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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

It’s my first column of the new year!

The tradition among columnists is to write about hopes for the new year, but I don’t have a goal in my head. I didn’t make a new year’s resolution.

I don’t have any burning desire for self-improvement. I guess I have some expectations of changes for 2015, but as the Magic 8 Ball used to say, “Reply hazy, try again.”

My son will turn 18 on July 4 and will heading off to college in August or so, and that’s going to be a giant change. For the last 10 years or so, Hunter’s going to college has been unofficially attached to a countdown. I don’t know exactly how my life is going to change when I’m on my own again, but it’s going to change, and I hope it’s dramatic.

The mind just reels, doesn’t it? There are only a few times in a person’s life where there’s an opportunity for a complete change. When? After high school, after college, divorce, change of jobs, released from prison, empty nest, retirement—that’s about all I can come up off the top of my head.

You know one constructive change I could make? I could jettison Facebook and its ilk as the failed experiment in communication it turned out to be.

Is that the radical change I’m talking about? Maybe, in that I would move away from the appearance of communication to actual human relationships that don’t include wires and silicon.

I can’t change jobs and stay in Northern Nevada. I don’t have the best-paying media job in Reno, but there’s no other media outfit I would work for.

I suppose I could start writing books—which has always been my ultimate plan—and stay in Reno, but really, why would I change one and not the other?

I’m pretty sure we can expect a real estate bubble when Tesla comes to town, and that might make an opportunity.

Who knows? All I know is I hear a whistle in the distance. It might be Amtrak; it might be the train at the end of the tunnel.

Re “Public enemies in Nevada” (Feature story, July 9, 2009): Has anybody ever heard of a Reno-based gangster who went by the name of “Baldwin” or “Stanley?”

This person may have been implicated in the unsolved bombing of United Airlines Flight 23, which crashed outside Chesterton, Indiana, in 1933. That crime was never solved.

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With the new rules by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and the Municipal Securities Reporting Board (MSRB), it will be interesting to see how the new Reno City Council and city manager will deal with the reporting of un/underfunded pension liabilities.

These rules can and will significantly affect all Nevada local governments here and across the nation as these bodies attempt to harness in employee salary and long term benefits. At risk are reduced bond ratings, bonding capacity and the extreme issue of possible bankruptcy. Could this mean an end to the nearly open ended salary and benefits public safety workers have with their employers?

Will the Nevada Legislature be forced to look at current public safety contract and bar-gaining statutes to implement some reasonableness for local governments’ vain attempts to control their own budgetary and financial destiny?

So, when do we impress on our local government elected officials that public safety service level issues are reasonable questions to ask while wrestling with salary and benefit negotiations and new financial rules regarding the reporting of un/underfunded liabilities? It’s our dollar and our community. Do we need another call for action?

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Know your teachers Re “Witches of the West” (Arts & Culture, Nov. 20): I love that these articles on our pagan community that have given so many people so much to talk about. It also gives insight into the fact that no two groups in the region actually practice their spirituality in the same ways. There is something in Paganism or Heathenism for everyone at one time or another.

Some of us have been learning and working within or on our paths for over 25 years. I have been a practicing Pagan for 30 years and have never been happier. By bringing these groups out of the shadows you allow us all to show our best sides, to discuss some of our good deeds or our ideas for the future within the larger community. There are indeed some wonderful shops here in Reno that have fantastic items for sale and they are run by local people, some with ties to the pagan community.

We are lucky to have these folks. By giving us a forum to talk, people who may be looking for information or a teacher, can contact us and ask us questions, to get a book list perhaps or to sign up for a class. I would say to you, make sure you know who your teachers are and how long they have studied and what their backgrounds are. It is not an overnight or a weekend process and should not be undertaken lightly.

Ellyn Darrah Children of Temple Earth Reno

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Re “The future of shopping hell” (Feature story, Dec. 18): Jim Hightower has hit the nail on the head, especially on the coffins of the book retailers and indentured “slaves,” oops, excuse me, the temps, used by this conglomerate. And I do mean slaves. I had the displeasure of working during the holiday rush at the Fernley warehouse a few years back, trying to fulfill my obligation to get off of the “unenjoyment” cycle. Went through the pre-employment interview at Integrity Staffing, was hired, and went to work shortly

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Language watch Re “Welcome back, Fred” (Letters, Dec. 11) I think that the RN&R’s haphazard use of the “f” word hurts its credibility with an important readership segment, the “conservative” liberals. Because this word is not part of their vernacular, they “stop” on the word (and wince).

That distracts from flow and content.

In the ’60s, I used the word with college friends, but after graduation, my business-major husband convinced me that swearing is an indication of a weak, lazy mind. I do accept the “f” word as legitimate when it “depicts” the everyday speech of many people.

I think the “f” words used in “Poetic adjustments” by Bruce Van Dyke fit the poem’s tone (RN&R, Dec. 11).

(No offense, but I’d have appreciated it more without the “f” words.) Another valid “reflection” is in situational speech (such as, at sports events, in bars, and during stand-up comedy).

The one carte blanche that I give is to Jon Stewart. He has earned the right to swear anywhere any time, but he’d enlarge his audience if he didn’t.

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2016. That’s what I’m asking for—2016.

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To get good grades at UNR because it’s my last year. And I’d also like for my mom and my brother and my girlfriend, Stephanie, to have success and happiness.

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To tell the truth Being the people who make a newspaper must be kind of like being the people who make hot dogs: There are things that you just can’t unsee. In the interest of not trying to predict the future of the most anti-tax legislature Nevada has ever had—and again, we’re not predicting, just saying it walks like a duck—we were going to attempt to withhold prejudgment.

But like the rest of the world, we read and heard what Gov. Brian Sandoval had to say at his swearingin, and we can’t just hold our tongues. Fingers, that is.

Have you done a head count, Gov. Sandoval? The anti-taxers are in the majority. We have a tough time believing that the taxes that are scheduled to sunset this year won’t sunset. These guys are committed. Our colleagues in journalism around the state, too, have ignored the meaning of the election, continuing to predict “tax reform,” whatever that means.

It’s nice to put on a game face right before your career comes to a screeching halt—to be proudly optimistic—but while Sandoval’s popularity as a governor is unquestioned, his bona fides as a rabid righter among these wolverines isn’t even up for negotiation.

To their minds, he’s liberal-to-moderate. So some of the statements like the ones he made in his swearingin speech are difficult to parse. (You can read the prepared speech on Sacramento’s Capitol Public Radio site, http://bit.ly/1vZOssY because the governor’s staff didn’t bother to post it on the governor’s website.) We know the right didn’t buy his arguments, and if we know it, we know Gov. Sandoval knows it.

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Well, I’m a business owner, so I want to expand my business. I have five ATM machines, and I would like to have everything settled, so then I can expand my business.

Some of his statements aren’t hard to dissect: “People say Nevada is at the top of all the bad lists, and the bottom of all the good lists. This perception cannot—and will not—be our reality.” It’s true, and calling it perception doesn’t change the facts that those rankings are based on real numbers in comparisons with other states’ real numbers. Sometimes perception and reality are the same thing. We have to first recognize the problems are real before the governor and the Legislature begin to fix them.

We’re just kidding about that last part.

“My friends, we have been given the gift of an opportunity to make history. To my fellow constitutional officers, legislative leadership here represented, and the justices of our supreme court. … This is our time. History unfolds around us. We must choose between indecision and action, between complacency and courage, between the status quo and what might be.

“The Nevada I know will choose action, courage and opportunity. We will choose optimism. I know this in my heart. And I ask that you pledge with me the promise of opportunity as we build a new foundation for what lies ahead.”

Low whistle and slow clap.

We wish Gov. Sandoval and the 2015 Nevada Legislature the best of luck. We have high hopes that they will act contrary to their track records and instead make financial decisions that improve our education system, moderate the state’s regressive tax system, and not attempt to undermine the civil liberties of women and minorities.

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Maybe it’ll be different this year It’s often said a budget reflects the true priorities of an organization, separating rhetoric from reality.

Assuming the “sunset taxes” don’t sunset, the budget gimmicks are enough to keep the state solvent, and by some miracle the by Legislature and Gov. Sandoval Sheila Leslie produce revenue to feed a sadly starved state budget, what should we prioritize for additional spending in the next biennium?

It’s a given that Nevada needs to improve our education system, as our low rankings in just about every indicator can’t all be explained by the right wing’s mantra of bad teachers, overpaid administrators and mismanaged school boards.

The funding needs for K-12 are overwhelming. Infrastructure must be improved to accommodate an expanding enrollment and old schools must be brought up to modern safety and technology standards. Teachers need to be trained on the new academic standards, and we need more school counselors and nurses to address the myriad of serious issues children bring to school, not to mention higher salaries to attract better teachers.

Other education priorities suggested by a panel of leaders featured on public television in Las Vegas recently include expanding full-day kindergarten to every elementary school, incentives for high-quality teachers to choose to work in high-poverty schools, better computer science and technology classes, and an overhaul of the Nevada Plan, the funding Oh, look, the prefiled bills for the next formula that’s been in place for Nevada Legislature 50 years. Many legislators also are posted: https:// campaigned on increased funding www.leg.state.nv.us/ for English language learners, Session/78th2015/ Reports/Prefiled.cfm special education and low-income students.

But will the Legislature put its money where its mouth is, or will we limp along as usual, in last place, while the gap between Nevada and even an average state continues to widen?

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The Sagebrush Rebellion rides on The 2015 Nevada Legislature will decide if Nevada will join Utah in demanding the federal government transfer the public lands back to the Nevada. Utah’s first ultimatum to the Congress expired this December 31. by The modern Sagebrush Brendan Trainor Rebellion began in the 1970s. The U.S. Constitution states that every territory admitted into the Union as a state shall enter with an “equal footing” to every other state. The states east of the Mississippi River were admitted with the federal government relinquishing all claims to the lands within their borders. Not so with the Western states, where the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service control much of the states’ land mass. In Nevada, the figure is at least 81 percent of the land.

President Ronald Reagan endorsed the rebellion, but no major victories occurred. In 1994, Nye County Commissioner Dick Carver drove a bulldozer Here are some songs to to open up a closed Forest be a Sagebrush Rebel Service Road. Local governments to: http://mashable. passed ordinances that disputed com/2014/06/16/ federal control. In 2000, the music-mondayrebellious-songsJarbidge “Shovel Brigade” also playlist/ sought to open access to areas in northeastern Nevada closed by the Forest Service over concerns for the endangered bull trout.

Both incidents received national attention, with Carver appearing on the cover of Time magazine.

In 2001, demonstrators gathered in Palomino Valley to protest the BLM auction of 60 cattle owned by rancher Ben Colvin. A BLM agent panicked and drew his gun because a demonstrator had an unloaded pistol in his car. By 2014 tensions had escalated into an armed standoff between Clark County rancher Cliven Bundy and hundreds of supporters over the BLM’s attempt to seize Bundy’s cattle.

Native Americans have also resisted the BLM, with incidents involving cattle seized from the Dann Sisters near Elko over ownership of Shoshone lands in 2002.

fulfilling life. Applied behavior analysis therapy (ABA) has led to impressive gains for many children lucky enough to get it, but funding for Nevada’s Autistic Treatment Assistance Program (ATAP) always runs out before the names on the waiting list do.

Around $31 million has been requested for the next biennium to reach these children waiting for services that need to be provided in their early years to be most effective. Will we ignore them?

After last year’s scandal of busing mentally ill patients out of state, Gov. Sandoval vowed to overhaul Nevada’s chronically underfunded mental health system, pushing for reforms advocates have pestered the Legislature for time and time again. Some of the money cut during the recession has been replaced, and seems to be helping, such as dramatically increasing the daily reimbursement rate for private psychiatric beds.

But much more is needed to get Nevada out of the bottom five states for mental health treatment.

Nevada’s roads also need attention to the tune of at least $661 million in repairs. The state Transportation Department classifies these roads as “mediocre” to “very poor,” harsh adjectives that could be used to describe other parts of Nevada’s service infrastructure as well. Compounding the problem is decreasing gas tax revenue due to the development of more fuel-efficient cars, creating an ever-increasing gap between needs and resources, a trend that’s bound to escalate.

Then there are state workers still on furloughs imposed during the recession, whose wages fall further behind every year.

Legislators serving on money committees will hear a litany of deferred needs as they begin poring over the budget.

If history guides us, we’ll most likely pretend these budget challenges don’t exist and just patch a budget together to pretend we’re doing fine while big mining and big business continue to profit from our colony-like mentality.

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Some Nevadans have fought the issue in the federal courts.

Ruby Valley rancher Cliff Gardner took his case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the late 1990s but failed. For 20 years, the Hage family of Pine Creek Ranch in Nye County has been involved in litigation against the Forest Service over the issue of water rights. Water rights are state-issued since the 19th century, and so the conflict is over how federallyissued grazing rights conflict with state-issued water rights. Hage won major victories in 2002 and 2008 including a judgment of $14 million in the federal Court of Claims that ruled the Forest Service actions were a “taking.” In 1999, Hage married former Idaho Congresswomen Helen Chenowith, and for a while the Sagebrush Rebellion had something close to political royalty. However, Wayne Hage died of cancer in 2006 and Helen Chenowith-Hage shortly after in a tragic auto accident.

Then appeals were lost on technicalities and the entire $14 million judgment may be un-collectible.

However, in a separate case decided in 2013 a Nevada federal district court ruled in favor of Wayne N. Hage, Wayne’s son, holding the conduct of the Forest Service “shocked the court’s conscience.” The court concluded that the Forest Service secretly tried to sell the Hage family’s water rights while still in litigation.

So there is a property right vesting in state water rights that the federal government cannot take under the fifth amendment, but enforcing that right in federal courts is very difficult.

Now it is the Nevada Legislature’s turn. In 1997, a bill that would have criminalized federal actions on the public lands died in the Senate. This new legislature is operating with a Republican majority. The Sagebrush Rebellion 2.0 goes on. Ω

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Shortly before being sworn in, Washoe sheriffelect Chuck Allen greeted an infant constituent.

Good and bad news Nevada has been called the third most dangerous state in the union.

That reading came from 24/7 Wall Street, an investment site that issues occasional quality-of-life rankings of the states. It has previously ranked Nevada’s education system second worst in the country and in a health ranking, it found that “In general, the likelihood of not having health insurance is much higher for those without a high school diploma. In Nevada, due to a poor graduation rate, the chances of this happening are significantly worse.”

In the current ranking, 24/7 Wall Street used the 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Reports, the most current.

Though Nevada’s violent crime rate dropped 2.9 percent between 2012 and 2013 to 591.2 incidents per 100,000 Nevada residents, other states saw more rapid declines, which left the state in third place.

The FBI report has been under criticism during the current spate of interest in police killings for the inadequacy of its numbers.

GOP two-step “An interesting joust between Republican leaders is being played out in advance of the Feb. 2 start date of the 2015 Nevada Legislature.

On Dec. 2, the Republican members of the Nevada Assembly met to sort out the changes after Washoe Assemblymember Ira Hansen announced he would decline the job of speaker, to which he had been nominated by an earlier GOP caucus.

With Hansen reportedly holding enough proxies to determine all the posts up for election or nomination, John Hambrick was designated as speaker, and Michelle Fiore was elected Republican floor leader.

Note that we used different terms for Hambrick and Fiore— designated and elected. That’s because speaker is a public office, and floor leader is a party office. Thus, the Republican caucus has the power to elect its floor leader, but the Nevada Assembly elects the speaker. Hambrick is a nominee for speaker who has not yet been elected, but Fiore assumed her post immediately.

Jump ahead a few steps. After wrangles over whether Fiore, whose private business has had chronic problems with the tax people, should be chair of the Assembly Taxation Committee, Hambrick claimed to remove Fiore as floor leader. The problem is that Hambrick wasn’t anything except a member of the Assembly yet. Fiore was both a member of the Assembly and floor leader. It’s not clear where he would get the authority to do anything, much less remove her from her party post. Fiore was elected by the Republican caucus, so presumably it would take action by the caucus to remove her.

She sent him a letter: “You need to know that a sizable portion of the members of the caucus still consider me the majority leader, as do I. … Your reasoning that you can remove me as Majority Leader is faulty to say the least. Following that reasoning to its logical conclusion means you could remove Assemblywoman Kirkpatrick as minority [Democratic] leader.”

He responded in his own letter, “That is absolutely not a logical conclusion! The minority leader is the leader of the opposition party. The Speaker is the leader of the majority party. The majority FLOOR leader garners all of its responsibility at the will of the Speaker.”

Hambrick’s problem is that he is not yet speaker. That election won’t be held for another month. Fiore, on the other hand, is already Republican floor leader. Even if Hambrick were already speaker, that would give him authority over Assembly posts like committee chairs but not over party positions. Those would still be elected by the GOP caucus.

So Hambrick, who is not yet speaker, has tried to remove Fiore as floor leader, a job she already has. She refuses to go.

Stay tuned.

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A morning of democracy There’s little news coverage where it still works In the state capital, a governor’s inaugural emphasized cooperation and good will while Republicans and Democrats circled by each other with suspicion, plotting Dennis Myers partisan advantage. In Reno on the same day, however, the swearing-in of new local officials was less formal and more genuinely friendly.

Chuck Allen, a Republican, was on hand to take the oath to replace Mike Haley, a Democrat, as Washoe county sheriff, but the party thing hardly mattered, Allen said.

“In general, we have worked really well.”

Kitty Jung Washoe County commissioner “We’ve been working with Sheriff Haley and his staff members since Nov. 17,” Allen said. “We’ve been provided our own office, and the transition’s worked very, very smoothly.”

That was all the more heartening because not only was Haley of the opposite party of Allen, but Haley had also endorsed Allen’s opponent, who was Haley’s undersheriff. But then, Allen was bucking the local establishment, both Republicans and Democrats. Allen and his opponent, Tim Kuzanek, were both Republicans

and when Kuzanek got into the race he already had the support of Haley, the mayors of Reno and Sparks, the county district attorney, and two former sheriffs. Allen overcame all that firepower.

Among those being sworn in at a county commission meeting in addition to the sheriff were judges, public administrators like the county clerk and assessors, local improvement board members, and members of the county commission itself. The meeting began as it always does—with statements from community activists who attend every county commission meeting. It’s a form of informality that wasn’t seen in Carson City.

The first activist to speak, as he often is, was Sam Dehne, who then informed the incoming officials of his record of accomplishment. “See that clock up there?” he asked. “When I arrived there was no clock.” He was referring to a three-minute countdown clock that keeps the activists to their allotted time. In case the officials were not impressed by his getting the clock installed, Dehne further informed them, “I have brought Tesla to Reno.”

One of the activists complained that the local oath of office was longer than the presidential oath (43 words longer, more than twice the

length of the presidential oath) yet it never pledges loyalty to the public, only to institutions.

Once that part of the meeting was completed, an assembly line of officials were put through their oaths.

Nevada District Judge David Hardy first swore in three county commissioners—the newly reelected Kitty Jung and newcomers Jeanne Herman and Bob Lucey.

Then the agency heads like Allen were sworn in. Following that came members of local governing boards like the Sun Valley General Improvement District. Their campaigns rarely get covered but they have to run for election like all the others.

When the ritual was completed, Jung took Herman’s hand and led her to her seat at the commission table, a gesture that helped establish a feeling of friendliness.

Climate Jung, like Haley, is unusual in being a Democrat. Most Washoe sheriffs and most county commissioners are Republicans, and Jung has been the only Democrat on the commission. She said this has sometimes led to friction but not the level of dysfunction seen in Congress and Carson City. In addition, she said, things got better two years ago when Republican commissioners Vaughn Hartung and Marsha Berkbigler were elected. They shared some of her community values and concerns.

“They came in with open minds and very supportive of what you would call traditionally Democratic values such as extending library operating hours, which we had cut severely, expanding parks and recreation, which we had also cut severely. So while sometimes it is difficult … in general, we have worked really well.”

She said a good example was medical marijuana, which the commission implemented without calling a moratorium on the program first, which many other local governments did, much less outlawing the voter-mandated program, which Lyon County did.

However, the cooperative attitude of those Republicans has spurred rumors that doctrinaire Republicans might target the two commissioners. While the dysfunctional brand of partisanship may not have reached the local level yet, that doesn’t mean it can’t. It

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Newly re-elected County Commissioner Kitty Jung signed her oath of office.

County. … And I’ll do that with a lead-by-example philosophy.”

But that kind of verbiage led to disappointment when some local leader Allen had sought a meeting with Marcopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the transition. At a meeting the next day of the Nevada Women’s Lobby, for instance, some attendees expressed their dismay. took awhile to reach the Nevada Legislature, too.

For Allen, there is also the difficulty of taking office as sheriff at a time in the history of law enforcement that few would describe as tranquil. Allen said he is aware of the climate of mistrust and ready to deal with it.

“And I think a lot of it has to do with you as a leader, no matter what organization you’re from—how you engage your community, how you engage the public and get out in front and explain your actions. I think it’s easy for anyone in life to look at negative situations and how those grow, and I think that’s important for any leader to be more involved, to be more connected, to have the rapport and respect of Washoe

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The newcomers to local bodies like the county commission will discover that all the television cameras and press coverage will disappear fast. Few daily news outlets staff the county commission as a full time beat, instead showing up when something really juicy happens, usually involving conflict, particularly conflict with the city of Reno, such as fire services or tax allocations. Ω

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In downtown Sparks at an early hour, city workers in very cold weather removed the holiday decorations. They go up shortly after Thanksgiving and come down shortly after Christmas. A city spokesperson said about $2,000 is spent annually replacing older decorations as their electrical wiring or parts fail.

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or me, 2014 was a year of great relief. I had staked my emotional well being on whether or not Godzilla would suck. Had it sucked, I would’ve probably spiraled into a cinematically induced depression involving cheap beer, tacos and s’mores.

Not only did it not suck, it was actually really good! Not good enough to crack my Top 10, or even my Top 20, but good enough to make me yell “Braaaflewaaaahhhh!” when I saw Godzilla bellow for the first time on our brand spanking new IMAX screen in Sparks. (Yes, I yell “Braaaflewaaaahhhh!” when a movie gets me going.)

2014 was the year we got an IMAX screen here in Northern Nevada. I’ve been having debates with folks all year about which screens are better over at the Galaxy IMAX. A lot of my cohorts prefer the “regular” screens with the cushy recliner chairs. I am a big fan of these, but I am also a big fan of sleeping, and sleep is the enemy of the movie critic guy.

I haven’t nodded off yet at the Galaxy, but it seems inevitable, especially if I drink beer and eat the tacos and s’mores I sneak in. For the purpose of movie reviewing, I like how the IMAX seats make you sit straight up, a key to keeping one alert and, of course, good posture.

The year’s most surreal movie experience would have to be watching The Interview on Christmas Eve while sipping eggnog … in my home. Christmas Eve viewing in the home is usually reserved for Rudolph, Frosty or Stephen Colbert (His Christmas special is a classic!), but this year, I spent the holiday with Seth Rogen and James Franco on my big computer screen because Sony was forced into a rather unorthodox release plan for their hot potato movie. I was happy to see it, but it felt a little weird watching Rogen and Franco in what turned out to be a direct-to-video release, didn’t it?

The year was super loaded with movies that ranged from very good to excellent. Seriously, I could name upwards of 50 movies I really liked. As for picking my favorites, it was actually a tough task for I enjoyed so many.

So here’s the final look back on 2014. It was a year of great directorial efforts. It was a year that had “14” in it. It was a year where World War III almost started due to a stoner comedy. It was a year to remember.

That was corny … inexcusably corny. Sorry. Here are my lists.

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WATCHINGDANGEROUSLY Th e B est: H o o r ay!

Bir d man: In a year of many incredible directorial feats,

1. the top honor must go to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. By

making his film about a washed up actor (Michael Keaton) look like one continuous shot, he pulled off some sort of technical miracle.

He didn’t stop with visual wonder, because his film is hilarious and emotionally impactful, stacked with amazing talent including Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone and Zach Galifianakis. After much debate, inner turmoil, and anxietyridden sleepless nights, I am deeming this the year’s best film.

It wasn’t an easy call, because the next three films on the list were also in stiff competition for my favorite of the year.

Whiplas h: Miles Teller, fittingly spectacular in The

2. Spectacular Now, put himself through the ringer for this

one, and that ringer is named J.K. Simmons. Simmons, as the meanest, most bad-assed music teacher to ever occupy a film, is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination. Strangely, Teller isn’t getting the same buzz. He goes toe-to-toe with Simmons, and he does his own drumming, which is phenomenal.

Boyh o o d: This is an amazingly cohesive movie for

3. something that was filmed a little bit at a time over the

last 13 years. The film looks as if it was filmed all at once, the performances are consistent and strong, and the story is powerful. Director Richard Linklater’s very best movie.

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siblings who, unfortunately, worked for du Pont when he had his breakdown.

Over the past 18 years, he has made eight features, all of them either very good or excellent. This one, in which Ralph Fiennes plays an oddball concierge, ranks among his best.

Interstellar: This was a great year for science

9. fiction, and Christopher Nolan’s take on space travel is

grand moviemaking. It’s a film that dares to go everywhere.

Also, it has the year’s best piece of “late in the movie” casting.

Selma: David Oyelowo portrays Martin Luther King Jr.

5. in director Ava DuVernay’s stunning depiction of the civil rights march on Selma, Alabama. It’s one of the year’s most accomplished directorial efforts.

U n d er th e S kin: Another great science fiction

10. movie. This is the year’s most trippy film. Scarlett

Fran k: Michael Fassbender wears a huge mask for the

6. majority of this film, one that delves into the eccentricities

Johansson plays an alien wearing human skin, driving around Scotland and really picking up guys. (The men had no idea who she was.) An interesting way to cast a film, and the results are surreal.

of being in a band that is trying to create meaningful music.

It’s a very funny, overlooked gem.

Ed ge of To m orrow: Tom Cruise dies thousands of

7. times in Doug Liman’s crazy, hilarious and ingenious take

Top 10 lists are for posers! We do Top 20 here at the Reno News & Review, so the beat goes on.

on the alien invasion genre. It’s surprising that more people didn’t see this. Even Cruise haters could take pleasure in seeing him die in so many ways.

Foxcatch er: Steve Carell disappears into the role of

8. John du Pont, the crazy rich guy who took it upon himself to shoot and kill one of the wrestlers on a team he created.

Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo are heartbreakingly good as the Schultz brothers, two Olympic gold medal-winning

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Go n e Girl: David Fincher adapts another novel,

Nightcrawler: This scathing satire of tabloid

11. and this one winds up being a whole lot better than 16. news features Jake Gyllenhaal in one of his two his The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo waste of time.

Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck play a married couple that just doesn’t do marriage well.

great 2014 performances (actually, three, because he played twins in Enemy).

Fury: In some ways, this Brad Pitt starring

17. WWII tank epic was a full-blown horror movie. It

Guar dians of th e Galaxy: The Marvel

12. Universe got a nutty, and excellent, installment

was super gory and very scary. I do feel sorry for the cast and crew, for Shia LaBeouf became infamous for not showering for days on end during the production.

His costars are all suffering from Post Shia’s Ball Sweat Syndrome.

with this one featuring a star-making performance from Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper voicing a raccoon.

Th e Babad o o k: The year’s scariest movie.

13. Essie Davis gives a devastating performance as a

Co ld In Ju ly: On outstanding cast, including

18. Don Johnson, Sam Shepard and Michael C. Hall,

mom who loses her husband on the way to a hospital to birth her son. The son grows up to be either 1) haunted by a strange entity called the Babadook or 2) totally crazy. Watching Davis fall apart is the stuff of nightmares.

made this one of the year’s great surprises. Shepard is especially good as an ex-con seeking revenge, while Johnson steals scenes as a private investigator. Nobody saw this movie. It’s available to rent. See it.

Life Itself: A stirring tribute to the great

14. Roger Ebert, this documentary was commissioned

Borgman: This Dutch film about a homeless

19. guy living with a rich family and ruining their

while he was alive and wound up capturing his last days on Earth. It also contains precious archival footage, including some great times-and fights-between Ebert and his late partner in crime, Gene Siskel. It’s hard to believe they are both gone.

Sn owpiercer: Tilda Swinton is much fun in

20. this post-apocalyptic movie about humans trying

Wild: Reese Witherspoon takes one long-assed

15. walk in this biopic based on the memoir of Cheryl

to survive onboard a super-train. The characters in this movie are destined to spend their entire lives racing around a snow-engulfed earth on this train. I spent a couple of days on an Amtrak going cross-country, and I thought for sure I was going to die.

Strayed, who trekked the Pacific Crest Trail to get her life out of a tailspin. This is the best thing Witherspoon has done in years.

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Film I’m Slightly Embarrassed About Liking: Annie Best Cure for Grumpiness: Puppies and ice cream!

Best Animated Movie: Big Hero 6 Best Laminated Movie: Funky Thompson and the Really Bad Fake ID

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Overrated: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Into the Woods, Nymphomaniac

Best Supporting Actors: J. K Simmons (Whiplash), Edward Norton (Birdman), Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher), Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Shia LaBeouf (Fury) Best Supporting Actresses: Emma Stone ROSAMUND (Birdman), Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Frank), Carrie Coon (Gone Girl), Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer)

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Now, I realize there are some of you out there who might find that kind of thing erotic. Stay with me here.

After somebody puts that oatmeal in your pants, they shackle your hands and lock you in a room with no shower and a stereo blasting nothing but One Direction. Five weeks later, they come in and chisel at the hardened oatmeal with a spoon while biting down, hard, on your nose.

Once the oatmeal has been chiseled away, it is discovered that some of it managed to seep into zones where the spoon can’t reach, and massive infections of all shapes and sizes have riddled your naughty bits.

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6. shits himself in this movie.

Then, Shia LaBeouf, one of the film’s stars who has infamously bragged about not showering for days on end, enters the room and spanks you for 18 hours straight while biting down, hard, on your nose.

Do you still think it could be sexy?

He also poops all over Robert Downey Jr. There’s just poop everywhere in this film, and it isn’t always of the physical nature. For instance, the screenplay is a screaming, stinking dung heap.

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Hobbit fiascos were a soulsucking experience in which my eyes felt raped and my butt got sore. I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I loathe the Hobbit catastrophes. We are talking all time, spirit-crushing cinematic failure.

8. Child ren: Oh, look …

Ar m ies: Peter Jackson’s

former guilty pleasure of mine, just keeps finding ways to get lousier at the cinemas. This racist piece of crap represents the very worst film he has ever made, and this guy was in the Grown Ups movies.

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You have to be really bad to top the next film on this list in badness.

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Worst Actress: Cate Blanchett (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)

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Worst Actor: Nicolas Cage (Left Behind)

Worst Actress in a Good Movie: Cameron Diaz (Annie)

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Underrated: The Interview, Tusk, Robocop

ever see Frankenstein’s monster in a trendy hoodie. I did like his hoodie. Everything else sucked.

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it’s Adam Sandler again. Only this time it’s “serious” Adam Sandler. Serious Sandler has degenerated into a level of lameness equal to that of funny Sandler. Or, should I say, the formerly funny Sandler.

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5. Cage stars in a remake of a

movie that starred Kirk Cameron and is a Christian funded depiction of the Rapture. He plays a pilot who loses his co-pilot to the heavenly ascension while flying to a U2 concert in London.

Oh my god, this actually happened! This is one of those movies that is so bad, it’s glorious. Also, it must be noted that Cage is looking more like Andy Kaufman with each passing day.

I want to take the rest of this article’s word allotment to just talk about how joyfully bad this is. Hold on, I’m going to call my editor and see if I can just spend the rest of this article talking about the U2, the Rapture and Nicolas Cage’s bugging eyes.

He said no.

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you like movies depicting those things you used to have in your toy box beating the crap out of each other for what feels like 732 hours, these movies are your nirvana. For folks like me, they are punishment akin to having toenails torn out by evil jackals.

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This is an exercise in futility.

Every year, I write a list of my favorite new albums of the year, and every year I hear a great record—one that should’ve made the cut—a couple of weeks after my list is published. And sometimes, albums I’m really excited about in December start sounding stale

by March. So by no means consider this list absolutely definitive. It’s just a list of albums that I really enjoyed this year, some recommendations for y’all to give a spin. It’s just one part of an ongoing conversation.

Also, I’m a straight, white, American male in his mid-30s. That’s like the worst possible perspective. Dickheads like me have been dominating discussions of pop music since before Thomas Edison first cut “Mary had a Little Lamb” to wax. After I culled together my final list this year, I had the terrible realization that, although it was fairly diverse in terms of genre, it was all macho music. All dudes. One of the albums even has the word “dude” in the title. I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before. PJ Harvey’s masterful Let England Shake topped my 2011 list, for example, and the all-female post-punk quartet Savages’ fantastic debut came in second place last year. I thought about bumping up St. Vincent’s album or something, but that kind of tokenism made me feel even more gross than the horrifying recognition of the limitations of my own perspective.

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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Piñata

This is just a masterfully crafted rap record.

Producer Madlib’s beats sound more rugged than a lot of his stuff, but still retain his trademark psychoactive properties, which goes well with Freddie Gibbs' G-funk flow. And the rogues gallery of guest verses is just insane: Danny Brown, Raekwon, Earl Sweatshirt, Scarface and more—everybody bringing their A-game.

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Shellac: Dude Incredible

Steve Albini’s legacy is primarily the many, many albums he’s recorded—some of them stone classics like Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa. But he’s also played guitar and sung in some great groups over the years, not the least of which is this trio of moonlighting recording engineers. It’s stripped-down noise rock, played with prudent use of space and silence, and recorded with in-the-room-with-these-assholes intimacy. The band members’ rude, acerbic senses of humor are on proud display throughout—in the wit of the music and in the sting of the lyrics.

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Budos Band: Burnt Offering

This is just great stuff: an all-instrumental mix of '60s soul and funk, big, reedy Ethiopian jazz, hip hop grooves, and stonerready distorted guitars. It’s accessible enough that anybody can dance to it, but unpredictable and musical enough to appeal to the most discriminating heads.

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Future Islands: Singles

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D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah

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Like a lot of people, I discovered Future Islands through the clip of the band performing “Seasons (Waiting On You)” on David Letterman’s TV show. Of course, I didn’t see the performance when it aired because I’m not 90 years old, but I watched the clip online after it went viral a day or two later. It’s hard to say what’s so compelling about that clip—I guess it’s just seeing a pudgy, balding dude dancing around like he’s Beyonce and singing sincerely like he’s Michael Bolton. But it’s also just a really well crafted song, and it’s not even the best on the record. My pick for that honor is “Fall From Grace,” a creepy dirge that sounds like it was inspired by the music from Twin Peaks.

I’m glad I waited til a little later than I usually do to compile my albums-of-the-year list, because if I’d done it earlier, I probably would’ve missed this dark, wild, funky soul record that dropped on December 15. It seemed to come out of nowhere. D’Angelo’s last album, Voodoo, came out way back in 2000. Black Messiah is a strange and gorgeous record, alternately smooth and weird—or both.

I know a lot of music fans who are sick of these bratty Danish punks, but I just can’t get enough. This record, the band’s third, isn’t exactly more “mature,” but it’s slightly more refined. Many of the songs are morose, mid-tempo ballads, some with a surreal country-rock vibe. Vocalist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt sings with a breathy, serious baritone, sort of like Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. But I think Ronnenfelt has a better sense of humor.

That said, he remains the worst interview I’ve ever done. Except for maybe Glen Danzig.

This Australian band explores New Wave-inspired post-punk. This record is an excellent follow-up to 2011’s Henge Beat (a perfect example of an album that would’ve made my top 10 that year had I heard it before year’s end).

The record is a thrilling mix of Gary Numan-like synthpop and spiky Wirelike song fragments. It sounds “'80s” in the best possible way. And there’s a nice Reno connection: The album was released on Iron Lung Records, the label run by the members of Iron Long, the powerviolence duo that formed here before moving on to greener pastures.

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Brian Eno, inventor of “ambient music,” innovative electronic music composer, acclaimed producer of the best albums by David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2 and more, is still oddly underrated as a songwriter. His rock albums from the '70s, like Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World, are some of the best ever made. This new record, one of two released this year made in collaboration with Karl Hyde of the dance band Underworld, is Eno’s best since at least 2005’s Another Day on Earth, if not longer. The album title is a play on highlife, a West African pop music genre, and fascinating African rhythms abound, often played on strange-sounding guitars.

The last Swans album, The Seer, was my favorite record of 2012. This one is arguably even better. Like its predecessor, it’s a double album, containing jewels of repetitious, abrasive noise rock—tantric meditation music for S&M enthusiasts—but the songwriting is actually even better on To Be Kind. Vocalist M. Gira is in fine form throughout, and nestled alongside the long, noisy, hypnotic epics are shorter bass-led rock bruisers.

Rapper and hip-hop producer El-P had a great year back in 2012. His solo album, Cancer 4 Cure, was one of the best rap records of the year, and Atlanta rapper Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music, which El-P produced, was arguably even better. Each rapper had a verse on the other’s album, and as good as each record was, they were even better in tandem. And the best songs from the two records were easily combined into one unbeatable playlist. Then, in 2013, the two rappers came together to form the duo Run the Jewels, and they released an excellent self-titled album. But, as good as that record was, it seemed like a lark, a dry run. It felt like the best was yet to come, and it did in the form of 2014’s best album: Run the Jewels 2.

It’s a record that feels like the culmination not just of the careers of two veteran MCs, but also of the three decade history of politically charged hip-hop. The two rappers complement each other perfectly: the angry, politically astute black Southerner and the chip-on-the-shoulder white New Yorker, trading verses and lines, with equal vocal and lyrical dexterity. But some of the highlights are the guest verses: erstwhile Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack De La Rocha shows up on “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” and delivers his best verse in over a decade, if not ever. Three 6 Mafia associate Gangsta Boo shows up on the satirical sex jam “Love Again (Akinyele Back),” and she delivers the best and raunchiest verse on the song, subverting expectations of hip-hop misogyny. Does that praise of Gangsta Boo make up for the lack of female representation elsewhere on my list? Probably not. Not at all. Ω

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Kelsey Owens and Mike Curatello are the co-curators of The Lasting Dose Gallery.

The Lasting Dose Gallery There’s a new art gallery opening in Reno’s midtown.

The Lasting Dose Gallery is opening at by 876 S. Virginia St., on the main drag Brad Bynum of Virginia Street, between Taylor and Cheney streets, less than a block from bradb@ news review.c om Recycled Records, and walking distance from Junkee Clothing Exchange, Brasserie St. James, Hub Coffee, and other midtown staples.

“We’re in the heart of midtown, geographically,” said Mike Curatello, the gallery owner. “We’re in the dead center of it.”

Curatello is also the owner of the Lasting dose Gallery, 876 S. Virginia Nightmare Studios tattoo shop, which is St., will host its first next door and connected to the gallery, artists’ reception on and has been in midtown for eight years.

Jan. 17 at 8 p.m.

He’s rebranding and remodeling the tattoo shop, which will soon be renamed Lasting Dose Tattoo in association with the gallery. The name “The Lasting Dose” comes from a song by the New Orleans sludge metal band Crowbar.

“I’ve wanted to open a gallery for years,” said Curatello. “I’ve been tattooing for 15, and I’ve always wanted to own an art space.”

Curatello will be co-curating the gallery with local artist and model Kelsey Owens. She’s affiliated with the Generator, the artist workshop in Sparks, and was a lead builder of “Embrace,” the massive wooden sculpture featured Aric Shapiro, and works by the artists at last year’s Burning Man festival. She who work at Nightmare Studios, like and Alex Houlton, who owns a wood Curatello and Tayler Wooten. There furniture company, are building a floor will also be works by other popular for the new gallery, using all re-purposed local artists, like the painters Joe C. wood. She sees advantages to having an Rock, Megan Ellis, Lisa Kurt and Bryce art gallery associated with a tattoo shop.

Chisholm.

“There will be a lot of cross interest “I’ve contacted photographers, sculpand a lot of new interest brought to both tors, painters, trying to get a good mix sides,” she said. of media, a first introduction to Reno of The gallery will launch with a everyone that we like,” said Owens. reception for a group show on Jan. 17.

The reception will feature drink and The exhibition will feature work from a food from Nom Eats, a vegan food truck. number of local artists, including artists The Lasting Dose is poised to be a associated with the Generator, like Matt good nexus point because its Page central1 Schultz and Jerry Snyder, artists from 276469_4.75_x_5.5 10/16/14 5:10ofPM location. It’s equidistant from the Holland Reno Art Works, like Pan Pantoja and

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The Lasting Dose will also be the new home of the Reno chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School, the “drink and draw” live drawing social events—where amateur and professional artists can congregate. Curatello now runs the Reno chapter. He and Owens first met when she modeled for the event. They hope to host Dr. Sketchy events at the gallery on a monthly basis.

The co-curators see the gallery as a versatile space with the potential to host a wide variety of artwork.

“I’m into all of it,” said Curatello. “As long as somebody puts their time and energy and heart into what they’re doing, I’m down for any style. I just like seeing people do stuff that they love.” Ω

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Oh, and there’s a sushi bar, because why not? We thought the side room was a banquet or buffet space; no signage indicated sushi was available and it wasn’t on the menu. I doubt you’ll find another dance club serving fajitas and California rolls side by side. Or maybe that’s a new trend?

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convenience store. Serving as perfect mate to our refreshing beverages, small fried rolls of corn tortilla stuffed with a choice of chicken or beef—I suggest ordering both—were hot-and-crispy good on their own. Add a dip of spicy sauce and you’ve got something that is sure to satisfy.

Despite a menu with a dizzying array of intriguing options, my wife settled on chicken fajitas and was not disappointed ($14.99). The sizzling, steaming strips of grilled onion, chili pepper and meat were served with warm corn tortillas, fresh guacamole and salsa. The presentation and flavor of this Tex-Mex favorite was pretty exceptional. In hindsight, I wish I’d ordered the same thing.

I love chiles relleno and often order them at new places hoping to find something special.

I like plenty of cheese, but should still be able to taste the poblano pepper. I appreciate a rich sauce, but I don’t want it to drown the crispy, fried coating I’m looking for. Sadly, the version served with my two item combination plate ($9.99) was drowned in a thick, pasty tomato sauce that didn’t deliver anything worthwhile. I’ve encountered this style before and have been just as nonplussed by the lack of crispy exterior and cheese that is barely melted. Luckily, the carne asada taco, rice, refried beans and housemade guacamole on the plate were all pretty tasty. Great seasoning on the beef, and the salsa taquera was full of zip. Next time I’ll skip the stuffed pepper disappointment and order something that better complements the meal.

Our hostess—and as it turns out, co-owner—wore many hats, acting as server, bartender, and quite possibly chef (she disappeared into the kitchen more than once). Though we declined to order dessert, she brought a small slice of complimentary flan with the check and insisted we must try it. It was about midrange in taste and texture as far as flan goes, but was made sweeter by the sentiment it represented. Ω

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Inherent Vice If you’re like me, and you abstain from weed because some people really shouldn’t do drugs, you might need two or three viewings to totally get the vibe and plot of Inherent Vice.

If, however, you smoke daily and watch the movie mildly high, you might follow everything in one shot.

I’ve watched director Paul Thomas by Andersons’s latest twice now, and it was Bob Grimm almost like watching a different movie the second time through. I enjoyed it very much bgrimm@ newsreview.c om both times, but the language and proceedings made more sense to me the second go-round.

No, I didn’t do bong hits the second time I watched, but I guess I must have some sort of latent stoner sensibility stored in my brain from years’ past bong hits. Mind you, it takes some prodding—like a second movie viewing—to make my latent stoner cells awaken and decode drugspeak, but when it does, everything’s cool.

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Joaquin Phoenix plays Doc, a sloppy private investigator in 1970 Los Angeles who operates, inexplicably, out of a doctor’s office.

When an ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) goes missing, he conducts a haphazard investigation into her disappearance that involves dead people who aren’t dead, drug dealers and kidnapped real estate moguls. All of these things are being investigated by a guy who is seriously high most of the time, and just sort of piecing things together at his own mellow, sometimes clumsy pace.

Along the way, Doc comes across a parade of colorful characters portrayed memorably by a first-rate cast. Josh Brolin is perfection as an unstable macho cop with a penchant for kicking down Doc’s door. Phoenix and Brolin have a lot of fun making the characters bitter enemies, yet almost chummy at times. Brolin’s final scene is, shall we say, surreal and bizarre on joyous levels.

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Owen Wilson does some of his best film work in years as a musician, believed dead, who has gone into hiding. He has some scenes with Phoenix that are borderline brilliance, as does Martin Short as a lascivious dentist with a taste for young girls and pharmaceutical grade cocaine. In fact, even though it is only a couple of scenes, Anderson may have given Short his best role since his SCTV days.

Benicio del Toro shows up as Doc’s attorney, which reminds me of his similar role in Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Reese Witherspoon caps off a great year playing Doc’s uptight current girlfriend, and Jena Malone has a terrific scene as a wife who pleasantly and happily discusses her drug addiction and missing husband.

The mystery, if you want to call it that, ties up cleaner than you think it does. The film, despite what some folks are saying, has a beginning, middle and end that makes sense. You just have to work at it a bit.

The locations, clothing and hairstyles are very ’70s. The film plays like a stoner mood piece, swinging from relaxed to paranoid, unintelligible to highly coherent, as if going through the phases of some high grade kush.

So, you might be thinking “Hey, this sounds a little bit like The Big Lebowski" based on my descriptions and the weed talk. Lebowski was a lot cuter and far funnier. Both stories do, however, feature a stoner dude investigating a missing person. It should be noted that the Coens wrote and produced Lebowski 11 years before Thomas Pynchon published the novel Inherent Vice is based on.

If you’ve never smoked weed, but have a friend that does, go see the movie with him or her. I think there’s a chance you will emerge not quite getting it, while your friend’s mind will be blown. He or she will explain some things to you, and you’ll be all set for a healthy, more informed second viewing.

Also, don’t smoke weed for the first time before seeing Inherent Vice. The stuff out there now is pretty damned powerful, and the sight of Phoenix’s Wolverine chops will surely freak a first timer out. Ω

Big Eyes

Tim Burton’s odd and fun little movie tells the story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), the painter behind the “big eyes” portraits of the ‘60s, and her loser husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) who took credit for her work. The story begins with Margaret leaving her first husband and winding up in San Francisco, where she eventually runs into alleged artist Walter. They have a quick courtship, get married and, before long, Walter is claiming her work as his own. The two eventually wind up in a legal battle, with Walter defending himself. The movie oscillates back and forth between serious drama and outrageous comedy. The comedy angle definitely plays out in the courtroom scenes, where Waltz goes full-blown clown. The look of the film has the characteristic Burton exaggerated colors, and is reminiscent at times of his Edward Scissorhands. Adams is mostly fine here, but seems a bit lost at times, as if she’s not quite sure how Burton wants to tell the story. Waltz delivers a somewhat crazed performance that makes the film’s tone a bit uneven at times, but it remains enjoyable.

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The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, who helped win the war against the Nazis when he and others invented a machine capable of breaking the Enigma code. Morten Tyldum’s film, while a tad cumbersome at times, does do a good job of illustrating the impossible odds Turing and his team were up against in trying to decipher the code. Keira Knightley (who had a nice 2014 with this and Begin Again), Matthew Goode and Charles Dance contribute to a strong supporting cast. Cumberbatch portrays Turing as a disagreeable, unlikeable social outcast who just happened to play a huge part in saving the free world thanks to his talent for solving puzzles. The film also delves into some of the more controversial times in Turing’s life, and sometimes the order of things gets a little confusing. Cumberbatch keeps the whole thing afloat with a typically strong performance.

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The Interview

Co-directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s film, like Team America: World Police 10 years ago, plays like one of those impossibly strange and undeniably funny Warner Brothers propaganda cartoons that were in circulation during World War II, the ones where the likes of Bugs Bunny would square off against Hitler. This is touchy stuff, but Rogen and his costar James Franco are up to the task of pissing all over North Korea, American media and the CIA. They don’t go after these institutions with contemplative, important, intellectual arguments. They attack with dick and shit jokes. Franco plays Dave Skylark, the flamboyant host of an American tabloid interview show, notorious for such stories as Eminem admitting he’s gay and Rob Lowe revealing his baldness. When Skylark discovers that Kim Jong-un’s favorite TV shows are Big Bang Theory and his program, he conspires with his producer (Rogen) to procure an interview with the world leader that will establish their legitimacy as real news guys. Their plans to just interview the guy get mildly complicated when the CIA gets wind and insists upon the two killing the notoriously reclusive basketball fan. A big “sorry” to all of you looking for The Interview to be some sort of patriotic manifesto intelligently taking a stand against North Korea. For that sort of movie, you must look elsewhere. This film is about the political ramifications of a world leader sharting on live TV.

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Into the Woods

Here’s an adaptation that renders something that was totally fun into something totally dreary. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 Broadway hit was a slightly sick, plucky wink at the audience, an almost mocking look at the dark side of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. As captured in the 1991 American Playhouse broadcast starring Bernadette Peters, it was a 150-minute romp with an adult sense of humor. It was hardly the stuff of Disney. Director Rob Marshall has cut his film version to just over two hours, yet it feels twice as long. On stage, the music of Into the Woods was perky, tightly choreographed, consistently funny and almost frantic. In the

movie, most of the songs just fart along. The singers search for the emotive, warm, soulful qualities in Sondheim and Lapine’s musical. The problem with that is the original musical didn’t really emphasize those qualities. It was more of an intelligent, operatic goof, not a feel-good musical. Meryl Streep has some good moments as The Witch, but that’s about it when it comes to anything good to say about this endeavor.

Johnny Depp shows up for a few minutes as The Wolf in a stupid outfit that makes him look more feline than canine. His “Hello, Little Girl,” a song that is supposed to be rife with innuendo, sounds more like an animal who just wants to eat some food. Marshall and Depp give the number a slow, crooning presentation, taking away its former jaunty, obnoxious edge.

It’s just wrong.

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Selma

David Oyelowo portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in director Ava DuVernay’s stunning depiction of the civil rights march on Selma, Alabama, in 1965. It’s one of 2014’s most accomplished directorial efforts. In an attempt to gain equal voting rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the march despite violent opposition from citizens and law enforcement officers. The film covers everything from MLK’s dealings with President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to the bewildering, despicable actions of then Alabama Governor George Wallace (an evil Tim Roth).

Oyelowo delivers a star-making performance as King, while Carmen Ejogo excels in the role of Coretta Scott King for a second time. (She played the role in a 2001 TV movie, Boycott.)

The very British Wilkinson and Roth do well with their accents and create memorable characterizations. This is one of those films everybody should see.

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Unbroken

Angelina Jolie directs the harrowing story of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), real life Olympic runner and American soldier shot down over the Pacific during World War II. Zamperini wound up doing a grueling stretch at sea on a lifeboat until he and his co-survivor Phil (Dohmnall Gleeson) were picked up by Japanese soldiers and put into prison camp, where the real hell began.

Jolie’s film shows Zamperini going through a nasty amount of torture at the hands of the camp commander, Watanabe (Takamasa Ishihara). In fact, some of the stuff Zamperini endured, like an entire prison camp population having to punch him in the face one at a time, seems like it would have to be embellishment.

(Nobody could survive all those haymakers in a row.) Still, the story is an uplifting one, and Jolie made a good-looking movie. The script was co-written by the Coen brothers along with Richard LaGravenese and William Nicholson, based on a book by Laura Hillenbrand. The real life Zamperini died in July, 2014. The film acts as a nice tribute to his courage.

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Wild

Reese Witherspoon, in her best role since Walk the Line, plays author Cheryl Strayed, who took it upon herself to do a solo trek on the Pacific Crest Trail after some tragedies in her life. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee (The Dallas Buyer’s Club), the film winds up not only being a fine showcase for Witherspoon, but a damn fine commercial for the PCT and those REI outdoor gear stores. The film opens on the not-so-pleasant sight of Strayed losing a toenail in bloody fashion to a wrong-sized boot, already days into her trek. It then flashes back a bit to the beginning of her hike, and takes a non-chronological approach to its plot. We see moments in Strayed’s life when she makes a lot of mistakes involving infidelity and drugs, interspersed with her experience walking the trail. While being an uplifting film about redemption and Strayed’s personal triumphs, the movie also works as an authentic and informative film about the art of hiking.

From Strayed’s struggles with her super huge backpack, to her reliance on trail tanks for water, to her stopovers at community outposts along the trail, you get a sense of what you might experience on such an expedition.

Hopefully, this and her small role in this year’s Inherent Vice are indicative of more adventurous choices in Witherspoon’s future.

Two paths Athena Camille Who is Athena Camille?

“I’m that crazy, fun, singing, dancing Greek Filipino.” by Kent Irwin Athena isn’t a stage name. Her father, a Greek immigrant, decided that his children would have the noble names of their heritage. Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, was his choice for his daughter. Camille grew up in Reno, spending summers in Greece. She considers her heritage influential on her style.

“When you approach American culture with an outside perspective, you think a certain way,” Camille said. “We get too focused on materialism, being rich. I just feel rich with love and family.”

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always been her champion, before tragically dying young.

For Camille, music is everything.

She continued to make appearances at the open mic at Ruben’s Cantina, where she met her husband, who goes by the name YB. “I thought, who is this guy following us?” said Camille, recalling her first impression. “He’s cute, though.”

The two struck a bond over their passion for music, dance, and hip-hop culture. They found that they had in common the untimely deaths of brothers. YB was living with the pain of his brother’s murder. They developed a professional and personal relationship immediately.

“With us, it’s not about money, guns and hoes," said Camille. "We experienced the death of people close to us. It makes us want to talk about real shit.”

Today, YB and Camille self-produce music from their home studio. They’re working on the release of a new single titled: “Rollin’ Down the Strip.”

“That’s gonna be the hit of the year,” Camille said.

“Anyone who hears it will love it.”

Camille categorizes herself as different from other 21 year olds in that her work is designed to help support her family. Her father, who runs local restaurant Niko’s Greek Kitchen, contracted cancer after a series of unrelated surgeries. Camille is arranging a benefit concert to appeal to the community that loves him and his restaurant, which prides itself on treating its customers like family.

“Cancer ain’t cheap,” said Camille.

Camille says everything she does is to support her family. She tells of how her grandmother, back in Greece, was a gifted singer before turning away from the path of a recording artist to support her family. Camille feels that today, the two paths don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

The goal, as Camille sees it, is to help create a tighter-knit community of local rappers and artists, who too often get carried away trying to outdo one another.

“The Great Wall of China wasn’t built by one person,” said Camille.

“We gotta support each other to make it work.” Ω

Athena Camille describes herself as a "crazy, fun, singing, dancing Greek Filipino."

Camille started singing and dancing at an early age, in ballet, jazz dance and other styles. She used dancing as a way to release the pressure of daily life. In school, she proved her prowess at her neighborhood rec center, where kids would hold impromptu dance battles.

“If there’s something I’m pissed off about, I want to vibe out to some music, or dance it out. That’s my No. 1 release.”

Soon, Camille started teaching all the styles she had learned and honed.

Working in dance, while continuing to do it for fun, started to put considerable strain on her body. When her knees had swollen to an agonizing size, she finally visited a doctor. Once she was diagnosed with arthritis, her first thought was that it had been worth it to spend those years dancing.

“I still miss it,” she said. “I still have dreams of being in the dance studio.”

Her diagnosis led Camille to focus on music. Her older brother helped write music, as well as rap lyrics. He’d

For more information, visit www.athena camille.com.

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THURSDAY 1/8

FRIDAY 1/9

SATURDAY 1/10

SUNDAY 1/11

3RD STREET

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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

5 STAR SALOON 132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

A TO ZEN GIFTS & THRIFT Jan. 9, 8:30 p.m.

Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648

BAR OF AMERICA 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626

Dance party w/DJ DoublePlay, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after

Dance party w/DJ DoublePlay, 10pm, no cover before 10pm, $5 after

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

Open Mic Night, 7pm, no cover

1801 N. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 461-3311

Cash’d Out

Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, $TBA

Coburn Station, 8pm, $TBA

Coburn Station, 8pm, $TBA

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

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

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES

Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover

901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

COMMA COFFEE

In Stride Music, noon, no cover

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

Comedy 3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Tommy Pope, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Julia Scotti, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Bobby Collins, Nika Williams, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Shayla Rivera, Joel Lindley, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Ron Josol, F, 9pm; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $13-$15

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

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

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

ELBOW ROOM BAR 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-9799

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

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

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Sheldon Felich, 7pm, no cover

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

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

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Gnarly Pints, 7pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, 9pm, no cover

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

Gnarly Pints, 9pm, no cover

Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

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

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Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

VooDoo Dogz, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Open Mic/Ladies Night, 8:30pm, W, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, 10pm, M, Karaoke with Miss Amanda, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

Bunky Scholls Band, 9pm, no cover Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover Open mic, 7pm, no cover

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

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FRIDAY FRIDAY1/91/9

SATURDAY SATURDAY1/10 1/10

SUNDAY SUNDAY1/11 1/11

3819 3819Saddle SaddleRd., Rd.,South SouthLake LakeTahoe; Tahoe;(530) (530)314-7665 314-7665

THE THEHOLLAND HOLLANDPROJECT PROJECT 140140Vesta VestaSt.,St.,(775) (775)742-1858 742-1858

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MONDAY-WEDNESDAY1/12-1/14 1/12-1/14 Open OpenMic MicNight, Night,9pm, 9pm,M,M,nonocover cover Trivia TriviaNight, Night,9pm, 9pm,W,W,nonocover cover

NoNoBragging BraggingRights, Rights,The TheGreenery, Greenery, Badlands, Badlands,Drag DragMeMeUnder, Under,7pm, 7pm,$12$12

Sexless, Sexless,Plastic PlasticCaves, Caves, NaNaNaNaNonchalant, Nonchalant,8pm, 8pm,$5$5

Chain Chain&&thetheGang, Gang,8pm, 8pm,Tu,Tu,$7,$7,Reno RenoLady Lady Beards, Beards,Redfield RedfieldClipper ClipperBand, Band,8pm, 8pm,W,W,$5$5

JUB JUBJUB’S JUB’STHIRST THIRSTPARLOR PARLOR 7171S.S.Wells WellsAve., Ave.,(775) (775)384-1652 384-1652 1) 1)Showroom Showroom2)2)Main MainBarBar

2)2)Blazin BlazinMics!, Mics!,10pm, 10pm,M,M,nonocover cover

THE THEJUNGLE JUNGLE

Outspoken: Outspoken:Open OpenMic MicNight, Night, 7pm, 7pm,M,M,nonocover cover

246246W.W.First FirstSt.,St.,(775) (775)329-4484 329-4484

KNITTING KNITTINGFACTORY FACTORYCONCERT CONCERTHOUSE HOUSE 211211N.N.Virginia VirginiaSt.,St.,(775) (775)323-5648 323-5648

PADDY PADDY&&IRENE’S IRENE’SIRISH IRISHPUB PUB

906-A 906-AVictorian VictorianAve., Ave.,Sparks; Sparks;(775) (775)358-5484 358-5484

Cash’d Cash’dOut: Out:A ATribute TributetotoJohnny JohnnyCash, Cash, 8:30pm, 8:30pm,$13-$26 $13-$26 DJDJRazz, Razz,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover

RED REDDOG DOGSALOON SALOON

7676N.N.C CSt.,St.,Virginia VirginiaCity; City;(775) (775)847-7474 847-7474

RUBEN’S RUBEN’SCANTINA CANTINA

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

RYAN’S RYAN’SSALOON SALOON

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432432E. E.Fourth FourthSt.,St.,(775) (775)737-9776 737-9776

Dance Danceparty, party,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover

Ruby RubyJaye JayeFradkin, Fradkin,UpUpIs IsthetheDown DownIs IsThe, The, Grace GraceHayes, Hayes,8pm, 8pm,$5$5

Chain Chainand andthe theGang Gang Jan. Jan.13, 13,8 8p.m. p.m.

The TheHolland HollandProject Project 140 Vesta St. 140 Vesta St. 742-1858 742-1858

Tom TomRhodes, Rhodes,LoLoLaLaLa,La,Josiah JosiahKnight, Knight, 8pm, 8pm,Tu,Tu,$TBA $TBA Massive MassiveTuesdays TuesdaysWinter WinterSeries, Series, 10pm, 10pm,Tu,Tu,$5$5

2660 2660Lake LakeTahoe TahoeBlvd., Blvd.,S. S.Lake LakeTahoe; Tahoe;(530) (530)544-3425 544-3425

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1717S.S.Virginia VirginiaSt.,St.,(775) (775)284-7455 284-7455 1) 1)The TheWriters WritersBlock BlockOpen OpenMic, Mic, 4275-4395 4275-4395W.W.Fourth FourthSt.,St.,(775) (775)787-3769 787-3769 7pm, 7pm,nonocover cover 1) 1)Golden GoldenRose RoseCafe Cafe2)2)Green GreenFairy FairyPubPub3)3)Cabaret Cabaret

HipHipHop HopOpen OpenMic, Mic,10pm, 10pm,W,W,nonocover cover

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu,Tu, Reno Beer and Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Reno Beer and Record Club w/guest DJs, 9pm, W,W, nono cover Record Club w/guest DJs, 9pm, cover

WHISKEY WHISKEYDICK’S DICK’SSALOON SALOON

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Open OpenMic MicNight, Night,7pm, 7pm,M,M,W,W,nonocover cover

Live Livejazz, jazz,7:30pm, 7:30pm,W,W,nonocover cover Local LocalMusic MusicNight Nightw/locals w/localsbands bandsoror local localDJs, DJs,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover

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Grand GrandSierra SierraResort Resort 2500 E. Second 2500 E. SecondSt. St. 789-2000 789-2000

And Came Back Brutal, Mustakrakish, Ritual And Came Back Brutal, Mustakrakish, Ritual Genocide, Victims ofof thethe Cave, 8pm, $6$6 Genocide, Victims Cave, 8pm,

924924S.S.Wells WellsAve., Ave.,(775) (775)323-4142 323-4142

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DJ DJIkon Ikon

1) 1)Reno RenoMusic MusicProject ProjectOpen OpenMic, Mic, 7pm, 7pm,nonocover cover

3)3)TexTexWeir, Weir,6:30pm, 6:30pm,nonocover cover

3)3)Red RedDawn, Dawn,Jack JackDiDiCarlo, Carlo, 5pm, 5pm,nonocover cover

1) 1)Comedy ComedyPower PowerHour HourOpen OpenMic, Mic, 8pm, 8pm,Tu,Tu,nonocover cover

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

THURSDAY 1/8

FRIDAY 1/9

SATURDAY 1/10

SUNDAY 1/11

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/12-1/14

2) Palmore Brothers, 8pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 4pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 4pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Echo Valle Road, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Sneaky Creatures, 10pm, no cover

2) Peter Joseph Burtt and the King Tide, 10pm, no cover

CARSON VALLEY INN

2) Stew Stewart, 8pm, no cover 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

DJ Melo D Jan. 10, 10 p.m.

Peppermill 2707 S. Virginia St. 826-2121

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) BuBinga Live 4) Stadium Bar

2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2) Locals Night w/DJ 2Wice, 10pm, no cover w/local ID; $15 after midnight 3) Honky Tonk Thursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $15-$30 3) Boots & Daisy Dukes w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

1) DJ Ikon, 10pm, $15-$30 3) County Social Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ JosBeats, DJ Louie Giovanni, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Rick Gee, DJ Miles Medina, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Two Kings, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 3) Doug Martin, 8pm, no cover

1) Two Kings, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 3) Doug Martin, 8pm, no cover

1) Two Kings, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50

1) Sheep Dip 51, 8pm, $35 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 11pm, no cover

1) Sheep Dip 51, 8pm, $35 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 11pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

3) Boogie Nights, 9pm, $10 4) Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

3) Boogie Nights, 9pm, $10 4) Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2) Midnight Riders, 8pm, no cover 3) Fixx Fridays, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm

2) Midnight Riders, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Melo D, 10pm, $20

1) Steel Breeze, 9pm, no cover

1) Steel Breeze, 9pm, no cover

2) Jackson Michelson, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover 4) Elvis By Clint, 9pm, no cover

2) Jackson Michelson, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Elvis By Clint, 9pm, no cover

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 4) Cantina 5) Summit Pavilion

Karaoke Cobra Lounge at Asian Noodles, 1290 E. Plumb Lane, Ste. 1, 828-7227: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques Simard, Sa, 8pm, no cover Hangar Bar, 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead, 677-7088: Karaoke Kat, Sa, 9pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Steve Starr Karaoke, F, 9pm, no cover Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Virginia City, 847-7210: Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, F, 7:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

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

HARRAH’S RENO

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Two Kings, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

JA NUGGET

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Rose Ballroom 3) Gilley’s

MONTBLEU RESORT

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu 4) The Zone

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

2) Mark Sexton Band, 7pm, no cover

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

SILVER LEGACY

2) Bonzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia,

8pm, no cover 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) University of Aura, 9pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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1) Justin Rivera, 8:30pm, W, $12-$15

2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, W, $24.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Cash Presley, 10:30pm, W, no cover

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The Homestretch: Reno Premiere Screening Presented by the Community Foundation of Western Nevada, The Homestretch is a documentary film that follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate and build a future. Kasey, Anthony and Roque challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age. As their stories unfold, the film connects with larger policy issues of juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBT rights. After the movie, The Eddy House will announce the establishment of a new downtown youth drop-in center for homeless and challenged youth.

The free film screening begins at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the Joe Crowley Student Union Theater, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St. Call 333-5499 or visit www. nevadafund.org.

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Beat the winter chill with a warm drink and music by local musicians during Bartley Ranch Regional Park’s annual family entertainment series, which kicks off on Saturday, Jan. 10, with a program by Northern Nevada Bluegrass. Other entertainment scheduled for this month includes Slide Mountain Band on Jan. 17, Strange on the Range on Jan. 24 and Highway 40 on Jan. 31. The series continues through March 14. Each program begins at 7 p.m. at the Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road. Seating is limited to 200 people. Admission is a suggested donation of $3 per person. Call 828-6612.

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Sensation seeking appears to have a strong biological basis. If this is part of your makeup, it’s not like you can just decide to take up with the nearest accountant (that is, one who isn’t embezzling from the mob). What you can do is look for good guys who have some of the positive qualities bad boys do, like confidence, charisma, creativity, spontaneity and a wicked sense of humor.

They won’t be easy to find, but consider that every bad boy you’re with sets you back from getting together with a good guy who also meets your need for speed. To keep yourself from taking any further dips in the felon pool, figure out alternative ways to get your excitement needs met (skydiving, tsunami-surfing). This should free you up to meet the sort of guy who figures he’s justified in using the carpool lane because he’s pulling you behind his car on Rollerblades, not because he’s got a couple of bank tellers tied up in the trunk. Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his novel

Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who “had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem. You finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways ... to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form ... to bring your purely fourth-dimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Novelist E.

L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Most people

have numerous items in their closet that they never wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually come to like them again, even though you don’t now? Are you hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that the uncool stuff will come back into fashion? In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to stage an all-out purge.

Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer work for you, and get rid of them. While you’re at it, why not carry out a similar cleanup in other areas of your life?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Nothing

was ever created by two men,” wrote John Steinbeck in his novel East of Eden. “There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.

The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” In my view, this statement is delusional nonsense. And it’s especially inapt for you in the coming weeks. In fact, the only success that will have any lasting impact will be the kind that you instigate in tandem with an ally or allies you respect.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I live in Northern

California, where an extended drought led to water-rationing for much of 2014. But in December, a series of downpours arrived to replenish the parched landscape. Now bursts of white wildflowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They’re called shepherd’s purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I’d like to give you a metaphorical version of this good stuff. You could use some support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you’re feeling. Any ideas about how to get it?

Brainstorm. Ask questions. Seek help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Actress Uzo

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Aduba’s formal first name is Uzoamaka. She tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a kid. One day she came home and said, “Mommy, can you call me Zoe?” Her mother asked her why, and she said, “Because no one can say Uzoamaka.” Mom was quick to respond: “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and Michelangelo, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.” The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: This is no time to suppress your quirks and idiosyncrasies. That’s rarely a good idea, but especially now. Say NO to making yourself more generic.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Doug Von Koss

leads groups of people in singalongs. You don’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a “perfection-free zone.” I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfection-free zone everywhere you go this week, Libra. You need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek and savvy.

You have a poetic license to be innocent, loose and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone’s expectations and demands.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I dream

of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies.

You’re more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“If you have built castles in the air,” said philosopher Henry David Thoreau, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure first, and later the bottom. But I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock ‘n’ roll music for the first time.

“When Mockingbird first heard rock/He cocked his head and crapped/What in the hell is that?/It sounded like a train wreck/ Someone was screaming/Someone’s banging on garbage cans.” Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves—”all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you—maybe even fulfill you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you

recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when the White Rabbit scurries by.

He’s wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. She follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she feel fear.

Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip. Finally, she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

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

positively oceanic these days. You are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. As much as it’s possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I’m tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse. Dream big, you crazy, wise dreamer.

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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Music man Scott Turek, local musician and band member of Bazooka Zoo, started playing music at a young age.

Over the past three years, he has become more serious with making music and is now focusing on building a career.

What is your favorite instrument to play?

To play it’s definitely the synth. I kind of started playing keyboards and synths about three years ago, and I’ve just been in love with it ever since. Being able to manipulate the sounds so much, you never really know what you’re going to get.

What is your process when making music?

As far as the synthesizer stuff, I normally just come up with a melody line or a bass line with the keys itself, and then I just

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start singing stuff over the top of it and see what sounds good. A lot of times, I just sing a bunch of nonsense that has syllables but no words, just so I can start tying together words that have the same kind of syllables and write a story around that.

What are your hopes for the future with making music?

Did you grow up with a music background?

How long have you been playing music?

That where it gets kinda tricky. The first song I ever played was like Top Gun theme music on the piano because it was sitting right there, but I also played violin in middle school. So I’d say just for

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THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL ∫y Bruce Van Dye dry roads, allowing me to streak past the still functioning NDOT maintenance station and the shuttered old brothel Janie’s Ranch, a crumbling testament to livelier, tawdrier times on 6 in those Days Before the Interstates.

Then, one takes advantage of NV 360, a terrific short cut which takes a geometrically pleasing northeast angle from 6 to U.S. 95, allowing Reno-bound travelers to trim about 40 miles off the drive. What points of interest are on 360? Pretty much zero, unless you like dreary tiny ghost towns and endless desertscapes of various brushes.

In fact, the only thing you’re likely to find on 360 is trucks. Lots of ’em. It’s a well known trucker cut-off, and you’ll probably pass three to five 18 wheelers as you scream on down this zippy little road to the junction with raucous 95, a few miles south of the bizarroville called Mina. Ω

is on a road that spans the country, the longest contiguous highway in the USA. (These days, Bishop is indeed its western terminus, Provincetown its eastern finish.)

Thirty miles up the road, one enters the sleepy town of Benton, where you can pick up not much more than a six pack of little chocolate donuts. Stale, old and cold, these LCDs were somehow perf on thas frosty gray morning. Moving east, the next point of interest is the border, where one gets a great look, in fact the best look, at Nevada’s highest mountain, Boundary Peak. From its roadside viewpoint, BP actually has a looming presence, at 13,140 feet, even if it’s eternally overshadowed by its slightly taller big brother, Mt. Montgomery, which, due to some slick 19th century survey work, is in California.

Continuing east, the next spot of interest is Montgomery Pass, at 7,167 feet, which is high enough, at its nearly Donner elevation, to provide possible snow/ice hassles. Today, happily, it’s a breeze, with completely

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To make a career and be able to travel around. This last year has been a really big eye opener in being proactive and making it a thing. I’m really excited about what this year has to offer. We’ve done shows in Vegas, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. We also have a tour coming up in March that is going to take us from Arizona all the way up to Washington, which is the next big step. I mean for being only a 2-and-a-half-year-old band, that’s pretty good. Ω

Yes and no. I mean I grew up with a piano in the house and stuff like that, but I didn’t really pick up music until later on.

I didn’t pick up a guitar until I was 16. I didn’t really get into the piano or anything again until I was asked to join this band ... three years ago.

Get your kicks The road home from Coachella Valley last week was complicated by cold messiness. The most direct route from Reno, high scenic 395, was plagued with snow and ice on its three 8,000-foot summits. Since I no longer bother with snow tires (one of the upsides of global warming), I was unprepared and unwilling to tackle that highway. It just seemed like a crummy day to end up upended in a frozen ditch on the side of the road, waiting for a tow truck out of Bridgeport.

But, as a flexible desert traveler, I had a Plan B. As it turned out, it was a pleasant, stress-free B, a timehonored strategy that has allowed drivers to avoid winter road hassles for decades. At Bishop, you bail on 395, hang a right on U.S. 6, and head east, which will get you to 95, a road that’s often delightfully dry.

Leaving at 10 a.m. on U.S. 6, I quickly encounter what might be the coolest mileage sign in the entire state of Nevada. It reads “Provincetown, Massachusetts—3205 miles.”

An elegantly brief reminder that one

When did you start doing shows and making a career out of music?

I’ve been playing shows since high school, since I picked up the guitar. But I only got really serious about it when I got back from Los Angeles, so about six years ago.

What kind of music do you make?

Myself, personally, I’ve been diving into a lot of synthesized electronic soul music, kind of along the veins of James Blake meets Radiohead. I just really like the intense core structure of the music behind some vocal and lyrically driven music. I appreciate that a lot more—the heavy stuff. That’s my favorite to make on my own, definitely. With the group I love working a lot with providing sonic layers into funk stuff. Yea, funk, electronic, rock, everything like that.

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