie, it’s a wonder she gets along with anybody in real life. The movie does succumb to some of those buddy cop film clichés, and it sags a bit in the middle, but when it’s on, it’s really on.

I got a few good laugh-out-loud moments, a lot of chuckles, and a lot of smiles out of this silliness. Considering some of the big budget garbage coming your way this summer, McCarthy and Bullock provide one of the season’s more pleasant movie experiences.

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First of all, the movie should’ve been called Tonto, because Johnny Depp’s Tonto is the one being positioned as the main focus of the movie. Second of all, they should’ve never, ever made this movie. Depp reteams with his Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski for a weak take on the masked man saga that parodies Westerns without officially announcing itself as a parody. Depp puts a bunch of crap all over his face to hide the fact he isn’t a Native American, and he plays the role of Tonto for laughs that never come. Armie Hammer steps into the title role, sporting an inconsistent Western movie accent and an annoying goofiness that renders him useless. William Fichtner plays Butch Cavendish, a bad guy that eats people’s hearts, something that doesn’t play well in a PG-13 film. Between Depp’s mugging and Verbinski’s exaggerated directorial style, the movie is as abrasive as sandpaper with broken glass sprinkled on it. Disney had pulled the plug on this one a couple of years ago, thinking that most people wouldn’t be interested in a big budget Western with Depp masquerading as Tonto. Well, they should’ve stuck to their guns, because they were right.

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Did you know that the latest Ryan Gosling film is already available for home rental? It is, and that’s because it sucks.

This year, Gosling has returned to the well to work with two directors who came up aces for him on their last films. This is the latest from director Nicolas Winding Refn, who made the masterpiece Drive. While Drive cemented Gosling as one of the better young actors on screen today, this winds up being a complete non-event, and has virtually nothing to offer. Gosling plays Julian, a Bangkok drug smuggler whose brother is killed by a local

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That’s the movie. Ryan Gosling gets his ass kicked while Thomas curses up a storm. Some people get their arms cut off, some people get worse, and that is all. Other than Thomas talking in a way that would make Harvey Keitel blush, there isn’t much for dialogue in this movie. There are a couple of dreamy karaoke sequences that feel as if they were lifted from the cutting room floor of the last David Lynch film. I’m thinking Refn should go back to directing other people’s screenplays, as he did with Drive. The screenplay for this one is all his, and the blame for it’s profound dumbness lies squarely on his shoulders.

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Gigantic alien beasts get their asses handed to them by robots that don’t turn into trucks or cars in Guillermo del Toro’s alternately exhilarating and stale Pacific Rim. This movie is full-on crazy in the head in an often very good, very fun way. This is del Toro’s first directorial project after abandoning The Hobbit, and he made a good call. I had a hard time staying awake during the first Hobbit movie. Such was not the case with this bad boy when the big fights were going on. It’s the near future, and some freaky beasts called kaiju are rising from the ocean depths and tearing cities to shreds.

Do we nuke them? No. That would be too easy. Instead, we spend kazillions to build a bunch of hardcore robots that are driven by pilots melding their minds together. It makes absolutely no sense, and I don’t care because it’s fun. Nearly all of these battles take place in the dark, in the rain or in the ocean. Normally, I would scream “cop-out!” because this is a technique used by directors to cheat a bit on the CGI. It’s a lot harder to create computer-generated monsters for broad daylight than the dark. Even if this is del Toro cheating, it works. The dialogue is pretty bad, but the action and effects are stellar, so this qualifies as one of the summer’s better bets.

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With this, we get two-thirds of a decent movie. The movie has a helluva start, and an even better middle, making it seem like it’s going to deliver the big summer goods. Then, in its final act, it totally craps out. Too bad, because I was looking to Brad Pitt’s zombie movie as relief from the mediocre big budget blockbusters we’ve gotten this summer (with the blessed exceptions of Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness).

The much troubled production shows every one of its scars, especially in its bungled, positively ridiculous finale. The opening sequence in Philadelphia is a winner, and the zombies attacking Israel and going nuts on an airplane score good thrills. The movie doesn’t know where it’s going in the end, and it just sort of putters out. Pitt gives it his best, but the movie seems afraid of itself. A zombie movie with no blood and no ending does not a good blockbuster make.

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Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg make a strong directorial debut with this crazed stoner comedy in which Rogen and a bunch of his pals play themselves as the world faces the biblical apocalypse. When Jay Baruchel comes to LA to hang with Rogen, he finds himself reluctantly attending a party at James Franco’s new house. The Rapture happens, the ground opens up, and a bunch of celebrities go to Hell, leaving Rogen, Franco, Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride to fight for the leftover Milky Way candy bar.

All of the participants are in top form, with the laughs never slowing down. The movie is also a pretty good horror film in its own right, with lots of gore for those of you who like that sort of thing. Among the oddities are Michael Cera as a coke-snorting pervert, Hill getting possessed after a romantic evening with Satan, and Danny McBride eating people. The film is as crazy as anything to come out of mainstream Hollywood in a long time, and a welcomed return to form for Rogen and Franco.

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SCARY (#2) IN A DESPERATION MOVE we gave our son a $20 bill and a one way ticket to Bangkok. It seems like the last thing you would do with an addict. And it was the last thing, because he’d been through most traditional Western forms of treatment without lasting success. So why not do the most outrageous thing possible? Send him to a treatment monastery in Thailand. By himself.

Our son spent 30 days at Thamkrabok and then moved on to New Life, a working rehab commune associated with Thamkrabok which uses yoga, mindful thinking, Buddhism, and other forms of Eastern traditions to work on recovery. Several months later he returned to Thamkrabok and took his vows as a “temporary” monk to work with addicts.

One day, dressed in his brown monk’s robes with his shaved head, he was walking to town. A car pulled over, a man got out, bowed, and handed him a cold drink and a granola bar. These acts of kindness to monks are common in Thailand. But imagine that my son may have felt he actually deserved and had earned that small gift through the work he was doing to help others. Imagine the shift that might have caused in his self-worth.

In all, our son spent 15 months seeking recovery abroad in Thailand, India and Nepal. We feel it is a success story (so far, please God let it be forever) because we took him so far out of his environment that he had to truly consider sobriety in order to make his way in foreign places. In the next article, our son will share his experiences in his own words.

Also, it was very inexpensive compared to Western treatment centers which allowed us to afford a lengthy rehab. Websites: Thamkrabok.net and NewLifeThaiFoundation.com.

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I learned about Thamkrabok years before we sent our son there. The monastery has been around since the 1960’s and many people claim it has the highest success rate for sustained recovery in the world.

Basically it is a detox center. The Medicine Monks cultivate an exclusive plant that they make into a drink that induces vomiting. For several days the addicts puke and steam bath out their toxins. Then they take their sacred sanjja vow.

Book clubbers The Novelists This year, in a concept that fits perfectly with the band name, Reno-based group The Novelists started what the by Brad Bynum band members call a book club.

It’s a music subscription service bradb@ that started in January. For $20, news re view.c om subscribers get two songs a month for the entire year. When a listener purchases a subscription, they receive the back catalog of songs as well as the new songs as they come out.

These aren’t 24 songs that the band wrote and recorded a year ago and are slowly trickling out. They’re writing and recording as they go. It helps that all four band members, Megan Slankard, Joel Ackerson, Zack Teran and Eric Andersen are singers, songwriters, arrangers and multi-instrumentalists.

“We were trying to find new ways to connect with fans a little more consistently, and we were also trying to find a way to make art more of the time, instead of spending two weeks making an album and 18 months pushing it,” says Ackerson. “That was the wrong ratio. We wanted to flip that ratio around somehow.”

Spreading the songwriting among four songwriters over the course of a year has meant that the songs are fairly diverse stylistically—while staying within the context of the band’s narrative-driven pop. The dozen songs that the band has already released touch on folk, country, rock, Broadway, jazz, chamber music and disco.

Story tellers: The Novelists are Zack Teran, Joel Ackerson, Megan Slankard and Eric Andersen.

The Novelists will play an all-ages show on Friday, Aug. 16, at Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, starting at 6 p.m. Heather Combs will open the event, and Sauce Wagon and Java Jungle will provide food and drink. The band will be joined onstage by drummer Jason Thomas and surprise guests. For tickets or more information, go to www.thenovelists. com.

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“Life is not one genre,” says Slankard. “If you put yourself in one box and say, ‘I’m going to write a pop song every time,’ you end up boring yourself.”

The four members have been collaborating on different songs in different configurations. Andersen and Ackerson might team up for a song, and then Slankard and Teran for one, and then the next might be Slankard and Anderson.

“We’re all songwriters, and we’re all arrangers too, so there are compromises that are made on every single piece of music,” says Andersen.

“That’s why it’s a band and not our solo projects anymore,” says Ackerson. “That’s what made it a band. The input is pretty universal.”

Ackerson says that this method of cowriting is much different than what the band did for their last album, last year’s Backstory.

“That was, we’ll make an album of three songwriters that tour together with the same bass player,” he says. “This was us going, We won’t be a band until we write together.”

“There are any number of examples of songs where one person has had a skeleton of a song, whether it’s a riff or a chord progression … and someone else takes that idea and runs with it,” says Anderson. “It’s a really interesting thing, because what happens is something that it’s impossible to have come from any one of those people.”

In other words, the mixing and matching of songwriters creates a more diverse songbook. Anderson cites as an example “I’m in no Pain,” a song in which he wrote the chord progression, and Slankard wrote the lyrics and vocal melody.

“She would have never sat down at the piano and composed that exact melody to write to, but I never would have written the melody and the lyrics they way she did.”

The different songwriting configurations create the stylistic diversity, as well as the changing evolution that occurs with writing over time. Moods, interests and outside influences change every month. It creates a journey of discovery for the songwriters, who, through the book club, invite friends to listen along. Ω

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Open Mic Night, 7pm, W, no cover

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

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

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

RISE NIGHTCLUB

Maximum Volume Thursdays w/DJ Max, 11pm, $5-$10; no cover ages 21+

RUBEN’S CANTINA

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

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

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Calico, 8pm, no cover

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

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

Open mic hosted by Frankie Ferreira and Brian Depew, 7:30pm, M, no cover

Rise Culture Saturday w/DJ Max, 10pm, $5-$10; free for women before midnight

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445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

Wicked Hicks, 9pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 8pm, M, no cover Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

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

STREGA BAR

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

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

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BOB FM Homegrown Showcase w/Livitz Livitz, Magic Mic, 9pm, $15 Nuke Vegas, The Basterd Saints, 8pm, $5

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

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

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Erika Paul Carlson, 7pm, no cover

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Topher South, LovePoP!, 7pm, no cover

Reno Music Project Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30pm, no cover

Tany Jane, 7pm, no cover

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2) Red Hot Smokin’ Aces, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Rock River, 6pm, no cover

2) Joe Grissino, 4:30pm, Tyler Stafford, 8pm, no cover

1) Fran Cosmo, 7pm, 9pm, $19.99-$59.99 2) Joe Grissino, 4:30pm, Tyler Stafford, 2) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

2) Rick Hammond, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Love Fool, 10pm, no cover 2) Indaskyes, DJ Paul, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Tinsley Ellis, 9pm, M, no cover Big Tree Fall Down, 10pm, Tu, no cover

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

BOOMTOWN CASINO HOTEL

2100 Garson Rd., Verdi; (775) 345-6000 1) Event Center 2) Guitar Bar

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

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

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Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) The Beach 4) Summit Pavilion

1) ESC4P3, 8:30pm, $24.95

1) The Reno Fashion Show hosted by Janice Dickinson, 9pm, $20-$40

Celtic Knot Pub, 541 E. Moana Lane, 829-8886: J.P. and Super Fun Entertainment, Th, 8pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 847-4467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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1) Grease, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Steele Breeze, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Grease, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Steele Breeze, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Grease, 7pm, Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Left of Centre, 10pm, W, no cover 4) Live piano, 4:30pm, W, no cover

1) ESC4P3, 8:30pm, $24.95 2) WET Sundays at The Beach, 2pm, no cover

1) ESC4P3, 8:30pm, M, W, $24.95 The Flaming Lips, 8pm, Tu, $50.10

1) Rock Sugar, 7:30pm, $27.50 3) DJ SN1, 10pm, $20

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

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover

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

1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Drive, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Drive, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) The Meter Men, 11:30pm, Tu, $55

1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35

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1) Phish, 6:30pm, Tu, W, $60

18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) Outdoor Arena 2) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

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

1) Tahoe Players’ Les Misérables, 7pm, $15-$25 2) Emerald City Band, 7pm, no cover 3) Jeff Odom, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Karaoke Night, 7pm, no cover

1) Tahoe Players’ Les Misérables, 7pm, $15-$25 2) Emerald City Band, 4pm, 8pm, no cover 3) Jeff Odom, 6pm, no cover 5) Duo-Tones, 6pm, no cover

1) Tahoe Players’ Les Misérables, 7pm, $15-$25 2) Emerald City Band, 4pm, DJ Jamie G, 9pm, no cover 3) Jeff Odom, 6pm, no cover 5) Duo-Tones, 6pm, no cover

1) Tahoe Players’ Les Misérables, 2pm, $15-$25 2) Emerald City Band, 7pm, no cover 5) Duo-Tones, 6pm, no cover

MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 4) Onsen Beach & Nightclub 5) Convention Center 6) Outdoor Event Center

SILVER LEGACY

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

2) edIT, 11pm, Tu, $25, $30, Emancipator, 11pm, W, $25, $30 3) Greensky Bluegrass, 11pm, Tu, $25, $30, Moksha, 11pm, W, $20, $25

1) Russell Brand, 9pm, $55-$75 3) The Male Room, 8pm, $15

3) Social Network Night, 9pm, no cover 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover

2) Live music/DJ, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 7pm, no cover 4) Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

1) Johnny Mathis, 8pm, $69.50-$89.50 2) Live music/DJ, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

2) Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 7pm, W, no cover 3) Nathan Mitchell, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Step This Way (dubstep, house), 8pm, W, no cover

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Never been to Burning Man? Get a taste of Burner culture this Saturday, July 27, when fire performance group Controlled Burn turns City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., into a mini-Black Rock City during its sixth annual Artown event. Compression! Art and Fire kicks off at 3 p.m. with a Burner-style parade featuring a more family-friendly version of some of the costumes you’d see at Burning Man. The public is invited to dress up and join in the parade. The art and fire festival continues with a “spinning” playshop, Fire Garden, displays of art cars, and music and dance performances by Dance City, Nataraja Tribal Fusion, Siren Society Aerialists, Pyramid Lake Paiute Dancers, Reno World Dance Collective and other acts throughout the afternoon. The event culminates with the fire show at 8 p.m. featuring performances by Temple of Poi, Tahoe Fire Dancers, Controlled Burn, Black Rock City Allstars and other acts wrapping up the festivities by 11 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcome. After Compression!, festival-goers looking for a little late-night fun are invited to head over to Rise Nightclub, 210 N. Sierra St., for INfeRNO, the official after party hosted by Osiris, a Burning Man camp. Call 686-9608 or visit http:// controlledburnreno.com/compression.

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Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra The legendary percussionist brings his orchestra to Reno as part of Artown. For more than 50 years, Escovedo has been breaking down musical barriers in rock, jazz and Latin music and has toured with musicians such as Tito Puente, Santana and Herbie Hancock. He will be joined by his daughter, Sheila E., who is also an accomplished percussionist and recording artist, best known for her 1984 hit “The Glamorous Life” and her musical collaborations with Prince. The orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, at the Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road. Tickets are $25-$35.

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Rollin’ on the River RN&R’s summer concert series concludes with a performance by blues and soul singer and songwriter Janiva Magness. The Detroit, Mich., native was named by the Blues Foundation as the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year in 2009 and has been nominated the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year in 2006, 2007 and 2009.

She has nine albums under her belt, including her latest release Stronger for It Guitar Woody and The Boilers will open the show at 5:30 p.m., on Friday, July 26, at Wingfield Park, First Street and Arlington Avenue. Admission is free. Call 324-4440.

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Guitarfish Music Festival The family-friendly music, arts and community festival offers multiple music stages, a kids’ area, camping, yoga and pilates classes and arts and crafts vendors. This year’s music festival lineup includes The Pimps of Joytime, Lyrics Born and his project Continuum performing a James Brown tribute with Jazz Mafia, Orgone, Magic Gravy featuring Dan Lebowitz of ALO and Garrett Sayers and Dave Watts of The Motet, SambaDá, BLVD, Joe Craven, New Monsoon, Afrolicious, Tracorum and Vinyl. The festival also offers sustainable energy solutions and education to help preserve California’s fresh watersheds, rivers and streams. The Guitarfish Music Festival takes place July 26-29 at Cisco Grove Campground, 48415 Hampshire Rocks Road, Cisco Grove, about 20 miles west of Truckee, Calif. Tickets range from $75-$155.

Three-day and two-day festival passes include on-site tent camping and parking. Children ages 12 and under are admitted free to the festival but require a campground impact fee of $20 per child for the weekend. Visit http://guitarfishfestival.com.

Coppélia Sierra Nevada Ballet will present its production of the comic ballet as part of Artown. The ballet centers on a mechanical dancing doll that’s so lifelike that Franz, a village swain, becomes infatuated with it and ignores his real-life love Swanhilde. The doll’s inventor Dr. Coppelius has plans to bring the doll named Coppélia to life, but he needs a human spirit to transfer into the doll. Through a series of events, Franz finds himself in the lair of Dr. Coppelius, who serves a sleeping elixir to the lovelorn suitor in an attempt to extract his life force. Swanhilde, who is hiding in the house, dresses as the doll and pretends to bring Coppélia to life while attempting to awaken Franz and escape from the obsessed inventor. The ballet will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, at Nightingale Concert Hall, 1335 N. Virginia St., inside Church Fine Arts Building at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $18-$25. Call 322-1538 or visit www.renoisartown.com. Sierra Nevada Ballet will also perform Coppélia as part of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival on Monday, July 29. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on the Warren Edward Trepp Stage at Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village. Tickets are $22-$70. Call (800) 747-4697 or visit www. laketahoeshakespeare.com.

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Mystery meet A man my friend was crazy for just broke up with her.

I kind of saw the breakup coming, as I thought they were too different, but she thinks he falsely advertised who he really is. They met online, and he made himself out to be this guy who loves art and culture, which to her means going to museums, shows and lectures, and to him means staying home and making things. She now insists that the only way to meet people is in the activity you want them to be doing. For example, if you want a guy who likes art museums and going to cultural events, like she does, you’d better hang out in an art museum to find a date. I think it’s a mistake for her not to keep online dating, because I think she’ll meet a lot more men.

People try to put their best foot forward on dating sites, and rather often, it turns out it’s not actually their foot.

Of course, deceptive self-marketing is not exclusive to online dating, and online dating does offer certain efficiencies that trying to meet a man at an art museum or cultural event does not. For example, people join a dating site specifically because they are looking for a partner. Some man you spot in a museum may also be looking for a partner—his wife, who was right behind him just a room ago.

It sounds like your friend is blaming the internet because a guy she liked didn’t like her back. They maybe both projected what they wanted on each other and needed to dig deeper to find out who the person they were dating really was. This is what dating is for.

It’s supposed to be a process of finding out about a person, not “I baited the hook; I caught the fish; now let’s decide what’s for dinner at the wedding!”

We often don’t need anybody to go to the trouble of deceiving us. We do that really well on our own, like by telling ourselves we’ve found the “perfect person” and ignoring any evidence to the contrary. Instead, there needs to be a vetting process, whether you meet a man online or at an artwalk. It involves asking questions and looking to see who he is and being willing to find out that he isn’t right for you. This vetting is essential because, wherever you meet men, there’s one thing many will have in common: insisting they’re interested in whatever you are if they think you’re hot.

Try to help your friend see that holing up in the art museum isn’t the answer. Sure, it might be kismet that

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Mr. Dreamypants is standing in the lobby right next to her favorite sculpture, or he might just be waiting to enjoy the work of Sir John Harrington, the guy who invented the flush toilet found in the free public bathroom.

A mitey love I’m 5 foot 8; my fiance is just at 5 foot 7. I’m only comfortable when he wears lifts, especially if I’m wearing heels. It may not seem like a big height difference, but when he doesn’t wear them, he feels like my son. I know they’re uncomfortable, and he sometimes doesn’t feel up to wearing them. Mostly, though, he won’t let me see him without them, because he knows I’m way more attracted to him when he’s a tad taller. I feel bad about this, and I’ve prayed that one day, my strong love for him will let me ignore this minor “flaw.”

The dream was tall, dark and handsome. Not elfish, dark and handsome. Still, the problem here could be seen another way: You need to be shorter.

Unfortunately, accomplishing that is the less practical solution, as it would require a saw. It might help to understand that you want him to be taller not because you’re a bad person but because you’re a product of human evolution. In our ancestral past, height in a man likely had mating and survival advantages. The short caveman would have been less able to reach the lion with his spear: “Take that, you big meanie!” As for what to do in the present, elevator shoes might be the solution you’re both looking for. While lifts are inserts stuck into the shoe, mainly raising the heel, elevator shoes, which can be custom-made by a podiatrist, have a hidden platform built in throughout the shoe. The latest models are cleverly designed and appear to be normal footwear. This means that a man needn’t suffer the discomfort of tromping around in heels just to be attractive to his partner. Next thing you know, he’ll be complaining about the scratchy red lace and underwire digging into his flesh.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I have tried in

my way to be free,” sings Leonard Cohen in his song “Bird on the Wire.” In other words, he has done the best he can to liberate himself from his unconscious patterns, bad habits and self-delusions. He hasn’t been perfect in his efforts, but the work he has done has earned him a measure of deliverance from his suffering. I recommend you follow his lead, Aries. Do your best to bring more relief and release into your life. Get rid of things that hold you back. Overthrow a pinched expectation and ignore a so-called limitation or two. By this time next week, I hope you will be able to say sincerely, “I have tried in my way to be free.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There are

some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm,” wrote the novelist Willa Cather. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you’re in a phase of your cycle when storm learning isn’t your priority. The educational experiences you need most will unfold when you’re exploring the mysteries of peace and serenity. In fact, I suspect that the deeper you relax, the more likely it is that you will attract life-changing teachings—lessons that can transform your life for the better and fuel you for a long time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is there a

message you’ve wanted to deliver for a long time but haven’t been able to? Are you bursting with thoughts or feelings that you’ve been longing to express but can’t find the right way to do so? Have you spent months carrying around a poignant truth that you have felt wasn’t ripe enough to be revealed? If your answer to any of those questions is yes, I believe the time will soon be at hand to make a move. But it’s important that you’re not impulsive or melodramatic as you initiate your breakthrough communications. For best results, be full of grace and balance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Bees and

other insects can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. When they look at flowers, they detect designs on the petals that you and I cannot. For example, the evening primrose appears completely yellow to us, but it calls seductively to bees with a flashy star pattern at its center. Many of the secret signs that flowers offer the pollinators are meant to guide them to where the pollen and nectar are. Let’s use this as our metaphor of the week, Cancerian. I am not predicting that you will be able to perceive a broader spectrum of light. But I do believe you will discern cues and clues that are hidden from most people and that have been imperceptible to you in the past.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I was six years old

when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me,” so said the Leo science-fiction writer Greg Egan in his story “Learning to Be Me.” Let’s pretend that you, too, have a small, dark jewel inside your skull that’s learning to be you. It’s a good metaphor for what I believe has been happening all these years: You have been gradually mastering the art of being the best Leo you can be. It hasn’t been easy. You weren’t born knowing how to be your beautiful, radiant, courageous self, but have had to work hard to activate your potentials. Now you’re moving into an especially critical phase of the process: a time when you have the chance to learn how to love yourself with greater ingenuity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Dear Astrology

Guy: Please tell me why I have to work so hard—meditate, reflect, read, analyze, poke, prod, investigate—to discover truths about myself that must be obvious to others. Why is it so hard for me to see where I need healing and where I need to let go? Why is it such an ordeal to grasp what is interfering with my wholeness when I can quickly pinpoint what other people’s issues are?

–Overworked Virgo.” Dear Overworked: I’m happy to report that you Virgos will soon be offered a gush of revelations about who you are, how you can heal and what strategies will best serve your quest to minimize your anxiety. Are you prepared to absorb some intense teachings? For best results, make yourself extra receptive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the

world’s best race-car teams is McLaren. It wins about 25 percent of the events in which it competes. Its skilled drivers account for much of its success, but its technicians are also pretty sensational. During a pit stop in the middle of a race, they can change all four tires on the car in less than three seconds.

Do you have helpers like that, Libra? If you don’t, it’s time to intensify your efforts to get them. And if you do, it’s time to call on them to give you an extra boost.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Let’s try an

experiment. It’s risky, but I’m hoping you will do it with such flair that there will be no karmic blowback. What I propose, Scorpio, is that you have fun expressing more confidence than usual. I invite you to strut a bit, even swagger, as you demonstrate your command over your circumstances. Enjoy acting as if the world is your plaything ... as if everyone around you secretly needs you to rise up and be a bigger, bolder version of yourself. The trick, of course, will be to avoid getting puffed up with grandiose delusions.

Your challenge is to be more wildly devoted to embodying your soul’s code without lapsing into arrogance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I suspect that you are longing to take a quantum leap of faith, but you are also afraid to take that quantum leap of faith.

You sense the potential of experiencing a very cool expansion, while at the same time you hesitate to leave your comfort zone and give up your familiar pain. In light of the conflict, which may not be entirely conscious, I suggest you hold off on making a gigantic quantum leap of faith. Instead, experiment with a few bunny hops of faith. Build up your courage with some playful skips and skitters and bounces that incrementally extend your possibilities.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hoaxes exposed! Bluffs called! Secrets revealed!

Whitewashes uncovered! Curses banished!

Taboos broken! Those are the headlines I expect to see emblazoned in your book of life during the coming weeks. Can you handle that many holy disruptions? Will you be able to deal with the stress that might come from having so much raucous success?

These are important questions, because if you’re not up to the challenge, you may scare away the transformations. So, steel your resolve, Capricorn. Mobilize your will.

Do what’s necessary to harvest the unruly blessings.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The

French novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that if you hope to write a book, you should first read 1,500 books. A Roman author named Petronius believed that the imagination does not work at its peak power unless it is inundated with reading material. I suggest you adopt their advice and apply it to your own field, Aquarius. Whatever skill or subject you want to master, expose yourself lavishly to the efforts of other people who have already mastered it. Flood yourself with well-crafted inspiration.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you

be worried that a venomous spider has crawled into your shoe while you were sleeping? Just in case, should you flip your shoe upside-down before putting it on each morning? My studied opinion: hell, no. The chances of you being bitten on the foot by a venomous spider lurking in your shoe are even less than the possibility that you will be abducted by an alien who looks like Elvis Presley and forced to sing a karaoke version of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” at an extraterrestrial bar. And if you are going around filled with delusional anxieties like that, you will definitely interfere with life’s current predilection, which is to give you a cleansing respite from your fears as well as immunity from harm.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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People power Skye Telka is one of those Reno people who has her hand in many organizations and activities, and who seems to know everyone. You’ll see her pedaling her bike around town, and her name is associated with many progressive movements including green energy, local food and sustainability. This weekend, Saturday, July 27, she and others plan to host a block party at Plumas Park, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. For information, call her at (775) 848-5763.

So do you go directly to whatever you’re powering or do you go to battery, then to inverter, then to whatever you’re powering?

That’s our organization. We’re about a year and a half old. Our event is bicycle-powered movies in the park.

How did you come to create this group?

My friend Andrew Highison and I were acquainted through local non-profits here in Reno. We kind of came up with an idea of doing a bicycle-powered event. The first thing was bicycle-powered smoothies. So we built this bicycle generator that you can hook up any bicycle to, and we then started doing bicycle-powered smoothies. Then, we had a sound system hooked up, and the kids could hop on and pedal it and see how electricity works, and see that when they stop pedaling, the electricity would stop. Then it really transformed—we really wanted to start doing media events, and so we’ve done bicycle-powered bands and DJ-fests. Last year, we did a bicycle-powered film festival at

OK, so what are you doing this year?

A couple of summers ago, I wrote a whimsical column about hummingbirds being akin to the fairies of the desert. That’s still the case, certainly, and I’m not gonna take it back, as these special birds do indeed have plenty of fairy-esque moments, all dazzling in their iridescent finery as they hover and feed, stealing nectar from the gardens of Northern Nevada. But this fairy stuff ain’t the whole story.

That’s because hummers aren’t really all that dainty and lovely and Tinkerbellish when they’re busy being the Ultra Bitches of the Desert. And right now, there is some seriously ornery bitchin’ goin’ on at local feeders.

Yes, the baddest, meanest, most territorial girls ever are back in town, meaning the females of the rufous species, and as usual, they’re back with some major attitude. As in, “What exactly do you think you’re doing, drinking at MY feeder, pal?”

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This year, we’re going to be doing a barbecue starting at 5 at Plumas Park, and then we will be having people hop on and doing music throughout the evening for our sound system.

And then we’re putting up a sheet on the backstop at Plumas Park, and we’re going to be bicycle-powering Ghostbusters?

It’s pretty much going to be a big block party.

It’s open to the community. We’re going to have barbecues and food and it’s just going to be a lot of fun—lawn darts and bocce ball and enjoying this awesome summer weather we have.

How fast does a bike have to be going to power something like a movie?

How did you come to pick Ghostbusters?

It’s a pretty standard easy-going pace.

As you turn things on, you can feel the resistance pick up. But the average person can pretty much do a constant of about 70 watts continuously. ... It’s hard to calculate miles per hour exactly, but just your gentle,

We have a Facebook page and we ended up running the question on our Facebook page and asking everyone who reads it what their favorite summer movie that they’d like to see in the park would be, and Ghostbusters was far and away the number one choice. Ω

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We avoid batteries, we go from the generator to a capacitor that has about a 30-second charge to an inverter. We’ve avoided batteries in order to keep that education component because people really like to hop on and pedal something and stop and then realize that they are creating that energy.

Craft Wine and Beer. And then this year, we decided we wanted to do something free and open to the public at Plumas Park.

So your event is called Cyclectric?

flat, around-town pace pretty much. We actually do it with five bikes. We only need four to power the system, but we like having that built-in redundancy that if somebody gets off the bicycle then the whole thing won’t quit.

You can switch people out, and it’s OK, it’s not putting all the strain on a few individuals.

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chup!” Once you hear that strange cry, pull up a chair, top off your lemonade, and enjoy. It’s Showtime!

Oh, these girls are contentious little princesses. I’m sure the males are, too, but I don’t have any fellas at my place this summer. It’s girl on girl action out here. I’ve got three feeders and there are four females. That means bitchfest with a capital B. Of course, in the world of hummers, if you have five feeders for four birds, you also have trouble. Go figure.

They’re just not all that reasonable.

Lousy diplomats.

If it’s mid-July/mid-August, that means it’s rufous time in Reno, as thousands of birds pour into town on their way down from their breeding zones in Washington and British Columbia, eventually making their way back to their winter grounds in Mexico. Their journey is impressive, to say the least, since we’re talking about a creature that weighs one tenth of an ounce—a tenth of an ounce!—flying about 2,000 miles twice a year. So it’s safe to say (a) they’re in pretty good shape, and (b) they’re hungry.

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I encourage you to get in on this free, breathtaking show. All you need to do is put up a feeder. Actually, put up two. At least. The recipe for hummer water is simple. One part sugar to four parts water. That’s it. No red dye. Completely unnecessary. And no brown sugar or any organic jazz. Just good ole white sucrose. They love it. And they need it. Don’t worry about them finding your feeder. They will. Trust me. People are often amazed at how quickly hummers will show up at a new feeder. Once they know a feeder is up, they’ll bang the bejesus out of it. Then, all you have to do is pull up a chair and watch the greatest fliers on earth have the most amazing aerial skirmishes ever. Right in front of your face. And keep that feeder filled! You don’t want to get these Fairy Bitch Queens mad at you, do you? Zee chuppity chup! Ω

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FAMILY FooD FUn It brings us together. I like to think about food as the string that holds all the events together on the timeline of our lives. Everything we do has food, and I personally love and adore it. So when we were trying to choose a theme for this Family Guide, we decided to have this guide revolve around the many different aspects of food in our lives.

When you open up this guide, you’ll find a variety of family- and food-related stories. I sat down with Reno chef Lara Ritchie, and she talked about her culinary experience, the culinary center she teaches at and other culinary goodies. You’ll also find some information about great apps for all your food-related needs: calorie-counting, restaurant finding and recipe discovering. We’ve also put together some pieces about kids and eating, battling picky eating habits, going vegan for kids, and easy and fun healthy recipes for kids. And if you’re struggling with keeping healthy over your lunch break, turn to the piece filled with tips to pack better lunches for yourself and your kids.

This guide has something for every family out there who loves their food and meals as much as I do. And if you’re worried about what your four-legged friend is scarfing up, you can read about how to choose healthier pet food.

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urbanspoon This app is great for finding restaurants based on location, type of cuisine and expense level (designated by one, two, three or four dollar signs). It allows you to discover new places to eat by taking your location and finding places near you. It also organizes by cuisine, price and what’s open for places near you on the home screen. The app gives you the ability to search for restaurants as well, and there’s a feature called “Shake.” This allows you to lock one or two of the three categories —location, type of cuisine, or expense level—and press the “Shake” button to find a restaurant that fits your specifications.

There are also filters that you can use to do things like set a maximum distance, exclude chain restaurants, include only popular restaurants or choose only places open for certain meals. You can go to the “Nearby” section from the home screen to get a list, with a map, of restaurants in order of distance to your location. It also links in with Facebook and Twitter to allow you to check-in to restaurants. The “Shake” option is my personal favorite way to use this app. And it’s free.

allrecipes.com Dinner spinner Maybe I’m partial to apps that have some kind of randomize feature, but that’s also my favorite part of this app. You can choose the “dish type,” what you want the main ingredient to be and the length of time that you want to spend preparing your meal, and then hit “Spin” to get a recipe. What’s great is that the “dish type” isn’t restricted to breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can also choose cookies, side dish, beverage, main dish, dessert, appetizer, bread and others. The ingredients are varied and allow you to add your own, too. There’s an option to add your favorite recipes in a bookmarked section and to search for recipes with “Dietary Filters” like vegetarian, low fat, no wheat and others. And if you create a free account, you can keep your shopping list on this app as well. There is a section of featured recipes for quick looks, and each recipe is rated on a five-star scale (along with how many people have reviewed them). This makes it simple to figure out if the recipe is worth trying.

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There are a great deal of food-related apps out there, and I’ve found a lot of them easy to use and really helpful. These three free apps are my personal favorites.

They’re are also highly rated and recommended across the board. The first is a restaurant finder, the second is a recipe finder and the third is a calorie-counter.

These should keep all your food needs covered.

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what’s Behind pickY eating Numerous studies into selective eating have come with multiple reasons, ranging from genetics—if you’re a picky eater, your kids likely will be, too—to breast-feeding—breast milk is the “bridge” to developing a taste for what Mom eats—to a modern-day problem we all face: lack of time to eat together as a family.

For Meagan Sabich’s 15-month-old daughter Sophia, the problem turned out to be a sensory processing disorder.

“Sensory processing is how we interpret inputs from our senses and how our bodies turn those inputs into appropriate motor and behavioral responses,” explains Sabich, who has become a sort of expert since Sophia’s diagnosis several months ago. “We’ve noticed SPD affects her behavior, her sleeping patterns and her nutrition. … This is where the picky eating comes into play. If she doesn’t like the way it feels in her hands, it certainly will not go in her mouth.”

The experience is frustrating at the Sabich home, especially

help choose healthy foods, add suggestions to the family grocery list, play with pots and pans, handle different fruits and veggies, or help chop, wash and create meals in their own kitchen, the more they will gravitate toward healthy eating patterns,” Gilbert-Green says.

2. play with ingredients. Choose favorite

when foods Sophia has previously found acceptable, such as eggs, are suddenly rejected.

“Having SPD means you won’t always respond to input in consistent ways,” Sabich says.

the proBlem with parents

1. get kids involved. “The more kids get to

recipes and change ingredients to include healthier options. An example is Fool’s Gold Chicken Nuggets recommended by GilbertGreen from the book Eat Like a Dinosaur, which are made with almond flour and baked rather than fried. Lynnette Bellin has yet to make a smoothie (full of goodies like kale and avocado) that her kids don’t like. And a study documented this summer in Science Daily found that “children were three times more likely to refuse eating a vegetable alone than they were to eat the same vegetable when paired with a reduced-fat flavored dip.”

It’s possible, of course, that parents of picky eaters are feeding the problem and simply aren’t being patient enough.

3. insist that they try it. They may not have “Studies show it takes at least 10 times introducing a food to eat everything, but they should have to try to make it go from ‘yuck’ to ‘yum,’” says Gina Gilbert-Green, everything. “We have a two-bite rule,” says a nutrition consultant, Bellin. “You have to take two bites fitness trainer with before turning it down.”

Anatomie in Reno and mother of three.

4. You get what you get, and don’t Many parents who have offered certain foods throw a fit. Making separate kids’ once or twice and gotten meals is a mistake. “Prepare the unfavorable responses same meal for your whole family,” from their kids simply says Gilbert-Green, adding that to throw up their hands and support her daughter, who is sensitive give up. But persistence to gluten, she runs a gluten-free is key. household. “No special options Parents may also unless there are food allergies or perpetuate the problem by restrictions.” operating out of fear of starvation. “They won’t let 5. create a ritual of family dinners. themselves starve to death.

The University of Florida Extension lynnette Bellin’s kids enjoy a green They’ll eat as much as they reports that families who make a smoothie made with kale, avocado, need to eat,” says Gilberthabit of eating dinners together Green. parsley, lemon juice, stevia and ice. increase their intake of fruits and Lynnette Bellin, a vegetables, eat fewer fried foods and working Reno mom of drink less soda, and take in more two and children’s book author, says her kids, ages 7 and 4, protein, calcium and vitamins. don’t give her much trouble at the table. She attributes this to being “borderline obsessive about healthy eating,” dedicating 6. cut the stress. The more anxiety you have considerable time to preparing healthy, unprocessed foods, and about mealtimes, the more kids feel stressed the “branding” in her home surrounding those foods. about eating, which perpetuates the cycle.

“If my 4-year-old won’t eat spinach, we say, ‘Well, that’s Gently continue to reintroduce healthy foods, how you get superhero powers.’ It’s about setting an example. but don’t force feed, and don’t bring stress to … They see me eating loads of veggies and going back for the table. Take it slow, introducing one food at seconds.” a time to slowly build on a child’s repertoire.

Gilbert-Green seconds this approach. Parents are the top influencer when it comes to nutrition. For instance, if Dad wrinkles his nose over a vegetable, that communicates to them that it’s undesirable, and it affects their choice to eat it. photo courtesY lYnnette Bellin

My 4-year-old daughter’s favorite meal is rigatoni with chicken and olives.

We know we’re fortunate to have a daughter with a sophisticated palate. This meal is an Italian dish handed down from her great-grandmother and enjoyed at her grandfather’s home about once a month. We made it a point to introduce new, “adult” foods to her early and often, and though we don’t always win her over, she eats a remarkably wide array of foods, including fruits and vegetables.

But we know many parents aren’t so lucky.

“I have the worst picky eater,” says Fayth Ross, a frustrated mom of three. “We’ve tried everything. He’s 9. I’ve tried hidden veggies. I’ve tried two bites. I’ve tried only making him eat what the adults eat. He can make himself vomit. It’s insane.”

Ross says that her son has refused food for arbitrary reasons—the pizza at school is square, for instance.

“I have a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old who seriously eat— and love—everything. I don’t know what I did wrong with my first.”

Chances are, nothing. PBS Parents points out, “Children are naturally ‘neophobic,’ which means they have an innate fear of trying anything new or foreign, and this includes food. It is normal for children between the ages of 2 and 5 years to resist eating new foods, and may have about four to five favorite foods that they readily accept.”

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Lara ritchie is a chef for all seasons.

What is your specialty?

I don’t know that I would say that I have a specialty. My specialty is that I am flexible, I think. Mostly you’re going to find that chefs stay in one category. They’re either savory or they’re sweet, and I feel comfortable going between baking and a savory kitchen. I like doing both. I don’t think I could be a full-time pastry chef. That might be a bit much for me, but I would say that maybe that’s a little bit different about who I am as a chef because most chefs stay in one or the other type of kitchen.

Is that why you’re here teaching the different classes?

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Lara ritchie is the cULinarY director at nothing to it! cULinarY center, where she teaches the maJoritY of the cooking cLasses that range from thai, tUscan or indian cooking to techniqUes series and coUpLes cLasses.

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Want to tell me a little bit about what you do?

Well, Nothing To It! is a cooking school, a retail store, we have a gourmet deli, and then we cater, so it’s a four-part business.

And what about your personal background?

I went to culinary school at New England Culinary Institute, and since then I’ve worked around the United States. I’ve worked in San Francisco at a place called La Folie. I was with the Four Seasons in Seattle and then opened up the Atlanta property where we gained five stars, five diamonds. I designed a brunch in Atlanta at the Four Seasons and that was written up in the Zagat Guide. In San Francisco, when I was at La Folie, I was voted best chocolate dessert in the city. I’ve cooked in various places, but I’ve been here since 2002.

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What brought you to Reno?

It was twofold. I was looking to get back to the West Coast because I grew up on the West Coast. I was in Atlanta at the Four Seasons. It was a great experience. It was just time to come back to the West Coast. My mom and her husband had moved back here, so I wanted to be closer to her. So it was kind of a twofold purpose. I came directly to Nothing To It!

What’s your favorite thing to cook or make?

You know, I don’t really have a favorite thing. As long as somebody does the grocery shopping and the dishes, I’m happy to cook anything. There’s definitely stuff I don’t like to eat, but I love to cook it all. I think sauce making is wildly fascinating. I love it. I think the great thing about being in the cooking school is last night we did shortcut vegan, so totally a different cuisine. Tonight, it’s Thai. Tomorrow, we’re grilling.

Friday, we’re in Tuscany. So we really get to exercise every bit of the culinary world. That’s what great about my job. I don’t get stuck with a particular cuisine.

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I came to teaching a number of ways, but what I love about it, and what I’ve found that’s so interesting, is that we’re really impacting people on a grassroots level. You know, if you think about food, you think about how people interact and so many of our memories are attached to smells and tastes and food and a specific meal. And, truly, if you look at your life, weddings, funerals, job interviews, meeting with friends—so much of it revolves around food. I love being able to connect with people at that level. And I get students of all ranges. I have people that have retired and are like, “Oh my gosh. I’ve never really taken the time to cook.” Or, “This is my new favorite hobby, show me the finer points.” To people who are really just discovering that their house came with a kitchen and they don’t know what to do. Versus, there’s also people who, all of a sudden, their diet had to change because they found out they have to be gluten-free, or in the case of last night, people deciding to go vegan. So how do you make that choice? How do you approach your kitchen? How do you approach your cooking? I think that’s impactful if we look at how people eat. One of the connecting factors when you look at Rhodes Scholars is that 99 percent of all Rhodes Scholars sat down to a family meal. This is where it starts. This is the heart of so many people. There are those people that eat just for sustenance, but they’re still going to connect at the table with somebody.

So you teach all levels here?

Oh, yeah. We really try to hit in every class—if you have a lot of experience or a little bit of experience, we try to make it approachable for everybody.

If someone is just starting out cooking or just discovering they have a kitchen, like you said, what are the kinds of things you start out with?

Oh, definitely we start out with our knife skills. If you’re not comfortable with your knife, you don’t want to be in your kitchen. And that’s the sad part when you look at grocery stores today is the absolute abundance of pre-cut food because people don’t have the skills to be in their kitchen—and we’re not asking people to be, you know, Jacques Pépin, just a basic

to be there. Or, like I say, if your knife isn’t sharp, and you’re not comfortable with it, it’s not necessarily where you want to be, in the kitchen.

understanding and ability with their knife. And you really sacrifice flavor and a lot of other things when you buy the pre-cut stuff, but, at any rate, we start with knife skills and how to sauté. Those, I think, are two of the fundamentals of your kitchen, and then we grow it from there. And, you know, how do you stock yourself to cook? Like any other part of your life—if you’re going to go skiing, you’ve got to have a basic level of preparedness. And it’s the same with cooking. If you’re set up to cook, you’re going to cook, but if each time you cook you’ve got to reinvent the wheel, you’re not going to want to do it.

What kind of classes do you focus on?

We don’t have a particular focus. Our focus is about giving you the techniques and how to buy the right ingredients and if the recipes are authentic. Meaning, is the technique authentic to whatever cuisine it is, are the ingredients authentic and are you using the right equipment? And once you figure that equation out, it doesn’t have to be complicated for it to be fantastic and flavorful and healthful. So it goes really hand-inhand with what’s going on in cooking now and this movement across the nation of eating sustainable, eating local, eating seasonable. I always say, take a tomato. If you cook a tomato in December, you have to do a ton of things to make it taste good. A tomato in the summer, all you have to do is slice it. It’s just learning the right produce, the right ingredients, cooking with wholesome whole ingredients, using the right

So what are the things you need to have in your kitchen to start cooking?

Well, you know, we’re talking about stocking your pantry and refrigerator with items. Certainly, you always need your flavor agents, whether that’s your dried herbs and spices or your fresh herbs and spices.

Your oils, your vinegars and the right equipment. If you don’t have anything to cook with, you’re not going

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I think if you go into your kitchen and you’re scared and afraid, that’s really not a good place to be. You really want to have that comfortability to be in your kitchen and be at home and know that sometime’s the best mistake you’re going to make is the best thing you’ve ever done or you might make this horrible horrendous thing and then you know to never do that again. But you have to be OK with that. And I think we add a little bit of that approachability to cooking.

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to read more tips from the american heart association about how to pack healthy lunches, visit tinyurl.com/mbufive.

Bringing aLong LUnches is a great waY to cUt down on LUnch costs. here are some tips to make them a LittLe heaLthier and aLL aroUnd Better.

For me, lunch is the meal that i’m always rushing to fit in between work, classes and errands, and i often end up grabbing something quickly—and it’s normally not the healthiest meal of the day. i’ve realized recently that in order to keep my bank account from screaming at me, i need to start packing my own the night before. (mornings are already too difficult for me as it is.)

Sandwiches are quick and easy for making lunches the night before or in the morning, but the same sandwich every day can be boring and you can miss the opportunity to expand your child’s palate. The American Heart Association suggests switching the bread around. One hundred percent whole grain—be it pita pockets or tortilla wraps—can really help add some variety to the typical brown bag lunch and increase the healthfulness, too. And for those with more picky palettes, maybe just switching to 100 percent whole wheat bread—they make some that looks like white bread and is nutritionally similar to the standard whole wheat bread, according to the Mayo Clinic. Grilled chicken leftover from last night’s dinner can also be a great, lean substitute in the lunchbox, too. And make sure to keep some low sodium, low fat cheeses in your refrigerator to throw onto those sandwiches. Buying store brand is a good way to cut down on cost here.

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One thing I often forget is that drinks have calories that count, too. Sodas, other sweetened drinks and many juice drinks are packed with calories. Water, milk and fruit juices that are truly juice—100 percent, that is—are better choices when throwing together lunches. Just make sure to drink 100 percent juices in moderation.

Speaking of fruit, including the whole fruit instead of the juice is the better option, but you can fit your lunch—or your child’s—to your own preferences. The whole fruit has not only the minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants that the 100 percent fruit juice contains, but also fiber to keep everything going regularly and help to make you feel full. To get all of the various benefits of the fruit, eat a variety of different kinds.

A Thermos is a great investment for lunchtime grubbing, too, according to the American Heart Association. Some of their suggestions for meals to keep warm in your Thermos until lunchtime comes around are low sodium soups, chili with lean meat or whole wheat spaghetti with low sodium tomato sauce. All of these options are great for dinners, too, so you can get two meals out of one bout in the kitchen.

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Making sure your furry friends’ food is healthy can be somewhat confusing because reading ingredients lists and nutrition labels can seem like another language.

According to Martha Stewart’s Healthy Home, there are three different levels of care when deciding how to feed your pet. The “most careful” designation is for those who decide to consult a veterinarian about what to feed their pet and then make their own meals for their pets. You have to be cautious, though, because if the meal isn’t balanced, your pet can suffer from malnutrition. The article explains that some may even serve raw meats to their pets, but most professionals wouldn’t recommend this for fear of you or your pet coming into contact with E. coli or salmonella.

Buying organic food—with the “USDA Organic” label—for your pet receives the “more careful” designation.

When you go up the care meter, so to speak, you also go up on the price meter, with homemade pet food

typically being the most expensive and organic food being more expensive than other healthy pet foods.

Receiving the “careful” designation is learning to understand what’s written on the labels of your pet food.

The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) sets the nutritional standards behind the complete and balanced nutrition labels.

A pet food meeting these standards is certified to be sufficient for keeping your pet nourished on its own. It’s important to make sure that your pet’s food has this designation.

Cats and dogs both need meat.

Ingredients listed on the nutrition label are in order

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The ingredient that is first is the most abundant and so on. Make sure that the first ingredient listed is real meat, not just a by-product, a grain or some corn product (cornmeal, corn gluten, ground corn). These fillers are harder for animals to digest and by-products and bonemeal are poorer sources of protein than real meats, according to Healthy Home. The article also says to pay attention to preservatives, listed at the bottom of the ingredients, because ethoxyquin may be damaging to a dog’s liver and Vitamin C or ascorbic acid and Vitamin E or tocopherol are better preservatives for your pet.

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“At first I didn’t know what kale was,” says Alex Franklin, 10. would lack vitamins.” Instead, Veronika says there have been “I thought it was a decoration.” He’s describing how he and other challenges. “Everybody has personal opinions that they his brother, Dylan, 11, responded about two years ago to the feel real strongly about it. Even my mother, when she was idea of transitioning to a vegan diet from their more standard visiting, was like, ‘What’s almond milk? It’s not real.’” omnivorous upbringing.

To meet the rising demand for plant-based foods, grocery “We had to adjust little by little,” explains Veronika, store shelves are increasingly carrying alternatives to mother of the two boys. “Everyone I know on a very close conventional meat and dairy products. You can find everything basis, they’re not vegan, they’re not even vegetarian. But at the from ice cream made from coconut milk to imitation hot dogs time that we started, my kids, they made from wheat gluten to pizzas had all these gastric issues, and I baked with ‘cheese’ made from weighed 25 pounds more.” tapioca.

Veronika explains they made Another Reno family has the decision to go vegan together brought their son up with a vegan after seeing author, former fireman diet since birth. Suzanne and and pro-triathlete Rip Esselstyn Brendan Lewis made the decision give a presentation on his book, for their son, Ronán, to have a The Engine 2 Diet, in which he plant-based upbringing. describes the positive health effects Suzanne, who has a master’s of his firefighting team switching to degree in biology and teaches at a plant-based diet.

Truckee Meadows Community Based primarily on whole College, says, “We didn’t know foods such as fruits and vegetables, any kids who we could see and grains, seeds, and nuts, a vegan diet say, ‘OK, that child is doing well.’ is a strict form of vegetarianism Everything I read made it sound that avoids any animal-derived like it was going to be OK, but foods, including meat, milk, cheese it was scary. It’s your own child, alex, their dog Jessie, dylan and and eggs. Reasons for switching you don’t want to see anything go to a vegan diet vary, from being wrong.” veronika franklin are vegan. health or religiously motivated “We still had to look at whether to not wanting to hurt animals or or not it was healthy for him,” desiring a more environmentally says Brendan. “If it’s not healthy sustainable eating habit. The Franklins say that the change has for him, we aren’t going to do it for him. But he’s obviously not been without its challenges. growing just fine.”

“At first I didn’t think that we were going to go past 21 Ronán sits looking at several Lego books and makes days,” Veronika remembers. She recalls being concerned several references to Star Wars. His parents describe his about the health of her boys. “First it was protein intake, then enthusiasm for vegetables. you learn there’s protein in so many things. We took some “He’s been going to a garden camp and they have him supplements and vitamins, so I wasn’t too concerned that we picking their own vegetables out of the hoophouse and that’s

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made a difference,” says Suzanne. “He’ll eat any leafy green now. He’ll just pick up lettuce and shove it in his mouth.

There’s a couple vegetables he won’t eat, but overall, he’s pretty good.”

What the Lewises have found more challenging than convincing their son to enjoy vegetables has been their varying experiences at preschools regarding having healthy vegan foods served for lunch. “At one, we had to get a religious note for him not to have dairy, because he’s not allergic to it,” Suzanne says. “The stuff they were providing was not healthy at all, so that school didn’t work for us There are unexpected challenges. “Birthday parties,” Suzanne says. “Ronán had been invited to a birthday party, and everything was fine; we had the present wrapped and were ready to go. Then, the night before, I suddenly realized, there’s going to be pizza and cake and things like that. I went on the internet, and I looked at what other people had done, and I talked to a few friends with vegan children, and they told me to pack a lunch and to make my child’s favorite treat and bring that. Well, we got there, and the hostess of the party ended up being so considerate and had gotten him his own cupcake. And the birthday girl was lactose intolerant, so there was one vegan pizza. That one had a good ending, but I’m prepared for the next one.”

The Franklin family mentions creating a routine so that Dylan and Alex will have vegan lunches at school. “The school does not provide vegan lunches,” says Veronika. “I always make sure they have their lunch boxes.”

Staples of her boys’ lunches are almond butter and organic strawberry jam sandwiches, hummus with carrots and cucumbers, and homemade juices and smoothies.

Vegan materials and methods of production are now present in everything from clothing to celebrity cookbook lines to tattoo inks. And it’s possible to go on a road trip from Reno and find a vegan soul food diner or donut shop or upscale award-winning restaurants.

“When I first started being vegan, I was lucky if I could find a veggie burger at a restaurant,” Suzanne says.

However, though it may be more accessible today, both families still acknowledge running into hurdles in navigating an environment that in many ways is contrary or challenging to their own choices and habits.

“It’s getting easier, but it takes a little more work,” Brendan says of raising a vegan child.

Of the choice for Ronán to maintain a vegan diet as he grows, Suzanne says, “As he’s gotten older, we’ve switched to putting some of the decisions to him.”

Brendan adds, “It’s his call. Ultimately, we can’t control what he eats. And I think it would be silly to try. We just put that power with him.”

Of the Franklins’ foray into veganism, now going into its third year, Veronika says, “The difficult part was not giving up meat and dairy; the difficult part was learning new things.”

Though Dylan admits he still doesn’t like eggplant or mushrooms, he sums up his feelings, “At first I didn’t know what ‘vegan’ was. I thought I would try it out and if I didn’t like it I could always go back. But I just stayed on.”

“It’s like any diet,” says Suzanne. “You want to do your research. You don’t want to not understand nutrition and feed your kids all fast food.”

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Keeping children’s attention in the kitchen can be a difficult task, especially when the task doesn’t include licking the spoon, whisk and bowl for a tasty, sugary break in the midst of it. Here are some recipes that children can have fun with, while staying on the healthy side and hanging out in the kitchen.

omelet in a bag This recipe requires minimal cooking skills, as well, and is a whole lot of fun. I made these omelets many times with my mom and sisters in our kitchen when I was growing up. I’m not sure what it is about cooking in a plastic bag, but it sure makes it more exciting, especially for children.

what you need:

• Egg whites (as many as desired) • Low fat shredded cheese • Diced, fresh vegetables of your choice (in season) • Milk or water • One sealable quart-size plastic bag • Large pot

what you do: First, crack your eggs and separate your egg whites out. Next, add all ingredients together into plastic bag. (Add milk or water as desired for your omelet.) Fill a large pot with water and bring to a rapid boil. Place bag with ingredients into the pot and boil for 12 minutes or until mix pulls easily away from sides of bag.

Open the bag, place on your plate and enjoy.

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Fruit Kabobs

This recipe is a creation from my boyfriend’s mother, Tammy Sunderland. It takes a little more cooking than the previous recipes, but it’s worth the work.

This one is great for young kids and especially for the hot summer days. It’s also extremely easy for kids with very short attention spans or few culinary skills—adults, too— and cheap!

what you need:

• Package of lean ground turkey • Package of hot Italian link turkey sausage • Two medium onions diced • Five tablespoons of minced garlic • 49.5-ounce can of fat free chicken broth • three to four teaspoons of cumin • three teaspoons of oregano • 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper • one large sweet potato diced • two cups of chopped carrots • one can of corn • one can of olives sliced • two cans of diced tomatoes • three cans of cannellini beans • two seven-ounce cans of chopped green chilies • corn starch • low fat shredded cheese • light sour cream • tortilla strips

what you do: In a large pot, sauté onions, carrots and sweet potatoes for a few minutes. Remove the sausage from the casing and add it and the ground turkey to the mix. Cook until it’s no longer pink. Add all the remaining ingredients, excluding the sour cream and tortilla strips. Then add the cornstarch as desired for thickness. It’s ready to go when the sweet potatoes and carrots are tender. Finish with a sprinkle of cheese, a dollop of sour cream and a few tortilla strips, as desired.

what you need:

• Fresh fruit of your choice • Skewers (I’ve seen them at the dollar store many times.)

what you do: All you need to do is collect your fruits and skewers and arrange them however you like for a great summer treat.

They’re great for pool parties and playdates, too.

Yogurt parFaits This one is pretty easy for kids and adults of all ages and skill levels. It requires some shopping and some putting together but no cooking time.

what you need:

• plain yogurt • granola • fresh berries • tall glass or small bowl

what you do: Pour a layer of yogurt into your glass or bowl. Then add in some granola and berries on top of it. Next, layer more yogurt, granola and berries until your glass/bowl is full to your liking.

Refrigerate until you wish to enjoy it.

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