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Pain is a weird thing. I know people who suffer from serious, never-ending pain, and they never complain about it. I’ve been told many times by doctors that I have a high tolerance for pain. I’ve always sort of attributed that to having a high tolerance for hangovers, but that might be a chicken and an egg thing.

At any rate, a month or so ago, I had a new hand surgery for Dupuytren’s Contracture.

I’ve written about this before so I don’t want to bore regular readers, but it’s a genetic thing that mostly bothers people of northern European descent.

Basically, the fascia on the palms of my hands collects bands of collagen that pulls my pinkies in until they’re useless for typing a’s or apostrophes.

So the surgeon cuts them open and removes the diseased flesh.

Hurts like hell with a monthslong recovery time. I’m not complaining about the pain; in fact, I only took the hydrocodone at night.

It’s what pain does to my mind that’s interesting.

During the last few weeks of the semester, my short- and long-term memory was shot.

I think this has a sensible evolutionary imperative. If we could remember the pain as distinctly as we feel it at the time, we’d probably never leave the house—“Daaanngg, stubbed my toe. That’s never going to happen again.”

And the emotional stuff.

Can you remember what it was like the last time you had your heart broken? Of course you can’t, that’s my point, but I’ll bet you can remember from a bird’s eye view that it was horrible. Made you think you’d never want to look at another human being again.

Think about it. Anything that’s really worth experiencing—the highest highs, the lowest lows—they fade. And yet there are some things, I’m looking for commonality among them, maybe environmental—are there like they just happened yesterday.

Anyway, just thought I’d share. I think there may be a flaw in the logic that we learn best through pain.

There are two reasons politicians run negative campaign ads against their opponents. The first reason is that many studies have shown that they work. They mainly work because the electorate won’t take the time to educate themselves on the issues or candidates and believe what they see and hear.

The second reason a politician runs negative attack ads is that they have no message or vision of their own to promote. This primary season, please keep this in mind when you see ads attacking one candidate put out by the campaign of another candidate. The candidate running the ads obviously has no record, no plan and no vision for the future on which to run or promote themselves. If we, the voters, get sick enough of these ads and tell the candidates to stop running these type of ads they will go away.

But we must remember the only voice the politicians listen to, your vote. If you continue voting for people with no plan and no vision you will have to continue listening to these attack ads each and every election cycle.

Keith Deutscher Reno

Health care isn’t free Re “We’ve taken a forward step with health care” (Left Foot Forward, May 22): Sheila Leslie would have made some excellent points if the primary assumption she bases them on were true. She likely has good intentions, but she is apparently operating on the assumption that government is—or should be—responsible for its citizens’ healthcare. However, providing “free” (nothing is ever truly “free” from the government, it can only divert money or resources from one place to another) health care is not, and never has been, an intended function of our government.

Just what is the purpose of our government then? Let’s consult the most authoritative source we have

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on that subject—our government’s Constitution. As outlined in the preamble of the United States’ constitution, it was the Founding Fathers’ intent to have the federal government perform six fundamental functions: “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The section in the Preamble that Mrs. Leslie and others of her political views would likely cite as the one to justify government mandated healthcare is “promote the general welfare.” A comment on that: A broad purpose of the government that is constantly open to adaptation and growth is the role of the government to provide its citizens with services and regulations that are for the greater public good (the definition of which is of course unfortunately open to arbitrary interpretation). Such regulations may include health and food standards, public education, and consumer protection. However, in order to allow the economy and its citizens to prosper and flourish, the government leaves certain services relegated to private businesses (such as railroads and airline transportation), this allows market competition to thrive so that the consumer can receive the best services and prices possible.

Note the difference between a standard of health care and actual control of the entire industry itself, as mandated in the “Affordable Care Act” under the Obama Administration. It’s an important difference. Nowhere within our government’s Constitution does it mention providing “free” health care to its citizens. It was not even conceived of by the Framers or they would have provided for it.

Furthermore, being fundamentally in violation of the U.S. Constitution to begin with (to force its citizens to purchase health care under penalty),

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the only way the Supreme Court could “make” it Constitutional was to have it be treated as a tax (which has yet to be properly ratified by the House, but that’s another story).

And so it is a new “tax” on all of us.

However, there is no “opt in or opt out” with this tax. It is an involuntary tax, whether you get anything in return for it or not. You pay it or get penalized. Home of the brave, land of the free? Some “freedom” that is!

Perhaps it’s a bit of a jaded view, but it’s been described as a health care system in which— 1. To insure the uninsured, we first have to un-insure the insured.

2. Next, we require the newly un-insured to be re-insured.

3. To re-insure the newly un-insured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.

4. The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became un-insured, and then became re-insured, pay enough extra so that the original un-insured can be insured, free of charge to them.

5. Then if the insured actually need medical attention, a government group will determine if you deserve it or not.

As a final note based on empirical observation, sadly, most any program the government undertakes to “run” inexorably fails. It’s just a matter of time. Medicare is broke. Medicaid is broke. Social Security is broke. The U.S. Post Office is broke.

And we think that the “Affordable Care Act,” a far more expansive government undertaking than anything preceding it, is going to be any different?

James Rego Reno

Towering wealth Since Pope Francis made recent comments about wealth redistribution, I have seen lots of comments from conservatives condemning WR. Most of the people writing in seem not to comprehend the difference between their pay, their boss and the CEO. You should create a graphic so people can visualize the differences.

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Picture the Reno Arch. Your salary, hourly/paycheck/yearly is 1 foot tall; pennies or $100 bills. Your boss makes six times what you make so his stack is 6 feet tall. The CEO makes five times what your boss makes. His stack is 30 feet tall. In other words, your stack is below your knees, your boss’s stack is as tall as a 6-feet-tall person, and the CEO of your company has a stack someplace in the middle of the Reno Arch. Have a photo of the Reno Arch with a person underneath and lines illustrating the differences. And if you work for McDonald’s, WalMart, Starbucks or any other national corporation the difference between you at 1foot and the CEO is the height of the Empire State Building. This works better in NYC with large multilevel corporate headquarters than in Reno where there are fewer people receiving million-dollar paychecks.

Dewey Quong Reno

Service without a smile The latest Veterans Administration scandal, costing the lives of 40-something veterans is not an aberration.

Seen from the perspective of a Vietnam veteran, it is a continuation of a familiar story.

In the 1930s, demonstrating WWI veterans were beaten down in the streets. The response to veterans of the 1950s atomic tests was to let them die out before paying out. Vietnam Agent Orange veterans are facing the same story.

The VA is not to blame. The problem lies with a society that does not want to pay the true cost of their wars. Everyone is benefiting from the things that veterans have sacrificed for. Yet their veterans are cast into the role of beggars, carrying the burden of proof when they try to get what they were promised.

Lately it has become fashionable to greet veterans with “Thank you for your service.” Perhaps the best response would be “Thank you for your lip service.”

Ted March Fernley

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Your summer plans?

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Lindsay Harris Supervisor

Pretty much going to Tahoe as many times as I can, spending as much time with my family, and work.

Richard Brennan Retiree

To relax in Reno, hanging out down by the river, attending concerts, go to art shows.

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Work. No other summer plans yet. I take it a day at a time.

The editorial staff of the Reno News & Review chose to stay mostly disengaged from the primary election this time around. The bottom line to our reasoning is that the primary elections are a dysfunctional and unfair way to choose candidates, particularly in this state where so many voters consider ourselves independent of the political parties.

That being said, though, since so many voters are so completely disinterested in this election, we see an opportunity: A relatively small number of people can have an outsized effect on who moves forward to the general election. In other words, readers of this newspaper can give the best candidates—not necessarily the richest candidates—a real shot at moving to the general election. In a primary election where as little as 10 percent of voters may decide to vote, a few hundred people can turn this thing on its head.

We’re only endorsing in the non-partisan, contested races, so it’s not a long list. Our criteria for endorsement are pretty limited. First, we’re not endorsing the so-called “business” candidates. We’re also not endorsing candidates who have the endorsement of the status quo. We want smart, independent people who’ve shown through their actions before a seat came open that their hearts are in the right places.

So, for those who really want to monkeywrench the Reno political system, here’s our little list.

actually fit our criteria for smart, change-oriented, good-hearted people. But as far as someone who already lives the cultural Reno we’d like to see, he’s the best choice.

For Reno City Council, Ward 2, we’re endorsing Elisa Cafferata. Pretty tough to call a member of this political dynasty an outsider, but she’s shown a long commitment to making Reno a better place.

James Bernardi Retiree

For Reno City Council, Ward 4, we’re endorsing Mike Steedman. He’s got the business bona fides— owner of Truckee River Paint and Wallpaper and the Studio on 4 Performing Art Venue—but he’s also on the Sierra Arts Foundation Board and the Advisory Board of the Holland Project.

Visit family and friends in Bend, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, Newport, Oregon. There’s always stuff around Reno—films, Artown, Bartley Ranch.

We think two good sheriff candidates will come out of the primary, but we want to ensure an outsider gets a shot at running a department that is already run pretty well, so we’re suggesting you vote for Chuck Allen for sheriff. It does not hurt that he’s very media savvy.

In Sparks, cast a vote for Gene Newhall. He certainly does not represent the status quo.

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For Sparks City Council, we like Ed Goodrich in Ward 2 and Rudy Viola in Ward 4.

Work a little bit, play a little bit. Get out to the golf course as much as possible, enjoy the weather, enjoy the parks with my puppy.

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Finally, for Justice of the Peace in Sparks Department 1, we’re endorsing Brooke Keast. She’s got a variety of experience in many different fields, and she has a kind outlook.

For mayor, we’re endorsing Erik Holland. This wasn’t an easy choice. So many of the candidates

You can early vote through June 6 or vote on the more traditional primary election day on June 10. Ω

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Sewing a viable local food culture The Local Food Network candidate forum was an informative and interesting evening.

LFN invited all the candidates for Reno mayor and City Council to its forum. At the request of a neighbor, I moderated. Seven candidates attended and their thoughtful responses to the two formal questions and a host of by spontaneous questions were enlightenSheila Leslie ing and encouraging.

The City Council candidates were particularly engaging, perhaps because they were so thrilled to have an opportunity to engage with voters in a formal setting, having been severely overshadowed by the 18-candidate mayor’s race. They thanked the Network for including council candidates in the discussion, saying it was the first time they had been invited to speak as a group, despite their contested primaries. They noted a council member’s vote counts just as much as the mayor’s vote, despite the lack of attention to their races.

Candidates for Ward 2, Elisa Cafferata and Naomi Duerr, were very knowledgeable, demonstrating extensive personal experience with

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local food issues. Mike Steedman, a candidate in the Ward 4 race, was equally informed, with lots of good ideas about how the City Council could make a difference and help the Network achieve its goal of “20 percent of our food locally consumed from local sources by 2020.”

What was particularly striking about these three candidates was how they listened closely to each other, not looking to pounce on a “gotcha” moment to gain a campaign advantage but rather to hear each other’s ideas and build upon them. They were earnest and sincere about promoting home and community gardens in Reno, finding a way to compel Waste Management to compost, and better using city property to promote urban agriculture.

In short, these three demonstrated the collaborative and collegial approach Reno needs on its City Council—independent, strong, and vocal personalities who are unlikely to be controlled by special interests but are more than willing to consider proposals other than their own.

Although only four of the 18 mayoral candidates addressed the group, the forum provided a wonderful opportunity to hear them speak on topics such as food security, urban sprawl, and sustainability. No “lightning rounds” here where people raise their hand in a “yes or no” format.

No nonsense about who has the most Twitter followers or Facebook friends.

Instead, Delores Aiazzi, Erik Holland, Idora Silver and Chuck Reno talked frankly, at length, asking experts in the audience to share their ideas about creating a more local foodfriendly community.

They listened patiently while LFN board member Jana Vanderhaar spoke about her frustration with UNR and the City Council over the proposed sale of quality UNR farmland, turning prime agricultural space into yet another urban landscape of ugly warehouses. She told the candidates her group of passionate advocates did not feel “heard” by the former City Council, despite their vocal advocacy.

Candidates learned about the work of the Food Policy Council, which works with local government to include healthy, sustainable food system planning goals in the Master Plan. Ordinances need to be changed to enhance local, healthy food production and distribution and the city may have a role to play in facilitating community food security and economic access to safe, healthy food.

While the Reno Gazette-Journal worries about fake Russian Twitter followers, and candidates gaming their “viability” system to determine who is worthy of a televised debate, community interest groups would do well to continue to sponsor their own events, to educate and personally interact with candidates. After all, in an 18-candidate primary race, where only 15 to 20 percent of voters are expected to turn out, anything can happen, making every candidate viable if their supporters show up.

If you want a Reno City Council with a progressive approach to local food production, educate yourself and vote. Ω

The Local Food Network has a Facebook group at https:// www.facebook.com/ LocalFoodSystemNetwork.

Vote Lorton in the primary Reno was debt-free 12 years ago, and now is $600 million in debt. That is Eddie Lorton’s campaign theme as he runs for mayor of Reno in the crowded primary field you are voting on now. From Detroit to Bakersfield, American cities are declaring bankruptcy. A businessman and by Brendan Trainor music promoter, Lorton wants to cut spending to avoid the same fate here.

Lorton appears regularly before the City Council in public comment to discuss his ideas to trim the budget.

He is also a strong advocate for property rights, defending the rights of small businesses to operate without stifling regulations and fees.

His biggest impact on the Reno City Council so far came when Judge Hardesty agreed with his lawsuit that the mayor is actually a council member and so term-limited council members can’t run for mayor. Jessica Sferrazza’s anguished cries could be heard all the way

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up in Incline Village as she was now blocked from running for her father’s old job. Political office should not be a career but rather a temporary public service. In the era of Clinton, Bush and Kennedy political family dynasties, Lorton’s suit spared Reno what could have become a similar family entitlement.

Lorton has been endorsed by the Teamsters Union, the conservative Nevada Republican Assembly, and the Libertarian Party of Nevada.

I talked with David Colborne, the Northern Nevada LP spokesman.

Lorton is not a registered libertarian, but Colburne says he was endorsed because of his strong stands on property rights and his advocacy for medical marijuana when the city was on the fence about it. In these times in particular, Reno needs someone at the helm who can bring a businessman’s ability to go through budgets with a fine-tooth comb looking for ways to save money. But he is not just a green eyeshade pennypincher.

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He understands individual rights and free enterprise are necessary for Reno to grow. If Reno stifles innovation, people will not come over the mountain to play.

Lorton has criticized the monopoly contract granted to REMSA to be the sole provider of ambulance services. He wonders why the city wants to raise taxes for fire and police when REMSA does not pay a franchise fee for its monopoly contract. An actual Libertarian Party member, Ernest Walker, brought up the same issues in the 1990s when he was elected to the Sparks City Council. If the most important function of city government is the provision of public safety, that is fire and police, then why don’t city governments prioritize that in their budgets? Why go to the public for tax increases for what is their most essential services? The answer is obvious. City governments know

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that the public is far less likely to vote for a tax increase for pay raises and non-essential pet projects, but are more likely to be frightened into voting new taxes for a manufactured budget crisis over police and fire protection. A business runs into trouble when it doesn’t take care of its core products first, and Lorton believes cities should follow the same strategy. We need a straight shooter who will not use the same old shell games to trick us into voting for tax increases.

If you visit eddielorton.net and listen to his public comments, you’ll see that unlike some activists, he is not abrasive and self-aggrandizing.

He is polite and insists that he only wants to get the facts and help the council work together to save money and protect the rights of small businesses. Reno needs Eddie Lorton’s common sense approach to governance. Ω

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In 2006, Nevada voters approved a higher minimum wage. Now the state is being accused of not enforcing it.

Schmidt happens Nevada Senate candidate Gary Schmidt has a new preoccupation—doing something about campaign signs that are posted on public property.

In researching the law, Schmidt learned that when signs on public property are taken down and confiscated, a report must be filed with the county commission. Nevada Revised Statute 405.090 reads, “All patrol officers and maintenance and construction employees of the [state] Department of Transportation shall report any violation … to the board of county commissioners wherein any violation may occur.”

Figuring that those reports would help him learn how extensive the problem CONFISCATED SIGNS is, Schmidt filed public records requests seeking copies of the reports. After some additional back-and-forth, Schmidt sent out a message that included reporters on the mailing list. It read in part, “I have been denied any documentation or written notice in regards to any notice of violations or citations issued for the removal and/or identification of the signs, the disposition of the signs, or any other form of documented proof or memorialization of the fact that I filled a complaint and that it was acted upon. In my verbal complaint, I did request that at a minimum a notice of violation be filed/created.”

That prompted deputy district attorney Gregory Salter, one of the recipients of some of Schmidt’s contacts, to bite back: “Sixty three minutes after you left me a voicemail, you went to the press. I didn’t even have a chance to look into it and get back to you. How fair is that?”

A response to Schmidt from the Nevada Department of Transportation read, “NDOT does not have any responsive records.”

Schmidt, who is a former member of the Washoe Board of Equalization, found NDOT has a batch of campaign signs removed from city property at its industrial yard behind DMV. They are held there until candidates reclaim them. Schmidt said he was not permitted to inspect or photograph them.

Judge for yourself Since the publication by the New York Times of Cliven Bundy’s comments about “Negroes,” numerous right wing websites have alleged that Bundy’s comments were taken “out of context.”

In the portion of the Times story dealing with Bundy’s race views, reporter Adam Nagourny used 146 words from the rancher, a relatively long quote in today’s journalism, and considerably more than most reporters had used from Bundy during the standoff. Many articles used surprisingly few quotes, if any, from Bundy, considering that he was the focus of the dispute.

Nagourney told the RN&R, “I have not heard from him [Bundy] or anyone in his camp disputing the story. I assume if they had a problem, I would have heard about it. I was very careful to use a long quote to make sure there was no question about context.”

The liberal Media Matters for America got ahold of a tape of the full interview and turned it over to Talking Points Memo.

Readers can view it here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/media-matterscliven-bundy-video

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Minimum enforcement Workers accuse state of ignoring state wage law A lawsuit has been filed accusing the Sandoval administration of failing to enforce the voter-approved state minimum by wage.

Dennis Myers At issue is Ballot Question 6 in the 2006 general election, which set the Nevada minimum wage a dollar higher than the national minimum.

The measure, which was placed on the ballot by initiative petition, was approved by Nevadans in a landslide vote—of the 660,742 votes cast, the question was approved 68.71 to 31.29 percent. In Washoe County, the margin was less, but still required no recount: 66.21 to 33.78 percent.

“It’s yet another example of how workers in Nevada are getting hosed.”

Bob Fulkerson Progressive Leadership Alliance of nevada

the PLAn petition is posted at http://tinyurl. com/myyby5p the language about the state minimum wage in the nevada Constitution is posted on our newsview blog.

The new law—an amendment to the Nevada Constitution—also said employers could pay at the lower federal minimum wage level “if the employer provides health benefits as described herein.”

The lawsuit was filed on April 30 by attorneys Don Springmeyer and Bradley Schrager on behalf of

workers Cody Hancock and Kowk Yen Moy. It has been followed by two more suits. One, filed on May 19

by Las Vegas resident Erin Hanks, accuses Briad Restaurant Group LLC, which operates Nevada TGI Fridays, of improperly claiming the reduced minimum wage rate without providing the required type of health insurance coverage. (The Reno TGI Fridays shut down on Feb. 9, 2009.) The other was filed on May 20 by nine workers against an Ohio corporation, Cedar Enterprises, which operates Wendy’s Restaurants in Las Vegas.

Washoe County businesses could be next. Springmeyer said he is looking to deal with this problem wherever it exists, including Washoe County.

“Everywhere,” he said.

“Anywhere somebody’s getting paid less than $8.25 an hour, I think they’re getting screwed. … We’ll go to Ely or Elko or Reno, anywhere that someone’s getting screwed on this.”

The first lawsuit, alleging failure to enforce the law, makes several charges. Some of them date back to the Gibbons administration, when Gov. Jim Gibbons’ labor commissioner—Michael Tanchek—drafted the regulations covering the new minimum wage law, which are needed to implement the law. Those

regulations took effect in October that year. They have not been altered under Gov. Brian Sandoval. Current labor commissioner Thoran Towler, appointed by Gov. Sandoval, did not return a call seeking comment.

The lawsuit alleges that the regulations created these problems: • The regulations provide that if a worker declines health coverage, the employer can pay a lower minimum wage. The plaintiff argue that this permits employers to arrange to offer health insurance that involves a very high worker premium, thus qualifying the employer for the lower minimum wage when the worker cannot afford the premium and declines coverage.

• Under the regulations, tipped workers can be paid a dollar less per hour if health insurance premiums amount to 10 percent of the gross taxable income of the worker attributable to the employer under IRS code, even though the tip portion of the worker’s income does not come from the employer. The effect is to increase what a minimum wage worker could be made to pay for health insurance coverage. Nevada has a long standing statute that reads, “It is unlawful for any person to ... apply as a credit toward the payment of the statutory minimum hourly wage established by any law of this State any tips or gratuities bestowed upon the employees of that person.” In addition, the minimum wage portion of the Nevada Constitution itself reads in part, “Tips or gratuities received by employees shall not be credited as being any part of or offset against the wage rates required by this section.”

• The regulations also allows employers six months after the worker starts work before the state minimum wage must be paid. There is no provision in the law for such a grace period. It does allow some leeway for summer workers and trainees, but the plaintiff lawyers argue the labor commissioner went beyond what the law allows.

• Finally, the suit argues that the labor commissioner has never set up a system for enforcing the law. It charges: “The Nevada labor commissioner maintains no database or list of employers who claim eligibility to pay employees at the reduced minimum ... maintains no database and collects no data on health insurance plans or benefit contracts ... maintains no database or list of employees who have been or are currently paid at the reduced minimum wage.

“The Nevada labor commissioner, over the more than seven years the constitutional amendment has been

effective, has never issued an opinion regarding whether any specific health plan or contract qualifies an employer to pay employees at the reduced rate ... has never undertaken an enforcement action against an employer for paying [workers] at the reduced minimum wage ... never enacted regulations requriing ongoing access to comprehensive health insurance plans as a condition to employer eligibility to pay employees at the reduced minimum ... never enacted regulations requiring recalculation of permissible health insurance premium levels for employees whose income from the employer changes over time due to fluctuations in hours worked. ... [E]ffectively there is no enforcement or regulatory regime functioning in any manner to ensure that employers who are paying workers at the reduced minimum are doing so lawfully.”

Petition launched The lawsuit has now been supplemented by a petition drive by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. The group included petitions addressed to Gov. Brian Sandoval in its latest membership appeal.“That was precipitated by a lawsuit filed by Bradley Schraager and Don Springmeyer against several fast food chains. … We did it because it’s yet another example of how workers in Nevada are

getting hosed by corporations and their lobbyists, and were also completely astonished that this story was being ignored by the media,” PLAN director Bob Fulkerson said.

The petition reads in part, “As you know, a recent lawsuit filed on behalf of minimum wage workers states that your administration has neither enforced nor monitored

“There is no enforcement or regulatory regime functioning.”

Hancock/Kowk lawsuit this law. As a result, Nevada’s wealthiest corporations have stolen millions of dollars of wages from our lowest paid workers. We ask you to please use the full force of your office to remedy this situation immediately.”

Nevada Democratic Party chair Roberta Lange also issued an attack on Sandoval, calling the situation “state-sanctioned wage theft by large corporations from Nevada working families,” but since the Democrats don’t have a major candidate opposing the governor’s reelection, it’s difficult for them to make it much of an issue. Ω

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Kentucky tourist David Dean takes photos of a storage yard for the Nevada Railroad Museum. The yard is used to store old rolling stock and other memorabilia that isn’t in shape for display but is still pretty interesting.

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Greater sage grouse may be at risk if land in central Nevada is sold for fracking.

Fracking up Land in central Nevada may be sold for fracking An upcoming Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale includes over 174,000 acres of land between the towns of Tonopah and Austin in north central Nevada. This sale means that all or a portion of these lands could by Sage Leehey potentially be opened up to the highly controversial process of fracking.

In response to the notice of this sale on April 14, the Center for s age l@ Biological Diversity recently filed a 47-page formal protest of the sale. news review.c om The reasons for CBD’s protest are extensive but include concerns for public health, water and air quality, and rare species present on this land, according to senior scientist at CBD and author of the protest Rob Mrowka. Most are concerns shared by many anti-fracking individuals.

“Fracking is a highly dangerous process of injecting a toxic brew of chemicals ... into the ground at high pressures to basically blast apart or crack rocks in the earth’s surface to release trapped natural gas and oil,” Mrowka said. “And there’s a significant risk, we feel, for pollution of the environment in a number of ways. I mean, through the introduction of those chemicals into the earth, the possible pathways that are created by the fracking process itself to connect those chemicals with groundwater.

There are many different ways.”

But specifically in this area, Mrowka stated concerns for species and animal habitats that could be affected negatively if this sale goes through and the land is used for fracking.

To see the Center for “We’re very concerned about ... the specific impacts of the parcels Biological Diversity’s in this sale on rare species such as greater sage grouse, several species formal protest, visit of desert fish, several rare plants and a couple of rare kangaroo mice,” http://tinyurl.com/ Mrowka said. njvcczf.

What to do about the population of greater sage grouse in Nevada and surrounding states is hotly debated right now, as the species is being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. BLM is in the process of coming up with a plan to better protect sage grouse. Mrowka hopes BLM will consider not having the sale at all.

“What we’ve asked for is a cancellation of the sale, or at the bare minimum, a postponement of the sale until other planning processes that are going on now for the protection of greater sage grouse are completed,” Mrowka said.

CBD and Mrowka also have concerns about the environmental study conducted for this sale—an environmental assessment as opposed to an environmental impact statement—because it is a lower level study than they believe necessary for this particular situation. The high possibility that these lands may be used for horizontal hydraulic fracturing is most of the reason why CBD believes the impacts on the environment would be significant and require an EIS as opposed to the EA, according to their protest.

BLM has up until the day of the sale—July 17—to respond to CBD’s protest and announce whether they will withdraw any or all of the parcels from the sale. The next step for CBD, depending on BLM’s response, may be litigation. Ω

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“I believe this is a sovereign state of Nevada,” Cliven Bundy told a radio interviewer on April 10. “I abide by all Nevada state laws.

But I don’t recognize the United States government as even existing.”

It was a remarkable statement. If it had been made during the administrations of John Adams or Woodrow Wilson, the speaker might well have been prosecuted and imprisoned. Members of the 1960s generation could remember when they were denounced as disloyal for statements on Vietnam that were far more mild.

Instead, an armed mob traveled to his ranch to protect Bundy—or rather, since he wasn’t threatened by anyone, to protect his steers. No one tried to jail him or, as in the Edward Everett Hale story, put him to sea to never again see or hear of the nation he had denounced. It was as clear a demonstration as we’re ever likely to see of Thomas Jefferson’s statement, “If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

As much as he repudiated the United States, he seemed—with some ambivalence—to embrace Nevada. (The website of Glenn Beck, who interviewed Bundy, reads, “Cliven did say that while he believes that Nevada is a sovereign state within the United States, he does not identify with the sovereign states movement.” However, the accompanying partial transcript does not include such an exchange, and Beck’s producer has not responded to a request for the language.)

“I abide by all state laws,” Bundy told the Los Angeles Times in September. “But I abide by almost zero federal laws.”

“I’m still saying the state of Nevada owns that land, and the federal government has been an encroacher,” he told USA Today in 1996.

MAN C l i v e n B u n dy s ay s nevada is sovereign. n e v a d a’ s founders disagree.

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C r e at i n g Neva d a Bundy, an organic cattle rancher and melon farmer, has used the public’s land to graze his steers without paying the grazing fees.

An unbelievably dilatory Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has let this state of affairs drag on for an incredible two decades. When the dispute between Bundy and BLM finally came to a head in April, Bundy’s critics quickly found language in the Nevada Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, that undercut his position on state versus federal power: “All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security and benefit of the people; and they have the right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it. But the Paramount Allegiance of every citizen is due to the Federal Government in the exercise of all its constitutional powers as the same have been or may be defined by the Supreme Court of the United States, and no power exists in the people of this or any other State of the Federal Union to dissolve their connection therewith or perform any act tending to impair, subvert, or resist the Supreme Authority of the government of the United States. The Constitution of the United States confers full power on the Federal Government to maintain and perpetuate its existence, and whensoever any portion of the States, or people thereof attempt to secede from the Federal Union, or forcibly resist the execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the Constitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience to its authority.” “ The Man WiThouT a CounTry”

BY DEN N IS MYERS OPINION

The notion that all this represents Nevada’s position is incorrect. We know this because we checked with folks who should know—Nevada’s founders.

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The Bundy family arrived in Nevada af ter the BLM Cliven Bundy argues that he has primacy over the federal government in controlling the land around his ranch because his family was here before the Bureau of Land Management was created. It’s not true. The BLM controlled— and was present in—the territory of Nevada before the Bundys. It just wasn’t called the BLM yet. It was called the General Land Office.

The Bureau of Land Management is an agency within the Interior Department. Its functions preceded the creation both of the Interior Department and the BLM. Following the American Revolution, Congress enacted two laws—the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787—to begin surveying and settling the lands of the West, though what was then called “the West” was on the far side of the Alleghenies, particularly Ohio. As the nation reached farther and farther west, and the original states surrendered their claims to additional land in the west, those functions were placed in a newly established General Land Office in the Treasury Department. Generating revenue to fund its functions became part of its operations.

On March 3, 1849, the Land Office was transferred to the new Interior Department. Over the years, it gained more duties and other agencies were created to supplement its work, including a Grazing Service, also within Interior.

Their combined functions included many of those now held by the Bureau of Land Management. Over the years, functions were added to Land Office responsibilities under laws like the Mining Law of 1872 and the Taylor Grazing Act. In mid-19th century, the General Land Office operated in states with public lands through surveyors general. The office of U.S. Surveyor General of Nevada was operating at least as early as 1861, three years before statehood.

Its 1861-1869 records are in the San Francisco office of the National Archives (Record Group 49.7.9). The first U.S. Surveyor General of Nevada arrived in Carson City to take up his duties on June 22, 1861.

Bundy has said his family arrived in Nevada in 1877. By then, the General Land Office had been functioning in Nevada for 16 years, since territorial days. In 1877, the U.S. Surveyor General of Nevada in the General Land Office was E.S. Davis. He had a staff of three—J. Butler, J.W. Parker, and T.D. Parkinson. They were on hand to shake hands when the arriving Bundys crossed the state line, should the occasion have presented itself. Indeed, the newcomers in Bunkerville may have met one or more of the staff members or Davis, since they circulated around the state, including the relatively new section of Nevada—Clark County, added to Nevada from Arizona Territory in 1867.

The General Land Office and the Grazing Service were consolidated into a single agency in 1946, its name changed to—the Bureau of Land Management. But it had been operating in Nevada all along.

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When this was quoted around the nation, some of Bundy’s followers on the fringe felt betrayed that a state with Nevada’s outlaw reputation would have such language in its organic law. “Unfortunately for the state of Nevada, its own state constitution is little more than a paean to the unfettered ferocity of the federal beast,” wrote one reader of the St. George News in Utah.

But the authors of the Nevada Constitution knew quite clearly what they were doing. It is possible to examine their reasoning. Reading their debates on what to include and exclude in the document, it seems eerily as though they anticipated Cliven Bundy, were familiar with his views, and set out to counter them.

The Nevada Constitution was written in a climate in which there were two powerful influences. One was the Civil War, which in part was very much about federal and state powers.

While U.S. Sen. Jefferson Davis had, before the war, invoked federal power to combat the states, secession changed everything and the war President Davis fought was in part about allegiance to the federal government.

The second influence was contention between settlers of the Washoe country—as Nevada was then known—and the Utah Territorial government in Salt Lake City. From 1850 on, most of what is now Nevada had been a part of the Territory of Utah. Most of the population was in the eastern portion of the Territory and settlers in Washoe felt poorly served by a distant government dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When Washoe finally received local government, elections tended to generate religious cleavage, and Mormon and anti-Mormon factions developed.

Over the years, grievances piled up. After friction developed between the Utah government and the U.S. government, and federal troops were sent to Utah, most of the Washoe Mormons returned to the east to support the Salt Lake government. Washoe settlers then seceded from Utah and petitioned Congress for “the support and protection of the Federal

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expressing the state’s allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and federal government. (In those days, the two things were very much linked.)

Some delegates believed it was enough to endorse the federal constitution and leave it at that, since that effectively acknowledged the supremacy of the national government over the states. But other delegates wanted it spelled out, and along the way, they debated many of the matters the Bundy standoff raised.

Throughout the days of the Bundy standoff, numerous commentators pointed out that the rule of law was at stake, that the U.S. has a “government of laws and not of men.” It was one of the things that split the nation’s conservative community as it debated Bundy. Nevada founders were not in doubt on the matter.

“When we say that paramount allegiance is due to the federal government, of course we This is the second mean, in its constitutional powers only,” said page of the wire George Nourse, a Washoe County delegate at the that was sent to constitutional convention. “Not to the men who President Lincoln on happen to be at the head of the government, but October 26, 1864, containing the entire to the government itself is our allegiance due, an text of the Nevada allegiance paramount to that which is due to the Constitution. The state government.” (Emphasis is added.) language of the conNourse spelled it out in greater detail. stitution itself began “No matter if the state does undertake to on this page. withdraw its allegiance, the allegiance of the citizen is still due to the United States,” he said. “That means that he is a citizen of the Government” and for separate status. The United States all the time—that he owes all Washoe country was designated the Territory allegiance and duty to the United States, and of Nevada in 1861. Statehood was authorized in the United States in return owes protection to 1863 and a state constitution had to be drafted. him, no matter what the state may do. And if The proceedings of drafting the document were the laws of the state come in conflict with the heavily influenced by constitution and laws the Confederate secesof the United States, sions and the Mormon then the question “ If it is decided to be rebellion against comes up under federal authority. A constitutional by the which sovereignty constitutional conventhe citizen is to act. courts, it is his duty tion went into session Then there must be a on July 4, 1864. to obey it till the paramount allegiance, Congress because it must be decision be reversed required that the that one has a higher convention include or the law repealed. ” claim than the other, in the proposed state for if not, how is the T hoM a s FI Tch constitution “on behalf conflict ever to be Nevada fouNdiNg father of the people of said decided? When that territory, that they question comes up, adopt the constitution then we say the citiof the United States” in the new constitution. zen must go where the United States leads.”

The requirement was hardly necessary. The issue Douglas County’s Albert Hawley spoke of at the convention was never whether to pledge those “tainted with the heresy of State Rights.” the state’s allegiance to the U.S. government, “[E]very man must know and admit, that but rather how lengthy the language should be. he who refuses to subscribe to the doctrine that Matters of style, not of substance, were at issue. every citizen owes allegiance to the federal Every delegate but one was a Union Party government in the exercise of its functions, as member, the name given to the Republican Party prescribed and defined by the Supreme Court of during the war (to make it easier for Democrats the United States, thereby stamps himself plainly to vote Republican). and ineffaceably with the brand of—call it what you will—Copperheadism, State Rights-ism, T he fe dera l or any other ism that can be found in the ranks of that party and among those men who have r el at ion s h ip plunged this country into the war that is now The debate on paramount allegiance to the desolating its fair fields and its once happy federal government by states took place on the homes,” Hawley said. third day of the convention, and the language Storey County delegate Thomas Fitch went quoted above was the result. It is unchanged further in his description of a remedy available from the original draft proposed to the convento the federal government if a state challenged its tion, but before it was accepted there was a authority: “And I have no hesitation in avowing considerable debate that illuminates some of the my belief in the full and complete right and Bundy claims. constitutional power of the government to put The discussions focused on what some down any and all attempts to subvert its authority delegates called “surplusage”—wordiness in by armed force.”

Bundyites have a habit of finding reasons C ou r t i n g d i s or der not to accept awkward facts with which they disagree. In this case, they argue that the Bundy’s contempt for courts, his willingness to paramount-allegiance clause in the Nevada argue his cases in the courts and then ignore their Constitution was adopted by the Nevada rulings, runs flatly counter to the views of the Constitutional Convention delegates and then the state’s founders. voters under duress—that it was an illegitimate “I do not allow that the private citizen has the price for statehood. right to be his own judge of the constitutionality That’s not correct. The proof is in the of an act of Congress,” said Fitch, later Washoe constitution that was adopted and the debates County district attorney. “The only way in which that produced it. Nevadans did not grudgingly he can oppose such an act is in the courts, and if adopt the language demanded by Congress and it is decided to be constitutional by the courts, it stop there. Rather, with greater enthusiasm than is his duty to obey it till the decision is reversed Congress, they pledged or the law repealed. paramount allegiance to Although it is true that the federal government “ We say the citizen the decision may be and then went on to reversed, still until it must go where the adopt language that was is so reversed it is his not required, language United States leads.” duty to obey it.” that authorized the Fitch felt the topic GeorGe NoU r Se federal government, in important enough to Nevada fouNdiNg father the event of conflict, deal with it more than to come into the state once: “I do not advowith armed might and cate the theory that enforce federal law. This was not an action of the state judiciary, the legislature of the state, coerced and reluctant men (convention delegates or the executive, or the people of the state, and state voters were all men then). should be allowed to judge of the constitutionIt was something that was not demanded of ality of an act of Congress. If I were to say the state, as the delegates were aware. Delegate that, I should be advocating a wrong. I should Frank Proctor, one of the founders of Carson be advocating, or at least giving my influence, City, said, “At all events, such a clause has never to the theory of nullification, a theory which I been inserted before in any other state constitucondemn and reprobate.” tion, so far as I can discover, and there is nothing No other delegate disagreed with him. in the constitution of the United States nor in the Nourse said, “I am not prepared, certainly, [statehood] Enabling Act requiring it.” to say that every decision of the United States Supreme Court is to be accepted as

indisputably right.” He specifically mentioned the court’s approval of the Fugitive Slave Law as one with which he disagreed. But disagreement did not allow disobedience: “Of course, any decision of that tribunal is the law, in the case in which it is given, and must be obeyed as the law in that case.”

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that they did not make a state in order for it to be used as an obstacle to federal authority, as Bundy claims Nevada is.

Nourse said, “That we owe paramount allegiance to the federal government—that, whatever happens in our state, we are still subjects or citizens of the United States, and owe to the United States our service, rather than to our state, is all we say or need to say. … Now if there were no compact or agreement of this kind in the constitution of the United States, then the people in each of the sovereign states would, as the secessionists claim, owe paramount allegiance to that state. But the bargain is made.”

Hawley summed it up. “We insert in this section, if it be adopted, a declaration that the federal government has a right to compel the obedience of all its subordinate members, if any attempt is made to set aside any enactment of the federal government,” he said. “And that, sir, is a doctrine to which every loyal man ought to be willing to subscribe. It is a doctrine which every true man ought to be willing to see written in letters of fire upon the firmament, that he who runs may read.”

Nor would their disagreements with Bundy end there. It would also probably extend to behavior. Fitch spoke of “a duty to perform requiring calmness and deliberate consideration” and lamented “an over-zealous devotion to politiΩ cal abstractions.”

Neva d a n i n n a me on l y None of this is likely to influence Cliven Bundy.

His history is one of letting the outcome of findings, whether agency or court, determine their legitimacy. The BLM considered his case more than once, and when it found against him, he refused to accept those findings. He argued his case in court, but when the outcome was adverse, he did not consider it legal.

Actually, in spite of his talk of state sovereignty, Bundy’s allegiance to the state government of Nevada is hardly unwavering, either. In a news release issued under his name by the Nevada Committee for Full Statehood, Bundy said the federally managed grazing areas around his ranch “belong to the people of Clark County.”

Nor is his fealty to county government particularly firm. When the county sheriff refused Bundy’s request to interfere with the federal roundup, Bundy denounced him. The validity of a level of government seems to depend on whether or not it does what Bundy wants.

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Green energy, digital power add to local nuns’ quiet life

"Creation sustains us and the respect we owe to our Earth," says Sister Maria Ahearn.

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eno’s Carmelite nuns don’t wear habits anymore.

Seeing as they support themselves with printmaking—and old-school presses are famous for snagging clothes and maiming people—the sisters retired their woolen robes a long time ago.

Shedding the traditional garb was a gutsy move for their community, explains Sister Maria Ahearn, “but after awhile, [our attitude] was, ‘No, this is who we are. This is how we live. Get used to it.’”

A native New Yorker who came to Reno in the ’70s, Ahearn is apt to wear cargo pants, sneakers and a tank top. She often rides her bike up nearby Driscoll Drive’s long,

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daunting hill. She skis, too, and snowboards.

An appreciation for the outdoors comes easily at the nuns’ 19-acre home in Southwest Reno, where the city and mountain views are jaw-dropping, and the sky seems big enough to sweep you away on a gust of wind. Then there’s the modern chapel designed by architect Brad Van Woert, with sunlit, floorto-ceiling slices of glass that feel like they’re suspended right over the valley.

The sisters weren’t always this comfortable, mind you. The first few were broke, really, when they moved to Reno from Indiana in 1954. But their founder, the late Sister Anne of the Trinity (born

Anne Elisabeth Clem) taught them to be progressive and limber—ready to shed old habits, so to speak, and embrace new technology.

Two years ago, that meant the addition of a massive network of solar panels tucked into a wooded part of the grounds. It’s well concealed and highly effective, generating far more power than the facility even needs.

“Everybody was so on board,” says Ahearn, adding that wind power was part of the discussion, too. “We had wanted to do this for a very long time, and then we got it from a grant [from NV Energy].

Once you do the math of this, who wouldn’t like it?”

The Carmelites are still on the grid. Their system generates energy, obviously, but actually sends it to the power company. NV Energy effectively stores it for the nuns and credits their account with a surplus, which they can then tap into during leaner months.

Our Lady of the Snows and the Reno Christian Fellowship also use solar energy, and the approach is gathering a strong enough following in Nevada that a popular rebate program will one day taper off altogether. Truckee Meadows Community College is home to one of the latest rebate installations, which now number around 1,800 statewide.

Tapering off is actually the whole point, says NV Energy program manager John Hargrove.

“The program was designed to create an industry that can sustain itself once the rebates are [gone],” he explains.

The 14 local Carmelites, for their part, are certainly self-sustaining.

Their solar setup “powers just about everything,” says Sister Clorinda von

Stockalper—or just Cloe, as she’d rather be called—a pro musician who hails from Switzerland, Scotland and England, for the record.

“We thought it would be a good idea, because there’s so much sun,” she says, in an accent that’s entrancing and velvety enough to bear mention here. “And it’s definitely made a difference in our lives, financially and otherwise.”

A recent flight over Phoenix gave Ahearn yet another eyeful of solar grids. Plus, she’ll never forget the wind farms she saw en route to a pilgrimage in Spain.

“People are taking it seriously,” she says, and she sees Reno’s new single-stream recycling program as yet another sign of progress.

Green living certainly makes sense in a spiritual context—especially a quiet, contemplative one like the Carmelites’.

“We are part of creation,” Ahearn will tell you, “and creation sustains us and the respect we owe to our Earth.”

For some Native Americans, she says, “the Great Spirit lives in the

earth. For them, the earth is their religion. And in all our traditions, it’s, ‘Moses, take off your shoes.’ The ground that we stand on is holy.”

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In some ways, the electricity the nuns generate has a full-circle effect, seeing as it now powers their stateof-the-art digital printing press—a machine that may as well be their bread and butter.

The equipment “is a lot of fun,” says Ahearn, who compiles newsletters and other publications for the group, “because it just goes.”

Actually, it’s downright Star Trek-caliber if you compare it to the sisters’ older printing system, which began in a garage apartment and later consumed the monastery’s basement.

Its remnants are still there—sprawling and labyrinthine amid a network of floor-to-ceiling shelves.

Maria still knows how to set type the old way—by hand, backwards and upside-down. Not that she’d like to turn back time; the process is a snap now, thanks to programs such as InDesign.

When it comes to print jobs, the nuns are especially well known for their ever-changing collection of greeting and holiday cards, many of which are designed by Sister Sa Ra, an experienced painter from Korea.

Sister Marie-Celeste Fadden, who died in 2005, was another established artist within the group—so accomplished, in fact, that she was reportedly in one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first juried shows (the other guy selected that year from Pennsylvania, Fadden’s home state, was Andrew Wyeth. The Andrew Wyeth).

With Fadden’s help, the sisters’ cards became a hit, and now around 100,000 come off the press each year.

Their themes are both secular and religious, and abstract and specific—full of color-rich saints, landscapes, flowers, animals, automobiles, buildings, and virtually everything else in creation. And they are objectively gorgeous.

You can even buy one that depicts St. Teresa of Avila, who founded the entire reformed Carmelite Order with another Spanish saint, Saint John of the Cross. She is dancing in the image, which was taken from one of Fadden’s original works. It is simple and stunning, full of bold lines and warm colors, and modeled after the movements of a professional dancer who visited the monastery.

“It was an effort to show that the nuns weren’t mean old people,” Ahearn says, her gazed fixed on the painting. “Hey, we’ve got a life. This isn’t half-bad!”

Sister Mary—a sprightly, absolutely tiny older woman—is also around to lighten the mood.

“Would you like something?” she asks as she pushes herself around the building’s lounge area with the help of a food cart.

A tub of ice cream is perched on top.

She asks again.

“I mean a beer or a highball or something?”

It’s not yet noon. She seems serious.

“I tease!” she exclaims a second later.

Years ago, this bit of dynamite in a small package planted virtually all of the trees on the now heavilywooded property, scaling ladders and later watering each one by hand. The trees seem too old, too well-established to have been seeded in her lifetime, but they were. Like Maria, Mary has been here more than 40 years.

“I’d always tell the sisters when I was growing up, ‘Talk to people,’” she says. “To be friendly. Then I came to Reno, and I can’t stop.” Ω

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Hatch Reno founder and photographer Jeramie Lu sits perched in a studio bay at Hatch on Washington Street.

Hatch Reno Photographer Jeramie Lu wants artists to think more like business people. He wants to by create a community of artists who are willAshley ing to share the secrets of the trade. Earlier Hennefer this year, Lu started Hatch Reno, which he calls a “creative hub” and a studio rental space for photographers.

Hatch Reno, 100 Washington St., on the far end of "Startup Row," is the latest collaborative space in Northern Nevada.

It’s technically Lu’s second shared studio space. He’s been renting out his personal studio on California Avenue to fellow photographers for some time now. That served as a successful test run for opening a bigger location, and the new Hatch locafor more information, visit hatchreno.com. tion is its first expansion.

“It came down to, ‘What if we did something bigger?’” Lu says.

Hatch takes up the entire basement area—about 2,000 square feet—of the Washington Street building, which used to house a talent agency. This location opened in April. Despite the lack of natural lighting, the place is aglow with clean, open

studio space. The space and equipment has, so far, been funded by Lu’s savings.

Five studio bays are available with all of the necessary gear, accessories and resources, including a dressing room, various lights, rolls of background paper, furniture and a set that is changed every month. Lu wanted the space to reflect the artists who use it, so he brought in artists to help furnish the space; the dressing room entrance is actually metal formed to look like red curtains, and the set in the main studio is adorned with makeshift winter icicles and a light blue backdrop.

Also available are two private viewing rooms where photographers can meet with clients. An open space near the entrance serves as a learning area where classes will start in the near future.

It works like this: Members select a plan depending on how many hours they need.

All but one of the plans includes time to shoot in the studio bays. Each member gets 24/7 access to both the Washington Street and California Avenue facilities.

Although Lu is passionate about photography and creativity, he wants to see Northern Nevada become a better market for professional photography.

Hatch office manager and photographer Briana Maselli agrees.

“Everyone thinks everything is for trade, but we’re trying to change that,” she says. “We’re photographers, but we still need to eat.”

Lu says the problem is the lack of set market rates; although photography is in high demand, professional photographers struggle to set comparable rates. It’s hard

to compete with photographers who give away work for free, and it’s also difficult to price at the same level of bigger cities like San Francisco. Using Hatch as a community space, besides just a work space, is one of Lu’s goals.

“We’re trying to make all artists communicate with each other,” he says.

Lu also says that “franchising” is a long-term goal. Hatch Automobile would be a place to photograph cars; Hatch Brick would be a natural light studio.

There would also be Hatch hubs located throughout the state. For traveling photographers with memberships, they could use any Hatch location as a temporary base when needed.

Being able to fund studio space and maintain equipment is expensive, Lu says, especially for photographers who spend most of their time outside of a studio. It’s his hope that the resources offered through Hatch will help make photography a viable livelihood for Nevada artists.

“I think our community is coming up now,” Lu says of Reno. “We can raise together.” Ω

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Worth the drive Paisan’s Old World Deli & Catering 4826 Longley Lane, 826-9444 There are a lot of places to get a decent sandwich in Reno. So many, in fact, that if someone asks, “Where can I get by Todd South a good sandwich?” the answer will likely be more about geography than anything else. Name a part of town and any longtime resident can tell you the closest place to get a good bite of lunch from a locally-owned purveyor of deli stuff. Then there’s the short list of exceptional sandwich shops, those for which people will drive across town and willingly stand in line for something extra special.

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I’d heard of Paisan’s for years, even driving past it on occasion and thinking, “I really need to stop there someday.” It wasn’t until my wife and I moved across town that we finally stopped in for lunch, and we were instantly hooked by both the food and the above-average service. If I have to find something at fault here, it’s that they’re only open for breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday, closing at 3:30 p.m. I understand the catering side of the business keeps them busy on evenings and weekends, but I still hold out hope that someday they’ll be open on a Saturday, even just once a month. Please?

The secret to Paisan’s success boils down to one of my favorite words: Family. Opened in 1995, the Angelis family is not just serving up tasty soups, salads and desserts, they’ve also lent their names to a

series of “signature sandwiches” ($7.50) available on a choice of breads (sourdough, dutch crunch, rye swirl, nine-grain, and foccacia).

From Jacob’s Grilled Garlic Chicken (pesto, lettuce, tomato) to Noona’s Pot Roast (horseradish spread, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion), there’s something here you’re going to like. Or love.

Speaking of love, my wife has a fondness for Angelo’s Hot Italian Meatball sandwich that borders on obsession. The core of this creation is the familiar combination of homemade meatballs and marinara sauce paired with provolone cheese and sourdough bread. All the ingredients are satisfying, but it’s the way they magically seal the roll together that makes it special. Whoever heard of a meatball sandwich you can eat without wearing it? Angelo’s is all deliciousness, no mess.

Nonno Ben’s Gourmet Sub (with salami, coppa, mortadella, swiss cheese) is great on any bread, but their sourdough is my choice of foundation.

All of the breads served at Paisan’s are above-average in texture and flavor, but the sourdough has that piquant zing and chewy crust that is often lacking at lesser establishments. And although Nonno Ben’s sub is really yummy, I would literally drive from another city to get a taste of Sammy’s barbecued garlic tri-tip on that great sourdough bread (with pesto, lettuce, tomato, red onions). The combination of garlic pesto with marinated and grilled beef tri-tip takes this western favorite to a new level. Paisan’s tri-tip has become so popular with both deli guests and catering customers, they offer it pre-cooked and wrapped to go from its own refrigerated case next to the counter.

The hearty soups ($3.50-$7.95) and wide variety of salads available ($2.50-$9.50) ensure that you could order lunch from this kitchen every day of the month and never have the same combination twice. Even with the busy lunch rush, orders stream out of the kitchen at a rapid pace, with indoor seating for perhaps 40 and several picnic tables out front.

Don’t have time to leave the office for lunch? Paisan’s offers delivery service to your workplace. I haven’t experienced an event catered by these folks, but their reputation is pretty solid. If you should happen to hire them for your event, I’d really love to be invited. Ω

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X-Men: Days of Future Past The X-Men franchise goes the time travel route made popular by James Cameron’s Terminator movies and the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot.

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) partakes of a unique form of time tripping, and the results are the best in the series since X-Men 2.

Another big contributor to the awesomeby ness of the latest installment is the return of Bob Grimm Bryan Singer to the director’s chair. Singer piloted the first two X-Men films, and he has bgrimm@ newsreview.c om a nice command of the characters in their old and younger incarnations. It’s good to have him back.

The film starts in the future, where the likes of Professor X (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Wolverine have been reduced to hiding out in a dark,

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apocalyptic world where their enemy is a vicious robotic force called the Sentinels.

Things are looking really bad for the mutants.

Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) has perfected a form of time travel to mess with the Sentinels. It involves time traveling in one’s own mind back to a particular point in one’s memory when the fabrics of time can be messed with. She can only send somebody back a few minutes or so due to brain trauma, but then it strikes the X-Men that Wolverine has those instant healing powers.

So Wolverine travels back to the early '70s, before the Sentinels go into production, and before Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) commits a murder that will doom the future. It’s a nice chance to see the Wolverine with his bone claws again and, of

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course, an opportunity to combine the two X-Men casts. Most of the action takes place in the past, so the X-Men: First Class cast gets most of the screen time. That means more of the terrific Michael Fassbender’s take on Magneto, who is being held in a prison underneath the Pentagon for allegedly having something to do with an infamous magic bullet. James McAvoy actually steals the show as young Xavier/Professor X, who has found a solution for his crippled legs, though it has a bad side effect.

Peter Dinklage has a pivotal role as the creator of the Sentinels, and Dinklage always adds a level of class to any project.

The film also allows for a funny take on Richard Nixon (Mark Camacho), who finds himself in the middle of a mutant public relations fiasco.

Lawrence gets plenty of screen time as the young Mystique, but we never see Rebecca Romijn as the older Mystique. We do get a brief, brief glimpse of Anna Paquin’s Rogue, but her pivotal scenes wound up on the cutting room floor, according to Singer.

There’s more Storm in this movie than anybody really needs, and that means there’s more than 30 seconds of Halle Berry in the film.

A welcome new addition to the cast is Evan Peters as the speedy Quicksilver. One of the film’s best sequences involves how the world looks to Quicksilver as he rearranges a gunfight with his fingertips in half a second. We see it in slow motion, with much comedic detail. It’s a brilliant moment.

This film basically allows the controllers of the X-Men universe to jettison X-Men: The Last Stand, a film made by the muchabhorred Brett Ratner and one that was not a favorite with fans. I didn’t hate that movie, but it stands alongside the mediocre X-Men Origins: Wolverine as the weakest movies in the series.

As with Star Trek, the whole system has been reconfigured with X-Men, and all options are wide open for future films. We can still get X-Men modern day stories, we can get X-Men in the past—it’s an open book. Any chance they can use the whole time travel thing on the Matrix movies, and fix those screwed-up sequels? Ω

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Director Marc Webb mucks it up big time with this, his second go-round featuring Andrew Garfield in spandex, cracking wise and shooting webs. While Webb proves himself adept at drama and romance—Garfield and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy are kind of adorable—he botches the action elements and tries to juggle too many villains. This movie features a goofy villain called Electro (Jamie Foxx), the Green Goblin (Dane Dehaan) and the robotic Rhino (Paul Giamatti). Electro gets the majority of the villain screen time, an unfortunate circumstance given that his baddie is the least interesting of the three. DeHaan, an actor I can safely say I can’t stand, makes one really, really miss James Franco as Harry Osborn.

DeHaan always speaks as if he just digs his own voice, even if it sounds like he has a sinus infection. His generally annoying presence isn’t the total blame for this film’s mishandling of the Green Goblin. The blame mostly lies with Webb and his makeup folks, who come up with something tragically bad for Goblin’s looks. He basically has oily hair that looks like he hasn’t showered in a while and a horrific combination skin problem. Too many villains, hackneyed action, and DeHaan make this a pretty bad time for comic book fans.

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Maybe I’m crazy, but there is still part of me that believes Adam Sandler will wake up one day and proclaim, in his Sandler angry voice, “Alright already, enough with keeping my no-talent friends working and employed. I can just give them money. It’s time to make decent, funny movies again! Stay home Dennis Dugan! Screw you Frank Coraci! Maybe Paul Thomas Anderson will put me in a movie again? Flibberdy-Doo!” Sandler’s latest collaboration with director Coraci, who actually made some of the better Sandler films back in the day with The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer, just might be Sandler’s worst movie yet, and that’s saying a lot. He plays a widower who has a terrible first date with a woman (Drew Barrymore) at Hooters. One thing leads to another, and the two wind up on a vacation together in Africa with all of their kids. (You read that right.) This leads to rhino-humping jokes, ostrich riding and Terry Crews making an ass of himself. I had a real bad time with this thing. It caused major, jaw-clenching tension, and I think I may’ve cracked a molar. It’s the sort of racist and sexist movie that you watch in complete disbelief, wondering how such a monstrosity could ever get past the “Hey, why don’t we send Adam and Drew to Africa. It’ll be so funny!” stage. Everybody involved should be embarrassed about this.

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The Double

Director Richard Ayoade pays nice visual homage to the likes of David Lynch and Terry Gilliam with this, an adaptation of the 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Jesse Eisenberg plays Simon, an employee at a bleak office, where he’s unnoticed by coworkers, and hapless in his pursuit of Hannah (Mia Wasikowska) who works in the copy room.

When his exact double, a new employee named James, shows up, he’s everything Simon wants to be. Brash, confident. and great with the ladies, James mentors Simon for a while, but things go bad quickly. Eisenberg is given the task of creating two genuinely different personalities that look exactly alike, even down to their bland choice of tan clothing. He isn’t given the benefit of a pencil mustache or a top hat for the evil twin. He accomplishes the feat, mainly, in the cadence of his voice.

James rolls off sentences with no hesitations, while Simon is prone to stammering.

Wasikowska, who can be a drab actress, is good here, as she was in some of her better efforts like Stoker and The Kids are All Right.

The Double stands as proof that Ayoade is a formidable director, who manages a distinct vision even when he’s taking bits and pieces from other directors. He doesn’t have a follow-up to this on his slate as of yet. I hope that changes soon. It also stands as proof that Eisenberg being cast as Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman might wind up being a very cool move. (Available for rent on Amazon.com, VOD and iTunes during a limited theatrical release.)

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This movie tramples the other Godzilla movies underfoot like Godzilla trampling a water tower with cheesy dolls meant to be humans hanging on it. Director Gareth Edwards captures that summer blockbuster vibe of yesteryear, when building suspense and perhaps just a touch of human drama took precedent over wall-to-wall CGI fireworks.

He also manages to capture some of that old school Toho Godzilla goofiness to go with the film’s mostly serious tone. Even though this film’s Godzilla is CGI, there are some monster gestures that have a nice man-in-suit quality to them. It’s pretty obvious that Edwards is saluting the all time blockbuster king, Mr. Steven Spielberg, with this movie. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson play a father and son team with a last name of Brody, just like Roy Scheider’s character in Jaws. Many of the initial Godzilla shots include glimpses of those jagged Godzilla back points cutting through the surface of the ocean like a shark’s dorsal fin. Cranston’s slightly crazed, obsessed, gloriously overacting scientist dad rings of Richard Dreyfuss’s mashed potato sculpting kook in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Everything builds up to a huge fight between Godzilla and some other monsters in San Francisco, and the city takes a major ass kicking. This is bound to be one of the summer movie season’s more exciting movies, and it beckons to be seen on an IMAX screen. When Godzilla roars, it peels the skin off of your face.

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 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.

Mac and Kelly (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne), are happily adjusting to their new roles as parents to a baby daughter in a quiet suburban neighborhood. While in the midst of adjusting to their new sleep and sex schedules, a fraternity moves in next door. They don’t panic, figuring they are still cool enough to get along with college kids.

An initial meeting with frat president Teddy (Zac Efron) goes well, and they even wind up joining the fray, baby monitor in hand, for a drugged-out, booze-drenched party, further establishing themselves as those possibly cool neighbors who just might be able to handle a party house next door. Mac and Teddy even develop a brotherly camaraderie, suggesting that if Mac were just a few years younger, he might’ve been a worthy frat brother. They even talk about getting walkie-talkies to communicate between their houses. They bond. The honeymoon doesn’t last for long. When a weeknight party keeps the baby up, Mac and Kelly transform from party happy neighbors into sleep-deprived malcontents, and they call the cops. Teddy takes this as a stab in the back from his new friends, and all out war is waged. There will be no walkie-talkies for Mac and Teddy.

Rogen, Efron and Byrne are hilarious here, in a movie that has some great new jokes, along with making some old jokes funny again. Dave Franco and Lisa Kudrow get good laughs in supporting roles.

We’re all folked Whitebulbs Bands start a million different ways. Sometimes somebody responds to the perfect Craigslist ad. Sometimes an intrepid by Brad Bynum songwriter gets on the phone and calls up some of her favorite musibradb@ cians to help her perform a few of her newsre view.c om songs. But often the best bands don’t start as bands, but rather started as something else: friends.

Such was the case for Reno folk rock band Whitebulbs. The band members are all college aged, between 19 and 22, and most of them are students at the University of Nevada, Reno, studying technical, scienceoriented subjects like electrical engineering and geology. They knew each from playing together in the North Valleys High School marching band.

And they used to just jam together, just playing music for fun.

Photo/Brad Bynum

Whitebulbs is definitely on the folk end of the folk-punk spectrum. The guitars are acoustic and the approach to songwriting is sincere.

“The most important thing in songwriting, to me, is emotional conveyance,” said Foelsch. “So, if there’s anything in my life that I want to share, or bridge a connection between people—I want fans and people listening to my music to be able to connect to it, or experience something new that they haven’t felt before.”

He says he writes whenever inspiration strikes.

“A good majority of my songs, I’ll be laying down in bed, about to go to sleep, and boom, it’ll come to me,” he said. “I used to let it go, but then I started getting up, grab the iPhone, start recording, try to get it out. It’ll usually be like I come up with the mood first, just based on how I’m feeling or what I’m thinking about whatever situation. Then I’ll put words to it after I’ve got the general feeling down.”

The band name was Shepherd’s idea.

“I was pondering an idea for a band name once, and I was looking around, and I looked at a lightbulb,” said Shepherd. “What is a light?

Light is white, and light is everything.”

“Ken is our punmanslash-philosopher, apparently,” said Foelsch.

Compton plays different sizes of drum kit depending on the venue.

For more intimate venues, he uses a stripped-down kit, just kick, snare and hi-hat, which he calls “The Pocket Jammer.” For “The rocker,” he adds a ride cymbal. For larger venues, like the Alley or the Knitting Factory, he plays a full kit, with toms, which he calls “The Party.”

Whitebulbs has a new 14-song, self-titled album, recorded at GCR Studios, a new local recording studio where Foelsch works. And they’re currently using Kickstarter to raise money for a West Coast tour later this summer.

“I just want to get out there,” said Foelsch. “I love Reno. It’s my home, but I want to spread. We just have so much fun, and we want to make everyone else at our shows have fun with us. Every show, we try to make it into a party. I want to bring that everywhere I can, anywhere people want to listen to us.” Ω

“Eventually we started trying out our own written songs and thought we had a really good flow together and decided we wanted to do a band,” said vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Aaron Foelsch.

The band consists of Foelsch, lead guitarist Kyle Dazey, drummer Zach Compton, upright bassist Ken Shepherd and multi-intstrumentalist Andy Pavlu, who plays harmonica and trombone, adding some unusual instrumental colors. Everybody contributes vocals from time to time.

Foelsch writes the bulk of the material, but Shepherd and Dazey also contribute songwriting.

The band members say that they’ve heard Whitebulbs compared to musical groups as diverse of Dropkick Murphys, Mumford & Sons and Mountain Goats. But Foelsch says big influences for him include Andrew Jackson Jihad and many of the bands in Reno’s own folk-punk scene, like Last to Leave and Deadly Gallows.

Zach Compton, Andy Pavlu, Aaron Foelsch and Ken Shepherd are all with the band, if the band is Whitebulbs. Guitarist Kyle Dazey is AWOL.

For more information, visit www. kickstarter.com/ projects/920453472/ whitebulbs-summertour.

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THURSDAY 5/29 3RD STREET

FRIDAY 5/30

SATURDAY 5/31

SUNDAY 6/1

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

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

5 STAR SALOON

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

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

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

Pigeon John, Grayskul, Who Cares, Superhero Life, 8pm, $10-$12

She Has A Fashion Vice, Alterbeast, Wrath of Vesuvius, Flub, 7pm, $6-$8

Strange on the Range, Mason Frey Band, Josiah Knight, 8pm, $5

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

THE ALLEY

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

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover Open Mic w/Steve Elegant, 7pm, Tu, Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover The Briefs, The Bodies, Against the Grain, Ten Cent Mistake, 7pm, $10-$12

BAR-M-BAR

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

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

Tech N9ne

CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL

May 30, 7:15 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648

CBQ

1330 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 359-1109

The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: James Stephens III, David Gee, Th, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30, Bret Ernst, Gilbert Lawand, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Adam Ray, Th, 8pm; F, 7pm, 9:30pm; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $16, $19

James Wilsey Jr., 9pm, no cover

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover Sierra Songwriters, 7pm, no cover

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

Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Luke Francis, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Dave Mencarelli, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95

Decoy, 9pm, no cover

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

COMMA COFFEE

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

Jake’s Garage 5.0, 9pm, no cover

CEOL IRISH PUB

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

Comedy

Mojo Green, Bazooka Zoo, 9pm, $5

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

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

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

Chi McClean, 6pm, no cover

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

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

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

FUEGO

4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 747-8848

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.

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

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VooDoo Dogz, 9:30pm, no cover

Rumble, Etta Stone, 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/Ladies Night, 8:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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

Wildflower Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover Danny Butler, Bandalarels, 8pm, no cover Run Boy Run, 7:30pm, M, $20

10580 N. McCarran Blvd., (775) 746-2228 1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

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

Avatara, 6pm, no cover

HACIENDA RESTAURANT AND BAR HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

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

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

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

THE GOLDEN ROSE CAFE AT WILDFLOWER VILLAGE

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 6/2-6/4

9below0, 9:30pm, no cover

Open mic, 7pm, no cover

JAZZ

Saturday, May 31st • 7:30pm Sands Regency Ballroom 345 N. Arlington Ave. Reno, NV

Tickets $25

$15 FTLOJ members $5 students Tickets available at ftloj.org

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FRIDAY 5/30

SATURDAY 5/31

SUNDAY 6/1

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 6/2-6/4

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

Big Eyes, The Buds, The Shames, 8pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Wild Ones, Rigorous Proof, American Goodfellas, 8pm, $5-$7

Capitalist Casualties, Hitmantis, Beyond Repair, Out For War, 7:30pm, $5

Dead Bars, Beercan!, Donkey Jaw, Fighting the Future, 7:30pm W, $TBA

JAVA JUNGLE

Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

Erika Paul, 6pm, no cover

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

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

The Briefs

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover 1) SNFU, Nihilist Cunt, Machine Gun Vendetta, Infecto Skeletons, Ninja Slaughterhouse, 7:30pm, $8-$12

2) Comedy Night w/Jenny PezDespencer, 9pm, $5

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

KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, 7:15pm, $28.50-$60

Luis Coronel, 7pm, $45-$60

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Jenni Charles & Jesse Dunn, 8:30pm, no cover

Dmitri Mathey, 8:30pm, no cover

Dmitri Mathey, 8:30pm, no cover

THE POINT NITE CLUB

Karaoke w/Gina Jones & Haas, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Gina Jones & Haas, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Gina Jones & Haas, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001

POLO LOUNGE

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

June 1, 7 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victorian Ave. Sparks 358-8891

1) Blazin Mics!, 10pm, M, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, 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

Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

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

Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover

RYAN’S SALOON

Karaoke Friday, 9pm, no cover

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

SE7EN TEAHOUSE/BAR

Joan Osborne June 3, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

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

Bluegrass/Americana Open Performance Jam, 7pm, no cover

148 West St., (775) 284-3363

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

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

Wabuska Yachting Club, Two Beer Buzz, 8pm, no cover

Monsters & Elves, 5pm, $20

VASSAR LOUNGE

Jokers Wild Blues Band, 8pm, no cover

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

Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

Erin and The Project, 6pm, no cover

1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197

WILD RIVER GRILLE

Tany Jane, 6pm, no cover

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

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Koolwater Karaoke, 7pm, W, no cover Erika Paul Carlson, 2pm, Erin and The Project, 6pm, no cover

Joel Ackerson, 6pm, M, Wanders On, 6pm, Tu, Verbal Kint, 6pm, W, no cover

OPENS FRIDAY at BRÜKA THEATER

Written by Alex Timbers Directed by Mary Bennett Musical Director: Tony Degeiso MAY 30, 31, @ 8PM JUNE 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 @ 8PM MATINEE: JUNE 22, AT 2PM TICKETS (IN ADVANCE) $20 - STUDENTS/SENIORS $22 - GENERAL ADMISSION $25 - ALL TICKETS (AT THE DOOR)

Exhibit Ends Sunday June 8th

Upcoming ShowS

5/23 Latin Rock Party doors at 10 21+ 5/24 Drag Queen competition and crown presentation doors at 10 21+ 5/29 Trap Social band with special guests doors at 9 18+ 5/30 Summer Splash Twerk Off hosted by Kakes & Kream hip hop doors at 10 21+

BRÜKA THEATER 99 N. VIRGINIA ST. RENO 775.323.3221 | www.Bruka.org OPINION

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

THURSDAY 5/29

FRIDAY 5/30

SATURDAY 5/31

SUNDAY 6/1

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 6/2-6/4

2) Doctor Rock-It, 8pm, no cover

2) Doctor Rock-It, 4pm, Midnight Riders, 10pm, no cover

2) Doctor Rock-It, 4pm, Midnight Riders, 10pm, no cover

2) Midnight Riders, 8pm, no cover

2) Steppen Stonz, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Escalade, 7pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Tracorum, 10pm, no cover

2) Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, 10pm, no cover

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, $25.95-$39.95 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, $25.95-$39.95 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 10pm, no cover

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, 9:30pm, $25.95-$39.95 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover 4) Jamie Rollins, 10pm, no cover

2) Biggest Little Local Celebrity Contest, 10pm, no cover 3) Honky Tonk Thursday, 10:30pm, no cover 4) Senoritas and Margaritas, 9pm, no cover

1) Brit Floyd, 9pm, $25-$60 2) DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, no cover 3) Red Cup Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G 3) Boots and Daisy Dukes w/DJ Jamie G, and Bob Richards, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

CARSON VALLEY INN

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy May 31, 7:30 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe 15 Highway 50 Stateline 588-6611

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Sports Book 4) Cantina

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

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

West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

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

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

2) Kyle Williams, 7pm, no cover

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

SILVER LEGACY

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge t4) 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) Rock River, 8pm, no cover

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

3) The Male Room, 8pm, $23

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MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu

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2) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 7:30pm, $54.90 2) DJ Rick Gee, DJ SN1, 10pm, $20

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

Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Virginia City, 847-7210: Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, F, 7:30pm, no cover

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

2) Maxxt Outt, 8pm, no cover 2) Maxxt Outt, 8pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing , 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm, 3) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20 DJ Chris English, DJ ((Fredie)), 10pm, $20 1) Jason King Duo, 7pm, no cover

1) Jason King Duo, 7pm, no cover

2) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover

2) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

1) VooDoo Dogz, 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

For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno

Valhalla Renaissance FaiRe Take a trip back in time to Elizabethan England during the 22nd annual Ren Faire. The festival will feature four stages of continuous entertainment, including music, dancing, Shakespearean vignettes, staged battles, storytelling for children and adults, archery tournaments and more. More than 100 merchants will sell a variety of arts and crafts, jewelry, clothing, historic weapons and leather goods. The first weekend of the Valhalla Renaissance Faire features a Scottish invasion theme and is geared toward younger audiences with activities for the whole family. During the second weekend, pirate and barbarian “hordes” invade the festival grounds. Visitors can participate in scavenger hunts, costume contests and “Talk Like a Pirate” competitions. The gates are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 31 and June 7, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 1 and June 8, at Camp Richardson, 1900 Jameson Beach Road, South Lake Tahoe. The Valhalla Renaissance Faire will also offer a School Day for students on Thursday, June 5, and a Family Day on Friday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Admission on Family Day is $5 for children ages 6-12 and $7 for adults. Visit www.valhallafaire.com.

lucas Oil OFF ROad Races The nationally televised off-road racing series takes place on a short course track where spectators can watch all of the action from their seats in the grandstands. Some of the world’s best short course off-road drivers, including Brian Deegan, Jeremy McGrath, Carl Renezeder and Rodrigo Ampudia, will reach speeds of 90 mph and jump 100-plus feet through the air in 900-horsepower trucks. The event features qualifying races, a variety of motor sports industry vendors, food and activities.

Gates open at noon on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31, at the Wild West Motorsports Park, 12005 East Interstate 80, Exit 23, Mustang. Opening ceremonies and main races begin at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $25-$50. Admission is free for children age 12 and younger. On-site parking is $10. Visit www.lucasoiloffroad.com.

BlOOdy BlOOdy andRew JacksOn Bruka Theatre presents this musical that dives into the life of President Andrew Jackson with a mix of humor, politics and rock 'n’ roll. This “Wild West musical” with music and lyrics

by Michael Friedman and book by Alex Timbers portrays the seventh president of the United States as an emo rockstar and focuses on topics such as populism, the Indian Removal Act and his relationship with his wife Rachel. The play opens on Friday, May 30, at Bruka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St. Showtimes are 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday through June 21, with a 2 p.m. matinee on June 22 and Wednesday night performances on June 11, 18. Tickets are $22 for general admission and $20 for students, seniors and military. All tickets are $25 at the door.

Call 323-3221 or visit www.bruka.org.

Spring Fever revival ClaSSiC Car Show Silver Legacy and Hot August Nights presents the classic car show featuring live music, show ’n’ shines, vendors and more. Hot rods, classic cars and muscle cars from the 1960s and 1970s will be on display while groups like Nathan Owens, ’60s Summer of Love and Billy Richards’ Coasters and others play the music from the era. The festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31, along Virginia Street outside the Silver Legacy, Eldorado and Circus Circus casino-resorts in downtown Reno. Admission is free. Call 356-1956 or visit www.hotaugustnights.net.

dORis duke’s shangRi la: aRchitectuRe, landscape and islamic aRt Nevada Museum of Art presents this exhibition that showcases objects from the Honolulu, Hawaii, home of philanthropist and art collector Doris Duke (1912-1993) and new works by eight contemporary artists of Islamic background who recently were in residence, including Zakariya Amataya, Afruz Amighi, Emre Huner, Walid Raad, Shahzia Sikander, Mohamed Zakariya, Ayad Alkadhi and Shezad Dawood. The show opens on Saturday, May 31, at the NMA, 160 W. Liberty St. The exhibit runs through Aug. 31. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Admission is $1-$10 and free for children age 5 and younger. Call 329-3333 or visit www.nevadaart.org.

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I’ve been dating a fun, attractive woman for about a month, and things have been going great. However, on our last date, we were out at dinner, and the female server accidentally spilled an entire glass of red wine on her dress. Though the server seemed mortified and apologized profusely, my date absolutely lost it—going into a rage and yelling at the poor server, telling her she needs to learn how to do her job, etc. Except for this incident, this woman has been sweet to me and generally acts like a nice person. Should I give her some leeway on this?

Red wine and clothing have been problematic companions for centuries. Impressive as it is that Jesus turned water into wine, if only he’d developed a way to turn wine back into water, he could have opened a highly successful chain of dry cleaners.

And while it’s pretty awful when somebody spills red wine all over your outfit, it’s especially awful when you are on a date and want to be at your sexy, pulledtogether best.

But when you’ve just started dating someone, the butter-paws waiter who gives them a red wine bath is probably doing you a favor. Significant character flaws, like rage issues, are unlikely to be revealed in the early stages of dating, when the biggest source of stress you see your date experiencing is the kitchen’s forgetting to leave off the parsley garnish on their medallions of duck.

If, when you’re dating someone new, you never get seated in the clumsy waiter’s section, go camping together, collaborate on a project, or engage in other stress-producing activities that strain a person’s patience and party manners, bad personality traits, if any, are likely to scurry around like cockroaches after somebody turns the lights on.

As for this woman, it doesn’t look good. Her behavior suggests not only a lack of compassion but poor “selfregulation,” psychologists’ term for the ability to control one’s emotional reactions. You also don’t mention her expressing embarrassment or apologizing afterward as people acting out in uncharacteristic ways tend to do. If you decide to stick around, be wary of succumbing to “optimism bias,” our tendency to project a rosy future for ourselves—silver linings all around, hold the clouds. This leads to selective eyesight, like focusing on how hot a woman is rather than how hot-headed. This may work for you for a while—perhaps until she’s melting your ear in the drugstore aisle: “WHERE ARE THE TAMPONS I TOLD YOU TO GET, YOU BIG MORON?” Of course, at that point, there’s only one thing to say to her: “Sorry, ma’am. I think you’ve mistaken me for somebody else.” Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “When I

was young,” wrote French author Albert Camus, “I expected people to give me more than they could—continuous friendship, permanent emotion.” That didn’t work out so well for him. Over and over, he was awash in disappointment. “Now I have learned to expect less of them than they can give,” he concluded. “[T]heir emotions, their friendship, and noble gestures keep their full miraculous value in my eyes; wholly the fruit of grace.” I’d love to see you make an adjustment like this in the coming months, Aries. If you do, the astrological omens suggest you will experience a blessing like Camus’.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some

earthquakes happen in slow motion. These rare events occur 22-34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier. Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, this gradual variety can take many days to uncoil and never send dishes flying off shelves up here on the Earth’s surface. I suspect your destiny will have a resemblance to this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suspect that

some night soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand onstage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There’s a strong possibility you will be wearing pink-and-green striped socks and a gold crown. And it gets worse. In your dream, I bet you will forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd. Your mouth will be moving, but no words will come out. So that’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life.

So when you are called on to show what you’ve got and make a splashy impression, you will be well-prepared.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I slip

into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that’s rotting on the forest floor. I see exuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cow pie in a pasture. I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So, what do my visions mean? I’m guessing you’re going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay. You are shedding and purging and flushing. In the process, you are preparing some top-notch fertilizer. It won’t be ready for a while, but when it is, a growth spurt will begin.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Diary: Almost

everything that was possible to change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding, and I am not exaggerating. Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chip, chip, chipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud? Why is it I’m not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders? Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defenses were totally stripped away? I think I’ll go with that theory.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): About 32,000

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years ago, squirrels in northeast Siberia buried the fruits of a flowering plant deep in their burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then, a flood swept through the area.

The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got a hold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you will be capable of pulling off during the next 12 months, Virgo. I’m not sure what exact form it will take. A resuscitation? A resurrection? A recovery? The revival of a dormant dream?

The thawing of a frozen asset, or the return of a lost resource?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For German

physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won. Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate. He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never took home an Oscar. If there is anything that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favorable time ever to break the spell.

In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I should

have kissed you longer.” I hope you won’t be replaying that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now.

I hope you won’t be obsessing on similar mantras, either, like: “I should have treated you better,” or “I wish I would have listened to you deeper,” or “I should have tried harder to be my best self with you.” Please don’t let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now to make any necessary changes in yourself so that you will be fully ready to give the important people in your life the care they deserve. If you do so, you will be free of regrets later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?” Those are questions Louise Glück asks in her poem “Prism.” Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That’s what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into a beginner’s mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand-new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You

could really benefit from engaging with a compassionate critic—someone who would gently and lovingly invite you to curb your excesses, heal your ignorance and correct your mistakes. Would you consider going out in search of a kick-ass guide like that?

Ideally, this person would also motivate you to build up your strengths and inspire you to take better care of your body. One way or another, Capricorn, curative feedback will be coming your way. The question is: Will you have a hand in choosing it, or will you wait around passively for fate to deliver it? I highly recommend the former.

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

would be an excellent time for you to dream up five new ways to have fun. I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with your existing methods. It’s just that in the next few weeks, life will conspire to help you drop some of your inhibitions and play around more than usual and experience greater pleasure. The best way to cooperate with that conspiracy is to be an explorer on the frontiers of amusement and enchantment.

What’s the most exciting thing you have always wondered about but never done?

What interesting experiment have you denied yourself for no good reason? What excursion or adventure would light up your spontaneity?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now is an ex-

cellent time to transform your relationship with your past. Are you up for a concentrated burst of psychospiritual work? To get the party started, meditate your ass off as you ponder this question: “What fossilized fixations, ancient insults, impossible dreams and parasitic ghosts am I ready to let go of?” Next, move on to this inquiry: “What can I do to ensure that relaxed, amused acceptance will rule my encounters with the old ways forever after?” Here’s a third query: “What will I do with all the energy I free up by releasing the deadweight I had been clinging to?”

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

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From the gallery Alisha Funkhouser Artist and photographer Alisha Funkhouser is the new art and gallery director for the Holland Project, a youth-oriented, all-ages nonprofit arts organization. For more information, visit www.hollandreno.org.

Those shows were probably scheduled before you came on board. What are some shows that you want to do?

Did you grow up here?

I did! Born and raised. I was born in Reno, and I grew up mostly in Sparks—Spanish Springs area. I went to Spanish Springs High School, the first class to go through there when they opened up. From there, I went to the [University of Nevada, Reno], and got my bachelor’s in fine arts, with an emphasis in photography and a minor in museum studies.

The art work of yours I’ve seen has been photography. Is that your primary media?

Yes, although I work in other medias. I’ve been doing a lot of embroidery. … I like to explore all mediums. It keeps me working, so I don’t get burnt out on just doing photography.

And your minor was in museum studies. What’s that?

It was mostly learning all aspects of different types of museums, from art museums to historical museums, learning the ins and outs of how they’re operated, how they’re funded, all the admin nitty gritty. It was

really interesting. I always wanted, when I was younger, to work in a museum setting. I always loved going to museums as a kid. So, that’s what drew my interest.

Just a few days ago, on May 24th, to be exact, Bob Dylan celebrated his 73rd birthday. How Bob celebrated this year is not important. I hope he got to lay in a hammock, at least part of the day. But, jeez—73!

Yes, a lot of my generation’s greatest artistic lights kicked the can of mortality a bit earlier than would have been desirable. These names are well known and established. But my point here today is to do the opposite, to simply take note of some of the epic cool cats who are still here, racking up the years, beers and tears. Yes, you could say I’m being pro-active, trying to beat other journalists, columnists and chroniclers to the punch, and shout out a big hey to some of our all-time great artists and troubadours before they die. Because, honestly … the dying could begin at any moment.

Among the first wave of ’50 era rock ’n’ roll giants, many still hang around. St. Chuck is 87. Deacon Domino 86. Little Richard 81. Still lookin’ fabulous—or am I making dangerous assumptions?—The Killer 78.

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∫y Bruce Van Dye very good genes, is a spry 73. And Paulie is a couple weeks away, June 18th to be exact, from turning 72.

Two days later, on June 20, one of the few legends who can go toe to toe with Paul in a songwriting derby, Brian Wilson, also turns 72. Pretty amazing. These two guys, so important in the scheme of modern electric music, born two days apart. Can you imagine sitting around the piano at that little birth bash, with Paul and Brian picking out some faves from their careers as they down shots of thousand dollar wine and wax all blubbery and nostalgic?

In reviewing this list, it’s obvious that American media is skating on very thin ice. At any moment, we are but two to three heart stoppages away from major, self-paralyzing, over-the-top death tributes that are fully capable of bringing this country’s information network to a grinding, screeching, calamitous overload.

Certainly, I want to take note of Willie. Mr. Nelson, that is. Dude is 81, and clearly a slap-happy ambassador for the upside effects of weed upon the fragile psyches of the elderly.

Other old blues giants out there who could go at any second, preferably in a bar, include John Mayall, now 80, and Kris Kristofferson and Buddy Guy, who are both 77. Mighty Mose Allison, a criminally overlooked figure in the annals of American music, is now a smooth 86. B.B. King is one badass super cool octagenarian of 88, bless ’im.

88 goin’ on 89. Bodacious. Which gets us down to the second wave of rock stars. My peeps. Those who got all revved up and famous and influential in the early-to-mid-’60s, and who are now just sorta slidin’ north of 70. Actually, Stones bassist Bill Wyman slid past 70 quite a few midnight rambles ago, now being 77, while Charlie Watts is 72. Both Mick and Keith are still relative punks, with both turning 71 later this year. In the Beatle family, Yoko rules, at least in longevity, having turned 81 in February. Ringo, who appears to have been blessed with some ARTS&CULTURE

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I think it’s such an important place. ...

[A]s a teenager there wasn’t a whole lot of things for me to do in this town, especially growing up in Spanish Springs when it was fairly desolate. There wasn’t a whole lot of development. So, it was really hard to find things to do, and I think that’s when kids start getting into trouble, finding other things to occupy their boredom. So I think that having a place like Holland is essential for this community, and it’s so great to see how far Holland has come in the seven years that it’s been open. Ω

OK, great. We’re just heading into our summer season right now. In this space [the Holland Gallery, 140 Vesta St.], we’re going to start off next week with a short run exhibition of Damonte Ranch High School’s advanced ceramics. They do an exhibition once a year, so this is their annual show. It’s a short, one-week show. After that, we have an

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We talked a little while ago of having a show of local photographers, but having it pertain to music show photography. I think that would be a really interesting and fun way to tie in the music aspect of Holland into the gallery. We always have a lot of photographers coming in who are really interested in photographing shows.

Tell me about this job and how you get involved with it.

Looking ahead to looking back

out-of-state artist from Los Angeles, Tanner McCardle. He does a lot of assemblage pieces, using relics and religious iconography.

He’ll be in the smaller space, and then we’ll be having a local painter, Zdenek Balcarek.

He’s originally from the Czech Republic and does large scale paintings. … And at [the Holland Project Micro Gallery in Bibo Coffee, 945 Record St.] next month, we’ll have In Adhesion, by two local artists, Alexx Jaramillo and Ruben Vela. They’re doing a collaborative show of mixed media collage work.

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