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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

There were a couple things I wanted to do with my pseudo-sabbatical. For one, I wanted to travel. Another thing I wanted to do while my time is mostly my own was to get a puppy that I could train to travel. A year to work with a puppy is about right to have a good dog for its lifetime.

Juko came home on Saturday. I had to drive down to McCloud, California, to get him.

Four hours driving in the rain, ice and snow, so even though I said I wasn’t going to take him unless we clicked, it would have been hard to turn around. But we clicked.

He’s a purebred Beauceron, but since only one testicle descended, he’s only “pet quality.” Believe me, he wouldn’t have been affordable for me if it weren’t for the flaw. Since puppies’ personalities are unknowable, you really only get three things from a breeder puppy, as opposed to the local animal shelter: You get likely personality traits. You get likely looks. You likely get a clean slate. I’ve rescued many shelter dogs. Alice, my dog who died a few months ago after 14 or 15 years in my home, was a shelter dog. My girlfriend’s dog is a shelter dog. But those shelter dogs always carry their baggage. I didn’t want a dog with baggage.

So far, the only thing I know about him is he’s thoughtful and mannerly. He wouldn’t go to the bathroom outside until I took him out on the leash and gave him “permission.” He’s already housebroken, so he must have held it for hours even though the dog door was there. He’d even go outside and look at the grass. He sleeps with his eyes open, which is kind of cool for a watchdog. I was just watching his eyes move around in his sleep.

He’s skeptical of everything. I was a little worried that he was going to bolt every time there was a loud noise, but he’s already mostly gotten over that, but if there’s a loud noise—for example, there was somebody cutting down a tree on our walk today—he will stop and take a long look. I can almost see the calculations going on in his head.

Re “Fighting the future” (cover story, Jan. 21): Thanks for the great coverage of the attack on roof-top solar in Nevada. The observation of bait-andswitch is so true. I made a sizable investment in solar with the assurance we were grandfathered into the NEM1 rateclass. It was a financial decision based on fixing my costs of power over the next 20 years along with the right environmental considerations. Now my electric bill will increase 80 percent over the next 20 years with our combined solar and NV Energy costs.

We are getting screwed. The Public Utilities Commission and Gov. Sandoval are to be blamed. A new rateclass was formed against overwhelming public opinion and now we are considered a wholesale supplier of power. The PUC is appointed by Sandoval and can be removed as well. They are not following their posted duties, which state establishing “just and fair rates.” This is off of their own website.

Sandoval is not taking any responsibility. We need to remove the PUC commissioners. They are acting in the interests of NV Energy and the corporate/monopoly and stealing from the consumer. This is one of the most egregious rulings that has come along. With Tesla, Faraday Motors etc., Nevada has been promoting itself as a green state. No more. SolarCity has left along with 600 jobs. There will be many more to follow.

Robert Field Reno

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Re “Fighting the future” (cover story, Jan. 21): Twenty years ago I read an article about solar plants in California and the environmental hazards to wildlife and the environment. The author advocated using spaces within cities to create solar collectors such as roof tops and parking lots. I was very dubious of these ideas. I have seen the parking

structures at various Washoe County schools and think this is an idea whose time has come. Every home, building, parking lot, etc., across the Western states should have these. The issue is not the cost or whether it is viable. The issue is who controls it.

As in marijuana cultivation, it is not the moral issue that legislators oppose, but who owns the production and distribution, hence the failure of the Ohio initiative. Regarding solar production, it is not whether it is economically viable but who controls it. If the utilities were smart and forward-thinking they would come up with a program where they owned the panels that were installed and the energy that was produced and it would be sold to us just like the petroleum and coal generated energy is now.

Instead they will fight change until it is they who are legislated out of business.

Go Bernie!

Svend Hellested Sun Valley

and now NV energy is threatening me with higher rates, so basically NV Energy operates like the mob!

Why do you think PUC only took 30 minutes to decide to vote no to stop the increase?

Randy Satz Sparks

Re “Fighting the future” (cover story, Jan. 21): This is an outrage. NV Energy thinks it can monopolize the energy department by charging solar owners more money to use their grid that the solar panels feed excess energy to.

Comes down to good old fashioned “who owns the PUC,” which should now be called the FUC. President Obama urges for cleaner environment and use of natural resource. Last time I checked, nobody owns the sun! I am permanently disabled and wanted to do the right thing, and I am now being charged a fee for using the sun. BS. NV Energy better do the right thing or there will be plenty of backlash. ... I will not pay more for using the sun. Schools, business—do they also pay more or is it the homeowners only? Other states have embraced solar companies, especially SolarCity who did my solar panels. Don’t be fooled. NV Energy isn’t losing millions. They get partial money from me already on top of the paneling. … I have a family of four just moved in our home two years ago

Re “Overstepping” (editorial, Jan. 21): Thank you very much for this much-needed story. The RGJ has been much too critical of the Washoe

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Unfair Quit hating immigrants! Immigrants are unfairly blamed for the world’s problems. Labor unions should make more of an effort to reach out to immigrants. Every time immigrants are exploited and exposed to toxic chemicals in the workplace, workplace standards slide downhill because many of the exploited are afraid to raise their voices.

Earl Ammerman IV Reno

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School Board, and I see the negativism reflected throughout the community. I especially like and agree with your last sentence. If the RGJ editors had read all of the interviews with the boardmembers from the Attorney General’s office, perhaps they would have had a different opinion. After reading all of those interviews, I cannot fathom why Cortez-Masto came up with her decision to fine the Board.

Especially, since Richard Bryan had put on the AG’s books that no public board should be held responsible for following their attorney’s advice. And I certainly cannot understand Laxalt’s decision, either.

Glenda Price Reno

Cultural exchange Re “So long, friends” (Editor’s note, Jan. 21): Reno was missing some things culturally over Sacramento? OMG! What have things come to, Brian?

Garth T. Elliott Sun Valley

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A good headline for a caucus story?

Asked at 3rd Street Bar, 125 W. 3rd St. Patrick Shillito Comedian

I used to have to make all the headlines for my own stories… My headline, “Reno masses debate small caucus.”

I’ve played around with the idea [of caucusing]. Have I ever caucused before? Privately, yes. Publicly? I was written up for it once. I like to caucus a couple times a day.

Styker Ngongoseke Comedian

You choose a favorite. So this is my first one, “Attention for the caucus is growing.” “Caucus: what it means to women.” “Don’t blow by the caucus.”

“Time to pump up for the caucus.”

“Where do you sit on the caucus?”

“Take the caucus head on.” I’ve never caucused. Wait. What? I’ve maybe caucused. What? Yes. Yes, I’ve caucused.

Vickie Gordon Master control operator

Back to the ballot?

In an encouraging surge of citizen concern, Nevadans have been getting involved in trying to do something about the Nevada Legislature’s and the Public Utilities Commission’s new net metering policy.

Net metering is a program in which residential utility customers who install home electricity generating gear can sell unused power back to the local utility.

To recap, the Republican majority in the Nevada Legislature—hostile to alternative energy but unwilling to take the rap for undercutting it—enacted legislation empowering the PUC to do the job. The PUC accepted a package of supporting materials from monopoly utility NV Energy, read it, and swallowed it whole—even the parts that conflicted with the PUC’s own staff study.

The PUC then approved lower rates for NV Energy to pay for the power it buys from its customers and, for good measure, added a use fee that residents must pay for access to the power grid.

This is a significant setback to the net metering program approved by pre-2015 legislatures, and solar power firms responded by packing their bags and sending their workers packing. There have been protests involving thousands of people.

A new problem is the solution that a newly formed outfit, No Solar Tax PAC, has come up with—turning to the initiative/referendum laws.

These laws allow people to gather signatures to place measures on the ballot. It was designed during the Progressive era to allow the public to go around government and enact or approve laws directly. The reality, however, has been very different. Only rarely have initiatives or referenda been used by everyday folks, for the very good reason that gathering signatures is long, OPINION

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That’s my answer—“More fun than serving on a jury.” Why is that my answer?

Because I hear a lot of stories about people—the trials and tribulations of serving on a jury and feeling underpaid and not appreciated. I think it’s part of the caucus process that they would feel a little more appreciated and like they’re contributing and doing something.

onerous, and expensive. Corporations and the wealthy, on the other hand, can afford to use these laws, and do.

As David Broder wrote, “[T]his method of lawmaking has become the favored tool of millionaires and interest groups that use their wealth to achieve their own policy goals. … Exploiting the public’s disdain for politics and distrust of politicians, it is now the most uncontrolled and unexamined area of power politics. It has given the United States something that seems unthinkable—not a government of laws but laws without government.”

The opponents of the PUC’s action are not using an initiative petition, which proposes new law. They are using a referendum petition, which places an already existing law before the public for approval or disapproval. This is less risky but has its own hazards.

For one thing, proponents better be darned sure they can beat the money of the utilities in an election—and remember that this particular utility is owned by Warren Buffett, third-wealthiest man in the world. Nevadans will recall that in 2014, a ballot measure to change the method of calculating mining taxes that was seen as a sure winner fell to gold corporation money.

For another thing, in Nevada once a law is approved by a vote of the people, that is the only way that section of law can ever be changed again. Any time the legislature tries to change the law to update or improve it, it will have to go to the public. So each time hereafter that the law is changed, the utility’s money could again have to be overcome.

Initiatives and referenda should be the last resort— and, in some cases, should never be a resort at all. It’s a lousy way of making law. Ω

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“Reno caucus swelling in anticipation.”

What are you asking me? No, I haven’t [ever caucused].

Jenny Pez DeSpncer Comedian

It’s so stupid, but it’s good. “Big caucus to be held in small town known for loose slots.” No, [I haven’t caucused] but I would caucus in the right situation, and if I had enough to drink. I think that caucusing is something that you should go into with an open mind, and, you know, it’s all a personal choice.

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A way into the system It’s time to get out your calendars and get ready to caucus. In just over three weeks, Nevadans will have the enviable opportunity to participate in narrowing the primary field for president as the third state to hold a presidential nominating event for the 2016 election, although by Nevada’s Republicans have inexpliSheila Leslie cably chosen to go fifth.

Thanks to Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada moved up to third place in the national sweepstakes in 2008, resulting in a lot more attention from presidential candidates who previously ignored us. It’s not a coincidence that we have candidates in town so often these days. After mid-February, you won’t see them in Nevada again until after Labor Day, and then most likely only in Las Vegas.

The political parties have treated the caucuses differently. Democrats have utilized the competition as an organizing tool, building excitement from neighborhood precinct

meetings on the same day and time to register voters and channel enthusiasm into volunteers ready to canvass, make telephone calls, and support the party’s candidates.

Republicans have chosen to mostly stay home, preferring a primary to a non-binding caucus, with many members dismayed at a weak party organization that enables the libertarian wing to prevail in messy intra-party feuds.

The 2008 caucus was raucous and fun for Democrats, as venues overflowed with Obama and Clinton supporters who gave passionate speeches to win over the Edwards fans. Many neighbors met in a political atmosphere for the first time, discovering their mutual views and dreams for the country.

The excitement of the competitive 2008 contest wasn’t repeated in 2012, as Democrats were united behind President Obama and Republicans still couldn’t generate enough interest in their caucus

to make it meaningful. During the 2015 legislative session, a contingent of frustrated Republican legislators submitted a bill to change to a primary, moving the existing June primary to February to protect Nevada’s status as “First in the West” to vote. The measure failed for numerous reasons, including the prospect of a nearly oneyear campaign if the new primary included state and local races in order to save on election costs.

If Nevada doesn’t improve its participation in the caucus, we may forfeit our third place slot, which means we’ll go back to very few candidate visits. Coloradans are already pitching their state as the most logical to take Nevada’s place as a Western bellwether.

So, caucus, people! If you’re a Democrat, your caucus date is Saturday, Feb. 20 at 11 a.m.

Republicans will caucus on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The starting time varies by county, between 5 and 7

p.m. Exercise your right to choose among the candidates still in the race on Feb. 23. There’s likely to be more than a handful.

Both parties are holding mock caucuses or training to learn more about what to expect on caucus day.

It’s really not that hard, though.

Show up and you’ll be fine.

If you’re registered as a nonpartisan voter or a member of a minor party, you cannot participate in the caucuses. But that shouldn’t stop you from getting out to see the candidates as they roll through the state in the next month. Take your teenagers along.

Remember that Nevada has a stellar record of picking our nation’s president, as we’ve voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1912 with the exception of 1976. This year, more than ever, there are serious choices and consequences for our country. Do your part and caucus if you can. Ω

For details on how to caucus go to nvdems.com or washoegop.org. Call Washoe Democrats at 323-8683, Washoe Republicans at 827-1900.

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Money talkers The Jan. 14 Republican presidential debate on Fox Business Channel was most interesting for its lively discussion on trade and immigration.

Donald Trump’s fear mongering on immigration and trade has fueled his popularity. But like most politicians, he is fighting the last by Brendan war. Mexican immigrants have been Trainor self-deporting since 2011, without the help of Mitt Romney, simply because of the U.S. recession and more opportunities for good jobs in Mexico.

The real future of immigration lies not from Latin America, but Asia. Asians will supplant Latinos and African-Americans as the largest minority in the U.S. by 2050. Asians are usually conservative, college educated, ambitious and often discriminated against by affirmative action. Republicans need to stop immigrant bashing and make sure they do not make it harder for Asians to support them. They have already blown it with most minorities.

The Democrats are bad on trade and immigration, too. President Obama did nothing on immigration reform during his first term. Bernie Sanders and his union supporters are also leery of immigration and trade because they buy into the same simplistic, Trumpist arguments that immigrants and foreign competition “take away our jobs.” That’s bad economics.

Trump likes bashing China as well as Mexico. China devalued its currency last summer, but it is still the fourth strongest trading currency and has recently been given special drawing rights status by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The devaluation of the yuan made the dollar stronger—making our dollar stronger but our exports more expensive for the Chinese.

That hurt American exporters.

But the stronger dollar helps the American consumer. (It is also fueling a Bitcoin upsurge.) Is Trump really the traitor to his class he likes to portray himself as?

Jeb Bush must have taken a 5-hour Energy drink because he finally stood toe to toe with the Donald.

Bush torpedoed Trump’s plan to impose retaliatory tariffs on Chinese imports by pointing out that tariffs punish American consumers, not the Chinese.

Gov. Kasich rambled on about how he is for free trade but fair trade, so government has to make free trade fair, or something. Real free trade is always fair trade. If there is a willing buyer and a willing seller for a lawful, peaceful product, it is free and fair. If “free” trade is government subsidized, managed or restricted it is definitely not free, and not fair either. Fair trade can be voluntary, like “Fair Trade Coffee.”

Businesses happily budget millions of dollars to lobby politicians to fix “unfair” trade or competition in hopes of seeing returns in government created market privileges worth hundreds of millions. Again, consumers suffer.

Sen. Rubio got it right when he said economic growth is the best solution to foreign competition. But Rubio himself is the sugar lobby’s bagman. Nevada Republicans should know Rep. Mark Amodei voted for the revival of the Import -Export Bank, the poster child for crony capitalism in 2015. Feel free to write on his wall!

Trump said the growth solution to trade disputes is not fast enough.

For what? For the two- or four-year average political term in office? Or for his pals on Wall Street?

What was not discussed at all?

The national debt and federal deficits. Are Republicans serious about reducing them?

If Republicans focus on cutting taxes, cutting government (including the bloated military) and repealing regulations, the resulting economic growth will benefit Americans of all classes and foreign firms who do business here as well. Ω

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Rooftop solar is the surprising issue that got a normally apathetic state talking.

Dissed: Bundy action, fed inaction A group of Nevada environmental and government leaders called on federal officials to arrest the people who are occupying some buildings at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

At a Jan. 19 news conference, they expressed their “frustration at the inaction of federal authorities in Nevada” in dealing with the Bundy family and other public lands activists who operate outside the law.

Paiute leaders Fawn Douglas and William Anderson, environmentalists Tygel Pinto and Robert Buntjer, Clark County Assemblymember Elliot Anderson and Sen. Kelvin Atkinson were among the group. Such events were held in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and New Mexico. Many media reports have portrayed the West as unified in supporting the Bundys.

An armed standoff near Bunkerville in 2014 in which U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials tried to enforce court orders against grazing fee scofflaw Cliven Bundy ended without a resolution and a federal investigation of the standoff has drifted without resolution, as well.

The Oregon action—led by two sons of Cliven Bundy—is supposedly in support of two men who were convicted by a jury of starting a fire on public lands in 2012. Prosecutors said the fire was set to cover up an illegal hunt. The defendants said they were burning to deal with invasive plant species. The jury found against them. The family of the two men have repudiated the Bundy occupation. So did many “militia” members who participated in the 2014 standoff.

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No apologies expected

The backlash continues

Last week on the back page of this newspaper, Nevada Right to Life ran a full page ad asserting, “Due to recent undercover videos, Planned Parenthood is under investigation for harvesting and selling baby body parts from abortions they perform and for changing their abortion procedures to obtain ‘more intact specimens’.”

This week, following a two-month investigation, Planned Parenthood was cleared by a Texas grand jury investigating those videos.

The same grand jury indicted two people involved in producing the videos for a felony count of tampering with a government record and a misdemeanor count for violating Section 48.02 of Texas law, “Prohibition of the Purchase and Sale of Human Organs.” Paradoxically, one of the group members was charged with the crime they tried to bring against Planned Parenthood.

Earlier, a Kansas state medical board had also cleared Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing. And a report commissioned by Planned Parenthood itself indicated the videos had been edited to misrepresent events. Both these developments were known well before the ad was placed in the RN&R. The groups and individuals involved in producing the videos also face a Planned Parenthood lawsuit filed on Jan. 19.

The July 2015 announcement in Texas of the existence of the videos, in which anti-abortion activists posed as purchasers of fetal tissue or parts, resulted in anti-abortion politicians across the country rushing to judgment. In Nevada, Attorney General Adam Laxalt opened an inquiry in August and closed it in December.

Presidential candidate Ben Carson virtually ran against Planned Parenthood for a while, his poll numbers falling after it became known the videos had been doctored and that Carson himself had done fetal tissue research.

Among those taken in were the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general of Texas. It was the lieutenant governor who ordered the grand jury investigation. Investigations were also launched in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, and South Dakota. As the videos unraveled, several states declined to mount investigations, but a number of states have taken action to cut off Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood.

The investigations found the group that produced the videos, the Center for Medical Progress, was associated with an array of right-wing players such as vaccination denialists and anti-ACORN activists. CMP is under investigation by the California attorney general’s office.

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State legislators who sponsored Nevada’s net metering legislation say the program is not being carried out as they by envisioned.

Dennis Myers Their comments came as the issue headed to the Nevada ballot and another alternative energy firm reduced its operations. Radiant Solar Solutions said it laid off most of its workers and may relocate to another state with more predictable energy policies.

“They make a profit on my investment.”

Lynn Hettrick Former state legislator

To read the ballot petition that seeks to void the PUC decision, go to http://tinyurl.com/ hkuap78

Through net metering, utility customers with rooftop solar or other power generation capabilities are paid by the utility for power they supply to the common grid. Its purpose is to create incentives for residents to migrate to alternative energy.

Nevada’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) reduced payments to solar homeowners by half and imposed a usage fee—both actions were taken at the behest of monopoly utility NV Energy, a Warren Buffet property. The changes applied not just to new

customers but to customers who installed solar because of incentives approved by the legislature. Many of those installations will now take longer to pay off. The changes have sparked an unusual surge of grassroots activism in the state.

Some sources say the PUC included the existing customers to give it something to surrender, without altering the new basic rate changes, if there was adverse public reaction.

Former Nevada Assembly speaker Lynn Hettrick and assemblymember Jason Geddes each sponsored one of three bills that created the state’s net metering policies in the 2003 Nevada Legislature. Both used the same term to describe their reaction to the PUC’s decision—“Disappointed.”

Hettrick said he does not believe NV Energy’s claim that non-solar customers are subsidizing solar customers.

“I don’t get the contention that the solar customers don’t pay their way,” he said.

So far, the only known study supporting the utility claim is one commissioned by NV Energy itself. A PUC study found otherwise.

Hettrick, a conservative Republican who served as deputy chief of staff for Gov. Jim Gibbons, said he had solar installed on his own residence, though he did not use the NV Energy credits available under the net metering program, but did receive federal credits.

“To tell me now that I have to pay more for a stand-by fee, I don’t agree with that,” he said. “They [the utility] make a profit on my investment.”

The italics were in his tone of voice.

Geddes, also a Republican, said he expected tax credits to be reduced or eliminated eventually, but that it should not have happened so soon “based on the fact that it [the net metering program] took so long to get up and going.”

And he said the decision should not have been made by the PUC, but by the legislature.

“This is a policy that they [legislators] put in place, involving economic development, jobs,” Geddes said.

That being so, he said, it was the legislature that should change it.

It is unusual for a state agency to undercut state government economic development policy.

Net metering in flux “We’re struggling,” said Sunworker exec Shawn O’Meara. His Reno firm is just the latest to lay off most of its workforce. “We’ve done zero projects since the net metering decision,“ he said.

Two Nevadans sued NV Energy on Jan. 15, charging “anticompetitive actions, deceptive and unfair trade practices resulting in a restraint of trade, monopolization and maintenance of a monopoly over the electric utility in Nevada, price discrimination between different buyers, artificial price inflation, conspiracy to cause the aforementioned results through illegal means, and negligence.”

Meanwhile, Nevada’s newly unfavorable reputation in the alternative energy field continued to spread.

One green energy site ran the numbers to find out what would happen to Massachusetts solar customers if Nevada’s new rate structure were imposed in that state.

Under the headline “Nevada’s bizarre decision to throttle its own solar industry, explained,” another site, Vox Energy and Environment, reported, “For the state’s monopoly utility, it’s a successful attempt to avoid competition. For the well-funded conservative groups fighting the spread of solar around the country, it’s the first decisive victory. For most Nevadans, however, it represents an own goal, a senseless act of self-sabotage.”

The Los Angeles Times editorialized, “Here’s a simple guideline for the California Public Utilities Commission when it votes next week on a new rate scheme for rooftop

solar users who also connect to the electric grid: Don’t be like Nevada.”

With support from solar firms, a Nevada group was formed under the name No Solar Tax PAC to place a measure on the ballot repealing the PUC decision. The petition has been posted on the secretary of state’s website.

While the Nevada utility commission was creating obstacles to rooftop solar, some other state commissions were trying to find ways to encourage it. In Vermont, where the cap on net metering is 15 percent of customers (3 percent in Nevada), the state’s Public service Board started accepting proposals for other ways solar can be encouraged.

In Mississippi, the state’s Public Service Commission increased the amount utilities must pay customers under the state’s net metering program.

On the other hand, some state commissions were yielding to utility pressures to curb solar incentives.

The Hawaii Circuit Court upheld a Hawaii Public Utilities Commission decision ending retail rate net metering in the state.

Nor are all utility companies acting the same. In some states, particularly states with political leaders who support alternative energy, some utilities take different stances from NV Energy.

California’s Pacific Gas and Electric and New York’s Con Edison have been less hostile to

alternatives and tying their efforts to plans for reducing greenhouse gases, even while—in PG&E’s case—still looking to curb net metering incentives. This has won them praise across the nation.

The New Hampshire Business Review commented, “What Con Ed and PG&E understand is that the successful 21st century electric utility will sell much more energy, not less. Electricity, not gasoline, will power our cars. Electricity, not natural gas and oil, will heat and cool homes through efficient heat pumps.”

In Arizona, by contrast, Tucson Electric Power Co. is planning to use its next rate case to seek changes cutting savings for rooftop solar customers. It had hoped to do so earlier but was shot down by regulators.

The Los Angeles Times editorial commented, “Commissioners in California ... have crafted a reasonable proposal that makes solar users pay to draw power from the grid when the sun doesn’t shine, while maintaining a healthy credit for the power they contribute during the day. The PUC is set to take a final vote on this proposal next week, but the state’s three big electric utilities—Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Pacific Gas & Electric—are agitating for last-minute changes to squeeze more money out of solar users.” Ω

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Hundreds of people crowded into Second Baptist Church on Jan. 25, mourning 33-year-old Eboni Nicole Feemster, a member of one of the valley’s leading families. She was the granddaughter of NAACP officer Dolores Feemster and daughter of city youth and senior services manager Darryl Feemster.

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Power rangers Students help schools with energy efficiency The administrators of several area middle and high schools will soon be receiving advice on energy efficiency and cost savings from unlikely sources—their students. by Kelsey In January, students at five schools in Reno and Sparks began their first Fitzgerald lessons with Project Recharge, a program designed to teach students about energy efficiency by analyzing real-world data from their schools and then, in turn, having the students teach the administration how to reduce utility bills.

Using energy monitoring technology developed by a Reno-based tech startup called LoadIQ, students are able to monitor their school’s energy use in real time. LoadIQ sensors are sensitive enough to show the changes that occur when they turn a classroom light on and off, for example. Results are viewed on a website, in real time.

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Project Recharge was developed through a partnership between Envirolution, Washoe County School District, LoadIQ, and the Raggio Research Center at University of Nevada, Reno. In 2014, the team received $1.2 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, and piloted the program at O’Brien Middle School and Reed High School. This year, the program has expanded to include five new schools, for a total of seven schools. “That’s 20 new teachers, and we’re estimating about 1,800 to 2,000 students,” Robertson said.

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“We do a lighting survey where they go home and count how many incandescent and CFL bulbs they have, then they do some analysis to figure out how much energy they’re using,” Metcalfe said. “The students, as they learn about it, they get excited. That’s where I think the ownership comes in—they can actually apply science at home to something they see in their real life.” Ω

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Republican candidates, including Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar. In 1980, NOTC outpolled Edward Kennedy.

For the state, the cost of primaries was usually higher than expected and the state’s chronic budget crises took their toll. So the state almost always fell back to precinct meetings. Government pays for elections. The political parties pay for caucuses.

Precinct meetings, as they are called in Nevada statutes, are basically neighborhood meetings. In the early days of Nevada after statehood, they appear to have been mass meetings. But eventually they evolved into meetings in the precincts themselves, held in private homes. Now they have evolved back to mass meetings, usually held in schools.

Latinos were one reason nevada got its earLy caucus date.

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n 1984, Reno speech/hearing therapist Terry Ann Stone became interested in the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat. She worked as a volunteer for his Nevada campaign. She went to her neighborhood precinct meeting—also called a caucus—and was elected by her neighbors to attend the Washoe County Democratic Convention. After doing a lot of phone calling for Hart, she knew lots of local political activists.

At the county convention, she was elected to the Nevada Democratic Convention, where she was elected an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.

“I didn’t even know about the process of precinct meetings, that it was the start of how delegates were selected to go to national,” she says now.

Her candidate did not win—the nomination went to Walter Mondale—but when the vote for vice president was

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approaching, one of Nevada’s delegates had to leave the hall. Stone went down on the floor to take her place and participated in the historic voice vote nominating Geraldine Ferraro for vice president.

She stayed involved and was elected state Democratic Party vice chair in 1988. At one point her photo appeared on the front page of the Las Vegas ReviewJournal alongside vice presidential nominee Lloyd Bentsen.

It all started at her caucus.

of selecting the people who do choose the candidates for president.

Nevada has toyed with presidential primaries (see sidebar), but it has been hitand-miss and has often foundered on the state’s traditional strait-laced budgeting or matters that have nothing to do with democracy. In 1969, for instance, Gov. Paul Laxalt vetoed presidential primary legislation when it threatened to set off a competition with New Hampshire for first place.

At one point, the state sort of threw up its hands on primaries or caucuses and passed a law making primaries optional.

In 1996 the GOP went for a primary that was conducted by mail. One factor affecting the decision that other state parties do not face is that if a Nevada state party chooses a primary over a caucus, it will have to add one line to the ballot that is not required in other states— “None of these candidates.” In that 1996 race, NOTC outpolled several leading

The naTure of The beasT News coverage describes presidential primary and caucus states as though they are mutually exclusive. But while some states have presidential primaries, most if not all states—including the ones with presidential primaries—have caucuses, in both presidential and non-presidential election years. And it’s good not to think of caucuses as a way to choose candidates for president. It’s the start of the process

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Caucuses are what primaries are not—deliberative. Primaries are hit and run. Caucuses are sit and talk. People discuss issues and candidates, electability and money, and try to sway their neighbors to their side. They meet their elected officials, sign up for campaigns. It is here that the first versions of the party’s platform can appear, with residents proposing their own planks on everything from street paving to warmaking. During the caucus, as the field of presidential candidates narrows after successive votes, some residents switch candidates.

A benchmark in Nevada history was reached in 2006 when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) named South Carolina and Nevada as the second-inthe-nation primary and caucus states.

Since 1952, when supporters of Dwight Eisenhower used the New Hampshire primary to elevate their candidate over party favorite Robert Taft, New Hampshire has served a screening function for candidates and Hampshirites cling tightly to their first-in-the-nation status.

In 1972, George McGovern used the Iowa caucuses to score a better-than-expected showing. Because it was a caucus state,

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Rock’N cAUcUS continued from page 13 New Hampshire did not strenuously object to Iowa going first, and that state managed to gain a pre-New Hampshire foothold that it has held ever since.

Concern over these two starting berths in the presidential sweepstakes has often been expressed, particularly in the Democratic Party—usually a concern over lack of diversity in the Hampshire and Iowa electorates. Paul Kirk, himself a New Englander, spent his entire term as Democratic national chair (1985-19890) trying to dislodge New Hampshire as the first primary, with no luck. Today, the DNC essentially guarantees both states their firstcaucus and first-primary status. About the only way to do something about them now is if the candidates start skipping them.

Issues and unanswers That made the second place in line highly sought-after. Nevada became the second caucus state, South Carolina the second primary state. South Carolina already had a short but storied history as a Republican primary. Nevada, however, was new to the early game. It was chosen in part because of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s influence, but that was not the only reason. The West wanted a berth and so did the South. The party wanted states with more diverse populations. The Boston Globe reported that the party wanted “to bring more diversity to the early nominating process, highlighting states and regions with large populations of Hispanics, African-Americans, and union members critical to the Democrats’ base.”

South Carolina brought African Americans, Nevada brought Latinos. And Las Vegas was a union bastion.

There was also hope that Nevada would advance Western issues. Democratic consultant Andres Ramirez told the Associated Press, “Water and energy aren’t just Democrats’ issues. They affect everybody in our state and around the West.”

But that hope has been only marginally realized. The candidates usually state their positions on Yucca Mountain and otherwise campaign on the same issues they prefer to emphasize in other states.

Occasionally individual candidates will dip into local issues, as Ben Carson and Jeb Bush have done with public lands, but there is no engagement of entire fields of candidates on issues like grazing fees, climate change and the Western drought, or the mining law of 1872. And journalists have done a poor job of bringing Western issues into the campaign. In the end, candidates talk about what they want to talk about—and fuzz other issues.

This year, breaking news thrust a new local issue into the campaign when the Nevada Public Utilities Commission issued a decision undercutting rooftop solar generation net metering. The three leading Democrats addressed the issue in various degrees of specifics, but Republicans ignored it, even when it showed up on financial pages across the nation.

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week, “Where are the calls from the Cruz, Trump and Paul camps for hearings on the public land grabs?” GOP candidate Rand Paul met secretly with rancher Cliven Bundy, who staged a 1984 standoff with federal public lands officials, but Rand has not been particularly voluble or specific on the issue.

If candidate stands on issues have not emerged as hoped, the visits of the candidates themselves have. It was not that long ago that presidential candidates avoided visiting what they considered an outlaw state. Now, Nevada voters are being spoiled by repeat visits.

Caucuses sometimes engender confusion. Nevada’s Legislative Counsel Bureau, in a paper posted on the secretary of state’s website, somehow conflates the onetime direct November balloting for presidential electors with presidential primaries and caucuses. (Electors are nominated at state party conventions, not in primaries or caucuses, and nomination of electors is different from election of electors.)

So to the public at large, they are even less intelligible. The political parties are aware of this and hold classes in advance of the caucuses. In addition, there is considerable build-up in publicity as the caucuses near. In 2000, the Democratic caucuses in Nevada gathered a massive turnout, aided partly by Reid’s organization and partly by the exciting Clinton vs. Obama contest.

Nevada Republicans have been ambivalent about the early caucuses ever since that first year. Because they were a Harry Reid project, the state GOP initially wanted no part of them. Some Republicans were also unnerved by the

thought of lots of new people coming into the party. In February 2007, the state GOP decided not to follow the Democrats into the early date. An online petition and complaints to Republican offices caused the party to change that decision and join the Democrats, but it was a grudging acceptance.

Four years later, the Democrats had no race (Obama was running for reelection), and the Republicans had the early caucuses all to themselves. They still were lukewarm.

Participation declined, though that was to be expected after the novelty of the first early caucuses in 2000 wore off. Worse was the listless administration of the event and a long delay in delivering results.

This contrast in attitudes, together with a sort of pride of ownership by the Democrats, has led to very different approaches. The Democrats are sometimes arrogant about the caucuses. At one training session at Washoe Democratic headquarters this month, there was discussion of closing the doors of the caucuses a half-hour before the announced starting time. The notion was shot down fast, but the fact that it was floated at all was telling.

Republicans, lacking that sense of primacy, often are less formal and easier to approach when people are trying to find out what’s going on. It does, after all, take some nerve to enter this process without knowing it, and the GOP’s less institutional approach can be more welcoming.

This year, the two parties have split the Nevada caucuses onto two different dates for the first time since the early caucuses started. The Democrats will caucus on Jan. 20, the Republicans on Jan. 23. One

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Democrats trained in December for the February caucuses.

The posters on the wall show the faux candidates—as did the ballots (inset).

But Reid’s influence carried the day, and Nevada was designated.

Since then, two caucus years have given political pros a better understanding of how much of the Nevada electorate is Latino, to the point that stripping the state of its early date could be seen as a slap at that group of voters. Latinos make up about 15 percent of the state’s voters—about the same as Colorado—and the number has been growing fast. According to an analysis

by David Damore at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Matt Barreto at the University of California at Los Angeles, the percent of Latinos needed by a Republican presidential candidate to win Nevada and Colorado is almost the same—44 percent in Colorado, 45 in Nevada.

And the spread of gambling to all but one other state reduces the importance of that factor.

The parties want the early states to be small enough for retail presidential campaigns to work. Of the top four states, only one is in the upper half of states: 4,625,401 South Carolina (24) 2,763,888 Iowa (31) 2,700,691 Nevada (36) 1,316,466 New Hampshire (43) Colorado has a population of 5,029,324 and is the 22nd largest state.

consequence of this split is that Nevada’s Democratic caucuses—together with the South Carolina Republican primary the same day—will be the third presidential nominating event of the year, while the Nevada Republican caucuses will be the fifth.

Details on how to caucus can be found at http://tinyurl.com/j4h56t5 for the Democrats and www.nevadagopcaucus.org for the Republicans. Both parties will hold training well into February.

At a Jan. 12 meeting of the Republican National Committee rules committee in South Carolina (one of the first four), Texas GOP chair Tom Mechler had planned to float an idea for pushing back the date of the first four contests, starting in 2020.

It’s not a bad idea, but bringing it up as the first four are about to start voting was sanity-challenged. It’s the kind of thing that is generally discussed in non-presidential years. Mechler dropped the proposal after getting a call from Republican candidate and fellow Texan Ted Cruz.

There has been talk in political circles that Nevada could lose its early berth—on the Democratic side because of Reid’s impending retirement, on the Republican side because of the lethargy that accompanied the 2012 caucuses.

A member of the 2006 DNC rules committee has said privately that “most DNC members at the time agreed that Colorado or Arizona would be better choices— particularly Colorado because of its Democratic leanings. Colorado gives you Western, Hispanic, etc. Nevada has a strange economy, not indicative of any other place, so why have them in the top three?”

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Latinos to gangs (“dominated by immigrants, especially Hispanic immigrants”) and the spread of disease.

Many years of these kinds of Republican messages make Latinos more likely to participate in the Democratic instead of the Republican caucuses.

One surprise in the Republican field is Rand Paul. If there was a Republican who should have had an edge in Nevada, it was Paul. His presidential candidate father had pulled together activists on a number of issues that cut across party lines—suspicion of the Federal Reserve, opposition to the Middle East wars, public lands owner-

CauCuses are what primaries are not—deliberative.

Any candidate needs an early win.

Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina are allegedly out of Marco Rubio’s reach, and that leaves him with Nevada. He and Ted Cruz have been battling for the state’s Mormon votes. Nevada has the highest number of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after Utah and Idaho, and though that number is less than 5 percent of the state’s population, they are concentrated in the GOP, so they have considerable impact in the caucuses.

Rubio’s relatively moderate immigration views would also likely be appealing in Nevada, and helpful in realizing Ronald Reagan’s notion that Latinos are Republicans who “don’t know it yet.” But like many GOP leaders—Reagan among them—who have seen their hopes of recruiting those voters for the party, Rubio is plagued by Republicans like Cruz who push a much more polarizing message that drives Latinos from the party. In Nevada, Rubio—who lived in southern Nevada as a boy—has the endorsement of some moderate Republican leaders. Cruz is backed by, among others, Washoe legislator Ira Hansen, whose now-well known newspaper columns included writings that linked

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In 2008 and 2012, Mitt Romney was in a relatively commanding position throughout the Nevada caucus campaigns. No GOP candidate this time has that same level of certainty. In such a large field, Donald Trump has an advantage because of his name recognition, but that could be undercut by adverse results from Iowa or New Hampshire. Again, the nature of caucuses, with their discussions and debates, may not be as helpful to Trump as primaries. Does a candidate who supports a national health care plan and glorifies corporate power fit a party whose demographics now include tea partiers angry over bailouts?

On the Democratic side, the caucuses are Hillary Clinton’s to lose. She won Nevada eight years ago against a powerful Obama challenge. Her well organized and professional campaign has tracked the state precinct by precinct. And money is not a problem. The only thing that normally disrupts this kind of a blitz is an urgent level of concern at the grassroots, such as the Vietnam issue that fueled Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire in 1968.

Bernie Sanders is fueled by an enthusiastic organization that—though it started later than Clinton’s—has been dogging her heels. If there is a state where his message of economic justice and corporate accountability should resonate, it is a state with the highest foreclosure rate in the nation and, under a Republican governor, a growing reputation as the corporate welfare state.

Martin O’Malley has spent his limited time in Nevada appealing to unions and Latinos, not getting off into other issues.

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ship—and the Ron Paul presidential campaign took over the Nevada Republican Party in 2012. So far, there has been little indication that Rand Paul is following in those footsteps. On the other hand, the Paulists have always operated best by stealth, so there may be something happening that is not immediately apparent.

Polls are more difficult to do in caucus than primary states, and though pollsters believe they have solved the problem, political pros remain skeptical of survey value in Nevada.

For those who think their votes don’t matter, early caucuses are an opportunity.

Early presidential nominating events are more influential than later ones.

Caucuses require commitment.

Spending an afternoon talking issues and candidates is not for everyone. If a voter has little interest in public affairs, caucusing is probably going to be like jury duty.

For those who like to network, who enjoy chewing over politics, a caucus may be just the ticket. And like Terry Ann Stone, they might end up at the national convention. Ω Details on how to caucus can be found at http://tinyurl.com/ j4h56t5 for the Democrats and www.nevadagopcaucus.org for the Republicans. |

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Part one: a day at the museum Daylight filters in through the skylights, and the sound of splashing water mingles with the shrieks of laughing children. Sunday afternoon at the Snakes Alive! Exhibit in the Wilbur D. May Center sounds like a jungle.

How did I end up here? I don’t have kids, and I’m really, really afraid of snakes. So far, though, I’m keeping my cool. It’s hard to get too worked up over little snakes curled up in the corners of little glass terrariums. Plus, the droves of children don’t seem frightened, so I’ve got to save face. Nevertheless, I find I’ll have to increase the shutter speed on my camera to compensate for the slight tremor in my hands.

The main exhibit space seems like a really great place to bring younger children. The displays are interactive but simple enough for even toddlers to engage. There’s a 25-foot-long model of a snake that functions like a jungle gym for crawling over and through. It seems to be the biggest hit with the kids.

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live rattlesnakes” is a bit of a letdown for all but the youngest kids who’ve yet to figure out that all but two of the Plexiglass covered snakes on either side of the bridge aren’t real. The docent patiently reminds the children not to run, and parents dutifully instruct them not to tap on the glass. I wonder at the Egyptian motif in this room full of rattlesnakes—natives of the Americas.

The sparsity and vagueness of interpretive text, in places, leaves something to be desired. But not so in the next room where I’ve found a wild-haired mannequin in a suit. He’s covered in snakes. There’s accompanying text this time. Ah, “fundamentalist Christians,” that makes sense, I think. The text reads that these religious groups “handle venomous serpents in a religious frenzy, believing their faith in God will protect them from harm.” The guy who started the movement in 1909 died of a rattlesnake bite in 1950. Four decades of zealously handling venomous snakes— that’s a pretty good run.

I feel like I’ve learned a few things here today. I know that people the world over eat snakes—from reticulated pythons in China to rattlesnakes here in the States. I’d rather not have heard

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about the cooking methods; I believe all animals deserve a humane death, and some of the recipes don’t fit the bill.

What else? I’ve learned that the hognose snake (if a snake were going to be cute, it’d be this one) uses its nose to burrow in the ground in search of toads. And I’ve learned that kingsnakes are immune to the venom of the snakes they eat, including rattlesnakes, copperheads, and coral snakes. I walk back through the museum, softly humming “Crawling King Snake.”

Part two: a walk on the wild side As I make my way back into the first exhibit room, I see two young children—a boy and girl—each with a live snake. They’re between me and the front door. For a moment, I stand eyeing the emergency exit. But I find I’m strangely fascinated. They handle the snakes with such ease, gently helping littler children to hold them. I start snapping photos, not aware that I’m moving closer.

As the two kids walk back through the exhibit, I realize that I’m following them to the room where the docent at

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I hadn’t planned on visiting this section of the exhibit. I never specifically agreed to handle live snakes when I volunteered for this story. I hadn’t even known the herpetological society would be here. I don’t recall it being mentioned anywhere on the website.

I want to get the names of the two snake-handling I have to admit, I’m charmed by boa constrictors Adamo and Rey. kids for my story.

It’ll be quick, and herpetological society friends are on then I’ll leave. This a hearts-and-minds mission. room is full of people with snakes I hang around and get introduced coiled around their arms, their to Lightning, the corn snake, Terra, torsos, their necks. I’m sure I seem a ball python, and a California kingsketchy, verging on unstable as I snake named Puppy. The Beavers ask around for the kids’ parents. hope herpetological societies around Eventually, I locate their grandfathe country will change minds and ther—Jim Beaver, vice president end things like the Rattlesnake of the Great Basin Herpetological Roundup in Texas, during which Society. They’re here with him and hundreds, sometimes thousands, of their mother, Jennifer Beaver. The snakes are killed. children are Ben and Kylie.

Snakes are an important part of The Beavers are a friendly family. the ecosystem. The eldest Beaver I’m fascinated to just talk with them says that, with large numbers of about the collection of pets they keep Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes at home. In addition to three boa dying due to habitat loss and constrictors, they have two bearded hunting, the Eastern U.S. is seeing dragons, a bunch of leopard geckos, an unsettling resurgence of Lyme and a Russian tortoise. They also disease. The disease is conveyed to have two Pomeranians, which they humans through ticks, about 2,000 keep away from the snakes. of which can be eaten by a single Would I like to hold one of the Eastern diamondback over the snakes? This from little Ben, who course of a year. offers the gopher snake, Sebastian.

It’s time to go. But there’s one Looking down at the kid’s earnest more thing I want to do. There expression, I can’t help but believe are two bigger snakes I’ve had my that he means it when he says eyes for the last hour or so. They’re Sebastian is friendly. I’ll give it a go. boa constrictors, and their names As the snake proceeds to are Adamo and Rey. I’ve watched wend its way behind my neck and them move across the shoulders and through my hair, I tremble and hold torsos of three of the herpetological my breath. The family members society’s members. Now, I want to take turns gently reminding me hold them. I’m still scared, but it’s a to breathe. When the snake is no good kind of scared this time. I smile longer slithering across my skin, I and look into the camera as Jim feel a strange sense of elation and a Beaver takes a shot to commemorate warmness toward the little creature, my afternoon spent with him and his but these feelings are accompanied family—the human and reptile ones. by low-level dizziness and the telltale The Great Basin Herpetological stinging eyes that proceed tears.

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I was 7 or 8 years old, when I first learned about Helen Keller. The idea of her life— struck deaf and blind from a bout of by Jessica meningitis at 19 months—struck me Santina as terrifying. Even now, more than 35 years after I first learned Helen’s story, it’s no less haunting or compelling to me, which is why I was eager to see TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada’s production of William Gibson’s play, The Miracle Worker.

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belongings or refusing to live by the house rules. If Helen is to learn to come out of her dark cave and learn to exist with others, she’ll need a family that disciplines her and expects proper behavior.

This is where Gibson’s play really excels. The play is highly physical, with the war of wills between Annie and Helen taking place mostly with furious grasps and pats and pushes and pulls, rather than dialogue.

Midway through the show, a crucial scene tries both actors’ strength and stamina as their characters struggle for several long, quiet minutes to gain control of the breakfast table. It’s almost as exhausting to watch but totally riveting, thanks to excellent performances by Fisher and the actor playing teenaged Helen, Laryssa Kolstrup. (Helen as a young girl is played by Kayleena Fries.)

However, Gibson’s script is most effective when wordless.

The voices in Ms. Sullivan’s head are awkward and at times annoying, and the ignorant, racist dialogue carried on in the Keller family, particularly between Captain Keller and his son, James (played by Izzy Lindsey), made me cringe repeatedly. Additionally, this production’s staging often involves too many things happening at once—for instance, a distracting moment in which a stagehand puts an apron on Annie while she teaches—which diminishes the power of the intimate scenes between Helen and Ms. Sullivan.

TWNN is a group dedicated to exposing young and inexperienced people to live theater, which I support and is one reason I patronize their shows. However, such inexperience may lead to the occasional flub of a line. In this case, it led on more than one occasion to scenes that were very low in energy, in which voices were too low to be heard and long pauses moved into awkward territory.

However, I applaud Fisher, Fair and Kolstrup in particular for strong, complex performances that did, in the culminating final scene of Helen’s transformation, truly move me to tears. Ω Photo Courtesy NathaN orme

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her dark world and switched on the light by teaching her language.

But unlike Keller’s book, the play tells the story from the perspective of Annie (Megan Fisher), an orphaned young woman of 20 who was nearly blinded by trachoma when she was young and who is tormented by memories of the cruel asylum where she and her sickly brother, Jimmy, lived. Throughout the play, the voices of Jimmy, teachers and asylum workers come to her and perpetuate her feeling of helplessness and strengthen her resolve to keep Helen from the same fate.

Upon her arrival, the source of the problem is very clear. It’s not Helen’s disabilities, but Helen’s parents, ex-Civil War Captain Keller (Cecil Averett) and Kate Keller (Juli Fair), whose feelings of pity have led them to spoil and coddle Helen for too long, causing Helen to be unruly and disrespectful. Annie believes that Helen’s blindness and deafness are no excuse for stealing food off others’ plates, throwing tantrums, breaking others’

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was a tiny bit dry, but more or less what I expect from rotisserie chicken.

The flavor was just fine.

The sausages were worthwhile, a pair of links at least a quarter-pound apiece. The weisswurst had a very mild flavor and smooth texture I paired with a mustard-based white barbecue sauce with a powerful rosemary note. The bratwurst was more robust in both flavor and texture and made me long for a side of sauerkraut.

Although at first glance it looked nicely done, the grilled salmon filet turned out to be quite rare in the center. Once re-fired and returned from the kitchen, the fish was fine, and the staff was very quick and courteous in correcting the issue.

Spare ribs trimmed “St. Louisstyle” were coated in a decent dry rub ($14.75). Each of the six bones had been partially pre-cut, rendering them easy to pull them apart. The meat was tender and held onto the bone just enough to easily pull away. I enhanced the rub with hot barbecue sauce. Soulsatisfyingly good.

As for sides, all were quite good. The mac and cheese features an au-gratin crust on top and cheese béchamel sauce at the bottom, so be sure to stir it together first. Roasted vegetables were cooked just right with a good mix of squash and root vegetables. An ancient grains pilaf of farro, quinoa, amaranth, and wild rice cooked in chicken broth with diced veggies and toasted nuts combined great flavor with enhanced nutrition. A quick pickle of thinsliced pear mixed with cucumber, onion, and carrot in what tasted like seasoned rice vinegar was refreshing and not too sweet. Southern-style pinto beans with ham hock delivered stick-to-your-ribs taste, and an excellent Southern slaw of mixed cabbage, carrot, green onion, and bell pepper was one of the better slaws I’ve been served. I’m not big on coleslaw, but I really enjoyed this more-savory-thansweet variant.

Overall, I’d say this butcher knows his way around a kitchen.

The lure of smoked meat will soon draw me back, and there’s a pulled-pork and bacon burger called “The Cleaver” with my name on it. Can’t wait. Ω PHOTO/ALISON YOUNG

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Plates come with a choice of two sides and either toasted French bread or warm tortillas. The menu lacks a sampler plate—my favorite way to try new ‘Q’—but you can add items to a plate for a little more cash. We ordered three plates—tri-tip ($10.75), grilled salmon ($12.75), and a halfrack of ribs ($14.75)—to which we added a couple housemade sausages ($4 each) and rotisserie chicken ($6).

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Wave goodbye The 5th Wave I’m going to sound like an old coot right now, but here I go.

When I was a young fella, young adult science fiction had some goddamned backbone. Some of that stuff was actually really good, especially one particular science fiction series. Please picture me on a rocking chair with my pipe and hooch, accompanied by slow banjo music, while reading the next by couple of paragraphs.

Bob Grimm We had this alien invasion book series called The Tripods that our school required bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om us to read, and it featured the novels of John Christopher. They focused on some young kids trying to make it in this world while trying to avoid alien control. It was well written, kind of exciting, and I think it’s actually to blame for a lot of the tween bullshit we have to endure now at the cinemas.

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If The Tripods was the prototype for tween science fiction, The 5th Wave is its absolute bastard abomination, at least in its movie form. Yes, I was reminded of The Tripods because of the similar “teens try to kick some alien asses while going through their social awakening” theme.

The 5th Wave is based upon the young adult novel by Rick Yancey, the first in a trilogy. God willing, this movie will be the only one to receive a movie adaptation. Further cinematic installments will cause me to punch myself in the face and thus hurt my standing in the workplace, at social gatherings, etc.

Chloe Grace Moretz plays Cassie Sullivan, a normal teenage girl who drinks beer at parties, drools over high school football guy Ben Parish (Nick Robinson) and calls the guy from Office Space (Ron Livingston) dad. Things go from routine to wacky for Cassie when a big metal spaceship thing parks over Ohio and starts messing with the human race in “waves.”

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The first wave involves an electromagnetic pulse that knocks out all power and renders PlayStation 4 useless, while the second wave brings earthquakes and tsunamis. The third wave involves plague, while the fourth includes survivors battling with aliens in human hosts. The fifth wave—well, that’s a mystery, a mystery you will solve really quick if you put forth even the slightest effort.

The first three waves are actually kind of interesting, although the subpar special effects and meager budget don’t allow for much elaborating. They are over relatively quickly, and we are left with Cassie running around in the forest. She’s captured by dreamy dude Evan Walker (Alex Roe), a character so lame he’ll make you miss Twilight’s Edward Cullen.

As briefly explained above, the aliens occupy their human hosts by crawling in their heads somehow and wrapping around their brains.

We never do get to see this actually happen. Had we seen this process, the film might’ve had a decent scene or two. What we do get is a couple of hilariously bad scenes where we see the aliens in horribly rendered x-rays that make old eighties Atari games look state-of-theart (yes, picture me rocking on my chair with that hooch again).

Goetz in an interesting young actress, but she makes a lot of bad movies. I haven’t been blown away by one of her movies since Hugo five years ago. She looks lost this time out, her bid for her own Twilight or Divergent a sad, sad thing.

Liev Schreiber and Maria Bello chime in as military personnel, each doing nothing to advance their film careers. One of last year’s “It” girls, Mika Monroe of It Follows, plays young alien resistance recruit Ringer, a Goth girl who takes the time to put eye makeup on for the apocalypse. Hey, one has to keep up appearances, right?

As for The Tripods (Wait … let me take a sip of my hooch and puff my pipe), it was made into a failed TV series back in the ’80s, but there has been some buzz about making a new movie from the books. If they do, please keep Chloe Grace Moretz, the girl from It Follows and Taylor Lautner’s abs far away from the project. Ω

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This is Michael Bay’s best film yet. Is it the great film this true story deserves? No, it isn’t. It is, however, a strong, competent effort from a guy whose action films are usually incomprehensible and schmaltzy. So, I think my “I Hate Bay” club membership card is going to be revoked … for now. Why is it his best film?

Because the cast totally rocks from start to finish, and Bay actually tells a story, and a harrowing one, keeping over-baked action film trickery to somewhat of a minimum. There’s real, palpable tension in this movie, something I’ve never felt during a Bay movie before. On the anniversary of 9/11 in 2012, a CIA security force in Benghazi, Libya, must try to protect a U.S. Ambassador during a terrorist attack on U.S. compounds. Because of the nature of these compounds, the security force finds itself dealing with a bunch of red tape prohibiting them from flying into action and, much worse, possibly preventing them from receiving assistance from the U.S. military. Bay does a decent job of showing us the confusing hell these men must’ve gone through. In the end, Bay delivers the goods in a fine action film.

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.

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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.

For the second year in a row, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 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 winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actor, the role that should finally score him that first Oscar.

The innovative Inarritu was also responsible for last year’s Birdman. DiCaprio gives it everything he’s got as Hugh Glass, a scout working with fur 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. Inarritu, 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. DiCaprio is incredible here, as are Tom Hardy as a villainous fur trapper who wants to leave Glass behind, Domhnall Gleeson as the commander forced to make horrible decisions, and Will Poulter as the compassionate man who makes a big mistake.

It’s a revenge tale amazingly told.

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.

Let’s dance Third Coast Dance Film Festival A young female dancer moves fluidly, with motion that could be the work of a professional or could be the moveby Brad Bynum ment of a talented amateur dancer.

As she moves, the environment br a db@ around changes through a series of newsr eview.c om quick edits, through a variety of rural, urban and suburban environments and quickly from day to night and back again. Her movements seem uninterrupted even as the setting around her changes constantly.

Likewise, the objects she interacts with change—flowers casually transform into sparklers.

This is the action in Chetek, a dance film by director and choreographer Laura Lamp, and one of the dance films that will be screened at this year’s Third Coast Dance Film Fest.

“It has this feeling of almost magic because she pops up in all these different locations, and she’s doing this movement that looks like she’s a trained dancer, but maybe she’s not,” says festival co-curator Rosie Trump about Chetek. “There’s a naturalistic, almost voyeuristic, feel about it. But it’s very quirky.”

Trump, a University of Nevada, Reno dance professor, founded the festival in 2010 when she lived in Houston. She brought the festival with her when she moved to Reno in 2013 and tickets for last year’s screening at the Nevada Museum of Art sold out. Trump is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker herself, but none of her work is featured in the Third Coast Dance Film Festival.

Instead, she’s one of the three curators for a festival that features films made by choreographers and directors from around the world, including Italy, the UK, Armenia, Brazil, Canada and Jordan.

Dance film is a hybrid artform that combines the physical

A film still from “Bound.”

Choreographed by Monica Thomas, it’s one of the dance films featured in this year’s festival.

The Third Coast Dance Film Festival screens Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Tickets: $7 General; $5 Students/Museum Members. For tickets and more information, visit http://thirdcoastdancefilmfestival. wordpress.com and www.nevadaart.org

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expressivity of dance with the open-ended storytelling possibilities of film.

“It’s thinking about the camera as another tool for choreography—taking the principles of dance composition and applying that to filmmaking,” said Trump. “I think the possibilities that emerge are really, really exciting.”

Traditional dance performances are usually bound to specific locations, like theater stages. But in dance film, the choreographers and filmmakers can alter colors and locations, and direct viewers’ gazes through cinematography and editing.

“You can shift space and time in a way that you just can’t do onstage,” said Trump.

“I think what makes this festival stand apart a little bit is that my definition of dance is much more broad than some,” said Trump. “I think found dance is really interesting. I think pedestrian movement is really interesting.”

This year’s festival includes everything from virtuosic hip-hop dancing to simple folk dances.

The short film De Farol presents a panoramic view of an expressive, choreographed game of strip poker.

“A question I get often is, ‘What’s the difference between dance film and music video?’” said Trump.

“And it’s the foregrounding of the music versus the foregrounding of the movement. But dance has had a relationship with music video since the beginning. Movement has played an important role.”

In addition to its Reno screening, the Third Coast Dance Film Festival will screen in Alabama and Pennsylvania, but Trump is especially excited for the Reno screening.

“It’s great to be back,” she said.

“It’s great that the outpouring last year was so wonderful that we’re back. These are films that you will not see anywhere else. … I’m so happy that it can be in Reno because what’s happening is that these film festivals are cropping up all over. Five years ago there were only ones in Los Angeles, New York and North Carolina.

Now every major city in the United States has a dance film festival, so we’re right on the curve.” Ω

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

THURSDAY 1/28 THURSDAY 1/28 Escape Thursdays, 10pm, no cover Escape Thursdays, 10pm, no cover

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

Project Project N-fidelikah N-fidelikah Jan. 29, 9 p.m.

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

Worthy, Max Kronyak, Mr. Smeagss, Worthy, Max Kronyak, Smeagss, Time Splitters, Nandez,Mr. 10pm, $10 Time Splitters, Nandez, 10pm, $10

SUNDAY 1/31 SUNDAY 1/31

The Kegels, 9pm, no cover The Kegels, 9pm, no cover

DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

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

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

Drop Theory, 9pm, no cover Drop Theory, 9pm, no cover

Drop Theory, 9pm, no cover Drop Theory, 9pm, no cover

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

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

Steel Pulse, 8pm, $28 Steel Pulse, 8pm, $28

Project N-fidelikah, Elephant Rifle, Project 9pm, $11N-fidelikah, Elephant Rifle, 9pm, $11

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

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

The Midnight Howlers, 9pm, no cover The Midnight Howlers, 9pm, no cover

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

Bias & Dunn, 7pm, no cover Bias & Dunn, 7pm, no cover

Julie Courtney and Doug, 7pm, no cover Julie Courtney and Doug, 7pm, no cover

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

Ladies Night/line dance lessons Ladies dancenolessons w/MissNight/line Daisy, 9:30pm, cover w/Miss Daisy, 9:30pm, no cover

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Chili Sauce, 9pm, no cover Chili Sauce, 9pm, no cover

Free-Spin Sundays w/DJ Zoiree, Free-Spin Sundays w/DJ Zoiree, 5pm, no cover 5pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

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

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

Granger Smith featuring Earl Dibbles Jr., Granger Smith featuring Drew Baldridge, 9pm, $19Earl Dibbles Jr., Drew Baldridge, 9pm, $19

Dr. Dog, Hop Along, 8pm, Tu, $28 Dr. Dog, Hop Along, 8pm, Tu, $28 Traditional Irish Tune Session, Traditional Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, noIrish cover 7pm, Tu, no cover CW and Mr. Spoons, noon M, no cover CW Mr. Spoons, noon no cover Daveand Leather, noon, W, no M, cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

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3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: 3rd Comedy Street,Night 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, Comedy & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, Night no cover W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson Carson 507Shawn N. Carson Carson City,Nugget, 882-1626: Halpin,St., F, 7:30pm, City, 882-1626: Shawn Halpin, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 $13-$15 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys The Lake Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Lake (800)Su,553-1022: BobbyTahoe, Collins, Stateline, Jack Coen, Th-F, 9pm, $25; Bobby Collins, Su, 9pm, Sa, 8pm, 10pm,Jack $30;Coen, RockyTh-F, LaPorte, Ron $25; Morey, Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, W, 8pm, $25 W, 8pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Laugh Factory Resort Casino, 407at N. Silver VirginiaLegacy St., 325-7401: Casino, N. Virginia St., 325-7401: Theo Von,407 Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, Theo Von, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Gerry Bednob, Tu,F-Sa, W, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Gerry Bednob, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, 100Halpin, S. Virginia 686-6600: Shawn Th, 8pm,St., $10; 686-6600: Shawn Halpin, 8pm, $10; F, 9pm, $12-$17; Sa, 6:30pm,Th,9:30pm, $12-$17 F, 9pm, $12-$17; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$17

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

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

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

Wallower, Ambersmoke, Dissidence, Wallower, Ambersmoke, Skinwalkers, 8pm, $5 Dissidence, Skinwalkers, 8pm, $5

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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 7:30pm, $35 w/Tony Clark, 7:30pm, $35

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

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

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Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion w/Tony 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $35Clark, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, $35

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

Tandymonium, 7pm, W, no cover Tandymonium, 7pm, W, no cover

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

Chuck Hughes Trio, 8pm, no cover Chuck Hughes Trio, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Mic Nights w/Wabuska Yachting Open Club, Mic 7pm,Nights $TBAw/Wabuska Yachting Club, 7pm, $TBA

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

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Abigail Williams, Viral, Ostracized, Abney Park, Diego’s Umbrella, 7pm, $20 Abigail Williams, Viral, Ostracized, Abney Park, Diego’s Umbrella, 7pm, $20 Aberrance, 7:30pm, $10 Aberrance, 7:30pm, $10

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

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

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

Seeker, Left Behind, Great American Seeker, LeftSmasher, Behind, Great Ghost, Idol 9pm, American $TBA Ghost, Idol Smasher, 9pm, $TBA

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

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

Thrive, Mystic Roots, 9pm, $TBA Thrive, Mystic Roots, 9pm, $TBA

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

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STS9 Afterparty w/Late Night Radio, STS9 Afterparty w/Late Night$10 Radio, Boggan, Irieyes, Aux, 10pm, Boggan, Irieyes, Aux, 10pm, $10

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

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1) STS9, 8pm, $36.23 1) STS9, 8pm, $36.23

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

1) G. Love & Special Sauce, 7pm, $32.11 2) DJ Audio 1, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, no cover 1) G. Love & Special Sauce, 7pm, $32.11 2) 1, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, no cover 2) DJ Vito G, DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, no cover 3) DJ ArtyAudio the Party, 9pm, no cover 2) DJ Rick Gee, 3) DJ ArtyVito theG,Party, 9pm, no 10pm, cover no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover 3) Carolyn Dolan, 8pm, no cover 3) Carolyn Dolan, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, Westbound 50, 5pm, 8pm, no no cover cover Westbound 50, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, Westbound 50, 5pm, 8pm, no no cover cover Westbound 50, Brew 8pm, no cover 4) Sierra Arts’ HaHa 4) Sierra Arts’ w/Whitney Myer,Brew 8pm,HaHa $50-$65 w/Whitney Myer, 8pm, $50-$65

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, Westbound 50, 5pm, 8pm, no no cover cover Westbound 50, 8pm, no cover

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

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, W, no cover 3) W,6:30pm, no coverW, $5 4) DJ/dancing, WCSD Honor6pm, Band, 4) WCSD Honor Band, 6:30pm, W, $5

2) Brownish Black, 7pm, no cover 2) Brownish Black, 7pm, no cover

2) Brownish Black, 8pm, no cover 2) Brownish Black, 8pm, no cover

2) Brownish Black, 8pm, no cover 2) Black, 3) Brownish DJ Yo Yolie, 10pm,8pm, $20no cover 3) DJ Yo Yolie, 10pm, $20

2) Bogg Jazz Ensemble, 6pm, no cover 2) Bogg Jazz Ensemble, 6pm, no cover

2) Bogg Jazz Ensemble, 2) Bogg 6pm, M, Jazz Tu, W,Ensemble, no cover 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

3) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover 3) Tyler Stafford, 6pm, no cover

1) Jeff Jones, 8pm, no cover 1) Jeff Jones, 8pm, no cover

1) Jeff Jones, 8pm, no cover 1) Jeff Jones, 8pm, no cover

2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 2) Banzai Thursdays w/DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover

1) Donny Osmond, 8pm, $59.50-$74.50 1) Osmond, 8pm, no $59.50-$74.50 2) Donny Thunder Cover, 9pm, cover 2) Cover,9pm, 9pm,no nocover cover 3) Thunder Fashion Friday, 3) 4) Fashion RebekahFriday, Chase,9pm, 9pm,nonocover cover 4) Rebekah Chase, 9pm, no cover

2) Thunder Cover, 9pm, no cover 2) 9pm, no cover 3) Thunder SeductionCover, Saturdays, 9pm, $5 3) Saturdays, $5 4) Seduction Rebekah Chase, 9pm, 9pm, no cover 4) Rebekah Chase, 9pm, no cover

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL SANDS REGENCY CASINO 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200HOTEL 345 Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rdN. Street Lounge 1) Street Lounge 2) 3rd Jester Theater 3) Copa Bar & 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 3) 8pm, no coverof Aura, University 1) Exposition RumBaron BullionsLounge Island Bar 3) University 3) Grand Aura Ultra LoungeHall4)2)Silver 9pm, no coverof Aura, 3) Aura Ultra 4) Silver Baron Lounge 9pm, no cover 5) Silver BaronLounge Ballroom 5) Silver Baron Ballroom

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1) Decadence, 9:30pm, $32.75 1) Decadence, 9:30pm, $32.75 1) Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 1) Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 8pm, $45-$55 8pm, $45-$55

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 1) Showroom 2) Opal 3)(800) BLU 648-3353 1) Showroom 2) Opal 3) BLU

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

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

G. Love G. Love & Special Sauce &Jan. Special Sauce 30, 7 p.m.

3) Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover 3) Jason King, 6pm, W, 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

CBQ, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, CBQ,359-1109: 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, Karaoke w/Larry Williams, 359-1109: Karaoke Th, 6pm, no cover w/Larry Williams, Th, 6pm, no cover La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, La Morena 2140Nite/Karaoke, Victorian Ave.,F, Sparks, 772-2475:Bar, College 7pm, 772-2475: no cover College Nite/Karaoke, F, 7pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180Karaoke W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: w/DJ Lane, 1070, 823-9977: KaraokeF, w/DJ Hustler,Ste.H&T Mobile Productions, 10pm, Hustler, no coverH&T Mobile Productions, F, 10pm, no cover The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia TheSt., Man499-5322: Cave Sports Bar, Karaoke, Sa,4600 8pm,N.noVirginia cover St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, 551 E. Moana Scurti’s Billiards Bar & Grill, E. Moana Lane, 200-0635: Karaoke w/DJ551 Hustler, Lane, 200-0635: Karaoke Sa, w/DJ Hustler, H&T Mobile Productions, 9pm, no cover H&T Mobile Productions, Sa, 9pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Spiro’s & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sports Ste. 103,Bar Sparks, 356-6000: Way, F-Sa,Ste. 9pm,103, no Sparks, cover 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., West384-7976: SecondDaily, Street 118 W. Second St., 8pm,Bar, no cover 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

Events GOLD DREDGES: THE LAND LEVIATHANS: Rick Martin presents this photograph and lecture presentation of the origin, operations and economics of giant land-based gold dredges from the turn of the 20th century to their decline mid-century and limited operations in the 1980-90s. Sa, 1/30, 2-3pm. $5 for adults, free for members and children age 17 and younger.

Nevada Historical Society, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 688-1190.

INCLINE VILLAGE STORY TIME: Stories and crafts for all children. W, 4pm. Free.

Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave. Building A, Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

INSIDE OUT: AN ANATOMY EXPERIENCE: This exhibition will take you on a journey into the curiosities of human anatomy. Through digital and handson exhibits, you’ll learn how our bodies work, grow, age and heal. Tu-Su. $10 general admission, $9 veterans and active duty military. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

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 4/24. $10 general admission, $9 veterans and active duty military. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery),

All Ages

RENO/TAHOE SENIOR GAMES: Participants age 50 and older compete within age groups to win gold, silver and bronze medals. The opening ceremonies take place on Saturday, Jan. 30 from 10am to noon at the Sands Regency.

Competitions take place across

BEAUPROMO PUPPETRY: A local marionette puppeteer uses his unique art form to share songs, stories

signs that show teens may be using drugs. Sa, 1/30, 3pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

a popular movie on the big screen at the library. Children under 10 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Sa, 1/30, 2-4pm. Free.

South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINIC: The Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts SNAP outreach clinics to assist low-income families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. First come, first served. Th, 10am-noon.

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

SOUTH VALLEYS STORY TIME: Stories and

geology specialist, will teach budding geologists of all ages about the major rock types. View some examples of rocks, hear tips on how to identify rocks and learn how to read a geological map. Sa, 1/30, 10am. $5 donation requested. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

Social Science is adults-only, brain building fun featuring science demos, art projects, a live DJ and beer, wine and food from Whole Foods Market.

This month, participants age 21 and older can learn to tie flies, sign up to ride The Discovery’s “Hover Ray,” meet Dr. Zeb Hogan, star of the Nat Geo WILD series Monster Fish, and get up close and personal with more than 20 species of freshwater monsters featured in Monster Fish: In Search of the Last River Giants, the new traveling exhibition from National Geographic. Ticket includes admission, hors d’oeuvres, two drinks and a commemorative cup. Sa, 1/30, 6-9pm. $15 members, $20 nonmembers, $25 at the door. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

and the first pub crawl of the season.

Purchase a $5 crawl cup and map, dress up in a wacky outfit and visit more than 12 different bars collecting beads and enjoying drink specials, parties, costume contests, giveaways and more. Sa, 1/30, 8pm. $5. The Waterfall, 134 W. Second St., (775) 624-8320.

SOUTH VALLEYS FAMILY MOVIE: Watch

GEOLOGY ROCKS!: Marvin Katz, a local

SOCIAL SCIENCE: WHAT LURKS BENEATH:

MARDI CRAWL: Celebrate Mardi Gras

Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100. and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 10:30am. Free.

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

the Silver State’s people from the mammoth hunters, marsh dwellers and desert nomads to the mountain men, pioneers and developers who left their marks on Northern Nevada.

Su, 1/31, 1-2:30pm. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

Hotel present an evening of food and music which includes a selection of pintxos (mini tapas) served a la carte, as well as full menu offerings from Heritage executive chef Ben Deinken. The first event of the series will take place on Jan. 29 and will feature indie folk band Paper Bird.

All events of this monthly series will begin at 6pm at Heritage Restaurant & Bar inside the Whitney Peak Hotel.

F, 1/29, 6-9:30pm. Heritage Restaurant & Bar, 255 N. Virginia St. Whitney Peak Hotel, (775) 398-5454, http://renoisartown.com.

490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

DOWNTOWN LIBRARY STORY TIME: Stories

SNAPSHOTS IN TIME: THE LAST 10,000 YEARS: Author Frank X. Mullen traces

HERITAGE SESSIONS: A FUSION OF FOOD AND MUSIC: Artown and Whitney Peak

Sa, 1/30, 11am-noon. Free. Northwest

and dances of the early 20th century.

Reno-Tahoe area. The closing ceremonies take place on Sunday, Feb. 14, at the Eldorado Resort Casino. M-Su through 2/14. Opens 1/30. Call or visit website for details, (775) 657-4602, www.reno.gov.

activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 11:15am. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190, www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

Art

SPANISH SPRINGS STORY TIME: Stories,

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Cirque. Recent paintings and

songs and fun geared toward preschool children ages 3-6. M, 10:3011am. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

drawings by Michelle Lassaline. M-Su through 3/12. 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: I Wonder If I Care As Much.

SPARKS STORY TIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child.

W, 10:15am. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

Mixed-media installation featuring art by Timothy Conder, Nick Larsen and Omar Pierce. M-Su through 3/12.

151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

SSSNAKES ALIVE!: This interactive exhibi-

FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Brett Flanigan. The first show in

tion encourages visitors to embrace their fear as they discover the secrets of 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. $9 adults, $8 children and seniors. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.facebook.com/WilburMayCenter.

University Galleries’ new mural series features mural art by the Oaklandbased artist. M-F through 11/11. Free.

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

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Martini’s Law. The immersive gallery installation is titled after a phenomenon experienced by deep-sea divers in which the swallowing depths create an euphoric sensation clouding perception and inhibiting faculties.

Berkley, Calif. based artist Jared Haug’s mixed media works incorporate processes of deceleration, disidentification and non-productivity as a way to counter the frantic tendencies and demands of the capitalist market. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 2/5. Free.

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

SUPER PARENTS SUPERVISE: This free training is for parents who are interested in learning about the drugs that teens have access to, ways that teens hide those substances and

OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: Leeway. Reno artist Nate Clark examines order and structure through mark making. The 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.

Brew HaHa Enjoy good beer, good art and good tunes at Sierra Arts Foundation’s 21st annual fundraiser. The event features more than 100 local and regional beers and live music by Whitney Myer. Myer (pictured) gained national fame after her appearance on NBC’s singing competition The Voice in 2012, earning invitations from judges Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton to join their competition teams after her rendition of Alicia Keys “No One.” Following the competition, Myer released her first solo EP The Articles of Luminous Nature. This year’s Brew HaHa also offers an artist village featuring paintings, photos, glass, sculptures, fiber art, watercolors, handmade candles, jewelry, prints, illustrations and other artwork by more than 50 local and regional artists. Sierra Arts Foundation will also raffle off prizes from local and regional businesses and artists. The bash takes place at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29, at the Rose Ballroom inside the Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks.

General admission tickets are $50. VIP tickets are $65 and give ticket holders early access to the event starting at 7 p.m. Call 329-2787 or 356-3300 or visit http://sierra-arts.org.

RENO CITY HALL: Foreign Bodies. Metro Gallery at City Hall hosts artwork from Chicago-based visual artist Vesna Jovanovic. Foreign Bodies is a series of ink and graphite drawings driven by what may or may not commonly be considered part of the human body. This series of largescale YUPO rolls begins as randomly spilled ink that Jovanovic goes over with intricate cross-hatching to formally resemble medical illustration.

Jovanovic’s drawings take into consideration what might enter the body surgically, accidentally, deliberately, violently or aesthetically—driving the question, “What is the different between a foreign body and a familiar body?” Through 2/26. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-4636, www.reno.gov.

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

M-Su through 1/30. Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

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Mr. Throng I’m a 35-year-old woman and I’ve been involved with a guy around my age for almost two years. It’s been “open.” Well, that is, he’s had the freedom to sleep with other people. I haven’t wanted to. I finally realized that I am not happy with this and want more, but he made it very clear that he’s not interested in being monogamous—with me or anybody. I’m having a very difficult time cutting things off as there’s a lot that’s great about our relationship. How do you leave somebody you really care about who you know is bad for you?

It isn’t exactly a shocker that the thing you want to be asking your boyfriend when he comes home is not “Hey, cuddlebug, how was your booty call?”

There’s this notion that being sexually sophisticated means being all “no probski” about your partner having sex on the “I love a parade” model. But it turns out that jealousy isn’t so easily disabled. Research by evolutionary psychologist David Buss suggests that jealousy is basically love’s burglar alarm—an evolved psychological warning system that goes off in response to threats to a relationship. So, sure, you can try to talk yourself into being cool with the sexual variety pack—just like when you hear your downstairs window breaking, you can try to roll over and catch a little more shut-eye while the burglars ransack your house.

It must seem kind of unbelievable to be so miserable yet so unable to keep enough of a grip on that to get out. You can probably blame the limits of what’s called “working memory.” It’s essentially a mental workspace— a kind of whiteboard in your head—where you lay out and kick around a few sets of information. These info sets are called “chunks” and one example might be the experiences that make up the idea “he cooks me these wonderful dinners!” But according to research by psychologist Nelson Cowan, working memory holds only about four chunks at once. We also tend to give priority seating to info sets that justify the choices we’ve made. So, all aboard for the he’s a great kisser chunk, the he was really sweet when I was in the hospital chunk, etc., etc. And whoops—whaddya know—seems there’s no room for he insists on having sex buffet-style.

You need to look at all the information at once, and this requires a piece of paper and a pen. On either half of the page, list the pros and cons of being with him, giving

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them blocks of space that correspond to their importance.

For example, his home-cooked meals should probably get a sliver of space on the pro side, while his need to go home with Linda should get a big block on the con side. Carry this paper around and look at it until it becomes clear to you that you need to be somebody’s “one and only” and not just the one before their Tuesday tennis lesson.

Hug Hefner I’m a 32-year-old guy, and my girlfriend has been complaining that the only time I’m cuddly or affectionate is when I want to have sex. I don’t really see the problem.

It’s my way of initiating versus … I don’t know … asking her, which would be weird.

Aw, how sweet—cuddling that comes with a trap door to the sex dungeon!

From a woman’s point of view, it’s nice to have your boyfriend, say, grab your hand, and not just because he’d like you to put it on his penis. This isn’t just some mysterious form of sexual etiquette. It comes out of how women evolved to be “commitment skeptics,” as evolutionary psychologist Martie Haselton puts it. Erring on the side of underestimating a man’s level of commitment was how ancestral women kept themselves from ending up single mothers with a bunch of cave-lings to feed.

Economist Robert Frank calls love “a solution to the commitment problem.” As he explains it, being emotionally bonded keeps you from making a coldly rational calculation about who’s got more to offer—your girlfriend or the new neighbor with boobs so big that each should be sending a delegate to the U.N. So, because women are on the lookout for signs that you love them, a hug is a hug is a hug needs to be the deal much of the time. Otherwise, whenever you’re affectionate, it’ll just seem like the boyfriend version of a wino telling a woman she’s beautiful—because it would be really beautiful if she’d give him the last dollar he needs to get drunk on cheapo aftershave. Ω

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

conditions may affect rink conditions, so please call in advance to confirm operating hours. M-Su, 10am through 2/14. $8 adults, $6 children ages 3-12 and seniors ages 55 and older, $3 skate rental. Reno Aces Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7035, www.renoaces.com.

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

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

Jimmy Beans Wool, 1312 Capital Blvd., Ste. 103, (775) 827-9276, www.jimmybeanswool.com.

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. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

THE PLAYGROUND IMPROV WORKSHOP: Learn the basics of improv during weekly workshops every Saturday night before Reno Improv’s show.

Play improv games and meet new friends. Sa, 6:30-8pm through 2/6. $5 suggested donation. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

RENO BIGHORNS: The D-league team

plays the Santa Cruz Warriors. Su, 1/31, 3pm. $35-$125. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., http://reno.dleague.nba.com.

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USA TAEKWONDO: US OPEN AND OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS: The international U.S.

E vE n i ng o f R o manc E —W in tER m asquERadE Note-Able Music Therapy Services hosts its 12th annual celebration of music and dance in the community. The event features performances by the Reno Jazz Orchestra, David Hayes, The Note-Ables and dancers from The Ballroom of Reno, as well as champagne, desserts and silent and live auctions. The theme this year is “Winter Masquerade” and attendees are encouraged

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Great Basin

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., (775) 329-2787.

Churchill Arts Council’s film series kicks off with George Cukor’s 1940 film starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart. F, 1/29, 8pm. $17 Churchill Arts Council members, $20 non-members. Barkley Theatre, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

Call for Artists CITY OF RENO CALL FOR ARTISTS: The City of Reno is accepting proposals from artists and curators interested in exhibiting. All media will be considered for display. A review panel will determine the quality of proposals. The Public Art Committee and Reno Arts and Culture Commission will have final approval. Through 3/1. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, www.reno.gov.

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APRES SKI LIVE MUSIC: THE RISKY BISCUITS: The group performs its twist on Americana, bluegrass and country. Su, 1/31, 3:30-6:30pm.

Homewood Mountain Resort, 5145 W. Lake Blvd., Homewood, (877) 525-7669, www.skihomewood.com.

Sports & Fitness DOWNTOWN RENO ICE RINK: The ice skat-

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ing rink will be located in front of the Reno Aces Ballpark. Hours are from 10am to 10pm Monday through Saturday, and 10am to 7pm on Sunday through February. Weather

series continues with The TRIO. Sa, 7pm through 3/12. $3 suggested donation per person. Western Heritage

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Symphony Orchestra and Chorus continues its 11th annual WinterFest with Elizabeth Pitcairn performing on the legendary Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius violin. The program opens with Felix Mendelssohn’s symphonic choral masterpiece Elijah, Part 2, featuring vocal soloists Anna Helwing, Joy Strotz, Becky Earl, Liudmila Mullin, Brad Perry Sherman Modeste, Stuart Duke, Chris Nelson and Chris Langton. Guest violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn will perform the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major.

Jeffrey Lindhorst is Tahoe Symphony concertmaster. Maestro James Rawie will conduct all performances. F, 1/29, 7pm. St. Theresa Catholic Church, 1041 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe; Su, 1/31, 3pm. St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, 100 Bishop Manogue Drive; W, 2/3, 7pm. $5-$40; free for youth under age 19 in general seating. Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3597 N. Sunridge Drive, Carson City, (775) 313-9697, www.toccatatahoe.com.

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Support is available for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one. The group is facilitated by Fr. Karry Crites and is open to anyone.

First W of every month, 6:30-8pm. Free.

Washoe County Senior Center, 1155 E. Ninth St., (775) 982-2817, http://bit.ly/ GriefSupportGroup.

of The Diary Of Anne Frank, director Holly Natwora focuses on the courage and continued belief in the goodness of people described in Anne’s diary that was saved from the Nazis after Anne’s capture. The Diary of Anne Frank opens with a post-show opening night champagne reception.

The matinee on Jan. 31 will be followed by a talkback with the company. Th,

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Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; Daniel Douke: Extraordinary, W-Su through 4/24; Don Dondero: A Photographic Legacy, W-Su through 7/10; Cedra Wood: A Residency on Earth, W-Su through 5/15. Opens 1/30. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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

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

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to dress in formal wear and masks. The party begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30, in the Grand Ballroom at Atlantis Casino Resort, 3800 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $50 in advance and $55 at the door. Call 324-5521 or visit http://note-ables.org.

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

Native Artists Exhibit and Reception.

The Sparks Museum & Cultural Center presents a group exhibition by the Great Basin Native Artists. The exhibition features the work of contemporary Native American artists Ben Aleck, Phil Buckheart, Louinda Garity, Topaz Jones and Melissa Melero. The show includes a collection of paintings, ink and graphite drawings and assemblage sculpture.

The reception will be on Feb. 12. M-Su through 2/27; F, 2/12, 4-7pm. Free. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

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Open will be held Feb. 3-7, with the U.S. Olympic Team Trials kicking things off on Feb. 2. Tu-Su through 2/7. Reno-Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., www. teamusa.org/USA-Taekwondo/ Event-Calendar/2016/February/02/ US-Open-and-Olympic-Team-Trials.

1/28, 8pm; F, 1/29, 8pm; Sa, 1/30, 8pm; Su, 1/31, 2 & 8pm; Th, 2/4, 8pm; F, 2/5, 8pm; Sa, 2/6, 8pm; W, 2/10, 8pm; Th, 2/11, 8pm; F, 2/12, 8pm; Sa, 2/13, 8pm.

LIFESCAPES: The writing program provides seniors an opportunity to write and share their memoirs. First and third W of every month, 1-3pm. Free.

Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100; second and fourth Th of every month, 10:30am. Free.

South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

$18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

THE MIRACLE WORKER: TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada presents the Tony Award-winning play The Miracle Worker by William Gibson that tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. F, 1/29, 7pm; Sa, 1/30, 7pm; Su, 1/31, 2pm. $12 general, $10 students, seniors. Laxalt Auditorium, Warren Nelson Building, 401 W. Second St., (775) 284-0789, www.twnn.org.

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

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

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to knit or crochet, but just want to meet new people? Join the Sparks Library every Thursday and learn the techniques to start your masterpiece. Th, 4-6pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. in Sparks; (775) 352-3200.

Artists’ Theatre (formerly known as Reno Artists’ Theatre) presents John Patrick Shanley’s romantic comedy set in rural Ireland. F, 1/29, 7:30pm;

Sa, 1/30, 7:30pm; Su, 1/31, 2pm; Th, 2/4, 7:30pm; F, 2/5, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/6, 7:30pm; Su, 2/7, 2pm; Th, 2/11, 7:30pm; F, 2/12, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/13, 7:30pm; Su, 2/14, 2pm. $15 advance, $20 at the door.

THE TUESDAY NIGHT YARN CREW: All skill levels and yarn-crafts are welcome.

Bring your project to this “sit and knit” gathering. Tu, 5:30-7pm. Free.

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

Laughing Owl Productions, 75 S. Wells Ave., (775) 348-7091.

RENO IMPROV SHOW + JAM: Reno Improv presents Chicago-style, long-form improv. The performances are unrehearsed and unscripted, so you’ll never experience the same show twice. Once a month, Reno Improv hosts a jam called The Experiment, which is open to everyone. Bring a concept you’d like to workshop and you’ll be matched with a partner for some free-form improv. Sa, 8-9:30pm through 2/6. $5 suggested donation.

The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

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I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you’re a typical Aries, you’re more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I’m hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People

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through phases when we are at odds with people we love. Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them or can’t comprehend what they’re going through. The test of our commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle with extra devotion—not just for the sake of the people you care about, but also for your own physical, mental and spiritual health.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): After fighting and

killing each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I shiver, think-

ing how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies—and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942,

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the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bom-

bastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright

Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing.

In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I

opened my mouth, almost said something.

Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said.

Articulate what you’re burning to reveal.

Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions.

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

cording to some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of the story.

In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression.

Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever’s required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It

seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Even night-

ingales can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance.

They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge.

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Educator Stephen Lafer With the assistance of the Great Basin Institute, University of Nevada, Reno professor Stephen Lafer is working on a new school.

You’re starting a school. What kind of school?

A school where the teachers have considerable power to make decisions and who—having the power to make decisions—understand the thought processes that go into that and model for students how to make decisions on their own, using the information that they arrive at through the school’s program.

High school.

The teachers will manage the school. The school will be concentrating on student thinking ability. Everything will be taught through involvement in projects where disciplinary knowledge and skills can be applied so students know the value of the discipline in solving real world problems.

Why is this needed?

Because currently, schools are primarily about information that students don’t really think they need because there’s no immediate need for the information they receive. And they’re asked to believe

that eventually the information they’re being handed will somehow be of value to them. We do have high dropout rates and having worked at the university for many, many years, I know that students come to the university with very little sense of what the value of scholarship is.

School is simply to get through and get diplomas. This school will help students understand that the best reason for going to school is to get smarter and that the smarter you are the more able you are to do things that you want to get done.

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Oh, well, it’s very simple. They come in feeling, for instance—a good example is that they’re very reluctant to speak up in class, and my habit has been to ask them why that is so. And a good number of them say that they don’t feel they have much to say or that they feel intimidated to speak up because they don’t want to be wrong. That, in my mind, means that what their conceptualization of their role in a proper classroom is, is to be quiet and listen and if they are asked a question, to find the answer in what the teacher has said rather than through their own thinking process. Ω

You’ve been a university instructor for a long time. How did what

That other caucus state Football Fetish Nation prepares for Freakout Finale! And so the stage is set—for El Niño to whizz mightily upon the NFL’s Golden Anniversary Shindig! This literally could be the case, as Stupor Bowl 50 achieves its climactic pinochle in the 49ers Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Sunday 2/7, and the early forecast is for— well, weather forecasts from two weeks away are about as accurate as the new year predictions from the Enquirer staff of crack psychics (ISIS Vampires to Attack Grammy Awards!! Space Aliens’ Great New Fat Burning Diet!!), so all storm talk at this point must be considered with multiple grains of salt, but it should at least be acknowledged there’s indeed a chance this year’s Superb Owl will get relentlessly rinsed by our moody, moist, tempestuous Boy. My daughter, who drank the Orange Bronco Kool-Aid as a teen living in Littleton, wore her secret shirt for the championship game against the Patriots. It appears to have worked.

An orange T-shirt with a pentagram enclosing the words, “Hail Patan!” it’s

I always taught in the way that I’m talking about now. My classes have always been driven by questions that the students are somehow asked to conjure in their minds through my tutelage, I guess you could say, and then the work of the class is to answer those questions by studying material that is pertinent to answers— good answers—to the questions that I’ve helped them understand are powerful and meaningful questions that deserve to be answered.

No, I meant that the students that are coming out of public high schools and enter your classroom—what is it that you’re getting from them that suggests to you that a school like you’re trying to form is needed?

What age level are we talking about?

How is this different from any other high schools?

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a powerful garment of dark powers that undoubtedly had something to do with Gostkowski pushing that PAT to the right.

• So here we go. Iowa Iowa Iowa. All them fine folks get together to caucus on Monday Feb. 1, and this is usually where I fire up my predictable knee jerk blast about Iowa’s influence on the national political scene being way out of whack with the reality of a rather ordinary agricultural state that has a population of 3.1 million, about 1 percent of the country.

But I better just hold on a second.

Because the truth is that Iowa, as it turns out, is far more important than my simplistic number-crunching would indicate. In fact, Iowa could show tabloid psychics a thing or two about prognostication.

For behold, Iowans have, in their last five Democratic caucuses, picked the eventual nominee. Yep, beginning with Bill Clinton in ’96 (granted, an easy call, since Bubba was an unopposed incumbent) and then choosing Gore, Kerry, Obama, and Obama (an-

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other incumbent no-brainer). But still, not bad. In fact, downright perfect.

Iowans have a little more trouble with the elephant people (who doesn’t?). They started out hot in ’96, picking Bob Dole, and then scored with Dubya in ’00, Dub again in ’04 (again, incumbent nobrainer) and then smashed into a big speed bump in ’08 with Yuckabee and another blooper in ’12 with Santorum, and there’s not much more to say about that, other than if Iowa Repubs this year slam into speed bumps like those last two they’re gonna leave a big gooey mess all over the highway.

But still, when all is said and done, Iowans have gone 8 for 10 on the nominee scoreboard since ’96, a record that any football bettor/tabloid psychic would kill for. That may at least partly explain why so much attention is now being lavished upon the place by candidates, who must want some of that Iowa mystery mojo to get things rolling. Ω |

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