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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Happy New Year! I know that we’re a week into 2016, but Brian wrote this column last week, so I didn’t get a chance to wish you lovely people the best for the upcoming year. So, happy New Year, peeps. May your health maintain, your heads be clear, and your cups runneth over. Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends.

As a born and bred Renoite, one of the things I like most about the holidays around here is meeting up with pals who grew up here but have moved away and now only come back to visit for the holidays. I’ve had several nice old school encounters, some planned and some happenstance, over the last few weeks, which has been really nice, and there’s one comment that every single old friend and acquaintance has made: “Reno has really changed a lot in the last couple of years, hasn’t it?”

Now, back around, say, 2009, when we locals would hear a comment like that, it was usually a diss of some sort—a dig on the tumbleweeds blowing through downtown. But this year, the comment was praise—surprise about the vibrant nightlife or eclectic food scene.

Reno has changed. It’s hard to find parking around midtown during peak hours.

You need to make reservations for many of the city’s best restaurants—even on weeknights. Small things, but telling.

Even ex-Renoites who left in a blaze of burning bridges, blasting “Thunder Road”— “it’s a town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of here to win”—were heard to remark, “you know, maybe I could see myself living here again.”

But let’s not get too optimistic. Currently, Nevada is often mentioned in the national news as the home state of Cliven Bundy.

The only way to save Social Security and revive the economy from the ground up, since top-down stimulus is not working, is to abolish the minimum wage completely on the condition that from that moment forward all labor be “on the books” and that additional IRS and FBI agents be hired to enforce that rule. This will replenish Social Security and bring an end to the underground economy and all its criminal associations, which are many.

No one is forced to work for a wage he finds inadequate. This is not workfare. This is an opportunity for work for all, like older people who don’t enjoy being idle, homeless persons, those recovering from long illnesses, and the young who want to be self-reliant. This is not a training wage scheme. This is the absence of a government dictate which has caused corruption, deep poverty and mental retardation since 1938.

In this way, dependence on social services, charities, food banks will be reduced, as will property crimes, gang activity, drugs, suicide, family discord, bullying and on and on.

Small business will revive, and because much more money will be in circulation in the lower half of the economy, at the street level there will be a trickle-up effect on the economy overall.

This would be deflationary. The world appears divided into inflationists and deflationists. By its policies, the Federal Reserve wants the dollar to be devalued by over 50 percent every 20 years. Deflationists want the dollar to maintain its value, and by so doing, increase in value in time.

For those who do not own financial instruments, deflation is nirvana.

Inflationists want to ban case so they can control expectations.

No one forced Ishmael onto that boat or forced him to sign up, but by his experience he grew. Growth must from now on be qualitative rather than quantitative. But that would be deflationary. Wall Street sharks and their political friends must not lay a

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Agenda alert Re “Return the extremists to the fringes” (Left Foot Forward, Dec. 24, 2015): It really is sad that you use News & Review for your political agenda. That fact of the matter is that you can not regulate evil. No matter how you try. But what you are suggesting is a slow illumination of the Second Amendment.

So, either you are not educated in historical facts or you have an agenda.

Disarming law-abiding citizens is clearly not the right path if you believe what the Second Amendment stands for. I would concede to your logic if the war on drugs was working—which it’s not.

You see, when you suggest things like you do, you really make a thriving black market, so in reality we will be making more criminals who will be rich and powerful.

Yay! China has a police state, and guess what? They have mass attacks, too. But the attackers use knives. So you really can’t stop the horror!

Alan Roney Reno

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Different reason Re “Under pressure” (News,, Dec. 31, 2015): Dennis Myers stated, “In 2014, Democratic lethargy and low turnout gave Republicans their most sweeping victory in Nevada since 1890.” I suggest that Democrats got their butts stomped from coast to coast and county to county because citizens were fed up with liberal, Democratic policy. The results were so bad that Harry Reid said, no more. No more Senate majority leader.

In Nevada, new attorney general Adam Laxalt was given no chance to win before the election, yet did.

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Re “Liberals should learn from pot regulation” (Let Freedom Ring, July 30, 2015): While I agree with Brendan Trainor’s premise that government can screw up policy implementation, I choose to not agree that all government participation in economic strategic planning is bad.

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do nothing well? What is the alternative to some degree of government oversight, a free-for-all?

Government’s role is to establish the rules of the game so people and the environment are not ruined by endless greed. Do they get too heavy-handed on occasion? Of course.

But do you really want lead in your paint and air, mercury in your drinking water, or BP dumping millions of gallons to toxic sludge in our front yard? I don’t think so. I do not trust business or the market place to always make the best long-term choices. That is what government should do. A key issue is the people in government often forget the people they impact. The long delays in opening the medical marijuana dispensaries were inexcusable and resulted in many people suffering pain longer than was necessary.

The state claims it took over two years to implement the law because they wanted to get it right. Well, they did not get it right (see Clark County) because they were more focused on legal technicalities and dollar considerations than the patients. Greater

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Bundy redux As you have no doubt heard, another group is trying to get its way with weapons because it cannot do so by legal or democratic means.

This was to be expected. The April 2014 standoff at Bunkerville has emboldened many dangerous people. The first Bundy standoff ended in a sort of victory for guns.

As the Southern Poverty Law Center put it, “No Patriot group in recent memory has stood face-to-face with a large crowd of armed law enforcement officials and forced the officers to back down. It seems likely that that victory has given new impetus to murderous radicals like the Millers.” Jerad and Carol Miller were Bundy supporters who killed three people in Las Vegas, including two police officers.

Now, one and possibly two sons of Cliven Bundy are leading an occupation of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeast Oregon. They have some vague and confusing demands. They have self-righteousness.

And, of course, they have guns.

Their demands are irrelevant, given that they are taking non-legal means, given that they are unwilling to accept a no answer. To do it legally and with acceptance of the outcome would mean risking losing, the same thing that everyone from a plumber seeking a permit to a teenager taking a driving test has to do.

“We feel we have exhausted all prudent measures and have been ignored,” said Ammon Bundy. A lot of people feel that way, and then gracefully accept the outcome of their effort and move on or wait for the next legal opportunity. Most people don’t try to force society to give them what they want. But these tiny splinter groups

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I would pick the guy—who was the guy who played Opie Taylor? I’d pick Ron Howard because I think I kind of look like him in his younger years, and I watched Andy Griffith growing up, and he’s just a good guy. I feel like I’m a good guy too.

endow themselves with sole virtue and rightness and cut themselves loose from the restraints under which most of us live.

Fortunately, their smugness and disdain for other viewpoints contains the seeds of their own defeat, alienating most of the population. Arrogance seldom sells, so in either court or the court of public opinion, they’ll lose.

The culpability of other groups for these incidents, however, needs greater accountability.

First, there is the Bureau of Land Management. Its neglect of its duty in allowing Cliven Bundy to flout the law for an unconscionable 20 years has never been explained. If Bundy had failed to pay his electric bill, he would have been slapped down fast. Three different presidential administrations let his scofflaw behavior slide. If there were Clinton administration officials who worried that they might inflame the situation, all that can be said is that by failing to act, they did just that. It finally came to a head in an even more polarized era. The BLM inflamed the situation by its negligence, and still does— the original malfeasance, remember, is still ongoing.

Republicans once posed as the party of law and order, but when the first Bundy standoff came around, too many GOP leaders considered it more important to pander to fringe radicals than speak for order and legality. They encouraged this lawlessness.

Democrats at lower levels denounced the Bundyites, but where was the president of the United States? Since April, 2014, he has never spoken out against Bundy’s antics. There has been one 43-word statement by White House press aide Josh Ernest declining comment. Where is the moral leadership? Who speaks for good people? Ω

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In her little bit younger days—not that I’m young, I’m 72—Shirley MacLaine has the same kind of wit that I do, and I guess I would choose her. I don’t necessarily go along with her—you wouldn’t call it religious views, but her life after, or whatever. I don’t go along with that, but as far as an actress, her ways… but yet she has a tender side, too.

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False equivalence rears its head Reno’s Christmas week earthquakes gave the city a good shake, perhaps adding a needed jolt of energy to kickstart the 2016 political season.

We can hope the New Year will bring more nuanced and thorough reporting of the most important political race next year, the presiby dential contest, featuring a narcisSheila Leslie sistic unqualified blowhard on the Republican side and an experienced stateswoman with a concrete agenda for the Democrats.

We could certainly use fewer articles like the one from Factcheck. org which recently ran in the Reno Gazette-Journal, detailing the “whoppers” from Trump and Clinton as if they were of the same caliber.

The Clinton whoppers involved the tired manufactured controversy over her private email account, the neverending Benghazi investigation that has produced nothing more than a rehash of long-term systemic failures leading up to the tragedy, and a weakly worded criticism of a Clinton statement about charter schools not taking the hardest-to-teach children.

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The Trump whoppers were portrayed as the counterpoint to Clinton’s, yet they featured multiple obvious and repeated careless lies from a man who tosses off ridiculous claims with no hint of the necessary filter that elected office demands.

Trump’s favorite tactic is to say he “heard” something and present it as fact, even in the face of direct evidence that the statement is false.

He makes up his own facts and persists in telling lies to cover up his ignorance and unsuitability for elected office of any kind.

Voters deserve better than this style of “balanced” reporting, which creates a false narrative of equality. Clinton’s political past deserves careful scrutiny but it doesn’t deserve to be compared with Trump’s lies.

Closer to home, we have the spectacle of Republican legislative leaders who should know better conjuring up new attempts to make an unconstitutional bill and illegal regulations meet muster. If they put half as much energy into solving the

pressing problems of growth fueled by their tax-giveaways to corporate billionaires as they do in trying to rewrite history to fix their unconstitutional school voucher bill, Nevada would be leading the nation in every positive indicator.

The latest maneuvers include an embarrassing, non-binding resolution passed in last month’s special session.

It is intended to rewrite legislative history, belatedly extending school vouchers immediately to kindergartners and children of military families, elements that were never discussed during the law’s original development. Then last week they forced through similar regulations as if that vote could make up for their phantom work product during the session. It might be amusing if the intent to undermine public education weren’t so diabolical.

Surely the Republican leadership was advised by legislative lawyers that the resolution and regulations based on false history won’t convince a court to doctor the law, already constitutionally questionable.

This sort of pandering to wealthy, conservative patrons cheapens the legislative institution, and adds to a general cynicism of politics our state and nation can ill afford.

Finally, the clock is busily counting down the days towards March 7, the beginning of filing for Reno City Council seats. Thanks to a recent inevitable court ruling that the scheme to avoid ward voting in Reno general elections violates the Voting Rights Act, the City must change its charter or face an equally inevitable court challenge of the 2016 election results. The ensuing chaos when election results are thrown out by a court and the resulting cost of a new election should be incentive enough to find a quick solution.

Since Governor Sandoval refused to allow the Legislature to take up the issue in last month’s special session, perhaps a state court will provide a judicial remedy. Otherwise, get prepared for a political earthquake to shake things up in a way the power structure may soon regret. Ω

Far away futures Gov. Brian Sandoval called the Nevada Legislature into a special session in December that approved $210 million in tax subsidies and government spending to lure Faraday Futures, an international corporation owned by billionaire Chinese oligarch Jia Yeuting, to by Brendan North Las Vegas. The company has Trainor a concept electric car to compete with Tesla, whose battery plant here in the North also received lavish subsidies.

No one really knows what this car the taxpayers have just gone into hock to lure here actually is.

Supposedly it is an electric car that you somehow operate like a smart phone. Faraday promises to unveil the thing at the Consumer Electronics Show this month. The car (or whatever it is) will sell in the $100,000 range. Mr. Yeuting says all the right things about wanting to reduce China’s awful air pollution, but selling luxury electric cars to other Chinese oligarchs may not be the most efficient way to save the planet.

Republican Assembly district 25 candidate Jennifer Terhune said on Talking Truth to Power, the weekly radio show she co-hosts, that the package is unfair to small business.

The legislature just imposed a massive tax hike on small businesses, and had the gall to tell us that taxes are not a major problem for business in Nevada. Then, the same legislature turns around and grants tax relief to an international corporation!

No wonder people like Trump.

Ms. Terhune’s point is confirmed when you look closely at the deal.

Faraday Futures projects it will hire 4,500 workers. But according to the Small Business Administration, small businesses in Nevada created over 15,000 jobs in 2012 alone.

4,500 workers sounds like an awful lot, but in Las Vegas terms, it’s about the same number of jobs as an average strip mega-resort.

Tesla received tax breaks by promising to hire 6,500 workers.

Tesla is not living up to that projection. On December 15, an audit done

by Grant Thornton accountants was released that shows Tesla has only hired 3.4 percent of projected new permanent workers, and created only 35 percent of its projected construction jobs. Instead of over $1 billion in investment, Tesla has invested less than $200 million.

Electric cars are no sure thing.

Nissan has spent over $5 billion trying to develop the Leaf into a winner. GM lost $50,000 on every Volt it sold. Two thirds of Tesla’s 2012 and 2013 drive trains will wear out around 60,000 miles and will have to be replaced. There is no guarantee that Faraday’s car will fare better. New technologies, like Google’s driverless cars—due to be available on the market soon—may make high end electric cars even less desirable.

Government should not pick economic winners and losers.

If Faraday Futures works out, it may stimulate a depressed part of

Nevada. The Las Vegas housing market needs a boost.

Or maybe not.

The lesson that should have been learned from the 2008 economic meltdown, but apparently wasn’t, is that government stimulation of markets causes a boom, but then comes the bust. When a small business expands into another storefront, it is usually because people have freely paid their hard earned dollars for the product, and the owner has prudently managed his assets and now can confidently expand.

But when central planners and politicians play favorites and subsidize businesses, they often turn out to be uncompetitive and a drain on everyone’s resources. Gov. Sandoval and the Legislature would have done better by North Las Vegas by reducing taxes and red tape on everyone so organic local businesses could thrive. Who knows? Faraday Futures may have come here anyway. Ω

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The City of Reno has wind generators in locations like parks and atop City Hall.

Web-linked info preserved The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—the circuit that serves Nevada—has adopted new rules to deal with a modern problem.

Since the advent of the internet, some citations in filings with the court have been by web address. Of course, web links are moving targets and court filings are supposed to be forever.

“Since 2008, court librarians in the Ninth Circuit have been tracking citations to online resources and preserving original documents and/or web pages as Adobe PDF files,” the court said in a statement. “Although stored on the court website, www.ca9.uscourts. gov/library/webcites, the availability of these files is not readily apparent to legal researchers.”

Up to now, in other words, the court’s staff has been creating PDF copies of material cited by lawyers in their filings and posting them online on a separate webpage against the possibility that the web links will go dead. Now, however, they will be adding those copies to the court docket instead of that separate location so they can be found more easily.

Asked why the court doesn’t require attorneys to include the PDFs with their filings instead of having court staff generate them, assistant court executive David Madden said, “That could be the next step, but for now we are making them more easily accessible.”

House race expands Reno broadcast executive and host Chip Evans this week announced his candidacy for the U.S. House seat in Nevada’s district 2.

The seat is currently held by Republican Mark Amodei.

The district was created after the 2010 census and includes a swath of land across northern Nevada, from Douglas County to Elko County. It is a heavily Republican district, dipping down at one point to scoop up traditionally GOP Douglas County but then jumping north to exclude often Democratic White Pine County.

Evans hosts the weekly radio program The Chip Evans Show on KCKQ 1180 AM. Already in the race is Democrat Rich Shepherd.

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Divorce discord An outfit called CompleteCase, which does online divorce case form preparation, says it has ranked states for the degree of cordiality in their divorces, “calculated by comparing couples in each state who declared online that they were in agreement with each other, against those who were not.”

States were given one of three rankings—amicable, cordial and disagreeable. (Most thesauri we consulted listed amicable and cordial as synonyms.) Nevada, once known for its quickie divorce industry, was listed as having mostly disagreeable cases, along with nine other states. Nevada is also entirely surrounded by cordial or amicable states.

Census figures indicate that Alaska, Maine, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Nevada have the highest divorce rates. Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York, the lowest.

Kaiser elected Joni Kaiser, forced out in 2011 as director of the Committee to Aid Abused Women that she co-founded, has been elected to public office in Pennsylvania.

Kaiser was elected in November to a four year term on the Thompson Borough city council.

After leaving CAAW, Kaiser and her husband moved to Susquehanna County, Pa. She works for United Way across the border in New York. She headed CAAW for 34 years—from 1977 to 2011.

During that time she also served on the Sparks city council.

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Balance of power Cities and states are facing off in the courts over the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which sets stanby dards for power plants and goals for Dennis Myers states to cut their carbon pollution.

More than half the state attorneys general—Nevada’s not among them—have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to halt the implementation of the Plan, and thousands of municipalities are seeking friend-of-the-court status so they can file a brief in support of the program. Many of those cities, such as Salt Lake City, are in states opposing it. The National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors are leading support for the Plan.

“It’s an economic driver for Nevada.”

David Bozien Reno city councilmember Meanwhile, Reno’s city government is going ahead and making additions and changes that are envisioned by the federal Plan.

And last week an organization called the 60-Plus Association sent a letter to Nevada’s attorney general asking him to join the opposition to the Plan.

“The EPA’s rule was finalized in October and will have far-reaching consequences on

Nevadans’ pocketbooks,” said the letter to Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt. “For instance, a recent study conducted by the independent research firm National Economic Research Associates estimated that Nevada energy customers would see their electric rates increase by 19 percent annually, on average through 2032 under EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

The impacts of high energy costs fall disproportionately on Nevada’s elderly residents and others on fixed incomes.”

National Economic Research Associates has done work for the coal industry in the past. 60-Plus has a history of backing issues like repeal of the federal estate tax, private Social Security accounts, and gun rights.

The Clean Power Plan, administered by the EPA, was released by President Obama at the White House in August. It represents his approach to dealing with climate change through presidential authority in a time when Congress is stalemated by procedural messes like the Senate’s silent filibuster and by ideological polarization. The Plan sets the first federal limits on power plant carbon dioxide emissions. Most Nevada power comes from natural gas, with nearly 15 percent from coal. U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has been on an anti-coal tear for several years, with the result that the state has reduced its reliance on that source. Some homeowners have, until recently, been installing

rooftop solar to supplement existing sources, though the advance of that technology may have been undercut by reduction of incentives.

The Clean Power Plan’s acceptance in communities has been greater both because they are on the cutting edge of climate change and because municipal politics is less polarized than state government politics.

“The city of Reno is definitely in harms’s way from climate change,” said City Councilmember David Bobzien. “There’s certainly evidence that the drought cycle that California and Reno are in right now is being exacerbated by climate change. There is a longer term risk and exposure our region has—more wildfires, more drought, air quality impact. There’s a long list of impacts the city could face.”

The president released his plan on Aug. 3. On Aug. 26, the Reno City Council adopted a resolution that said “proposals such as the Clean Power Plan, issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), may be consistent with the City’s renewable energy and climate objectives.”

It then resolved, “The City Council hereby wishes to align, where applicable and beneficial, federal and state legislative program objectives with those of the EPA and will continue to further the City’s renewable energy and climate objectives” and directed city officials and staffers to follow that policy.

It’s unclear whether this constitutes compliance with the federal Plan, or even if there is such a thing as compliance. What cities need to do under the Plan has not yet trickled down fully to the local level. “It’s not clear to me what the city compliance responsibilities are,” Bobzien said.

But Reno officials—like so many municipal officials around the country—have made it plain they are not getting in the way of the Plan as some state officials are doing.

Senior issue?

Some of the utility industry’s opposition to the Plan has come in the guise of protecting senior citizens from additional costs. In August, 60-Plus Association founder Jim Martin wrote in a Las Vegas Sun essay, “The cost of compliance for Nevada could be a 40 percent jump in wholesale electricity prices, according to a study by Energy Ventures Analysis.

That’s a tough hit for any family to take, but it might be an almost impossible burden to bear for many of Nevada’s seniors scraping by on social security.”

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In a dispute in the Midwest, the Energy and Policy Institute said Energy Ventures Analysis had conflicts of interest, given its role consulting for a coal technology firm.

Martin further wrote, “Fortunately, Nevada is resisting Washington’s destructive energy policies. The state Legislature is exploring ways to limit what action EPA can take to remake the state’s electricity mix. However, a better approach is for Gov. Brian Sandoval to simply refuse to orchestrate a state implementation plan for the mandate.”

It’s not certain what legislative action Martin was referencing, but in the case of Sandoval, the tea leaves have been clearer. Paul Thomson, the governor’s energy chief, told the Elko Daily Free Press last year that the state foresaw no difficulties with the federal Plan.

“My position is there’s no state better positioned to be able to comply with those standards,” Thomsen said.

As for the attorney general, in August Laxalt’s office issued a statement reading, “The AG’s office will be reviewing the rules. Consistent with our office policy, we don’t comment on future litigation plans.”

Laxalt did not take advantage of the opening the 60-Plus letter gave him to elaborate.

The governor and attorney general crossed swords over an earlier federal/state snarl—endangered status

for the sage hen—with Laxalt joining a suit against the feds and Sandoval saying Laxalt was not speaking for the state.

In Utah, Gov. Gary Herbert is pursuing legal action against the federal plan while departing Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker said in a prepared statement, “Cities are on the front line of the work to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. While there is much we can do, and are doing, at the municipal level, we need federal actions like the Clean Power Plan to help move us away from fossil fuel consumption related to energy generation.”

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Mary Webber of Sparks is using medical marijuana to treat multiple sclerosis, with great initial success.

Green green MS responds to marijuana therapy It has been eight years since Sparks resident Mary Webber was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but only a little more than eight weeks since she discovered a source of relief in a potent strain of medical marijuana. by Kelsey On a Monday afternoon in late December, Webber stood in the waiting Fitzgerald room at her dispensary, Sierra Wellness Connections, stepping on and off the edge of a piece of shaggy carpet. For the first time in years, she explained enthusiastically to manager Eva Grossman, she could feel the difference between carpet and hard floor—even with her feet enclosed in a pair of kneehigh black boots. A long-time numbness in her feet was subsiding.

Something similar was happening all over her body. “I can feel the webs of my fingers and toes,” Webber said. “It’s the first time in over eight years. I was putting my hair up last week, and I could feel my ears. I haven’t felt that in I don’t know how long.”

Webber, now 32, was diagnosed with MS—an unpredictable disease that affects the central nervous system—at age 25. Though signs and symptoms of MS vary from person to person, the disease damages a myelin sheath that protects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, often resulting in mobility problems.

For Webber, symptoms began with feelings of numbness. As the disease progressed, she estimates that she lost 70 percent of the feeling in her feet.

She also lost feeling in her hands and other areas of her body, and temporarily lost much of the sight from her right eye.

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“There was nothing else. I was running out of options,” Webber said. life/blog/ Medical marijuana use has been legalized in many states, including Nevada, but is still listed as a Schedule I controlled substance at the federal level. As a result, scientific studies on medical benefits of marijuana have been few and far between. “There’s not a lot of room for even universities to study it. It’s a huge issue,” Webber said.

Instead, Webber’s treatment has been a process of trial and error. She met with a consultant at Sierra Wellness Connections who helped her pick out a few strains of marijuana that they thought might be helpful. Some, she said, did very little, but one strain—Margo Jean’s Gorilla Glue #4—may prove to be the medicine she’s been hoping for. “When I tried that strain, my feet started to tingle a little bit,” Webber said. “Over the next few days, they started to wake up even more.”

In the two months since she began using this strain, numbness all over Webber’s body has subsided significantly. She has been able to stop taking some of her other prescribed medications, which she believes is allowing her to think more clearly.

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The movie year was actually quite terrible until December … and then it exploded.

If you just read that opening statement and thought “Say, this jackass is repeating himself. I’ve read this sort of thing before!” you are right. I have said this many times before.

The movie year has become quite predictable. You get a punch up May through July, and a crap load of great

movies in late November and December. Many of the other months can be barren.

Rather than taking the artistically enriched fertilizer that is great movies, and then spreading it out on the field we call the film year generously and evenly over 12 months, Hollywood just takes a big dump on us in December.

It’s predictable. It’s as predictable as your need to take in oxygen every now and then. It’s as predictable as

SOMETIMES THE MOVIE GODS LOVE YOU… 1. The Revenant: Leonardo DiCaprio should be getting his first Oscar this year.

His mostly dialogue-free performance here is the year’s best in many ways. It’s a case of an actor putting his everything into a movie, and the payoff is spectacular. By my count, he should have a few Oscars already.

This is the second year in a row I’m giving top honors to a film by director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who made last year’s Birdman. His film about a frontier man (DiCaprio) getting his ass kicked by a bear and seeking revenge on a villainous trapper (Tom Hardy as the year’s nastiest bad guy) is a note-for-note perfect film.

See it on the big screen and marvel at what a real filmmaker can do.

a Very Cherry jellybean kind of tasting like cherries. It’s as predictable as Donald Trump opening his gangrenous mouth and spewing moronic garbage at your ears. Yeah, I just got political in a movie story. Fuck that asinine, overprivileged, arrogant piece of shit!

On top of unleashing a new Star Wars this last month that totally rocked balls, a bunch of excellent films got in before the old Dec. 31 cut-off and made the year look substantial in retrospect.

2015’S VERY BEST

Also marvel at the sight of vegetarian DiCaprio eating a raw bison liver on screen. It’s gross. (For full review, see page 18.)

killed that thing called patience for a large percentage of humanity. I love Apple Music and I’m married to my iPhone 6 Plus, but my ability to shop and let conversations brew over time has been decimated.

Thanks, Steve Jobs!

Anyway, it’s a very well done film.

2. Anomolisa: This is the year’s most visually innovative film and, because it was written and co-directed by Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York, Being John Malkovich), easily its most bizarre.

It’s a stop-motion animation movie that will blow your mind. It’s nothing like anything you have ever seen, and you will probably never see anything like it again.

It’s time to give Jennifer Jason Leigh an Oscar. She’s so good it hurts in this movie.

5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: J.J. Abrams has achieved geek bliss. Daisy Ridley gets my vote for an Oscar nomination as Rey. Star Wars is back in a big way.

I’ve seen it twice. I loved it the first time. I went crazy for it the second time.

That’s the mark of a great Star Wars movie. Yes, it follows many of the same beats from the original. I don’t have a problem with that.

Are we still in spoiler-free zone when it comes to Star Wars? No, we aren’t? OK, then let me tell you about what happens to …

I’m kidding.

4. The Hateful Eight: After the slight step backward that was Django Unchained (good, but not great), Quentin Tarantino gets back on track with this crazy, beautiful looking Western that is an acting showcase for everybody involved. A lot has been said about the 70mm cut for its visuals, but not enough has been said about Samuel L. Jackson doing career best work as a Civil War soldier turned bounty hunter who crosses paths with a surly, hairy Kurt Russell.

3. Steve Jobs: Michael Fassbender had a great year with Slow West, Macbeth, and this one from director Danny Boyle (128 Hours). It’s an unflattering look at the guy who, with his iTunes and phone doodads,

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GRIMMY AWARDS Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs), Michael B. Jordan (Creed), Matt Damon (The Martian), Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight)

Best Actress: Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Lily Tomlin (Grandma), Emily Blunt (Sicario), Brie Larson (Room), Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

6. Inside Out: Pixar gave us two films in 2015 and this would be the better of the two. This would be the much better of the two. It has inventive characters, an engaging plot, and a terrific voice cast, including Amy Poehler and Bill Hader. The other one has dinosaurs harvesting corn. Did you hear me? Dinosaurs harvesting corn!

7. The End of the Tour: S ome of the year’s best dialogue occurs between Jesse Eisenberg’s reporter and Jason Segel’s David Foster Wallace in this road trip movie about the book tour for Infinite Jest. Segel makes another nice foray into the dramatic, while Eisenberg gets in another good performance before putting himself under the microscope as Lex Luthor for next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. That’s going to make or break his career.

8. Spotlight: M ichael Keaton continues his return from the dead as a newspaper editor investigating some bad priests in Boston. You’ll find one of 2015’s best ensemble casts in this one (Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Leiv Schreiber).

9. Beasts of No Nation: Abraham Attah and Idris Elba are astoundingly good as an African boy and his terrible commander/father figure fighting a bloody civil war. Produced by Netflix.

10. Brooklyn: A young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) has to choose between Ireland and Brooklyn, New York, in the ’50s. The only problem I have with this movie is that there are too many damned Yankee fans in it.

11. Ex Machina: With this robot movie and a little thing called Star Wars, Oscar Isaac got his charismatic ass into the year’s two best science fiction offerings.

12. Love & Mercy: W hether or not you like the music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, it’s fascinating to watch Paul Dano’s depiction of a young Wilson filling his living room with beach sand and trying to make animals sing. John Cusack does his best acting in years as an older, more scattered Wilson, while Elizabeth Banks impresses as the love interest that got Wilson away from his crazy doctor (Paul Giamatti).

13. Creed: Another great ’70s franchise got its seventh chapter this year. This one finds a creative way to fire up the Rocky machine again, by making Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) the mentor character, not unlike

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Burgess Meredith in the original series. Michael B. Jordan is impressive as the son of Apollo. He also took real punches in the face and allowed himself to be knocked out in the name of great cinema.

14. The Martian: M att Damon is nominated as a comedic actor for a Golden Globe in this Ridley Scott sci-fi adventure. That is a bit of a stretch, but he does have plenty of funny moments as a dude stranded on Mars eating potatoes cultivated by his own poop.

Actually, maybe this is a comedy.

15. Straight Outta Compton: W hile Jason Mitchell is quite good as N.W.A. rapper Eazy-E in this biopic, O’Shea Jackson Jr. (son of Ice Cube) is perhaps the film’s real star. There were times I was convinced I was watching his dad.

16. Room: Jacob Tremblay will break your heart as Jack, a 5-year-old captive who knows nothing beyond the small room in which he’s been imprisoned his whole life. Brie Larson is equally good as Ma, kidnapped when she was 17 and trying to give her son a life with meaning.

17. Sicario: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are all exceptional in this scary tale of Americans intervening in Juarez, Mexico. While it isn’t a horror film, some of its scenes are certainly among the year’s most frightening.

18. The Big Short: A nother outstanding ensemble (Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale) in the service of some good directing from Adam McKay, taking a break from his usual broad comedies to examine the housing bubble that nearly collapsed the world economy.

Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone (Creed), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina), Jacob Tremblay (Room), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight) Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy), Rooney Mara (Carol) Worst Actor: Chris Hemsworth (Blackhat and In the Heart of the Sea) Worst Actress: Kate Mara (The Fantastic Four) Best Actress in a Bad Movie: Sarah Silverman (I Smile Back)

Best Actor in a Bad Movie: Sam Rockwell (Poltergeist)

Worst Actress in a Good Movie: Emilla Clarke (Terminator: Genisys … yes, I thought it was an OK movie).

Worst Actor in a Good Movie: Jai Courtney (Terminator: Genisys … I say again … it wasn’t that bad, even though some of the acting stunk)

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Biggest Letdowns Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spectre, Concussion

Best Foreign Film: Goodnight Mommy Best Documentary: Heart of a Dog Saddest Moment of the Year: Me, staring at my worthless Blu-ray collection and realizing I could’ve spent all of that money on candy or pie.

Drink coasters … each and every one of them!

19. It Follows: T here were many good horror films this year, and I’m going to give this nice ode to John Carpenter the edge over the likes of Bone Tomahawk, We Are Still Here and Goodnight Mommy.

Expressionless people unrelentingly following you can be really scary.

Best Song in a Movie: I can’t name a single one!

20. Cop Car: Kevin Bacon stars as a creepy cop in pursuit of two stupid kids who take his patrol car for a joyride. Director Jon Watts has been handed the SpiderMan franchise, and I’m guessing some executives saw his work here and thought the guy might know what he’s doing. I’m telling you, he most certainly does.

vs Evil Dead, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Definitely not that song in Spectre.

Best Movie Ending: The Hateful Eight Worst Movie Ending: Fifty Shades of Grey Best TV Shows That Used to Be Movies: Ash Worst Thing On TV this Year: I don’t care what anyone says … The Wiz sucked!

Single Dumbest Thing in a Movie This Year: Dinosaurs harvesting corn!

… AND SOMETIMES THE MOVIE GODS HATE YOU 1. A Walk in the Woods: Nick Nolte acts like a jackass with broken glass in his throat for nearly two hours, and Robert Redford does a lot of bug-eyed looks. This is a movie about hiking the Appalachian Trail that spends very little time on that trail and a lot of time in Laundromats and diners. This might be the worst movie Redford has ever made, and he was in Indecent Proposal. Nolte needs to stop.

Just stop.

2015’S VERY WORST 6. Pixels/The Cobbler/The Ridiculous Six: Let’s just stick all of the Adam Sandler movies into one foul lump. It’s just safer that way. It’s worth noting that Tom McCarthy, frontrunner for a directing Oscar (Spotlight) also directed The Cobbler. It’s been an off-kilter year for Mr. McCarthy.

look like salamanders. It’s a blight on the cinematic rose that is Pixar.

4. The Green Inferno: Eli Roth released two movies this year. One involved cannibals and body horror, two things very much in his wheelhouse. The other (Knock, Knock) involved Keanu Reeves getting harassed by two girls. The one with Reeves was much better. That’s a big surprise.

10. Chappie: If you need to see a robot movie made in 2015, see Ex Machina. This one’s insipid nonsense. I also think its failure caused director Neill Blomkamp’s star to fade, thus delaying plans for his Alien 5 where Ripley, Corporal Hicks and Newt would’ve come back to life in some sort of alternate universe. So, in some ways, Chappie is the film I hate most in 2015.

7. Fifty Shades of Grey: This movie is about as erotic and romantic as sticking your dick into a vat of hardened, moldy bacon grease and stroking your butthole with a recently deceased parakeet. I’m not saying I’ve ever tried such things, but I felt I should illustrate, and … well … actually … I should probably drop this subject right now.

5. Fantastic Four: Why can’t anybody make a decent Fantastic Four movie?

2. In the Heart of the Sea/Blackhat: Come on! There’s a rock guy, and Chris Hemsworth sucked major ass in a stretchy guy, and a guy constantly two lousy movies this year, and he wasn’t bursting into all that good in the flames. These colossal letdown should be the Avengers: Age of ingredients for Ultron either. I never-ending recommend this excitement. movie if you like Yeah, an invishuge bullshit-looking ible woman is CGI whales and fake kind of boring, beards chased with but there’s a spazz dialogue. guy constantly 3. The Good on fire in this Dinosaur: I don’t franchise! How Chris Hemsworth in ‘Avengers’ and know if you were come they keep ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ following before, but screwing it up? this mess has dinosaurs harvesting corn!

Maybe they should drop the invisible The production problems that plagued the girl and make her somebody on fire, too. movie are glaringly evident in the mess You can’t go wrong with a movie featuring that wound up on screen. The dinosaurs two people constantly on fire! That shit would be crazy!

Guess what? In 2016, you will be getting a lot of sequels and reboots! The already mentioned Batman v Superman, an all-female Ghostbusters, the long awaited and perhaps dreaded Independence Day sequel and the next Captain America are all on the way.

As for the more cerebral, the Coen Brothers will deliver Hail, Caesar!

Terrence Malick directs Knight of Cups.

Jeff Nichols helms Midnight Special, and Seth Rogen gives us the animated Sausage Party. Actually, Rogen has described that last one as the dirtiest, most juvenile thing he’s ever made, so don’t expect it in the Oscar race.

Also, yep, another Star Wars movie in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. I hope you kids like your Star Wars, because you are getting many heaping spoonfuls of it every year for the foreseeable future. Ω

8. Unfriended: An entire movie staring at a computer screen while a bunch of teen douchebags Skype each other. I’m not exaggerating … that’s what this was about.

An exercise in pure, tedious boredom.

Movies now apparently cost $73 to make.

You future director kids better get cracking on those iPhone cameras!

9. The Gunman: This is basically a movie with the sole purpose of showing you that a shirtless Sean Penn still looks pretty good even though he smokes 50 packs a day. He has washboard abs, and his career is in the toilet.

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Ghostface Killah & BadBadNotGood: Sour Soul I’m a sucker for all things Wu-Tang.

The insanely prolific Ghostface is probably my all-time favorite rapper.

Lyrically, he’s had finer hours than this record, but it’s nice to hear him backed by such a tight, atmospheric band. The jazz/hip-hop combo BadBadNotGood is locked in, on point, and in the pocket throughout.

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SOUND ADVICE The RN&R’s resident music geek picks his favorite albums of 2015

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Here’s my standard disclaimer: This is a subjective list of my favorite new music discoveries of 2015.

There’s no pretension of absolute objectivity. I love discovering new music and turning friends on to new music. So this is just a tool for musical discovery. These are 10 albums from 2015 that I’ll be bringing with me into 2016. I write about albums, as opposed to individual tracks, because I believe in long attention spans. Maybe you’ll stumble on a record you’ll like—or maybe you’ll just discover, as has happened many times in the past, that you and I have vastly different tastes in music.

Comeback of the year! Ten years after their career-best album, The Woods, the women of Sleater-Kinney are back with a face-melting, sing-along-ready rock record. It’s funny to me how many Portlandia fans seem to have no idea that star Carrie Brownstein has a whole other career as a kick-ass rocker.

Jim O’Rourke: Simple Songs In some ways, Jim O’Rourke is the musical equivalent of an actor like Crispin Glover, a guy who shows up in supporting roles in blockbusters and then makes weird, volatile independent releases. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, recording engineer, singer and songwriter, O’Rourke has made crucial contributions to high-profile releases by bands like Wilco and Sonic Youth, and his own discography is vast and varied—ranging from instrumental electronic drones and complex orchestral suites to rock blow-outs and carefully crafted pop songs. This album is as poppy as he gets, drawing inspirations from ’70s pop icons like Elton John, Randy Newman and Steely Dan, but still strange and unpredictable.

Tame Impala: Currents The Gotobeds: Poor People Are Revolting

Kurt Vile: B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down

This is a great little punk record. This band sounds very influenced by the British post-punk group The Fall, which is always a good thing in my book. But the real reason this record is guaranteed a spot on my year-end list is that it has one of the best album titles ever. Are the poor people disgusting? Or are they rebelling?

Music is funny. Sometimes I have to be in the right mood, at the place, in the right headspace, to connect to something. That’s why a list like this is subjective by necessity—it’s one person’s music appreciation diary.

The first couple of times I heard this record, I dismissed it as boring. And then one day, out of the blue, I woke up with “Pretty Pimpin,” the lead-off track, stuck in my head and then the record’s modest, folksy, low-key charms appeared suddenly vivid. Often, the best music takes a little time to reveal itself.

Disasterpiece: It Follows My favorite movie soundtrack of the year is this album of dread-inducing electronic sounds. Be careful not to listen to it while driving, though, because it’ll have you convinced that every pedestrian is a monster in disguise.

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Some of my more rockist friends were initially disappointed by Currents which completes Tame Impala’s transition from guitar-driven psychedelic rock band to keyboard-heavy synthpop group. But here’s the thing: it’s an excellent synthpop record. The keyboard textures are warm and fascinating, and the vocal melodies are catchy. It helps that singer Kevin Parker sounds like a cross between John Lennon and George Harrison. And the record does rock—the rhythm section is on point and the rare moments that do feature guitar do so very effectively. Plus, the surreal, sexy video for “The Less I Know the Better” is the best music video I saw all year.

Protomartyr: The Agent Intellect This album gets the 2015 Perfectly Attuned to Brad Bynum’s Taste Award. This record combines two of

my all-time favorite rock subgenres— 1980s British post-punk and 1990s Midwestern noise rock—into a cohesive whole. Most bands that touch on those genres tend to deal almost exclusively with extreme emotions—agony, ecstasy, misery—but this record explores subtler, more nuanced emotions—forgiveness, sympathy, trepidation—complex grownup feelings.

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This record is the consensus favorite album of 2015 of music critics up to and including President Barack Obama. I don’t think it’s an unequivocal masterpiece, but it’s pretty fucking fantastic. It’s musical experimentalism is wild and inspiring, and, yeah, not all of it works, but the occasional failed experiment is the mark of true experimentation. The mix of jazz exploration, hip-hop bangers and Lamar’s vivid, mercurial lyricism is undeniable. And the best tracks—like the James Brown-inspired funk stomper “King Kunta” or the defiant rave-up “Alright”—are as good as music gets.

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Viet Cong: Viet Cong The worst thing about Viet Cong is that controversy about the group’s admittedly shitty band name overshadowed the fact that they made the best album of the year. The group was met with protestors and boycotters on the basis of the culturally insensitive band name. Four white dudes—from Canada, no less—should have known better than to cavalierly name their group after a defunct army from a horribly bloody war half a lifetime and half a world away, but that’s what they did. And they found themselves recipients of petitions and banned from various venues. The group eventually relented and have said they will rename the band before the release of the next record.

Anyway, that controversy overshadowed the group’s music, which is too bad because it’s incredible. This record sounds downcast, moody and gloomy, but there are flashes of hope throughout. It’s in the post-punk wheelhouse, but is an unusual, even unique variant.

There’s some Gothic crooning, spiky flashes of industrial white noise, chiming indie pop guitars, and other sounds that might seem familiar to fans of post-1980 rock music, but presented in counterintuitive formations.

The songs are meticulously crafted—loaded with rhythmic and tonal changes—but the result is not a display of prog rock prowess but of complex emotional dissonance.

These songs are simultaneously alien and comforting, heartbreaking and uplifting, hideous and beautiful.

But the real reason I like this album so much is the song “Continental Shelf.” It’s a perfect song, knotty and unpredictable, but seamlessly constructed, and pleasantly catchy. Everyone I’ve played the song for from the most battle-hardened old music nerd record collectors to my girlfriend’s 8 year old ABBA-loving daughter has had the same reaction: “Wow! Play that song again!” Ω

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auto body business, he’s earned certifications in advanced gem cutting, diamond setting, jewelry repair and goldsmithing. The home where he was raised by his grandparents has since been divided into a workspace and showroom, separated by a kitchen with a large island that serves as a sort of way station for rocks and gems.

“Most people seem to have a rock or a stone that that’s their stone,” Rupert said, picking up a small, clear box from the kitchen island. “Tiger’s Eye is this guy’s stone. He just loves it. Look at this piece—came out cool.

It kind of looks like a bumblebee, huh? He took the really good ones already because he likes the chatoyancy of that, where it really turns colors and stuff.”

Rupert enjoys helping people find a stone or gem they like. In a room off the back of his workshop, he keeps a supply of raw gems and minerals that customers can select for custom jewelry and art pieces. This back stock also comes in handy when gem and mineral hunters stop by to trade. Rupert welcomes these visitors as well as novice rockhounds, who often drop by to see samples of what they’re hunting for or to have their recent finds identified.

Across the house, in Rupert’s showroom, necklaces on headless display stands sparkle. They feature everything from tourmaline to garnets, many created using one of Rupert’s five signature cuts, held within delicate filigreed-gold settings. In another display case, opals found near Denio, Nevada, shine from within the confines of water globes set on polished wood bases. On the adjacent table, the root of a manzanita tree from Tahoe has been hollowed out to make a stand and fitted with a color changing light that shines through the facets of a huge quartz crystal.

Rupert’s passion for sharing the experience of gems and minerals finds its way into the storefront, too, often at the expense of profits.

Many of the items on display are not for sale. “A lot of things are just for people to look at,” Rupert said. “Like some pieces of jewelry that you’re never going to find again, I just really don’t want to cut loose with, and there’s some really nice rocks that—if they’re really rare—I probably don’t want to sell them.” Ω photo/Jeri Chadwell-Singley

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“My whole family was hunters,” Rupert said. “We’d go out hunting and I’d never get anything, but I’d come home with the best looking pocketful of rocks you’ve ever seen.”

Auto body repair and gem cutting may seem like unrelated fields, but, to Rupert’s mind, there’s a translatable artistry between the two. “It’s all the same exact tools you use in the gem cutting business,” Rupert said.

“They’re just smaller.”

In the five years since Rupert took a step back from the family’s

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The room is spacious, with a mix of high and low tables, booths and barstools, decorated with brewing paraphernalia, exposed faux brick walls, and a pair of currently de rigeur roll-up doors in place of windows. Compared to the rest of the property, this modern-styled brewpub feels a bit out of place.

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Speaking of carbs, my wife’s small Hawaiian pizza was a revelation ($10.95). Though I’ve made these at home for my family, I’ve never been a fan of pineapple on pizza. So, when I tell you this is the first time I recall liking any form of this Canadian concoction, that’s really saying something. The secret is the fruit, either tossed or marinated in chili powder, countering the sweetness and marrying well with a bold, zesty sauce. Add a very thin, crispy crust—housemade with brewers grain—and you’ve got a winning combination I’d want to order again.

As with the burger, this was one of the better non-homemade pizzas I’ve had in a long time.

As I was polishing off the beer samples, my wife ordered the daily cobbler for dessert ($7.95). This day’s selection was mixed berry—a warm, well-balanced filling served in a good-sized crock with a crumbly topping and huge scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. I had a couple of bites, and then my wife made it disappear faster than I could drink the beer. It’s fair to say she liked it, which sums up our overall experience. We liked it a lot. Only next time, I’ll remember to go in the front door. Ω

Wrapped around a large bottle, the menu of beers brewed in-house was a bit difficult to read, or perhaps I’m just getting old. On the plus side, both the alcohol percentage and bitterness rating is listed for each brew. All 12 house brews are available in pints, talls and pitchers ($3.95, $4.95, $8.95), as well as sampling trays of six, nine or 12 ($7.95, $10.95, $13.95).

I ordered the full tasting flight and found much to like. Overall, I found the darker brews more interesting— particularly the espresso-infused stout—though the OMFG Double IPA packed enough hoppy punch to earn its name and then some. The full flight equals 3.75 pints, making this both an interesting experience as well as a great deal. Housemade root beer and cream soda are available for those on the wagon.

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Bad news bear The Revenant For the second year in a row, director Alejandro González Iñárritu has delivered the year’s best film.

The best movie of 2015 is The Revenant, an eye-popping Western thriller that gives Leonardo DiCaprio the role that should finally score him that first Oscar. The innovative Iñárritu was also responsible for last year’s by Birdman.

Bob Grimm DiCaprio gives it everything he’s got as Hugh Glass, a scout working with some fur bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om traders on the American frontier in the early nineteenth century. Glass, while doing his job, gets a little too close to a couple of bear cubs, and Mama Grizzly is not all too happy about such an occurrence.

What follows is a lengthy and vicious bear attack where Glass tangles with the nasty mother not once, but twice. Iñárritu, DiCaprio and some amazing visual technicians put you in the middle of that bear attack, minus the searing pain of actually having a bear’s claws and teeth rip through your flesh. Trust me when I tell you it’s an unforgettably visceral moment when that bear steps on DiCaprio’s head.

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The attack happens early in the film, with Glass seemingly left at death’s door.

The remaining party, including a conniving, paranoid trapper named John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), is left to decide what to do with him. Fitzgerald wants to put him out of his misery, much to the chagrin of Glass’s Native American son, Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) and the expedition’s leader, Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson).

Henry decides to soldier on without Glass, leaving him behind to die with Fitzgerald, Hawk and young Jim Bridger (an excellent Will Poulter). Fitzgerald takes matters into his own hands, with Glass eventually buried alive and left for dead. This doesn’t sit well with Glass, who slowly recovers from his wounds and sets out to exact revenge on Fitzgerald.

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So, yes, this is a revenge tale, and a rather simple one at that. Those looking for a spiritual and psychological examination of revenge containing long monologues need not attend.

The Revenant is about the forces of nature, stunningly photographed by Emmanuel Lubezki. It’s about one man as he sets out on a killing mission. That mission, justified or not, is at the mercy of an uncaring wilderness that will throw everything it can at Glass to stop him in his tracks.

Some of what Iñárritu does here, the film’s few quieter, more meditative moments, reminds me of Terrence Malick, and that’s a good thing. I could watch good Malick films for eternity. For the most part, the movie is less about beautiful running rivers and more about surviving gaping neck wounds while fending off attacking Native Americans and antsy fur trappers. What Iñárritu and company achieve during these attack sequences is monumental. No movie has ever looked or felt like this during these moments. Throw in that bear attack, and you have a movie that will forever dent your skull.

DiCaprio doesn’t have much spoken dialogue. The majority of his performance consists of grunting, contorting his face and crawling on the ground (something he did memorably in The Wolf of Wall Street).

His character has very few moments to smile, but when he does, it’s like having a warm blanket and whiskey-assisted hot cocoa poured down your throat after a week in sub zero temperatures. It’s a major relief from the torment.

Hardy and Gleeson, who are magnificent in the film, are two of the hardest working men in Hollywood right now.

They both appeared in four major 2015 films, with Hardy also appearing in Mad Max: Fury Road, Legend and Child 44 and Gleeson showing up prominently in Brooklyn, Ex Machina and a little thing called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Given the notoriously long and nasty shooting schedule they had to endure for The Revenant, I have no idea how they managed to appear in those other films.

They have mastered the art of scheduling events and tasks on their iPhones.

The Revenant is a masterpiece, and I suspect DiCaprio will get his Oscar. I also suspect camping numbers will take a plummet in the next year, while bear repellent sales will spike. Ω

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Director Adam McKay, the master behind such broad comedy gems as Anchorman and Step Brothers, flexes his slightly more serious muscles for this one, a take on the housing bubble that nearly destroyed the global economy. An ensemble cast featuring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt make this a funny-yet-scary look at how big banks nearly sent us back to the stone ages. Carell is especially good as Mark Baum, a banker with a conscience who realizes a little too late that things are going bad, and his wealth is going to come at the expense of a many U.S. homeowners. Bale is typically good as Michael Burry, the man who saw the storm coming and made a boatload of money betting against the biggest monsters of modern finance. Pitt has fun as a financial guru who has taken to the hills in anticipation of the oncoming financial apocalypse, while Gosling gives the whole thing a nice Martin Scorsese vibe as a fast-talking banker/narrator. It’s a drama, but it’s often funny. (Margot Robbie in a bubble bath … brilliant!) McKay shows that his chops go well beyond directing Will Ferrell with a fireman’s mustache.

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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The second pairing of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg isn’t as funny as their first offering, The Other Guys, but it’s still funny enough to warrant a look. Ferrell is in bumbling mode as Brad, stepfather to a couple of kids who hate him and the husband of Sarah (Linda Cardellini). Just when the kids are starting to only hate him a little, Sarah’s ex-husband Dusty (Wahlberg) comes back into the picture in a boorish bid to win back his ex’s love, reclaim his children and get Brad out of the house. This provides a setup that sees Ferrell’s Brad subjected to all forms of humiliation and injury, including a calamitous trek through his house on a motorcycle and a rendezvous with electrical wires after getting some impressive air off a half-pipe. Ferrell and Wahlberg are funny together, and the movie does a decent job of making them both likeable idiots. Thomas Haden Church steals scenes as Brad’s obnoxious boss at a smooth jazz radio station, as does Hannibal Buress as a handyman who winds up crashing on Brad’s couch. The film is nasty, but it’s neutered a bit by it’s PG-13 rating. It’s clear this is being marketed at families, but that’s a mistake right there.

I’m sure there’s a nastier cut of this movie, and if I have a complaint it’s that the movie doesn’t go all the way with its sinister message. It pulls some punches, keeping it from being the dark comedy it deserves to be, and making it more of a feel-good film with some sinister undertones. Still, I laughed enough, and the film is recommended to fans of Ferrell and Wahlberg.

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Quentin Tarantino returns to form after the just OK Django Unchained with yet another masterpiece, a grandiose Western potboiler that boasts his best dialogue in years and an Oscar caliber performance from Jennifer Jason Leigh. I didn’t dislike Django, but I thought there was something a little off and sluggish about it. It definitely left me wanting more from Tarantino on the Western front. I thought he had a better, grittier Western still in him, and this film proves that he did. Many of the Tarantino cast regulars return, including Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Kurt Russell. Russell, who delivered what I believe is his best career work in Tarantino’s Death Proof as Stuntman Mike, gets another chance to go to town with a Tarantino script and he embraces it with much enthusiasm.

Russell plays John “The Hangman” Ruth, a bounty hunter renowned for bringing in his prisoners alive so that their necks meet the noose in the end. Riding in a stagecoach to Red Rock, with the notorious Daisy Domergue (Leigh), his latest bounty, chained to his arm, he comes across bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), and this is where the fun begins. The party rescues one more man, future Red Rock Sheriff Chris Mannix (an outstanding Walton Goggins), from an oncoming blizzard. The stagecoach heads for Minnie’s Haberdashery as a means of shelter, where they meet the rest of the cast and tensions soar. On top of being a terrific mystery containing one of the best screenplays Tarantino has ever turned out, this is also one of his very best-looking films.

Do not miss it on the big screen.

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 than his performance. It’s a good ensemble in service of a movie that's a little beneath them, but it all comes together for something worth seeing.

With this seventh chapter in the Star Wars saga, J.J. Abrams and 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’s 2015’s most entertaining film, for sure, and a movie that stands up proudly in the realm of Star Wars movies. 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 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 Tatooine-like desert planet. I don’t think I’m overdoing it by saying she delivers the alltime, all-around best dramatic performance in the Star Wars universe in this role. The film will leave you craving for more, and a good Star Wars craving is a nice thing to have.

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Spicy salsa Reno Latin Dance Festival “Salsa is a way of expressing yourself in dance form, a way that you wouldn’t normally do around other people,” by Anna Hart said Armando Calzada, a member of the Gózalo Dance Company, a Latin dance troupe in Reno. “When you hear the music you just fall into it.”

If you had to list what Reno is known for, the first thoughts would probably be gambling and drinking, or maybe even start-ups and Tesla.

Whatever you might think of, it would probably not be Latin dance.

But in the realm of the Latin social dance world, that is what Reno is known for. This is because the Biggest Little City is home to one of the best known salsa and bachata festivals in the country, the Reno Latin Dance Fest.

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Dance Fest. The pair also manages the Gózalo Dance Company, which is composed of teams of salsa and bachata dancers of various skill levels, all of whom will be performing at the festival.

In the nearly 10 years that Salsa Reno has existed, Reno has built up a solid Latin dance community of hundreds of people, young and old, who come from a variety of cultural backgrounds.

Alongside the dance fest, Salsa Reno also teaches weekly classes at The Ballroom of Reno, as well as hosting a weekly Latin dance lesson and social from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. every Friday at Edge Nightspot.

This year’s attendance is expected to exceed 1600 people from all over the world. A large part of that is due to the pervasiveness that Latin dance, especially salsa, has outside of Cuba and Latin America where it began.

“I used to joke around and say salsa is danced everywhere in the world except where it’s illegal, like Iran, and someone said, ‘You know there are underground salsa clubs in Iran, right?’

So it really is danced in basically every single country in the world,” said BB. In its eighth year, the Reno Latin Dance Fest has grown to be an international affair. The event boasts dance instructors, performers, and DJs from places like Mexico, Portugal and even Kenya. It is a mix that parallels the origins of Latin dance, born from a fusion of African, Latin American and European cultures.

Kiki, who grew up in Ethiopia and immigrated to the United States in her teens, appreciates the connectivity that dance brings to different cultures.

“All of the people in the Latin dance community come from different places. But we all speak the same language when we are dancing,” said Kiki. “It’s not just Latinos or Americans or anything. We are all together.” Ω

“I don’t think you think salsa and think Reno,” said Brianna Harwart, another member of the Gózalo Dance Company. “You probably think L.A. or Miami. That is what the Latin dance community here does—it brings a different culture to this city.”

From Jan. 7-10, the Grand Exposition Hall in the Silver Legacy will be filled with dance workshops, performances, vendors and all-night dance parties, where a visitor can experience a myriad of different Latin social dances, from salsa, to bachata and cumbia.

“This really is a world-class festival, with high-level dancers, not just club dancers,” said Alex Garnica, a bachata dancer in the Gózalo Dance Company. It is incredible to not just see, but learn from dancers around the globe.

BB and Kiki are the owners of Salsa Reno, a local Latin dance outfit that spearheads the Reno Latin

The Gózalo Dance Company is ready to get down.

More information and tickets for the event can be found at renolatindancefest. com.

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THURSDAY 1/7

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SUNDAY 1/10

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/11-1/13

THURSDAY 1/7 10pm, no cover Escape Thursdays,

Mute w/DJs FRIDAY 1/8Boggan, Crisp Rice,

SATURDAY 1/9

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/11-1/13

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

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Escape Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

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Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

Crunksworth Bentley, 9pm, no cover DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm Coburn Station, 9pm, no cover

DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Chocolate WondaBred, 10pm, $5 after 10pm Coburn Station, 9pm, no cover

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

Coburn Station, 9pm, no cover

Coburn Station, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

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

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

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Brian Razalus, 10pm, no cover Mute w/DJs Boggan, Crisp Rice, Brian Razalus, 10pm, no cover Crunksworth Bentley, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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 255 N. Virginia (775) 398-5400 CEOL IRISHSt.,PUB 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

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

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

No Dan Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

No Dan Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

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

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Matthew Szlachetka, 7pm, no cover

Moon Gravy, 7pm, no cover

Matthew Szlachetka, 7pm, no cover Resistance, The Institution, 9:30pm, no cover Resistance, The Institution, 9:30pm, no cover Adrenaline, 9pm, no cover

C-DUBB, 8pm, no cover

Adrenaline, 9pm, no cover

C-DUBB, 8pm, no cover

Line dance lessons, 9:30pm, no cover

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

ELBOW ROOM BAR 2002 VictorianBAR Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-9799 HANGAR HANGAR BAR 10603 Stead HAUS Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088 HIMMEL

Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Border LineJam Fine, 9:30pm, W, noDiijon, cover Open Mic Slam w/Adrian

9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, 9pm, W, no cover Open Mic Jam Slam w/Adrian Diijon, 9pm, Tu, Karaoke Nite, 9pm, W, no cover

Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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

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Slow Hollows, Airhead DC, Current Joys, 8pm, $TBA Slow Hollows, Airhead DC, Current Joys, 8pm, $TBA

David Dondero, People with Bodies, Nathan Lachner, 7pm, $5 David Dondero, People with Bodies, Nathan Lachner, 7pm, $5

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

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

Reno Noise Night w/Wil Hendricks, Wizard Colors, N8ive, 8pm, no cover Reno Noise Night w/Wil Hendricks, Wizard Colors, N8ive, 8pm, no cover Los Pistoleros, 9pm, $TBA

Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Professor Gall, 9pm, W, $3 Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Professor Gall, 9pm, W, $3

Los Pistoleros, 9pm, $TBA

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

Strange on the Range, 7pm, W, no cover Tribal Seeds, The Skints, The Steppas, 8pm, W, $16 Tribal Seeds, The Skints, The Steppas, 8pm, W, $16Irish Tune Session, Traditional

Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5 Dave Leather, noon, no cover Second Tuesday JamW,w/Ben Martin,

Moon Gravy, 7pm, no cover

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

7pm, Tu, no cover Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5

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

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FRIDAY 1/8 FRIDAY 1/8

THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING 1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024

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

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

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

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

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

Live music, 8pm, no cover Live music, 8pm, no cover

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

SATURDAY 1/9 SATURDAY 1/9

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/11-1/13 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/11-1/13

SUNDAY 1/10 SUNDAY 1/10

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

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

1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024 7pm, 9pm, $27

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

Tribal Seeds Tribal Seeds Jan. 13, 8 p.m.

10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion$27 w/Tony Clark, 7pm, 9pm, 7pm, 9pm, $27 Marion Walker, Tavaputs, 9pm, no cover Marion Walker, Tavaputs, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 8:30pm, no cover Live music, 8:30pm, 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

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

Open Mic Nights with Wabuska Yachting Open Club, Mic 7pm,Nights $TBAwith Wabuska Yachting Club, 7pm, $TBA

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

Chuck Ragan, 8pm, $15-$18 Chuck Ragan, 8pm, $15-$18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jan. 13, 9 p.m.

Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor Jub 71 S.Jub’s Wells Thirst Ave. Parlor 71 S. Wells Ave. 384-1652 384-1652

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

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

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

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Tavern Trivia, 9pm, no cover Tavern Trivia, 9pm, no cover

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

Professor Gall Professor Gall Jan. 13, 9 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 8pm, M, Tu, $27 8pm, M, Tu, $27

Live music, 8:30pm, no cover Live music, 8:30pm, no cover

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

Jan. 13, 8 p.m.

Cargo Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400 398-5400

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

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

Blues Jam Thursday, 7pm, no cover Blues Jam Thursday, 7pm, no cover Dance party, 9pm, no cover Dance party, 9pm, no cover

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

Jimmy Page tribute w/Max Volume, Jimmy Page tributeClub, w/Max Volume,8pm, $7 Wabuska Yachting Postwar, Wabuska Yachting Club, Postwar, 8pm, $7

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

1) Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 1)8pm, Comedy Tu, noPower coverHour Open Mic, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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

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THURSDAY 1/7 THURSDAY 1/7

FRIDAY 1/8 FRIDAY 1/8

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2) Eric Hisaw Band, 7pm, no cover

2) Eric Hisaw Band, 8pm, no cover 2) Eric Hisaw Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Eric Hisaw Band, 8pm, no cover 2) Eric Hisaw Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Josh Budro, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover 2) Josh Budro, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) BoomBox, Ryan Bauer, 9pm, $14-$34 1) BoomBox, Ryan Bauer, 9pm, $14-$34

1) New Monsoon, 10pm, no cover 1) New Monsoon, 10pm, no cover

1) Quinn Dahle, 8:30pm, W, $14-$17 1) Quinn Dahle, 8:30pm, W, $14-$17

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

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

1) Michael Jackson: A Thrilling Tribute 2016, Jackson: A Thrilling Tribute 2016, 1) Michael 7pm, $20-$35 7pm, $20-$35 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Garage 10:30pm, 3) DJ Roni Boys, Romance, 9pm,no nocover cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

2) Lex Fridays w/DJ Rick Gee, 2) Lex $15 Fridays w/DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, 10pm, $15

2) Lex Saturdays w/DJ Enfo, 2) Lex $15-$25 Saturdays w/DJ Enfo, 10pm, 10pm, $15-$25

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

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

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO ELDORADO RESORT CASINO 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 345 N. Virginia St., Brothers (775) 786-5700 1) Theater 2) Brew 3) NoVi 1) Brew Brothers 4) Theater Cin Cin 5)2) Stadium Bar 3) NoVi 4) Cin Cin 5) Stadium Bar

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

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

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

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

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

219 N. CenterShowroom St., (775)2)788-2900 1) Sammy’s The Zone 1) Showroom 2) The 3) Sammy’s Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Zone Convention Center 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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

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

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

2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 7pm, no cover 2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 7pm, no cover

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL SANDS REGENCY CASINO 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200HOTEL 345 Arlington Ave.,2)(775) 348-2200 1) 3rdN. Street Lounge Jester Theater 1) 3) 3rd CopaStreet Bar &Lounge Grill 2) Jester Theater 3) Copa Bar & Grill

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

407 N. Virginia St., Hall (775)2) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Rum Bullions Island Bar 1) Grand Exposition Hall4)2)Silver Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) Aura Ultra Lounge Baron Lounge 3) Aura Ultra 4) Silver Baron Lounge 5) Silver BaronLounge Ballroom 5) Silver Baron Ballroom

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2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover 2) Karaoke, no cover DJ Live ChrisBand English, 10pm,10pm, Tu, noM,cover DJ Chris English, 10pm, cover Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, Tu, no no cover Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover

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

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

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

3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover 3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover

3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover 3) Take 2, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 8pm, no cover John Dawson Band, no cover John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover

1) David John and the Comstock Cowboys, 1) David 8pm, $20John and the Comstock Cowboys, 8pm, $20 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 8pm, no cover John Dawson Band, no cover John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover

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

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

2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover

2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover 2) Rose’s Pawn Shop, 8pm, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover 2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

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

1) Hans Eberbach, 8pm, no cover 1) Hans Eberbach, 8pm, no cover

1) Hans Eberbach, 8pm, no cover 1) Hans Eberbach, 8pm, no cover

2) The Wiz Kid, 9pm, no cover 2) Wiz Friday, Kid, 9pm, nono cover 3) The Fashion 9pm, cover 3) Friday, 9pm, 9pm, no no cover cover 4) Fashion Johnny Baron, 4) Johnny Baron, 9pm, no cover

2) The Wiz Kid, 9pm, no cover 2) Wiz Kid, 9pm, no cover 3) The Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 3) Saturdays, $5 4) Seduction Johnny Baron, 9pm, no9pm, cover 4) Johnny Baron, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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Jan. 7 p.m.

Jan. 7, 8-9, 8 p.m.

Jan. 8-9, 8 p.m.

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

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

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1) James Garner’s Tribute to 1) JamesCash, Garner’s Johnny 9pm,Tribute $15 to Johnny Cash, 9pm, $15

50 Hwy.2)50,Guitar Stateline; 1) Vinyl Plaza(844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Guitar Plaza

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3) Live blues w/Buddy Emmer Band 3) blues w/Buddy andLive guest, 8pm, Tu, no Emmer cover Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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ART AFTERNOON: WORKSHOP AND SOCIAL FOR SENIORS: Enjoy a guided tour and

BOWLING FUNDRAISER: The event ben-

a studio art class along with light refreshments. Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience and offer an engaging and interactive experience. Second F of every month, 1-3pm. $7 general, $6 NMA members.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart. org.

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

CARSON SIERRA SPINNERS AND WEAVERS GUILD DEMONSTRATIONS: The Historic Huffaker School will be open for viewing of live demonstrations by the Carson Sierra Spinners and Weavers Guild and for self-guided tours. Park rangers will offer guided tours of the historic school house at 1pm. Sa, 1/9, 9am-3pm. Free. Huffaker Schoolhouse, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, www.washoecounty.us/parks.

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS: The exhibition basketball team returns to Reno.

Tu, 1/12, 7pm. $23-$80. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., 335-8800.

KTMB’S CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING PROGRAM: Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful’s Christmas Tree Recycling program offers residents in Washoe County 10 drop-off locations, including Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park and Shadow Mountain Sports Complex in Sparks, as well as Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District fire stations in Cold Springs, both Washoe Valley stations, Spanish Springs, Silver Knolls and Lemmon Valley. The Christmas trees will be chipped into mulch that will be used for park and weed abatement projects. M-Su, 9am4:30pm through 1/10. Visit website for details, http://ktmb.org.

efits the Sierra Nevada Children’s Choir and the Reno Youth Symphony Orchestras. Bowling starts at noon and ends at 7pm. There will also be a 50/50 cash raffle and concessions available for purchase. Sa, 1/9, 12-6:30pm. $10 per ticket which includes two games and shoe rental. National Bowling Stadium, 300 N. Center St., (775) 327-4286, www.facebook.com/ SierraNevadaChildrensChoir.

HANDS ON! SECOND SATURDAYS: Enjoy free admission, live performances, hands-on art activities and storytelling in this free monthly program for families. Second Sa of every month, 10am-6pm. Opens 1/9. Free. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

INSIDE OUT: AN ANATOMY EXPERIENCE: This exhibition will take you on a journey into the curiosities of human anatomy. Through digital and hands-on exhibits, you’ll learn how our bodies work, grow, age and heal. Tu-Su. $10 adults, children age 2 and older, $9 veterans and active duty military.

Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

JANUARY SCIENCE SATURDAY: Science Saturday is designed for participants age 8 and older. Children ages 8-12 must be accompanied by an adult.

One parent per family or group of up to six friends. This month’s event includes “Food in Space” with classically trained Chef Craig Rodrigue, a planetarium show We Choose Space featuring a tour of the International Space Station, a workshop on making and eating food in space and a simulation on traveling to and exploring the ISS on board the Starship Horizon Advanced Spaceflight Lab with virtual reality headsets. Sa, 1/9, 9:30am-1pm. $12. National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: The exhibit features life-size sculptures, hands-on interactive exhibits and video installations that puts you face to face with more than 20 species of giant freshwater fish. Tu-Su through 4/16. $10 general admission, $9 veterans and active

duty military. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., 786-1000, www. nvdm.org.

SSSNAKES ALIVE!: Learn about North America’s four indigenous venomous snakes: the copperhead, cottonmouth, coral and rattlesnake.

The exhibit features more than 20 live venomous snakes along with dozens of interactive stations and imaginative displays. W-Su through 4/10. Opens 1/9. $9 adults, $8 children and seniors. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., 785-5961.

Art ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE: Luscious Abstracts. The abstract art gallery is open for First Thursday Art and Wine Walk on Jan. 7, the Riverwalk Wine Walk on Jan. 16 and the Artist Open House on Jan. 24. Gallery hours: Monday 1:30-6pm, Tuesday-Thursday 3:30-7pm or by appointment any day/evening of the week. Th, 1/7, 4-8:30pm; Sa, 1/16, 2-5pm; Su, 1/24, 2-5pm. Free. 142 Bell St., 846-8367.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Resound.

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.

Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/8. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Afterburn Opening Reception. By examining grief through material affected by fire—a chaotic and uncontrollable energy— artist Summer Orr aims to express the emotion followed by heartbreaking events in one’s life. Through the

medium of watercolor on paper adorned with wood and plant life (all materials that are quick to burn), Orr’s exhibition Afterburn showcases the connection between events that are hard to accept emotionally and the very human condition of dwelling in the past. F, 1/8, 6-8pm. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087, www.hollandreno.org.

OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: Leeway. Reno artist Nate Clark examines order and structure through mark making. His paintings highlight the subtle contrast between the imperfections of hand-made marks and a methodical formula or scientific method. M-F, 8am-5pm through 3/11. Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Emily Arthur. Printmaker Emily Arthur’s solo exhibition in Sheppard Contemporary explores the ways in which she sees nature as an interdependent living force rather than as the backdrop for human events. M-F through 1/22. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., 784-6658.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Leslie King: Personaje. King’s first major exhibit features her oil and acrylic paintings.

The artist’s reception is on Thursday, Jan. 21, 5-7pm. M-Su through 1/30.

Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, 3292787.

WINGFIELD PARK: The Light Chimes. Scott Morgan’s light sculpture illuminates Wingfield Park nightly with animated color palettes derived from Reno street murals, the artist’s own work and time lapses of the Milky Way. M-Su, 4-10pm through 3/31. Free. 300 W. First St., 329-2787.

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 explor 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., 333-9300.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: A Visual History. Experience Lake Tahoe landscapes through the eyes of 175 painters, photographers, architects,

PICTURES OF THE UNIVERSE: Join members of the Astronomical Society of Nevada as they present pictures of the known universe and discuss the phenomena in our night sky. The presentation will be followed by viewing the night sky. Sa, 1/9, 5pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitor center.org.

RENO LATIN DANCE FEST: This four-day dance festival has workshops taught by professional instructors, night parties with hours of social dancing with some of the best Latin DJs and an evening showcase where dance couples and teams from all over the nation entertain the audience with their performances. 1/7-1/10, 5:30pm. $35-$250. Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 8131143, www.renolatindancefest.com.

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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. W-Su through 1/10. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., 329-3333.

Come in from the Cold Family Entertainment Series Bartley Ranch Regional Park kicks off its annual family entertainment program on Saturday, Jan. 9, with a performance by Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association. January’s lineup includes Slide Mountain Band on Jan. 16, Sierra Sweetheart on Jan. 23 and The TRIO on Jan. 30. The series continues through March 12.

Performances begin at 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Western Heritage Interpretive Center at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road.

Admission is a suggested donation of $3 per person. Seating is limited to 200 people, so arrive early for best seating. Call 828-6612.

Music TOCCATA: BRRROQUE MASTERS: Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus’ concert features works by Mouret, Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli and Handel. F, 1/8, 7pm. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 341 Village Blvd., Incline Village; Su, 1/10, 3:30pm. $5-$35, free for youth under age 19 in non-reserved seating. Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 501 California Ave., (775) 313-9697, www.toccatatahoe.com.

Sports & Fitness GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a naturalist along one of the Galena Park trails and learn about the area. Bring water, sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes (if weather permits.) Sa, 10am through 3/18. Opens 1/9. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

RENO BIGHORNS: The D-league team plays the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.

W, 1/13, 7pm. $35-$125. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 8538220.

Onstage THE ART OF ODISSI: Marigold Movement Center and The Sands Regency Hotel host master teacher, dancer and scholar Anindita Nanda. This event is part of the debut of the Odissi Residency Program, which will give students in the Reno/Tahoe area a opportunity for immersive study in the ancient Indian dance form. F, 1/8, 7-8pm. $20 advance, $25 door, $10 for kids, free for kids under age 5.

Marigold Movement Center, 2285 W. Dickerson Road, www.marigoldmovementcenter.com.

MI VIDA GITANA: Written by Dañel Malán.

Charlie, a boy from Texas, is sent to live with his estranged mother in Spain after his father dies in battle in Iraq. In the streets of Spain he befriends an orphan named Liliana who is owned by her Romani boss. A plan to run away and elope is foiled

by Charlie’s mother and Liliana’s keeper, who scheme to falsely imprison Liliana. Tu, 1/12, 7:30pm; W,

1/13, 7:30pm; Th, 1/14, 7:30pm; F, 1/15, 7:30pm; Sa, 1/16, 7:30pm; Su, 1/17, 2pm. $10. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 329-0661, http://renolittletheater.org.

MICHAEL JACKSON: A THRILLING TRIBUTE 2016: The annual fund-raising event for the Autism Coalition of Nevada will include classics such as “Thriller,” “Billie Jean,” “Beat It” among other Michael Jackson hits. Sa, 1/9, 7pm. $20-$35. Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700, www. eldoradoreno.com.

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Livid and let livid You responded to a woman who was very proud of herself for leaving the room to compose herself when she got really angry with her boyfriend. It is very unhealthy to stuff your anger. Why would you give this terrible advice—encouraging her to keep holding back—instead of telling her to vent her anger?

Nothing like screaming obscenities into somebody’s face to get them to respond, “Gosh, I forgot how much I love you. And I really want to make all of those changes in myself.”

Also, unlike a box of Cap’n Crunch, anger does not rapidly get used up. In fact, Charles Darwin observed that raging on will make you even … rage-ier. But thanks to Freud, people still believe that “venting” anger is a healthy way to reduce it, not because he had actual evidence for that but because he said so and accessorized so credibly, with the cigar, the iconic eyewear and the groovy Viennese fainting couch.

One of the first modern researchers to debunk this myth (back in 1966) was Michael Kahn, then a Harvard grad student who’d actually hoped to demonstrate the benefits of venting anger. Posing as an aggressively rude medical technician, he made seriously insulting remarks while taking subjects’ blood pressure, making them really angry. As part of the study, some subjects were allowed to vent their anger to a researcher posing as Kahn’s supervisor. To Kahn’s surprise, those who did got angrier and their already-elevated blood pressure took off toward strokesville.

Some people will say, “I don’t care what the dumb research says. I feel better after I blow my lid.” Well, these people still experience all the ill effects of anger on their physical health. The relief they feel is emotional, coming out of how anger arises from the feeling that we’ve been treated unfairly. Raging back makes them feel that they’ve done something to right the balance. However, it also tends to provoke a defensive reaction in the person they’re raging at, so it’s a counterproductive tactic—assuming they weren’t aspiring to kick off 20 years of trench warfare in the condo commons.

The answer isn’t stuffing your anger. It’s expressing what’s behind it—in a civil discussion instead of a civil war. Controlling the body’s role in anger is an essential part of this. The problem is that surging adrenaline and other elements of the body’s anger response can’t just be thrown into reverse. So, when you feel anger brewing, it’s wise to take a step back—or to do as this woman did and step into another room.

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Keeping your cool allows you to present your case in a way that evokes sympathy rather than defensiveness.

This is important because sympathy tends to motivate us to do things to make hurting people feel better. This, in turn, bodes better for the future of a relationship—sexy as it can be when a man interrupts a woman’s rage-athon to whisper, “Baby, I don’t mean to turn you on, but that pulsating vein in your forehead looks like an arteriovenous fistula about to blow.”

The speaky wheel My girlfriend wants me to compliment her more—to notice how she looks and say something. I know I’m not Mr. Effusive. But honestly, if I didn’t find her hot, I wouldn’t even be with her!

It may not come naturally to you to effuse, but civilization is all about doing what doesn’t come naturally. Note that chimps in the wild are rarely observed wearing shoes, ties and cuff links.

Many men complain that women’s idea of communicating what they want is hinting, pouting or slamming drawers while insisting nothing’s wrong. You, however, have a woman who comes right out and tells you, “Here’s what you could do to make me happy,” and it doesn’t even involve risking jail time or going on a double date with her mother. Her simple request: When she’s, say, vacuuming in her new underwear and your jaw drops, run with that.

Make it go up and down and make words come out.

Basically, the terrorism prevention line applies: “If you see something, say something.” Put a daily reminder on your phone if you have to. For added incentive, consider the fringe benefits. Research by social psychologist Sara Algoe finds that the stock-taking that goes into expressing appreciation for a romantic partner actually makes the person doing it feel more satisfied with the relationship.

Not surprisingly, being appreciated seems to do the same for the recipient. And yes, you have to do the appreciating using the spoken word. Nonverbal creative alternatives are only (borderline) acceptable if you are a working mime or birthday party clown, and even then, there’s always something lost in translation with balloon animals. Ω

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His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence.

When he’d almost finished the manuscript, he went out on a date with his wife. While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didn’t punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic. The new edition of Of Mice and Men was Steinbeck’s breakout book. I’m guessing that in recent months you have received comparable assistance, Aries—although you may not realize it was assistance until later this year.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Remember

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ancient hu-

mans didn’t “invent” fire, but rather learned about it from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes had a similar origin. Our ancestors employed long vines made of tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid and knot the vines together for greater strength. This technology was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten and carry. It was essential to the development of civilization. I predict that 2016 will bring you opportunities that have metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your task will be to develop and embellish on what nature provides.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): British author An-

thony Trollope (1815-1882) had a day job with the postal service until he was in his fifties.

For years he awoke every morning at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before heading to work. His goal was to write two or three novels a year, a pace he came close to achieving. “A small daily task, if it really be daily,” he wrote in his autobiography, “will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.”

I recommend that you borrow from his strategy in 2016, Leo. Be regular and disciplined and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success.

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shelter us from the rain, saving us from the discomfort of getting soaked and the embarrassment of bad hair. They also protect us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. I’m very much in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning. They can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or to avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. I hope you won’t do much of that in 2016. In my opinion, you need a lot of face-to-face encounters with life in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, this should be a non-umbrella year.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Around the

world, an average of 26 languages go extinct every year. But it increasingly appears that Welsh will not be one of them. It has enjoyed a revival in the past few decades. In Wales, it’s taught in many schools, appears on road signs and is used in some mobile phones and computers. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Libra? A tradition that can be revitalized and should be preserved? A part of your heritage that may be useful to your future? A neglected aspect of your birthright that deserves to be reclaimed?

Make it happen in 2016.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Fourrteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer produced a collection of stories known as The Canterbury Tales. It became a seminal text of English literature even though he never finished it. The most influential book ever written by theologian Thomas Aquinas was a work he gave up on before it was completed. The artist Michelangelo never found the time to put the final touches on numerous sculptures and paintings. Why am I bringing this theme to your attention? Because 2016 will be an excellent time to wrap up long-term projects you’ve been working on—and also to be at peace with abandoning those you can’t.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A

bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here’s a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I’m thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her

poem “Tree,” California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that’s positioned next to a house. Watch out! It grows fast—as much as three feet per year.

“Already the first branch-tips brush at the window,” Hirshfield writes. “Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.” I suspect this will be an apt metaphor for you in 2016. The expansion and proliferation you have witnessed these past few months are likely to intensify. That’s mostly good, but may also require adjustments. How will you respond as immensity taps at your life?

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

ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food. I see 2016 as a time when you could have a comparable success. Look around at your life, and identify weed-like things that could, through your transformative magic, be turned into valuable assets. The process may take longer than a year, but you can set in motion an unstoppable momentum that will ensure success.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Imagine

that a beloved elder has been writing down your life story in the form of a fairy tale.

Your adventures aren’t rendered literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather through dream-like scenes that have symbolic resonance. With this as our template, I’ll predict a key plot development of 2016: You will grow increasingly curious about a “forbidden” door—a door you have always believed should not be opened. Your inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity that you will consider locating the key for that door. If it’s not available, you may even think about breaking down the door.

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Year one Mike Curatello Mike Curatello is the owner of Lasting Dose Tattoo & Art Collective, 888 S. Virginia St., 324-0666, an art gallery and tattoo shop. (The tattoo side was formerly known as Nightmare Studios.)

Lasting Dose is hosting a one-year anniversary party on Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8 p.m. The event will feature a group art exhibition titled Year of the Goat. For more information, visit www. lastingdosetattoo.com

Why did you rename the tattoo parlor and open the gallery?

Well, the gallery is always something I wanted to do. I just never had the opportunity to find the right space for it and then when the business that was here went out of business, we jumped on it. It was too good to pass up. The name change—it was just time. Nightmare Studios didn’t really represent us anymore. It didn’t represent what we’re trying to do. I came up with the name when I was like 25, and it was cool … but as we get older, we don’t want to tell our older clients that we work at a place called Nightmare. Tattoo shops are already scary enough. We don’t want to give them any more reason to be intimidated.

Give me some highlights from the year in the gallery.

We’ve had a lot of really awesome art shows—solo exhibits and group shows. We used to do Dr. Sketchy [drawing events] here, but we’re not doing that anymore. ...

So you have a group show on Saturday, The Year of the Goat.

I don’t understand why it’s The Year of the Goat since neither 2015 nor 2016 are the year of the goat.

2015 was the year of the goat.

Was it?

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Yep. And Chinese New Year isn’t until February, so we’re still technically in the year of the goat.

I think my top show was our January group show—the first show we had. There were so many great people involved. It was just fun. So many different styles and faces in here. The Blue Project that Eric Santti curated, and probably our October group show—the Halloween group show. Group shows, in general, are my favorite just because there are so many different things to look at.

OK, good point. I guess I’ll have to reexamine my Chinese zodiac.

It’s showing where we’ve come in the past year and it’s a theme to bring together a group show. I’m terrible at picking themes and I figured that was pretty easy. … All the artists here in the tattoo shop are doing a piece except from Brandon [Collins] because he’s out of town.

You’re doing a good job of mixing in artists from different parts of the community.

So that’s Taylor Wooten, Mark Moots ...

The art scene in Reno is getting better— but it’s not quite where it needs to be. We try to keep it local and try to have shows that people are going to want to see—like Joe C. Rock, and eventually I want to have Bryce [Chisholm] here. … But we try to keep it on the low-brow end of the spectrum. Fine art is cool, but it’s not the crowd that we usually get in here, because we are connected to a tattoo shop, so we have to cater to what people who come to a tattoo

Our terrorists or theirs?

You know that old saying about grand juries, that they generally find it so easy to indict that they could indict a ham sandwich? Well, in light of that Cleveland grand jury that somehow couldn’t bring itself to indict the two cops who slaughtered Tamir Rice two seconds after arriving in the park where Tamir was playing with his toy gun, we can only assume that the grand jury was sending a message to those cops. “You, gentlemen, are less than ham sandwiches.” I’m guessing those cops will now need professional counseling to deal with such a hurtful insinuation.

Actually, I want to give kudos to African Americans for not going on angry, Molotovian rampages on New Year’s Eve in cities across the country after this latest round of unbelievably depressing and horrific bullshit involving Laquan McDonald and Rice. The restraint shown by Black America so far has been laudable. And make no mistake. You know they’re seething. How could they not be? Shit, I’m seething, and I’m an old white coot living in the sagebrush.

shop are going to want to see. So there’s some stuff that’s beautiful and great and doesn’t work for the space we have.

Tony Medellin, Jonnie Edmonds and myself, and then we have Joe C. Rock, Mike Lucido, Megan Ellis. Natasha Stanton is also doing a piece. Chris Arredondo and some of the guys from Absolute Tattoo are also doing pieces. I think we have 15 or 16 artists on the list right now. … The only stipulations I gave them were that it has to be 11 by 14 or bigger, and it has to have something to do with a goat. Ω

∫y Bruce Van Dye 10 shootings perpertrated by lonely, sociopathic “he was a quiet man” Amurricans? In just the last six months, we’ve seen murderous horrors from Christopher Harper-Mercer in that junior college in Roseburg, Dylan Roof at that Charleston church, Bryce Williams in Roanoke (the guy who shot the TV reporter and her cameraman), and Robert Dear at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs. I’m sure I’m leaving out about 93 others.

The point being that the next guy who takes a Costco by storm one future afternoon and holds everybody hostage may well be an Islamofundamentalist kook who loves Islamic State. But the chances are even better he’ll be a local man (and not a woman), a white Baptist or a quasiNazi or some other poor deranged slob who’s broke, wretched, and ready to go full tilt looney and take some innocent people with him as he finally claims his 15 minutes. Ω

So to the list of Folks That Had a Bad 2015—cops, “establishment” Republicans, football refs, Bill Cosby— we can now add, without reservation, grand fucking juries, who have had their collective pants not only pulled down around their ankles, but duct taped in that position. Waddle about, grand juries. Waddle like the unseen tools of good ole boy redneck villainy you truly are.

• Recent polls show that Americans now say fear of Islamoterrorism is the number one problem in the country. Congratulations to us in the media. We just created a “problem” that’s just a tick above total bullshit.

Which is not to say we shouldn’t be vigilant in defending ourselves and keeping an eye on the murderous mischief that the Islamic State freely admits it wants to create. Of course we should. But let’s also deal with reality here. And the reality is, homegrown American weirdos and mental flameouts are a lot more worrisome than ISIL goons with AKs. I mean, for every San Bernadino, aren’t there

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