This Week

The 11th annual music and comedy festival kicks off on Friday, May 15, with entertainment in both rooms of Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor. Limbo State, The Tides, Weapons of Mass Creation, Vague Choir, Stabby Unicorn, Sit Kitty Sit and other acts will perform in the bar room.

Comedians will perform in the showroom including Jym Bettencourt, Jim Fleming and Jenny

PezdeSpencer, among others. The benefit show continues on Saturday, May 16, with Betty

Rocker, Ostracized, Liver Scars, The Shames and Kittenhead and other acts performing in the bar room. Comedians Vickie Gordon, Cliff McGrady, Sam Corbin and others will occupy the showroom. Doors open at 5 p.m. on Friday and 2 p.m. on Saturday at Jub Jub’s, 71 S. Wells Ave. Admission is a $10 donation that will benefit singer/musician Rhiannon Box of Stabby Unicorn, who was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Visit www.jubjubsreno. com.

—Kelley Lang

SilverState tattoo and artS FeStival

The locally produced tattoo convention features contests, exhibits, live tattooing, an art gallery, the Ms. SilverState Tattoo Beauty Pageant and more. Doors are open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, May 15, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, and noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 17. Tickets are $15 for a day pass and $35 for a weekend pass. The convention takes place in the Naples Ballroom at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St. Call 3240666 or visit www.silverstatetattoo.com.

Bare BoneS

The exhibit features bone-shaped artwork by artist Jerry Snyder. Snyder cut pieces of scrap plywood into shapes of individual bones, then glued the layers together, shaped them further with grinders and sanders, stained and finished the pieces. The work was inspired by Snyder’s involvement in building the Ichthyosaur Puppet Project, an ichthyosaur skeleton made of plywood which was installed at Burning Man in 2013 and is now permanently installed at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum. There will be an artist’s reception at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, at The Generator, 1240 Icehouse Ave., Sparks. The show runs through Wednesday, May 27. Call 232-5013 or visit www. facebook.com/TheGeneratorArtSpace.

Spring WingS FeStival

The festival celebrates the annual spring migration of shorebird and waterfowl across the Lahontan Valley. The weekend event offers guided tours, exhibits, demonstrations, lectures, workshops and hands-on activities. Most events are free. The festival takes place on Saturday, May 16, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Churchill County MultiPurpose Building, 225 Sheckler Road, Fallon. Bird-watching tours leave at 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Call (775) 423-5128 or visit www.springwings.org.

CeleBrate WaShoe valley

The Washoe Valley Alliance hosts the second annual event to help educate, inform and engage the community about the importance of maintaining the natural beauty and preservation of the Washoe Valley. There will be live music, demonstrations and activities and free food. The party lasts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May, 16, at Washoe Lake State Park, 4855 E. Lake Blvd., Washoe Valley. Admission is free. Visit www.washoevalleyalliance.org.

Million-year-old MuMMiFied ForeStS FroM the arCtiC

Earth scientist Adam Z. Csank will talk about mummified forests and how they can teach us about the paleoclimate and the paleoecology of the Arctic. Up until the end of the Pliocene Epoch (between 5.3 million and 2.6 million years before the present time), the Arctic was covered by vast forests, which over time became abundant fossil sites across the upper North American continent. Csank is an assistant professor of geography on leave from the Nipissing University in Ontario, Canada, who works in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at the Desert Research Institute in Reno. He uses isotopic and tree ring techniques to investigate environmental change over time periods ranging from the Cenozoic Era (which began about 65 million years ago) to the present. The lecture begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, at the Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway. Admission is a $5 suggested donation. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.