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Brian is on vacation. I think I forgot to mention that last week.

Last Saturday, Oct. 24, I went to one of my favorite annual events in Reno—the Holland Project’s Halloween Show. Local musicians dress up as well known national and international acts from today and yesteryear and perform tribute sets.

This event actually predates the Holland Project itself.

I remember seeing a great Joy Division tribute set fronted by Ryan Stark—the uber-tall former Bibo barista now running his own coffee shop, Black Spring, in Oakland. This was 2005, maybe 2006. At that point, the cover show was at a house party—a punk rock house near the university called “House on the Hill.”

I think the next year it was at another house near there. I remember sets by “The Wu-Tang Clan” and “The Clash.” Then, it was at Studio on Fourth for a year or two. From those days, I remember a great “Pavement” set, and local rocker Mark Norris put on an amazing show with his best Stooges-era Iggy Pop impersonation.

Since Holland took it over, it’s been consistently great. It missed the first few bands this year, but caught really fun sets by “The Smiths,” fronted by a female Morrissey played by Christine Felch, and ’90s dance pop group “Deee-Lite” fronted by local dance maniac Jamie Hemingway. Young local singersongwriter Gina Rose Waller outdid Lana Del Ray with her own songbook, and a group of prolific local dudes burned the house down as the Jesus and Mary Chain.

Afterward, the grownups in the crowd headed over to 40 Mile Saloon for the afterparty, which featured another fun set—this one by a T. Rex tribute band.

Anyway, it’s a great event, and there was a strong turnout even though there was a lot going on around town that night, including the Zombie Crawl, complete with “Thriller” dance beneath the arch, and a steampunk event at the art museum.

I love it when Reno nightlife is so happening that we have to make tough decisions about what events to attend and what to miss.

Thanks for keying our car.

Upon leaving our employeefriendly supermarket today, I noticed some meanie did not like our Nevadans for Bernie Sanders bumper sticker too much.

Not sure if it was a Trump or Clinton supporter, but obviously they don’t like a candidate who touts such things as medicare for all, social security, educating our kids, fighting climate change, stopping the oligarchs, etc. You know, those “socialist” things. And since it was an employee-owned store, I suspect the latter, because we all know the conservatives will never shop in stores that are employee friendly, even to save a buck. Oh, never mind.

I am sad that you are such a sorry ass that you have to deface others’ property. You must live a nasty, brutish little life, striking out at things that upset you. I don’t give a shit about the car. It is fixable, unlike you.

So let me taste sweet revenge now. You have only inspired me to put yet another sticker on the car, and to start actively giving them out to my friends and peers. Yes, I will pay to buy more of them, and you have just helped our Bernie win the election. Bless your pointy little head and mean little heart.

You should have let the sleeping giant alone.

Thanks again, and do you still beat your wife/husband?

Craig Bergland Reno

Re “Republicans for a united front against women” (Left Foot Forward, Oct. 15): In response to Sheila Leslie’s column on October 15th, I would like to point out a few facts to her.

First, contraception is not health care. Women are free to use any birth control system they desire, but there is no justification to have other taxpayers pay for it.

Second, Republicans do not hate women. Republicans and other concerned citizens are only saying is that it is not the responsibility of the federal government to pay for birth control devices or services, not to mention that Congress has no constitutional authority in this area. Just because a woman desires a service does not mean the rest of the country should be asked to pay for it. And, no, government shouldn’t pay for men’s sexual dysfunctions either.

Republicans are not taking away any woman’s access to a doctor or health care facility. Women are free to access any doctor or hospital they choose. If they are low-income, there are many free and low-cost clinics provided by counties and states that can help them.

The reason many people, not just Republicans, object to Planned Parenthood receiving taxpayer money is that dollars are fungible.

Federal money received in one pocket merely allows Planned Parenthood to use other dollars for abortion services. So, yes, federal tax dollars are used to subsidize abortions.

If we want to assist low-income people with health care needs, there are many other health clinics that can supply that need. Indeed, probably the most efficient way to provide health care assistance to low income people is to give them vouchers that can be used at any doctor’s office or clinic. This would eliminate a whole level of government bureaucracy which would actually reduce the cost for everyone.

Grimm, brother If you only love movies for 12 year olds, why are you a film critic?

You should review video games instead.

Steven Badall Shawnigan Lake

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Have you ever sung karaoke?

Asked at the Yellow Submarine, 920 Holman Way, Sparks.

Emma Crowe Sandwich maker

At El Cortez with my friend Jessie.

There was not a lot of people there, luckily. We sang “Rich Girl” by Hall and Oates, badly.

Kalah O’Rear Sandwich maker

I sang at The Point, and I sang “These Boots Are Made for Walking” by Nancy Sinatra. It was awesome. It was really fun. It probably helped because I had a couple of drinks in me.

Cawnie Frakes Sandwich maker

Thanks a bunch, Jeb. No.

I sang Black Sabbath, and it ruled. I did it at the Cal-Neva. Probably I think I did “Fairies Wear Boots.” The audience loved it because it’s awesome. Who doesn’t like Black Sabbath?

Never mind that building a Reno equivalent of Main In his run-up to the Republican presidential nomination Interior, also known as the Stewart Udall Building, which in 1968, Richard Nixon campaigned in a number of states occupies five acres in D.C., might finally be one way of and often found vice presidents in them. During a visit getting the Reno airport to move to Stead. to Nevada, for instance, he said Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt Never mind that other markets are already lining might be a likely vice presidential candidate. The notion was absurd, given Laxalt’s mere two years as governor of a up for consideration. “May we recommend Heppner, Boardman or Hermiston?” editorialized the East small state with poor quality of life and an outlaw reputaOregonian. “Certainly those cities are at the fore of tion. So were the candidacies of numerous other local some of the West’s most important land and resources Republican officials around the country semi-anointed by Nixon, but it made for good pampering of the various local issues moving forward. And we’d love to see the property market and building boom favorites in the states he visited. that comes with all those high-paying Last week on a visit to Nevada, How to neuter federal jobs.”

Republican presidential candidate No, what concerns us is that this is Jeb Bush tried a variant of that ploy, the Interior an underhanded way of deemphasizing suggesting the headquarters of the U.S. the functions and missions of the Department of the Interior be moved to Department Department of the Interior in the guise the other side of the country from D.C., of doing the opposite. perhaps to Reno.

Moving the Department 2,595 miles from the poliOr Denver. cymaking and budgeting of D.C. to Reno is no way to Or Salt Lake City. enhance its influence. It’s a way to diminish it. The same Whereupon, news stories speculating on the impact of goes for the other putative destinations for the Udall moving the Interior Department appeared in Reno.

Building.

And Denver.

Other candidates, like Rand Paul, may be signaling And Salt Lake City. to the Republican base their hostility to public lands by Never mind that Interior agencies in Nevada have in hanging around with Cliven Bundy. Jeb Bush does it the past been bombed, its employees threatened. by proposing a “solution” to a non-existent problem— Never mind that the notion of moving a 70,000-person putting the Interior Department somewhere it will have cabinet department around like a chess piece is absurd. little influence.

Or that the arrival of its workforce would cause a housing But he is also signaling that hostility to all other crunch in Reno the likes of which the city has never seen, exhaust its sewer plant capacity, generate traffic congestion Nevadans, too, the ones who polls suggest are in the majority—the supporters of public lands. And they won’t that would make life miserable, and leave everyone short forget when the general election comes. Ω of water.

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Yes, I have, usually at my house. I have Karaoke parties. And my favorite to do is “Brandy” by Looking Glass. That and Ginuwine—“Pony.” Cawnie and I will do that together. Karaoke’s always a good time at our house. No one’s really making fun of anyone else, so that’s always good. I don’t know if I’ve done it in public. Not for a real long time.

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No, I don’t care for that kind of music.

I’ve heard other guys do it, but I don’t do it.

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Paying Musk’s bills with our money As a legislator and as a citizen, I’ve always voted for more taxes to fund our schools. That’s because I believe government has a duty to educate the populace, provide an infrastructure that won’t crumble around us, and protect those who cannot protect themselves. Improving education in by a last-place state is clearly a priority.

Sheila Leslie But when more and more tax revenue is diverted to the corporate sector as “incentives” to bring business to Nevada, I’m less and less willing to replace those giveaways by raising our taxes.

There’s no question that the Washoe County School District needs more funding to build new schools to ease overcrowding and to repair aging facilities. That’s why Senate Bill 411 was passed by the Nevada Legislature earlier this year, creating a Public Schools Overcrowding and Repair Needs Committee. The group is specifically authorized to recommend a ballot question next November to raise certain taxes to fund capital projects.

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The committee is allowed to ask voters to raise one or more of the following taxes—room tax on rental of transient lodging, supplemental governmental services tax assessed when you register your car, real property transfer tax paid when buying or selling property, sales and use tax, or property tax. The money can only be used to finance capital projects for schools.

The imminent explosion of new residents and their children generated by the Tesla gigafactory we paid $1.3 billion to attract is creating intense pressure for the school district and its already overcrowded schools. Year-round schedules and staggered sessions may soon be needed to squeeze kids in and there’s little funding for new construction.

It’s not just the schools that are looking for more taxpayer money.

Recently, the directors of the Truckee River Flood Management Authority decided that they didn’t want to raise fees on downtown businesses to fund $420 million in improved flood control. Sparks

Councilmember Ron Smith, who chairs the flood authority, said he preferred to increase the sales tax so the entire community could contribute, not just the businesses in the floodplain that would directly benefit from the improvements.

Nowhere in the discussion of how best to fund capital construction projects is there any acknowledgment of the billions of tax dollars that have been given away as incentives to lure Tesla, data centers and film companies to our region. Tesla promised to boost our economy if we acquiesced to their tax-free demands and we foolishly competed with other states for the privilege of jockeying with thousands more cars in the Spaghetti Bowl and insufficient tax revenue to fix the problem.

The rationale for the incentives is the economic impact that will be generated, i.e. a rising-tide-willfloat-all-boats theory. Besides, the proponents argue, we wouldn’t have the tax revenue anyway if these businesses weren’t located here so

we’re really not losing anything.

That kind of thinking ignores the obvious. If Tesla didn’t import hundreds of new residents and their families to work in the gigafactory, our need for new schools and improved roads would be far less.

Personally, I’ve had enough of corporate shareholders feasting on the taxes I pay to support our schools, build better roads, and protect our most vulnerable citizens.

And I’m not in the mood to bail out our policymakers by voting to increase our already high sales tax and then watch them continue to give our money away.

Our children are going to suffer for the folly of our leaders, it’s true, and it’s tragic. But we need to send a message that subsidizing wealthy corporations cannot continue.

Maybe there’s another option.

Send the bill for a new Spaghetti Bowl ($560 million) and six new schools ($550 million) to Elon. He can pay for them with our money. Ω

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Drug war thievery Civil asset forfeiture (CAF) goes back to our Revolutionary period. Government licensed privateers who raided British merchant ships. Privateers were not pirates. Privateers were licensed by the state to attack and seize enemy assets. Pirates are nonstate outlaws who band together to by Brendan seize any assets they want. There is Trainor a lot to like in pirate culture, as any fan of Starz’ series Black Sails will attest. But there is even more to like about privateers. Privateers had to follow strict rules that limited collateral damage. They had to report their booty to federal courts under maritime law. Anyone who believed his assets were unlawfully seized had a realistic opportunity to contest the seizure in the courts.

Privateers who inflicted unnecessary collateral damage could even be sued by the victims!

Privateers seized hundreds of British merchant ships, with minimum loss of life. These assets usually belonged to crony

corporations like the British West Indies Company who were exploiting the Caribbean colonies. The object of privateers was to get the money, not to run up kill counts like government armies do. In fact, privateers were so effective in crippling enemy economies that a few decades after the American Revolution the practice was banned

by European nations who would rather lose armies than so much property.

But there is no ban on using privateers against non-state actors.

The power is still in the U.S. Constitution authorizing letters of marque and reprisal. After September 11, then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul spoke out against invading Afghanistan and proposed the modern use of privateers to capture Osama Bin Laden with minimum expense and collateral damage.

As usual, no one listened to the libertarians, and the result has been the last 14 years of expensive, fruitless wars that have inflamed the entire region. Perhaps the real

CAF proceeds are deposited in the general fund, not to the budget of the seizing agency. New Mexico has passed the best reforms so far and other states like Nevada passed watered-down but still significant new reforms. A third major reform is to forbid state policing agencies from partnering with the U.S. Justice Department, a practice often used to evade state regulations. Former U.S. Attorney General Holder eliminated one such program to great fanfare but left several others intact. The new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, racked up hundreds of millions of CAF as a U.S. Attorney in New York. She will likely talk about reform but enact very little.

I hope the constitutional conservatives in the 2017 Nevada legislature will take up the issue again. Ω

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object was never to get Bin Laden but is part of a senseless Game of Thrones the U.S. is playing with Russia, China and Iran for control of Central Asia.

CAF is no longer a private war against a declared enemy. Now it is run by state and federal police agencies against the U.S. public, primarily under the pretense of the drug war. They can seize your assets by merely alleging they came from criminal profits. The burden of proof then falls on you to prove your innocence in order to get your property back. In many instances legal maneuvers make a mockery of due process. Litigation costs are often more than the value of the seized property. If you do get to court, you see strange looking cases like U.S. vs $100,000. That is a maritime law case, but without the reasonable due process of the old privateer era.

The most significant due process reforms are to require a conviction in court before property can be seized, and to require that

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In this file photo, lobbyist Randi Thompson chats at the Nevada Legislature with UNR faculty lobbyist Jim Richardson.

Explosions, fire at Nye dump The shuttered Nevada dump for chemical and low-level nuclear wastes in Nye County experienced an Oct. 18 fire severe enough that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a team to monitor.

The long-troubled site near Beatty, owned by the state but operated by a commercial firm, has 40 acres surrounded by a 400-acre buffer zone. It opened in 1962. The fire began in a trench associated with 1970s burials of waste, according to one state official. However, the state has long lacked detailed information about what is buried at the site.

It was unclear whether the officials at the scene were checking for chemical as well as nuclear issues. During a series of hearings before the Nevada Board of Health in the early 1980s, testimony made clear that the site was used for chemicals as well as nuclear materials. At one hearing a chemical explosion was described. EPA San Francisco spokesperson Rusty Harris-Bishop said in an email message, “By the afternoon of October 19, no radiation above natural background was identified by these efforts, at which time EPA responders returned to their duty locations.”

The dump became a sensitive political issue in the late 1970s and early ’80s. There were reports of sloppy procedures and transportation. Gov. Robert List (1979-1983) initially expressed his support for keeping the dump, but when Lt. Gov. Myron Leavitt threatened to close the dump if List left the state, List changed his stance. “Nevada is a gambling state, but I’m through gambling,” he said at a news conference announcing he would try to close the dump.

But shutdown required the consent of the Nevada Board of Health, dominated by physicians—and materials from nuclear medicine programs were disposed of at the dump. More than once, after testimony on operations at the site and in transport, the board refused List’s request for closure. The dump was finally shut down in 1992. It is in the same county where the federal government tried to place a dump for high-level nuclear wastes, at Yucca Mountain.

The commercial operators of the dump, Nuclear Engineering Co., responded to the bad publicity in 1981 by changing the name of their company to U.S. Ecology and continued operating the dump after shutdown. Less than a minute of silent footage taken on Oct. 18 by that corporation was turned over to state officials. It reportedly showed explosions at the site.

Role of regulators questioned Nevada gambling regulators on Oct. 15 ruled that fantasy sports will be treated as gambling, not a game of skill. It directed websites such as DraftKings and FanDuels to end operations within the state.

It’s not clear whether other states will follow Nevada’s lead. And some observers seemed to say the Nevada regulators were acting to protect the Nevada casino industry from competition.

The New York Times, for instance, quoted sportswriter Chris Grove, who said, “It’s self-serving, but that is what the agency is designed to do—ensure an environment where the state’s licensed operators have the best chance of success, and part of that mission is to address forms of alternative gambling that fall outside the umbrella of regulation.”

In fact, there is nothing in state statutes that empowers state regulators to take action to insure the success of any business, though that impression is often created.

“I would reject the argument that this is a protective measure,” said former Nevada governor Richard Bryan, who appointed a number of state regulators during his six years as governor.

“It is the function of regulators to regulate the industry, to provide public protection, and insure the integrity of the games,” he said. “I can’t imagine that the role of the gaming commission is to protect from competition. I find that astonishing.”

If the notion that Nevada gambling regulators are protecting the business fortunes of existing businesses spread, it could severely undercut confidence in the regulatory apparatus. But critics say that often the coziness between regulators and those they regulate can create that impression. Nevertheless, Bryan said the bulk of state regulations history speaks otherwise.

“I reject that,” he said. “I think it’s wholly inaccurate. The whole history of Nevada gaming regulation says otherwise.”

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Anger Competing agendas raise temperatures At the Circus Circus Hotel & Casino—a union house—members of the NAACP last Saturday gathered for the local by branch’s 70th annual banquet. It was Dennis Myers a happy occasion, but there was also an undercurrent running through the crowd—anger over a newspaper column by local conservative lobbyist Randi Thompson.

“Where is the outrage over the black-on-black crime that happens every day?”

Randi Thompson Columnist The piece appeared on the Reno Gazette Journal website on Oct. 22 and then ran in print in the Oct. 25 Sunday edition. It read, in part: “So this whole Black Lives Matter movement is really ticking me off, because it’s turning into a ‘cops’ lives don’t matter’ sentiment. A black cop was shot and killed in New York, but where is the outrage for his ‘black life’? It seems that black lives only matter when the ‘black life’ is some kid thug, and the shooter is a white cop. If black lives matter, then where is the outrage over the black-on-black crime that happens every day in this country? … President Obama was quick to jump on the killing of Michael Brown as an example of a law enforcement mentality that targets

blacks, yet he is silent about the daily killings of blacks by blacks in his hometown of Chicago.”

As it happened, Guardian Quest Inc. CEO Angie Taylor, a member of the Washoe County School Board, was one of the speakers at the dinner, and she mentioned Black Lives Matter favorably.

NAACP vice president Andrew Barbano urged attendees to send letters or post reader comments objecting to the Thompson column.

The following Monday morning, the Gazette Journal was notified to expect a competing essay. Meanwhile, the newspaper’s Facebook page was filling up with angry comments.

Among the reasons for anger by those attending the banquet was that it has been their experience that it is whites, not blacks, who ignore crime in black neighborhoods. Whites tend to discuss it mainly when it serves to divert attention from other issues— and no one was able to locate other newspapers columns by Thompson in which she discussed the issue. Black leaders, on the other hand, have long thrown attention on the matter and have also been in the forefront of those critical of other black leaders for downplaying the problem. In fact, some critics of supposed black apathy toward black-on-black crime cited some black leaders—though Rudolph Giuliani’s citation of Bill Cosby’s 2004 criticism of black parents for insensitivity to crime and morality

may lack credibility in 2015.

In 1970, Andre Brimmer—the only black member of the Federal Reserve Board—called on other black leaders to pay more attention to crime in black neighborhoods: “While the rising incidence of crime has been a source of embarrassment to many Negro leaders, far too many have remained ambivalent toward the problem—perhaps through fear of providing comfort to racists masquerading behind a mask of law and order.” But that did not keep him from pointing out that blacks “will need the vigorous support of the white community—and I am not fully confident that this will be forthcoming to the extent required.”

That same year, Urban League leader and D.C. City Councilmember Sterling Tucker said overlooking crime in black areas “is highly injurious, not only to society, but more particularly to the recipient of all this commiseration—the black man himself.”

In 1984, Urban League leader Rev. Ernest Ferrell of Florida said of a new crime prevention program for black neighborhoods, “We’re not going to tolerate crime in our neighborhoods any more.”

In 1988, Dr. Richard Williams, a Florida African American leader, said at a three-day community/police conference, “It’s like preventive maintenance—you can solve problems before they become problems. It brings about understanding between both officers and community residents.”

In 1997, black columnist Walter Williams wrote, “Crime is a major problem and lies at the heart of other major problems faced by blacks. High crime translates into low rates of businesses in black neighborhoods. ... Crime drives upwardly mobile residents out, and the neighborhood loses stabilizing influences.”

Some say it goes back farther than that. South Carolina columnist Linda Darnell Williams traced such concerns to Harriet Tubman and early 20th century journalist Ida Wells-Barnett.

Thompson’s essay was less inflammatory than comments by other conservative leaders. For instance, where she wrote, “it’s turning into a ‘cops’ lives don’t matter’ sentiment,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the BLM movement is “calling for the murder of police officers.”

Thompson said later that her criticism was principally directed to the White House, “not about the local attitude or the movement itself necessarily.”

Some criticism of the BLM movement is poorly informed or relies

understanding that, according to the Fatal Encounters database, one citizen is killed by police every eight hours.

“ Crime lies at the heart of other major problems faced by blacks.”

Walter Williams Columnist Moreover, claims by some conservatives that criticism of the police has caused a “Ferguson effect”—an increase in crime caused by police afraid to do their jobs because of public scrutiny—has foundered because there is no evidence for it, as FBI director James Comey acknowledged last week. But there is some evidence that crime was rising before Ferguson. Comey also said, “Law enforcement can actually use hashtag Black Lives Matter to see the world through the eyes of people who are not in our line of work and see how they might perceive us,” Comey said.

“And I believe that those members of the black community can use hashtag ‘police lives matter’ to see the world through law enforcement eyes and see the heart of law enforcement.”

There was little of that kind of outreach. When we asked Thompson if any of her critics had asked to sit down with her to talk, she said no.

“I’d welcome it,” she said. “But until then it’s just my observations.” Ω

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That quote caught the eye of Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, who wrote, “Funny you should ask.

Sharpton made a publicized trip to Chicago in November to focus attention on the city’s chronic violence.

Last year, Michelle Obama attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old black honor student who was shot, allegedly by a black gang member. The first lady later returned to Chicago to converse with students at a school that is nearly 100 percent African-American. ‘In choosing Harper High School for the visit, the White House noted that 29 current or former students there had been shot in the last year, eight of them fatally,’ reported the Tribune. The president also came here, meeting with kids involved in a mentoring program for at-risk adolescent boys, bemoaning gun violence and telling a crowd on the South Side, ‘Our streets will only be as safe as our schools are strong and our families are sound.’ ” Moreover, crime rates among blacks have been falling dramatically for many years—homicide by half, other violent crimes by 60 percent. And there seems to be little recognition that it is not just black neighborhoods where most crime happens—it’s low income neighborhoods with residents of all colors. There may also be little

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Each Wednesday, Kyle Chandler-Isacksen travels the streets of Reno on a black mountain bike, towing behind him two 21-gallon green bins of food waste in a yellow wooden wagon. His mission? To turn Reno’s food waste into by Kelsey garden soil via the Reno Rot Riders, the city’s first bicycle-powered compost Fitzgerald recycling program.

Chandler-Isacksen launched Rot Riders in early October, under the umbrella of Be The Change, a non-profit group he and his wife Katy founded in 2011. He is currently the only Rot Rider with his feet on the pedals, but he hopes to see the program grow into a workers cooperative.

Initially, Chandler-Isacksen has focused his efforts on composting waste from downtown restaurants. Grateful Gardens, Campo and Reno Provisions were quick to sign up for his service—a once-weekly pickup of their food waste, in bins that weigh approximately 70 pounds when full. “I’m getting a workout. I’m staying really healthy,” Chandler-Isacksen said.

The idea behind the Reno Rot Riders goes beyond physical fitness, Chandler-Isacksen said. When compostable waste ends up in landfills, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

Composting this waste provides layers of benefits to people and the planet.

“By picking up green waste and turning it into compost, we’re thereby enriching soil, promoting soil health and the health of the carbon cycle, sequestering carbon, improving water filtration, improving drought tolerance of soils, and supporting local agriculture,” Chandler-Isacksen said. “To top it off, we said we should do it by bike, because that’s enhancing bike culture, it’s decreasing carbon emissions, and it’s really kind of challenging the paradigms that we have.”

At present, Chandler-Isacksen processes some of the compost at his personal property, and the rest at Paradise Park Community Garden.

Eventually, he envisions having a network of compost operations at decentralized locations all over the city. He would like to expand his services to include residential pickup, and is looking for landowners willing to host compost bins. “It doesn’t take a whole lot of space to have a vibrant compost operation in effect. It doesn’t smell, it doesn’t attract critters—this is all just vegetable matter,” Chandler-Isacksen said.

The legality of this program may create some bumps in the road for the Rot Riders. On Nov. 7, 2012, the City of Reno entered a franchise agreement with Waste Management, providing the Texas-based company with exclusive rights to the hauling and disposal of Reno’s solid waste and recyclable materials through 2029. There is similar language in a Sparks ordinance.

“That could be an issue, but I also understand what [the Rot Riders] are trying to do,” said John Flansberg, Director of Public Works for the City of Reno. “That’s going to be a topic for me to have a discussion with Waste Management regarding the franchise on, obviously looking at scale and what’s trying to be accomplished.”

Chandler-Isacksen sees the Reno Rot Riders as a way to help combat climate change on a local scale by establishing Reno as a city of bicyclepeddling climate innovators.

“Our vision is to start small, figure it out, do it right, have a good service, and then grow it into a workers’ cooperative, hopefully with help from the city.” he said. Ω

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here are more live music options in reno than ever before. from electronic dance music clubs that bump and grind deep into the night to coffee shop open mics where singer-songwriters wear their hearts on their sleeves, from cavernous concert halls to dingy punk rock basements, there are venues for every mood, every genre and every taste.

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But one of the best, and strangest, music venues in town isn’t a place where you’ll see big-name touring bands or the hottest DJs, or the coolest underground groups or the most innovative world music ensembles. It’s a karaoke bar.

Karaoke bars get a bad rap. The word “karaoke” might conjure up images of drunken birthday girls trying to rekindle their youth by channeling their inner Britney or an equally drunken yuppie dude about to make a sloppy wedding proposal during the instrumental break of “Don’t Stop Believin’.” And sure, those embarrassing moments are part of karaoke. But they’re also part of what can make karaoke fun, and they’re an honest expression of stupid, terrible human emotions. And isn’t part of the point of any art, especially music, to express some human emotion?

In Reno, many of the karaoke bars are former casino showroom venues converted to a cheaper form of entertainment that doesn’t require paying professional musicians union wages—but instead allows for drunken people to simply entertain themselves.

But The Point is something else. It’s a surreal, cinematic bar that seems out of time—like it’s from an idealized past that never really existed. There are framed pictures of midcentury icons like Patsy Cline, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra, and signed pictures of musicians, like Johnny Cash and Tower of Power. The bar itself is long and sleek. The stage is small and low to the ground, just a slight elevation large enough for only two or three singers at most. But the lighting is bright and sophisticated, often projecting the words “The Point” and “Reno, Nevada” up on the gold curtain background.

And the sound system is crisp and clear.

The Point hosts karaoke nights Thursday through Sunday. Thursday and Sunday nights are slower, abbreviated events—often just rehearsal nights. But Friday and Saturday nights can be huge, with the bar packed to the gills with revelers of all ages and backgrounds.

Scruffy 20-something hipsters rubbing elbows with affluent retirees, and everybody taking turns on the stage. The karaoke events usually start around 8:30 and can go til 2 or 3 or

later. The crowd is a genuine melting pot of ages, races and ethnic backgrounds—and the musical genres represented are just as diverse: country, Rat Pack-era standards, classic ’70s R&B, ’80s pop and New Wave, hip-hop, classic rock and even opera.

The range of talent is also eclectic: from meek drunk dudes mumbling the lyrics of their favorite metal tunes and angry women belting out Alanis Morissette songs in the general direction of their ex-boyfriends to polished vocalists nailing three-point harmony on Motown hits. Some of the singers are astounding—a why-aren’t-they-famous? moment seems to occur every third or fourth song—often coming from vocalists who seem otherwise unassuming.

One of those impressive vocalists is Paul Jones, a lifelong musician who plays drums in country bands and has performed as a Los Angeles session musician and vocalist.

He wears bulky vintage glasses and dresses impeccably in tailored suits. As a vocalist, he specializes in country and old standards. He’s also the owner of The Point.

Originally from Santa Cruz, California, he’s been working in the nightlife industry since he turned 21 in 1986.

“I worked in a lot of bars where the owners were old-school, which I absolutely love,” he said recently. “These guys were 70 years old in 1986. And to be able to work with these guys who had been in the business for so long—I’m really old-school myself, so dealing with a lot of these old-school guys—it just felt like home to me.”

Meeting Jones and his wife, Gina, it becomes clear why The Point seems like such a singular bar. It’s a ma-and-pop operation that reflects their personalities. They’re always there. Gina works behind the bar.

According to Jones, there are two things that distinguish The Point from other karaoke establishments: the first is the top-of-line $30,000 soundsystem developed and set up by a professional musician with golden ears. (Ask Jones to sing a note, F#, maybe, and he’ll hit it.) But the second, and perhaps more important, thing is what Jones calls “the vibe” of the place.

“One of the things that I’ve worked really, really hard into bringing in here is the old-school, retro, upscale feel,” he said. “People just feel comfortable. There’s no problems here. All that’s down to a minimum. We have a two-drink minimum when we have entertainment. We let people know that they can’t just sit here and park and sing.”

And that feeling is partially inspired by the casino showrooms of yesteryear. “I remember in the mid ’80s turning 21 and going to a show in Vegas when it was still kind of old-school,” said Jones. “That was when it was still on the cusp of old-school people showing up, dressing up to see a show.”

The old-school throwback atmosphere is part of The Point. And though the atmosphere is deliberately anachronistic, it’s not pure kitsch.

It’s heartfelt and sincere.

“It’s the best bar in Reno because it’s so authentic,” said Pete Barnato, the lead singer of Moondog Matinee, one of Reno’s hippest bands.

“It’s authentically pulpy. It has a cool 1970s or 1980s Reno lounge feel to it that only David Lynch could recreate in one of his films.”

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“It’s like what Dean Martin once said— ‘How’d everyone get in my living room?’” said Jones. “It’s true. That’s how we feel here.”

The karaoke host and MC at The Point is a man who goes by the mononym Haas. He’s an old friend of the Joneses and a professional musician who has worked as an impersonator— as Prince, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations. He and Jones often go to elderly care homes and perform old songs. He’s able to manage a wallto-wall packed house or energize a small crowd on an off night.

“I love music and I do care about how each person sounds,” said Haas. “Each person who’s up there is like me—that’s me. It’s a

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do-unto-others type deal. I don’t hear a bad singer. All I see is the energy for what they feel for that song. This is how I look at it: each person that’s up there—they’re the star. And I want them to put out their best, so they feel good, I feel good, the whole room feels good, and that’s the whole vibe, that’s the whole energy.”

A key part of his ethos is treating all singers respectfully and equally—be they experienced professionals or sloppy amateurs. “The feeling that a person feels about a song, like you and I both, the feeling can be the same,” he said. “You may be able to deliver it better than me as far as on key, but my love for that song—I can deliver that same feeling.”

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“We’ve been coming to Reno ever since we first met,” said Gina. “We’ve known each other 17 years.”

The couple used to come up to Reno from Santa Cruz a few times a year and stay at establishments like Fitzgerald’s. They got married at Reno’s now closed Silver Bells Wedding Chapel in 2005.

Jones had been operating a mobile karaoke unit at several bars in Santa Cruz, but he wanted to start a standalone establishment. The couple loved Reno and knew they wanted to get away from California where the liquor laws are more prohibitive. The Point opened in March 2009, at an out-of-the-way location on West Fourth Street that had previously been a gay bar called Reflections and is now part of the Urban Roots farm. The business moved to its current location on Virginia Street in what was formerly El Borracho Restaurant in March 2014.

The name of the bar came from a discarded sign that Jones found and put above the small bar in his apartment—like some kind of dream board.

“This is kind of like our karaoke home,” said Gina. “We’ve really poured our hearts into it.”

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“WHAT’S THE POINT?” The biggest strength of the bar is its eclectic crowd—its diversity of ages, races and backgrounds. “And they all party together—without even a conflict,” said Haas. “Music can put us all together. I met all of the best people I’ve ever met in my life because of music. It breaks all the lines—race, age, religion—it can break all the lines.”

“The crowd is very supportive,” said Jones. “Because of not only the intimate setting, but the environment and the theme of what we have, the crowd is really into the people who are singing here. Sometimes you go to a show and you don’t really get that response. …

A lot of the good singers migrate here because the sound is so good.”

One of those singers is Lee Davis, 58, a former Los Angeles Police Department cop, originally from Compton. He wowed the audience earlier this fall with his performance of “All Night Long” at the Reno Instagrammys award ceremony at the Pioneer Center.

Davis moved to Reno in 2010 to help raise his grandkids, and he only started going to The Point earlier this year.

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friendly. Paul and Gina are very easy people to like. And then Haas—I can’t say enough about him. … I gravitate toward positive people and I’ve seen a lot of positive people in there.”

And although he has a great voice and boatloads of stage charisma, Davis has never been a professional singer.

He has formed a band, Flash of Gold, with Jones and other regulars from The Point. “It’s just an R&B, country, classic rock, classic pop band,” said Jones.

“The staff there make it real personable at The Point, and that’s why I go,” he said. “I can go there and I feel like, hey, I’m going to give the people a show tonight. I’m going to do something. That’s what we go there to do—make people smile and say, hey, I want to come back.”

Another impressive singer who performs regularly at The Point is Cesar Alvanez, a web developer by day who’s lived in Reno since 1990. He’s able to perform well on his own or in tandem with other vocalists. He, Haas and a rocker known as “AC/DC Joe” do a version of the Temptations’ “Papa was a Rolling Stone” that could win contests.

Alvanez has performed at many of the karaoke places around town, but he agrees that The Point has qualities that distinguish it. A lot of it, he said,

is attributed to the “high concentration of singers” who hang out there and the fact that owner himself is a “music man.”

“ A lot of the good singers migrate here because the sound is so good.”

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“This place has the best sound, and the atmosphere and the crowd—it’s just where it’s at” he said. “I’ve been to other places and people don’t care or they’re not paying attention. Here, you’re up there for your three to five minutes, and people are into it. It’s just a great atmosphere. That’s a singer joint. It’s a singers’ joint—that’s what it is.”

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Starting on Nov. 5, Off Beat Arts & Music Festival hits Reno with 90 bands at 14 venues over four days STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOSIE LUCIANO

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ow many years has the idea for a Reno music festival been floating around in the ether? A few years, a decade? It’s one of those great ideas that it’s hard to believe hasn’t happened yet—like hoverboards, flying cars, or those camera contact lenses that Jeremy Renner wore in that Mission Impossible movie.

Well, the wait is finally over. Starting on Nov. 5, Off Beat Arts & Music Festival hits Reno with 90 bands at 14 venues over a four-day sonic hydroplane known as the extended weekend.

Community serviCe It’s ambitious for a first-year festival, but that’s partly because its creators are strategic. In addition to back-to-back and stacked musical performances, the founders of Off Beat—Baldo Bobadilla, Rémi Jourdan and Flip Wright—have built their music festival on the backbone of a thriving visual arts tradition.

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piggybacking on the monthly art walk for its debut, Off Beat gains a second entry point for festivalgoers and adds 100-plus visual artists and 20 venues to its line-up. On top of the art walk, there will also be a Midtown Mural Tour that features work by street art fixtures like Joe C. Rock, Bryce Chisholm, and OverUnder (Erik Burke). Wherever you go during the festival weekend, art will be unavoidable.

Music will also be everywhere.

From local garage punk to

nationally known indie rock, chaos reigns in the genre department.

There will be DJ sets until 4 a.m.

There will be old favorites like the Plastic Caves at Jub Jubs and the Fantods at the Loving Cup. There will be Lila Rose at Studio on Fourth. UK-based genre-bending musician Janaka Selekta is coming into Reno. As is Groove Session.

There will even be a closing performance by Con Brio, the funk group fresh off Austin City Limits Festival, where it was just christened “the best new live band in America” by Popmatters.com.

“It’s a very unique lineup,” said Jourdan, festival co-founder and owner of Entertainment Management Group. “This lineup represents more or less what Reno

is all about.”

So, what is Reno all about, according to the line-up? It’s musically diverse, prone to wandering, and communitycentric to begin with.

Off Beat also boasts some seriously hyphenated styles that defy easy labeling. There’s the soul-R&B-grunge-electric rock sound of Reno’s own Failure Machine. Or the hip-hop-jazzreggae-rock stylings of Bay Area band Forrest Day—or as the band members refer to their music, “attention-deficit-disorder-rock.”

Did I mention Lila Rose is coming? The closest anyone has come to defining her style is the feminist publication, The F Word—“goth R&B,” a description

that’s still frustratingly vague. The Schizopolitans are all the way into avant-garde territory. And at least four different kinds of gutter-skate-garage-Riot Grrrl-punk bands watch over the festival at all times like Reno’s angry and unholy patron saints.

Wander land Knowing that you’re going to have to choose your own adventure in order to have one at all, it’s a good idea to have a game plan, even if your plan is Reno-pub-crawling your way from dive bar to hipster bar to professional music venue all weekend.

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Out-of-town bands that normally Want to go to Riot Fest? make three times as much as Off Start with punk rock storytelling Beat could offer were more than at Holland early on Friday, end happy to participate. with the Liver Scars at Shea’s “The pay, none of that really on Saturday night, and hit up the matters,” said Peter Daily, lead Flesh Hammers and the Shames in singer of Los Angeles-based Royal between. Like dance music? Rest up Band in a recent phone interview. during the day for your own Electric “We’re just excited to be up there Daisy Carnival with DJs like Scott and be a part of that. If [Jourdan] Pemberton, Coop Da Loop and had asked me to come up and Heidilicious. Lollapalooza? See the volunteer, I would have come up Reno-pub-crawling-no-plan-plan. and done that too.”

How about Coachella? Wear your Every artist participating in Off most expensive flower child clothBeat also gets their own page on ing and hit the biggest headlinTunetrax, a new music platform ers. And if you’re a High that was developed by Sierra Music Festival Jourdan for musicians sort of person, and listeners to check out access a band’s musicians like bio, contact, Mel Wade, songs, video, Herbert Bail social media Orchestra and stats and all in the one Bonfire place.

Set. Any There profits from is a distinct this year’s local bent to the festival will go festival line-up that towards Up Beat, reflects both necessity the arts and music and design. And proximbranch of local non-profit Remi Jourdan ity. Reno is small, which Future Kind. Begun three is a comakes for a tight knit music years ago by Off Beat founder and community. co-founder Baldo Bobadilla, organizer of “There’s a sense of Future Kind has evolved the Off Beat Arts & Music camaraderie that I haven’t from a nonprofit that took Festival. seen in larger cities,” said on clean water and library singer-songwriter/DJ Kate projects in Bobadilla’s Cotter. “It really is a unique Paraguayan hometown of situation as far as I’m Puerto Casado to a Renoconcerned.” centered organization that is But perhaps the most obvious just beginning to provide art, music, outcome of a heavy local billing is and wellness education. Aimed financial savings. With 70 percent towards low-income students, of the musical artists from the Reno Bobadilla hopes to “expose them area, Off Beat is able to put on a to something that they wouldn’t killer show without giving away be exposed otherwise”—formal barrels of money in its first year. creative education: guitar lessons, “[You’ve] got to understand it’s art lessons, and programming that not a festival like Life is Beautiful includes yoga, permaculture and where you’ve got 80,000 people, culinary studies. and they have 30 million dollars and It’s a big vision but then again, a budget to do extra stuff,” explained so is a 90-set music festival in Jourdan. “We’re grassroots.” downtown Reno. So go ahead, But even for a grassroots initiamake your weekend and ruin your tive, Off Beat founders feel strongly Monday for a good cause. Ω about paying the bands for their The Off Beat Arts & Music Festival is November 5-8 time. The bands might not be asking at a variety of venues in downtown and midtown for millions, but perhaps the festival Reno. General Admission wristbands for all events except Cargo shows are $49. All Access Admission is a small step towards making their wristbands that cover Cargo shows in addition to musical careers even more viable. general admission are $81. For more information In any case, Off Beat is investing about bands, schedules and tickets, go to www. $30,000 into paying performers offbeatfestival.com. in its inaugural year—which is The RN&R is a sponsor of this event. not nothing for a start-up festival.

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Stranger things have happened The Stranger Show The Stranger Show currently on display at the Holland Project Gallery proves that sometimes it’s strangers who help us by Jessica Santina discover hidden parts of ourselves.

Harnessing the power of mentorship—which research says boosts school performance, self-esteem

Student Ivan Chaves works on his collaboration with artist Kaleb Temple.

The Stranger Show is on display through Nov. 6. at The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St. The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., or by appointment. For more information, visit www.hollandreno.org.

Jury award for Best in Show: “Lady with a Chihuahua (After Da Vinci)” by student Dalia Quintana and artist Jessica White, acrylic on foamcore.

Audience Choice: First Place, “Gasping for Breath,” an acrylic and epoxy work by student Carlos Inda-Lopez and artist Eric Santti.

Second Place, mixed media sculpture entitled “Spring Formal” by student Irving Vargas and artist Summer Orr.

and graduation rates, among other benefits—the Holland Project set out six years ago to pair high-school art students with working artists. In partnership with Nevada Museum of Art and Hug High School, Holland budgets $75 per pair and one unifying theme—strange. The pairs work for a month to produce pieces that are then showcased in the gallery space.

The annual exhibit started with an opening night reception Oct. 23, where a jury of three professionals— UNR arts faculty member Tamara Scronce, Emily Rogers of the Sierra Arts Foundation, and Pam Patterson from the Nevada Museum of Art—awarded a Best in Show award.

Attendees chose first and second place Audience Choice awards.

It’s hard to measure the value of such professional guidance for students, not to mention getting real estate on gallery walls. But the artist/ mentors reap benefits as well.

Illustrator and award-winning filmmaker Kaleb Temple worked with student Ivan Chaves to produce a pencil-on-canvas illustration that literally merges the two artists. Titled “The Biggest Little Stranger,” it’s a sort of self-portrait of the third artist, the “stranger” who’s a mix of Temple’s facial features (glasses, beard) and Chaves’ (hair, piercings).

He’s surrounded by symbols of his creators—a Reno arch, a Guatemalan

Virgin Mary who represents Chaves’ heritage, film strips representing Temple’s love of movies.

“When Ivan would come to work, he was really focused and into it,” says Temple. “His teacher would tell me that when he came to school, he worked really hard and was so stoked.”

Former public school teacher Jaime Lynn Shafer is a full-time artist working in book arts. She says that through the experience of mentoring Hug senior Jackie Martinez, she got the opportunity to explore her new hometown, while Martinez gained a greater understanding of how it’s possible to make a living through art.

The two spent a couple of days roaming the streets of Reno, taking photos for a photo collage. “We wanted something local, something people didn’t necessarily take the time to look at anymore or something you would stop seeing because it’s so commonplace,” says Shafer.

The result was two collages— “Circus Curcus,” an exploration of downtown’s iconic neon clown, and “Stranger/Acquaintance,” which turns the wisdom of “don’t talk to strangers” on its ear.

“We headed toward the baseball stadium and this character sort of jumped out at us into our photos and started making strange poses,” Shafer says. “We ended up chatting with him and loving the shots we got with him, and it fit the theme of ‘stranger.’ We had so much fun with the photos of him and reminiscing about how easy it is to talk to people when you have a goal or mission in mind, even if you’re shy.”

UNR fine arts graduate Amy Aramanda worked with student Anahi Lopez to produce a mixed-media work titled “Pain is Beauty,” which explores the idea that pain can be beautiful, in its own strange way, by strengthening us and encouraging us to grow. The painted portrait cut from paper, rather than framed, weeps lovely, delicate paper flower tears.

“I showed her a few new techniques, but mostly it was about me encouraging her not to worry too much about messing up,” Aramanda says. “I enjoyed being with someone who was similar to me but who had new ideas and was willing to try anything.” Ω

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Tu-Di-Gong, or “The God of Earth,” is said to bring good luck and harmony to those who invoke his name. Reno’s newest by Todd South Taiwanese restaurant sports a soundalike name that could be translated as “two-dimensional cooking.”

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Continuing with small plates, Cucumber Salad ($3) is a mild pickle of diced garlic and chili pepper, and quartered, inch-long cuts of cucumber. It’s mild unless you bite into one of those red hot bits of chili. The Taiwanese Rice Cake ($4) combines sticky rice stir-fried with bits of mushroom and pork, steamed and shaped into a cake, then drizzled with sweet chili sauce. Not bad if you like sweet rice.

Our final small plate was a show stopper. The gua bao or Taiwanese pork bao ($4) is completely unlike the steamed buns found in a typical dim sum line-up.

A puffy piece of steamed rice bread is topped with braised pork belly, pickled mustard greens, crushed peanuts and fresh cilantro.

Folded like a taco, each bite made us swoon and want more. I’ve tasted a lot of pork belly served in a variety of trendy ways, but Taiwan is way ahead of us. This bit of decadence could make a vegetarian switch teams.

Finally we made it to the entrees, each served with rice. Satay beef ($12) and Infernal Chicken Mushroom ($11) are both pretty recognizable as “Chinese stir-fry.” The beef was wellbalanced with bok choy and carrot in a spicy Taiwanese barbecue sauce.

Straw mushroom, carrot, onion, and hot chilies join the chicken in a spicy soy sauce mix. Or rather, that’s what the menu says. The dish was delicious and savory, but we didn’t detect much “infernal” heat.

Ginger Luffa Clams ($16) are a simple dish of steamed clams and stirfried baby luffa fruit, slow-simmered together in a light ginger sauce. Luffa is of the cucumber family. If allowed to fully ripen it becomes very fibrous and inedible. You may have seen them dried and sold as a bathing accessory.

I’ve actually cooked three-cup chicken, but haven’t seen it named Romance of the Three Cup Chicken until now ($12). A Taiwanese classic, large chunks of chicken are stir-fried with onion, basil, whole garlic cloves and sliced ginger, and combined with the three “cups”: sesame oil, rice wine and soy sauce. Perhaps the romantic title makes sense as I’m now in love with this beautiful, flavorful hottie. Ω Photo/AlliSon Young

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Big Apple Steve Jobs Since I didn’t know the guy, I can’t really say if Michael Fassbender’s portrayal of Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle’s new firecracker of a movie is accurate. I can say that it is, dramatically, one of the best things you will see in cinemas this year.

Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by the ever-reliable Boyle (127 Hours, by Sunshine), plays out in three parts. Apart from a Bob Grimm few flashbacks, we see Jobs backstage at three product launches during his career. The film is bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om expertly staged, playing out like the most entertaining and brutal of Shakespearean dramas.

As Jobs ties his bowtie and prepares to launch the Macintosh in 1984, his personal life is messing with his mojo. Estranged lover Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston) is distressed over the paltry sum Jobs pays her and their alleged daughter Lisa (Makenzie Moss) in child support.

Jobs is worth millions, but offers up only hundreds per month because he doubts being the father.

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Chrisann has some good arguments. A paternity test puts the likelihood of Jobs being the dad at over 94 percent, and Lisa looks an awfully lot like him. No matter to Jobs, who spends years fighting his fatherhood while reluctantly turning over more than the court mandated cash because part of him really likes Lisa. He even names a computer after her.

We see Steve Jobs at his very worst, a man so obsessed with the new gadgets his companies come up with that he wouldn’t face the reality of his fatherly duties. Lisa, portrayed at different ages by Moss (6), Ripley Sobo (9) and a show-stopping Perla Haney-Jardine (19) is a girl any dad would be proud of, but Jobs can’t really be bothered. He has a couple of goofy-looking computers to sell.

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While Jobs won’t be a dad to his daughter, he tries to be one to Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), the engineer who actually built the board that launched Apple computers. Mind you, Jobs isn’t a good father figure. While he claims he will always protect and nurture Wozniak, he fails to come through on key issues, including the acknowledgment of Wozniak and his team in the Apple legacy.

Fassbender’s Jobs is every bit that charming man we saw introducing computers, iPods and iPhones to drooling masses at Apple events. He had such nice, warm tendencies in public that it was hard to imagine him as the right bastard behind the scenes that his coworkers and employees claimed he was.

Unfortunately, his quick wit and ability to reason are often wielded as weapons against his perceived enemies, whether they be a justified Wozniak begging for recognition or Chrisann begging for money. As far as this movie is concerned, Jobs was a brilliant but not very nice man. In fact, he was a major dickweed.

The major coup in the Fassbender performance is that Fassbender makes Jobs somehow likeable. It’s easy to hate the man’s actions, and it’s also very easy to root for his redemption. Fassbender puts pedal to the metal with this performance, and he never lets up for the entire running time.

Say hello to Seth Rogen— actor! In his few pivotal scenes, Rogen breaks hearts as Wozniak, a good-natured, wellmeaning man who obviously loves and admires Jobs, but can’t fathom his stubbornness.

It’s a revelatory performance from a man usually relied upon for laughs. This time out, you’ll feel his character’s emotional pain and hurt.

Kate Winslet, even though her accent morphs from time to time, is equally compelling as Jobs’ confidant and mother figure, Joanna Hoffman. It’s an incredible performance. The same can be said for Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, the advertising giant who essentially became Jobs’ boss. That relationship goes to combustible places, and Daniels blows up the screen.

Steve Jobs will make you forget Jobs, that other biopic that featured a heavily madeup Ashton Kutcher playing with an iPod. Fassbender and Boyle deliver the kind of movie Jobs deserved, warts and all. It’s a mesmerizing film about a complicated man. Ω

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In this Western infused with horror, Kurt Russell essentially transplants his character from John Carpenter’s The Thing into the Old West as Sheriff Franklin Hunt, a lawman looking for some kidnap victims. As things turn out, the victims are in the hands of a cannibalistic tribe ready to give Hunt and his cohorts a sick time in the film’s final act. Those cohorts include Richard Jenkins as his clumsy deputy, a hobbled Patrick Wilson looking to rescue his wife, and a never-been-better Matthew Fox, along for the ride and offering swift justice to those who dare to approach their camp. Writer-director S. Craig Zahler makes a very impressive debut, crafting not only an authentic Western but a truly memorable monster movie. Russell, as he so often does, owns his part and makes Hunt one of his best roles in years. Jenkins seems as if he’s made hundreds of Westerns before. He’s right at home in dirty saloons and by the campfire. Fox makes his best mark since getting his face licked by a dog in the Lost finale. Watch out, because some of the things that happen in the film’s final act are the stuff of nightmares. I should know, because I’ve had some. (Available for rent on iTunes, Amazon.com and On Demand during a limited theatrical release.)

Steven Spielberg continues a mini slump with his second good-looking yet terminally boring historical drama in a row after Lincoln. This is Spielberg’s fourth collaboration with Tom Hanks, and their first since 2004’s terrible The Terminal. It doesn’t represent a return to Catch Me if You Can and Saving Private Ryan glory. This film certainly had a lot going f or it. Not only is it Spielberg’s take on spying during the 1960s Cold War, which sounds like it should be exciting, but it’s also a collaboration with the Coen Brothers.

Joel and Ethan chipped in on the screenplay, which usually means good things are afoot. I wish Joel and Ethan had directed it, too. Hanks plays James B. Donovan, a U.S. tax attorney who lands the unenviable task of representing recently captured alleged Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance). While Donovan’s law firm and the courts see the whole thing as an open-and-shut case, Donovan makes it known that his intentions are to represent Abel to the full extent of the law. In a parallel story, some pilots join the CIA in a new spying program with U-2 planes. One of those planes getting shot out of the sky at 70,000 feet gives the Russians their own spy prisoner in Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell). With the construction of the Berlin Wall, yet another “spy” is captured when Frederic Pryor (Will Rogers), an American student who picked a crappy time to study in West Berlin, is apprehended by the East Germans. It all adds up to a rather boring time at the movies despite a typically strong Hanks performance.

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Director Guillermo del Toro, who has long sung praises for Disney’s Haunted Mansion amusement ride, makes a startlingly beautiful and creepy ride of his own with this twisted ghost story. Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), an aspiring writer, must pick up the pieces after a tragic loss, and she finds herself swept away by Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), a strange Englishman who looks a lot like Thor’s jerky brother. They marry and wind up in his family’s home, which rests atop a red clay mine.

The red clay seeps up through the ground and even the floorboards of the house, giving the appearance that everything is bleeding.

As Edith spends more time in the house, and gets acquainted with its ghostly inhabitants, she finds out that the red stuff isn’t always clay. Jessica Chastain is memorably psychotic as Thomas’s selfish and conniving sister. The visuals are the real star here, including some over-the-top, bloody ghosts that Walt would never allow in his Mansion. As for the actually living characters, Hiddleston and Chastain steal the show as siblings who definitely need an extended time-out. Future del Toro projects, like sequels to Pacific Rim and Hellboy, were put into turnaround before this film’s release.

The fact that this film inexplicably bombed at the box office means those sequels will probably remain on the studio merry-goround for a long time. For del Toro fans, this is bad news.

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Ridley Scott’s latest is a fun and funny movie that represents lighter fare for the often dark director. Yes, it’s about some poor sap getting stranded on Mars but, no, aliens don’t burst from his belly after breakfast. Matt Damon spends a lot of time onscreen by himself as Mark Watney, a botanist on a mission to Mars who becomes the unfortunate recipient of a satellite dish to the gut during a storm, a violent squall that mandates the evacuation of his crew.

After an attempt by his commander (Jessica Chastain) to retrieve him, the crew bugs out thinking Watney has bought the farm.

(Yep … that’s a botanist pun I just dropped right there.) Watney awakens to find himself alone on the red planet with a piece of metal stuck in his gut. After another Ridley Scott directed self-surgery scene—reminiscent of that yucky self-surgery scene in Scott’s Prometheus—Watney commences survival mode. The film has fun with science facts involving things like the creation of fertilizer, the surprising need and effectiveness for duct tape and tarps on Mars, and trying to make fire out of mostly fire-retardant materials. Scott and his writers present these overtly nerdy aspects of the movie with great humor and the right amount of intelligence without making things too complicated.

Two powerhouse performances are at the center of this film, delivered by Ben Mendelsohn as Gerry, a depressed gambler, and Ryan Reynolds as Curtis, his artificially upbeat counterpart. The two meet at a low stakes poker game, share some bourbon, and wind up on a road trip to New Orleans with the intent of getting in on a huge money game. Things don’t quite work out that way, with Gerry recklessly gambling the money Curtis stakes him, and Curtis womanizing and stealing bicycles. Still, the two men remain drawn together, and it all leads up to some big events. Reynolds is having a banner year in smaller projects, proving he has more than blockbuster good looks. The man is talented, and this is his best performance to date, a fully realized character backed by the kind of script and direction his talent deserves. Matching Reynolds note for note is the always amazing Mendelsohn in the film’s main role. His Gerry is everything you would expect from a person with gambling addiction. He’s desperate, he’s unruly, but he’s also a genuinely good human being trying to make things right. Gerry is somebody that is easy to feel sorry for rather than somebody to be written off as a selfish bum.

Mendelsohn gives him a beating heart, and makes him somebody worth rooting for. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, responsible for the very good Sugar and Half Nelson, wrote and directed. They are, without a doubt, one of the more underrated and under-appreciated writer/director teams going. (Available for rent on iTunes and On Demand during a limited theatrical release.)

Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), an FBI Agent who deals with kidnappings, inadvertently finds herself in the middle of a Mexican drug cartel war after being enlisted by a shifty government type (Josh Brolin).

After finding a houseful of dead bodies, Brolin’s character shows up, has a little meeting, recruits Kate, and puts her on a private jet with Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), a mysterious sort who seems to be along for the ride in some type of consultant role.

After being told she is going to Texas, she winds up in Juarez, Mexico, and eventually fighting for her life in a border gun battle.

Director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) keeps things intense, especially when Del Toro is on the screen. The real reason for his character’s presence, revealed late in the film, is a real kicker. Brolin is great as the crusty agent who wears sandals to meetings and sleeps on planes. However, in the end, this is Blunt’s movie, who is dynamite as Kate. It’s another action-intensive role for the versatile actress—she was great in Edge of Tomorrow—and she’s a contender for a Best Actress Oscar.

Shifting ears Cad Bane “Everyone tells me I need to be more professional and have a five-year plan,” said Tony Garcia, founder of local by Anna Hart band Cad Bane. “I know I should.

But Jimi Hendrix was homeless in New York before he made it. If you work hard and love what you’re doing, things can fall into place.”

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consistently maintaining an indie flavor.

“The indie influence is like our lord and savior,” joked Garcia. “You can’t always see it, but it’s always there. Yet while the core style of music has remained generally the same, the changes made in the band necessitated other adjustments, both musically and lyrically.

During the change in format, Cad Bane began the process of rearranging old electronic songs and composing new ones to adapt to a full band—a transition which proved surprisingly easy.

“Each of us has our own spirit that we bring to the band through our instruments,” said Tinoco. “When we started, it felt so organic and clicked right away. We got into the basement, got rid of the computer and it all came together.”

It’s the naturally occurring understanding of each other that defines the musical language of Cad Bane.

“We’re always trying to build up our music, but at the same time, set the stage for one another,” said Frasca. “It creates a really interesting interplay between our parts.”

Over time, the content of the songs has evolved drastically as well. Cad Bane’s earlier works were customary musings about sex and drugs, marred by glumness and exorbitant vulgarity. Since then, the lyrics have developed into a more positive, thoughtful conversation (about sex and drugs).

Garcia attributes the shift to a desire to be more honest in his music, but more importantly to prevent a collapse into complacency.

“If you just keep writing sad shit again and again, you can’t grow with it,” said Garcia. “You just become Mumford and Sons, and how many sad folk albums are you going to put out before you say, ‘Get over it’?”

Instead, the band hopes to provide a musical refuge from negativity.

“When people see Cad Bane play, I want them to be able to have fun and let go,” said Phillips. “I think that’s why we go to see live music, to let go of what we have going on in the real world. I think our music brings that out.” Ω

According to Garcia, Cad Bane began as a way to “be a middle finger” during his period of defiance—one that happens whenever someone leaves the proverbial nest.

It’s a perspective that colored Cad Bane’s early uber-raunchy, provocative musical identity.

But in the year and a half since Cad Bane was established, the project has undergone a major overhaul. What started out as a one-man project of synths and vocals, much like The Weeknd, has evolved into a four-piece experimental R&B jazz group.

Aside from Garcia, who sings and now plays the piano, the lineup consists of Casey Frasca on guitar, Ryan Phillips on bass, and Tony Tinoco on drums.

Now, armed with retro haircuts and cuffed jeans, jobs at hip midtown stomping grounds, and several ties to the local music scene, the members of Cad Bane exude a Portlandiaesque coolness and humor, without the pretension.

The music of Cad Bane ambles through a myriad of genres, like jazz, ’90s hip-hop and R&B, while

Just four dudes by the trashcan: Casey Frasca, Ryan Phillips, Tony Garcia and Tony Tinoco are Cad Bane.

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214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444

1UP 3RD 214 W. STREET Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444

THURSDAY 10/29

FRIDAY 10/30

SATURDAY 10/31

SUNDAY 11/1

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/2-11/4

THURSDAY 10/29

Mute w/DJs Boggan, Crisp Rice, FRIDAY 10/30 Brian Razalus, 10pm, no cover

SATURDAY 10/31

SUNDAY 11/1

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/2-11/4

DJ Neptune, 5pm, no cover

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover After Mic, 11:30pm, W, no cover DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover After Mic,10pm, 11:30pm, W, no no cover cover Karaoke, Tu, W,

DJ Neptune, 5pm, no cover

Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover

3RD STREET 5 STAR 125 W. ThirdSALOON St., (775) 323-5005

YourDay Karaoke w/DJ Manny, 9pm, no cover YourDay Karaoke w/DJ Manny, 9pm, no cover Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

5 STAR SALOON BAR OFSt.,AMERICA 132 West (775) 329-2878

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

125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005 132 West St., (775) 329-2878

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

Mute w/DJs Boggan, Crisp Rice, Brian Razalus, 10pm, no cover

Karaoke, 10pm, no cover Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover

DJ Chocolate WondaBred, DemenCha, 10pm, $5, no cover w/costume DJ Chocolate WondaBred, DemenCha, 10pm, $5, no cover8pm, w/costume Caribbean Vibes, no cover

Halloween party w/Suspect Zero, 9pm, no cover Halloween party w/Suspect Zero, DemenCha’s 9pm, no coverDungeon II: Halloween Edition, 10pm, $5 , no cover w/costume DemenCha’s Dungeon II: Halloween Edition, 10pm, $5 ,8pm, no cover w/costume Caribbean Vibes, no cover

Rustler’s Moon, 8pm, no cover

Caribbean Vibes, 8pm, no cover

Caribbean Vibes, 8pm, no cover

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Karyn Ann, 9pm, no cover

The O’Kanes, 9pm, no cover

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Karyn Ann, 9pm, no cover

Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, on no the cover Strange Range, 7pm, W, no cover

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

BAR-M-BAR BRASSERIE ST. JAMES 816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

Rusted Root Oct. 30, 9 p.m.

Rusted Root Crystal Bay Club

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

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES CEOL IRISHSt.,PUB 901 S. Center (775) 348-8888

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

Oct. 30, 9 p.m.

14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 833-6333 Crystal Bay 833-6333

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

COMMA COFFEE COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

Christopher Paul Sterling, 7pm, no cover Seth Lael, 7pm, no cover

The O’Kanes, no cover Comma Coffee9pm, Quinceañera w/Mariachi Arrieros de Reno, 1pm, no cover Comma Coffee Quinceañera w/Mariachi Arrieros de Reno, 1pm, no cover

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

Christopher Paul Sterling, 7pm, no cover Seth Lael, 7pm, no cover Brood Witch, 9:30pm, no cover

Marsyas Complex, 9:30pm, no cover

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

Comedy Comedy

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

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, 9pm, no125 cover 3rd W, Street, W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & w/Patrick Carson Nugget, 507Improv N. Carson St.,Shillito, Carson W, 9pm, no cover City, 882-1626: Rex Meredith, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson 882-1626: Rex Meredith, The City, Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys F,Lake 7:30pm, $13-$15 Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Stephens III, MarcCabaret, Price, Th-F, Su, 9pm, The James Improv at Harveys Harveys $25; Sa, 8pm, Stateline, 10pm, $30 (800) 553-1022: Lake Tahoe, James Stephens MarcLegacy Price, Th-F, Su, 9pm, Laugh Factory at III, Silver Resort $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30 St., 325-7401: Casino, 407 N. Virginia Mitch Fatel, Th,atSu, 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95; Laugh Factory Silver Legacy Resort F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, Casino, 407 N. $27.45-$32.95; Virginia St., 325-7401: Carl Labove, Tu, Su, W, 7:30pm, Mitch Fatel, Th, 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95 $21.95-$27.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45-$32.95; Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Carl Labove, Tu, W,100 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95 Underground, S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Rex Meredith, Th, 8pm, $10-$16; Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer F, 9pm, $12-$14 100 S. Virginia St., Underground, 686-6600: Rex Meredith, Th, 8pm, $10-$16; F, 9pm, $12-$14

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

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

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

ELBOW ROOM BAR THE GRID BAR & GRILL 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-9799

Reggae Nite Open Jam Mic Night, 9pm, no cover Reggae Nite Open Jam Mic Night, 9pm, no cover

THE GRID BAR & GRILL HANGAR 8545 N. Lake BAR Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

HIMMEL HAUS THESaddle HOLLAND 3819 Rd., SouthPROJECT Lake Tahoe; (530) 314-7665 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

THE HOLLAND PROJECT JUBVesta JUB’S THIRST 140 St., (775) 742-1858PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

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

Fresh Meat showcase: Who Killed Berd, Arizona Young, Deadbeat, others, 7pm, $5 Fresh Meat showcase: Who Killed Berd, Arizona Scarlet Young, Deadbeat, others, Haster, Stain, 10pm, $TBA7pm, $5 Haster, Scarlet Stain, 10pm, $TBA

THE JUNGLE KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

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9pm • saturday October, 31th

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Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover Karaoke w/Andrew, no cover Canyon White Open 9pm, Mic Night, 8pm, no cover Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Open Mic/Ladies Night, 8:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Mic Jam Slam Open Mic/Ladies Night,w/Adrian 8:30pm, Diijon, W, no cover 9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, 9pm, W, no cover Open Mic Jam Slam w/Adrian Diijon, 9pm, Tu, Karaoke 9pm, W, no cover Bass Heavy, 9pm, Nite, W, $TBA Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover

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

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

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Marsyas Dead Complex, 9:30pm, no coverBall, Haunted Celebrity Halloween 9pm, no cover Haunted Dead Celebrity Halloween Ball, 9pm, no cover

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300

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Brood 9:30pm, cover Nigel St.Witch, Hubbins’s 20thnoannual Halloween Bash, 9pm, no cover Nigel St. Hubbins’s 20th annual Halloween Bash, 9pm, no cover

Strange onIrish the Range, 7pm, W, no cover Traditional Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover Traditional Irish Tune Session, CW Spoons, noon, M, no cover 7pm,and Tu, Mr. no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

Nightmare Halloween Party: Lumberjvck, Vice Versa, NoizeChemistz, 6:30pm, $15 Nightmare Halloween Party: Lumberjvck, Vice Versa, NoizeChemistz, 6:30pm, $15

Blazin Mics!,Open 9:30pm, no cover Outspoken: Mic M, Night, 7pm, M, no cover Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover Machine Head, 8pm, W, $19-$40 Machine Head, 8pm, W, $19-$40

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

THURSDAY 10/29 THURSDAY 10/29

FRIDAY 10/30 FRIDAY 10/30

SATURDAY 10/31 SATURDAY 10/31

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/2-11/4 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/2-11/4

SUNDAY 11/1 SUNDAY 11/1

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

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

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

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

MUMMERS BAR MUMMERS BAR 906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 409-3754

Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, Tandymonium, 6:30pm, Tu, 7pm, W, no cover no cover Jenni Charles & Jesse Dunn, Jenni 8pm, Charles no cover& Jesse Dunn, 8pm, no cover

The Podunk Poets, 8:30pm, no cover The Podunk Poets, 8:30pm, no cover

The Podunk Poets, 8pm, no cover The Podunk Poets, 8pm, no cover

Halloween party w/Dropkikk, Halloween party w/Dropkikk, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 409-3754

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

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

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

Lumberjvck Lumberjvck Oct. 31, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM AND JUKE JOINT (PB&J’S) AND JOINT (PB&J’S) 555 E. JUKE Fourth St., (775) 322-4348

Vital Remains, Necronomnicon, Vital Remains,Veil, Necronomnicon, The Kennedy Extirpate, Crotalus, The Kennedy Extirpate, Victims of theVeil, Cave, 9:30pm,Crotalus, $12 Victims of the Cave, 9:30pm, $12

Bring Out Your Dead, The Undead Boys, Bring Your 8pm, Dead,$TBA The Undead Boys, LethalOut Gospel, Lethal Gospel, 8pm, $TBA

Crowbar, Weight of the Tide, Ol’ Goat, Crowbar, of the Aequorea,Weight 7pm, Tu, $14Tide, Ol’ Goat, Aequorea, 7pm, Tu, $14

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

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

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

SHEA’S TAVERN SHEA’S TAVERN 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

Old Glory, 9pm, no cover Old Glory, 9pm, no cover

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

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 322-4348

1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

SHELTER SHELTER 111 N. Virginia St., (775) 329-2909

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

111 N. Virginia St., (775) 329-2909

SIERRA VALLEY LODGE SIERRA VALLEY LODGE 103 Main St., Calpine; (530) 562-7051 219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover Bourgeois Gypsies, 8pm, $7-$10 Bourgeois Gypsies, 8pm, $7-$10

103 Main St., Calpine; (530) 562-7051

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

Oct. 31, 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

Local Music Night w/local bands or DJs, Local Night w/local bands or DJs, Dance party, 9pm, no cover 9pm, Music no cover Dance party, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover Clemon Charles, Dean Harlem, Clemon Charles, Dean Harlem, Low La La, 8pm, $6 Low La La, 8pm, $6 Angel Vivaldi, The Algorithm, Save Us From Angel Vivaldi,Transient The Algorithm, Us From The Archon, Dawn,Save 7:30pm, $10 The Archon, Transient Dawn, 7:30pm, $10

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

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

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

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

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON WHISKEY 2660 Lake Tahoe DICK’S Blvd., South SALOON Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425 WILDFLOWER VILLAGE WILDFLOWER VILLAGE 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769

1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret

Periscope, 7pm, $TBA Periscope, 7pm, $TBA

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, Reno Beer and Tuesday Nightw/guest Trivia, 8pm, Reno Beer and Record Club DJs,Tu, 9pm, W, no cover Record Club w/guest DJs, 9pm, W, no cover Bryan McPherson, Josiah Knight, Bryan McPherson, Josiah Knight, 8pm, M, $TBA 8pm, M, $TBA Massive Tuesdays, 10pm, Tu, $5 Massive Tuesdays, 10pm, Tu, $5

Crowbar Crowbar Nov. 3, 7 p.m.

Nov. 3, 7 p.m.

PB&J’s PB&J’s 555 E. Fourth St. 555 E. Fourth St. 322-4348 322-4348

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

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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

THURSDAY 10/29 THURSDAY 10/29

FRIDAY 10/30 FRIDAY 10/30

2) Two Way Street, 8pm, no cover 2) Two Way Street, 8pm, no cover

1) Thunder From Down Under, 8pm, $35+ 1) Down 8pm, $35+ 2) Two Way Street, 4pm, no cover 2) Thunder Two WayFrom Street, 4pm,Under, no cover 2) Two Way Street, 4pm,nonocover cover Swinging Chads, 10pm, 2) Two Way Street, 4pm,nonocover cover Swinging Chads, 10pm, Swinging Chads, 10pm, no cover Swinging Chads, 10pm, no cover

2) American Made, 7pm, no cover

2) American Made, 8pm, no cover 2) American Made, 8pm, no cover

2) American Made, 8pm, no cover 2) American Made, 8pm, no cover

1) Rusted Root, 9pm, $20-$45 1) Rusted Root, 9pm, $20-$45

1) Creepers Ball w/Tainted Love, 1) Creepers Ball w/Tainted Love, 9pm, $25-$45 9pm, $25-$45

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ 2) Audioboxx, Audioboxx, 1) Saltoriya 10:30pm, no, 7pm, cover$26.95+ 3) Boots2)and Beats, 10:30pm, Boots and Beats, 10pm, $5,no nocover cover3) w/costume 10pm, $5, no cover w/costume

1) Saltoriya, 7pm,9:30pm, $26.95+ 1) , 7pm,9:30pm, $26.95+Bash, 2) Saltoriya The Blood Brothers Halloween 2) The$5-$10 Blood Brothers Bash,$5 10pm, 3) Sexy &Halloween Sinister, 10pm, 10pm, $5-$10 3) Sexy & Sinister, 10pm, $5

2) The Nightmare Before LEX, 10pm, 2) The Nightmare 10pm, $20-$30 3) Boots Before & DaisyLEX, Dukes $20-$30 3) Boots & Daisy Dukes w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

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

1) Greg Golden Band, 9pm, no cover 1) Greg Golden Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Rocking Dead Halloween Bash, 1) Rocking Dead Halloween Bash, 9pm, $10, no cover w/costume 9pm, $10, no cover w/costume

2) DJ Audio 1, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 2) 1, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) DJ ArtyAudio the Party, 9pm, no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

2) Circus of Sin w/DJs Eric Dlux, 2) Sin w/DJs RickCircus Gee, of 10pm, $20 Eric Dlux, Rick Gee, 3) Arty the10pm, Party,$20 9pm, no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

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

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm, $26.95+ 1) Saltoriya 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin

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

2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

2) Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 3) Flirt Honky Tonk Thursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 2500 E. Second (775)Nightclub 789-2000 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) Lex 3) Sports Book 3) Honky 10pm, no Tonk coverThursdays w/DJ Jamie G, 1) Nightclub Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Grand SummitTheater Pavilion2) 5)LexSilver State3)Pavilion 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

HARD ROCK HOTEL HARD ROCKLAKE HOTEL & CASINO TAHOE & Hwy. CASINO LAKE(844) TAHOE 50 50, Stateline; 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

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE HARRAH’S LAKE(775) TAHOE 15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 588-6611

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek588-6611 Nightclub 1) 2) Peek Nightclub 3) South CenterShore StageRoom Lounge 3) Center Stage Lounge

MONTBLEU RESORT MONTBLEU RESORT 55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353

NUGGET CASINO RESORT NUGGET 1100 Nugget CASINO Ave., Sparks;RESORT (775) 356-3300

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

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2) Swinging Chads, 8pm, no cover 2) Swinging Chads, 8pm, no cover 2) George Pickard, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover 2) George Pickard, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) Saltoriya, 7pm, $26.95+ , 7pm, $26.95+ 1) Saltoriya 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, 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, M,10:30pm, DJ Chris W, English, 10pm, Tu, Left of10pm, Centre, no cover Tu, Left of Centre, 10:30pm, W, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

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

2) Dirty Bourbon River Show, 2) Dirty 7pm, no Bourbon cover River Show, 7pm, no cover

2) Dirty Bourbon River Show, 2) Dirty 8pm, no Bourbon cover 3) River FridayShow, Latin Dance 8pm, cover 3)$10, Friday Latin before Dance Social,no7:30pm, no cover Social, no cover 8:30pm,7:30pm, Slasher,$10, 10pm, $20 before 8:30pm, Slasher, 10pm, $20

2) Dirty Bourbon River Show, 2) Dirty 8pm, no Bourbon cover River Show, 8pm, no cover

2) Cliff Porter Trio, 6pm, no cover 2) Cliff Porter Trio, 6pm, no cover

2) Cliff Porter Trio, 2) CliffM,Porter 6pm, Tu, W, Trio, 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

1) Wild Erotic Ball, 9pm, $20-$30 1) Ball, 9pm, $20-$30 2) Wild RebelErotic Yell, 9pm, no cover 2) 9pm,9pm, no cover 3) Rebel FashionYell, Friday, no cover 3) Friday, Band, 9pm, no cover 4) Fashion Buddy Emmer 9pm, no cover 4) Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

2) Rebel Yell, 9pm, no cover 2) Yell, Saturdays, 9pm, no cover 3) Rebel Seduction 9pm, $5 3) Saturdays, 9pm,no $5cover 4) Seduction Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, 4) Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

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

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3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover

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1) Brews & Boos Beer Festival, 1) Brews & Boos Beer Festival, 8pm, $50-$65 8pm, $50-$65 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 1100 NuggetShowroom Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover 1) Celebrity 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Josh Budro Band, 8pm, no cover 1) 3) Celebrity Gilley’s Showroom 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom

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

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2) Opal’s Exotic Halloween Bash 2) Opal’s Exotic Halloween Sexy Thrills & Sultry Chills,Bash 10pm, $10 Sexy Thrills & Sultry Chills, 10pm, $10

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PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO PEPPERMILL SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St.,RESORT (775) 826-2121

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Corkscroo Bar and Grill, 10 E. Ninth St.: Corkscroo Bar and Grill, Simard, 10 E. Ninth St.: Cash Karaoke w/Jacques W, 7pm, Cash Karaoke w/Jacques Simard, W, 7pm, no cover 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 Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180Karaoke W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: w/DJ Lane, 1070, 823-9977: KaraokeF, w/DJ Hustler,Ste.H&T Mobile Productions, 10pm, Hustler, no coverH&T Mobile Productions, F, 10pm, no cover The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia TheSt., Man499-5322: Cave Sports Bar, Karaoke, Sa,4600 8pm,N.noVirginia cover St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, 551 E. Moana Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, E. Moana Lane, 200-0635: Karaoke w/DJ551 Hustler, Lane, 200-0635: Karaoke Sa, w/DJ Hustler, H&T Mobile Productions, 9pm, no cover H&T Mobile Productions, Sa, 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 West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., West384-7976: SecondDaily, Street 118 W. Second St., 8pm,Bar, no cover 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

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Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave. in Sparks, (775) 356-3300, www.nugget casinoresort.com.

5TH HALLOWEEN PHOTO FUNDRAISER FOR SPCA: Bring your children or furry four-legged friend in their favorite Halloween costume and with a minimum donation of $20 you will receive a complimentary 5x7 photo featuring your child or pet in their costume. All proceeds will benefit the SPCA of Northern Nevada. F, 10/30, 8am-2pm; Sa, 10/31, 8am2pm. $20 or equal valued donation to SPCA. Johnstone Studios, 720 Tahoe St., (775) 3247773 ext. 208.

COIN EXCHANGE FOR NEVADA DAY: The Reno Coin Club and Nevada State Museum will hold a coin exchange in celebration of Nevada Day. All the new U.S. coins will be available at face or cost. There will also be presidential dollars and national park quarters, including the San Francisco mint quarters, and a display of ancient and obsolete U.S. coins.

2015 coins will be 50 cents for quarters and $1.25 for dollars because they are no longer distributed to the banks by the mint. F, 10/30, 10am-3pm; Sa, 10/31, 10am-3pm. Free.

Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 815-8625, www.renocoinclub.org.

9TH ANNUAL TWENTY UNDER 40 AWARDS RECEPTION: This event honors young professionals in the community who are stretching the boundaries of achievement in their professional lives, personal achievements and in giving back to their communities. W, 11/4, 5:30-8pm. $45 YPN members, $60 general public. Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 237-8855, http:// renotahoeypn.com. of the region’s local fall and winter craft brews at the inaugural event, which includes music by classic rock cover band Snake Oil Sinners. F, 10/30, 8pm. $50-$65.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (DAY OF THE DEAD): The

COMMA COFFEE QUINCEAÑERA: The coffeehouse celebrates its 15th birthday and Nevada Day with mariachi music by Mariachi Arrieros de Reno. There will also be piñatas, cake and special guests. Sa, 10/31, 1pm. Free. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 883-2662, www.commacoffee.com.

BREWS & BOOS BEER FESTIVAL: Get a taste

Fire Department, REMSA and the Child ID Program will also participate in the festival.

There will be a non-perishable food drive.

Sa, 10/31, 11am-1pm. Free. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 323-7141, http://thebridgereno.com.

COMMUNITY HARVEST FESTIVAL: The festival is open to kids in preschool through sixth grade. There will be games, prizes, bounce houses and lots of candy. Kids can get their picture taken with Elsa from Frozen and have a chance to win a raffle for a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Reno Police Department, Reno SWAT, Reno

Latino Research Center hosts a community event to celebrate the ancient Mexican holiday Dia de los muertos, or the Day of the Dead. Pan de muertos (a traditional type of bread), beverages and music will be provided for all guests, as well as arts and crafts for children, including mask making, face painting and decorating sugar skulls.

To preserve and share the traditions of this holiday, the Latino Research Center will arrange an exhibition area for altars. Altars with food offerings and other items are displayed to honor those who have passed away. Su, 11/1, 2pm. Free. Ballroom C, Joe Crowley Student Union, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4010, www.unr.edu/latinocenter.

HEALTH FAIR & HEALTH INSURANCE ENROLLMENT: The event features prize giveaways, medical screenings and health insurance enrollment.

Su, 11/1, 10am-6pm. Free. Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows, 2680 E. Ninth St., (775) 420-3528, www.ramirezgroup.com.

A NIGHT WITH NOSFERATU: Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation presents this Halloween Eve event featuring carnival games, raffle prizes, food trucks, pumpkin decorating, face painting, Halloween costume competition for kids and adults and beer provided

by IMBIB Custom Brews. The classic 1920s film, Nosferatu, will be shown with a live score performed by local musicians at 6:30pm.

All proceeds benefit Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation’s 2016 Student Stewards Summer Camp.

F, 10/30, 4-9pm. $8 in advance, $10 at the door, free for kids age 12 and younger. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 276-5816, www.tmparksfoundation. org/#!nosferatu/c23kq.

PRESERVING NEVADA’S PAST: AN OVERVIEW: Jim Bertolini, coordinator of the National Register at the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), will explain historic preservation and its role in protecting northern Nevada’s cultural heritage. This program will be an informative look at historic preservation and will be geared toward those who are interested in learning about the benefits of listing a property on the National Register of Historic Places.

Su, 11/1, 1-2:30pm. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

The Silver State celebrates 151 years of statehood this week with a carnival, a parade, a block party and more. The festivities get started on Thursday, Oct. 29, with the RSVP Carnival at Mills Park, 1111 E. William St. in Carson City. Carnival hours are 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, noon to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30-31, and noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1. All-day ride wristbands are $30. The main celebration takes place on Saturday, Oct. 31, the day Nevada was admitted to the Union in 1864. The 77th annual Nevada Day Parade begins at 10 a.m. with a flyover of military aircraft followed by more than 200 entries, including floats, marching bands, horses, entertainers, youth groups, celebrity guests and Burning Man creations. The procession begins at the intersection of William and Carson streets and ends at Stewart and Carson streets.

Other highlights of the day include the Nevada Day Classic Run/Walk, the World Championship Rock Drilling Contest, Nevada Day Beard Contest, Annual Chili Feed, among other events. For more details, call 8822600 or visit www.

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RENO FRIGHT FEST: The 10th annual haunted attraction’s Slaughter House is back with a new design, new rooms, custom scares and terrifying scenes.

Open late on Halloween. Th-Sa, 7-11pm through 10/31; Su, 5-9pm through 11/1. $15 general admission, $22 VIP pass. Reno Aces Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave., (877) 767-2279, www.reno frightfest.com.

SAFE TRICK OR TREATNG: The event includes pet adoptions, free treats for kids in costume, spooky music and décor and pets in Halloween costumes. Sa, 10/31, 4-6:30pm.

Free. Nevada Humane Society, 2825 Longley Lane, Suite. B, (775) 856-2000 ext. 335, www. facebook.com/events/921487344610510.

SWAN LECTURES BY MARTINA YOUNG: The May Arboretum Society hosts The SWAN Lectures, a 20-hour somatic, writing and performance workshop offered over two weekends: Oct. 29 through Nov. 1 and Nov. 6 through Nov. 8. The SWAN Lectures is the collaboration and community outreach component of dance artist and scholar L. Martina Young’s life project SWAN: a poetical inquiry in dance, text & memoir.

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Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8312.

The 20-hour workshop will conclude with a public presentation of both facilitator and participant experiences. As part of the registration, each participant will received a newly published, signed text authored

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TOLL HOUSE PUMPKIN PATCH: The annual pumpkin patch features various pumpkin varieties and sizes, train rides, bounce houses, pony rides, petting zoo and other attractions. M-Su through 10/31. $1 per ticket or $20 for a book of 22 tickets. Toll House Pumpkin Patch, 12185 S. Virginia St., (503) 551-0397, www.tollhousepumpkins.com.

10/31-11/1, 10:30am-2:30pm; F, 11/6, 6:309:30pm; 11/7-11/8, 10:30am-3:30pm. $225 general public, $25 for MAS members. Ranch House at Wilbur D. May Arboretum, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4153, www.mayarboretumsociety.org.

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legends and stories of ghostly activity in Virginia City. This is an outdoor walking tour, dress warmly and bring a camera.

F, Sa, 6 & 8pm through 10/31. $30 per person, advance ticket purchase only. Silver Queen Hotel & Wedding Chapel, 28 N. C St. in Virginia City, (775) 815-1050, www.virginiacityghosttours.com.

will have stations set up around the store for trick or treating. There will be fun activities and goodies for all kids. Free Ferris Wheel rides from 3pm to 9pm. Sa, 10/31, 4-6pm. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700, www.scheelscommunity.com.

TRICK OR TREAT STREET: Children in Halloween costumes can walk from booth to booth collecting treats provided by Circus Circus during the eighth annual safe trick or treating event. There will be a free concert by Freedom Revival starting at 5 p.m. on the Midway stage. The Circus Circus Reno Security team will also be on hand to complete the Child ID process for all those interested at no cost for children up to 17 years old. There will be food barrels on site to accept non-perishable food donations benefiting the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. Th, 10/29, 3-6pm. Free.

Circus Circus, 500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711, www.circuscircusreno.com.

All ages ANDELIN FARM PUMPKIN PATCH AND CORN MAZE: Pick your own pumpkin from a variety of pumpkins. Admission includes activities such as a hay ride, cow train, meeting farm animals, lassoing, a corn shed, a hay bale maze for kids, kids’ corn maze, among other attractions. Fall Break hours are 10am to 6pm, Oct. 26-31. The corn maze is open from 3pm to 10pm on Thursday and from 10am to 10pm on Friday and Saturday. At night, bring your flashlights and play the Farm Scene Investigation game in the corn maze and solve the mystery by finding the check points. M-Su through 10/31. $7 per person, $12 combo pass for pumpkin patch and corn maze; free for kids under age 1. Andelin Family Farm, 8100 Pyramid Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 530-8032, www.andelinfamilyfarm.com.

Art ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Piqued Again.

Erik Holland and Pan Pantoja showcase their paintings of various mountain peaks and landscapes in a tribute to Mother Earth and the elements that are threatening her. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 11/8. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

DOWN SYNDROME FAMILY SUPPORT GROUPS: Meet other parents who are going through issues faced by relatives or caretakers of a child with a disability. The Down Syndrome Network of Northern Nevada seeks to connect families and create a strong foundation of support. First Tu of every month, 5:45-7:30pm. Free. Nevada Early Intervention Services, 2667 Enterprise Rd., (775) 828-5159, http://dsnnn.org/FamilySupportGroup.aspx.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: In Abandon…. The Holland Project Micro Gallery presents the work of local photographer and writer Shaun Astor.

Through documenting his travels with his camera, the show offers a view of fringe communities and the strange geographies that get cast aside in the rugged Western landscape. M-Su through 11/13. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087.

FERRARI FARM PUMPKIN PATCH: The annual pumpkin patch features a corn maze, hay rides, bounce house, mechanical bull, farm animals, fall decorations and more than 30 varieties of pumpkins. Admission to the corn maze is $5. Mechanical bull ride is $5 per person. Bounce house admission is $2 per child. Hay ride is $3 per person or $10 per family (maximum of five people). Pumpkins are priced by size. M-Th, Su, 9:30am-8pm

LIBERTY FINE ART: Drawings & Paintings by Zoe Murkovich. The nine-year-old artist loves to draw dragons, dinos, horses and kitties all doing extraordinary things. Her latest gallery show is Laughing Dragons & The Half Moon.

Through 10/31, 10am-5pm. 100 W. Liberty St., (775) 232-8079.

through 11/1; F, Sa, 9:30am-10pm through 10/31.

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Ferrari Farm, 4701 Mill St., (775) 856-4962, www.facebook.com/Ferrari-Farm-PumpkinPatch-120205448085034.

of Winnemucca Lake. East Gallery in McKinley Arts & Culture Center hosts local artist Mike Clasen. Tufascapes of Winnemucca Lake is a collection of photograph prints showcasing the stark, beautiful landscape and unique tufa formations of Winnemucca Lake.

Through 11/20; Th, 11/5, 6-8pm. Free. Empathy + uncertainties. West Gallery in McKinley Arts & Culture Center hosts local artist and teacher Lisa Kurt. Empathy + Uncertainties is a collection of acrylic and mixed media on wood panel paintings. Through her work, she explores stories that involve people, animals and creatures in mysterious settings, often incorporating nature and the unexpected.

Through 11/20, 8am-5pm. Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

GREAT WESTERN PUMPKIN PARTY: This safe trick-or-treat event is open to kids ages 14 and younger. There will also be a pumpkin carving contest at 5pm and costume contests at 4pm and 6pm. Food trucks will be available during the event. F, 10/30, 3-7pm.

Free. Great Western Marketplace, 4855 Summit Ridge Drive, (775) 624-1800, http:// greatwesternmarketplace.com.

RANCHING AT RANCHO: A fun, free ranchingthemed 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) 7854512, www.washoecounty.us.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: October Exhibits at North Tahoe Arts, Glass Quartet features artwork by regional glass artists Catherine Strand, Pam Sutton, William Hutchison and Toni Rockwell in the NTA Main Gallery. Lake Tahoe & The Sierra features oils by Howard Friedman in the NTA Corison Loft Gallery.

Through 11/2, 11am-5pm. Free. 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINICH: The Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist low-income families

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The alone ranger Sometimes, when my boyfriend is upset, he wants comforting, just like I would. He’ll vent or lay his head in my lap, and I stroke his hair. But sometimes, he just sits on the couch and says nothing. How do I know what he needs, and how do I feel better about it when it isn’t me?

Just like women, men often verbalize complex emotions—for example, “I want sausage and pepperoni on that.” The truth is, men have feelings; they just don’t hang them out to dry on the balcony railing like big cotton granny panties. Developmental psychologist Joyce Benenson, who studies sex differences, notes in Warriors and Worriers that men, who evolved to be the warriors of the species, typically express emotions less often and with less intensity than women. Men are especially likely to put a lid on fear and sadness, emotions that reflect vulnerability—though it’s also the rare man you’ll hear chirp to his buddy, “OMG, those are, like, the cutest wingtips!”

Men’s emotional coolness is an evolved survival tactic, Benenson explains. “Emotions communicate feelings to others. They also affect our own behavior.” In battle, “a person who loses control of his emotions cannot think clearly about what is happening around him. Revealing to the enemy that one feels scared or sad would be even worse.”

Women, on the other hand, bond through sharing “personal vulnerabilities,” Benenson notes. Men and women do have numerous similarities—like having the adrenaline-infused fight-or-flight reaction as our primary physiological response to stress. However, psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women also have an alternate stress response, which she named “tend-and-befriend.”

“Tending” involves self-soothing through caring for others, and “befriending” describes “the creation of and maintenance of social networks” to turn to for comforting. (And no, she isn’t talking about Facebook or Instagram.)

So, as a woman, you may long to snuggle up to somebody for a restorative boohoo, but for a man, opening up about his feelings can make him feel worse—and even threatened. The problem is we have a tendency to assume other people are emotionally wired just like us.

Being mindful of that and of the evolutionary reasons a guy might need to go off in a corner to lick his wounds might help you avoid taking it personally: “I’m upset about how you’re upset!” (Great! And now his problem has a problem.)

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It would be helpful if an upset man would hang a “Do not disturb” sign on his face when he just wants to drink a beer—or four—and watch South Park. You could try to read his body language—like crossed arms and stiff posture saying “go away.” But if his body isn’t speaking up all that clearly, you could say, “I’m here if you wanna talk—or if you don’t.” If it’s the latter, stock the fridge; make him a sandwich; make him some sex. In other words, comfort him in the way a clammed-up guy needs to be comforted. It beats being the girlfriend version of the enthusiastic good Samaritan who, on a slow day, forces little old ladies across the street at gunpoint.

Waking up rusted My girlfriend loves to “spoon” when we sleep. She says it makes her feel safe and loved. I have recently developed spinal problems and have to sleep on my back like a corpse with this weird neck pillow. I’ll put my hand on her thigh to make her feel connected, but it’s not really cutting it. I suspect this reminds her of her marriage falling apart and her now ex-husband sleeping on the other side of the bed with a bunch of pillows between them.

Sometimes a person’s need feel to safe and loved has to be forgone for the other person’s need to not be an Oxy-addicted hunchback at 45.

You can surely understand where she’s coming from.

Nothing like going from sleeping lovingly intertwined with somebody to feeling as if you’re sleeping next to an open casket. This may feel even worse for your girlfriend if she does associate physical distance with emotional distance, having had an ex who built a Berlin Wall of pillows between them and would only have been farther away in bed if he’d slept on the floor.

What you can do is promise to make it up to her with extra affection when you’re out of bed—and do that: Go to cuddlesville when you’re watching TV together. Shower with her. Put your arms around her and kiss her head while she’s washing a mug. (P.S. This is also a smart practice for men who don’t sleep on a foam log.) Love does involve making sacrifices, but one of them probably shouldn’t be no longer being able to feel your toes. Ω

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Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.”

Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experi-

ence you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I encourage

you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog.

Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, freestyling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect you

to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming?

I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed.

Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.

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ing on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you

will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s time to

stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you.

Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr. Who.

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determined that up to 72 families a year would be eligible for out transitional program if we had the capacity to provide them with that level of shelter. … The other big announcement that we’re going to be making on Thursday that we’re really excited about—and it’s kind of secret, but if this comes out on Thursday, we’re good— we have entered into a partnership with an organization called Noah’s Animal House. So we will be announcing on Thursday that we will be building an animal shelter to reside on the same grounds with the transitional housing project to help support domestic violence survivors and their families who have pets and who frequently don’t leave abusive situations because they don’t want to leave a pet. And it’s very common that for some in a domestic violence relationship—I mean, leaving a pet is very similar to the thought of having to leave a child behind, you know.

It’s a huge obstacle to leaving a difficult situation, and we are thrilled to be partnering with Noah’s.

programs here at the Vassar Street office, those are the ones I’m more concerned about who can experience this kind of vicarious trauma. You know, you just kind of relive the stories that you hear again and again. Just last week we had a staff meeting and there was a psychologist from UNR who very generously donated her time to kind of talk to our staff, not only the staff that provides work here at Vassar Street but also the four who staff the Temporary Protection Order Office. We all came together and talked about some of those issues and how we can learn to do a better job at self-care, how we can learn different techniques—leave it here and go home and kind of set aside some of the stresses of this work so that we don’t all burn out after doing this for a short period of time. But yes, it’s tough. It can be really tough. But the rewards can be incredible. I’ve got a little note. … This is a little girl that I actually had the privilege of meeting.

She’s eight years old and this is a copy of a note that she wrote to her mom.

She says, “I’m pretty sure every kid wants you to be their mom.” I mean, as a mother, it just melted my heart. “You do a lot of things perfect.” And then this was really—“You made a really good choice coming here to Reno.” … Those kind of things, when we see this and we know we’re making a difference every day. We don’t always get to see it, but when we see things like that, it’s hard not to come back and give it another go, for sure.

I’d be lying if I said it didn’t sometimes get to me. You know, we deal with individuals who are going through the most intense trauma, probably, they have ever gone through. Or, for many others, they’re going through a trauma that they’ve going through routinely again and again and again. … But I have to say, yes, it can get to me, but I don’t deal with clients every single day. I mean, the advocates, our front line advocates on staff who work at the shelter, transitional housing, the

That was really what I meant when I asked you earlier about staff turnover. It sounds like you have been really fortunate, being able to hang onto people.

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We are right on the cusp of announcing a major expansion to our transitional housing program. Our board went through a strategic planning process a couple of years ago and determined that there were some better uses for some of our existing facilities in real estate. In addition to that, in doing some community surveys about greatest community needs, we saw that there was a much greater need for transitional housing in our community that we were currently able to provide. So we made a decision to convert a CAAW-owned apartment complex that we have been operating just as a kind of general landlord for the community, to convert that complex to use for transition housing for domestic violence survivors and their families.

Our current TH program is offered at a facility in the community that [has] seven one-bedroom apartment units.

We are now going to be able to add 12 unites to the seven, nearly tripling our capacity. … But even more significantly, all of the 12 unites are two-bedroom/ two-bathroom, which will enable us a much greater opportunity to serve larger families, which has been a huge need. Having just the one-bedroom units has been tremendous for our clients, but not always appropriate if you have, you know, a mother and two teenaged kids of either gender. It’s just not enough space. So our board made this commitment. We’ve gone out to the community and we’ve raised just under $700,000 on almost a million-dollar project to do the renovations needed. … And that million-dollar budget will also include a repair and maintenance fund, which will help with our ongoing sustainability for this project, because of course, the rents that we will charge to our transitional housing residents who live at the expanded facility are not market rate and we need to be very careful about how we fund repair and maintenance as we go forward. … When we were doing the research trying to determine whether or not to undertake this project, we looked back five years to the poll of clients who have resided in our emergency shelter and we

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Denise Yoxsimer has been director of the Committee to Aid Abused Women (CAAW) for about four years. Before that she has been a sought-after executive and development person in public television, health care and other areas. This week CAAW will be announcing some new efforts.

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