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The bucket theory of memory

People try to put us down

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Ask anyone who knows me, I’m young. I don’t know what that means, but I know it’s not the circuits I’ve made around the sun. I’m always energized, bouncing off walls, with an immature sense of humor.

We live on the cusp of immortality. I freak out my friend Carter King when I talk about the potential of uploading my consciousness into the cloud, or transferring it into a clone made of my own cells. Why shouldn’t I have a backup in case something bad happens, like I get hit by a bus or forget to keep my hands on the steering wheel?

I think 300 would be about the right age to die. I mean, if it really has to happen at all.

When I get there, maybe I’ll say 600 is the right age. Once your essential memories are storable and transferable on some kind of external hardware, the finite number of cells available for new learning in our current wetware will be irrelevant. You could choose who you want to be each time you change out your body.

That’s why I hate the growing number of inexorable signs of aging I’m experiencing. I’ve had tinnitus for a while now. Since September 2013, anyway. It’s a hazard and badge of a misspent youth. But two weeks ago, something slipped, and suddenly I lost a big part of the hearing in my left ear. It feels congested more than anything. The quality of the sound seems to improve when I take decongestants. My ear, nose and throat guy told me a few months ago that there’s nothing that can be done to treat tinnitus, so I’m trying some Eastern methods, herbs and such, to treat the underlying issues, like stress and inflammation.

Here’s the thing: These little signs of things breaking down cause me to fear that I won’t make it past the sell-by date.

I’m going to be very angry if I keel over from a massive stroke the day before some geek in Silicon Valley creates an app for uploading our consciousness.

Life is nothing if not short, and 53 years is still equal to nothing if you’re rounding to the nearest thousand. Trust me, it’s not a fear of death as much as it is a fear of missing out.

Our generation changed the culture of America forever. For me, it started in Dallas with the JFK assassination, I was 5, then civil rights and Sgt. Pepper and Vietnam woke up everybody and led us into the decade of disco dance balls and “Free Bird.” The AIDS of the ’80s or Reagan ending the Cold War, you seldom hear about anymore.

With the internet and PlayStations at our fingertips, time started to be spent in front of the monitor rather than the playground. Electing an American president named Hussein within the same decade the twin towers were brought down pretty much defines our lack of vision for the preservation of the values that made us great. Should we be proud of our generation?

Mike Arp Reno

Do the math Re “Life after meth” (Feature story, April 16): I know this story very well.

Having been a meth junkie for 30 years, clean for 22 years now.

Now I have a daughter with a meth problem. I’m not sure how to handle it. I guess it will be tough love.

Don’t come back to Daddy. I’ll keep my grandson safe at home with me, but you stay away until you can say you’re clean.

Name withheld Fernley

Shouldn’t be shooting Re “Priests and cops” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Feb. 26): Regarding the writer who asked why didn’t the cops “shoot in the air,” let me answer that question.

They’re not unbelievably stupid, that’s why. A simple, easy Google search will quickly tell you about 11-year-old Shanti Lanza. Her dad shot into the air, and he killed his 11-year-old daughter. Vice-president Joe Biden also said to shoot into

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the air. People who advise others to do this are merely advertising how stupid they are. I am no rocket scientist; someone smarter than me can probably point out some spelling or grammatical error in my letter to you. Believing you should shoot into the air for any reason, especially to frighten someone, is just about the stupidest thing to believe. Whoever believes that needs to start reading books and turn off the TV. Christopher Johnson Gerlach

Pocket liners Re “Cooling it” (News, March 26): In the article by Dennis Myers, Pat Hickey’s constituent letter was quoted with the summation line, “Now let’s see whether you can look me in the eye and keep a straight face while saying you won’t be at all influenced by who I am and what I ask of you,” regarding lobbyist-fed money in politics. That statement is very bold, and much needed meds for today’s bribery-driven legislation. Mr. Hickey, a life-long entrepreneur and socially rubbermeets-the-road kind of guy, says with that bill and its very realistic take on democracy’s present tineared legislators, that Pat Hickey’s words and bill do most assuredly represent concern, clarity and truth at this time. The bill would give pause from the lucrative tracks ex-legislators and their aides seem to so easily slip and slide along into the maw of money and causes that only benefit the suppliers of all that lucre. The money is big, and the temptations equal if not greater. It is time for the voter’s needs to be placed above the slick-tongued farm animal leavings we are constantly given as reason to line the same old pockets.

Christopher Lunn Carson City

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identification requirements in order to vote. These measures are a subtle way of suppressing an individual’s right to vote.

Eleven percent of voting-age Americans do not own identification cards, adding up to 21 million people. Furthermore, 18 percent of people over the age of 65 do not have a current ID in any form. In Nevada, there are seven counties that don’t have a Department of Motor Vehicles, so it would be particularly difficult to get identification cards into the hands of those citizens.

Academic studies suggest that requiring a voter ID card will reduce voter turnout, particularly among the elderly, poor, AfricanAmericans, Hispanics, young, and military. These individuals, who are much less likely to own cars or drivers licenses, will be disenfranchised.

This roadblock is known as a “modern-day poll tax” because of the costs in obtaining identification and transportation, as well as time off work and time spent traveling to and from the DMV. Protect our citizens’ right to vote.

Contact Elliot.Anderson@asm.state. nv.us and join with him in saying “no” to AB253, AB 256 and SB169.

Alice Good Reno

Guns are great! (Over there, 3,000 miles away in Nevada) Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): “The large majority of the university community doesn’t want guns on campus.” And they ought to know by now that no plebiscite can surmount the constitutional protection of fundamental rights.

The fact is that in the seven states that allow licensed carry on college campuses, the effects of that policy have been universally positive, not negative. Since that proves that there is no “compelling public interest” in prohibiting licensed carry on campuses, there is no legitimate basis to keep the prohibition in

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place. Fundamental rights are not subject to majority approval. Their enumeration in the Constitution exists precisely to foreclose the majority from infringing upon them.

Barry Hirsh Miami

Guns everywhere Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): Our country was founded on principle and on protecting the rights of people, even those rights that a majority might disagree with. In our past, there were places where the majority did not want people of different color than white to exercise their civil rights of freedom. That, fortunately, has been replaced with a respect of those civil rights. This posting shows the same issues of the majority (asserted by the poster) not wanting people to exercise another civil right.

A civil right should stand on its own, even if everyone else doesn’t think it should. Just seeing the same pattern emerge here as well.

Doug Thompson Heber City, Utah Editor’s note: We suggest you do not walk into a Nevada casino and assert your “civil” right to bear arms wherever you want.

Waiting to happen Re “Faculty, students and staff” (Editorial, April 2): Years ago, while standing in line in a store, the man next to me stepped on my foot. I assumed it was an accident. However, recognizing me as a professor, he half jokingly said: “That for the ‘C’ I got in your class.” If guns are allowed on campus, how long will it be before an angry student shoots a teacher over a grade; how long will it be before a jilted student shoots an ex-girlfriend; how long will it be, or a depressed student takes his or her own life? When that happens, we can look to lack of wisdom in the Nevada Legislature.

Robert Peterson Reno

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Do corporations have too much power?

Asked in downtown Reno Chuck Manning Disabled veteran

Yes. Everything goes their way. And if you file a suit on them, they win in court because they have the money. They take advantage of those who don’t.

Marta Czastkiewicz Travel consultant

Some do. Some do have too much power. But there’s nothing wrong with power. It depends on how you are going to use it and if you are going to use it against someone else, right?

Monica Thompson Digital engagement manager

Activate our chips We hate these hidden-hand-of-the-free-market moments that we occasionally get our faces slapped by.

Did you know your smart phone has a chip in it to receive FM signals? It’s turned on in most of the world.

It’s turned off here in the United States, forcing people who use their cell phone to listen to music or news to stream data from non-local stations, which a) costs the individual in data fees, and b) undermines local stations that can (not that they do) offer local information that helps us to participate in our culture and democracy by attending events, knowing about local businesses, or hearing the news.

Many of us would never listen to FM radio on our cell phones. It’s a given that local stations are mostly driven by corporate decisions that are made in other markets, and we love the variety of themes and millions of songs that are available through internet services like Spotify and Pandora.

But you know when we would listen to local radio?

We’d listen when there’s an emergency. Emergencies, weather or terrestrial, tend to knock out internet. If you lose power at your home, you lose your internet, and you probably lose your stereo receivers. Maybe you can stream local information on your 3G or 4G networks, but streaming data uses up your battery in nothing flat.

In fact, studies show that streaming data eats the battery six time faster than using the FM receiver.

So you can see the game, right? Cell phones are manufactured for a global market so it’s cheaper to install the FM radio receiver than to manufacture two types of phones. In less free-market societies, the people get the choice of whether they use the chip. In ours, since the corporations always prefer a sure-thing and a OPINION

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Yes, I believe when corporations are categorized as people, then they do have too much power. Corporations aren’t people, and they shouldn’t be classified as people.

lack of choice for consumers, we don’t get the choice, or rather, our choice is to either pay our providers for the data or not to receive the service on our phone that we want.

And the fact is, we pay for the installation of the chip, even though the provider chooses to turn it off. It’s in the cost of the phone.

That lack of choice is all well and good when you’re talking about something that has no practical use, but we’re not talking about something frivolous. We’re talking about what could be life and death situations when our cell phones are the only tools we have for communications. Obviously, cell service providers see the value in using cell phones for emergency information transmission because they started using Wireless Emergency Alerts to customers in targeted areas to give notice of severe weather, AMBER Alerts and presidential alerts in 2012, according to the website http://freeradioonmyphone.org, which has a lot of information on this topic.

NPR, the National Association of Broadcasters, and many local radio stations are lobbying Congress to force carriers to enable the chip. Even Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate argued that radio is critical in a crisis. “As more and more people use their smartphones as streaming devices to get news, get radio, get a lot of things like that over their networks, I don’t think people realize how vulnerable they get.”

Cell network providers are willing to risk your life to make a few bucks. This makes it obvious they don’t have the ethics to make this decision for themselves, so write your representatives, and ask them to force providers to activate the chip. Ω |

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Yes. You know, I’m not sure exactly why, but it does seem to me like our government is now open for business with corporations having a lot of money. So I guess I kind of equate money with power.

Tim Hoffman Disabled veteran

Absolutely. Things are so corrupt right now, and they get more corrupt. I’m just really upset by the people who make the decisions. They’re out of touch with reality.

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Michele Fiore is beyond pathetic “Sit your ass down,” she yelled into the microphone on the Assembly Floor, interrupting a colleague from her own party who was questioning her proposed amendment to the infamous Bundy Bill. There were gasps of disbelief at the unprecedented breach of decorum, and she was quickly ruled out of by order. Her subsequent forced apology, Sheila Leslie complete with rolled eyes and hand gestures, was worthy of an immature and obnoxious adolescent. This is what term limits has wrought.

The Assembly floor session on the evening of the first-house-passage deadline of April 21 was a train wreck in slow motion, careening steadily toward the culminating display of crass, rude, and intolerable behavior

by Assemblymember Michele Fiore.

Broadcast to the world via the Internet, Assemblymember Fiore’s public explosion had been building all evening, as she continually insulted her colleague, Assemblymember Chris Edwards, and others with nary a cautionary word from the speaker about her tone or words. She also seemed incapable of following

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Assembly floor procedures even though every rookie learns how to perform such routine tasks as adopting an amendment. It was embarrassing to watch her flounder and infuriating to see how little she cared.

The Assembly has always been “the people’s house,” more rumble and tumble than the staid and—until this session—deliberative Senate.

Deadline Day floor sessions often involve short tempers and even tears.

But this was something else entirely.

The floor debates were painful to watch whenever Fiore and her followers were involved. Their statements were full of misinformation, sarcasm and arguments that made no sense. It made one hunger for the respectful intellectual debates of the Barbara Buckley-John Carpenter era.

It’s not as if there have never been strong opinions and hurt feelings on the floor. But it’s difficult to think of a Speaker from either party who would have allowed such middle-school behavior.

Speaker John Hambrick, a very nice, polite man, seemed

uncomfortable with the conflict.

Hambrick cheerfully admits he never expected to be elected Speaker, having never served in leadership, the usual career path for a would-be Speaker.

But his inexperience and unwillingness to confront the unruly, indifferent members of his own caucus, contributed to the evening’s chaos.

Hambrick struggled to manage the floor under the pressure of Deadline Day. The evening session was generally disorderly, complete with far too many missing amendments, “one minute” recesses, and legislators seemingly unfamiliar with procedure even though they’ve been in Carson City almost three months. Hambrick constantly fumbled for his script, and was prompted often by the chief clerk or veteran Assembly members, saved from humiliation only by his goodnatured attempts to get it right.

As Republican newcomers bumbled through the floor session, the Democratic leadership team that provided the model of proper floor behavior. Assm. Maggie Carlton assisted Fiore in getting key elements

of a union-criminalization amendment on the record, even though Carlton personally detested the bill. Carlton even used a Point of Order to alert Edwards that he was giving a long commentary on the wrong amendment, something the majority floor leader or speaker should have caught.

They didn’t seem to realize their job is to intercept those mistakes.

The Assembly has had its share of firebrand right-wing extremists before—think Sharron Angle, and Don Gustavson—but they were unfailingly polite when expressing their views and followed procedures. Former assemblymember Ron Knecht was quite rude at times, and was chastised by leaders on both sides, though he never approached the level of Fiore’s meltdown. There would have been consequences.

Not any more. The day following the Fiore tantrum, Hambrick minimized her behavior, telling the Reno Gazette-Journal that “she just went a tad outside the lines.”

How did our standards sink so low? Oh, yeah, term limits. Ω

Here’s the Wonkette take on the fireworks: wonkette. com/583593/wingnutrep-cussin-folks-outfor-mocking-her-billto-kick-feds-out-ofnevada

The signals we can’t see We all see prices when we go shopping. Prices help us to budget the hard choices between that prime steak or hamburger meat.

When it comes to public policy, however, prices are obscured by politics, so the signals they send to us as consumers and investors is by Brendan distorted. When a public resource is Trainor regulated or controlled by government, prices take a back burner to demands for ideological purity.

As the Legislature considers the transfer of federal public lands to Nevada, we confront the problem of what ranchers would pay for their AUM (animal unit months) under the new state-owned regime.

The left believes that cattle ranching is heavily subsidized by lower grazing fees on public rather than private lands. They claim that Cliven Bundy “owes” the taxpayers over a million dollars for his refusal to pay what they claim is taxpayersubsidized grazing fees. Many

environmentalists are so convinced that taxpayers are subsidizing ranching they call for an end to public land ranching altogether and want to leave the range to bisons, burros and horses.

Because the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service (USFS) set their grazing fees by a federal government formula, rather than by market pricing, determining the truth can be complicated. Prices should signal what the actual supply and demand for a resource is. Without market prices, any study will necessarily be somewhat arbitrary.

There will be different methods of evaluation and different indices of value. Only totally free markets show the complete picture of how assets are valued.

That Nevada ranchers are generally in favor of the land transfer is an indication they are willing to take on higher prices if it means more control of our resources.

Rancher Cliff Gardner, a veteran

of the battle for Nevada control of the public lands, told the Nevada Land Management Task Force that federal regulations and control of water rights, as well as the environmentalists’ politicization of land use, were major costs state ownership would mitigate. Elko County confirmed his testimony that the opportunity costs involved in dealing with federal bureaucracies cost the county millions in wasted time.

When studying the differences between private and public grazing fees, the value can be obscured by non-fee factors that only markets can reveal. Family ranchers are not just profit-maximizing firms.

Studies show that some ranchers prefer to pay more to graze on private lands because of the value they put on the scenery they will enjoy at work. Private land leases can include amenities like livestock and water management services.

Private grazing lands are generally of better quality than public lands.

Studies confirm that non-fee costs

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are significantly higher on public lands than private lands.

A major BLM study of the comparative costs of public and private land leases in New Mexico, Wyoming and Idaho concluded that 34 percent of cattle grazers on BLM land, and 62 percent of those leasing USFS land, paid more in total costs on public land than private land.

The Nevada Land Management Task Force estimated that Nevada could earn approximately $7 to $29 per acre for the lands transferred to the state over administrative costs.

The wide discrepancies depend largely on whether the new lands contain major oil or mineral deposits. If they are right, the recovered lands held in a public trust will provide new revenue streams for public education and other services.

Nevada ranchers seem willing to pay more to the state of Nevada than they would to the feds. More control over their livelihood is worth it. Ω

The Bundys celebrated the stand-off at Bunkerville anniversary with a barbecue: www.reviewjournal. com/news/bundyblm/bundy-supporters-mark-standoffanniversary-barbecue

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When boats are tied up at the Lake Tahoe water line in autumn and by spring are several yards above the water line, it’s one sign of the poor snow pack on which western Nevada relies for a water supply. And it’s happened for several years.

Speaking up A report last month that the Northern Paiute language is on its last lips may have been mistaken.

High Country News reported that “Today, there are only three surviving native Paviotso speakers, all of whom live in Bridgeport, California.” Text on an accompanying map read, “Northern Paiute, or Paviotso, is ‘critically endangered’ and down to its last three speakers, and two of them are in their 90s.” A source note on the map attributed its information to the U.S. Census and an endangered languages program at the University of Hawaii.

But Pyramid Lake tribal chair Vinton Hawley said, “No, there’s more who speak the language. … But there’s probably 15 to 20 individuals [on the Pyramid reservation] who speak fluently, and we also provide the language classes.”

In California Indian Languages, published four years ago, Victor Golla wrote, “Northern Paiute is the most vigorously surviving indigenous language in the California region. Speakers of Northern Paiute are found in a number of reservation communities in Oregon, Nevada, California and Idaho, as well as in urban locations in these states. The principal communities ... in Nevada [are] at Fort McDermitt, Owyhee, Winnemucca, Pyramid Lake, Reno-Sparks, Lovelock, Fallon, Yerington, and Walker River; and in California at Bridgeport, Lee Vining, and Fort Bidwell.”

Dueling highways On April 15, the Reno Gazette-Journal carried a photo of the Lincoln Highway markers at a roadside rest on Interstate 80 west of Reno and east of the California border.

For those who grew up here and don’t remember those markers at any location out there, there’s a reason—they actually belong on Highway 50. The late George Earnhart—then of the Nevada State Archives— told us that particular set of markers was originally located on U.S. 50. During a widening of 50, he said, they were put into storage. They ended up remaining in storage for an extended period. When someone finally decided to do something with them, the institutional memory of where they had come from was lost, and they were moved to I-80, apparently because it runs more or less along the old Lincoln Highway route of the now-defunct U.S. 40 route. Some remnants of 40 can still be seen alongside 80.

As it happened, in western Nevada, there were two Lincoln Highways. Most of the Lincoln through the state was on U.S. 50.

As it moved west across Nevada, it forked at Leeteville (Ragtown), a post office and stage stop near Fallon, onto both U.S. 50 and U.S. 40.

Some Reno boosters argue that the 50 branch of the Lincoln Highway west of the site of Leeteville is less than legitimate, that 40 was the “real” LH. But in fact, the Lincoln Highway arrived at Leeteville on U.S. 50 and continued on 50 past Leeteville, with 40 being the new section. Moreover, the Official Road Guide to the Lincoln Highway (1924 edition) gave its blessing to both sections, noting of the Leeteville-to-Carson City branch, “In 1921 the Nevada State Legislature established that branch of the Lincoln Highway running from Fallon to Carson City, by way of Lahontan Dam, as a portion of the state highway system, in line for immediate improvement with state funds and federal aid. … The southern [50] route is shorter by 14 miles and much more scenic, but does not take you through Reno, the largest city in Nevada.”

In Carson City, the Lincoln Highway turned west and led to Lake Tahoe through Kings Canyon. At that turn in town, there were once Lincoln Highway markers on a large animal fountain that is still there at the corner of Carson and King streets, though the two streets no longer connect.

A residential street in Zephyr Cove alongside U.S. 50 is named Lincoln Highway.

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Dead in the water State lost years while drought worsened Cloud seeding in a desert state may seem like a no-brainer. But six years ago, the Nevada Legislature effectively shut by down the state’s program.

Dennis Myers Even at the time, it seemed shortsighted. When local officials learned of the decision, the Desert Research Institute—a scientific arm of the state—was already dismantling Sierra monitoring stations.

“It’d sure be nice to have the state involved.”

Michael Baughman Humboldt River Basin Water Authority Washoe County Commissioner John Breternitz asked businesses and other officials to help keep the program going. DRI stopped taking the stations apart and sent out packets on the program. It had always raised money through grants and contributions to pay for some of the program. Now it had to find contributions to pay for all cloud seeding, the state having opted out.

The Truckee River Fund ponied up $150,000 and the Western Regional Water Commission gave $100,000 to seed the Truckee River Basin for three years (“No silver lining,” RN&R, Jan. 12, 2012).

Similar arrangements in Southern Nevada were put together. The program has limped along since, as the 2009, 2011 and 2013 legislatures

stiffed it. But the groups who have supported it financially are showing signs of pulling back from a program the state’s own legislature won’t support.

On March 31, the U.S. Drought Monitor found that 99 percent of Nevada was affected by drought of some level. We were unable to find out what the location of that 1 percent was, but an April 21 report by the Monitor said it had disappeared. The figure is now 100 percent (see box).

Now the lawmakers are considering buying back in. Senate Bill 423 would provide $500,000 for the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to parcel out to “an agency of this state or any business entity or other group of persons with the necessary equipment, experience and ability to conduct successful cloud seeding operations.” Even if that measure passes, it would pay only part of the bill for the state’s cloud seeding program.

The state’s statutes contain a Weather Modification Research Law that requires Conservation and Natural Resources to “utilize to the fullest possible extent the facilities and technical resources of the Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education.” DRI has handled the state’s cloud seeding strategy for decades. DRI researchers Peter Wagner, William Gaskell, and

John Latham and co-pilot Gordon Wicks were killed on a cloud seeding research flight on March 2, 1980.

Cloud seeding is strictly supplemental. The state always depended on its cloud seeding program to bump up the amount of snow from 2 to 10 percent in normal years. In drier years, the supplementary water it could produce was even more important but also more difficult to generate. There has to be something to seed. DRI stays prepared for breaks in winter weather patterns that provide storms that can be seeded. (There has been talk of using drones for cloud seeding, but the practice is plagued by timing and other problems.)

“Cloud seeding for snowfall is not something you do to get yourself out of a drought,” said DRI scientist Arlen Huggins in 2010 (“Let it snow,” RN&R, Nov. 18, 2010).

“It’s something better done during a normal year when you have a normal frequency of storms and can add to the water level of storms throughout the season—helping water storage in years when you’re getting some precipitation rather than react to it when your reservoirs are dry.”

Thus, each of those three legislatures when the lawmakers left the problem to others was a missed opportunity. Cloud seeding is not a practice that should be done in spotty fashion. “If we had years of really high precipitation, we would divert the water and bank it, and during years of low flow, we would pull it back out and put it back in the river,” Humboldt River Basin Water Authority exec Michael Baughman told state legislators earlier this month. “It’d sure be nice to have the state involved in things like that.”

The state’s lack of involvement goes beyond cloud seeding. “We are very concerned that we do not have a comprehensive State of Nevada drought response management plan being developed,” Baughman said.

The HRBWA raised $70,000 for cloud seeding in 2014.

In a later interview on the lag in state funding, Baughman said, “State-funded cloud seeding was kind of an institutionalized activity in our state, as it was in many states in our region, and when we got into the recession it went away. If you’re not having frequency of storms, there’s not as many opportunities to seed. It’s going to take years to make up what we’ve lost. I would just suggest that whenever we can start, [state funded seeding] is a tool

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The Southern Nevada Water Authority helps pay for cloud seeding in Colorado, as do agencies in Arizona and California, because most Colorado River water originates there. The Nevada Legislature does not contribute, though most of the state’s population benefits from Colorado River water.

The New York Times reported in December, “Much of the seven-state Colorado River basin is gripped by a hydrological drought, a long-term precipitation deficit that has slashed stream flows, soil moisture and

groundwater levels. Experts say the drought is the worst in centuries. ... A further 25-foot drop [in Lake Mead] would dry up one of two water intakes that supply 70 percent of Nevada’s population with water.”

When the Times published that report, Lake Mead was at about 1085.5 feet above sea level. At this writing, it is at 1080. When the Times reported, water in the lake was rising.

But since the start of March, it has been on a sharp and steady decline and is now well below its December level. At this writing, Lake Mead is 38.73 percent full. Ω

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This means the beloved but environmentally contentious man-made by Georgia Fisher lake—which flowed through June last year and through fall in many wetter years—is now so drought-stricken that its new circulation system georgiaf@ wouldn’t even work if it were to be installed right away (“Algae blues,” newsreview.c om Feb. 26 RN&R). Construction could start as soon as fall, but the project plan still isn’t a done deal, financially or otherwise.

As of press time, a $500,000 allocation had just been proposed for the lake, with the Reno City Council set to discuss the money on April 29.

“This is actually part of a $10 million fund identification … that needs to be allocated this fiscal year,” city spokeswoman Barbara DiCianno explained last week, “so Council talked about the different types of uses, and Virginia Lake was one of them.”

Flansberg said if the funding comes through, some of it will go toward the circulation improvements, which would also be partially covered by nearby builder Silverwing Development.

More plans are also on the table, including ones for a dog park that’s become a pet project—pun intended—for Councilmember Naomi Duerr and her constituents. Another idea involves using the lake’s stagnant “nutrient load,” which is a pretty word for bird shit, as fertilizer. With the help of a new sand filter, Flansberg said, the droppings could nourish surrounding plants.

“There’s a lot of different possibilities we could look at to manage the water quality out there,” Flansberg said, “but first and foremost, the A public meeting about Virginia Lake concern is public health and safety.” is slated for May 20, Long before Virginia Lake achieved pond status, its environmental though the location is state sparked debate. The area’s many avian residents inspired the term still TBA. For project “pit of poop” at a public meeting last fall, for one, and local Audubon updates, visit bit.

Society members and others entreated city staff not to harm or remove ly/1QqeOCb. its small island, which is home to many bird species. Their droppings increase the likelihood of toxic blue-green algae, but poorly circulating water is at least as harmful.

“People really enjoy the opportunity to photograph the birds when they’re nesting, when they’re hatching,” Flansberg said. “It’s not a linear, one-thing park; it’s a lot of things to a lot of people, and we’re just trying to accommodate its many uses.”

A scientific panel is studying the issue in the meantime.

When it comes to biological solutions for the lake, “we need to trust the people who really are in the know to make the choice,” said Reno resident Scott Reimers, who grew up visiting the landmark, brings his own children to it, and has pondered the benefits of pollutants-turnedfertilizers, among other things. “We need to stop acting like we know better than the experts. Politicians are not experts.” Ω OPINION

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hese are strange days indeed for shareholder activism. By some measures it’s experiencing a surge.

Progressive groups have used the strategy since the early 1970s, but the past few years have seen an increase in its frequency, sophistication and success.

In December, for example, the defense contractor Northrup Grumman announced that it would immediately end its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a key player in the push to privatize education and a purveyor of climate-change denial.

The move came in response to a shareholder resolution filed by an activist group that owned stock in the company. More than 100 companies have withdrawn from ALEC over the past four years, many under shareholder pressure.

Shareholders also have been a critical part of the broad coalition that has taken on Walmart for practices ranging from low pay to unfair demands on pregnant workers.

Walmart adamantly denies that the work of activists has any influence on its decision-making, but in February it announced that its base pay rate would increase to $9 this spring and to $10 early next year. The company also has promised to accommodate pregnant workers.

Shareholder activism is premised on the idea that capitalism contains the seeds of its own reform. Owning stock gives shareholders a voice in deciding a company’s policies—and since most shareholders are passive, a highly motivated minority can have an outsized influence.

Sixteen such resolutions were aimed at Walmart in the past decade—out of about 350 “human capital management” resolutions in all, according to Reuters—and they appear to be escalating in number.

Shareholders already have proposed several in 2015, including one from Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier asking Walmart to tie executive incentive pay (which is based on performance) to the happiness and productivity of its low-wage workers.

Conservatives have noted the tactic’s power and potential, and they are sounding the alarm. In a 2011 report on “Activist Investing in PostCitizens United America,” the rightwing Center for Competitive Politics warns that shareholder activists “see for-profit corporations as their

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political enemy, and seek partisan or ideological advantage by squelching corporate political speech.”

In 2013, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce took another tack. It released a study suggesting that union-backed shareholder activism punishes “the millions of individuals who rely on these investments for retirement,” including union members, because it doesn’t increase the value of a company’s stock.

But for all the reaction it provokes among conservatives, some progressives doubt the power of shareholder activism to deliver genuine structural changes. After all, it relies on pragmatism and “constructive engagement” in dealing with corporations whose core mission progressives often oppose. And there are other limits to its appeal. It doesn’t have the visibility of mass marches and protests, and doesn’t usually achieve quick results.

It is one of the more interesting questions of this political era whether progressives will continue to expand a promising strategy that is successful enough to cause concern among conservatives, but sometimes cuts against the grain of their own beliefs.

It’s all about the image The resolution that motivated Northrup Grumman to withdraw from ALEC in December was proposed by a politically progressive congregation of Catholic nuns in Fond du Lac, Wisc. If the resolution had actually gone to a vote by shareholders, it probably would have failed. Only 21 percent of shareholders vote in favor of resolutions, on average.

But the point is not to win a majority. That threshold has little meaning, since resolutions are nonbinding. The point is to win enough votes to get the attention of the company’s leaders and move them to make reforms. The tipping point varies widely from case to case.

Sometimes it’s 10 percent. Sometimes a majority isn’t enough.

“The power we have is the reputational risk,” said Laura Berry, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), which engages with corporations to promote more sustainable and just practices. ICCR’s nearly 300 member organizations have both a moral and financial stake in corporate behavior.

They consist mainly of religious institutions (such as the Fond du Lac

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nuns), but also include pension funds, socially responsible investment firms, unions and academic institutions.

“Companies don’t like these issues being brought to the attention of all institutional shareholders,” Berry said.

“They will often agree to make change so that we will withdraw our proposal and it will not appear on the ballot.

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by Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier to tie executive pay to the happiness of employees. Bottom: “It’s big news when companies divest,” says Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for New York governor in 2014.

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And that’s where you see the power of shareholder activism.”

In 2011, for example, the Oaklandbased shareholder activist organization As You Sow filed a resolution asking McDonald’s to replace its foam beverage cups with more eco-friendly paper cups. The resolution went to a shareholder vote and got nearly 30 percent approval. In 2012, As You Sow filed the same resolution—but withdrew it when

the company took steps toward adopting the policy. A year later, McDonald’s announced that it would begin using paper cups in its 14,000 U.S. stores.

When proposals do go to a vote, proponents can make a presentation at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, which “can sometimes be an uncomfortable moment for the company,” Berry said.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employs this strategy aggressively. It holds stock in more than 80 companies and makes graphic presentations at shareholder meetings about the abuse of animals. When SeaWorld made an initial public offering in 2013, PETA bought shares, promising to “educate stockholders about how marine parks tear orcas and dolphins away from their homes and families and imprison them in minuscule concrete tanks.” Last year, it filed a resolution proposing that SeaWorld retire its animals to sanctuaries in the ocean.

Sometimes, rather than either resisting a resolution or conceding quietly to avoid a shareholder vote, companies endorse it and send it to a vote. But the motivation is often unclear: Is it genuine reform or a marketing ploy?

This year, for example, both Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum (BP) endorsed resolutions that require the companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, invest in renewable energy and “stress test” their business models against the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

Achieving that goal will mean that much of the oil companies’ assets will be left untapped, or “stranded”—with profound consequences for their longterm business models.

As You Sow was part of the coalition that filed the resolutions. Its CEO, Andrew Behar, said, “This is the beginning of the ‘supermajors’—the biggest oil companies in the world—realizing that they need to be part of the future.

We’ll see what they actually do. But if they just remove themselves from blocking political change, that’s huge.”

Shell and BP reaped a windfall of positive media coverage for their decision to proactively embrace the proposal. But there is good reason for skepticism about the depth of their commitment. BP in particular has a history of casting itself as eco-friendly while pursuing distinctly anti-environmentalist policies. And conceding to a resolution often requires little from companies in terms of enacting actual reforms.

Consider the case of the oil company ConocoPhillips. It has been targeted by shareholder activists since the early 2000s, and it has consistently indicated its commitment to addressing climate change by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Setting actual targets toward that goal, however, has been another

story. In 2014, As You Sow filed a resolution noting that “no targets for reductions have been established after all this time, and there appears to be no timeline for setting one.”

“The company told us in 2003 that it intended to set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to this day they have not set a companywide target, and in fact, now openly disavow that approach,” said Shelley Alpern, director of social research and shareholder advocacy with the investment advising firm Clean Yield Asset Management. Alpern helped file resolutions that targeted ConocoPhillips in the early 2000s.

“Engagement succeeds when we can make a persuasive case that change will enhance shareholder value [or] reduce business or reputation risk,” she recently wrote, reflecting on her experience with oil companies. But “as engagement with tobacco companies demonstrated, it will not work when the goal is to change the core business model of a company.”

Taking on polluters and dirty money The use of shareholder resolutions by progressive groups dates to the early 1970s, when a federal court ruling prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin allowing socially and politically oriented shareholder resolutions, which it had previously rejected. Founded in 1971, ICCR was a pioneer of the practice, which it used as a tool against apartheid in South Africa. Calvert Investments was the first mutual fund to use the strategy, filing a resolution relating to a labor dispute in 1986.

Progressive shareholder activism has evolved rapidly in the past decade, and the number of resolutions has grown steadily. There were a record 454 socially and environmentally focused resolutions filed in 2014—about 50 more than in 2013, according to the nonprofit Sustainable Investments Institute.

More than half of the resolutions filed last year targeted investment groups and pension funds.

Environmental issues and getting corporate money out of politics were the highest priorities by far. Last year, nearly 40 percent of the resolutions related to climate change, sustainable governance, renewable energy and other environmental issues, while 30 percent had to do with corporate political activity.

These issues sometimes intersect.

Investors asked 24 companies to disclose their ties to ALEC, for example, and some resolutions—like one targeting Google—argued that ALEC’s climate-change denial contradicted

the company’s support for renewable energy.

Google opposed the resolution, which received only 8.6 percent of shareholder support. But last September, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show that ALEC was “literally lying” about climate change and “making the world a much worse place so we should not be aligned with such people.” Schmidt did not say whether the resolution factored into Google’s decision to withdraw from ALEC. About 40 percent of filed resolutions are withdrawn—mainly because the target concedes or agrees to negotiate.

But, by and large, corporations are more likely to give way on environmental issues than on challenges to their political activity. About 43 percent of environment-related resolutions were withdrawn between 2011 and 2013.

Only 25 percent of those focused on corporate politicking were withdrawn.

Slow and steady Ease of entry is one reason for the rising tide of shareholder activism. An individual or organization needs to own just $2,000 worth of a corporation’s stock for a year to file a resolution.

Companies can appeal to the SEC for a ruling on whether the resolution is relevant to their business, but the majority are ultimately approved.

Shareholder activism is also gaining momentum because it does actually create reforms—though, as with the oil companies, the process can be slow and vulnerable to co-optation.

Anecdotal evidence of its power has been supplemented by an emerging body of scholarly work on the ways that activism changes corporate behavior. For example, recent research by business professors at Northwestern, Stanford and Georgetown universities drew on ICCR’s archive of shareholder resolutions, as well as a database of boycotts. They found that corporate reform is a fluid, long-term process, in which pressure on companies gradually opens up new opportunities for activists to exploit.

It does so by motivating companies to create tools to respond to the activists’ demands. These tools often include, for example, a committee on social responsibility and a report on the company’s commitment to sustainability, which slowly bring the perspectives and presence of activists into the culture—and transform the company.

Nike is the classic example.

Activists targeted it for relying on sweatshop labor through much of the 1990s. The company fiercely resisted, but high-profile protests on college campuses in the late 1990s motivated it

to initiate reforms, including a code of conduct and factory inspections to ensure compliance. In 2001, Nike established a corporate responsibility committee and began issuing reports reviewing its own labor and environmental practices. Openness to shareholder activism and pursuit of a sustainable business model gradually became key elements of the company’s identity. Ethical Consumer, a British watchdog organization, recently gave Nike its highest rating in the category of supply chain management, though it noted that violations of workers’ rights were still common in some of its factories.

The same sort of long game is now going on at Wells Fargo—and there, shareholder activists are playing a high-profile role. The bank made headlines in 2012 for blocking certain shareholders from entering its annual meeting in San Francisco, citing space concerns. The activists, many of whom were part of the Occupy movement, had targeted the bank for its lending and foreclosure policies, among other concerns. Some were arrested.

Wells Fargo moved its 2013 meeting to Salt Lake City in the wake of that public-relations disaster. The

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The ICCR members withballot. And that’s where you see the “We need them to turn drew their resolution. on a dime,” she said. “And The victory was typipower of shareholder activism.” all of their pronouncements cal of shareholder activare based on their premise ism. It took years to bear Laura Berry that world demand for fruit, it helped motivate Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility their products will continue a major corporation to increasing for several make a concrete reform, decades. And none of them and its larger import is recognize that they will need to delay open to debate. Perhaps it amounts to “hijacked” by people with “idiosynor not produce the majority of their little more than one company ending reserves. one policy. On the other hand, perhaps cratic and often political agendas.” He quipped that perhaps the threshold for “I rarely advocate for divestment, it signals momentum toward broad submitting a proposal should increase because it’s often possible to succeed reform within a major corporation, from $2,000 worth of stock to $2 in encouraging incremental but meanwith wide-ranging implications that million to solve the problem. ingful improvements. But incremental are still unknown.

And some progressives have change on this issue is no longer good reservations about shareholder activenough.” ism’s incremental method, because

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For those who still believe in the power of engaging with oil companies, Alpern advocates neardivestment— owning just enough stock to file resolutions and attend annual meetings.

That strategy likely will not score the victories equal to the task of addressing climate change, and it is a fair question whether total divestment packs the most powerful punch. But advocates for shareholder activism see little tension between the two courses.

They ask: Given the scale of the challenges, why not use every option available?

“We’re not the kind of activists who are just here to make noise,” said ICCR’s Berry. “And those activists are very important, let me say. But we are folks who do our homework and just plug away and plug away.

It’s not for everybody, but we think it’s an important tool in a multilateral approach to changing some of the world’s most intractable problems.”0

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A crowd of local skateboarders wait outside Classic Skateshop on April 5 to meet professional skater Paul Rodriguez.

Reno’s Classic Skateshop might seem like a relic from a different time, but for skaters, that’s a good thing

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the past two decades, corporate sponsorship and branding have grown skateboarding into a multi-billion dollar industry, with a cultural aesthetic aimed at skaters and non-skaters alike. As interest in skating exploded, local skateshops everywhere fell to online markets and an influx of cheaper, sub-par products. Now, Reno’s last skate shop seems like a relic of a different time, but for those who just want to skate, that’s a good thing.

Eric Lantto owns and operates Classic Skateshop in Midtown. Born in Gardnerville, Lantto has been skateboarding since 1984.

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“At 18 years old, I started promoting my own skate contests in Northern Nevada to help strengthen the scene,” Lantto said. “Along the way, I decided I wanted to be a part of the business side of it.”

Lantto’s love of skateboarding took him to California, where he worked for prominent skate brand DC Shoes and eventually opened his own business.

In 2013, Classic made the move from a small retail space in the back of Neverender Boutique and Gallery to its current location.

“Once we outgrew the space, we moved to 677 South Virginia Street, and we’ve been here ever since,” Lantto said.

Classic shares a retail space with Aces Tattoo Parlor. Vintage posters and

old-school memorabilia line the walls of the small shop; a single rack of T-shirts sits in front of the large display window opposite a wall of skateboard decks.

Including a small workshop and sales counter, it seems almost sparse—and that’s by design.

“Classic is a throwback to what a skate shop was, not a ‘board shop,’” Lantto said. “You can find everything you need to ride or service a skateboard.

What we don’t do is jump on trends to pay the bills. We don’t carry snowboards, wakeboards, scooters, vape products, bikes, drug paraphernalia or body jewelry.”

While other stores in the area may sell skateboarding gear and accessories, Lantto believes that there is

a fundamental difference in quality between these more generalized “board shops,” and a traditional skate shop.

“We cater to our customers: skaters,” Lantto said. “We only carry products with proven quality and are skaterowned. We sponsor local skaters, we sponsor local contests; these are things that should be the responsibility of a true skate shop.”

Aside from just supplying gear to skaters, Classic places an emphasis on fostering the skateboarding community in Reno. This sense of responsibility for the scene is emblematic of a time when local skate shops were the crux of skating culture.

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“The new generation never learned their history or learned what it was like On Sunday, April 5, Classic hosted for all of us generations before them members of the professional skateboardgrowing up,” Rodriguez said. “Sitting in ing team Primitive Skateboarding for the shop, having that culture of the older an autograph signing that drew over guys teaching them about style, about 300 people. Primitive is captained by what guys are the ones you really want renowned skateboarder Paul Rodriguez, to keep your eyes on—I’m hoping that’s recipient of eight career X-games medals what’s helping these kids that we met and sponsorships by Nike, Target and today. Helps inspire them, opens their Mountain Dew, among others. Rodriguez mind up.” and Lantto met in Reno in 2001 and have When it comes to ensuring the future remained in contact ever since. of the scene, Lantto believes investments “Eric is like family,” Rodriguez said. need to be made.

“This is actually my first time coming to Classic sponsors a team of local skatthe shop. We always knew that we had to ers handpicked by Lantto as ambassadors get out here and support; he supported us for his shop, and for Reno. One team for so long we needed to return the favor member, Dane Haman, moved to Reno and show love.” from Milwaukee in 2011 and quickly grew Rodriguez to appreciate what Classic sat with his stood for. teammates “Eric’s super cool to for several anyone who walks in, and “ When I was a kid, and hours: signing I think that’s fucking rad,” posters, shirts Haman said. “That’s how I would finally get to and skateboard you foster the growth and decks as local love of skateboarding. meet my favorite skater skaters and You treat it right.” their families For Haman, Classic is because they would come crowded the already intrinsically tied shop and the to Reno skating culture, to the skate shop I used to street outside. and is worth the support Jesse Dean, of locals—not because it’s hang out at, it made your one of many Reno’s last skate shop, but young skaters because it acts in the best dream feel like it was in attendance, interest of Reno’s skaters. beamed as he “Just the fact that that much closer, that left the shop Classic is here, it’s kind with a freshly of like Eric is saying, much more reachable.” autographed ‘Skaters of Reno, I have board. your back,’” Haman said.

Paul Rodriguez “I didn’t “I feel like we should Professional Skateboarder really ever have his back. It’s a mutuexpect any pro ally beneficial skater/ skater to come skate shop relationship. to Reno—it’s That’s something that really crazy,” Dean said. “Paul Rodriguez hopefully everybody comes around to. I is one of my favorite skaters, my brother’s know there’s still a lot of younger dudes too. It’s a real dream to meet this guy.” who aren’t thinking on that level yet, but Rodriguez believes that younger it’s important.” skateboarders especially benefit from the While trends and brands have changed role shops like Classic play in promoting the face of skateboarding in recent years, interest in the sport. He remembers the Classic’s mentality toward its customers importance that pro visits and similar and work in the community represent events had for him when he first started something a little more timeless: putting skating. the love of skateboarding before all else.

“When I was a kid, and I would With more events planned for the finally get to meet my favorite skater summer and a weekly skate session put because they would come to the skate on by the shop every Sunday, Classic shop I used to hang out at, it made your remains committed to supporting local dream feel like it was that much closer, skaters. Even if Classic were to go away that much more reachable,” Rodriguez one day, though, skaters like Haman have said. “You could see that these people are no doubt that Reno’s skating culture will real. They’re normal, just like you. It just continue to grow—wherever it can. humanizes them.”

“At the end of the world, we’re going Growing up around skate shops, he to be skating with Twinkies and cocksays, afforded him a chance to learn not roaches,” Haman said. “We’ll find a way only the technical skills of skateboardto make it happen against all odds.” Ω ing, but also skating’s past as a cultural movement—knowledge he believes many younger skaters may be lacking.

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Polar expression

Reno artist Megan Berner is going on an expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Megan Berner Six years ago, Megan Berner took a train from Reno to Iowa. It was winter, and it was the by Midwest, and as she passed through the Josie snow-covered flatlands, she read Arctic Luciano Dreams by Barry Lopez.

In his book about the Arctic Circle, Lopez wrote, “As I traveled, I came to believe that people’s desires and aspirations were as much a part of the land as the wind, solitary animals, and the bright fields of stone and tundra. ” Besides giving photographer and For more information, multimedia artist Berner an itch for the far visit www.megan north, Lopez’s themes of projected desire berner.com and www. and imagined geographies would pop up thearcticcircle.org. time and again on her winding path towards her own Arctic expedition. But before she would get the chance to travel to the icecaps, Berner did time in the less glamorous, but equally beautiful—and equally flat—prairie and desert landscapes of the Midwest and Great Basin.

Berner’s first waypoint on this journey was graduate school at the University of Iowa. Often overlooked for the same reasons that the Arctic is—ideas of

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pervasive dullness and monotony—the Midwest is ideal ground for exploring what Berner calls “the territory of the mind.”

Here, Berner became acquainted with the fantastical inner life that arises from a featureless landscape. In her Wallow series, Berner filled interior spaces with plant life to create the beginning stages of a forest takeover. In a piece titled “Cultivate Plant Adoption Agency,” the artist invited viewers to undergo an official adoption process for prairie plants.

After moving back to Reno, Berner marked her return with a series of flag pieces that played with the concept of claiming territory as she placed these symbols of conquest in locations of personal significance. This was followed by a series called The Explorers where she and her twin sister recreated historical images and charted paths traversed by such famous explorers as Lewis and Clark, Roald Amundsen, and Captain James Cook.

Several years and various personal cartographies later, we arrive at Berner’s latest discovery: the Arctic Circle

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residency. It is exactly what it sounds like—an extended term for artists, scientists and educators to conduct creative and collaborative research in the Arctic.

No proposed project is required for entry, rather, applicants are chosen based upon their previous work and perceived ability to respond to an environment that is predominantly one color, void of familiar features, and freezing cold.

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During the Arctic Circle Residency, 27 strangers spend almost three weeks at sea as they travel by boat at night and explore polar ice caps during the day. Since Berner’s trip coincides with the summer solstice this coming June, her expedition will have some degree of light at all times.

Away from the limits of seasonal light and confines of Western time, Berner and her companions will be free to spend their days in mental landscapes of their own making.

So what is the artist reading to prepare her mind for the expedition? Arctic Dreams? Northwest Passage? “[It’s] called The Terror, and it’s about an 1840s expedition that the British took to the Arctic Circle,” she said. “They get iced in for three years, are rationing their food, and are being attacked by this thing that’s like a giant polar bear.”

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Greek expectations The Little Greek Deli 638 W. Fifth St., 338-6736 There was once a little house that became a little office, then a little retail space, and most recently a little restaurant. All by Todd South decked out in traditional blue and white, Mediterranean-themed decorations, and featuring a hostess/chef/ server/personality with charm to spare, the Little Greek Deli deserves all the buzz generated since it opened just a few weeks ago.

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Little Greek Deli owner and chef Rene Ferguson with spanakopita and a Greek side salad.

the little greek Deli is open Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

As any decent home cook will tell you, the most important kitchen lessons are learned from family. We all have our family recipes, perhaps even a few secret ingredients that make a particular dish stand out. For instance, every poultry-consuming culture has its own take on chicken soup, and most families have their favorite version. My order of kotósoupa—Greek for “chicken soup”— was served piping hot, aromatic, and loaded with flavors of carrot, celery, scallion, cilantro, garlic, bay leaf and those “secret ingredients” in a preparation learned from our host’s Greek grandmother ($4). This is a level of soup-making that’s less about recipe and more about understanding how flavors combine with patience and time. I hadn’t even planned on soup, but the “good chicken soup” sign at the door lured me in. It really ought to read “best chicken soup.” Grandma knew her stuff.

In a small space, a short and sweet menu is the smartest move, allowing the chef to really shine on a few items. My wife and I both ordered the Athena plate ($12), which says “everything and more” on the menu. What we received was a healthy serving of salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, feta, kalamata olives, golden Greek pepper and Greek vinaigrette dressing), points of toasted pita, tender and perfectly spiced slices of gyro (spit-roasted, thin-shaved lamb), a square of spanakópita, a couple dolmas, and plenty of tzatziki sauce.

The toughest thing for me when preparing to write a new food review is encountering a meal with zero missteps. After a meal this good with service this friendly, I just feel like writing the name of the place followed with, “Absolutely, completely wonderful,” a couple of hundred times in order to fill this space. Lots of little, positive touches stand out in this case. For instance, the olives were pitted, which is not always the case with traditional kalamata. My teeth and I appreciate the effort. The feta cheese—available for sale by the pound from this deli—is well above supermarket grade, which my cheese-loving self noticed right away.

The tzatziki was clearly housemade, very fresh-tasting with just the right consistency.

Despite my love of spinach, spanakópita is usually not one of my favorite Greek dishes. Apparently, I just hadn’t met the right pie until now.

This layered mix of greens and filo dough has me convinced I’ve been missing out, especially when a little tzatziki is added to each bite. Last surprise: the dolma (grape leaf stuffed with rice, herb, spice and veg). My wife is usually not a fan, and I admit I’ve been served plenty of sub-par examples from various Mediterranean cultures. With this meal, my wife has finally found dolmades she can love. The grape leaves weren’t mushy and the rice was firmly molded, with a spearmint kick providing subtle balance to the other flavors.

We completed our meal with two rectangles of walnut baklava ($2.25 each), which was far less sticky sweet than the Levantine pistachio sort. It reminded me of the very first Greek pastry I was given as a child, which seemed so remarkably exotic at the time. Far from exotic, the hospitality and cuisine of the Little Greek Deli will make you feel right at home. Ω

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Do the robot Ex Machina Men playing with microchips learn that perhaps highly intelligent robots aren’t the best idea in Ex Machina, a competent and exciting directorial debut from Alex Garland, who also wrote the script.

Computer programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) wins a weekend hanging out with his eccentric, reclusive boss Nathan (Oscar Isaac) by at his secluded house in the middle of nowhere.

Bob Grimm Shortly after arriving, Caleb learns that he’s to take part in an experiment where he must b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m interact with Nathan’s latest creation: a mightily attractive and lifelike robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander).

Caleb is told to analyze Ava’s legitimacy as a full-blown A.I., a thinking robot with emotional capability. He does this, and develops a robot crush along the way. In many ways, Ava seems constructed as Caleb’s ideal woman, and Nathan’s motives are quickly called into question. Not only is Nathan playing god, but he’s totally using Caleb as a guinea pig.

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While Garland could’ve easily made this a Caleb vs. Nathan affair, he tosses in enough variables and throws plenty of curveballs to keep the audience guessing. The film works as a thriller, science fiction, a mystery, and even passes a few horror movie tests.

As the tensions mount and the film races toward a surprising conclusion, the performances become more tour de force, especially for Isaac, who gets to play a few scenes convincingly drunk. And thanks to a Garland script that harbors a huge brain, Ex Machina winds up being a convincing piece of sci-fi. The future depicted in this movie feels like it could happen within the next 10 years. Heck, judging by all the crazy shit my iPhone can do, it probably will.

Ava is a nice special effect, fortified with nice acting from Vikander. Ava has many human attributes, including her beautiful face, her charming demeanor, and her otherworldly butt (creator Nathan is clearly an ass man). Much of her body is see through, allowing her mechanical

innards to be in full view. She is consistently interesting to behold, and Vikander fleshes her out nicely.

Gleeson, who has been making a habit of showing up in a movie and doing outstanding work (Frank, About Time and Unbroken to name a few) doesn’t break his streak with this one. He makes Caleb a realistic portrayal of a confused young man being used as a pawn in somebody’s game. He also brings a sinister edge to later scenes that make him far from one-dimensional.

While those two performances are exceptional, they are actually bettered by Isaac’s work.

Isaac is developing into one of his generation’s best actors, and he’s also quite the chameleon.

His Nathan is a slithery, hard-drinking, narcissistic, brilliant mess of a human, and a far cry from the grouchy folk singer he played in Inside Llewyn Davis.

Given the isolated setting for the film, this is mostly a three-performer show, although Sonoya Mizuno does give a haunting performance as Kyoko, Nathan’s live-in servant. Kyoko sort of rounds out the general nastiness of the Nathan character, a control freak with a god complex who has his nice, chummy moments, but has all the warning signs of somebody who is looking out for himself and himself only.

Garland’s debut is unique enough to declare original, although he does take some visual cues from Kubrick and Spielberg who collaborated—Kubrick posthumously—for the great robot epic A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Ex Machina plays like A.I.: Artificial Intelligence’s first cousin.

Garland has been kicking around Hollywood for years, delivering solid screenplays for the likes of 28 Days Later, Dredd and Sunshine. His work behind the camera here definitely points to a future directing if he wants it.

Isaac and Gleeson will be seen together again this year in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. I’d say we have the two frontrunners for Science Fiction Kings of 2015. Vikander’s remaining 2015 slate includes The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Light Between the Oceans, the latest from director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines), so she has a shot at breakout performer of 2015. At this point of the year, she’s my pick.

As for a future including robots that act and think on their own, Ex Machina is the sort of film that will have you wishing for a future that draws the robotic line at Siri and Roombas. Ω

Adult Beginners

Jake (Nick Kroll) loses all of his money on a get-rich tech scheme, and winds up moving in with his sister Justine (Rose Byrne) and her husband, Danny (Bobby Cannavale). Jake takes a temporary gig as their son’s nanny. The trip helps to straighten out Jake as he gets a deeper appreciation of family, but not before some speed bumps are hit. This is standard, by-the-numbers stuff made almost tolerable by Kroll, Byrne and Cannavale, who try to make the most of it. Cannavale is especially good as the happy-go-lucky brother-in-law who doesn’t mind Jake crashing at his place because he gets somebody to smoke pot with. Byrne is funny as the pregnant mom who never gets to go out and has a few issues with her deadbeat brother. Kroll is OK as a guy having a mini-meltdown, although he seems more suited to broader comedy. Blink and you’ll miss Joel McHale in a small role as Jake’s coke-snorting buddy, and Bobby Moynihan of Saturday Night Live as a clothing store clerk.

Directed by Ross Katz, who captures some good performances with a script that leaves a lot to be desired. (Available for rent on iTunes, On Demand and Amazon.com during a limited theatrical release.)

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Danny Collins

Al 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. 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. Pacino is good here, as is a supporting cast that includes Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Garner and Annette Bening.

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Furious 7

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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, old-school 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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While We’re Young

Ben Stiller reteams with director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg) for a very funny movie about artistic integrity and learning to grow up. Stiller and Naomi Watts play a 40-something couple who are mildly content but perhaps a little bored with their lives. They meet a 20-something couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) and find themselves drawn to them, adapting aspects of their “really cool” lifestyle. As it turns out, the Stiller and Driver characters are both film documentarians. This leads to initial bonding, but then it leads to big problems. Stiller gets a chance to do his funniest movie since Tropic Thunder, and Watts is every bit as funny (especially when she cuts loose in a hip-hop dance class). Driver and Seyfried are adorable, and a little scary, as the younger couple who still listen to vinyl and watch VHS tapes because it’s cool and retro. Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz and Maria Dizzia get laughs as Stiller’s older friends who just had a baby and are worried about the emotional welfare of their two pals.

Baumbach is always amusing, and this is one of his better films.

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Unfriended

There have been some good—actually great—horror movies released in the last couple of years. This, the latest entry in the tired found-footage subgenre, isn’t one of them. What you get here is an entire film that requires you to watch somebody’s computer screen where a bunch of obnoxious teens are skyping one another. A ghostly presence inexplicably enters the conversation and knocks off the kids, one by one, while they scream and plead for mercy. They, of course, never go out of frame for too long and always manage to take their camera with them no matter how much their lives are in danger. The chat starts with Blaire (Shelley Hennig) and Mitch (Moses Jacob Storm … yes, that’s his name), a boyfriend and girlfriend talking about the dirty things they will do on prom night when a bunch of their friends rudely join the chat party. They all goof on each other and wonder who the unidentified person is who has mysteriously joined the chat. As it so happens, the chat is taking place on the one-year anniversary of their friend Laura’s suicide.

Laura (Heather Sossaman) couldn’t stand the public ridicule she endured after somebody posted a video of her passed out and dumping her pants at a party. Now it appears Laura, or somebody pretending to be Laura by using her social networking accounts, is out for revenge. If you like horror, go with The Babadook or It Follows. Those films actually have real narratives where the protagonists actually leave the house and there are real cinematographers and editors involved. If you have strong urge to see this, just Skype a couple of your friends, call them some bad names, and stare at them while they yell at you on your home screen for 82 minutes. It’s basically the same thing, and would probably be far more entertaining.

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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 Wan, primarily known for horror movies like Saw and The Conjuring, has delivered the franchise’s best offering since the first one. 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 down Spring Metal Meltdown Fest It’s festival season again, and with it comes the veritable onslaught of multi-band bills with abbreviated sets and a by Eddie flurry of activity for those working Jorgensen the event. Josh Lease of Tahoebased Born Dead Productions, along with his partners in crime, have put together this year’s ninth annual Spring Metal Meltdown Fest, taking place May 1 and 2 at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor in Reno.

Friday night will feature 17 bands beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday will feature a barbecue from noon to 1 p.m., which is when the first of 26 bands will kick off.

Purification by Fire is, clockwise from top left, Jared Bonds, Josh Lease, Andrew Bussey, Danny Torres and Jason Brehemstone.

“We will have 25-minute set changes between sets,” said Lease.

“I’ve held events similar to this a few times in Jub Jub’s before and it works out really well. Our Born Dead crew really help a lot as well by having a ton of experience running smaller tours to really large festivals.”

The festival includes a bevy of regional, national and local metal acts focusing on the extreme and thrash side of things. From Ghoul to Warbringer, Purification by Fire— Lease’s own band—to Conducting From The Grave, Embryonic Devourment to Blasphemous Creation, Awaiting the Apocalypse to Solitary Priapism, and Oden Sun to Symbolik, there’s something for every metalhead.

Because thrash veterans like Warbringer get larger guarantees, most of the opening acts have an understanding that there will be little money to go around after covering

Spring Meltdown Metal Fest 2015 is at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 1. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 2 at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., 384-1652.

Tickets are $20 for Friday, $30 for Saturday, and $45 for a VIP package.

Advance tickets available at www. inticketing.com /events/ SpringMeltdown2015/.

For more info on the festival, visit www.facebook.com/ BornDeadProductions.

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operating expenses like sound, lights, security, and all the necessary hospitality demanded—and deserved?—by the bigger acts.

“I take care of the bands that have been consistently promoting my shows and not griping,” said Lease. “Of course, touring bands that have driven are the first bands to be reimbursed. All of the bands that play with me know the deal.”

Lease’s main focus is Purification By Fire, an extreme metal band based in Grass Valley.

He will also play in Idekay, which broke up in 2011, but will reunite for this show and another in South Lake Tahoe at Whiskey Dick’s Saloon.

“Purification

By Fire just got done tracking drums for our yet-to-bereleased new album, and we’re recording in Nevada City,” said Lease. “The song topics and lyrics are all over the map with some about fantasy, some about [history], and some just being gruesome. We do have one song called ‘Dinner With The Donners.’ That talks about the history of the area, that’s pretty cool.”

And while there are only 450 tickets available for the two-day event, Lease aspires to a much larger event.

“I’m hoping that this year’s event actually grabs the attention of the industry folk or perhaps an investor or two to really take this thing to a whole new level for 2016,” he said. “Ideally, I’d love to turn Spring Meltdown Metal Festival into a European-style, open-air festival with camping. Since I’m an adrenaline junkie myself, it would be cool to add a big-air snowboarding event or rail jam someday down the road with some BMX jumps or maybe even some freestyle motocross in there.” Ω

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THURSDAY 4/30 3RD STREET

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

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

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

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Groove Foundry, 8pm, no cover

Caribbean Vibes, 8pm, no cover

DJ Chango, 9pm, no cover Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES

901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888 Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

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

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Comedy

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

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

Songwriters in the Round, 6pm, no cover

COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR

Jimmy Ashley, 7pm, no cover

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

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DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY EL CORTEZ LOUNGE ELBOW ROOM BAR

Rick Hammond Blues Band, 9pm, no cover

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

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Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL HELLFIRE SALOON

Thursday Open Mic Night, 7pm, no cover

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

Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

VooDoo Dogz, 8:30pm, no cover Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

Donkey Jaw, The Tides, Moons of Vega, 8pm, $5

Quartz Thrust, Vasas, The Get Well Soon Band, 8pm, $5

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

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

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

DJ Trivia, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Sean Donnelly, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Willie Barcena, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Mark Pitta, Jack Coen, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Todd Glass, Daniel Kinno, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Brian Scolaro, F, 8:30pm; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $10-$15

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/4-5/6 DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover After Mic, 11:30pm, W, no cover

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

Carcosa, Side Show Bab, 7:30pm, Tu, $5 Neil Michael Hagerty, 8pm, W, $7

THURSDAY THURSDAY4/30 4/30 JUB JUBJUB’S JUB’STHIRST THIRSTPARLOR PARLOR 7171S.S.Wells WellsAve., Ave.,(775) (775)384-1652 384-1652 1) 1)Showroom Showroom2)2)Main MainBarBar

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Inanimate InanimateExistence, Existence,Madrost, Madrost, Braindead, Braindead,others,6pm, others,6pm,$20-$45 $20-$45

Ghoul, Ghoul,Warbringer, Warbringer,Conducting Conductingfrom from thetheGrave, Grave,others, others,3pm, 3pm,$20-$45 $20-$45

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1) 1)D.O.A., D.O.A.,OC45, OC45,Out OutForForWar, War,8pm, 8pm,Tu,Tu,$12$12 2)2)Blazin BlazinMics!, Mics!,10pm, 10pm,M,M,nonocover cover

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

246246W.W.First FirstSt.,St.,(775) (775)329-4484 329-4484 Grandtheft,Shabbin ShabbinDatter, Datter,Kronyak, Kronyak, KNITTING KNITTINGFACTORY FACTORYCONCERT CONCERTHOUSE HOUSE Grandtheft,

211211N.N.Virginia VirginiaSt.,St.,(775) (775)323-5648 323-5648

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Cody CodyJohnson, Johnson,Molly MollySeals, Seals,DJDJJamie JamieG,G, Daisy DaisyDuke DukeDancers, Dancers,8pm, 8pm,$20-$30 $20-$30

Griz, Griz,The TheFloozies, Floozies,Muzzy MuzzyBear, Bear, 8pm, 8pm,Tu,Tu,$15-$35 $15-$35

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Whatitdo WhatitdoWednesday, Wednesday,9pm, 9pm,W,W,nonocover cover

188188California CaliforniaAve., Ave.,(775) (775)322-2480 322-2480

MOODY’S MOODY’SBISTRO BISTROBAR BAR&&BEATS BEATS 10007 10007Bridge BridgeSt.,St.,Truckee; Truckee;(530) (530)587-8688 587-8688

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Mark MarkSexton SextonBand, Band,8:30pm, 8:30pm,nonocover cover

Mark MarkSexton SextonBand, Band,8:30pm, 8:30pm,nonocover cover

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

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1559 1559S.S.Virginia VirginiaSt.,St.,(775) (775)322-8864 322-8864 7676N.N.C CSt.,St.,Virginia VirginiaCity; City;(775) (775)847-7474 847-7474

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Johnny JohnnyLipka’s Lipka’sGemini, Gemini,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover Open OpenMic MicNight, Night,7pm, 7pm,M,M,W,W,nonocover cover Reggae ReggaeNight, Night,10pm, 10pm,nonocover cover

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

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

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

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

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SPARKS SPARKSLOUNGE LOUNGE

Thursday ThursdayShowcase, Showcase,8pm, 8pm,nonocover cover

1237 1237Baring BaringBlvd., Blvd.,Sparks; Sparks;(775) (775)409-3340 409-3340

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

Jazz JazzJam JamTuesday Tuesdayw/First w/FirstTake, Take, 8pm, 8pm,Tu,Tu,nonocover cover

Local LocalMusic MusicNight Nightw/local w/localbands bands ororlocal localDJs, DJs,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover

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

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Them ThemTravelin TravelinBirds, Birds,Dust Dustin inmymyCoffee, Coffee, Kristen KristenFord, Ford,MyMyAcoustic AcousticHeart, Heart, The Athena TheWhitehats, Whitehats,8pm, 8pm,$7$7 AthenaMcIntyre, McIntyre,8pm, 8pm,$7$7

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Neil NeilMichael MichaelHagerty Hagerty May May6,6,8 8p.m. p.m.

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

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

Dance Danceparty, party,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover Ritual Ritual(industrial, (industrial,EDM, EDM,postpunk) postpunk)w/DJs w/DJs Rusty RustyBurton, Burton,TV1, TV1,Rob RobPelikan, Pelikan,9pm, 9pm,$3-$5 $3-$5 Sunday SundayJazz, Jazz,2pm, 2pm,nonocover cover

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

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May May5,5,8 8p.m. p.m.

Jub JubJub’s Jub’sThirst ThirstParlor Parlor 7171S.S.Wells WellsAve. Ave. 384-1652 384-1652

Acoustic AcousticWonderland WonderlandSinger-Songwriter Singer-Songwriter Karaoke w/Cyco Mike, 9pm, no cover Karaoke w/Cyco Mike, 9pm, no cover Showcase, Showcase,8pm, 8pm,nonocover cover

POLO POLOLOUNGE LOUNGE

219219W.W.Second SecondSt.,St.,(775) (775)657-9466 657-9466

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Shamrockit ShamrockitOpen OpenMic MicNight, Night, 6pm, 6pm,nonocover cover

840840Victorian VictorianAve., Ave.,Sparks; Sparks;(775) (775)359-7547 359-7547

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MONDAY-WEDNESDAY5/4-5/6 5/4-5/6

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4275-4395 4275-4395W.W.Fourth FourthSt.,St.,(775) (775)787-3769 787-3769 7pm, 7pm,nonocover cover 1) 1)Golden GoldenRose RoseCafe Cafe2)2)Green GreenFairy FairyPubPub3)3)Cabaret Cabaret

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

THURSDAY 4/30

FRIDAY 5/1

SATURDAY 5/2

SUNDAY 5/3

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/4-5/6

2) Joey Carmon Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Joey Carmon Band, 4pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Joey Carmon Band, 4pm, no cover Escalade, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

2) Highway 42, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) John Dawson, 8pm, no cover

2) John Dawson, 8pm, no cover

2) Phil Prunier, 6pm, no cover

2) Phil Prunier, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) ’80s Dance Party, 8pm, $20-$25

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

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover Locked N Loaded, 10pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover Locked N Loaded, 10pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Tap Factory, 7pm Tu, W, $26.95 2)Karaoke, 10pm, M, Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover

2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 3) Honky Tonk Thursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

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

2) Romeo Reyes, Miles Medina, 10pm, $25 3) County Social Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

2) DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

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

CARSON VALLEY INN

2) The Nighthawks, 7pm, no cover 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

Los Lonely Boys May 2, 7 p.m.

Harrah’s Reno 219 N. Center St. 788-2900

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

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

HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl

Karaoke

1) Naive Melodies, 9pm, no cover

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

Cobra Lounge at Asian Noodles, 1290 E. Plumb Lane, Ste. 1, 828-7227: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques Simard, Sa, 8pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Steve Starr Karaoke, F, 9pm, no cover

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

HARRAH’S RENO

1) Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind

1) Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 the Song, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 the Song, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Doug Martin, 8pm, no cover 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover

NUGGET CASINO RESORT

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

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

3) DJ, 5pm, no cover

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 Sandy Nuyts, 8pm, no cover 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Rose Ballroom 3) Gilley’s 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom

2) Black Potato Soup, 7pm, no cover

1) Langley Ukulele Ensemble, Peter Luongo, Paul Luongo, 8pm, $39.50 3) DJ, 5pm, Sandy Nuyts, 8pm, no cover

1) The Lost Sullivan Show w/Ralph Shaw, Victor & Penny, others, 8pm, $37.50 3) DJ, 5pm, Sandy Nuyts, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ, 5pm, no cover

3) DJ, line dancing lessons, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Black Potato Soup, 8pm, no cover 3) Fixx Fridays, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm

1) RCO Derby Day, noon, $70 2) Black Potato Soup, 8pm, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

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

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL

2) Utility Players Improv Show, 8pm, $15

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

SILVER LEGACY

407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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1) Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind 1) Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind 1) Nashville Unplugged: The Story Behind the Song, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 2) DJ/dancing, 9pm, no cover the Song, 8pm, $29.50-$40.50 the Song, 8pm, M, $29.50-$40.50 5) Los Lonely Boys, 7pm, $27-$37

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

2) Fresh, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover 4) Decoy, 9pm, no cover

2) Fresh, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Decoy, 9pm, no cover

1) Blues Jam Wednesday, 7pm, W, no cover

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

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

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

Reno Uke Fest The seventh annual gathering of ukulele players and uke fans features free entertainment, instructional workshops for all playing levels, uke jams, a marketplace and raffle. The festival takes place on the second floor of the Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks. Hours are 1-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, and 9:30-11a.m. on Sunday, May 3. Admission to the daytime festival is free, although workshops vary in price. The event also features an evening performance by Canada’s Langley Ukulele Ensemble, who will be joined by Paul Luongo, Peter Luongo, Char Mayer & Nicolas Verelas and Lil Rev. The concert begins at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 1, in the Celebrity Showroom.

Tickets are $39.50. The next evening features The Lost Sullivan Show, a portrayal of a fictional, vintage, ukulele-heavy Ed Sullivan Show featuring Ralph Shaw, Victor & Penny, Michael Powers, Dominator and other acts. The show begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 2. Tickets are $37.50. Call 356-3000 or visit http://playuke.net.

—Kelley Lang

Haunt X This early Halloween and “haunters” trade show features workshops, seminars, a scavenger hunt, a paranormal tour of the Mackay Mansion, the Circus of the Damned Masquerade Ball, and the Vampire Crawl, among other events. The spooky shindig begins on Thursday, April 30, and runs through Sunday, May 3, at Circus Circus, 500 N. Sierra St., with some events taking place at other locations, including the Silver Legacy and downtown Reno. Tickets range from $5 to $150. Visit http://hauntx.com for details.

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The 16th annual local celebration of Hispanic heritage includes entertainment by Ernesto Solano, Grupo Montez de Durango, Mariachi Nuevo Tamazula and El Mexicano de Casimiro; Mexican dancing horse performances; amateur boxing bouts; carnival rides; face painting; games and prizes for children; and more than 100 vendors offering specialty items, clothes, art, crafts, Mexican food and other cuisine. The festival takes place from 3-8 p.m. on Friday, May 1, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3, at the southeast parking lot of the Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St. Admission is $5. Call 291-3561 or visit www.cincodemayoreno.com.

A.V.A. Ballet Theatre’s 2015 spring gala season opens with the classic ballet. Re-staged and re-choreographed by Alexander Van Alstyne, Sleeping Beauty is the story of a beautiful princess who is cursed by the evil Carrabosse. The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the ballet score composed by Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky.

Performances are at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Ticket prices are $25-$45 with discounts for seniors and children. Call 6866600 or visit www.pioneercenter.com. or www.avaballet.com.

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Como el Viento, Flamenco en Vivo Artistic director and Seattle-based flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes will be joined by Spanish Romani cantaor (male flamenco singer) Jesus Montoya and Bulgarian guitarist Bobby de Sofia for this performance of the traditional folk music and dance of Andalusia in southern Spain.

The show begins at 8 p.m. on Monday, May 4, at the Laxalt Auditorium in the Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St. Tickets are $8-$35. Go to www.brownpapertickets. com/event/1465494 for tickets.

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The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., May 21, is Thursday, May 7.

Events 28TH ANNUAL DERBY DAY: The Reno Chamber Orchestra holds its annual celebration.

Dress up in fashionable attire and enjoy a live stream of the Kentucky Derby over a luncheon and traditional mint juleps. The event features a hat contest with prizes, a live auction and wine raffle. Reservations required. Sa, 5/2, noon. $70. Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. Guests are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and use the observation deck to view the evening sky. First Sa of every month, 7pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240, www.wnc.edu/observatory.

SUMMER BIRDS OF THE GALENA FOREST: Join Alan Gubanich of the Lahontan Audubon Society as he uses the taxidermy mounts in the visitor center and a PowerPoint presentation to give a closeup look at the intriguing birds that breed during the summer in the Galena area.

Sa, 5/2, 10am-11:30pm. $5 suggested contribution. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Priscilla Varner: Emancipating Jane. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Varner’s show expands the dialogue on American legalized prostitution by addressing issues of agency and questioning the representation of legal sex-workers in fine art since the modernist era. The exhibition explores the power dynamic between the photographer and the subject by removing the photographer, arming the legal sexworker with the tools necessary to more fully represent her identity.

Recommended for 18 or older. Through 5/8, 10am-4pm; reception, Th, 4/30, 5pm.

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 paint-

ings by nine-year-old artist Zoe Murkovich 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. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/8.

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 AuriemmaMcKay. Moments in Nature showcases the majesty and grandeur of the Sierra Nevada under the kaleidoscopic skies of western Nevada. Reception on May 7, 57pm. M-F, 9am-5pm through 5/8. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting, W-Su through 5/3;

Robert Adams: A Road Through Shore Pine, W-Su through 7/26; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Mothers—The Art of Seeing, W-Su through 5/3;Dave Eggers: Insufferable Throne of God, W-Su through 7/26; Tamara Kostianovsky: After Goya, W-Su through 7/26;Betsabeé Romero: En Tránsito, W-Su through 7/26; Larry Mitchell: The 1ºC Project, W-Su through 7/26; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 8/16; Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape, W-Su through 5/3. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Infused With Color—Three Placer Area Artists in the NTA Main Gallery and May Miniatures Fundraiser at the NTA Corison Loft Gallery. The opening reception will be on May 1, 5-7pm. Through 6/1, 11am-4pm.

Free. 380 North Lake Blvd., Art Gallery

TWO AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS FEW: Hear the true story of a Catholic couple in the occupied Netherlands who, despite huge personal danger, helped save the lives of about two dozen Jews during World War II. Su, 5/3, 2:30-5pm. Free.

Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 742-3505, http://amongtherighteous.com.

DINE THE DISTRICT FOOD TOUR: The merchants of the Riverwalk District have teamed up to provide guests a variety of entertainment, cooking demonstrations and culinary delights with this self-guided food tour. Participating restaurants include Wild River Grille, The Jungle, Campo, Nobel Pie Parlor, Dorinda’s Chocolates, Reef Sushi & Sake, Pizza Reno, Fuego for Tapas & Vino, Bumblebee Blooms Flower Boutique, Imperial Bar & Lounge and 12 other merchants. Proceeds from the event will support the continued development of the Riverwalk District’s beautification project. Following Dine the District, participants are invited to take part in the Strange Brew Festival from 3pm to 9pm at The Brewer’s Cabinet, 475 S. Arlington Ave. A celebration of uniquely crafted local brews, the festival features live music and a barbecue. Sa, 5/2, 1-4pm. $20 in advance, $25 day of event. The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.

DINING OUT FOR LIFE: Order a meal at participating DOFL restaurants on April 30 for breakfast, lunch, dinner or drinks and part of the proceeds will go to supporting Northern Nevada HOPES for HIV programs and services. There are more than 50 locations participating in Reno and Carson City. Go to DOFLNV.org to for a complete list of restaurants.

Th, 4/30. Dining Out For Life, 467 Ralston St., (775) 997-7523, www.doflnv.org.

GENOA COWBOY FESTIVAL: The annual festival combines cowboy music, cowboy poetry, living history performances, tours and more. Performers include Lacy J. Dalton, the Western Flyers, Richard Elloyan & Steve Wade, Larry Maurice, Sourdough Slim, McAvoy Layne, among others.

Through 5/3, Opens, Th, 4/30. $5-$45.

Locations vary in Genoa, (775) 782-8696, www.genoacowboyfestival.org.

KTMB’S GREAT COMMUNITY CLEANUP: Volunteers are needed for trash pickup, invasive weed removal and other activities at 20 locations in Reno, Sparks and Washoe County. Sa, 5/2, 8am-noon. Free.

(775) 851-5185, http://ktmb.org/volunteer.

NEWLANDS NEIGHBORHOOD WALKING TOUR: Enjoy an architectural walk through one of Reno’s oldest and most prestigious neighborhoods. Meet at the Lander Street side of My Favorite Muffin on California Avenue.

Reservations are required. Sa, 5/2, 1011:30am. $10; free for HRPS members.

340 California Ave., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

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All Ages ANIMAL ARK PREDATORS AND PINATAS: Watch Animal Ark’s predators open their treatfilled piñatas. Animal keepers and educational docents will share stories and answer questions. Sa, 5/2, 10:15am2:30pm. $15 adults, $13.50 seniors age 62 and older, $12 children ages 3-12; free for children age 2 and younger. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road, (775) 970-3111, www.animalark.org.

BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIMES: Staff members and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882.

R.A.E.Y.C. ANNUAL WALK FOR CHILDREN: Children of all ages and abilities, families, friends and pets (on leash) are invited. Enjoy free family activities and entertainment afterwards. Sa, 5/2, 9am-1pm. $10 for the walk. Sparks Marina, 325 Harbor Cove Drive, Sparks, (775) 682-5939.

Art ARTSPACE, WEST STREET MARKET: Amelia Currier: Cave Translations. The printmaker shows 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. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/29. Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, (775) 721-7424.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Visible Wasting.

The Holland Project Gallery presents a new exhibition in the main gallery space featuring work by J. Gallego, Jon Kortland and FEEDING. The closing reception is on May 9, 6-8pm. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 5/8; Sa, 5/9, 6-8pm; In Twin Peaks. Natalie Woodlock’s show features nine largescale silkscreen prints bursting with nostalgic color palettes and playful kitsch imagery that pays loving homage to David Lynch’s hit TV series. Each individual print is a special tribute to the characters and scenes that have made the Twin Peaks TV series a cult classic and pop culture phenomenon. The closing reception is on May 9, 6-8pm. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 5/8; Sa, 5/9, 6-8pm. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

Eat, pray you’ll shut up, love I’ve always been a feelings stuffer, but I’ve been reading about vulnerability creating intimacy, blah, blah, blah, so I’m trying to be an open book. Though my boyfriend appreciates this, he keeps telling me there’s a line between expressiveness and my making everything an emotional issue to be hashed out.

He last said this when I confessed that I had Googled his ex-girlfriend and felt threatened by how pretty she is. Should I have kept that to myself?

It’s great that you’ve thrown yourself into the trenches of Self-Improvementville, but the way you connect with someone is by letting them see who you are, not poking them in the eye with it every 20 minutes. Vulnerability shouldn’t be a fancy word for “everything you say or do hurts my feelings.” This Carnival of Insecurities presented as problems for your boyfriend to solve turns his life with you into a never-ending emotional chorewheel.

This isn’t to say you’re wrong to look to your boyfriend for soothing. But before you press a problem on him, ask yourself how it would affect him, whether he can fix it, and whether it’s really his business to know. Not all feelings are made for sharing. Some need to go off in a corner and die a quiet death on their own. Still, you aren’t without help in ushering them there. People think that keeping romance alive takes a $10,000-a-night Spanish castle package, complete with moonlight carriage rides with an aria-singing Placido Domingo jogging behind. But it’s actually the mundane daily stuff that matters—how you and your partner respond to each

other’s seemingly unimportant remarks and gestures.

It turns out that telling your partner “I can’t find the salt shaker anywhere” isn’t just an expression about a lost object; it’s what marriage researcher John Gottman calls a “bid for connection.”

In a study Gottman did with newlyweds, he found that the ones still married six years later were overwhelmingly those who consistently engaged with their partner and met those “bids” with “turntowards.” Turning toward a partner means being responsive—soothing, encouraging, supportive, or maybe just showing interest. This involves, for example, replying to your partner’s remark about the lost salt shaker—even with “I hate when that happens!” rather than “Lemme finish this Minecraft session,” or saying nothing at all (effectively treating them like some old couch you stopped noticing).

This “turning toward” thing is something you and your boyfriend can each do. Think of it as treating each other like you haven’t forgotten you love each other. It’s smart relationship policy and smart life policy—wiser than getting in the habit of responding to a partner’s “I’m starting a machete collection” with “That’s nice, dear.” Ω

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica,CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance.

Through 6/21, 12-4pm. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

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.

Gauthier is planning a production of Moliere’s The Misanthrope. He seeks out retired fellow actor Serge, who would be perfect for the part if he can be torn away from his solitude and bicycling on the coast of France. In French with English subtitles.

M, 5/4, 7pm. $7 general admission, $6 students, seniors, $5 members. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.artemisiamovies.org.

RENO PORTRAIT SOCIETY: There will be a live model for artists to paint or draw in the medium of their choice. No formal instruction, but participants can learn from experienced artists. The event is open to all ages and abilities. W, 9am-12:30pm. $10.

Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128, www.nvfinearts.com.

Sports & Fitness ADAPTIVE & CHAIR YOGA: This yoga program is for people living with heart disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other debilitating diseases. The class teaches breathing techniques, relaxation, guided meditation and visualization. Please call before attending.

Tu, 2-3:15pm. $8 per class. Yoga Loka, 6135 Lakeside Drive, Ste. 121, (775) 337-2990, www.yogalokareno.com.

Film BICYCLING WITH MOLIERE: Successful actor

Classes

Ensemble and guest student soloists. Th, 4/30, 7:30pm. $5, free for students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

& Gift Shop, Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

TECHNIQUES 3 COOKING CLASS: Learn how to prep and assemble a vegetable galette, prepare a quick, satisfying soup and finish by making a pastry dessert. W, 5/6, 6:30pm. $85. Nothing To It Culinary Center, 225 Crummer Lane, (775) 826-2628, www.nothingtoit.com.

Community

CLASSIC INTERMEDIATE MAT PILATES: Students

BREAST CANCER: ON WITH LIFE: This support group

learn to build on the basic mat routine. More challenging exercises will be added to the repertoire as students progress. Maximum of 10 people per class. Call to reserve your spot. Tu, 5:30-6:20pm through 6/23. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.pilatesreno.com.

provides a highly educational approach to looking at breast cancer. The latest research is discussed, along with alternative therapies, side effects of chemotherapy, reconstruction and community services. The group meets on Tuesdays at Saint Mary’s Center for Health’s Radiation Oncology Department. Tu, 4:30-6pm.

Free. Saint Mary’s Center for Health & Fitness, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Ste. 100, (775) 722-1222, www.supportsaintmarys.org.

FELDENKRAIS CLASSES: Guided Feldenkrais classes in pain-free movement will help you improve stability, balance and performance and increase your vitality and flexibility as you learn to do slow, non-habitual movements with focused attention. Classes are ongoing. Tu, 10-11:30am through 12/15. $12 drop-in, discounted 10-class card, needbased sliding scale. Midtown Fitness, 600 S. Center St., Ste. 300, (775) 240-7882, www.renofeldenkrais.blogspot.com.

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 begin at 6:30pm. Th, 7pm.

Free. Wildflower Village, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (415) 640-0389.

DHARMA BOOK GROUP: This group meets to read and discuss books of interest to Buddhists.

Check the website for the current offering.

For beginning and long-time Buddhists alike. Enter the building by the Taylor Street entrance. First and Third W of every month, 6-7pm. Free. Reno Buddhist Church, 820 Plumas St., (775) 348-6603, www.renobuddhistchurch.org.

DOWN SYNDROME FAMILY SUPPORT GROUPS: Meet

Onstage

Music BRYAN BOWERS: The traditional music singersongwriter performs. Sa, 5/2, 7pm. $15

Concert showcases new choreography by faculty and guest artists with performances

by University of Nevada, Reno students. The featured School of the Arts’ Visiting Artist in Residence is Gallim Dance, a New York-based contemporary dance company led by artistic director Andrea Miller. 4/30-5/2, 8pm; Su, 5/3, 2pm. $5-$15. Redfield Proscenium Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

COMPOSERS CONCERT: A concert featuring new acoustic and electronic music by student composers. Su, 5/3, 7:30pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

night The Senior Dance Club of Nevada presents ballroom dancing featuring live music by the Ninth Street Band. Singles and beginners are welcome. F, 8-10:30pm. $7 members; $9 non-members. Washoe County Senior Center, 1155 E. Ninth St., (775) 828-1993, www.lreidenbaugh@washoecounty.us.

Rebels as they are pursued by Imperial forces and journey to Dagobah to train with a Jedi Master, while keeping perfect iambic pentameter in Merry Theatre’s live-action parody of the Star Wars films. Th, 4/30, 7 & 9pm; F, 5/1, 7 & 9pm; Sa, 5/2, 7 & 9pm. $10. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 848-9892, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1186367.

series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon.

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

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W, 5-7pm. Free. Washoe County Law Library, 75 Court St., inside the Washoe County Courthouse, (775) 328-3250, www.washoecounty.us/lawlib.

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

group is available to men who have been impacted by cancer, including survivors and caregivers. Every other Th, 4:15-5:15pm. Saint Mary’s Center for Health & Fitness, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Ste. 100, (775) 722-1222, www.supportsaintmarys.org.

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other parents who are going through issues faced by relatives or caretakers of a child with a disability. The Down Syndrome Network of Northern Nevada seeks to connect families and create a strong foundation of support. First Tu of every month, 5:457:30pm. Free. Nevada Early Intervention Services, 2667 Enterprise Road, (775) 8285159, http://dsnnn.org.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Composer

George Frideric Handel polished off his famous oratorio Messiah in a mere 24 days, and Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky produced his novel The Gambler in 26 days.

On the other hand, Junot Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, needed ten years to finish it. As for you, Libra, I think this is—and should be!—a phase more like Díaz’s than the other three creators’. Go slowly. Be super extra thorough. What you’re working on can’t be rushed.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“An escalator can never break,” mused comedian Mitch Hedberg. “It can only become stairs. You should never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.’” I think a similar principle applies to you, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we adopted a perspective like Hedberg’s, we could rightly say that this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way.

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

Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, “Oprah” was not what she was called.

Her birth certificate says she is “Orpah,” a name her aunt borrowed from a character who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing “Orpah,” and often turned it into “Oprah.” The distorted form eventually stuck. But if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime soon, maybe even restoring “Orpah.” For you Aquarians, it’s a favorable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What I

propose is that you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what you will supposedly never be capable of or said you had a problem that was permanently beyond your ability to solve.

Once you’ve compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom.

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Food for thought I don’t know much about Mark Higgins. He’s a nice enough guy with a lovely wife and family who’ll talk to people doing person-on-the-street interviews outside of Best Buy in the freezing cold. He’s also a retired letter carrier who never forgets someone who interviews him in person-on-the-street interviews outside of Best Buy. He’s helping with a national mail carrier effort to collect food for hungry people, called the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Get it? Stamp? It’s official day is May 9, so get ready. For more information, check out www.nalc.org/ community-service/food-drive

So what’s this about a food drive?

It’s a national food drive that the National Association of Letter Carriers sponsors. It usually happens around Mother’s Day each year. It’s basically sponsored by NALC, but it has the support of the United States Post Office, and everybody within—clerks, supervisors, everybody’s got a hand in helping with it. It’s the city and rural letter carriers.

How do people participate?

On this particular one, there are three ways they can actually do it. We deliver postcards two weeks prior. We leave bags the week of the food drive, at most

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They prefer the cans, but they’ll take anything—bags, bagged rice, anything basically that doesn’t spoil. And of course, they prefer things that aren’t broken, and they don’t want things that are outdated— expired—or things like that. And from my understanding, not speaking for them, the high-protein things are always good, but they’ll accept anything.

People can also put in cash donations directly to the Food Bank, and give us credit. Their buying power is like 2-to-1 for ours. If I were to buy $10 at the grocery store, their $10 can buy $20 worth of food because they get discounts because they buy in volume. And that helps us out so we don’t have to pick it up and do all the transportation. Ω

If people want more information about this, how do they get it?

They can can get it on the website, www. nalc.org. Probably the better way would

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Time to give props to a program that makes a regular habit of mind expansion, free of charge, and that’s Nova on PBS. In the razzle dazzle schitzel fritz of all these hot, hip, happening, sexy shows on the idiot box these days, it’s occasionally easy to consign a steady old pro like Nova to a backburner that it never deserves. There have been a couple of times in the last month that I’ve been reminded that we forget Nova (and, for that matter, Nature) at our peril.

The new Nova that played last week called “Invisible Universe Revealed” is the one that dropped my jaw. It’s a retrospective of the astonishing legacy created by the Hubble Telescope in the first 25 years of its existence, and if you feel like getting your brain thoroughly and properly boggled, I recommend it highly. If I was Bob reviewing this one as a movie, Mr. Popcorn Box’s kernels would be exploding all over the place like some butter-soaked meteor shower. |

How much does Reno usually provide for this thing?

For Reno itself, we collect for that one day, and scattered amounts before and afterward. We also get credit for any food that is donated that week, like they buy things at Raley’s, because all the grocery stores, or most of them, are involved in it.

So we get credit for that, but for our three sister cities, which are Reno, Carson and Yerington, where we have our union—also a branch has adopted Gardenerville, Minden, Dayton, Incline, Truckee, Alturas and a couple others because they only have rural carriers or P.O. boxes—we normally collect, between those, 140,000 pounds of food. Then Sparks adds on probably another 80,000 pounds, something like that. I would say 200,000 pounds on that one day would not be considered abnormal. Nationally, they probably collect 70 million pounds on that one day.

households, not all of them. We don’t put them into like apartment complexes and stuff like that because it’s just too hard to get in. Basically your residence houses that have mailboxes on the port or out on the street. They just leave it in the bag or any container that they want. And the Food Bank, of course, doesn’t want glass items.

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One of the many outrageous factoids that struck me from this one is a startling mega-number I’d never heard before, a number of such hugeness, such enormity, such googlific gigonderousness, that it— well, it’s really impressive. This is the number resulting from the assertion put forth, while discussing Hubble’s ability to peer into deep space, that there are more stars in the known universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on earth combined. Uh—say what?

Whenever confronted with problems of a googalicious nature, it’s of course best to just sit down and Google it. So I did. I’ll spare you the cocktail napkin arithmetic, but suffice it to say, this astonishing assertion appears to be—gulp—true. In one estimate, in fact, it was worked out that the low-end estimate of stars in the universe, 10 sextillion (10 followed by 21 zeroes), equalled the high-end estimate of sand grains on Earth. It also could very well be, when all is said and done in this contest of

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cosmic mental masturbation, that in reality, the number of SITU is actually two to five times greater than the number of SGOE. Wow. Wow. Wow. Remember, says the Nova narrator, that 100 years ago, we still thought that the universe consisted of one galaxy—our own. And here I am, experiencing some difficulty in properly applying taco sauce to my chimichanga.

Somehow, this non sequitor works.

So the next time you’re on the beach at Tahoe or Newport or wherever, reflect on that number, a number made possible by the most incredible tool in the history of science, and feel your mind begin to stretch at its seams. When was the last time Survivor or The Voice did that for ya?

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