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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I started a new a habit a few weeks ago. On Wednesdays when there’s a Reno City Council meeting, I sit in the council chambers and do my editing. I used to go to a lot of council meetings back when Jeff Griffin and crew spent so much time selling out Reno’s future and ignoring the will of the majority by blowing up the Mapes Hotel and silencing the train whistles by spending hundreds of millions of dollars—and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a calculation of the final total compounded interest—by putting the trains in a trench. It was unquestionably the mayor and council using their power to benefit a chosen few at the expense of others.

I’m not going to the meetings because City Council has become my new beat. I learned a long time ago that this paper does better steering the dialog outside of government. I’m just there because I like to see how the political culture works, to gain insight into who’s pulling the strings and how they’re pulling them. I want to be able to attach attitudes to the names I sometimes see in the local media.

But it’s a different place, and not just because City Hall is a different building. It has a completely different vibe. Back in the day, there used to be real animosity among factions that would play out in public. Even after Bob Cashell came into office, I’d get the impression that he was demanding consensus, and I’d hear through the grapevine that he could be more than intimidating behind the scenes.

But this council is a different thing. Mayor Hillary Scheive’s more than cordial to everyone.

All of the councilmembers seem smart—and I can’t think of time previous that I could say that. Jenny Brekhus and Paul McKenzie are the two most likely to seem off the chosen path, although they generally vote with the pack. In fact, it seems as though the team is arranged with how much the councilperson is in alignment with the mayor and city manager Andrew Clinger.

Frequently, their questions suggest prior intelligence. There must be quite a pile of information passed in those caucus meetings to have so little discussion at the table.

When the voters overwhelmingly defeated the margins tax in 2014, freshly re-elected Gov. Brian Sandoval gave himself another stab at increasing taxes by forcing a huge tax increase through the Legislature. Now Sen. Harry Reid has joined Gov. Sandoval in preserving the new tax package against a challenge. It’s interesting how Reid and Sandoval have teamed up to govern against the will of the people of Nevada.

Since Brian Sandoval gave himself a do-over on the huge margins tax, is it unreasonable for the rest of us to ask for a do-over on his re-election?

Robert R. Kessler Las Vegas

U.S. peacemakers Re “Lineup of losers oppose Obama” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Aug. 20): It is being reported that Netanyahu wanted to attack Iran several times in the past decade.

He was denied by the military and other cooler heads in Israel.

Instead of giving up, Netanyahu has persuaded the weaker minded politicians in Washington, D.C., to take up his cause and deny the Iran nuclear treaty, so in a few months or years there will be a reason to attack Iran. Securing Israel’s (or any other democracy’s) right to exist is a good thing the U.S. is doing, but all we get in return is manipulation by a few people in Israel seeking war to have undue influence over the policy decisionmaking process of Congress.

The U.S. has enough enemies in this troubled world without being manipulated into fighting other countries’ battles for them. Many of the countries holding funds belonging to Iran have indicated if the majority of countries brokering the nuclear deal treaty approve the lifting of sanctions, they will release

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the money. Iran gets the money and that will leave the U.S. on the sidelines without inspectors going into Iran and leaving the verification process to Putin and the other approving countries.

Dewey Quong Reno

Wildlife Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, exists to kill predators. For instance, Nevada Wildlife Services killed 3,013 coyotes in 2014. They killed 1,614 from January-July 2015. Methods include trapping, aerial gunning, shooting, sodium cyanide, eradication of pup dens.

Wildlife Services killed about 76,611 coyotes nationwide in 2012.

This killing is paid for by our tax dollars.

The agency claims it is preventing depredation upon livestock herds. There is ample evidence that this justification is inaccurate at best. There is new scientific proof that, over time, our native predators will be unable to sustain their numbers. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Nevada Museum of Art, we are fortunate to have Brooks Fahy, director of Predator Defense, screening the award-winning film: “Exposed,” which tells the truth about Wildlife Services, their excesses and abuses.

Brooks directed the film, and he will take Q & A that evening. There may be other guest speakers. And, in a decision that will have repercussions for the USDA’s Wildlife Services program across the country, a federal Court of Appeals ruled on Aug. 3 that the agency must now face court review and lawsuits. Nevada Wildlife Services will face this review.

Trish Swain Sparks

Them Carson kids I was doing my laundry at the Launderland on the corner of Winnie Lane and Carson Street last Saturday. A young, maybe 8-yearold, kid yelled out, “Out of my way, B***H! Out of my way, N***A!” while slamming the gears and yanking the wheel on the race car game.

Am I old or is this what they teach kids in school these days? The mom and her two other kids just laughed when I shook my head in disgust— spoiled kids and lazy parents with no manners, morals or conscience these days.

Gene Maguire Carson City

Hey Kool-Aid! Re “Lineup of losers oppose Obama” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, Aug. 20): Are you trying to convince people that being nuked by Iran is a good deal? I am always surprised when I find that anyone believes anything Obummer has to say is truth, or that he has America’s best interest [at heart] at all, ever! Maybe you are OK with giving those who yell, “Death to America!” $150 billion in order to fastrack our own destruction! I’ll bet we will be the ones who are incinerated in 10 years or less—way less.

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single parent. Their high school was Hug. They all graduated and went on to higher education in othe rstates. I have two social workers (one with a master’s degree), a court reporter, a mechanic and a jewelry store owner. The failure of Nevada schools is because of Nevada, itself.

New dorms for the university are being built while nothing is being done for the public schools.

If I was a carpenter and was to build a two story house, if the first story wasn’t strong, then the second story would fall down upon itself. And that’s what’s happening to Nevada’s education. This breeds crime.

Another thing. Before a student can learn a trade in Nevada, he must have a GED or a diploma.

What happened to vocational schools? Not all students are high school or college material. Why are they being denied an education?

Helen Howe Lemmon Valley

Rocked and rocked hard Re “What? What?” (Editor’s Note, Aug. 13): I would hope that some of the “yet to be hearing impaired,” and now brain dead idiots who pull up next to me in traffic with their window-rattling, automobile boom boxes will read your comments.

However, I have serious doubts that they still have enough gray matter left in the blank space between their ears to accomplish this.

Maybe you should consider not attending the ear-blasting, and ever-publicized heavy metal concerts that the RN&R continually advertises.

I am 78 years of age and will just say, “Good luck and join the crowd.”

Dan Archuleta Sparks

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If forced, which sense would you give up?

Asked at the Reno main post office, 2000 Vassar St. Nicole Fischer Mother

Probably my hearing, because all people do is talk. You just need to see actions, not hear them.

Robert Parker Human resources consultant

Taste, because of priorities. I would want to smell things, see things, hear things before I have to taste them.

Mark McVeigh Loan officer

Bring the public in Our topic today is getting information to the public, and we offer two grievances.

First: Last week the Reno City Council met during its regular meeting on matters dealing with Waste Management Inc., the company that runs trash collection in the city. But you wouldn’t have known about it if you had relied on the agenda. This is how that agenda item read: “Update and discussion on Exclusive Franchise Agreements for Residential and Commercial Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials with Reno Disposal Company, Inc. and Disposal Agreement for Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials with Refuse, Inc.” Now, we know that Reno Disposal is technically the company that has the franchise, because Waste Management acquired Reno Disposal, the long-time company that served the valley. But how many of our residents, given the turnover in population, should be expected to know what this item dealt with? Waste Management they likely recognize from the trucks that trundle past their homes. Reno Disposal? Not so much.

For that matter, what did the item deal with? It dealt with the city wanting more oversight over the franchise agreement and whether recycling is being conducted in concert with that agreement. But how would residents know that from the agenda?

For comparison, take a look at this agenda item from the Aug. 10 Sparks City Council meeting: “Consideration, discussion and possible direction to the City Manager regarding the proposal provided by Waste Management for a potential amendment of the Franchise Agreement concerning the hauling of garbage and residential solid waste.” This is far from perfect, but it’s a lot more informative than the Reno item.

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Touch. In the grand scheme of things, it’s probably not as important.

All our local government agendas have become impossible. Residents need them to be written clearly.

Second: When he ran for attorney general, Adam Laxalt said, “I will be my own man and only answer to Nevadans in my quest to make government clean and transparent.”

Transparent, huh? When the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada sued to overturn the new school grant law, Laxalt declined to comment on “pending litigation.”

An April lawsuit against the state over prison conditions? Laxalt: No comment because of “pending litigation.”

A July lawsuit against the state by fired teachers? Aide to Laxalt: “We do not comment on pending litigation or whether or not we’ll get involved.”

An August lawsuit challenging the state’s lifetime supervision of sexual offenders? Laxalt: No comment because of “pending litigation.”

Laxalt is not a private attorney. He’s a public counsel, paid by the taxpayers. And these cases are not criminal, they’re civil. There is no ethical prohibition against Laxalt keeping the public informed on his office’s activities. Quite the contrary—there is an obligation for him to explain himself. If he didn’t want to be a public officeholder, he shouldn’t have run for the job. There is plenty he can tell the public without compromising cases. Are we to believe there is nothing he has to say about the school grant program? About alleged gladiatorial contests in state prison?

Laxalt’s example is spreading. Other agencies are starting to use the “pending litigation” fig leaf for shutting the public out.

No one expects Laxalt to explain his legal strategies.

But no Nevada attorney general in our memory has been as secretive as Laxalt. It needs to stop. Ω

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Probably smell. It’s the least that I use.

Smell doesn’t really bother me a lot. I can’t imagine myself not being able to touch and see and hear.

Doyle Moellering Driver

Smell—I think the rest of them are more important. Vision, hearing, speaking—I could do without smell.

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If the issue’s predictable, so is the outrage It was offensive to see so much organized outrage upon the filing of a lawsuit that everyone knew was coming. Gov. Sandoval was “disappointed.” State Sen. Ben Kieckhefer was righteously apoplectic, blaming the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada for “forcing poor and minority students by into chronically failing schools and Sheila Leslie furthering cycles of generational poverty.” One partisan wag wondered why the ACLU “hates poor children.”

The comments were in response to the first of several legal challenges to the broad school voucher program championed by Sandoval and the Republican legislature, a proposal that did not earn a single Democratic vote precisely due to the negative impact the law will have on poor children.

The lawsuit says the school voucher program, which allocates around $5,000 of taxpayer funding for every student placed in private school, is unconstitutional as it violates an 1880 amendment to the Nevada constitution. That amendment states “No public funds of any kind or

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character whatever, state, County or Municipal, shall be used for sectarian purpose,” a position completely in line with our nation’s cherished notion of the separation of church and state.

The Republicans insist their broadest-in-the-nation school voucher program was specifically designed to get around the constitution by giving the money to parents in the form of an Education Savings Account (ESA), instead of directly awarding the funds to religious schools, which make up more than 50 percent of Nevada’s private school choices. They seem willfully indifferent to how this manipulative design concept gives credence to the argument the ACLU is making. Filtering the money through an ESA doesn’t change the end result: Our tax money will be used to fund religious instruction.

Parents certainly have the right to send their children to schools where students reportedly must “pledge allegiance to the Bible, God’s Holy Word.” But the Nevada constitution says taxpayers can’t pay for that choice.

It’s likely another lawsuit will be filed against the voucher program by an advocacy group, Educate Nevada Now, on the issue of uniformity.

Private schools do not have to follow the same standards of public schools in terms of accepting all students regardless of any special needs they might have, tracking student performance, curriculum standards, or testing. As policy director Sylvia Lazos told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “In the case of private schools, none of those requirements exist and that’s why they’re private. We’re going to use public funds to subsidize and basically finance a system that is not uniform.”

While Republicans and their wealthy constituents sputter about the possibility of an injunction to stop the program so the courts can sort out the ill-conceived, barely vetted school voucher plan that is not really dedicated to serving poor children but rather subsidizing the rich, consider the deep community enthusiasm for other educational improvements from the 2015 session, like the extra funding

for Zoom schools, targeted to underachieving areas.

As veteran kindergarten teacher Angie Sullivan explains: “My school has become one of the 29 Zoom schools in Vegas. Free preschool. All day kindergarten. Seventeen extra days a year—summer academy.

Smaller class sizes. Extra language, small group practice with specialists.

The veteran teachers at my school were all looking at each other and saying—we have been wanting this for years. Because it will work. It is best practice—no tricks and no gimmicks, just more support for kids who need it.”

If Republicans like Kieckhefer are truly concerned about educating poor children, they should stop demonizing the ACLU for upholding Nevada’s constitution and direct that energy towards protecting the taxes that support Zoom schools and other new educational programs. It won’t keep wealthy parents happy, but it will do far more to address the generational poverty Kieckhefer has suddenly discovered. Ω

Gosh, everybody is always so surprised and angry. Here’s a story from July about anticipated lawsuits for the misguided law: http://lasvegassun. com/news/2015/ jul/03/constitutionalchallenge-could-becoming-nevada-pr/

Regulations create criminals Have you noticed how eggs are pushing $5 a dozen? Blue/green California has mandated that egg-laying chickens have much larger cages. Out-of-state egg producers can’t legally ship eggs there unless their cages meet California’s regulations. Soon we will see trucks with no headlights by Brendan Trainor driving across the Sierra Nevada with crates of black market factory farm eggs. Later some poor black guy in Compton will die from a police choke hold for selling loose eggs on the street corner. The Greens and the Black Lives Matter activists will blame it on racism, denying that egg laws had anything to do with his death. But the laws made eggs more expensive, so poor folks had to buy the eggs from the guy who was choked by the cops.

Then Trump will demand a wall be built on the California border.

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promote peace. No one seemed to notice he just promised us Orwellian perpetual wars fought for perpetual peace. He has also endorsed torture.

Jeb opposed the Vietnam War and almost applied for conscientious objector status, but his draft lottery number was not called. Now he supports continual no-win wars of choice. He also said the toppling of Saddam Hussein was a “good deal” for America, and the surge, by golly, worked. Like most Republicans, he just cannot admit his brother’s Iraq War was the biggest strategic blunder for the U.S. since Wilson’s intervention in World War I. Problem is, Hillary Clinton has never seen a war she didn’t vote for. If Hillary were to set a live cat on fire at a press conference, the Democrats will still vote for her because: Woman! Whether independents will also desire another 4-8 years of Clintonesque scandals is another matter.

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candidate Ben Carson, who gave that wondrous closing statement at the first GOP debate, also likes torture.

He wants walls not only on the Mexican border, but the Canadian border, and the Atlantic and Pacific borders, too! American psychologists helped design the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used by the CIA. Psychological studies confirm torture doesn’t work. What works is a lot more creative than sadistic: Through empathy, get the subject involved in describing events and places and soon important new, verifiable information will be forthcoming.

Remember the candidates coming to Nevada are here because of the Electoral College.

It looks like libertarian-leaning Republican Sens. Dean Heller, Jeff Flake and even Rand Paul will vote for the nuclear deal with Iran.

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negotiate with Gorbachev. He said he wanted to get rid of all nuclear weapons. He pulled us out of the Middle East. God help us, he also wanted open borders with Mexico.

Not only are we in for perpetual wars, we are also in for perpetual summer road construction on I-395.

Perpetual bottlenecks created for perpetual access.

Libertarians support defunding Planned Parenthood because, well, we support defunding just about everything government taxes and spends on. But Republicans will likely spend the money saved by defunding PP on their pet faithbased abstinence counseling centers.

The classical liberal principle that minorities should not be forced to pay taxes to support programs they object to morally, either science or faith-based, is abandoned by each party to curry favor with their own special interests. Ω

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School children may not be aware of it, but political fights swirl around them.

Obama helps residents President Obama has entered the dispute over rooftop solar generation in Nevada.

Though Obama didn’t directly address Nevada issues, he announced loan guarantees for rooftop solar arrays and other energy projects, which tends to support the residential side in the net metering battle.

The cap on net metering was not lifted or raised by the Nevada Legislature this year for residents who install rooftop solar systems and engage in sending power back to the grid, earning credits. So the net metering cap maxed out on Aug. 20. When that happened, new residential solar installations more or less came to a halt.

That legislative failure raised Sen. Harry Reid’s hackles. He said utility lobbyists—and NV Energy owner Warren Buffett—are still living in the days of George Westinghouse, when all power generation was on a large utility model (“Issues pastiche,” RN&R, Aug. 27).

Californians pitch in The California Water Resources Control Board said last week that after Gov. Jerry Brown called for a 25 percent drought cut in water use in July, the state exceeded that goal, reducing water use by 31 percent over the same month a year ago.

Each community was assigned a different target figure. In one water district—Westborough—where the reduction target asked was only 8 percent, the district cut usage by 48 percent, highest in the state.

Nevada officials could not provide similar statistics for this state. Such figures are not collected.

First Denali, now Tahoma In April 1916 U.S. Delegate James Wickersham of Alaska and U.S. Senator Key Pittman of Nevada introduced identical bills in the House and Senate to create a Denali National Park in Alaska. A mountain within it, the highest in the nation, was already informally named Mount McKinley. It was given that name by a local miner early in William McKinley’s term as president. Before that the mountain was known as Denali, and under Russian ownership as Bolshaya Gora, a translation of Denali into Russian.

Wickersham and Pittman tried to name the park Denali, but when the bill was passed it had been changed to McKinley National Park and also made formal the new name of the mountain. President Obama this week reversed that decision. The park name was changed in 1980.

William McKinley, remembered today mainly for being assassinated—the mountain was named for him before that happened— was hardly admirable. Too weak to resist newspaper-generated war hysteria, he invaded Cuba, then wouldn’t leave for three years. Worse, he occupied the Philippines on the pretext of taking them, like Cuba, from the Spanish while posing as the savior of the Filipinos—and never left, instead colonizing the Philippines.

He later wrote that once he had the Philippines, he “didn’t know what to do with them.” He decided “that we not leave them to themselves—they are unfit for self-government—and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s wars. … [T]here was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.”

McKinley had no idea what the Philippines were like. The notion that Filipinos needed the U.S. to uplift them is nonsense. Eighteen universities had been established in the Philippines before the United States was created. Moreover, McKinley failed to control his military, which engaged in terrible war crimes there.

Now that the name of Denali has been restored, there’s still Tahoma, a mountain in Washington called Mount Ranier. Interestingly, this mountain in the United States is named for a British sailor and member of Parliament, Peter Ranier, who tried to prevent the United States from ever existing. He served on British ships in the American Revolution. Later, he served in the East Indies colonies. There is no record of him ever finding anything wrong with the notion of colonialism.

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Schoolyard fights Two lawsuits test education issues A lawsuit was filed on Aug. 27 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada for five Nevadans seeking to overturn by the newly enacted grant program Dennis Myers for parents who send their children to private schools. In Nevada, most of the best private schools are religious institutions, and the Nevada Constitution reads in part, “No sectarian instruction shall be imparted or tolerated in any school or University that may be established under this Constitution.”

“But lawmakers cannot exempt the voucher program from the Nevada Constitution.”

Amy Rose American Civil Liberties Union of nevada The lawsuit comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Society for West Career and Technical Academy student Angelique Clark, who wanted to start a political club at the Las Vegas public high school and was denied permission.

In the financial grants case, the ACLU’s filing drafted by Amy Rose reads, “Recognizing that the voucher program would allow public money to be used for sectarian purposes, the Nevada Legislature specifically exempted the funding scheme from the restrictions of [Nevada Revised Statute] 387.045, which states, “[n] o portion of the public school funds

shall in any way be segregated, divided, or set apart for the use of an sectarian or secular society or association,” the lawsuit filing reads.

“But lawmakers cannot exempt the voucher program from the Nevada Constitution. The program establishes a system whereby, instead of enrolling their children in public schools, parents may obtain and use public money to pay for enrollment in private religious institutions. This is exactly what the Nevada Constitution forbids.”

In her filing, Rose said religious schools dominate the private school industry, including three Nevada counties where religious schools are the only private schools. She cited several whose schools and ministries were essentially the same, and quoted documents issues by others citing the religious nature of their instruction.

The language quoted in the first paragraph above was adopted by Nevada voters in 1880. It likely was directed at Catholicism. And, indeed, just two years after its adoption it prompted a lawsuit by a Catholic orphanage in Virginia City—previously funded by the state—against the State of Nevada. In Nevada ex rel.

Nevada Orphan Asylum v. Hallock, the Nevada Supreme Court barred the use of public funds for the orphanage.

Though anti-Catholic feeling probably motivated the original language in the Constitution, the language covered all religions, and feelings against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nevada were probably also involved. What is

now Nevada was originally the part of Utah, and statehood was driven in part by dissatisfaction in the Washoe country with the distant Mormon government in Salt Lake City.

In addition to the 1880 language Nevadans also added this in 1938: “The legislature shall provide for a uniform system of common schools, by which a school shall be established and maintained in each school district at least six months in every year, and any school district which shall allow instruction of a sectarian character therein may be deprived of its proportion of the interest of the public school fund during such neglect or infraction, and the legislature may pass such laws as will tend to secure a general attendance of the children in each school district upon said public schools.”

After Hallock, the 1880 constitutional language appears never to have been in court again, but it was interpreted several times by state attorneys general, and as the original enactment became more distant in time, the attorneys general found ways to soften the relatively unequivocal language.

An opinion by a public counsel like the attorney general does not have the force of law, but most officials and agencies followed the advice they were given. Currently, it is a brave official who ignores public counsel because they could incur liability.

A 1941 opinion found that the prohibition against public funds for sectarian purposes cannot, in the case of what the attorney general called “crippled” children, be construed to prevent necessary hospitalization in sectarian institutes where no instruction of any kind is imparted.”

In 1954 an attorney general found that school buildings cannot be used for church services. The next year his successor refined that opinion a bit, saying that churches may present “an exhibition or show, open to the general public, which in no way attempted to impart, promulgate or disseminate religious teachings or doctrines.”

In 1956, an AG was asked if a public school district is responsible for interim education of a parochial school child while ill at home—and, if not, whether it would be if the student registered in public school for the duration of the illness. The attorney general found that “the student is not, by reason of his illness, transformed from a parochial student to a public school student.” But the attorney general also said it is not within the province of school enrolling officials to presuppose that a child enrolled during disability” would return to parochial school upon recovery.

The 1965 opinion barely touched on the sectarian question, merely dealing with whether federal school

funds should be kept separate from state funds.

In 1977, the attorney general said a school board can allow release a student “from school for limited periods of time for sectarian instruction or devotional exercises at a religious center off school property” if the timing is convenient for the school.

How the case will be defended is not known. The attorney general’s office declined to comment. One supporter of the law, Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, did not address the legal merits, instead attacking the ACLU: “Instead of empowering parents to help their children find an educational environment that meets their needs, the ACLU wants to go back to a system of hard zoning, forcing poor and minority students into chronically failing schools and furthering cycles of generational poverty.”

Some news reports said the case was filed by the ACLU of Nevada and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, but Americans United is not mentioned in the filing.

Initial news reports on the Angelique Clark case did not make clear whether the club she sought to start was anti-abortion or anti-death penalty, describing it only as “prolife.” The lawsuit she filed cleared it up: “Clark … wishes to exercise her free speech rights, protected by federal and state law, to create a prolife club in order to educate her fellow students on the issue of abortion and

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At one time, federal courts were protective of the free expression rights of high school students. In Tinker vs. Des Moines in 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

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Eyes down Local divers monitor Lake Tahoe’s water quality Lake Tahoe’s nearshore zone—an area that extends from the shoreline out 350 feet into the lake, or to 69 feet of depth—is known for its exceptional clarity.

That’s changing, says Reno resident Martin McClellan, manager of a local by Kelsey SCUBA project called Project Baseline Tahoe.

Fitzgerald Tahoe’s nearshore zone is the area of the lake most strongly affected by onshore pollution and human activity. It is also the zone where people most frequently interact with the lake, through activities like kayaking, swimming and SCUBA diving. McClellan, who has been SCUBA diving in Lake Tahoe for more than 30 years, noticed over time that clarity at dive sites in the nearshore zone was getting worse and worse. “We were hearing reports that the clarity of Lake Tahoe was improving,” McClellan said. “Well maybe it is, three-quarters of a mile off the shoreline, in a water column of 1,000 feet. But it’s not improving where you and I use that lake.”

Since 2010, McClellan has been working to document changes that he and other divers observe in Tahoe’s nearshore zone under Project Baseline Tahoe. The project began with a “stake in the sand” at underwater locations in Sand Harbor and Glenbrook Bay. “We began by literally putting a stake in the sand, and going back to the same spot each time to get depth, temperature, to assess visibility, and to take a repeatable photograph,” McClellan said.

In 2011, Baseline Tahoe’s team upgraded the “stake-in-the-sand” system, installing visibility monitoring stations at Glenbrook, Sand Harbor, Carnelian Bay and Hurricane Bay. Each site consists of a depth benchmark, a temperature gage, and visibility marker stakes that lead away from the station at ten-foot intervals. Any diver who visits the stations can read the gages, then send data and photographs to McClellan, who compiles and enters them into Project Baseline’s database.

McClellan works with 12 divers from California and Nevada to collect data at the monitoring stations, and to expand the current system. The team recently added a station near Bliss State Park, and in August, received a $3,000 grant from the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation that will be used to upgrade two stations with digital depth and temperature sensors.

They will also move one existing station from Carnelian Bay to Tahoe City, close to where lake water enters the Truckee River. Scientists from University of California, Davis and the Desert Research Institute in Reno are also monitoring water quality in deep areas of Lake Tahoe and in the nearshore zone. But many of them work from above the surface.

“Martin’s group is doing very important work to understand changes in the lake from an underwater viewpoint,” said University of Nevada, Reno researcher Sudeep Chandra. “It gives the scientific community a frame of reference that is different from what we would do with our instruments.”

McClellan’s team has partnered with Chandra his students on several past projects, including a recent effort to map underwater plant life in Lake Tahoe. “Water quality measurements are really a way to get our teams out the door,” said Todd Kincaid, one of the founders of the global Project Baseline. “What I really hope is that eventually all our teams will organically cultivate these types of collaborative relationships with other entities, either academic or management or both.” Ω

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Client Lina Herrada demonstrates floatation in Healing One's sensory deprivation tank.

that you’re going to do a session in a sensory deprivation tank.

Is a sessIoN IN a seNsory dePrIvaTIoN TaNk as sUrreal, daNGeroUs aNd PsyCHedelIC as IT Is IN THe movIes?

When I told my friends and family that I was going to try it, the reactions varied from “Are you sure it’s safe?

Don’t get hurt!” to “Great! I think it’ll be good for you.” The former reactions came mostly from people who didn’t know much about it, the latter from people who’ve actually tried it. The best reaction, though, was, “Be sure to take some psychedelic drugs before you get in the tank so you’ll transform into a monkey!”

That’s a reference to the 1980 movie Altered States, in which a scientist played by William Hurt repeatedly takes strong psychedelic drugs, like ayahuasca, before getting into a sensory deprivation tank. The combination causes him to physically devolve into a miniature primate. It’s a silly movie, but fun enough to have become a cult classic. It also stands as probably the most widely familiar use of a sensory deprivation tank in pop culture, so it’s often the first association people have. It’s also, of course, ridiculously inaccurate.

Sensory deprivation tanks were developed in the 1950s and became commercially available in the 1970s.

The user is enclosed in a chamber, which is totally dark and soundproof, and about half filled with very salty water, which causes the user to float.

Healing One, a new Reno business with a sensory deprivation tank, opened earlier this summer. It has a very New Age vibe—the website is all yin-yangs and rainbows. It’s the only such tank that’s been registered with the Washoe County Health Department in 20 years.

On the drive to Healing One, I had a bit of a sore throat, probably from the wildfire smoke that’s a perennial bloom every August in Reno. I found the prospect of a genuinely psychedelic experience appealing. But I was just as intrigued by the possibility of a good nap. I hadn’t been sleeping well because I’ve been very stressed—work, school and a bunch of other things that I don’t want to get into now. I was also worried that I might throw up. I’ve had stomach problems in the past and sometimes have trouble keeping my food down, especially in strange, unusual situations.

I was afraid this might turn out like the last time I did a New Age health thing—when I got a colonic a few years ago (“Thunder down under,” feature, Feb. 17, 2011). That was a fairly terrible experience, what with me vomiting on myself and all, but it made for an entertaining story. As my dad says, you either have good times or you have good stories.

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H e ad ov e r H e al s Chaz Allen, the co-owner and manager of Healing One, is a hippie. He might not call himself that, but he does call himself an “energy healer,” so I think it’s fair for the rest of us to call him a hippie. Super nice guy, though, with an easygoing, amiable personality and that air of serenity that accompanies anyone who’s figured out a way of making a career out of helping other people relax.

And when he started talking some authentic hippie frontier gibberish, saying things like, “You can raise your vibration, your personal vibration, and transfer it to another living being, whether that’s a plant, an animal or a person,” I was pleased because this was the exact kind of thing I wanted to hear before my psychedelic meditation in a sensory deprivation tank—just like it’s a good sign when you hear Spanish spoken by the cooks at a Mexican restaurant.

Allen was born in Mesa, Arizona, lived in Utah for a little while as a kid, and has lived in Nevada for the last 20 years, since he was 8. He grew up in the little town of Spring Creek, four hours east in the Ruby Mountains.

He has a bachelor’s degree in metaphysical sciences from University of Metaphysics in Sedona, Arizona, “one of the energy capitals of the world.”

After I arrived at Healing One, I sat down to chat with him at the business’s “chill lounge,” a sort of decompression chamber between the healing center and the outside world, basically a room with a bunch of really comfortable places to sit. For Allen, the chill lounge serves an important function.

“We’re putting people into sensory deprivation, which is the most passive experience that you’ll ever experience, so we want to kind of bring you down,” he said. “You’re out in the world, and you’re hectic, you’re in Alpha and Beta brainwave frequencies. … When you come in, we don’t want to throw you straight to the tank or straight to the massage table in that mindset. We want the chill lounge. It’s crucial.”

And where did he discover his interest in energy healing? One guess.

Yep, Burning Man. “Four years ago, I went to Burning Man, and was talking to some people, and they were talking about energy healing, and it just resonated so deeply with me,” he said. “I came home and I started researching, and I found this stuff called quantum touch, and they

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were like, ‘If you buy this book and read this book you’ll be able to do energy healing.’ I thought, bullshit.”

But he bought the book anyway. And now he’s a believer.

“There’s no ‘science’ behind it,” he said, using air quotes around the word science.

“It’s a feeling. It relies on the good vibes, the bad vibes. When you walk into some place and people have been talking down about you, talking crap. You feel that. You know you don’t want to talk to those people. … That’s energetic vibration. Those people are literally putting out a negative vibration toward you, and you feel it.”

Elena Charles, from Carson City, is the resident massage therapist at Healing One. Like Allen, she exudes a serene charisma.

She’s also an energy healer, a white girl with dreadlocks, and a hula-hooping fire dancer.

In other words, she’s also a hippie.

But, also like Allen, when she speaks the New Age lingo, she makes it appealing, convincing and comforting.

“Honestly, as energy healers, we deal with skepticism a lot,” she said. “Energy healing can help with anything. It can help, but I’m not going to sit here and claim it can heal cancer.”

“We believe 100 percent in ourselves and our abilities, or we wouldn’t practice this,” said Allen. “But because the world is so ‘scientific’”—again with the air quotes—“We can not make any bold claims. … We don’t make any bold claims at all with the tank, with massage or with energy

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healing. It’s more like, ‘This is what we’ve seen and this is some documentation on that.’ But other than that, it’s up to personal experience.”

“It’s like an addiction,” said Charles.

“You can’t make someone get clean. They have to make a choice. You can send them to rehab. You can make them do this. You can make them do that. If they don’t want to, they’re not going to do it. You have to make a decision to be open in order to heal yourself. We can’t make you do it. As energy healers, we are conduits. This is not a final thing. I’m not going to heal you, and you’ll be healed forever. I’m a conduit. I’m going to connect to you energetically, and I’m going to do the practices that I know and I studied, and the universal energy, the life force energy, is going to move through me, and your system is going to absorb it however it sees fit and heal itself. We are facilitators.”

One in the chamber The sensory deprivation tank is a bit like the cave in The Empire Strikes Back. (“What’s in there?” asks Luke. “Only what you take with you,” replies Yoda.) After chatting with Allen and Charles for an hour or so, acclimatizing to the New Age atmosphere, re-learning to speak a language I hadn’t spoken much of since the last time I dated a real hippie, back in college. I was ready to enter the tank.

Healing One’s tank is an Oasis Float Tank, with 10 vertical inches of water, 200 gallons of water mixed with a 1,000 pounds of Epsom Salt, pumped through a custom pool filtration system, blasted with UV rays and chlorine in compliance with health department mandates, which regulate it like a public pool or Jacuzzi.

“People get a little claustrophobic or they think that their mind won’t shut down,” said Allen. “People are afraid to be alone with themselves. You can leave the tank open if you’re claustrophobic. You don’t have to shut the tank. But after you float for 15 or 20 minutes, your brain drops from Alpha and Beta frequency to Theta frequency, which is induced meditation, basically.”

Reporting, gathering information for a story, requires a very active mind. Floating a sensory deprivation tank, in a meditative state is a totally passive, inactive experience.

I was going to attempt to impose language on an indescribable experience. I was already confused. And I was afraid I might get sick. But then I got to ask one of my all-time favorite journalism queries: “What if I have to take a shit?”

I could just get out, put on a robe and sandals, and walk over to the bathroom down the hall. It’s not like I was going to be enclosed in there, unable to leave. The room with the tank in it is fairly large, with a shower in one corner. Allen instructed me to use the shower before and after my float.

(He would often refer to himself and others as “floaters,” which always made me laugh.)

He left the room. I was alone with the tank. I put in the heavy swimmer’s earplugs he had given me, took a shower, climbed into the tank, and closed the door behind me. I laid back into the thick, salty water, feeling a mild swooshing sensation as I was swept up by the water, but quickly finding equilibrium. My mouth, nose and eyes were above the water. The chamber was totally dark. I felt a burn on the back of neck as the salt seeped into my skin, which had been shaved when I’d gotten a haircut the day before. (I noticed later that the FAQ on Healing One’s website warns against shaving or waxing before a float.) At first, there was music playing in the tank—mellow ambient stuff—but it sounded distant and buried. The music was scheduled to play for the first 10 minutes and then for the last 5 minutes, mostly as a cue for me to get out.

I thought about the music. The music ended, and then I thought about sex. I thought about music. I thought about sex.

I thought about all the errands, tasks and chores I had to complete. Sometimes I was very aware of the confines of the space.

Other times I was not aware of the space at all. My memory flashed back to a cherished moment from my teenage years, floating on my back in a large hot water pool in the middle of Nevada, a little stoned, staring up at the wash of stars on a moonless night, and feeling a grand sense of connection to the universe.

Salt stung my eyes. I had to get out, get some air and wash out my eyes with the

freshwater bottle next to the entrance of the focusing on the small screen in my hand. As For the rest of the day after my float, I will be a little light seeping through the tank. At one point, I thought I could see a soon as my eyes focused on the phone, the had particles of salt flying from my hair like ventilation.” tiny pinpoint of light, but without glasses screen went black, the phone dead. the world’s worst dandruff. Some of the saltHe also told me that they updated the or contacts, my eyes are so bad that I might I finally stumbled out of the floatation water had slipped past my earplugs and felt ventilation system not long after my visit, have imagined it. room. Allen was there at the door. heavy in my ears, like I’d been swimming which should clear up the problem I had not I thought about music. I thought about “I was just coming to check on you,” he in the world’s thickest ocean. feeling like I had enough air. And he was sex. I felt a strange sensation of deja vu, like said. “It’s nearly 2.”

When I talked to Allen again a few days intrigued when I told him about my recurI had done this before before, although to I felt frantic and panicked. It was after my float, I told him my ears still felt ring sensation of deja vu. the best of my admittedly spotty memory, jarring, after being in that blissful state of clogged with salt. He said that was fairly “That’s really interesting,” he said. “It’s I had not. After a while, all my thoughts relaxation, to have to do things, and talk common and recommended a simple homemost commonly associated with either seemed to drift away, and I found being in outer space or being in myself in total stillness, not sleeping your mother’s womb. Maybe you’re “PeoPle come in here anxious like they’re going to jumP exactly, but in a blissful trance-like closely relating it to that experience state. I think I peed a little in the somehow.” out of an airPlane at 13,000 feet, and then they lay tank, which was gross and embarThe experience was relaxing, rassing. I decided not to mention and just strange enough to be in 10 inches of water and think, ‘oh, this is nothing this to Allen. surreal and memorable. I enjoyed The temperature was a bit too talking to some native hippies in to be afraid of. i’m just laying in water, floating hot, and a few times I felt like I the natural element. I enjoyed the had trouble breathing. I had asked dreamy sensations of the tank. effortlessly.’” for the water to be a bit on the hot I enjoyed peeing on myself and side, since I usually like my baths being too embarrassed to mention hot, but that wasn’t the right choice it. The next time I enter the tank, for me since my body temperature I’m going to do it on a day when I runs a bit cold. The deja vu feeling returned. to people, and to have to engage in the remedy solution: rinsing out the ears with don’t have anything else to do later on. It’s Time seemed like it was dragging on, and world. It was like getting thrown from this vinegar. After checking with my sister, an a lot like any other psychedelic experience then it felt like it was over far too quickly. perfect dream state to the woes of trying to audiologist, I tried that, and it helped. like that.

The music came back on. do things, the high stresses of modernity, I also asked him about the light I though “People come in here anxious like I got out. I felt groggy and contented, and meeting people at specific times. To I saw in the tank. they’re going to jump out of an airplane at like I’d had a really good nap that had ended suddenly feel rushed, stressed and vexed by “There are a lot of people who do imag13,000 feet,” said Allen. “And then they lay too soon. My legs felt wobbly as I walked modern technology. ine that,” he said. “I’ve definitely had people in 10 inches of water and think, ‘Oh, this over to the shower to rinse off. Then, I I suddenly understood the real value of come out and say, ‘Hey, those are some nice is nothing to be afraid of. I’m just laying in walked back over to the bench where I had the chill room. The transition from the float LEDs you have in the float tank.’ … At the water, floating effortlessly.’” Ω left my clothes. I picked up my phone to tank back to the outside world was horrible same time, if you don’t shut off all the lights check the time because I had to pick up without any time to decompress. in the float room”—and I did not—“there my son from school at 2 p.m. I had trouble For more information, visit healingonenv.com

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How I learned to stop worryIng and love to pole-dance

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hen I first decided I wanted to write about a beginner’s foray into pole dancing classes, I’m not sure which response was more offensive: The tight-lipped smiles of the morally righteous who savored the opportunity to judge my surefire path to moral degradation, or the raucous laughter of those who knew me and my sedentary, unsexy lifestyle well.

While both responses were disheartening, they were the exact reasons that spurred me to take on the project. I decided to test the waters to see if it would lead me to a life of ill-repute and whether, despite my lack of grace, athleticism and sex appeal, I could enjoy pole dancing classes.

I led my search for a studio based on what I didn’t want. I had no intention of going to class with a bunch of girls named Gemini or Cinnamon—not because of a hatred for strippers, but because I knew that if I was going to comfortably make an ass of myself, it certainly wasn’t going to be in front of women who are sexy for a living. I also didn’t want to go to a studio with a bunch of fitness junkies who do things like buy creatine supplements or use gym memberships consistently. I simply had too much self-respect to deal with that.

I finally decided to take classes at Poletic Fitness, which is a smaller studio than others, but I heard the main clientele was bored housewives, which I figured would be more my speed.

I went in for a tour with Gina Geraci. She’s the kind of woman who is so god damn effervescent that you would mostly love to see her as your school’s kindergarten teacher, but also sort of worry that one day that candy-coated exterior will snap and she’ll be giggling over your bed one night with an ice pick. Geraci took me through the entire studio. Poletic Fitness offers yoga and aerial silks in addition to pole, and she told me about the studio’s mission to empower women. I silently called bullshit, but pressed on.

Soon enough, I met the owner, Brandon Deriso who echoed the same sentiments as Geraci, along with telling me about their longterm student-mentor and instructor training programs and yearly passes that they offer. It took all of my good sense to not walk out the door then. (I can tell when I’m being recruited for a cult.)

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Writer Anna Hart took beginning pole-dancing classes at Poletic Fitness in Reno.

The first couple of classes were as awful as I imagined they would be. I was hoping I’d be with out-of-shape soccer moms.

It turns out I was lucky enough to be surrounded by advanced students and former gymnasts. While the instructor Bri Lopez was great, I soon hated her for her impeccable work ethic. I should have known better than to start with the “Power pole” sessions, which were essentially hour-long sessions of fake pushups, clinging desperately to a spinning pole, and trying to not to hate my muffin top as I saw the other girls strut around in sports bras and booty shorts. It was like high school all over again. I thought about scrapping this whole idea, but I already bought a workout outfit, so I couldn’t give up here.

I learned fairly quickly that in actual application, poledancing isn’t really a sexy activity. There isn’t anything erotic about having pole burn around your crotch, constantly ashy elbows and knees—because lotion is a no-no—and sweaty bodies grinding around a pole. The last example might fool you,

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I made it through four classes before I hit my head on the pole.

It was at this point that I made it to Sai Jaeger’s pole class. Jaeger is the only male pole instructor and he is so ripped, it’s uncomfortable to look at, like staring directly into the sun. He’s one of those guys who could turn a respectable woman into a Mrs. Robinson. Needless to say, I was ready to feel ridiculously selfconscious. But this class ended up being a critical moment. For once, I was in a class with another beginner and it actually felt like I was safe to make mistakes. After finally feeling comfortable, I began to attempt everything thrown at me, with reckless abandon. And no sooner did Jaeger say, “This is the safest way to do this” than I immediately somersaulted headfirst into the pole.

Rough lesson, but I figured out that my pain tolerance is a good deal better than I thought.

problematic were comments from my forward-thinking friends: Don’t you feel objectified? Isn’t that just giving power to the patriarchy?

I know that our basic understanding of pole dance is a picture limited to glitter-encrusted girls who are laden with daddy issues. In taking part, was I doing what was expected of a lowly woman, simply another cog in the proverbial wheel of misogyny? I remembered a tidbit that Deriso had shared with me during our first conversation together: “Pole dancing originated as an ancient method of training warriors. Then, at some point in the last century, some asshole figured out that you could use it to exploit women.”

In the entirety of the time I had spent taking those classes, I felt exhausted, nervous, frustrated and self-conscious, but that’s always to be expected, when you throw yourself into something you know nothing about. As time went on, I

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Pole dancing originated as an ancient method of training warriors. then, at some Point in the last century, some asshole figured out that you could use it to exPloit women.

Around the seventh or eighth class, I stopped counting my bruises (which my arms and legs were fraught with) and I started counting my accomplishments.

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by Sheena Sigala, a woman who has given birth to six children.

Over time, I caved and began a lifestyle I never wanted to start. I grew so enamored of pole dancing that I started doing things like meal planning, going to the gym regularly, and buying workout clothes that weren’t also pajamas, all in the hopes that my work outside class would benefit inside class.

But the most significant change I saw was realizing that the root of my self-consciousness during these classes slowly shifted from my body image to how people perceived me taking on this project.

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As I sit now trying to rub feeling back into my chafed thighs, I realized that there is something artistic and strong at the essence of pole dance. The level of athleticism, working in tandem with technique and creativity that the art form demands is nothing short of amazing. That doesn’t change whether you’re a man or woman, in jeans or in a G-string—although, I’ll probably pass on the G-string. Ω

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Person shooter Joseph DeLappe The myth about clean drone warfare is slowly unraveling. Once touted by President Obama for its ability to avoid civilian by Josie Luciano casualties with “near-certainty,” the proof is in the body count 11 years, 583 drone strikes, and 502 civilian fatalities later (since drones use began in 2004). Despite overwhelming bipartisan support in Washington, it’s difficult to describe these surgical attacks as “clean,” “certain,” or even “surgical” when approximately 1 in 7 casualties are civilian.

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offers two selections for avatars: “drone pilot” and “villager.” Drone pilots are deployed out of various airforce bases in Nevada and Arizona, while villagers inhabit actual kill-zones in Pakistan. Since it's an online game, players engage one another in real time.

As a drone pilot, the player enters the game mid-op, logging onto an interface that has notes from the previous pilot’s surveillance. Just like real drone pilots, players sit in the comfort of their own chairs while observing combatants, communicating with drone sensors, and ultimately launching a missile strike.

The opposing “villager” has little to do except look around, explore the terrain, and basically wait to die.

Once everything is blown to shreds, the game is over.

There might be civilian casualties if you’re not careful. Or even if you are.

“I hope it’s really troubling and uncomfortable for people,” said DeLappe, “I want them to feel like, ‘Oh, I just did this, that was kind of fun.

Whoa, it shouldn’t be fun.’”

It’s that feeling of pleasure followed by a secondary emotion— guilt, shame, terror—that makes a game like this one so powerful. You spent time, you made some decisions, you were invested. In the end, you have to face real emotions.

Fortunately for Killbox players, there are no long-term psychological effects of playing the game—unlike actual drone pilots (often recruited for their performance in videogames) who experience PTSD. “It’s really intense, hard work,” said DeLappe. “[Drone pilots] will surveil an area for days before they attack. They see people and kids playing and dogs and they get attached, they’re human. … Then they’re put in a position of having to blow up things.”

It’s hard to reconcile and it’s only the beginning. According to DeLappe, unmanned drones are “just the tip of the iceberg for the automation of weapon systems.” And when easy kills have a daily quota and unknown global consequences, it’s hard not to think that we’re playing a losing game. Ω

Joseph DeLappe continues to make artwork critical of the U.S. government's drone warfare.

Killbox is partially funded and done in collaboration with england-based production company Phoenix, turbulence. org, and independent game designers Malath abbas, tom DeMajoe and albert elwin. the game will launch on turbulence. org this month. see www.delappe.net for more details.

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“It concerns me deeply,” said Joseph DeLappe, multimedia artist and art professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. “The easier it is to kill without consequences to ourselves, it’s just easier to kill.”

For the past several years, DeLappe has been co-opting images of drones into his artwork—stamping them on dollar bills, infiltrating internet searches with modified drone images, and tethering himself to an over-the-shoulder drone “designed for insecurity and comfort.”

Each piece is a protest without a picket line, temporarily lifting the lid of secrecy on our country’s troubled drone policy. In his latest project— titled Killbox—DeLappe takes this subversion a step further by making the viewer complicit in a virtual drone strike. Named for the electronic box that frames the surveilled target, Killbox exploits the uneven power dynamic between attacker and victim for maximum emotional punch.

“In shooter games, you generally have kind of equal sides, and in this one you have complete power on the side of a drone pilot and a total lack of agency on the other,” said DeLappe.

“It’s going be interesting to see how people react. It’s intense. It’s short.”

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Bread winner Sushi Pier 2 The Reno tradition of All-You-Can-Eat sushi is alive and well at Sushi Pier 2.

If you have the time at lunch to stuff yourself silly, the all you can eat is $17.95. If you have time to be immobile for quite some time after dinner, their all you can eat dinner price is $23.95.

I encountered a Dickensian dichotomy during my most recent lunch date—i.e., the best thing about it could also be by Todd South viewed as the worst. It’s all about the housemade bread. The sandwich rolls, among the best you’ll find anywhere, are baked large and in charge with plenty of flavor and texture. The flipside is the breadto-filling ratio seems a bit off. You might feel you’ve been handed an entire loaf lightly seasoned with sandwich stuffing. If you’re a bread lover, this is the nirvana you’ve long sought. If instead you consider baked carbs as a delivery system for meat, veg and cheese, you may want to stick with sliced bread or a wrap at the Full Belly Deli.

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Sushi Pier is known for their Crystal Shrimp, Sushi Pier Po’ Boy sandwiches, large Unagi and their Reservoir Rolls (Mr Brown, Mr Pink, etc.). Their Midtown Roll, Joey Ramone Hand Roll and Godzilla Roll are also popular. There’s always a generous amount of sashimi and raw fish in their sushi rolls, not just rice rolls with a side of fish.

Those looking toward warmer fare have a variety of Teriyakis (beef, chicken, salmon, shrimp) or Vegetable Tempura.

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Jorge Rivera prepares a "Dirka Dirka" sandwich, the most popular combination at Full Belly Deli.

They are family friendly and also a fun after-work spot with beer and wine and happy hours Monday through Thursday.

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My wife went with the day’s lunch special on blue cheese bread—all-natural turkey breast with Swiss cheese, roasted red peppers, fresh spinach, pesto and mayo ($9).

The bread was fantastic, with plenty of fromage among its folds—yet to my taste it dwarfed the ingredients within. Don’t get me wrong, it was a very good sandwich with plenty of flavor, but I felt it could have used a bit more turkey and spinach. But my wife’s all about the bread, so she really enjoyed her lunch.

I ordered the menu favorite “Dirka Dirka,” named for a regular customer named Dirk ($9.50). At our server’s suggestion I selected jalapeño cheddar bread to encase corned beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese, pickles, yellow mustard and jalapeño coleslaw. Frankly, there’s a 90 percent chance I’ll choose jalapeño cheddar anything when it’s offered, so the woman behind the counter was just predicting the inevitable. The sandwich was delicious, and the heavy layer of slaw brought the filling/bread equation to greater equivalence. Despite doubling down on the heat, the coolness of the cabbage and pickle really balanced the flavors. I can’t really speak to the meat other than it was tender. Most of what I tasted was spicy, cheeseloaded bread and exceptional slaw, but I’m not complaining.

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Anonymous action No Escape Owen Wilson and Lake Bell act scared shitless with the best of them in No Escape, an occasionally gripping but mostly silly American tourist nightmare from director John Erick Dowdle.

There are some tense moments and decent sequences in the movie, but it’s an insipid affair in the end, and all of Wilson and Bell’s bug-eyed hyperventilating is for naught. by Wilson plays Jack Dwyer, husband to Bob Grimm Annie (Bell) and father of two girls, Lucy (Sterling Jerins) and Beeze (Claire Geare). bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om After his company has failed, he takes a job overseas in an unnamed, truly nefarious Asian country. Not long after arriving at their hotel, Jack goes out for a newspaper, only to witness a rebel uprising and the murder of an American in the street. Jack must get back to the hotel ahead of a bloodthirsty mob, corral the wife and kids, and commence running for their lives.

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They take to the hotel rooftop, where a bunch of tourists and hotel employees are holing up. They can’t keep the wolves at bay, and things get so bad that Jack has to throw his kids from one rooftop to the other while his wife catches them. This sequence, shot in painful slow motion, stands as the best part of the movie. Actually, it’s the only really good part of the movie.

The rest of the film features an unknown enemy that epitomizes every horror film cliché pursuing helpless American victims.

The screenplay tries to position the Americans as slightly villainous as well, having conspired to steal the country’s clean drinking water, or something like that.

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So, I guess that is the filmmaker’s attempt to make the Asian attackers something less than an entirely racist, stereotypical depiction of people of the East? They have a reason to be nastier than Jason from the Friday the 13th movies, don’t they? Evil America has stolen their water.

Hey, at least movies like Rambo are cocky enough to name their villains and lay it out on the table rather than making the villains anonymous. The enemy territory in this movie is just a short boat ride away from Vietnam, so I guess it’s Thailand (where the film was banned). The script originally stated Cambodia as the locale, but that changed. So now it’s just a mean Asian country that shall remain unnamed.

That’s cowardly filmmaking.

Wilson, in a departure from his comedic and dramatic roles, delivers an admirable performance, even if it is a wasted one. He’s done the running-likehell thing before, most notably in the awful Behind Enemy Lines. It’s a little ridiculous how his engineer character suddenly becomes an awesome ass-kicker in the name of survival.

Bell, a comedic actress who is epic in the new Wet Hot American Summer Netflix series, shows she is far more than a laugh machine.

She convincingly portrays somebody unlucky enough to have a stupid husband who takes her to an anonymous Asian country where her children almost plunge to their deaths and she is nearly raped.

Again, it’s some good acting work for a film that doesn’t deserve her.

Rounding out the cast is Pierce Brosnan as a friendly tourist who isn’t what he seems. A moment where his character flies into action to save the day is probably the most ridiculous one in the movie.

Nevertheless, the movie is always a little better when Brosnan is on screen.

If anything, this movie might give a few folks planning to shift their careers and families oversees second thoughts, especially if those folks traffic in bottled water. No Escape is the sort of film that gets dumped into late summer with hopes that most will just turn their brains off and refrain from scrutinizing the plot points and characterizations.

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Jesse Eisenberg, having himself a great summer with his career best performance in The End of the Tour, spreads his wings a bit as a stoner with a secret in this sporadically fun film from director Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) and writer Max Landis (Chronicle). While enjoying a fine cup of soup, convenience store clerk Mike Howell (Eisenberg) notices some dudes monkeying with his car. Seconds later, he’s killing people with a spoon. Mike’s girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart, kicking mortal ass) is concerned about her beau, who has suddenly attained the ability to wipe out people with robot precision.

I will not tell you why. You have to see the movie to find out why. The film has a great premise, and could’ve been a classic dark comedy. Unfortunately, it leans a little too heavy towards the dark side in its second half and goes light on the laughs. Eisenberg and Stewart rise above any of the tonal problems and story lags to make the movie something worth seeing.

Stewart just gets better with every movie she shows up in. I think her Bella-Lag is wearing off for sure. Eisenberg plays his part like an ignorant, coiled rattlesnake, and he’s actually appropriately scary at times. Again, a fun film for most of its running time, but it could’ve been something really special.

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

A 15 year-old girl winds up in a relationship with her mother’s boyfriend, a man in his 30s, in this justifiably uncomfortable and very nicely acted film from director-screenwriter Marielle Heller. Bel Powley is fantastic as Minnie, a dark, awkward teen living in San Francisco doodling strange things in her sketch book and losing her virginity to Monroe (a never-been-better Alexander Skarsgard) behind her mom’s (an excellent Kristen Wiig) back. The film handles the completely illegal relationship in a way that works out fine in the end, but it’s a little rough at times. Skarsgard pulls out all the stops as a charming moron, while Wiig kills it in the scene where she finds out what’s going on. Powley, who is actually seven years older than her character, captures the essence of a teenager who’s getting a little ahead of herself and might not be altogether stable for a myriad of reasons. Heller infuses the film with interesting animated sequences, and does a nice job recreating 1970s San Francisco. It’s a good movie, but it certainly isn’t for everybody.

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The End of the Tour

Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky’s account of his interview with David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, gets a very fine film starring Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky and Jason Segel in a surprising, non-comedic turn as Wallace. The movie is beautiful in that it’s so eloquent in the way it shows two young writers simply talking to one another about their craft, and deftly illustrates how Wallace thought and spoke thanks to an incredible performance from Segel. The film chronicles the final days of Wallace’s book tour, a time where he was trying to learn how to deal with the perils of sudden success. It’s heartbreaking in that we viewers know what fate awaits Wallace 12 years after their meeting. It touches upon the sadness and problems that plagued Wallace and eventually led him to suicide, made most evident when the two square off over Wallace’s college sweetheart (Mickey Sumner).

Segel and Eisenberg make this particular moment an uncomfortable and even scary one. Segel, without outright declaring what his afflictions were, gives us real insight into the insecurities and conflicts that beat Wallace down in the end. Directed by James Ponsoldt, who is on a hot streak with this and prior films The Spectacular Now and Smashed, the film offers nice insight into the sudden fame that Wallace achieved, and the journalist who was fascinated by it.

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The Gift

Joel Edgerton writes, directs and stars in this capable thriller about the perils of bullying and moving back to your home state.

Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall play Simon and Robin, a married couple returning to California where Simon has a new job. While shopping for throw pillows, they run into Gordo (Edgerton), a high school pal who Simon doesn’t seem to remember at first. Gordo goes out of his way to welcome the new couple, dropping by the house uninvited, stocking their pond with fish and basically creeping out Simon. As the film progresses,

more is revealed about Simon, his past with Gordo, and his current dishonesty. Bateman, who usually opts for more comedic roles, is very good as a man who thinks he has control of his domain, and thinks he can get away with habitual fibbing. Hall is terrific as the wife who can’t help but feel a little sorry for Gordo. Edgerton is creepy and somehow sympathetic as the strange man of the past who wants Simon to remember him in the worst way. Edgerton shows that he can write a screenplay with some good twists, direct it so there are plenty of surprises, and act it so that it’s good and scary. A true triple threat.

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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt. This time around, he’s hanging from airplanes, performing overly long tasks underwater, and riding a motorcycle again. Everything he does is in service of a convoluted plot involving some sort of evil syndicate of international agents. All sorts of nationalities are in on the evil, but the United Kingdom is especially nasty in this one, giving the whole thing a little bit of a James Bond vibe. Simon Pegg’s role is increased this time out, his computer analyst guy becoming Hunt’s sidekick. Newcomer to the series Alec Baldwin gets a couple of good scenes as the CIA guy trying to eradicate Hunt’s agency. Rebecca Ferguson is impressive as an English agent who may or may not be a villain and, yes, is quite decent-looking in a bikini. Jeremy Renner is around to crack wise as he messes with Baldwin’s character, while Ving Rhames still gets to collect a paycheck. As for Emilio Estevez, sadly, he’s still dead after his elevator accident in the first film. This is my least favorite M:I yet, but it’s still a good film. Things feel a little by-the-numbers, but Cruise is a crazy bastard willing to go all out for his movies, and this installment is no exception. The dude is nuts, and we, the movie-viewing public, benefit from this.

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Straight Outta Compton

I watched the entirety of this thrilling new N.W.A. biopic, not knowing that Ice Cube’s son was playing Ice Cube. It’s not like the guy is named Ice Cube, Jr. He’s actually named O’Shea Jackson Jr., his dad’s birth name with a Jr. tacked on to the end. Jackson, Jr. is the No. 1 reason to see Compton, a blast of a film that chronicles the rise of rap group N.W.A., the eventual infighting, and the birth of some gigantic solo careers and record labels. Along with Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell is a revelation as Eazy-E, and Corey Hawkins provides a nice anchor as Dr. Dre. The film works best when covering the early days and the creation of the legendary album that shares the movie’s title. It also spends plenty of time on the band’s management problems with Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti in a moderately distracting wig), and Eazy-E’s eventual death from AIDS. At a running time of 180 minutes, plenty of ground gets covered, and covered in a way that never gets boring. This is a solid cinematic time capsule that gives some deserved glory to an influential group that forever changed the landscape of hip-hop and brought much needed attention to a very troubled part of the world. It does the band, and the biopic genre in general, proud.

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Trainwreck

The hilarious Amy Schumer gets her first starring vehicle with a screenplay she wrote under the directorial tutelage of Judd Apatow and costarring Bill Hader. I would say this movie signals the arrival of Schumer as a cinematic force to be reckoned with. She plays Amy, a magazine writer playing the field in New York and doing it rather sloppily. When she’s assigned a story covering a sports medicine doctor (Hader), she unexpectedly falls for the guy, which puts into flux her whole plan to just fool around with a lot of people. Schumer has crafted a pretty run-of-the-mill romantic comedy plotline with her screenplay, peppered with sometimes beautifully shocking profanity.

She shows that she has the ability to nail the laughs, but she can also bring the emotional stuff, too. She has a funeral scene that is, dare I say, sublime. Hader is his always-terrific self as the shell-shocked boyfriend just trying to bring some stability into Amy’s life, and Colin Quinn is terrific as her retirement home-dwelling father.

The story is a little weak and predictable, but Schumer and Hader are awesome together, so that makes this very much worthwhile.

Pulling strings Sierra Nevada Balalaika Society Sometimes a balalaika is just a balalaika. Yet, to many, the stringed instrument represents a progression of Russian by Kent Irwin history best left unspoken—it’s better to hear the music than the stories, which tell of a divide in the historical identity of Russians.

Rich Bremenour plays accordion for the Reno-based Sierra Nevada Balalaika Society, a 23-year-old collective of musicians who play traditional Slavic music. He admits that the times the group has been controversial, the complaints have come from somewhere unexpected. It might seem that older Americans who grew up during the Cold War might object to hearing something they perceive as the music of the enemy, the voice of communism. However, Bremenour has received a different type of criticism.

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instrument played by workers and farmers, and thus, a symbol of Soviet ideals.

Somehow, the political symbolism of the balalaika doesn’t feel relevant when listening to the music of the Sierra Nevada Balalaika Society.

Far from inciting a riot, Bremenour says the group’s performances do what music does best, bring people together, and allows them to relax and enjoy themselves.

“It’s very lively,” said Bremenour.

“A happy kind of music.”

Beyond the music’s innate power to encourage fellowship, Society members are vocal in their inclusion of anyone, regardless of their background, to become involved and to come to performances. They are a multi-ethnic, non-political organization. The only requirement of its members is a passion and interest in the music of the balalaika.

The Sierra Nevada Balalaika Society is part of a larger affiliation, called the Balalaika and Domra Association of America. As a result, cross-pollination from across the nation has breathed fresh air into the group. At one time, the SNBS intersected with renowned Moldovan accordionist Nikolai Prisacar, who recently performed to sold-out crowds at Les Claypool’s winery. Bremenour recalls the man as a unique talent, if a bit totalitarian.

“He would say, ‘Practice at 6:30.

That means 6:30 we play our first notes,’” recalled Bremenour.

During Prisacar’s reign, Bremenour said the group gained a lot of insight into the way the music should be performed.

“It’s is filled with great dynamic shifts, and dynamic pauses,” said new accordion recruit Ed Lifur. “Much of it is very fast.”

The music of the balalaika is characterized by shifts—in tempo, key and through numerous political associations over the years. It is an icon, representing the transformation of a culture. It has the potential to change the rhythm of its listener’s thoughts.

“Accomplished musicians will respond to the tempo and key changes,” said Bremenour. “Nikolai would say ‘I don’t care what notes you play, as long as you play them on time.’” Ω

“We’ve gotten in trouble for a song we play called ‘Tsar’s Anthem,’” said Bremenour. “Some Russian folks said that we shouldn’t play it.”

These complaints are emblematic of the balalaika’s ironic turns as a cultural symbol. According to the Sierra Nevada Balalaika Society, the instrument is of Asiatic origin, brought to Russia through the Mongol campaigns. The body of the instrument was later developed into the iconic triangular shape, with seven different sizes ranging from the large deep contrabass to the handheld piccolo.

From its origins as a symbol of conquest, the instrument became an icon of Russian identity, as the last few decades of the Tsardom were accompanied by official balalaika orchestras. This is the era recalled by “Tsar’s Anthem,” which has since become a center of controversy.

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the instrument’s symbolism shifted yet again. It came to represent the voice of the proletariat, a village

Rich Bremenour and Ed Lifur of Sierra Nevada Balalaika Society love their "very lively ... happy music."

For more information, visit sierrabalalaika. com.

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3RD STREET 3RDW. STREET 125 Third St., (775) 323-5005

FRIDAY 9/4 FRIDAY 9/4

SATURDAY 9/5 SATURDAY 9/5 Audio Sky, 9pm, no cover Audio Sky, 9pm, no cover

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

5 STAR SALOON 5 STAR SALOON 132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

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

Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Primus and the Primus andFactory the Chocolate Chocolate Factory Sept. 7, 8 p.m.

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8 p.m. Resort Grand7,Sierra Grand Resort 2500 E.Sierra Second St. 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000 789-2000

10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626 816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES BRASSERIE 901 S. Center St.,ST. (775)JAMES 348-8888 901 S. Center St., (775) 348-8888

CEOL IRISH PUB CEOL IRISHSt.,PUB 538 S. Virginia (775) 329-5558 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

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

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: 3rd Comedy Street,Night 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, Comedy & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, Night no cover W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson Nugget, N. Carson St.,Flynn, Carson City,507 882-1626: Jackie Carson 882-1626: Jackie Flynn, F, 7:30pm,City, $13-$15 7:30pm,at$13-$15 The F,Improv Harveys Cabaret, Harveys The Lake Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Lake Tahoe, Stateline,Th-F, (800) 553-1022: Bob Zany, Kat Simmons, Su, 9pm, $25; Bob Zany,10pm, Kat Simmons, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, $30; NickTh-F, Griffin, Sa, 8pm,Schell, 10pm,W,$30; Ronnie 9pm,Nick $25Griffin, Ronnie Schell, at W, 9pm, Laugh Factory Silver$25Legacy Resort Laugh Factory Resort Casino, 407at N. Silver VirginiaLegacy St., 325-7401: Casino, 407F-Sa, N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Tom Wilson, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45Tom Wilson, F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45$32.95; Su, 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95 $32.95; Su,Comedy 7:30pm, at $21.95-$27.95 Reno-Tahoe Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, 100Flynn, S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Jackie F-Sa, 9pm, 686-6600: $12-$17 Jackie Flynn, F-Sa, 9pm, $12-$17

DJ Neptune, 5pm, no cover DJ Neptune, 5pm, no cover

BAR-M-BAR BAR-M-BAR 816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

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

Comedy Comedy

SUNDAY 9/6 SUNDAY 9/6

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

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

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

The Socks!, 6pm, no cover The Socks!, 6pm, no cover Open Jam Jazz Night w/First Take Open JamRick JazzMetz, Night7:30pm, w/First no Takecover featuring featuring Rick Metz, 7:30pm, no cover

FREIGHT HOUSE DISTRICT FREIGHT HOUSE DISTRICT 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7041 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7041

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

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

Keith Shannon, 9pm, no cover Keith Shannon, 9pm, no cover

Songwriters in the Round, Songwriters in the Round, 6pm, no cover 6pm, no cover Julie Courtney & Doug Nichols, Julie 6pm,Courtney no cover & Doug Nichols, 6pm, no cover Soul Connection, 9pm, no cover Soul Connection, 9pm, no cover

The Fantods, 7pm, no cover The Fantods, 7pm, no cover

Jason King Band, 9pm, no cover Jason KingAces Band,ticket 9pm, no cover with Reno with Reno Aces ticket

Trey Stone Band, 8pm, no cover Trey Stone Band, 8pm, no cover

Thee Orbiters, 7pm, no cover Thee Orbiters, 7pm, no cover

THE GRID BAR & GRILL THEN.GRID BARKings & GRILL 8545 Lake Blvd., Beach; (530) 546-0300 Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL HARRY’S BAR & GRILL 1100 E. PlumbSPORTS Ln., (775) 828-7665

Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover Traditional Irish Tune Session, Traditional Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, noIrish cover 7pm, Tu, no cover CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover CW Spoons, M, $5 no cover Mile and HighMr. Jazz Band, noon, 8pm, Tu, Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5

Paisley Brain Cells, 7pm, no cover Paisley Brain Cells, 7pm, no cover Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088

Monday Night Open Mic, Monday Open Mic, 8pm, M, Night no cover 8pm, M, no cover

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

DJ Fierce, 9pm, no cover DJ 9pm, ticket no cover withFierce, Reno Aces with Reno Aces ticket Live flamenco guitar music, Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover 5:30pm, no cover

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

Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover

The Iron Age, 9pm, no cover The Iron Age, 9pm, no cover

Brood Witch, 9:30pm, no cover Brood Witch, 9:30pm, no cover

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

GREAT BASIN BREWING CO. GREAT BASIN BREWING CO. 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

Krystal McMullen, 9pm, no cover Krystal McMullen, 9pm, no cover

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DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover DG Tu, no AfterKicks, Mic, 9pm, 11:30pm, W, cover no cover After Mic, 11:30pm, W, no cover

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

Canyon White Open Mic Night, Canyon 8pm, noWhite coverOpen Mic Night, 8pm, no cover Open mic, 7pm, no cover Open mic, 7pm, no cover

1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

HIMMEL HAUS HIMMEL HAUS 3819 Saddle Rd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 314-7665

Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Open Mic Night, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm,9pm, W, noM,cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

3819 Saddle Rd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 314-7665

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THE THE HOLLAND HOLLAND PROJECT PROJECT 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

Diet Cig, Boy on Guitar, Taste Buds, Roo, Diet Cig, 8pm, $5 Boy on Guitar, Taste Buds, Roo, 8pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

JUB JUB JUB’S JUB’S THIRST THIRST PARLOR PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

FRIDAY FRIDAY 9/4 9/4

SATURDAY SATURDAY 9/5 9/5

Husalah, 9pm, $15 Husalah, 9pm, $15

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

SUNDAY SUNDAY 9/6 9/6

North, 8pm, M, $5 North, 8pm, M,7:30pm, $5 Spoken Views, W, $5 Spoken Views, 7:30pm, W, $5

American Dischord, 10pm, $TBA American Dischord, 10pm, $TBA

Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover

THE THE JUNGLE JUNGLE 246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

Outspoken: Open Mic Night, Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover 7pm, M, no cover

246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484

KNITTING KNITTING FACTORY FACTORY CONCERT CONCERT HOUSE HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

Wade Bowen, Sam Outlaw, Wade & Bowen, Sam Outlaw, Jones Fischer, 8pm, $14-$25 Jones & Fischer, 8pm, $14-$25

211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

THE THE LOVING LOVING CUP CUP 188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

The Lucent Dossier Experience, The Lucent Dossier Experience, 8:30pm, W, $25-$50 8:30pm, W, $25-$50

Reno Jazz Syndicate, 8pm, no cover Reno Jazz Syndicate, 8pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover

MIDTOWN MIDTOWN WINE WINE BAR BAR 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-1377

Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, no cover no cover

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-1377

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

Darcy Kathleen, 8pm, no cover Darcy Kathleen, 8pm, no cover

The Bitter Diamonds, 8:30pm, no cover The Bitter Diamonds, 8:30pm, no cover

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

Sept. 9, 8:30 p.m.

Sept. 9, 8:30 p.m.

Knitting Factory Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648 323-5648

Shamrockit Open Mic Night, Shamrockit Open Mic Night, 6pm, no cover 6pm, no cover

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

PADDY PADDY & & IRENE’S IRENE’S IRISH IRISH PUB PUB 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484

The The Lucent Lucent Dossier Dossier Experience Experience

The Bitter Diamonds, 8:30pm, no cover The Bitter Diamonds, 8:30pm, no cover

O’SKIS O’SKIS PUB PUB & & GRILLE GRILLE 840 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 359-7547

Acoustic Wonderland Singer-Songwriter Acoustic Wonderland Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 8pm, no cover Showcase, 8pm, no cover

POLO POLO LOUNGE LOUNGE 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

Karaoke w/Cyco Mike, 9pm, no cover Karaoke w/Cyco Mike, 9pm, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

RED RED DOG DOG SALOON SALOON 76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, W, no cover Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, W, no cover

76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

RUBEN’S RUBEN’S CANTINA CANTINA 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover

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

Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover

RYAN’S RYAN’S SALOON SALOON 924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

Blues Jam Thursday, 7pm, no cover Blues Jam Thursday, 7pm, no cover

219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466

ST. ST. JAMES JAMES INFIRMARY INFIRMARY 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO STUDIO ON ON 4TH 4TH 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

The Tallent Brothers, Field Division, The Allfree, Tallent Brothers, Ben 8pm, $5 Field Division, Ben Allfree, 8pm, $5

WILDFLOWER WILDFLOWER VILLAGE VILLAGE 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769

1) The Writers’ Block Open Mic,

1) ThenoWriters’ 7pm, cover Block Open Mic, 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret 7pm, no cover 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret

Local Music Night w/local bands Local bands or localMusic DJs,Night 9pm, w/local no cover or local DJs, 9pm, no cover

Dance party, 9pm, no cover Dance party, 9pm, no cover

Dance Uprising, 9pm, no cover Dance Uprising, 9pm, no cover

Ritual (industrial, EBM, ’80s) w/DJs Rusty, Ritual Darkness, (industrial,John EBM,Potter, ’80s) w/DJs Rusty, David 9pm, $3-$5 David Darkness, John Potter, 9pm, $3-$5

1) Reno Music Project Open Mic, 1) Reno 7pm, no Music cover Project Open Mic, 7pm, no cover

Dave Dave Matthews Matthews Band Band Sept. 9, 7 p.m.

Sept. 9, 7 p.m.

Harveys Lake Tahoe Harveys Lake Tahoe 18 Highway 50 18 Highway 50 Stateline Stateline 588-6611 588-6611

Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

SINGER SINGER SOCIAL SOCIAL CLUB CLUB 219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 9/7-9/9 9/7-9/9

Origami Ghosts, Elspeth Summers, Origami Ghosts, Summers, John White, 8pm,Elspeth $5 John White, 8pm, $5

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, Reno Beer and TuesdayClub Nightw/guest Trivia, 8pm, Tu, Reno Beer and Record DJs, 9pm, W, no cover Record Club w/guest DJs, 9pm, W, no cover

3) Jack Di Carlo, 2pm, no cover 3) Jack Di Carlo, 2pm, no cover

1) Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 1) Comedy Hour Open Mic, 8pm, Tu, noPower cover 3) Jamming with 8pm,Saxon, Tu, no7pm, coverW,3)noJamming Ray cover with Ray Saxon, 7pm, W, no cover

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September 4th hUSALAh

MONDAy $2 well drinks, $2 Corona & Corona lt.

September 6th

TUESDAy $3.50 well mosCow mules, $4.50 kettle one mosCow mules

American Discord + tbA

September 11th

WEDNESDAy $3.50 Craft beers, $4 patron

Fruit Juice and hexashooter

ThURSDAy $2.50 domestiC drafts, $3.50 JaCk fire

September 12th

FRIDAy & SATURDAy $6 double JaCks, $4 Jameson

September 13th

BAND LINEUP: wednesday, september 2 Open Jam Night 8-11pm

Contortion, Scattered & Quarin

Chrysalis

September 18th

Adrian marcel, Keyrings & edabangh

September 19th p.O.D. & ethan Cates

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

CARSON VALLEY INN CARSON VALLEY 1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; INN (775) 782-9711

Super Diamond Super Diamond Sept. 4, 9 p.m.

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Crystal Bay Club Crystal Bay28 Club 14 Highway 14 Highway Crystal Bay28 Club Crystal 833-6333Bay Club 833-6333

Karaoke Karaoke Cobra Lounge at Asian Noodles, 1290 E. Cobra Lounge Noodles, E. Plumb Lane, at Ste.Asian 1, 828-7227: Cash1290 Karaoke Plumb Lane,Simard, Ste. 1, Sa, 828-7227: Karaoke w/Jacques 8pm, noCash cover w/Jacques Simard, Sa, 8pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, La Morena 2140Nite/Karaoke, Victorian Ave.,F, Sparks, 772-2475:Bar, College 7pm, 772-2475: no cover College Nite/Karaoke, F, 7pm, no cover Money Bar/Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 Money Bar/Murphy’s Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste.Law 1070,Irish 823-9977: W. Peckham Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Singing in theLane, Summer Karaoke Contest Singing in the Summer Karaoke Contest w/Steve Starr, DJ Hustler, F through 9/4, w/Steve 10pm, noStarr, coverDJ Hustler, F through 9/4, 10pm, no cover Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, 551 E. Moana Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, E. Moana Lane, 200-0635: Singing in the 551 Summer Lane, 200-0635: the Summer Karaoke Contest Singing w/SteveinStarr, DJ Hustler, Karaoke Contest w/Steve Starr, DJ Hustler, Sa through 9/5, 9pm, no cover Sa through 9/5, 9pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Spiro’s & Grille, 1475 F-Sa, E. Prater Way, Sports Ste. 103,Bar Sparks, 356-6000: Way, 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, Ste. no cover 9pm, no cover Uncle Vinny’s Pizza, 1560 S. Stanford Way, Uncle Vinny’s Pizza,Singing 1560 S.inStanford Way, Sparks, 356-1400: the Summer Sparks, SingingStarr, in theDJSummer Karaoke 356-1400: Contest w/Steve Hustler, Karaoke Contest w/Steve Starr, DJ Hustler, Th through 9/3, 6pm, no cover Th through 9/3, 6pm, no cover

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2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover 2) Escalade, 8pm, no cover

1) Bob Newhart, 8:30pm, $55-$65 1) Newhart, $55-$65 2) Bob Escalade, 4pm,8:30pm, no cover 2) coverno cover TheEscalade, Palmore 4pm, Remix,no10pm, The Palmore Remix, 10pm, no cover

2) Escalade, 4pm, no cover 2) coverno cover TheEscalade, Palmore 4pm, Remix,no10pm, The Palmore Remix, 10pm, no cover

2) The Palmore Remix, 8pm, no cover 2) The Palmore Remix, 8pm, no cover

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

2) River Road, 7pm, no cover

2) River Road, 8pm, no cover 2) River Road, 8pm, no cover

2) River Road, 8pm, no cover 2) River Road, 8pm, no cover

1) Super Diamond, 9pm, $20-$25 1) Super Diamond, 9pm, $20-$25

2) Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, 2) Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

2) Spiritual Rez, 10pm, no cover 2) Spiritual Rez, 10pm, no cover

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm,10:30pm, $26.95+no cover 1) Saltoriya 2) Garage Boys, 2) 10:30pm, 3) Garage DJ Roni Boys, Romance, 9pm,no nocover cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, 9:30pm, $26.95+ 1) Saltoriya , 7pm,10:30pm, 9:30pm, no $26.95+ 2) Garage Boys, cover 2) 10:30pm, 3) Garage DJ Roni Boys, Romance, 9pm,no nocover cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm,10:30pm, $26.95+no cover 1) Saltoriya 2) Garage Boys, 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Mario Lopez, 10pm, $10 2) 3) Mario Boots Lopez, & Daisy10pm, Dukes$10 w/DJ Jamie G, 3) Boots Daisy Dukes w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no & cover 10pm, no cover

2) Lex Saturdays, 10pm, $15-$25 2) Saturdays, 10pm, $15-$25 3) Lex County Social Saturdays 3) County Saturdays w/DJ JamieSocial G, 10pm, no cover w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

1) West Bay Rhythm, 9:30pm, no cover 1) West Bay Rhythm, 9:30pm, no cover

1) Skid Row, 9pm, $40 1) Skid Row, 9pm, $40

1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40 , 8pm, $30-$40 1) Frank 3) JackieMarino’s Landrum,Divas 8pm, no cover 3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm, no cover

1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40 1) Frank , 8pm, $30-$40 3) JackieMarino’s Landrum,Divas 8pm, no cover 3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm, no cover

1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40 1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40

1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 1) Frank 8pm, M, Marino’s $30-$40 Divas, 8pm, M, $30-$40

1) Sammy Hagar and the Circle, 1) Sammy$69.50 Hagar and the Circle, 7:30pm, 7:30pm, $69.50

2) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover 2) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

1) Dave Matthews Band, 7pm, W, $85 1) Band,M,7pm, W, $85 2) Dave Cash Matthews Only, 9:30pm, no cover 2) Cash Only, 9:30pm, M, no cover

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

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

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO ELDORADO RESORT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700

345 N. Virginia2)St., 786-5700 1) Showroom Brew(775) Brothers 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin

GRAND SIERRA RESORT GRAND SIERRA RESORT 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm,10:30pm, $26.95+no cover 1) Saltoriya 2) Garage Boys, 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover Honky Tonk Thursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 2500 E. Second 789-20003) Sports Book 3) 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) (775) Lex Nightclub 3) Honky 10pm, no Tonk coverThursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

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

50 Hwy.2)50,Outdoor Stateline; (844) 1) Vinyl Arena 3) 588-7625 Splash Day Club 1) Vinyl 2) Outdoor Arena 3) Splash Day Club

1) Rock on! Live Band Karaoke, 1) Rock Live Band Karaoke, 9pm, noon! cover 9pm, no cover

HARRAH’S RENO HARRAH’S RENO 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900

1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40 219 N. CenterShowroom St., (775)2)788-2900 1) Sammy’s The Zone 1) Frank Marino’s Divas, 8pm, $30-$40 1) Showroom 2) The 3) Sammy’s Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Zone Convention Center 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE HARVEYS LAKE (775) TAHOE 18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 588-6611

18 Hwy. 50,Arena Stateline; (775)Wabo 588-6611 1) Outdoor 2) Cabo Cantina Lounge 1) Outdoor Arena 2) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge

NUGGET CASINO RESORT NUGGET 1100 Nugget CASINO Ave., Sparks;RESORT (775) 356-3300 1100 Nugget Showroom Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity 1) Showroom 2) Celebrity Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO PEPPERMILL SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St.,RESORT (775) 826-2121 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 1) Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Tuscany Edge 4) Capri Ballroom 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom

SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO SILVER LEGACY RESORT 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 CASINO

407 N. Virginia St., Hall (775)2) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Rum Bullions Island Bar 1) Grand Exposition Hall4)2)Silver Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge Baron Lounge 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

2) Rob West, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover 2) Rob West, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) Saltoriya, 7pm Tu, W, $26.95+ 2) Live Band , 7pmM,Tu,DJW,Chris $26.95+ 2) Live Band 1) Saltoriya Karaoke, 10pm, English, 10pm, Karaoke, 10pm, M,10:30pm DJ ChrisW,English, 10pm, Tu, Cash Presley, no cover Tu, Cash Presley, 10:30pm W, no cover 2) Rob Garza, Brass Tax, 10pm, M, $10 2) Garza, Tax, 10pm, M, $10 4) Rob Primus and Brass the Chocolate Factory 4) Primus andEnsemble, the Chocolate Factory w/The Fungi 8pm, M, w/The Fungi Thomas Ensemble, 8pm, M, Tu, $20 $37.50-$40, Jack, 8pm, $37.50-$40, Thomas Jack, 8pm, Tu, $20

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,8pm, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,8pm, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,8pm, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,8pm, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, no cover Jessie Leigh Band, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Keyser Soze, 7pm, no cover 2) Keyser Soze, 7pm, no cover

2) Keyser Soze, Chris Murray, 2) Keyser Soze, Chris Murray, 8pm, no cover 8pm, cover 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm 3) FixxnoFridays, 3) Fixx Fridays, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm

2) Keyser Soze, The Debonaires, 2) Keyser Soze, The Debonaires, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

2) Mark Sexton Band, 6pm, no cover 2) Mark Sexton Band, 6pm, no cover

2) Mark Sexton Band, 2) Mark Band, 6pm, M, Sexton Tu, W, no cover 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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

3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover

1) Bill Engvall, 8pm, $55.50-$69.50 1) Engvall,Saturdays, 8pm, $55.50-$69.50 3) Bill Seduction 9pm, $5 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

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

2) Trey Valentine’s Backstage Karaoke, 2) TreyTu,Valentine’s 8pm, no cover Backstage Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover 9pm, W, no cover

For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno Events 43RD ANNUAL LAST BASH SHOW-N-SHINE: The car show is open to all pre-1972 vehicles and motorcycles and features a complimentary continental breakfast, special awards, dash plaques, raffles, games and food trucks. Sa, 9/5, 9am-3pm. $20.

Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 742-9522, www.obsoleteironcarclub.com.

ART WALK RENO: The monthly art walk features works of local and regional artists on display in venues within the Arts District, between Liberty Street and Second Street and Virginia Street and Arlington Avenue. The walk officially begins at 5 p.m. at Liberty Fine Art Gallery, 100 W. Liberty St., where you can purchase a ticket for $10, which includes a glass, raffle ticket and program for the evening. There are 18 stops in the art walk, including Sierra Arts Gallery, Noble Pie Parlor, Singer Social Club and Neapolitan Gallery, inside the Monolith Bar. There will also be food and drink specials from participating businesses along the way. A portion of all proceeds from Art Walk Reno will be donated to nonprofit groups focused on art, education and community. First Th of every month, 5-9pm. $10. Liberty Fine Art, 100 W. Liberty St., (775) 232-8079, http://artspotreno. com/art-walk-reno.

ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: Art, jewelry and crafts from more than 300 local artists.

Sa, 9/5, 11am-4pm; Su, 9/6, 11am-4pm.

Reno Town Mall, 4001 S. Virginia St., (775) 224-2242, www.renotownmall.com/ events/2015/9/5/arts-crafts-fair-atreno-town-mall.

BEST IN THE WEST NUGGET RIB COOK-OFF: Rib cookers from across the nation will compete for cash prizes and the title “Best Ribs in the West” during the 27th annual cook-off. The end-of-summer event includes the Nugget World Rib Eating Championship, live music on several outdoor stages, arts and craft vendors and a kids’ area. W-Su,

11am-9pm through 9/6; M, 9/7, 12-5pm.

Free admission. Victorian Square, 14th Street and Pyramid Way Along Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300, http://nuggetribcookoff.com.

BURNING MAN: Tens of thousands of people will gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-reliance and self-expression. M-Su through 9/7. $390 and up. Black Rock City, nine miles northeast of Gerlach in the Black Rock Desert, http://burningman.org.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINICH: The

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.

Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist lowincome families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. First come, first served. Th, 10am-noon. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

RAIL CITY FARMERS’ MARKET: The boutique market will offer fresh produce and products from local farms and food purveyors, including Snyder Family Farms, Workman Farms, Sand Hill Dairy, the Bakery Gallery and Mitchell Pickle Packing Company. Su, 10am-2pm through 9/27. Free admission. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way, Sparks, (775) 355-1551, www.railcitygardencenter.com.

FEED THE CAMEL: The family-friendly food truck event features mobile food purveyors, libations and arts. W, 5-8pm through 9/30. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 450-0062, www.facebook.com/pages/Feed-TheCamel/256832417824677?fref=ts.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The festival expands its season with The Summer Encore Showcase, Aug. 27–Sept. 12. M-Su through 9/12. $15 and up. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

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

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FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Pinhole

highlights the talent of the Sierra Nevada via food, wine, beer, spirits, produce and art. Sample the Sierra pairs producers and farmers with restaurants, chefs, wineries, breweries and distilleries. Each dish is prepared with local ingredients and then paired with a complimentary drink. Su, 9/6, 12-5pm. $30-$40, free for kids under age 3. Bijou Community Park, 1099 Al Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, (775) 588-1728 ext.

312, www.samplethesierra.com.

Project: Photos from the Playa, Pinhole Project photographers document the people, art and events at Burning Man each year, while they teach others to explore their creativity through this 100-yearold technique of pinhole photography. The reception is at 4 p.m. on Sept.

8. M-F through 10/1. Free.

1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

SAMPLE THE SIERRA FARM-TO-FORK POP UP: The pop-up dinner features chefs Josh and Whitney Deri of Blend Catering offering four courses consisting of Nevada-grown ingredients paired with local wines. F, 9/4, 6-9pm. $75. Lake Tahoe Golf Course, 2500 Emerald Bay Road, South Lake Tahoe, (775) 588-1728; www.samplethesierra.com.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: SKEENO In Black & White & Words, Featuring photos by Gary Elam and Cari Marvelli, as well as flyers, fanzines, letters and an interactive community photo wall, the exhibit traces the roots of the Reno punk rock scene from its inception in 1979-1985. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 9/4. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

WEST OF WELLS WALKING TOUR: Walk the neighborhood west of Wells Avenue, along the former path of the V&T Railroad. See architecture unique to this neighborhood and learn the history of the colorful characters who gave birth to Reno’s neighborhood on the other side of the tracks. Reservations are required. Sa, 9/5, 9-11:30am. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. Silver Peak Restaurant & Brewery, 124 Wonder St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

bers and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 8268882.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Come into the library, find a table, grab a game and have some fun. Second and Fourth W of every month, 4:30-6:30pm. Free.

Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

RANCHING AT RANCHO: A free ranching-

“The Power of Plants.” W-Su, 10am-4pm through 9/13. Free. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

A DEVIL INSIDE: Reno Artists Theatre

Reception and Studio Tour, Twenty-two local artists in the Tahoe-Truckee area will open their studios to the public for two weekends in September during the 22nd annual ARTour. The artists represent a wide variety of media including watercolors, pastels, oils and acrylics, glass art, photography, ceramics and mixed media. F, 9/4, 10am-5pm. Free. 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 5812787, www.northtahoearts.com.

Stremmel Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Dutch artist Ewoud de Groot. The artist reception

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presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s comic and twisted journey of obsession and revenge. Th, 9/3, 7:30pm; F, 9/4, 7:30pm; Sa,

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themed open house in the main barn area. Each week features a new theme from goats to tractors and everything else in between. Kids can visit with resident chickens and turkeys, cool off inside the Discovery Room or enjoy pony rides for $5. Themed Ranching at Rancho activities will only be offered on Saturdays, but you can ride the ponies on Friday, Saturday or Sunday between 10am-1pm each week. M-Su, 10am-1pm through 11/21. Free admission; $5 for pony rides. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4512, www.washoecounty.us.

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Enjoy one last blast of summertime fun during this Labor Day weekend event, which merges the Fallon Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival and the Churchill County Country Fair. The festival celebrates Fallon’s agricultural past and present, showcases local talent and supports local businesses. Activities and attractions include fair exhibits, a children’s play area, a karaoke contest, 4-H club demonstrations and displays, the Lion’s Club Labor Day Parade and Jr. Rodeo, Civil War skirmishes performed by the Battle Born Civil War Reenactors, live music and a farmers’ market, featuring the Hearts of Gold cantaloupe, which were a popular variety of melon grown in Fallon during the early 20th century. The fair begins on Friday, Sept. 4, and runs through Monday, Sept. 7, at the Churchill County Fairgrounds, 325 Sheckler Road, Fallon. Gates are opens from 5 p.m. to midnight on Sept. 4, 9 a.m. to midnight on Sept. 5-6 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 7. Tickets are $10-$20. Free for kids 10 and under. Call (775) 294-7400 or visit falloncantaloupefestival.com.

Sleight Reception/ Watercolor Demo, Arts for All Nevada presents Discovering Art at Any Age: Watercolors from the Estate of Jerry Sleight at the Lake Mansion. Carol Johnson, a well-known local watercolorist, will discuss creativity at any age, as well as Jerry Sleight’s techniques and her own. The exhibit and demonstration is part of the monthly First Thursday Art Walk. Th, 9/3, 4-7pm. Free, donation appreciated. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

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Plants, Sierra Watercolor Society’s local artists exhibit their newest watercolor paintings on the theme of

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Luscious Abstracts and Plus 2, The abstract art gallery is open for the First Thursday Art and Wine Walk on Sept. 3, the Reno Wine Walk on Sept.

19 and for the Artists’ Open House on Sept.

20. Gallery hours are 1:30-6pm on Monday, 3:30-7pm Tuesday through Thursday, or by appointment. Th, 9/3,

The gourmet street food event features more than 25 gourmet food, craft desserts, beer, wine and mixed drinks vendors and live music. Relax in the park and bring your lawn chairs and a blanket. F, 5-9pm through 10/2. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665, www.facebook. com/RenoStreetFood.

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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.

ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE:

The Oink Off: Mt Rose Drinks invites the public to be the judge as their experts battle against each other. Along with free Bacon Bloody Marys, attendees can enjoy food from All Wrapped Up Food Truck. Mt Rose Drinks mixers will also be available for purchase. Proceeds raised from product purchases will be donated to the Boys & Girls Club. Th, 9/3, 5:30pm.

Free. 7 Troughs Distilling Co., 1155 Watson Way Ste. 5, Sparks, (646) 284-7731, www. mtrosedrinks.com.

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Tahoe: A Visual History, Experience Lake Tahoe landscapes through the eyes of 175 painters, photographers, architects, weavers and sculptors. The Nevada Museum of Art has organized the first major historical art survey exhibition of painting, Native baskets, photography, architecture and contemporary art dedicated to Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region.

TAHOE: A Visual History spans over two centuries of cultural and creative production related to the second largest freshwater alpine lake in the United States. W-Su through 1/10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

will be on Thursday, Sept. 10, from 5:307:30 p.m. Th, 9/10, 5:30-7:30pm; M-Sa through 10/3. Opens 9/10. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, www.stremmelgallery.com.

From Rockets and Rovers to Cars on Mars, This exhibit takes a look at America’s fascination with exploring new frontiers and the machines that make it possible. M-Su through 4/11. $4-$10, free for members and children age 5 and younger. Contact National Auto Museum (775) 333-9300, www. automuseum.org/exhibits for details on this exhibit. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

9/5, 7:30pm; Su, 9/6, 2pm; Th, 9/10, 7:30pm; F, 9/11, 7:30pm; Sa, 9/12, 7:30pm; Su, 9/13, 2pm. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Laughing Owl Productions, 75 S. Wells Ave., (775) 348-7091, http://renoartiststheatre.org.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA: Sierra School of Performing Arts presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical based on the magical fairy tale. F, 9/4, 7:30pm.

Varies. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Rd., (775) 852-7740, www.sierraschoolofperformingarts.org.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Tahoe: A Visual History, W-Su through 1/10. $1-$10.

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Wait lifting I’m a 37-year-old woman, and I’ve always been quick to have sex, but I’m trying to just “date” first. Well, I’ve been on five dates with this one guy, and all we’ve done is kiss. Now I’m beginning to think that he isn’t attracted to me or is put off by my past, which, unfortunately, I was honest about.

Try to think of this as artisanal dating. Maybe he’s finished building the bed out of antique Popsicle sticks but his carpal tunnel kicked in while he was killing the flock of ducks for the mattress or spinning the cotton for the sheets.

If that sounds like a stretch, well, it’s no more of one than your notion that the guy’s gone out with you five times because he finds you repellant or stays up nights picturing your sexual past (complete with barricades and rent-a-cops for crowd control). Do you think he’s enrolled in some underground rewards program, like you go out with a woman six times and you get a complimentary latte or maybe an iTunes gift card?

Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt point out that “human mating is inherently strategic.” Genetically, they explain, it’s generally in a man’s best interest to pursue a “short-term sexual strategy.” (Scientific journals and tenure committees frown on terms like “hit it and quit it.”) Basically, a man can limit his participation in sex to the fun part and still pass on his genes. Women coevolved to expect men to try for this sort of limited participation—so your bewilderment at his crossed legs isn’t exactly surprising. But a man can come to a point where a “long-term sexual strategy” becomes wiser, and it’s generally when he’s serious about finding a partner and not just a sex partner for the evening.

Note that the guy keeps coming to pick you up, and not because he is an Uber driver or is being held at gunpoint by your mother. You could say something to him—maybe, “Hey, I was really hoping you’d take me home one of these nights.” This may be the nudge he needs to make a move—or at least tell you what’s up.

And sure, it is within the realm of possibility that he has ED, an STD, low sexual desire, or a seriously small penis and is waiting until you’re emotionally attached to break out the news. But it’s also possible that you aren’t the only woman he’s seeing and he’s trying to be adult about it, meaning that he’s learned that many women get emotionally attached after sex. Sleeping with two women is a good way to end up with 28 | RN&R |

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a girlfriend—and one would-be girlfriend in the bushes with ricin-tipped blow darts or at least searching Yelp for the best-rated local assassins.

Wuthering fights My friend says that you only find out who somebody truly is when you break up with them. He suggests that I pick a few fights with anybody I’m dating so I can see their true colors. Is this really a wise idea?

If you really want to see what a person’s made of, after goading them into a fight, you might do a lung capacity test, like by holding them down and trying to drown them in a bathtub.

Though it seems an obviously bad idea to pick petty arguments, your friend has a point— that you don’t find out who somebody really is when the most pressing question they’re asked is, “Do you need a few more minutes to look at the menu, monsieur?” What comes out in the early stages of dating is temperament more than character. In social psychology, temperament is basically what “flavor” a person is—introverted or extroverted, loud or quiet, happy or glum. Character is values-driven behavior—meaning whether a person’s likely to do what’s right as opposed to what’s easiest.

Like if there’s a landslide, do they try to save you or just wave goodbye?

Character is mostly revealed in two ways: over time and through stress. To speed up the character revelation timetable, do challenging activities together—the sort in which “party manners” are hard to maintain: Camp. Go on a high-stakes scavenger hunt. Go on a juice fast. Go on a juice fast while camping. Who a person really is can’t help but come out when they’re in the middle of the woods with you, they haven’t eaten solid food in a week, and a hiker walks by with a bag of Doritos. It’s the little things that count—like how they lovingly brush that telltale orange dust out of your hair before the cops come. Ω

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According to my astrological projections, you’re a bit less lively and dynamic than usual. And you may be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behavior or resorting to a contrived show of force.

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nant woman, the fetus often begins to move for the first time during the fifth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterfly fluttering.

It’s small but dramatic: the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside of her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus’s first kicks. You’re not ready to give birth yet, of course, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the phase of

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your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release.

Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul’s code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic. (1) Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth, (2) identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit, (3) forgive everyone, including yourself, (4) play a joke on your fear, and (5) discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope you’re

not getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks.

I’m sorry if I sound like I’m sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear I’m simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens.

Your karma is extra sweet these days.

You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I’m afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you can’t bear to receive a few more buoyant beams.

This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting.

You’re expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

When 16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists, and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for over 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life. Although you’re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you

have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm. (1) What are your life’s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them? (2) Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? (3) What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

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

died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published more than 70 books. You’ve probably heard of his science fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form.

When he finished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his greatgrandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne’s “lost novel,” Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I enjoy using

the comedy technique of self-deprecation,” says stand-up comic Arnold Brown, “but I’m not very good at it.” Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don’t—especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are.

Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise and naked flattery.

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Progress Pam Russell A little more than a year ago we reported on the activities of the Women and Children’s Center of the Sierra, which trains women who have fallen off the track for high school equivalency, job hunting and other skills (“For want of a nail,” RN&R, June 26, 2014). We visited with Pam Russell for an update. (Italics represent emphasis in her tone of voice.)

Those needing training or wishing to contribute can get information from 3905 Neil Road, Suite 2, 825-7395, info@waccs.org.

How has the last year gone?

The year has been incredibly exciting. …

We’ve expanded services. In addition to our class schedules, we’re also able to help women at other times. For example, we had one woman, she got her HiSet [general equivalency diploma], and she couldn’t come at regular class times, and so teachers will come back and meet her so she could move forward, which was awesome. We had another woman—very bright woman—and she was on welfare and she hated welfare. She wanted a job, and she was going to get a job. She was inches away from from getting her HiSet. We worked with her for two weeks solid so she could pass, and she did. …

For moms who don’t have child care or friends who can take care of the kids, they can bring their children to class. We have

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We average 300 women and children a month. We give out approximately 10,000 diapers a month. There are weeks when we go home on Fridays and just crash because we have been incredibly busy. … The issue that I worry about most is diapers. … I know it’s not particularly businesslike, but we expand to serve what’s coming to us. And we make adjustments and maybe some of that back burner stuff doesn’t get done because we had 25 new women come that week. We’re here to help and do whatever it takes. … We are very, very flexible. If a woman can’t come to class for two weeks, she can’t. She comes back and starts backup. And even if somebody’s gone for six months or a year, we welcome them back. Ω

some amazing English-as-second-language classes going on. … We also had six sessions of STEM [science, technology, engineering, mathematics] camp here for our kids this summer and that was put on by Cooperative Extension. So we’re working on encouraging more children’s programming to help improve their literacy and their view of the world so they’re not necessarily stuck in poverty. Our Gateway to Success program is administered by Moshay Akala, who grew up in South Central L.A., so she had experienced living in poverty, and she is able to help women not only do the basic functions to get a job but to believe they can get a job. And since the program started in March of 2014, 78 women have secured employment.

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Burn after waiting Burning Man tried something new this year. At first, it seemed like a pretty good idea. But then, a world class CF broke out, rendering Highway 447 more constipated than Elvis.

This is the first year that the gates to the playa were opened Sunday morning at 10. Sounded good.

What’s not to like? Beats hell out of the traditional Sunday midnight opener. Who really wants to find their camp spot while wasted, tired, and in the dark?

The problem, however, was that if there are gonna be 70,000 folks burning this year, it looked like 66,000 of them wanted to get there Sunday noon. The resulting influx of traffic simply overwhelmed sleepy little two lane 447, creating a string of cars/RVs that was truly Woodstockian Alamontic.

Burning Man wasn’t unaware.

Their plan, it appeared, was to send cars to BRC in giant pulses of hundreds of vehicles at a time, so that there was some kind of vague order and control. The problem arose when it became obvious that

care. So certainly we are looking in that direction. We’re still on the low side of that budget, which is $175,000 a year, and that is covered predominantly by individual donations and grants, and so that’s where I put my focus, is to bring the funds in. … We have grown our staff which has helped greatly delivering services. … All our teachers are still volunteers. We could use another English-as-second-language teacher or two.

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the pulses couldn’t keep up with the incoming vehicles as they steadily poured in from Nixon. What you got, by about noon Sunday, was really kinda mind-boggling.

Lucky me was traveling south on 447 that day, heading to Sparks. My rough estimate is that from Empire south, the string of cars/RVs was 10 miles long? 15? 20? Whatever—it was impressive, to say the least.

And it’s not like I was going 55 or 75 in my southbound lane. No way.

Hundreds of cars had stopped, burners standing in the road, killing time in various ways. I eased on past at 20 to 25 mph, agog at the everlengthening line. So many people, wanting passionately to be in BRC on the first day, and now paying a brutal price for the attempt. They now realized they were part of a brand new B-Man Traffic Event.

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of vehicles to get from Wadsworth to Gerlach. EIGHT FREAKIN’ HOURS to go 75 miles!

One possible way to deal with this mess—Burning Man dictates arrival time with tickets. Sell 10,000 tix for $500 that let burners in Saturday noon. Sell 10k more at $475 for Saturday midnight. And so on, until 50,000 are in BRC. But that’s probably, for various reasons, unworkable.

Plan B is simple. And positively bulletproof. Go out Monday afternoon. In other words, don’t be an excitable lemming, all crazy to get there on day one. People I know who went this year on Monday drove from Reno to the playa in 2.5 hours.

Delightful, pleasant cruisin’.

And if you leave on Tuesday after Labor Day, you feel like a stone cold genius. Ω

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