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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I’m sure some readers are sick and tired of the incredible saturation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I can understand the impulse. I’ve still never seen Titanic, despite being a fan of its two stars and enjoying other movies by the director—because of how inescapable it was back in the winter of 1997-98. I still go into spasms of Pavlovian nausea whenever I hear that damn Celine Dion song That said, The Force Awakens is fantastic. I think our man Bob nailed it with his review on page 22, so I won’t detail much here. But it’s a satisfying experience. The Star Wars movies were probably the single most important mythology of my childhood.

Going to see Return of the Jedi in the theaters is one of my very earliest memories.

(I was 3.) What I remember most clearly isn’t the actual movie— which I’ve seen several times since then—but the excitement beforehand. More specifically, I remember looking at a movie still—Luke at Jabba’s palace, surrounding by goons and piggish aliens—in a newspaper.

It’s funny. I’ve always cherished this early memory for demonstrating how important fantasy stories, and the Star Wars movies in particular, were to me at a young age. But while telling this story to a friend before The Force Awakens, it occurred to me that it’s also a story about how one of my earliest memories is of looking at a newspaper.

A wild thing about going to a big movie like that on opening weekend is seeing tons of Renoites. And sure, I saw a lot of people I knew there, but I also saw tons of people I’ve never seen before, people I never see in my version of Reno—out and about at locally owned restaurants or bars—let alone at art openings or local music shows.

And of course they never see me out and about at the mall or church or Olive Garden or their mom’s basement or wherever they spend their time.

I don’t mean that in a snobby or condescending way. I just mean that it’s strange that sometimes it takes a galaxy far, far away to bring neighbors together. So we can all cheer for images that can’t hear the applause.

Seventy-five percent of Americans have already checked off their holiday shopping lists. How many are not checking off? Simple steps to protect their homes! Allstate claims data shows most types of fire, theft and weather property claims increase during the holiday season. Despite 71 percent of adults acknowledging the increased risk of in-home incidents, only 37 percent take extra care to protect themselves. Allstate’s Holiday Home Hazards poll reveals risky behaviors like leaving packages in the open, doors unlocked, or falling asleep with a fire still roaring are all too common.

Here in Nevada, our top claim is frozen bursting pipes, spiking as high as 1411 percent during the holidays!

How can you can protect your family and home? If you plan to head out on vacation, leave the faucets dripping to prevent frozen pipes. Avoid flaunting new purchases or travel plans on social media—you could be giving “digital thieves” valuable information. Before preparing a feast, plan ahead so you don’t multi-task and lose focus in the kitchen. Keep children away from candles. Snuff out fireplace flames before bedtime. Don’t overload outlets with twinkling lights. A little preparation can go a long way.

David Chaidez Reno

candidates that can be further trained.

While there are a miniscule few WCSD graduates that could cut the mustard, it is simply too time consuming and expensive to weed out the vast majority of the others.

We employers want our new hires to have a firm understanding of the English language and basic math skills. Methinks that this district’s curriculum is weighted far more in favor of the correct manner to explore your psychobabble mantra, basket weaving, identifying sexual orientation/preferences (whatever that is), and intermediate social media. Out here in the real world, the product (i.e. student) that the WCSB produces is not only wantonly unprepared, but flagrantly inadequate in even a modicum of preparation that employers can utilize and mold to the benefit of their enterprise.

The cacophony of bonehead 101 errors that the WCSB has fostered upon us taxpayers is a local embarrassment of extreme proportions. The WCSB is the laughing stock of school boards not only in Nevada, but nationwide.

Unless and until this pathetic bumbling morass that is the WCSB is thrown out or resign en-masse, there are employers out here who will continue to refuse to hire its graduates.

K. R. Kollman Reno

Re “Handmade gifts” (Art of the State, Dec. 3): Don’t know about the other venues but The Wedge is fabulous!

I bought a set of eight bowls and spoons last year and have used them for soups, salads, dips and anything else you can imagine—and always receive such compliments about the uniqueness of each piece. The people there are wonderful and so enthusiastic about their art and the opportunity we give them to replenish supplies and equipment—and the chili is the best homemade you will ever taste—they could compete in the chili cook-off, but I suspect that the taste is a combined one, and there is no recipe for the wonderful flavor.

I’ll buy more this year as special presents for family and friends because each is unique. Get there early for a large selection but even if you’re the last in line for the last on the shelf, you have a unique masterpiece. Love this place!

Cathy Weise

Ben and me Re “The truth about mass shootings” (Let Freedom Ring, Dec. 17): Great article and so true. Giving up rights for security is not the right answer. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” It really is that simple.

Alan Roney Reno

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Feel the Greer Normally I’m a really happy guy just being caustic and writing caustic letters to editors. However, I must share with you this quote I found on the internet, because it says so very much. We know that, of course, we cannot believe everything we read on internet, but in this case it is logic that is important.

“There is a secret to being a supporter of Bernie Sanders. It is something that totally escapes the thinking of most Democrats and Republicans. It is the mental understanding that Sanders is fighting a war that most people are not. It is the war between corporations and the people. Unless you are fighting

School board equals poor grads?

As a product of the Washoe County School District (WCSD) and citizen of Reno since 1969, kindly allow me to weigh in on the public embarrassment that is the Washoe County School Board (WCSB). Myself and countless other local employers never hire graduates of this school district. Why? Quite simple, actually. The quality—or lack thereof in the vast majority of the cases—of the student that this school district produces is pathetically substandard. WCSD graduates are of no use to employers seeking quality

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this war as well, you cannot possibly understand how important it is to vote for Bernie over Hillary. This is not about Hillary or Bernie, it is about fighting your real enemies, the multi-national corporations who are trying to control this nation and the world. You ignore this war at your own peril.” Randolph Greer.

So that’s my caustic for the week.

Thank you, Mr. Greer. Now we return you to your regular programming. Feel the Bern.

Craig Bergland Reno

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What’s your favorite story or genre?

Asked at Sundance Books and Music Cindy Burroughs Leasing agent

I love anything and everything on the paranormal. That’s my bag.

Rick Griffin Retiree

I’m not much of a story type person. I’m retired, and I have a number of old cars, and I restore them, so I read technical manuals and things of that nature at night.

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Faraday’s future—and Nevada’s With the special session for the consideration of it will pay an average of $22 per hour. While subsidies to ensure Faraday Future’s move to these are certainly good wages, it is crucial that Nevada now history, it is important that we top-level management are not included in this remain cautious. Faraday Future is not from average, distorting the number. A livable wage Nevada, nor do they have a record of success needs to be ensured for all employees, not just that we can look to. There are a number of the high-ranking. issues that are important to keep in mind as In addition to contributing to a strong Faraday Future begins its move to Nevada.

Nevada workforce, Faraday Future also promIt is important to ensure the best results for ises to pay $1 million into K-12 education in Nevada residents, considering both what Nevada Nevada over six years, starting in 2018. Funds has promised them, as to support our education system by well as what they have should be a priority for all Christopher promised Nevada. The Nevadans, but in the event that Does Nevada Kloth first of which is Faraday Faraday Future is unsuccessful want to be Future’s promise to (given that they do not have a Kloth, a UnR graduate product or track record), how student, is an intern ensure that half of their known for workforce, both during can we ensure that Nevada’s at the and after construction, its corporate students benefit? It is vital that Progressive Leadership Alliance are Nevadans. Faraday we put our youth first, even if giveaways? of nevada working on Future should take care Faraday Future does not make issues facing to give priority to the it to 2018 and beyond. low-income people residents of North Las Even with all of this in in nevada and civic Vegas, the future location of their production mind, Nevada officials should be pushed to engagement. facility. The population of North Las Vegas is consider the focus on subsidies for big corporaboth predominantly people of color and has tions, such as Tesla and Faraday Future. These a lower than average per capita income. They subsidies shift the playing field, working against should be the first to see the benefits of this new small-business in Nevada. Small businesses and company joining their community. robust local economies should be a priority for Moreover, the jobs that become available Nevada, not just big corporations. Care should must be well-paying, full-time jobs, rather than be taken to ensure that people and planet come unpredictable, precarious part-time employment first, not just the desires of big corporations, as without benefits. Faraday Future states that more companies seek success in our state. Ω 4 | RN&R |

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I like reading military “fact-ion.” I’m a Vince Flynn fan and Brad Thor. It’s “fact-ion” because names are changed, but it’s a lot of what our special forces are doing right now to combat terrorism and things like that.

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Right now I’m reading Career of Evil

by Robert Galbraith, or J.K. Rowling, because I love her writing. I think my favorite book of all time would probably be her Goblet of Fire from the Harry Potter series.

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I read this book … I think the guy’s name was Cabeza de Vaca. He was this explorer that got shipwrecked on the North American continent, and he was lost for like four years with nothing, I mean really nothing. I think that was my favorite real history. It was almost fiction.

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Return the extremists to the fringes Scrolling through the photos of the 26 victims of gun violence in Newtown left me heartbroken, the grief fresh three years after the massacre. Those sweet little faces still haunt me, as do the photos of the principal and teachers who bravely tried to protect them.

I can’t imagine the post traumatic by stress disorder the first responders Sheila Leslie must be living with from the trauma of not being able to save them.

And I’m furious that most of our elected leaders have failed to do anything beyond offer their “thoughts and prayers.”

Amid the sadness, there are a few sparks of hope for change on this Christmas Eve. The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to accept a case challenging the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity magazines in a Chicago suburb, Highland Park, a community that reacted to the Sandy Hook murders with strong determination to be more proactive in protecting its own kids. Every city should do the same, since Congress is incapable of action.

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More and more Americans are in favor of enacting universal background checks, a measure that will appear on our November ballot after Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed a similar bill in 2013. The people now have the power to override him.

Just days after the San Bernardino massacre on Dec. 2, Nevada Assemblymember Michele Fiore released her family Christmas card, an offensive spectacle of people dressed in red shirts for the holidays, with small children in arms, flaunting their guns. Fiore laughed off the national indignation and ridicule related to her narcissistic and insensitive photograph, following it up with radio talk about her desire to personally shoot terrorists or refugees. She didn’t seem to know the difference.

But another Nevada politician, former Nevada speaker John Oceguera, surprised many when he publicly quit the National Rifle Association this month, repudiating its no-compromise positions. Cynics may scoff that he is just building support for his congressional

campaign in Southern Nevada, but maybe it’s also a sign the political winds have shifted the least little bit.

It’s unfortunate that many Americans are determined to protect themselves by buying more firepower, oblivious to the reality that guns at home lead to a much higher rate of suicide, unintended injuries and homicides.

There are better ways to end the madness.

Check out the strategies on PreventionInstitute.org. They include common sense solutions about creating a culture of gun safety, ensuring affordable and effective mental health treatment is available and accessible to those in need, and getting Congress to allow the Centers for Disease Control to study gun violence and recommend sciencebased solutions as they do for any other public health epidemic.

Although it’s clear no law will stop a terrorist, or even a jealous husband, from using guns to murder others, there’s no fathomable reason to allow weapons of war to

be purchased by virtually anyone, including the mentally ill and those on the “no fly” terrorist list. There’s no excuse for allowing private sales at gun shows or on the internet to escape a routine background check.

We must force our elected officials to replace their allegiance to the NRA with a renewed commitment to our safety.

Vote for universal background checks in Nevada next November.

Send a strong message that Nevadans know the difference between responsible gun ownership and the insanity of allowing terrorists and criminals to waltz into a gun show and buy their weapons when they would not be allowed to do the same at a retail store.

Demand that Congress reinstate the ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Immediately.

Make mandatory background checks and the ban on assault weapons a litmus test for your vote next year, at federal and state levels. The only way to defeat the NRA’s stranglehold is your voice, your vote. Use it. Ω

For a full account of the Highland Park court case, see http:// tinyurl.com/znbdyr8

Epistle of Brendan to the Renoites About 2,000 years ago, as the story goes, a man and his pregnant wife were refugees from a tyrannical king who sent his soldiers to kill the male children in his kingdom lest one fulfill an ancient prophecy and overthrow him. The refugees were also forced to travel by an equally tyrannical by Brendan foreign emperor who demanded his Trainor subjects return to their birthplace so they could be counted like cattle to determine the worth of his empire.

When the couple came exhausted to a small village, there was no room in the inn for them. The innkeeper took pity on them, and offered them shelter in his stable. There Mary gave birth and named the boy Jesus.

That village, Bethlehem, is today one of the few places in the Middle East where Christians, Jews and Palestinians live together peacefully.

Perhaps it is the legacy of that miraculous birth or maybe just a healthy respect for tourist dollars, but in the birthplace of Jesus there is peace while all around is war.

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As vile as old King Herod, the Kings of the House of Saud in Arabia have for decades sent Imams to spread violence by jihad (religious war), preaching a fundamentalist version of Islam called Wahhabism.

And a powerful foreign empire, the United States, has allied with them.

By allying with this Sunni faction of Islam, we have become the enemy of another Muslim faction, the Shia.

We have helped set brother against brother now for decades.

Like Joseph and Mary, tens of thousands are fleeing the violence we helped to inflame. Many escape to Europe. But the world asks the United States to accept refugees as well.

The American Empire is ruled by about 600 satraps and one revolving potentate, called the POTUS. The call to accept refugees caused division among the ruling factions. One side says it is our duty to bring them in, but don’t worry, we will insure your safety. The other side says no, wait, we do not trust you, we do not trust them, no way.

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But neither side says much about the reasons for the refugee crisis, let alone admits to any responsibility for it. The rivers of desperate humanity are, as always, caused by others. Blame Assad, or certainly the Islamic State!

Some intone: Of course we will accept the refugees because we are a magnanimous, exceptionally tolerant nation.

Learned rabbis say, “Beware those who take pride in their humility.” Or their compassion.

Those who would deny them entry say there might be an Islamic State plant among them. Even counting the San Bernardino massacre, bathtub accidents kill more Americans every year than terrorists do.

Some call for admitting only Christian refugees. They are swiftly denounced as un-American to propose using a religious test. But America has used religious tests for refugee status before. We had a policy of admitting primarily Jews from Russia, and we denied entry to Jews from Germany.

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Our invasion of Iraq was the catalyst for the sectarian murders of thousands of worshipers in ancient Christian congregations that go back to the time of Christ. Perhaps we owe Christian refugees the most.

Remember that broken pottery principle!

But who owns the entire Pottery Barn we bombed to rubble?

Refugee restrictionists risk the anger of evangelical Christians who have a wonderful history of ministering to refugees. Many evangelicals would answer “yes” if asked, “Would you accept a Syrian family into your home?”

It has been centuries since that star shone over Bethlehem. The meek have still not inherited the Earth. But hopefully some can be allowed to inherit the American dream. Ω

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Should newly arrived families be entitled to privileges in state education that already resident families are not?

A pardon for Jack Johnson Once again, a pardon for boxer Jack Johnson may be in the pipeline.

Congress has approved legislation urging President Obama to grant a posthumous pardon for Johnson, who was convicted of transporting women over state lines for immoral purposes under an abuse of the Mann Act. That act was approved by Congress nine days before Johnson successfully defended his heavyweight championship in Reno against the latest “great white hope,” former champ James Jeffries, on July 4, 1910—an event that has been called the fight of the century.

The Mann Act was also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, was designed to prevent transport of women for purposes of prostitution. Johnson’s affluent lifestyle of fast cars, white women and triumph over white champions so offended the white community that riots broke out across the nation after the Reno fight, and again after JACK JOHNSON release of films of the Reno fight, resulting in lynching sprees of blacks by whites.

Federal prosecutors brought charges that were never envisioned under the Mann Act against Johnson because of his travel with consenting companions. They won in the courtroom the victory white fighters had been unable to win. Johnson was convicted and left the country to avoid being imprisoned. Like Muhammad Ali, he lost his best fighting years at the hands of whites (“The great black hope,” RN&R, Aug. 6, 2009).

The latest resolution from Congress, sponsored by Sens.

John McCain and Harry Reid, was buried inside a reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It can be read here: http://tinyurl.com/pz5oh57.

New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden noted that presidents Clinton and Bush have ignored previous such resolutions. So has President Obama, though Rhoden speculated that Obama may be saving the pardon for one of his last acts in office.

“Why is the United States still afraid of Jack Johnson?”

Rhoden asked.

Republicans avoiding Nevada?

A Boston Globe reporter named James Pindell last week wrote an article headlined, “For GOP, Nevada hasn’t been the place to be.”

Nevada’s presidential caucuses is the third nominating convention delegate selection event in the nation, after the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. South Carolina follows Nevada with a primary.

Pindell found that the National Journal candidate tracker showed that candidates in the two major political parties have made 315 separate trips to New Hampshire this year, 302 trips to Iowa, 165 to South Carolina, and 51 to Nevada. From this, he concluded that “the Nevada caucuses remain an afterthought, especially for Republicans.”

Pindell did not allow for the mobility factor and how to make best use of some candidates’ time. Of the major GOP candidates, the movements from the East Coast of five—Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio—are limited by their jobs as members of Congress or governor. Nevada is 2,500 miles from the District of Columbia, South Carolina is 490 miles.

Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is a little better off—Ohio is only 2,120 miles from Nevada. Kasich’s most frequently visited state is Iowa, two states away from Ohio.

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Legislators get an education Then they try to shake the Etch-a-Sketch Without fanfare, the special session of the Nevada Legislature ran an end-run around the law to try to solve a by prickly political problem left over Dennis Myers from this year’s regular session.

The lawmakers approved Senate Concurrent Resolution 1, which attempts to do what their May legislation paying parents to take their children out of public school did not—exempt military and other newly arrived families from a 100-schoolday threshold.

Legislators are trying to use a lesser resolution to amend a statute.

In May, during the closing days of the regular February-May 2015 legislative session, lawmakers revived Senate Bill 302—which had previously fallen dormant—and rushed it through the process to enactment and approval by the governor. It created state grants for parents to use for private school tuition or home schooling expenses if they first pulled their children out of public school after 100 days of attendance. The grants are in the $5,000 range.

Though advocates of the program said the grants were intended for families of all incomes, they are not large enough for tuition at most

private schools in the state, and nearly all the applications for grants have come from the state’s five most affluent zip codes, according to reporting by the Reno Gazette-Journal’s Trevon Milliard.

The 100-day threshold quickly became a source of dispute, since entering students, students already in private or home schooling, and arriving military families are ineligible.

State Treasurer Dan Schwartz, who is designated by SB 302 to administer the program, said he will give grants to military families anyway, based on the legislature’s 2009 approval of a document called the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

That compact was designed to ease the way for students whose families jump from duty station to duty station. It deals with “enrollment and education of certain children of military families in public schools” (italics added) but does not authorize services or privileges not available to resident families. Actually, it’s devoted mostly to mundane matters like immunizations.

Now, the special session’s concurrent resolution claims that “the original purpose and intent” of the legislature was to allow “education savings accounts to be established for pupils younger than 7 years of age who are not required by statute to attend school but who are eligible

to be enrolled in a public school, regardless of whether such pupils have been enrolled in a public school in this State for at least 100 school days without interruption during the period immediately preceding the establishment of the education savings account; and ... Have S.B. 302 interpreted in harmony with the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children ... to remove any barriers to educational success in educational programs like the education savings account program for pupils of active duty members of the military who are stationed at military installations in Nevada.”

That would, if it were treated as a law, allow children newly arrived in school and children in military families newly arrived in Nevada to receive grants, called educational savings accounts (ESAs). But that raises the question, if that is what the legislators meant to say in May, why didn’t they say it? Why didn’t they include the December language in the May enactment?

Last month, Las Vegas columnist Steve Sebelius wrote, “Unfortunately, no matter how much we may dislike it, the black letters of SB302 don’t yield to the wishes of the treasurer, ESA parents, the governor or anyone else.”

Nor to the ex post enactment of a concurrent resolution.

Not all acts of the legislature are created equal. According to the Nevada Legislative Manual, “A one-house resolution expresses facts, principles, opinions and purposes of one house. A concurrent resolution expresses facts, principles, opinions and purposes of the two houses and may authorize the creation of joint committees. A joint resolution memorializes federal officials to engage in an action, proposes amendments to the Nevada Constitution, or ratifies amendments to the U.S. Constitution.”

Thus, of these types of resolutions, only one has the force of law—the joint resolutions, when they are used for amending purposes. The concurrent resolution is merely an expression of legislative sentiment. In this case, it is effectively saying, “This is what we meant to say in May, if we had not been hurrying this bill through the process before we realized all its implications.” But a concurrent resolution cannot amend a statute.

(Concurrent resolutions are not signed by governors, either.)

It is true that courts sometimes look to other indicators of legislative intent such as floor debates when there is doubt about the language of

a law. But in this case, there is little doubt about SB 302. A reading of the plain text of the original statute suggests the law was intended to do exactly what it says—get Nevadans to remove their children from public schools. And even if courts turned to other indicators of legislative intent, those do not support the advocates of the school grants.

Former Nevada legislative lawyer Frank Daykin used to say that the language of the law, not debates or committee minutes, indicate legislative intent. But he was in a minority in the legal community on that. Courts have often used debate and committee proceedings to determine intent. In this case, even if someone went looking for evidence that the lawmakers intended all along that the policy laid out in the December concurrent resolution be followed, there is none.

The minutes and the floor debates do not raise the issues that the legislators seek now to settle with Senate Concurrent Resolution 1.

Had the advocates of SB 302 not waited until the last minute to try to ram the bill through the legislature in May, there is a good chance there would have been some discussion of military families and new arrivals. But by trying to slide it through late in the legislative session, they reduced the chance of that. The bill was closely examined only in the Senate, then was rushed to the Assembly four days before the legislature ended where it was given a once-over-lightly before

being approved and sent to the governor.

In addition, the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children does contain some language on immunizations that allows children in military families some leeway in getting immunized or establishing they have been immunized after they arrive in the state. If that is the way to create exceptions to the compact, legislators failed to add language to create exceptions to the school grants program.

The Interstate Compact for military families does not provide special services or privileges.

At the moment, it appears that the May enactment already puts the state in compliance with the Interstate Compact, by requiring military families to do the same thing as all other families in the state—put their children in public school before applying for the state grants.

Two lawsuits, filed against the school program by a parents group and the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, are unlikely to raise any of these issues. They have put all their eggs in the religious basket—challenging the school grants as a breach of church and state. Ω

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A worker does repairs on the former Woolworth Building at First and Virginia streets in downtown Reno. This is the second of two buildings on this parcel that housed F.W. Woolworth chain “dime stores.” The chain folded in 1997 and is now known as Foot Locker Inc, a sporting goods concern. The Reno structure was purchased in 2013 by Jamy Keshmiri, who said he hopes to install a grocery store in it.

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On a Saturday morning in early December, a small group of newly inducted Junior Naturalists whacked through a thick patch of willow that lined the edge of a large pond at Teglia’s Paradise Park in Sparks. Armed with binocuby Kelsey lars and nature notebooks, they were looking for, well, everything.

Fitzgerald Junior Naturalists, a new program developed by the Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation, is a monthly event aimed at introducing kids of the Reno-Sparks area to the plants and wildlife that reside in local parks. Each month, the Junior Naturalists will visit a different park in the region to explore, learn and have fun in the outdoors.

“I’m hoping that the students will gain an appreciation for their natural environment, and sort of find their place within their city and understand how they fit in to the larger natural world,” said Kelsey Mazur, program coordinator for the Junior Naturalists program.

Central to Mazur’s plan is the idea of student-initiated exploration. In Paradise Park, she led the group through a series of activities, frequently checking in with the Junior Naturalists to see what sorts of things they noticed as they walked the park and what they were interested in doing next. They started with a nature walk around the ponds, looked at birds through binoculars and took notes in nature notebooks.

They stopped to play a food-web game, then continued on to another pond where they counted ducks.

“If you’re up there lecturing them and teaching them out of a book, they’re not going to care,” Mazur said. “If you’re letting the kids look at what they want to look at and play the games they want to play, and pick up the rocks they want to pick up, then you’re really encouraging For more information on the them to ask the questions and be really engaged in their learning.”

Junior Naturalist In future programs, Mazur looks forward to trying new activities Program and the such as a BioBlitz, an event where the students will go out into a Truckee Meadows park and try to identify and document as many living things as they Parks Foundation, can. Another activity she is excited to try is nature poetry. The next visit: www. tmparksfoundation.

Junior Naturalists program will take place on Jan. 9 at Huffaker Park org/#!junior-naturalin south Reno. ists/d8qjm The program is free and open to all students, although the activities are aimed primarily at elementary and middle-school aged children.

“Whoever wants to come be a naturalist is more than welcome. The more the merrier. I just want to make nature and the environment something accessible and something fun,” Mazur said.

Mazur, who is in Reno for the year working as an Americorps VISTA volunteer, said part of the inspiration for her work in this program came from time spent working with inner-city kids at a nature preserve in Ohio.

“It was such a great opportunity to see what the natural world can do for students,” said Mazur. “There were students who had never been out of their city before. At the beginning of the week, they were so scared to sit down on a log or get dirty. By the end of the week, their hands were a mess and they were running around and playing in mud, and were so much more comfortable. I’m hoping I can bring some of that to the students here—an opportunity to really connect.” Ω

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First Place Santa’s Bag

By Jim McCormick Everyone! “Santa’s stricken! Coughing something awful!”

The elves were sore distressed. Christmas Eve. The big day! Packages wrapped. Sled all loaded. Everything ready to go.

From Santa’s bedroom, “Ohhhhhh!”

“What can we do? He’s verrrry sick!”

“I guess it’s up to me.”

“Who said that?”

“I did!” declared the underestimated Mrs. Claus, who threw a heavy shawl over her shoulders and jumped aboard the sleigh.

In the twinkle of a star, she was headed south from the Pole.

Later, in ICU, Santa vowed he would never again refer to his wife as “my old bag!”

Jim McCormick is professor of art emeritus, who taught at UNR from 1960 to 1992. When health issues intervened, he turned to writing as his primary means of expression: flash fiction, exhibit catalog essays and magazine articles on historical subjects. He finds being around water is an effective catalyst—a way of quickening his flow of ideas,so to speak.

Second Place Shea’s

by RN&R Readers Every year since 1995, we’ve run this peculiar short-fiction contest.

Every year, we’re amazed, bemused and, in some cases, mortified by the places our readers choose to go with their imaginations.

This year, it was plain that many people are concerned about the state of the world, love, sex and drinking. Must be the season.

A couple of trends we noticed: Since we don’t limit the number of entries people can submit, it becomes certain that practice makes perfect, with several people getting enough points among our editors to have more than one story published. Also, it doesn’t matter how simple you make the rules, creative people are going to find creative ways to break them.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and congratulations to all the winners.

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By Spencer Kilpatrick Head throbbing, he woke up next to his bed. Fully clothed, of course, with the tattered carcass of a number six from Jack In The Box inches from his face. This wasn’t the first time he’d woken up in such a state. Hell, it wasn’t the first time that week.

He sat up and checked his pockets.

Wallet? Check.

Keys? Check.

Phone? Dead but check.

The man rattled around his apartment for a few minutes looking for aspirin. From his kitchen window he was relieved to see his parking spot empty and forced a smile.

Spencer Kilpatrick plays with a local band called Failure Machine and writes for Tahoe Onstage. He’s also a substitute teacher for Washoe County School District. “As far as writing short fiction goes, my only advice is try not to think too linearly. Focus on presenting a moment in time and don’t allow yourself to get bogged down by narrative.” His story was inspired by rowdy nights and wasted mornings, courtesy of Reno’s endlessly entertaining nightlife.

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Third Place Kitchen Table

By M.E. Horan What did he die from? Doesn’t say. Does it say when? Last week, the 28th. Oh. What?

That was his 40th birthday. I forgot to call. Is there a memorial service? It doesn’t say, just to be planned later. When did you see him? During the summer. We had drinks. He didn’t talk much. Everything sounded OK. Should we call his wife? I don’t know. There is a fund for their kids’ education. Do you want to send a check? Yeah. I’m sorry. Me too. You know I love you. Yeah, I love you too.

Mary Ellen (M.E.) Horan moved to Reno from Hollywood, California, in 1982 and attended UNR for an MBA. For 30 short years, she has worked for Arts for All Nevada, a non-profit. She is married with two teenage sons. She writes non-fiction for work but enjoys the freedom of fiction. Ninety-five words was the perfect canvas, she said.

The Poet Muse A famous trumpet player found his muse in a book of poems. He loved the rhythm, flow and tempo in each verse.

It moved him and made him restless. He couldn’t sleep until he composed what became his most beloved songs. Feeling grateful and curious, he decided he had to meet the author. At her door a week later she let out a surprised gasp. Standing there was the musician that had inspired so many of her poems. She gave him a hug. No words were needed; they had been connected in spirit all along.

—Tim Schmoll

Winter Journey She had to get away. If no one would help her, she’d trek through the mountains alone. The cowboy had heard of her plan, and offered to keep her company.

She understood very little English and he didn’t speak Chinese, but she felt she could trust him. They set out for the winter mountains, and in the middle of their journey, got stuck in snow. They had to keep each other warm and ended up falling in love, and chose to stay in those mountains. Their original destination was never reached, but they were home.

—Jenn Archerd

Becoming Olivia I entered my first body when I was 15. I chose Olivia, a senior, with wild black hair and coquettish emerald eyes. I wanted to feel what she felt—a soft touch, a passionate kiss, a warm, lingering hug. I longed to experience that sense of elation she must have felt when the best looking guys fawned over her lithe body. In less than a week, though, a tweaker ran a stop sign plowing into Olivia’s car. Her broken body quickly succumbed to emptiness.

I reluctantly slipped away, wondering whose death I was really mourning.

—Cathy Mastrantuono

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Funnel Madge Turner flipped pancakes while helping 12-year-old Page shove arms through sleeves. She disapproved of her son’s t-shirt. Christians in Skedee would not take kindly to a child who flashes “God Sucks” across his chest.

At 4 p. m., the Skedee siren let out a blast heard clear into the next county.

Madge dashed for the storm cellar; once inside, she took stock. “Where’s Page?”

“I’ll go find him!” shouted cousin Tad. The funnel had passed over when Tad spied Page, whirling upward in its vortex, the lad bearing sure witness to his t-shirt theology.

—Jim McCormick

Empty Handed By the time she met him, “You had me at hello” had become a tired cliché, but, that’s exactly what had happened.

Charming, witty, employed—he was a gem amongst the other stones. For months, he created a world filled with laughter and love, healing dark places in her heart. As winter neared, she discovered her gem had cracks, fissures slightly below the surface.

Anger, self-centeredness, apathy, all came seeping through. She had a decision to make; accept both parts that made up the whole, or let him slip through her fingers, empty-handed once more?

—Michelle Peirce

Untitled Wherein lies the attraction to live on the streets of a city with no soul. Car lots and casinos painted with faux art. Hooded against the chill, he trundles along to the dirge of rubber on frosted asphalt. Forty five cent jackpot in his pocket, he waits for the change from red to green, steadies his pack against his lean frame. Rubbing ungloved hands together he crosses, no longer willing to wait. Arriving at the curb, he reaches down and puts the heads up penny in his left shoe, mumbles, “Gonna be a good day.”

—Sandy Baxter

This scene began the same way as it always did—me sitting in a porcelain bathtub, pale tile walls and the lukewarm water hitting my body as if it was a sweet summer rain. I could hear him slowly walking down the hall towards the bathroom door. Every step echoed in my mind, and I pictured them as if they were a dim light flashing bright in the dark. Each time he’d quietly open the door and not say a single word, I knew he was there because his presence always brought a cooling air.

—Lexey Sheridan

Suppose It was dusk. We were out on the front porch eating cherries. It was still hot out and I was sweating a bit. I wiped my brow and turned to face them. “Cherries are a troublesome fruit,” I said and heard a murmur of agreement. “Suppose we were all fruit instead of people, I would be a cherry.” I thought I heard a faint laugh; I turned to look at them again, but no one was there. It was just me, a slight summer breeze, and the creak of the old wooden deck.

—Maya Emme

Melancholy The old man hums tunelessly as he gets dressed. He takes special care, choosing a favorite tie, pressed trousers and a crisp, striped shirt. He doffs a tweed cap as he gazes at his reflection in the mirror. He notices some errant whiskers on his neck so he frantically grabs his razor to shave off those offending hairs. He is visiting his wife today and wants to look his very best.

He arrives at the rendezvous point, ambling across an expansive lawn. He reaches a weathered, granite headstone and whispers, “Hi honey, I’ve missed you.”

—Christine Davis

Snow Day Church bells? Bad choice of alarms.

God, it’s the crack of, well, still darkness.

Exam week blows. Splashing water on my face, I check the iPad. What? Classes canceled? I look again, twice. Friends text me ^_^/I (high-five) emojis.

Been preparing for Physics all weekend. Should I work some more? Nope, I’m going shopping. News says we’re lazy, and we have it so good. Guess I’ll prove that. One store and my wallet’s empty. Ah, but someone pays it forward at Starbucks! Could this day be any better?

Sometimes it’s cool to be a teacher.

—Tammy Nechita

Hopscotch They make their way into the brush and child yells snake. Father says shoot and child pulls the trigger as the rabbit they have cornered takes the bullet. Child continues shooting as the rabbit begins a death dance, fires until the gun clicks empty, but the rabbit continues hopscotching around as it opens up and spills life everywhere. Father steps forward and with a thunderclap from God buries the rabbit in the underbrush.

Now father no longer has to teach child about the pain of taking a life, it’s written in red across the field.

—Bill W. Morgan

The Magician He was skilled but unlucky. So he planned carefully and never performed any trick he had not perfected. He was careful to limit the tricks he performed so that nothing was too grand, too incredible.

The audience had to believe everything he did was merely sleight of hand - a clever distortion of the senses, an illusion.

Even though he could work true magic to change what needed changing in the world, he decided against it. Taking on the troubles of the realm would be opening the door to the unpredictable, a close relative of chance.

—Claudia Cormier

Fourth Place Family Reunion

By Cassandra Winegar She sat in her crib crying to get out. Her two year old mind did not understand why she couldn’t get out and explore. Then a man appeared in the doorway. He walked closer and took her into his arms. She stared at him, carefully analyzing his face. She looked at him as if he were a stranger.

“It’s me. It’s daddy.”

“Daddy? Daddy fight.”

“That’s right, baby, but I’m back now.” Realizing who he was she clung onto him as tight as she could. She reached up to wipe his cheek.

“Don’t cry, silly.”

Cassandra Winegar is a senior at Coral Academy of Science and a dancer with the Reno Dance Company. She said her “story was inspired by videos of soldiers coming home to their dogs and families.”

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Rigide

I couldn’t move. Couldn’t think. Shock overwhelmed my brain, making me incapable of figuring out what I needed to do.

He stood behind the door, waiting for me. I couldn’t face him. I’m supposed to be strong, composed.

In the back of my mind I knew what I needed to do. I just couldn’t admit it to myself. How does one make that decision?

I put the stick with the pink plus sign at the bottom of the trash. I opened the door, shook my head, and smiled, trying my best to look relieved.

—Mattea DeRushe

Let Me Out This is going nowhere. His picture showed him as a writer behind a desk.

His rusted-out van is parked in front. He had said he is “financially independent.”

That means he lives in his van. He hadn’t showered in a week. I ride with him so he can show me the city. One of his two large dogs sits in my lap with his claws digging in as we go around curves. We go to a used bookstore and he insists on buying me books on disciplining children. My daughter wants a book on farting.

—Debra Anderson

told me that his father never once tipped and he retired at the age of forty-five to a three bedroom condominium on the beach.

I reminded him that his father died at forty-eight of a massive heart attack.

Charlie reminded me that he now owns the three-bedroom condominium, and plans to use his father’s inheritance to do it up right, his words.

Like I said Charlie’s an asshole.

—Bill W. Morgan

above his face. This isn’t like him. This isn’t like me. Searching for a sign, I lick his face and bark loudly; but he remains silent, motionless.

Today is different.

—Dominic Constantine

“I’m so excited! I’m going to my best friend Claudia’s house,” exclaimed Jayne.

Jayne is eager to leave but suddenly the phone rings and her mom pauses to answer it. Jayne becomes frightened when her mom starts crying, and Jayne stands frozen in place until the call ends.

Her mom glances her way and says haltingly, “Grandma is dead.”

Jayne is conflicted, at first still wanting to go to Claudia’s house, but she quickly realizes her place is here, with her family.

Jayne stumbles forward, her arms slowly reaching out to embrace her grieving mother.

—Christine Davis Ω

She watched him disappear into the darkness, his footsteps filling with fresh snow. She pulled the jacket closer to her body, hugged herself warm. He said he would only be gone an hour at the most, that even in the dark those who passed by would see him walking and help.

He refused to take the heavier of the jackets, instead taking the thin parka she had absently thrown in the back seat. He gave her the keys and got out. Before he left, he told he loved her. She was too afraid to reply.

—Bill W. Morgan

It’s always the same; I wake up, eat breakfast from my bowl and run out the door to grab the newspaper. Then I race back inside and find my favorite part of the sofa.

Something isn’t right, though. There is no food in my bowl and the door did not open.

I walk into my best friend’s room and hop onto his bed, situating myself

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Everyone who mounted the horse was puzzled. Why the name Rigide? He was anything but? His flesh sagged; his swayback resembled an oft-used pillow. He wobbled and stumbled. Mostly he lived for his ration of oats and occasional rub. Rigide?

Certainly a misnomer!

But this nag was about to have his day.

At 80, Matisse, in a wheelchair and clutching scissors in his arthritic hand, cut shapes out of large sheets of vibrantly painted paper.

As the artist affixed the cutouts to his esteemed collages, there was Rigide beside Matisse—occupying his pot of glue.

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olland Project’s back-room stage, where tickets tend to be in the $5 range, has recently hosted the likes of “punk/psych rock ’n’ rollers,” L.A. Witch and Spoken Views: Youth Open Mic. Upcoming exhibits in its storefront art gallery include Young Blood, showcasing artists under 21, and the 2016 Scholastic Art Awards.

And of the 180 entries listed on the musical Top 10 lists of staff, board and volunteers, this Gen X reporter can identify six. Since its inception in 2006, Holland Project has fully lived up to its mission statement, “Art, music, culture. By young people, for young people.”

So it might not come as a surprise that the artwork in the current group show, Resound, includes imagery with serious millennial appeal: fictional constellations made of pearls and tiny bird bones pressed into tarcovered canvasses, delicate watercolor paintings of a Twinkie and a Hostess Cupcake so reverently crafted they look like portraits.

What may come as a surprise is that the constellations are by Elaine Parks, a sculptor in her 50s, and the snack cakes were rendered by Nancy Peppin, a long-revered teacher and painter who passed away this year at age 70.

The exhibit, a tribute to the region’s veteran artists, also includes work by art professor Michael Sarich, retired professors Jim McCormick, Edw Martinez and Bob Morrison, and art-world vanguards Joan Arrizabalaga and Fred Reid.

Co-curator Michelle Lassaline said that even though Holland Project is decidedly youth-oriented, the term “allages” doesn’t just mean 18-21.

Organizers have always looked for ways to welcome other age demographics. In March, for example, the group implemented an Art Patrons Program, asking collectors to commit to purchasing $200 worth of local artwork annually. Lassaline said, “We thought [patrons] might feel more comfortable coming to the all-ages space, knowing that maybe they’ll see some friends there. It was always trying to make it more comfortable for people to come in here.”

She and fellow curator Alana Berglund have both worked as art installers for the Nevada Arts Council’s Traveling Exhibition Program, which hangs exhibits throughout the state. Megan Kay, also a Resound co-curator, holds that position now.

“That’s how we met and recognized the importance of these artists,” Lassaline said.

Mentors at work Last week, Lassaline and Holland Project Art Director Alisha Funkhouser settled into a small, window-lit room with a couch that serves as a library to talk about the artists who’ve been their mentors and influences.

Artists are often asked, “Who are your influences?”

The expected answer might be “Picasso” or “Dali” or some other universally recognized giant from art history, but often the real answer is: the people you share a studio with or sit in a seminar with day after day. As sculptor Edw Martinez put it, “It’s the person drinking a beer next to you.”

Lassaline, 25, who graduated with an art degree from University of Nevada, Reno, two years ago and has already established her career with local exhibits, an Artown commission and a fast-approaching residency in Switzerland, said the older artists haven’t necessarily passed down their styles and subject matters, but, more importantly, their work habits and processes.

At UNR, she studied under Sarich. Looking back at that experience, she said, “I see a kind of symbolism and iconography in his work that carries through in younger local artists’ work. It’s building your own iconography and these symbols or words that you carry out throughout your lifetime. Edw does that. Joan does that. Actually, a lot of these artists do that.”

Seeing Arrizabalaga’s animal head sculptures a few years ago was revolutionary for her, for a very simple reason. The heads are made from materials such as repurposed poker-table felt from a casino where Arrizabalaga worked for decades as a wardrobe director.

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Lassaline and Funkhouser said Despite the generation gap, that the most influential things the quality of the “Resound” their mentors passed down to artists’ work that the curators them were a quality ethic and a find most notable is how contemwork ethic. porary it looks, how the work “There’s this legendariness of artists whose careers started about them, but they’ve also sat in the ’60s or ’70s, whether it’s in critiques with us and helped Twinkies, doll heads or architecus develop our work, and so they tural sculptures, still looks cool, just set this standard,” Lassaline even to the younger set sipping said. “When I am going to show youth-friendly cider and hot some work, I think, would I be chocolate at last week’s reception. willing to show this in Bob and “Conceptually, we based our Mike’s class? And what did they selections on artists who are still say to me while I was in class and making work.” Lassaline said.

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Barflies Dan Steinmetz At the Foxy Olive, a bar in downtown Reno, a girl with green hair and piercings chugs a Pabst Blue Ribbon, a dude with fancy by Brad Bynum facial hair and a plaid shirt inspects a martini glass, and a giddy guy snorts b ra d b @ a couple of massive rails of cocaine ne w s re v i e w . c o m off a bar.

These are characters in Reno Regulars, a series of small paintings displayed in the bar. The characters are rendered in a streetwise style that looks like it could belong on a skateboard wall or a graffiti mural.

The artist is Dan Steinmetz, 41, a carpenter and painter who has lived in Reno most of his life.

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He points to the cokehead: “I’ve been down that road.”

The stripper gyrating on a stripper pole with a baby monitor in one hand: “I’ve dated that woman.”

The redneck with a “RENO” cowboy hat: “This is a family member. … I take bits and pieces of people I see. I’m not setting out to offend anybody. It’s just observation, and I communicate that observation through characters and cartooning.”

He describes his artmaking as an important outlet: “It’s cathartic to me. It’s therapeutic. It’s something I just really re-embraced. I went through a lot of healthy, dramatic changes in my life that brought me to a better place.

He paints using acrylic paints and sharpie markers. His professional experience as a carpenter comes in handy because he builds his own frames using old, recycled wood “Instead of buying frames and wasting wood and promoting that whole engine, I can take something and recycle it and make it look cool,” he said. “It’s another creative outlet.”

One of the most enjoyable things about the exhibition is that it has a real sense of place. As Steinmetz said, variations of these barfly characters can be found in every city in the U.S., but the versions in his paintings look like the Reno versions of each of these characters—and not just because the word “Reno” appears in several of the pieces.

He says that there’s something about Reno that attracts the real-life counterparts of the characters in his paintings.

“I think for a lot of people, this is a pass-through city and a lot of people end up getting stuck here,” he said. “Or people fall in love with it and end up staying. I love this city. This city is my home. I love all the good and the bad about it.” Ω

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“All these characters are in every city, but here you can get away with a lot more,” said Steinmetz. He’s been making art since he was a kid, and he grew up skateboarding, snowboarding and playing in punk bands.

The concept of the exhibition was to show the archetypes—the regulars—found in bars all around the city, like the drunk, the cokehead, the redneck and the hipster snob.

“I just thought of the people we all know, that we’ve seen probably all too often at certain places,” said Steinmetz.

The paintings have a comic, satirical edge, but each one has some affection as well.

“There’s a little familiar part of me as an individual in each of these pieces—very familiar,” said Steinmetz. “Aside from the hipster one—I’ve never been a hipster.”

One of the first places I experienced a “real cup of coffee” was the venerable Java Jungle in the heart of downtown by Todd South Reno. An old spinet piano sat against one wall, and if you were a player, the owner wouldn’t let you leave without playing a tune or two. The piano has been gone for years, but the current owner has continued to support live entertainment while expanding to open a wine bar—Jungle Vino—a few years ago. Now the two halves have been remodeled into a two-sided venue known simply as The Jungle.

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The crust was just cooked through, with barely any crisping and no color to speak of ($11).

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I usually enjoy the flavors of Caribbean-style “jerk spice,” but the rub and technique used for our order of jerked chicken wings resulted in a pasty mess of unappetizing disappointment ($8). A garnish of spring mix greens that wilted and stuck to the eight small wings did nothing to enhance their appeal. Similarly unappealing was an order of sliced-up meatballs swimming in a bland purée of tomato, topped with an inch of half-melted mozzarella that formed a nearly-impenetrable cheese lid. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a side of meatballs not served in spherical

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Tour de Force Star Wars: The Force Awakens The new Star Wars doesn’t suck! The new Star Wars doesn’t suck!

What a relief, right? In the time since Disney announced its absorption of the Lucasfilm Empire, some fans and cynics have speculated that the Mouse plus George could equate to shite. Then, the Mouse handed the reins of the Star Wars universe to that bespecby tacled guy who reinvigorated the Star Trek Bob Grimm universe. How weird!

Fret not, for director J.J. Abrams and b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m crew have done exactly what they did with Star Trek, and created a fun movie that not only respects the blessed canon of a beloved franchise, but stands on its own as a piece of supreme entertainment. It is 2015’s most entertaining film, for sure, and a movie that stands up proudly in the realm of Star Wars movies.

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In many ways, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the best movie in the franchise.

I won’t say it’s my personal, sentimental favorite. (I think The Empire Strikes Back still holds that post, but a little more time will tell.)

The Force Awakens has solid storytelling, its special effects are first-rate, and the performances featured are, undoubtedly, the best the franchise has ever seen.

That’s due in part to Daisy Ridley, an incredible talent who becomes an instant star for the foreseeable future as Rey, a scrappy scavenger on a Tattooine-like desert planet.

I don’t think I’m overdoing it by saying she delivers the all-time, all-around best dramatic performance in the Star Wars universe in this role. I can say she does some of the year’s best “face acting,” and you’ll have to see the movie to find out what I’m talking about.

With this new star at its center, the revitalized Star Wars universe takes life around her with a bevy of new characters and, of course, returning oldies.

Abrams and co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, who happens to be the guy who wrote Empire, collaborated on a screenplay that follows a lot of the familiar beats from past Star Wars films. They took over writing duties after Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) took a failed stab at the task. (Arndt still gets a credit.)

The universe is being tormented by the First Order, an offshoot of the former Empire.

Rey, after rummaging around in a fallen Star Destroyer, discovers a lost droid—BB-8, who is adorable—and eventually finds herself on a space adventure with familiar and new faces.

That’s it. That’s all I’m saying about the plot.

Harrison Ford, classically cryptic and snarky about his Star Wars pedigree in the past, returns as Han Solo, and his newfound enthusiasm for the part is infectious.

Ford slips back into that laid back, charmingly sarcastic smuggler role with ease, and his old buddy Chewbacca has become some sort of comedian in the last 30 or so years. The old wookie scores some of the film’s biggest laughs. Seeing the pair together again is an invaluable movie gift to be treasured.

As the movie’s central villain, Adam Driver is multi-layered and appropriately disturbing as Kylo Ren, a masked, obvious riff on Darth Vader who is a bit of a fanboy for the long deceased Sith Lord. I’m a Star Wars fan, and I have a few nice toys in my possession. Kylo Ren has the Holy Grail for Star Wars collectors in his chambers!

John Boyega brings a new, welcomed dimension to the stormtroopers—there are actual people under those helmets!—while Oscar Isaac brings funny charisma to Poe, best pilot in the galaxy.

OK, I think I got through this review with no major spoilers, so no Star Wars geeks will kill me. My life force will not be extinguished, and I will make it to next year’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Episode VIII, which is due in summer of 2017.

Gone are the days when we waited decades for new Star Wars chapters. Oh, the spoils of Disney. Ω

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This is an odd, misguided movie. Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, a pathologist studying the cadavers of former football players dying in mysterious ways.

His studies eventually lead to the discovery of CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), a brain disease resulting from repeated concussive hits to the head. Director Peter Landesman’s film makes the mistake of focusing on Smith’s character, and pushing the stories of the suffering football players into the background. Does anybody really care about Omalu’s love life when football players are killing themselves after retirement? For instance, the story of Pittsburgh Steeler Mike Webster (played movingly by David Morse) only gets a few minutes of screen time, while Omalu’s television habits and dancing prowess get more than one scene.

The film goes for a strange emotional payoff regarding Omalu’s triumphant discovery rather than really focusing on the treacherous cover-ups by the NFL when it came to CTE. Again, a movie that pushes the stories and fates of the NFL players into the background in favor of giving a big Hollywood star a beefed-up role to sink his teeth into feels mighty self-indulgent. This could’ve been the incisive, important film the subject calls for, rather than a melodramatic excuse for Will Smith to try out a new accent.

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Creed

Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) and actor Michael B. Jordan (also of Station) resurrect the Rocky franchise with what amounts to the best Rocky film since the 1976 original. Jordan plays Adonis Creed, son of Apollo Creed (played in past films by Carl Weathers) and born out of wedlock. Adonis goes to Philadelphia and enlists the help of his father’s former foe and friend, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), to coach him into becoming a professional boxer. The story is a familiar one, and it’s told with style and class in rousing fashion. Coogler does some of the best fight sequences since Scorsese’s Raging Bull, including a first fight that plays like one take. The final bout between Adonis and overseas Irish villain ‘Pretty’ Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew) is sports cinema at its very best. Coogler also finds a way to weave that iconic Bill Conti music into the score at perfect moments. Jordan proves a more-than-worthy new addition to the franchise, while Stallone delivers a career best performance returning to his most recognized role. Heck, the man could find himself in Oscar contention.

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In the Heart of the Sea

There have been a lot of Moby Dick movie adaptations, the best one being the bizarre John Huston version with Gregory Peck going bonkers as Ahab. There just isn’t enough room in this world right now for another take on the Herman Melville classic. Strange, then, that somebody with a lot of money thought there was room in this world for a movie about the actual events that the classic novel was based upon. In the Heart of the Sea tells the story of the Essex, an actual whaleship out of Nantucket, Massachusetts that was sunk by a whale in 1820. The alleged culprit of the sinking was a sperm whale, and the ship sinking resulted in many days out at sea on lifeboats for the remaining crew, and eventual cannibalism.

As Ron Howard’s film will have it, the whale that did the sinking pulls a sort of Jaws: The Revenge and follows the survivors as they float aimlessly in the sea eating crackers and growing beards. (The actual whale that did the sinking promptly disappeared into the ocean never to be seen again.) Chris Hemsworth, sporting an abominable Massachusetts accent, plays first mate Owen Chase, who puts a harpoon in a whale and pays a big price, eventually having to eat some of his crewmembers. Tom Holland (the new SpiderMan) plays the novice seaman who throws up a lot. The effects are sketchy, the story outlandish. Howard uses a strange framing device with Herman Melville interviewing an old survivor of the Essex as if the story were coming out for the first time. What happened on the Essex was revealed fairly quickly— Chase published his account of the tragedy one year after it happened—so the whole framing device rings false. This is not one of Howard’s better films.

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This is a goofy, uneven, yet entertaining showcase for Jennifer Lawrence, who delivers a fun and strong performance as the title character. Joy has a tough life, with a mother (Virginia Madsen) addicted to TV and her divorced husband (Edgar Ramirez) and father (Robert De Niro) sharing her basement. She’s working crap jobs, but an idea for a revolutionary mop gets her on TV and eventually changes her life. Director and co-writer David O. Russell reunites with his Silver Linings Playbook star, and the results are a bit strange to say the least.

Lawrence puts the proceedings over the top with the sort of commanding performance that has become routine for her. De Niro has fun in his standard dad role. His roles in O. Russell films are his best in years. Isabella Rossellini gets her best role since Blue Velvet as De Niro’s rich girlfriend who finds herself bankrolling Joy’s mop scheme. Bradley Cooper barely registers as the TV executive who gives Joy her break, although that has more to do with his lack of screen time rather than the power of his performance. It’s a good ensemble in service of a movie that is a little beneath them, but it all comes together for something that is worth seeing for the talent involved.

Horror fans have had a good year in 2015. It Follows, We are Still Here, Bone Tomahawk, Ash vs Evil Dead all did a lot of good for genre lovers. While director Michael Dougherty’s Krampus isn’t quite up to the level of those I just mentioned, it does do the Christmas horror subgenre proud in many ways. For starters, this sucker has a majorly grim attitude that it sticks with until the very end. There will be no happy Christmas message in the land of Krampus, so don’t take this one in if you have eggnog on your breath and are looking to get into the holiday spirit. It’s more of a film for somebody who pisses and moans when the Christmas decorations show up at Macy’s before Halloween. Max (Emjay Anthony) still believes in Christmas and Santa Claus, and he takes a lot of crap for it from family members.

When a bunch of family come to his house for Christmas, his cousins taunt him, while his parents (Adam Scott and Toni Collette) deal with an annoying aunt and uncle (David Koechner and Allison Tolman). Throw evil Aunt Dorothy (Conchata Ferrell) into the mix, and Max’s family is in for one lousy yuletide season. They eventually must confront evil Christmas demon Krampus and his scary henchmen. It’s not a great film, but it qualifies as a fun, and nasty, diversion.

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The Hollywood blacklisting that led to the imprisonment of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was a travesty, and it’s high time somebody made a movie about it. Director Jay Roach eschews his comedy-making skin for this riveting look into the tribulations Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and fellow artists faced during the Red Scare days of the Cold War. Cranston does his best movie work yet as Trumbo, a confessed member of the Communist Party who did jail time and lost work due to his beliefs. He eventually started writing screenplays anonymously, even winning an Oscar under a different name.

The film’s best scenes involve Cranston and none other than Louis C.K. as writer Arlen Hird (a fictional composite character), who marvel at the injustices bestowed upon them. The film does a nice job of capturing the paranoia of the times, with nice touches such as John Wayne (David James Elliot) throwing his weight around, and Diane Lane as Cleo, Trumbo’s very patient wife. The film does a nice job balancing truth and fiction, and Cranston is marvelous. Also, let it be said that C.K. continues to show surprising prowess as an actor. He’s building up an impressive resume for a guy who insists he can’t act.

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Sing out Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus In the Trinity Episcopal church, the Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus rehearsed for their annual holiday concert. by Anna Hart “What is the dynamic level there?

It’s mezzo forte, not mezzo wussy,” joked Ted Owens, the artistic director of the ensemble.

The Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit chorus of around 30 men and one woman who perform a variety of classic hits, show tunes and pop anthems. Since its inception, the group has grown to be a key part of Reno’s musical culture.

They were the featured performers for Hillary Clinton’s campaign rally in Reno in November and at the most recent Nevada Prayer Breakfast.

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“As an organization we are progressive, and we are able to attract more than the white, middle-class gay man,” said Owens.

Their group is composed of a dynamic range of sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, age and even gender. The “Gay Men” in Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus is less of a requirement for membership and more of a statement on the social values the group promotes.

The chorus was founded and followed in the footsteps of great gay choruses across the country, whose beginnings originated from the movement for LGBT rights following the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

“Our mission is not just to be another performance group, but to advocate for equality, and not just one form of it,” said Ian Rossi, one of the group’s original members. “It’s for sexual, gender, racial and socioeconomic equality. By putting ‘gay’ in the name we’ve shown that we are about equality over everything else.”

Overall, even in a relatively conservative community, the Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus and their mission has been warmly received.

But while their cultural identity and mission is important, the musical aspect of the group is just as vital.

“What I like personally is that the younger generation is enjoying chorus music,” said Phil Harriman, 50, a baritone in the group and a local high school teacher. “I think we spread the good word of music as much as we spread the word of being comfortable in your own skin.”

As a (nearly) all-male chorus, the ensemble brings a unique musical character to the Reno arts scene. The group has capitalized on the rich resonance of the male range, and is able to explore its possibilities in a way that simply can’t be done with a mixed-voice chorus.

Currently, the chorus is seeking new members and is open to any individual, regardless of gender identity, who can sing in a male voice register and supports the mission that the Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus promotes. Ω

“We are lucky to be part of a community so rich in culture and art,” said Steven Meyer, the executive director of the group. “We are a part of the artistic landscape of the Truckee Meadows and are proud to be a contributor to [its] entertainment aspect.”

The chorus endeavors to promote social equality as well as musical artistry in the Reno area.

“I think this group gives the gay community a way to show themselves to everyone else in a way that is not really in your face,” said Steve Wolf, a bass in the chorus. “It helps to put a positive face on LGBT in Reno.”

At the same time, the ensemble recognizes that the LGBTQIA+ community is often only represented by the Neil Patrick Harrises of the world, pushing the movement for acceptance forward by choosing figureheads who are the most palatable.

The Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus takes a markedly different approach.

They promote diversity by actually being culturally diverse.

The Nevada Gay Men's Chorus rehearses.

For more information, visit www.nevadagmc. org.

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

1UP 3RD 214 W. STREET Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

3RD STREET 5 STAR 125 W. ThirdSALOON St., (775) 323-5005 132 West St., (775) 329-2878

5 STAR SALOON BARWestOFSt.,AMERICA 132 (775) 329-2878

Donald Glaude Dec. 26, 10 p.m.

Donald Glaude 1up

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

Dec. 10 p.m.

214 W.26, Commercial Row 1up 329-9444 214 W. Commercial Row 329-9444

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

FRIDAY 12/25

SATURDAY 12/26

SUNDAY 12/27

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/28-12/30

THURSDAY 12/24

FRIDAY 12/25

Donald Glaude, Case, Booya, SATURDAY 12/26 Miss Cooper, Serg Rockwell, 10pm, $10

SUNDAY 12/27

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/28-12/30

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, 11:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

DJ Neptune, 5pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

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

Donald Glaude, Case, Booya, Miss Cooper, Serg Rockwell, 10pm, $10

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm Eric Daniel, 8:30pm, no cover

DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm Bourgeois Gypsies, 8:30pm, no cover

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

Eric Daniel, 8:30pm, no cover

Bourgeois Gypsies, 8:30pm, no cover

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

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES CARGO ATSt., WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL 901 S. Center (775) 348-8888

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

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

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Dues, 9pm, no cover

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Dues, 9pm, no cover The Saddle Tramps, 9pm, no cover

1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

CHAPEL TAVERN DAVIDSON’S 1099 S. Virginia St.,DISTILLERY (775) 324-2244

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition w/Patrick Shillito, 3rd W, Street, W. Third St., 323-5005: 9pm, no125 cover OpenNugget, Mic Comedy Shillito, Carson 507Competition N. Carson w/Patrick St., Carson W, 9pm, no cover City, 882-1626: Rodger Lizaola, F, 7:30pm, $10 Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St.,Harveys Carson The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, City, Rodger Lizaola, F, 7:30pm, $10 Lake 882-1626: Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: The Steve Improv at Nick Harveys Cabaret, White, Youssef, Th-F, Su,Harveys 9pm, $25; Lake Tahoe, (800)Billy 553-1022: Sa, 8pm, 10pm,Stateline, $30; Bob Zany, Bonnell, Steve White, W, 9pm, $25 Nick Youssef, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, Factory 8pm, 10pm,at$30; Bob Legacy Zany, BillyResort Bonnell, Laugh Silver W, 9pm, $25 Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Laugh Factory Steve Hytner, at Sa, Silver 7:30pm,Legacy 9:30pm,Resort $27.45Casino, 4077:30pm, N. Virginia St., 325-7401: $32.95; Su, $21.95-$27.95; Steve Hytner, Sa, 9:30pm, $27.45Angel Salazar, Tu, 7:30pm, W, 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95; $32.95; Su,Comedy 7:30pm, at $21.95-$27.95; Reno-Tahoe Pioneer Angel Salazar, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95-$27.95; Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., Reno-Tahoe Comedy Pioneer 686-6600: Rodger at Lizaola, F, 9pm, $10; Underground, 100 $12-$17; S. Virginia St.,Rivera, Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, Justin 686-6600: Rodger Lizaola,$10-$15 F, 9pm, $10; (all-ages show), Sa, 3pm, Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$17; Justin Rivera, (all-ages show), Sa, 3pm, $10-$15

SundaYze: Brunch and live jazz w/Reno Jazz Syndicate, noon, no cover SundaYze: Brunch and live jazz w/Reno Jazz Syndicate, noon, no cover

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL CEOL IRISHSt.,PUB 255 N. Virginia (775) 398-5400

Comedy Comedy

THURSDAY 12/24

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

Line dance lessons, 9:30pm, no cover

CatFish Carl, 9:30pm, no cover

Line dance lessons, 9:30pm, no cover Reggae Nite Open Jam Mic Night, 9pm, no cover Reggae Nite Open Jam Mic Night, 9pm, no cover

CatFish Carl, 9:30pm, no cover Christmas BBQ, 3pm, no cover

The Saddle Tramps, 9pm, no cover Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, no cover Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, no cover

Christmas BBQ, 3pm, no cover

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

THE JUNGLE THEW.LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE 246 First St., (775) 329-4484 -DINING THEHeavenly LOFTVillage, THEATRE-LOUNGE 1021 S. Lake Tahoe., (530) 523-8024 -DINING THEHeavenly LOVING 1021 Village,CUP S. Lake Tahoe., (530) 523-8024 188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

THE LOVING CUP

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Reno Jazz Syndicate, 8pm, no cover

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, $27

Reno Jazz Syndicate, 8pm, no cover

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK | 4PM - MIDNIGHT

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CATFISH CARL 9:30pm • sat. dec. 26th

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Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Border LineSlam Fine, w/Adrian 9:30pm, W, no cover Open Mic Jam Diijon, 9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, 9pm, W, no cover Open Mic Jam Slam w/Adrian Diijon, 9pm, Tu, Nite,M,9pm, W, no cover Open MicKaraoke Night, 9pm, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

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Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, The Hasher Family String Band, 10pm, Tu, $TBA Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, The Hasher Family StringOpen Band,Mic 10pm, Tu, $TBA Outspoken: Night, 7pm, M, no cover Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 8pm, M, Tu, W, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 8pm, M, Tu, W, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Tiki Tuesday, 9pm, Tu, no cover Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover Tiki Tuesday, 9pm, Tu, no cover Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover

MIDTOWN WINE BAR MIDTOWN BAR 1527 S. VirginiaWINE St., (775) 800-1960

THURSDAY 12/24 THURSDAY 12/24

FRIDAY 12/25 FRIDAY 12/25

SATURDAY 12/26 SATURDAY 12/26

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/28-12/30 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/28-12/30

SUNDAY 12/27 SUNDAY 12/27

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

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

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

Dave Lockhart Band, 8:30pm, no cover Dave Lockhart Band, 8:30pm, no cover

Dave Lockhart Band, 8:30pm, no cover Dave Lockhart Band, 8:30pm, no cover

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

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

Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter Acoustic Wonderland singer-songwriter showcase, 8pm, no cover showcase, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

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

Ladies Night w/DJ Snarky, Ladies Night w/DJ Snarky, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

SHELTER SHELTER 111 N. Virginia St., (775) 329-2909 219 W. Second St., (775) 657-9466

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DJ Spider DJDec. Spider 26, 10 p.m.

Dec. 26, 10 p.m.

Peppermill Peppermill 2707 S. Virginia St. 2707 S. Virginia St. 826-2121 826-2121

Tavern Trivia, 9pm, no cover Tavern Trivia, 9pm, no cover DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

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

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

Mark Mackay Band, 8pm, no cover Mark Mackay Band, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Mongo Party w/Ozie Ogbebor Homage, Mongo Party the w/Ozie Ogbebor Homage, Louie, iGore Villain, 8pm, $8 Louie, iGore the Villain, 8pm, $8

TEP’S VILLA ROMA TEP’S 3450 Lake VILLA Tahoe Blvd.,ROMA South Lake Tahoe; (530) 541-8227 3450 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 541-8227

Snowglobe Official After Party w/Claude Snowglobe Party w/Claude VonStroke, Official 11:30pm,After Tu, $35 w/wristband VonStroke, 11:30pm, Tu, $35 w/wristband

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON WHISKEY 2660 Lake Tahoe DICK’S Blvd., South SALOON Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425 2660 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe; (530) 544-3425

Snowglobe Official After Party w/Pumpkin, Snowglobe After Party w/Pumpkin, 11:30pm, Tu,Official $35 w/wristband 11:30pm, Tu, $35 w/wristband

XHALE BAR & LOUNGE XHALE & LOUNGE 27 Highway BAR 50, Stateline; (775) 580-7221 27 Highway 50, Stateline; (775) 580-7221

Slander, Tu, 11:30pm, Alison Wonderland, Slander, Alison Wonderland, 11:30pm,Tu, W, 11:30pm, $30 w/Snowglobe wristband 11:30pm, W, $30 w/Snowglobe wristband

WILDFLOWER VILLAGE WILDFLOWER VILLAGE 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769 4275-4395 W. Fourth (775)Fairy 787-3769 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2)St., Green Pub 1)3)Golden CabaretRose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret

Alison Wonderland Alison Wonderland Dec. 30, 11:30 p.m.

Dec. 11:30 p.m.

Xhale30, Bar & Lounge Xhale Bar &50 Lounge 27 Highway 27 Highway 50 Stateline Stateline 580-7221 580-7221

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

THESE THESE

DON’T DON’T

MIX MIX

Think you know your limits?

Think again.

If you drink, don’t drive.

Period.

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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 12/24 THURSDAY 12/24

FRIDAY 12/25 FRIDAY 12/25

SATURDAY 12/26 SATURDAY 12/26

SUNDAY 12/27 SUNDAY 12/27

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/28-12/30 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 12/28-12/30

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

2) Two Way Street, 4pm, no cover 2) Two Way Street, 4pm, no cover Atomika, 10pm, no cover Atomika, 10pm, no cover

2) Two Way Street, 4pm, no cover 2) Two Way Street, 4pm, no cover Atomika, 10pm, no cover Atomika, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover 2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

2) Soul Persuaders, 4pm, M, Tu, W, 2) Soul Persuaders, Tu, W, Atomika, 8pm, M, Tu,4pm, W, noM,cover Atomika, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) The Nighthawks, 7pm, no cover

2) The Nighthawks, 8pm, no cover 2) The Nighthawks, 8pm, no cover

2) The Nighthawks, 8pm, no cover 2) The Nighthawks, 8pm, no cover

2) Blue Haven, 10pm, no cover 2) Blue Haven, 10pm, no cover

1) Nahko and Medicine for the People, 1) Nahko and Medicine for the People, Dustin Thomas, 9pm, $25-$45 Dustin Thomas, 9pm, $25-$45

2) Ideateam, 10pm, no cover 2) Ideateam, 10pm, no cover

1) Ebenezer, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$26.95 , 3pm, 7pm, no $19.95-$26.95 1) Ebenezer 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, cover 2) 10:30pm, no cover 3) Audioboxx, DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Ebenezer, 3pm , 7pm, $19.95-$26.95 1) Ebenezer , 3pm , 7pm,no $19.95-$26.95 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, cover 2) 10:30pm, no cover 3) Audioboxx, DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Ebenezer, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$26.95 , 3pm, 7pm, no $19.95-$26.95 1) Ebenezer 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, cover 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover

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

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

RESORT CASINO Nahko and Medicine for ELDORADO RESORT CASINO Nahko and Medicine for ELDORADO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 the People 345 N. Virginia St., Brothers (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew 3) NoVi the People 1) Brew Brothers 4) Theater Cin Cin 5)2) Stadium Bar 3) NoVi Dec. 26, 9 p.m.

4) Cin Cin 5) Stadium Bar

Dec. 26, Bay 9 p.m.

Crystal Club Crystal Bay28 Club 14 Highway 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay Crystal 833-6333Bay 833-6333

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

HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO HARD ROCK HOTEL CASINO 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (844)& 588-7625 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625 HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE HARRAH’S LAKE(775) TAHOE 15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 588-6611

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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1) Furia! A Heroic Cirque Spectacle, A Heroic Cirque Spectacle, 1) Furia!

8pm, $10.09-$23.85

2500 E. Second (775)Nightclub 789-20003) Sports Book 2) 8pm, 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) Lex Flirt$10.09-$23.85 Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 1) Nightclub Sports Book 2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 4) Grand SummitTheater Pavilion2)5)LexSilver State 3)Pavilion 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

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1) Ebenezer, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$26.95 1) , 3pm, 7pm, no $19.95-$26.95 2) Ebenezer Audioboxx, 10:30pm, cover 2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover

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2) DJ JosBeatz, DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 2) Rickno Gee, 10pm, $20 3) DJ ArtyJosBeatz, the Party,DJ9pm, cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

3) Mick & Melissa, 8pm, no cover 3) Mick & Melissa, 8pm, no cover

3) Mick & Melissa, 8pm, no cover 3) Mick & Melissa, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 6pm, no cover 6pm, no cover

2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 8pm, no cover 8pm, cover10pm, $20 3) DJ no Spider, 3) DJ Spider, 10pm, $20

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

219 N. Center 2)St.,The(775) 1) Showroom Zone788-2900 3) Sapphire Lounge 1) Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 1100 Nugget Showroom Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity 1) Showroom 2) Celebrity Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom 3) Gilley’s

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NEW YEARS EVE 2 16 NYE Events 2016 AWAKENS!—A STAR WARS THEMED NYE BALL: The Star Wars-themed party includes costume contests, drink specials, free champagne and DJs keeping the Force strong all night. Th, 12/31, 10pm. $TBA. 1up, 214 W. Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444.

2016 GLITTERBALL: The dance party includes complimentary midnight champagne toast and prizes. Th, 12/31, 10pm. $10. 5 Star Saloon, 132 West St., (775) 329-2878.

BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS NYE CELEBRATION: Count down to 2016 with DJ Jayceeoh and resident DJ Rick Gee. Th, 12/31, 10pm. $20.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, 15 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611, www.harrahslaketahoe.com.

BIG ‘80S NYE PARTY: The Radio Rebels

ring in the new year. Th, 12/31, 10pm. $20. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe, 50 Highway 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625, http://hardrockcasinolaketahoe.com.

BUCKET OF BLOOD NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: David John and the Comstock Cowboys will perform at this NYE party, which includes a light meal at 7pm and champagne at midnight.

Music starts at 8pm. Limited tickets, 120 people maximum. Th, 12/31, 6pm. $50. Bucket of Blood Saloon, 1 S C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0322, www.comstockcowboys.com.

EDGE MOONSTRUCK NYE PARTY: The New Year’s Eve party features Four Color Zack spinning all night long and complimentary champagne tasting from 9pm to 10pm, party favors, a midnight champagne toast and a celebratory

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balloon drop. Th, 12/31, 9pm. $50-$60.

Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121, www.peppermillreno.com.

KIDS NIGHT OUT NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH: Kids ages 4-12 can enjoy New Year’s Eve festivities with a special dinner and party in the Alpine Ballroom featuring games, crafts, party goodies, DJ and dessert station.

Celebratory balloon drop at 9pm, followed by a late-night movie at 11pm.

Reservations required. Th, 12/31, 6pm. $60-$95. Resort at Squaw Creek, 400 Squaw Creek Road, Olympic Valley, (530) 581-6610.

MONTBLEU’S NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION: Admission includes access to Opal Ultra Lounge, Blu Nightclub and the main party in the newly renovated Convention Center.

Enjoy live music from Pop Fiction plus go-go dancers and body painting. Th, 12/31, 8pm. $55-$75. MontBleu Resort, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, (800) 6483353, www.montbleuresort.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT CEOL’S: Chris Talbot helps ring in the new year. Th, 12/31, 9pm. Free. Ceol Irish Pub, 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558, http://ceolirishpub.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT CIRCUS CIRCUS: Live music on the Cabaret Stage with Rebekah Chase, free party favors and midnight fireworks show in downtown Reno . Th, 12/31, 5pm. Free. Circus Circus, 500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT GREAT BASIN BREWING CO.: The party features a complimentary champagne toast and music by the Paisley Braincells. Th, 12/31, 10pm. $15. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-7711.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT IMPROV AT HARVEYS: Comedians Bob Zany and Billy Bonnell perform. Th, 12/31, 9pm. $25. Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE ELDORADO AND SILVER LEGACY: The Eldorado and Silver Legacy offer nine parties, countdowns and champagne toasts, plenty of celebratory party hats and favors handed out on the casino floor and a downtown fireworks show at midnight. Get passes to Aura, The Brew Brothers, NoVi and Rum Bullions or choose from the All Access Pass which takes care of the cover at these bars. Head to Cin Cin Bar and Lounge at the Eldorado or visit the Silver Baron Lounge in the Silver Legacy where you can avoid a cover charge and celebrate in a more relaxing setting. Th, 12/31, 9pm. $0-$150. Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700; Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401.

NEW YEAR’S EVE BALL: The party includes a buffet dinner, dessert, party favors and champagne. Formal dress is required. The color theme is red.

Open to couples and singles age 21 and older. Reservations required. Th, 12/31, 9pm. $20-$60. Dilligas Saloon, 1303 E Fourth St., (775) 322-8481, http://dilligassaloon.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CAPRI BALLROOM PARTY: Ring in the new year with music by AMFM. When the clock strikes midnight, celebrate with party favors, a balloon drop and champagne toast. Entry includes three drink tickets and complimentary desserts. Th, 12/31, 9:30pm. $65. Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121, www.peppermillreno.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION: The evening features music, games, fireworks and a Gondola Ball Drop.

Entertainment includes an outdoor concert, ice sculpting performances, fire dancers, a photo booth and face painting. The party continues into the night at one of the many casino nightclubs. Th, 12/31, 6-9pm. Heavenly Ski Resort, 3860 Saddle Road, South Lake Tahoe, (775) 586-7000, www.skiheavenly.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION AT GSR: Maxxt Out will help ring in the new year in the Summit Pavilion. Entry includes two complimentary drink tickets. Th, 12/31, 9:30pm. $44.95 per person; Lex Nightclub will hold The Majestic Ball. Th, 12/31, 8pm. $30-$60.

Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000.

NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER & CELEBRATION: Celebrate at Six Peaks Grille with a cocktail, party favors, a five-course gourmet dinner and live music.

Seatings are from 5-9pm and your table is yours for the entire evening.

Reservations required. Th, 12/31, 5pm. $152 per person. Resort at Squaw Creek, 400 Squaw Creek Road, Olympic Valley, (530) 581-6610.

NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER AT GOLD HILL HOTEL: The dinner at the hotel’s Crown Point Restaurant includes a three-course meal with a glass of champagne and party favors. Musical entertainment by Billy Starr. Two seatings: 7pm and 9pm. Reservations required. Th, 12/31, 7 & 9pm. $100 per couple. Gold Hill Hotel, 1540 S. Main St., 1 mile south of Virginia City on Highway 342, Gold Hill, (775) 847-0111.

NEW YEAR’S EVE GRAND CELEBRATION PARTY & DINNER: The celebration

takes place in the Grand Sierra Ballroom and includes a gourmet buffet dinner, entertainment, live band, dancing, party favors and a champagne toast. The event is open to adults age 21 and older. Doors open at 7pm. Party-only admission begins at 9pm. Reservations required. Th, 12/31, 7pm. $75-$120 for dinner and party, $30-$49 for party only. Resort at Squaw Creek, 400 Squaw Creek Road, Olympic Valley, (530) 581-6610, www.squawcreek.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY AT HARRAH’S RENO: Ring in the new year with DJ GomeX spinning all the hits in the Sapphire Lounge. Th, 12/31, 8pm; Party with DJ Luciano, party favors and champagne toast at midnight. Th, 12/31, 9pm. Free. Harrah’s Reno, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY AT MUSTANG RANCH STEAKHOUSE: The party includes dinner and dessert, champagne toast, balloon drop, party favors and music by Greg Austin & Southern Justice. Doors at 6pm.

Dinner starts at 7pm. Th, 12/31, 7pm. $50 per person. Mustang Ranch Steakhouse & Hunters Lounge/Bar, 5 N. C St., Virginia City, www.lancegilmansnewyearseve.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTIES AT SQUAW VALLEY: Ring in the new year at Squaw Valley|Alpine Meadows with free live music in The Village, firework shows and all night parties. Fireworks start at 7pm. The best viewing location is at KT Base Bar. Other New Year’s Eve events include singer/songwriter Chi

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Think Free A Man Walks Into A Barnacle I’m a 43-year-old man, and I’m trying to build my career after years of being a stay-at-home dad. I got involved very quickly with a woman I met online, but the truth is that she’s just not smart enough for me. I feel bad because she’s very sweet, but I’d rather devote my time to my work. I’ve tried to break up with her numerous times, but she just doesn’t seem to get it. I’ll tell her I really need time to myself, but she’ll still call incessantly. How do you tell somebody it’s over in a way that is kind but gets through to them?

You need “time to yourself”? Great. She can do that.

Just call her when you’re ready. No, not on the phone.

She’ll be out on your porch in her sleeping bag.

Welcome to the rose-colored distorto-vision of being “optimistically biased”—succumbing to the human tendency to see what’s positive instead of what’s realistic. (“What I refuse to believe won’t hurt me!”) We’re especially likely to go happily dumb when our ego is involved.

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers explains in The Folly of Fools that we “protect our happiness via self-deception.”

We have a “psychological immune system” that works “not by fixing what makes us unhappy but by … minimizing it and lying about it.”

Neuroscientist Tali Sharot finds from her brain imaging research that having a distortedly positive view comes out of what she calls “selective updating.” When our brain gets information that things are going to be better than expected, it’s all, “Yes, sir, we’ll send that around.” But information that things will be worse than expected? That gets kicked under the bed—or would if the brain had feet and slept in a bed.

There is another possibility here. Even if your girlfriend’s intelligence level leaves you confused about whether to take her to dinner or just water her and put her in indirect sunlight, she may be what I call instinctually smart. Possibly, it’s clear to her that you want to end it but she’s ignoring that in hopes of wearing you down.

Regardless of the reason she’s still hanging around, the only way to change that is by telling her that you two are done, using very direct language, like, “I’m sorry, but it’s over between us. I am breaking up with you.” Should she keep contacting you, make it similarly clear that there’s no room at the inn for hope.

This is actually the kind way to break up with a refuse-to-believe-er—being momentarily cruel, ideally as soon as you realize it’s over. In other words, putting your girlfriend out of her misery starts with putting her through it—pronto. Keep merely hinting that it’s over and, well, OPINION

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if an asteroid destroyed life on earth as we know it, three things would survive: cockroaches, the Kardashians and your relationship.

The Endear Hunter My girlfriend rarely, if ever, calls me by my actual name.

Other women I’ve dated have done this, too. It makes me think of that country song that goes, “You don’t have to call me darlin’, darlin’.” I’ve come to realize that I’ve been steadily losing interest in my girlfriend and maybe she senses that. Or could it be something else? Why do women do this—not calling men by their actual names?

There are times when only your actual name will do—because the alternative is “Hey, Magic Penis, I’m over here … aisle 4!”

But, generally speaking, the way people address each other is a statement about the kind of relationship they have. So when the nurse comes into the waiting room with a clipboard, you never hear, “OK … Poopooface, the doctor will see you now.” A cop, likewise, will not ask, “Do you know how fast you were going, Turtlebutt?”

A pet name is part of creating a relationship “culture”—things you do and say that mark the relationship as a distinct little society. (Cutesy handles also tend to, uh, travel better than matching bones through the nose.)

Not surprisingly, relationship communication researcher Carol Bruess finds that partners in happy relationships use nicknames more than those in unhappy ones. Referencing previous research, Bruess explains that nickname use both creates intimacy and reflects it. So, it’s possible that your girlfriend’s nicknamery is a ploy—perhaps unconscious— to bring you two closer. (If she talks all cootchie-cuddlycoo, cootchie-cuddly-coo might follow.)

But seeing as you have been “steadily losing interest” in your girlfriend, why are you sitting around pondering nickname use? You need to do your part: Inform your girlfriend that the relationshippypoo can no longer breathe on its owniecakes, and that it’s time she started referring to you as her ex-schmoopie —or, better yet, “that asshole” she used to date. Ω

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

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McClean from 2-4pm at The Village Events Plaza Stage. New Year’s Eve Dinner at High Camp from 6-9pm at the Terrace Restaurant at High Camp and a New Year’s Eve Party from 9pm-2am at Olympic House. Th, 12/31, 6pm. Prices vary. The Village at Squaw Valley USA, 1750 Village East Road, Olympic Valley, (866) 818-6963.

SPEAKEASY ROARING ’20S NYE PARTY: The Elbow Room Bar will transform into a modern speakeasy with music

by Wunderlust. Champagne toast at midnight. Costumes encouraged. $100 cash prize for most authentic costume and $100 bar tab for best dressed couple. Th, 12/31, 9pm. Free.

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-6700.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY AT THE SANDS: Live music in the 3rd Street Lounge from 9pm-1am featuring John Dawson Band. Champagne toast at midnight. Tyler Stafford will perform in the Copa Bar & Grill from 6-10pm.

Th, 12/31, 6pm. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200.

feeding mothers are invited to join this breast-feeding support group.

Mothers exchange their experiences and discuss concerns such as milk supply, pumping, going back to work, sleeping or lack of sleep, etc. RSVP at http://doodle.com/cy5nrur23mbg6pie. Tu, 4-5pm. $10 drop in; free for first-time attendees. Renown South Meadows Medical Center, 10101 Double R Blvd., (775) 240-9916.

Heavenly Village features ice sculptors, carolers and a 16-foot interactive snow globe where kids can get their photos taken with Santa. The holiday fun culminates on Dec. 31 with a New Year’s Celebration. M-Su through 12/31. Heavenly Ski Resort, 3860 Saddle Road, South Lake Tahoe, (775) 586-7000, www.skiheavenly.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE SHOW WITH DUMPSTAPHUNK & MONOPHONICS: The New Orleans funk group combine complex funk and jazz arrangements with soulful melodies. Bay Area psychedelic soul band Monophonics open the show. Th, 12/31, 9pm. $45. Crystal Bay Club, 14 Highway 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 833-6333.

JIMMY BEANS WOOL KNIT NIGHT: Join local and visiting fiber enthusiasts for an evening of knitting and crocheting.

Fourth Th of every month, 6-8pm. Free.

Jimmy Beans Wool, 1312 Capital Blvd.

Ste. 103, (775) 827-9276; www.jimmybeanswool.com.

HOLIDAYS AT SQUAW ALPINE: Celebrate the holidays at Squaw Valley|Alpine Meadows. Meet Santa in The Village at Squaw Valley from 3pm to 7pm on Dec. 24. The Great Basin Carolers will perform throughout the Village from 3pm to 7pm on Dec. 24 and from 4pm to 7pm on Dec. 26. Santa on the Slopes from 10am to 2pm on Dec. 24-25. Ski with Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley from 2pm to 4pm on Dec. 26-31. M-Su through 12/31. Free with lift ticket. Squaw Valley Resort, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, http://squawalpine.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECTACULAR: The celebration features the Snow Cat Parade at 4:45pm, followed by the Kids Torchlight at 5:30pm and a fireworks show at 5:50pm. Th, 12/31, 4:30-6:30pm.

Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe, 22222 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-0704.

NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH JESUS TREJO: Comedian Jesus Trejo rings says farewell to 2015 with two shows. The early begins at 7pm. $15 in advance, $20 the day of the show. The late show starts at 9:30pm. Tickets are $18 in advance, $23 the day of the show. Th, 12/31.

Carson City Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 882-1626, www.renotahoecomedy.com.

MAGICAL MEMORIES: The 11th annual holiday celebration features Breakfast with Santa on Dec. 24-25, as well as seasonal concerts, holiday dining, ice skating and New Year’s Eve parties for adults, teens and kids. M-Su through 1/3. Prices vary by event.

Resort at Squaw Creek, 400 Squaw Creek Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 327-3353, www.squawcreek.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH STEVE SIMEONE: Comedian Steve Simeone will perform two shows on New Year’s Eve. The early show starts at 6:30pm. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 the day of the show. The late show begins at 9:30pm. Tickets are $23 in advance, $28 the day of the show. Th, 12/31, 6:30 & 9:30pm. Reno Tahoe Comedy at the Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233.

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Reno Chamber Orchestra’s 12th annual festival showcases some of the best local, national and international classical musicians performing chamber works by composers such Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Brahms, Martinu, Prokofiev and others.

There are 10 concerts over the six-day festival, which kicks off on Saturday, Dec. 26, and concludes on Thursday, Dec. 31 with in a New Year’s Eve concert and celebration. Afternoon and evening concerts take place at Nightingale Concert Hall inside the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno and at the South Reno United Methodist Church, 200 DeSpain Lane. Festival passes are $50-$250 and include all 10 concerts. Individual concert tickets are $25-$40 general admission, $5 for youth and full-time students. Call 348-9413 or visit www.renochamberorchestra.org.

NYE SHOW WITH QUEENSRÿCHE: The hard

rock band performs. Th, 12/31, 9:30pm. $50. Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300. music, ice skating, roasting s’mores by the fire and a fireworks show at 9pm in The Village at Northstar.

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The Reno chapter of the national DBSA meets. Fourth Th of every month, 7-8:30pm. Renown Health Boardroom, 1495 Mill St, (775) 835-6410.

GALENA BOOK ’N TEA: Discuss naturebased literature over hot tea. Call to reserve a spot. Fourth Sa of every month, 3-4pm. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

Fourth Th of every month, 10:30am.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO:

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gram for seniors meets. Second and

Tour the featured exhibition with one of the Nevada Museum of Art’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled guided tour offered Thursdays at 6pm (except First Thursdays); Saturdays at 1pm and Sundays at 1pm. Free with admission.

Th, Sa, Su. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

spun by DJ Rick Gee & DJ Jayceeoh.

Th, 12/31, 10pm. $20. Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, 15 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-6611.

program offers field trips, sports, games, crafts and more for students in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Registration is limited to 180 kids.

No program on Dec. 25 or Jan. 1, M-F through Jan. 8. Call to register. $36$144. Sparks Parks & Recreation, 98 Richards Way, Sparks, (775) 353-2376.

LIFESCAPES: The memoir writing pro-

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Guided Tours.

NYE PARTY AT PEEK NIGHTCLUB: Music

CHRISTMAS CAPERS: This winter break

—Kelley Lang

This show highlights work by eight Nevadan artists whose influence has helped to shape the art in our region.

Artists include Joan Arrizabalaga, Robert Morrison, Edw Martinez, Jim McCormick, Elaine Parks, Nancy Peppin, Fred Reid and Michael Sarich.

Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

features headliner Fort Knox Five with guests Qdup, Steve Raskin, DeeJay Theory, The Rhino, AUX, BassMentality and IJV. Th, 12/31, 9pm. $20$40. Tahoe Biltmore, 5 Highwya 28, Crystal Bay, (775) 831-0660.

or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45pm. Free.

Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

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Down Time. Th, 12/31, 9:30pm. Free.

Davidson’s Distillery, 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 376-6482.

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comedian presents a magic show for all ages. Sa, 12/26, 3pm. $10 ages 12 and younger; $15 ages 13 and older, $12 students and military. Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233.

The party is open to teens age 13 and older and includes pizza, dessert station, music and more. The event takes place at Mountain Pizzeria. Th, 12/31, 7pm. $40. Resort at Squaw Creek, 400 Squaw Creek Road, Olympic Valley, (530) 581-6610.

includes DJ dance party, party favors a champagne toast at midnight and fireworks. Th, 12/31. $40. Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401.

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Productions presents the holiday classic based on Charles Dickens’ story and adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company by John Mortimer. Sa, 12/26, 7:30pm; Su, 12/27, 2pm. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Laughing Owl Productions, 75 S. Wells Ave., www.laughingowlproductions.com.

The party features Black Rock City Allstars. Th, 12/31, 8pm. Free. Singer Social Club, 219 W. Second St., (510) 938-4412.

Drinking With Clowns will perform into the new year. Th, 12/31, 8pm. 3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005, www.facebook.com/3rdstreetbar.

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Museums NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): SpaceMobiles: From Rockets and Rovers to Cars on Mars, This exhibit takes a look at America’s fascination with exploring new frontiers and the machines that make it possible. M-Su through 4/11. $4-$10, free for members and children age 5 and younger. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

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NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Tahoe: A Visual History. Experience Lake Tahoe landscapes through the eyes of 175 painters, photographers, architects, weavers and sculptors. The Nevada Museum of Art has organized the first major art historical survey exhibition of painting, Native baskets, photography, architecture and contemporary art dedicated to Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region. TAHOE: A Visual History spans over two centuries of cultural and creative production related to the second largest freshwater alpine lake in the United States. W-Su through 1/10. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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SOUTH VALLEYS BRIDGE GROUP: Join Jill and meet new friends. Basic bridge knowledge preferred. F, 1-4pm. Free.

South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190, www.washoe. lib.nv.us.

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That’s because every year, 98 percent of you is replaced. Old cells are constantly dying, giving way to new cells that are made from the air, food, and water you ingest.

This is true about everyone, of course.

You’re not the only one whose physical form is regularly recycled. But here’s what will be unique about you in 2016: Your soul will match your body’s rapid transformations. In fact, the turnover is already underway. By your next birthday, you may be so new you’ll barely recognize yourself. I urge you to take full charge of this opportunity! Who do you want to become?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The English word

“ain’t” can mean “am not,” “is not,” “are not” or “have not.” But it ain’t recognized as a standard word in the language. If you use it, you risk being thought vulgar and uneducated. And yet “ain’t” has been around since 1706, more than 300 years. Most words that are used for so long eventually become official. I see your journey in 2016 as having resemblances to the saga of “ain’t,” Libra.

You will meet resistance as you seek greater acceptance of some nonstandard but regular part of your life. Here’s the good news: Your chances of ultimately succeeding are much better than ain’t’s.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My old friend

John owns a 520-acre farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Blueberries are among the crops he grows. If he arranges their growing season so that they ripen in July, he can sell them for $1.75 a pint. But if he designs them to be ready for harvest in late summer and early fall, the price he gets may go up to $4 a pint. You can guess which schedule he prefers. I urge you to employ a similar strategy as you plot your game plan for 2016, Scorpio.

Timing may not be everything, but it will count for a lot.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In 1803, the U.S. government bought a huge chunk of North American land from the French government. At a price of three cents per acre, the new republic doubled its size, acquiring what’s now Louisiana and Montana and everything between. I don’t think you’ll add that much to your domain in 2016, Sagittarius, but it’s likely you will expand significantly. And although your new resources won’t be as cheap as the 1803 bargain, I suspect the cost, both in terms of actual cash and in emotional energy, will be manageable. There’s one way your acquisition will be better than that earlier one. The Americans bought and the French sold land they didn’t actually own—it belonged to the native people—whereas your moves will have full integrity.

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

coming year will be a favorable time for you to nourish a deeper devotion to truth, beauty and goodness. Anything you do to make your morality more rigorous will generate benefits that ripple through your life for years to come. Curiously, you can add to the propitious effect by also cultivating a deeper devotion to fun, play and pleasure.

There is a symbiotic connection between the part of you that wants to make the world a better place and the part of you that thrives on joy, freedom and wonder. Here’s the magic formula: Feed your lust for life by being intensely compassionate, and vice versa.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict

that 2016 will be your Year of Fruitful Obsessions. In giving this positive spin to the cosmic tendencies, I’m hoping to steer you away from any behavior that might lead to 2016 being your Year of Fruitless Obsessions.

One way or another, I think you’ll be driven to express your passions with single-minded intensity. Focused devotion—sometimes verging on compulsive preoccupation—is likely to be one of your signature qualities.

That’s why it’s so important to avoid wasteful infatuations and confounding manias.

Please choose fascinations that are really good for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your symbol

of power in 2016 will be the equal sign: =.

Visualize it in your mind’s eye every morning for 20 seconds. Tattoo it on your butt. Write it on an index card that you keep under your pillow or on your bathroom mirror. Gestures like these will deliver highly relevant messages to your subconscious mind, like “Create balance and cultivate harmony!” and “Coordinate opposing forces!” and “Wherever there is tension between two extremes, convert the tension into vital energy!” Here are your words of power in 2016: “symbiosis” and “synergy.”

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Keeping the history watch Eric Moody is editor of Nevada in the West magazine, which is now in its sixth year. He previously served as curator of manuscripts and acting director of the Nevada Historical Society.

Go over that first five years.

How did it turn out? How is it different from what you expected?

It’s been different than I expected. I am one in five partners behind the magazine. I’m the editor so I have a part in producing it [along with] a small, largely volunteer staff. But we began because there was no statewide publication devoted to Nevada history. The Nevada Historical Society Quarterly was on something of a hiatus, and Nevada Magazine had pretty much moved away from doing historical features. So I decided to get this going. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time. I retired from the Nevada Historical Society and began this in early 2010. It was supposed to be—conceptually, originally—sort of an illustrated, informal magazine or history journal. As you can see, it’s got some aspects of a journal. It has uniform headings on the articles. We have book reviews as well as the articles but they’re not footnoted. So as far as the content is concerned, I think it’s pretty much what I envisioned. I didn’t originally think of a glossy magazine, like we ended up with, but that was largely because it is the

least expensive way to publish an item like this. Go to a printer and there’s economy of scale in producing something like this, and that’s [glossy] where we ended up.

We started printing locally initially and then moved to a larger out-of-state printer.

When you say lighter articles, explain what you have in mind.

Well, I think it really comes down to the difference between academic, footnoted articles and good, quality, critical stories about Nevada’s history. The latter is what we’re interested in doing. We didn’t want to retread what had already been done. We don’t have many articles about gunfights on the main street and ghost towns. … We wanted to do articles and stories about Nevada that were different. [Things that] people might have wondered about Nevada history or they hadn’t thought about at all, like the lead article in our current issue is about Elvis Presley’s first appearance in Las Vegas in ’56 when he was not favorably received.

That’s just one example. ... It’s not error free.

That bothers me more than anything else.

Vulgarity is a credential My electronic mailbox is filled on a weekly basis by various liberal online political organizations, like Move On, using Trump’s ongoing lead in the Republican race as a fright worthy of cash generation. I understand and realize that when you’re working for donations, you make use of whatever opportunities arise.

But I get slightly concerned with the undercurrent of these come-ons, an undercurrent of “Trump must be silenced.” No, actually, he’s fine.

Let him speak. There’s no reason to shout him down.

What, this is some kind of news, that 30-35 percent of Americans are permanent residents of Yo-Yo City?

This is the well established Darth Cheney bloc, now giving big chunks of support to the Donald. Lib types would do well to remember that our continued ongoing sanctimonious outrage at Trump being the frontrunner is actually helping the guy maintain his lead. The Trump peeps out there positively relish the reality that Trump totally appalls us Dems/ libs. The more Move On, Credo and OPINION

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That’s difficult to say because I liked most of them. ... The ones closest to my heart actually are the ones dealing with the Nevada brewing industry. Bob Nylen and I have been working on a history of the Nevada brewing industry for a couple of decades now, and we did one issue back in 2011 on beer in Nevada—an article on the brew pub revolution in Nevada and an article about the first brewery on the Comstock. Both of those are presenting new material. Both those are examples, right offhand, of things I really liked. We had an article by Carolyn Eichen on burlesque performances on stage in the late 19th century in Virginia City. We had [former state film office director] Robin Holabird do a feature on Nevada science fiction films that were either set here or filmed here. That worked out quite well. ...

There’s just a few articles I haven’t cared much for at all, but I’d say 95 percent of them I think were pretty good.

Have you developed a stable of writers or are you still looking for writers?

We have a number of writers who have written several articles for us. One would be Jim Hulse, one of the leading historians in the state. In fact, we have an article [by Hulse] on Highway 93, a trip down Highway 93, in our current issue. Bob Stewart of Carson City writes about early Nevada, the territorial period. … So we have some repeat authors, but we’re always looking for new material. Ω

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the other organizations looking for anti-Trump donations screech about his very existence somehow damaging our country, the more bumper stickers, ball caps, barbecue aprons and mud flaps he’s gonna sell.

So no, I’m not gonna contribute a nickel to the Trump Must Be Stopped Now movements. Hey, if the Republicans wanna commit political suicide in ’16, why should I stop them? As I’ve been saying the last four months, I suggest you sit back and enjoy the show, a show that’s getting considerably juicier now that “Republican Establishment” heavy hitters like Mitt, McCain and the Kochs are having to change their Depends on an hourly basis as they see the yo-yo wing of their party aim the Escalade for the cliff and the inevitable Thelma/ Louise-style conclusion.

One more thing about Trump. I absolutely love the guy for being the first politico ever to use the word “bullshit” freely and openly while giving his stump speeches. Goddamn, it’s about fucking time! Good for Trump, and I’m sure the very fact |

Typographically and factually, errors crop up, and I don’t like it as a historian.

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that he will stand on a stage and say the word is worth at least 4-7 percentage points in the latest polls. The days of old biddies staying at home and calling the FCC every time the word “piss” or “shit” gets on the airwaves are long, long, long gone, and good riddance to that lameass Bible Belt tyranny. The vast majority of Americans no longer give a flying fig about the words “pissed off” or “bullshit” or “asshole,” and it’s high time we in the media acknowledged this changing cultural paradigm. Trump has so far been the only candidate with the huevos to put this knowledge into action, and it’s not hurting him in the polls one iota.

Have a great holiday. We live on a most extraordinary and wondrous planet. May its awesome treasures, creations, mysteries and secrets be revealed to you and experienced by you on a daily basis for the rest of your life. Ω FOODFINDS

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