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Last push Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m getting down to the end of one of my master’s degrees.

On Wednesday—the day before this paper hits the stands—I’ll be defending my master’s thesis.

Journalism thesises? Thesii?

Thesopaloozas? are a bit different than thesnadoes in other schools. We do what is called a professional project, and they can run the gamut. One woman did a documentary in Algeria, another did a website to help identify the life in and around the Truckee River. I designed an app.

It’s not that exciting, compared to some of the others’ work, but well, sometimes my hard work and commitment just aren’t enough to overcome my lack of creativity and low intellect.

Fortunately, it’s not a competition.

When that’s complete—assuming I successfully defend what I’ve done—I’ve got two more major projects and two pretty substantial papers to finish up, and my semester is finished.

And you know what that means: The drinking season is upon us. Seriously, it just creates another three-way quandary: Do I party my ass off for the summer (which sounds totally dysfunctional, but it’s how I manage my high-output during the other nine months of the year); do I stay on the wagon and get focused on my heath (since I’ve gained about 30 pounds since the last time I got health-obsessed); or do I attempt moderation (a behavior I’ve been failing at for more than a half-century)?

I’ll tell you how I’m feeling about it at this moment at 10:30 on Monday morning: If I had a jug of Buffalo Trace on the desk in front of me, the decision would have already been made. But I’m sure that’s just the end-of-thesemester ennui talking.

My goodness. I don’t know if it’s because of Mother Nature prematurely ejaculated spring upon us, but I’m feeling an intense craving to feel the sun on my skin and some soil under my finger nails. The deck needs staining, the gardens need tilling, and there are too many people I haven’t seen in too long.

I am the groundhog. Commence with commencement.

Accidents waiting to happen Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): The Legislature is considering five laws that would make it easier to carry guns in Nevada. Guns result in accidental shootings and acts of violence, not for heroic measures to protect oneself or their communities. At least 722 non-self-defense deaths since 2007 were attributable to individuals with legal permits to carry concealed weapons. My brother was fatally shot in the chest.

His son lost his father. My siblings, parents, and others who knew Dan have endured much pain. Must others suffer the loss of a loved one? SB175 talks about “justifiable homicide.”

Who determines the definition of justifiable? These laws have not been effective in other states. After mass shootings and acts of gun violence, we ask ourselves how this could happen again and say never again.

Carrying guns provides a false sense of security and enables us to become a vigilante society. Nevada has many great social needs. It saddens me that the legislators are not focusing on improving them, and are not seeking other ways to create safer, healthier communities. I encourage my fellow citizens to contact their legislators and speak out against these bills.

Lauren Slovic Reno

Thou shalt not pack Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): As a Nevadan and the Rabbi at Temple Sinai, Reno, I am writing to express my deep concern about the Guns Everywhere Legislation and the Fiore extreme gun agenda. According to Judeo-Christian tradition, one of the 10 commandments is, “Thou shalt not murder.” Fiore’s agenda encourages more deadly shootings by expanding the dangerous “Stand Your Ground” law. This law makes it easier for individuals who kill another person to justify their actions. It makes for bad law because it creates

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the presumption that shooters are justified in their use of deadly force.

Normalizing murder does not make for a safer or more compassionate society. Moses taught us that thousands of years ago, and Jesus followed suit. What concerns me the most is that the Nevada Legislature is seeking to strip Nevada universities, cities, towns and counties of the authority to make decisions about what is right for our communities when it comes to preventing gun violence. I urge all Nevada citizens to call our legislators and oppose SB 175 and AB 148, both of which infringe on our rights to follow our moral tradition and to decide for ourselves what will make us safer.

Rabbi Ethan Bair Reno Editor’s note: Just a heads up: The Assembly has already passed this bill. The focus now moves to the Senate and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval. Our story last week, “Empty Chambers?” (News, April 9), suggests the next front may be the Board of Regents, and then, of course, the courts.

Goodbye golden goose eggs Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): In January 2014, the Reno Gazette-Journal enthusiastically reported that the University of Nevada, Reno plans to add over 3,000 students and 270 faculty by 2020. The 2013 US Census found that Nevada was America’s second-fastest-growing state. Reno is a city with huge potential—the Tesla move was recently named the Development Deal of the Year. But passing Assembly Bill 148 will help prevent the university’s and Reno’s growth in the coming years. I am a doctoral student at the University of Southern California and a recent transplant to Reno. My husband and I are very involved in the community, and having recently purchased a home downtown, know that we are contributing to the economic and cultural revitalization

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of the city. While I previously would have considered applying for a teaching position at UNR, these bills make me, and many of my peers, think about leaving this state instead. We do not feel safe knowing that anyone can carry a firearm, and that deadly shootings would be justifiable because of the expanded Stand Your Ground Law in fellow bill SB175. I urge all Nevada constituents to call your legislators and take a stand against AB148 for the safety and future of our state.

Nadya Bair Reno

No <3 a tax Re “Keeping the lines straight” (Upfront, March 12): I hope Dennis Myers will shine the light on these [political front] groups. They know damned well that the general public is quite easy to manipulate. Wonder how they are able to retain their non-profit status?

I’m sure we’ll see them use the tactic of declaring the IRS is after them to try to deflect that the IRS should be after them.

Rex D. Stock Reno

Pretend democracy Re “Empty Chambers?” (News, April 9): Praises to Dennis Myers for his recent article on Nevada’s State Legislature. Indeed, it is disappointing to see our Legislature be dismissive to constituents, bowing to bigger interests. Noteworthy was the Legislature’s recent hearing to discuss proposed bill AB148, allowing concealed weapons on college campuses. The hearing was biased, not allowing opponents of this bill to adequately voice their concerns.

Advocates of this legislation were given preferential treatment, being permitted to speak first, not to mention the machinations used by the hearing committee to curtail opponents’ arguments, often chiding their positions to waste time.

Conversely, people favoring AB148

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went unchallenged and fewer opponents to the bill were heard than those in favor. It is also appalling that legislators want to impose their jurisdiction on college campuses.

As a UNR professor, I feel that my security with concealed weapons in our midst would not be enhanced.

Moreover, it is interesting that our Legislature does not allow guns on its own premises, except for law-enforcement agents. I doubt that our legislators would entertain the idea of engaging in heated debates on their assembly floor with people carrying guns just as faculty would not appreciate discussing controversial positions in classrooms with armed people.

Louis Forline Reno

Altar-ed stakes Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): There is surely no sane reason to carry a gun on campus or in daycares and K-12 schools. After all, campuses, like churches, are considered to be sanctuaries from violence, not for violence. The presence of guns on campus increases the likelihood for accidental discharges.

We’ve already seen evidence of this from the Idaho professor who accidentally shot himself in the foot in 2014 during class. Allowing them in elementary and high schools is even worse. Every day we hear tragic stories about children getting their hands on guns and accidentally shooting themselves or others.

Simple cases of bad child-access prevention. If you think there wouldn’t be a chance for this to happen at schools and daycares that allow the carry of weapons inside of them, think again. The bill that would allow this has a belligerent tone and supports carrying guns in the last places that you would want them in. What comes after this bill, guns in churches? Please, please, please contact your legislators.

Jay Laughlin Reno

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This ModeRn WoRld

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Will you participate in Earth Day? Asked at Java Jungle, 246 W. First St. Robert Molina Barista

My girlfriend is making our plans. I think we’re going to the city event.

She’s the one who keeps tracks of these things.

Mike Zuckerman Retiree

No, but I live a lifestyle that is worthy of Earth Day. I don’t own a car. I ride a bicycle. I’m a vegetarian. So I’m kind of an Earth Day guy all year long.

Luke Nyhammer Bartender

Think about it

I’ll be bartending that day. Last year I went down to Idlewild for the celebration. I kind of wandered around and enjoyed the people there.

There’s no debating the fact that sexuality isn’t as Legislators have difficulty with transgender issues. simple as innies and outies or Xs and Ys. Genetic science We understand. Human minds are pattern recognizers, has proven beyond any doubt that sexuality and gender is much more than they are analytical machines. For a spectrum that includes any possible permutation. those who’ve never been closely associated with a We’re born with our chromosomes. Some of our person who looked like a boy, but who understood sexual and gender identities are set at the moment their own identity to be a girl, the idea of this violates of conception. Some change as internal and external the patterns they’ve known all their lives. It violates factors within our lives change. But the idea that their own sense of self. someone would lie about how they feel about their We ask legislators to look a little deeper into identity—unless forced to by someone or an agency themselves to recognize the truth of this. For many, more powerful—just doesn’t make sense. Where’s the their only association with transgender and transsexual benefit? people is through pornography. The Trans people None of this is threatening. fact is, for most people, the vast There’s not even that much to debate bulk of naked bodies we see of any shop, have on the topic. Liberals would say people is through pornography, so people should accept other people we judge everyone by those patterns families, have because it’s the right thing to do. we see. lives.

Conservatives would say government We shouldn’t dismiss this hard should stay out of people’s lives fact just because it says negative because it’s the right thing to do. things about our society. We need to step outside your So when people who haven’t been taught how to open own prejudices and recognize the truth of it. their minds make decisions to attack the identities of other Just as most people who aren’t transsexuals or people’s children—to attack children—because they’re transgender don’t publish photos of themselves naked, simply unable to logic out how someone can walk like a neither do people who are. woman but talk like a man, they deserve a certain amount It’s the majority of society that objectifies transof sympathy. It’s more often ignorance than stupidity that sexuals and transgender people, just as it fetishizes or makes them act intolerantly toward others. objectifies women or large penises or shoes.

But while we must be sympathetic to ignorance, while All trans people have lives. They shop for grocerstriving to inform, human beings of conscience can’t be ies, have families, go to church, go to school, read tolerant of intolerance. We need to stand up for those books, watch TV. Like the rest of us, they’re sexual children and men and women who are routinely crushed when they’re sexual, and they live nonsexual lives the by ignorance. Ω rest of the time.

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Yes, if there are local activities, I would enjoy participating. Certainly, I support green causes. I believe in global warming.

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I won’t do any fracking that day. I’ll avoid littering. Yes, if there’s something going on in town, I’ll check it out.

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Another Nevada law to legalize discrimination Embarrassing. Ignorant. Humiliating. Sickening.

Those were the words many people used to describe their disgust at the action by the Assembly Judiciary Committee last week when it approved AB 375, the “bathroom bully bill” that would deny access to the restroom of choice by transgender by students in Nevada schools.

Sheila Leslie The bill was sponsored by Republican legislators Assemblymember Victoria Dooling and Sen. Scott Hammond from Clark County.

Neither made a compelling case.

Dooling read a letter into the record from an unknown doctor whose name was omitted for an unexplained reason. The secret doctor was concerned about schools allowing students to use the bathroom of their gender preference based on the student’s self reports, stating the policy would leave the door open for students with conduct disorders to “gain entrance into bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite gender to stalk and sexually abuse others.”

She then quickly left the hearing room, avoiding any questions from the

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committee. Sen. Hammond did not appear at all to explain his decision to jointly sponsor the bill.

Instead, the legislation was championed primarily by out-of-state advocate Karen England, an unsuccessful 2010 Republican write-in candidate for California lieutenant governor. She also led the effort against a proactive bill, signed into law in 2013 by California Gov. Jerry Brown, allowing students to choose bathrooms based on their perceived gender identity instead of their biological gender assignment at birth.

California officials say there have been no reports of stalking or assaults by transgender students since the law has been in place.

Ms. England’s argument involved the rights of non-transgender youth whose “privacy and modesty rights” would apparently be trampled if transgender children were allowed to use the same bathroom facility. She spoke of the need to base policy on “gender reality” instead of gender identity.

Democratic legislators came prepared with information about the

high rates of bullying and assault against transgender youth and their extremely high suicide rate, including one in San Diego earlier this month.

They also raised concerns about civil rights violations and conflict with Title IX, pointing out that the separate but equal doctrine has been long retired from public policy due to its unconstitutionality and shouldn’t be resurrected to force transgender youth into segregated facilities, such as a faculty bathroom.

But it was the transgender youth and their allies who stole the show at the high-profile hearing. They spoke of fear, of harassment, of bullying and their struggles with school bathroom issues every day. They also provided an inspiring glimpse of our future leaders, confidently reading testimony from their mobile devices and speaking clearly to the crux of the issue: “Nobody should have to prove their gender in order to use the bathroom.”

Youth advocate and Las Vegas high school senior Caitlyn Caruso responded calmly to hostile questions from Republican committee members,

politely pointing out the bias embedded in their offensive and ludicrous statements. One legislator complained that his children have had problems at school because they don’t “identify with gays” and are afraid of boys dressing up as girls to invade the girls bathroom. He and many others on the committee were clearly uninterested in educating themselves on transgender issues, preferring to maintain their ignorant beliefs from the last century.

Meanwhile, 2,500 UNR students turned out on campus last week to hear from transgender actress Laverne Cox, eager to learn more about people different from themselves.

In the end, Republicans succeeded in moving the bill to the full Assembly where it will get a vote unless more enlightened legislators prevail and prevent an unseemly display of sheer ignorance and lack of compassion.

Legislators would do better to consider the bill’s hashtags on Twitter as their voting guide: #TransIsBeautiful and #JustLetUsPee. Ω

Watch the hearing on the legislative website, www.leg.state. nv.us in the archived meeting section, under Assembly Judiciary for April 10th.

The culture war of words Assembly Bill 277 failed to pass and is now dead, but it raised issues that still merit attention. It would have been Nevada’s version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). RFRA bills in Indiana and Arkansas caused a media firestorm that falsely claimed they would by Brendan legalize discrimination against gays.

Trainor Major corporations and the National Collegiate Athletic Association threatened to boycott the states. Even Walmart denounced the Arkansas bill. When you lose Walmart, you’ve lost the culture war.

That major corporations opposed the RFRA laws contradicts the stereotypes that the left harbors about them as greedy and uncaring.

In fact, corporations were instrumental in fighting Jim Crow from the time the railroads supported Plessy in the separate-but-equal case, Plessy vs. Ferguson. They would not invest in the South until Jim Crow was dead. But their boycott threats now seem somewhat hypocritical, as they

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have major investments in China and other gay rights violating nations.

The RFRA laws have not provided any defense against antidiscrimination statutes. The law has been used to defend minor religious practices like Native American peyote rituals, allowing Muslim prisoners to have beards, etc. Then the Supreme Court in its Hobby Lobby decision ruled that a closely held, Christian, for-profit corporation could avoid paying for some employees’ contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act due to the owners’ religious belief that they were abortofacients. That was the gauntlet thrown down to the left.

The Hobby Lobby decision set off a progressive jihad to wipe out the last remnants of traditional Christian teachings on homosexuality and marriage. In Indiana, a small pizzeria’s Christian owner told a reporter that he serves gay patrons every day, but to cater a gay wedding would violate his conscience. The left’s social media political condemnation and violent threats forced him to

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close his pizzeria. Moral crusades don’t take prisoners.

Since then, the pizzeria owners have received close to a million dollars in donations from those shocked at the intolerance of the left. The religious liberty issue will certainly be with us for the 2016 election.

Politely declining to bake a cake is not the same thing as lynching a black teenager for talking to a white woman. Nor is being refused a permit to march in a St. Patrick’s Day parade the same as being hosed down on the streets of Selma by Bull Connor. Government marriage laws forbade same sex marriage, just as government passed, and enforced, Jim Crow laws. The Civil Rights Act correctly repealed the Jim Crow laws, but then it went further, and mandated no one could discriminate.

This over-broad mandate is now clashing with religious liberty. The left is using it to force Christians to reject 2,000 years of Christian teaching and traditions over non-essential services that stretch the meaning of public accommodations. Isn’t this a

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violation of free thought, association and property rights?

Throughout history, people who don’t like each other for political or cultural reasons have found common ground in commerce.

When people trade freely, they look for ways to serve each other despite their differences. Economists say anti-discrimination laws make people more cautious, less willing to take a chance. That results in more unemployment, not less.

Because the state is the monopoly provider of the marriage license, we fight each other over the rules. Legislatures pass laws that reflect the majority opinion of what marriage is. The minority viewpoint is often outlawed.

Maybe it is time to get government out of the marriage license business period. Since marriage is a contract, let the interested parties contract and let the government do what it normally does, enforce the contract. That would be real marriage equality. Ω

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The Indiana governor signed this law to ensure the law they passed didn’t enable discrimination: http:// usat.ly/1GjFxM2.

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Though he was carrying a gun, eight-year police officer George Sullivan was killed with an ax on the University of Nevada, Reno campus on January 13, 1998. This bench in his memory was placed near the site of the murder.

Tahoe clarity gains There may not be much water in Lake Tahoe, but at least it’s getting clearer.

Six days after the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service announced the Sierra snow pack was at an all time low, scientists at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency said the lake has its greatest clarity in a decade.

In a prepared statement, TERC director Geoffrey Schladow addressed the good news/bad news mix.

“Complete restoration is still decades away, and some of the greatest challenges still lie ahead of us,” he said. “We are enduring drier and warmer conditions than we have ever encountered, and the restoration consequences of that are still far from understood.”

First come Two measures are being processed by the Nevada Legislature that seek to grab public lands away from the federal government on grounds that the feds are not allowed to own land. (Article 4, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution makes reference to “property belonging to the United States,” but never mind.) The intention is for states to take over that land (“Never land,” RN&R, April 9).

But who says the states would get the land if federal title was extinguished??

If a miracle happened and the feds lost title to the land, and the matter was opened up legally, state governments won’t necessarily be first in line. There are other groups with earlier claims to being sagebrush rebels, and Native Americans are at the top of the list. We’re not talking about the famous but episodic land grabs, which are claim enough. We’re referring to a more carefully plotted and institutionalized theft—the General Allotment Act of 1887.

That measure, also known as the Dawes Act, stripped tribes of the lands they held in common and parceled out individual plots of land to individual members. A lot of tribal land disappeared in the process. There was also—heh-heh—a provision in the law for “excess” tribal lands to be sold off, thus allowing whites to gain title to tribal lands.

The allotment policy was ended in 1934 as a result of the Roosevelt administration’s Indian Reorganization Act (also known as the Wheeler-Howard Law or the Indian New Deal).

Over the course of those 47 years, the number of Native Americans in the U.S. increased by about a fifth. During the same period, the lands the tribes held fell by 65 percent, from 138 million acres to 48 million acres, according to an A.J. Liebling account of whites squatting on Nevada tribal land.

The Walker River Paiutes lost more than a quarter-million acres in 1906 alone.

This is an injustice that was administered and carefully recorded, so reversing the result and returning the lands to the tribes is entirely possible. But no one has ever tried. The tribes still claim their lost lands, but they don’t employ rifles and violence to make their case.

Then there are the original Atlantic coast colonies. They were given land stretching all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The Second Charter of Virginia gave it land crossing North America from Jamestown to the Pacific. Virginia’s latitudes are 36° 32’ N to 39° 28’ N. Extend those to the Pacific and Virginia would take possession of a portion of Nevada running from approximately just south of the Las Vegas Valley to Carson City, encompassing several counties.

By the way, references to turning western land “back” to the states or of “returning” it to the states ignores history—the West was never state land. It was acquired directly by the federal government through theft, treaty, aggression, purchase, and conquest at a time when few white men existed in the West, much less owned property.

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Gun issue sparks activism Insurance risks not addressed by lawmakers On Sept. 2 at Idaho State in Pocatello, a few weeks after a new guns-on-campus law took effect, chemistry professor by Byron Bennett was lecturing a classDennis Myers room containing 20 students when a gun somehow fell out of his pocket and fired.

No student was hit, but Bennett himself—a former University of Nevada, Las Vegas instructor—was shot in the foot. He had weapons permits from both Idaho and Utah and had apparently taken instruction in gun use because the Idaho law requires it.

“Educators and school boards should be aware of the risk exposures [they] could face by allowing firearms on campus.”

Professional Governmental Underwriters, Inc. Competing arguments on rape and guns on campus can be read at www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ counterpoint-rapesurvivor-argues-whywe-need-guns-campus and www.change.org/p/ arizona-state-housedon-t-vote-to-allowguns-on-collegecampuses

It was the kind of incident college administrators fear will happen under guns-on-campus laws, and the kind that insurance companies also watch.

Nevada legislators who are now considering enacting a law allowing guns to be carried on campus by people over 21 have given very little attention to the insurance issue, and

the measures they are processing do not contain language providing funding if insurance costs rise following the approval of any legislation.

Veteran public counsel—attorneys who have served as counsel for public agencies—have asked why the Nevada higher education system has not asked for immunity language to be included in the bills.

There has been very little study of the implications of guns in society because the influence of the National Rifle Association has kept federal funding for such studies unavailable.

But insurance companies have their own data-accumulation operations, so their policy decisions in reacting to guns-on-campus bills are revealing.

In 2013, after Kansas enacted legislation allowing teachers and administrators to carry guns at school, EMC Insurance—which insured nearly all of the state’s school districts—ordered its agents to decline coverage to any district allowing the practice.

However, some insurance companies have been willing to provide insurance at reasonable cost in spite of increased risk. In Texas, which has a limited law allowing guns on campus if kept in cars, an insurance pool spread the risk around and held down costs.

University of Nevada, Reno risk manager Sue Dunt said she does not

anticipate any increase in the campus’s insurance because state government is shielded by a statutory tort limit and thus carries no liability insurance. The campus is otherwise insured through a state program. State tort claims manager Nancy Katafias was not available for comment.

“There’s no indication that there would be any increase,” Dunt said.

The website of Professional Governmental Underwriters, Inc. cautions, “Educators and school boards considering any policy changes regarding firearms should be aware of the risk exposures their institution could face by allowing firearms on campus.”

An insurance blog that deals with education risks included this post last year: “Many members have asked us what a firearms and weapons policy should include. ... Policies should include: a clear statement as to whether or not weapons are allowed on your campus, the purpose of the policy, groups the policy applies to, and finally a section on relevant procedures, such as proper gun storage on campus and exceptions to your policy.” But those policies tend to address situations where carrying guns on campus is limited to teachers and administrators. The Nevada proposal seeks to allow anyone over 21 with weapons permits—students, campus employees, passersby—to all carry weapons on campus.

When a student enrolls on campus because of a marketing pitch, it can increase a campus’s liability. In Nevada, that could mean that campus cutbacks by the Legislature will come home to roost. Since 2007, the state has drastically cut higher education and told the campuses to—as one attorney puts it—“make it up in volume” by attracting more students and more tuition. Colleges that use assurances of safety to lure students to attend (Western Nevada College website: “Continuing efforts are being made to create and maintain a safe campus.”) that are then undercut by actual events may well find themselves facing greater risk in the courtroom.

Related issues Supporters of guns on campus have been advocating it as a rape preventive, and the National Rifle Association has sponsored legislative

testimony in some states by Nevadan and NRA member Amanda Collins, who was raped in a UNR parking garage in 2007. The NRA placed a Collins essay on the topic on the NBC News website. In Nevada, that angle on the issue was also given publicity by bill sponsor Michele Fiore’s comment to the New York Times that “young, hot little girls” on campus can protect themselves by carrying guns.

But other rape victims have objected to the NRA hitching a ride on the rape issue and argue that guns would increase their danger.

“As a survivor, I know the opposite to be true,” wrote Landen Gambill in a petition now being circulated on campuses nationwide.

“The rationale behind these bills rests on the myth that most people are raped by strangers; however the vast majority of survivors of sexual assault, including myself, know their rapist. In fact, the presence of guns is proven to exacerbate violence against victims, not prevent it. If my rapist had a gun at school, I have no doubt I would be dead.”

In Texas, where a broader guns-on-campus bill is under consideration, state chancellor William McRaven expressed concern for the state’s ability to lure faculty.

“This to me is really about safety on campus, but one of the things we also need to consider is how you recruit great faculty from outside of Texas,” McRaven said. “We in Texas

have a gun culture, and I think most of us understand that. I’m not sure that’s well understood or well appreciated by faculty outside of Texas.”

The sudden rise of the guns-oncampus issue has sparked an unusual wave of activism at state colleges at a time when Nevada has gotten its first anti-gun organization, Nevadans for Background Checks, and is slated to vote on a ballot initiative petition dealing with guns in the 2016 elec-

“If my rapist had a gun at school, I have no doubt I would be dead.”

Landen Gambill Rape victim tion. Though Nevada is one of the nation’s most urban states—nearly everyone lives in Clark and Washoe counties—rural values have long dominated gun policies in the state.

By introducing no fewer than 10 gun measures at the Legislature, GOP lawmakers have brought the issue alive and drawn many people who had previously had little political interest into the fray. Campus rallies have drawn hundreds and even thousands, and it their interest survives past the legislative session it could make gun policies competitive in Nevada for the first time. Ω

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“There’s a way for us to measure pollution that’s expelled from the vehicles during travel and idling time,” she said. “It’s so packed now, and there are lots of cars that idle up and down and around the corner waiting for parking and whatnot. Even if you’re idling, that’s creating Reno Earth Day is the Sunday after this pollution. … So it’s going to reduce traffic congestion and other [polluyear’s official holiday. tion] factors if people just rode their bikes to Earth Day.” For event details and Human health, environmental stewardship and simple thriftiness more information are key, she explained. about Many Spokes “It’s bad for the health of anybody there, especially sensitive people, for Many Folks, visit renoearthday.com. which are the elderly and younger children,” Hunter said of idling and road pollution.

“It’s also bad for our environment, as it’s really seeping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, which is the greenhouse gas that’s responsible for climate change. And it also wastes money.”

So there.

The group bike rides’ “spokes” loosely represent each quadrant of the Reno/Sparks area, with guided treks to Idlewild beginning at the Bonanza in Northeast Reno, the Sparks Marina to the east, Longley Lane to the south and the Patagonia Outlet to the west. Details will go online before Earth Day, and riders can join at closer points along the way, if they wish.

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I perfectly remember the moment we made the decision to evacuate from our lives and from our addictions to crystal meth. For several years, I had been in a drug-induced emotional and mental coma, but I remember that moment like it was yesterday. by Echo Lee Menges

It seemed like we couldn’t go anywhere. I was too well known. At the bus station, the grocery store, a McDonald’s—it didn’t matter. There was always someone shoving hundred dollar bills in my face whispering, “Echo, go get me the good stuff. I’ll kick you down.”

I wasn’t strong enough to say, “No.” I was unconcerned with my own deterioration, but I was with a man I truly loved. Despite the meth-induced coma, I believe watching him deteriorate is what finally woke me up. Knowing how quickly his health was slipping and knowing it was my fault cracked the shell of the person I had become.

Stan, my boyfriend, and I were sitting on a dusty bus stop bench in Sun Valley, just north of Reno. We had been struggling with addiction, homelessness, recidivism, poor health and depression.

We knew we were at a crossroads. The fates were telling us something: Continue down this path and you will die.

For the previous six months, we had been going through the motions of trying to get clean. We moved into a Reno halfway house. We attended 12-step meetings. We tried our hands at nondrug-related jobs. We could go a spell, maybe a few weeks at a time, without using. But whenever we left the safety of the halfway house and ventured out, the same thing would happen. We’d see someone we knew, someone un-clean we ran with, and we would get high. It happened over and over again and again.

It happened on that dusty bench in the valley. We had come down from a week-long bender, and our bodies were feeling the effects of the withdrawal. We

were broke and on the verge of being kicked out of the halfway house. Despite it all, we made our first good decision and finally said the words out loud, “Let’s just get the hell out of here. Let’s go somewhere we’ve never been before, where no one knows us, and we don’t know anyone.”

That conversation changed everything because we meant it. We genuinely wanted to change. It was the hardest decision I’ve ever made and the most important. It was the first good choice either of us had made in too long to remember.

Once the decision was made, a cosmic chain reaction began. I believe God had His hands on my shoulders my entire life. Once we found the motive—a genuine desire to change—the means and the opportunity presented themselves to us.

The means came in the form of an out-of-the-blue phone call to the halfway house we were living at just as we were being kicked out. On the other end of

the line was the voice of one of Stan’s longtime friends. He told Stan, “I’ve been looking for you all over the place.

We’re in Missouri, and we’re clean. You guys can do it, too. Come to Missouri.

We’ve got plenty of room.”

A few weeks later, homeless by now and bouncing from one friend’s house to another, we were managing to stay high, but still without a getaway plan. Our opportunity came in the form of a $1,300 jackpot I hit gambling our last $10 at Diamond’s Casino in Reno.

The last piece of the puzzle came in the form of blessings. It came from a loosely woven band of brothers and sisters, of aged outlaw bikers and their counterparts, arguably the godfathers and godmothers of the west coast drug trade, people whom I have known as uncles and aunts nearly all of my life.

They are the people who watched over me from the shadows during the lowest points of my life and of my addiction.

After I sabotaged every iota of a connection with my bloodlines, my family, in

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convictions. And then he stared straight through us as he cocked a bushy gray eyebrow and said, “You don’t scare me.

All I see are two people who want a better life. You know that cop doesn’t like you very much. He already came by.”

Tom spent about a week getting to know the two of us better. He gave us rides to appointments to set up things like food stamps. He invited us to go to church with him, and he eventually confided in us that he needed new people to run another motel he owned in Northeast Missouri, in Edina.

The chain reaction of our first good choice continued. We bunked up with our friends who were running a little motel in the little southeast Missouri town of Birch Tree, population 600. The Colonial Lodge Motel is one of only a handful of establishments in Birch Tree.

Our friends paid our first month’s rent at the motel, gave us food and a place to sleep for the time being.

The first couple of weeks were tough.

We couldn’t find work or another place to rent or to room. I slept for almost two weeks straight, and I’ve never been so hungry in my life. We applied for housing assistance, food stamps, put up fliers for work and for a more permanent place to live, but no one ever called.

We were blackballed in Birch Tree almost immediately. No doubt it was because the town’s only cop got a hold of a housing application we filled out, ran our names and inspected our criminal records. Not knowing our friends who invited us out knew us from the streets, he paid the motel a visit and told them

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the end, the uncles and aunts were all I had left.

The bloodlines watched me flush a promising college education and journalism career down the toilet during my 20s. They had to back away when I crossed over to become a criminal, a thief and a liar as a young woman.

The uncles incredibly stuck it out. I remember being surprised to hear my Uncle Joe say, “Echo, I think that’s the best idea I’ve heard out of you in a long, long time.”

And my Uncle Johnny say, “It’ll be for the best, baby girl.”

It’s only in retrospect that I can see how utterly disappointed they were at what my life had become. How disappointed all of them were, bloodlines included.

I would have never been able to leave without those blessings from my uncles, those nods of approval and their act of letting go. I think they knew deep down this time was different, too. They were tired of watching me kill myself. They were bloodied from trying to save me from myself.

cleaned the rooms, kept the books, took the reservations, paid the bills, did the laundry, and mowed the lawn. We did everything that comes with caring for a 20-room motel, while we slowly came out of the crystal meth daze.

We were like hermits in that little motel for almost a full year. Sometimes, especially at first, some of the town folk would wander in and ask questions like, “Who are you? Where are you from?

Who is your family?”

We echoed the Birch Tree cop’s warning, “We’re bad people. You don’t want to have anything to do with us.”

And they would say, “OK.” And go away.

We started to build our legitimate lives from scratch. We had no birth certificates, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards. We walked to and from Edina’s only grocery store because we didn’t have a vehicle. We slept on the living room floor because we had almost no furniture in the house. But we had every basic necessity and then some—a roof over our heads, power, a phone to use, cable TV to watch, food to eat, somewhere to be, something to do.

Those simple things were our building blocks.

Over the first year we struggled with the change—withdrawal, massive mood swings, depression, and often questioned our decision. Stan had the hardest time with the withdrawal. He missed meth the most. I replaced my urge to use with something else—food.

It took about a year of being clean for our mental wherewithal to come back. Before that we were plagued with racing thoughts, bouts of anxiety, temper flare-ups, emotional breakdowns, lack of motivation, nightmares and dreams about getting high. The opportunity to attend 12-step meetings presented itself, but we opted out because we didn’t know anyone in Northeast Missouri, and we didn’t want to meet other people who were just like us. We kept to ourselves.

I wrote letters to my Uncle Johnny almost constantly about our adventures running the motel and our lives in tiny Edina. I poured out my homesickness on tear-soaked pages in letters to him, Uncle Joe, Uncle Dave, Uncle Scotty, Uncle Pat, my brother Steve and in letters to my surrogate brothers in prison.

On May 23, 2008, just a few short weeks since we left Reno, we were on the move again. Tom packed us and our suitcase up with a few pieces of furniture and delivered us to Knox County. We rolled into Edina from the east on a Friday afternoon. It was a warm spring day, and I remember being taken by its charm, its quiet beauty and by the flurry of spring green. When I saw Edina’s quaint

“We came here to get away from crystal meth. Be warned. We’re damaged.”

We spent about $400 on two one-way bus tickets to Rolla, Missouri, the closest bus station to our destination of Birch Tree. We spent another $100 on a cheap motel room in downtown Reno for a week, paid off some of our debts and used the rest of the winnings to get high.

I spent my last week in my hometown crunching crystal shards into a few drops of vodka at the bottom of a spoon with the end of a syringe, sucking liquefied meth up with the needle through a small piece of cotton pulled from cigarette butt then pushing the needle into my vein, pulling back the plunger, seeing that a hint of blood was mixing with the syrup inside the barrel and plunging it into my bloodstream slowly and methodically—over and over again.

On May 2, 2008, by some miracle, Stan and I got on a Greyhound bus headed for Missouri. Two days later we loaded our rigs and slammed crystal into our veins one last time while sitting in a dirty public restroom along the way. Two days after that we arrived in Rolla. We got off the bus with one stuffed suitcase and five bucks between us. How I’m here to tell about it—I don’t know. Like I said, God.

little town square for the first time, I told Stan, “Look how pretty it is.” I thought for the first time since arriving in Missouri, “Maybe we can do this.

Maybe we’ll be OK.” Moving from Reno to Edina was like landing a spaceship on another planet.

Everything was different—the climate, the scenery, the people, the pace. We were the aliens.

One day after we “landed,” we were put in charge of the Bon Air Motel, given a nice two-bedroom house on the property to live in and told by Tom, “You take care of this place, and I’ll take care of you as long as you want. Just don’t steal from me.”

The responsibility bestowed upon us, having a safe place to be while we got our heads together and Tom’s undeserved trust in us was monumental.

We didn’t steal a dime from the till. We

quite pointedly, “How well do you know these people? You know, they’re not good people. They shouldn’t be here.”

We quietly held hands and listened to his warning perched atop a staircase and just out of sight.

That visit from the cop should have been the icing on the cake: This will never work. Fortunately for us, he also stopped at the home of the owner of the Colonial Lodge Motel, Tom. The then 60-year-old man looked like he could have been one of my uncles. He’s a man who prides himself on deciding what he believes about a person for himself. He was not likely to take a cop’s word for it.

Stan and I showed up on Tom’s doorstep unannounced. When he opened the door, Stan handed him his criminal record in its entirety.

Tom took the stack of pages and read through the laundry list of charges and

From left: I was arrested for the first time on Jan. 26, 2005, and booked into the Washoe County Jail on a warrant for failing to appear in court.

I spent about two nights in jail.

I was arrested on March 23, 2005, for a warrant and contempt of court and sentenced to 15 days in the Washoe County Jail. I served 10 days and received five days of “good time.”

I was arrested on Oct. 7, 2005, booked into the Washoe County Jail and charged for allegedly being in possession of a stolen vehicle, which was eventually dismissed. I served approximately one month in jail.

On Dec. 31, 2005, I was arrested for attempting to shoplift a case of cold medicine and charged with a felony count of forgery for allegedly being in possession of a counterfeit 20-dollar-bill, which was dropped. I was booked into the Washoe County Jail for about three days.

On July 16, 2007, I was arrested on a warrant after being found sleeping in a public park and booked into the Washoe County Jail. I was in jail for about three days.

On December 23, 2007, I was arrested on a warrant and charged with being in possession of drug paraphernalia, a syringe, and booked into the Washoe County Jail for a few hours.

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They wrote back or called and said, “I’m so proud of you and of Stan. Don’t come home. It’s worse than ever.”

I wrote my way through the pain and doubt.

Through the toughest times we held fast to each other. We got to know ourselves again, and we got to know

meth-free versions of each other. The fog began to lift, and we started to heal.

Eventually we got our birth certificates, driver’s licenses, an old beat-up pickup truck, an inexpensive computer, a cell phone in our names, a bed to sleep on, a bank account, a routine. Every single thing we accomplished in our new life,

however small, felt like a major victory.

We were grateful for every single thing we had because we paid for it with blood, with tears.

Soon enough the townsfolk stopped heeding our, “stay away from us because we’re bad people,” warnings. They started coming in to invite us to join the Knox County Chamber of Commerce and to the United Methodist Church and to get to know us better. I joined Chamber. We started going to church.

By the time those things started happening to us, we were ready to surface from our hermit hole. We chose to be honest with everyone and offered up full disclosure, “We came here to get away from crystal meth. Be warned.

We’re damaged.”

It was hard to face everything we had done to damage our lives, health and creditability and to attempt to repair it. Some of the damage we caused on ourselves is permanent.

For one, it was embarrassing to gain so much weight so fast. For a while, people asked me when I was expecting.

It was humiliating to have to say, “I’m not pregnant, just fat.” It took me about 13 months to gain 100 pounds finally tipping the scales at over 330 pounds.

It was equally humiliating to face the dentist with a mouth half-full of rotted teeth. Painful extraction after extraction happened over the course of several years. Each time it was time to remove

another tooth we knew what had caused the rapid decay—“meth-mouth”—and I had given it to myself. Every time I smiled at myself in the mirror, all I saw was missing teeth. We had to scrimp and save for my partials. Every time I take my teeth out or fish them out of a cup full of soapy water, I’m reminded that I did this to myself.

As more time passed more amazing things started to happen. Our priorities sorted themselves out. We began to set goals. Our inhibitions returned. Our judgment evolved.

On June 11, 2009, we drove our beatup old truck to the courthouse and got married in the courtroom. Stan gave me something I needed disparately—bona fide family.

In 2010, I started writing occasional articles for the local newspaper, The Edina Sentinel, and submitting them to the paper’s publisher. My passion for journalism was rekindled. I wasn’t getting paid, but just getting published was enough. Another victory. I was sending my articles to Reno to the uncles and to my brothers in prison. I offered them as proof of progress, and I began to experience something I thought was gone: pride in my work.

Almost exactly two years after we arrived in Edina, I was invited to the Sentinel office for a meeting with the publisher, Mike Scott. He needed a new reporter in Knox County, and he offered

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me the job. It might sound simple, but it was a major event in my life. Another miracle. Another victory.

A few weeks after taking the job the Chamber Board of Directors elected me as president, which sounds a lot more prestigious than it is, but it was so exciting to me I called home to Reno. And, from what I’ve been told, Uncle Johnny threw a party.

I still tear up when I remember hearing his words, “President of a club, huh. Baby girl, I’m so [expletive] proud of you!”

“It’s not that kind of club, Uncle Johnny.”

I will cherish that conversation for the rest of my life and getting to hear those words because he passed on in 2011. Another painful reality I’m proud to say I faced without using. Another miracle.

We have responsibilities. We’ve established credibility. We’ve earned the respect of the community we live in and we’re surrounded by people who support us. As more time passes, the life we’ve cultivated becomes more precious, more worthy of preserving, of fighting for.

I think I will always be haunted by some of the terrible things I have done, said, people I’ve hurt. I get that God forgives me. I accept that my bloodlines are likely to never forgive me. In truth, even after all this time, I still struggle with forgiving myself.

Over the years people have come to us asking for advice, for wisdom. They come looking for a glimmer of hope for their loved one, for themselves.

All I can say is what I’ve experienced firsthand.

“We had to want to change and we’re willing to do whatever it takes. We’re still doing it. It might never be over. We’re still fighting for it. I expect this fight to last a lifetime. Some things will never come back. This is the hardest path I’ve ever taken. Every single day is a blessing. It’s all been worth it. Being honest with you helps me stay honest with myself. We’re not perfect, and that’s OK.” And, maybe most importantly, “If I can do it so can you. It is possible to survive and thrive. There is such a thing as a life after meth. Don’t look back.” Ω

Echo and Stan Menges snap a selfie on the way home from Stan’s parent’s home.

a month, then every week and eventually every day.

In fall 2012, he saw them for the first time in over 20 years. Another miracle. Since then, we’ve had nearly half a dozen visits with each other, over a thousand phone calls and online video conversations, and Stan has been blessed to hear his parents say out loud hundreds of times, “Son, we’re so proud of you.

We miss you. We can’t wait to see you!”

After three-and-a-half years at the motel, we saved up enough to move out and on our own. Tom hated to see us go, but it was time. We grew out of the motel, and we were ready for more freedom. We were moving forward in life. We also grew out of food stamps and government assistance programs.

We rented a cottage on the edge of the

Stan had his own astounding victories.

He slowly began to communicate with his parents after nearly 17 years of complete silence. He had to take it slowly because they’d been hurt too many times. He had to rebuild trust. It was painstaking process for everyone.

At first he called them every few months to say, “Hi. I’m still doing good.

I’m still clean.”

Eventually they were talking on holidays and birthdays, then a few times

town, got a better vehicle, began to save for emergencies and packed more onto our list of accomplishments.

Almost seven years later, we’re still meth-free. We’re active in our community and belong to a number of local organizations. Stan has cultivated a passion for saving and re-homing rescued animals. I’ve taken up quilting, and we both dabble in gardening. We like to spend time at home and we socialize with solid people.

I’m married to a man I adore. This summer we will celebrate our sixth anniversary. I continue to love my job as a reporter, which I’ve had for almost five years, and I’ve written hundreds of stories. I still send my letters, which continue to be some of the most important writing I’ll ever do.

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Baseball season is finally here! Our movie guy picks the best and worst ballpark flicks.

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he 2015 baseball season has begun, and it’s time to watch some Reno Aces games. It’s also time to bemoan the loss of your closer if you are a New York Mets fan, which I am. So here I go.

Thanks a lot, Jenrry Mejia … it’s so totally believable that you have no idea how that performance enhancing drug got into your system, you jackass. Oh, I’m totally buying your sob story. Now go take your mandatory 80 game rest, you big stupid jerk.

OK, back on point. I’m a sucker for a good baseball movie. Some of the movies on my below “Best Baseball Movies Ever Made” list also stand among my favorite movies of all time. The Best list is followed by a list of movies that make the sport look lame and unbearable because, as with most things, we need balance, people. Balance.

The best baseball movies 1. The Bad News Bears (1976): Not only a great

film about the game, but one of the greatest movies ever made about kids. I was a kid when this movie played theaters and, trust me, director Michael Ritchie nailed the '70s, crappy mouthed '70s kids, and the rigors of Little League. All of us Little Leaguers knew 18 | RN&R |

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a Tanner Boyle, Amanda Whurlitzer and Kelly Leak growing up. It boasts vintage Walter Matthau as a boozing baseball coach, and it will never get old.

2. Eight Men Out (1988): This one’s a nice chron-

icle of one of the games darker stories, the Chicago White Sox throwing the championship for a payday.

John Sayles did a credible job presenting the game while uncorking a great drama. Say it ain’t so, Joe.

3. Field of Dreams (1989): Shoeless Joe Jackson

got a little posthumous redemption in the form of Ray Liotta hanging out in a corn field with this sentimental winner. This is my favorite Kevin Costner baseball movie. Yes, it’s above Bull Durham on this list. I think that admittedly fun movie is more about screwing groupies than the game.

4. Moneyball (2011): Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the former Mets prospect who crossed over to the executive side of baseball and developed a statisticsdriven, low-cash way to build a ball team. Garnered Jonah Hill a much deserved Oscar nomination.

5. The Natural (1984): My editor hates this movie,

but I’m a big sucker for that baseball going into the light tower at the end and Robert Redford rounding the bases amidst fireworks. It’s corny, but it’s great.

My editor is a callous bastard.

6. The Pride of the Yankees (1942): Gary

Cooper plays the great Lou Gehrig, who died of a disease that would bear his name soon thereafter.

Some elements of the film haven’t aged well, including Cooper’s obvious lack of baseball ability.

However, you can’t beat that final speech, and it’s pretty neat that Babe Ruth plays himself in the flick. He’s actually really good!

7. Bull Durham (1988): OK, after an argument

with Brad, the editor, I’ve decided this film does deserve a place on the list, if only for the scene where Costner’s Crash Davis tips the pitches. Damn, the late '80s were a great time for baseball movies.

8. The Rookie (2002): Based on the true story of

Jim Morris, a high school baseball coach who made it to the big leagues when he was 35, well past the usual debut age for a rookie. Dennis Quaid makes for a credible athlete and the story is a great one; and it’s mostly true.

9. 61* (2001): A great baseball movie made by a big

baseball lover (Billy Crystal directed). It chronicles the controversial pursuit of Babe Ruth’s single season home run record and the stress it put on Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) and Roger Maris (Barry Pepper). It really captures the spirit of the game.

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10. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988): OK, so it isn’t all about baseball, but it does take

an outstanding, satirical punch at the game during its final scenes. It also features O.J. Simpson getting catapulted out of a wheelchair and off of the upper deck of a baseball stadium, something we can all feel good about.

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I focused on narrative feature films with the above list, but I should give honorable mentions to a couple of great documentaries. Baseball by Ken Burns is just the all-time great encyclopedia for the game, an absolute treasure. Also, you might want to check out The Battered Bastards of Baseball, a great doc that features Kurt Russell and his real-life, shortlived baseball career.

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The worst baseball movies 1. The Bad News Bears (2005): Even though it had

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a trustworthy director in Richard Linklater, and Billy Bob Thornton stepping into Walter Matthau’s role as Buttermaker, this remake is a prime example of how you should leave a classic alone. It’s a weak effort, and a pox on the baseball movie genre.

2. The Fan (1996): This is the first appearance by Wesley Snipes on this list. His performance is an obvious riff on Barry Bonds, and Robert De Niro embarrasses himself as the obsessed title character. This movie is a foul ball that breaks your teeth behind the dugout while you’re eating your hot dog.

3. The Babe (1992): John Goodman in goofy prosthetic

makeup as Babe Ruth in a film that makes the legend look like a clown. 1948’s The Babe Ruth Story starring William Bendix as the Babe was also pretty bad. Come to think of it, it seems that Babe Ruth was the only one who could ever play Babe Ruth.

4. Johnny Stinko Can’t Throw for Shit! (2024): Not

a real movie, but I sincerely feel I should write a treatment right now because this would be the greatest movie title ever.

I think I will make the subject Jenrry Mejia. God, I hate that guy!

5. Rookie of the Year (1993): All I remember about this

misfire baseball flick is the kid standing on first base going, “Pitcher has got a big butt!” I remember that annoyed me.

6. Major League (1989): Not a fan of this movie or its sequels. Wesley Snipes gets two hits on the worst list.

7. Trouble With the Curve (2012): Clint Eastwood, Amy

Adams and Justin Timberlake join forces to make baseball boring and predictable. Hey, John Goodman is in this, too.

Two hits for him, too.

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baseball player who has to spend a bunch of money for some stupid reason in this stupid movie that costarred John Candy as a catcher. It’s a movie where baseball is just a backdrop rather than the focus, and it’s not funny. Pryor did also star in the pretty good baseball movie, The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings, so he gets a pass for this infraction.

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as pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, and the results are laughably bad. I remember snickering at this one when I was a kid, goofing on Reagan’s throwing arm. I also could never stand Doris Day, who plays Cleveland’s wife. I know it’s surly and disagreeable to put down Ronald Reagan and make fun of Doris Day, but that’s how I roll.

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by his little league failures. Therefore, it has to be bad. Not to be confused with the Tom Selleck baseball movie, Mr. Baseball, which also sucked. Ω OPINION

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Italian cook Constanza (Evonne Kezios) and Lotty Wilson (Melissa Taylor) pose before a performance of Enchanted April at The Reno Little Theater.

Enchanted April For several years now, I have lamented the death of the romantic comedy. A fervent lover of by romance, quirky characters and happy Jessica Santina endings, I’ve found that Hollywood has turned its back on this formula lately, preferring instead to cater to teenage boys (although adult women control most ticket dollars, but that’s another matter).

This is why I enjoyed soaking up the Italian sunshine with Reno Little Theater’s latest, Enchanted April.

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wisteria and sunshine …” The offer of the April rental of a castle in Genoa, Italy, is irresistible to Lotty.

She approaches the lonely-looking woman at her ladies’ club, Rose Arnott (Amy Gianos)—assumed to be a widow, with her black garb and somber attitude— about joining her on this excursion. Despite Rose’s protestations that the proposal is indecent, her own loveless marriage to a renowned author too in love with himself to notice her eventually convinces her that she also needs the escape.

The two women secure the castle and seek out two women who can join them and share the expenses. Enter Lady Caroline Bramble (Megan Fitzpatrick), renowned on the social pages for both her beauty and her tendency to “dance on tables,” and Mrs. Clayton Graves (Veronica Fraser), an elderly grande dame who once knew Tennyson and tends to speak to everyone as if they were her servants.

They have nothing in common, but as the month of April blooms before them, the women find themselves opening up

as well—especially as guests begin joining their party, and finding themselves changed, too. Lotty, under the influence of the Italian air, invites her husband, Mellersh (Christopher Willson), to join them. Rose’s husband, Frederick (Jeff Chamberlin), is forced to confront his own blindness, and the castle’s owner, Antony Wilding (Mark B. Robbins), manages to crack both Lady Caroline’s and Mrs. Graves’ hard shells.

There’s a lot to love in the performances. Taylor’s Lotty is our touchstone from beginning to end, and she's a ray of optimistic sunshine throughout. I was impressed by, if not a full-on British accent,

the English lilt she adopts.

Fraser’s Mrs. Graves is hard not to love, even as a grumpy, disappointed aristocrat; her impossible rigidity is completely comical, and she really sells it. Evonne Kezios is marvelous as Costanza, the Italian cook whose big voice and brash way with her guests provide frequent comic relief.

Huge props go to Willson as Mellersh, for managing to embody both a stuffy, forceful, cold attorney in the beginning and transforming in the end into the adoring, vulnerable husband Lotty has always dreamed of.

At times, Enchanted April meanders, getting a bit too caught up in the lush, slow pace of life in the castle, which causes it to drag a bit. And while, in general, I enjoyed the performances, Gianos’ character is a hard sell, one that should elicit sympathy and much of the time doesn’t.

But if you’re craving a holiday, a little wisteria and sunshine, Enchanted April is certainly a breath of fresh air. Ω

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Here’s a tip if driving out of town for a meal: Call ahead and make sure they’re open. My first attempt to visit Verdi by Todd South Grill & Pizzeria was a bust, arriving to find a handwritten notice stating, “Closed on Mondays.” However, the lure of burgers with skirts was too strong for me to write them off.

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The decor is “Old West mining camp,” with antique ore-processing equipment outside, various mining and farm implements on the walls, wagon wheel chandeliers, and rustic “log cabin” furniture in the dining room. The parking lot entrance is a bit like descending into a mine, with a hallway leading to a sign indicating food is ordered at the bar adjacent to the dining area. Service was informal but friendly. The co-owner acted as bartender and server.

We ordered a pitcher of beer and a large, single topping pizza (on special together for $15—normally $14.50 for the pie and $11.50 for the beer). My wife ordered a side salad ($6.99) comprised of mixed greens, tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, garbanzo beans, carrots, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, cucumber, sunflower seeds, cranberries, olives, croutons, jack and cheddar cheeses, served with choice of housemade dressing. Only complaints were the plate should be a little larger to hold all that stuff, and the ranch dressing—although possessing good flavor—was a little thin.

Intending to take most of the pizza home, I added a small order of hot wings to share ($6.99) and the item that drew me here: the steamer burger ($9.50). The wings were medium sized and tossed in a sauce unlike any I’ve had before.

Original Buffalo wing sauce is a simple thing, a mix of vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter.

This sauce included black pepper and some kind of herbal element my wife and I couldn’t quite pin down (oregano?).

When asked, the proprietress stated her husband makes all the sauces, and she doesn’t know what’s in them. Further, every batch is a little different because the man is working from memory and likes to tinker—a man after my own sauce-making heart. The batch we tasted was unique, spicy and super tasty. The pizza crust was crispy on bottom with a good, bready border, but the sauce was a bit bland.

Surprising, given that original take on hot wing sauce. Overall, an average, middle-of-the-road pie.

Substituting onion rings for french fries with the burger ($1) was a great choice. The rings were battered, crunchy, and exactly what I was hoping for. As for the burger, it suffered from some engineering issues. The one-third pound patty was above par, well-seasoned, juicy, and cooked just a tad over medium rare. Its skirt of jack and cheddar cheeses was crunchy, chewy, arteryclogging and delicious (you “skirt” a burger patty by piling on way too much shredded cheese after it has been flipped, allowed the cheese to melt and partially fry on the grill surface). But the tomatoes, onion, pickles and jalapeños conspired with a soft, ruffled lettuce to produce a wet landslide of toppings. A firmer lettuce with some crunch would work better with all the other moisture-laden ingredients.

Sadly, all that deliciousness was let down by a meager bun that was too small and too soft to bear its burden. I could barely find the bottom half and was never able to actually pick the thing up, even after cutting the sandwich in half with the huge steak knife that had been used to hold everything together. Seeing me struggle, the owner brought me a fork to finish it off. Ω

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Couldn’t refuse Danny Collins It’s been 12 years since the great Al Pacino has been involved in a project totally worthy of him. (His Roy Cohn in 2003’s HBO miniseries Angels in America was his last great role.) He’s become a bit of a caricature in the last decade, appearing in some of its worst movies—Ocean’s Thirteen, Gigli, 88 Minutes, Jack and Jill and Righteous Kill to name a few—and hamming it up to the by point where he’s nearly unwatchable.

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Pacino steps up as the title character, a Neil Diamond-like rock singer who has spent the past 40 years touring and performing “the hits.” No longer a productive songwriter, he’s come to rely on the comfort of crowds reacting happily to his most popular hit, “Baby Doll.”

He’s also heavy into drugs and alcohol and engaged to a girl half his age.

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On the eve of his birthday, his manager (a delightfully acerbic Christopher Plummer) gives him a special present: a framed personal letter to him that John Lennon wrote many years ago that was never delivered. Lennon had once read an article about Collins, was moved, and sent a correspondence from him and Yoko with his phone number. He was offering some fatherly advice to the confused young Danny, but due to a scummy collector getting his hands on the letter, Danny never got it.

The gift throws Danny into a tailspin, wondering what life would’ve been like if he could’ve called Lennon and been pals. Trivia note: This element of the story is actually based on the true story of folk singer Steve Tilston, who received a similar reassuring letter from John Lennon 34 years after it was written, phone number and all.

Danny packs his bag and heads to Jersey, where he takes up residence in the neighborhood Hilton and commits to finding his estranged son (Bobby Cannavale). He puts himself on a course for redemption, putting a piano in his room and trying to rediscover the artistic hunger that drove him 40 years earlier.

Undoubtedly, Pacino must have seen the “redemptive” angle in the script as a nice parallel to his own fledgling career. His last great cinematic venture, besides the HBO effort, was 2002’s Insomnia, which capped a long stretch of good-to-great vehicles for the American icon. Pacino dives into the role of Danny with much aplomb, but also employs the sort of nuance that has been missing from his work for too many years.

He’s fully engaged in the movie, which helps him to rise above the schmaltz and make it something entertaining, moving and funny.

He gets help from a stellar supporting cast, including Annette Bening as the hotel manager Danny has a crush on, Jennifer Garner as the daughter-in-law he’s just meeting, and the aforementioned Cannavale and Plummer.

Cannavale deserves special notice, because his character is given a disease-ofthe-week plotline along with the abandoned son routine, enough clichés to torpedo any performer.

Somehow, Cannavale turns the whole thing into his best screen work yet, and it’s actually a pleasure to see him exchanging lines with Pacino.

Of course, the biggest sell in this film is buying Pacino as a singer. Pacino is a shitty, shitty singer, and he seems to know it, so the couple of scenes where he’s on stage strutting his stuff to “Baby Doll” are a bit comical. Yet, they have a lot of appeal and play not unlike Mickey Dolenz in his latter years faking his way through “I’m a Believer.”

Danny Collins might not mark the return of the great Pacino, but it does stand as his best work in a decade, and proof that the old bastard has plenty of gas left in the tank. I also think he should do a little tour as his Danny Collins persona. It would be fantastically awful to the point of being awesome. Ω

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Of all the animal attack movies, films where the likes of sharks, birds, insects, Mickey Rourke, and tigers attack and eat people, the bear attack movies freak me out the most. Granted, Jaws is still the granddaddy of all animal attack films, but there’s just something so freaky and depressing about bears mauling humans in movies. Backcountry goes into the Bear Attack Hall of Fame with Grizzly, The Edge and the documentary Grizzly Man. Missy Peregrym and Jeff Roop play Jenn and Alex, a troubled couple looking to have themselves a good old time in the wild, hiking trails and canoeing lakes. Things take a bad turn when Alex loses his way and gets the couple lost. Then, well, things become absolutely catastrophic when a bear smells Alex’s bloody socks, finds their tent and decides to have itself some hikers for dinner. There’s a bear attack in this film that will bring tears to your eyes. A character goes out in the most horrid and gory of ways, screaming and fighting the entire time. Then, we are treated to the sight of the dead victim being feasted upon by the bear, while their significant other is forced to flee and battle the elements. As bear attacks go, this one isn’t quite as bad as Harold Perrineau getting eaten while Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins watch in The Edge, but it’s pretty damn brutal. Much credit goes to the performer and makeup artists, who do a great job in making you feel somebody is really buying it via bear face. Writer-director Adam MacDonald’s film is a good watch thanks to the performers, and some fine bear casting.

The story, which MacDonald describes as Open Water with a bear, is supposedly based on a real life event where two campers were attacked in northern Ontario. Knowing that MacDonald based his carnage on something that really happened makes Backcountry all the more scary. Available for rent on iTunes, Amazon.com and On Demand during a limited theatrical run.

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Director Kenneth Branagh knows what Disney junkies, young and old, crave in their fairy tale movies, and he unabashedly delivers the goods with this, the latest “live action” remake of a Disney animated classic.

Of course, any Cinderella movie would be a slog without a good actress playing the title character. Luckily, Branagh has scored a great one with Lily James (TV’s Downton Abbey), as charming an actress as any to ever play an iconic Disney role. Screenwriter Chris Weitz gives Cinderella a sweet and sad backstory, showing us a young girl (Eloise Webb) living a happy and secure life with her doting parents (Ben Chaplin and Hayley Atwell). As the fairy tale dictates, Cinderella loses her mom, paving the way for the Queen Bee of all stepmothers, played here by a spot-on, devilish Cate Blanchett. Blanchett and James are so good in their roles because they aren’t trying to break the mold. They both embrace their parts as if they know what we have come to expect, and the result is a sort of adorable nostalgia in the case of Cinderella. She’s a genuinely nice person you can root for as portrayed by James. Adding to the charm would be Helena Bonham Carter (Branagh’s ex-girlfriend) as Fairy Godmother. As to be expected, Carter plays it joyfully weird and quirky. When the pink gown transforms into that glorious blue dress adorning the spinning James, it’s pure movie magic. It’s a lot of fun seeing Branagh embracing the Disney canon and making it his own for nearly two hours.

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Furious 7

The latest Furious movie says goodbye to series mainstay Paul Walker while taking car chases to seriously outlandish and fantastical extremes. In some ways, the film has become more of a science fiction offering rather than a car chase movie, and that’s fine by me. I have to admit that part of me got uncomfortable watching Paul Walker racing around in cars a little over a year after he died in a fiery car crash. You can say Walker died doing something he loved, but I’m thinking irresponsible and reckless speeding dropped way down on his favorite things list during the final moments of his life. Like, to the way, way bottom of that list. That said, Furious 7 does spark some life into a very tired franchise by going totally bananas, and it’s pretty remarkable how Walker, who had allegedly only filmed half of his scenes before he died, is inserted into the movie posthumously. Director James

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This movie gets my blessing for the sequence involving Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and Walker’s Brian O’Conner jumping a car through not one but two skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi.

Will there be an eighth film, even though Walker is no longer with us? Um, given that the movie made nearly $144 million in its opening weekend, I think it’s a foregone conclusion that Universal will find a way to keep the engines running on this sucker.

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Get Hard

For me, a new Will Ferrell movie is usually a cause for celebration. Hey, I even liked Land of the Lost, a film I feel was unjustly dismissed by the masses. Alas, even the great comedic masters misfire from time to time, and Ferrell’s latest goes on the dung heap with the likes of his Kicking and Screaming and Bewitched. Ferrell plays a finance guru who gets convicted for crimes he supposedly didn’t commit, and sentenced to hard time in San Quentin. In an attempt to not get raped when he goes to jail, he hires his car washer (Kevin Hart) to train him in prison ways, for he immediately assumes the man did time because he’s black. So, right there, the Ferrell character is a racist ignoramus that we are supposed to feel sorry for, and that just doesn’t happen.

Ferrell and Hart labor for laughs in a sea of dick and ass rape jokes, and it’s all quite ugly and mostly unfunny. There are some highlights, including a simulated prison riot in a wine cellar that inexplicably includes the appearance of an angry baboon, but the jokes are mostly duds. You know you are in trouble when your plot is mostly identical to a failed Rob Schneider movie (the equally offensive Big Stan).

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Insurgent

Director Robert Schwentke chooses a lot of gray tones to go with his dull dialogue and muddled, straining performances to make this one a sleeper in a bad way. Shailene Woodley, an actress who is impressive most of the time, simply doesn’t make for an intriguing action heroine. The material seems beneath her.

After the oh-so-rousing events of the first film, Tris (Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are living in a “faction free” zone, meaning the zone is not run by any of the factions by which everybody in this society is categorized by. The factions are Amity, Abnegation, Erudite, Dauntless, Candor, Flounder and Douchebag. I would say this mess has the worst Young Adult fiction premise ever, but I’ve seen the Twilight films, so I would be lying my ass off. While living among the factionless, they have a surprise meeting with Four’s hot mom Evelyn, played by the incomparable Naomi Watts, one of my all-time favorite actresses. Watts is totally wasting her time in this crap, because, well, if Kate Winslet can slum in this pigeon spooge, so can Watts.

While Watts makes a fairly brief appearance in this chapter, her character figures to be bigger in future installments. So, consequently, I weep for Watts’s immediate film future.

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It Follows

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A young woman (Maika Monroe) pays for having some car-sex fun in a very, very big way in this creepy, ghoulish, unrelenting horror film from writer-director David Robert Mitchell. Taking more than a few cues from John Carpenter’s Halloween and the zombie works of George Romero, Mitchell is very much tuned into the sort of stuff that makes filmgoers squirm and sweat. The movie, based on one of his own nightmares, combines voyeuristic camera work, eerie soundtrack vibes and some fine acting for one of the better, oldschool cinematic scares of the past decade.

Monroe’s character gets cursed after having the aforementioned car sex. The curse involves an unstoppable force that can take the shape of any human, be it an old naked man on the roof or one of your parents. That force is not only out to kill the cursed individual; it’s out to kill the cursed individual in very violent ways. The shape-shifting “monster” proves a highly effective device, because you will find yourself constantly scanning every frame of this movie, evaluating every human being that appears. Crowd shots are especially unnerving. There are times when the “monster” is fairly apparent, and others where it is something vaguely visible in the back of the shot. In short, you don’t ever feel safe watching It Follows.

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Live show Cargo Live at Whitney Peak Hotel Austin City Limits has been a flagship show on public television for 40 years, a showcase of Western swing, by Brad Bynum country, blues and just about every other genre of music to ever pass bradb@ through Austin, Texas. The show is newsre view.c om also, along with the annual South

by Southwest festival, a big factor in Austin’s national reputation as a musical mecca.

Reno’s own PBS affiliate, in collaboration with a local music venue, hopes to recreate that success.

On April 4, Reno’s KNPB began airing Cargo Live at Whitney Peak Hotel, a weekly concert showcase that airs every Saturday at 10:30 p.m., just before Austin City Limits. The show is also freely available for use by other public television stations in the region.

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“Our job, for bands that come though here, is to make the rest of their tour suck in comparison, and I think we do a really good job of that,” said Dan Bishop, Cargo’s production manager. “There have been so many bands that have come through and they give us really good feedback, saying it’s one of the best rooms of its size that they’ve played anywhere in the United States.”

Bishop designed many of the audio and visual systems of the venue. He’s a live sound engineer and does the post-production audio mixing of the concerts for the TV series.

“We don’t have to bring in a supplementary lighting package to make stuff look good,” he said.

“What we have here looks great. The sound system is top of the line. This is the kind of place that’s inherently good for doing this type of program.”

That’s partly because the venue was partly designed to be a location for the show, according to Nicole Gross, managing director of Whitney Peak.

“One stipulation was that if we’re going to do this, we have to make the production better than anything else that’s on the market, nationally or otherwise,” she said. “It was great timing when [Mische] came to me, because we hadn’t finished purchasing and specking out all of the gear for the room, so we were able to purchase gear that lent itself to live recording that we could then go back and use for the television program.”

Bands recorded for the show’s first season include Los Angeles indie pop band Kitten, Detroit soul outfit Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, and locals rockers Moondog Matinee, who were featured in the premiere.

“We try to find artists who haven’t broke, but have a good chance to break, and bring that to Reno first,” said Gross.

“These bands are like the Reno Aces,” said Mische. “They’re one step below really hitting it big, so this gives people an opportunity to come to the venue or tune in on TV and see Moondog Matinee right before they really broke big.” Ω

“This is how Austin City Limits started, as a local music show produced by KLRU in Austin, Texas, and fast forward 40 years, and it’s a huge, huge show with all the biggest acts, and it’s a fixture on public television,” said Kurt Mische, KNPB president and CEO. “We wanted to draw attention to the live music scene that’s really growing and developing here. It’s one of Reno’s calling cards.

We also saw it as a way to promote tourism and economic redevelopment, because as this show gets seen around the area on other PBS stations, then folks may want to drive in and sample the music scene and all the other great things we have going on in the city.”

A featured aspect of the show is the venue: Cargo, the thousandperson concert hall, which reopened last year in the Whitney Peak Hotel after an extensive remodel that included moving the venue from the hotel’s third floor to its first.

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rtemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of Jason Blackmore’s new film that documents the vinyl collections, origins and holy grails of alternative musicians Jello Biafra, Chuck Dukowski, Mike Watt, David Yow and more than 30 other underground music recording artists.

The event is co-sponsored by Recycled Records in conjunction with Record Store Day on April 18. The screening begins at 7 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, April 20-21, at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St. General admission is $7, $6 for students and seniors, and $5 for members.

Visit www.artemisiamovies.org.

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High Desert Steam Steampunk Expo & Steampunk Tavern Stroll The Fourth Annual High Desert Steam Steampunk Expo: A Bizarre Bazaar will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19, at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center Exhibit Hall, 1350 N. Wells Ave. The expo will feature art cars, including the Nautilus and Monstrosity, entertainment, live music by 6 Mule Pile-up and the University of Nevada Cadet Band, a board game parlor, video game zone, contra dance lessons, workshops, an art gallery and vendors selling steampunk attire, accessories and more. Expo hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $10 for one day and $15 for both days. Admission is free for children age 12 and younger. You can purchase tickets in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/1364274. For more information call 378-0931 or visit www.highdesertsteam.org.

Crawl Reno, in conjunction with High Desert Steam, will hold the Reno Steampunk Tavern Stroll on Saturday, April 18, at 8 p.m. The event will begin and end at 1864 Tavern, 290 California Ave., and include several nearby bars and taverns. Cups can be purchased at the expo. For more information on the Steampunk Tavern Stroll, visit http://crawlreno.com/event/ steampunkstroll.

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Reno Philharmonic: Classix Six The Reno Philharmonic’s Classix season finale begins with Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, followed

by Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection.” Soprano Jessica Rivera and mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor will be the soloists in this work that combines orchestral and choral forces. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, and 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $27-$82. $9 student rush tickets available starting one hour before the performance. Reno Philharmonic Music Director/Conductor Laura Jackson will discuss the works and composers during a preview talk beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday in the exhibition hall and 3 p.m. Sunday in the concert hall.

Call 323-6393 or visit www.renophil.com.

Explore the Outdoors This family-friendly celebration of the outdoors starts off at 9 a.m. with the Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation 5K Fun Run and Walk, followed by the 1K Kids Fun Run at 10 a.m. The remainder of the day features free games, crafts and hands-on activities, as well as a visit by Buddy from PBS Kids’ TV show Dinosaur Train. The May Museum will offer discounted museum tickets. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 18, at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. For more information, visit www.tmparksfoundation. org and http://www.knpb.org/events/ exploretheoutdoors.

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Chicago: The Musical Broadway Comes to Reno closes its 20142015 season with the Broadway musical starring John O’Hurley (best known as J. Peterman on Seinfeld, in addition to numerous TV roles and voice work). The tale of fame, fortune and "all that jazz" has won six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award. Performances are 7:30 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, April 21-23, 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, and 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, with 2 p.m. matinee shows on Saturday and Sunday. The show takes place at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $45-$95. Call 686-6600 or visit www.pioneercenter.com. |

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RENO BLUES SOCIETY’S SPRING DANCE PARTY:

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Online and print submissions are subject to review and editing by the calendar editor. For details, call (775) 324-4440, ext. 3521, or email renocalendar@newsreview.com.

The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., May 7, is Thursday, April 23. Listings are free, but not guaranteed.

Events CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GREAT BASIN: Climatologist Stephanie McAfee, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno, will discuss “Climate Change in the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada.” The discussion will touch on how climate models work, what kinds of scenarios are used to drive them and the changes in temperature, precipitation and snowfall we expect here in Nevada and in the adjacent parts of California. Sa, 4/18, 2-3pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org/events-calendar.html.

DROUGHT TALK: Western Nevada College, Specialty Crop Institute hosts visiting Fulbright Scholar Afwa Thameur for a free lecture on “Research on Crop Tolerance to Drought Stress in Arid Regions.” Th, 4/16, 5:30-6:30pm. Free.

Western Nevada College Fallon, 160 Campus Way, Fallon, (775) 423-7565 ext.

2260, www.wnc.edu/sci.

GREAT BASIN YOUNG CHAUTAUQUA PERFORMANCE: Members of Nevada Humanities’ Great Basin Young Chautauqua program will perform. Su, 4/19, 1-5pm. Free.

Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

INNOVATIONS HIGH SCHOOL RUMMAGE SALE: Proceeds from this rummage sale fundraiser goes to Innovation High School’s student leadership account to help put on events like prom, field trips and senior events. Sa, 4/18, 8am-3pm.

Innovations High School, 777 W. Second St., (775) 333-5150 ext. 271.

LET THE COWBOY RIDE: NEVADA RANCH LIFE: Paul Starrs, a University of Nevada, Reno, geography professor, will speak about his decades of research on western ranching. A former cowboy himself, Starrs will discuss many aspects of ranching in the Great Basin. Starrs is the author of several books, including Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. W, 4/22, 7-8:30pm.

Free. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

NATIONAL COIN WEEK: Reno Coin Club and Reno’s Northwest Library present ANA’s National Coin Week’s “Building Tomorrows: Inspiration and Innovation at World Fairs” with a coin exchange and numismatic lectures and displays. There will be a display of ancient and obsolete U.S. coins and lectures and presentations on a variety of coin topics. Sa, 4/18, 10am-3pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.

NEW BEGINNINGS, NEW DREAMS FUNDRAISING GALA: The gala offers an Italian dinner, drinks, live music by Mimic and a free raffle ticket. The event supports the Newton Learning Center, a non-profit organization providing educational services to children on the autism spectrum.

Sa, 4/18, 6pm. $30 per adult, $10 per child, $750 VIP table. Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., www.secondstart.org.

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The Reno Blues Society hosts its annual Spring Dance Party with headliners The Delta Wires and opening act the Whiskey Haulers. Sa, 4/18, 7pm-midnight. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Ramada Reno Hotel and Casino, 1000 E. Sixth St., (775) 848-2590, www.renoblues.org.

Riverwalk District Merchant on Wine Walk day to get a map of participating Wine Walk merchants. Go to the participating merchant of your choice, and, with a valid photo ID, you’ll receive a wine glass and an ID bracelet that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Every month offers a different theme and part of all proceeds are donated to a local charity. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm. $20.

The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.

JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: T. Vásquez: Septuaginta Duo, A 72-hour compiled view of images in single-family homes. The vacant walls and the empty closets tell the absence of what was. The camera is slowed down just enough to capture the framed view. The formatting reveals only enough information either fragmented or full frame with each image.

This is a view of the home life. Through 4/24, 10am-4pm. Free. 900 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6837.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Dancing Alligators, Mermaid Kitties and Other Extraordinary Creatures. McKinley Gallery East hosts drawings and paintings by nine-year-old artist Zoe Murkovich. The show features abstract acrylic paintings and drawings of real and imagined creatures. M-F, 8am-5pm

through 5/8; Before the Fall: Reena Spansail. McKinley Gallery West hosts new work by University of Nevada, Reno student Reena Spansail. Before the Fall features portraits of individuals who imagine their own sense of place. Reception on April 24, 5-7pm. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/8; F, 4/24, 5-7pm.

Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: Moments in Nature: Emma Auriemma-McKay, Metro Gallery in City Hall hosts new landscape painting by Emma Auriemma-McKay. Moments in Nature showcases the majesty and grandeur of the Sierra Nevada under the kaleidoscopic skies of western Nevada.

Reception on May 7, 5-7pm. M-F, 9am5pm through 5/8; Th, 5/7, 5-7pm. Free. 1 E. First St, (775) 334-2417.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance. Thought of as the godfather of performance art, Hsieh’s work as a performance artist is foundational to the art form. This is the second time this work will be seen in the United States after its previous installation at the Guggenheim in New York City. 4/166/21, 12-4pm; talk and reception, Th, 4/16, 5-8pm. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE: THE ART OF BEER: Enjoy beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres and take part in hands-on science projects. F, 4/17, 69pm. $15-$20. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

All Ages GALENA TODDLERS: Galena Creek Visitor Center offers this fun, educational presentation and craft session for children ages 2-5. Third Th of every month, 10-11am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

GROSSOLOGY: The Wilbur D. May Museum presents the upcoming exhibit Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body! Kids of all ages will discover the answers to all the questions they have about the mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and smelly biology of the body.

This science-in-disguise exhibition features dozens of animatronics, imaginative games, and interactive elements to take visitors on an up close and personal tour of the body functions that most people don’t like to talk about.

W-Su, 10am-4pm through 4/26. $9 adults, $8 children, seniors. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

Art ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Animal Ark Benefit. Twenty percent of proceeds from this art show will go to the wildlife sanctuary and education center. Through 4/30, 11am-4pm. 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

ARTSPACE, WEST STREET MARKET: Amelia Currier: Cave Translations. Reno area printmaker Amelia Currier offers new work at University Galleries’ downtown gallery. Through 5/2, 4-8pm. Free. 144 West St.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: The Driest State: Nevada Watersheds. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents 29 of Nolan Preece’s photographs, many taken from an aerial perspective, that feature the beauty of the desert’s land forms, the lack of water, and the range of water needs and uses. Preece took these images over the past five years in order to document the rapidly changing environment. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/29. Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, (775) 721-7424.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Wealth Group Exhibition. All artists were invited to present their vision using any medium of their choice.

This exhibit aims to be an embodiment of the many different concepts of wealth, and how various artists within our community understand the idea of wealth.

The Micro Gallery M-Su through 4/24. Free.

945 Record St., www.hollandreno.org.

Malice in wonderland My boyfriend has a crazy ex-wife who can’t let go.

She is the meanest, most vengeful and manipulative person, initially convincing the 15-year-old son she has with my boyfriend that I’m the reason “Dad won’t come back.” (He actually divorced her after she, in a fit of rage, made a false police report about him.) She also slashed my tires and spread a rumor that my boyfriend is a child molester. I love him dearly, and we feel we’re soul mates, but his ex-wife is making it so hard to be happy. What can I do?

Don’t take this woman’s behavior personally. And yes, I’m serious. Assuming what you say about her is true, she seems to be one of those born bar brawlers, ever on the lookout for a reason to break a bottle over someone’s head and start the second Hundred Years’ War. If she could, she’d not only slash your tires but take a sponge bath in the Fountain of Youth so she could live long enough to slash your greatgreat-grandchildren’s, too.

The problem is, because she isn’t acting from anything resembling reason, there’s no reasoning with her. As personal security expert Gavin de Becker says about the irrationally persistent in his terrific book The Gift of Fear, “There is no straight talk for crooked people.” So, practically speaking, short of finding a home security company that sends out zombie squads by radio call, all that you, personally, can do is decide whether you find love and soulmatery worth the trade-offs in terror and tire costs. As for what your boyfriend can do, the answer, unfortunately, is “not much more”: Install video

surveillance; document everything she does; and use the legal system to the extent he can (and the extent that seems prudent).

The following advice—to use gratitude as a buffer against ugliness—might sound like it’s from the Little Miss Sunshine Solutions Department, but there’s actually solid science behind it. Research by social psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and her colleagues finds that people are meaningfully happier when they take regular stock of the things they have to be grateful for. (A caveat: This happinessincreasing effect was found only for people who did this blessings counting once a week, maybe, the researchers surmise, because doing it more often felt like a chore.)

So consider getting gratitudinal once a week, maybe on Sunday night. You could even write five things down on slips of paper and put them in a “Gratitude Jar” so you have a visual reminder of how good you actually have it when things go bad. This may also help you avoid getting snippy with the irritatingly well-meaning who chirp, “What goes around, comes around!” Right. If there is such a thing as karma, it seems to go after the truly heinous offenders first, like all the people who ever dropped a straw wrapper or let out a puff of tail wind in the elevator. Ω

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continued from page 34 SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: Woven Memories: Sally Hammel BFA Thesis Exhibit. Sierra Nevada College’s Tahoe Gallery will host Sally Hammel’s Woven Memories with an opening reception on April 23 from 5-7pm. An artist talk will follow at 5:30pm. Woven Memories is a collision of Hammel’s Celtic and Native American backgrounds with her life in contemporary society. M-F, 9am-5pm through 4/27; Freedumb: Michael Ballew BFA Exhibit. The Holman Arts and Media Center’s Garage Door Gallery will host Michael Ballew’s exhibit with an opening reception and artist’s talk on April 16 from 5-7pm. M-F, 9am-5pm through 4/27.

Free. 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 8311314, www.sierranevada.edu.

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Reflections on Pyramid Lake. An exhibit put on by the University of Nevada Reno’s Special Collections showcasing historic, artistic, scientific, native and natural visions. M-F through 9/15. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-1110, www.unr.edu.

Call for Artists CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Reno’s Poet Laureate Gailmarie Pahmeier is accepting submissions for the Reno Community Poem Project. To participate in this ongoing poem about the city, send up to four lines of original work that address something you have observed in Reno. Each submission should begin with “Today in Reno…” and include a specific, concrete observation. Your submissions will be edited by the poet laureate and compiled into an evolving poem about this place we call home. http://renopoetlaureate@reno.gov.

Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Robert Adams: A Road Through Shore Pine, W-Su through 7/26; Dave Eggers: Insufferable Throne of God, W-Su through 7/26; Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape, W-Su through 5/3; Tamara Kostianovsky: After Goya, W-Su through 7/26; No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting, W-Su through 5/3; Betsabeé Romero: En Tránsito, W-Su through 7/26; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Mothers — The Art of Seeing, WSu through 5/3; Larry Mitchell: The 1ºC Project, W-Su through 7/26; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 8/16. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

Poetry/Literature THE WRITERS’ BLOCK OPEN MIC AT WILDFLOWER: This show is open to all ages for the first half with the second half open to whatever words need escaping. Sign-ups for participants begin at 6:30pm. Th, 7pm. Wildflower Village, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (415) 6400389.

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ARGENTA CONCERT SERIES: The Miro Quartet will present two performances with different yet complementary programs. The first night, on April 16, will see an evening dedicated to the craft of Franz Schubert and in particular to his two greatest string quartets, The String Quartet in G major and the String Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden.” Th, 4/16, 7:30pm. $5-$25. The second night, on April 17, is an evening dedicated to string quartet collaboration presenting various works for the ensemble by Beethoven and concluding with the Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor by Johannes Brahms in collaboration with the University of Nevada, Reno pianist Hyeyeon Park. F, 4/17, 7:30pm. $5-$25. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St.,(775) 7844278.

FACULTY RECITAL: DEAUNN DAVIS: Music Department faculty member DeAunn Davis will present a recital featuring works for French horn and piano. She will be joined by Adam Snider on tuba, as well as other colleagues from the University of Nevada, Reno’s music department. Su, 4/19, 1pm.

Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

L CUBED (LOOK, LUNCH, LISTEN): A free chamber music series featuring performances by University of Nevada, Reno music students and faculty in a laid-back lunchtime setting.

W, 4/22, noon; W, 4/29, noon. Free. Randall Rotunda, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon.

Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279.

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY SPRING CONCERT: The University Symphony will be joined by guest oboe soloist Eric Fassbender. The program will end with Dvorak’s famous, “New World Symphony.” Tu, 4/21, 7:30pm. $5, free for students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 7844278.

Onstage DANWISE AND FRIENDS: A free monthly comedy show featuring local talent. The event is BYOB and limited beer will be provided free as well. This event will run every third Thursday of the month. Third Th of every month, 8pm. Free. The Generator, Inc., 1240 Icehouse Ave., Sparks, (775) 530-1477, www.therenogenerator.com.

ENCHANTED APRIL: Reno Little Theater presents Matthew Barber’s romantic comedy, based on the novel of the same name. Enchanted April tells the story of two bored London housewives who plan an escape to the

Mediterranean and recruit two upper-class women (and relative strangers) to split the cost of a rented villa with them. Sparks fly among the very different personalities, but among the wisteria blossoms, the women rediscover themselves and their marriages along the way. Th, 4/16, 7:30pm; F, 4/17, 7:30pm;

Sa, 4/18, 7:30pm; Su, 4/19, 2pm; Th, 4/23, 7:30pm; F, 4/24, 7:30pm; Sa, 4/25, 2 & 7:30pm; Su, 4/26, 2pm. $16 general admission; $13 seniors, students, military personnel. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, http://renolittletheater.org.

THE PRODUCERS: The Truckee Meadows Community College Theatre Department about a down-on-his-luck producer and his nerdy accountant who set out to create a huge tax write-off by producing the biggest flop Broadway has ever seen. Th, 4/16, 7:30pm;

F, 4/17, 7:30pm; Sa, 4/18, 7:30pm; Su, 4/19, 2pm.

TMCC Redfield Performing Arts Center, 505 Keystone Ave., (775) 673-7291, www.showtix4u.com.

SKETCH ADDICTION: Sketch Addiction is a standup and sketch comedy show. There will be several sketches created by sketch addiction and then a filmed sketch comedy competition with comedians and film makers, voted apon by the audience. Th, 4/16, 8pm. $10. Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776.

UP & ATOM IMPROV: The group performs longform narrative improv based on audience suggestions. Sa, 8pm through 3/26. $5. The Potentialist Workshop, 2275 Dickerson Road, (775) 250-0189, www.facebook.com/upandatomimprov.

VENUS IN FUR: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company presents David Ives’ play about Thomas, a playwright/director who is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty audition room walks a vulgar and equally desperate actress, oddly enough, named Vanda. As the two work through the script, they blur the line between play and reality, entering into an increasingly serious game of submission and domination that only one of them can win. Th, 4/16, 7:30-9:30pm; F,

4/17, 7:30-9:30pm; Sa, 4/18, 7:30-9:30pm; Su, 4/19, 2-4pm; Th, 4/23, 7:30-9:30pm; F, 4/24, 7:309:30pm; Sa, 4/25, 7:30-9:30pm. $15 pre-sale, $18 at the door. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

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I’m guessing that your own initiation or rite of passage may, at least initially, seem as puzzling or nonsensical as that one. You might be hard-pressed to understand how it is pertinent to the next chapter of your life story. And yet I suspect that you will ultimately come to the conclusion—although it may take some time—that this transition was an excellent lead-in and preparation for what’s to come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1909,

Sergei Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes, a Parisian ballet company that ultimately revolutionized the art form. The collaborative efforts he catalyzed were unprecedented. He drew on the talents of visual artists Picasso and Matisse, composers Stravinsky and Debussy, designer Coco Chanel and playwright Jean Cocteau, teaming them up with top choreographers and dancers. His main goal was not primarily to entertain, but rather to excite and inspire and inflame.

That’s the spirit I think you’ll thrive on in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s not a time for nice diversions and comfy satisfactions.

Go in quest of Ballets Russes-like bouts of arousal, awakening and delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Don’t ever tame

your demons—always keep them on a leash.” That’s a line from a song by Irish rock musician Hozier. Does it have any meaning for you? Can your personal demons somehow prove useful to you if you keep them wild but under your control? If so, how exactly might they be useful? Could they provide you with primal energy you wouldn’t otherwise possess? Might their presence be a reminder of the fact that everyone you meet has their own demons and therefore deserves your compassion? I suspect that these are topics worthy of your consideration right now. Your relationship to your demons is ripe for transformation—possibly even a significant upgrade.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Will you be the

difficult wizard, Virgo? Please say yes. Use your magic to summon elemental forces that will shatter the popular obstacles. Offer the tart medicine that tempers and tests as it heals. Bring us bracing revelations that provoke a fresher, sweeter order. I know it’s a lot to ask, but right now there’s no one more suited to the tasks. Only you can manage the stern grace that will keep us honest.

Only you have the tough humility necessary to solve the riddles that no one else can even make sense of.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My message

this week might be controversial to the Buddhists among you. But I’ve got to report the cosmic trends as I see them, right? It’s my sacred duty not to censor or sanitize the raw data. So here’s the truth as I understand it: More desire is the answer to your pressing questions. Passionate intensity is the remedy for all wishy-washy wishes and anesthetized emotions. The stronger your longing, the smarter you’ll be. So if your libido is not already surging and throbbing under its own power, I suggest you get it teased and tantalized until it does.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Karelu is a

word from the Tulu language that’s spoken in South India. It refers to the marks made on human skin by clothing that’s too tight.

As you know, the effect is temporary. Once the close-fitting garment is removed, the imprint will eventually disappear as the skin restores its normal shape and texture.

I see the coming days as being a time when you will experience a metaphorical version of karelu, Scorpio. You will shed some form of constriction, and it may take a while for you to regain your full flexibility and smoothness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Georgia is not just an American state. It’s also a country that’s at the border of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Many people who live there speak the Georgian language.

They have a word, shemomedjamo, that refers to what happens when you love the taste of the food you’re eating so much that you continue to pile it in your mouth well past the time when you’re full. I’d like to use it as a metaphor for what I hope you won’t do in the coming days: get too much of a good thing. On the other hand, it’s perfectly fine to get just the right, healthy amount of a good thing.

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

you’re a driver in a car race, an essential rule in making a successful pit stop is to get back on the track as quickly as possible.

Once the refueling is finished and your new tires are in place, you don’t want to be cleaning out your cup holder or checking the sideview mirror to see how you look.

Do I really need to tell you this? Aren’t you usually the zodiac’s smartest competitor?

I understand that you’re trying to become more skilled at the arts of relaxation, but can’t you postpone that until after this particular race is over? Remember that there’s a difference between the bad kind of stress and the good kind. I think you actually need some of the latter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Until the

early 20th century, mayonnaise was considered a luxury food, a hand-made delicacy reserved for the rich. An entrepreneur named Richard Hellman changed that. He developed an efficient system to produce and distribute the condiment at a lower cost. He put together effective advertising campaigns. The increasing availability of refrigeration helped, too, making mayonnaise a more practical food. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your own sphere, Aquarius: the transformation of a specialty item into a mainstay, or the evolution of a rare pleasure into a regular occurrence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean

author Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated more than 40 books for children. Midway through his career, his publisher dared him to make a new book that used no more than 50 different words. Accepting the challenge, Seuss produced Green Eggs and Ham, which went on to become the fourth best-selling English-language children’s book in history.

I invite you to learn from Seuss’ efforts, Pisces. How? Take advantage of the limitations that life has given you. Be grateful for the way those limitations compel you to be efficient and precise. Use your constraints as inspiration to create a valuable addition to your life story.

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Missionary Billy Vicks Wandering through the lobby of the University of Nevada, Reno library recently, I noticed that someone had a bicycle up on a rack and was repairing it. It was Billy Vicks of the Reno Bike Project, who does repairs to help keep people interested in biking.

Tell me what this is about.

How did this happen?

I’m usually outside in the summer months, but they want me to come year round, so the Campus Cycling Coalition is a student organization here ... so they decided to put me inside throughout the winter months.

I’m going to be heading back outside soon,

I would think that a campus would be a fairly easy place to sell cycling. A lot of them are already into it.

It makes a lot of sense. I mean, there’s a huge parking problem on campus, so cycling is a really easy solution to that problem. You know, you can park closer to buildings, you don’t have to walk as far, and it’s easy to get on and off campus cycling, and around campus.

Actually, I wasn’t asking so much whether they support the program, but, how many bicycling professors are there around here?

How much reaction do you get from administrators, staffers, professors?

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Make no mistake. We have a problem. A big problem. In fact, I’ll just go ahead and rank Cops Killing Unarmed Citizens as a larger national problem than Unemployment or Terrorists.

I mean, shit, the cops are racking up body counts that would make ISIS drool with envy! You think those cretins wouldn’t just love to toetag 100 Americans a month?

Everywhere you go nowadays in urban America, you look up, and you’re likely gonna see a camera. Big Brother, checkin’ you out, for all kinds of things. Well, goddammit, we got our phones, BB, and we’re lookin’ right back atcha. And running tape. Maybe you should watch your ass. Ω

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Our phones are wondrous devices, crucially important in many ways.

Without them, we would have far less evidence to back up the claims that the cops are basically out there running amok. And amok feels like the right word. Chew on the following. In March, American cops killed 111 people. One hundred eleven. That just happens to be more people than

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This game you’re all so embroiled in, a game so large and pervasive that most have forgotten it’s a game at all, it’s doomed to fail. And fail colossally.

This climate situation is but the first symptom, a sign that, ultimately, it’ll just be too much. Something’s gotta give. It ain’t gonna be me. Love, Gaia.”

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So what I do is I come up every week, and I provide every service that I can. That usually involves minor adjustments to bearing service overhauls for students and faculty on campus. Essentially, we’re there to support and build a cycling culture on campus. The majority of what I do is fix flat tires. And I’m affiliated with the Campus Cycling Coalition. So they’ve brought the Reno Bike Project onto campus. And we’re [the RBP] a nonprofit community bike shop, located on East Fourth Street. This is part of our many programs.

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