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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Sometimes I like to think about how Paleolithic people would have reacted to modern situations. I took my girlfriend and son out to Harrah’s Steakhouse for her birthday. It’s our tradition. I can’t remember what was happening at that exact moment. I think we were just served our entrees.

But for just a second, everything seemed so pretentious, and I pictured Ancestor Brian, sitting at the table with us, looking down at the giant cut of prime rib, and I wondered just what he’d do.

Those people were as smart as us. They were probably kinder because their experience of violence almost always had instant consequences. I’m sure they’d react much as one of us would, should we somehow be transported back to their time.

Obviously, they wouldn’t know how to use a fork and knife, but since they’d be in a strange environment, they wouldn’t just dig in with their hands and faces.

They’d watch what we’d do and try to imitate our behavior. Or would they? Would Ancestor Brian have already gotten up and taken the food from a table of people who’d already been served? Possibly patted the guy on the head who couldn’t stop loudly talking about his gamechanging real estate investment in land Washoe County was unloading.

I’m sure of one thing. If hypothetical Reno Man had been sitting there when the waiter brought that dry ice fog-spewing bowl of chocolates to the table, he’d have moved away.

You know why I’m thinking about this stuff these days? It’s because every day I feel that extra minute or two of sunshine, and I know Ancestor Brian would have known that spring was coming. We’ve kind of broken that natural cycle. George W. Bush extended daylight saving time hours, which I for one consider the crowning achievement of his administration.

The concept of getting up and going to bed by a constructed passage of time based on numbers would probably be really hard for Ancestor Brian to take.

Probably about as hard as having someone bring him a big, juicy piece of meat that he didn’t have to kill himself.

Editor Brian Burghart astounded me in that he was standing at his computer, not sitting like most editors do, which has been judged as one step better to prevent sitting all day as far as health is concerned. In regard to Martin Luther King Jr., he was supposedly with a woman other than his wife right before he gave his “I have a dream” speech.

Probably because if he had waited until the day after, it would have contained the word “wet” somewhere in title.

The concerning issue is regarding LK [Lenny Kravitz], as opposed to MLK, which will be entertaining during the halftime of the next XLVTVI game.

He has stated that he remained celibate for four years, that he inherited a diamond from his mother, and it now sits near his other family jewels. I think verification would be in order, and I will personally volunteer part of my time to see if Kravitz is being honest about this very touchy matter.

Jeannie Jackson Reno

Re “Back in the USSR” (Musicbeat, Jan. 15): I usually don’t comment in public forums but I just read the story and the disparaging remarks [in the comment section on the RN&R website] made against Dr. Brion Hill. What a classless use of a public forum to make personal remarks and attacks about a person.

Learn some etiquette and keep personal trash and opinions where it belongs. To yourself. There are always two sides to every situation and you have been judge, jury and executioner on this happening. I have had the privilege of knowing Dr. Hill on a personal and a professional basis. He is one of the kindest, most caring, upstanding, respectful persons I have ever met.

To bash him on a public forum shows just how little dignity you have. Grow up and leave the “high school” drama out of this. I agree with Jeff that a mature approach would have been to contact him and work out the differences privately. Obviously, you felt compelled to hurt the credibility of a person by hiding behind the keyboard.

You just showed how pathetic and immature you are. Maybe you should look in the mirror and see what kind of person looks back. Might be worth working on yourself before you judge someone else.

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You don’t know how lucky you are Re “Back in the USSR” (Musicbeat, Jan. 15): For anyone who does not personally know Brion Hill, he is one of the most respectable, selfless, and caring physicians that I know. I have known Brion for over 15 years, both personally and professionally. He would break his own back to help someone in need, be it a friend, member of his own family, a patient or a stranger. Brion is an ethical and good-hearted man. If anyone I know is interested in always “doing the right thing” it is Brion Hill. Thanks, News & Review, for supporting and reporting on Rubles Plunge. They are an awesome band!

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Yeah, let’s hear it To the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees: I’m writing to ask for your assistance. You recently made a determination that Pedro Martinez was not an appropriate leader for our school district. While that generated much controversy, in the end I appreciate your commitment to our school district and children. From that position of respect, I ask you to come to the aid of the people of our state. It concerns me that Gov. Brian Sandoval has proposed that Martinez head a newly formed statewide school district. How can someone, not capable of leading an established and well-performing school system, be expected to stand up and run an achievement school

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district? The people of Nevada need to understand why Martinez was asked to leave his position to be able to influence the governor’s decision in order to bring this man back into our education bureaucracy. The people of Nevada need your insight to make informed decisions and properly engage with our elected representatives. I implore you to inform the public on the substantive issues that you considered in asking Martinez to step down from his position. Nevada cannot afford another misadventure in the leadership of our schools.

Troy Ross Reno

That’s just crazy Re “We’re all Charlie. Now what?”

(Editorial, Jan. 15): I just don’t get why there is so much willful ignorance in regards to Overly Enthusiastic Islam. (We’re not supposed to say Radical Islam, right?) Seriously though, to say what happened in Paris was a result of insanity is absurd. Yes, it may seem insane when someone kills someone else for drawing a cartoon, but if you are a religious fanatic, much of your behavior will seem insane to non-religious fanatics.

People who are actually insane don’t act methodically, and many Muslim extremists are very methodical and patient in their efforts to terrorize the civilized world. The only way that radical Muslims can impose their blasphemy laws on people in territories that they don’t control is through terrorizing those people to self-censor. It’s a tactic that works, but Charlie Hebdo refused and paid the ultimate price for it. The importance of Charlie Hebdo putting a picture of Mohammed on their cover a week after the attack is probably lost on many people. They have paid and may continue to pay a heavy toll for the rest of us. I am not Charlie Hebdo, I haven’t put my life on the line for freedom of speech like they have, but I do have a great amount of love for those French cartoonists who have made a brave and lonely stand against fanatical intolerance in this world.

Finally, I would say that to continue to summarize Radical Islam as just

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a few crazy people, when there are numerous organizations—and in ISIS and Boko Haram’s case, armies—who by their very nature will always be probing the path of least resistance to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, is in itself insane. Every good person in this world should want peace, but the more noble, courageous and difficult goal to achieve is peace for future generations, for your children and grandchildren, and you simply can’t achieve that if you’re incapable of identifying and confronting evil in your time. I don’t mind when newspaper editors get it wrong, but when our president, the leader of the free world, is unwilling to identify that which most threatens our freedom, that is deeply disturbing.

David Flynt Reno Editor’s note: Saying insane behavior isn’t insane just because the person professes to follow a particular religion is not logical. And insane people often act methodically, that’s frequently the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath.

Sociopathic behavior is often associated with belief systems.

Agree to agree you’re wrong Re “Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Jan. 27): You are wrong, sir. Using the logic presented, Hitler and the Kim family, Stalin, Mubarak and countless other despots should have been given free rein. Might makes right? And your analogy is just baseless. Holding the act of property damage in the same light as these murders ... pretty unthinking.

Mark McPhail Reno

Correction In our feature story, “Almost Famous,” Jan. 22, we incorrectly spelled Chris Hubbell’s name. We regret the error and apologize for any confusion our error caused.

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No balls Readers may be aware that members of Congress, including Nevada’s Harry Reid and Dean Heller, are all worked up over how well footballs are being inflated.

Meanwhile, at the state level, Nevada legislators and the lieutenant governor are planning to use some of their precious 120 days of the 2015 Nevada Legislature to decide who can play in secondary school football.

While they are involved in matters of such moment, permit us to suggest a couple of other subjects for federal and state legislative action. How about if the Nevada Legislature creates a state licensing registry for Elvis impersonators? And perhaps Congress could do something to reunite Simon and Garfunkel?

In 1995, President Clinton tried and failed to deal with a six-month major league baseball strike. He then called on Congress to take action to “save” the upcoming season. U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said, “If the American public wants baseball in 1995, they’ve got to let their views be known.” This was during a period when the Mexican economy came near collapse, the Oklahoma City federal building was bombed, the U.S. was bombing Bosnia, the first World Trade Center bombing was prosecuted, transfer of the West Bank to Arab control was agreed on, wages were stagnating, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, sarin gas was loosed in a Tokyo subway, and the income gap was widening.

There was, in other words, plenty for Clinton, Reich and Congress to work on without getting into entertainment. The same is true of the Nevada Legislature this year.

The 120-day limit on Nevada legislative sessions, approved by voters in 1998, has been a resounding OPINION

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Mostly children’s books because I have a toddler at home. A lot of bedtime stories and a lot of Disney stuff. She likes to read along with Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid-type stuff.

failure. It has empowered lobbyists and legislative staffers by making hard-pressed legislators absolutely dependent on them during the race to the final adjournment.

It has forced the lawmakers to make law episodically on whims and best guesses instead of conceptually on careful research and evidence, which take time.

And indeed, there has never been a 120-day Legislature. Since 1998, every Legislature has jumped the gun on budget hearings, holding them in advance outside the 120-day period. Several Legislatures have required special sessions after the 120-day limit to finish up, which unbalances the separation of powers because the governor controls the agenda of special sessions.

Enacting a law requiring an arbitrary 120-day limit has been as effective as enacting a law requiring a constant temperature of 120-degree water in Lake Tahoe would have been.

Because time is at a premium in a session of the Nevada Legislature, solving problems for school sports is not a priority. Leave it to the schools and conferences, and if they can’t solve it, leave it unsolved. Lawmakers should deal with the problems of school teams when the problems of schools are all solved.

As for Congress, are Iran sanctions, the income gap, immigration, stagnant wages, climate change not enough to keep it busy? For that matter, if they have spare time, shouldn’t its members focus on solving congressional problems like gridlock, incivility, the political parties, dysfunction and extremism, and leave under-inflated balls to Sesame Street, where inflate was the word of the day last week? And if Congress is going to deal with football’s problems, how did it choose happen to choose inflating footballs over domestic battery? Ω |

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Those with power always want more “I would rather have a thousand school-board members than one president and no school-board members.”

That’s Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, referencing the calculated strategy of electing ultraconservative Christians to local school boards where they could directly by influence everything from textbooks to Sheila Leslie sex education.

Some social conservative school board members were elected in Nevada at the height of the Christian Coalition’s power in the early ’90s, including Lezlie Porter in Washoe County and Sharron Angle in Nye County. But the “stealth campaigns” to take over school boards were not as successful in Nevada as they were elsewhere. Voters quickly caught on to the Christian Coalition’s strategy, grilling school board candidates during voter forums to determine their positions on vouchers, sex education, and other conservative touchstones before going to the polls.

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during the recent State of the State address to submit a bill to make all school board members in Nevada appointed. The governor offered little explanation for his views, other than stating school boards in Nevada have become “disconnected from their communities.”

Sandoval’s school board angst may be related to last July’s debacle when the Washoe County School Board contemptuously and imperially fired its superintendent. Several of the board members involved in the incident have already been replaced, one by a voluntary retirement due to illness and another, the chair of the school board, by defeat at the polls.

Nevertheless, Sandoval wants to take away the voters’ power to choose school board members, although it’s unclear as yet how or by whom future members would be appointed.

During the past few months Washoe County voters have witnessed appointment processes that attracted far more candidates than any election but favored those who were already politically well connected.

When then-Councilwoman Hillary Schieve moved up to Reno mayor, 74 people applied to fill the remainder of her council term. Many of the candidates were of high caliber, but it was a given from the start that the most connected candidate, thenAssemblyman David Bobzien would get the nod. He did.

When the County Commission met to appoint a Democratic replacement for Bobzien in the State Assembly, they had 12 highly-qualified candidates to choose from. Republican commissioners were impressed by candidates they described as “top notch” and “rock stars.” But the plum appointment to the super-safe Assembly seat went to Amber Joiner, a former Legislative Counsel Bureau employee, lobbyist, and high-level staffer in the Sandoval administration.

Bobzien and Joiner are wellqualified to be sure, but so were many of the other applicants. Perhaps the only surprise during the appointment process was the sheer number of excellent candidates who were willing to come forward for an appointment

rather than embark on a messy campaign and submit to the ritual of begging for financing from wealthy business interests.

The school board is arguably the elected body that needs to stay closest to its community—on that point Gov. Sandoval and I agree. But that’s more likely to happen if it’s the voters choosing its members.

Imagine for a moment the potential mischief of someone like Ralph Reed tasked with making school board appointments. He might then accomplish what he couldn’t through the ballot box, a school board composed of right-wing zealots intent on forcing one religious viewpoint on public school children.

For those who scoff at the likelihood of someone having that much power to shape a board by appointments, recall the not-so-distant Wildlife Commission appointments made by former Gov. Jim Gibbons.

Democracy is not something that should be outsourced to a political appointment process. Let’s keep our right to vote. Ω

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Small government is good medicine Barry Goldwater once said, “I do not want to make government more efficient, I want to make it smaller.”

Republicans have control over the entire Nevada government. Will the state budget be smaller or larger in 2016? You can’t bet on politics in Nevada like you can in England. by Brendan Trainor (Why not?) But if you could, the odds would be against Republicans leaving the state budget even one buck smaller than its current size.

Gov. Brian Sandoval is a thoughtful, accomplished person. He is a former federal judge and Nevada attorney general. It’s just that he thinks government can work well in some cases. I am hard-pressed to find evidence of that. Can you think of anything that government does really well? Certainly not education or health care. The governor did show support for education reform in his State of the State speech.

He spoke of strengthening charter schools and private school choice.

He proposed breaking up the Clark County consolidated school district, and consolidating rural districts. He

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stunned us by proposing that local school board members be appointed, not elected.

But then the thoughtful reformer suddenly morphed into a biggovernment Republican. He pivoted to proposing that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas have its own medical school. Why? Because “every major city has a medical school, and Las Vegas is the greatest city in the country!” (Cue the band and the showgirls with the huge headdresses, please!) For decades, the plan was that Northern Nevada got the medical school and Las Vegas the law school. Does this mean that the University of Nevada, Reno will get a law school in return?

Sandoval was the first Republican governor to build a state Obamacare exchange and expand Medicaid in his state. The Xeroxbuilt Nevada exchange crashed harder than the federal exchange.

Medicaid has very little to recommend it. It provides dubious health outcomes and expands government dependency while overworking

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physicians and cutting their compensation. It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s typical for government programs.

The governor believes that the answer to the problem he helped create—pumping up medical demand while discouraging supply—is to spend more tax money to lure medical students to a shiny new state medical school in Sin City instead of cowboy Reno.

Sandoval promises his legion of new doctors will stay in Nevada.

Why, exactly?

The current medical service model is top-heavy with doctors.

With modern technologies, we don’t need more doctors. Doctors can provide remote consultations via Skype. What we need are more nurses staffing clinics, not more hospitals and doctors. Nevada took a step in that direction in the last legislature by permitting experienced nurse practitioners to work independently of physicians. The market is helping by providing lowcost clinics at CVS and Walmart.

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Reno once had a law school.

Judge David Humke is a graduate.

It didn’t take long for the Nevada Bar and the politicians to shut it down. It violated their occupational licensing codes because it did not have its own law library, despite the fact that there were three accredited law libraries in Reno and Carson City that the students could use.

Nevada needs to abolish its outdated Progressive era occupational licensing boards. The legal and medical professions love occupational licensing, but doctors have been whiplashed because the left has been declaring health care a right while denying that government simply cannot provide it. Milton Friedman once said if you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, after a few years you will run out of sand. Doctors are quitting because of government regulations.

Nevada doesn’t need a new medical school. It needs less government involvement in health care. Ω

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Brian Krolicki and Stephanie Tyler posed at the 2013 Nevada Legislature. Twenty-three years earlier, as young political aides, the two were among five people in a small plane that crashed on a campaign trip in Churchill County, killing one and injuring the others. Tyler later served as a Republican senator from Washoe County.

Neutra unbound New York Times/April 21 2002: “In a move that has stunned, outraged and saddened admirers of modern architecture, the city of Rancho Mirage, Calif., recently approved the demolition of an important 13-room house designed by Richard Neutra in 1963. Neutra, who died in 1970, helped introduce the International style to America, redefining architecture in the 20th century with a series of remarkable residential pavilions. His houses are now cherished in the same way as Frank Lloyd Wright’s—as testaments to a uniquely original vision and a particularly pivotal moment in design history.”

Reno has done it differently. Two rare Neutra buildings (most of his structures are in California) are disappearing from Reno not through demolition but CHURCH FINE ARTS BULDING by being smothered.

The recent addition of glass boxes to the west side of the Church Fine Arts Building at the University of Nevada, Reno, has further minimized Neutra’s original design for that building. And farther south, his design for the Centennial Coliseum—now the Reno Sparks Convention Center—seems to have disappeared as completely as its name. Additions to the building appear to have swallowed it up, obliterating its exterior from view.

Born in Vienna in 1892, Neutra was trained there, and also in Switzerland and Wisconsin. He arrived in the U.S. and took citizenship in the 1920s. In 2011, Architectural Digest said, “Neutra (1892–1970) was a prophet of clean, crisp modernism, and his houses, most of which were built in California, have inspired countless architects and emboldened preservationists in an area of the country notoriously quick to raze landmarks. And why not? As Time eloquently observed, ‘Their beauty, like that of any sea RENO SPARKS CONVENTION CENTER shell, is more than skin-deep—practical, not pretentious.’” One of Neutra’s structures became familiar to movie fans when his Lovell Health House played the role of the home of “Pierce Patchett” in the movie L.A. Confidential.

Not all liked Neutra’s modernist designs, but their importance was recognized and his two Reno designs were once a point of local pride. He was so influential that Reno structures he did not design were sometimes cited by the National Register of Historic Places as Neutra-influenced. For instance, of the nowdemolished Union Federal Savings and Loan building at Court and Sierra streets, built in 1959, the National Register reports, “The UFS&L has been compared by architectural historians to the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan designed by Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander in 1958. The USF&L’s most distinctive details were brises-soleil, first employed in modern architecture in 1933 by Le Corbusier on the Maison Locative Ponsik in Algiers. Brises-soleil are exterior vertical panels that move with the sun and provide heat or shade to the interior of a building.” The USF&L was torn down to make way for a courthouse expansion.

The Rancho Mirage and the Gettysburg Cyclorama in Pennsylvania, both demolished, are listed as “lost” Neutra structures. It’s not clear whether obscured but still existing structures fall into that category.

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Second place Krolicki calls for governor/lieutenant governor ticket Brian Krolicki, who stepped down as Nevada’s lieutenant governor last month, is calling for a fundamental change by in the way the office is elected. He Dennis Myers believes the governor and lieutenant governor should be elected on a ticket together instead of each being elected independently.

Krolicki had legislation drafted to accomplish the change, and it will be up to his successor, Mark Hutchison, whether to pursue it with the office’s endorsement.

“I just think it’s prudent and as I look around the country I find it to be a good management practice,” Krolicki said.

“It is terribly important for the lieutenant governor to have the complete trust of the governor.”

Brian Krolicki Former lieutenant governor Half the states elect their governors and lieutenant governors jointly. In another 18, each is elected independently. In the remaining states, succession to the governorship is through other officials, such as secretary of state.

Krolicki believes if the two officials were elected together, it would lead to better working relationships and would prepare lieutenant

governors better for a governor’s death or resignation. He relates the idea to how businesses operate.

“If you’re a Fortune 500 company, shareholders expect to have clear lines, which our situation does, but also of grooming and familiarity,” he said. “It is terribly important for the lieutenant governor to have the complete trust of the governor.”

“If there is a disjointed relationship or a transition with an individual who is not apprised of the state policies, I think that person misses a step in the state transition,” Krolicki said. “I think the public should have an expectation that that person [the lieutenant] is regularly in the room and has the confidence of the CEO, and that’s the governor.”

He also said the public should be able to expect “awareness and training and capability immediately if the governor has a bad day.”

Whether two candidates on the same ticket would foster trust is far from clear, however. A lot would depend on how they—particularly the lieutenant governor candidate— got onto the ticket. In the federal model, the presidential candidate chooses his or her running mate in a convention setting, and the convention delegates usually ratify that choice. Thus, the vice president is dependent politically on the president.

But at the state level, nominating conventions are a thing of the past in Nevada—they were last held in 1908. In other states, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor often run independently in their party primaries and then go onto the ticket together. Thus, the lieutenant governor candidate is not dependent on the candidate for governor, and they are often uncomfortable running mates.

In one case in Nevada, in 1982, the Democratic candidates were running independently, Richard Bryan for governor and Robert Cashell for lieutenant governor.

Shortly before the election, fullpage newspaper advertisements mysteriously appeared around the state urging votes for Cashell and for Bryan’s Republican opponent, Robert List. As it happened, the two Democrats—Bryan and Cashell— were elected, but the newspaper ads generated suspicion between them.

They had a very tense working relationship after taking office.

Krolicki’s proposal would prevent such machinations, since the option of splitting tickets in the way the ads proposed would be eliminated. But he acknowledges that how to comfortably match up two candidates on a ticket in a state with primary elections has yet to be worked out.

“I think that is something that—should this bill have any legs—that is a point that needs to be discussed,” he said this week.

Tobacco initiative His long years in office—Krolicki served as deputy state treasurer for eight years, treasurer for eight years, lieutenant governor for eight years—gave him an exposure to state government workings that were valuable to any officeholder.

Now, thanks to term limits, he is carrying that head of institutional knowledge away with him, of no further use to state government.

Krolicki first came to public notice on Sept. 3, 1990. He and his employer—GOP state treasurer candidate Bob Seale—plus lieutenant governor candidate Sue Wagner and her aide Stephanie Tyler, and Seale’s wife, Judy—took off from the Fallon airport in a twin-engine Cessna 411 piloted by Seale. The plane went down a few minutes later, killing Judy Seale and

inflicting a range of injuries on the others. Krolicki crawled out and went for help.

After Seale’s election that November, Krolicki became deputy state treasurer, the beginning of a quarter century of public service that included two terms as treasurer and two as lieutenant governor.

Krolicki is one of a vanishing breed, a moderate Republican who works congenially with Democrats and has, in the past, cut into the Democratic vote. He never saw the cards fall quite his way in terms of moving to the governorship or federal office. When he was the logical Republican candidate for governor in 2010, lobbyists and other kingmakers lured Brian Sandoval out of a federal judgeship to run and froze out other candidates. In the same time frame, a possible U.S. Senate race was complicated by his indictment for misappropriating state funds and false accounting. The indictment was thrown out of court, but it ate up precious weeks of time for organizing and fundraising.

In some ways, his departure from elective office is well timed.

He has three children who are approaching college age, and he speaks of his need to make some money for that reason.

But one of his biggest disappointments comes not from campaign politics but from a policy matter. On June 5, 2008, he issued a report calling for securitization of the state’s tobacco lawsuit settlement moneys—basically, cashing out the settlement and investing the money.

The proposal was given serious consideration in the Nevada Legislature, but ultimately fell victim to politics. It was approved by the Republican Senate, but Democrats in the Assembly did not want to award such an accomplishment to him, and it failed there.

“I feel today, as I felt back 10 years ago, that it was a tremendous missed opportunity to protect these moneys,” Krolicki said. “Some of them are used for smoking cessation and hindsight has shown that to be a valuable tool.”

But it is not just the smoking issues that trouble him. The settlement left the state at the mercy of smoking vagaries, with the annual amount fluctuating, which left the state unable to control its use of the money. In addition, Krolicki thought it was unhealthy public policy for the state to be in bed with the tobacco corporations.

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“The state could have divested itself of the risk of being clients of the tobacco interests,” he said. “The revenues have subsequently declined, and Nevada would be receiving significantly larger amounts if we had taken our share out.”

Several years before Krolicki’s proposal, Democrats shot down another version of the same idea sponsored by Republican Assemblymember Lynn Hettrick.

Krolicki noted that government actually has more of a stake in the sales of tobacco than the corporations, because most of the checkstand cost is in taxes and fees.

“Government makes more money from each package than the industry,” he said That is not a good role for government, he believes.

“ Tourism remains the centerpiece of the lieutenant governor’s portfolio.”

Brian Krolicki Former lieutenant governor When he took office as lieutenant governor, that official chaired the state tourism and economic development commissions, an arrangement created during Cashell’s tenure. In 2011, Sandoval persuaded the legislature to remove the lieutenant governor from that role in economic development. He still holds a seat on the commission.

“I’m proud of what we did,” Krolicki said. “The lieutenant governor has primary responsibility for tourism and economic development. Tourism remains the centerpiece of the lieutenant governor’s portfolio. Economic development, which I chaired for six years, was a great pleasure.”

Krolicki has said several times that he is keeping his options open for a return to public life. But numerous Nevadans who have left elected office with the intention of returning have found that in this meanspirited political era, they preferred private life and found no reason to go back. That was the case with one of his fellow passengers on that ill-fated Cessna, Sue Wagner. It has also been true of numerous state legislators. Ω

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Ponder this one, if you will. As cities such as New York and London arrange for nonstop flights into Reno—flights marketed to tourists, who often want to ski—couldn’t the carbon footprint of jet travel eventually affect the same by Georgia Fisher snowfall needed for skiing to even happen? Hypothetically speaking, that is?

“As far as how much an individual flight contributes to [climate change], georgiaf@ I don’t know,” said Nevada state climatologist Douglas Boyle, “but the newsreview.c om basic concept is that the burning of fossil fuel is putting more carbon into the atmosphere, which is warming the atmosphere.”

The question has a flip-side that’s probably more palatable to the airline industry. If ski and gambling tourists are coming from abroad anyway, would a direct flight at least be greener than a circuitous one with stops or plane changes? It’d use less fuel, right?

“There are way too many variables,” Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor replied in an email. “What kind of aircraft? What is the weather? How high is the aircraft flying? Are they flying conventional approaches or optimized profile descents? How heavy is the aircraft? How long are the connecting flights?”

Gregor cited the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), a program he said “often results in more direct routing, unrestricted climbs and optimized descents, all of which can reduce fuel burn and associated CO2 emissions.” Optimized descents “allow aircraft to descend continuously,” the FAA website explains, and “employ minimum engine thrust, in a low drag configuration.”

Meanwhile, Thomas Cook, the British charter airline that’ll bring visitors from across the pond starting in December, boasts it was first in its industry to get ISO 14001 certification—an eco-conscious but somewhat vague benchmark for businesses worldwide. Reno-Tahoe International Airport spokesman Brian Kulpin posits that Europeans tend to be good stewards of the environment anyway, so they’ll tread carefully once here.

“When you’re doing international flights, the people who book these are oftentimes very ecologically minded,” he said. “For instance, taking the bus [to Tahoe] rather than taking 14 separate rental cars, well, that’s more of a European mindset than an American mindset.”

As of last month, Mexican airline Volaris now flies directly from Guadalajara to Reno—usually with full planes, Kulpin said, and around 150 passengers at a time. Many are reconnecting with their families, not hitting the slopes.

“Before, [relatives picking up travelers] had to drive all the way to Sacramento, or to Las Vegas, or sometimes to the Mexican border,” he said, “so we’re saving a lot of automobile traffic and auto fuel by having this flight.”

Back to the full-circle irony of jet travel for winter sports, though.

“As a scientist, I would certainly not say that that is factual,” Boyle said.

“But I’d say it’s certainly a reasonable thing to take a look at. I don’t think we really know yet how exactly our local weather is impacted by the general warming of the atmosphere due to fossil fuels. But there are a lot of hypotheses, and there is a tremendous amount of work that is going on … to tease out the complicated connection there.” Ω OPINION

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he cover of issue 38 of Enslaved Sissies and Maids, from last year, features an airbrushed illustration of a very muscular woman. One of her nipples is pierced, and she grips a rope in her right hand.

The other end of the rope is attached to a metal clasp wrapped around the penis of a slender blonde with one bulbous pink breast visible. Ambiguity abounds.

Beneath the title is written: “Sissy Men

Serving Mistresses Masters.” Inside the magazine are stories like “Wearing my Wife’s Panties” and “A Sissy for the Stripper” accompanied by explicit illustrations and occasional photographs.

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Transformation, a less explicit lifestyle magazine that president and editor Hanna Rodgers, 41, describes as “transsexual Playboy.”

Centurian is a family business.

Rodgers and many members of her family are shareholders. Rodgers’ mother, Heidi Randol, is the company’s bookkeeper and accountant.

Rodgers is from the San Diego area and has been in Reno since 1998. Prior

to buying Centurion Publishing in 2011, she worked a variety of jobs around the city, most recently as an administrative assistant in the University of Nevada, Reno admissions office.

“I was not very happy, and there was nowhere to go, no advancement,” she said. “So my family said, well, we’ve got some money, and we can help you if you want to buy a business. Let’s start looking.”

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The family started looking at businesses for sale around Northern Nevada.

“There’s bars, medical offices and postage shipping places, and that’s just not me,” said Rodgers. “We just kept looking, and we saw this one that was adult publishing, and I said, ‘Let’s go see what it is.’”

At the time, the publishing company was based in the back of Romantic Sensations, a now shuttered lingerie and sex shop in what’s now known as Reno’s Midtown. Rodgers and her family discovered a business that specialized in fetish, bondage and cross-dressing, selling magazines as well as clothing, gear

and equipment for cross-dressers, fetishists and dominatrixes. Something that appealed to Rodgers was the incredible, extensive archive of original bondage and fetish illustrations.

“I love art, and this stuff is amazing, so that drew me right away,” she said.

“And I love drag queens. I’m obsessed with drag queens, that whole genderbending thing. … But there wasn’t one specific thing that said, ‘This is what you should be doing.’ All of it just seemed really interesting to me. I’ve always been really fascinated by fetish photography. I love latex. I have old magazines that I bought at Romantic

Sensations back in the day.”

Rodgers decided the publishing company, and its affiliated production and distribution of fetish gear, was the business for her. At the very least, it would never be boring. She and her family purchased Centurian Publishing in December 2011 from the company’s original owner, Jeri Lee, who also owned Romantic Sensations.

Rodgers had always followed fashion, and worked in costume shops as an undergrad at Sonoma State University.

She says her experience making, repairing and selling costumes has been handy in the business of making, repairing and selling clothing for cross-dressers as well as bondage and fetish gear. She describes herself as a voyeur who enjoys watching sex, but isn’t actively involved with the BDSM community as a participant. She says this distance can give her a wider perspective than that of some of the more obsessive fetishists, who can be socially awkward, to say the least.

“Just by the nature of it, in BDSM, you can take advantage of people pretty easily,” she said. “So, if you’re a woman or a submissive, you really do need to be smart. … I feel that because I’m not involved directly, I have a little clearer perspective on the big picture in a lot of ways. So, I feel like, yeah, I’m a little bit removed. I’d like to experience more physically—like, literally—but I haven’t met anyone in the scene here that I would be comfortable with doing that.

You have to be comfortable doing that type of thing, because it is such a trust thing. But everyone’s really nice.”

As a straight, genetically born female, she also worried about how she would be accepted by the transgender and transvestite communities, but she said that they too have been surprisingly supportive. One memorable early experience was her first trip to the Transgender Erotica Awards, formerly known as The Tranny Awards, an annual event celebrating transgender performers in the adult industry.

“I remember just being terrified because, you know, everybody wants to know, ‘Are you cis? Are you trans?’”

Rodgers said. “And I’m like, I’m a GG.”—a genetic girl—“Are they going to accept me? I’d never been around a large group of transgender people before.

Well, I’d been to conferences, but I think these girls were a little different. They’re all in the adult industry. But they were all super cool, really sweet. And you go into this room and you’re surrounded by women. These are women, even though they might have a wiener. They have cocks, and they use them. But you can tell when you’re meeting someone, their energy, their spirit—these are women. And everybody seemed to accept me. Readers and the girls in the

“The filing cabinets don’t just house old invoices.”

magazine themselves, they’re just so appreciative that there is something like Transformation just for them, and I’m doing my best to keep it going—even as a genetic girl.”

GRaPhIC DEsIGN The south Reno offices of Centurian Publishing are remarkably nondescript: just a typical suite of offices, with a small kitchen and break room, a warehouse, and a few storage rooms. There’s usually a few employees working on computers at desks, just like in millions of other offices all around the world.

If it weren’t for the occasional bondage illustration adorning the walls, or some of the offerings on the bookshelves— glossy collections by famous erotica photographers, biographies of Christine Jorgensen, Fifty Shades of Grey—it could almost pass for the offices of Dunder Mifflin, the drab paper company on the TV show The Office. (Rodgers is critical of the bestselling Fifty Shades: “They don’t practice safe practices, and it’s not a true power exchange. … People are going to start experimenting and not really get the proper background and education on safety words and safety precautions. You can kill yourself. You can kill somebody if they’re gagged wrong or tied too tight. You can do physical damage.”)

And the filing cabinets don’t just house old invoices. There’s a huge archive of old magazines dating back at least as far as the early 1970s, including old Centurian catalogs and magazines, and publications by other companies, including graphic novels, and highly specific catalogs like Male Cock Restraints. (Isn’t the word “male” superfluous, you might ask, couldn’t it just be called “Cock Restraints”? “Well, there’s a lot of girls with cocks, you know,” Rodgers will tell you.) The archive includes back issues of Transformation, with its old tagline: “A magazine for men who enjoy being women.”

Centurian’s archive also includes a lot of original artwork, including explicit airbrush illustrations by long retired painters. Rodgers is adept at identifying the styles and marks of bondage painters and cartoonists who haven’t been active for decades.

One unusual feature of the office is a production room where a leather worker and a seamstress—both independent contractors—create many of the more unusual items found in the company’s monthly advertising flier, like discipline masks and lingerie in men’s XXL sizes.

Rodgers said she tries to keep as much of the business local as possible.

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“We wanted to try to bring some business to Reno for printing,” she said.

“The fliers and the fetish magazines are printed in L.A., and Transformation is printed in Canada. So, let’s just see if we can bring some business to Reno.

Nobody would even touch it because of the content. We couldn’t even get a quote really. We probably couldn’t have saved money, but I was just trying to help our local community. But there’s still a lot of stigma with this kind of thing.”

Centurian also distributes European fetish magazines, like Marquis and Heavy Rubber. And the company sells feminizing herbs and vitamin supplements, wigs and prosthetic body parts, and DVDs with catchy titles like She’s Too Cute to Be a Dude! and Hot Chicks with Big Dicks.

Apart from Rodgers and her mother, the company employs a couple of full-time staffers, a couple of part-time staffers, and works with independent contractors. The magazines’ contributors—writers, photographers, models and artists—are based all around the country, including in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Florida.

Retail manager Michelle Bouteiller, one of the full-time employees, has been with the company for eight years, since before Rodgers bought it. She says that the business is more organized now, under Rodgers’ leadership, than it was previously.

“The way the business functions has improved,” she said. “Our business now is climbing back up. For a while there, it was going down. I stayed on thinking I was going to help Jeri close down the company. Everybody else left, and I stayed on to help him close, get rid of everything, liquidate. Then there was a buyer, so I was happy about that. … This was after economy had turned down, and Jeri was getting old. He really didn’t have the time. He couldn’t help anymore with the company. It was time for things to change.”

a 100, and he comes back to me and says, ‘Wow! I can’t believe it. It sold out right away.’ I gave him the rest of them, and I had to print more. That’s what started me out and connected me with the mob.”

Lee says he eventually moved to Reno in the 1990s because of police harassment in Southern California. He opened Romantic Sensations in 1996. He decided to sell the business after seriously injuring his back in an accident.

But he still writes a serial column, “The Incredible Life of Jeri Lee,” for Transformation. The columns detail his life story, and he hopes eventually to compile them into an autobiography. He identifies as a man, but primarily wears women’s clothing.

“I was raised in Chicago, and I’ve been in a lot of fights,” he said. “I didn’t take no shit at any time, but then again, when I was like 3 years old, I remember going through my cousin’s dresses. But I didn’t start wearing dresses 'til I was about 50 years old, because I dealt with too many people and did too many things. … The way I look at it is men have what? Jeans and T-shirts to wear, and women have all these beautiful fashions, heels and shoes and clothes, fun things. I like doing it just because of all the different variety of things you can wear.”

He says he’s happy that, over the years, attitudes about transgender and transvestite people have changed, with the public gradually becoming more accepting.

“I think I’ve helped a little bit with my life,” he said. “My magazines were on major newsstands around the world, so I think I’ve helped a little bit, given people an understanding of what’s going on in this world, and it’s not bad if you’re not going to hurt anybody.”

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or transgender models, rather than gratuitously explicit hardcore shots.

“To me it’s more demeaning for transsexuals to be represented this way—only this way,” she said. But she acknowledges that she herself is not part of the core demographic of her flagship magazine.

“I’ve debated—I’ve really debated— back and forth about it,” she said. “Am I going to lose a big part of my readership because the guys just want to beat off to it? I mean, I’m sure I’ve lost a few readers, but our readership has really remained pretty steady, because the main readers of the magazines are other T-girls themselves. They don’t necessarily mind seeing [explicit content], but they’re more interested in other readers.

They’re more interested in nightclubs and community stuff. … I do question myself quite a bit and I wonder, when I’m photo editing, which of these is better? Do I want to show the whole butthole exposed or not so much? Do I want the zoomed-in shot or the zoomedout shot? Usually, it’s a matter of closeup on the butthole or a little pulled back from the butthole? That’s literally how I make a decision on a photo. And usually I chose the one where it’s a little pulled back, so you can still see it but it’s not in your face. Whether or not that’s a good thing, I still don’t really know. I think overall the reaction I’ve been getting from readers and girls that have been in the magazine, who have seen the old ones, they say they like the direction.”

Lee said he prefers the older, more explicit content.

“I think her distribution would be a lot higher if she put sex back into it,” he said. “That’s how I got onto newsstands to begin with. I was sold next to Hustler

Transformation, which was once bimonthly, is now a quarterly publication, at about 100 pages, with print runs of about 7,000 or 8,000. Forced Womanhood and Enslaved are also quarterly, 48 pages, with print runs of 1,200 or 1,300. Under Rodgers’ leadership, the content of the magazines, especially Transformation, is less explicit than it had been previously.

“It was just getting a little too graphic,” she said. “It was kind of tacky.

You know, really explicit intercourse, cum shots and giant dicks that took up the whole page. And nowadays this is all online for free. What’s the point of putting it in here? It’s going to keep us off more shelves by having really explicit content.”

Rodgers thinks her readers benefit more from having better articles and interviews, often accompanied by Playboy-style centerfolds of transvestite

Jeri Lee, 74, is originally from Chicago, and started Centurian Publishing in California’s Orange County in the late 1960s. He had owned and managed a lot of different business, mostly fast food joints, including one of the first Jack in the Box restaurants. In the late '60s, he was managing an import shop, and began selling dildos and other sex toys, which quickly started outselling everything else. He began printing and selling catalogs of the items, and then he started printing and selling magazines.

“I put out my first magazine,” he said. “I did it myself. I didn’t learn anything. I just did it and took it to a printer and printed 500 copies of the magazine, a bondage magazine, and I took it to the mob people, and they said, this isn’t going to go over, but we’ll take |

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and Penthouse at one time. … People want to see some sex and shit like that, that’s why I was big at one time. I think at one time my distribution was 60,000 at $12.50 apiece, so that’s quite a bit of money. She turned it into a Playboy kind of thing instead of a Hustler, but that’s OK. She’s doing OK.” Rodgers acknowledges that the explicit content is part of the appeal and the legacy of the magazine.

“I will never take all the sex out,” she said. “I’ll never take all the nudity out of it. … I want to show the girls in the best light … I’ll see a photo set … minimum 150 photos—so you get a lot of one eye half closed or their mouth looks funny, giving a blowjob and something’s wrong with their face. So I’ll go through and say, OK, she looks good in this, and it’s not super explicit. I want to show the girls at their best. If you take every photo from a porn shoot, there’s a lot of images that are just not flattering, which is fine. You pay for that content, you want to see every single thing, but these girls deserve to be seen for how beautiful they can be and they are. … I want it to remain a little edgy and fun, funky, sexy— because why not? That’s who people are. I don’t want it to be all porn, because a lot of people think of transgender or transsexual women as if they’re all prostitutes, all in the industry, and they’re not. And even if they are, that’s just a job, a means to an end. But as human beings, we’re sexual beings.” Ω

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From left: Zombeavers, Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out and Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Inside Out / The Good Dinosaur (June 19) / (November 25):

These would be the two Pixar movies you are getting in 2015.

Feel blessed. Feel very blessed.

Terminator: Genisys (July 1):

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has returned from his stint as governor to become box office poison as of late, looks to perk things up in yet another cyborg movie. It could be shitty, but it definitely looks better than that Jurassic Park sequel.

Ant Man (July 17th):

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he coming year is loaded with many things of a cinematic nature. This is but a small sampling. Keep in mind that all dates are subject to change, and the only thing that really matters is that there is a new Star Wars movie coming out in December.

Well, actually, the fact that new Twin Peaks, Wet Hot American Summer and Evil Dead stories are going into production this year matters, but those are for television. Television is getting really cool.

Jupiter Ascending (February 5):

The long delayed next picture from the Wachowski directing team (The Matrix) looks super goofy. Mila Kunis, who is quite lovable but simply can’t act, and Channing Tatum costar. Tatum has what looks like Vulcan ears and some really bad haircuts in this one.

Fifty Shades of Grey (February 13):

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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (February 20):

If you are excited about this sequel without John Cusack, well, you are excused. It does look pretty funny.

Chappie (March 6):

Neill Blomkamp (District 9) makes a movie about a kidnapped robot. I would much rather see that Alien 5 thing he was supposedly working on.

Insurgent (March 20):

Sequel to Divergent, a.k.a. sequel to a humongous piece of crap.

Zombeavers (March 20):

This is a film about zombie beavers. I don’t think it is getting a major release, but it does exist and is slated for some sort of release on this date. I just had to mention it.

Furious 7 (April 3):

I’m not absolutely sure, but I’m thinking some cars drive around really fast and stuff in this one.

Ex Machina:

Warren Beatty Movie that Has No Name Yet (May 21):

Warren Beatty plays Howard Hughes—old Howard Hughes.

Beatty directs for the first time in 14 years.

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Alex Garland, who wrote 28 Days Later, directs this one about the complications of a world part inhabited by very realistic robots.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1):

Super mega summer movie season basically kicks off with the second Avengers movie. This one has Steff from Pretty in Pink (James Spader) voicing the evil title character.

Mad Max: Fury Road (May 15):

After many false starts and jettisoning Mel Gibson, George Miller brings his iconic character back with Tom Hardy in the big role and Charlize Theron sporting a shaved head.

Tomorrowland

Edgar Wright was supposed to direct Paul Rudd in this latest from the Marvel secondary core.

I say again, Edgar Wright was supposed to direct this. He is not directing anymore. I am worried.

Poltergeist (July 24):

Normally, I would not be excited about yet another remake, but this one stars Sam Rockwell, so I am marginally excited about yet another remake.

(May 22):

George Clooney stars for director Brad Bird in a film that may or may not have something to do with the Disney park attraction.

This is a passion project for Bird, who passed on directing the next Star Wars movie in order to make it.

Entourage (June 5):

I went through an Entourage phase. It ended well before Sasha Grey joined the cast.

Jurassic World (June 12):

Judging by the trailer, this looks awful. Like, really awful.

Domesticated raptors running along Chris Pratt’s motorcycle?

What are they thinking?

Pixels (July 24):

Adam Sandler and other nerds are hired to fight 1980s era video game villains attacking New York City. This has to be one of the greatest films ever made. I’m not being sarcastic.

Fantastic Four (August 7):

Fox is trying again with another adaptation of the amazing quartet. Miles Teller of Whiplash fame plays the rubber guy, Kate Mara plays The Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan is The Human Torch and Jamie Bell (yes, that Jamie Bell) is The Thing. Sounds really weird.

get booking.

If you are excited about Fifty Shades of Grey: The Movie, I weep for you and the souls of your present and future children.

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(October 2):

(November 6):

When Philippe Petit walked between the Twin Towers on a tightrope in the '70s, I was a totally freaked-out little kid.

Now, with Robert Zemeckis directing and Joseph GordonLevitt starring in a recreation of one of history’s all-time greatest stunts, I expect to be totally freaked out as an adult.

Hey, look, it’s a Peanuts movie right before the holiday season kicks off. Charlie Brown gets an updated, more detailed look, and it seems like they’ve done a good job nailing the voices. I’m of the generation that appreciates this sort of thing, and I will be there, York Peppermint Patties in hand.

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Vacation

(November 13):

(October 9):

So far, this Vacation reboot is still just being called Vacation. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo return, but this one is more about a grown up Rusty (Ed Helms) taking his family on a trip. It all seems kind of farty.

Quentin Tarantino doing another Western. I thought Django Unchained was his weakest movie, but I do cherish the idea of Tarantino going wild in the West again.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Crimson Peak

(November 20):

(October 16):

This one, purported to be a gothic haunted house story, is another one of the projects Guillermo del Toro wanted to make instead of getting bogged down in Hobbit hell. Based on Pacific Rim, I already think del Toro made the right choice. I’ve got a good feeling about this one.

Knock Knock (October 28):

Let’s see if Keanu Reeves can stay on a roll in 2015 after John Wick. This one is directed by Eli Roth, who also directed Cabin Fever, Hostel and something called The Green Inferno, a movie that never got released.

The Green Inferno is a cannibal movie that got caught up in litigation and was supposed to be released in 2014. Actually, I’m far more interested in seeing The Green Inferno than Knock Knock.

James Bond returns with both Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes still in place from the last installment.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (December 18):

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new Star Wars on the horizon and J.J. Abrams, the man who made Star Trek cool again, is at the helm. Harrison Ford … Han Solo. That is all that needs to really be said about this.

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Nick van Woert during the installation of his exhibition at the university. The sculpture next to him is a synthetic boulder.

Nick van Woert Nick van Woert is one of the names often mentioned during conversations about Nevada-bred by artists who have gone on to proverbial Brad Bynum bigger and better things after leaving the state. He graduated from Reno High School in 1997, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon, studying architecture, then moved back to Reno for a few years before moving to New York in 2005 to attend Parsons the New School for Design. He’s been based in New York nick van Woert’s Pink ever since, working full time as an artist Elephants on Parade is and attracting international acclaim. In on display at Sheppard 2014, he had high-profile solo exhibitions Contemporary, university of nevada, in Italy and the Netherlands. And from reno, 1664 n. Virginia January 29 to April 9, his solo exhibition St., through april 9. a Pink Elephants on Parade will be on reception will be held display at the University of Nevada, from 5 to 8 p.m. on Reno’s Sheppard Contemporary gallery.

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The exhibition includes several large untitled sculptures. Most of van Woert’s work is an investigation of materials. He’s a sculptor, but he views his work as connected to the traditions of landscape painting—art that aspires to recreate the beauties of the natural world.

“There’s only two types of beauty, in a sense,” he said. “There’s natural beauty, which is this uncontrollable, unpredictable beauty, and there’s man-made beauty, which is tools and machinery.”

Like landscape painters, van Woert’s sculptures often draw direct inspiration from the artist’s environment, but van Woert acknowledges that his immediate environment is urban, so he often makes art using materials like cleaning products and cat litter. Some of his work is an investigation of synthetic materials made to replace natural materials—like how cat litter is a manufactured substitute for soil.

“I have this running catalog of materials that we have made as replacements for natural ones,” he said. “If you want to go pee, you go pee outside in the dirt. But, we have cat litter.”

One sculpture in the exhibition is a chair made from plexiglass cases with different materials, including cat litter and pulverized plastic, layered like sedimentary rock in shifting, uncontrolled patterns. It’s

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As an artist who investigates materials, van Woert has had misadventures with materials that have gone bad, specifically horror stories about exploding containers of domestic materials, like chlorine.

“I started to see the comfort these materials can provide as a camouflage for the violence underneath,” he said.

His work seems to comment on the different levels of value that humans place on materials—the disposability of domestic products, the volatility of plastics, or the often overlooked beauty of tree bark. His

interest in materials is rooted in his architectural background.

“Buildings that were made a thousand years ago are still here,” he said.

“Ones that were made 40 years ago aren’t here.

We’re constantly driven to create these newer materials. ... Plastic has a certain immortality to it. It will never die, but it’s not going to last as long as stone, probably. And we’re on a planet made of stone. It’s in no short supply.”

One sculpture is a nonfunctional steel recreation of van Woert’s pulverizer. It’s an object that was designed for strict utility, but van Woert sees beauty in the shape and geometry of the design. It’s a form of beauty that contrasts with and complements the other sculptures in the exhibition.

“It’s not supposed to be aesthetic, but there’s something about it,” he said. “It wasn’t designed to be beautiful; it was designed to serve a purpose, but there’s something so amazing about that. … With certain industrial machinery, there’s a beauty to it.” Ω

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My wife’s Nevada beef burger with smoked brisket, mac and cheese, and aged sharp cheddar ($16) was cooked to order and had the texture and flavor that sets grass-fed beef apart from the corny variety, but the brisket didn’t present much smoke or additional flavor. The result was just one form of beef on top of another, and a little underseasoned. I couldn’t detect the cheddar apart from in the mac and cheese, and we both felt the pasta did nothing to elevate the dish.

If anything, all that extra stuff just covered up a really good bite of grassfed beef. Side note on the side dish: Her salad was crisp, with tomatoes possessing real flavor, and it had a delicious housemade dressing.

My cup of American bison chili ($6) was not noticeably different from any other bean chili. If you’re going to use a spotlight ingredient, make sure I can tell it’s there. Any sense of that deliciously lean meat was lost amongst the beans, peppers, tomato, onion, garlic, sour cream, and cheddar.

It was tasty, but you’d never know it was bison. Having said that, the side of crackling bacon cornbread should be served with every kind of chili served anywhere at any time.

My entree, fettuccine, was perfection on a plate ($15): house-made black pepper pasta with asparagus, red pepper, cauliflower, sun-dried tomato, and a garlic cream sauce topped with fresh-shaved parmesan. If you like fettuccine and vegetables, you’re going to love this.

We each ordered a dessert of the day ($6) with mixed results. The chocolate pecan pie (with whipped cream) sounded like my wife’s dream come true, yet was nearly inedible. Very dry and crumbly, with a dark chocolate that just didn’t deliver on flavor.

The blackberry crème brûlée was totally opposite: a lightly-caramelized top concealing fresh berries and a perfectly balanced custard.

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Pain in full Cake Jennifer Aniston does such a great job of looking and sounding miserable in Cake, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear crew hands were driving nails into her feet out of the camera’s view during takes.

The reasons for Claire’s misery are not made clear until well into the film, a wise choice by director Daniel Barnz and screenby writer Patrick Tobin. Not only does it provide Bob Grimm the film with a decent mystery, it allows the focus to solely be on Claire in the moment, b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m struggling from second to second with physical back pain and some sort of loss.

The film opens on Claire in a chronic pain support group. They address the loss of Nina (played by Anna Kendrick in photos and flashbacks), a member who committed suicide by jumping off a freeway overpass.

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Claire makes a brutally honest observation about the conditions of her suicide, and finds herself getting ejected from the group.

It’s clear that she is a dangerously unhappy person.

Little is revealed about Claire’s background. We learn she has a husband (Chris Messina) who cares deeply for her, but no longer lives at their house. She appears to be taken care of financially, with a supportive housekeeper Silvana (Adriana Barraza) enduring her mood swings.

For reasons unexplained, Claire fixates on Nina, sometimes dreaming about her, and even hallucinating about her after indulging in too many painkillers. Her obsession leads her to Nina’s house, where she meets Roy (Sam Worthington), her widower, and her son. Worthington proves great in the role,

delivering perhaps his best performance yet as a man confused by the loss of his wife, and dealing with Claire in a very curious, and amiable, fashion.

The relationship between Claire and Roy is an unorthodox, yet delicately handled one.

I dare to say it’s even charming, which is surprising considering both of their current states. Aniston and Worthington are very much in command of the raw emotion and pain in play between their characters. They even manage to inject a fair amount of humor.

Aniston somehow manages to make Claire a sympathetic character despite her constant unpleasantness. While we only get glimpses of the Claire who might’ve existed before her back and heart became racked with pain, it’s obvious that Claire was somebody that many people cared for.

She’s pushed them away for what is revealed to be solid reasons.

The pain of her losses never leaves Aniston’s face, even in the moments when she is smiling.

I’m not going to say Aniston disappears into this role just because she isn’t wearing makeup and dispenses of her normally sunny side. She’s played dour people before, and she’s played them well (The Good Girl). So, for me, this isn’t as drastic a dramatic turn as many critics have described. I’ve always viewed her as very talented, so her effectiveness here doesn’t surprise me.

Even though we learn some of the reasons behind the tragedies Claire has endured, many of the details remain shrouded. Some critics have found this frustrating, and punished the film for it. I think it’s one of the film’s many virtues.

Not knowing exactly why Claire is in pain somehow makes her struggle all the more vivid and compelling. Ω

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Turns out Chris Hemsworth isn’t all that interesting when you take away his hammer, strip off his cape or disguise that bitchin’ Australian accent. He’s actually quite the dullard. Or such is the case in this film, an atrocious cyberspace thriller from the normally reliable director Michael Mann (Heat, Public Enemies). Hemsworth plays Nick Hathaway, a hacker convict doing time in a maximum-security prison. When a hack job leads to an explosion at a nuclear power plant in China, authorities let Nick out of prison under the condition he find the hacker and save the day. If he fails to find the hacker, it’s back to prison, where his hair will still look spectacular despite not having access to premium hair care products. Upon leaving prison, Nick instantly becomes some sort of super detective. Joining forces with Chinese former roommate Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang), Nick can shoot bad guys and beat the crap out of attackers in a restaurant even though he lacks any real training. I guess doing some years in a big prison automatically makes you sharp with a Glock and hand-tohand combat. Most hackers lack Nick’s innate super detective skills, but they will kick your ass in Call of Duty and Snickers eating contests. It’s early, but I’m going to go ahead and say that I hated this enough to suspect it will make my list for worst films of 2015. If it doesn’t, bravo to those 10 idiots who manage to make movies more moronic than this one in the next 11 months. That, in a sad way, will be a significant achievement.

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Foxcatcher

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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While Clint Eastwood’s film has plenty of problems, Bradley Cooper rises above the patchy melodrama and overly slick segments with his portrayal of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Kyle holds the American sniper record of 160 confirmed kills, and was killed by a veteran he was trying to mentor on a shooting range. 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. Saddled with the film’s worst dialogue, Sienna Miller battles hard in trying to make Kyle’s wife, Taya, an intriguing movie character. Cooper, who physically transformed himself for the role, does an excellent job of conveying the difficulties and stress that Kyle’s job entailed. He’s an actor forever taking risks and challenging himself, and he’s a big reason to see this movie.

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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This one got pushed out of 2014, which had me worried it was worthy of the junk heap. As things turn out, this mixed animation treatment of the character created by Michael Bond is actually cute. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, a Peruvian bear who travels to England looking for a home.

He winds up in the abode of the Browns, where he quickly takes to causing major damage, creating a little marital strife for Mr. and Mrs. Brown (a delightful Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins). Nicole Kidman has a lot of fun as the film’s villain, determined to trap and stuff Paddington. The movie has plenty of British charm, a couple of really good jokes, and the likes of Kidman, Bonneville and Hawkins in top form. As for Paddington himself, he looks pretty good, a solid animated creation mixed in neatly with real actors and actresses.

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Dolora Zajick In the opera world, dramatic mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick is a force of nature.

Over the span of decades, she has by Anna Hart established herself as an opera sensation with a voice and vocal range of unparalleled size. Her repertoire is built of roles from some of opera’s most revered works, such as Amneris in Verdi’s Aida, Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma, and even as Ježibaba in Dvorák’s Rusalka.

Zajick has received worldwide acclaim, most notably as one of the most preeminent singers of Guiseppe Verdi’s operas. She has sung alongside the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Renée Fleming and has performed in the world’s most prominent opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera, to the Royal Opera House, to La Scala.

But before all of that, Dolora Zajick received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno.

“I was a pre-med student in college,” she said. “When I was younger, I wanted to be a pianist, but it wasn’t possible for me to take lessons. So in high school, I decided to become a doctor. Then in college I was told I had a voice and that I could have a career. That’s when I changed degree programs.”

Now, 30 years after the debut at San Francisco Opera that launched her path to international operatic stardom, Zajick cultivates successful careers, both on and off the stage.

Recently, Zajick has tried her hand at composing sacred music. Her compositional debut was an opera scene, “Roads to Zion,” written as a part of a celebration commemorating the 500th year since the birth of Saint Teresa of Avila. The composition

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premiered in San Jose in August. The work is set to premiere internationally in Spain this spring.

“My composing career started and quickly took off,” she said. “It’s all been very strange.”

One of Zajick’s most impressive endeavors of recent years is her work as a teacher for the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, which Zajick established in 2006.

“We specialize in freaks of nature,” says Zajick. “I noticed a severe lack of new dramatic voices, which was surprising, now that there are more people on the planet than ever before.

I found that there was a lack of proper training for these unusual voices, and I wanted to address it.”

The institute runs an intensive three-week summer program that gives those who are admitted to the institute the opportunity to work with renowned coaches and voice teachers, including Zajick, that provide all of the necessary tools to have a career in the demanding field of opera performance.

The program has been hosted by various universities, but this year will mark its first appearance at UNR. In return for the city hosting the event, the institute will offer classical singers in the community the opportunity to audit classes as well as a chance to work in a master class with Zajick.

“It’s nice to bring more classical music culture here,” Zajick said.

“I think people miss having opera around.”

Although her work has taken her all over the world, to places like the United Kingdom, Italy and France, Zajick calls Reno home. For at least three months of the year, Zajick spends her time in the Biggest Little City with family—both hers and the scrub jays that frequent her yard.

“I made friends with one once,” she said. “I named him Mort and his wife was Ticia. He’d sit on my hand and sing to me, and we’d talk while I was in the kitchen.” Ω

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Seismography: Nevada & the Truckee Meadows The state is long overdue for a seismic event over magnitude 6.5. Annie Kell of the Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno will discuss major fault systems in our region and our seismic history. The lecture begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Galena Creek Visitors Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway. Admission is $5 suggested donation per family. Call 849-4948 or visit www. galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

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Donations are used to determine the People’s Choice Award and a portion of the proceeds will be given to the Humane Society of TruckeeTahoe. The free event takes place at Northstar California Resort, 5001 Northstar Drive, Truckee. Visit http://carvetahoe.com.

The San Francisco Bay Area-based band mixes high-energy folk rock, Irish reels, Scottish ballads, Norwegian influences and other world music elements. The show begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, at Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City. Tickets are $12-$20. Call 883-1976 or visit www.breweryarts.org.

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Social Science: Movie Magic Explore the science and technology used to create movies—from green screen and drone camera technology to the art of movie posters and theater makeup. The Discovery Museum’s adults-only, educational event includes science demos, art projects, a DJ, beer, wine and food from Whole Foods Market. The event begins at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, at Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St. Visitors must be 21 and older to enter.

Tickets are $15-$25. Call 786-1000 or visit www.nvdm.org.

Slovenly Recordings was founded in Reno in 2002 when it released albums by Lo-Lite, The Spits and Subsonics. To celebrate its 13th anniversary, the company’s throwing an all-ages party with live music by Personal & The Pizzas from New Jersey, Useless Eaters from Memphis, Tenn., Scraper from San Francisco and local band Teen Creature. Noble Pie Company will serve up the pizza on a first-come, first-served basis, starting at 8 p.m. at The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St. Admission is $10. The after-party moves to 40 Mile Saloon, 1495 S. Virginia St. after 11 p.m. The afterparty is open to those age 21 and older and will feature DJs and a live band to be announced. Visit www.hollandreno.org or www.slovenly.com.

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Playing with mismatches I like this woman I’ve been seeing, but she’s really in love with me. I’ve been clear that I’m not ready to get more serious and that I’m really never going to be up for that with her. She’s chosen to stick around, but her best friend called me crying, saying I’m breaking her heart. (Yikes!) Is it wrong to stay with somebody whose feelings are much stronger than yours?

She sees the two of you getting old together. You see the two of you getting together for sex on Friday.

The French make this sort of mismatch sound sexy and fabulous, calling what she’s feeling “la douleur exquise”—the “exquisite pain” of wanting somebody you can’t have. But look under the hood, and you’ll see an ugly stew of hormones and the psychological gotchas called cognitive biases—unconscious errors in reasoning—leading to an acute case of adult-onset puppy love.

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something based on what we’ve already put in. This is dumb, because our initial investment is gone, and throwing in more whatever won’t change that. The rational approach would be basing our decision on what kind of payoff we’re likely to see down the road.

Unfortunately, though we humans have a reasoning department built into our brain, cognitive biases can keep it a plastic-wrapped no-go zone, much like my late grandma’s living room couch.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have

an entourage or posse that helps you work magic you can’t conjure up alone? Is there a group of co-conspirators that prods you to be brave and farseeing? If not, try to whip one up. And if you do have an inspirational crew, brainstorm about some new adventures for all of you to embark on. Scheme and dream about the smart risks and educational thrills you could attempt together.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you especially need the sparkle and rumble that a feisty band of allies can incite.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The cosmos

seems to be granting you a license to be brazenly ambitious. I’m not sure how long this boost will last, so I suggest you capitalize on it while it’s surging. What achievement have you always felt insufficiently prepared or powerful to accomplish? What person or club or game have you considered to be out of your league? What issue have you feared was beyond your understanding? Rethink your assumptions. At least one of those “impossibilities” may be more possible than usual.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When I at-

tended the University of California at Santa Cruz, my smartest friend was Gemini writer Clare Cavanagh. She headed off to Harvard for her graduate studies, and later became a pre-eminent translator of Polish poetry.

Her work has been so skillful that Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz selected her as his authorized biographer. Interviewing Milosz was a tough job, Clare told blogger Cynthia Haven. He was demanding. He insisted that she come up with “questions no one’s asked me yet.” And she did just that, of course. Formulating evocative questions is a Gemini specialty. I invite you to exercise that talent to the hilt in the coming week. It’s prime time for you to celebrate a curiosity festival.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Somewhere

someone is traveling furiously toward you,” writes poet John Ashbery, “at incredible speed, traveling day and night, through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, recognize you when he sees you, give you the thing he has for you?”

This passage might not be literally true, Cancerian. There may be no special person who is headed your way from a great distance, driven by a rapt intention to offer you a blessing. But I think Ashbery’s scenario is accurate in a metaphorical way. Life is in fact working overtime to bring you gifts and help. Make sure you cooperate! Heighten your receptivity. Have a nice long talk with yourself, explaining why you deserve such beneficence.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1768, Britain’s

Royal Society commissioned navigator James Cook to lead a long naval voyage west to Tahiti, where he and his team were supposed to study the planet Venus as it made a rare transit across the face of the sun.

But it turned out that task was a prelude.

Once the transit was done, Cook opened the sealed orders he had been given before leaving England. They revealed a second, bigger assignment, kept secret until then: to reconnoiter the rumored continent that lay west of Tahiti. In the coming months, he became the first European to visit the east coast of Australia. I foresee a comparable progression for you, Leo. The task you’ve been working on lately has been a prelude.

Soon you’ll receive your “sealed orders” for the next leg of your journey.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to

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computer security company Symantec, you’re not in major danger of contracting an online virus from a porn website.

The risk is much greater when you visit religious websites. Why? They’re often built by inexperienced programmers, and as a result are more susceptible to hackers’ attacks. In the coming weeks, Virgo, there may be a similar principle at work in your life. I suspect you’re more likely to be undermined by nice, polite people than raw, rowdy folks.

I’m not advising you to avoid the do-gooders and sweet faces. Just be careful that their naivete doesn’t cause problems. And in the meantime, check out what the raw, rowdy folks are up to.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Life has a big,

tough assignment for you. Let’s hope you’re up for the challenge. There’s not much wiggle room, I’m afraid. Here it is: You must agree to experience more joy and pleasure.

The quest for delight and enchantment has to rise to the top of your priority list. To be mildly entertained isn’t enough. To be satisfied with lukewarm arousal is forbidden. It’s your sacred duty to overflow with sweet fulfillment and interesting bliss. Find ways to make it happen!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may

have never sampled the southeast Asian fruit called durian. It’s controversial. Some people regard it as the “king of fruits,” and describe its taste as sweet and delicious.

Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace said it was like “a rich custard highly flavored with almonds.” But other people find the durian unlikable, comparing its aroma to turpentine or decaying onions. TV chef Anthony Bourdain asserts that its “indescribable” taste is “something you will either love or despise.”

I foresee the possibility that your imminent future will have metaphorical resemblances to the durian, Scorpio. My advice? Don’t take things personally.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Talking will be your art form in the coming week. It’ll be healing and catalytic. You could set personal records for most engaging phone conversations, emails, text messages and face-to-face dialogs. The sheer intensity of your self-expression could intimidate some people, excite others and generate shifts in your social life. Here are a few tips to ensure the best results. First, listen as passionately as you speak. Second, make it your intention to communicate, not just unload your thoughts. Tailor your messages for your specific audience. Third, reflect on the sometimes surprising revelations that emerge from you. They’ll give you new insights into yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s

say you want to buy an 18-karat gold ring. To get that much gold, miners had to excavate and move six tons of rock. Then they doused the rock with poisonous cyanide, a chemical that’s necessary to extract the good stuff.

In the process, they created toxic waste. Is the gold ring worth that much trouble? While you ponder that, let me ask you a different question. What if I told you that over the course of the next five months, you could do what’s necessary to obtain a metaphorical version of a gold ring? And although you would have to process the equivalent of six tons of raw material to get it, you wouldn’t have to use poison or make a mess. Would you do it?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1899,

the King of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza II, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just four months old. It took a while for the new King to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from his grandmother and uncle. Eventually he showed great aptitude for the job, though, and ruled until his death at age 83. I’m getting a Sobhuza II-type vibe as I meditate on you, Aquarius. New power may come to you before you’re fully ready to wield it. But I have confidence you will grow into it, especially if you’re not shy about seeking help.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 1951

animated movie version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice says to herself, “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” I hope you won’t be like her, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to heed your own good advice. In fact, I suspect that doing so will be crucial to your ability to make smart decisions and solve a knotty problem. This is one of those turning points when you really have to practice what you preach. You’ve got to walk your talk.

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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What have you been doing before this?

A very small building under some trees at 601 S. Center St. could easily be the shack on a used car lot, which it may well have been at one time. It is about to become Spectre Records— records as in vinyl. It owners, Gabriel and Michelle Torres, are shooting for a Jan. 31 opening. We spoke with Gabriel Torres.

We lived in Sacramento for the past eight years. I was newscast director at KXTV in Sacramento. I left the same job, essentially, here at Channel 8, KOLO, to take the job in Sacramento, and we did that. And while we were there, both of us spent some time—my wife spent more time, about four years as a free form DJ at KDVS, the UC Davis community radio station. I did a little bit of time DJing there myself.

You couldn’t find a small building?

Did you do a SNCAT [Sierra Nevada Cable Access Television] show at some point?

We think this is perfect. It’ll be easy to fill. We’re going to have lots of great stuff and it’s safer for us to start small that to go through a big phase and not be sure if there’s enough people out there looking for new records.

Define records.

Vinyl records—12 inch, plastic records, the ones that have been around for 75, 80 years now.

It doesn’t worry you that you’re three blocks from Recycled Records?

No, we’re going to be a great complement to Recycled as well as Sundance [Books].

And we’re going to focus on new releases where they focus on used ones. We’ll carry used as well, but our primary focus is going to be independent rock ’n’ roll and new record releases. [Recycled has posted an online message welcoming Spectre to the neighborhood.]

Do you think the market can support another such store?

Football Fetish Nation—The Finale.

Well, yes, and here it is. America’s Money Shot Sunday. Place your bets.

Have a few. Have a few more. Pound some salty snacks. Easy on those tater tots. And hope like hell that this year’s Superb Owl (a tip of the hat to you, Stephen, for that perfect gag from last year) isn’t ruined by something unimaginable (although Katy can go right ahead and have a wardrobe malfunction if she must).

In a year marred by elevator punchups, medieval thigh-switching, brazenly deflated footballs—hey, somebody let the air out of those effing balls!—and loads of really shitty calls by blind zebras, the NFL says TGISBS (Thank God It’s Super Bowl Sunday), and somebody turn out the lights when this kegger is over.

But is the writing on the wall as far as the NFL’s days as Big Daddy El Supremo being numbered? I’m not saying this as someone who necessarily wants to see football get dethroned. I’ve enjoyed watching games at various levels of interest OPINION

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I did. I did. I did a show called Sonic Noise.

It was a cable access music video show on SNCAT from 1996 to just the beginning of 2000.

Yes, I think so. We’re hoping that Reno is part of the growing record revival that’s been going on the past four years.

Reportedly there were 8 million records— new records—sold last year over the previous year, which was 6 million over the previous year, which was 4 million. So it’s got a new trajectory, for new vinyl records.

Tell me about that show.

It was a music video show that focused on independent bands, smaller bands, trying to give focus and attention to music that my wife and I are fans of that you don’t hear on the radio—at that time, weren’t seeing on MTV. … And there’s still the same problem with radio. There’s a lot of bands that get played on so-called alternative radio, but there are thousands and thousands and thousands of independents and underground bans that are absolutely great, and we wanted to bring attention to those bands, as well. And that’s what we’re going to carry. Ω

How did you even notice this building?

We’ve actually had our eyes on it. We saw it driving up Center and thought that would be a great place for a tiny little record store. And a day that we were talking about it, we drove by and saw that it was empty. So we called the number and a few months later we got in.

Sport deflated

∫y Bruce Van Dye would he say OK to football?

“Nope. That’s sad.

I wouldn’t. And my whole life was football. I think the risk is worse than the reward. I really do.”

Now, hold on here. This isn’t a quote from some metrosexual hairdresser in San Jose, it’s from Mike Freakin’ Ditka, a guy who very likely has a DVD of himself catching passes and running over puny tacklers that he can pop in the box whenever he’s blue and needs a little cheerup.

I’m not predicting a thing. In fact, in five years, it’s safe to say the Superb Owl will still have its gleaming sheen of godzillesque kitsch goin’ for it, like now. But in 20 years, 30?—will football finally yield its throne to … football (as in the S word)? Ω

and passion for—gulp—54 years.

(One can only wonder at the toll in terms of brain cells.) But look at the following quotes and see if you can’t see the seeds of ... of … well—deflation about 20 years down the road.

Begin with President Obama’s 2013 quote—“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.” Here’s a recent from King James (a.k.a. Lebron), who has two young boys—“Only basketball, baseball and soccer are allowed in my house. It’s a safety thing. As a parent, you protect your kids as much as possible. I don’t think I’m the only one that’s not allowing his kids to play football.” I’m getting that feeling too, Bron. Notice he had no hesitation dropping the “S” word into his mix. Soccer is a word that used to make American jocks all squidgy in their tummies.

Finally, there’s this quote from burly gruff legendary tight end/ coach/talking head Mike Ditka, who was asked if he had a young son,

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