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Letters............................ 3 Opinion/Streetalk............ 5 Sheila.Leslie.................... 6 Brendan.Trainor.............. 7 News.............................. 8 Feature.......................... 11 Arts&Culture................ 16 Art.of.the.State............. 18

Foodfinds...................... 19 Film.............................. 20 Musicbeat.................... 23 Nightclubs/Casinos....... 24 This.Week.....................27 Free.Will.Astrology....... 30 15.Minutes..................... 31 Bruce.Van.Dyke............ 31

cut government See Let Freedom ring, page 7.

nevadanS aren’t reaLLy big FanS oF democracy See news, page 8.

Long Live

The king

The BLM tore down a Nevada icon.

UNR professor Howard Goldbaum documents its life and death.

See arts&culture, page 16.

AmericAn Hero?

See Film, page 20.

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It’s the people

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

OK, this column is not Facebook, so I try to include stories about the less photogenic parts of my life, and the not-so-respectable parts of being a human, but, man, I have got to tell you about my day yesterday.

My day yesterday: 1. I got to hire Georgia Fisher as special projects editor.

2. I was interviewed by a kindred mind at the Epoch Times in New York City.

3. I got the first response to a volunteer’s public records request of all 1,700 law enforcement agencies in Texas.

4. I got a call from a U.S. Representative’s staff to meet with them on Monday.

5. I got told I’m a finalist for a $12,000 grant.

6. I got interviewed by Channel 4’s Jaime Hayden.

7. I was asked to speak to the Media Consortium and Association of Alternative Newsmedia about Fatal Encounters.

They’re picking up the room and conference costs!

8. I got an update on the next iteration of the Fatal Encounters website. Machine language learning? Multiple languages? Crazy!

9. I got to drink some wine with my girl.

10. Charter called to say they’re doubling my internet speed at home for free.

I had one really dark spot that made everything else seem brighter. I also had another dark spot that turned out to be some of the small stuff we’re not supposed to sweat.

I don’t know what the takeaway to all this is, but I’m sure it’s something sweet. Appreciate your good days? Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die? Recognize that we can’t really take credit for everything that luck hands us?

Sometimes you just have to believe it: There is no spoon. *** Update: I did get the grant from J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, which will help launch encuentrosmortales.org. This site will focus on officer-involved homicides on the U.S. border with Mexico.

Re “More fond farewells” (Left Foot Forward, Dec. 24, 2014): I am amused that Sheila Leslie is still writing about “Nevada’s lowestever voter turnout last month” without seeming to comprehend the reason.

Since states generally calculate potential voter turnout using the number of registered voters, I feel that voter registration campaigns are to blame. When “get out the vote” volunteers take clipboards to farmers markets and food truck events with the goal of registering people to vote, they are registering non-voters, i.e., people who generally don’t bother to vote. The “get out the vote” volunteers are undoubtedly proud of themselves for convincing people to register to vote as they wolf down kettle corn and hot dogs. The people who registered were undoubtedly fired up about the election at the time, but, as the election approached, apathy set in. I hypothesize that the increased number of non-voters registered to vote caused the decrease in voter turnout.

The solution is to stop these clipboard campaigns and, instead, encourage people to go to the Registrar of Voters office and register themselves to vote.

Only people who are actually planning to vote will bother to do that, which will lead to a higher voter turnout.

Karen Inda Sparks

It’s the greed Car dealerships never fail to amaze me in their incessant greed. Took my car to a dealership to have a couple of recall jobs done and decided that I might as well let them do my 50,000mile maintenance—oil, filter, rotate and check fluids, a typical hour’s work, $159 labor. Needed an actuator for the door look installed—pull door panel, replace part, at best an hours workm $159 labor. Average dealership cost $60 to $90 per hour. On top of the outrageous labor cost, add $40 for “possible incidentals,” like rags, washers, a screw—charged if used or not. So why am I not paying for the receptionist’s lip stick, too? So taking your car into a dealership for free recall service, just gives these guys an

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opportunity to take advantage of you.

None of these costs were reviewed with me in advance. The serviceperson even asked me to please not give her a bad review when I called to question/ complain. Apparently, dealerships live off of people who don’t question anything. I am so mad at myself for trusting them, but am making sure to share what others should know about their practices.

Wayne Irvine Reno

It’s the religious freedom Why does our president rush so quickly to Islam’s defense? And why does President Obama have so much trouble calling out Islamic terrorism? It seems obvious that any ideology that violently seeks submission and can use coercion —even death—to enforce their tyrannical law is not a religion at all. It’s a political system. And just as clearly Islamic law is totally inconsistent with our Constitution. The recent terrorism slaughter in France demonstrated again that a tyrannical political system like Jihadist Islam cannot co-exist within a free society. Jihadist Islam will metastasize.

Our nation was formed out of a rejection of tyranny. And our elected leaders take an oath to defend and protect our Constitution. President Reagan took on the “evil empire.” It’s your time to step up, Mr. President.

Which political system will you defend?

Robert R. Kessler Las Vegas

It’s the encyclopedia The chance for complete change and the best resolution the RN&R could make would be to get over the insane fear and jealousy of Sam Dehne; who should have been the answer to every newspaper’s dream for the last 20 years. He has more stories to write about in a week than RN&R and its sister paper the RGJ write about in a year. Years. Dehne is live and extemporaneous, and he owns Youtube.

Sam Dehne Reno

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It’s the lame relationships Re “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” (Film, Dec. 25): I thought, at the time, your reviews of the first two Hobbit films were harsh. However, what little I enjoyed in the first two films has been completely eroded by the final installment. This film drags. And I enjoyed Chariots of Fire! Jackson pulled off a minor miracle with his Lord of the Rings trilogy. There, he actually took the time to develop relationships among the characters. Here, there just isn’t anything really bonding in Bilbo’s relationship with the dwarves. In “Rings,” Frodo is changed by his experiences. In The Hobbit, Bilbo doesn’t seem much different at the end. I’m glad it’s over.

Paul Anthony George Brockton, Massachusetts

It’s the ... lawyers Re “But how do you feel?” (Letters to the editor, Dec. 31): The never ending debate about “Obamskicare” is little more than a classic case of obfuscation to: 1)ensure current and future astronomical inflation of medical care ... and 2) benefit the bank accounts of medical malpractice attorneys. Call it a classic example of “misdirection” on a massive tawdry scale. Huh? Obamskis first public speech after being elected was to the American Medical Association.

He informed the physicians that he had no intentions of lessening their onerous burdens relative to the filings of frivolous lawsuits and concomitant astronomical, malpractice premiums— Obamski’s opening salvo in the never ending “Liar in Chief” play book.

Think Goebels circa 1938.

Being a lawyer who is owned lock, stock and gavel by the legal PACs, our dear leader knew that he’d lose support from fellow leeches if he acted otherwise. What’s even more insidious, however, is the reality that the secretary general of the Politburo had Obamskicare already percolating in his seditious mind. All he had to do was package his lie and spoon feed it to the lapdog mainstream media for faithful regurgitation. Sell it as compassion Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Anthony Clarke Distribution Drivers Sandra Chhina, Steve Finlayson, Debbi Frenzi, Vicky Jewell, Angela Littlefield, Joe Medeiros, Ron Neill, Christian Shearer, Marty Troye, Warren Tucker, Gary White, Joseph White, Margaret Underwood General Manager/Publisher John D. Murphy President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Chief Operations Officer Deborah Redmond Human Resource Manager Tanja Poley Business Manager Grant Rosenquist

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for the uninsured, better health care for Grandma, comprehensive care.

Remember: you can keep your doctor, costs will go down, premium costs will be less than a cell phone, and the insured youth will pay for the elderly.

It simply would not do if the lawyers had disincentives not to sue physicians! For Obamskicare to work, he required the astronomical rise in health care costs to continue.

Let me reiterate: Obamskicare will not work if overall health care costs go down. The higher the medical costs, the better for our “dear Leader’s” plans. Ergo: If health care costs were actually contained, pure market conditions would take over and allow malpractice underwriters to lessen the cost of policies. Why? Because physicians would be practicing pure medicine versus medico-legal medicine. In order to shove Obamskicare down our collective throats, he had to negate the consequences of the legitimate market conditions. Lower health care costs would surely trump any pseudo-logic babble that Obamskicare proponents were trying to fool the masses with.

The real problem with health care in America is that providers are obliged to order needless tests/exams to preclude the chance of a frivolous malpractice suit. Consider: a simple laceration to a finger requiring nothing but a couple of stitches and a bandage. Should take no more than 15 minutes and cost less than a 50 bucks. I’ve had this exact malady in numerous countries overseas. Take my word for it, that’s the average cost. But this would not sit well with the purveyors Obamskicare Liars Manifesto! Realizing that a serious “hit” on his malpractice insurance is always a real possibility, this same health care provider who would otherwise just sew up the pinky is faced with a survival decision. His own! The boo boo on the pinky isn’t the problem here, sports fan.

Kim Kollman Captain/USMM Reno Editor’s note, Capt. Kollman sent a related letter that we published in December. This one ran about 1,700 words, but unfortunately, we don’t have room to serialize it, so here’s more of his thinking on the socialistic Obamskicare.

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What’s your favorite Nevada landmark?

Asked at Casale’s Halfway Club, 2501 E. Fourth St. Hayley Stempeck Waitress

I would have to say the ichthyosaur. I’m a big fan of history. I think it’s a pretty neat thing to have in our state.

David Poulos Petroleum salesperson

Peavine Mountain. It is outside my office window so I stare at it all day. And it’s sort of an entryway from the west into Reno and from the north into Reno.

Mike Cox Bartender

We’re all Charlie. Now what?

The Reno News & Review stands in solidarity with the murdered staff members of the weekly French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Making jokes is a non-violent act, and responding to non-violent acts with violence is beyond morally wrong. It’s insane.

So while we’re saddened and disgusted by the murder of those people, we acknowledge that insanity happens. It’s beyond horrible, and we don’t want to be on the other end of a gun, but there are 2.08 billion Muslims in the world, and 2,079,999,997 of them did not commit that insane act.

That’s why much of the reaction to the murders is just as disturbing as the murders themselves. All kinds of hypocritical groups are trying to take advantage of the fear that surrounds acts of insanity.

Much of the commentary regarding the murders focused on Islam, the religion of the perpetrators. It’s often an unrighteous effort to gain an advantage against a minority group using nationalism, fundamentalism and racism to get a leg up.

When a doctor who offers abortions is gunned down, we don’t blame all Christians. It’s likely that the person who bombed the NAACP office in Colorado on Jan. 6 will have connections to an extremist right-wing group, and many American right-wing groups consider themselves Christianity-based. Just go to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website, www.splcenter.org, and get informed.

Did you see the hypocrites in the coverage of the solidarity marches?

Reporters Without Borders, a group that tracks murders and imprisonments of journalists, didn’t miss the “leaders from countries where journalists and bloggers are systematically persecuted such as Egypt (which is ranked 159th out of 180 countries in RWB’s press freedom index), OPINION

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Fort Churchill. It affected me when I was kid. I thought it was just very cool.

I visited it several times.

Russia (148th), Turkey (154th) and United Arab Emirates (118th).” There were 96 journalists and support staffers killed in 2014. Get informed at http://en.rsf.org.

The Obama administration has been a clear enemy to press freedom. Remember how this administration tapped the phones of the Associated Press and Fox News? Even before Obama, remember those U.S. and Reuters journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq? The Obama administration’s relentless pursuit of whistleblowers denies the public information it needs. Efforts by the administration to force revelation of journalists’ sources seek to reduce information reaching the public. The president didn’t even bother to make sure the U.S. was represented at the march in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo attack.

The bigger chill is not from some religious nuts going after a newspaper staff that intentionally mocks their religion—and every other religion and sacred cow that came under their purview—this is the government in the land of the free. Which action is more likely to chill the free flow of information—the journalism our democracy depends upon—the murder of cartoonists in France, or the U.S. government’s systematic spying on U.S. citizens, including journalists? How does a journalist ethically promise to have an off-the-record conversation in this country when we know that virtually all of our electronic communications are being tracked and filed?

The calls that the French government should have known in advance of the attacks are already being made.

It’s sadly ironic that the deaths of these journalists whose lives were symbols of freedom of speech will be used to undermine that freedom.

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Darlene Grady Piccinini Retiree

The hospital in Tonopah, Nevada, where I was born. It’s still there. I never lived there [in Tonopah]. I was just born there. I lived in Manhattan. We had a ranch in the Smoky Valley and moved to Reno when I was in second grade.

Cindia Fernandez Telecom manager

The steam train down at Victorian Square. Had a big 8 on it, made a great photo background, and it’s old, and I like old.

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Here’s to the helping hands Today the Human Services Network, (HSN), will conduct its annual celebration of the people and organizations who strengthen the fabric of our community each and every day by committing their time and energy to help their neighbors cope with difficulties in their lives. by The 2015 Human Services Sheila Leslie Awardees range from well-known personalities such as retired Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, selected as the Politician of the Year, to an organization that is not often in the limelight, Northern Nevada HOPES, as the Agency of the Year. Xiomara Rodriguez will also be recognized for her volunteer work as the Board Member of the Year from the Northern Nevada Literacy Council.

Korine Viehweg of the Northern Nevada RAVE Family Foundation will be honored as the Administrator of the Year. The Michael O’Callaghan Humanitarian Award will be given posthumously to Paul M. Laxalt, a leader with Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada at the time of his

death. A special recognition award will also be given to the Victim Services Units of local government.

One of the highlights of the annual awards program is the spotlight on the Staff Member of the Year, a person chosen by the membership as especially deserving of recognition in a peer group full of humanitarians.

This year’s award will be given to Pam Becker, who has worked at the Children’s Cabinet since 1989. (Full disclosure: I served as the executive director of the Children’s Cabinet from 1987 to 1993.)

The Children’s Cabinet is a private/public partnership focused on filling the gaps in needed services for children and their families. Pam started her career there with two parttime gigs working with teenagers, as a case manager in the Truancy Program and the leader of the Sierra Wilderness Experience and Training (SWEAT) program. She’s served in a variety of positions over the years and currently is employed as the human resources director, in charge of recruitment, hiring, and training of new staff.

For the last 25 years, Pam’s career has evolved along with the Cabinet’s eagerness to try new approaches to complicated issues such as truancy and delinquency, access to affordable, quality child care, and mental health concerns. As the longest-serving Cabinet employee, Pam had the opportunity to apply her unique style to every problem needing a solution.

Ask anyone who’s ever worked with her and they’ll tell you about her passionate determination, her booming laughter, and enveloping hugs.

Pam didn’t hesitate when asked which Cabinet program has had the biggest impact on our community, responding with conviction that the Healthy Beginnings Coalition addressing issues of perinatal substance abuse, prevention, intervention and treatment was her biggest success. She noted the importance of collaborating with others to train people on how best to prevent the permanent damage that children can suffer from perinatal substance abuse: “No one can leave one of those trainings and be the same as they were when they started.”

Pam is excited about the newest efforts of the Children’s Cabinet to focus on emerging adults, ages 18 to 26, with delinquent pasts, by assisting them to find meaningful work opportunities and avoiding deeper involvement in the criminal justice system. She knows that a good job prevents a lot of crime.

Mike Pomi, the Cabinet’s executive director, says today’s award is the “culmination of a job well done, every day, for 25 years. Pam comes to work excited and enthusiastic about helping kids and families and is always ready to take on a new challenge.”

For her part, Pam dreams of the day when she arrives at work and the door is locked because every local child and family has what they need.

Until then, she plans to continue doing whatever she can to fulfill the Cabinet’s mission of keeping children safe and families together. Ω

The Human Services Network has a lot of good info about how to help on its website: http://humanservicesnetwork.org.

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Will the GOP waste a golden opportunity?

The Republicans control Nevada’s state government for the first time since the 1920s. They also control the Congress, although with a hostile Democratic president.

What now? The Party of No, of big talk about reducing government, is almost completely in by Brendan control of the federal and most state Trainor governments.

The libertarian challenge is simply this: With the Republicans in power, will there be an actual reduction in the budgets they control, by even one dime?

Certainly not in the Congress, where they want to increase defense spending immediately. The best chance is in the states. Nowhere is it more possible than Nevada. Will government actually be cut this legislative session?

If the Nevada budget is not cut, will its growth at least be confined to population growth and inflation rates? The legislature should debate and pass a growth limitation law for Nevada that is similar to Colorado’s.

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Can education be funded, or as a libertarian would ask, should it be? Isn’t education too important to leave to the government? I know, Nevada is not ready for that. Too many harried parents build their lives around the schools. At least the legislature can lay to rest the failed notion of funding education by a margin tax, and come up with some more creative funding solutions.

They also need to reform Kenny Guinn’s misguided Millennium Scholarship program. The Republicans will strengthen vocational education and the community college systems. Unlike the Democrats, they will not claim that a college education for everyone is the way out of poverty. Inflated degrees and tuition—everyone, it seems, has a master’s or three these days—should be replaced with good, basic real-world skills.

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their children? I hope the teachers’ unions can be persuaded to accept that the top teachers should make top dollar. Will the tired, union friendly, faux solution of class-size reduction finally be rejected in Carson City?

Forcing Ira Hansen to step down as majority leader in the Assembly was misguided, in my humble opinion.

Those who exploited controversial statements he made as a Sparks Tribune columnist and radio talk show host should remember that he was fired from his radio show for criticizing the special relationship that both major parties have created between the U.S. and Israel. Need we add anti-Semitic to the list of his politically incorrect sins? It is troubling that attacks on free speech nowadays are mostly from the left, not the right.

The answer to stupid speech is more speech, not more PC labels.

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and immigration, her Buchanonite right-of-center philosophy has much in common with libertarian small-government ends. She will now have to deal with the dismantling of her core achievement, the Defense of Marriage constitutional amendment. Janine and others, like home schooling advocate Lynn Chapman, always attend the Nevada Legislature, and their Nevada Families group is an excellent watchdog on taxes, civil liberties, federalism and privacy.

You may not realize that Janine often joins the ACLU in testifying in Carson City against assaults on these important liberties. Her “BYE BYE BLM” bumper sticker will be seen on a lot of vehicles in Carson City this year.

The time is now for the Republicans in Nevada and the country. Hopefully, we will not look back on 2015 and wonder how the elephant could labor so mightily to give birth to such a small mouse of real change for Nevada. Ω

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When the Washoe School Board faced off against the superintendent it had appointed—Pedro Martinez, second from right—some locals wanted to overturn an elected board.

Amnesty announced Washoe Justice Court in Reno is offering scofflaws a chance to get straight with the law. Those who have failed to pay traffic tickets and likely have outstanding arrest warrants against them can have the warrants forgiven by showing up at the court to pay the tickets.

“Generally, when a citation goes unpaid, the court sends a reminder notice to the last known address,” read a statement from the court. “If the court receives no response from the notice, an arrest warrant is filed for failing to obey the court order to appear or make payments. After the court issues a warrant for arrest, the DMV usually suspends the license.”

Other fees may have accumulated in addition to the original fine, and those may still have to be paid, but it’s better than being arrested—particularly while driving without a license. Many scofflaws don’t realize their licenses are suspended.

Reid injuries bring out the best

Democracy Should we elect our officials?

REID AND CHARLES SCHUMER (RIGHT) U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, injured while exercising, missed the opening day ceremonies of the new Congress when doctors told him to work from home. His office released a photo of him meeting with other leaders. His face was bandaged to deal with facial bone fractures. He also broke several ribs.

In some quarters, humor was employed, as with a Washington Post headline: “One day in the minority, and Harry Reid already looks battered.” Notwithstanding Reid’s injuries, Daily Beast said the senator—a former boxer who said he does 750 push-ups a week—had “fitness-shamed” the nation.

But many places, the vitriol continued unabated. After Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, who filled in for Reid at the opening ceremonies, said Reid looked like he “went through the windshield of a car,” a reader comment on the Washington Times website read, “Too bad he didn’t go through the windshield of a car. I can’t think of a member of congress who deserves it more. His miserable tenure in the senate would then be over.”

Locally, readers posted comments like this on the Las Vegas Sun site: GeorgeStipes: “PROBABLY @PITY SCAM.” ElisabetaRoja: “PLLLLLLEASE. So, which sex toy or working girl actually caused the damage? ... That or DRUNK driving. Seriously, as if this guy ever worked out in his life.”

Republicans in November won both houses of the Nevada Legislature and every state government office elected statewide. by The last time this happened was in Dennis Myers 1890. In looking up that information, we found something else interesting.

In 1890, Nevadans elected a dozen statewide offices, some of which the Nevada Constitution did not require be elected. Today, however, the state’s voters elect only half that number—only the six offices the state constitution requires be elective.

Appointment “creates better alignment in governance.”

Dan Elsener University president

Rosenberg accepts award On hand to accept a “shaft award” given to the Washoe County School Board by the annual satirical show Sheep Dip last weekend, board member Howard Rosenberg said, “In the spirit of laughter and the joy it brings, not meanspirited hurtfulness, I accept this award and would suggest only that we recognize that there are a minimum of two sides to every issue, and often there are three. After the news this week of what is happening in Paris, isn’t it a wonderful thing that we can do our own live Charlie Hebdo here in the United States without threats or fear? As Yacov Smirnoff used to say, ‘What a country!’ We are so blessed.

God bless America.”

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For a look at the nuances of electing state school superintendents, see http://tinyurl.com/ mvppgye and http:// tinyurl.com/l25lctc

It’s easy to understand why Nevadans stopped electing the state printer in 1970. (The job was originally made elective in the 19th century when printing was one of state government’s principal expenses.)

But why would the Legislature take away the voters’ ability to elect the state school superintendent?

And why would Nevada voters have approved the change, as they did in 1956? If there’s something the public can be considered informed on, it’s schools. Few households are not touched by education in some form.

It’s easy to understand why the state mines inspector is no longer elected, though there was good reason

for it when mining was the state’s principal industry. But state surveyor general was removed from the list of elective positions in 1954 even though the state continues to be dominated by land issues involving federally managed lands. The surveyor general’s office became involved in questionable land deals because the legislature had never provided oversight for that office, as it had for controller and treasurer. Instead of simply remedying that flaw, it made the office appointive.

There are, in fact, plenty of bits of evidence that the public’s vote does not command the respect it once did.

On Sept. 25, for instance, the Reno Gazette-Journal called for all but one member of the Washoe County School Board to resign, which would have voided the voters’ choices because of a single decision by the board—a move also supported by community figures like developer Perry Di Loreto.

At the same time, Assembly Republican leader Pat Hickey ordered up a bill draft from the Legislative Counsel Bureau to change the board membership to a mix of appointive and elective members.

Something similar had been tried when decisions by the Nevada Board of Regents proved unpopular with miscellaneous state leaders. The Legislature put a measure on the 2006 ballot to create a mix of appointed and elected board members. It was narrowly defeated.

In 2011, Gov. Brian Sandoval convinced the Nevada Legislature to change the elective Nevada Board

of Education to a mix of appointed and elected members. This new law provides a whole mess of complicated and dubious provisions, including special interest rewards.

• One non-voting member is appointed by the Board of Regents.

• Three non-voting members are appointed by lobby groups—the Nevada Association of School Boards, the Nevada Association of School Superintendents, and the Nevada Association of Student Councils.

• And there’s another overlay of requirements—one of the above members must be a teacher approved by the Nevada State Education Association, another must be a businessperson, and a third must be a parent of a public school student.

• One voting member each is appointed by the speaker of the Nevada Assembly and the majority leader of the Senate, a sharp breach of the separation of powers. In addition, the majority leader is not actually a legislative official, but an official of a political party—a private organization.

• The remaining four voting members are elective and must now run not from their former small local districts but from the state’s U.S. House districts, making it more expensive to run and reducing the number of candidates who can afford to run.

• To make some of this technically legal, the governor makes the appointments. But he can only appoint from names supplied to him by the lobby groups or legislators, meaning they, not the governor, are actually deciding who sits on the board. The governor is allowed only a single appointment of a voting member. On the current board, that is Elaine Wynn.

Are the sentiments of Nevada voters likely to find their way through this Rube Goldberg arrangement?

At one time, virtually every sheriff in the nation was elected. But appointive sheriffs have become common enough that the National Sheriff’s Association has issued a paper opposing them: “The sheriff provides a check and balance as an elected county official directly responsible to the citizens that protects from undue influence by members of the county board or by other county officials. ...

History has shown in those jurisdictions in which the sheriff is appointed there is a decrease in quality and continuity of law enforcement services and administration. When the sheriff is subject to the whims and caprices of the board of commissioners, the office becomes more politicized, not less. ...

[Elected sheriffs provide] stability and continuity of office.”

At one point in Broward County, Florida, however, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel editorialized for appointment: “Broward does not need a professional politician heading an independent political fiefdom, chosen on the basis of charisma, aggressive public relations, party label or the ability to do favors, raise money and win votes.”

On school superintendents, Nevada is flanked by California—which elects its state superintendent—and Utah, which appoints. Nevada had a superintendent appointed by the board of education until 2011, when the legislature handed the appointment power over to the governor. Gov. Sandoval appointed James Guthrie as his first superintendent, then forced him out after Guthrie took some public stances of which the governor did not approve. Sandoval then appointed a former member of his office staff who had also headed a state culture agency, Dale Erquiaga, to the post.

The issue is being debated now in Indiana, where the legislature is considering a measure to make the currently elective post into an appointive position.

The Muncie Star Press last week editorialized, “We believe voters— that is, parents—ought to have a direct say in what’s best for Indiana students.

The state school superintendent ought to be directly accountable to voters, not to the governor. … It’s a sure bet an appointed state school chief would follow lockstep with the governor,

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But Marian University President Dan Elsener said appointment helps build consensus by eliminating dissenting views: “I think [appointment] creates better alignment in governance so that the governor and the state superintendent and the board are all in alignment. Teachers, principals and superintendents all deserve to know who’s accountable to whom and that there’s one agenda, not two or three.”

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Political scientist Fred Lokken argues, “All too often we have an electorate in the state of Nevada where at best 40 percent show up. Some of them feel they don’t know the issues and stay home.”

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I grew up on the Connecticut shore. When I was 15, my dad gave me my own boat, a 12-foot wooden skiff with a 10 horsepower rope-start outboard motor. He warned me not to take it beyond the breakwaters on Long Island Sound, a couple of miles out. Later that summer, I found myself—along with a girl in a bikini—way beyond the breakwater, about to begin my misspent youth. Had I been born in the Reno area, however, my youth would likely have been misspent within the ruins of the United

Center: American Flat circa 1924. In the 1860s, American City was in contention to be the capital of Nevada, but instead it sank into oblivion. A half-century later, as seen here, the town of Comstock emerged, with its small pre-fab homes for workers and larger administration buildings flanking the sprawling structures of the United Comstock Merger Mill at American Flat. The trestle at the right supported an electric mine train that extended through a tunnel 13,500 feet long to the workings in Gold Hill and Virginia City. (photo: Joe Curtis ColleCtion)

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Bottom: The ruins of the American Flat Mill. Before the demolition commenced in midNovember, the mill ruins at American Flat consisted of eight buildings. The largest was the sprawling cyanide plant, which fills the bottom half of this photograph.

This multi-part structure was once covered by an immense roof. The tallest was the four-story fine grinding and concentration building at the upper right. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

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The VR tour commissioned by the BLM (http://www. allaroundnevada.com/ american-flat-mill/) was created by stitching together multiple photographs from each of 127 viewpoints to create the interconnected 360-degree environments.

We are experimenting with adapting the virtual tour using the Oculus Rift head mounted display. Perhaps one day there will be a World of Warcraft map: “Assault on American Flat.” (photo: howard Goldbaum)

Middle left: Airsoft family feud. In October, Kevin Carrick of Carson City brought his five children, ages 12-18, plus three others, for a friendly if occasionally painful Airsoft pellet gun battle in the ruins. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

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Just south of Virginia City, the eight skeletal structures of the mill had a far longer decline than they had a working life. The mill was built in 1922 but was shuttered and stripped of anything useful just four years later. While its reinforced concrete construction and its cyanide-slurry process were both innovative for the era, the decline in the price of silver put an end to the venture.

At her Thanksgiving table this year, Cathy Schmidt of Reno told her sons, 20 and 23, that after hearing about it on the news she and a friend went to American Flat to take pictures prior to the demolition. She asked them if they had ever been out there.

The buildings slowly decayed, the protruding rebar and gaping holes providing an enticing stage for all the drama of youth, an engaging if dystopian setting for graffiti artists, photographers, and Airsoft warriors. The ruins were so evocative that a movie, Godmonster of Indian Flats, was made here in 1973; something about radiation and mutated sheep.

Exploring the tunnels. Tunnels, once used for moving streams of ore slurry throughout the mill, were covered with graffiti. In the virtual-reality tour of the mill, two of the tunnels may be entered and explored. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

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Middle right: Fashion shoot. Sparks photographer Steve Erickson captured this edgy fashion shoot in the mill ruins in April 2008. Removal of milling machinery soon after the plant’s closing in 1926 caused the gaping holes in the concrete flooring. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

“Uh, yeah, Mom,” they replied.

Schmidt asked her sons why they had never told her about it.

“It’s not the kind of place you tell your mom about,” they said.

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Far from home. At the north side of the fine grinding and concentration building, rows of concrete pillars covered in multi-hued, multi-layered graffiti combine with the sunrise light to create a magical environment.

The mill was one of the locations used in the 1989 film Far From Home, with Drew Barrymore.

Inverted pyramids. The inverted pyramids of the concentration tanks inspired a graffiti artist to paint the iconic “Eye of Providence” within the light-filled triangle at the end of the structure. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

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A new view. A few weeks before its demolition, with many years of brush and trees stripped away from its western side, a novel view of the concentration tanks building appeared.

The declining price of silver, $1 an ounce when the mill opened in 1922 but only 53 cents in 1926, sealed the fate of the venture, with the loss of 500 jobs on the Comstock. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

Storey County Emergency Manager Joe Curtis has heard much folklore regarding “the Flats.” Someone once soberly informed him that the structures were haunted due to their use as a home for unwed mothers. Curtis remembers the Storey County fire or sheriff’s department responding to emergency calls there a couple of times a month each summer, ranging from outof-control bonfires to stolen cars wrecked and abandoned in the ruins. One man, according to Curtis, fell from an upper story and was impaled on a piece of rebar. He survived. Another man, inebriated and riding a quad down a flight of stairs in the dark, was not so fortunate.

Yet the site inspired a passionate local following, some of whom commented on the FaceBook “Save American Flat” page, with 2,379 “likes:” • Jared: “My church as a teenager. Found myself out there.”

• Brandon: “The few random times showing up out there in the middle of the night to no fires, no cars, but random shadows lurking about.”

• Jenny: “A post-apocalyptic zombie inspiring fantasy. Raw and magnificent.”

Phantasmagorical creatures. The many phantasmagorical animals who once inhabited the ruins of the American Flat Mill have been reduced to dust. The undersea monsters, ghostly apparitions, and clones of the Alien are no more. In a year or so, after the site has been returned to a natural state, the only animals there will be the herd of horses who call American Flat home. (photo: howard Goldbaum)

• Gina: “Every building, every hole & dark space spoke like the walls were written on.”

• Anne: “I have stories I can never tell but also never forget.”

After considering a few alternatives, the Bureau of Land Management determined that the American Flat Mill was a liability they could no longer abide, and contrary to the hopes of historic preservationists and others, oversaw the demolition of the ruins toward the end of last year. As a part of the required historical mitigation, the BLM asked me to create a virtual-reality exploration of the site, now but a memory. While it surely cannot compare with the real thing, this is one memory to which you can always return: www.allaroundΩ nevada.com/american-flat-mill/

For another account of american Flat, see “the incredible hulks” by dennis myers at www.newsreview.com/reno/ incredible-hulks/content?oid=1940069

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The demolition scene on Dec. 19 showed all eight of the American Flat Mill structures as piles of rubble. With their early 20th-Century abundant use of rebar, some of the buildings presented a difficult task for the wrecking ball. (photo: Steve erickSon)

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The group of 20 or so people hashes out all of the crucial details of an upcoming, with all the lively banter of a big family get-together.

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It’s this delicate symbiosis between serious work and energetic positivity that best describes the atmosphere that the Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society (NNBCAS) creates and thrives in.

Yet George Hardaway, the current NNBCAS president and one of the original members, remembers its modest beginnings.

“There were nine of us founding members,” he said. “We started this society because there was a tremendous lack of appreciation and respect for the cultural significance of different racial and ethnic groups to American culture. ... It was 1988 and we were all at Angie Taylor’s house, sitting around her mother’s table,

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and began to put together this structure. Then, just a year later in 1989, we were incorporated as a nonprofit organization.”

Now in its 27th year, NNBCAS continues its goal of informing Northern Nevadans and accomplishments in disciplines like music, literature, art, and dance by individuals of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, but with a strong emphasis on African-Americans.

The first step that NNBCAS has taken in achieving this mission was reaching out to bridge the gap between the organization and its intended audience.

Since its inception, NNBCAS has established an all-inclusive connection with Northern Nevada residents.

From giving presentations about African-American history to rural communities in the surrounding area, to participating in panels at the University of Nevada, Reno, the group provides a wealth of opportunities to meet, interact and learn about NNBCAS’s purpose.

The biggest NNBCAS open event for the public is the annual Juneteenth festival. The word Juneteenth is a combination of June and nineteenth, which signifies the date in 1865 that news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas.

For over 20 years, NNBCAS has marked this anniversary with a free summer celebration that includes food and activities. NNBCAS participates in many philanthropic efforts, such as donating dozens of pairs of shoes to the Children’s Cabinet, as well as fundraising efforts that aid various causes, like funding for young scholars to participate in tours of historically black colleges and universities.

“It’s important for people to understand the importance of African-American history,” says member Gloria Bennett Jackson. “But it’s so important for the youth to know that, and that it is part of this community—and that they can be a part of it as well.”

In a state with one of the lowest graduation rates in the country, NNBCAS emphasizes education with enthusiasm.

The society hosts initiatives to encourage and ensure the success of students in the area, providing incentives like roller skating parties to kids with good GPAs, tutoring at a local Boys and Girls Club, and working with the National Guard to fund monetary prizes for the elementary through college-level students who win their annual essay contest.

“We know that students look different and they start out at different points, go through different processes, and we want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity for an equitable outcome so that they can be successful,” says Tiffany Young, NNBCAS board Jr. member, who's also the equity and diversity coordinator for the Washoe County School District.

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“We work proactively, not reactively. It is ignorance and lack of understanding that creates fear, which in turn creates stereotypes and discrimination.”

and compassion that have yet to become steadfastly prejudicial, that NNBCAS works to inspire.

“I truly believe that the United States is the greatest country in the world—but that doesn’t mean it can’t improve,” says Hardaway.

Currently, the organization is in the midst of preparations for its 27th annual dinner to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. NNBCAS hopes to provide a rewarding evening, beginning with a presentation featuring Dr. King’s celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech from 1963, continuing with recognizing the winning students for this year’s youth essay contest, and finishing with an address from Judge Glenda Hatchett, the event’s keynote speaker.

Hatchett is most known for her two-time Emmy nominated television show, Judge Hatchett, and also holds the title of Georgia’s first African-American Chief Presiding Judge of a state court. She is active in charity work to aid neglected children and is a respected author.

The night’s schedule carries a central theme, “Continuing the dream: We are better together.”

This reference to Dr. King’s speech highlights what can be accomplished through perseverance and cooperation.

“We are not here to war against one another,” says Marsha Dupree, board member and chair of the upcoming dinner. “We are there to see what we can learn from one another, even in one room, at small tables people are connecting with one another. … It’s not to ignore the fact that we come from different backgrounds, but it is to celebrate the differences and the contributions that we all make to society.” Ω

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racial and ethnic cultural awareness may not be apparent at first glance, it’s a key facet of NNBCAS’ strategy.

“We work proactively, not reactively,” says Hardaway. “It is ignorance and lack of understanding that creates fear, which in turn creates stereotypes and discrimination.”

Northern Nevada has a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), but it has a different goal than NNBCAS. While the NAACP works to remedy social injustice, NNBCAS seeks to spread awareness and uplift the status of contributions to American culture made by minority groups—to treat the causes of inequality, instead of the repercussions of it.

“I think we are a voice for the African-American community that is different, but needed,” says David Gamble, current board member and former president of NNBCAS. “We want to share our rich culture, in hopes that people will learn to appreciate it.”

Thus, it all comes back to the younger generations. In the midst of strained race relations and socioeconomic schisms, it is this demographic, armed with curiosity

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“I get bored easily,” says multimedia artist Ray Herschleb. by It explains why his voluminous Jessica collection of works ranges so widely Santina from paint to glass to metal work, jewelry and re-purposed furniture.

Herschleb was born to a family of artists and grew up in Yosemite Valley, steeped his whole life in his mother’s drawings and paintings and his father’s music.

He’s been making art since he was a child, and it never occurred to him to earn formal training in such a thing.

“I think that either you’re a creative herschleb and 15 other local artists will person, or you’re not,” he says. display work in the As a young man with an itch to make upcoming startup things, he entered the workplace as a twenty Fifteen exhibit tradesman, receiving on-the-job training at a an art Boutique and Gallery, 40 E. through apprenticeships in cabinetry Fourth St. in and electrical work. This inspired and downtown reno. the enabled him to finally make the things show opens with an he had imagined. artist’s reception on Feb. 6 at 5 p.m.

“I think of art as an exploration— I’m an explorer,” he says. “In my early days, I would do pen and ink, watercolors, acrylics … one-dimensional stuff

I could see. But then, after a certain point, I would learn how to do more things, and it would click that I finally knew how to create the stuff I’d been thinking about.”

In recent years, his work has increasingly been three-dimensional, with many pieces incorporating LED backlighting and infinity work—incorporating light and mirrors to create infinite spaces. One such piece, “Infinite X,” was developed for the KTHX-FM broadcasting center.

Herschleb has been the station’s Artist of the Month three times. Twisted metal in the shape of an X is framed within a lit, mirrored box that makes the X appear to repeat inward into infinity.

Herschleb’s day job is in home automation and integration, drawing upon his skills in electronics and sound/ multimedia. He takes on commission work as well, making such art-for-hire pieces as colored glass door panels, pondscapes and benches.

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Skilled trades have always been the backbone of his artistic process, incorporating salvaged items from construction sites and other discarded items: broken safety glass, grout, twisted metal scraps, an old door, copper pieces, lighting tubes, old paint, wires and even a Reno News & Review newspaper rack, “art box.”

But making art doesn’t often fit conveniently into a managed schedule.

“Sometimes something pops into my head. I have to bring it to fruition in order to let it go. I just have to get it out of my head. Then I can sleep.”

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“It never occurred to me to go to galleries and ask them to show my work,” he laughs. “I just figured, ‘I want to show my work—I’ll start a gallery!’”

In addition, his work has also been shown at the NadaDada Art Show and the Artist’s Co-op in Reno and San Francisco’s Open Studio, and he was a regular in the Midtown Art Walk last year.

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Chicken satay is usually a highlight of a Thai meal, but these were quite yellow—turmeric?—and oddly lacking in flavor. Again, the peanut sauce improved the overall taste, and a small cup of cucumber salad on the side helped with plenty of rice vinegar and sesame oil flavor.

Entrees included chicken pad Thai ($9.99), teriyaki chicken ($9.99), pumpkin curry ($12.95), wonton noodle soup ($8.95), crispy duck ($13.95), red vegetable curry ($6.95), and garlic pepper chicken ($8.95). Every one of these dishes was delicious, which was a relief given the mixed results with our choice of starters. Note: their 1-5 scale is hotter than most. Try it at 2 or 3 and add sauce to taste.

Pad Thai is one of my favorites, and though I’ve had better, this version went well with the rest of our meal. The teriyaki was pretty much what you’d expect, crispy chicken in sweet sauce served with mildly fermented cabbage. My wife’s favorite Thai dish, pumpkin curry, was prepared with prawns as well as chicken in the coconut milk and spice. I thought the flavors were wellbalanced, which is a bit surprising since I’m usually not a fan of pumpkin unless there’s crust, sugar, nutmeg and whipped cream involved.

The soup did have chicken wontons, but there were also noodles and other goodies in the broth. My niece loved this and was miffed when told we’d finished it. (“There was a big bowl. Now where is it?”) Luckily, the fried duck breast with honey and vegetables distracted her from further soup-related accusations. The red curry involved coconut milk, spices, and a variety of vegetables with great texture and flavor. The chicken stirfried in garlic and black pepper was combined with broccoli for another satisfying dish.

Strangely enough, all this food arrived without rice, including the brown stuff my wife ordered for $1.

Once alerted, our server brought the rice with apology, but it was nearly too late.

The ladies wanted dessert, but I have to admit being a little shocked at the $5.95 price for a single scoop of plain ice cream. It just seemed a bit much, especially when compared to the very reasonable prices we paid for everything else.

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We were served piping hot cups of the day’s complimentary soup, a mildly spiced rice and ginger concoction that was new to us and thoroughly enjoyed. Next up came the appetizers, including golden calamari ($7.95), crispy egg rolls ($4.95), fresh rolls ($4.95), and chicken satay ($7.95).

Squares of squid fried in tempura were served with a sweet chili sauce.

They were perfectly cooked and delicate in texture and flavor—very different from the Italian variety. The egg rolls were small, crisply fried and stuffed with cabbage, carrots, mushroom and silver noodles, but not much flavor. The sauce added a little, but I wouldn’t order them again.

The Thai-style fresh rolls were essentially lettuce/cucumber/carrot salads, wrapped in rice paper with a lone piece of barely detectable shrimp.

The peanut sauce helped quite a bit, but I prefer Vietnamese spring rolls.

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Confirmed kill American Sniper Chris Kyle is a legendary Navy SEAL, and Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of him in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is powerful and compelling.

Eastwood’s film, as a whole, has plenty of problems, but Cooper rises above the patchy melodrama and overly slick segments to make the film worthwhile.

Kyle was killed while the film was being by produced, shot to death by a veteran he was Bob Grimm trying to mentor on a shooting range. Kyle did four tours in Iraq, with 160 confirmed kills, an b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m American sniper record. His story is extraordinary, not just for what he did overseas, but for the way he eventually met his death.

The film works best when depicting Kyle at work in Iraq, constructing some very tense battle scenes and sequences as seen through Kyle’s riflescope. There’s a subplot involving an enemy sniper named Mustafa (Sammy Sheik) that feels like an entirely different movie. For some reason, Eastwood employs a showier style in the scenes involving Mustafa, which feel a bit false and artificial alongside the movie’s grittier moments.

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Eastwood does a decent job of showing what soldiers like Kyle were up against in Iraq. Soldiers sit down for what seems to be a friendly dinner, only to discover a cache of weapons in another room. Women give their children bombs to lob at Americans.

Enemy torture artists take drills to the heads of children because their parents spoke with American soldiers.

The film is also powerful in dealing with Kyle’s solitary stress when home from the war. One of the film’s best scenes involves Kyle running into a former soldier while in an auto shop. It’s in these moments that Cooper does a fantastic job of depicting a man with a lot of bad memories clamoring for attention in his head.

Saddled with the film’s worst dialogue, Sienna Miller battles hard in trying to make Kyle’s wife, Taya, an intriguing movie character. Much fault for the Taya character’s shortcomings falls on screenwriter Jason Hall’s leaden lines. There are scenes in this movie involving Taya that you will swear you’ve seen before because there’s nothing original or standout about them. Still, Miller is a strong actress, and she salvages as much as she can with the role.

Eastwood’s film completely avoids some of the more controversial stateside aspects of Kyle’s post-war life, such as his strange feud with former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, and his alleged killing of two carjackers in Dallas, Texas. That was probably a good choice, because the film feels a bit overstuffed at two-plus hours. Kyle punching Ventura in the face—as Kyle alleged in his book—would’ve been an interesting sight, but it wouldn’t have fit in this movie. That would’ve been too much of a tonal shift.

Cooper underwent an impressive physical transformation to play Kyle.

He shows that the transformation wasn’t all cosmetic in a moment when he seems to deadlift the weight of a small city during a training session.

Eastwood includes some footage of the actual funeral procession and memorial event held for Kyle. He shies away from showing Kyle’s death, but we do get a brief glimpse of an actor portraying his assailant. It’s such a strange ending to Kyle’s story.

Eastwood did two movies in 2014, and American Sniper is far superior to his lousy Jersey Boys. Still, there are times when Eastwood doesn’t seem to have full command of the frame, and he is working with a spotty script at best.

What you will walk away from American Sniper with is the impact of Cooper’s dedicated performance. Cooper, currently starring on Broadway in The Elephant Man, is an actor forever taking risks and challenging himself. He does “the Legend” proud. Ω

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Steve Carell disappears into the role of 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 Mark and David Schultz, two Olympic gold medal-winning siblings who, unfortunately, worked for du Pont when he had his breakdown. Down on his luck and living on ramen noodles, Mark gets a call from du Pont inviting him out to his Foxcatcher farm. Mark finds a sense of purpose working with du Pont, and eventually summons his brother and his family to Foxcatcher. What follows is a descent into insanity for the attention-starved du Pont, who lives under the chastising eye of his mother (Vanessa Redgrave) and is obsessed with controlling others. The madness eventually ended with the death of one of the brothers, and du Pont living his final years in prison. Carell is amazingly good here; one only need watch a few minutes of the real du Pont on YouTube to know that he has nailed the characterization.

Tatum and Ruffalo are equally good as the confused brothers. Mark Schultz is currently protesting director Bennett Miller’s portrayal of him in the film, and he might be in the right on a few aspects of that portrayal. Still, it’s a great film that leaves an appropriately sick feeling in the stomach.

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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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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’s seriously high most of the time, and just sort of piecing things together at his own mellow, sometimes clumsy pace.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s is a simultaneously goofy and complicated take on the Thomas Pynchon novel that puts the director back on the right track after the relatively disappointing The Master. Phoenix is terrific, as is Josh Brolin as a jar-headed cop with whom he’s constantly butting heads. The likes of Martin Short, Owen Wilson and Reese Witherspoon all make sweet contributions. Those who smoke a lot of pot will probably have an easier time with this intentionally spacey movie. Those who have never indulged might find things confusing the first couple of times around.

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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

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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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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.

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.

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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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Back in the USSR Rubles Plunge The band name came to bassist Brion Hill in a fortuitous moment of ignorance.

In the 1990s, he was working as a by Kent Irwin plumber when the Russian ruble took an infamous dive. He was on a job fixing pipes in a basement, when he caught sight of a newspaper with the headline “Rubles Plunge Rocks Moscow.” It was then that Hill uttered a Wayne’s World worthy line in total sincerity: “Rubles Plunge?

I’ve never heard of that band.”

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doctors of some form, holding either an M.D. or a PhD. They didn’t want to be a “doctor band,” especially since, according to Hill, they’ve been down that road before.

Rubles Plunge approaches topics as diverse as hitting the road, experimenting with drugs, and killer robots. One song, titled “Artifact” contemplates the decay of a woman who’d had a boob job.

How long the silicon would outlast the rest of the body is only a guess, but Rubles Plunge turn it into a vehicle for delivering the song’s hook: “Gimme something real to believe in.”

In more ways than their preference for natural breasts, Rubles Plunge longs for the kind of raw sincerity that made such a splash in the early days of rock music. Although the band incorporates different styles in its songs— everything from funk to country to rap—the feel is very much in line with the guitar-slinging heroes of the 1970s, and the various echoes of hard rock that paid tribute to that era.

Rubles Plunge songs vary in style, but instead of a blend, they like to designate genre shifts to individual tunes. One song may be an homage to arena rock, another to heavy metal, another to soul inspired

by Al Green. They even include a song in their set that plays in with their Russian imagery—a syncopated, minor scale dancer described

by Hill as “ass-blasting Soviet surf.”

At the moment, cover songs make up most of Rubles Plunge’s set. They want to give more stage time to their originals before having an entire set composed of them. The covers do a good job of informing the band’s energy, allowing them to deliver high-octane shows to their built-in crowd.

The band members aim to polish their songs, record them, and look for opening gigs with touring acts while acquiring more stage time locally. Then they hope to expand to the greater West Coast region. For now, they’re happy playing to their audience, who they describe as “employed” and “alcohol drinking.” Ω

Commies? Jason Crawford, Chris DiPaolo, Matt Leone, and Brion Hill are the band Rubles Plunge.

The name Rubles Plunge stuck with him. When the time came to christen a group assembled from the ashes of several other projects, the old punchline came back to him.

Singer and guitarist Jason Crawford embraced the name in terms of feel and aesthetic. The band now practices in a loft above a machine shop, where the winter occasionally creeps in.

“It sometimes feels like the cold Russian winter up here,” said Crawford. “Up here in this industrial building, it lends a kind of Soviet vibe.”

Rubles Plunge incorporate Soviet elements for imagery, from their logo, derived from the Russian flag, to their stage outfits. The music is purely American issue, particularly the kind coming out before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Rubles Plunge are devotees of raw rock ’n’ roll.

The guitars are loud, the lyrics are daring, and the attitude is carefree.

The Soviet aesthetic also helped the band sidestep a more obvious gimmick. All of the members are

rubles Plunge perform on Friday, Jan. 30, 211 n. Virginia St. at the Knitting Factory with the Convulsionaires and hellbusters. For more information, visit www.reverbnation. com/rublesplunge.

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THURSDAY 1/15

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SATURDAY 1/17

SUNDAY 1/18

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/19-1/21

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 BAR OF AMERICA

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

Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Tainted Love

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

Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, $TBA

Dippin’ Sauce, 8pm, $TBA

Dippin’ Sauce, 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

CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL

Moondog Matinee Album Release Party The Wood Brothers, Mandolin Orange, w/Rigorous Proof, Bryan Jones, 8pm, $10 8pm, $20-$23

Fundraiser for Randy “Skippy” Sloan of Midnight Riders, 7pm, Tu, $10

Kelly Ann Miller, 9pm, no cover

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

World Dance Open Floor, 8pm, no cover

Carson Feet Warmers, 11:30am, Tu, no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

Takedown, 9:30pm, no cover

The Last Kings, 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

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

DJ JuuJ, 10pm, M, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

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

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

Comedy

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

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

COMMA COFFEE

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

Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Julia Scotti, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Barry Friedman, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95

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

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

Chi Mclean, 7pm, no cover

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

Jason Wooley, 7pm, no cover

The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Shayla Rivera, Joel Lindley, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Greg Fitzsimmons, Jodi Borrello, W, 9pm, $25

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Justin Rivera, F, 9pm, $12-$15; Sa, 2pm (all-ages show), $10-$15; Greg Asdourian, Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $13-$15

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

Open mic, 7pm, no cover

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

DJ Trivia, 9pm, no cover

FUEGO

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

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

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300 1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

HELLFIRE SALOON

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

Rubles Plunge, 8:30pm, no cover

9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 622-8878

Big Game Party Reno Ballroom

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SUNDAY SUNDAY1/18 1/18

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

THE THEHOLLAND HOLLANDPROJECT PROJECT

Young YoungBlood BloodShowcase, Showcase,6pm, 6pm,$1$1

140140Vesta VestaSt.,St.,(775) (775)742-1858 742-1858

JUB JUBJUB’S JUB’STHIRST THIRSTPARLOR PARLOR

1) 1)Affiance, Affiance,Kingdom KingdomofofGiants, Giants,Dennis Dennisis is Dead, Dead,WeWePredict PredictA ARiot, Riot,For ForThose Those Searching, Searching,6:30pm, 6:30pm,$10 $10

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

Keith KeithAnderson, Anderson,Valentine ValentineRodeo, Rodeo, Molly MollySeals, Seals,8pm, 8pm,$15-$26 $15-$26

Sinicle, Sinicle,Seductive SeductiveRage, Rage,UpUpAgainst AgainstIt,It, Limbs LimbsofofthetheArbitrator, Arbitrator,6pm, 6pm,nonocover cover

MOODY’S MOODY’SBISTRO BISTROBAR BAR&&BEATS BEATS

Steven StevenRoth RothBand, Band,8:30pm, 8:30pm,nonocover cover

Steven StevenRoth RothBand, Band,8:30pm, 8:30pm,nonocover cover

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

DJDJRazz, Razz,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover

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

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

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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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Local LocalMusic MusicNight Nightw/locals w/localsbands bands ororlocal localDJs, DJs,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover

STUDIO STUDIOON ON4TH 4TH

EDM EDMMovement MovementReno RenoPresents Presents Lights LightsOut!, Out!,9pm, 9pm,$5$5

445 445California CaliforniaAve., Ave.,(775) (775)657-8484 657-8484

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

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

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

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

WHISKEY WHISKEYDICK’S DICK’SSALOON SALOON

Big BigHead HeadTodd Todd and andthe theMonsters Monsters Jan. Jan.18, 18,8:30 8:30p.m. p.m.

Crystal CrystalBay BayClub Club 1414Highway 28 Highway 28 Crystal Bay Crystal Bay 833-6333 833-6333

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

Live Livejazz, jazz,7:30pm, 7:30pm,W,W,nonocover cover

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

The TheWood WoodBrothers Brothers Jan. Jan.18, 18,8 8p.m. p.m.

Cargo Cargo 255 N. Virginia 255 N. VirginiaSt. St. 398-5400 398-5400

Massive MassiveTuesdays TuesdaysWinter WinterSeries, Series, 10pm, 10pm,Tu,Tu,$5$5

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

WILD WILDRIVER RIVERGRILLE GRILLE

Sunday SundayJazz, Jazz,2pm, 2pm,nonocover cover

1717S.S.Virginia VirginiaSt.,St.,(775) (775)284-7455 284-7455

WILDFLOWER WILDFLOWERVILLAGE VILLAGE

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MONDAY-WEDNESDAY1/19-1/21 1/19-1/21 Open OpenMic MicNight, Night,9pm, 9pm,M,M,nonocover cover Trivia TriviaNight, Night,9pm, 9pm,W,W,nonocover cover

1) The Writers’ Block Open Mic,

1) The Writers’ Block Open 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 FairyPub Pub3)3)Cabaret Cabaret

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

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SUNDAY 1/18

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/19-1/21

2) Echo Valle Road, 8pm, no cover

2) Echo Valle Road, 4pm, All In, 10pm, no cover

2) Echo Valle Road, 4pm, All In, 10pm, no cover

2) All In, 8pm, no cover

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

2) Decades, 8pm, no cover

2) Decades, 8pm, no cover

2) Dale Poune, 6pm, no cover

2) Dale Poune, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Wake of the Dead, 10pm, no cover

1) Naive Melodies, 10pm, no cover 2) LAMBchop, Mizle, 11:30pm, no cover

1) Big Head Todd and the Monsters, 8:30pm, $25-$30

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Cash Presley, 10:30pm, no cover

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 Pauly D, 10pm, $10-$30 3) Boots & Daisy Dukes w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

1) Damon Wayans, Damon Wayans, Jr., 9pm, $35-$75 2) DJ Peeti-V, 10pm, $30 3) County Social Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ JosBeats, DJ Audio 1, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Tainted Love, 7:30pm, $27.50 2) DJ Rick Gee, DJ Spider, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Rockapella, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 3) Take Two, 8pm, no cover

1) Rockapella, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 3) Take Two, 8pm, no cover

1) Rockapella, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 11pm, no cover Dave Russell, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 11pm, no cover Dave Russell, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

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

1) Kool & The Gang, 9pm, $55.50-$65.50 3) Boogie Nights, 9pm, $10 4) Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2) Ike & Martin, 8pm, no cover 3) Fixx Fridays, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm

2) Ike & Martin, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Mr. Best, 10pm, $20

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

Kool & The Gang Jan. 17, 9 p.m.

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) Stadium Bar

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

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

Karaoke

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

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

Cobra Lounge at Asian Noodles, 1290 E. Plumb Lane, Ste. 1, 828-7227: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques Simard, Sa, 8pm, no cover

HARRAH’S RENO

Hangar Bar, 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead, 677-7088: Karaoke Kat, Sa, 9pm, no cover

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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

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 Dave Russell, 8pm, no cover 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

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL

2) Ike & Martin, 7pm, no cover

345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rd Street Lounge 2) Copa Bar & Grill

2) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

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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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2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

1) Madame Houdini, Enchantress of the Elements, 8pm, Tu, 7pm, W, $24.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Blues Jam Wednesday, 7pm, W, no cover 2) Apple Z, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover 4) Mike Furlong Band, 9pm, no cover

1) George Lopez, 8pm, $60.50 -$80.50 2) Apple Z, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Mike Furlong Band, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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The Holland gallery holds its onenight-only-pop-up gallery for artists under age 21 to exhibit and sell their work in any medium and any genre. Young Blood takes place seasonally throughout the year, giving young local artists a chance to show off their skills and showcase what they’ve been working on. It’s also an opportunity for the young artists to get hands-on experience and learn the ins and outs of installing art in a gallery setting. The exhibit is on Friday, Jan. 16, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Holland Project gallery, 140 Vesta St. admission is $1 and the show includes food and music. Call 7421858 or visit www.hollandreno.org.

It may be cold outside, but lots of animals at the wildlife sanctuary and nature center enjoy the cooler temps. Dress warmly and venture outdoors to see them in action this weekend, Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 17-18, and again on Feb. 14-15, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m at the ark, 1265 Deerlodge Road, about 25 miles north of Reno, off Highway 395. Tickets are $12 for adults, $11 for seniors, $10 for children ages 3-15. admisison is free for children age 2 and younger. Please call (775) 970-3111 on event day as severe weather may cancel festivities. Visit www.animalark.org for details.

FaIRe S T PI C T uRe : MaRK T W a I N aT l a K e Ta H o e author David antonucci will recount Mark Twain’s adventures at lake Tahoe, including the time Twain’s campfire caused a wildfire, which he later wrote about in his 1872 memoir, Roughing It. audiences can follow Twain’s footsteps from Carson City to lake Tahoe and see the same views that inspired him to declare Tahoe as the “fairest picture the whole earth affords.”

Copies of David antonucci’s books, including Fairest Picture, are available for purchase. The program begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, at the galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway. admission is a suggested $5 donation per person. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

ReNo PHIlHaRMoNIC: ClaSSIx FouR The Reno Philharmonic orchestra welcomes Jeffrey Kahane as guest conductor for the Classix Four concert set. The pianist will conduct the orchestra from the piano for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. The second half of the concert will open with nocturne and scherzo of Mendelssohn’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream, followed by the composer’s Symphony No. 5.

WINTeR WINe, SPIRITS a N D a l l T H aT J a z z This benefit show for the Brewery arts Center offers wine tasting, a live jazz orchestra and light hors d’oeuvres. The event takes place at the BaC, 449 W. King St., Carson City at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17.

Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. Call 883-1976 or visit www.breweryarts.org.

—Kelley Lang

PHOTO COURTESY OF MOONDOG MATINEE

The local indie blues rock band will release its album, Carry Me, Rosie, at this CD release party. Rigorous Proof and Bryan Jones will open the all-ages show, which starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia St. Tickets are $10. Call 398-5400 or visit http://cargoreno.com.

aNIMal aRK WIlD WINTeR WeeKeNDS

in D major, op. 107 “Reformation.”

The concerts take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 18, and 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at Pioneer Center for the Performing arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $27-$82. $9 student rush tickets are available starting one hour before the performance. Call 323-6393 or visit www.renophil.com.

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I had an amazing first date with this guy: dinner, a movie, a stroll around the park, and a passionate goodnight kiss. That was two weeks ago. Since then, I haven’t heard a peep. How was it awesome for me but not for him? Were we, unbeknownst to me, on two different dates?

When a man disappears on you after a great first date, it’s natural to search your mind for the most plausible explanation—that is, whichever one doesn’t shred your ego and feed it to your fish. Top choices include: 1. He was kidnapped by revolutionaries. 2. His couch caught fire while he was setting up candles around a shrine to you, and he’s now homeless and, more importantly, phoneless. 3. He double-parked at 7-Eleven, and then a witch put a spell on him, turning him into a Big Gulp, and some skater kid drank him.

The reality is, maybe you and he actually were, “unbeknownst to [you], on two different dates.” We have a tendency to assume others’ thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and desires match our own, explains psychologist Nicholas Epley in Mindwise. What we forget to consider are what Epley calls “the broader contexts that influence a person’s actions.” For example, maybe smack in the middle of all that “awesome,” the guy was raking through a few thoughts—like whether he’s truly over his previous girlfriend, whether he likes the woman from Tuesday better, whether he’s straight.

And sorry, but despite the “passionate” kiss, it’s possible the attraction to you just wasn’t there. One of my guy friends, a reformed cad, explained: “I used to do this all the time with women. I’d realize I wasn’t that attracted to them, but since I was already there on the date, I’d keep moving forward and see if I could get laid, 'cause why not? So from their point of view, the date was ‘awesome,’ but what they didn’t know was that there was never going to be a second date.”

The hurt and “huh?” you feel when this sort of thing happens is a measure of the distance between expectations and reality. You can avoid this by managing your expectations, and the best way to do that is by not allowing yourself to have any. In short, until your phone rings and the guy is on the other end asking you for a date or another date, he doesn’t exist. When you’re on a first date that seems to be going well, the attitude to take is to enjoy yourself to the fullest in the moment—which is loads easier when you aren’t all up in your head figuring out what you’ll say when the little girl you two have together comes home at age 8 demanding to be allowed to have her nipples pierced. Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never

make anything that lasts forever. Nor will I or anyone else. I suppose it’s possible that human beings will still be listening to Beethoven’s music or watching The Simpsons TV show 10,000 years from today, but even that stuff will probably be gone in five billion years, when the sun expands into its red giant phase. Having acknowledged that hard truth, I’m happy to announce that in the next five weeks you could begin work in earnest on a creation that will endure for a very long time. What will it be? Choose wisely!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What does

your soul need on a regular basis? The love and attention of some special person? The intoxication provided by a certain drink or drug? Stimulating social interaction with people you like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways? The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his soul needed more than anything else was inspiration—the “sweet fire,” he called it, “the strong spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame.” So the experience his soul craved didn’t come from an outside stimulus. It was a feeling that rose up inside him. What about you, Taurus? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual of its special nourishment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1987,

California condors were almost extinct. Less than 30 of the birds remained. Then the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service launched an effort to capture them all and take emergency measures to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there are more than 400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now, Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different resource that is becoming scarce in your world.

Act with urgency, but also be prepared to practice patience.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Daniel Web-

ster (1782-1852) was an American statesman who served in both houses of Congress. He dearly wanted to be President of the United States, but his political party never nominated him to run for that office. Here’s the twist in his fate: Two different candidates who were ultimately elected president asked him to be their vice president, but he declined, dismissing the job as unimportant.

Both of those presidents, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, died after a short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their vice president, he would have taken their place and fulfilled his dream. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I advise you not to make a mistake comparable to Webster’s.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of his poems,

Rumi writes about being alone with a wise elder. “Please,” he says to the sage, “do not hold back from telling me any secrets about this universe.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of many people, and not just those you regard as wise. You’re in a phase when pretty much everyone is a potential teacher who has a valuable clue to offer you. Treat the whole world as your classroom.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you been

tapping into your proper share of smart love, interesting beauty and creative mojo?

Are you enjoying the succulent rewards you deserve for all the good deeds and hard work you’ve done in the past eight months?

If not, I am very upset. In fact, I would be livid and mournful if I found out that you have not been soaking up a steady flow of useful bliss, sweet revelations and fun surprises.

Therefore, to ensure my happiness and wellbeing, I command you to experience these goodies in abundance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran engineer

Robert Goddard was the original rocket scientist. His revolutionary theories and pioneering technologies laid the foundations for space flight. Decades before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, he and his American team began shooting rockets aloft. Members of the press were not impressed with his

by rob brezsny unusual ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920, The New York Times sneered that he was deficient in “the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools.” Forty-nine years later, after his work had led to spectacular results, the Times issued an apology. I foresee a more satisfying progression toward vindication for you, Libra. Sometime soon, your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the plot of

the TV science-fiction show Ascension, the United States government has conducted an elaborate covert experiment for 50 years.

An outside investigator named Samantha Krueger discovers the diabolical contours of the project and decides to reveal the truth to the public. “We’re going full Snowden,” she tells a seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist. She’s invoking the name of Edward Snowden, the renegade computer administrator who in the real world leaked classified information that the U.S. government wanted to keep hidden. It might be time for you to go at least mini-Snowden yourself, Scorpio—not by spilling state secrets, but rather by unmasking any surreptitious or deceptive behavior that’s happening in your sphere. Bring everything out into the open— gently if possible. But do whatever it takes.

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

1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter “e” didn’t appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to summon an equally impressive expression of discipline and self-control, Sagittarius.

But devote your efforts to accomplishing a more useful and interesting task, please. For example, you could excise one of your bad habits or avoid activities that waste your time or forbid yourself to indulge in fearful thoughts.

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

plants move upwards as they grow. Their seeds fall to the ground, are blown off by the wind or are carried away by pollinators. But the peanut plant has a different approach to reproduction. It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen underground, where they are protected and more likely to get the moisture they need to germinate. The peanut plant’s approach to fertility might be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use. It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you’re incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don’t expose them to scrutiny or criticism.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his

poem “The Garden,” Jack Gilbert says, “We are like Marco Polo who came back / with jewels hidden in the seams of his ragged clothes.” Isn’t that true about you right now, Aquarius? If I were going to tell your recent history as a fairy tale, I’d highlight the contrast between your outer disorder and your inner riches. I’d also borrow another fragment from Gilbert’s poem and use it to describe your current emotional state: “a sweet sadness, a tough happiness.”

So what comes next for you? I suggest you treat yourself to a timeout. Take a break to integrate the intensity you’ve weathered.

And retrieve the jewels you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet,” wrote Shel Silverstein, in his children’s book Where the Sidewalk Ends. It’s especially important for you to focus on that truth in the coming weeks. I say this for two reasons. First, it’s imperative that you identify and celebrate a certain unique aspect of yourself that no one else has ever fully acknowledged. If you don’t start making it more conscious, it may start to wither away. Second, you need to learn how to express that unique aspect with such clarity and steadiness that no one can miss it or ignore it.

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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The event will be on Friday, Feb. 13, at Reno Provisions, 100 N. Sierra St., from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. For tickets or more information, visit www.illuminatiball.com.

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And that one ridicules that prophet at one’s own peril. We who love our freedom of expression might find such a situation horrible and hateful, sure, but that won’t change the fact that it exists. It won’t change the reality of which editors and publishers have once again been dramatically reminded.

As Jim Croce once sang, “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don’t mess around with—.”

Charb once said, “It may be a bit pompous for me to say this, but I prefer dying on my feet to living on my knees.” Yes, of course. Right on.

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leys, the Harleys owned by radical Islamists. They regularly ridiculed Mohammed in cartoons to the point where it appeared as though they were actively daring some Muslim somewhere to do something about it.

I’m sure more than a few Parisians wondered if Charlie had some kind of death wish. The editor of the magazine, the cartoonist Charb, taunted Muslims about this very topic in his last drawing, the one showing an Al Qaida-type, complete with AK-47, with the caption Still No Attacks in France, and the Jihadist saying, “We have until the end of January to present our wishes.” The prescience of that remark is obviously quite spooky.

We can applaud the courage of those late cartoonists and their willingness to taunt those whom they considered ridiculous in their fundamental intolerance. But in the end, what was achieved by that proud bravery? What was really accomplished?

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Most of us here in the U.S. were shocked and outraged that 12 people who worked at a magazine of satire and cartoons would be the targets of a brutal and deadly assault. It’s an act that seemed vicious, detestable and completely absurd. But to many in Paris who knew Charlie Hebdo and its downright ballsy editorial stance concerning Muslim intolerance of Mohammedan cartoons, this mass murder was no surprise. Stunning, yes. A surprise, no.

Here’s a metaphor that we western Americans may more easily understand. Let’s say you arrive at a bar on a Friday night, and parked in front is a Harley belonging to a member of the Hell’s Angels. As one familiar with this motorcycle club, you know one thing right away— you’re not going to mess with that bike in any way, not no-how. Why? Because you know if you do, the owner might very well commence to put a stompin’ on you.

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It’s at Reno Provisions on Friday the 13th in February. … The Illuminati is a little bit creepy. … It’s the same with Friday the 13th.

So we thought pairing those together would be a fun way to get people out, and it’s close to Valentine’s Day, and we do not in any way want it to be a party for Valentine’s Day, because that’s super played out. But we wanted it to be something for people, for lovers, to do that weekend if they want to. And Reno Provisions is an awesome location downtown. They have been really supportive of the Holland Project and our initiatives—Mark Estee specifically is so awesome to work with. Kelly Somers and Jessica [Pauletto] over at Reno Provisions have been so supportive and awesome.

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Surrealism is bringing a dream-like state into your reality. We want people to feel comfortable dressing a little bit weird, dressing a little bit bizarre, being creative. … We want to bring together all walks of life at the Illuminati Ball. So, whether you’re an entrepreneur or you’re an artist, you’re free to be who you really want to be this night. That can seem kind of corny, but you can dress as bizarre as you want. You can be a ringmaster. You can transform yourself into Salvador Dali. Or you can be the moon. There isn’t one archetype for the kind of costume we’re looking for. We just want everybody to be formal but also be a little wild.

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