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When Wounds Won’t Heal Cuts and scrapes seem to heal naturally when we’re young and healthy. But as we get older, circulatory problems, diabetes and other conditions can hinder the healing process. When that happens, even a small sore can become a complex medical problem requiring specialized care. The wound may become “stuck” in the healing process and become a chronic wound. Warning signs may include the following: • Inability to heal for ﬁve days or more • Swelling that does not go away • Continuous pain • Fluid that drains from the wound • The wound reappears after it has healed

Many Factors Can Hamper Healing The wound may be too large for the body to regenerate enough tissue to repair it, or it may become infected. Certain illnesses, like diabetes and heart disease, can inhibit the body’s ability to get enough blood and nutrients to the wound for healing.

Treatment Options If you experience any of these warning signs, contact your doctor or call a wound care center. Specialty treatment options may include: • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) • Debridement to remove unhealthy tissue • Use of advanced wound care dressings and topical products

• Compression therapy • Education to teach patients how to prevent and take care of wounds • Referrals to specialists for treatment of underlying medical conditions that hinder the healing process, including blocked or narrowed blood vessels Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an advanced treatment that can be very effective. Oxygen is delivered at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. While the air that we normally breathe contains 21 percent oxygen, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber can deliver up to 100 percent oxygen. This enhances the body’s ability to ﬁght infection, reduces swelling and promotes new blood vessel growth. Patients usually ﬁnd the treatments very relaxing.

Remember… It’s important to seek treatment for nonhealing wounds. And if you have diabetes or reduced sensation in your feet, check for wounds every time you bathe or shower.

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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I’m going with Einstein this week. He had that whole bit about time being relative down to a science. I say this because I had one of those great weekends that seemed over before it began. I made apps Friday night. I’m learning the new version of App Inventor on a monitored MOOC [massive open online course] from MIT, which I take at Truckee Meadows Community College. It’s frustrating because the new version of the language is only a couple of months old, and a lot of the old materials haven’t caught up yet. I think I learn better when I have to figure out all the workarounds. It does show, as I’ve occasionally seen in the past, academia doesn’t keep up with the real world. Saturday I continued with the apps, and then headed up to TMCC where I spoke to the Writer’s Conference attendees. From there, over to Carla and Remi’s for the lovely Carla’s 40th anniversary of hatching day. I must have eaten three pounds of crawfish. The fortune teller told me that I take a lot of work on, and there’s a lot of chaos around me, but all that is good because that’s the way I want to live, and things are only getting better. Afterward, I went over to the Reno Hackathon, where I designed an app to help people who have room in their recycling bins get together with apartment or dorm dwellers who don’t have single-stream recycling. If you’re on Android, you can download the app at bit.ly/1m2CyfW, but remember, it’s totally beta, and I’m giving it to the Graduate Student Association. (I’m on the service committee.) Unfortunately, since the rules for the hackathon weren’t posted anywhere, and the website was down, I didn’t know it was only for Microsoft app development, so I couldn’t be in the raffle drawings or considered for the prizes. I didn’t even get a T-shirt. I did however, get three Dr. Peppers, four cookies and two slices of pizza, so it wasn’t a total loss. Sunday, reading for my other classes and more app design, and for entertainment, a trip to Costco. I didn’t stop for one second this weekend. And that always makes me feel relatively good on Monday.

Re “Comic Timing” (Arts & Culture, April 10): I do appreciate the publicity for the open mic scene in Reno,which I am quite fond of, but why would someone so clearly meant to review Disney’s latest release attend a comedy open mic? Things that make us uncomfortable are often the same things that make us laugh. Every comedian deserves the chance to figure out that line without their open mic material being up for review. An open mic is a space to figure out if a joke just shocks the audience or if it’s actually funny. Why would you judge a musician on a sound check or an athlete on his workout routine? A comedian and an open mic are no different. Stand-up depends on a live audience, so open mics are our practice space. You want refined, pay for a show. My tip to Katie Dow and any other reporter before attempting a similar review is to know what a comedy open mic is before attending. You’re going to hear potentially distasteful material, and that’s OK. The Aussie comic Steve Hughes sums it up better than I can: “So what, be offended, nothing happens.” In other news, I’m looking forward to Katie Dow’s upcoming review of Frozen. Mark Manning Kings Beach, Calif.

Re “Ask not for whom the tax rolls” (Left Foot Forward, April 3): As a past resident and business owner in Oregon for 22 years I was greatly amused by Sheila Leslie’s comparison of sales taxes in Oregon and Nevada. Does she honestly think that if the state of Oregon imposes a corporate tax on a business that it doesn’t get passed on to the consumer? And don’t get me started on the Business Income and Business Property Taxes that most Oregon counties impose on registered businesses. And quit trying to compare Oregon’s lack of a sales tax with Nevada. While Oregon has no sales tax, it does have a 9 percent state income tax that applies to the first $10,000 of income. And please stop with the illogical argument that a sales tax hurts the poor. A sales tax applies to everyone, regardless of income. And it makes even those that get “paid under the table” or paid in cash contribute to the state general fund. Here’s a suggestion for Ms. Leslie, since she seems to like taxes so much: She could move to our neighboring state of California, where the sales tax is approaching 9 percent in the Bay Area. She will be taxed on almost anything that moves, breathes, or has value. Dave Abel Sparks

Good triumphs? The Nuremberg trials witnessed the end to a tyrannical government. During the 1930s, Nazism pulled Germany out of the doldrums of the Great Depression. They were the anointed ones in the eyes of the German people, Obama/Reid was the anointed ones in the eyes of the American people in 2009, even though Obama increased the national debt 42 percent in less than eight years. Both parties have gone down in history as being masters of deception. Hang in there, Clark County rancher Cliven Bundy, the Dems will find out the good always prevails over evil! Mike Arp Reno

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(read, most commonly, a father) to teach a child how to be a man or even how to be a respectable woman. On the other side of the argument, is the community better off without another meth addict, thief and burden on society? That sounds cold, but I have had a break-in where wrapped Christmas presents were stolen from under a tree as well as CDs and a camera and a stereo from my car. These things were stolen so they could be sold for cents on the dollar by a proven doper in the first case and an unknown in the second case, so I’m not so forgiving. There is often a lopsided amount of sympathy expressed for the perpetrator than for the victims. I suggest you write a follow up article on the person whose Grand Am was stolen and worth only $100 to Herndon. That car could have been their only means of transportation, they may have lost their job because they couldn’t get to work, it could have been the only they owned outright, there could have been any number of impacts on their innocent life because somebody desperate for a meth fix was “more important” than them. Your article was very well written and not an opinion piece, which is refreshing. The cops may have overreacted, but people forget that they are human, too. Most of the time people get what they ask for. There are so many inexplicable acts people do that I really believe there are such a thing as “demons” that drive people to do awful things to others and themselves. Rick Jenkins via email

prevent conflicts by simply removing attractants. Secure garbage cans and store pet food inside. Keep birdfeeders out of reach and use trays to reduce seed on the ground, a major attractant. Close pet doors at night! (Pet doors that open to food—kitchens or pet food storage—are irresistible.) Repair any holes in floors, attics or other enclosed and sheltered spaces. Motion-activated sprinklers also can scare animals away, but it’s best to prevent attracting animals in the first place. Sherry Guzzi Tahoe City, Calif.

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Re “On second thought” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, April 10): It would have been nice if Obama had somehow been able to leverage a carbon tax out of the permitting of the Keystone. Maybe it is not too late. Revenues could be used for subsidizing clean, green alternatives. Ron Schoenherr Reno

Re “Urban gurerilllas” (News, April 3): The article about raccoons unfortunately starts and focuses on negatives and sensationalism, rather than on the more useful information from Chris Healy of NDOW and Barry Brode of Washoe Animal Control. As they both state, wildlife is only attracted to neighborhoods for food or shelter, and it is easy to

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Fossil fuel folly Re “On second thought” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, April 10): Yes, a cleanup fund is a huge necessity. Doesn’t need to be reinvented either, just use the Alaska Dividend fund as boilerplate. Oil companies were forced to create it. The way it was written (based on a Canadian railroad workers fund) leaves it totally out of reach of political misdirection for “good” causes. Why? Keystone’s grimy black record of pipeline maintenance, for one. Case in point is a largely unremarked major pipeline break in Michigan that trashed the Kalamazoo River for 30 miles. BP was drawing all the media attention while Keystone was able to kick a little dirt over that one. Rick Woods Sparks

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How do you feel about drones? Asked at the Overlook Restaurant at UNR Glen Atkinson Economist

They’ve been used for bad things, they could be used for good things, like all technology. … Arsonists use fire. How do you control human behavior? Guns are used for hunting and also to kill people.

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They bring employment to help our economy. I’m all for that. I’ve heard about building a plant in Hawthorne, Nevada, Mineral County. That’s really a depressed area. And any new industry that we can bring to Nevada, I’m all for it to get our people back to work.

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This land is our land Some lessons in futility can be learned from that little made-for-TV standoff between Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, but its current resolution cannot and should not stand. We’re referring to that episode down in Clark County where a cattle rancher took up arms to defend his non-existent right to graze his cattle on lands he doesn’t own. In fact, despite mainstream media’s attempts to make this a multifaceted issue with many reasonable sides, really there’s just one: Bundy has been illegally using other people’s lands to foster his business. The problem was that the feds tried to round up the cattle before they arrested those engaged in the criminal enterprise. That’d be like trying to get the money before detaining the bank robbers. We live in the United States of America. While we agree that the federal government has often extended its reach into places it shouldn’t have, in general, we believe that we live in a country governed by laws. The U.S. Constitution is the basis for laws in this country. It was set up to, among other things, promote the general welfare. Bundy claims his family’s use of the land beginning in the 1880s predates the BLM, which was formed in 1934, a consolidation of two older departments. That may be true, but the state of Nevada entered the Union in 1864. And when Nevada joined the Union, the state’s residents agreed to follow the Union’s laws. It’s called the “paramountallegiance clause,” Article 1, Section 2 of the Nevada Constitution. OPINION

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Bundy’s family followed the state’s laws for more than 125 years before he came up with this cockamamie idea and stopped paying his grazing fees. Bundy’s beliefs that he is somehow taking a stand in support of the state of Nevada is beyond misguided, it appears delusional. He’s joined in his delusions by fanatics who came from around the country, claiming to be patriots while out the other sides of their mouths they were saying they hate the government, and they threatened to shoot federal agents. We saw the Reuters photograph of one of these people with a Ar-15 trained on a crowd of people. Isn’t that at least “brandishing”? These “patriots” appear to care neither about the rest of our rights not to have our public lands despoiled by someone’s for-profit cattle operation nor about the meaning of irony. Let’s be clear: We don’t think there was any reason to escalate that standoff. In fact, it was a clumsy effort to enforce the law from the very beginning. Nobody needs to be shot, but those cattle can’t remain on public lands, and Bundy can’t continue to break the law or use our public lands without paying for the privilege. This is a 21st century problem in Nevada that needs a 21st century solution. Those cattle must be removed from public lands without endangering human life. As we point out in the feature story, drones have been used all over the world to protect American soldiers from delusional people who would kill them. Perhaps our burgeoning drone industry could think of a practical use for these illegal cattle that would encourage Bundy to remove his cattle or pay for the privilege to use our lands. Ω |

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I don’t really know. It’s new technology and that’s something that is always met with a little bit of good and bad until it’s figured out.

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I think they have a lot of potential promise. We’ll have to see what comes of them. Sort of like computers—they were used for limited purposes, and now they’re used for everything. … [Computers] can be used for evil, too.

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Not your average Joe It was in the days before Caller ID when I picked up the phone and was stunned to hear Joe Dini’s voice on the other end. “I hear you’re going to win back District 27 for us,” he said. “We need more people like you who care about kids and families.” by At the time, I had mentioned Sheila Leslie the idea of running for the state Assembly to just a handful of people, but Speaker Dini had already heard. His information pipeline was invisible but effective. He was just calling to seal the deal so we could get to work. As a Dini Democrat, I was happy to accept his friendship and mentorship. Freshmen legislators in those days were taught to take their time, learn the process, develop the relationships, and proceed carefully and cautiously in their first session. Joe advised us to think before speaking, to “keep your powder dry” and not lay all our cards on the table immediately. Speaker Dini would often linger in the lunchroom with freshmen

of both parties, telling stories and handing out advice that might have seemed trite and maybe even condescending from anyone but him. “Freshmen should be seen and not heard,” was a favorite line of his, cautioning us to think carefully before asking a question in committee and to be respectful of the chairman of the committee, legislative colleagues, and especially the citizen witness. In those talks around the lunch table in the caucus room, he often lamented the increasing time pressures brought on by the 120-day session, saying people needed to have the evenings off to build relationships with each other so compromise could be reached the next day. Even back in 1999, he was perplexed by people like Sharron Angle and her propensity to vote no on everything without offering a rationale or alternative solution to a problem. He’d ask me, “What’s going on in Washoe County? Why are they sending someone like

her to represent them when she’s not interested in moving the state forward?” I was never able to provide an answer he could accept. Joe loved the Clampers, and he ignored the protests of female legislators when he allowed them on the floor to celebrate Clampers Day. He loved his colleagues from both sides of the aisle, encouraging John Carpenter’s quirky Suzy Q obsession and his Cowboy Hall of Fame Day. He was secure enough to promote brilliant women like Barbara Buckley, and he took great delight in using her intellect and political skills to advance the Democratic agenda. I was summoned to his office during the first weeks of the 1999 session to help him figure out how to assist Republican John Marvel, caught in a controversy over his use of the term “wetback” to describe Nevada’s Hispanic farm workers. When I explained why the Latino and progressive communities were so deeply offended by Marvel’s comments, Joe told me he

understood but asked me to convey to these groups that it wasn’t fair to judge Marvel by current sensibilities. “To him, it’s just a word he’s always used,” he said. After he retired, I saw him now and then, and he’d always wave me over to talk. I’d go with trepidation, expecting him to disapprove of my liberal ranting about this or that. Instead, he’d always remark favorably on my advocacy in the media, and he’d question me closely about the issue. “Keep fighting!” he’d say. “We need that.” Speaker Dini deserves all the accolades we’ve heard in the last week since his death, but he would probably prefer to be remembered simply for his deep love for the state, its people, and a legislature he led with skill and civility, focused on doing what was right for the average Joe. Ω

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Vengeance should not be a gay value Comedian Bill Maher called it the “gay mafia.” Columnist Andrew Sullivan said he is ashamed of the movement he helped create. What caused this shame? The scorched earth social media attacks of the victorious pro-gay left on those outed for their opposition to by Brendan gay marriage. Trainor Even the military and professional sports are now open to gays. Uneasy jokes about bending over to pick up a bar of soap in the shower are suddenly as politically incorrect as minstrel shows. Why the hate in victory? The latest attack on the unrighteous was the boycott organized on the OK Cupid dating site over Brendan Eich’s appointment as the CEO of Mozilla. The site urged its viewers to dump the Mozilla browsers. His sin? He contributed $1,000 to California’s Proposition 8, which attempted to overthrow California’s judicially mandated gay marriage law. In 2008, remember, President Obama was against gay marriage.

For his thought crime, Eich has been forced out of his new job. In Oregon, the hate from the left is likened to the imposition of a Portlandia Sharia law. Proposition 8 wouldn’t require gays to wear a purple L on their shirts. It was about whether they should be granted a government privilege that they only recently sought. It wasn’t so long ago that gays wanted to be loud and proud, not quietly mainstream. Libertarians applaud that OK Cupid did not urge new laws or regulations, but only a private boycott. Boycotts are not the initiation of force that libertarians oppose. They are withholding patronage. On the other hand, it is troubling that we have a new thought police. It is chilling when political victory turns to private retribution against careers. The website got Eich’s donor information from public sources, as all the Prop 8 donor names were published. One solution to the problem could be allowing

anonymous donations to political initiatives and campaigns. Why should the decision to donate (remember, money is speech) have to require public disclosure? There are initiatives and candidates that are very controversial. Besides homosexual rights, there are initiatives that tackle drug and prostitution legalization, immigration, sexual predator laws, and other hot button issues. If support for one side or the other could lead to career destruction, why shouldn’t individuals be allowed to give anonymously? America has a long history of anonymous political speech. The Federalist Papers were printed anonymously. Stripping government of most of its gatekeeping powers over marriage is another solution. I have always disliked how the minister blesses a marriage with the words “by the power vested in me by the State of Nevada.” I thought that a minister receives that power from God and his congregation. The Mormons were the first religious group to be persecuted

by the federal government, largely because of polygamy. Recently, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that Utah cannot prosecute polygamists so long as they are not officially married. A society where you are equally free to contract a long-term religious marriage without easy divorce, or an open marriage, or even—perish the thought—a bisexual marriage, would eliminate battles over how government is going to define the institution for everyone. In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Nevada is no longer supporting the ban on same-gender marriage in the Nevada Constitution which the state’s voters only just approved in 2002. The Mormon-led Coalition for the Defense of Marriage will have to go it alone, a losing proposition. Will those Nevadans defending their religious beliefs about marriage also be the victims of left wing vituperation? A free society provides space for the religious and secular to coexist. Let government enforce marriage contracts, not define them. Ω

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Washoe Iraq costs pass billion “Roy Hobbs” in the Roger Towne and Phil Dusenberry screenplay of The Natural: “I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.” Last month marked the 11th anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq. The U.S. has supposedly extricated itself from that war, but it’s hard to tell from the ongoing payments for it. According to the National Priorities Project, which tracks finances of U.S. military adventurism, as of April 4 at 2:17 p.m., the cost to U.S. taxpayers of the Iraq war hit $818,275,977,147 and it is still rising by $365,297 an hour. By that same date, the cost to Reno taxpayers had hit $678,648,086—that’s two and a half times the cost of the Reno railroad trench—and the counter is still running at $303 an hour. Also by that date, the taxpayers of Washoe County had paid $1,368,322,901 for the war and that amount is rising by $612 an hour. When we last checked these numbers, in September (“The meter’s still running,” RN&R, Sept. 12, 2013), the national figure was $814,086,482,000 and the Reno figure was $676,862,107.

Columnist slimes Reid Some kind of line was crossed last week when Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin described U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada as “loathsome.” Her April 7 column began, “There are few politicians more cavalier with the truth and more loathsome than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.” She then went through a litany of old and current complaints about Reid in order to defend the Koch brothers from Reid’s current campaign against the two corporate funders of right wing causes. Rubin has often been criticized for her vitriolic language, with the Post’s reader representative calling publicly for her firing and a Post editor once tweeting a reminder that Rubin “is NOT a WaPo reporter.” In 2011 she accused the Occupy movement of anti-Semitism and was herself accused of the same thing after she wrote an article titled “Why Jews Hate Sarah Palin.”

Nuke advocate attacks Obama In an essay for the Hill, a newspaper of congressional affairs, U.S. Rep. John Shimkus tore into President Obama for bringing the Yucca Mountain project to a halt. “While many are aware of the administration’s legally suspect Obamacare delays and go-it-alone attitude toward immigration, climate and a host of other policies, few realize President Barack Obama has also actively subverted the 30-year-old Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the law governing the development of a safe repository for our nation’s nuclear waste, and he wants to stick taxpayers with the bill. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act states that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ‘shall’ consider Yucca Mountain as our nation’s permanent geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste and that the commission “shall” approve or disapprove the Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain application no less than three years after its submission. ‘Shall’ is not a suggestion.” The Nuclear Waste Policy Act, approved in 1982, provided for a competitive scientific suitability study among sites and also provided for two dumps—one in the east and one in the west. Shimkus, a member of the House Energy Committee, neglects to mention that Congress in 1987 called a halt to that scientific process, killed the eastern dump, and eliminated all candidate sites but Nevada. According to OpenSecrets.com, among industries, electric utility political action committees are the second biggest contributors to Shimkus. He also has his own PAC, the John S Fund, that he uses to help other House members. Electric utilities are the number one contributors to the John S Fund. Among its contributors are PACS of the Nuclear Energy Institute and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Those receiving money from those groups after it has passed through Shimkus’s hands include U.S. Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada, who received a $1,000 contribution from the John S Fund. Shimkus hails from Illinois, which contains seven nuclear power facilities, one of them closed.

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Lower water, higher tension Drought causes squeeze on water in West A “Weed Extravaganza” is set for April 29-May 1 at the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko County. by It’s a reflection of the fact that Dennis Myers weeds can proliferate in drought periods, in turn creating more ground cover, in turn helping wildfires spread more rapidly, in turn making wildfires more difficult to fight. So the workshop in Elko County at the end of the month will help ranchers, farmers and others strategize on how to control weeds, particularly invasive weeds.

“We will lose the range this year with drought.” Dave Miller Iron County, Utah, commissioner Drought in Nevada and the West is looming larger as summer draws nearer. With water being squeezed, difficult choices must be made. Nevada’s a mining state, for instance. “Surely in times of drought, such as now exists in much of Far West, mines located in arid locations like Nevada could help supplement agricultural or municipal water needs, thus helping to foster trust between mining operators and local communities?” asked mining journalist Dorothy Kosich on Mineweb. Her answer

wasn’t all that reassuring to anyone without a stake in the mining industry: “However, dry year options aren’t an option for Nevada gold mining companies to help their neighbors in times of drought. In Nevada, one of the largest water rights holders for the Humboldt River, which flows through a considerable portion of the state’s gold mining region, is Newmont Gold. During these past two years of drought, at least one Nevada municipality has asked Newmont for water to supplement their storage water supply. However, Newmont is probably unable to accommodate that community’s needs.” In California, Gov. Jerry Brown told his department heads to ease water transfers so commercial water can be made available to municipalities, some of which have imposed rationing. Nevada doesn’t have the laws providing for those kinds of actions. In ranching, companies want to squeeze every drop from the land, which pits them against an emotional symbol—the wild horse. This confrontation was given a face when rancher Cliven Bundy took on the Bureau of Land Management, though not all western ranchers welcomed Bundy as their voice. Bundy has refused to pay his grazing fees since 1993 and has asserted in court that the Bureau of

Land Management has no authority over the range because his family was using it before the agency was created. The courts have consistently rejected that argument. But BLM has been reluctant to enforce the law on him until the drought started squeezing water. Without support from the law, Bundy invited supporters onto his ranch to face off with federal officials last week. His supporters, too, tried to raise the temperature of the confrontation, with headlines on their websites like “Armed Fed Agents and Snipers?” (TheBlaze.com) and “Ruby Ridge-style Standoff Brewing” (TeaPartyTribune.com). In interviews. Bundy made it clear he would accept as legal only decisions that go in his favor. “I’ve tried to stop them for 20 years,” he told the Las Vegas Sun. “I’ve tried to be legal in the courts. I’ve tried to do it politically and through the media. Now, it’s about down to having to do it as we the people.” His grazing fee arrears are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The issue became ensnared with the wild horse issue because money to remove horses from the range is limited and the feds are already under fire from wild horse advocates for some removals. The ranchers don’t want horses competing for water and graze. County commissions in Iron County and Beaver County in Utah attacked the BLM for failing to get rid of the horses. They were particularly irate when the BLM funded operations to confiscate Bundy’s cattle in Clark County, Nevada, with estimates of that cost ranging from $1 million to $2 million. At a meeting of the Iron County commissioners and BLM officials, the county officials ended the meeting when they heard that it might take months to remove the horses. Commissioner Dave Miller said, “We have to protect the range. We will lose the range this year with drought, the impacts of new foals. .... So let me be clear: Any plan that talks about removing those horses in multiple months is unacceptable. We have to get those horses off the range immediately.” The commissioners and Iron County Sheriff Mark Gower formally notified BLM officials last week that if the agency doesn’t remove the horses, they will. That would put county officials in the position of trying to capture about 1,700 wild horses, which could be a multi-million dollar operation. After BLM started confiscating Bundy cattle—and did it without

violence—U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada jumped in on Bundy’s side. In its entirety, Heller’s release read, “(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) issued this statement regarding land closures that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has initiated due to the ongoing, court-ordered roundup of rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle: ‘I spoke with BLM Director [Neil] Kornze this morning to express great disappointment with the way that this situation is being handled. I told him very clearly that law-abiding Nevadans must not be penalized by an over-reaching BLM. After hearing from local officials and residents, and receiving feedback from the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association in a meeting this morning, I remain extremely concerned about the size of this closure and disruptions with access to roads, water and electrical infrastructure. I will continue to closely monitor this situation, and urge the BLM to make the necessary changes in order to preserve Nevadans’ constitutional rights.’ ” It’s not clear why, but the Heller release mentioned Bundy by name only in the section normally read by reporters, but not in the section of the release containing Heller’s prepared public statement. Heller did not say how the Bundy problem should have been handled or offer any alternative plan for dealing with it. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a former federal judge and state attorney general, also sided with Bundy.

Iron County columnist Dallas Hyland wrote that Bundy’s friends have given him bad advice. “The day he decided to stop paying his grazing allotment fees required by law, (not imaginary law, mind you, but real law passed by Congress and enforced by federal agency) he rendered his voice and any control he had over the destiny and use of the land irrelevant,” Hyland wrote. The Salt Lake Tribune editorialized, “But just because something is public doesn’t give all, or any, members of the public the right to wander onto that land and do anything they want. Grazing cattle, rounding up wild horses, running off-road vehicles or doing other things anybody pleases—under the theory that federal land is public and open—makes no more sense than claiming that anybody who feels like it can set up a hot dog stand in the Capitol Rotunda or bed down for the night in the White House.” A BLM statement said it was “unfair to the thousands of other ranchers who graze livestock in compliance with federal laws and regulations throughout the West” for Bundy to get away with 20 years of free grazing, and that he had resisted administrative and judicial resolutions. Nearly everyone on both sides of the issue faults the BLM for failing to curb Bundy before two decades had passed. The BLM eventually called off the confiscation of Bundy cattle to avoid the risk of violence. Ω

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here was rejoicing in many quarters last December when Nevada was chosen as a test site by the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of commercial applications of drones. It would mean an influx of high-paying technology, aerospace design and engineering jobs for the struggling state.

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“It will open up a whole new world to the people of our state for education and job opportunities,” the Las Vegas Sun reported Gov. Brian Sandoval saying when the FAA’s decision was announced. “This is a day that 10 years from now and 20 years from now, we’ll look back on and see that it really changed the trajectory of our economic development efforts.” Nevada’s U.S. Senators, Harry Reid and Dean Heller, along with other state officials and politicians, also issued statements praising the successful effort to establish Nevada as ground zero for drones. But for some, inviting drones into the state was like inviting a vampire into the house. The

perception exists that since the technology was developed for military purposes, drones are inherently deadly and dangerous. Unmanned aerial vehicles high in the sky mean the end of personal privacy and the beginning of a police state that could, like the plot of hundreds of science fiction movies, suddenly go rogue, turn on its creators, and start a war of machines against men. Nevada, of course, has a long history of being the birthplace and testing ground of new

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One of the clearest voices of dissent about the state’s embrace of drones comes from across campus. It belongs to University of Nevada, Reno art professor Joseph DeLappe, one of the city’s most respected and high-profile artists. He’s possibly the only Reno-based artist to have recently had his work described as “significant” by the New Yorker magazine. Much of his recent artwork has been very politically engaged and many of his most recent projects have taken drones as the principle subject. He recently completed “The Drone Project: A Participatory Memorial,” a memorial sculpture for civilians killed by US military drone strikes in Pakistan. The sculpture was created by DeLappe with the assistance of over 100 volunteers. It’s publicly installed on the campus of California State University, Fresno, where DeLappe is currently a visiting artist in residency. The sculpture is a full-scale, bright yellow plastic reproduction of an MQ-1 Predator drone. On it have been written the names of 334 civilian casualties of drone strikes in Pakistan. Alongside the names, when available, are the ages of the deceased, which includes many children as young as 6 or 7. The data was compiled by an independent, not-for-profit UK organization, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 14 | RN&R |

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DeLappe is disturbed by the central role that Nevadans have played in the development and use of drones from Nellis and Creech Air Force bases. “Reading up on Area 51, the whole flying saucer thing is just conspiratorial nonsense,” he said. “That’s a weird non-story compared to what actually goes on there. Area 51 has been the main testing site for all of these systems. That’s were all the drones were first flown and tested, and the SR-71 and the U-2 spy plane. There’s this lineage of secret aircraft. … It’s almost become a cliché: the drone pilot living in suburban Las Vegas, driving to work, going into the air-conditioned trailer and blowing shit up on the other side of the world.” Much of DeLappe’s past art work has focused on the ways in which technology, like computer games and social media, affects our lives. For him, drones are a disturbing synthesis of technology worship, computer gaming— drone controls are modeled on video game controllers—and aggressive foreign policy. He also compares drones to the detachment of social media. Instead of clicking on an image of some distant and asking them to be “friends.” You click on them as an enemy to be eliminated. “Right now we’re looking we’re looking at drones as a way of very safely, from our perspective, going around and being involved in these kinds of wars that are essentially illegal,” he said. “We’re violating sovereign air space with targeted assassinations.” Although his concern is primarily with the military use of drones, DeLappe also views many civilian applications of the technology as potentially problematic—for example, replacing postal workers and delivery drivers with drones. “That’s part of the mechanization of labor,” he said. “That’s something to think about carefully because we’re in an unemployment crisis already.” But DeLappe says his biggest concern is the eventuality of this technology getting into of the hands of terrorists or some other hostile military force. “Right now, we have this superiority that we are the ones able to control these things from 5,000 miles away, on the other side of the planet,” he said. “That’s going to change. My radical position that I would take: We have an international ban on chemical weapons. We decided not to build the neutron bomb back in the ’70s. Why not an international ban on weaponized drones?”

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weapons. Nuclear bombs were tested here. The U-2 spy plane was developed here. So it’s not surprising that, long before the advent of commercial drone companies in the state, Creech Air Force base north of Las Vegas was the central hub for military use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The governor’s office was the primary organizing force of the effort to bring the FAA drone testing to Nevada, but both of the state’s universities also assisted in the appeal. The University of Nevada, Reno recently launched a new minor degree program in Unmanned Autonomous Systems offered by the university’s College of Engineering. “We decided to be a little proactive because we were told that Nevada was a very strong contender to be one of the FAA test sites, and of course that’s happened since then, and we are one of the test sites,” said Indira Chatterjee, the associate dean of engineering. “We felt that we need to educate our students in this area, so that they would have expertise to fit into the jobs that hopefully would be coming to Nevada because of the FAA test site designation.” Chatterjee said that the program has already attracted a lot of student interest. Most of the written materials about the program on the university’s website and elsewhere seem to carefully avoid using the word “drone” in favor of the clunky, but less loaded, phrase “Unmanned Autonomous Systems.” “It includes drones, said Chatterjee. “We’re not using that terminology because we don’t want it to be just drones. There are lots of other systems that are unmanned and autonomous. … We wanted it to be a more general term.” Many of the faculty and student projects using the technology are for civilian applications like fighting wildfires, and environmental hazard monitoring.

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While many in the industry shy away from using the word “drone,” Mike Richards, the president and CEO of the Reno-based company Drone America, embraces the term. “There is a negative connotation to the word ‘drones,’” he said. “I called the company Drone America because those two names were struggling at the time. … Trying to convince the public that drone is not a drone by calling it a different name is a losing battle. It’s the same as a helicopter. You don’t call a helicopter a gun ship. You don’t call it an air ambulance. But it can do both things. Helicopters don’t have such a negative connotation like the drones. It’s only because people have been made aware of the

Mike Richards is the president and CEO of the Reno-based company Drone America.

negative side, and not been made aware of the good side.” Drone America builds and designs unmanned systems. The company has pilots and resources to fly and maintain these systems. It currently employees 18 people, but with the FAA designation of Nevada as a drone test site, Richards said he hopes the size of the company will double in the coming year. He said that in addition to the test site designation, Nevada has a variety of terrain and atmospheric conditions—not to mention the open space—ideal for research and development of unmanned vehicles. Drone America has developed applications for disaster response, emergency supply relief, fire suppression, agriculture purposes and wildlife photography. Documentary director John Heminway used camera-mounted Drone America vehicles during the production of his anti-poaching National Geographic film Battle for the Elephants. Richards says he was inspired to start developing humanitarian applications for unmanned vehicles after his experience rescuing three teenagers whose boat had capsized on Lake Tahoe. “After that, I started wondered if there was something out there that could actually transport a life raft or medical supplies in order to buy people time,” he said. “So I conducted some research and couldn’t find too much. Curiosity started me playing with initial designs, and the initial designs turned into an obsession. And the obsession finally turned into a business.” For Richards, developing commercial and

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humanitarian applications for military technology is not a contradiction. “We regard the military as an important part of our business, on the basis that the military, particularly the expeditionary force of the Marine Corps, are always the first into a disaster zone, so if we were to ignore that sector of the market, we would be not addressing the humanitarian side of our mission statement,” he said. “The military over the years has thrown a lot of money at unmanned systems, and because of their activity it does result in a commercial opportunity. There’s a lot of things that you can say, ‘Oh, it was developed by the military, it must be bad. But a lot of what we see in our normal lives has been developed by the military.’ ”

“A robot scares people—something that has its own intelligence or makes its own decisions,” said Richards. “But none of the drones that we fly actually have that capability. They have the ability to fly just like an airliner, but they don’t have the ability to decide to crash over here or drop something on somebody over there on their own. Nor does any of the systems that the military has.” For Richards, the development of drone technology for commercial purposes does not necessarily mean a loss of jobs. The pilots of crop-dusting planes, for example, he said, are the best qualified to remotely pilot drones for that application. With that, just like the military uses of drones, there’s significantly less danger to the actual pilot as well.

Nevada terraiN aNd climate may be ideal for research aNd developmeNt of droNes He cites space exploration technology, Velcro, weather proofing materials, emergency rations, and various medical supplies and trauma treatments as examples of things originally developed for military use but subsequently employed by civilians for day-to-day or even humanitarian purposes. The autonomy of drones frightens a lot of people, akin to the classic science fiction plots of the haywire machines that turn on their creators.

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There’s also the issue of privacy. Cameras mounted on flying robots, once again, might seem like something from a dystopic science fiction police state. “Honestly, if you look at Facebook, most people tell Facebook more information than you’ll ever get from a camera or a drone,” he said. “It would cost so much money to task a drone to go follow someone—that kind of paranoia is not validated at this point.”

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But Richards acknowledges that as the technology becomes less expensive, it’s a concern for the future and a reason why unmanned vehicles should be subject to extensive regulation. “I think after we demonstrate that it can deliver medical supplies, can spray for mosquitoes, can provide aerial communications to disaster zones, and look for lost people—whether it’s in the ocean or in a conflict area—the good can outweigh the bad,” he said. “It’s like computers in the ’80s. Everyone was afraid that people were going to get on the internet for the wrong reasons. Well, guess what, they do, so what do you do? You regulate to a level where it makes sense, and the people who are in it are licensed and legitimate. They’ll be accountable to the rules and regulations which the government and the FAA set up. You’ll always have those that circumnavigate rules of law, but should you inhibit the capability to do good based on your fears of something going bad?” Like many things, perceptions about drones on both sides are firmly entrenched. For those who see potential for economic and technological development with the tools, the military history of drones is something that will eventually become a footnote. For those concerned about American military aggression, the history of the tools is unforgettable and unforgivable. Regardless, unmanned autonomous systems are part of the culture and history of this state. For better or worse, economic development or military surveillance, good or bad, drones are flying over Nevada. Ω

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hen Teresa Aquila was in the fourth grade, her teacher gave her a piece of paper and told her to write down what she wanted to be when she grew up. Everyone’s answers would be tacked to a wall during an open house for parents.

“Cop and mechanic,” the little girl scrawled. Think again. “If you put that up there,” the grown Aquila remembers her teacher saying, “I’m going to flunk you.” Young Teresa finally obliged, writing “secretary” instead. The memory cracks her up now, because when the open house came around, she approached every single guest and told them the secretary thing was total hooey. Years later, in the late 1970s—after rebuilding and all-around cherishing plenty of cars and machines—Aquila took a job as a mechanic for Ralston Purina. Before long, she’d launch a career with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, too. Life was unfolding just as planned, but that’s not to say the plan was easy. Take the ditch incident. For whatever reason, Aquila and some male colleagues had to dig a ditch at the Purina site one day, and, as she drove her shovel into 16 | RN&R |

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the ground, one of the men walked over and jammed his hand right down her shirt. It’s a story she’s happy to relay, seeing as she clocked him with the shovel. Hard. “And I told him, ‘Next time, I’m going to shove it up your ass.’” She never had to. But the sight of a female grease monkey never stopped jolting people, either. Not one to be deterred, Aquila is now a reserve deputy lieutenant with nearly 40 years of law enforcement under her belt. She’s also a mechanic, of course, and works in management for a transportation company. When the day is done, she goes home to a showroom she built with her own two hands— a place for her fleet of achingly beautiful vintage cars, including a pristine 1954 Chevy Bel Air that gleams like a pale blue mirror, and a rare 1927 Willys-Knight that she swears has a living soul. The rides she’s restored share the floor with trucks belonging to her husband, Cameron Lewis. Aquila dated plenty in the past, but relationships always ended the same way: the guy asking what he could give her that she didn’t already have. Lewis was stronger than the others, and it probably didn’t hurt that she met him in a club for auto enthusiasts. Her cop-and-car dreams all came true in the meantime, perhaps because she never questioned them. Ever. Not even the day a trucker guffawed at her petite frame when she pulled him over on the highway. “My, little lady,” he drawled. “You’re awful tiny.”

“Get out of that truck,” she snapped back, “and I’ll show you how tall I am.” She’s not apt to toot her own horn, though, so to speak, and the hell-yeah stories only come if you ask for them. Aquila laughs a lot, too.

Garage days Her latest goal—which she’s almost guaranteed to achieve, considering her record and all—is to empower other women by imparting a knowledge of cars and all things mechanical. The tangible result is a website, teresasgarage.com, which has a growing index of inspiring articles and car-care tips for readers. The rest amounts to a game plan, and a handful of female participants who are ready to publish their own stories with Aquila’s help. “We always look at ourselves through the windshield, and not through the rearview mirror,”Aquila likes to say. But sometimes the mirror gives you reason to be proud. One of her muses is a speedometer expert. Another is Cambria Orr, a young parts specialist at Sierra Freightliner in Sparks who once took a shop class in hopes that she’d save money by learning to do her own auto repairs. Before long, she was in mechanic school at NASCAR Technical Institute, where she graduated first in her class. She was the only woman in it.

“The more they get into [talking about their lives]—what they did and how they did it— their excitement levels just keep getting higher and higher,” says Aquila, who’s still gathering interviews and doing most of the writing for Teresa’s Garage. “In the end, I swear to god they could fly across the sky.” Her site is unabashedly girly in some ways, but maybe a more neutral approach would miss the target audience: local women like columnist Lisa Smith, who admits upfront that she knows “diddly-squat about cars.” Smith’s first book review is on a volume she picked up at the grocery store, called What the Heck Was That!?! Scary Noises and Other Car Stuff Every Woman Should Know! “There are a lot of reminders to be safe,” she wrote, “since women tend to be multi-taskers who are always thinking about the fifth project before the first task at hand is completed. Wear goggles, check wheels and make sure the hood’s latch is secured.” After all, Smith writes, “You don’t want an accident where you lose a head or hand; think about all the stress your hairdresser or manicurist will go through to repair the damage.” That, and you don’t want to fall prey to the cliché sort of mechanic who tries to take advantage of anyone with a pair of X chromosomes. “It’s horrible to not know anything, and then to go someplace and have the men abuse you

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advocates for bicycling as viable transportation through community outreach, educational programming and engagement with local city planners. The We HeArt Bikes exhibition has been a staple of the RBP’s annual calender since it was founded eight years ago. RBP co-founder and executive director Noah Silverman estimates that about 30 artists will donate works for the exhibition this year, which will be held at Reno’s Holland Project. RBP is renting the space from the Holland Project, which allows them to do things a little differently than most Holland Project events—specifically, it means there’s going to be beer. New Belgium Brewing, brewers of the popular bicyclethemed beer Fat Tire, are one of the event’s sponsors. And DJ Mega-Bold will provide tunes for the reception on April 19. In years past, the event has been a raucous party, but Silverman said that more recently, the event has become more focused on the actual artwork.

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the all-time great bicycle movies. Proceeds from the event help support the RPB’s Major Taylor Ride Club, an afterschool bike club for at-risk youth. The RBP partners with Boys and Girls club and Kids Cottage to teach 10 classes, covering bicycle safety and riding techniques for street and mountain bikes to kids who might not otherwise have access to bikes. Just as many artists are drawn toward bikes, many bicyclists are drawn toward art. That might be because time spent in the open air, on the open road, tends to change the way one sees the world. “I think riding a bike and making art are both emotive processes and emotive experiences, so I think the two come together seamlessly,” said Silverman. “And part of our mission is to promote the culture of cycling. And what’s more cultural than art?” Ω

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pound beef patty and a variety of toppings (the menu notes the beef is extra lean and prepared daily). When faced with a new-to-me menu featuring mostly familiar options, I usually look for something that stands-out as a house special. Tommy’s didn’t disappoint in this department. I was immediately drawn to the quarter-pound pastrami cheeseburger ($6.05), ordered it medium rare and was asked, “Do you want jalapeños on that?” Yes, sir. Yes, I do. It should be noted I wasn’t particularly hungry that evening. I had eaten a decent breakfast, followed by a pretty substantial lunch, so the plan was to try a couple of bites at Tommy’s and take home the leftovers. There were no leftovers. If you know the feeling of paying for food that doesn’t live up to expectations, then understand when I tell you this burger was the total opposite of sad disappointment. That handmade burger was way above-average on flavor, cooked and seasoned perfectly, and whoever thought of adding pastrami and jalapeños to an already excellent cheeseburger should receive the Nobel Prize for Being Awesome. My wife enjoyed her basic quarterpound cheeseburger ($4.90), though she agreed mine was something special. She had requested bleu cheese, but what she received was a little cup of salad dressing on the side. Bleu cheese isn’t actually on the menu, so this was just a bit of miscommunication on both sides. Not a big deal. Speaking of sides, we ordered french fries and onion rings to share ($3.10, $3.80). The fries were plentiful, crispy shoestrings of salted perfection, delicious without additional condiment. The rings were fresh, battered onion (not frozen, minced and breaded), and though they weren’t the best I’ve ever had they were better than many I’ve been served. They disappeared even faster than the fries. The prices were very affordable for what we received, the service was fast despite being slammed with orders, and food is definitely not an afterthought at Tommy’s. You’ll never get me in a cage trying to defend against a ball-firing robot, but I’ll definitely return for another pastrami burger and those perfect fries. Ω

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Kaylie and Tim return to their home and set up a bunch of Apple products to record their interactions in a room with the killer mirror. Gillan’s Kaylie makes a speech to the cameras to show that she has it all mapped out, and she’s going to get to the bottom of all this evil, dammit. She delivers a long-winded, hissy speech about how the mirror has killed people and how she plans to outsmart it. It was sometime during this speech that I started to not give a crap about anything she had to say. Director and co-writer Mike Flanagan uses a lot of flashbacks to show us what happened to the Russell family, and it’s all quite disorientating and unnecessary. I will say that the two kids (Annalise Basso and Garrett Ryan) are far more interesting than the adults playing the same characters, especially Basso. I found myself getting bummed out when the story would flash forward to the irritating adult actors. Sackhoff, who made a name for herself in such TV extravaganzas as Battlestar Galactica and 24 (which, coincidentally, co-starred Kiefer Sutherland, who starred in his own scary mirror movie, the aptly titled Mirrors), does decent work as the tortured mom. I will go ahead and dub her and Basso’s performances as the film’s best. The most annoying award goes to Gillan, who delivers almost every line with a snarky, “I told you so!” tone that grinds the nerves. Thwaites is required to carry some of the film’s heavier moments, and he drops said heavier moments down the stairs and through the floor and straight into Bad Acting Hell. The film does score a couple of OK scares and gross-out moments, one involving a light bulb that’s pretty hard to watch. The ghosts in the film, which I guess are the ghosts of prior people the mirror has killed or sucked in or whatever, can be a little chilling to the eyes. Since they occupy very little time in the film, I’m not going to allow them to boost my overall feelings for this turd. There’s a sequence involving a Boston Terrier where the doggie just runs out the door, never to be seen again. As a Boston Terrier owner, and major fan of that particular breed, I want to know what happened to that dog! As for the people in this movie, I could care less. Oculus leaves the door open for a sequel, but there’s really no need for such a thing. No need at all. Ω

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Like Thor 2 and Iron Man 3, this movie shows us how an Avenger deals with life after saving New York City from an alien attack. Cap (an endearing Chris Evans) is just trying to catch up on modern culture now. His list of things to do includes watching Star Wars and Star Trek, trying Thai food and listening to Nirvana. He’s attempting to settle into a world after being frozen for fifty years. Of course, he’s not going to be able to just kick back and relax because evil still exists below America’s shimmering surface, and governmental wrongdoings are going to challenge Cap’s ability to remain loyal to the country he’s named after. After an attempt on the life of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson just Samuel L. Jacksoning it like only Samuel L. Jackson can!), attention is called to the likes of somebody called the Winter Soldier, a fighting machine with powers similar to Cap and identity that won’t be revealed in this review. Cap’s mission eventually leads him to the discovery of HYDRA, an evil movement controlling members of the government, started back in the Nazi days. With Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Falcon (a well cast Anthony Mackie) at this side, Cap looks to take down HYDRA, kick the Winter Soldier’s ass, and possibly work in a date somewhere during the whole mess. The film packs a solid action punch, and some decent dramatics to boot.

Divergent

Shailene Woodley stars as Beatrice, a member of an alleged post-apocalyptic society where people are divided up into factions: Abnegation (The Selfless), Erudite (The Intelligent), Amity (The Peaceful), Candor (The Honest) and Dauntless (The Brave). This is another tween action movie based on young adult novels (written by Veronica Roth), and it’s a super dud. Directed by Neil Burger, the whole enterprise is remarkably lacking in tension, humor, creativity, originality and focus. Kate Winslet shows up as Jeanine, an Erudite with a mysterious whiff of evil. I imagine she’s the Darth Vader of this silly saga. Miles Teller (Woodley’s The Spectacular Now costar) gets what feels like a tacked on role as Peter, a member of Dauntless who gives Beatrice a hard time. It’s hard to watch these two very talented performers slumming in such stereotypical, unexciting parts. It’s a muddled affair that looks downright bad at times. It’s a tween wannabe franchise completely lacking teeth with a good central female star in the lead. I have faith that Woodley can pull this one out of the fire and make it worthwhile in future installments. I also have faith that I never want to see this flat first chapter again, unless I have a really bad cold and need something to knock me out.

Draft Day

In a film that feels more befitting a TV series than a theatrical release, Kevin Costner plays Sonny, general manager of the Cleveland Browns. It’s draft day, and Sonny has some big decisions to make after he trades away his future for the number one pick, much to the dismay of his head coach (Denis Leary). This is all happening after finding out he’s having a baby with a member of his staff (Jennifer Garner) and shortly after the death of his dad. Directed by Ivan Reitman, who usually helms straight comedies, this is a more dramatic offering from the guy who gave us Ghostbusters. If there’s a big problem here, it is that we watch Sonny go through all of this stuff on draft day, and never get to see the fruits of his labors. The film ends after the draft day is finished, and we never get to see the team play. I’m doubting there will be a Draft Day 2, so I’m thinking this would’ve worked better as an HBO series or something like that. Still, Costner is good in the role, and Reitman has constructed something that is entertaining, while not altogether groundbreaking.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Writer-director Wes Anderson does it again with another wholly unique, beautiful, quirky movie that could’ve only been made by him. In a performance that must be remembered come awards time, Ralph Fiennes is magically hilarious as M. Gustave, the concierge at the infamous fictional hotel named in the film’s title. Gustave has a penchant for older woman, much older woman, and his life takes a drastic turn when he is suspected in the murder of an elderly lover (Tilda Swinton in super heavy makeup). Stolen art, scary train rides and a high speed chase on skis ensue, with

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Anderson even employing stop motion animation at times, as he did with Fantastic Mr. Fox. Supporting performances by Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Saoirse Ronan and many more make this a can’t miss film. There’s something so joyous and fun about the way Anderson makes movies. This is a remarkable, tremendously enjoyable achievement.

Joe

Nicolas Cage is in “good” acting mode and dons a decent hairpiece as the title character in the latest drama from director David Gordon Green. Cage’s Joe is a strange sort, showing a maximum amount of restraint and responsibility on the job with his tree killing company. When on site with his men, Joe is not only an in-control boss, but a friendly, mostly well modulated man. Off the job, it’s a different story. He drinks heavily, frequents whorehouses, taunts the police and does overnighters in jail. In one of the film’s more amusing sequences, he gets fed up with a hooker’s dog, and decides to allow her dog to meet his dog. Cage’s acting in this very scene is his best since going nuts in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call-New Orleans. Joe winds up hiring Gary (Tye Sheridan), a teenage boy, and his troublesome father Wade (Gary Poulter). Gary is a good worker, and he and Joe strike up a friendship. As for Wade, he’s a nightmare, unproductive on the job and threatening towards his son. Wade’s not invited back, and when Joe finds out Wade is prone to beating and robbing his son, he goes on the protective prowl. Poulter was an actual homeless man hired off the streets for the film, and he is a terrifying, tragic presence in this movie (he died, still homeless, before the film finished production). Sheridan, so good in Mud and The Tree of Life, is equally good here. This is one of those films where Cage reminds us that he’s more than just a paycheck actor. (Available for rent on VOD, iTunes and Amazon.com during a limited theatrical release.)

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Whether you are religious or not, the Bible is, no doubt, a pretty sweet platform for over-the-top cinema. With Noah, director Darren Aronofsky has concocted a totally crazy, darkly nasty disaster film befitting those few pages in the book of Genesis. In his best performance to date, Russell Crowe plays the title character, a good, passionate man in a not particularly good time. The people outside of Noah’s family circle have turned Earth into a place of carnivorous debauchery. “The Creator” (this film’s go-to name for God) intends to wipe all humanity off the face of the Earth with a great flood, and Noah is tasked with saving all of the innocent animals on a huge ship to be built by him, with the help of large rock monsters. The movie, as spectacle, is quite good, although its CGI has a few moments of weakness. The flood itself is a frightening sequence, with a horrifying moment involving screaming people outside of the ark getting washed off a big rock by waves. I’m actually surprised this movie pulled a PG-13 rating. It struck me, very much, as an R-rated film due to its violence.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

As much as I hated Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1, I hoped that Vol. II, released nearly in conjunction with the first film, might improve upon the first part and allow the whole mess to make sense. Nope. This one picks up where the first film left off, and it’s actually more tedious than the previous chapter. Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) continues telling her story to the man who found her bloody in an alley (Stellan Skarsgard), a sordid tale about her crazy sex life and criminal activity. The whole story basically leads up to why Joe wound up in the gutter. Along the way, we discover that she had a baby, and become a debt collector for a crime boss (Willem Dafoe) using S&M techniques instead of breaking arms. It is all so … incredibly … lame. Both films played out like big, long, unfunny jokes told by a jerk with a lousy sense of humor. The punch line is both crass and uninspired. Seriously, I want von Trier to retreat from provocation in his next venture, and perhaps make a film about puppies and ice cream. (Available for rent on VOD, iTunes and Amazon.com during a limited theatrical release.)

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Sa, 4/19, 8PM, $49. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

6TH ANNUAL RENO UKELELE FESTIVAL

What began as a small event in 2009 has grown into the largest festival of its kind in the West. Headlining night one of the Reno Ukulele Festival, are the Leftover Cuties and Seinfeld’s Heidi Swedberg with Daniel Ward. F, 4/25, 8PM, $32. Daniel Ho, the Grammy Award-winning virtuoso on piano, guitar and ukulele, performs on the second night of the Reno Ukulele Festival. Sa, 4/26, 8PM, $28. Free admission to public stage. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

DANNY BUTLER AND JOE STANLEY

ERIKA PAUL

Enjoy Louisiana-style food and the soulful, breathtaking jazz sounds of Erika Paul on keyboards and vocals. No cover. Th, 6PM, no cover. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr. (775) 657-8659

BLACK AND BLUES JAM

Tu, 8:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

LIVE JAZZ

Vocal and instrumental jazz from “The Great American Songbook”, performed by First Take featuring Rick (SAX) Metz. Fridays, 6PM through 12/27, no cover. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks, NV 89441 (775) 657-8659

KARAOKE

Th-Sa, 9PM, no cover. Bottom’s Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way (775) 359-3677 Th, 7-10PM through 4/24, No cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave. (775) 356-9799 Sa, 8PM, no cover. 50 Yard Line Bar & Grill, 400 S. Rock Blvd. (775) 358-8848

F, 4/25, 8PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

TOM RUSSELL

M, 4/28, 7PM and Tu, 4/29, 7PM, $20-$25.Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

LIVE MONDAYS WITH TANY JANE

Open mic night every Monday at 8PM, hosted by Tany Jane. M, 8PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

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A words night Reno Hip-Hop Awards “Reno just has a really thriving hip-hop scene,” said Dan Hubbard, founder of the Reno Hip-Hop Awards. “There is so by Jake Parker much talent that it can really fill an award show.” With the fourth annual show quickly approaching, the Reno Hip-Hop Awards has successfully recognized spectacular artists, with a vast array of stylistic characteristics, and every year has opened the eyes of more local music-lovers and hiphop enthusiasts.

As the awards show continues to serve as a beacon for local art, the contributors and performers have been participating with increasing fervor, striving for the awards, as it serves as a validation for their hard work and creativity. “It’s really insane how much talent there is and how many groups are releasing well-produced videos and well-mastered albums,” said Hubbard. “It’s got this feeling now that artists are planning months and months in advance because these are awards that people actually want to win.” It is also becoming increasingly competitive for artists here, as more talent emerges onto the scene. It’s an unfortunate fact of the music business that one artist’s success is also that same artist’s secret. When a group finds something that works well, like a good producer or manager, they try to keep their new secret weapon all to themselves.

Chase McMullen is the host of this year's Reno Hip-Hop Awards.

The 4th Annual Reno Hip-Hop Awards Show will be held at Bodega Nightclub on Friday, April 18.

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“In the Bay Area and Sacramento, it’s a very competitive scene,” said Hubbard. “Like, artists from out of town, if they get a good producer they try to hold them secretly to themselves, without letting other artists get word of what they’re doing that’s working so well.” But according to Hubbard, this is not the case in Reno. Instead, here the artists choose to work together and strive for the success of the entire scene rather than just a single group or artist. “People are really willing to work together,” said Hubbard. “Reno is really open to working with all kinds of people of different backgrounds, and they’ll work with different artists of different styles, doing shows together and even contributing on various albums.” Reno has a cooperative culture evident between the individuals and businesses in the city that gives one the feeling of a small, tight-knit town, within a—slightly—larger city. The Reno scene is very diverse, said Hubbard, owing to the fact that many musicians have come here from other places. “We have New York MCs who have a sound like Wu-Tang, we have Texas MCs who sound like Paul Wall, and others from all these different cities and they all bring their own style,” he said. “It’s such a diverse scene, so any kind of hip-hop you like, there’s someone locally doing it because it’s such a transient city and a melting pot, and the hip-hop awards will really show it. You’ll have album of the year sound like a 50 Cent album, but then the song of the year will sound like a Wu-Tang track.” Local rappers and hip-hop artists have been working for months, re-mastering their albums and polishing their performances. “I’m excited to see how many new people we have,” said Hubbard. “We have a lot of new winners; people who are winning their first awards, and people who are under 21 winning their first awards.” Ω

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THURSDAY 4/17

FRIDAY 4/18

SATURDAY 4/19

3RD STREET

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

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

Re-No Comedy show w/Mark Gee, Jim Flemming, others, 9:30pm, $5

Black Market lll, Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

5 STAR SALOON

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

DJ Boogi, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after

Open Mic w/Steve Elegant, 7pm, Tu, Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover

THE ALLEY

Reno Rydaz Unity Party, 8:30pm, no cover

Krosphyer, Force Multiplied, Seductive Rage, 8:30pm, $5

Greg Golden Band, Sil Shoda, 8:30pm, $5

Blasphemous Creation, 8:30pm, M, $5 Farewell My Love, 7pm, W, $10

132 West St., (775) 329-2878 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891

SUNDAY 4/20

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/21-4/23

BAR-M-BAR

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

Robert Cray Band April 19, 8 p.m. John Ascuaga’s Nugget 1100 Nugget Ave. Sparks 356-3300

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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

COMMA COFFEE

World Dance Open Floor Night, 8pm, no cover

312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

Comedy

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

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

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

Richard Blair and Friends, 7pm, no cover

Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Eddie Clark, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Orlando Baxter, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Kivi Rogers, Don McEnery, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Danny Villapando, F, 8:30pm, Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $10

Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover

Norm Follett, 7pm, no cover

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

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

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

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Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Adrenaline, 9:30pm, no cover

Mary Jane Rocket, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Turnt to the Max Saturdays w/Guda Mac, DJ Van Gloryus, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Open mic w/Frazzled, 9:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, karaoke with Brian, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

FOXY OLIVE

Trash Rock, 9pm, Tu, no cover

220 Mill St., (775) 324-0822

FUEGO

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

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover Jerry Bowden and the Soul Rockers, 8pm, no cover

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL 1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

DJ and karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Open mic, 7pm, no cover

HIMMEL HAUS

Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

3819 Saddle Rd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 314-7665

THE HOLLAND PROJECT 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

We Heart Bikes, 5pm, no cover

JAVA JUNGLE

Spoken View’s Speak Easy Open Mic/Poetry Slam, 7:30pm, W, $5-$10 Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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

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JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

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

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THURSDAY 4/17

FRIDAY 4/18

SATURDAY 4/19

Erika Paul, 6pm, no cover

First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover

SUNDAY 4/20

1) Vampirates CD release and tour kickoff w/Elephant Rifle, Cranium, 8pm, $5

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room

1) Band Roulette, 8pm, no cover

KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE

Berner, Playah K, Reign, 8pm, $20

211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Jeffrey Martin, Anna and the Underbelly, 8:30pm, no cover

10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

Taj Mahal April 19, 7:30 p.m. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe 15 Highway 50 Stateline 588-6611

Mark Castro Band, 9pm, no cover

1433 Hwy. 395, Ste A, Gardnerville; (775) 782-5875 Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 8:30pm, no cover

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

Ginuwine, 8pm, $30

Jeffrey Martin, Anna and the Underbelly, 8:30pm, no cover

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/21-4/23

POLO LOUNGE

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

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, 9:15pm, W, no cover

RED DOG SALOON

Open Mic Night, 7pm, W, no cover

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

RUBEN’S CANTINA

Vaded Nation, Cas Metah, DJ Bombay, Mouf Warren, 9pm, $5

Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

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

RYAN’S SALOON

Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover Blues, 8pm, Tu, no cover Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB

Open Jam with Tazer and Friends, 8pm, W, no cover

Suspect Zero, 9:30pm, no cover

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

SIERRA TAP HOUSE

Farewell My Love

The Lady Crooners, 9pm, no cover

252 W. First St., (775) 322-7678

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

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

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

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

Stiff Kitty Burlesque & Cabaret Spring Fling Showcase, 7pm, $13-$16

VASSAR LOUNGE

Jokers Wild Blues Band, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Rock N’J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover

1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197

Stiff Kitty Burlesque & Cabaret Spring Fling Showcase, 7pm, $13-$16

Open Mic Wednesdays, 7pm, W, no cover

April 23, 7 p.m. The Alley 906 Victorian Ave. Sparks 358-8891

Koolwater Karaoke, 7pm, W, no cover

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover

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

WILDFLOWER VILLAGE

The Writer’s Block Open Mic, 6:30-9pm, no cover

4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769

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

Wildflower Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

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w/ Consider Me Dead, Venetis Fair, Shatterbox, Man The Tanks

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FRIDAY 4/18

SATURDAY 4/19

SUNDAY 4/20

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/21-4/23

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

2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 4pm, Atomika, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

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

BOURBON SQUARE CASINO

Country Night w/DJ Bobby G, 6:30-10pm, no cover

Buddy Emmer, 8pm, no cover

2) Blues Monsters, 7pm, no cover

2) Blues Monsters, 8pm, no cover

2) George Pickard, 6pm, no cover

2) George Pickard, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Mark Sexton Band, 10pm, no cover

2) Downbeat, 10pm, no cover

1) Ring of Fire, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Friday, 10pm, $10 5) Jamie Rollins, 10pm, no cover

1) Ring of Fire, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Four Play Saturdays 10pm, $10 5) Jamie Rollins, 10pm, no cover

1) Ring of Fire, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

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

1) Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic, 8pm, $17.20-$47.20

1) Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic, 8pm, M, $17.20-$47.20

2) Verbal Kint, 6pm, no cover

2) Verbal Kint, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

1040 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 997-7177

CARSON VALLEY INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret 3) TJ’s Corral

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CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

April 20-23, 6 p.m. Peppermill 2707 S. Virginia St. 826-2121

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

1) Ring of Fire, 7pm, $24.95+

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge 5) Stadium Bar

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

1) Mung Le Phuc Sinh, 8pm, $28

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge

Karaoke

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: Th, 7pm, no cover Hangar Bar, 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead, 677-7088: Karaoke Kat, Sa, 9pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Steve Starr Karaoke, F, 9pm, no cover Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Virginia City, 847-7210: Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, F, 7:30pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

1) Taj Mahal, 7:30pm, $44 2) Rick Gee, DJ SN1, 10pm, $20

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

HARRAH’S RENO

1) Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 8pm, $17.20-$47.20 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Rose Ballroom

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

1) Robert Cray Band, 8pm, $49

2) Soul Scratch, 7pm, no cover

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL 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

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1) Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic, 8pm, $17.20-$47.20 2) DJ I, 8pm, no cover 3) Doug Martin, 8pm, no cover

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rd Street Lounge 2) Poolside

1) Dirk Arthur’s Wild Magic, 8pm, $17.20-$47.20 2) DJ I, 8pm, no cover 3) Doug Martin, 8pm, no cover

2) Bonzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover 3) University of Aura, 9pm, no cover

2) Soul Scratch, 8pm, no cover 2) Soul Scratch, 8pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm, 3) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20 DJ Chris English, DJ ((Fredie)), 10pm, $20 1) The Deckheads, 7pm, no cover

1) The Deckheads, 7pm, no cover

3) Fashion Friday, 7pm, no cover 4) Patton Trio, 9pm, no cover

3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Patton Trio, 9pm, no cover

1) Jokers Wild Blues Band, 7pm, W, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover

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The University of Nevada, Reno’s chamber ensemble-in-residence closes its 2013-2014 season with a concert featuring Beethoven’s Piano Trio in G major, Op. 1, No. 2, Monica Houghton’s “Wilderness Portraits: Three Places in Nevada” and Johannes Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, at Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $25 general admission and $5 for students with ID. Call 784-3555 or visit www.unr.edu/cla/music/acs/index.htm.

Where the Wild T hings Are: Pajama Party and Film Screening

Wear your favorite PJs and enjoy an evening of family-friendly fun inspired by Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book. The event, which is designed for families with children ages 7-12, includes a hands-on art project, after-hours access to the exhibition, Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, evening snacks and a screening of the 2009 Spike Jonze film Where the Wild Things Are. The film is rated PG. The party begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 18, at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St. Tickets are $16 for NMA members and $20 for non-members. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org.

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Reno Bike Project holds its eighth annual fundraising art show that celebrates the bicycle not only as a form of transportation, recreation and exercise but as a platform for artistic expression. The party includes bike-inspired art by local and national artists and live music. This year, RBP members will get early access to the show and a free beer starting at 5 p.m., with general admission beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, at The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St. If you aren’t a RBP member, you can sign up online or at the event. Membership fees start at $20. Call 323-4480 or visit www.renobikeproject.com.

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More than 100 authors, including 50 local authors, will congregate at this expo this weekend at the Peppermill Hotel Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St. Books will be on sale and authors will be available for autographs. Presentations from authors, screenwriters and publishers will be open in 12 sessions with question-andanswer periods at the end. There will also be fantasy and sci-fi groups, cosplays and games. The expo is open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 18, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 20. Tickets are $5 per day or $10 for the weekend. Admission is free for children under age 12. Seniors age 60 and older and military personnel get in for $7.50 for the weekend. $1 from the entry fees will be donated to Cancer Awareness of Nevada. Call 825-1574 or visit www.greatamericanauthorsexpo.com.

This art exhibit features internationally renowned artists who re-purpose and re-theorize past aesthetic traditions as they address contemporary pop life, fantasy and morality. Referencing Rococo beauty and surface, the artwork in this exhibition reference themes of youthful frivolity, artifice and pleasure, while delighting the eye and mind. What lies beneath the surfaces of these artworks, however, is powerful content that asks contemporary viewers to consider big questions about life and death, among other topics. The show opens at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, and runs through Friday June 27, at the Sheppard Contemporary Gallery inside the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. An artist reception will be held at 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 24. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/arts.

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Watching paint die I’ve been dating a girl I really like for six weeks. She pays her rent with a 9-to-5 job, but studied painting at art school and wants to make it her career. Unfortunately, I don’t like her paintings at all. They are abstract and don’t look like they take much craft, and they just don’t aesthetically appeal to me. I haven’t told her my real feelings. But as we get more serious and as she talks about her aspirations, I find it more and more uncomfortable to keep playing along. I worry that we won’t have a future because of this. Abstract art is an easy target for ridicule. The thing is, somebody who went to art school most likely had to learn formal principles and show they could draw figuratively before they could venture into abstraction. But to the untrained eye, an abstract work can look like somebody made a big mess with some paint and then stuck a mythical title on it, like “Androcles And The Lion, No. 4.” You can’t help but wonder, “Sorry, but is that the lion’s paw on the left, or did somebody at the gallery opening trip and let their appetizer go flying?” Because your girlfriend’s artwork is more than a weekend hobby, your disliking it probably is a big deal. A painting is basically a striptease of the artist’s self on a piece of canvas, reflecting who they are, what they see and feel, and what they want to say. Also, it’s hard enough to try to earn a living as an artist without sharing a bed with one of your detractors. (Imagine

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Edvard Munch’s girlfriend seeing “The Scream” and nagging him, “Come on, Eddie, ‘The Smile’ would be so much nicer.”) And even if you can hide your true feelings for a while, there’s a good chance they’ll poke their little heads out during an argument, a la “Wanna vastly improve your work? Incorporate gasoline and a lit match.” For a relationship to work, it isn’t enough to have the hotsies for somebody. You need to have a crush on them as a human being. Fortunately, you may be able to get to this, even if her paintings don’t speak to you (save for saying “I’m ugly”). Admit that you don’t know much about art, and ask her to tell you about her work: the thinking behind it, her painting process—color, form, why she includes certain elements—and what she’s trying to say or evoke. You might find that you respect where she’s coming from and believe in her on that level, which could mean that the two of you can make a go of it. If so, keep in mind all the ways she’s just like any other girlfriend, and be prepared to fake a seizure when she asks the artist’s version of that classic lose-lose question: “Do I look untalented while painting in this dress that makes me look fat?” Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s Compensation Week. If you have in the past suffered from injustice, it’s an excellent time to go in quest of restitution. If you have been deprived of the beauty you need to thrive, now is the time to get filled up. Wherever your life has been out of balance, you have the power to create more harmony. Don’t be shy about seeking redress. Ask people to make amends. Pursue restorations. But don’t, under any circumstances, lust for revenge.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Our brains

are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe,” said novelist John Updike. That’s a sad possibility. Could you please do something to dispute or override it, Taurus? Would it be too much to ask if I encouraged you to go out in quest of lyrical miracles that fill you with wonder? Can I persuade you to be alert for sweet mysteries that provoke dizzying joy and uncanny breakthroughs that heal a wound you’ve feared might forever plague you? Here’s what the astrological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir reverence and awe are far more likely than usual.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I wonder if it’s time for you to modify an old standby. I’m getting the sense that you should consider tinkering with a familiar resource that has served you pretty well. Why? This resource may have some hidden weakness that you need to attend to in order to prevent a future disruption. Now might be one of those rare occasions when you should ignore the old rule, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So be proactive, Gemini. Investigate what’s going on beneath the surface. Make this your motto: “I will solve the problem before it’s a problem—and then it will never be a problem.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Do you

really have what it takes or do you not have what it takes?” That’s the wrong question to ask, in my opinion. You can’t possibly know the answer ahead of time, for one thing. To dwell on that quandary would put you on the defensive and activate your fear, diminishing your power to accomplish the task at hand. Here’s a more useful inquiry: “Do you want it strongly enough or do you not want it strongly enough?” With this as your meditation, you might be inspired to do whatever’s necessary to pump up your desire. And that is the single best thing you can do to ensure your ultimate success.

in the sand, African crocodiles are in the habit of opening their jaws wide for hours at a time. It keeps them cool, and allows for birds called plovers to stop by and pluck morsels of food that are stuck between the crocs’ molars. The relationship is symbiotic. The teeth-cleaners eat for free as they provide a service for the large reptiles. As I analyze your astrological aspects, Scorpio, I’m inclined to see an opportunity coming your way that has a certain resemblance to the plovers’. Can you summon the necessary trust and courage to take full advantage?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you sure you have enough obstacles? I’m afraid you’re running low. And that wouldn’t be healthy, would it? Obstacles keep you honest, after all. They motivate you to get smarter. They compel you to grow your willpower and develop more courage. Please understand that I’m not taking about trivial and boring obstacles that make you numb. I’m referring to scintillating obstacles that fire up your imagination; rousing obstacles that excite your determination to be who you want and get what you want. So your assignment is to acquire at least one new interesting obstacle. It’s time to tap into a deeper strain of your ingenuity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1937,

physicist George Paget Thomson won a Nobel Prize for the work he did to prove that the electron is a wave. That’s funny, because his father, physicist J.J. Thomson, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. Together, they helped tell the whole story about the electron, which as we now know is both a wave and a particle. I think it’s an excellent time for you to try something similar to what George did: follow up on some theme from the life of one of your parents or mentors; be inspired by what he or she did, but also go beyond it; build on a gift he or she gave the world, extending or expanding it.

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

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Throughout

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have

North America and Europe, there are hundreds of unused roads. Many are former exit and entrance ramps to major highways, abandoned for one reason or another. Some are stretches of pavement that used to be parts of main thoroughfares before they were rerouted. I suggest we make “unused roads” your metaphor of the week, Virgo. It may be time for you to bring some of them back into operation, and maybe even relink them to the pathways they were originally joined to. Are there any missing connections in your life that you would love to restore? Any partial bridges you feel motivated to finish building?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Karma works

both ways. If you do ignorant things, ignorant things may eventually be done to you. Engage in generous actions, and at some future date you may be the unexpected beneficiary of generosity. I’m expecting more of the latter than the former for you in the coming days, Libra. I think fate will bring you sweet compensations for your enlightened behavior in the past. I’m reminded of the

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As they lie

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I swear my medita-

are more dynamic when I hike along the trail through the marsh than if I’m pretzeled up in the lotus position back in my bedroom. Maybe I’ve been influenced by Aristotle’s Peripatetic school. He felt his students learned best when they accompanied him on long strolls. Then there was philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who testified that his most brilliant thoughts came to him as he rambled far and wide. Even if this possibility seems whimsical to you, Leo, I invite you to give it a try. According to my reading of the current astrological omens, your moving body is likely to generate bright ideas and unexpected solutions and visions of future adventures.

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fairy tale in which a peasant girl goes out of her way to be kind to a seemingly feeble, disabled old woman. The crone turns out to be a good witch who rewards the girl with a bag of gold. But as I hinted, there could also be a bit of that other kind of karma lurking in your vicinity. Would you like to ward it off? All you have to do is unleash a flurry of good deeds. Anytime you have a chance to help people in need, do it.

have been a pretty decent student lately, Aquarius. The learning curve was steep, but you mastered it as well as could be expected. You had to pay more attention to the intricate details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, but you summoned the patience to tough it out. Congrats! Your against-the-grain effort was worth it. You are definitely smarter now than you were four weeks ago. But you are more wired, too. More stressed. In the next chapter of your life story, you will need some downtime to integrate all you’ve absorbed. I suggest you schedule some sessions in a sanctuary where you can relax more deeply than you’ve allowed yourself to relax in a while. the power to shut what has been open or open what has been shut. That’s a lot of responsibility. Just because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn’t mean you should rashly do so. Make sure your motivations are pure and your integrity is high. Try to keep fear and egotism from influencing you. Be aware that whatever you do will send out ripples for months to come. And when you are confident that you have taken the proper precautions, by all means, proceed with vigor and rigor. Shut what has been open or open what has been shut—or both.

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On the record Paul Doege is the owner and manager of Recycled Records, 822 S. Virginia St. He opened the store in 1980 and has been here ever since. Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 19.

What is Record Store Day? Record Store Day is a celebration of the culture of record stores. It’s a different experience—just like it is for most things— when you buy things in person as opposed to buying things, let’s say, online. Music is one of those things where interaction with other people can really turn you on to other things that you wouldn’t expect. … It’s making the music and movie buying experience more sensory, it’s more tactile. It’s things in your hand. It’s not just an image on a screen that eventually shows up. And so to do that, they started in 2007. The record companies issue special releases that are only available to independent record stores … there’s less than 1,500 in the United States now. And in the past, we’ve had groups like the Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, White Stripes. In fact, on Record Store Day, Jack White is going to cut a record and have it released by the end of that day. … As a result, it’s turned into the biggest day of the year for any record store that’s taking part in it. Our biggest day in our 35-year history was last year for Record

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Let’s see. I’ve got Max Volume, Chris Scott, Failure Machine, The Kanes, Shatterbox and more. Those are probably the most exciting ones we’ve got. And I’ve got guys that have been playing for years with us. Last to Leave will be here. Spike and Jackson. There’s a few. We’ll be rocking.

I’d love to tell you what I’ll have. The problem is I won’t know until those boxes arrive, and I open them.

So that’s going to be exciting for you, too.

We get families coming in, parents with little kids. It just shows us in a nice favorable light and the fact that it is the kind of place where people know—between the crew that I have here, we have over 100 years worth of record store experience. So we’re well-versed in that kind of stuff and we can talk about whatever kind of music, for the most part, that you want to discuss and maybe give you some direction to go in or something else that you might like. It’s just a cool vibe.

Yeah. Exactly. In most cases, when they say limited releases, some of these will have as few as 500 and some as many as 5,000. Last Record Store Day, there was a Dave Matthews four LP boxed set of a particular concert that wasn’t issued any other way, and they only made 500 of them. So that’s the kind of thing that has some of these people waiting outside the door. I’m gonna get here at 8, and there will be people outside waiting. Ω

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relationships via text or email, that this is just bad form and you should never do it and so forth. Well, hey, what’s the big deal here? What’s wrong with sending your soon-tobe-ex an email or text saying, “We’re done”? It’s easy, it’s convenient, and what the heck—you don’t care about this person any more anyway. So what do you care if he/she thinks you’re a no class, no ’count slimeball? Bottom line—you don’t care! Right? And jeez, look at the considerable upside. You avoid a messy, uncomfortable conversation riddled with awkweirdness. You avoid a bunch of tempermental accusations about past misconduct. You avoid all kinds of lame-ass questions about “So who are you doin’?” You avoid getting shit thrown at you. You avoid being threatened with lawsuits and extorted. All in all, you avoid what is generally a bad scene. Yes, it’s obvious there are great reasons to break up via text, and let’s stop beating up on those who adopt this most modern of exit strategies. Hey,

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What about the releases that day?

What’s special about this Record Store Day specifically?

Embrace painless breakups A note to all sportscasters. You can now go ahead and stop using the phrase “Are you kidding me?” That one, used to convey delight and surprise at a feat of excellence, is pretty doggone toasty. So is “My goodness” and “Goodness gracious.” How about an update? What the hell. Something more current and a little less square, for crying out loud (yet another toasty cliche that has no meaning in the 21st century)? Maybe O-M-G, for starters. Yes, that’s rapidly wearing out, too, but when compared to “Goodness gracious,” it is, amazingly enough, an improvement! Frank Zappa liked to say, “Great googly moogly!” That’d work. And that one now has a bonus of modernity, with that google bit. Frank, of course, came up with his way phrase before Google showed up. • You see these reports from all these wank bloggers and the like about how gauche and tacky and chicken poop it is for modern people to end

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Store Day, so we’re expecting the same thing. We celebrate it by having live music playing all day long. We’ve got a lot of those Record Store Day releases, stuff like that. … And then we issue special edition T-shirts. We’re going to have a St. Lawrence Pizza truck out here. We’re gonna have mimosas in the morning and beer in the afternoon for free, and we’re also gonna tie together with the food bank. If people bring a canned food item in, they can save an extra couple bucks on any CD or DVD that they wanna pick up.

look, now that you’re bailing out, you are indeed a slimeball. Might as well act the part! • OK, so the brilliant Stephen Colbert is gonna make his move to prime time. I can’t say I blame him. He said recently that after playing a role for the last 10 years—his show on Comedy Central came on in ’05—he’s kinda ready to, you know, be himself. Go get ’em, dude. There’s little doubt that the real Stephen will be just as entertaining as the faux bloviator Stephen. I just hope CBS lightens up a little on the censorship stuff and gives him a bit of room to stretch out. Steve was always at his best when he was doing stuff like offering Donald Trump $10,000 to bite his own nutsack. Colbert has eight more months on CC. He’ll be gone and prepping for CBS as of Jan. 1, 2015. Ω

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Official Event Program

A special advertising supplement to Reno News & Review

Official Event Program

Reno Earth Day 2014

Official Event Program

A special advertising supplement to Reno News & Review

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